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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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The first Rule is, that every man that came from Adam, sinned in the sin of Adam: thou must therefore know, that his sin ⟨p. 36⟩in eating the forbidden fruit, was thy sin: and thou sinnedst therein, as well as he (though thou wast then unborn) and that thou art guilty of it before God, and must answer for it to Gods justice, unless Christ do it for thee.
The first Rule is, that euerie man that came from Adam, sinned in the sinne of Adam: thou must therefore knowe, that his sinne ⟨p. 36⟩in eating the forbidden fruit, was thy sinne: and thou sinnedst therein, as well as hee (though thou wast then vnborne) and that thou art guiltie of it before God, and must aunswere for it to Gods iustice, vnlesse Christ doe it for thee.
The reason hereof is, because we are his seed and posterity, we were then in his loins, he was the Father of us all: and was not a private man as we are now, but a public person, the pledge of all mankind, and bare the person of us all at that time: therefore what he did then, he did it for himself, and for us: what covenant God made with him, was made for himself & us: what God promised ⟨p. 37⟩him, and he to God, he promised for himself, & for us: what he received for himself, and for us: and what he gained or lost by his fall▪ he gained & lost for us, as for himself. He lost the favour of God, and original purity: therefore he lost it for all his posterity: guiltiness, and Gods anger, and corruption of nature which he gained, he got for us all, as well as for himself. If we doubt of this point, it is proved by the Apostle: where the holy Ghost saith; Sin entered by one man, 1and death by sin: and that sin went over all, and that it went over all them, which sinned not in the like transgression with Adam, (that is, even