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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.
it is nothing with the Lord to do it, his powerful hand is not shortened, ⟨p. 100⟩he can continue our peace, when the Papists look for hurly-burlies, he can continue the gospel, when they hope to set up their Idolatry again: let us therefore apply the Lord with our prayers, and with Moses set our selves in the breach, and pray for the ignorances of the multitude, and bewail their sins, who bewail not their own, So did 1Noah, Daniel, and Job, in their ages, and prayed for the people in general calamities: Let us all be Noahs, Daniels, and Jobs, in our generations; if we do thus: then when Judgements come, we shall either turn them away from our Nation, or at the least we shall deliver our own souls.
it is nothing with the Lord to doe it, his powerfull hand is not shortened, ⟨p. 100⟩he can continue our peace, when the Papists look for hurli-burlies, he can continue the gospell, when they hope to set vp their Idolatry againe: let vs therefore apply the Lord with our praiers, and with Moses set our selues in the breach, and pray for the ignorances of the multitude, and bewaile their sinnes, who bewaile not their owne, So did 1Noah, Daniel, and Iob, in their ages, and prayed for the people in generall calamities: Let vs all be Noahs, Daniels, and Iobs, in our generations; if we doe thus: then when Iudgements come, we shall either turne them away from our Nation, or at the least wee shall deliuer our owne soules.
Let us now turn to the Lord in prayer, and because it cannot be hoped, but that this our general sinfulness must needs end with some heavy Judgment: let us desire the Lord still to defer our deserved punishments, and still to spare us, and to give us time and leisure to repent: that so, we entering into our selves, and searching our hearts, and