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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

approch and not with rashnes rush vnto his sacred seate this made Saint Paule cry out who is sufficient for these things and if Paule sayd who is no maruell though many a man say I am not sufficient and doe therefore drawe their neckes from this yoke and their hands from this plough vntil God himselfe or his Church doe presse them to it The last reason is more peculiar to this of the new testament namely want of maintenance and preferment for them that labor in this calling men are flesh and bloud and in that respect must bee allured wonne to embrace this vocation by some arguments which may perswade flesh and bloud the world hath in all ages beene negligent heerein and therefore God in his lawe tooke such strick orders for the maintenance of the Leuits but especially now vnder the Gospell this calling is vnprouided for when it deserues best of all to be rewarded certainly it were a worthy christian pollicy to propound good preferments to this calling that thereby men of the worthiest gifts might bee wonne vnto it and the want heereof is cause why so many young men of speciall parts and greatest hope turne to other vocations and especially to the lawe wherein at this day the greatest part of the finest wits of our kingdome are imploied and why but because they haue all the meanes to rise whereas the Ministerie for the most part yeildeth nothing but a plaine way to beggery this is a great blemish in our church and surely I wish the Papists those children of this world were not wiser in this kind in this point then the Church of God the reformation heereof is a worke worth the labour of Prince and people and speciall care is to be had in it els it will not bee reformed for doubtlesse had not God himselfe in the old testament taken such straight orders for the liuings of the Leuits they had beene put to no lesse extremities then is the Ministerie of this age And this reason added to the other makes them perfect and all put together make a reason infallible for who will vndergoe so vile contempt and vndertake so great a charge for no reward and where there is so great contempt so heauy a burthen and so meane a reward what maruell if a good Minister bee one of a thousand Now let vs make vse of this doctrine the vse is manifold and yeilds instructions to many sorts of people first Rulers and Magistrats are heere taught if good Ministers be so scarce therefore to maintaine and increase and doe all good they can to the schooles of the Prophets to Vniuersities Colledges and schooles of good learning which are the Seminaries of the Ministerie heerein the example of Samuell is very worthy to be followed in whose dayes the schooles of the Prophets florished and euen Saule himselfe though he did much hurt in Israell yet when hee came to the schooles of the Prophets his hard hart relented hee could doe them no hurt nay hee p●t of 〈◊〉 robes and prophecied amongst them So should all Christians Princes and Magistrates aduance these schooles and see them both well maintained and well stored the reason is euident and forcible A good Minister is one of a 1000 If therefore they would haue the number increased maintaine the Seminaries And againe if Antichrist to vphold his kingdome the kingdome of sathan bee so carefull heerein to erect Colledges and indowe them with liuing to be Seminaries for his sinagogue and vse so great meanes to sowe his rares in the harts of young men that so they may sowe them in the harts of the people abroad shall not Christian Princes bee as carefull or rather much more zealous for the increasing of the number of goldly Ministers shall Baal haue his 400 Prophets and God haue his Elias alone great shame must it be to A●ab or to any King whose Kingdome is in that estate The Iesuits diligence is such in teaching the readines of some of their nouices such in learning the deuil himselfe doubtlesse putting to his helpe withall that in three yeares as some of them say of themselues they proceede in humane learning and in the fourth in diuinitie which if it be so then it may be a good lesson for these our schooles of learning and an inducement to moue all that haue the gouernement thereof to labour to aduance learning by all good meanes and to giue it more speedy passage And it may shame some that spend so many yeares in the Vniuersitie and yet alas for all that prooue not one of a 1000. In these our schooles are by Gods mercy many young trees planted by the riuer side of this goodly orchard which by good ordring and dressing may prooue goodly trees in the temple of God strong pillers in the Church but they are like tender plants and must be cherished Princes and great men by allowing maintenance and the gouernours by stablishing good orders and looking carefully to their execution must see that these plants haue sufficient moisture to growe speedily to perfect ripenes and that then they be transplanted in due time into the Church and common-wealth these bee the trees spoken of in Ezechiell which growe by the sides of that riuer which floweth out of the Sanctuary Waters out of the Sanctuarie must norish them and so they growe vnto their perfection but take away these waters take away the liberalitie of princes and good discipline from the Vniuersities and these trees must needes decay and weather which if they doe then the small number of good Ministers will bee fewer and fewer and of one of a 1000 there will not bee one of 2000. In the next place Ministers themselues are heere taught first if good Ministers be so scarce then let euery man feare to make them fewer then they bee euery man therefore for himselfe labour first for ability then for conscience to discharge his duty namely to be an Angell to deliuer faithfully Gods Embassage and a true Interpreter betwixt God and his people thus if thou doost then howsoeuer the number of good Ministers is small yet it shall be nothing smaller for thee 2 If they bee so fewe labour to increase them for the more they are the lesse burden lieth vppon each particular man therefore let euery Minister by his teaching and by his conuersation labour so to honour his calling that hee may thereby allure and drawe others to a loue and liking thereof 3 Are good Ministers so thinne sowne are there so few of them then let all good and godly Ministers giue the right hand of fellowship one to another and ioyne together in loue by that meanes arme thēselues against the scorne and contempt of the world we see they that are of a kinred or a brotherhood or any kind of societie the fewer they are the more closelie doe they combine the more firmly doe they holde