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Of the calling of the ministry two treatises, describing the duties and dignities of…Of the calling of the ministerie two treatises, discribing the duties and dignities of…
Of the calling of the ministry two treatises, describing the duties and dignities of that calling. Delivered publicly in the University of Cambridge, by Master Perkins. Taken then from his mouth, and now diligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word with a preface prefixed touching the publishing of Master Perkins his works, & a catalogue of all such particulars thereof, as are to be expected.Of the calling of the ministerie two treatises, discribing the duties and dignities of that calling. Delivered publickly in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, by Maister Perkins. Taken then from his mouth, and now dilligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word with a preface prefixed touching the publishing of Maister Perkins his workes, & a catalogue of all such particulars thereof, as are to bee expected.
London: printed by I. Roberts 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.
Isaiah 6.5. Then I said, woe is me, I am undone, for I am a man of polluted lips and dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips: for my eyes have seen the king and Lord of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the Seraphims unto me, with an hot coal in his hand. 7 Which he took from the alter with the tongues: and touched my mouth and said, Lo this hath touched thy lips, & thy iniquity shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying whom shal• I send, & who shall go for v•••hen said I, here am I, send me: and he said go.
Esay 6.5. Then I said, woe is me, I am vndone, for I am a man of pollut•d lips and dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips: for my eyes haue seene the king and Lord of hosts. 6 Then flewe one of the Seraphins vnto me, with an hotte coale in his hand. 7 Which he tooke from the alter with the tonges: and touched my mouth and saide, Loe this hath touched thy lips, & thy iniquity shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying whom shal• I send, & who shal go for v•••hen said I, here am I, send me: and he saide goe.
IN the five former Chapters are contained such Sermons, as the Prophet had made under Uzziah king of Judah: At this Chapter begin such as he preached in the reign of Jotham, & ⟨p. 2⟩so forward: But before he either preach or prophesy of any thing, in King Jotham's days, or his successors, the Lord in this Chapter gives a new commission to the Prophet, & a new confirmation to this calling: the old king in whose days Esayah was first called being now […], and an other succeeding him, God with the new king, reneweth the calling and commission of the Prophet: wherein God doth not give him another calling, for one calling to the office of the ministry is sufficient: but he confirmeth the calling formerly given, by repeating & ratifying it. And this God did to Easy, not as he was an ordinary, but an extraordinary Prophet: for ordinary Ministers need no renovation of their calling, nor any new signs of confirmation, but extraordinary Prophets, who come in extraordinary manner, & to do many extraordinary works, God in his wisdom will have their calling confirmed, again, and again, & that by very extraordinary means. Out of which practise of the Lord, we learn, how great cause we have to doubt those men to be either fantastical