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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.
There is a knowledge reflected, that inwardly beholds a mans self. Many men know many things, but they know not themselves. Mans knowledge should not be a gadding harlot, whose feet cannot keep within doors: but a good housewife to stay at home. When Dinah would be rambling abroad, to see fashions, and to observe the Ladies of the land; she was deflowered by Shechem: 1if our affections be noctivagant, night-walkers, they will easily come home quick with child.
There is a knowledge reflected, that inwardly beholds a mans selfe. Many men know many things, but they know not themselves. Mans knowledge should not be a gadding harlot, whose feete cannot keepe within doores: but a good housewife to stay at home. When Dinah would bee rambling abroad, to see fashions, and to observe the Ladies of the land; she was defloured by Shechem: 1if our affections be noctivagant, night-walkers, they will easily come home quicke with child.
- 1Gen. 34.
Next, this corruption gets into the senses. It passeth through the eye, Jer. 9.21. Death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men in the streets. Mors per fenestras; it hath terrible effects: it invades the Palaces, the secret chambers of the heart: abscindit pueros, it cuts off the little masculine virtues of the soul: yea even the young men the graces that begin to get strength in us. Al this death comes in at the window, that is the eye. Cur aliquid vidi, cur noxia lumina feci? Mine eye hath betrayed my soul. Epiphanius gives an apt moral reason, why in the old law when a dead corps passed by any house, they were commanded to shut their doors and windows. When opus mortuum, a work of death, abhorred sin, is proposed; shut both the doors, your mouths; and the windows, your eyes. It is said that Judith's pantofles ravished Holofernes eyes, Jud. 16.9. Her sandals took him: what good men tread under their feet, that wicked men are seduced by. Therefore says Solomon,