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The Art of Prophesying
The art of prophesying, or, A treatise concerning the sacred and only true manner and method of preaching first written in Latin by Master William Perkins ; and now faithfully translated into English (for that it containeth many worthy things fit for the knowledge of men of all degrees) by Thomas Tuke.The arte of prophecying, or, A treatise concerning the sacred and onely true manner and methode of preaching first written in Latine by Master William Perkins ; and now faithfully translated into English (for that it containeth many worthie things fit for the knowledge of men of all degrees) by Thomas Tuke.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for E.E., 1607
THE ART OF PROPHESYING. › Chapter 6THE ARTE OF PROPHECYING. › Chapter 6
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.
A place. | A collection from the Adjunct. Heb. 8. For in rebuking them he saith, Behold, the days will come, saith the Lord, when I shall make with the house of Israel & with the house of Judah a new testament. | Heb. 8. 13. In that he saith a new testament, he hath disannulled the old: now that which is disannulled and waxed old is ready to vanish away.
A place. | A collection from the Adiunct. Heb. 8. For in rebuking them he saith, Behold, the daies will come, saith the Lord, when I shall make with the house of Israel & with the house of Iudah a new testament. | Heb. 8. 13. In that he saith a new testament, hee hath disanulled the old: now that which is disanulled and waxed old is readie to vanish away.
In gathering of doctrines we must specially remember that an example in his own kind, that is, an Ethic, Economic, Politic, Ordinary, and Extraordinary example hath the virtue of a general rule in Ethic, Economic, Politic, Ordinary, & Extraordinary matters. The examples of the fathers are patterns for us. 1. Cor. 10. 11. *And whatsoever is written, is written for our learning. And it is a Principle in Logic, that the *Genus is actually in all the *species: and a rule in the Optics, that the general species of things are perceived before the particular.