A09445:277
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.
If any ask, how he shall know when God calls him? I answer, God calleth ordinarily by his Church, her voice is his: therefore whensoever the Church of God, saith unto thee, thou shalt be sent, and thou shalt go for us, even then doth the Lord call us out to this holy function.
If any aske, how he shall know when God calles him? I answere, God calleth ordinarily by his Church, her voice is his: therefore whensoeuer the Church of God, saith vnto thee, thou shalt bee sent, and thou shalt goe for vs, euen then doth the Lorde call vs out to this holy function.
Thirdly, let us observe how the Lord saith: Who shall (I) send, & who shall go for (us)? Some Interpreters gather out of this Chapter, an Argument for the Trinity of persons; as namely, out of the third Verse, where the Angels sing▪ Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God, &c. But it is not sound enough to overthrow our stubborn enemies the Jews, and therefore it seems those Divines are of a sounder and wiser judgement: who seeing we have other places pregnant and plain enough, therefore think it no good discretion to urge this or any such place which may probably admit another Interpretation, least that the Jews finding the weakness of the argument, ⟨p. 106⟩do judge all our proofs to be as weak, and so take occasion to persist the rather in their blindness, by that which we brought to have converted them. And as for that song of the Angels in the third Verse, where they ascribe holiness to the Lord three times: that their repetition signifieth nothing else, but the continual joy and delight which the holy Angels take in praising of God, who cannot satisfy themselves in honouring his name: teaching us in their example, never to be weary of praising God by prayers and holy hymns, and of ho•o• ring him in our lives and callings.
Thirdly, let vs obserue how the Lord saith: Who shal (I) send, & who shal go for (vs)? Some Interpreters gather out of this Chapter, an Argument for the Trinitie of persons; as namely, out of the third Verse, where the Angels sing Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God, &c. But it is not sound inough to ouerthrowe our stubborne enemies the Iewes, and therfore it seemes those Diuines are of a sounder and wiser iudgement: who seeing we haue other places pregnant and plaine enough, therefore thinke it no good discreetiō to vrge this or any such place which may probably admit another Interpretation, least that the Iewes finding the weaknesse of the argument,