A09445:151
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.
Out of this, we may learn something both for our instruction, and for our conversation.
Out of this, we may learne something both for our instruction, and for our conuersation.
For our instruction, it here appears how wicked and wretched the corruption of our nature is, which cannot but receive some contagion from the pollution of those with whom we live: for this is so, not only in them who carry a loose hand over themselves, but even in such as look most narrowly unto their steps: as we see here in this holy Prophet, who was a man of more then ordinary sanctification: how little cause therefore hath any man to extol nature? and how much less cause the schoolmen and some other Papists, to give the least commendation to our pure naturals: for if nature rectified by grace, be so hardly kept within compass, alas how outrageous and perverse is it, when it reigns without controlment?
For our instruction, it here appeares how wicked and wretched the corruption of our nature is, which cannot but receiue some contagion from the pollution of those with whom we liue: for this is so, not onely in them who carry a loose hand ouer themselues, but euen in such as looke most narrowly vnto their steps: as we see here in this holy Prophet, who was a man of more then ordinary sanctification: how little cause therefore hath any man to extol nature? and how much lesse cause the schoolemen and some other Papists, to giue the least commendation to our pure naturals: for if nature rectified by grace, bee so hardly kept within compasse, alas how outragious and peruerse is it, when it raignes without controlment?
And for our further instruction, here we may see of what a creeping and encroaching nature sin is, which like a secret venom in the natural body, so it in the politic body rests not in the place, or patie poisoned, but closely creeps