A09445:180
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.
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: ⟨p. 56⟩and appeared as hee was crucified with his woundes, and imprinting those woundes of his, in Francis his body, which they say he bare all his life, and that they bled whensoeuer hee would suffer them, which he alwayes did on Good Fryday, that he might bee like to Christ. This, and many more such, may you see in that fabulous & blasphemous book, of the cōformities of Saint Francis.
But for the matter: are apparitions from heaven so ordinary in the popish Church? how then came it to pass, that the greatest and holiest men in the old Testament, were so amazed at the very apparition but of an Angel: as we may see in the whole course of the Story? Some ran away, and hid themselves: some covered their faces, some fell down flat on the ground: and the Prophets ere cried out; Woe is me, I am undone: my eyes have seen the King and Lord of Hosts. But in the Church of Rome, look the stories, that Saint or Monk is no body that hath not had some