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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Why the creatures were punished with mans ruin, that were not guilty of •s sin. This was just with God. 1 Because they were all made for mans use, […] therefore man suffers in their losse. Terra propter hominem producta, terra propter •inem maledicta. As a foul traitor being executed, hath his house fired, his very •d harrowed with brambles, and sown with stones. 2 Seeing they were made […] mans use, he being taken away, they were of no further use.1 The general being •ne, the army perisheth: the head being cut off, the members die. 3 Such was […] greatness of sin, that it brought destruction, not only upon the sinner, but on ⟨p. 538⟩all that belonged to him. 4 Because brutish men had abused the creatures by t•••• filthy riot and excess; therefore God saw it just to punish the Instrument wit•••• principal:2 so that there is not a Creature, which is not Subject to some vanity. […] that requites his Princes favours with treason, not only suffers in his own pers•• but every thing about him feels the smart. His followers are suspected, his […] • rits disgraced, his children disinherited, his friends discomforted, his house […] all things droop with him, his gardens are over-run with weeds, his orchy•• lie uncouth, man and beast is made sensible of his judgment. Adam, that was […] holding to God for his very self, apostating into treason; his house grew out of •• shion to him, his pleasures were turned to thorns, the arms of his nob•• were defaced: and he that was made a Master of living bodies, breaking his all•• ance with God, became despised of his own servants: some of them shaking of […] yoke of our government, when we shook off our makers. Especially the greatest, […] the smallest of them: the greatest, as Lions, Tigers, Panthers, are hardly […] but the least, as bees and gnats, not at all. In a general destruction when the ene triumphs, not only men, women and children lose their lives: but the houses […] fired, the trees cut down, the walls razed, the horses slain in fight, the cattle […] in the stalls: