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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

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

part of thy life is the least part wherein thou hast liued for all is spent in vaine that helpes not to obtaine thy last end From hence forward recouer and recollect thy selfe before thou goe hence and be no more And if the excellencie of humane Arts exclude all meane and mediocritie thinke no extasie high enough for the obtaining of Diuinitie We must not like sullen lades lie vnder our burdens but reviue our spirits and with a maine and manly courage encounter all doubts and difficulties Q. But how shall we know it A. Psal 34.11 Come children hearken vntome and I will teach you the feare of the Lord. Knowledge is easie to him that hath a desire to vnderstand plaine and right if wee seeke after it as worldlings doe gold Pro. 14.6 and 8.9 and 2.4.5 The Mine and Mint of true happinesse is plainely and plentifully chalked out vnto vs in the holy Scriptures Nothing remaineth but that I call vpon you as Chrysostome did of old Heare O ye worldlings get you Bibles Hom. 9. in Epist ad Colof Here lie those glorious heapes which may eternally enrich vs so that if wee goe away with our hands and skirts emptie how worthy shall we be of a miserable want And who shall pitty them that will not pitty themselues Gods whip is the best alones for so lazie and wilfull a need Oh that in these our dayes wee might see those times spoken of in auncient Story wherein the secrets of the Scriptures were knowne familiarly to Taylors Smiths weavers Seamsters Delvers Near-heards c. Theod. de corrig Gracorum affect lib. 5. What a shame is it for vs in England to see daily so many heauenly showers fall beside vs whiles we still like a Gedeons fleece want moysture Where are our worthy Matrones that may be compared with S. Hieromes women Hieron in Psal 133. who contended in good earnest who should learne most Scripture without booke Alas alas most of our schollers like boyes slubber out their Bookes before they learne their lesson Old Origen in num Hom 27. sayd that of all torments to read the Scriptures was the greatest to the damned spirits against that blasphemous Papist that said it was the invention of the Deuill Mart. Pares de trad l. 44. But alas that which they cannot reade without soruple we read too often with neglect and contempt With whom doth the Apostles exhortation take place Coloss 3.16 Let the word of God dwell plenteously in you Let vs then to auoyd further shame like diligent Schollers which repeat their parts to each other to be made more perfect mutually recall ouer the rules of our well-liuing Giue me but one sayth Augustine that loueth and he shall feele what I say but if I speake to a cold Christian he vnderstandeth me not O then to prepare you for this art doe but as you vse to doe in the morning when the Sunne riseth in his strength open the dores and windowes of your hearts to partake of this comfortable brightnesse Let the beames of the glorious truth of Gods word shine cleerely open your eyes and endeuour to be illustrated by it It is not credible how much good Art and precepts may auaile vs. Wee cannot but speed well if wee begin well and proceed orderly A false methode is the bane of all hopefull indeuours We shall finde it in spirituall matters as in our estates small helpes with good thrift enrich vs when great patrimonies loose themselues in the neglect It is wonderfull to see what some can doe with the helpe of a little engine in lifting vp that weight alone which many helping hands by their cleare strength might endeuour in vaine I know grace is not tyed either to number or meanes yet vsually worketh by a common course of Art and precepts Onely this must be our care that wee mint not Gods worship in our owne deceitfull braines Q. What is Religion A. Religion is an Art or rather a doctrine to liue well Art is in the frame of the creature and may be learned by observation And so was Diuinitie by creation the very imprese of God but now by corruption both the Art and the frame are spoyled and as he that comes from a bright candle into a darke roome is so much more blinded as his light was greater and as the purest yvory turneth with the fire into the deepest black so man being fallen from God is so much the worse by how much hee was made more worthy in himselfe Teknee from Teknaomai because Art is euer to be seene in his owne fabricke facture or fashioning Man therefore hauing blurred blemished and blotted out his Art and excellencie is left to the teaching of Gods spirit to learne that by diuine instruction which he cannot by humane observation 1 Tim. 6.3 Paul calls the lesson a doctrine and Dauid prayes often in his Psalmes that the Lord would open his eyes teach him his statutes and bring him into the way he knowes not by nature Psal 119.18.33 The manifolde wisedome of God distinguished by proper subiects and broken as it were vpon them by creation gouernment and obedience from hence by irradiation or shining is acted and dispersed vpon the glasse of the vnderstanding as light vpon the eye and there receiued and vnderstood is againe from the mind reflected vpon others by word and then it is doctrine or discipline or writing and then we call it a booke or Bible and from hence may be obserued our teaching by Scripture doctrine discipline Art science and inspiration Hos 8.12 Heb. 1.1 Prov. 8.10 2. Tim. 3.16 c. God hath written spoken and inspired men to doe both and yet in all this a meere stranger to the iudgements thoughts affections speeches and actions of the most So that beside all this God must inlighten and inliuen our hearts or else there will neither be Art nor heart nor part to thinke vpon him It is safe no where to complaine of nature but where grace is and where that is once had and affected It will readily ascribe both inward and outward teaching to God Our rule may be called Scripture as it is written doctrine as it is taught discipline as it is learned Art as it is framed in vs againe science as it is knowne of vs and because none of these are now to be had by the irradiation of nature it pleaseth God of his infinite loue that wee should haue them by the inspiration of grace There are three things saith Bernard which God properly challengeth vnto himselfe from all co-workers men and Angels viz. pradestination creation and inspiration The husbandman may plant prune digge and dresse his Vine but raine vpon it he cannot if hee would water it yet must it be with Gods water Hee may draw from the fountaine but God must drowne it he may ducere rivum but it is God that must implore fontem Yea when he hath planted and watered he cannot giue clusters to the branches forme

liue in ignorance and blindnesse If such weake Governours had charge of instruction Masters must not thinke that they are exempted by the translation of the Ministery to others We indeed haue the charge of the Soules of diverse families but euery Master hath still the charge of his owne Gen. 18.19 2 Tim. 3.15 There is nationall domesticall and personall mourning enioyned Zach. 2.10.13.14 So teaching c. Q. How was the Church in a People A. As it did consist of many families and had the bounds thereof exceedingly inlarged from the dayes of Moses Vntill his time God had but a familie or two to worship him At the great Deluge but eight persons saued in the Arke Gen. 7. The world was growne so foule with sinne that God saw it was time to wash it with an vniversall flood and saw it meete to let it soke long vnder the waters so close did wickednesse cleaue to the authors of evill Q. What is here to be considered A. The writing of the rule of Religion which was done by such extraordinary Governours as God had fitted and inspired by his holy Spirit thereunto for the edification of his Church For even then God had both extraordinary and ordinary teachers now wee haue the rule completely delivered in writing and therefore need not any extraordinary Governours in the Church 2 Tim. 3.16 2 Pet. 1.20.21 And this is that that makes vs receiue a more sure word of Prophecie c. 2 Pet. 1.19 Q. How was it written A. According to the necessitie of the Church diversely and at sundry times Heb. 1.1 God increased the dyet of his Church as he saw it was fit to beare it Q. What are the Bookes called A. For the matter contained The word of God for the manner of Record The Scriptures by an excellencie of phrase as the most worthy writings that ever saw the light and being compiled into one volume are called Bibles or many little Bookes vnited in one body so that both worke and writing carry away the names of all other Scriptures and Bookes as most admirable for vse Ioh. 1.8 2 Tim. 3.15.16.17 Oh the shame of Christians that these workes should be counted as a strange thing vnto them Hos 8.12 whiles other bookes as baites for fooles shall be followed and applauded Q. How are these to be considered A. As they are either in the originall tongues or in the Translations in the purest fountaines or the derived streames and conduits In the Originalls not onely the matter which is the Divinitie Dogmaticall Historicall c. but also the meanes of inferring which is the Logicke the manner of expressing and enforcing which is the Grammar and Rhetorique are all immediately inspired 2 Tim. 3.16 All scripture is inspired from God 2. Pet. 1.21 The holy mon of God spake as they were moued by the holy Ghost In the translations the subiect matter or substance of Theologie is equally inspired though mediately The Logicall coherence also and consequence of argument retaineth the same necessitie of illation because it dependeth not vpon diversitie of Languages but communitie of notions But as for the proprietie of Grammar and vigor of Rhetorique there must needs be some abatement and embatement First and principally because the skill and diligence herein vsed by Translators is not divine or inspired but meerely humane at the best and in tryall prooueth to be lyable to much latitude sometime more sometime lesse Secondly for that many emphaticall words and rigorous figures both of Grammar and Rhetorique proper to the originall Tongues such as are especially deriuatiues agnominations proverbes c. cannot to the life be expressed in other Languages Thirdly and lastly because in vulgar Languages there is such mutabilitie and change of fashions almost as much as in apparell that after a few yeares we scarce vnderstand what our fore-fathers meant in some passages of the Scripture in our mother-tongue much lesse in the Latine which in the Vulgar is so pestered with Barbarismes in stile beside defects in notion that not onely S. Hierome would write invectiues if he should see such a brat layd at his dore but Priscian himselfe would call for the ferula It was therefore a very pious and laudable intention in our learned and judicious Soueraigne to appoint all our English Translations of the Scripture to be receiued and the best of them corrected by neerest reduction to the originals and to the proprieties of our Language Q. How in the originall Tongues A. As they are in the tongue wherein the Spirit did indite them and they are of themselues to be receiued without all exception as being Canonicall and hauing their authority primarily from the spirit and by themselues secundarily from the Church 1 Tim. 3.15 and 2 Ephist 3. chap. ver 16. The Church is the pillar on which the truth must hang to be shewed to others or the ground on which it resteth it selfe finding little stay else-where Next to the testimony of the Spirit and word it selfe wee are to admit the Churches testimony Q. Doth the Scripture containe the whole body of Religion A. It doth most fully and plainely and therefore there is no need of vnwritten verities or Popish Traditions It is the rule of all faith and controversies of faith It is the standard or the Kings beame by which wee are to try all doctrine that is tendred to vs. Wee are not to goe by the common beame of custome and opinion but by these ballances of Gods sanctuary not suffering a drams waight to be iniected that may incline these golden scoales as we please Isa 8.20 When the law was written Moses recalls both himselfe and the people to it for tryall when he had written his fiue bookes the Prophets that followed were content to haue their sayings brought to Moses law for tryall Christ himselfe never refused any tryall by the law and Prophets yea ever and anone is hee appealing vnto them for proofe of his owne doctrine and so all the A postles did tread in their masters steps onely the man of sinne will not indure any such tribunall he will iudge all and be iudged by none Q. But they seeme not to be so plaine and perspicuous A. Yes in themselues they are evident enough concerning things necessary to salvation and if at any time they seeme hard it is by reason of the weakenesse of our vnderstandings Pro. 14.6 Psal 25.14 2 Pet. 3.16 We must therefore in the obscure passages pray to God and conferre one place with another and consider duely the cirumstances of the places and wee shall find the true meaning if not God will pardon our ignorance and require no more of vs then himselfe giueth wee vsing his meanes aright Iam. 1.5 Q. What sense is to be giuen of Scriptures and whence must it be taken A. The Scriptures haue euer one literall sense and meaning and that which must be fetched from themselues 2 Pet. 1.20 It is of no private interpretation or as man