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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
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but as a woman at last is delivered with danger, and difficulty, with pain and sorrow: ⟨p. 72⟩so the Lord long conceives, but at last brings forth his judgements: yet it is with grief and unwillingness, and he is loath (as it were) and much aggrieved to execute his most just judgements on those, who have professed his name: he often touched the Jews a little, and as being unwilling to smite them: he drew back his hand again: but at last when their sins did so increase, and were so strong, that they even did wring out, by violence his plagues from him, then with much bewailing of their great misery (as we may see in Christ, weeping for them,) he executes his judgements on them. But as they are long a coming: so, when they come forth, they were the heavier; as a child, the more fullness of time it hath, is the greater, the livelier, and the stronger: so, Gods judgements, the longer God deferreth them, and is in conceiving them, the heavier are they, when they come: that is manifest in the Jews▪ once his own people, for he hath destroyed ⟨p. 73⟩their land with an irrecoverable destruction, and smitten their posterity with a blindness of mind till this hour, so that to this day, when the old Testament is read, the veil is over their eyes, that they cannot see the light of Christ Jesus, but plod on in fearful and palpable blindness.
but as a woman at last is deliuered with daunger, and difficultie, with paine and sorrowe: ⟨p. 72⟩so the Lord long conceiues, but at last bringes forth his iudgements: yet it is with griefe and vnwillingnesse, and hee is loath (as it were) and much agrieued to execute his most iust iudgements on those, who haue professed his name: hee often touched the Iewes a little, and as being vnwilling to smite them: hee drue backe his hande againe: but at last when their sinnes did so increase, and were so strong, that they euen did wring out, by violence his plagues from him, then with much bewayling of their great misery (as wee may see in Christ, weeping for them,) hee executes his iudgements on them. But as they are long a comming: so, when they come forth, they were the heauier; as a child, the more fulnesse of time it hath, is the greater, the liuelier, and the stronger: so, Gods iudgements, the longer God deferreth them, and is in conceiuing them, the heauier are they, when they come: that is manifest in the Iewes once his owne people, for he hath destroyed