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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
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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.
In gathering of doctrines we must specially remember that an example in his owne kind, that is, an Ethique, Oeconomique, Politique, Ordinarie, and Extraordinarie example hath the virtue of a general rule in Ethique, Oeconomique, Politique, Ordinarie, & Extraordinarie matters. The examples of the fathers are paterns for vs. 1. Cor. 10. 11. *And whatsoeuer is written, is written for our learning. And it is a Principle in Logique, that the *Genus is actually in all the *species: and a rule in the Optiques, that the generall species of things are perceiued before the particular.
- *Rom. 15. 4
- *Or general.
- *Or specials and particulars of that kind or general.