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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 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.
1 For the matter it selfe, which is repentance, my selfe being able to testifie, that you are not heares. ⟨image 7⟩but doers, ripe in knowledge, & rife in the practise of repentance, insomuch as I dare from the testimonie of my conscience, and in the word of a minister pronounce of you, that as you haue heard and knowne this Doctrine of repentance, so blessed are you, for you doe it.
And 2. for him, who was the author hereof (whose mouth spake it from the feeling of his soul, & whose soul is now bound up in the bundle of life:) I know and cannot in good conscience conceal the great delight, you have always had in the reading of his books, the reverend opinion, you had of him living, and how heavily and passionately, you took his death, and departure: therefore to cheer you up in want of him, I send you here this little book, his own child, begotten in his life time, but borne after his death: observe it well and you shall find it, not unlike the ⟨image 8⟩father, yea, you shall discern in it the fathers spirit, and it doubts not, but to find entertainment with them, of whom the father was so well respected.
And 2. for him, who was the author hereof (whose mouth spake it from the feeling of his soule, & whose soule is now bound vp in the bundle of life:) I know and cannot in good conscience cōceale the great delight, you haue alwaies had in the reading of his bookes, the reuerend opinion, you had of him liuing, and how heauily and passionately, you tooke his death, and departure: therefore to cheare you vp in want of him, I send you here this little booke, his owne childe, begotten in his life time, but borne after his death: obserue it well and you shall find it, not vnlike the