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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09445	Of the calling of the ministerie two treatises, discribing the duties and dignities of that calling. Delivered publickly in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, by Maister Perkins. Taken then from his mouth, and now dilligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word with a preface prefixed touching the publishing of Maister Perkins his workes, & a catalogue of all such particulars thereof, as are to bee expected.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1605 (1605)	STC 19733; ESTC S102894	75,919	204

but execu●e theyr Commission High Com●issioners are worthy to be low Commissioners or rather no Commissioners if they will not put it in execution It is therefore lamentable to see that some by not prea●hing s●me by vaine preaching show that they intend any thing rather then the winning of soules to God Let then all good Ministers so preach as they may say with Esay Behold Lord heere am I the children whō thou hast giuen me And that they may returne theyr Commission thus Whereas thou O Lorde gauest mee this people and had me deliuer them that they goe not downe into ●ell Lord I haue doone it it is the thing my soule aymed at with all my desire and endeuour and by thy mercy I haue effected it accordingly And the rather must all Christian Ministers seriously intend the sauing of souls inasmuch as Antichrist doth so earnestly seeke the destruction of soules by winning them to his synagouge The Turke spares no labour no cost to infect young chyldren of Christians with his impure and blasphemous superstition The Pope and his vassals especially Iesuits vse al means deuise many stratagems spare no cost nor labor to seduce inueagle young men and the best wits Surely theyr care and policie heerein is admirable and yet alas when like the Pharisies they haue compassed sea and land to make a proselite they make him like themselues the child of hel And they are so farre from hauing any Commission from God to doe this or any blessing promised as contrariwise GOD forbids them and his curse lyeth vppon them for so dooing Shall they be so diligent to destroy soules without a Commission and incurre Gods curse for theyr labour and shall not Christian Ministers be much more diligent to winne and redeeme soules hauing so large a Commission for the purpose and so great a blessing promised thereunto In the next place this doctrine hath vse to the hearers First to let them see the excellencie of this calling which hath a Comission and power to redeem them frō hell damnation what honor is due vnto it to let the wicked man see which any way abuseth eyther the persons or the function howe base vnthankful men they are to recōpence euill for so great a good therfore no maruell thogh euil do neuer depart frō the houses families of such men and further to encourage all men to giue thēselues to God in this great calling for see here what they are euen the high Commissioners of God VVee haue in our estate a power delegated to certain men of worth it is called the high Commission because they haue power to do great things and that man thinks himself happy who can bring his son to this to be thought fit to be one of this Commission but behold heere a higher Commission a Commission from God to redeeme soules from the power of hell the deuils clawes this is indeed a high Commission and so high as this was neuer granted out of the Court of heauen to any creature but to Ministers they therefore are the High Commissioners of the high God Is it not then an honor happines vnto thee to bring thy sonne to this estate And lastly this must teach all hearers their dutie to Gods word namely to submit them selues vnto it for if the Minister haue a Commission to redeeme thy soule it must be by the word and holy discipline Therefore thy dutie is to heare Gods word patiently to submit thy selfe vnto it to bee taught and instructed nay to be checked and rebuked and to haue thy sinnes discouered thy corruptions ript vp If thou wouldst haue thy cause succeede well thy Lawyer must discouer the weakenesses of it if thy body to be cured thy Phisition must purge the corruption of it So if thy soule be to be redeemed thy minister must see the weakenes and purge the corruptions of it though his doctrine be harsh and hard vnto thy nature and the discipline of the Gospell seem rough vnto thee yet must not thou rage and rebell against it nor hate nor rayle at his person but submit thy selfe vnto it for it is the message and Ministerie of thy saluation if otherwise thou doost indeed a great wrong to the Minister for thou frustratest his Commission but alas a far greater to thy selfe for thou frustratest thine owne saluation FINIS THE SECOND Treatise of the duties and Dignities of the Ministerie by Maister Perkins To the right worshipfull and Reuerend Iudges Sir Iohn Sauile Knight one of the Barons of his Maiesties Exchequer and Sir Christopher Yeluerton Knight one of the Iudges of his Maiesties Court of Kings bench the late worthy Iudges of our Northeren Circuite The spirit of wisedome zeale and courage be multiplied RIght worshipfull it is sayd in other Nations and written in some of their bookes that there are three disgraces of the English Nation The Ignorance or that I may so call it the Vnlearnednes of our Gentry and Nobility the Be●gery of our poore and the Basenes of the body of our Ministery The first blot our Nobilitie and Gentrie haue well wiped off since the first daies of blessed Queene Elizabeth partly by studie at home partly by trauell abroade and I hope they will doe it more and more The second hath beene well l●ssened by good lawes of late and wou●d be more if the Execution were as good as our lawes bee and it were much honour to our Nation and more to our Religion if it were quite taken away for he that tells vs there shal be poore euer with vs saith also there shall not be a begger amonst vs If there were no poore what should become of Charitie for it is charitie to relieue pouertie not to maintaine beggery Pouerty may be a Crosse but it is no Curse but beggery is a fearefull curse threatned on the enemies of God and Dauid saith not bee neuer sawe a righteous mans child poore but that he neuer sawe him begge his bread The dayly cries in our streetes cry for yet further reformati●n heereof that the impotent poore may be sufficiently prouided for that he neede not and the s●urdy begger compelled to worke that hee may not bee suffred to begge Happie you or whosoeuer can haue a hand in effecting this blessed w●rke wee who can doe little else shall pray for it and for them that labour in it But now f●r the third I feare none but the very hand of God can wipe out that staine from our Church The bas●nes of the generall body of our Ministerie whence is it but either from the vnworthin●sse or pouerty thereof and the vnworthines thereof whence is it but from the pouerty and base maintenance of our Ministerie which was once robbed by the Abbies and after worse by some in our owne State and Popery that stands so much vpon Non dimittitur peccatum nisi restituator ablatum yet for all that would not restore