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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.
But, when this first Fan of the word, will not serve to bring men to repentance, ⟨p. 86⟩(for the word preached, doth not confound a man actually, but only pronounce the sentence, and thereby strike the conscience) then God hath another fan, and that is the fan of his judgements: and that fanning or winnowing time is, when he executes his vengeance and his judgements on a Nation: this is his latter fan, […] the first will not prevail, this •• his powerful and strong fan driven about with the wind of his wrath, this fan went over the old world, and swept them all away, and went over the nation of the Jews, and we see they are no more.
But, when this first Fanne of the word, will not serue to bring men to repentance, ⟨p. 86⟩(for the word preached, doth not confound a man actually, but only pronounce the sentence, and thereby strike the conscience) then God hath another fanne, and that is the fanne of his iudgements: and that fanning or winnowing time is, when he executes his vengeance and his iudgements on a Nation: this is his latter fanne, 〈…〉 the first will not preuaile, this •• his powerfull and strong fanne driuen about with the winde of his wrath, this fanne went ouer the olde world, and swept them all away, and went ouer the nation of the Iewes, and we see they are no more.
1 These three fans of God make a three-fold separation of the Chaff from the Wheat, that is, of the wicked from the elect: with the fan of his word which is powerful, he severs them in affection, and disposition, and makes a distinction of them, so, as generally the Wheat is known to be Wheat, and Chaff discerned to be Chaff, by the preaching of the word: ⟨p. 87⟩