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A15824	A modell of divinitie, catechistically composed Wherein is delivered the matter and method of religion, according to the creed, ten Commandements, Lords Prayer, and the Sacraments. By Iohn Yates, Bachelour in Diuinitie, and minister of Gods word in St Andrewes in Norvvich.	Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.; Yates, John, d. ca. 1660. Short and briefe summe of saving knowledge. aut; Richardson, Alexander, of Queen's College, Cambridge.	1622 (1622)	STC 26085; ESTC S103644	253,897	373

with the twelue lesser and Daniel The Apocrypha is shut out of the distribution both by the Iewes and our Saviour and therefore is not of equall authoritie with the bookes we haue mentioned God made the Iewes faithfull registers of the old Testament and they were so curious least a letter should be lost that they kept them by count and therefore would never haue beene so negligent in the Apocrypha writing if ever they had beene committed of God vnto them by their extraordinary governours As in notorious Burglaries a hat gloue or fword is often left behind for discovery so in these though more honest some errors haue escaped to discover the Authors Q. Who were their ordinary Governours A. The supreame was the high Priest the inferior were the Priests Levites and Rulers of their Synogogues Lev. 8. Num. 3. Act. 13.15 Order hath ever beene for the custodie of divine things and confusion for their ruine Q. What is the Church among all people A. The Catholicke Church gathered out of all people where we haue the Messias exhibited in the flesh in whom the law and the Prophets are yea and Amen Moses branded some creatures with vncleannesse he that hath redeemed his children from morall impuritie redeemes his creatures from legall what should S. Peters great sheet let downe by foure corners teach vs but that all creatures through the foure corners of the world are cleane and holy And that God is no respecter of persons but in euery nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousnesse is accepted with him Act. 10.34.35 Gal. 4.27 Q. How are the Congregations thereof called A. They are called Churches the name of the whole being put for the part and Christ doth it to distinguish his Churches of the Gospell from the prophane and wicked Synagogues of the Iewes Math. 18.17 He sayes not tell it the Synagogue but the Church c. They therefore levell amisse that lay the line of their government by this deceitfull square Q. Who were the extraordinary Governours of this Church A. Iohn Baptist the forerunner of Christ Christ himselfe his Apostles seventie Disciples Evangelists and Prophets whereof some did write the bookes of the new Testament in the Greeke tongue which are either Historicall as the Gospells of Mathew Marke Luke and Iohn or diverse excellent Epistles as of Paul to the Romanes Corinthians 2. Galathians Ephesians Philippians Colossians Thessalonians 2. Timothy 2. Titus Philomon Hebrewes Epistle of Iames of Peter 2. Iohn 3. Iude or lastly the Propheticall booke of the Revelation Q. Who were the ordinary Governours A. The Doctors and Pastours Eph. 4.11 which may be distributed into Bishops Elders and Deacons As for the first if time and place be accidents of a calling and the very essence lie in relation betwixt the caller and the called Timothy and Titus were ordinary teachers for to an extraordinary Governour an extraordinary caller is required It cannot be denied but that both Timothy and Titus did a long time wait vpon the Apostles and were sent from place to place though setled at the last If going from place to place make an Euangelist then they were both of them Evangelists but I beleeue all the Pastours and Doctours of the Church were at the Apostles command and sent too and fro as there was need 2 Tim. 3.10.12.20 c. wee heare of Crescens Titus Tychicus Trophimus c. sent diverse wayes by the Apostle Paul c. And therefore it is not enough from the place to say such a one was an Evangelist except it be further prooued that he had an extraordinary calling That Timothy is bidden to doe the worke of an Euangelist it is a dubious terme for an Evangelist is either put for a writer of the Gospels and so some Apostles are Evangelists or for an officer and so such as were extraordinarily called to plant Churches Act. 8. but had no power to ordaine them Pastours are called Evangelists Act. 21.8 And of this sort might be many of the seventie Disciples or lastly for Preachers for the Gospell with which the name is coniugated is the obiect of all three The first write it for the edification of the Church the second preach it and worke miracles to confirme it for the plantation of the Church and the third preach it too for the further watering of that seed which others haue sowne before them and in this sense is Timothy bidden to doe the worke of an Evangelist as the next words expound it make thy ministery fully knowne And it is out of doubt that Timothy was called of God by man which to me is an ordinary calling And that Timothy and Titus as Bishops properly so called had a superintendencie and coerciue power of jurisdiction over Elders Ministers or Preachers it is evident to me out of these places 1 Tim. 1.3.5.19 2 Tim. 2.14 Tit. 1.5.11.13 The Elders are from the originall called Presbyteri which turned into English is called Priests the most current and passable title had not Masse-mongers made it infamous in the eares of such people as are not acute enough to devide betweene a fit title and a corrupting abuse Thus much for the name As for the office of Elders taken for Ecclesiasticall Governours I find none described but by seeding of the flocke which makes mee conclude they were all Pastours As for that place 1 Tim. 5.17 all the question is about the comparison whether gifts or offices be compared together The originall hath it thus Elders ruling well are worthy of double honour especially labouring in the word and doctrine now it is a rule in the Greeke tongue that participles are to be turned into reasons of the things they explaine as ruling because they rule and labouring because they labour c. The sense then may be thus rendred without all rending of the comparison Elders are to be reompenced with honour and maintenance first because they rule secondly because they preach First they goe before their flocke in holy practise of discipline vpon themselues and others secondly they continually presse them by precepts in painfull preaching Now that the people may especially see wherein they are to be honoured it is in this that they are labourious dispensers and disposers of heauenly doctrine Therefore with the Scriptures I say that the ordinary teachers and Governours of the Christian Churches were Pastours and Doctors and that copulatiuely and not segregatiuely as in Apostles Prophets and Evangelists Q. What is the Church triumphant A. The number of all those that are applied vnto Christ by sight After faith and sight followes freedome and fruition This Church consists of holy Spirits both Angels and men the soules of the Saints departed are receiued vp into glory and after the resurrection the militant Church both in body and soule shall be of the Triumphant in the full fruition of all blisse and happinesse Gal. 4.26 Heb. 12.22.23.24 Iob. 14.2.3 Heb. 11.10.16.26 c. As those therefore that haue tasted of some

will haue it but it must be expounded as it was spoken And the same mouth must be both the maker and interpreter that is the holy Ghost No man knowes Grammar but by Grammar neither can wee see the Sunne without the Sunne so no man can expound Scripture but by Scripture There is the same Art both in the composition and resolution as there is the same way in going backward and forward Scriptures rightly vnderstood in our actions are as the heart in the body for conveying life to all the parts or as a dram of Muske perfuming the whole box of oyntment This is that godlinesse which breedeth an heedfulnesse in all our wayes and actions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quae parit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Q. How are they to be considered as translated A. Howbeit the Scriptures as they be translated be not so authenticall and canonicall as the originalls yet ought they to be read publickely and privately of all and to bee receiued as the word of God Onely this must be the care of the learned that as much as lies in them they labour that the apographicall translations or transscriptions answere the autographicall and primary originals And if there be any mis-taking they must ever be reformed by the fountaines themselues The Hebrewes and Greekes drinke both of the well-head pure translations of the Streames the Latines in their authenticall Ierome of the very puddles Well may I say of Trent fathers as that Chian servant of his Master which sold his wine and dranke the lees whiles they had good they sought for that which was nought c. Q. But how shall the ignorant in the originals doe in this case A. They must referre themselues to their faithfull and learned Pastours whom God shall stirre vp for the faithfull teaching of his people And the Spirit of God which dwelleth in those that are his will inable them to discerne even in translations betweene truth and falshood so that if any errour should be if they attend the meanes ordained of God they shall not want information Luk. 1.4 if they confider how things are written from point to point they shall come to a certaintie of Scripture Psal 102.18 Q. Had the Church beside these extraordinary teachers no other A. Yes there were also ordinary teachers that euery congregation might be supplied with able men to instruct them and these were to depend vpon the extraordinary and so farre to be heard as they agreed with their words or writings Exod. 4.15.16 Moses receiues from God and Aaron from Moses c. In all points of Religion we must depend vpon God in prayers if he powre not vpon vs we cannot powre out vnto him Zach. 12.10 Q. How was the Church in a people A. First in the peculiar people of Israel secondly among all people The Church did grow from a domesticall societie to a nationall and from a nation to all nations I haue seene great Ryvers which at their first rising out of some hilles side might be covered with a Bushell which after many miles fill a very broad channell and drawing neere to the Sea doe even make a little Sea in their own bankes so the Church had but a small beginning which is now growne Catholicke over all the world Grace is compared to the wind Ioh. 3.8 which at the first rising is as a little vapour from the cranies of the earth and passing forward about the earth the further it goeth the more blustering and violent it waxeth So ought the Church and euery member of it to be daily increasing and thriuing in grace It was the Devils devise to bring that slaunder vpon carely holinesse A yong Saint an old Devill I beleeue that sometimes yong Devils may turne old Saints never the contrary for true Saints in youth will proue Angels in age Let vs therefore striue to be ever good and thinke with our selues surely if wee be not best at last wee may iustly feare wee were never good at all Psal 1.3 Ezek. 47.3.4.5 Q. What was this people of Israel A. A peculiar people whom the Lord chose to himselfe of whom Christ was to come according to the flesh and because he was yet to come they had both the Mossias promised them and by many types and ceremonies shadowed out vnto them Deut. 7.6.7.8 Rom. 3.1.2 and 9.4.5 O if God in these things set his loue vpon them how loues hee vs to whom the very graces themselues haue appeared Tit. 2.11 Q. What were the Congregations called A. Synagogues Although God would haue all his people sacrifice in one place yet would he haue praying and preaching in euery Towne Citie and mother townes had many Synagogues Abel is called a mother Citie 2 Sam. 20.19 And so the Church of the Gentiles had many mother churches out of which did spring many daughters Religion propagating from the greater Cities to the lesser townes and villages Act. 13.15 And here might wee trace the Separatists to Iordan by their babes and bottles in running away from their mother Q. Who were the extraordinary Governours A. Prophets of whom some did write the bookes of the old Testament in the Hebrew tongue which are in number thirtie nine all which by our Sauiour Christ are devided into the law and the Prophets Math. 11.13 22.40 or may be devided into Priestly Princely and Propheticall bokes in regard of Christ which is the subiect of them all or according to the most vsuall distribution first the bookes of the law written by Moses and they are fiue Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomie Secondly the foure first Prophets as Ioshua Iudges and Ruth two bookes of Samuel and two bookes of the Kings and the foure latter Prophets to wit the three great Prophets Isa Ier Ezek and the twelue lesser which for brevitie they comprehend all in one booke Hos Ioel Amos Obed Ion Mic Nah Hab Zeph Hag Zech Mal Thirdly the nine others they call Cetubhim or writings by an excellencie and they are Iob Psalmes Prov Eccl Can Dan Chron 2. Ezra 2. Hester Our Sauiour Christ Luk. 24.44 makes a tripartite division of the old Testament into Law Prophets and Psalmes and makes himselfe the subiect of them all The law was Morall Ceremoniall and Iudiciall And all were types of Christ The Morall which is for instruction did prefigure Christ as our Prophet the Ceremoniall which was for expiation did shadow him as our Priest the Iudiciall which was for Government as King The Prophets that foretold Christ were some of them Kings Governours some Priests and some purely Prophets The Psalmes are mixed of all three full of prayers prophecies and scepters c. There is a latter distribution obserued by Interpreters and that is quadripartite as into bookes Legall Historicall Poeticall and Propheticall The Legall are the fiue bookes of Moses Historicall the twelue following to Iob. Poeticall the six following from the beginning of Iob to Esay Propheticall the three great Prophets