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M. Perkins, his Exhortation to repentance, out of Zephaniah preached in 2. sermons in…
M. Perkins, his Exhortation to repentance, out of Zephaniah preached in 2. sermons in Stourbridge Fair. Together with two treatises of the duties and dignity of the ministry: delivered publicly in the University of Cambridge. With a preface prefixed touching the publishing of all such works of his as are to be expected: with a catalogue of all the particulars [sic] of them, diligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word.M. Perkins, his Exhortation to repentance, out of Zephaniah preached in 2. sermons in Sturbridge Faire. Together with two treatises of the duties and dignitie of the ministrie: deliuered publiquely in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge. With a preface præfixed touching the publishing of all such workes of his as are to be expected: with a catalogue of all the perticulers [sic] of them, diligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word.
London: printed by T. Creede for William Welby, 1605
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.
If any man reply: I will therefore learn the doctrine out of the Protestants books, and use the Papists for exhortation only: I then answer, is it not a more compendious, and convenient, and a less scandalous course, to seek exhortations out of such writers, as do teach the doctrine aright? nay I doubt how it is possible to find a powerful exhortation to repentance in any Papist, who errs in the Doctrine: the reason is manifest, because Doctrine is the ground ⟨image 4⟩of exhortation: and if the doctrine be unsound, how can the exhortation, be any better. Let us therefore leave these muddy puddles, and fetch our water at the fountain: the water of life, at the fountain of life, I mean the doctrine of faith, and repentance at the written word of God, and at such mens writings as are grounded thereupon, and agreeable thereunto.1
If any man reply: I will therefore learne the doctrine out of the Protestants bookes, and vse the Papists for exhortation onely: I then answere, is it not a more compendious, and conuenient, and a lesse scandalous course, to seeke exhortations out of such writers, as do teach the doctrine aright? nay I doubt how it is possible to finde a powerfull exhortation to repentance in any Papist, who erres in the Doctrine: the reason is manifest, because Doctrine is the ground ⟨image 4⟩of exhortation: and if the doctrine be vnsound, how can the exhortation, be any better. Let vs therefore leaue these muddic puddles, and fet our water at the fountaine: the water of life, at the fountaine of life, I mean the doctrine of faith, and repentance at the written word of God, and at such mens writings as are grounded therevpon, and agreeable thereunto.1
- 1Deering• Grenham. Bradford. and many other.