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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.
The Instruction we collect is this; that all Gods creatures are at his beck: […] the greatest Lions on earth, Whales in the sea, devils in hell. What is greater that the heaven? Yet this ever-wheeling body shall suspend his swift diurnal motion, […] his command, to do service to his servants;q Sun stand thou still in Gibeon, and that Moon in the valley of Aialon. The Sun cometh forth as a Bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. Yet to confirmed the faith of Hezekiah, he shall fly back as a coward,r ten degrees at once in the dial of Ahaz. What is more huge, firm, and unfit to be dealt withal, than the earth? yet he makes it tremble, and open the jaws to devour his enemies; if he touch the bu••, they smoke for it. The Whale wallows up and down the sea like a mountain, yet was he tamed to become the Prophets chariot, and bring him to land. The fa•• shed ⟨p. 563⟩Lions forbear Daniel, they dare not touch the dish which God had reserved •or himself. And for Jonah, how he should lye in the bowels of that Leviathan •ree days, not concocted and stifled, is no wonder to them that contemplate the •ower of God. The belly of the fish could not be hotter to the Prophet, than the •ty Furnace was to the three Servants; neither is it more, to bring a living man •fter three days from a fish, than to raise a dead man after four days from •he grave.
The Instruction we collect is this; that all Gods creatures are at his becke: 〈…〉 the greatest Lions on earth, Whales in the sea, devills in hell. What is greater that the heaven? Yet this ever-wheeling body shall suspend his swift diurnall motion, 〈…〉 his command, to doe service to his servants;