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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.
TO THE RIGHT Worshipful Sir Edward Cooke Knight, his Majesties Attorney General, & Sir Thomas Heskith Knight, Attorney of his Highness Court of Wards and Liveries, and one of his Majesties Honourable Council in the North, Grace and peace from Jesus Christ.
TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Sir Edward Cooke Knight, his Maiesties Atturney General, & Sir Thomas Heskith Knight, Atturney of his Highnesse Court of Wardes and Liueries, and one of his Maiesties Honourable Counsell in the North, Grace and peace from Iesus Christ.
Right Worshipful, give me leave to put you both in one Epistle, whom one service, one place, one profession, one order, and one Religion have so nearly combined: As you are Brethren many ways, and especially in the profession & practise of one Religion: to vouchsafe to be joint Patrons of this little after-birth, this faetus posthumus, of that worthy man Ma. Perkins, now deceased. I send you here one of the shortest, and one of the sweetest of his Treatises: had it been as well brought forth by me, as it was begot by him it had been a child not unworthy of so great a father: but seeing it is now as a fatherless child, be you the Tutors to this Orphan, at whose hands Orphans and Wards have ever been well used. The father ⟨image 70⟩whilst he lived was a shining light in this our Church, and being dead, is a shining star in heaven, for he turned many to righteousness, and his doctrine will shine 1in Christian Churches whilst the Sun shineth upon the earth. The subject of this Treatise is the Ministry, whereof are laid down the duties and dignities. And well doth he couple these two together: for some can challenge the dignities of the Ministry, and cunningly cast the duties from their shoulders: others perform the duties, but are kept from the dignities duly belonging to that calling: but as he that will do the duties, may justly challenge the dignities, so he that will expect the dignities, must do the duties of a Minister: therefore in this building, these two beams are in great wisdom well set together by this wise Master builder, and so closely coupled, as the idle or ambitious man cannot look at the dignities, but he must withal behold the duties, nor the painful & laborious man see his duty, but withal sha see the dignity thereto belonging.