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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.
And now these first fruits of my labours, in another mans vineyard, as also all that hereafter do or may follow, I humbly consecrate to the blessed Spouse of Christ Jesus, the holy Church of God on earth, and namely to the Church of England, our beloved mother, who may rejoice, that she was the mother of such a son, who in few years did so much good to the public cause of religion, as the wickedness of many years shall not 1be able to wear out. But first of all, and especially, I present the same unto you (my very worsh▪ and Christian friends) who (I must needs say) are very worthy of it in many respects.
And now these first fruites of my labours, in another mans vineyard, as also all that hereafter doe or may follow, I humbly consecrate to the blessed Spouse of Christ Iesus, the holy Church of God on earth, and namely to the Church of England, our beloued mother, who may reioyce, that she was the mother of such a sonne, who in few yeares did so much good to the publique cause of religiō, as the wickednesse of many yeares shall not 1be able to weare out. But first of all, and especially, I present the same vnto you (my very worsh▪ and Christian friends) who (I must needes say) are very worthy of it in many respects.
- 1Master Perkings, but forty years old at his death.Maister Perkings, but forty yeares old at his death.
1 For the matter it self, which is repentance, my self being able to testify, that you are not heares. ⟨image 7⟩but doers, ripe in knowledge, & rife in the practise of repentance, insomuch as I dare from the testimony of my conscience, and in the word of a minister pronounce of you, that as you have heard and known this Doctrine of repentance, so blessed are you, for you do it.