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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74691	The arraignment of ignorance: or, ignorance. With the causes and kinds of it; the mischiefes and danger of it, together with the cure of ignorance: as also, the excellency, profit, and benefit of heavenly knowledge, largely set forth from Hos. 4. 6. / By W. G. Minister of the word at Lymington in the County of South-hampton.	Gearing, William.	1659 (1659)	Wing G429; Thomason E1760_1; ESTC R209751	109,901	231

their authority of reproving others whose lives are filthy and vitious Clitipho in Terence scorns his Fathers grave counsell because he was apt now and then to break out and discourse of his own knaveries for youths are apt to think that such men envy that to them that age deprives themselves of Therefore the Romans would not have a Father and his son seen in a Bath together and Cato sharply censured a Senatour for kissing his wife before his daughter because onely it might carry a shew of levity though no dishonesty yet by circumstance indecency What then shall we say of such Parents as teach their Children as soon as they can speak to sweare and to swagger to dice dance and drink and think these good qualities for them to be like their Fathers surely without the great mercy of God they traine up their children to the devil such children will curse their Parents at the last day and wish that they rather had been the off-spring of a Toade or a Dragon than the Children of such Parents then will they cry out for judgement against them Let Parents therefore be exhorted to teach their children the principles of Religion to which no course that I can conceive is more fitting then catechising both by the Minister in the congregation publiquely Praestat multum quam multa audire Seneca Mark catechised at Alexandria then Clement and aster him Origen Vide Catechisme Cyril Hierosol Catecheses mystagogicas and themselves privately that they may be spiritually built in the knowledge of the principles of Religion having faith the foundation in the Articles of the Creed the walls of hope in the Lords Prayeer and the roof of Charity in the ten Commandements that which Seneca saith of reading is true also of hearing It is better to hear understand and learn of one thing then to hear many things and of them to understand and know little or or nothing therefore was the course and custome of catechising first invented which hath been an ancient custome in the Church but little younger then the world as I have shewed before Vid. Tract Angust de catechizandis rudibus Item Tract de Symb. ad Catechumenos this was the practice likewise of the Ancient Fathers in the Primitive Church to compile compose Catechismes or Introductions containing the summe and substance of Christian Religion That the Apostles and their associates did urge those to give some evidence and testimony of their faith and of their purpose to walk with God in newnesse life whom they drew out of Judaisme and Gentilisme is apparent John Baptist began Matth. 3. and the rest followed And some learned men think that the order of asking questions of the Baptized dost thou believe dost thou renounce is very probable to have been in use in the Apostles time whereunto that saying of Peter gives a good colour where speaking of Baptisme he mentioneth the Answer of a good conscience 1 Pet. 3.21 the stipulation of a good conscience the baptized affirming that thus and thus he believeth and thus and thus he engageth And in the Primitive Church there was a certain form or rank called Catechumeni who were first trained up in the knowledge of the grounds of Faith before they were babtized they being converted from Gentilisme the thief of which grounds the Apostle sets down Heb. 6.1 terming them the doctrine of Baptismes because they were the heads in which they that desired to be numbred among Christians were instructed before they were baptized And it is a generall opinion that the Creed was digested into such a form as seemeth to be an answer to a question The baptized was demanded what dost thou believe he answered I believe in God the Father c. And divers Divines of later times have compiled short Catechismes containing the heads of the Christian Faith that hereby feeding their people at first with milk they might fit and prepare them for stronger meat wherein doubtlesse they had been well advised and taken the right course for to presse deep my steries of Divinity to an ignorant people not well catechised or instructed in grounds and principles of Religion were but to build a great frame to an heavie burden upon a weak foundation which will not bear it It cannot be denied but plain and ignorant people coming to hear a learned and eloquent discourse may be moved and well affected therewith but they cannot profit half so well as if they understood how it were gathered from Gods word or to what point and head of Divinity or Christian doctrine it belonged and might be referred as Master Perkins proveth in his Epistle before a little Treatise of his called The six Principles of Christian Religion and surely the learning of short Catechismes and especially the shorter Catechisme of the late Assembly of Divines cannot but concerne us all whether we be learned or ignorant strong or weak Christians if we be weak and ignorant we should hereby be taught and instructed and hence get knowledge or otherwise if we have some competent measure of knowledge already then hereby we may be occasionod to rub up our memories and call to mind what formerly we have learned or at leastwise be called upon to practise what we know already And if any one shall object the hardnesse of learning good things Prov. 1.7 let him labour to have the feare of God planted in his heart The feare of God is the beginning of knowledge and let not the seeming difficulty of obtaining it hinder thee from using any good meanes to get it It is said of Apelles the painter that drawing but every day a line in a short space he became an exquisite and exact Painter and surely if wee could every day learn but one line or but some little short Lesson in Divinity we should in short time perceive our selves to have made some proficiencie Thus you see that instructions and good directions are very necessary for youths and young men of whose Age a witty man in his time said that it is incredulous and and also unexpert unable to direct it self Javenilis atas incredula simul inexperta est contemptrix alieni consilii inops sni Petrare de remed utr fort 1 Reg. 12. and despising the counsels of others the truth of which assertion is confirmed sufficiently by that wofull rent that happened in Israel when ten of the twelve Tribes revolted from Rehoboam the Sonne of Solomon because he refused the grave and wise Counsell of the Ancient Nobles that had attended on his Father and harkned to the rash advice of the green-headed youths brought up with himself and of his own standing when young men therefore doe excedere ex Ephebis as the Poet speaks or be adulti as they say at the Universities they should remember what Plutarch saith in his book de liberis educandis of bringing up of children that they do not abjicere imperium sed tantùm mutare