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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.
Secondly, Inasmuch as here the prophet in a conscience of his corruptions, feareth and crieth out at the least apparition of Gods glory.
Secondly, In asmuch as here the prophet in a conscience of his corruptions, feareth and cryeth out at the least apparition of Gods glory.
The vanity and false dealing of the 1Church of Rome, is here discovered, in whose Legends & stories of their Saints, nothing is more common then apparitions from heaven, of Saints departed: of glorious Angels, of the virgin Mary, (and that so familiarly, as sometime she sang with them in their Cell, kissed some of them, and let them suck her breasts). Nay, of God himself: and especially of our Saviour Christ Jesus: who they ⟨p. 112⟩say, appeared (I know not how oft) to one man: namely, to Saint Francis: and appeared as he was crucified with his wounds, and imprinted those wounds of his, in Francis his body, which they say he bare all his life, and that they bled whensoever he would suffer them, which he always did on Good Friday, that he might be like to Christ. Thus, &c many more such, may you see in that fabulous & blasphemous book, of the conformities of S. Francis.
The vanitie and false dealing of the 1Church of Rome, is here discoured, in whose Legēds & stories of their Saints, nothing is more common then apparitions from heauen, of Saints depa•ted: of glorious Angels, of the virgin Mary, (and that so familiarly, as sometime she sang with thē in their Cell, kissed some of them, and let them sucke her brests). Nay, of God himselfe: and especially of our Sauiour Christ Iesus: who they ⟨p. 112⟩