A09445:161
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.
But he whom God hath blessed with a good and tractable people, and well affected to the word, and yet himself liveth loosely and scandalously amongst them, a heavy burden and a hard account, lieth on that minister, and no rebuke is too rough, no punishment too great, no censure too sharp for him. And if this holy Prophet, fear so much the presence of God for his small pollutions, and yet lived amongst so wicked and polluted a people, then what heaviness and horror, shall be heaped on his soul, who cares not with how foul pollutions his life be stained, and yet liveth amongst a godly and well disposed people▪ And thus we have the first cause of his fear, his own, and his peoples pollutions.
But he whom God hath blessed with a good and tractable people, and well affected to the word, and yet himselfe liueth loosely and scandalously amongst them, a heauy burden and a hard account, lyeth on that minister, and no rebuke is too rough, no punishment too great, no censure too sharpe for him. And if this holy Prophet, feare so much the presence of God for his small pollutions, and yet liued amongst so wicked and polluted a people, then what heauinesse and horror, shall be heaped on his soule, who cares not with how foule pollutions his life be stained, and yet liueth amongst a godly and well disposed people▪ And thus we haue the first cause of his feare, his own, and his peoples pollutions.
It followeth.
And mine eyes hath seen the King, and Lord of Hosts.
And mine eyes hath seene the King, and Lord of Hostes.