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A34877	A supplement to Knowledge and practice wherein the main things necessary to be known and believed in order to salvation are more fully explained, and several new directions given for the promoting of real holiness both of heart and life : to which is added a serious disswasive from some of the reigning and customary sins of the times, viz. swearing, lying, pride, gluttony, drunkenness, uncleanness, discontent, covetousness and earthly-mindedness, anger and malice, idleness / by Samuel Cradock ... useful for the instruction of private families.	Cradock, Samuel, 1621?-1706.	1679 (1679)	Wing C6756; ESTC R15332	329,893	408

mad at home displeased with Wife Children and Servants scarce any thing can please a covetous man when his profit and commodity is crossed Every little trespass or loss toucheth him to the quick and maketh him impatient 4. Overmuch niceness and delicateness * Nulla res magis iracundiam alit quam luxuria Tender and delicate persons are subject to be angry Any little thing is apt to put such persons into a fit of choler Those that are rich and great in this world many times take liberty from their greatness to give scope to their Passions and so not only disturb themselves but disquiet those about them and make their lives uneasie to them 5. Weakness and over much tenderness of Spirit We see that anger usually reigns most in weak persons as in old folks and sick folks in women and children A great imbecility certainly it is for a man to have too tender a sense * Dure tractandus est animus ut ictum non sentiat nisi grav●m Proprium est magnitudinis verae non sentire se esse percussum like a man whose arms and shoulders have the skin flay'd off every thing that touches him makes him winch and cry out Take heed therefore that your mind be not too delicate and tender and womanish and apt to be moved at every toy We should harden our minds that they may not have too quick a sense of injuries A man should not think his credit or reputation in danger by every idle word spoken against him The remedy of this is as a learned man observes to get telam honoris crassiorem a thicker web of honour that will not so easily ravel out 6. Gecundless suspitions * Suspitiosi omnia ad contumeliam acc piunt They that are apt to be jealous and suspitious are also very apt to be angry though commonly when matters are well examined they find no true cause or ground for it 7. Credulity and an easie belief of reports and listning to Tale-bearers is another cause of anger He that is very inquisitive and hath an itch to know what people * Non vis esse iracundus ne sis curiosus say of him will sometimes hear things that will dispose him to anger They therefore that desire to keep themselves from this disquieting passion must take heed of this and the other forementioned causes of anger 12. A twelfth direction is this Represent to thy self the odiousness and deformity of Anger * Quibusdam iratis profuit aspexisse s●eculum Difficile dictu an magis detestabice vitium an deforme Some of the Ancients advised an angry man to look himself in a glass O what a deformed sight is a man in a great fit of anger or rage His tongue stammering his eyes flaming his mouth foaming his heart panting his teeth gnashing his fists knocking his voice loud and clamorous Did an angry man with Narcissus see his face in a glass surely he would never fall in love with himself 13. Represent to thy self the mischievous nature and hurtfulness of intemperate Anger 1. 'T is a great enemy both to the mind and to the body It fills the mind with vexation and a bitter discontent It unfits it for any holy duty for prayer meditation hearing the word receiving the Sacrament or any communion with God And should not that be very odious to us which unfits us for the worship of God or receiving any benefit by his ordinances And for the body it inflameth the blood and stirreth up and awakeneth ill humors and so causeth diseases Nothing doth sooner cut the thread of life than the sharpness of fretting anger and grief So true is that common saying an angry man seldom wanteth woe 2. 'T is a great disquieter of private families and societies of men 'T is the Devils bellows to kindle mens corruptions and set the World on fire O how many dreadful sins do some angry men commit in one hour A high fit of passion makes men like Lyons and Tygers It may well be called a short madness It disarms the Soul of its chief defence which is reason and consideration It sets the tongue on fire causing it to vent it self in swearing cursing railing reviling and sometimes it flyes out even into Blasphemy An angry man aboundeth with transgressions sayes Solomon Chap. 29.22 How many thousands hath intemperate anger wronged and injured hurt and wounded Yea how many thousands hath it destroyed and murdered What villany hath not sinful anger at one time or other been guilty of 3. 'T is a great disquieter of the Church The anger that is vented about matters of Learning or Religion is commonly the most irreligious most outragious and worst of all The contentions about points of Learning or Religion are usually very hot and fierce and yet one would think Learning should civilize the minds of men 'T was said so of it of old Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros But alas who are they that write against one another with greater sharpness and keenness who are there that mingle more gall with their ink than learned men do And for Religion certainly where it is in reality it is the best principled and best natured thing in the world It breaths in meekness patience forbearance and forgiveness and yet so powerful is the Pride and Corruption of mans heart that there are no controversies managed with so much bitterness sharpness and exasperation as the controversies about Religion are Let any man look into the books that are witten by the Papists against the Protestants by the Lutherans against the Calvinists by the Arminians against the Anti-arminians or look into the several Sects and Parties that not long since prevailed in these Nations or let him cast his eye on the late disputes between the Conformists and Dissenters and he shall quickly see what abundance of intemperate heat and anger what abundance of disingenuity and incivility what abundance of ill will and uncharitableness doth appear in these writings No man cares to go to a Physitian who will rail upon him and revile him and tell him that he is not worthy to live and 't were better the world were rid of him And yet thus do some men treat their adversaries who pretend to write books for their information and to reduce them into the right way Certainly 't is the duty of all real Christians who agree in the main fundamentals of Religion to forbear one another in matters of less moment and which belong not to the vitals of Christianity For we are all apt to err and mistake in some things and we cannot see with any bodies eyes but our own And 't is a horrible uncharitableness to say that any man is wilfully blind who opens his eyes as wide as he can We must all see for our selves and judge for our selves and our own practice and make account to answer to God for our selves And therefore surely it would become us to be

A SUPPLEMENT TO Knowledge AND PRACTICE Wherein the main things necessary to be known and believed in order to Salvation are more fully explained and several new Directions given for the promoting of real Holiness both of Heart and Life To which is added a serious Disswasive from some of the reigning and customary sins of the Times viz. Swearing Lying Pride Gluttony Drunkenness Vncleanness Discontent Covetousness and Earthly-mindedness Anger and Malice Idleness By Samuel Cradock B. D. late Rector of North-Cadbury in Somerset-Shire Useful for the Instruction of private Families Quod de Scripturis authoritatem non habet pari facilitate rejicitur qua accipitur Hieron LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard 1679. To the INHABITANTS of NORTH-CADBURY in SOMERSETSHIRE My Loving Friends SOme years since when I stood in the Relation of a Pastor to you I wrote my Book of Knowledge and Practice aiming therein more especially at your benefit Which Treatise I hope through the Lords blessing hath been of some use to you I have since thought that it would not be a service unacceptable to you to add by way of Supplement a more full explication of the Main Principles of the Christian Faith and some Further Directions for regulating of your Practice and to send them unto you to supply my Personal absence God only knows whether I shall ever see your Faces again in this World Providence having fixed my Habitation at so great a distance from you However my hearts desire and prayer to God for you is that you may be saved and if this poor Book may in any measure contribute thereunto I shall heartily rejoyce The holy Apostles no doubt in writing their Epistles aimed at the Spiritual good of the Church in general yet we may well suppose that those particular Churches to whom their Epistles were directed read them with more especial regard and possibly reaped more signal benefits by them than others did So though I design these instructions for your Spiritual good and benefit of all those into whose hands they shall come Yet I hope they shall be more especially minded and regarded by you to whom they are particularly directed and in contemplation of whose necessities and with an aim at whose benefit they were particularly framed I know many of you are such of whom the Apostle speaks Heb. 5.12 Who have need that one teach you the first Principles of the Oracles of God and have need of milk and not of strong meat I should be glad to have you all rightly instructed in the main fundamentals of Christianity and that not for your sakes only but for my own that I may give up my account with joy and not with grief Heb. 13.17 But yet I must tell you that it is not enough to save any of you that you are of the true Religion except you be true to it and live agreeably thereunto God hath indeed made sufficient provision by the obedience and death of his Son to save Mankind But you must earnestly leg of God to inable you to do your part which is unfeignedly to repent of all your sins savingly to believe in Christ and to accept him for your Lord and Saviour and to deliver up your souls to him that you may be pardoned through the infinite merit of his active and passive obedience and sanctified by his Spirit and inabled by his grace to lead a holy and good life And as I earnestly desire you all to have an especial care of your own Souls so do I with some importunity intreat all that are Parents or Masters of Families among you that they would take great care to instruct their children and servants in the main Principles of the Christian Religion I have often thought that if ever real Piety and Christianity flourish in England more must he done by Parents and Masters in instructing those under their care than is now ordinarily done I hope this short Treatise may with the blessing of God something assist and help you in performing that part of your duty May the God of all grace lead you and guide you in ways of truth and holiness and inable you to live in love and peace one with another And though I should never see you again in this life yet may the Father of Mercies through his infinite goodness grant that I may meet your Souls in Heaven This is the earnest desire and prayer of him who was once your unworthy Pastor and is still your very loving and affectionate friend Wickham brook Novemb. 6. 1678. SAM CRADOCK The CONTENTS of the FIRST PART CHAP. I. Of God SECT 1. Of the Nature of God and his Divine Attributes page 1. SECT 2. Of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the Divine Essence page 18. SECT 3. Of the works of God page 31. 1. Creation where Of good Angels page 32. Of evil Angels page 40. 2. Particular page 48. CHAP. 2. Of Man Page 62 SECT 1. Of the happy State wherein Man was created and the Covenant of Works made with him in that State p. 62. SECT 2. Of his Fall and the consequents thereof p. 66 SECT 3. Of the Covenant of Grace made with Man immediately after his Fall which shews the only way of his recovery to be by Jesus Christ p. 73 CHAP. 3. Of Jesus Christ Page 80 SECT 1. Of his Titles which in the Creed are four 1. Jesus p. 80 2. Christ where of his three Offices Prophet p. 83 Priest p. 86 King p. 88 3. His only Son p. 91 4. Our Lord p. 93 SECT 2. Of his Natures Divine and Humane p. 95 SECT 3. Of his birth p. 96 SECT 4. Of his Life p. 100 Here a short and methodical History of our Saviours Life is exhibited and the particular Times in which he instituted Baptism and the Sacrament of his Supper are pointed at Vpon both which Sacraments there are distinct discourses added at the end SECT 5. Of his Death and Burial p. 137 SECT 6. Of that Article in the Creed He descended into Hell page 131 SECT 7. Of his Resurrection and ten several appearings after it in the space of forty dayes he continued on the earth p. 143 SECT 8. Of his Ascention and sitting on Gods right hand p. 149 SECT 9. Of his coming to judg the World p. 154 CHAP. 3. SECT 1. Of the Holy Ghost p. 162 SECT 2. Of the Catholick Church 166 SECT 3. Of Communion of Saints p. 175 SECT 4. Of forgiveness of sins p. 178 SECT 5. Of the Resurrection of the body p. 193 SECT 6. Of Life everlasting Of Baptism p. 200 Of the Lords Supper p. 205 Of the Lords Prayer p. 220 The second part contains a serious disswasive from some of the reigning and customary sins of the Times viz. Swearing Lying Pride Gluttony Drunkennness Vncleanness Discontent Covetousness and Earthly-mindedness Anger and Malice Idleness ERRATA IN page 267 after the eighth Direction add Ninthly Take heed of saying ●s

I acknowledge there may be dancings that are modest decent and inoffensive But there are some that are not so especially among the meaner sort which many times are rude and uncivil and too often are introductions to worse evils and mischiefs 2. Stage-playes That there are some of them less evil and offensive than others is not improbable But if we may believe those that have much frequented them as they are commonly used in our Nation they do a great deal of mischief For besides the danger that does often arise from the ill company that frequents them and the great mispence of pretious time which should be better imployed in the seeing and hearing of them 't is said they represent vice in such a manner especially this sin of uncleanness as makes it seem a very small matter and a thing meerly to be laughed at * The morals of some of our Comedians seem to be little better than his in Terence Non est flagitium mihi crede adolescentulum scortari neque potare Mitio in Adelphis and many of their expressions and gestures seem rather to teach it than to make people out of love with it and to abhor it as God would have us If these things be so I see not that he did much mistake who called them the Devils Lectures For as the pious and serious exhortations of faithful Ministers are bent to beat down lust and concupiscence which is so dangerous to the Soul so it seems quite contrary these Playes design with all the wit art and eloquence they can to stir it up and excite it and by their lascivious and immoral expressions infuse such an infection into the Phansie and put such thoughts into the mind which the corruption of nature in those that have had modest education would hardly ever have suggested And 't is no wonder that they are so much frequented For as 't was observed by the Philosophers of old many turned from other Sects to the Epicureans but scarce any from the Epicureans to other sorts The reason was because mans nature is so inclined to sensuality I shall say no more upon this particular but only this I never knew any get good by frequenting of them I believe many have got a great deal of hurt 3. Lascivious books such as are Play-books Romances amorous Poems and Sonnets such books as these certainly do a great deal of hurt especially to the youth of the Nation If one great remedy as I have shewed before against all sorts of uncleanness be the preserving of our thoughts as much as possibly we can from all unclean imaginations and phansies surely those books that suggest ugly and immoral things to the mind as amorous books usually do must needs be great depravers of mankind and great teachers of vice and immorality And they that desire in such arguments to shew their wit to the poisoning of the minds of men do therein declare that they want very much the true wisdom which would teach them better things There is indeed a kind of scurrilous and obscene wit that makes fools laugh but wise men frown And they that love to have their sensuality tickled and excited delight in such things and in such Books There is a grave Author who has this conceit concerning good men who write and leave good books to the world that instruct it in Piety and Virtue namely that as their books after their decease do good and turn men to righteousness so their joyes in heaven shall be encreased And contrarily that wicked men who write and leave such books to the World which corrupt it with error and immorality as their books do hurt and mischief after their decease so their torments in hell they dying impenitently shall be increased Methinks the very apprehension of this should make all men take heed what books they send out into the world and should put them often upon serious consideration beforehand whether the r books be like to do good or hurt to mankind And if those that write corrupting books did but consider this surely they would burn their papers before they should ever see the light 4. Lascivious Pictures which are dangerous provocations and incentives to Lust There are in some Families strange and shamefull pictures framed no doubt to excite the lusts of the flesh which all good Christians should remember they are engaged in their Baptism to fight against and to endeavour to subdue Such Pictures as these no modest eyes can indure to behold Methinks where there is any thing of virtue or civility any thing of humanity or good breeding Such odious Pictures should be abominated and cast away as a detestable thing And though there may be much art shewn in such draughts yet the exquisiteness of such Pictures as these no modest eye can indure to behold Methinks the art will never compensate for the immorality and infectiousness of the Picture 5. Lascivious dresses A modest and comely adornment of the body does very much declare the modesty and purity of the mind But a garish immodest dress naked breasts and shoulders what do they declare but a vain and frothy mind to say no worse And what a great offence do these things give to those that are serious and sober Nay they say the Pope himself hath severely prohibited this practice to the Ladies of Rome as being immodest and unseemly And methinks we that are Protestants should have a greater zeal for chastity and purity than the Pope And as for painting and spotting the face and hanging out the signes of half moons and stars and the like why do they do it said once a Reverend Divine of our Church if they do not intend to entertain strangers But alas he that shall go about to reprove these things in so corrupt and degenerate an age as this is is like to get little more by it than to be laughed at for his pains But let them laugh on and laugh to the end if they can while the faithful reprover having discharged his conscience leaves the success to God 10. If other remedies will not do make use of the remedy of Gods own appointment which is lawful wedlock observe what the Apostle sayes 1 Cor. 7.2 9. For the avoiding of fornication let every man have his own wife and euery woman her own husband For better is it to marry than to burn And if any shall say they fear poverty and a great charge will come upon them if they should marry let them consider that it is a thousand times better to lead a poor life in the fear of God according to his own ordinance which he hath sanctified than to defile their bodies and Souls with uncleanness and impurity though they might gain never so much of the world by such a course I shall shut up this discourse with the advice of pious Mr. Herbert in his Church-Porch Wholly abstain or wed Thy bounteous Lord Allows thee choice of paths take no by-wayes But