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B15559	A practicall catechisme: or, A view of those principall truths according to godlinesse, which are contayned in the catechisme diuided into three parts: and seruing for the vse, (as of all, so) especially of those that first heard them. By D.R. B. of Divin, minister of the Gospell.	D. R. (Daniel Rogers), 1573-1652.	1632 (1632)	STC 21166; ESTC S116040	309,840	430

if Balack would giue him an house full of gold hee would not goe one inch from this charge or when he smote and answered his dumbe Asse in the depth of his lethargy yet to say If thou be displeased I will returne See vers 29.34 As wee would auoid such a plague so let vs beware of such hipocrisie Thirdly if the Law be the director of our Conuersation let Vse 3 it be vse of exhortation to all Gods people to embrace it and to submit to this scepter of Christ to establish his Law in our soules and to lift vp him in the honour of our hearts who hath honoured vs with this royall Law to bee our direction Let vs desire information in it let vs beware least we shrug at the naked inward and spirituall truths of it as afraid to know that which we are lother to obey but let vs concurre with him and say Lord thy Scepter is a Scepter of righteousnesse Heb. 1.8 I desire no obedience ouer or vnder against or beside thy Laws I count that no sinne which thou neuer forbaddest nor duty which thou neuer requiredst but esteeme thy sacred will my rule of righteousnesse It is one maine piece of the trade of an honest heart to search out the Lawes of the Lord Iesus that it might obey Many teachable hearts who would faine obey yet faile in knowledge and many that haue knowledge faile in a good heart the latter is worst yet makes not the former excusable The Iewes in the point of the Law were so curious that they knew how many words were in Moses his bookes They wrote these tenne words vpon parchment phylacteries that is preseruatiues and pind them to their sleeues fringes and frontlets in reuerence If they did so who for the most part little gained thereby but sinned with their parchments about them what should wee doe whom the Lord Iesus hath made them easie yokes vnto and a light burden If they did so who yet in their so doing looked for an erroneous iustification by them and were but meere slaues loosing their rewards what should our zeale be who know our selues to be free from this bondage and to obey with assurance of heauen Oh! let vs not bee worse then good common-wealths-men we shall see perhaps in a great towne some one among forty housholds buy the Statutes of the land and verse them well ouer and be able to tell their neighbours what is law and what not and these are counted men of good vse among ignorant ones But how would God esteeme vs for good subiects if these Lawes of his kingdome were well conned if as we teach our children to say them so wee our selues vnderstood them If the Lord would so honor his royall Law that hee would haue the King himself who made lawes to their subiects yet to be learners of his Lawes and not to suffer his to depart from them in the gouernment of others how farre greater cause haue meane persons to carry it with them into each part of their owne conuersation and to rise vp walke into the trade of their life lye down with it It is reported by Master Fox of one Crow a sea-man that beeing in shipwrake and hauing cast all his tacklings and wares and fiue pounds of mony into the sea hee kept his new Testament about his necke so swimming vpon his broken mast and after foure dayes all his company being drowned yet he was at length by passengers discouered and taken vp all frozen numb'd and steruen but yet his booke he held close to him If we in the shipwraks of this world would keepe our soules from wracke what course should we take Surely keepe this law to vs close and not suffer it to depart from vs loose money wares ship and all ere we forgoe that least we loose our conscience and disorder our conuersation And in all our doubtfull cases whither vowes oathes marriages dealings with men entercourse with God or any difficulty go to the Law testimony Esa 8.20 for resolution If our own skill serue not to find out the will of God then let vs go to the Priest whose lips should preserue knowledg by that rule proceed Many will do so but either they desire to misinforme the Minister that they may peruert the iudgment or else first vow and then enquire Pro. 20.25 both which are odious But let vs for euer count the Law as an Oracle from heauen being glad that the Lord hath found out a way to cast the wauering scale and to direct our conuersation Fourthly and lastly because before in the second Article in Vse 4 the life of faith in duties I promised here to insert it let all that finde themselues to come short of this platforme I say let them live the life of faith in duties for the enabling of them hereunto in each part of their course to God men themselues in solitarinesse company calling in Sabbaths subjection to superiours and common life Say thus Lord these duties are above me I can doe nothing to purpose Enable me to doe as thou biddest and bid what thou wilt else the number and weight of them will tyre and clogge me Thou hast eased me oh Lord of the burden of Moses but still even in my liberty from Christ I carry old Adams burden about me therefore write these thy Lawes in my heart I beseech thee If all that thus speake at Church when the Law is read praid in faith how happy were they Say thus and plead Is it not thy promise Lord where is it then where is the Lord God of Elia where is an humble heart where is meeknesse love the distressed service of the time providence without covetousnesse bounty without wasting wisedome without subtilty simplicity without foolishnesse vertue without extremities Lord fetch life for me from the fountaine of duties from him who never failed in duties never did any without knowledge never faulted either in overdoing or under-doing neither in the purenes of manner nor fulnesse of measure nor uprightnesse of ayme who fulfilled all righteousnesse and obeyed upon earth better then Angels or Saints in heaven looke upon me in my loggish uncheerefull spirit in my crazie limbs lame joynts feeble hands nay rusty tooles and reviue my heart within and scoure up my weapons without That I may delight in the Law in my inner man and that I may run thy commandements with cheerefulnesse And this also for this third Article may be sufficient The fourth Article Q. VVHat is the fourth Article of this third part A. That the most wise and louing God foreseeing how manifold and large a Conversation of duties his Church is to walke in hath sutably ordained helpes means for her better upholding and growth therein till shee be perfect in her measure Read 1 Pet. 1.3 Eph. 4.11 Mat. ult ult Ioh. 14.26 1 Cor. 12.4 5 6 7. In which Scriptures we have all the order of this provision of God and that in foure

so wee in Adam hee to GOD wee to Satan And that by the iustice of GOD who as hee would most iustly haue imputed the integrity of Adam to vs if hee had stood therein so might impute his sinne Wee were all in Adams loynes for better or for worse And as it was in the second Adam the Lord did impute our sins to him who yet neuer sinned after the similitude of ours against a law because hee looked at him in the nature hee sustained so hee doth impute Adams sinne to vs although wee in person sinned not because wee sinned in his nature And as our Lord Iesus had beene wronged if he had suffred for that sinne which was none of his and wee also were farre from Redemption if righteousnesse could not bee really settled vpon vs by imputation so except Adams sin were first made ours by imputation wee should bee wronged in sustayning the penalties thereof Imputation I grant differs in the manner and forme of it being in Christ onely by Gods account in vs inherent but still reall in both respects duely obserued And thus by partaking with him in the act wee also partake with him in all the consequents of sinne and penalties following If it be demanded as Paul doth there whether Heathens and Infidels that liued from Adam to Moses and so since were thus 〈◊〉 The●● s● cre is Yea Sin raigned both in the guilt and punishment● ●l● that time among millions of sinners wasting and de●troying generation after generation onely the difference is B●●ore Moses there was little sence of it they were vnder the raigne of it the guilt the pl●gues of it but still th● neuer saw the face of their King lust and co●● p●●cence old Adam the law of the memb●●s the sin and curse of Adam who hurt them they knew not onely felt the smart of a blind stroke neuer the further off from the misery but much further from cause or Remedy As for the Relique of that law they carried within them alas it was easily dazeled by forgetfulnesse or damped by strong lusts being dim in it selfe but as for the root of the disease that they neuer saw by that law as after in Art 5. shall be spoken Q. Is there any thing else to be said to open this A. Yea The Lord would resemble this contagion of sin from Adam to his posterity by that speech Gen. 5.3 that Adam hauing sinned begat a sonne in his owne Image who else should haue beene begotten in Gods Noting that with the generation the sin also was deriued And although this be a dead notion in the generall yet when we see how the Lord inflicts a sensible marke hereof euen still in our propagation as namely when some notorious vices of vncleannesse malice hollownesse intemperancy trechery cruelty choler and fury doe euen goe in a blood as in a streame ouerflowing not onely some families but euen some Countreis which are as by-words and reproches for their drunkennesse vanity pride and luxury surely by the actuall infection that appeares the other of originall may be discouered unto us Q That it is thus it appeares plainly but I desire to know by what meanes this conueighance is made for the difference of men i● this makes some doubt of it A. That shall not need All grant it And all must confess● that generally it is by Gods iust imputation which re●l●z●s the infection into the whole race of Adam But as touch●ng the way some thinking it to be by bodily generation others by Gods infusion of the soule stained with her bio● both being vnsafe this I would briefly say Man begets man not a piece of him and therefore in begetting man hee must needs beget sinfull man also How that is I may expresse thus Beside the bodily Traduction man begets man in his Receptiuenesse of the soule and in these bands and tyes which knit body and soule to wit those Spirits of Reasonable nature and by the infection of these spirits the soule is also corrupted For my selfe I confesse it decides all the doubt when I thinke of the realnesses of Gods imputing though I should know no more Q. What vse floweth from hence A. Still a good reade would be glad to apply each Article practically to himselfe for the better insight into the nature of his corruption Each Article sho●ld adde to the view of sinne And so doth this For what a depth of dye how festred a canker or leprosie how deadly a poison in this sin of Adam which could not be washt out in so many waters as it hath passed through in many hundred generations Nay the iron-moll and the staine of it is as fresh a●d will be to the worlds end as at the first and the fruits much fouler It s a true speech old Adam is not as other old men crazy with age his age is renued in euery new generation as the father in the son It must needs bee strong poizon which hath so present a dispersion of it selfe through the body into each veine and artery of the whole to make it like it selfe What then is it which God would teach vs by this leauen surely when we see how it hath leauened such a lump of mortality It should make vs lye downe with horror vnder the hugenesse of it and feele it to crush our Soules yet more sensibly It should take away all life and spirit in vs In stead of our priding our selues in our brats and their features It should make some of vs to tremble to thinke what we haue put into them euen a leauen which grace it selfe will neuer throughly purge them of in this world What ioy should be in our spirits while this thought abides in vs Especial●y how should we endure to thinke that some of vs doe suff●r our children thus already poizoned to ranne vp and downe the world to gather more and more actuall scurff to their naturall and we neuer restrein them from this riot I speake to such as haue great posterities of all others for although thou hast but one it concernes thee too for some one may haue as much poizon in him as some fiue or sixe let these looke to themselues thou hast dispersed old Adam and sow●e his seed at large take heed thou be as carefull to roote it out and plant the second Adam in the roome of it else thy posterity shall be thy greatest hell But to all this I say sl●ght not this sin of Adam say not If I had not this sin imputed to me against my will I should neuer haue deserued it Nay rather except thou hadst deserued it it had neuer beene imputed taxe thy selfe say thus I was deceaved by the serpent ate and was cursed had I beene there I had done no lesse Oh so great and wide an infection should breed as large and deep a d●iection of spirit in euery one that beleeues it The common speech is Fornication is but a trick of youth If a man should