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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.

Haue in readinesse common-place heads of euery point of diuinitie 2. Distinguish the formost pages of thy paper booke into two columnes or equall parts lengthwise In euery one of those pages set in the top the title of one head or chiefe point the contrarie side remaining in the meane while emptie that fresh paper may be put to 3. All things which thou readest are not to be written in thy book but those things that are worthie to bee remembred and are seldome met with-Neither must thou put the words of the Author in thy common places but briefly note downe the principall points of stories and of things that thou mayst know from what author to fetch them when thou shalt haue vse and make a point in the author himselfe that thou mayst know that the thing is there handled which thou wrotest in thy common-place booke 4. Because some things do very often offer thēselues with a doubtful signification so as that thou canst not tell if thou write thē in thy common places from whence to fetch them therefore to thy common places thou must ioyne an alphabeticall table 5. Alwaies prouided that thou trust not too much to thy places For it is not sufficient to haue a thing written in thy booke vnlesse it be also diligentlie laid and locked vp in thy memorie Preparation hath two parts Interpretation and right diuision or cutting Interpretation is the Opening of the words and sentences of the Scripture that one entire and naturall sense may appeare The Church of Rome maketh 4. senses of the scriptures the literall allegoricall tropological anagogicall as in this her example Melchizedek offered bread and wine The literall sense is that the King of Salem with meate which he brought refreshed the souldiers of Abraham being tyred with trauell The allegoricall is that the Priest doth offer vp Christin y e Masse The tropologicall is therefore something is to be giuen to the poore The Anagogicall is that Christ in like manner being in heauen shall be the bread of life to the faithfull But this her deuice of the fourefold meaning of the scripture must be exploded and reiected There is one onelie sense and the same is the literall An allegorie is onely a certaine manner of vttering the same sense The Anagoge and Tropologie are waies whereby the sense may be applied The principall interpreter of the Scripture is the holy Ghost 2. Pet. 1. 20. So that ye first know this that no prophecie in the Scripture is of any priuate interpretation Moreouer he that makes the law is the best and the highest interpreter of the law The supreame and absolute meane of interpretation is the Scripture it selfe Nehem. 8. 8. And they read in the booke of the Law of God distinctly and gaue the sense and caused them to vnderstand by the Scripture it selfe per Scripturam ipsam The meanes subordinated to the scripture are three the Analogie of faith the circumstances of the place propounded and the comparing of places together The analogie of faith is a certaine abridgement or summe of the Scriptures collected out of most manifest and familiar places The parts thereof are two The first concerneth faith which is handled in the Apostles Creede The second concerneth charitie or loue which is explicated in the ten Commaundements 2. Tim. 1. 13. Keepe the true paterne of the wholsome words which thou hast heard of me with faith and loue which is in Christ Iesus The circumstances of the place propounded are these Who to whom vpon what occasion at what time in what place for what end what goeth before what followeth The collation or comparing of places together is that whereby places are set like parallels one beside another that the meaning of them may more euidentlie appeare Act. 9. 22. But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Iewes which dwelt at Damascus confirming 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is conferring or conioyning of places of Scriptures as Artificers being about to compact or ioyne a thing together are wont to fit all the parts amongst themselues that one of them may perfectly agree with each other that this was that Christ. Collation of places is two-fold The first is the comparing of the place propounded with it selfe cited and repeated else-where in holy writ Esa. 6. 10. Make the heart of this people fat make their eares heauie and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and heare with their eares and vnderstand with their hearts and conuert and he heale them This place is sixe times repeated in the new testament Mat. 13. 14. Marke 4. 12. Luke 8. 10. Iohn 12. 40. Act. 28. 27. Rom. 11. 8. Places repeated haue often alterations for sundrie causes These causes are first exegeticall that is for exposition sake as Psal. 78. 2. compared with Mat. 13. 35. I will opē my mouth in a parable I will declare things hidden from of old I will opē my mouth in parables and will vtter the things which haue been kept secret from the foundation of the world Psal. 78. 24. Iohn 6. 31. He gaue them of the wheat of heauen He gaue the bread from heauen to eate Isai. 28. 16. Rom. 9. 33. Behold I will lay in Sion a stone a tried stone a precious corner stone a sure foūdation He that beleeueth shall not make bast Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling block and a rocke to make men fal and euery one that beleeueth in him shall not be ashamed Psal. 110. 1. 1. Cor. 15. 25. Sit thou at my right hand vntill I make thine enemies thy foot stoole He must raigne till he haue put all his enemies vnder his feet Psal. 116. 10. 2. Cor. 4. 13. I beleeued because I did speake I beleeued and therefore haue I spoken Gen. 13. 15. Gal. 3. 16. All the land which thou seest will I giue vnto thee and to thy Now to Abraham and to his seede were the promises made seede for euer He saith not vnto the seedes as speaking of many but and to thy seed as of one which is Christ. A second cause is diacriticall or for discerning sake that places and times and persons might bee mutuallie distinguished Michah 5. 2. Mat. 6. And thou Bethlehem Ephrathah art little to be among the Princes of Iudah out of thee shall hee come forth to me that shall be the ruler in Israel And thou Bethlehem in the land of Iudah art not the least among the Princes of Iudah for out of thee shall come the gouernour that shall feed my people Israel Thirdly these causes are circumscriptiue or for limitation sake that the sense and sentence of the place might be truelie restrained according as the minde and meaning of the holy Ghost was Deut. 6. 13. Mat. 4. 10. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and shalt serue him Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onelie shalt thou serue Isai. 29. 13. Matth. 15. 8. This people draweth