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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.
It followeth in the text.
After the Circumstances, followeth the ground and matter of his consolation, and that is the forgiveness of his sins; where first let us mark how it and the instrument are annexed together: Lo 1saith the Angel, this Coal ha•h touched thy lips, and thy Iniquities shall be forgiven, and thy sins purged: as though he had been cleansed by the Coal: where we may note, how greatly God magnifieth the means which himself ordaineth, even true remission and salvation to the right and holy using of them, though it come not from them, but from his own mercy, and power of his ordinance. It is therefore no marvel though God sanctifieth the child by the Ministry of water in Baptism, and feed our souls 2in the Lords Supper, by feeding our bodies with bread and wine: and no marvel though the careless neglect of either of them, be damnation to him that