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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.
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⟩but though the tare be known to be tare, yet both grow together, so that the word only severs them in affection, and sets several notes of distinction upon them both.
1 These three fannes of God make a three-fold separation of the Chaffe from the Wheate, that is, of the wicked from the elect: with the fanne of his word which is powerfull, he seuers them in affection, and disposition, and makes a distinction of them, so, as generally the Wheate is knowne to be Wheate, and Chaffe discerned to be Chaffe, by the preaching of the word: ⟨p. 87⟩but though the tare be knowne to bee tare, yet both grow together, so that the word onely seuers them in affection, and sets seueral notes of distinction vpon them both.
2 But then the second fan of his Judgements is more violent, for thereby, he severeth them a sunder in soul, gathering the godly men, as his wheat into the heavens, & blowing the souls of the wicked into hell: but yet the bodies of them both lye together, as partakers of the same judgement, so subject to the same corruption, and are all lodged in the same grave of the earth, and death hath like dominion over them all.
2 But then the second fanne of his Iudgements is more violent, for thereby, he seuereth them a sunder in soule, gathering the godly men, as his wheat into the heauens, & blowing the soules of the wicked into hell: but yet the bodyes of them both lye together, as partakers of the same iudgement, so subiect to the same corruption, and are all lodged in the same graue of the earth, and death hath like dominion ouer them all.