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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.
Some think that all trouble of mind is nothing but melancholy and therefore 1think nothing needs but Physic and outward comforts: but he that considers in what case the Prophet here was, or David when he made the 6. the 32. or the 51. Psalms, will be of another mind, and will find that nothing can properly trouble the mind but sin: therefore as the wise Physician in his cure first searcheth out the cause, and then endeavours to take it away: so the good Physician of the soul, must first of all search into the cause of his sickness, that is his sins, and must take them away: which if they do not, then all their labour is lost: for all the company, music, recreation, wine, diet, nay all worldly comforts & delights, if it were the advancement to a kingdom, cannot so much comfort the distressed soul of a sinner, as this voice of a minister ⟨p. 151⟩spoken from God upon good grounds; Thy sins are forgiven thee. Now to lay down what be those true and good grounds, whereupon a Minister may 2safely and comfortably pronounce pardon of sins to a sinner, belongs properly to another place.
Some thinke that all trouble of mind is nothing but melancholy and therefore 1thinke nothing needes but Physicke and outward comforts: but he that considers in what case the Prophet heere was, or Dauid when hee made the 6. the 32. or the 51. Psalmes, will be of another mind, and will finde that nothing can properly trouble the mind but sinne: therefore as the wise Physitian in his cure first searcheth out the cause, and then endeuours to take it away: so the good Physitian of the soule, must first of all search into the cause of his sicknesse, that is his sins, and must take them away: which if they doe not, then al their labour is lost: for al the companie, musicke, recreation, wine, diet, nay all worldly comforts & delights, if it were the aduancement to a kingdom, cannot so much comfort the distressed soule of a sinner, as this voice of a minister ⟨p. 151⟩spoken from God vpon good grounds; Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee. Now to lay downe what bee those true and good groundes, whereupon a Minister may