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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.
The Prophet proceedeth, & describeth more plainly, the manner and state of that plague, which God will send upon them: the meaning was partly opened before, to be in effect thus much; Search your selves, least God take his fan and try you, because you would not try your selves, and finding •ou upon the trial, not sound wheat, but light chaff: blow you to hell with the wind of his wrath: the Metaphor which the Prophet useth is this, he compares the Lord to a husband man, great and rich, the whole world is his corn-field: several nations, (as this of ours for one,) are his heaps of Corn: but these heaps of corn be full of chaff, that is, these particular Churches, are full of hypocrites: now a wise husbandman letteth corn and chaff lye together no longer, then till the wind doth blow, and then he appoints his fanning time to sever his corn from his chaff, and to blow away his chaff, & lay up his corn: so God, the great & wise husbandman, will not let the Chaff ⟨p. 84⟩lye for ever amongst the Wheat, he hath therefore appointed his fanning times, when to blow the Chaff into hell, and to gather his wheat into heavenly garners.
The Prophet proceedeth, & describeth more plainely, the manner and state of that plague, which God will send vpon thē: the meaning was partly opened before, to bee in effect thus much; Search your selues, least God take his fanne and try you, because you would not try your selues, and finding •ou vppon the tryall, not sound wheat, but light chaff: blow you to hel with the winde of his wrath: the Metaphor which the Prophet vseth is this, he compares the Lord to a husband man, great and rich, the whole world is his corne-field: seueral nations, (as this of ours for one,) are his heapes of Corne: but these heapes of corne be ful of chaf, that is, these particular Churches, are ful of hypocrites: now a wise husbandman letteth corne and chaffe lye together no longer, then til the winde doth blow, and then he appoints his fanning time to seuer his corne from his chaffe, and to blow away his chaffe, & lay vp his corne: so God, the great & wise husbandman, will not let the Chaffe ⟨p. 84⟩lye for euer amongst the Wheat, hee hath therefore appointed his fanning times, when to blow the Chaffe into hell, and to gather his wheat into heauenly garners.