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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.
The third part of the curse under which every man is borne, is, the second death: the death of soul and body; ⟨p. 57⟩which is the eternal want of Gods presence, and the accomplishment of his wrath: and an apprehension and feeling of that wrath, seizing on body, soul, and conscience. The first curse was a spiritual death; the death of the soul. The second, a temporal death, the death of the body. The third, is an eternal death, a death both of soul and body together; and for ever. This eternal death is the curse of all curses, the misery of all miseries, and torment of all torments: and I show it thus. Often when thy tooth acheth, and sometime when thy headacheth, or in the pain of the stone or colic, thou wouldest ⟨p. 58⟩give all that thou hast in the world to be eased of that pain: Nay, in the extremity of some fits, many will wish themselves even out of the world: Now, if the pain of one tooth, can so far distemper mind and body, that it cannot be relieved with all the pleasures of this life; Oh then, what a torment shall that be, when not one kind of pain, but the whole viol of GODS wrath shall be poured, not on one member, but on the whole soul, body, and conscience, and that not for a time, under hope of better: but eternally without hope of release; and that not in this world, where there are comforts, helps, and remedies: ⟨p. 59⟩but in that ugly and darksome place of torments: and that not amongst living men, which might mitigate thy pain, or else bemoan thee, and bewail it with thee: but with the devils, & damned spirits, which will now laugh at thy destruction, and solace themselves in this thy misery, and will rejoice, as thou diddest serve them in earth, so now in hell, to be thy tormenters. It may be therefore (by the way) a good warning and wisdom to us all, when we feel the extremity of some bodily pain, to consider with our selves, and say; Oh then, what shall be my misery and torment, if I repent not? when not one member, but soul, ⟨p. 60⟩body, and conscience, shall be racked and tormented in the feeling and apprehension of the anger of the Lord of Hosts.
The third part of the curse vnder which euerie man is borne, is, the second death: the death of soule and bodie;