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A18605	The summe of all, (namely) Gods service, and mans salvation And a briefe of mans dutie to God concerning both: which is, seeking to serve God while hee lives, and to be saved, when hee dyes. By William Chibald, rector of S. Nic. Col. Abby in Old Fishstreete.	Chibald, William, 1575-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 5133; ESTC S116462	49,654	304

1 Ioh. 5.7 4. that the God of Israel is this God Deut. 5.6 2. The having of a God and the taking choosing and acknowledging of the God of Israel onely for our God Exod. 20.3 Iosh 24.22 P. And what are the speciall duties which concerne GOD immediately M. They be such as concerne his Nature being and essence P. What is God in his Nature M. God is a Spirit infinite in all perfections Ioh. 4.24 2 Cor. 3.17 Psal 147.5 1 Tim. 1.17 P. What are the perfections in God M. Certaine divine Attributes whereby as it were a part of his divine nature or some holy quality of God is shadowed out vnto vs and they are of two kindes for they betoken either 1. his greatnesse or 2. his goodnesse P. What are the Attributes of God Gods Attributes of Greatnesse which set forth his Greatnesse M. They are faculties whereby he is able to worke and doe what hee knowes is to bee done and what he wills shall be done and they are these sixe 1. Simplenesse or absolutenesse 2. Infinitenesse 3. Eternity 4. Immensity 5. Wisedome 6. Almightinesse or All-sufficiency P. What is the Absolutenesse or Simplenesse of God M. Simplenesse is a faculty in God which removeth from him all composition of parts as soule and body c and whereby he is God of himselfe and every thing in God is God himselfe Exod. 3.14 1 Ioh. 4.16 P. What is the Infinitenesse of God M. Infinitenesse is a faculty in God which denieth vnto him all limitation and whereby the perfections that are in God are in him without all measure Io●● 11.7 Psal 147.5 P. What is the Eternity of God M. Eternity is a facultie in God whereby he is vncapable of beginning succession or ending Psal 90.2.4 1 Tim. 1.17 P. What is the Immensity of God M. Immensity is a faculty in God whereby he is every where and cannot be comprehended in any one place 1 Kings 8.27 Psal 139.7 P. What is the Wisedome of God M. Wisedome is a faculty in God whereby he perfectly knoweth himselfe and in himselfe all things that have any kinde of being Iob 9.3 4. Acts. 15.18 P. What is the All-mightinesse or All-sufficiency of God M. Almightinesse is a faculty in God wherby hee is All-sufficient to doe whatsoever hee can will Psal 113.3 135.6 Gen. 17.1 P. O Sir I humbly confesse to Gods glory and mine owne shame that I was ignorant of most of these points and I blesse God for the knowledge of them thus farre by your meanes but proceede I pray you to teach me also what are the Attributes of God which betoken his Goodnesse M. I will Gods Attributes of Goodnesse Neighbor they are vertues whereby hee is willing and ready to doe and worke well and they are these foure 1. Holinesse 2. Mercy 3. Iustice 4. Love P. What is the Holinesse of God M. Holinesse is a vertue in God whereby hee is pure from all evill and sinne in himselfe and vtterly dislikes it in all others Psa 99.5 Habac. 1.13 P. What is the Mercy of God M. Mercie is a vertue in God whereby hee pittieth his children in all their miseries and is ready to deliver them out of the same Psal 103.8 Eph. 2.4 5. P. What is the Iustice of God M. Iustice or righteousnesse is a vertue in God whereby he rendreth to all according to his promise for the good of the godly and according to his threatning for the punishment of the wicked Dan. 9.13 1 Iohn 1.9 P. What is the Love of God M. Love is a vertue in God whereby he is infinitely delighted in himselfe and is so farre affected to his creatures as he is pleased to impart any goodnesse unto them Revel 3.9.19 P. Good Sir I thanke you for making me know God better than I did by teaching mee his Attributes but now also I pray you teach me to serve God in respect of them and therefore tell me what duties I am to performe to God in respect of these divine faculties and powers holy vertues and qualities in God M. The duties of service which you owe to God in respect of these Attributes of his Nature are of two kindes 1. Generall which concerne them all 2. Speciall which belong to the severall kindes of them P. I pray you what duties of service must I performe to God in respect of his Attributes both of Greatnesse and Goodnesse M. They are two 1. Admiring and adoring all these perfections and excellencies that are so infinitely in God Psal 139.5 2. Praising and extolling commending and magnifying God in and for them Psal 150.2 Revel 5.11 P. What speciall duties of service to God belong vnto him in respect of his Attributes of Greatnesse severally M. They are two 1. an awefull reverence of the Majesty and glorious presence of God wheresoever wee bee Psal 89.7 2. Feare and trembling to offend this great God by sinne in any time or place Psal 4.4 Genes 39.9 1 Cor. 10.22 P. And I pray you what speciall duties of service to God must I doe vnto him in respect of his Attributes of Goodnesse M. They are two principally 1. Faith whereby wee beleeve whatsoever he speakes or writes and also wee put trust confidence in him for all good things which hee hath promised in his word Ioh. 20.31 2. Love whereby our hearts are so knit vnto and our affections so set vpon God that we desire nothing more than him nor delight in nothing equall vnto him Psal 116.1 2. 97.10.12 P. Sir I heartily thank you for these savoury lessons the Lord bend my heart to practise these duties of service which concerne God immediately in respect of some things in himselfe Duties to God immediately in respect of some things that come from him as his Ordinances you tolde me also of some other duties that I am to doe in respect of some things that proceede and come from him what are these things I pray you and what meane you by them M. They are either 1. his Ordinances or 2. his Workes P. What meane you by an Ordinance of God M. I meane not a civill ordinance as foode and physicke appointed by God for civill and bodily vses and ends but an holy ordinance or meanes appointed by God for spirituall and religious uses and ends namely to beget and begin to increase and confirme grace and holinesse in vs. P. Then I pray you what bee these holy and religious Ordinances of God M. They bee either 1. holy things or 2. holy actions P. What are the holy things which God hath ordained for holy vses M. The holy Scriptures The holy Scriptures or the holy writings of the Prophets and Apostles P. What duties of service to God must I performe to him in respect of the holy Scriptures M. These foure 1. Beleeving that the 39 Bookes of the Olde Testament and the 28 of the New were endited by Gods Spirit 2 Tim. 3.15 2 Pet. 1.21 and that they

THE APPROBATION Libellum hunc à viro Anglo docto pio perlegendum curauimus eiusque iudicio probatum imprimendum duximus 25. Ianuarij 1599. Matthias Archiepūs Mechliniensis THE SVMME OF ALL namely GODS service and Mans salvation And A Briefe of Mans dutie to God concerning both Which is seeking To serve God while hee lives And To be saved when hee dyes By WILLIAM CHIBALD Rector of S. Nic. Col. Abby in Old Fishstreete LONDON Printed for Robert Bostocke at the Signe of the Kings head in ●aules Churchyard 1630. TO MY DEARELY beloved Neighbours the Inhabitants of the Parish of S. Nic. Col. Abby in Old Fishstreet LONDON ALL divine truths and duties are therefore worthy to be knowne and practised by men because they have beene worthy to bee revealed and ●●mmanded by God But of them all the heavenly truthes of Gods service and Mans salvation the holy duty of seeking after both are most worthy of their knowledge and practise For if those things be chiefly to be sought after that are best wo thy of our seeking If those things be best worthy of our seeking that doe most neerely concerne us And if Gods service and Mans salvation doe most neerely concerne us because the one most neerely concernes our dutie to God and the other our happinesse from God then ought Christians chiefly to seeke after Gods service and their owne salvation The rather Partly because all other Divinitie doth but serve to further Christians in seeking after these two and partly also because all other without these will never make them wise with that wisedome Psal 111. ●0 2 Tim 3 15. The beginning whereof is Gods feare and the end their owne salvation Vpon these and the like grounds my dearely beloved people and Parishioners I have endeavoured to instruct you in these two points and what I have taught you concerning them in my Sermons I have now put into a little booke with some additions to the end your eyes by reading as well as your eares by preaching may witnesse how unfeinedly I desire you should serve God Rom 10.1 and he saved The booke is but little it is the fitter to be carried in your pockets kept in your memories And it is framed in a Dialogue or familiar conference betwixt my selfe and one of you hoping to drawe you better to like of the matter therein contained by my friendlie manner of handling it Though the Dialogue and conference be betwixt but one of you and my selfe yet is it in the name and for the benefit of you all upon whom it is bestowed for a New-yeares gift by him who hath bestowed himselfe upon you these many yeares 2 Cor 12.15 who will yet hee spent upon you to Gods pleasure for the furthering of you in the service of God unto your salvation What remaines but that as I have made my labors yours by publishing them for you and dedicating them unto you so you would endeavour to make them your owne by perusing them and labouring to benefit your selves and families by reading them together by conference about them and prayer to God for his blessing upon them to your edification I have heretofore made and published other bookes besides this for your learning but how you have used and perused them to this end is better known to God your selves and Housholds than unto me If you have endeavoured to build up your selves in grace by them I shall be glad to see the fruites thereof But if you have only contented your selves with this that they were made for you given unto you and that you have them lying on your shelves or in your chests I will rejoyce to heare of your amendment in using this booke better Ios 14.15 if now you and your houshold will seeke to serve the Lord and to be saved You shall doe this the better if you will observe these Directions 1. I would have you to reade it often because the subject matter of it is of such necessary ordinary and excellent use 2. I would have you as you reade it to examine consider how you have knowne the truthes and practised the duties taught therein concerning Gods service and mans salvation that so you may see cause either to repent of your ignorance and negligence herein for time past or to grow in your knowledge and diligence concerning those points in time to come 3. I would have you to call to minde and use the severall duties that are peculiar to Gods Attributes of greatnesse or goodnesse or to Gods workes of mercy or justice as by Gods providence they shall come into your thoughts or fall out in the world and specially that before you goe to any holy Ordinance of God appointed for his publike service you would looke into this booke for the particular duties which belong unto them severally to the end you may addresse your selves to performe those Ordinances with those duties accordingly The like direction I give for the reading over my booke of the Lords Supper before you goe to the Communion And this is the greatest recompence that I will require of you for my love and it is the least requitall you can make me for my labour 2 Chron. 30.18 The good Lord direct and encourage every one of you to set your hearts to seeke God the Lord God of your fathers that is to seeke to serve God while you live on earth that when you dye you may be saved in heaven by Iesus Christ in whom I am Yours all and all yours WILLIAM CHIBALD SEEKING to serve God while we live Parishioner VVIth your leave Sir if I should not be too troublesome to you I would faine speake a word with you in private Minister You are welcome I pray you come in and sit downe good neighbour P. Sir I humbly thank you for your kindnesse and pray you to pardon my boldnesse M. You are not so bolde as welcome I pray you be covered and tell mee what is your will with me P. Sir I haue lived in your parish vnder your publike Ministery a good while and yet I remaine very ignorant therefore am I come vnto you for some private instruction M. And I am as willing to instruct you as you are to learne if you come not as many doe to aske curious questions which tend not to godly edification but contention and vaine glory P. Surely Sir if I may be beleeved my comming is to no such end but to learne such things as are most chiefly and necessarily to be learned M. Your intent is good and I am as willing to instruct you as you are to be instructed but tell mee your mind yet more plainly and fully P. I will Sir it is this by your favour The whole Bible is large it containes many bookes chapters and verses and in each of them are comprehended many divine truthes All these are worthy of my learning if I had either time or wit to