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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.
V. Some do believe.
V. Some doe beleeue.
To these must be propounded. 1. The Gospel of justification, sanctification, and perseverance. 2. The law without the curse, whereby they may be taught to bring forth fruits of new obedience beseeming repentance. Rom. 8. 1. There is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus. 1. Tim. 1. 9. The law is not appointed for the righteous. Let the Epistle of Paul to the Romans be the example. 3. Howsoever the curse of the law is not to be urged against the person that is righteous and holy in the sight of God, yet it is to be urged against the sins of the person, which are remaining. And as a father doth oftentimes set his iron rods that are appointed for the servants before the eyes of his sons, that they may be frayed: so the meditation of the curse is to be stirred up very often in the faithful themselves, left they should abuse the mercy of God to licentious living, and that they may be more fully humbled. For sanctification is ⟨p. 116⟩but in part: therefore that the remainders of sin may be abolished, we must always begin with the meditation of the law, and with the feeling of sin, and make an end in the Gospel.
To these must be propounded. 1. The Gospell of iustification, sanctification, and perseuerance. 2. The law without the curse, whereby they may be taught to bring forth fruites of new obedience beseeming repentance.