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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.
4 of the Callings of the Ministry, out of 2 places of Scripture.
4 of the Callings of the Ministerie, out of 2 places of Scripture.
5 of Repentance out of Zephaniah 2, 1.
Besides many other particular Sermons, and short discourses made upon several, and special occasions: of all which seem are already published by others, and some by my self: and all the rest that remain, as they be the Jewels of Gods Church, so do I willingly dedicate them to the public and general good. Judging it were a foul sin in me, or any other, to impropriate to our selves, ⟨image 8⟩or our own private use, the labours of This ▪ or any other learned man, which are in my opinion, parts of the Treasury of the militant Church: And as it were wrong to the Church, if I should conceal them, so doubtless were it to him and his children: if I should publish them for my own alone, and not for their benefit. If I do, I think it may be justly said unto me, or whosoever doth so, Thy money perish with thee. And what herein I have said for my self: I know I may boldly and safely say, for those his Executors or assigns, which have or had in their hands, any of those which were found in his study: In the publishing of all which, as we do intend to deal truly with the Christian Reader, and not to commit any thing to the press, which hath not either been written or corrected, by the Author himself, or faithfully penned according to the truest copies taken from his own mouth, and since by others of sufficiency & integrity, diligently perused: so we purpose to refer them to the benefit of the Authors wife and children, as much as may be, wishing that upon this caveat man would not be so hasty (as some have been) to commend to the world, their unperfect notes, upon a base desire of a little