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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.
Secondly, consider further the danger of this corruption; Old sins. That we translate, A veteribus peccatis; [Greek or Hebrew]; must be thus supplied; [Greek or Hebrew] a peccatis jam olim commissis; from sins that he hath done of old. This aggravates the danger of corruption; for an old ulcer is hardly cured. Long nurture is another nature. When a certain man had brought his possessed son to ⟨p. 192⟩the Disciples, and they could not cure him; he comes to Christ himself: and he demands,1 How long is it ago since this came unto him? The father answers, Of a child; therefore, Sipossis aliquid; If thou canst do any thing, pity us, and help us. A disease bred from a child is hardly cured; a sin of long continuance hardly purged, Psal. 129.2. They have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. If sin have infected us from our youth up, it is a great wonder that it prevails not still against us. The Physician coming to his patient, enquires Decubitum, the time when he took his Lair; if he have been long infected, it poseth his skill, Joh. 9.1. There was a man blind from his birth: but if so long blind, none can cure him but CHRIST, vers. 32. It was never heard since the world stood, that any man save CHRIST,2 opened the eyes of one borne blind. The same Physician found a patient sick of an infirmity eight and thirty years: he comes to him with a Visne sanari, Wilt thou be made whole? Alas, he despairs it: yet Christ performed it; Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Secondly, consider further the danger of this corruption; Old sinnes. That we translate, A veteribus peccatis; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; must be thus supplied; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a peccatis jam olim commissis; from sinnes that he hath done of old. This aggravates the danger of corruption; for an old ulcer is hardly cured. Long nurture is another nature. When a certaine man had brought his possessed sonne to