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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.
The fall which is in apprehending Christ, is desperation.
For the restoring of those that do despair, there are to be used a Trial, and the Remedy.
For the restoring of those that doe despaire, there are to be vsed a Triall, and the Remedie.
The Trial or Search is either of the cause of the temptation, or of their estate.
The Triall or Search is either of the cause of the temptation, or of their estate.
The trial of the Cause is made fitly by private confession. Jam. 5. 17. Confesse your sins one to another, and pray for one another that ye may be healed. But lest that confession should be made a kind of rack or torture, it must be limited with these provisos. 1. It ought to be free, and not compelled: because salvation depends not upon it. 2. It must not be of all sins, but of those only which wring the conscience, which unless they do reveal, greater danger may hang over their heads. 3. Let it chiefly be made to Pastors; yet so as that we must know that it may be safely made to other faithful men in the Church.