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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
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But alas, these times of ours, cry out of an other state, for even Jeremies case is ours: We may complain as he did, No man repents him of his wickedness, 1saying what have I done? the same is the sore of our people, and the sickness of all Nations: that every man runs on in his sins, from sin to sin carelessly: even as the bard horse into the battle. But how rare a thing is it, to find a man, that daily searcheth himself, & examines how he lives, and how the case standeth betwixt GOD and himself: and that when he hath done amiss, entereth into the closet of his heart, and strikes himself upon the breast, and disputes the case with himself, saying: What have I done? O what is this, that I have done against God, ⟨p. 21⟩against his Church, and against my own soul?
But alas, these times of ours, cry out of an other state, for euen Ieremies case is ours: We may complaine as hee did, No man repents him of his wickednesse, 1saying what haue I done? the same is the sore of our people, and the sicknesse of all Nations: that euery man runnes on in his sinnes, from sinne to sinne carelesly: euen as the barde horse into the battaile. But how rare a thing is it, to find a man, that dayly searcheth himself, & examines how he liues, and how the case standeth betwixt GOD and himselfe: and that when hee hath done amisse, entereth into the closet of his heart, and strikes himselfe vpon the breast, and disputes the case with himselfe, saying: What hane I done? O what is this, that I haue done against God, ⟨p. 21⟩against his Church, and against my owne soule?