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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

Spirituall Gracious grace is of 1. The person to wit holinesse 1. An inward feeling 2. A good conscience 3. The feare of God 4. A loue of the people 2. Of the Ministerie Authoritie Zeale The gesture and action of The voyce The bodie 2. Conceiuing of publique Prayer in which note 1. The matter 2. The forme 3. The parts Meditation Ordering Vttering THE ARTE OF PROPHECYING CHAP. 1. THe Arte or facultie of Prophecying is a sacred doctrine of exercising Prophecie rightly Prophecie or Prophecying is a publique and solemne speech of the Prophet pertaining to the worship of God and to the saluation of our neighbour 1. Cor. 14. 3. But he that prophecieth speaketh vnto men to edification to exhortation and to consolation Verse 24. But if all prophecie and there come in one that beleeueth not or one vnlearned he is rebuked of all men and is iudged of all men Rom. 1. 9. God is my witnes whom I serue or worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my spirit in the Gospell of his Sonne CHAP. II. Of the Preaching of the Word THere are two parts of Prophecie Preaching of the Word and Conceiuing of Prayers For in speaking there are onely two duties of the Prophet that is of the Minister of the word to wit Preaching of the word and Praying vnto God in the name of the people Rom. 12. Hauing prophecie let vs prophecie according to the proportion of faith Gen. 20. 7. Deliuer the man his wife againe for he is a Prophet and when he shall pray for thee thou shalt liue For this cause the word Prophecie is giuen also to prayers 1. Chron. 25. 1. The sonnes of Asaph and Heman and Ieduthun who were singers prophecied with Harpes with Uials and with cymbals 1. King 18. 26. The Prophets of Baal called vpon the name of Baal from morning to noone 29. And when mid-day was passed and they had prophecied vntill the offering of the euening sacrifice And euery Prophet is partly the voyce of God to wit in preaching and partlie the voyce of the people in the acte of praying Ier. 15. 19. If thou take away the precious frō the vile thou shalt be as it were My Mouth Nehe. 8. 6. And Hezra blessed the Lord the great God and all the people answered Amen Preaching of the word is Prophecying in the name and roome of Christ whereby men are called to the state of Grace and conserued in it 2. Cor. 5. 19. And hath committed to vs the word of reconciliation 20. Therefore wee are Embassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by vs we pray you in the name of Christ that ye be reconciled to God 2. Thes. 2. 13. 14. God hath from the beginning elected you to saluation through sanstification of the Spirit and faith embracing the trueth whereunto he called you by our Gospell Rom. 1. 16. The Gospel is the power of God to saluation to euery one that beleeueth Prou. 29. 18. When there is no vision the people are naked Rom. 10. 14. CHAP. III. Of the Word of God THe perfect and equall obiect of Preaching is the Word of God Lok 16. 29. They haue Moses and the Prophets let them heare them Mat. 23. 2. The Scribes and Pharises sit in Moses chaire that is they teach the doctrine of Moses which they doe professe 3. All therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue that obserue and doe The Word of God is the wisedome of God concerning the trueth which is according vnto godlinesse descending from aboue Iam. 3. 17. But the wisedome which is from aboue is first pure c. Tit. 1. 1. Paul a Seruant of God according to the acknowledging of the trueth which is according vnto godlines Admirable is the excellencie of the Word which is euident partly by the nature thereof partly by the operation The excellencie of the nature is either the perfection thereof or the eternitie The perfection is either the sufficiencie or the puritie The sufficiencie is that whereby the word of God is so compleat that nothing may be either put to it or taken from it which appertaineth to the proper end thereof Psal. 19. 7. The Law of the Lord is perfect conuerting the soule Deut. 12. 32. Whatsoeuer I commaund you take heede yee doe it thou shalt put nothing thereto nor take ought therefrom Reuel 22. 18. 19. The puritie thereof is whereby it remaineth entire in it selfe voide of deceit and errour Psalm 12. 6. The words of the Lord are pure words as siluer tried in a furnace of earth fined seuen times The eternity of the word is that whereby it abideth inuiolable and cannot passe vntill all that which it commandeth bee fully accomplished Matth. 5. 18. The excellencie of operation is that wherby it is endowed with virtue first to discerne the spirit of man Heb. 4. 12. For the word of God is liuely and mightie in operation and sharper then any two-edged sword and entreth through euen to the deuiding asunder of the soule and spirit and of the ioynts and the marrow aad discerneth the thoughts and intents of the heart Secondly to bind the conscience Iam. 4. 12. There is one Law-giuer who is able to saue and to destroy Esa. 33. 21. The Lord is our Iudge the Lord is our Law-giuer the Lord is our King he will saue vs. To bind the conscience is to constraine it either to accuse vs or to excuse vs of sinne before God The Word is in the holy Scripture The Scripture is the word of God written in a language fit for the Church by men immediately called to be the Clerks or Secretaries of the holy Ghost 2. Pet. 1. 21. For prophecie came not in old time by the will of man but the holy men of God spake as they were carried and mooued by the holy Ghost It is called Canonicall because it is as it were a Canon that is to say a Rule or Line of the Master workman by the helpe whereof the truth is both first to be found out and also afterwards to be examined Gal. 6. 16. And as many as walke according to this Canon or Rule Therefore the supreame and absolute determination and iudgement of the controuersies of the Church ought to be giuen vnto it The Summe of the Scripture is conteined in such a syllogisme or forme of reasoning as this is which followeth The true Messias shall be both God and Man of the seede of Dauid he shall be borne of a Uirgin he shall bring the Gospell forth of his Fathers bosome he shall satisfie the Law he shall offer vp himselfe a sacrifice for the sinnes of the faithfull he shall conquer death by dying and rising againe he shall ascend into heauen and in his due time hee shall returne vnto iudgement But Iesus of Nazaret the Sonne of Mary is such a one He therefore is the true Messias In this syllogisme the Maior is the scope or principall drift in all the writings

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