A09445:250
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 thus much of the circumstances of his Consolation.
It followeth in the text.
After the Circumstances, followeth the ground and matter of his consolation, and that is the forgiveness of his sins: ⟨p. 91⟩where first let us mark how it and the instrument are annexed together: Lo saith the Angel, this Coal hath touched thy lips, and thy Iniquities shall be forgiven, and thy sins purged: as though he had been cleansed by the Coal: where we may note, how greatly God magnifieth the means which himself ordaineth, even true remission and salvation to the right and holy using of them, though it come not from them, but from his own mercy, and power of his ordinance. It is therefore no marvel though God sanctifieth the child by the Ministry of water in Baptism, and feed our souls in the Lords Supper, by feeding our bodies with bread and wine: and no marvel though the careless neglect of either of them, be damnation to him that despiseth them: seeing they are Gods instruments, ordained by him to convey his grace unto us: And yet for all this, we are to know, that remission or salvation, is no more tied to the very elements, or the actions, then here the Prophets forgiveness is to the Coal of fire.