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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75970	The Agreement of divers ministers of Christ in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, for catechizing or personal instructing all in their parishes, that will consent thereunto. Containing I. The articles of our agreement. II. An exhortation to the people to submit to this necessary work. III. The profession of faith, and catechism, which we desire them first to learn.		1656 (1656)	Wing A773; Thomason E1653_2; ESTC R208988	22,810	45

publike worship of God and preaching of the word with those private duties which are necessary in our Families though we reserve Catechizing at least of the aged to another day especially in the Winter when the days are short 6. By this means we shall better know the state of our hearers and better know how to speak publikely to their necessities and how to pray for them and how far either to be moan them or rejoyce over them and we shall better understand their capacity and fitness for Communion and Sacraments 7. If we appoint not a stated time and place for this work we cannot tell how to have any fit opportunity for it because we know not when to finde people at leisure together and prepared thereto nor can every weak Minister endure the attendance and inconvenience of some of their houses for so long time without apparent injury to their health or lives 8. The diligence of Papists and Sectaries will condemn us if we will not do half so much in a right way to save mens souls as they will do in a wrong way to pervert them The Papists will bring all the people to confess their most secret sins in secret to their Priests and we have heard of some that have approved of their Church rather then ours because it is more strict in such practises The Sectaries of other Sects creep into houses and lead captive the silly people by their smooth deceiving words and industry If we then that have a better work to do shall betray mens souls by lazie negligences all these might rise up against us and condemn us 9. The work that we agree upon is of unquestionable necessity it is not of the controverted matters where some godly men are of one minde and some of another we know of no party reputed sober and pious among us but are all agreed of the usefulness and excellency which is more then the lawfulness of this Catechizing and familiar instruction and we observe them all as with one minde and mouth complaining of the neglect of it and commending the performance we think it therefore a sad and unexcus●ble thing that while we contend about controversies most should neglect that necessary work which all approve of even while they thus neglect it 10. It is a work wherein we have the countenance of authority Former Rulers commanded Catechizing and the present do not discountenance it but encourage us to such works It hath been the constan● pract●ce of the Primitive Church who had oft their Catechists to teach these principles and all Ages have allowed it without any considerable contradiction And the Catechism which we agree to use was approved by the Church Assemblies of England and Scotland as a part of the Uniformity 11. We receive the publike maintenance to this end that we may be enabled to lay out our endeavour for the good of the whole Parishes from which we do receive it and therefore we are further obliged in Justice to do our best for the salvation of them all Upon these plain and pressing Reasons among others we finde our selves called to lament our former negligence and more diligently to perform this needfull work and to exhort our Parishioners to encourage us by their submission and willingness and we do resolve upon a more faithful discharge of this duty to those that shall thus submit Subscribed by RIchard Baxter Teacher of the Church at Kidderminster John Boraston Pastor of Rib●ford and Bewdly Richard Eades Pastor of Beckford Glocestershire Charles Nott Minister of Shelsly James Warwick Minister at Hanley Castle Thomas Eavans Minister at Welland Thomas Wright Teacher at Hartlebury John Nott Teacher at Sheriff Hales Staffordshire Henry Oasland Teacher of the Church at Bewdly John Hill Minister at Clifton upon Teame Thomas Baldwin Minister at Wolverley Richard Wolley Minister at Salwarp John Freeston Minister at Hampton Lovet Richard Sergeant Preacher at Kidderminster Andrew Tristram Pastor of the Church at Clent Thomas Bromwich Minister at Kemsey Thomas Franck Teacher at Nanton Beachamp John Taylor Minister at Dudley William Spicer Minister of Stone Humphry Waldern Minister of Broom Samuel Bowater Rector of Astley Benjamin Baxter Minister at Vpton upon Severn William Lole Minister at Pyrton Thomas Francis Minister at Doderhil Thomas Jackman Minister at Burrough William Durham Pastor of Tredington Thomas Easton Pastor of Batesford Glocestershire Giles Collier Pastor of the Church at Blockly George Hopkins Ministers of the Gospel at Evesham Thomas Matthew Ministers of the Gospel at Evesham John Dolphin Pastor of the Church at Honniborn Joseph Trebel Pastor at Church Lench William Willes Preacher at Littleton Richard Beeston Preacher of the Gospel at Breedon William Kimberly Minister at Ridmarley Joseph Baker Preachers of the Gospel in the City of Worcester Richard Fincher Preachers at the Gospel in the City of Worcester John Willnot Preacher a● Parshore Francis Hyat Minister at Eckington Robert Brown Minister at White-Lady Aston Jarvis Bryan Pastor of the Church at Old Swinford and Sturbridge John Dedicol Preach●r at Abbotsley Richard Dowly Minister of Stoke Pryor An Exhortation to all our Parishioners to submit to this Necessary work of Catechizing and personal Instruction which we have Agreed on for the furthering of their own Salvation To all the Inhabitants of our several Parishes Grace and Peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ DEarly beloved Brethren whose souls are precious both to Christ and us and whose Peace and Salvation we do earnestly desire It hath pleased the God of all the Earth to call out this poor unworthy Isl●nd in the utmost parts of the world to make it his garden while others remain a wilderness and a Land of ligh● while others live in horrid darkness Here hath he Proclaimed the Gospel of his dear Son and made plain to us the way to everlasting felicity He hath not dealt so with every N●tion nor have they heard and seen what we have done Most of the world do lie in the darkness of Heathenish Idolatry Infidelity and Mahometanism and too much of Christendom in the darkness of Popery and Heresie It ha●h pleased the Lord of the Harvest to send forth Labourers into this part of his Harvest though we confess too weak and imperfect yet more numerous and faithful and diligent then most of his Churches elsewhere Proportionably can shew He hath wonderfully dispelled the mists of Popery and many of his servants have laid down their lives in the flames in witness against it and with a mighty hand hath he hitherto hindred its return We have the holy Scriptures faithfully translated into our own Language and Bibles so common that every family may have one or more at a small price and may make them the matter of their daily exercise We have this Scripture weekly at least read and preached to us publikely we have the living examples of many that fear God in whose hearts his Law is written though imperfectly and in whose lives