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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

of the Prophets and the Minor in the writings of the Euangelists and Apostles The Scripture is either the New Testament or the Old The old testament is y ● first part of the Scripture written by the Prophets in the Hebrew tongue or at least in the Chaldie vnfolding chiefely that old couenant of works Luk. 16. 29. and 24. 27. And he began at Moses and at all the Prophets and interpreted vnto them in all the Scriptures the things which were written of him It is distinguished by bookes which are either Historicall or Dogmaticall or Propheticall The Historicall bookes are stories of things done for the illustration and confirmation of that doctrine which is propounded in other bookes 1. Cor. 10. 11. Now al these things came vpo them for ensamples and were written to admonish vs. Rom. 15. 4. For whatsoeuer things were written afore-time are written for our learning These books are in number fifteene 1 Genesis which is an historie of the creation fall promise and of the state of the Church conserued and shut vp in priuate families 2 Exodus which is an historie of the deliuerance of the Israelites from the Aegyptians of their going out of Aegypt of the promulgation of the Law and of the Tabernacle 3 Leuiticus which containeth a storie of the Ceremoniall worship 4 Numbers which is an historie of their martiall marching into the land of Canaan 5 Deuteronomie which is a commentarie repeating and explicating the Lawes out of the fore-said bookes 6 The booke of Ioshua which declareth their entrance into and possession of the land of Canaan vnder Ioshua 7 The book of the Iudges which comprehendeth an historie of the corrupt and miserable condition of the Church and Common-wealth of Israel from Ioshua to Eli. 8 The booke of Ruth which is an historie concerning the mariages and posteritie of Ruth 9 The first and second booke of Samuel which is a storie of things done vnder Eli and Samuel Priests and vnder Saul and Dauid Kings 10 The first and second booke of Kings which maketh a narratiō of things atchieued in the daies of the Kings of Israel and Iudah 11 The first and second booke of Chronicles which is a methodicall historie of the beginning increase and ruine of the people of Israel seruing to explaine and shew the Line or Linage of Christ. 12 The booke of Ezra which containeth an historie of their returne from captiuitie in Babylon and of the beginning of the Restoring of the citie 13 The booke of Nehemiah which speaketh of the restoring of the city which was to be finished 14 The booke of Hester which is an historie of the preseruation of the Church of the Iewes in Persia by Hester 15 The booke of Iob which is an history intreating of the causes of tentations as also of his manifold conflicts and lastly of his happie issue The Dogmaticall bookes are those which teach and prescribe the Doctrine of Diuinitie These are foure in number 1 The booke of Psalmes which containeth sacred songes to be fitted for euerie condition both of the Church and the particular members therof and also to be sung with grace in the heart Col. 3. 16. 2 The booke of Prouerbes which is a treatise of Christian manners teaching pietie towards God and iustice towards our Neighbour 3 The booke of the Preacher which discloseth the vanity of al humane things so farre forth as they are vsed without the feare of God 4. The Song of Songs which speaketh of the mutuall communion of Christ with the Church vnder an allegorie of a Bridegroome and his Bride The Prophetical books are Predictions either of the iudgements of God for the sinnes of the people or of the deliuerance of the Church which is to bee perfited at the comming of Christ. But with these predictions they doe mingle the doctrine of repentance and doe almost alwaies vse consolations in Christ to them that doe repent It is their custome also for the helping of their hearers memorie and vnderstanding to propound their sermons brieflie which they made at large Esa. 8. 1. Moreouer the Lord said vnto me take thee a great roule and write in it with a mans penne Hab. 2. 2. Write the vision and make it plaine vpon tables that he may run that readeth it Prophecies are either greater or lesser 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 Ieremie touching the miserie of the people of the Iewes about the time of the death of Iosiah 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 Thus much for the Old testament The New Testament is the second part of the Scripture written in the Greeke tongue by the Apostles or at least approued of them propounding plainely the doctrine of the new couenant Eph. 2. 20. And are built vpon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Peter approued the Gospel of Marke at whose motion and appointment it was written by Marke as it pleaseth Nicephorus to auerre Lib. 2. cap. 45. And Iohn that wrote the Gospell approued the Gospell of Luke It is of small moment which is reported by Eusebius to wit that it is apparent by two places 2. Tim. 2. 8. and Rom. 2. 16. that Paul was the author of that Gospell which is called Lukes For Paul doth not here speake of any one booke but of his whole ministerie for hee addeth In * which I suffer trouble as an euill doer euen vnto bonds 2. Tim. 2. 9. The new Testament containeth partly Histories and partly Epistles The Histories are 1 The foure Gospels of Matthew Marke Luke and Iohn which are an history of the life deedes and doctrine of Christ exhibited vnto the world continuing from his conception euen vntill his ascension into heauen And there are foure writers two that were hearers and two that were eye-witnesses that they might giue greater assurance of the truth of the historie The difference betwixt the Euangelists is on this wise Matthew layeth open the doctrines which Christ deliuered Marke sets downe the historie briefly yet did he not make an abridgement of the Gospell which Matthew wrote as Hierome supposed For hee begins his discourse in a diuers manner and proceedes in another order partly intreating of things more largely and partlie interlacing of new matters Luke aimeth at or frameth a perfect historie and described in a certaine order Iohn is almost wholy taken vp in laying open the Godhead and benefit of Christ which is deriued from his Godhead vnto vs. Hierome distinguisheth the Euangelists by their beginnings or entrance He saith Matthew is like a man because hee begins with the Man-hood of Christ. He likens Marke to a Lion because hee begins with

be exhibited in the last times prophecied the Sibylls as Lactantius recordeth lib. 4. cap. 6. and Cicero lib. 2. de Diuinat and Virgil in the fourth Eclogue 4. Of the miracles of Christ Suetonius speaketh in Nero and Tacitus lib. 5. 20. 5. Of the Wisemens starre Plin. lib. 2. 25. 6. Of the slaughtering of the infants Macrobus in Satur. 7. Of the death of Herod Agrippa Iosephus in his 19. booke of Antiquities chap. 7. 8. Of the flood Berosus in those fragments which are extant Iosephus Antiq. booke 1. chap. 3. And the Poets 9. Of the tower of Babel Eupolemus speaketh as Eusebius testifieth De praeparat Euangel 10. Of the Doue which Noe sent out Plutarch mentioneth Lib. quod Bruta sunt rationalia 11. Of Iaphet the sonne of Noe the Poets fable many things 12. Of Abrahams sacrifice Alexander Polyhist 13. Of the miracles of Moses Plinie speaketh though he do ill in calling him a Magitian Thirdly the Antiquitie of the word for it cōtaineth in it a narration of things done from the beginning of the world But the most ancient humane Historie whatsoeuer was not written by any before the daies of Ezra and Nehemiah who were about the yeare of the worlds creation three thousand and fiue hundreth Fourthly the most certaine accomplishment of the prophecies as are these of the calling of the Gentiles of Antichrist of the apostasie of the Iewes c. Fiftly the matter thereof which is of one true God of the true worship of God and that God is the Sauiour Sixtly the consent of all the parts of the Scripture Seauenthly the miraculous preseruation of the Scriptures in the perils of the Church and in the time of generall reuolting Eightly the operation thereof for it conuerteth men and though it bee flatlie contrarie to the reason and affections of men yet it winneth them vnto it selfe Ninthly it is full of maiestie in the simplenes of the words Lastly the holy pen-men set downe their owne corruptions and Moses commendeth himselfe saying that he was the meekest of all men which argueth that they were led by the holie Ghost And Christ who is described in the Gospell affirmeth very plainely that he is the sonne of God and that he is one with God the father and challengeth all the glorie of God vnto himselfe Which if it had not bin right and true he should haue felt the wrath of God with Adam and with Herod who would needes bee like vnto God But on the contrarie God hath reuenged his death both vpon Herod and vpon the Iewes and vpon Pilate and vpon those Emperours that persecuted the Church And thus we haue seene the tokens of the Scripture Whereby it appeareth that the booke of Tobit the prayer of Manasses the boooke of Iudith the booke of Baruch the Epistle of Ieremy the additions to Daniel the third and fourth booke of Ezra the additions to the book of Hester the two bookes of Machabees the booke of Wisedome and Ecclesiasticus are not to be reckoned in the Canon Reas. 1. They are not written by the Prophets 2. They are not written in Hebrew 3. Christ and his Apostles alledged in the new Testament no testimonies out of those bookes 4. They containe some feigned things and contrarie to the Scriptures CHAP. IIII. Of the interpretation of the Scriptures HItherto hath been spoken of the obiect of Preaching The parts thereof are two Preparation for the sermon and the Promulgation or vttering of it Matth. 13. 52. Then said he vnto them therefore euery Scribe which is taught vnto the kingdome of heauen is like vnto an housholder which bringeth forth out of his treasure both new and old In preparation priuate studie is with diligence to be vsed 1. Tim. 4. 13. Till I come giue attendance to reading to exhortation and to doctrine 1. Pet. 1. 10. Of the which saluation the Prophets haue inquired and searched which prophecied of the grace that should come vnto you Dan. 9. 2. In the first yeere of his raigne I Daniel vnderstood by bookes the number of the yeeres Concerning the studie of Diuinitie take this aduice First diligently imprint both in thy mind and memory the substance of Diuinitie described with definitions diuisions and explications of the properties Secondly proceede to the reading of the Scriptures in this order Vsing a grammaticall rhetoricall and logicall analysis and the helpe of the rest of the arts reade first the Epistle of Paul to the Rom. after that the Gospell of Iohn as being indeed the keyes of the new Testament and then the other books of the new Testamēt will be more easie when they are read When all this is done learne first the dogmaticall bookes of the old Testament especiallie the Psalmes then the Propheticall especially Esay Lastly the historicall but chieflie Genesis For it is likelie that the Apostles and Euangelists read Esay and the Psalmes very much For there are no bookes of the old Testament out of which we can reade more testimonies to be cited then out of these There are about threescore places alledged out of Esay and threescore and foure out of the Psalmes Thirdly out of orthodoxall writings we must get aid not onely from the latter but also from the more ancient Church Because Sathan hath raised vp from the dead the old Heretiques that he might hinder the restoratiō of the Church which is begun to bee made in our time For the Antitrinitaries haue newly varnished that opinion of Arius and Sabellius The Anabantists renew the doctrines or sects of the Essees Catharists Enthusiasts and Donatists The Swenkseldians reuiue the opinions of the Eutychians Enthusiasts c. Menon followeth Ebion and the Papists resemble the Pharisies Encratites Tatians Pelagians The Libertines renew the opinions of the Gnosticks and Carpocratians Seruetus hath reuiued the heresies of Samosatenus Arrius Eutyches Marcion and Apollinaris Lastly the Schismatiques that separate themselues from euangelical Churches receiue the opinions facts and fashions of Pup●anus in Cyprian of the Audians and Donatists Therefore in like manner wee must not so much seeke for new repealings and confutations of these heresies as wee are for our vse to fetch those ancient ones out of Councils and Fathers and to accompt them as approued and firme Fourthly those things which in studying thou meetest with that are necessarie and worthie to be obserued thou must put in thy tables or Common-place books that thou maiest alwaies haue in a readines both old and new Fiftly before all these things God must carnestly be sued vnto by prayer that hee would blesse these meanes and that he would open the meaning of the Scriptures to vs that are blind Psalm 119. 18. Open mine eies that I may see the wonderfull things of thy Law Reuel 3. 18. I aduise thee to buy gold for thee and to annoint thine eyes with eye-salue that thou maist see Hitherto pertaineth the framing of Common-place bookes Concerning which obserue this slender counsel 1.

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

Collection is when the doctrine not expressed is soundly gathered out of y e text This is done by the helpe of the nine arguments that is of the causes effects subiects adiuncts dissentanies names distribution and definition For example A place The collection Iohn 10. 34. Iesus answered them Is it not written in your law I said yee are Gods From the comparison of the lesser 35. If hee called thē Gods vnto whom the word of God was giuen and the Scripture cannot bee broken 36. Say yee of me whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world thou blasphemest because I said I am the Sonne of God A place The collection from the lesser 1. Cor. 9. 9. For it is written in the law of Moses thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne What hath God care of oxen Vers. 4. Haue we not power to eate and to drinke A place The collection from the contrarie Gal. 3. 10. For so many as are of the workes of the law are vnder a curse for it is written Cursed is euery one that continueth not in al things which are in the book of the law to do them Vers. 9. Therfore those which are of faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham Vers. 11. For the iust shal liue by faith Vers. 11. And that no man is iustified by the law before God it is euident A place A collection from the Adiunct Heb. 8. For in rebuking them he saith Behold the daies will come saith the Lord when I shall make with the house of Israel with the house of Iudah a new testament Heb. 8. 13. In that he saith a new testament hee hath disanulled the old now that which is disanulled and waxed old is readie to vanish away In gathering of doctrines we must specially remember that an example in his owne kind that is an Ethique Oeconomique Politique Ordinarie and Extraordinarie example hath the virtue of a general rule in Ethique Oeconomique Politique Ordinarie Extraordinarie matters The examples of the fathers are paterns for vs. 1. Cor. 10. 11. And whatsoeuer is written is written for our learning And it is a Principle in Logique that the Genus is actually in all the species and a rule in the Optiques that the generall species of things are perceiued before the particular A place The Collection from the Species Rom. 9. 7. Neither are they all children because they are the seede of Abraham but in Isaac shal thy seed be called 10. Neither he only felt this but also Rebecca when shee had conceiued by one euen by our father Isaac Vers. 8. That is they which are the children of the flesh are not the children of God but the children of the promise are counted for the seede Rom. 4. 18. Which Abraham against hope beleeued vnder hope c. 21. Being fully assured that hee which had promised was also able to doe it 22. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse Rom. 4. 23. Now it is not written for him onely that it was imputed to him for righteousnes 24. But for vs also to whom it shal be imputed for righteousnesse which beleeue in him that raised vp Iesus our Lord from the dead That also I adde that collections ought to be right and sound that is to say deriued from the genuine and proper meaning of the Scripture If otherwise wee shall draw any doctrine from any place Prou. 8. 22. the Greeke translation of the Seuentie Interpreters is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Lord hath created me it is the speech of Wisedome that is of Christ speaking of himselfe Whence the Arrians collect very wickedly that the Sonne was created But in the Hebrew it is Iehouah kanneni The Lord hath possessed mee Now the Father possesseth the Son because hee begat him from eternitie and because the Father is in the Sonne and the Sonne in the Father And so Gen. 4. 1. When a Sonne was borne vnto Adam he saith I haue possessed a man from the Lord. The error perhaps came of this that Ectise was either through ignorance or malice put for Ectese Augustine also vpon the tenth verse of the 39. Psalme readeth on this wife I held my peace because thou hast made me fecistime From whence hee doth wittily gather that it is a marueile that he should holde his tongue that hath receiued a mouth to speake whereas me is neither in the Hebrew nor in the Greeke And vpon the 72. Psalme and 14. verse he disputeth much about vsuries and proueth that vsuries are sinnes whereas there is no such matter in that text For the words are He shall deliuer their soule from deceit and violence so precious is their blood in his eyes It shall be lawfull also to gather Allegories for they are arguments taken from things that are like and Paul in his teaching vseth them often 1. Cor. 9. 9. But they are to bee vsed with these cautions 1. Let them be vsed sparingly and soberly 2. Let them not be farre fetcht but fitting to the matter in hand 3. They must be quickly dispatcht 4. They are to bee vsed for instruction of the life and not to proue any point of faith Any point of doctrine collected by iust consequence is simply of it selfe to bee beleeued and doth demonstrate Act. 18. 24. And a certaine Iew named Apollos borne at Alexandria came to Ephesus an eloquent man and mightie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Scriptures 28. For mightily he confuted the Iewes publikely with great vehemencie demonstrating 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Scriptures that Iesus was the Christ. From hence it followeth First that humane testimonies whether of the Philosophers or of the Fathers are not to be alleaged Augustine vpon the 66. Psalme saith thus If I speake let no man heare if Christ speake woe bee to him that doth not heare So againe he saith De vnitat Ecclesiae Let vs not heare These things I say These things he saith but let vs heare These things the Lord saith Yet with this exception Vnlesse they conuince the conscience of the hearer Thus Paul alleaged the testimonie of Aratus Act. 17. 28. For by him wee liue and moue and haue our being as one of your owne Poets hath said For wee are all his progenie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 29. Forasmuch then as we are the progenie of God c. As also a saying of Menander 1. Cor. 15. 33. Be not deceiued euill conuersations corrupt good manners And of Epimenides Tit. 1. 12. As one of their Prophets hath said the Cretians are alwaies liars euill beasts and slow bellies And then also it must be done sparingly and with leauing out the name of the prophane writer Secondly that a few testimonies of Scripture are to be vsed for the proofe of the doctrine and that sometimes there is neede of none Lastly hence it followes that the Prophets deliuering their doctrine thus are not to