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A89645	A little starre, giving some light into the counsels and purposes of God revealed in the Scriptures. Or A catechisme, wherein these ensuing principles. 1. What God is, and how he manifests himselfe. 2 Why he made the world and man. 3. Mans condition, what, 1. by creation. 2. By his fall. 3. By being restored by Jesus Christ. 4 The uses and ends of the law. 5. What the Gospell is. 6. Justification what it is. 7. Sanctification what, and how it is wrought. 8. What repentance is. 9. The use and ends of the Scriptures. 10. What true prayer is. 11. Baptisme, and the Lords Supper, why, and how used. 12. Generall redemption what, and how to be adjudged of. 13. Resurrection and judgement what. 14. Heaven and Hell what, in truth and misterie. All which are briefly by way of question and answer opened and explained. / By VVilliam Mason.	Mason, William, Anabaptist.	1653 (1653)	Wing M948; Thomason E1505_1; ESTC R208669	86,553	204

truth which is to be perfected by degrees in this life though not fully untill the life to come Neither is there any outward ordinance or observation that can hold proportion or correspondence with this Spiritual Kingdome it being exalted above all the Hills and infinitely above all significations Now Water-Baptisme can no way shew forth our union with Christ for that is a Spiritual union and Water-Baptisme is a Carnall ordinance and holds no proportion with the former Againe we are not made one with Christ as we are one flesh with him but as we are one Spirit with him Christ by taking our flesh became Immanuel or God one with us in the flesh but now the Lord who is that Spirit takes us into the same Spirit and so we are made one Spirit with him To this very end the glorious God did abase himself and clothed himself with our flesh and took it into union with himself that so by this meanes he might also receive all them that do truely believe in him into union with himself by the same Spirit So that it is not the Baptisme of Water that can ingraft us into Christ or make us one with him But by the Baptisme of the eternall Spirit are all the Saints united to him and partake of the same Divine nature with him And further Water-Baptisme can give us no true fellowship with the Saints for where the Saints have true fellowship one with another they have this fellowship together in Christ So that this fellowship consists not in being of the same opinion or forme one with another But in partaking of the same Spirit are united into one body together in Christ For by one Spirit are we all Baptized into one Body whether we be Jewes or Gentils So that it is not water-baptisme that can give any true fellowship with the Saints but onely a carnall admission into an outward fellowship with men of the same form which may hold for a time and afterward come to nothing Ananias and Saphira may have for a time an outward fellowship with the Apostles and Simon Magus with Phillip and the rest of the Saints in Samaria Q. What say you then of the Lords Supper is not that an Ordinance of Christ to be used now in the time of the Gospel A. That our Saviour Christ did give Bread and Wine unto his Disciples in remembrance of his death which he was now suddenly to accomplish is not denied but that he left it with them as an ordinance to be performed by all believers in the dayes of the Gospel is to be enquired into Our blessed Lord a little before his suffering told his Disciples that he had a great desire to eat one Passeover more with them before his death and being come into the house as they were eating together he tells them plain that one of them should betray him into the hands of the chief Priests and Elders c. and that he was to undergoe great sufferings yea and death also and that all this was no more than what was written of him though they were ignorant of it and that they must now enjoy his company but a very little while for as he came forth from the Father into the world so he must now leave the world and goe to the Father upon this heavy and sad and indeed unexpected newes his poor weak Disciples who looked for better things from their Master at least in their own conceits were so presently filled with sorrow that they knew not what to say much lesse what to doe whereupon our Saviour seeing them take the matter so to heart and knowing that his death was of so great advantage unto them takes occasion to instruct them in the knowledge and ends of the same that as his departure from them was cause of great grief and sorrow unto them so the remembrance of the great benefits which should redound unto them thereby might a little stay and comfort their hearts untill he did appear to them more fully To this end he took bread and brake it saying This is my body which is given for you as if he had said as I break this bread and give it unto you so my body is given and must be broken for you even for your sinnes And taking the cup he saith drink yee all of it for it is the New Testament in my bloud or a signification of the bloud of the New Covenant which is my bloud that must be shed for you and many others also or else yee cannot have remission of sinnes And for a help to their weak faith and comfort in their sad condition he said also unto them doe this in remembrance of me as if he had said I know that for the present you are almost overwhelmed with grief and sorrow because I say such things to you yet let this be a little comfort to you make use of Bread and Wine in-remembrance that my death is of great advantage to you and though I goe away in the flesh yet it shall not be long ere I see you again in the Spirit for I will not leave you comfortlesse but will come to you in the comforter which is the Spirit of truth and then your hearts shall rejoyce and your joy shall no man be able to take from you so that from hence it may appear that this action of Christ and likewise his command was rather to comfort and stay the hearts of his poor sorrowrowfull fainting then Disciples than to be a standing Ordinance for all believers afterwards Q But it is not said in many places in the Acts of the Apostles that this Ordinance was in use even among the Apostles themselves and many other Saints after the Ascension of Christ and sending down of the holy Ghost A. The Apostles indeed are said to break bread and that from house to house but every breaking of bread there spoken of cannot be said to be the Lords Supper for it is said that they did eat their meat with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart whereby it may appear that by breaking of bread in that place is rather meant the Saints mutuall love in receiving and entertaining one another into their houses with feasting and rejoycing than eating the Lords Supper for it is said that the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul neither said any man that the things which he possessed were his own but they had all things common The preaching of the Apostles was of such power and efficacy that it wrought great effects there was none that lacked they that were poor were provided for out of the goods of them that were rich But if by breaking of bread in this or other places be meant the eating the Lords Supper yet it was used as a thing indifferent and of christian liberty rather than a binding Ordinance for the Apostles

A LITTLE STARRE Giving some light into the counsels and purposes of God revealed in the Scriptures OR A CATECHISME Wherein these ensuing principles 1. What God is and how he manifests himselfe 2. Why he made the world and man 3. Mans condition what 1. By creation 2. By his fall 3. By being restored by Jesus Christ 4. The uses and ends of the Law 5. What the Gospell is 6. Justification what it is 7. Sanctification what and how it is wrought 8. What repentance is 9. The use and ends of the Scriptures 10. What true prayer is 11. Baptisme and the Lords Supper why and how used 12. Generall redemption what and how to be adjudgedof 13. Resurrection and Judgement what 14. Heaven and Hell what in truth and misterie All which are briefly by way of Question and Answer opened and explained By VVilliam Mason That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Sonne Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 1. 3. London Printed by G. D. for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls TO ALL THE SAINTS Scattered particularly throughout Oxford-shire Warwick-shire and Northampton-shire and more generally throughout England especially they under lower dispensations Grace and Peace be multiplyed DEARE BRETHREN IT is a sad thing to consider how the Saints who are united and made one with and in Jesus Christ by partaking of his Spirit or divine nature should yet be so disunited and broken off one from another by yielding to much to that spirit of the world or rather to that principle of envy and malice which Sathan the God of this world labours to throw in amongst them Is it not cause of much sadness and grief to see that a little difference in opinion produceth great breaches and much estrangedness in affection and yet this difference being weighed in the ballance of true Judgement will be found no difference amongst them who are truly Saints Indeed There are some who say they are Jewes and are not but doe lie and these are some of them high in notion but altogether without life and power of godliness and the difference between the Saints and such in point of sound doctrine is very great But the Saints who are truly so indeed they all indeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace They all know and profess that there is but one body whereof they are members and that there is but one Spirit by which they are united and made one in this body and that their hope whereof they are not ashamed is one and the same being effectually called thereunto they all profess and acknowledge one Lord in whom they do believe and one faith by which they believe and one baptisme through which they are not onely made conformable to Christ in his death but also are made like unto him in his glorious resurrection unto newnesse of life And are also annointed with him to hold forth the same to others they all professe one God who is the Father the Fountain the Originall of all good who is above all in respect of his glorious power and through whose infinite love and goodness they all obtaine life and happiness and who is in them all to act and carry them on unto eternall glory Thus the Saints who are so indeed hold correspondencie one with another in the substance of religion and the difference between them is but a seeming difference a difference in regard of manifestation for to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ The Lord dispenseth not alike to all but to every one a measure as he will and yet they may be all of one and the same Judgement though some of a higher and some of a lower degree Moses had high and glorious manifestations and yet he was of the same judgement w th the meanest of his Saints in that generation Paul was taken up into the third Heavens in respect of those glorious revelations and high discoveries of God made known unto him and yet he was as the Saints were that so he might perswade them to be as he was yea he submitted to the weakness of the Saints that he might thereby bring them up into strength Al the differences among the Saints at this day is onely about externall and outward formes and observations I which are all terminated in Christ when they once come to know him and are taught by him as the truth is in him then they cannot look for him at any distance for he is in them the hope of glory It is a great fault among children to begrudge one another of their fathers gifts there be severall attainments among Saints or severall degrees of manifestations there be some babes and some strong men and there is milk for the one and strong meat for the other they that be strong were once weake and they who are weak as yet will in time grow strong my deare Friends let us leave judging and censuring one another for who art thou that iudgest another mans servant let us indeavour unity peace and concord let us walk in love oh if we could love one another with a pure heart fevently with what sweet imbraces should we receive and injoy each other how would our heavenly Father be glorified how would truth be advanced and appear like it selfe and how would errors heresies lyes and falshoods run into holes to hide themselves yea how soon might we expect to see our dread Soveraign the Lord Jesus comming forth gloriously and riding on prosperously conquering and to conquer and bringing the wheele over sin and flesh and all sinners and ungodly men who hold the truth in unrighteousness and proclaiming that joyfull Jubile to all his who are yet kept under by poverty debt c. Sin ignorance unbelief weakness clouds forms observations Friends rest not in shadows let your souls inherit substance Christs kingdome is spirituall it is within and it is above all outward observations it is not meat and drink but it is righteousness peace and joy in the holy Ghost This little Starre if it please the Father of Lights may lead you toward this King or this little Catcchisme may instruct you in the way to this Kingdom It presents you with no new thing but cleers up old truths and distinguisheth them from new errors It comes not busling forth stuft full of humane testimony but it comes forward gently and meekly attended with divine evidence and witness Dear Friends first read and then judge but be not rash in censuring if any thing seem difficult weigh the Scriptures in the margent and yet if difficulties and doubts still arise wait upon God by prayer and supplication of the Spirit