A09445:146
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.
And I dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips.
And I dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lippes.
The Prophet not only complaine• of his own pollution, but of his peoples also, amongst whom he lived, and this he doth for these causes: First, to teach us, that it is the Ministers duty to confess, not only his own sins, but the sins of his people, and to complain of them to God: for as he is the peoples Interpreter to God, he must not think it enough to put up their petitions, to unfold their wants, and to crave relief for them at Gods hand, but he must further take knowledge of the sins of his ⟨p. 26⟩people, and make both public and private confession of them to God: and the more particularly he can do this, the better: and this he is to do, both for the peoples good, and for his own also, because it cannot be but that the sins of his people, are in some sort his: for this is the peculiar danger of the Magistrates and Ministers calling, that generally the sins of their people are theirs: I mean, that they are accessory to the sins of their people, either by provoking them by their evil […], or by not reproving, or not hindering or suffering, or winking, or covering and concealing, or not punishing them, or not carefully enough using means to prevent them: by all which means and many more, it comes to pass, that the peoples sins are the Ministers by communication: so that as well for his own sake, as theirs, he is to confess to God their sins, as well as his own.
The Prophet not onely complaine• of his own pollution, but of his peoples also, amongst whom he liued, and this he doth for these causes: First, to teach vs, that it is the Ministers duty to confesse, not onely his owne sinnes, but the sinnes of his people, and to complaine of them to God: for as he is the peoples Interperter to God, he must not thinke it enough to put vp their petitions, to vnfold their wants, and to craue reliefe for them at Gods hand, but he must further take knowledge of the sinnes of his