A09417:160
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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when the Papists look for hurly-burlies, he can continue the Gospel, when they hope to set up their Idolatry again: let us therefore apply the Lord with our prayers, and with Moses set our selves in the breach, and pray for the ignorance of the multitude, and bewail their sins, who bewail not their own. So did Noah, Daniel, and Job, in ⟨p. 152⟩their ages, and prayed for the people in general calamities: let us all be Noahs, Daniels, and Jobs, in our generations: if we do thus, then when Judgements come, we shall either turn them away from our Nation, or at the least we shall deliver our own souls.
when the Papists looke for hurli-burlies, hee can continue the Gospell, when they hope to set vp their Idolatrie againe: let vs therefore applye the Lord with our prayers, and with Moses set our selues in the breach, and pray for the ignorance of the multitude, and bewaile their sinnes, who bewaile not their owne. So did Noah, Daniel, and Iob, in ⟨p. 152⟩their ages, and praied for the people in generall calamities: let vs all bee Noahs, Daniels, and Iobs, in our generations: if wee doe thus, then when Iudgements come, we shall either turne them away from our Nation, or at the least wee shall deliuer our owne soules.
Let us now turn to the Lord in prayer, and because it cannot be hoped, but that this our general sinfulness must needs end with some heavy Judgement: let us desire the Lord still to defer our deserved punishments, and still to spare us, and to give us time and leisure to repent: that so, we entering into our selves, and searching our hearts, and turning ⟨p. 143⟩to the Lord: we may turn away his imminent Judgements, and that when his wrath doth burn out indeed, we may then be counted worthy in Christ, to escape those things which must needs come upon the world. Amen.