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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.
TO THE RIGHT worshipful and Reverend Judges, Sir John Savile Knight, one of the Barons of his Majesties Exchequer, and Sir Christopher Yeluerion Knight, one of the Judges of his Majesties Court of Kings Bench, and Sir Edward Phillips Knight, his Majesties Sergeant at Law, now or late the worthy Judges of our Northern Circuit, The spirit of wisdom, zeal & courage be multiplied.
TO THE RIGHT worshipfull and Reuerend Iudges, Sir Iohn Sauile Knight, one of the Barons of his Maiesties Exchequer, and Sir Christopher Yeluerion Knight, one of the Iudges of his Majesties Court of Kings Bench, and Sir Edward Phillips Knight, his Maiesties Sargeant at Lawe, now or late the worthie Iudges of our Northeren Circuite, The spirit of wisedome, zeale & courage be multiplied.
Right worshipful, it is said in other Nations, and written in some of their books, that there are three disgraces of the English Nation: The Ignorance, or (that I may so call it) the unlearned of our Gentry & Nobility, the beggary of our poor, & the Baseness of the body of our Ministry, The first blot, our Nobility and Gentry have well wiped off, since the first days of our blessed Queen Elizabeth, partly by study at home, partly by travel abroad, and I hope they will do it more & more: The second hath been well lessened by good laws of late, and would he more, if the Execution were as good as our laws b•e, & it were much honour to our Nation, and more to our ⟨image 104⟩Religion, if it were quite taken away: for he that tells us there shall be poor ever with us, saith also, there shall not be a beggar amongst 1us; If there were no poor, what should become