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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.
Tell a Papist, that his two meals fast makes the third a glutton, he defies you for a breaker of his customs. Tell a country man that it is unlawful to keep his town-wake on the Sunday; he hates you as a Puritan, that comes to break his Custom. It is Custom that hath undone our Church: when the Pastor comes to demand his tithes; he is answered, as the man of Romney-marsh did his Minister from Scripture; Custom to whom Custom. But the Minister well replied; The Churches of God have no such custom. This is the nurse Custom: and so you have all four; the father, the mother, the midwife, the nurse. And here is the generation of that monster, sin: borne from the womb of that concupiscence, which my Text calls Lust.
Tell a Papist, that his two meales fast makes the third a glutton, he defies you for a breaker of his customes. Tell a country man that it is unlawfull to keepe his towne-wake on the Sunday; he hates you as a Puritan, that comes to breake his Custome. It is Custome that hath undone our Church: when the Pastor comes to demand his tithes; he is answered, as the man of Romney-marsh did his Minister from Scripture; Custome to whom Custome. But the Minister well replied; The Churches of God have no such custome. This is the nurse Custome: and so you have all foure; the father, the mother, the midwife, the nurse. And here is the generation of that monster, sin: borne from the wombe of that concupiscence, which my Text calls Lust.
Now God hath given us means to conquer all these. The father is Satan,c Whom resist steadfast in the faith. Faith in the Lamb shall put this roaring Lion to flight. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, Revel. 12.11. For the mother, overcome her by mortification,d Mortify your members which are on the earth: not only lay her a sleep, but lay her dead. The midwife is Consent; disable her, by resolution not to obey her in the lust of the flesh,