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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.
Let then all good Ministers so preach, as they may say with Isaiah, Behold Lord here am I, and the children whom thou hast given me. And that they may return their Commission thus: Whereas thou O Lord gavest me this people, and badst me deliver them, that they go not down into hell, Lord I have done it: it is the thing my soul aimed at with all my desire and endeavour: and by thy mercy I have effected it accordingly.
Let then all good Ministers so preach, as they may say with Esay, Behold Lord heere am I, and the children whom thou hast giuen me. And that they may returne their Commission thus: Whereas thou O Lord gauest mee this people, and badst mee deliuer them, that they goe not downe into hell, Lord I haue done it: it is the thing my soule aymed at with all my desire and endeuour: and by thy mercy I haue effected it accordingly.
And the rather must all Christian Ministers seriously intend the saving of souls, inasmuch as Antichrist doth so earnestly ⟨p. 53⟩seek the destruction of souls, by winning 1them to his Synagogue. The Turk spares no labour, no cost, to infect young children of Christians with his impure and blasphemous superstition. The Pope and his vassals (especially Jesuits,) use all means, devise many stratagems, spare no cost, nor labour, to seduce & inveigle young men, and the best wits. Surely their care and policy herein is admirable: and yet alas, when (like the Pharisees) they have compassed Sea and land to make a Proselyte, they make him like themselves, the child of hell.
And the rather must all Christian Ministers seriously intēd the sauing of soules, inasmuch as Antichrist doth so earnestly ⟨p. 53⟩seeke the destruction of soules, by winning 1