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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 3THE ARTE OF PROPHECYING. › Chapter 3
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.
Prophecies are either greater or lesser.
Greater are such as do more plentifully deliver all those things that are foretold; as the prophecy of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel.
Greater are such as do more plentifullie deliuer all those things that are foretold; as the prophecie of Esay, Ieremie, Ezekiel, Daniel.
Hitherto belong the Lamentations of Jeremiah, touching the misery of the people of the Jews about the time of the death of Josiah.
Hitherto belong the Lamentations of Ieremie, touching the miserie of the people of the Iewes about the time of the death of Iosiah.
Lesser prophecies are those, which entreat more sparingly or briefly of all those things that are foretold, or at least of some of them; as the prophecy of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Michah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephanie, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Lesser prophecies are those, which intreate more sparinglie or briefely of all those things that are foretold, or at least of some of them; as the prophecie of Hosea, Ioel, Amos, Obediah, Ionas, Michah, Nahum, Habakuk, Zephanie, Hagge, Zacharie, Malachie.