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A45630	Horæ consecratæ, or, Spiritual pastime. concerning divine meditations upon the great mysteries of our faith and salvation : occasional meditations and gratulatory reflexions upon particular providences and deliverances, vouchsafed to the author and his family : also a scripture-catechisme dedicated to the service of his wife and children, and now published, together with other treatises mentioned in the following page for common use / by Sir James Harrington ...	Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Meditations upon the creation, man's fall, and redemption by Christ.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Noah's dove.	1682 (1682)	Wing H803E_PARTIAL; Wing H815_PARTIAL; Wing H831_CANCELLED; ESTC R4540	368,029	493

World to come If they shall fall away to renew them again unto Repentance seeing they crucifie unto themselves Me the Son of God afresh and put Me to an open shame For the Earth which drinketh in the Rain which cometh often upon it and bringeth forth Herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiveth blessing from God But that which beareth Thorns and Briars is rejected and is nigh unto Cursing whose end is to be burned If then ye sin wilfully after that ye have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more Sacrifice for Sin but a certain fearful looking for of Judgment and Fiery indignation which shall devour the Adversaries He that despised Moses Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses Of how much soarer punishment suppose ye shall be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot Me the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing and hath done despight unto my spirit of grace Wherefore I say unto you that all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto Men. And whosoever speaketh a word against Me the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever sinneth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this World nor in the World to come But beloved I am perswaded better things of you and things that accompany Salvation though I thus speak Pray therefore that you may be kept back from presumptuous sins and that they may not have dominion over you So shall you be innocent from the great transgression My Children forget not my Law but let your hearts keep my Commandements For length of Days and long life and peace shall they add unto you Be not slothfull in business but fervent in Spirit serving the Lord. As Enoch and Noah walked with God and Moses seeing him who is invisible So walk you as Children of the Light and by the same Rule since your fellowship is with the Father and the Son And you are made partakers of the Divine nature and being joyned unto me are one Spirit My Children attend to my words incline your Eares unto my sayings let them not depart from your Eyes keep them in the midest of your hearts These things write I unto you that ye sin not and that your joy may be full And if any of you sin I am your Advocate with the Father and the Propitiation for your sins Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his Seed remaineth in him Have respect therefore to all my Commandements And keep your selves from your Iniquity Repent and turn from all your transgressions with a godly sorrow not to be repented of So iniquity shall not be your ruine Yea let Rivers of Waters run down your Eyes because Men keep not my Law Watch and pray always lest you run into temptation through Me that strengthens you you shall be able to do all things And be more than Conquerors and saved from your Enemies and from the hand of all that hate you Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness nor go in the way of evil Men but rather reprove them Set me always before you And whether you sleep or wake be together with me Lay hold on Eternal Life since the things that are seen are temporal but the things that are not seen are eternal For you know that if your Earthly House of this Tabernacle was dissolved you have a building of God an House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens Hate evil thoughts and let not vain thoughts lod within you Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life Yea out of your hearts proceed evil thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts False-witness Blasphemies Be not high-minded but fear For God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble Be angry but sin not Let not the Sun go down up on your wrath Let your Conversation be without Covetousness and be content with such things as ye have For I have said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee A meek and quiet Spirit is in the sight of God of much Price Exercise your selves to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards Men. Speak not lies in Hypocrisie not have your understandings darkned nor your Consciences feared with an hot Iron Happy are you if you condemn not your selves in those things which you allow since he that doubteth is condemned For whatsoever is not of faith is sin Have your Hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience And follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edifie one another It is good neither to eat Flesh nor to drink Wine nor any thing whereby your Brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak Speak evil of no Man Take heed to your ways that you offend not with your Tongues Let not wasting and destruction be in your Paths nor wast your substance among Harlots Wherefore do ye spend Money for that which is not Bread And set your Eyes upon that which is not If riches increase set not your Hearts on them For riches certainly make themselves Wings and flie away as an Eagle towards Heaven Vanity of Vanities all is Vanity Therefore honour the Lord with your substance and with the first-fruits of your increase Cast your Bread upon the Waters for after many Days you shall finde it Give a portion to seven and also to eight He that hath pitty on the poor lendeth unto the Lord And that which ye have given will he repay you again Make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye faile they may receive you into everlasting habitations Give Almes of those things you have and lend looking for nothing again Say not to your Neighbour Go and come again to morrow I will give when you have it by you Nor shut your hands from your poor Brethren Lest I say unto you Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels For I was an hungry and ye gave me no Meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no Drink I was a stranger and ye took me not in Sick and in Prison and ye Visited me not For inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these my poor Members ye did it not to me See then that ye walk circumspectly

whatsoever piece of his workmanship hath this glorious stamp or pourtraiture erazed or defaced must needs remain useless naked and without honour To apply this to my own Soul Is it thus How miserable then and deformed is the Person of every Man by Adam with and in whom we have lost our God our selves and all our perfections Hast thou heard O my Soul of that material and obscure darkness which the Egyptians felt On thee there was and upon all natural Men there is the like obscurity Only they differ in this Man feels it not That darkness being no more empty of light than the mind of Man is vacant of the knowledge of God the worship of God and his own eternal happiness witness that of the Apostle The natural Man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto Him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned that is by the light of the Spirit In Egypts deficiency of light no doubt it was a part of their torment to mistake one thing for another so in this sinfull deprivation such is the vanity of the mind that it calls good evil and evil good It takes sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet Salvation the contrary to damnation being in his understanding in the end only free from its mistake or fruition Noah was not more drunken with the strength of Wine than the understandings of wretched Men with the strength of sin to which the Prophet alludes saying They are drunken but not with Wine they stagger but not with strong Drink Neither was Eutichus more dead asleep when he fell even into Death then the prodigal Sons to whom justly God hath given the spirit of slumber Eyes that they should not see Eares that they should not hear Sin as sleep deprives Man of the true use of all those sences which should serve for the use of his Soul The Man possest in the Gospel is the miserable and true Figure of an unregenerate Soul We finde him possest with a Devil and tormented with a Legion of Devils And is not the accusing conscience of a wicked Man as a thousand Witnesses We read that he only lived unto himself avoided society the Tombes being the fittest mansions for such unsociableness His actions there were to be his own Executioner and enemy Night and Day crying and cutting himself with stones O my Soul proceed but to bring the substance to the shaddow and thou wilt confess how lively this Satanical lunary acts the tragical part of a depraved conscience Cain the first that received and took away life from Man affrighted with the terrour of his bloody conscience was forced to fear and flie the face of Man his own tongue bellowing out his own misery in that tormenting Exclamation My punishment is greater than I can bear The distempered and melancholy ●its of Saul which the Holy Ghost calls an evil spirit we are partly occasioned without doubt by the barking fury of his conscience Such Hell of minde being seldome without a Devil to add fuell to the flame and torment to the tormented Let Judas conclude all and by the conclusion of his life who went out and strangled himself preach to all the conclusion of that Soul which spurd with guilt thinks to flie from its self and from the uppermost Hell of despair leaps into the nethermost Hell of pain Bearing still about him what he shun'd even that only immortaliz'd Worm of insect sprung from corruption which then shall gnaw more furiously Eternity and despair of remedy doubling the unmeasurableness of the torture Should my thoughts now pass from the conscience some consciences would at least in their own conceits account themselves like those of Laodicea to be rich and increased with goods and to have need of nothing when as they are indeed wretched and miserable and poor and blinde and naked Therefore that we may all know that we are miserable the better to confess Gods mercy the more to thirst after his salvation we must know that there are hardned Pharaohs aswell as a despairing Judas As that Body is most dangerously diseased whose external parts the vital and animating spirits having as it were made a recess are left insensible and without feeling So that Soul is in a deadly that is damnable estate whose conscience the quickning power of the holy spirit being utterly with-drawn remains speechless and cauterized Of this condition were many before the Flood notwithstanding the preaching of righteous Noah After the Flood the Sodomites Under the Law Pharaoh and some of the Israelites in the Wilderness Under the Gospel the Scribes and Pharisees of whom our Saviour observes that God had blinded their eyes and hardned their hearts that they should not see with their eyes and be converted that he might heal them He is no friend that is not an eye a hand a tongue unto his friend to fore-see his peril and to fore-warn and assist him in danger Nor can that conscience be a faithfull inmate to the soul whose searching sight the sun-shine of the World hath bleard whose awakeing touch custome in sin hath deaded and whose sharp point and wounding edge the Devil hath rebated the delights of the Flesh prooving a Sibyls sop unto this Cerberus a Dalilah unto this Sampson That part which the Chyrurgion intends to cut off he first benums And those Persons whom the Lord determines to rescind from the visible Body of his Church he commonly hardens as were those spoken of by the Apostle whose Consciences were seared as with an hot Iron Lord let my conscience be neither like Nabal's heart dead as a stone within him Nor yet like Dives tongue tormented in merciless flames But like Peter's Cock never ceasing to crow until I weep bitterly Yea let it be my Nathan who am as David a sinner my Samuel who am disobedient as Saul So shall my conscience be unto me a happy copesmate one whose words are better unto me as a friend than her kisses as an enemy Of all the faculties of the Soul the will is most dependent its act and operation being moved by the determination or suggestion of the rest viz. the minde understanding and affections For before any thing is done by Man there is a consultation had in the Soul where after a disputation pro con at length this thing or that is agreed of to be the bonum which in due season the will as the ●ouls agent puts in execution Now there is Gods bonum such a one as we shall finde in holy Chronology exprest in the Frontispiece of every good Kings life Instance in Hezechiah He did that which was right or good in the sight of the Lord. And there is Mans bonum also so called not because positively or simply so in it self but in relation to purblinde Man who so esteemeth it Witness that sacred and historical annotation

thou shalt have praise of the same For he is the Minister of God to thee for good but if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the Sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but for Conscience sake For this cause pay you Tribute also for they are Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing Render therefore to all their dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custome to whom Custome Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour The whole World lies in wickedness And this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and that Men love darkness rather than Light because their deeds are evil Jewes and Gentiles are all under sin as it is written There is none righteous no not one There is none that understandeth There is none that seeketh after God Take heed therefore that the Light which is in you be not darkness If the Light that is in you be darkness how great is that darkness Beloved believe not every Spirit but try the Spirits whether they are of God Because many false Prophets are gone out into the World If any Man shall say unto you Loe here is Christ or there believe it not For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they should deceive the very Elect Behold I have told you before such are false Apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvel for Sathan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light Therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their works To the Law and to the Testimony If they speak not according to this Word it is because there is no light in them This is that sure Word of Prophesie whereunto you do well that ye take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place until the Day dawn and the Day-Star arise in your Hearts Knowing this first that all Scripture is given by Inspiration of God And that no Prophesie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation For the Prophesies came not in old time by the will of Man But holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost When I was upon Earth they brought young Children unto Me that I should touch them and my Disciples like some in these last days rebuked those that brought them But when I saw it I was much displeased and said unto them suffer little Children to come unto Me and forbid them not For of such is the Kingdome of God Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little Child he shall not enter therein And I took them up in my Armes and put my Hands upon them and blessed them Baptism is now the only way for little Children to come to the Lord Christ. The Promise is made to you and to your Children and to all that are afar of even as many as the Lord your God shall call The unbelieving Husband is Sanctified by the believing Wife and the unbelieving Wife is Sanctified by the believing Husband or else were your Children unclean but now they are holy The Examples of the Apostles Baptizing whole Families are of great force And the History of their practice and of the first Churches planted by them is to be believed with an Historical faith and looked upon with much reverence by all true Christians both in this point and in the change of the Jewish Sabbath to the Lord's Day As holding forth without doubt an Apostolical Institution The Lord spake to Moses saying The Land shall be divided for an Inheritance according to the number of Names to many thou shalt give more Inheritance and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Oxe nor his Ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbours Give to him that asketh and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away For the poor you have always with you I charge you that are Rich in this World that you trust not in uncertain Riches but in the living God who gives you all things richly to enjoy that you do good that you be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate When as many as were possessed of Lands or Houses sold them and brought the price of the things which were sold and laid them down at the Apostles Feet in that most sad time of Persecution and distribution was made unto every Man according as he had need Even then Peter said unto Ananias why hath Sathan filled thy heart to lye to the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the Land Whilst it remained Was it not thy own And after it was sold Was it not in thine own Power Let no Man therefore seek his own but every one anothers wealth For there are some that walk disorderly working not at all but are busie-bodies Now them that are such I command that with quietness they work and eat their own Bread that they may have to give to him that needeth Come out of Babylon my People but count not the blood of the Covenant by which ye were sanctified an unholy thing If ye have been once born again of Water and the Spirit Can a Man be so again born the second time The Pharisees and Lawyers rejected the counsel of God as being not Baptized of John against themselves Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the holy Ordinance of God Seeing you have been Baptized into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost This only would I know of such Received you the spirit and your Convertion by and under the first Baptisme or your second Having begun in the Spirit are ye now made perfect in the Flesh Now the works of the Flesh are hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions envyings but the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace If ye bite and devour one another take heed that you be not consumed one of another And that it be not truly said of you by my Saints They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us But

how to walk holily righteously circumspectly and unblameably in your life and conversation together with the holy means and Ordinances ordained by him for the obtaining and strengthning his graces in you which is concluded with his Prayer and mine to our Heavenly Father for a blessing O let not then much beloved Child This Letter should you neglect the counsel given you therein after my decease bear witness against you But let it be a Record and lasting Legacy read and practised by you and your Childrens Children which is the fervent Prayer of your Most affectioned Father J. H. Antwerpe this first of January 1665. An INDEX of the CONTENTS of this EPISTLE And of the Scripture-Catechisme materially contained in it THe Salutation and Exhortation of the Father to his Wife and Children Page 259. The Praise and Commendation of the Lord Jesus Christ under the Name and Title of Wisdome as being and that essentially the Wisdome of God Eadem The danger of neglecting to hear and obey the Voice and Counsel of Christ. P. 260. B. An Exhortation of the Father to his Wife and Children to hearken to the Word and Counsel of Christ. Ead. C. The Speech of the Lord Jesus Christ as speaking in his own Person to those to whom this Epistle is directed and is applicable to all other Christians P. 261. A. The Danger of Rejecting Christ. Ead. B. The Confession of Faith commonly called the Apostles Creed held forth by Christ in Scripture Expressions Ead. C. 1. Article The Doctrine of the Trinity Eadem 2. Article That Jesus Christ is the Eternal Son of God and our Lord. 3. Article As to the Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ who was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary P. 262. A 4. Article Concerning Christ's Condemnation by Pontius Pilate his Crucifixion Death and Burial and all other Sufferings in Soul and Body Eadem 5. Article Of Christ's Resurrection 6. Article Of Christ's Ascention 7. Article Of Christ's coming to Judgment 8. Art Concerning the Holy Ghost is proved in the first Article concerning the Trinity Pag. 263. 9. Article Concerning the Catholick Church and the Communion of Saints Ead. C. 10. Article Concerning forgiveness of Sins 11. Article Concerning the Resurrection of the Body Ead. 12. Article Concerning Life everlasting P. 264. A. Ead. C. The Preface to the Decalogue or Ten Commandments Ead. B. C. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Commandments The Conclusion of the Ten Commandments Note That the Promises c. are omitted for brevity 265 A The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to the use of Gospel-Ordinances Viz. 1. To Baptism 2. To the Lord's Supper Ead. C Page 266 A B C 3. To the reading of the Scriptures 4. To the hearing of the Word of God preached 5. To Meditation of the Word of God and of his works 6. To Prayer in publick and private 7. To Obedience to Church-Governors and Discipline P 267 B C The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to Gospel-saving Graces Viz. 1. To Repentance 2. To Faith P 268 C Page 270 A B C 3. To Hope 4. To Charity 5. To holy Courage or Fortitude 6. To Christian Temperance 7. To holy Patience 8. To Divine Wisdome Page 271 A B Ead. C 9. To Christian Humility 10. The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to several saving Graces commonly called the Beatitudes 11. To Religious Chastity P 272 C P 273 A 12. To Christian Justice and Righteousness 13. To Gospel sincerity uprightness and truth P. Ead. C. 14. To godly thankfulness and praising of God Ead. C. P. 274 The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to Divine affections Viz. 1. To holy joy and delight 2. To filial fear of God 3. To holy zeal and anger 4. To holy hatred P 275 A The Preface to the Dehortations of the Lord Jesus from several principal vices Ead. 275 276 The Dehortation 1. From Vnbelief 2. From Atheisme 3. From Polutheisme 4. From Idolatry 5. From Blasphemy 6. From Prophaness 7. From Sacriledge 8. From Hypocrisie 9. From Sabbath-breaking 10. From Superstition 11. From Lukewarmness Page 277 A B 12. From hard-heartedness 13. From presumptuous sinning 14. From sinful swearing 15. From incorrigibleness A Preface to the Dehortation against despair 16. From Despair A Dehortation from Vncharitableness P 278 A B 1. General Branch of Vncharitableness as to the Souls of others 1. By tempting 2. By evil example Ead. B 3. By not reproving 4. By Flattering 5. By not Instructing 6. By persecuting for Conscience Ead. C P 279 A 2d General Branch of Vncharitableness as to the Persons of others 1. By Murder 2. By Maiming 3. By unjust Imprisonment 4. By not relieving Ead. B P 180 A 3d. General Branch of Vncharitableness as to the estates of others 1. By oppression 2. By stealing 3. By defrauding 4. By contentiousness 5. By usury or extortion Ead. A. B 6. By Depopulation 7. By false witnessing 8. By cursing or evil Imprecations 4. General Branch of Vncharitableness as to the good name of others 1. By slandering and back-biting and tale-bearing Ead. C A Dehortation from Intemperance 1. From Drunkenness 2. From Gluttony 3. F●om Insobriety P 281 B C A Dehortation from sinful fear A Dehortation from Ignorance 1. Affected 2. Natural 3. Wilful P 282 A B A Dehortation from Injustice 1 In Magistrates 2 In private Persons 3 By not giving obedience justly due to Superiors 1 As Magistrates 2 As Ministers of the Gospel 3 As natural Parents Ead. C. A General Dehortation from fleshly uncleanness 1 From Buggery 2 From Sodomy 3 From Whoredome 4 From Incest 5 From Polygamy 6 From Adultery 7 From Fornication P 283 C P 284 A B A Dehortation from Lasciviousness 1 In wanton thoughts 2 In wanton words 3 In wanton looks 4 In wanton actions Ead. C. P 285 C A Dehortation from Lying 1 By denying the truth 2 By breach of Covenant to God 2 Of vows to God 3 Of promises and Covenants to Men. Ead. B C and P 286 A Dehortation from Covetousness 1 In the heart 2 In action 3 From worldliness and carking cares 4. From Nigardliness P 286 C P 287 A A Dehortation from Idleness 1 By having no Calling or by neglecting a Calling P 287 C 288 A 2. Idleness in private Persons 3 Idleness in publick Persons Ead. B. The Dehortation of the Lord Jesus from sinful passions 1. From rash anger 2 From causless anger Ead. C. Ead. C A Dehortation from sinful hatred 1 Of Persons 2 Of good things Eadem C A Dehortation from Malice Ead. C A Dehortation from strife and contention P 289 A A Dehortation from envy A Dehortation from revenge Ead. C A Dehortation from Pride 1 Branch from spiritual Pride 2 Branch from Worldly pride 3 Branch from Ambition Ead. C Ead. C P 290 A Dehortation from Ingratitude 1 Towards God 2 Towards Men. Ead. C. A Dehortation from sensuality or voluptuousness P 291 A A Dehortation from inconstancy 1 Branch

back-sliding 2 Branch Apostacy 3 Branch is the sin against the holy Ghost P 292 C P 294 B The Preface to the Counsels of the Lord Jesus 1 To diligence in our Calling 2 To holy walking with God 3 Against sin P 295 B P 296 A Counsel against Temptation Ead. B Counsel against evil company To set God always before Vs and to have an eye to Eternity Ead. B C Counsel to watch over our hearts As to the keeping of a good Conscience not to offend a Brothers conscience P 297 A Counsel as to the well ordering of our tongues and as to the right using of our estates gifts and talents Ead. C Counsel as to the well improving of our time P 290 A Ead. C Counsel against sinful and unprofitable discourses Against prophane swearing Counsel against sluggishness Ead. C Counsel to watch over and reprove our Neighbour and patiently to receive reproofs Counsel to charity Counsel concerning your Tables Concerning your callings Ead. C 299 A Counsel concerning your Relations 1. Of Children to their Parents 2 Of Parents to their children 3 Of Husbands to their Wives 4 Of Wives 5 Of Servants 6 Of Masters Ead. C Counsel concerning our carriage towards those without P 300 Counsel as to the observation of God's mercies works and providences Ead. C Counsel to attend the answer and return of Prayer Ead. C Counsel as to our behaviour under afflictions and persecutions P 301 C ACounsel as to the right use of our Christian liberty against the abusing of grace Ead. B C Counsel as to the duties of Prayer self denial bearing the cross and perseverance Counsel to our growing in grace P 302 A The Preface to the Antidotes Ead. C P 305 A Ead. B Antidotes given by the Lord Jesus against several Heresies and Errors 1 Against the Pope's Supremacy 2 Against the Pope's Infallibility Ead. C 3 Against the Pope's Power to forgive sins 4 Against the Pope's Power to absolve from oaths vows and promises P 304 A 5 Against the Pope's Power to add to the Scriptures or to bend conscience by his Cannons and Decretals P 305 A Against the Pope's Power to canonize Saints or to excommunicate any from being Saints P 306 A Against the Pope's Power to exercise the civil Sword against those that will not receive his Doctrines Eadem C Antidotes given by the Lord Jesus Christ against several heresies and errors of the Apostate Roman Church 307 A Ead. C 1 Against the Idolatry of the Mass. 2 Against the false Doctrine of Purgatory Ead. C 308 A 3 Against the praying to and worship 1 Of Saints 2 Of Angels 4 Against the worshping of Pictures and Images Eadem C. 5 Against the false Doctrine of freedome from Original sin P. 309 C. 6 Against their false Doctrine concerning Free will P. 310 C. 7 Against their false Doctrine of Justification by works Eadem C. The Preface of the Lord Jesus to his Antidotes against several other Heresies and Errors of the last times P. 111 B· Antidotes 1. Against Atheisme Eadem C. 2 Against the Heresie of Arianisme P. 312 A. 3. Against the Heresie of denying the Holy Ghost to be God Eadem C. 4. Against the Heresie of community of Women 113 B. C. 5. Against Poligamy 6. Against the forsaking and casting off of Gospel Ordinances Eadem C. 7. Against those who lay aside and make useless the Moral Law p 314 A 8. Against those who cast off and despise civil Government Eadem B. 9. Against those who prefer a light within them before besides and against the Scriptures P. 315 A. 10. Against Enthusiasmes Eadem B. 11. Against Anti-scripturists Eadem C. 12. Against those who deny Infant Baptisme and the Lord's Day to be the Christian Sabbath Eadem C. p 316 A 13. Against those who deny propriety of Goods and Estates Eadem C 14. Against Rebaptization P. 317 B· 15. Against Schisme and uncharitable separation from the Church The conclusion of the speech of the Lord Jesus The Prayer of the Lord Jesus for all his Elect. P. 318 A. P. 55. B. The Fathers concluding Exhortation and Prayer for his Wife and Children P. 56 A. A Post-script of the Father to his Wife and Children concerning the foregoing Epistle with some further Exhortations to the practice thereof Eadem C. P. 57 58 59. ERRATA Of the Printer FOlio 265 Line 27 Add And brake it Folio 269 Line 28 Add Do good to them that hate you Fol. 276 in the Margent for Polutheims put Polutheismes For Cap. Proverbs the 22 put Chap. the 20. Fol. 279. Line 31. for from put for Fol. 282 Line 21 put Thy after of Fol. 293 Line 38 for Brances put Branches Fol. 294 Line 42 Add He after shall Fol. 297. Mar. for Mat. the 5 make it the 25. Fol. 203. Line 22 Add after was So Marg. for Mathew Mark Fol. 305. Line 40. for Diotropses put Diotrephes Fol. 306. Line 31 for after Sacrifice add First Fol. 313. Marg. for Joh. the 17. put the 7. An Humble ANSWER to a PAPER or QVERY Given to the Author by King CHARLES the First at Hombey concerning the Observations of Easter-Day A. D. 1647. By the KING I desire to be resolved of this Question Why the new Reformers discharge the keeping of Easter The Reason for this Query is I Conceive the Celebration of this Feast was Instituted by the same Authority which changed the Jewish Sabboth into the Lord's Day or Sunday for it will not be found in Scripture where Saturday is discharged to be kept or turned into the Sunday wherefore it must be the Churches Authority that changed the one and instituted the other Therefore my Opinion is that those who will not keep this Feast may as well return to the Observation of Saturday and refuse the Weekly Sunday When any Body can shew me that herein I am in an error I shall not be ashamed to confess and mend it till when you know my mind C. R. My Answer to his Majesties Query May it please your Majesty I Cannot but from the blessed example of our Saviour who was in his Age a new Reformer of old Errors Viz. the false glosses of the Scribes and Pharisees Math. 5.20 but account all such Reformers in our times blessed also But for the keeping of Easter although I know not any Ordinance of Parliament discharging it yet with submission to better judgments I in all dutifulness conceive That your Majesties reason upon which your Query is built hath a great mistake even in the foundation of it you being pleased to lay this for a ground That the change of the Sabboth and the Institution of Easter are by one and the same equal Authority and Ecclesiastical Decree which with your Majesties favour I cannot yield to for I humbly conceive that the change of the Jewish Sabboth the commemoration of the Work of the Creation unto the Lords day the remembrance of that great Work the Work of

Church the Body of Christ to which he hath promised his presence and spirit of truth to the end and therefore must as to each particular State or Church though not infallibly yet prudentially end and conclude by obedience either active or passive the discenting Churches whom the civil Magistrate after the Churches Excommunication is to order by Banishment or lesser punishment according as their Doctrines shall be more or less prejudicial to the State wherein they live Which since they suffer as evil doers is as to that Common-wealth a civil and necessary act of preservative Justice not an inforcing of Conscience or Persecution Thus fervently beseeching the blessing of the All-wise God upon my poor endeavours trusting that in the Bowels of love and charity I have in sincerity and plainness declared unto you the mind of Christ in all humility I conclude The unworthiest of all the Servants of the Lord Jesus J. H. FINIS Matth. 6.21 Matth. 6.20 Matth. 13.44 Hebr. 11.1 1 Cor. 9 2● N. B. Historical Faith Ezek. 49.3 Genes 28.12 Genes 3.1 Numb 13. Revel 22.1 Psal. 75 6 7. Psal. 10.16 Psal. 82.6 Genes 41.45 Dan. 1.7 1 Sam. 18.21 Esth. ● 15 Luk. 12.32 2 Pet. 1.4 1 Ep. Joh. 3.1 Rev. 4.4 John 7.37 Esa. 7.14 Dan. 6.26 Luke 2.28 Num. 23.17 Luke 1.47 Mark 5.7 Temporary Faith Genes 4.3 Gen. 19.1 1 Sam. 10.1 1 Sam. 10.24 1 Sam. 10 10. 1 Sam. 11.15 1 Sam. 14.38 1 Sam. 15.24 1 Sam. 10.21 1 Sam. 10.27 1 Sam. 11.6 1 Sam. 28.3 1 Sam. 28.7 1 Sam. 28 1● Acts 5.1 Psal. 94.9 Matth. 24.51 1 Cor. 2.10 Matth. 23.13 John 6.30 John 6.42 John 6.60 John 6.68 1 Cor. 1.20 Matth. 7.22 Miraculous Faith 1 Cor. 11.27 Matth. 22.39 John 4.16 1 Cor. 13.2 Matth. 10.1 Luke 10.17 John 7.6 Acts 4.30 Gen. 3.6 John 6.34 Rom. 8.7 Psal. 51.10 Ephes. 2.1 Rom. 1.20 Mat. 21.19 Mat. 7.19 Luk. 13.6 Joh. 13.1 Joh. 6.47 The means of Faith Rom. 12.3 Rom. 10.17 Ejaculation Christ the object of Faith Son of God Esay 55.3 Ejaculation Matt. 11.25 Esay 49.15 Mark 10.33 ● Canticles Ephes. 2.2 Ephes. 2.1 Ephes. 2.2 1 Joh. 4.10 Titus 3.5 Christ was born of the Virgin Mary Persecuted by Herod Luke 2.46 Mat. 4.1 Mat. 11.19 Mat. 12.24 2 Cor. 8.9 James 1.12 Psal. 110. ● Esay 43.2 John 1.14 Christs Agony in the Garden Mat. 25.39 Esay 50.6 Rom. 11.33 Mat. 26.67 John 19.1 Esay 53.5 Christs Condemnation by Pilate Psal. 84.6 Mat. 10.38 Ezek. 37.1 Rom. 5.15 Christ conceived by the Holy Ghost Rom. 5.16 Luke 15.7 Christs crucifying Ejaculation Luke 16.21 Job 16.2 Luke 19.38 Luke 23.21 Matt. 27.46 Matt. 28.42 Luke 16.31 Rom. 11.33 Ephes. 3.18 19. James 1.17 2 Tim 2.19 Of Christs Death Luke 23.34 Luke 23.46 1 Cor. 1● 54 c. Christs burial Hosea 13.14 Mark 3.27 Christs victory over Hell Revel 20.1 Of Christs Resurrection Judg. 5.1 Christs Ascention Acts 1.11 Acts 7.56 Ezech. 47.8 Mat. 9.12 Ezek. 36.31 Mans misery by nature 1. In his mind 1 Cor. 2.14 2. In his understanding Esay 29.9 Acts 20.9 Rom. 10.8 3. In his Conscience Mark 5.2 Gen. 4.13 1 Sam. 18.10 Matt. 27.5 Revel 3.17 Matt. 13.14 In his will 2 Kings 18.3 Judges 17.6 Jam. 3.11 Jam. 1.13 The affections Gen. 1.27 Rom. 7.24 Of the disorder in the affections in particular Of Love 1 Joh. 4.19 Jerem 2 13. Contemplation Matt. 22.37 1 John 2.7 John 3.11 Of Joy In riches Men cannot joy Job 21.13 Job 27.16 Job 27.17 Nor in honours Eccles. 10.7 Nor in pleasures Job 21.12 1 Tim. 5.6 Not in wisdom 1 King 4.30 Eccl. 1.17 18. Contemplation Matt. 16.11 Psal. 51.12 Of Fear Dan. 5.6 Gen. 4.13 Mat. 27.5 Hebr. 5.7 1 Cor. 15.47 Gen. 3.8 Contemplation Psal. 2.10 114.7 Psal. 34.9 Psal. 119.110 Phil. 2.12 Rom. 11.29 Exod. 33.13 Exod. 34.6 Of the Body Of the Eyes sinfulness Gen. 3.6 Gen. 6.2 Gen. 9.22 2 Sam. 11.2 Of the Eares Acts 12.23 2 Chro 24.17 Exod. 32.1 Dan. 3.14 Matt. 27.24 1 Sam. 26.8 Prov. 7.21 Gen. 39.7 Contemplation Of the smelling Esay 3.24 Of Fasting Ezek. 16.49 Luke 12.16 Luke 16.19 Contemplation Of the Truth 2 Sam. 11.2 Contemplation Psal. 8.4 Psal. 1.4 Luke 3.17 Rom. 7.24 Luke 10.30 Ezek. 16.4 Of Christs Priestly office Gen. 1.31 Gen. 2.17 Dan. 6.12 Rom. 8.33 1 Tim. 2.5 Rom. 6.23 Psal. 37.6 Rom. 6.6 1 Cor. 15.55 Rev. 20.14 Rev. 12.10 John 5.18 Heb. 9.14 Heb. 10.21 22. Gala. 3.15 Rom. 8.2 Contemplation Rom. 10.4 Luke 23.20 (a) Heb. 5 6. (b) Exo. 30.30 (c) Heb. 9.7 (d) Heb. 9.14 (e) Heb 9.12 (f) Heb. 9.24 Heb. 1.5 Rev. 13.8 Mat. 3.17 Of Christs Intercession John 3.16 Rom. 5.19 John 2.17 Luke 13.19 Mat. 12 20. Rom. 8.26 Heb. 9.24 Heb. 7.25 Rom. 10.4 1 Cor. 1.30 John 14.6 Of Christs Satisfaction Psal. 8.4 Of Justification 1 King 19.11 Heb. 1● 18 Verse 19. Verse 22. Verse 24. Exod. 34.7 Verse 8. Forgivenesses of Sins Psal. 32.1 1 Ep. Joh. 1.8 Mat. 6.12 Rom. 5.18 Heb. 2.15 Eph. 2.1 Rom. 5.10 Eph. 2.3 Psal. 32.1 Of imputative righteousness Gen. 1.31 Definition of imputative righteousness Exposition Proofs of our right to Christs imputative righteousness Psal. 133.2 Revel 6.11 Demonstrations from Scripture Revel 12.1 Mat. 22.11 Exod. 41.28 Gen. 41.14 Luke 15.22 Job 25.4 5 6. Luke 17.7 1 King 8.46 Esay 64.6 Luke 17.10 Luke 15.15 Rom. 8.16 17. Jerem. 33.16 1 Cor. 1.30 Rom. 10.4 General questions or objections answered 1 Quest. John 15.16 2 Quest. Mat. 21.42 Rom. 11.6 Exod. 32.12 Numb 14.16 Object ●●m 5.18 Necessity of Justification 2 Kings 4.1 Exod. 32.11 Luke 5.20 Mat. 22.10 Rom. 7.24 Prophetical Office Mat. 5.6 Ephes. 2.20 Contemplation 2 Tim. 3.15 2 Kings 4.34 Numb 27.16 Acts 3.22 Heb. 3.3 Eph. 5.14 Joh. 5.25 Object Object Mat. 11.28 Mat. 9.13 Mat. 9.12 Luke 4.18 A DIALOGVE betwixt Christ and the Soul The Souls complaint against the mind and understanding Eph. 4.17 Christ. Joh. 1.9 John 9.39 1 Cor. 1.30 Psal. 18.28 Prov. 2.3 Eph. 2.8 Mat. 7.7 Jerem. 31.33 Luke 11.13 Soul Cant. 5.16.7.9 Against the Conscience Job 13.26 Christ. Prov. 18.14 Deut. 32.39 Jerem. 30.17 Jerem. 31.34 Esay 1.18 Colos. 1.14 Heb. 9.13 14. Soul Against hardness of heart Job 41.24 Mat. 13.15 Gen. 8.21 Gen. 6. ● Ezek. 18.30 Acts 3.19 Christ. Rom. 2.5 Acts 11.18 Ezek. 36.25 Psal. 114.8 Ezek. 36.26 27. Esay 57.15 Phil. 2.13 Col. 2.13 Rom. 9.15 Soules complaint of its unfaithful memory Psal. 46.1 Psal. 119.103 Psal. 119.16 Matth. 13.52 Jerem. 2.32 1 Kings 2.38 Luke 11.28 Deut. 6.8 9. Exod. 20.8 Jerem. 18.15 Eph. 2.12 Psal. 50.17 Job 8.13 Christ. Phil. 2.13 Rom. 8.32 Esay 49.13 Ezek. 16.60 62 63. Ezek. 20.43 John 14.26 Jerem. 31.33 Souls Complaint against her will Christ. Phil. 2.13 James 1.18 1 Cor. 1.31 Rom. 9.16 Souls complaint against her affections Against Love Mat. 22.37 Deut. 11.1 13. Prov. 8.17 1 John 2.15 John 3.16 2 Tim. 3.4 Rev. 3.16 Against Joy Rom. 4.17 John 15.11 Habac. 3.18 Cant. 1.4 Psal. 16.11 Mat.

Isa. 50.10 2 Cor. 4.8 Joh. 20.27 16. From despair the last Branch Gen. 4.13 16. Rom. 14.15 1 Sam. 31.4 Mat. 27.5 A Debortation from Vncharitableness 1 Joh. 3.10 14. 15. 1. General branch of uncharitableness as to the Souls of others Pro. 16.29 30. 1. By tempting to sin Gen. 39.7 Prov. 7.5 Prov. 1.11 1. 14. 2. By evil example 1 Kin. 15.16 3. By not reproving Lev. 19.17 4. By flattering Job 17.5 Pro. 26.28 5. By not instructing Ezek. 34.2 3. 6. By persecuting for conscience Psal. 10.2 Rev. 13.10 Rev. 16.6 2. General branch of uncharitableness as to the Persons of others Gen. 9.5 6. 1. By murder Num. 35.33 30. 31. 2. By mayming Lev. 24.19 20. 3. By unjust Imprisonment Jer 37.15 Jer. 51.11 Ma● 6.17.27 Act. 12.23 Jam 2.25 4. By not Relieving 26. Mat. 25.31 41 45. 3. General Bran. of uncharitableness as to the Estates of others Hab 2.6 Mal. 3.5 1. By Oppression Col. 3.25 2. By stealing Zac. 5.2 3 4. Eph. 4.28 3. By defrauding 1 Thes. 4.6 4. By contentiousness 1 Cor. 6.5 6. Mat. 5.40 5. By Usury or Extortion Pro. 28.8 Mat. 23.25 Luke 3.13 6. By depopulation Isa. 5.8 9 10. 7. By false witnessing Luke 3.14 Pro. 19.5 Pro. 21.28 Deut. 19.18 8. By cursing or evil Imprecations Rom. 12.14 Psal. 109.17 18. 4. General Era. of uncharitableness as to the good name of others Pro. 10.18 Psal. 50.22 ●0 1. By slandering and back-bitting tale-bearing Psal. 64.7 3 Psal. 64.3 4 Lev. 19.16 Exo. 23.1 A Dehoratation from Intemperance Isa. 5.11 1. From Drunkenness 22. Hab. 2.15 Pro. 23.29 30. 2. From Gluttony Pro. 23.21 2 Pet. 1.6 Gal. 5.23 3. From Insorbriety 1 Pet. 5.8 1 Thes. 5.7 8. Phil. 4 5. 1 Cor. 7.31 A Dehortation from sinful fear Isay. 51.7 8. Isa. 8.13 12. Rev. 22.8 A Dehortation from Ignorance Pro. 1.7 1. Affected 22. Pro. 2.3 4 9. Lev. 5.17 2. Natural 3. Wilful 2 Pet. 3.5 2 Thes. 1.8 A Dehoratation from Injustice Deu. 27.9 Exo. 23.7 1. In Majestrates Lev. 19.15 2. In private Persons Jer. 22.13 3. By not giving Obedience justly due to Superiors 2 Sam. 23.3 Lev. 22.28 1 Pet. 2.13 1. As Majestrates 14. 15. 16. 17. Rom. 13.2 7. 8. 2. As Ministers of the Gospel Heb. 13.7 Luke 10.16 10. 12. 3. As Natural Parents Prov. 1 8. 9. Pro. 30.17 A general Dehortation from fleshly uncleanness Exod. 22.19 1. From Buggery Lev. 20.13 2. From Sodomy Deu. 23.17 3. From Whoredom 2 Pet. 2.6 4. From Incest Lev. 18. read from v. 1. to v. 19. 5. From Poligamy 1 Cor. 7.2 Rom. 7.3 Luk. 16.18 6. From Adultery Heb. 13.3 Lev. 18.20 Lev. 20.10 1 Cor. 6.9 10. 7. From Fornication Col. 3.5 6. 1 Cor. 10.8 Rev. 22.15 Rev. 21.8 A Dehortation from Lasciviousness Mat. 15.19 Pro. 16.26 Psal. 119.113 Jer. 4.14 Pro. 24.9 Psal. 139 2. Heb. 4.12 1. In wanton Thoughts 2. In wanton Words Eph. 4.29 Eph. 5.3 4. 6. 7. Mat. 12.36 37. 3. In wanton looks Mat. 5.28 Job 31.1 Luk. 11.34 Job 11.26 2 Pet. 2.10 14 9 17. 4. In wanton ●●tions Rom. 13.12 13. 14. Rom. 8.13 A Dehortation from lying Act. 5.3 Joh. 8.44 1. By denying the Truth Joh. 14.17 Act. 5.5 10. Eph. 4.25 Psal. 5.6 Psal. 63.11 2. By breach of Covenant to God Isay. 24.4 5. Heb. 12.14 Col. 2.11 12 13. Heb. 10.29 30 31. 2. Of Vows to God Eccl. 5.4 Deu. 23.21 3. Of Promises and Covenants to Men. 23. Psal. 15.14 Eze. 17.15 16. A Dehortation from Covetousness Deu. 5.21 1. In the heart Hab. 2.9 Pro. 28.20 2. In Action Eph. 5.5 Luke 12.15 Jer. 22.13 1 Kings 21.19 2 ly From worldlyness and carking ●ares Mat. 6.24 25. 32. Heb. 13.5 1 Tim. 6.9 10. 1 Joh. 2.15 3 ly From Nigardness Pro. 11.14 15. Eccl. 6.1 2. A Dehortation ●rom Idleness 1 Cor. 7.20 Mat. 20.6 1. By having no Calling or by neglecting a Caliing Pro. 19.15 Eccl. 10.18 Ezek. 16.49 Gen. 19.15 24. 2. Idleness in private Persons Pro. 22.29 Pro. 23.21 Rom. 12.11.8 3. Idleness in publick Persons Rom. 12.8 Mat. 25.19 30. The Dehortation of the Lord Jesus from sinful Passions Eph. 4.26 Gen. 49.5 6. 7. Eccl. 7.9 2. From causless Anger Mat. 5.29 A Dehortation from sinful hatred Gal. 5.20 1. Of Persons Lev. 19.17 Psal. 34.21 1 Joh. 2.9 1 Joh 3.5 2. Of good things Mic● 3.2 Pro. 8.36 A Dehortation from Malice 1 Pet. 2.1 16. Eph. 4.31 A Dehortation from strife and contention Pro. 17.14 Rom. 13.13 Phil. 2.3 Jam. 3.16 A Dehortation from Envy Jam. 4.5 Job 5.2 Pro. 14.30 1 Cor. 13.4 1 Pet. 2.1 2. A Dehortation from Revenge Rom. 12.19 20. 21. A Dehortation from Pride Pro. 8.13 Pro. 13.10 1. Branch from ●piritual Pride Pro. 11.2 Rom. 11.20 1 Cor. 10.12 1 Cor. 4.7 2. Branch from Worldly Pride Jer. 9.13 14. 2 Pet. 2.4 Jude 6. Isa. 14.12 Gen. 3.6 Psal. 10.4 3. Branch from Ambition Jer. 45.4 5. Joh. 4.44 1 Cor. 10.17 18. Mat. 11.29 Mat. 18.4 Mat. 23.12 2 Sam. 18.9.14 1 King 2.25 A Dehortation from Ingratitude Eph. 5.20 Psal. 147.1 1. Towards God 2 Cor. 32.25 Luke 17.17 18. 2. Towards Men. 2 Tim. 3.1 2. 3. 4. Pro. 17.13 2 Cro. 24.22 25. A Dehortation from sensuality or ●oluptuousness Pro. 21.17 Eccl. 10.16 17. Luk. 6.25 Jam. 5.1 2. 3. 5. 8.9 2 Pet. 2 13. 1 Tim. 5.6 13. Jude 12. 13. 17. 18. 19. 2 Tim. 3.4 2 Pet. 3.3 4. 1 Cor. 15.32 Mat. 24.38 39 42. Mat. 26.41 Mat. 24.44 Mat. 24.48 49. 50. 51. Eccles. 1.1 Eccles. 2.9 10. 11. Eccles. 1.2 1 Joh. 2.15 16. 17. A Dehortation from Inconstancy Gal. 6.8 9. Gal. 3.3 1. Branch of Inconstancy Back-sliding Gal. 5.7 Luk. 17.32 Luk. 9.62 Heb. 10.38 39. Pro 14.14 Jer. 3.22 Hos● 14.4 2. Branch is Apostacy Mat. 12.43 44. 45. 2 Pet. 2.20 21. 22. Joh. 15.5 6. 9. Joh. 8.31 32. Jam. 1.25 Jer. 17.13 Mat. 10 22. 3. Branch of Inconstancy is the sin against the holy Ghost 1 John ● 16 Heb 6.4 5. 6. 7. 8. Heb. 10.26 27. 28. 29. Mat. 12.31 32. Heb. 6.9 Psal. 19.13 Pro. 3.1 The Preface to the Counsels of the Lord Jesus 2. Rom. 12.11 1. As to Diligence 〈◊〉 our Calling Gen. 5.24 Gen. 6.9 Heb. 11.27 Eph. 5.8 Phil. 3.16 1 Joh. 1 3● 2 Pet. 1.3 1 Cor. 6.7 2. To Holy walk●●g with God Pro. 4.20 21. 1 Joh. 2.4 3. Against Sin 1 Joh. 1.4 1 Joh. 2.1.2 1 Joh. 3.9 Psal. 119.6 Psal. 18.23 2 Cor. 10.7 Ezek. 18.30 Psal. 119.136 Counsel against Temptation Luk. 21.36 Mat. 26.41 Phil. 4.13 Rom. 8.37 Luk. 1.71 Counsel against evil Company Eph. 5.11 Pro. 4.24 To set God always before us Psal. 16.8 1 Thes. 5.10 1 Tim. 6.12 And to have an Eye to Eternity 2 Cor. 4.28 2 Cor. 5.1 Counsel as to the watching our hearts Psal. 119.113 Jer. 4.14 Pro. 4.23 Mat. 15.19 Rom. 11.20 Jam 4.6 Eph. 4.26 Heb. 13.5 1 Pet. 3.4 As to the keeping of a good Conscience Act. 24.16 1 Tim 4.2 Eph. 4.18 Rom. 14.22 23.