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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
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.
Yea further, if any man being afflicted with the cross, and with outward calamities have only a worldly sorrow, that is, if he mourn not for sin as it is sin, but for the punishment of sin, he is not by and by to be comforted, but first this sorrow ⟨p. 111⟩is to be turned into that other sorrow which is *according to God: as is the counsel of Physicians in the like case. For if a mans life be in danger by reason of blood gushing out at his nose: they command also that blood be let out in his arm or in some other place as the case requireth, that they might stay the course of the blood which rusheth out at the nostrils, that so they might save his life, who was ready to yield up the ghost.
Yea further, if any man being afflicted with the crosse, and with outward calamities haue only a worldly sorrow, that is, if he mourne not for sinne as it is sinne, but for the punishment of sinne, hee is not by and by to be comforted, but first this sorrow ⟨p. 111⟩is to be turned into that other sorrow which is *according to God: as is the counsell of Physitians in the like case. For if a mans life be in danger by reason of bloud gushing out at his nose: they commaund also that bloud bee let out in his arme or in some other place as the case requireth, that they might stay the course of the bloud which rusheth out at the nostrils, that so they might saue his life, who was readie to yeeld vp the ghost.
- *Godly.
Then let the Gospel be preached, in the preaching whereof the holy Spirit worketh effectually unto salvation. For whilst he reneweth men, that they may begin to will and to work those things that are pleasing to God, he doth truly and properly bring forth in them that sorrow which is according to God and repentance unto salvation.