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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

understandings that hath the key of David that in some measure you may be able to comprehend Divine Mysteries that they may not be as a sealed book unto you Esay 29.9 10 11. Pray further with David Psal 8611 Teach me O Lord thy way and I will walk in thy truth As God hath set a course to the Heavens with all their Hosts the Sun Moon and all the Stars and as he hath set the Sea his bounds which he must not passe without his permission yea special injunction So he hath not left man at liberty to do what he listeth but hath appointed him a way to walk in instructing him in the knowledge of himself this appeareth in that presently after he had made our first Parents Adam and Eve he gave them divers directions how to order and carry themselves 1. By sanctifying a Sabbath and resting from their labours the seventh day as God did from his Genes 2.2 3. 2. By dressing and keeping the Garden Genes 2.15 3. By abstaining from and not medling with the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge Genes 2.17 Then after their Fall and expulsion out of Paradise he taught them how to worship him and serve him which instructions doubtlesse he imparted to his posterity else what can we imagine should move his sons Cain and Abel Gen. 4. to offer sacrifice and afterwards he instructed Noah before the coming of the Flood to prepare an Ark wherein to preserve himself and Family with a certain number of all kind of creatures whereby the species and kinds might be preserved and the world renewed Genes 6.14 ad finem Then after the Flood he instructeth them what they should eat and from what they should abstain Genes 9.3 4 Afterwards he instructeth Abraham and gives him as it were an Epitome or abridgement of his whole worship and service saying I am God Almighty walke before me and be perfect Genesis 17.1 Again in the same Chapter he gives him particular instructions concerning Circumcision and in divers other places about other matters and thus in a continued Series Rank and Succession he hath from time to time taught his people first by Moses and afterwards by his other Prophets as he tells us Hosea 8.12 So Micah 6.8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lord doth require of thee c. Now if any one shall demand where this duty is shewed he may finde it Deut. 10.12 13. You see then that from the beginning man hath not been left to himself but been instructed by God in the way wherein he should go Direct 4 Be conversant in the Scriptures which are the rules of knowledge he that will be a Physitian must learn the precepts that teach Physick he that will be a Musitian must learn the rules of Musick the Oratour must learn the rules of Rhetorick the Plough-man the rules of husbandry and so every man the rules of his profession or else he shall never be a proficient in his Art or Science nor be accounted a Crafts-man that is ignorant of the principles of his Craft even so no man can attain to the practice of those duties that belong to a Christian that is ignorant of the rules of the Word he that is ignorant of the Scriptures is ignorant of Christ Qui Scripturam ignorat Christum ignorat Hieron praefat in Isaiam saith Hierome It is a most happy ignorance saith Hilary which rather deserves reward then pardon when a man trusteth to the Scriptures in that he cannot comprehend therefore let me exhort you to study to read the Scriptures they are able to make you wise unto salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 read them frequently it is recorded of Alphonso King of Spain that he read over the Bible with Lyra's glosse and notes upon it fourteen times notwithstanding his other employments and of Anthony an Egyptian Monke August lib. 1. de doct Christ Dom. 5. post Epiph. of whom Austine in his first book de doctrina Christianâ saith that though he had no learning yet by often hearing the Scriptures read and meditating upon what he heard he learned much of them without book and attained a competent measure of understanding and knowledge Comparate vobis Biblia animarum pharmaca Chrysost homil ad pop Antioch Chrysostome thus exhorts the people of Antioch Get ye Bibles the Physick of your soules read them often for there you may find a salve for every sore a medicine for every spiritual malady here is the bread of life that must feed our hungry souls here is the light that must direct and guide us in the way to heaven as Bishop Cranmer in his Preface before the Bible The Book of God is the treasure of knowledge Hieron epist ad Paulin. Singuli libri singula fercula Anbros offic lib. 1. cap. 22. as Hierom speaks Convivium sapientiae a banquet of wisdom so many books so many messes the Scriptures are saith Doctor Sutton like to Tagus in Lusitania or Ganges in India which the Scripture calleth Pishon whose very sand and gravell is gold but when an ignorant man seeks Christ in them he falls into many Labyrinths like the Jewes and loseth himself when he should feast at this table his meat becomes his poyson the savour of it killeth him because it is the savour of death to him when he seeks for gold he is blind-folded and falls into a pit for the vaile is over his face 2 Cor. 3.5 that which should be his Pilot is like an ignis fatuus to seduce mislead him most men desire to be conversant in those Authours that treat of good arguments for the ripening of their knowledge and therefore many are delighted in history which doubtlesse is a very commendable study and the more comendable if men propound to themselve the Acts of these famous and honourable personages of whom they read not only to be admired but also to be imitated and followed as occasion shall be offered Some men are so given to the search of antiquity and finding out of nice quirks and quaint distinctions as they will take infinite toile to read Manuscripts and rude dunstieall Writers whereby they have lost even the habit of writing and speaking handsomely themselves others again are so delighted and carried away with a delicate smooth phrase and fluent stile as they will vouchsafe even to read most obscene Authours for their matter good for nothing but for the dung-hill to learn a good phrase and composition of speech Now if you defire both excellent matter and eloquent words then read the Scriptures diligently and when you have so done tell me what learning there lacketh To begin with that which every one makes most reckoning and account of and how deservedly I will not dispute I mean the Law if ever thou meanest to be a good Lawyer have recourse to the Law of God the ground of all humane Lawes and observe what Lawes were moral and perpetual binding all people