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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.
Satan, like Jael to Sisera, or Judith to Holofernes, watcheth till a man be a sleep and then kills him. Preachers cry, but sinners will not waken: and as in places of Judicature they often determine to hear causes, but do not hear to determine causes: ⟨p. 559⟩so men commonly remember to hear, but do not hear to remember. Pliny writes of some Bears so sleepy, that they are hardly roused with blows and wounds. Many discourse of religion, as men talk in their dreams: they speak wonders of goodness: yet are no such manner of men; neither the one working, or the other waking. Formal hypocrites are like the Cock,1 and meriting Papists like the Dormouse. Gallus bibit & non mingit, Glis mingit & non bibit. The Cock drinks and never pisseth, the Dormouse pisseth, and never drinks. The former drink much preaching but there is no good deeds come from them: the other vent some alms, and evacuate their superfluities, but they will not drink a drop of the water of life.
Satan, like Iael to Sisera, or Iudith to Holofernes, watcheth till a man be a sleepe and then kills him. Preachers cry, but sinners will not waken: and as in places of Iudicature they often determine to heare causes, but do not heare to determine causes: ⟨p. 559⟩so men commonly remember to heare, but doe not heare to remember. Pliny writes of some Beares so sleepy, that they are hardly rowsed with blowes and wounds. Many discourse of religion, as men talke in their dreames: they speake wonders of goodnesse: yet are no such manner of men; neither the one working, or the other waking. Formall hypocrites are like the Cocke,1 and meriting Papists like the Dormouse. Gallus bibit & non mingit, Glis mingit & non bibit. The Cocke drinkes and never pisseth, the Dormouse pisseth, and never drinkes. The former drink much preaching but there is no good deeds come from them: the other vent some almes, and evacuate their superfluities, but they will not drinke a drop of the water of life.
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