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A16752	A treasurie of catechisme, or Christian instruction. The first part, which is concerning the morall law or ten Commandements of Almightie God: with certaine questions and aunswers preparatory to the same	Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1600 (1600)	STC 366; ESTC S100095	232,397	320

a maruellous and easie way of worshipping God according to that which one saith of their most deuoted and religious persons that they are humble but without lowlinesse poore but without want and rich without labour It were doubtlesse an easie thing for any of vs to bring our hearts to as great a loue and liking of idolatrie and idolatrous worship as any of the Papists beare vnto it if the commandement of God did not through his grace restraine vs and informe our consciences against it So that they which boast and glorie of their deuotion this way they do but glory of their owne shame The temptations of grosse Idolatrie Go be thanked are not of anie great force with vs in this our gracious peace and libertie of the Gospell Christs perfect obedience for vs But which of vs knoweth how great they would be if Idolatrie which God of his infinite mercie forbid might yet againe be countenanced commanded by publike authoritie and enforced by seuere persecution and penalty we may be sure of this that vnlesse we should be mightily assisted by the Spirit of God to withstand them they would fearefully shake vs. Wherefore let vs not deceiue our selues with vaine confidence without carefull sifting and examining of our selues in the sight of God c. But to leaue coniectures for the time to come and to go no further then to present signes and shew tokens surely the litle sorrow which we haue for our former sinnes in the dayes of idolatrous darkenesse and the litle thankfulnesse that is among vs for the sweet and comfortable light of the Gospell with so wonderfull deliuerance as we enioy and finally that litle reuerence and zeale which we beare to the true worship of God in the holy and pure exercises thereof they do strongly euidence and testifie against vs that our sin and guiltinesse is great against the righteousnesse of this holy Commandement We are therefore so farre from the desert of blessing that we haue deserued a great measure of the curse and might iustly feare it without all escape vnlesse happily we shall take hold of that part of the obedience of our Sauiour Christ whereby he hath obeyed this Law and made satisfaction to God for our sins in this behalfe for he onely must be our discharge c. But what proofe haue you that our Sauiour Christ hath perfectly obeyed this 2. commandement that so we may haue assurance that he is our righteousnesse concerning this commandement as well as concerning the former We haue a notable proofe of it in the 2. ch of the Euang. Iohn vers 14.15.16 17. which testifieth of his perfect zeale against the abuses for the right vse of the holy place of Gods worship Rehearse that which he Euangelist writeth of this matter 14 And he found in the Temple those that sold oxen sheep and doues and changers of monie sitting there 15 Then he made a scourge of small cordes and draue them all out of the Temple with the sheepe and oxen and powred out the changers monie and ouerthrevv the Tables 16 And he said vnto them that sold doues take these things hence and make not my fathers house a house of marchandise 17 And his disciples remembred that it vvas vvritten The zeale of thy house hath eaten me vp This zeale of our Sauiour Christ for the house of Gods worship is indeede a perfect confirmation of his zeale to all the duties of Gods worship to be performed in all holy and pure manner in the Temple of God according as it is said in the Psal 93.5 Holinesse becommeth thine house O Lord for euer and Psalme 5.7 I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercie c. and Psalm 29.9 In his Temple should euerie man speake of his glorie And according as the Israelites returning from captiuitie Nehem. chapter 10.39 in their subscribing of their oth and vow to the Lord expresse it by this that they would not forsake the house of their God Neither did our Sauiour Christ once onely in this maner of reforming the Temple vtter this his perfect zeale in the beginning of his miracles and shewing himselfe but also toward the end of his course as we reade Matth. 21.12 c. and. Luk. 19. vers 45.46.47 And let vs the rather obserue the perfection of the zeale of our Sauiour Christ because he vseth this reproofe and sharpe censure against that which though it was a great profanation of the Temple yet it had great colour of carnall reason to set a glosse and faire shew vpon it For there was vse of all those things in the worship of God that such as wold offer sacrifices either greater or smaller might haue them at hand there also their monie of what coyne soeuer changed there for the buying of their sacrifices c. The perfection therefore of the zeale of our Sauiour Christ may hence be noted in that no shew of excuse could slack his iust censure and vehement reproofe He was so wholly taken vp with the true zeale of Gods worship that he doth as it were trample vnder his feet all carnall reason specially the filthy couetousnes of the Priests which was in them a chief cause of the tolleration of this abuse But beside this one that also a dobled cōfirmatiō we haue the former profes alledged in the first Commandement Our vnperfect obedience for Christs sake accepted for his perfect obedience in that spirituall and internall worship of his soule For they are so many warrants of his fulfilling of this because in them he hath ioynt-witnesse both of his internall and externall worship together Neither is it to be omitted here that our Sauiour Christ vsually frequented the Sinagogues of the Iewes and Temple of Ierusalem at the times of the holy feasts partly to celebrate the feasts according to the commandement of God and partly to manifest himselfe to be the Lord our righteousnesse and to publish the doctrine of saluation in the most solemne assemblies of the people of God Wherefore also we are hereby likewise further confirmed that the Lord who hath in Christ Iesus accepted a satisfaction for our sinnes against this Commandement as well as against the former will for his perfect obedience sake accept of our poore endeuour and labour if from our hearts we striue to worship him in some measure both of inward truth also of outward profession and declaration of his worship and also make vs partakers of his blessing promised both to our selues and our children euen to so many as shall yeeld him any measure of true seruice and obedience But what proofe haue we of this In the ninth Chapter of the Gospell of Saint Iohn the 31. verse Rehearse the Scripture Now vve know that God heareth not sinners but if any man be a vvorshipper of God and doth his vvill him he heareth A comfortable testimonie of him that was before a blind man but now had not

example of their faithfull and godly parents how few or how manie soeuer they be So indeede do the words of the commandement it selfe limit the promise Reade also Psalme 103.17.18 Remember Ezechiel againe 18.14 c. But what if the children of faithfull parents dye before they know what belongeth to the true worship of God neither haue knowledge and faith to loue him and to keepe his commandements There is notwithstanding very comfortable hope because they are vvithin the compasse and charter of the couenant It is true for God hath fayd of the faithfull worshippers of him I am thy God and the God of thy seede Genesis 17.17 and chapter 12.2 And our Sauiour Christ assureth vs that to such belongeth the kingdome of heauen Marke 10.14 reade also 1. Corinthians 7.14 Yet we see that euen of the children of the faithfull manie that liue to come to knowledge do afterward vtterly degenerate and refuse to walke in the steppes of their faithfull parents and so pull downe the curse of God vpon their heades yea the true worshippers of God themselus their godly children haue alwayes and do still meete with manie great afflictions and troubles according as it is said Great are the troubles of the righteous Psal 34.19 What is to be said to these things God hereby giueth to vnderstand that his election is free and also that all mankind is naturally corrupt and sinfull from the vvombe and that the obedience of his best seruants is vnperfect vvhich maketh the iarre and putteth all as it vvere out of time So that of necessitie vve must haue recourse to the fountaine of Gods free grace and mercie in Christ Iesus for the assured ground of our stay comfort in the midst of al our troubles vntill the Lord shall in his good time deliuer vs out of them all So it is in the place of the Psal before mentioned Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth them out of them all Vndoubtedly if we could hold on in an euen and constant course of obedience his mercies toward vs shold flow as it were with a continuall streame vpon vs without interruption but because we go so often out of the way we meete with the curse at the least with the tagge of it as one may say in steade of the blessing Now therefore these things being true both touching the curse and also the blessing as they are indeede most true how commeth it to passe that they do vsually so litle affect people either to breede in them carefulnesse to flie idolatrous and superstitious worship or to prouoke them to be vpright zealous in the true worship seruice of God What is the cause of this It is by reason that we do not consider duly of that which God himself alledgeth to admonish and prouoke vs all to be aboue all things most careful to yeeld him his most due seruice worship What is that which God alledgeth to this end His almighty power eternal decree wherin he standeth fully armed and most zealously bent both with iustice to take vengeance vpon al Idolaters and also in mercie to blesse and reward all his true worshippers and faithfull seruants These things which are most weightie and of greatest importance aboue all other are contained in those his diuine titles which here againe the Lord repeateth from the preface or generall reason of his Law saying For I the Lord thy God and in this new title of iealousie which he taketh to himselfe by a similitude taken from the disposition of a most louing husband who cā least indure to be vnfaithfully dealt withall by his wife aboue all other and is a most hote pursuer of him which hath defiled his mariage bed as we reade Prouerbes 6. in the end of the chapter God grant that all of vs may better consider of these things Why is Idolatry compared to bodily adultery First to set forth how abominable this sin is in the sight of God Secondly to note the extreame delight and pleasure which Idolaters take in this sottish haunt they being as it were wood and mad in the haunting after it Thirdly because they are by all meanes most lauish and prodigall in the vpholding and aduancement of it Finally because the spirituall adulterer as well as the bodily is continually restlesse and vnsatisfied seeing they haue both of them left the wayes of God whereunto onely he hath promised the blessing of sacietie and contentment Touching the first reason we haue seene it alreadie from the 16. chapter and the 23. chap. of Ezek. where the Lord describeth it so odiously that were it not that the Lord hath seene it so meet we wold think that it might not with shamefastnesse be so vttered But the reuerence of his most holy and pure wisedome teacheth vs to lay all the shame iustly vpon our owne extreame folly which hath giuen so vehement an occasion of it c. Of the second and third reason their owne practise in their often and long pilgrimages their manie and great offerings gifts both in life and at their death their costly decking of their images c. are a plentifull and reall witnesse famous as in a theater c. Euerie man is a damnable transgressor Last of all that they are restlesse and vnsatisfied and neuer quieted it is affirmed Ps 16. and may be gathered by the name which the Lord giueth in manie places calling them terricula such things as rather terrifie and vexe then comfort c. Hitherto of the interpretation and equitie and of the curse and blessing of this second commandement Now that we may come to the vse and so as shortly as may be grow to the conclusion Haue you perfectly obeyed this so iust and equall a Commandement that therby you stand freed from the curse threatned and that ye may as a recompence of your obedience looke for the blessings promised To speake truely neither I nor anie other can say so but rather all of vs do grieuously and continually sin against it one way or other It is the onely mercie and grace of God vvherby vve are preserued from grosse idolatrie and the occasions thereof and that vve are taught trayned vp in the vvay of his true vvorship And if vve could rightly iudge our selues vve should find that by nature vve are as prone and readie to all superstition Idolatry as any other which haue bene this way misled before vs. It is true for idolatrie is very pleasing to the naturall man as that which is of his owne deuising and which man hath himselfe euery way fitted to serue his owne humor Suum cuique pulchram It hath all things delightfull to the sight of the eyes to the hearing of the eares to the smelling of the nose goodly and sumptuous Churches and monasteries beautifull and braue Images sweet melodie and descant fragrant and odoriferous smels of incense To speake in a word it is