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A09449	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.; Prophetica, sive, De sacra et vnica ratione concionandi tractatus. English	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1607 (1607)	STC 19735.4; ESTC S4414	56,791	166

9. 8. Reprooue not a scorner lest hee hate thee Act. 19. 9. But when certaine men were hardned and would not obey speaking euill of the way of the Lord before the multitude he departed from them and separated the Disciples from them II. Some are teachable but yet ignorant To these men the Catechisme must bee deliuered Act. 18. 25. Apollos was catechized 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the way of the Lord. And he spake feruentlie in the spirit taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptisme of Iohn 26. And hee began to speake boldlie in the Synagogue Whom when Aquila and. Priscilla had heard they tooke him vnto them and expounded vnto him the way of God more perfectly Luk. 1. 4. That thou maist know the trueth of those things whereof thou hast been catechized 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or instructed The catechisme is the doctrine of the foundation of Christian religion brieflie propounded for the helpe of the vnderstanding and memorie in questions and answers made by the liuely voyce The matter therfore of the Catechisme is the foundation of religion The foundation is a certaine summe of the principles of Christianitie Heb. 5. 12. For when as concerning the time ye ought to be teachers yet haue yee neede againe that we teach you the first principles of the word of God A principle is that which doth directly and immediatly serue both for the saluation of men and for the glorie of God which being also denied and ouerturned no saluation can be hoped for There are especiallie sixe principles Repentance Faith Baptismes that is the Sacraments Imposition of hands that is the ministerie of the word by a Synecdoche the resurrection and the last iudgement Heb. 6. 1. 2. 3. The forme of the Catechisme is to handle the elements or grounds plainelie by asking and answering 1. Pet. 3. 21. To the which also the figure that now saueth vs euen baptisme agreeth not the putting away of the filthines of the flesh but the stipulation or interrogation of a good conscience Act. 8. 37. What doth let me to be baptized And Philip said vnto him if thou beleeuest with all thine heart thou maist Then hee answered saying I beleeue that Iesus Christ is the Sonne of God Tertullian de resurrect carnis saith The soule is not purged with washing but with answering And here wee must hold a difference betweene Milke and strong meate which are the same indeede but do differ in the manner and fashion of deliuering Milke is a certaine briefe plaine and generall explication of the principles of the faith as when a man doth teach y t we must beleeue one God and three persons Father Sonne holy Ghost and that we must relie only vpon the grace of God in Christ and that wee ought to beleeue the remission of sinnes and when wee are taught that we ought to repent to obstaine from euill and to doe that which is good Strong meate is a speciall copious luculent and cleere handling of the doctrine of faith as when the condition of man before the fall his fall originall and actuall sinne mans guiltinesse free-will the mysteries of the Trinitie the two natures of Christ the personall vnion the office of Christ the imputation of righteousnes faith grace and the vse of the law are deliuered out of the word of God distinctly and exactly Moreouer milke must bee set before babes that is those that are rude or weak in knowledge strong meat must be giuen to such as are of ripe yeres that is to them that are better instructed 1. Cor. 3. 1. Moreouer brethren I could not speake vnto you as to spirituall but I haue spoken vnto you as to carnall that is to infants in Christ. 2. I haue fed you with milke and not with meate Heb. 5. 13. III. Some haue knowledge but are not as yet humbled In such the foundation of repentance ought to bee stirred vp that is to say a certaine sorrow which is according to God 2. Cor. 7. 8. For though I made you sorrie with a letter I repent not though I did repent for I perceiue that the same Epistle made you sorie though it were but for a season 9. I now reioyce not that yee were sory but that ye sorrowed to repentance for yee sorrowed according to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so that in nothing ye were hurt by vs. 10. For sorrow which is according to God or godly causeth repentance vnto saluation not to bee repented of but worldly sorrow causeth death Sorrow according to God is a griefe for sinne euen because it is sinne To the stirring vp of this affection in the first place a man must vse the ministerie of the Law which may beget contrition of heart or the horrors of conscience which though it bee not a thing wholesome and profitable of it owne nature yet is it a remedie necessarie for the subduing of a sinners stubbernnesse and for the preparing of his minde to become teachable Now that this legall sorrow may be wrought it is fit to vse some choyce parcell of the law which may reprooue some one notable sinne in men that are not as yet humbled For sorrow for and repentance euen of one sinne is for substance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sorrow for and repentance of all Act. 8. 22. Repent therefore of this thy wickednes and pray God that if it be possible the thought of thine heart may be forgiuen thee Act. 2. 23. Him haue yee taken by the hands of the wicked being deliuered by the determinate counsell and foreknowledge of God and haue crucified and slaine Psalm 32. 5. Yea further if any man being afflicted with the crosse and with outward calamities haue only a worldly sorrow that is if he mourne not for sinne as it is sinne but for the punishment of sinne hee is not by and by to be comforted but first this sorrow is to be turned into that other sorrow which is according to God as is the counsell of Physitians in the like case For if a mans life be in danger by reason of bloud gushing out at his nose they commaund also that bloud bee let out in his arme or in some other place as the case requireth that they might stay the course of the bloud which rusheth out at the nostrils that so they might saue his life who was readie to yeeld vp the ghost Then let the Gospell be preached in the preaching wherof the holy Spirit worketh effectually vnto saluation For whilst he reneweth men that they may begin to will and to worke those things that are pleasing to God he doth truely and properly bring forth in them that sorrow which is according to God and repentance vnto saluation To the hard-harted the Law must bee vrged and the curse of the Law must bee denounced with threatning together with the difficultie of obtaining deliuerance vntill they bee purified in the heart Matth. 3. 7. 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will intice that Prophet and stretching out mine hand against him I will destroy him out of the middest of my people 5 Things spoken completiuè as if they were alreadie finished if they be not as yet finished they are to be vnderstood inchoatiuè as being begun and in the way to be fulfilled Gen. 5. 32. And when Noah was fiue hundred yeeres old hee begot Shem Ham and Iapheth that is he began to beget them Genes 11. 26. Terah liued seuentie yeeres when he begat Abram Nahor and Haran 1. King 6. 2. 37. Psal. 119. 8. I will obserue thy statutes do not forsake me It is to be vnderstood of his endeuour to doe so as in Phil. 3. Not as though I had alreadie attained to it or were alreadie perfect but I follow on if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Iesus Christ. Vers. 15. Let vs therfore as many as bee perfect be thus minded Luk. 1. 6. And they were both iust in the sight of God walking in all his commandements and ordinances without blame 6 Morall commandements or lawes vnder one sinne by name expressed doe signifie and meane all the sinnes of that kinde their causes occasions and allurements to them and command the contrarie vertues For so Christ expounded morall lawes Matth. 5. 2. to the end of the chapter 1. Ioh. 3. 15. Hee that hateth his brother is a manslayer 7 Threats and promises are to be vnderstood with their conditions Those are to bee conceiued with the condition of faith and repentance and these specially if they bee corporall with the exception of chastisement and the crosse Ezech. 33. 14. When I shall say vnto the wicked Thou shalt die the death if he turne from his sin and do that which is lawfull right 15. he shall surely liue and not die Reuel 21. 8. But the fearfull and vnbeleeuers c. shall haue their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death But in the sixt verse hee annexeth a promise saying I will giue vnto him that is a thirst of the well of the water of life freely Ionah 3. 4. Yet fourtie daies and Nineue shall be subuerted By those things which follow it appeareth that a condition is to be vnderstood Ierem. 18. 19. Like to these there are particular examples Esay 38. 1. of Hezechiah Giue commaundements to thy familie for thou shalt shortly die and shalt not liue The condition of Gods will is to bee vnderstood Gen. 20. 3. The Lord saith to Abimelech because hee had taken Abrahams wife to himselfe Behold thou shalt die for the woman which thou hast taken except vnlesse thou restore her Hence arose y e distinction in the schooles of the Signifying will and the will of Gods Good-pleasure The wil of Good-pleasure is that whereby God doth will something absolutely and simply without any condition as the creation and regiment of the world and the sending of his Sonne The Signifying will is that whereby he willeth somethings for some other thing and with condition and so wee say because that the condition annexed is a signe of the will that God doth so will 8 A superlatiue or exclusiue speech vsed of one person doth not exclude the other persons of the Deity but only creatures and fained gods to which the true God whether in one person or in moe is opposed Ioh. 17. 3. This is life eternall to know thee to be the only true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent He calleth the Father the onely true God that he might oppose him to all false gods Rom. 16. 27. To the onely wise God bee glorie by Iesus Christ. 1. Tim. 1. 17. Ioh. 10. 29. The Father is greater than all not than the rest of the persons but than the creatures Mark 13. 37. The Father alone knoweth the day of iudgement All the outward works of the Trinitie and all attributes are to be vnderstood inclusiuely that is without exception of any of the persons 9 When God is considered absolutely or by himselfe the three persons are comprehended when the word God is conferred or set with a person of the Trinitie it signifieth the Father 2. Cor. 13. 13. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the loue of God and the fellowship of the Holie Ghost be with you all 10 A generall word is taken specially and so on the contraric as All saith August lib. 6. cont Iulian cap. 12. for Many and Many for All are oftentimes vsed in the Scriptures Gen. 33. 11. God hath had mercie on nice therefore I haue all things Iere. 8. 6. All are turned to their owne race that is the greater part Matth. 21. 26. All men counted Iohn as a Prophet that is the most Phil. 2. 21. All seeke their own things and not the things of Christ. Deut. 28. 64. And God shall scatter thee among all people that is many 1. King 12. 18. And all the Israelites stoned him that is all that were present Exod. 9. 6. All the liuing creatures of Aegypt died Ierem. 26. 9. Then was gathered together all the people against Ieremie in the house of the Lord that is all wicked people Matth. 4. 23. Healing euery disease to wit that was offered to him Iohn 14. 13. Whatsoeuer yee shall aske the Father in my name that is whatsoeuer yee shall aske according to his word 1. Cor. 6. 12. All things are lawfull for mee that is all adiaphora things that are indifferent and not simply euill Nothing is put for little or small Ioh. 18. 20. I haue spoken nothing in secret that is little Act. 27. 33. None is vsed for few Ierem. 8. 6. There is none that repenteth of his wickednes that is but a few 1. Cor. 2. 8. Which wisedome none of the Rulers of this world knew that is very few Alwaies is taken for often or long Prou. 13. 10. Amongst the proud there is alwaies contentions that is often Luk. 18. 1. Hee spake vnto them a parable that they ought to pray alway Luk. 24. 53. And they were alwaies in the Temple lauding and praising of God Ioh. 18. 20. I alway taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple Eternall is vsed for a long time agreeing with the matter in hand Gen. 17. 8. All the land of Canaan is giuen vnto Abraham for an euerlasting possession Leuit. 25. 46. Ye shall vse their labours for euer Deut. 15. 17. If thy seruant be thy brother an Hebrew and will not goe from thee then shalt thou take an aule and pierce his care thorough against the doore and he shall be thy seruant for euer in aeternum 1. Chron. 15. 2. God hath chosen the Leuites that they might minister for euer vnto him Esay 34. 6. And beasts shall possesse Idumea and Bozra eternally Dan. 2. 4. O King liue for euer Ierem. 25. 9. I will make Iudea and the regions bordering vpon it an amazement a hissing and a perpetuall

the Remedie must be applied vnto them out of the Gospell which is double First some euangelicall meditations are to bee often inculcated and pressed vpon them as 1. That their sinne is pardonable 2. That the promises are generall in respect of beleeuers and that they are indefinite in respect of particular men and doe exclude no man 3. That the will to beleeue is faith Psalm 145. 19. Reuel 21. 6. 4. That sinne doth not abolish grace but rather God turning all things vnto the good of those that are his doth illustrate it 5. That all the works of God are done by contrarie meanes Secondly they must be intreated to stirre vp in them in the very bitternes of the temptation their faith which hath lien in a swoune and bin couered as it were with ashes and that they would certainely set downe with themselues that their sinnes are forgiuen them and that it would please them to struggle manfully in prayer either alone or with others against carnall sense and humane hope And that they may performe these things they must be very earnestly beaten vpon and those that are vnwilling must in a manner bee constrained Psalm 130. 1. Out of the depths haue I called to thee O Lord. 2. Lord listen vnto my voyce let thine eares attend to the voice of my praiers Psalm 77. 1. My voice came to God when I prayed my voice went to God that hee would turne his eare vt aduertat aurem vnto me 2. In the day of my distresse I besought the Lord. Rom. 4. 18. Who Abraham against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hope beleeued vnder hope that he should be the father of many nations Now that these medicines may be of force that ministeriall power of binding and loosing is to be vsed according to the forme prescribed in the word 2. Sam. 12. 13. Then Dauid saidto Nathan I haue sinned against the Lord Wherefore Nathan saied to Dauid Godhath also forgiuen thy sinne thou shalt not dye 2. Cor. 5. 20. Therefore wee are Embassadours in the name of Christ God as it were beseeching you by vs Wee pray you in the name of Christ that yee would be reconciled to God And if perhaps Melancholie trouble the minde the helpe of the medicine must be in priuate sought for Falling in manners is when any faithfull man falleth to the committing of some actuall sinne in life As Noahs drunkennesse Dauids adulterie Peters deniall c. To those that are fallen thus forsomuch as grace remaining in respect of her vertue and habit may be lost for a time in respect of sense and working the Law must bee propounded being mixed with the Gospell because a new acte of sinne requires a new acte or worke of faith and repentance Isa. 1. 4. Ah sinfull nation a people laden with iniquitie a seede of the wicked corrupt children they haue forsaken the Lord they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel to anger they are gone backeward 16. Wash you make you cleane take away the euill of your works from before mine eyes c. 18. Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord Though your sinnes were as crimsin they shall bee made white as snow though they were red like skarlet they shall be as wooll VII There is a mingled people Amixt people are the assemblies of our Churches To these any doctrine may be propounded whether of the Law or of the Gospell if the limitation and circumscription of the doctrine be made to those persons for whom it is conuenient Iohn 7. 37. Now in the last and great day of the Feast Iesus stoode and cried saying If any man thirst let him come vnto mee and drinke And this was the manner of the Prophets in their Sermons to denounce iudgements and destruction to the wicked and to promise deliuerance in the Messias to those that do repent A doubt If any man shall despaire in the publike congregation when the rest are hardened what ought to be done Ans. Let those that are hardened heare the Law circumscribed within the limits of the persons and of the vices and let the afflicted conscience heare the voyce of the Gospell applied in speciall manner vnto it CHAP. VIII Of the kinds of Application APplication is either Mentall or Practicall Mentall is that which respecteth the minde and it is either doctrine or Redargution 2. Tim. 3. 16. The whole Scripture is giuen by Gods inspiration and is profitable for doctrine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Redargution or improouing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for correction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for instruction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in righteousnesse 17. That the man of God may be perfect being perfectly instructed vnto euery good worke Doctrine is that whereby doctrine or teaching is vsed for the information of the minde to a right iudgement concerning things to be beleeued Redargution is that whereby teaching is vsed for the reformation of the minde from error In confutations which are made publikely before the assembly these cautions must be vsed 1. The thing that is determined 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the state of the question that is to bee discussed must bee throughly vnderstood 2. Let those errors onely be reprooued which trouble the Church in which we liue all other being altogether let alone which doe either lie dead or are externall vnlesse some daunger bee readie to ensue of them Matth. 16. Beware of the leauen of the Pharisees and Saduces Mark 9. Take heede and beware of the leauen of Herod Reue. 2. The men of Pergamus are warned to beware of the Nicolaitans to whom some of them did assent 3. If the error be out of the foundation of faith the confutation must not onely be Christianlike as it should be euer but also a friendly a gentle and brotherly dissention Practicall application is that which respecteth the life and behauiour And it is instruction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and correction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Instruction is that whereby doctrine is applied to frame a man to liue well in the family common-wealth and Church To this place belong consolation and exhortation Rom. 15. 4. Correction is that wherby the doctrine is applied to reforme the life from vngodlines and vnrighteous dealing Hitherto belongs admonition This must be done first generally the circumstances of the persons being omitted 2. Sam. 12. Nathan brings Dauid to the knowledge of his sinne by the helpe of a generall parable Act. 19. 26. Ye see and heare that not onely at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people because he saith that those are not Gods which are made with hands 35. Then the Towne Clerke when hee had stayed the people said Ye men of Ephesus c. 37. Ye haue brought hither these men which haue neither committed sacriledge neither doe blaspheme your goddesse Afterwards if the former reproofe preuaile not it must be vrged after