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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.
Our bodies and lives are free from spanish Inquisition (which is one of the last props, which Satan hath lent the Pope, wherewith to uphold his declining kingdom) and the Lord grant we may be ever free from it. But in the mean time, that might put us in mind how to deal with our corrupt hearts, […] ⟨p. 14⟩[…] ⟨p. 15⟩⟨p. 16⟩and unmortified affections, even to erect an Inquisition over them, to lay in wait for them, to search them narrowly, and to use them roughly: yea, to set our hearts upon the rack of Gods law, that so it may confess the secret wickedness of it: for the Papists do not think us Protestants, greater enemies to their superstition, then the inward corruptions of our hearts, are to our salvation: therefore it may be a godly policy for every man, curn to erect an Inquisition over his own heart and conscience, and not to spare his most secret and dearest sins, and such as are nearest allied to his own nature: for that is the true search here commanded by the Prophet, and practised by all Godly and holy men: when a man purposeth to find all that are, & to espy even all his sins: for a godly man is never satisfied in his search, but still, the more he finds, he suspects the more are still behind: and therefore he continueth searching his own heart all his life long: Therefore let ⟨p. 17⟩every, professor look to it betwixt God and his conscience, that he dally not with himself in this case: for if he do, then, when God comes with his privy search, his hypocrisy shall be discovered, and his nakedness shall be laid open in the view of men, and Angels: to his eternal confusion.
Our bodyes and liues are free from spanish Inquisition (which is one of the last props, which Sathan hath lent the Pope, wherewith to vphold his declining kingdom) and the Lord grant we may be euer free from it. But in the meane time, that might put vs in mind how to deale with our corrupt hearts, 〈…〉 ⟨p. 14⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 15⟩