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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
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Yet let us look a little further back, to find this age of sin: even as far as the original, from whence comes all the copy of imitation. Be they never so new in act, they are old in example, Psal. 106.6. Peccavimus cum patribus nostris; We have sinned with our fathers. God tells them, they had rebelled of old, Act. 7.51. As your fathers did, so do ye. Antiquity is no infallible argument of goodness: though Tertullian sayes, Perfectiora quae prima; the first things were the best things: And Quo minus ab ortu aberant, the less they distanced from the Beginning, the purer they were; but he must be understood only of holy customs. For Iniquity can plead antiquity: he that commits a new act of murder, finds it old in the example of Cain: drunkenness may be fetched from Noah; contempt of parents from Ham; women's lightness from the daughters of Lot. There is no sin but hath white hairs upon it; & valde senescit, is exceeding old.
Yet let us looke a little further backe, to finde this age of sinne: even as farre as the originall, from whence comes all the copie of imitation. Be they never so new in act, they are old in example, Psal. 106.6. Peccavimus cum patribus nostris; We have sinned with our fathers. God tells them, they had rebelled of old, Act. 7.51. As your fathers did, so doe yee. Antiquitie is no infallible argument of goodnesse: though Tertullian sayes, Perfectiora quae prima; the first things were the best things: And Quo minus ab ortu aberant, the lesse they distanced from the Beginning, the purer they were; but he must be understood onely of holy customes. For Iniquitie can plead antiquitie: hee that commits a new act of murther, finds it old in the example of Cain: drunkennesse may be fetched from Noah; contempt of parents from Ham; womens lightnesse from the daughters of Lot. There is no sinne but hath white haires upon it; & valde senescit, is exceeding old.