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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
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.
First, I say not, the practise of all sins, but the seeds; for all men practise not all sin: the seeds are in their nature: but the practise is restrained, sometime by education, sometime by good and wholesome laws: sometime the constitution of mens bodies, deny the practise of some sins, sometime the country a man dwells in, or calling a man lives in, keeps him from the practise of some sins: and always a general and limiting grace of GOD, restrains the nature of all men, from running into many sins: which hand of God, if God should take away, and leave every man to his nature, ⟨p. 42⟩we should see that every man would practise any sin in the world: yea, even the greatest sins that ever we heard to be done in the world. All men which know themselves, know this to be true, and the more a man knows his own heart, the more he seeth that his heart is a Sea of all wickedness: and that it is the mercy and grace of God, that he hath not fallen into the mightiest and most monstrous sins in the world.
First, I say not, the practise of all sinnes, but the seedes; for all men practise not all sinne: the seedes are in their nature: but the practise is restrained, sometime by education, sometime by good and wholsome lawes: somtime the constitution of mens bodies, deny the practise of som sins, somtime the countrie a man dwelles in, or calling a man liues in, keepes him from the practise of some sinnes: and alwayes a generall and limitting grace of GOD, restrains the nature of all men, from running into manie sinnes: which hand of God, if God should take away, and leaue euerie man to his nature, ⟨p. 42⟩wee should see that euerie man would practise anie sinne in the world: yea, euen the greatest sinnes that euer wee heard to bee done in the world. All men which knowe themselues, knowe this to be true, and the more a man knowes his owne heart, the more hee seeth that his heart is a Sea of all wickednesse: and that it is the mercie and grace of God, that hee hath not fallen into the mightiest and most monstrous sinnes in the world.