Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

  • Stubbs, Philip, active 1581-1593.
Date:
1877-1882
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Credit: Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man be once lawfully called into the minifterie, may he euer vpon AstoaMin- . ister giving up anie occalion whatfoeuer, leaue off the fame funftion, and applie him- his office, felfe to fecular affaires ? Amphil. There is a twofold calling. The one a diuine calling immediately from God, the other a humane calling immediately from and by man. Now he that hath the firft diuine calling (his con- fcience fuggefting the fame vnto him, and the fpirit of God certifieng his fpirit of the certeintie thereof) being furniflied with gifts and graces neceffarie for fuch a high funftion and office (as God calleth none, but he indueth them firft with gifts, and graces neceffarie for their calling) and afterwards is lawfully called of man according to the and then by man, ^ ./ o j5 given prefcript of Gods word, hauing a flocke appointed him wherevpon to attend, this man may not, nor ought not at any hand to giue ouer his calling, but to perfeuere in the fame to the end, for that he hath both the diuine and humane callings, being furniffied with all gifts and graces neceffarie (in fome meafure) for the difcharge of his high funftion and calling. Yet notwithftanding, in time of extreame perfecution, when Gods truth is perfecuted, and his glorie defa^ced, if p Sig. N.i. back] he haue not wherewithal! to maintaine his eftate otherwife, he may for the time giue himfelfe to manuall occupations, and corporall exercifes in the affaires of the worlde, as we fee the apoftles themfelues did, who, after Chrift lefus was crucified, gaue themfelues to their old occupations of fifliing, making of nets, tents, pauilions, and the like. But vpon the other fide, if a man haue not this diuine calling, his But if he’s not r- calld by God, conlcience bearing him witnefle thereof, nor yet the graces, gifts, and and hasn't fit . gifts for his ornaments of the minde, fit for his calling (which, whofoeuer hath work, he not, it is a manifeft argument that the Lorde hath not fent him, for thofe that hee fendeth, hee furnifheth with all kinde of graces and giftes neceffarie for their callings) this man, though he be called by humane calling neuer fo precifely, yet he may, nay, hee ought, to should at once leaue his funftion, as vnwoorthie to occupie a roome in the church of God, reprefenting (as an idoll doth) that thing which hee is not. Befides, hee that is compelled and inforced either by friendes (as Menforstby manie are), or by pouertie (as not a few bee), or for anie other refpeft poverty into the elfe, to take that high funftion vpon him, without the teftimonie of a being unfit, good confcience, being not furniffied with gifts, and graces fit for luch a calling (which argueth di^redly that God hath not called him) [’ Sig. N.».]