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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.
I conclude; in this glass let us see the present state of this world. Certainly we may vie sins with them, and stand upon comparisons, without bating them one ace for heinousness. If the world were then foul, it is now foulness it self. Some things are so clear, that they refuse trial: and some so filthy, that they abhor purgation. Nor do I confine this corruption to some parts of it: as there be national sins, peculiar to age, to country, to constitution: Mores sequuntur humours. But all the world is sick and rotten: paganism possessing a great moiety of the whole, and heresy perverting the half of that is left. We may say of it,1 as Tully to Anthony; Miser si sentis, miserior sin non sentis: it is wretched if it feel it, more wretched if it feel it not. Ideò pereunt, quia nesciunt se perire: ideòque magis pereunt, quia nesciunt se nescire. Men perish because they are ignorant of their perishing: yea they more perish, because they are ignorant of their not knowing.
I conclude; in this glasse let us see the present state of this world. Certainely we may vie sins with them, and stand upon comparisons, without bating them one ace for hainousnesse. If the world were then fowle, it is now fowlenesse it selfe. Some things are so cleare, that they refuse tryall: and some so filthy, that they abhorre purgation. Nor doe I confine this corruption to some parts of it: as there be nationall sinnes, peculiar to age, to countrey, to constitution: Mores sequuntur humores. But all the world is sicke and rotten: paganisme possessing a great moitie of the whole, and heresie perverting the halfe of that is left. We may say of it,1 as Tully to Anthony; Miser si sentis, miserior sin non sentis: it is wretched if it feele it, more wretched if it feele it not. Ideò pereunt, quia nesciunt se perire: ideòque magis pereunt, quia nesciunt se nescire. Men perish because they are ignorant of their perishing: yea they more perish, because they are ignorant of their not knowing.
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