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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.
a good Physician may declare the true state of thy body: No calling, no man can declare unto thee thy righteousness, but a true Minister. And thus we see the office or function of a minister. Now followeth the blessing.
a good Physitian may declare the true state of thy body: No calling, no man can declare vnto thee thy righteousnesse, but a true Minister. And thus we see the office or function of a minister. Now followeth the blessing.
Then will he have mercy upon him.
Then will he haue mercy vpon him.
The fourth general part of this description, 1is the blessing which God giveth to the labours and function of a true Minister: then that is, when a man by the preaching of the law, is brought to true humiliation and repentance, and by the preaching of the Gospel, to true faith in the Messiah: then will he (that is, God) have mercy on him (that is, on the penitent and believing sinner.) Behold here the admirable sympathy, and the cooperation of God, and the Ministers office. Man preacheth, and God blesseth: Man worketh on the heart, and God gives grace: a minister declares unto man his righteousness, and God saith so be it he shall be righteous: a minister pronounceth mercy to a penitent sinner, and forthwith God hath mercy on him. Here we see the great and glorious 2account which God makes of the word of his ministers, by them truly taught and rightly applied, namely, that he as it were tieth his blessing unto it: for ordinarily till a man know his righteousness, by the means of an Interpreter, God hath not mercy on him, but as soon as he doth