A TREATISE OF the dignity and duty of the Ministry.A TREATISE OF the dignitie and dutie of the Ministrie.

A TREATISE OF the dignity and duty of the Ministry.

A TREATISE OF the dignitie and dutie of the Ministrie.

Isaiah 6.5. Then I said, woe is me, I am undone, for I am a man of polluted lips and dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips: for my eyes have seen the king and Lord of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the Seraphims unto me, with an hot coal in his hand. 7 Which he took from the alter with the tongues: and touched my mouth and said, Lo this hath touched thy lips, & thy iniquity shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying whom shal• I send, & who shall go for v•••hen said I, here am I, send me: and he said go.

Esay 6.5. Then I said, woe is me, I am vndone, for I am a man of pollut•d lips and dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips: for my eyes haue seene the king and Lord of hosts. 6 Then flewe one of the Seraphins vnto me, with an hotte coale in his hand. 7 Which he tooke from the alter with the tonges: and touched my mouth and saide, Loe this hath touched thy lips, & thy iniquity shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying whom shal• I send, & who shal go for v•••hen said I, here am I, send me: and he saide goe.

IN the five former Chapters are contained such Sermons, as the Prophet had made under Uzziah king of Judah: At this Chapter begin such as he preached in the reign of Jotham, & ⟨p. 2⟩so forward: But before he either preach or prophesy of any thing, in King Jotham's days, or his successors, the Lord in this Chapter gives a new commission to the Prophet, & a new confirmation to this calling: the old king in whose days Esayah was first called being now […], and an other succeeding him, God with the new king, reneweth the calling and commission of the Prophet: wherein God doth not give him another calling, for one calling to the office of the ministry is sufficient: but he confirmeth the calling formerly given, by repeating & ratifying it. And this God did to Easy, not as he was an ordinary, but an extraordinary Prophet: for ordinary Ministers need no renovation of their calling, nor any new signs of confirmation, but extraordinary Prophets, who come in extraordinary manner, & to do many extraordinary works, God in his wisdom will have their calling confirmed, again, and again, & that by very extraordinary means. Out of which practise of the Lord, we learn, how great cause we have to doubt those men to be either fantastical