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A49513	Principle[s] of faith & good conscience digested into a catecheticall form: together with an appendix: 1. Unfolding the termes of practicall divinity. 2. Shewing some markes of Gods children. 3. Some generall rules and principles of holy life. By W. Lyford, Batchelour of Divinity, and minister of Gods Word at Sherborne in Dorsetshire.	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1655 (1655)	Wing L3555; ESTC R216824	122,930	334

of men professing the faith of Christ may be known to be the true Churches of Christ A. The true Church of God on earth is known by two markes 1. By the purity of Doctrine and Faith which they hold and teach 2. And by the purity of Worship preserved amongst them from pollutions of Idolatry and Superstition Pure faith and pure worship shew a true Church Jude vers 3. Acts 24.14 Hos 2.2 4 5. Papists call themselves Catholicks but falsely being both Heriticall in Doctrine Idolatrous in Worship a Catholicke is a right believer All true believers in the world make but one Catholick Church as there is but one Christ one Faith one Baptisme one Heaven and one way to life eternall Eph. 4.5 6. Heb. 11.40 Those people that maintaine Heresy or Idolatry are not the true Churches of Christ Col. 2.16 19. 2 Cor. 6.15 Rev. 18.4 Q. Doe you believe in the Church A. No there is no trust nor helpe in man for matters of salvation Ps 49.7 8 Mic. 6.7 Q. What then doe you believe A. I believe that God ever had and ever will have to the end of the world a company of faithfull people to serve him and that I am one of the number Q. How doe you know that you are one of the Church A. Because I am not of the world but have seperated my selfe from the evill manners and sinfull courses thereof and doe now heare and follow the voice of Christ Joh. 10.16 Gal. 1.4 Rom. 12.2 CAP. XXIII Of the Communion of Saints Q. WHat meane you by the communion of Saints A. I meane that this holy People have a spirituall fellowship with Christ their Head and one with another The members of the Church are coupled together with Christ their Head and one with another Eph. 4.4 6. 1 Joh. 1.3 Q. Wherein have they a fellowship with Christ their Head A. In all the priviledges riches which God hath bestowed on the man Christ as in his sufferings in his graces righteousnesse and Kingdome Christ is a Son so are we Christ is justified from our sinnes so are we As Christ the first borne is such are we in relation unto God Rom. 8.17 Joh. 14.19 Eph. 5.30 32. Joh. 17.24 Joh. 1.16 These places shew that the true believer hath a fellowship with Christ in his Sonship in his Life in his Graces in his Kingdome Q. By what bonds is this spirituall union betwixt Christ and your soule made up A. They be two one coming from Christ to us and that is his a Spirit whereby he doth apprehend and quicken us the other going from us to Christ and b that is our faith whereby we embrace hold him fast By these two we are knit unto Christ and so partake of all his riches a 1 Cor. 12.12 13. 1 Cor. 6.17 Rom. 8 9. b Eph. 3.17 Heb. 3.14 Rom. 11.20 Q. How doth it appear that you have communion with Christ the Head A. By this I know it because I have the same Spirit of Christ whereby I am conformed and made like unto him in all things his will and waies his friends and foes be mine even as if the same soule were in two bodies they would move alike and affect the same things Col. 2.19 1 Ioh. 4. 13. 1 Ioh. 1.6 Joh. 17.21 Rom. 8.14 Exek 10.17 Phil. 2.1 5. Q. Wherein have the Saints a fellowship one with another A. In faith and love Eph. 2.19.20 Q. In faith How A. They are all partakers of one Hope one Spirit one Faith one Baptisme and all goe one way to Heaven And are all confederate with Christ to serve him according to the covenant of faith and obedience against all sects heresies mis-believers and loose livers whatsoever 1 Cor. 10.1 4. 2 Pet. 1.1 Eph. 4.5 13. Phil. 1.27 Zeph. 3.9 Q. In love How A. By that one Spirit whereof all partake we are united together in love so that all the faithfull doe love a and esteeme each of other and b communicate each to other in all good things ever wishing well to the prosperity of Gods Church and cause in all the World a Philem. v. 16 17. 1 Ioh. 5.1 1 Pet. 2.17 b Act. 2 42 45 46. Act. 4.32 1 Cor. 12.13 25. Psal 137.6 Q. How are the members of the Church called Saints seeing in many things they sin A. Because they are made holy in part and are perfectly holy in Christ We must be Saints here else we shall never be Saints in Heaven Eph. 1.1 Heb. 12.14 CAP. XXIV Of forgivenesse of sinnes Q. WHat is sinne A. Any transgression of Gods Law 1 John 3.4 Gen. 3.11 Q. What is the punishment due to sinners A. Eternall death the curse of God for ever in Hell fire Rom. 6.21 23. Mat. 25.41 Q. Are you a sinner A. Yes I was borne in sinne and doe daily break Gods holy Lawes Psal 51.5 Rom. 5.14 There is sinne in Infants Q. Shall you then be damned in Hell fire A. I deserve damnation but I believe that through Christ my sinnes shall be forgiven me Rom 8.1 Q. Are sinnes forgiven in this life A. Yes now or never 1 Joh. 2.12 Col. 1.13 Mat. 9.2 Rev. 2.17 Rom. 5.5 The conscience is now absolved and it shall be hereafter declared solemnely before Men and Angels Act. 3.19 Q. What is forgivenesse of sinnes A. It is a free and full discharge of a sinner from the guilt punishment of sin so that in Gods sight they are as if they had never been Esa 43.25 Mic. 7.18 19. Rom. 8.33 34. The afflictions and miseries which the Godly endure in this World are not punishments for sin in a way of justice and satisfaction for sin as if they were the cause why sins are forgiven to us 1. Because Christ alone hath borne the chastisement of our peace and none of the people with him 2. Because the afflictions of the Godly are for the good of the party afflicted and not in a way of revenge to satisfie divine justice 3. And not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us Q. Who doth forgive sinnes A. God alone who is offended and dishonoured by them Mar. 2.7 9. Lu. 23.34 Men doe forgive one another the Trespasse but not the sin as it is sin Q. Why and for whose sake doth God forgive sinnes A. For Christs sake without respect to any thing that we can doe or suffer 1 Iob. 2 12. Act. 2.38 Eph. 4.32 Rom. 3.24 Q. Why for Christs sake A. Because he being surety of the New Covenant hath in my nature room and stead answered the Law pacified Gods wrath 2 Cor. 5.21 Heb. 7.22 Q To what manner of persons is remission of sins granted in the Gospell A. To them only that believe repent and amend their lives and turne from the evill of their doings Luk 13.3 Mar. 16.16 Ezek. 18.21 Esay 1.18 Act. 16.31 Joh. 5.24 Q. Do you think in your conscience that your sins in particular be forgiven A. Yes that is

Three wayes First by a wanton behaviour in b apparell c countenance d gesture and gate or any other thing belonging to the externall deportment and carriage whereby the unchastity and lightness of the mind is discovered or procured As mixt and lascivious dancings dalliance painting naked breasts haire c. a Gal 5.19 1 Cor 6.9 effeminate Rom 13.13 chambering that is familiar conversation with women in private b 1 Pet 3.3 Esay 3.18 c 2 Pet 2.14 Prov 6.25 2 King 9.30 Job 31.1 d Esay 3.16 Prov 7.13 Q. How secondly A. By wanton words by light filthy and rotten jestings and communications This is the adultery of the tongue Here then is condemned the reading singing of lascivious bookes and poems use of lascivious pictures c. The memory must not be loaded nor the tongue exercised with such vain loose broad speeches He that would be free from adultery must make conscience of wanton words and behaviour Eph 4.29 5.3 5. Col. 3.8 Q. How thirdly A. By all bodily a uncleannesse with another Whereof there are many degrees as b unlawfull marriages c unseasonable use of the marriage bed fornication d adultery e incest and all f unnaturall mixtures a 1 Cor. 6.9 Heb 13.4 Deut. 27.20 23. b 1 Sam. 25.44 Mark 6.18 Levit. 18.18 c Ezek. 22.10 d Prov. 2. 17. Mal. 2.14 15. e 2 Sam. 13.12 14. f Rom 1.24 26 27. Q Is not the judgement of God revealed in speciall manner against uncleane persons A. Yes divers waies 1. Not only in their a bodies estates b name and c posterity but 2. The Lord doth also smite them with d sottishnesse of judgement e distresse of conscience f with a secret dislike of honest good men with hardnesse of heart to hide their filthinesse with lying perjury g murther c. a Pr. 5.10 11. b Prov. 6.33 Iob. 31.9 10 11. c De. 23.2 Hos 4.13 d Hos 4.11 e Prov 7.26 27. Prov. 5.3 4. Psal 51.10 11. f Prov. 7.8 g 2 Sam. 11.6 13 15. Q. VVhat things are commanded as means and helpes of preserving chastity and avoiding bodily uncleannesse A. Foure First a temperance in meats and drinkes Secondly b chast and good company a Prov. 23.33 Ezek. 16.49 Gen. 19.32 33. b Prov. 5 8. Prov. 13.20 Eccles 7.26 Q. VVhat be the two latter helps A. Thirdly a shamefastnesse modest behaviour And Fourthly b lawfull marriage a 1 Tim 2.9 Ier. 3.3 VVe are in danger to lose the jewel if we lose the key b 1 Cor 7.2 9 36. Q. Is it not then a fearfull sin to tolerate Stewes and prohibit marriage A. It is the doctrine of Devils befitting the Church of Rome which is spiritually Sodome 1 Tim. 4.1 3. Deut. 23.17 18. Rev 11.8 CAP. XXXVIII Of the eight Commandement Thou shalt not steale Q. VVHat is the drift of this Commandement A. To provide for the preservation of mans outward estate 1. Wherein God a forbiddeth all wronging of our neighbour in his goods together with all unlawfull waies of getting 2. And requireth b equity and uprightnesse in mens dealings a Eph. 4.28 b Levit. 19.35 36. Mic. 6.8 Q. What is meant by stealing A. All getting a and keeping b of that which belongs to another against his knowledge and consent whether it be done secretly c or openly by fraud or under colour of Law and Right a Ezek 22.13 Jer. 17.11 b Mic. 6.10 Job 20.15 c 1 King 21.15 1 Cor. 6.8 Luk. 19.8 Q. How doe men become guilty of this sinne of stealing Five waies of stealing A. Five wayes First by downright robbery and secret filching and purloyning As robbing by Land or Sea concealing of things found or lent Zach. 5.3 4. Josh 7.11 22. Levit. 6.2 3. Esay 1.23 Q. How secondly A. By hard unreasonable and fraudulent bargaining in buying selling and other like contracts wherein we gain from our brother to his losse and grief working upon his weakness or necessities These are as bad as an High-way theefe Lev 19.11 Am. 8.4 6 8. 1 Thes 4.6 Zeph. 1.9 Jer. 22.13 And of this theft are guilty all such persons 1. As engrosse enhaunce and falsifie commodities 2. They that sell crackt titles or things they should not sell as places of Justice and judicature places of cbarity and piety as Parsonages and spirituall promotions places in Colledges Hospitalls c. 3. They that use false weights or measures 4. Racking of tenants and all men that use more wit then conscience in dealings All kind of oppression is theft Q. Who thirdly are guilty of theft before God A. They that by force or pretence of Law wrest things from their neigbours or drive them to unreasonable compositions Such are the removing of Land-markes and forced inclosures forcing of a Woman to sell her jointure or Children their inheritance also prolonging of Law-sutes tiring poore men overpowring them by Bribery Friendship c. These are great thefts but God can and doth hamper them Prov. 22.28 Mic. 2.1 2 8. Mal. 3.5 Ezek. 22.12 1 Sam. 12.3 Q. How fourthly are men guilty of theft before God A. By lending or borrowing to the deceiving and oppressing of our brother Sometimes the Lender gripeth the Borrower and sometimes again the Borrower deceives the Lender Ezek 22.12 Psa 37.21 Rom. 13.8 'T is not a sin to borrow for ones need yet to borrow without cause or to maintain pride and idlenesse and beyond our abilities to pay that is evill Q. Under the name of theft is forbidden all unlawfull waies of gaine Tell me then How fiftly doe men sin against this Commandement in outward act A. By using unlawfull callings and ungodly practises to get their livings As doe Gamesters Jugglers Stage-players Rope-dancers c. also they that sell justice or the gifts of the Holy Ghost or else expose their bodies for hire or their wits and pens to get money by filthy Poems false and foolish writings c. Act. 16.16 19. Act. 19.24 25. Deut. 23.18 Mat. 4.9 Lu● 18.8 Mat. 26.15 Q. Thus we wrong our Neighbour in his goods outwardly there is a theft also of the heart Ma. 15.19 Tell me then How doe we sinne against this Commandement inwardly A. Two waies First by grudging and wishing evill to the prosperity of others or plotting their dammage Psal 73.3 21 22. Deut. 22.1 Q. How secondly A. By Covetousnesse and discontentednesse with our own estates Eccles 5.10 1 Tim. 6.10 Prov. 15.27 Esa 32.7 8. Pro. 30.15 Hab. 2.5 Heb. 13.5 Q. How doth Covetousnesse discover it selfe No man will yeild himselfe to be a Covetous person A. 1. A covetous person spendeth many pretious thoughts and delights upon abundance Three signs of a covetous person 2. He placeth much credit and comfort in that treasure 3. And for attaining thereof he will do mean things yea sinfull things and hidden things of dishonesty He covets desireth more then he dares to pray for that 's a Covetous person Ezek. 33.31 Eccles 4.8 Prov. 28.20 Eph. 5.5 Q. Thus