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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.
2 Gods other fanning time, is in this world: and that is also double. The one is, when the word is preached: the preaching of the word is one of Gods fans. For when the Gospel is preached to a Nation or Congregation, it fans them, and tries them, & purgeth them, and so severs them, that a man may see ⟨p. 85⟩a manifest difference of the chaff and the wheat, that is, of the godly man, and the wicked man: this preaching of the Gospel, doth John the Baptist, 1expressly call a Fan: where the holy Ghost pursueth this whole Metaphor, most plainly speaking of Christ, he saith; Whose Fan is in his hand, and he will roughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. The wind of this fan of the word preached is so strong, as that it severs the Chaff from the Wheat, that is, good professors from hypocrites in the visible Church, and blows so strongly upon the wicked, that it brings them to the beginning of Hell even in this world, for it so worketh upon the conscience, as if it cannot convert them, it strikes them with fear, terror & torment, either in life or at death, which torment of conscience is the very flashes of hell-fire.
2 Gods other fanning time, is in this world: and that is also double. The one is, when the word is preached: the preaching of the word is one of Gods fans. For when the Gospell is preached to a Nation or Congregation, it fannes them, and tries them, & purgeth them, and so seuers them, that a man may see ⟨p. 85⟩a manifest difference of the chaffe and the wheate, that is, of the godly man, and the wicked man: this preaching of the Gospell, doth Iohn the Baptist, 1expresly call a Fanne: where the holy Ghost pursueth this whole Metaphor, most plainely speaking of Christ, hee saith; Whose Fanne is in his hand, and hee will •roughly purge his floore, and gather his w•eat into his garner, but the chaffe he will burne with fire vnquenchable. The winde of this fanne of the word preached is so strong, as that it seuers the Chaffe from the Wheate, that is, good professors from hypocrites in the visible Church, and blowes so strongly vpon the wicked, that it brings them to the beginning of Hell euen in this world, for it so worketh vpon the conscience, as if it cannot conuert them, it strikes them with feare, terrour & torment, either in life or at death, which torment of conscience is the very flashes of hell-fire.