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Manuductio ad ministerium. Directions for a candidate of the ministry
Manuductio ad ministerium. Directions for a candidate of the ministry. : Wherein, first, a right foundation is laid for his future improvement; and, then, rules are offered for such a management of his academical & preparatory studies; and thereupon, for such a conduct after his appearance in the world; as may render his a skilful and useful minister of the Gospel. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed for Thomas Hancock, 1726
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Yet I shall only wish you to attend upon him in some Select Homilies; and, Consult him upon Occasion. I am not so enamoured on Austin, as (like Jansenius) to Read over all his Works ten times, and his Book, De Gratia, thirty times; I shall count it enough, if you go through' his, Confessions, and his Meditations, and his De Civitate Dei, and some Numbers of his Letters. Scultet in his, Medulla Theologiae Patrum, have given you such Abstracts of what has been written by many of the Fathers, as your Eye to good Purpose may dwell upon. But for a more agreeable and profitable Study of the Fathers, I shall propose, That you go through' Dupin, his Ecclesiastical History: And where you find an Account of any Subject handled by any Father, which you have a particular Inclination to see what they say upon: Then turn to the Author, and seek for further Satisfaction.
Yet I shall only wish you to attend upon him in some Select Homilies; and, Consult him upon Occasion. I am not so enamoured on Austin, as (like Jansenius) to Read over all his Works ten times, and his Book, De Gratia, thirty times; I shall count it enough, if you go thro' his, Confessions, and his Meditations, and his De Civitate Dei, and some Numbers of his Letters. Scultet in his, Medulla Theologiae Patrum, have given you such Abstracts of what has been written by many of the Fathers, as your Eye to good Purpose may dwell upon. But for a more agreeable and profitable Study of the Fathers, I shall propose, That you go thro' Dupin, his Ecclesiastical History: And where you find an Account of any Subject handled by any Father, which you have a particular Inclination to see what they say upon: Then turn to the Author, and seek for further Satisfaction.
§. 16. After all this Preparation for the Sanctuary, you are now coming to feed the Flocks on the High Mountains of Israel; Coming into an Employment among the People of GOD, in which, I wish you may prove like the Angel, in the Revelation, that came down from Heaven, and the Earth was lightened with his Glory. I am now going to bring you into the PULPIT: Which I hope, you ⟨p. 90⟩will ascend [as Luther, when he was much older than you, says, he still always did!] with a Trembling Soul; and remembering that you are to stand, where, that which the Jewish Senator said unto the greatest Person among them, is what the People of GOD may say unto you; Non stas coram nobis, sed coram eo qui dixit, Fiat, et factus est Mundus.