A09445:179
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.
Secondly,1 Inasmuch as here the Prophet in a conscience of his corruptions, feareth and crieth out at the least apparition of Gods glory.
Secondly,1 Inasmuch as here the Prophet in a conscience of his corruptions, feareth and cryeth out at the least apparition of Gods glory.
- 1The second use against the Papists.The second vse against the Papists.
The vanity and false dealing of the Church of Rome, is here discovered, in whose Legends & stories of their Saints, nothing is more common then apparitions from heaven, of Saints departed: of glorious Angels of the virgin Mary, (and that so familiarly, as sometime she sang with •hē in their Cell, kissed some of them, and let them suck her breasts). Nay, of God himself: and especially of our Saviour Christ Jesus: who they say, appeared (I know not how oft) to one man: namely, to Saint Francis: ⟨p. 56⟩and appeared as he was crucified with his wounds, and imprinting those wounds of his, in Francis his body, which they say he bare all his life, and that they bled whensoever he would suffer them, which he always did on Good Friday, that he might be like to Christ. This, and many more such, may you see in that fabulous & blasphemous book, of the conformities of Saint Francis.
The vanitie and false dealing of the Church of Rome, is here discouered, in whose Legēds & stories of their Saints, nothing is more common then apparitions from heauen, of Saints departed: of glorious Angels of the virgin Mary, (and that so familiarly, as sometime she sang with •hē in their Cell, kissed some of them, and let them sucke her brests). Nay, of God himselfe: and especially of our Sauiour Christ Iesus: who they say, appeared (I know not how oft) to one man: namely, to Saint Francis: