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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
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2 If they be so few, labour to increase them, for the more they are, the less burden lieth upon each particular 1man, therefore let every Minister by his teaching, and by his conversation labour, so to honour his calling, that he may thereby allure and draw others to a love and liking thereof.
2 If they bee so fewe, labour to increase them, for the more they are, the lesse burden lyeth vpon each particular 1man, therefore let euery Minister by his teaching, and by his conuersation labour, so to honour his calling, that hee may thereby allure and drawe others to a loue and liking thereof.
- 12. Labour to increase them, by winning others to it.2. Labour to encrease them, by winning others to it.
3 Are good Ministers so thin sown? are there so few of them? then let all good and godly Ministers give the right hand of fellowship one to another, and join together 1in love, & by that means arm them selves 2against the scorn and contempt of the world: we see they that are of a kindred, or a brotherhood, or any kind of society, the fewer they are, the more closely do ⟨p. 27⟩they combine, the more firmly do they hold together against all foreign force: so ought Gods Ministers to do, because their number is so small: if they were many, less danger in their disunion. But seeing they are so few, the more it concerneth them to cut off contentions, and all occasions of debate, and to join hand in hand against these common adversaries.