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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 eyes signifieth sorrow and heauines Luk. 18. 13. But the Publican standing afarre off would not so much as lift vp his eyes vnto heauen but hee smote his breast saying God be mercifull to me a sinner Concerning the gesture other precepts cannot be deliuered only let the ensample of the grauest Ministers in this kind be in stead of a Rule CHAP. XI Of conceiuing of Prayer HItherto hath bin spoken cōcerning Preaching of the word it remaineth now to speake of the conceiuing of praiers which is the second part of Prophecying whereby the Minister is the voyce of the people in calling vpon God Luk. 11. 1. One of his Disciples said vnto him Lord teach vs to pray as Iohn also taught his Disciples 1. Sam. 14. 24. Here are to be considered 1. The matter thereof first the wants and sinnes of the people and then the graces of God and the blessings they stand in neede of 1. Tim. 2. 1. I exhort therefore aboue all things that supplications be made for all men 2. For Kings and those that are in authoritie Tertul. Apolog. saith Wee doe all pray for all Emperours that they may obtaine a long life a quiet raigne a safe familie couragious armies a faithfull Counsell loyall subiects a peaceable world and whatsoeuer things are desired of a man and of Caesar Againe Wee pray for Emperours for their ministers and powers for the state of the time for the quietnes of their affaires and for the delaying of their death The Lords prayer reduceth this matter to sixe heads which are Gods glorie kingdome obedience the preseruation of the life the remission of sinnes and the strengthning of the spirit 2 The forme thereof 1. Let there be one voyce and that the Ministers alone the people being in the meane while silent and shewing their assent at the end by saying Amen Act. 4. 24. Who when they had heard these things they lift vp their voyce with one accord vnto God and said c. Nehem. 8. 6. And Ezra praised the Lord the great God and all the people answered Amen Amen 1. Cor. 14. 16. Else when thou blessest with the spirit how shall he that supplieth the place of the vnlearned say Amen at thy giuing of thankes Iustine in his 2. Apolog. to Antoninus saith When the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 President hath finished his prayers and thankes-giuings all the people that are present crie out with a fauourable approbation saying Amen Athanasius Apolog. ad Constant. Imp. Euseb. lib. 7. cap. 8. Ierome Prooem 2. in Gal. 2. Let the voyce bee vnderstood 1. Cor. 14. 15. I will pray with the spirit I will pray also with the vnderstanding I will sing with the spirit I will sing with the vnderstanding also 3. Let the voice be continued not iagged and abrupt that idle repetitions may be auoided 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. 6. 7. 4. The parts which are three Consideration Ordering and Vttering of it Consideration is that whereby fit matter for the framing of prayers is diligently searched for Ordering is that whereby the matter being found out is disposed in the mind in a certaine order Prolation or vttring of it is that whereby it is orderly pronounced in publike to the edifying of the people Trin-vni Deo Gloria THE ORDER AND SVMME of the sacred and only methode of Preaching 1. To read the Text distinctly out of the Canonicall Scriptures 2. To giue the sense and vnderstanding of it being read by the Scripture it selfe 3. To collect a few and profitable points of doctrine out of the naturall sense 4. To applie if he haue the gift the doctrines rightly collected to the life and manners of men in a simple and plaine speech The Summe of the Summe Preach one Christ by Christ to the praise of Christ. The Writers which lent their helpe to the framing of this Arte of Prophecying are Augustine Hemingius Hyperius Erasmus Illyricus Wigandus Iacobus Matthias Theodorus Beza Franciscus Iunius Soli Deo gloria 1 2 3 4 Exo. 10. 21. Psa. 147. 19 Exo. 13. 22 * or when * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Or the word of God is the whole and onely matter about which preaching is exercised it is the field in which the Preacher must containe himselfe * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * The Maior or Proposition * The Minor or Assumption * The conclusion * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Eeclesiastes * The booke of Canticles * Or husband and spouse * That is the Prophets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Probatio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3500. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Opening of the text * Of sound iu de ement or sound iudicious and consonant to Gods word * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * occulta * quia * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * irata * Vexillum * loafe * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Signi Beneplaciti * Vbique passim * Non. * That is when one or moe words are wanting * VVhen some words abound * It is when vvords signifie more then shew for or seem * Coiunctio * They inlarge the sense * It is when the contrarie to that which was spoken is meant it is used in slouting sometimes * That is the second foureteenth generation mentioned in Mat. 1. 17 in vvhich place three fourteeene generations are set down * De iure according to law or equitie * That is as fully finished or as but in the finishing Vltimi ann● * To vnderstand this reade Deut. 25. 5. These Aduerbs and Coniunctions I doe of purpose not translate as being fittest in Latin * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Rom. 15. 4 * Or general * Or specials and particulars of that kind or generall * Aduerb any thing out of any thing quidlibetè quolibet * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he hath created * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be hath possessed * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Euangelicè * Indefinenter * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Or though but. * Godly * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Sopitam fidem Isa. 1. 1 2 3 4. * i. If it be limited and meant to them * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Improouing confuting * Or gouernment of the familie oiconomia * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Memoriter * Non verba sed virtutem * In verse

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

shewing of the spirit Humane wisedome must bee concealed whether it be in the matter of the sermon or in the setting forth of the words because the preaching of the word is the Testimonie of God and the profession of the knowledge of Christ and not of humane skill and againe because the hearers ought not to ascribe their faith to the gifts of men but to the power of Gods word 1. Cor. 2. 1. When I came vnto you brethren I came not with the eminencie of eloquence or of wisdome declaring vnto you the testimonie of God 2. For I did not decree to know any thing among you but Iesus Christ and him crucified 5. That your faith should not consist in the wisedome of men but in the power of God If any man thinke that by this meanes barbarisme should bee brought into pulpits hee must vnderstand that the Minister may yea and must priuatly vse at his libertie the artes philosophie and varietie of reading whilest he is in framing his sermon but he ought in publike to conceale all these from the people and not to make the least oftentation Artis etiam est celare artem it is also a point of Art to conceale Art The Demonstration of the spirit is when as the Minister of the word doth in the time of preaching so behaue himselfe that all euen ignorant persons vnbeleeuers may iudge that it is not so much hee that speaketh as the Spirit of God in him and by him 1. Cor. 2. 4. Neither was my speech and my preaching in the perswasiue words of mans wisedome but in the demonstration of the spirit and of power And 14. 42. If all prophecie and there enter in an vnbeleeuer or one that is ignorant hee is reprooued of all be is iudged of all 25. And so the secrets of his hart are disclosed so falling vpon his face he willworship God returning word that God indeed is amōg you And 4. 19. I wil come vnto you shortly and I wil know not their words that are puffed vp but their power 20. For the kingdome of God is not in words but in power Mich. 3. 8. I am filled with power by the spirit of the Lord and with iudgement and might to shew Iacob his defection and to Israel his sinne This makes the ministerie to bee liuely and powerfull Luk. 11. 27. And it came to passe when he had spoken these things that a certaine woman of the multitude lifting vp her voyce said vnto him Blessed is the wombe that bare thee and the breasts that gaue thee sucke This demonstration is either in speech or in gesture The speech must be spirituall and gracious That speech is spirituall which the holy Spirit doth teach 1. Cor. 2. 13. Which things also we speake not in the words which mans wisedome teacheth but which the holy Ghost teacheth comparing spirituall things with spirituall things And it is a speech both simple and perspicuous fit both for the peoples vnderstanding and to expresse the maiestie of the spirit Act. 17. 2. Paul disputed with them three sabbath dayes out of the Scriptures 3. Opening 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and shewing that Christ must suffer and rise againe Gal. 3. 1. O yee foolish Galatians to whom Iesus Christ before was described in your sight and among you crucified 2. Cor. 4. 2. But wee haue cast from vs the clokes of shame and walke not in craftines neither handle we the word of God deceitfullie but in declaration of the trueth wee approoue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God 3. If our Gospell be then hid it is hid to them that perish 4. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes that is of the infidels c. Wherefore neither the words of arts nor Greeke and Latin phrases and quirks must bee intermingled in the sermon 1. They disturbe the mindes of the auditours that they cannot fit those things which went afore with those that follow 2. A strange word hindreth the vnderstanding of those things that are spoken 3. It drawes the mind away from the purpose to some other matter Here also the telling of tales and all profane and ridiculous speeches must be omitted The speech is gracious wherein the grace of the heart is expressed Luk. 4. 22. And all bare witnes of him and wondred at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth Iohn 7. 46. The Officers answered neuer man spake like this man Grace is either of the Person or of the Ministerie Grace of the person is the holines of the heart and an vnblameable life Which howsoeuer it makes not a Minister yet is it very necessarie 1. Because the doctrine of the word is hard both to bee vnderstood and to bee practised therefore the Minister ought to expresse that by his example which he teacheth as it were by a type 1. Pet. 5. 3. Not as though yee were Lords ouer Gods heritage but that yee may be examples 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 types to the flocke 1. Tim. 4. 12. Be an example to the faithfull both in word and conuersation Phil. 4. 8. Furthermore brethren whatsoeuer things are true whatsoeuer things are honest thinke on these things 9. Which yee haue both learned and receiued and heard and seene in me those things doe and the God of peace shall be with you 2. He that is not godly howsoeuer he may vnderstand the scriptures yet doth he not perceiue the inward sense and experience of the word in his heart Psalm 25. 8. The Lord is good and right therefore he teacheth sinners his way 9. He maketh the meeke to walke in the Law and teacheth the meeke his way Amos 3. 7. Surely the Lord God will doe nothing but he reuealeth his secret to his seruants the Prophets Gen. 18. 17. And the Lord said Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I am about to do 18. Seeing that Abraham shall be indeede the father of a great and mightie nation c. 29. For I know him that he will command his sonnes and his household after him that they keepe the way of the Lord to doe righteousnes and iudgement 3. It is a thing execrable in the sight of God that godly speech should bee conioyned with an vngodly life Psalm 50. 16. 17. Vnto the wicked God saith what hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances and to take my couenant into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed It is a strange sight to see him that is the guide of the way to others to wander out of the way himselfe and to see a Physitian of others to be full of botches himselfe in the meane while as Nazianzene speaketh 4. It is an ecclesiasticall secret That the Minister ought to couer his infirmities that they bee not seene For the simple people behold not the ministerie but the person of y e Minister Herod heard Iohn Baptist willingly not because hee was a good minister but because he