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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.
But if he use not, or abuse his tongue, the pollution of his lips will be the heaviest burden of all: they therefore are greatly deceived, who think a Minister to discharge sufficiently 1his duty, though he preach not if he keep good Hospitality and make peace amongst his Neighbours, and perform other works of charity and good life: for if a Minister have not this virtue, he hath none: If he preach not; If he abuse his lips: or if he open them not, he hath no conscience, nor can have any comfort, for that is the principal duty of a Minister (though all the other be required to make him complete): the want of them may condemn him before men, but it is the pollution of his lips, which presently checks him before GOD, as we see here in this holy Prophet: the conclusion then is to every Minister, that if he had all the virtues and good properties, that can commend a man in the world, ⟨p. 81⟩yet if his lips be polluted, either by not preaching, or by negligent, idle, or careless preaching, this pollution will so stain his conscience, and so burden him in the presence of God, that the time will come (notwithstanding all his other good qualities) he will cry out in far more pitiful manner than here the Prophet doth Woe is […] I am undo••, because I am a •an of polluted lips. It followeth;
But if he vse not, or abuse his tongue, the pollution of his lippes will bee the heauiest burthen of all: they therefore are greatly deceiued, who thinke a Minister to discharge sufficiently 1his duetie, though hee preach not if he keepe good Hospitalitie and make peace amongst his Neighbours, and performe other workes of charatie and good life: for if a Minister haue not this vertue, hee hath none: If hee preach not; If hee abuse his lippes: or if hee open them not, hee hath no conscience, nor can haue any comfort, for that is the principall dutie of a Minister (though all the other bee required to make him compleate): the want of them may condemne him before men, but it is the pollution of his lippes, which presently checkes him before GOD, as we see here in this holy Prophet: the conclusion then is to euery Minister, that if hee had all the vertues and good properties, that can commend a man in the world,