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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.
But what doth this belong to them alone? and is Israel only a Nation not worthy to be beloved? Nay, I may cry out with as good cause: O England, a nation not worthy to be beloved. For, God hath been as good a God to us, as he was to them: and we have been as unkind a people to him, as they were to him: But that I may be free from discrediting our nation, and from defiling my own Nest: let us prove both these points, and lay them open to the view of the world.
But what doth this belong to them alone? and is Israel onely a Nation not worthy to be beloued? Nay, I may cry out with as good cause: O England, a nation not worthy to be beloued. For, God hath beene as good a God to vs, as he was to them: and we haue beene as vnkinde a people to him, as they were to him: But that I may bee free from discrediting our nation, and from defiling my owne Nest: let vs prooue both these points, and lay them open to the view of the world.
1 First therefore, the same mercies, ⟨p. 56⟩and far greater, have been poured & heaped upon us: he hath called us out of the darkness; First, of Heathenism, & then of Popery: his covenant of grace and salvation, he hath confirmed with us, his treasures of his word and Sacraments, he hath imparted to us: his holy word never better preached, and the mysteries thereof never more plainly opened, since the time of the Apostles: and as we have Religion, so we have it under a religious prince, whereby it comes to pass, that these blessings of salvation, we enjoy not in secret, or by stealth: but we have it countenanced by authority: so that religion is not barely allowed, but even as it were thrust upon men. Besides all this, we have a land also, that floweth with milk & honey, it is plentiful in all good things: we have liberty, & peace under a peaceable prince, and the companions of peace: prosperity, plenty, health, wealth, corn, Wool, gold, silver, abundance of all things, that may please the heart of ⟨p. 57⟩man: thus hath God deserved the love of England.