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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.
nor Can know them, there is an excluding of the Habit. Howsoever you judge, yet this is the truth: a man may as well saw down a tree with his nails, as be a profitable Minister without learning. You will not venture your estate with an unlearned Lawyer, nor your body with an unlearned Physician; and will you venture your soul with an unlearned Pastor.
nor Can know them, there is an excluding of the Habite. Howsoever you judge, yet this is the truth: a man may as well saw downe a tree with his nailes, as be a profitable Minister without learning. You will not venture your estate with an unlearned Lawyer, nor your body with an unlearned Physitian; and will you venture your soule with an unlearned Pastor.
The next thing required to this Endeavour, is an honest and religious life. If this have been bad before thy calling, redeem it now. Aeneas Sylvius having wrote wanton books; when he came to be bishop of Rome, accepted the name of Pius. Aeneam rejicite, recipite Pium; Forget Aeneas, and receive Pius. Though thou alter not thy name, yet alter thy nature. The Minister that spends himself like a Taper to light others, must not himself go out with an ill savour. It is preposterous for a Divine to trouble himself too much with secular things. For there is commonly, Otium in sacris, Idleness in holy matters: where is Negoti•• in profanis, Too much business in the worlds employments. Mat. 5.19. He that shall break one of these least Commandments, and (though but by his example) shall teach m•• so; shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: Minimus, that is, Nullus, saith Theophylact. All in a Minister should be Vocalia; his very conversation must preach: a• Noah was called a Preacher of Righteousness, because his life was an actual Sermon. An innocent and unrebukeable Life is a silent testimony of a good Minister. Efficacius est vitae, quàm linguae testimonium, Cyprian. A good work persuades much more, quàm ineffectum verbum, than an unperformed speech, Nazi This was the cause why the Indians refused the Gospel brought by the Spaniards;