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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

for Christ. Let another bee giuen haue boasted for you Gentiles But this seemeth to be something too bold neither is any such like speech to bee met with in any part of the scriptures Therefore the sentence may be fitly supplied after this maner For which cause I Paul am the prisoner of Iesus Christ for you Gentiles The same may be said of the rest Defectiue Speeches Their Supplie Esay 1. 13.   I cannot iniquity I cannot beare iniquitie Luk. 13. 9.   And if it beare fruit if not then after thou shalt cut it downe And if it beare fruit thou shalt let it stand if not then after thou shalt cut it downe Exod. 4. 25.   Then Zippora took Then Zippora took a sharpe and cut away the foreskin of her sonne a sharpe knife and cut c. 2. Sam. 21. 16.   Isbi Benod which of the sonnes of a certain Giāt the weight of whose sword the weight of three hundred shickles of steele and he girded with a new Isbi Benod who was of the sonnes of a certaine Giant the weight of whose sword or speares head mucronis was the weight of three hundred shiekles of steele and he was girded with a new sword 1. Cor. 9. 25.   And euery man that prooueth masteries is continent in al things and they to obtaine a corruptible crowne but we for an vncorruptible And they are continent to obtaine a corruptible crowne c. Exod. 19. 4.   You haue seene how as it were vpon I haue carried you vpon Eagles wings Eagles wings Consect 2. If that other exposition giuen of the place propounded doe change one nowne or name for another then the words of the place containe in them a trope or berowed speech Hence arise many cautions concerning sacred tropes 1 An Anthropo-pathia is a sacred Metaphor wherby those things that are properly spoken of man are by a similitude attributed vnto God Hence it is that the soule of God is put for his life or essence Ierem. 5. 29. Or shall not my soule be auenged of such a nation as this Head is vsed for prince or aboue 1. Cor. 11. 3. God is the head of Christ. His face is put for fauour or anger Psal. 30. 7. Thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled Psal. 34. 16. The face of the Lord is angrie at those that doe euill His eyes are vsed for grace and prouidence Psal. 34. 15. The eyes of the Lord are vpon the iust The apple of his eye signifieth a thing very deare Zach. 2. 8. He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye His eares are put for his accepting of mens prayers His nostrils for indignation His hands for power and protectiō His arme for strength and fortitude His right hand for authoritie and power His finger for vertue His foote for gouernement and might Psal. 110. 3. His smelling for his acceptation of something Genes 8. 21. He smelled the sauour of rest Repentance is vsed for the alteration of things and actions made by God 2 A sacramentall Metonymie is that whereby the name of the adiunct as also of the helping cause is put for the thing represented in the Sacrament or whereby the signe is put for the thing signified or contrarily Genes 2. 9. The tree of life the tree of the knowledge of good and euill that is the tree which is a signe of these Gen. 22. 14. Abraham called the name of that place The Lord will see or prouide that is it is a signe that the Lord will doe so Gen. 28. 22. The stone is called Gods house Exod. 12. The Paschall Lambe is the passing ouer Exod. 17. 15. The Altar is called The Lord is my standard or banner Ezek. 48. 35. Ierusalem is named The Lord is there Leuit. 16. The Priest is termed a satisfier Ioh. 1. Christ is called a Lambe Behold the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world The Paschall Lambe is called Christ. 1. Cor. 5. 7. Our Passeouer Christ is sacrificed for vs. And in the same place Christians are said to bee vnleauened Rom. 3. 25. Christ is termed the propitiatorie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the couer of the Arke of the Couenant 1. Cor. 10. Christians are said to be one bread And the Rocke is called Christ. Tit. 3. 5. Baptisme is named the washing of the new birth 1. Cor. 11. The Cup is called the new Testament and the bread is said to be the bodie of Christ. 3 The communication of the properties is a Synecdoche by the which by reason of the personall vnion that is spoken of the whole person of Christ which doth properly belong to one of his two natures Act. 20. 28. To feede the Church of God which he hath purchased with his owne blood Ioh. 3. 13. For no man ascendeth vp to heauen but he that hath descended from heauen the Sonne of man which is in heauen 1. Cor. 2. 8. For had they knowne it they would not haue crucified the Lord of glorie Ioh. 8. 58. Iesus said vnto them Uerily verily I say vnto you before Abraham was I am Luk. 2. 52. And Iesus increased in wisedome and in stature and in fauour with God and man This communication of the properties hath place only in the concrete and not in the abstract Concrete is the name of the whole person as God Man Christ c. Abstract is a name of either of the two natures considered apart as the Godhead Manhead c. 4 Things spoken of God which carrie with them the shew of euill must be vnderstood in regard of his operatiue or working permission Nehem. 9. 37. And it yeeldeth much fruit vnto the Kings whom thou hast set ouer vs because of our sinnes and they haue dominion ouer our bodies and ouer our cattell at their pleasure and we are in great affliction Isa. 19. 14. The Lord hath mingled among them the spirit of errors and they haue caused Aegypt to erre in euerie worke thereof Exod. 4. and 9. and 11. and 14. God doth harden the heart of Pharaoh Deut. 2. 30. The Lord thy God hath hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate because hee would deliuer him into thine hand as appeareth this day Iosh. 11. 20. It came of the Lord that their heart was hardened that they might come against Israel in battell to the intent that they should destroy them vtterly and shew them no mercie but bring them to nought 1. Sam. 2. 25. They hearkened not to the voice of their father because the Lord meant to destroy them 2. Chron. 22. 7. The destruction of Ahaziah came from God Psal. 105. 25. He turned their heart to hate his people and to worke craftily against his seruants Rom. 1. 28. God deliuered them vp to a reprobate minde 2. Thess. 2. 11. God will send them strong delusions that they may beleeue lies Ezek. 14. 9. And when that Prophet shall be inticed to speake a prophecie I the Lord

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