A09445:279
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 to prove out of the words; Holy, Holy, Holy, the three Persons in Trinity, seems to be no fit nor sound collection. Rather in my opinion, we may safely collect and conclude out of these words (I and us) that there are more persons in the Trinity then one: for first, God the Father, or the whole Deity saith: Whom shall I send? and then changing the number, he saith: Who shall go for us? For howsoever God may ⟨p. 107⟩employ in the word Us, that he that is sent to preach, is sent as well for the good of the Church, as for his own glory, yet can it not be denied, but that the plural number here, and elsewhere, ascribed to the Deity, must needs argue a certain plurality of persons in that Deity: as in Genesis it is written, that God said, Let us make man: & here, Who shall go for us?1
But to proue out of the words; Holy, Holy, Holy, the three Persons in Trinitie, seemes to bee no fit nor sound collection. Rather in my opinion, we may safely collect and conclude out of these words (I and vs) that there are more persons in the Trinitie then one: for first, God the Father, or the whole Deitie saith: Whom shall I send? and then changing the number, he saith: Who shal goe for vs? For howsoeuer God may ⟨p. 107⟩imploy in the word Vs, that hee that is sent to preach, is sent as well for the good of the Church, as for his owne glory, yet can it not bee denied, but that the plurall number here, and elsewhere, ascribed to the Deity, must needs argue a certaine pluralitie of pe•sons in that Deitie: as in Genesis it is written, that God said, Let vs make man: & here, Who shall goe for vs?1