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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.
For our instruction, it here appears 1how wicked and wretched the corruption of our nature is, which cannot but receive some contagion from the pollution of those with whom we live: for this is so, not only in them who carry a loose hand over themselves, but even in such as look most narrowly unto their steps: as we see here in this holy Prophet, who was a man of more then ordinary sanctification: how little cause therefore hath any man to extol nature? and how much less cause the schoolmen and some other papists, to give the least commendation to our pure naturals: for if nature rectified by grace, be so hardly kept within compass, alas how outrageous & perverse is it, when it reigns without controlment?
For our instruction, it here appeares 1how wicked and wretched the corruption of our nature is, which cannot but receiue some contagion from the pollution of those with whom we liue: for this is so, not onely in them who carry a loose hand ouer themselues, but euen in such as looke most narrowly vnto their steps: as wee see here in this holy Prophet, who was a man of more then ordinary sanctification: how litle cause therfore hath any man to extoll nature? and how much lesse cause the schoolemen and some other papists, to giue the least commendation to our pure naturals: for if nature rectified by grace, be so hardly kept within compasse, alas how outragious & peruerse is it, when it raignes without controlment?
- 11. For instruction: 1. See how corrupt our nature is.1. For instruction: 1. See how corrupt our natur• is.
And for our further instruction, here we may see of what a creeping 1and encroaching nature sin is, which like a secret venom in the natural body, so it in the politic body rests not in the place, or party poisoned, but closely creeps