A09445:129
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.
2 By the causes of it, which are also set down to be two:
2 By the causes of it, which are also set downe to be two:
1 He was a man polluted, and dwelt amongst people polluted.
2 He had seen the Lord, Then said I, woe is me, I am undone.
2 He had seene the Lord, Then said I, woe is me, I am vndone.
The first point in order is, the fear and ecstasy, into which the Lord d•ove this holy Prophet, which the Lord did not in his anger, but in his love unto him, not for a punishment of sin, but as an evidence of his further love: for the intent and purpose of God, in striking this fear into him, was to make him to be a true prophet, & a fit messenger for himself. It may seem a strange course, which God taketh to confirm and raise up his servant in zeal & courage to strike him into an extreme fear, even to astonish & amaze him & yet we see it is the course which the Lord taketh: out of which practise of the Lord, we learn this doctrine: That all true Ministers, especially such a are deputed to the greatest works in his church, must e first of all stricken into a great fear, […] consideration of the greatness of their nction, yea into an amazement and astonishment, in the admiration of Gods glory and greatness, whose room