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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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The scope of all his godly endeavours was to teach Christ Jesus, and him crucified, and much laboured to move all men to repentance, that as our knowledge hath made Popery ashamed of their ignorance: so our holy lives might honour our holy profession. And as repentance was one of the principal ends, both of his ⟨image 5⟩continual preaching and writing: so especially and purposely hath he twice dealt in that Argument.
The scope of all his godly endeuours was to teach Christ Iesus, and him crucified, and much laboured to moue all men to repentance, that as our knowledge hath made Popery ashamed of their ignorance: so our holy liues might honour our holy profession. And as repentance was one of the principal ends, both of his ⟨image 5⟩continuall preaching and writing: soespecially and purposely hath hee twise dealt in that Argument.
First, in his Treatise of Repentance: published 1592. wherein briefly (as his manner was) but soundly, pithily, and feelingly, he layeth down the true doctrine, and the very nature of repentance: and after the positive doctrine, he toucheth some of the principal controversies and difficulties in that doctrine, but afterwards thinking with himself, that he had not seriously and forcibly enough, urged so great & necessary a Lesson as Repentance is, therefore shortly after, being desired and called to the duty of preaching, in that great, & general assembly at Stourbridge-Fair, he thought it a fit time: for this necessary and general exhortation to Repentance: to the intent, that as we were taught the doctrine of Repentance, in the former treatise: so in these sermons ⟨image 6⟩we might be stirred up to the practise of it. And certainly, (Good Sir:) I judge there could have been no matter, more fit for that assembly then an exhortation to repentance, for as the audience was great and general, of all sorts, sexes, ages and callings of men, and assembled out of many corners of this kingdom so, is this doctrine general for all: some doctrines are for Parents, some for children, some for scholars, some for trades-men, some for men, some for women, but repentance is for all: without which, it may be said of all, and every one of age, not one excepted: No Repentance, no salvation