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A41129	The spirituall man's directorie guiding a Christian in the path that leads to true blessednesse in his III. maine duties towards God : how [brace] to believe, to obey, to pray [brace] : unfolding the [brace] Creed, X. Command., the Lords prayer / by that reverend and faithfull minister of Gods word Mr. William Fennor ...	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1648 (1648)	Wing F702; ESTC R41150	81,283	149

the sanctifying Covenant of faith and so even a Child is cleane 1 Cor. 7. 14. Q. 8. How then can babes be Baptized Ans Children ought to be Baptized for all the Iaylors house was baptized Act. 16. 33. Even all Stephanus houshold 1 Cor. 1. 16. Whereof it is likely Children were part for children were Circumcised Luk. 1. 59. Now Baptisme is the circumcision of Christ Colos 2. 11 12. And when Peter urged Baptisme upon his hearers hee pressed it with this argument because the Promise was made to you and to your children Act. 2. 39. The Covenant to Abraham and his Seed stands everlastingly Gen. 17. 7. In substance to them which are the children of faithfull Abraham Rom. 4. 16. Q. 9. Can Babes have Faith then A. First they may have the seale of Faith Rom. 4. 11. Secondly they may have the Spirit of God Luk. 1. 15. Which is a Spirit of faith 4. 13. Thirdly they may have faith so accounted for they may be said to believe Math. 18. 6. 4ly They may have seminall Faith for they may bee borne againe and then the seed of God abideth in them 1 Iohn 3. 9. As children have a reasonable soule though yet they have not actuall reason to know the right hand from the left Jonah 4 11. And therefore they do not actually beleeve because knowing and beleeving go together 1 Ioh. 4. 16. Q. 10. Have all elect Babes then this Spirit of Faith and this same seminall Faith in their Baptisme A. Some have as first Jeremiah was sanctified in the wombe Ier. 1. 5. Iohn leapt in his mothers womb for joy in Christ Luke 1 44. Secondly such as shew strange instincts and aptnes in Religion and godlinesse as soone as they can speake plaine almost as Timothy who savingly knew the Scriptures from a child 2 Tim. 3. 15. but all have not for some live in sin till 20 yeeres after as Paul was not converted till he was at the age of a man Acts 9. 3. Beeing sensuall before and therefore without the Spirit Iude 19. Neverthelesse though he had not the Spirit dwelling in him from the womb yet he had the Spirit seperating and keeping him for a day of conversion Gal. 1. 15. But his Circumcision and his Baptisme were not actually availeable to the sealing of remission of sins till hee did call on the Name of the Lord by Faith Act. 22. 16. Q. 11. What benefits hast thou by Baptisme A. 3. I am thereby sealed First to bee a member of Christs body the Church 1 Cor. 12. 13. Secondly to be one of the Sons of God Joh. 1. 12 17. For so was Christ sealed Gods Son Ioh. 6. 27. In his Baptisme Math. 3. 17. 3ly to be an inheritor of the Kingdom of God Mark 16. 16. Standing benefits have no need of reiteration of Baptisme for there is no often put to it as their is to the Lords Supper 1 Cor. 11. 25. For it is a Sacrament of regeneration or the new birth Tit. 3. 5. A man cannot be born twice Iohn 3. 9 10. A man cannot bee borne twice for the ingrafied word of God doth dwell for ever in him 1 Pet. 1. 25. Q. 12. Have all that are Baptized these benefits A. No for the Spirit bloweth where it listeth Iohn 3. 8. and doth not tye himselfe to the water of Baptisme Math. 3. 11. Neither is this Baptisme which is outward in the flesh Rom. 2. 28. Esau was Circumcised yet God hated him Rom. 9. 13. Simon Magus Baptised yet in the gall of bitternesse Act. 8. 13 23. Q. 13. Who bee they that have not these benefits A. No man can know them till by their fruits wee may know them Math. 7. 13. Indeed Parents are bound to beleeve the best and hope the best for so Charity doth in all things that are not yet manifest 1 Cor. 13. 7. But for all our Charity they cannot bee vouchsafed forgivenesse of sins unlesse they joyne amendment of life to their Baptisme Act. 2. 28. Nor saved that answer not out of an upright Conscience to Christs interogatories though they were washed 1 Pet. 3. 21. And yet members in Christs visible Church and vesses in his house 2 Tim. 2. 20. And called Sons of God though rebellious Isa 1. 2. And may be said to bee begotten with an outward regeneration Deut. 32. 18. Q. 14. What diddest thou promise and vow in thy Baptisme A. Three things First Repentance of my sins for hee that liveth in sin is of the Divell 1 Iohn 3. 8. Secondly Faith for he that beleeveth not is condemned already Iohn 3. 18. Thirdly obedience to all Gods Commandements for cursed is hee that obeyeth not Ier. 11. 3. All these things was I taught in my Baptisme to observe all my life after Math. 28. 19 2● Now all this obedience must be done by the power of Faith in Christ Col. 3. 17. And therefore it is called the obedience of Faith Rom. 16. 26. And this Faith worketh by love Ga● 5. 6. And love must set me on worke to keepe Christs Commandements Iohn 14. 15 Q. 15. Art thou bound to performe thy Baptisme Vow and Oath A. I am bound Psa 50. 14. Or else I shall be utterly cut off Nah. 1. 15. Yea I am perjured else in making such a Covenant Hos 10. 4. And Christ will be a swift witnesse against mee Mal. 3. 5. And if I now live in sin and doe not keepe my Vow it is better for mee I had never taken this Vow upon mee Eccl. 5. 5. Q. 16. What is Beliefe or Faith Ans It is the gift of God Ephes 2. 8. Whereby I believe the words of Christ Psal 119. 66. And find rest in my soule in him Math. 11. 29. So that now it is no more I that life and worke and doe but Christ that liveth in me Gal. 2. 20. Q. 17. How many wayes is Faith taken Ans Six First Historicall Faith Iam. 2. 19. 2. ly A dead Faith Iam. 2. 26. 3. ly A temporary Faith Luk. 8. 13. 4. ly A bare hoping Faith Act. 8. 13. 5. ly a miraculous Faith 1 Cor. 13. 2. 6. ly this same saving and justifying Faith Rom. 5. 1. A Reprobate may have the first five and be damned for there is but one Faith Ephes 4. 5. Which the world knoweth not for it is a mistery 1 Tim. 3. 9. And the most men say they have it if wee will believe them yet if we will believe Christ few have it and it is very scarce Luk. 1. 8. Being the faith of the Elect. Tit. 1. 1. Q. 18. Do not wicked men say they believe in Christ Ans Yea Ioh. 2. 23. but Christ will not believe them nor commit himself unto them vers 24. It is not a bare beleeving of Christ in the clouds but the having of Christ in a man that giveth a man life 1 Iohn 5. 12. It is living in Christ as well as believing in Christ Joh. 11. 26. The wicked may say they have faith Iam.

THE SPIRITVALL MAN'S DIRECTORIE Guiding a CHRISTIAN in the Path that leads to true Blessednesse In his 111. maine Duties towards GOD. How To Believe To Obey To Pray unfolding the Creed X. Command Lords Prayer BY THAT REVEREND and Faithfull Minister of Gods word Mr. WILLIAM FENNOR Sometimes Fellow of Pembroke-Hall and late Rector of Rochford in Essex LONDON Printed by T. P. for JOHN ROTHVVELL at the signe of the Sun and Fountaine in Pauls Church-yard 1648. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER CHRISTIAN READER THou hast here Publishe for thy benefit a Treatise of a necessary and profitable Subject wherein thou shalt find Magnum in parvo a great deale of matter in a little Treatise and that not trash nor altogether vulgar but precious Truths and many choice notions A Treatise that it may be this queazy Age will hardly relish Mannah is lothed by wanton appetites Scriptures are looked over now by some as rude Elements how much more those Bookes that lay downe Elements of Religion out of them but know thou that they have the worst stomackes that must be fed with fancies and made dishes and they are the healthiest that ●●●d on ordinary solid food And their soules are but diseased pieces that relish little but n●w ●rankes the soundest and strongest soules are such as love and feed on ordinary wholsome Truths Ordinary truths are like ordinary mercies and vsually finde the 〈◊〉 entertainment Ordinary mercies are both necessary and most usefull we owe our lives to them under God from day to day yet because ordinary they are little regarded especially by the vulgar but an intelligent man ●●●zes them and is affectionatly thankfull to God for them ●o ordinary truthes are most necessary and usefull they concurre to the being of a CHRISTIAN when others only adde lustre to him yet are they dispised by many because co●…on but a wise man knowes their use and will relish them and be chiefly thankfull for them And so wilt thou have cause for this Booke if thou vse it conscientiously if thou beest a read CHRISTIAN it may be as an Epitome of Divinity to helpe memory if thou beest rawe heere hast thou a a Compendium of necessary saving Truths If thou hast charge of a Family it may be very usefull to help thee in thy duty of Catechizing yet one thing I must warne thee of It is a Post-humous the father A man precious man in his generation is dead and fatherlesse children thou knowest are obnoxious to ill usage but thou in thy pity must supply its defect where the Printer hath been short in representing this Treatise as it was drawn by the Father of it in a Character not so plaine and legible If thou wilt where such need appeares helpe it with thy Pen and me with thy prayers I shall remaine Thine in Christ Iesus JO. GEREE From my Study in Ivy-Lane Feb. 19. 1647. Errata PAge 12. l. 8 for beleefe r. lesse p. 14. l. 23. r. suerty l. 31. for of r. for p. 20. l. 29. for marke r. Rock p. 33. dele not p. 17. l. 27. ad House of l. 28. two r. to p. 28. l. 15. dele im p. 42. l. 25. for chang r. challenging p. 44. l. 22. r. lesse then p. 45. l. 6. celebrat r. celebate or single life p. 49. las● l. r. vse not p. 50. l. 22. r. bare p. 54. l. 14. r. concession p. 55. l. ● faire shewes l. 9. r. Sectaries p. 57. l 7. r. not al p. 68. l. 2. add the law are under 110. l. 18. for abate r. about p. 113. l. 11. r too great p 118. l. 27. r. with water p. 138. l. 5. for Ware r. roare l. 15. r. yeelding OF CATECHIZING Question 1. WHat is Catechisme Answ It is the teaching of the Principles of the Doctrine of CHRIST namely of Repentance from dead works and of Faith Heb. 6. 1. To them that have need of milke and not of strong meat Heb. 5. 12. as being babes in Christ 1 Cor. 3. 1. and the lambes of Christ whom the Minister must feed as well as his Sheepe Joh. 21. 15. Quest 2. Who must Catechise besides the Minister Answ My Parents must Catechise me and teach me the truth of the Lord Isa 38. 19. My Father must teach mee the information of the Lord Ephes 6. 4. And my mother too must Prov. 1. 8. So did Salomon's mother teach him Prov. 31. 1. Yea and the master of the house where I dwell though he be not my father yet hee must teach me if I be but one of his houshold Gen. 18. 19. Qu. 3. How if Parents doe not teach their Children Answ They are cruell Ostriches and their hearts are hardened Job 39. 16. And God hath taken the Spirit of wisdome from them vers 17. They loose their owne soules and doe what in them lyeth to cast away our soules too as ever they meane to keep their own soules they must teach us Deut. 4. 7. Qu. 4. Why hast thou a Name given thee in Baptisme Ans Because the people of God named their children then so did Abraham name his Son Isaac at Circumcision Gen. 21. 3. The parents have power to appoint the name what it shall be Luk. 1. 60 63. Which ought not to be one of a bad signification for that is a shame as the name of Nabal signifieth a foole 1 Sam. 25. 25. Qu. 5. What use doest thou make of thy name given thee in Baptisme Ans Two uses First to teach me Christianisme that I must give up my name unto God to be his servant Jude a servant of Christ Iude 1. Iames a servant of God Iam. 1. 1. Moses Gods servant Iosh 1. 2. Secondly that J keep my name unspotted and undefiled for God only accounts upon such Names Revel 3. 4. And therefore it it is fit I should not change it unlesse upon a great occasion as Abram afterwards was called Abraham Gen. 17. 5. Nor give any cause why any nick-name should be set upon it as Esau to be called Edom Gen 25. 30. The Pope that changeth his Christian name sheweth himselfe to be Antichrist 1 Ioh. 2. 22. Qu. 6. Why would God have thee Baptized Ans For foure reasons First to teach me that I was borne by nature the Child of wrath and damnation Ephes 2. 3. Secondly to give me the washing of regeneration or renewing of the Holy Ghost 1 Tit. 3. 5. Thirdly to Covenant with me that I should walke in newnesse of life Rom. 6. 4. Fourthly to distinguish me not outwardly from such as are not Gods people but Iufidels and Pagans for it is a badge and signe of my profession Gen. 17. 11. And not to be omitted by any meanes vers 14. Nor contemned nor neglected in the least degree seeing it is a matter of Salvation or damnation Mark 16. 16. Q. 7. What is required in him that is Baptized Answ Hee must have Faith the Eunuch had faith actually before he was baptized Act. 8. 37. Or at least to be in

Saints Eph. 6. 18. for these Saints make up the Church 1 Cor. 14. 33. for First they are the dearly beloved of Gods soul Ier. 12. ● God● pleasant portion verse 10. The city of the living God Heb. 12. 2● the Lambs bride Reve. 2● 9. Secondly we are most bound to the Church for the Church is our mother Gal. 4. 26. and therefore we should preferre her before all Psal 137. 6. Thirdly we shall prosper the better if we doe Psal 122. 6. Fourthly we shall the sooner be heard for our selves David when he would seine be heard for himselfe he prayed for the Church Psal 51. 18. yea all blessings that come to us come to us through the Church Psal 133. 3. Againe if the Church be in misery good reason we should lament for her Nehem. 1. 4. for first our sinnes have in part pulled downe that misery upon her Nehem. 1. 6. Secondly her miseries are ours looke what evill come upon her comes upon us Dan. 9. 13. Thirdly it is the brand of the wicked not to regard the afflictions of Ioseph Amos. 6. 6. Q. 126. What and why must we pray for Gods Ministers A. That they may be clothed with righteousnesse Psal 132. 9. and take heed to their Ministery to fulfill it Col. 4. 17. which is First not to preach themselves but Iesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. 5. Secondly to speake and exhort and rebuke withall authority Tit. 2. 15. in season out of season with all instance and long suffering 2 Tim. 4. 2. Thirdly not to looke back from the plough lest they be unfit for Gods kingdome Luke 9. 62. Fourthly to be an example to believers in word in conversation in spirit and in purity 1 Tim. 4. 12. againe we must pray that they may have utterance with boldnesse Eph. 6. 19. for First we cannot looke to have a good Minister except we pray for him Math. 9. 38. Secondly though we have one we cannot looke to keep him except we pray for him Act. 12. 5. Thirdly though we doe not loose him yet he may be streightned that he shall never be able to doe us good except wee pray for him Col. 4. 3. Fourthly though he be not streightned yet our hearts may be closed up under his Ministry except we pray for him 1 Thes 5. 25. Fiftly we have no love of the Spirit in us except wee pray for Gods Ministers Rom. 15. 30. The Lord himselfe teacheth us how to Pray Deut. 33. 8. Q. 127. How doe you prove That wee must Pray for all of our house for our Children and Kindred and Servants and for our Parents and Wife and Husband and Masters A. Eliazer prayed for his Master Gen. 24. 12. Elisha for his Servants 2 Kings 6. 17. Iacob for his Children Gen. 48. 16. and Iob too Iob 1. 5. Abraham for Ishmael Gen. 17. 18. First because wee are bound not to pester the Church with a naughty generation if so be we can helpe it when Seth had begotten Enosh then hee set up Prayer Gen. 4. 26. Secondly we are bound to love the glory of God that our Children may stand up to praise God when wee are dead and gone and therefore David had a care of a good seed Psal 22. 30. and so Abraham of his houshold after him Gen. 18. 19. Thirdly because we bring forth our Children children of wrath Eph. 2. 3. Fourthly because its a great blessing to have godly children Psal 144. 12. and wee are blessed in them much more when they are godly indeed Deut. 33. 24. Fiftly because otherwise we do but beget them by halves when once we have gotten them to be wise and gracious then we may be better said to have begot them Pro. 23. 24. Q. 128. How doe you prove that we must more especially pray for the Towne and place where we live A. The inhabitants of Ierusalem prayed for Jerusalem Psal 74. 2. First because our selves doe live there and therefore we must pray for it as Lot did Zoar. Gen. 19. 21. and yet he was but about to live there verse 20. Secondly because our peace and good consists in the peace and good of the towne that we live in I●r 29. 7. and except the feare of God be among them we cannot comfortably live by them Levit. 25. 36. and if we pray for them God can lay a charge upon their consciences not to trouble our resting place Prov. 24. 15. Thirdly we may win some of their souls to go along with us to heaven Gen. 35. 2. David dwelling at Gath it should seem he converted Ittai to the faith 2 Sam. 15. 19. Fourthly because we are bound to doe such duties as doe require prayer for them as for example to exhort them and therefore Phillip did so to Nathaniel his neighbour Iohn 1. 45. Levi being converted himselfe got his neighbours to be at his house to meet Christ Luke 5. 29. and so did Cornelius Act. 10. 24. Fistly we our selves may have a great deale of comfort if we convert any of their souls Iam. 5. 20. Sixtly hereby we may be helpers to Gods Ministers Philemou a great Nobleman was Pauls fellow labourer in this kind Philem. 1. Q. 129. Why must we pray for our Enemies A. God is pleased to shew them this favour 〈…〉 himselfe do● not forgive them yet he will have us to forgive them and love them Math. 5. 44. there may be more selfe-respects in praying for them that love us verse 46. but there is more godly singulari●y in praying for our enemies verse 47. and more perfection and sincerity verse 48. and more proximity to God ver 45. David fasted and prayed for his enemies Psal 35. 1● First because we are more sensible of there e●nnities and injurings by reason that we feele them and therefore we may the better pray for them Luke 23. 31. Secondly hereby we have that condition that is required to the forgivenesse of our sinnes Math. 6. 14. for if we doe not forgive them God will not forgive us verse 15. Thirdly hereby we may overcome the evill of revenge in our hearts nay and of malice in there 's Rom. 12. 19 20. Fourthly this is that way to commit our cause unto God as the poore godly soule doth Psal 10. 14. Fiftly we shall loose nothing by it for either our enemyes will be mollified towards us or if they be not God will reward us Prov. 25. 22. Sixtly it will be a great comfort to us we can say thus before God I have stood before to speake good for them Ier. 18. 20. Seventhly this duty being rightly done is a signe of a sanctified heart Act. 7. 60. Q. 130. What say you of Cursing or imprecation or praying against one it seemes it is unlawfull Rom. 12. 14. neither can we be called unto it 1 Pet 3. 9. for it proceeds from hatred now hatred is Manslaughter 1 Ioh. 3. 15. A. We may not wish evill as it is evill to any man but onely as it is good Gal. 5. 13.