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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.
As GOD said to that evil servant; Ex ore tuo te judico; gOut of thine own mouth I will judge thee: So he will speak to this Apostate, Ex nomine te damno; By thine own name will I condemn thee: Thou namest thy self Christian, yet shamest the profession. Now the Spirit of God purge us from this forgetfulness, and grant us never to forget our purging. Let us never forget such a benefit, that we may never be forgotten by the Author of it.
As GOD said to that evill servant; Ex ore tuo te judico; gOut of thine owne mouth I will judge thee: So he will speake to this Apostate, Ex nomine te damno; By thine owne name will I condemne thee: Thou namest thy selfe Christian, yet shamest the profession. Now the Spirit of God purge us from this forgetfulnesse, and grant us never to forget our purging. Let us never forget such a benefit, that we may never be forgotten by the Author of it.
He hath forgotten that he was purged. Here is his unthankfulness for this deliverance. What, blind, and forgotten too? How comes this to pass? Blindness should ever have the best memory: what is taken from one sense, is divided among the rest. The ear retains what it is entrusted with, the better; when the eye wants occasion to direct it. The memory is like a cage, the ear is the door of it, the eye the window: good doctrines are put like birds in at the door, and fly out again by setting open the window. Indeed the defect of corporal sight hath often mended the memory; but it is not so for spiritual, Mark. 8.18. Having eyes, see ye not? and do ye not remember? They neither saw, nor remembered. A carnal heart is blind to conceive, ready to forget,