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A faithful and plain exposition upon the 2. chapter of Zephaniah by that reverend…A faithfull and plaine exposition vpon the 2. chapter of Zephaniah by that reuerend…
A faithful and plain exposition upon the 2. chapter of Zephaniah by that reverend and judicious divine, M.W. Perkins. Containing a powerful exhortation to repentance: as also the manner how men in repentance are to search themselves. Published by a preacher of the word. With a preface prefixed, touching the publishing of M. Perkins his works. And a catalogue of all such particulars thereof, as are to be expected.A faithfull and plaine exposition vpon the 2. chapter of Zephaniah by that reuerend and iudicious diuine, M.W. Perkins. Containing a powerful exhortation to repentance: as also the manner hovve men in repentance are to search themselues. Published by a preacher of the vvord. With a preface prefixed, touching the publishing of M. Perkins his vvorks. And a catalogue of all such particulars thereof, as are to be expected.
London: printed by T. Creed for William Welby, 1609
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O then, entertain the word of God into thy heart, submit thy soul unto it, let it pierce and try, & ransack thy heart, and lay before thee thy wretched estate by thy sins, ⟨p. 140⟩and when thou seest thy nakedness and misery, confess it, bewail it, and be humbled for it, cry and call for mercy and forgiveness, pray against thy special sins, strive to purge them out, as the poison of thy soul, crave grace from God for all thy sins: if thou seest any sins more welcome to thy nature, more deer unto thee, and which more prevail against thee, then others do, pray against these sins, and strive against them above all: & endeavour, that by the fan of Gods word, they may be blown away from thee. When thou hast done this, mark what will come of it: when thou hast fanned thy self, GOD will not fan thee: but when ⟨p. 141⟩the fan of his judgement comes & bloweth so strongly upon the wicked, then the Lord finding thee already fanned, and cleansed by his word, will spare thee, and his judgement shall either blow over thee, and pass by thee untouched (as over Lot, in the destruction of Sodom) or else shall fan out all thy corruptions, and blow thee up to heaven, to be laid up as pure wheat in the heavenly garners, and mansions of glory, which Christ ascribed to prepare for thee.
O then, entertaine the word of God into thy heart, submit thy soule vnto it, let it pierce and try, & ransacke thy heart, and lay before thee thy wretched estate by thy sinnes, ⟨p. 140⟩and when thou seest thy nakednesse and misery, confesse it, bewaile it, and be humbled for it, cry and call for mercy and forgiuenes, pray against thy speciall sinnes, striue to purge them out, as the poyson of thy soule, craue grace from God for all thy sinnes: if thou seest any sinnes more welcome to thy nature, more deere vnto thee, and which more preuaile against thee, then others doe, pray against these sinnes, and striue against them aboue all: & endeaour, that by the fanne of Gods word, they may be blowne away from thee. When thou hast done this, marke what will come of it: when thou hast fanned thy selfe, GOD will not fanne thee: but when ⟨p. 141⟩