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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 he whom God hath blessed with a good 1and tractable people, and well affected to the word, and yet himself liveth loosely & scandalously amongst them, a heavy burden and a hard account, lieth on that minister, and no rebuke is too rough no punishment too great, no censure too sharp for him. And, if this holy Prophet, fear so much the presence of God for his small pollutions, and yet lived amongst so wicked and polluted a people, then what heaviness and horror, shall be heaped on his soul, who cares not with how foul pollutions his life be stained, and yet liveth amongst a godly & well disposed people? And thus we have the first cause of his fear, his own, and his peoples pollutions.
But he whō God hath blessed with a good 1and tractable people, and wel affected to the worde, and yet himselfe liueth loosely & scandalously amongst them, a heauy burden and a hard account, lyeth on that minister, and no rebuke is too rough no punishment too great, no censure too sharpe for him. And, if this holy Prophet, feare so much the presence of God for his small pollutions, and yet liued amongst so wicked and polluted a people, then what heauinesse and horror, shall bee heaped on his soule, who cares not with how foule pollutions his life be stained, and yet liueth amongst a godly & wel disposed people? And thus wee haue the first cause of his feare, his owne, and his peoples pollutions.
- 1But such Ministers as live with a good people and yet are loose, they are not worthy to be Ministers, but to be deprived.But such Ministers as liue with a good people and yet are loose, they are not worthy to be Ministers, but to be depriued.
It followeth.