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A03697 Points of instruction for the ignorant as also, an expositition on the ten commandements, and the Lords Prayer, by questions and answeres. With an examination before our comming to the Lords table. And a short direction for spending of time well. By Robert Horne. Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.; Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. aut 1617 (1617) STC 13824; ESTC S120917 35,674 114

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vainely or lessen our faults falsely or excuse our selues by a lye or when by proud humility we fall in our 〈◊〉 speech that others may 〈◊〉 vs. So much for false witnesse in giuing forth what is it by receiuing in It is such as concerneth our neighbour or our 〈◊〉 VVhat say you of those who receiue a false report against their neighbour That as they who make it haue the deuill in their tongue so they who greedily receiue it haue him in their 〈◊〉 And here wee are forbidden as not to raise a false report with our tongues so not to hold it vp being raised by others with an easie eare that is wee are forbidden both to tell false tales and beleeue them How may wee receiue a false report concerning our selues When wée suffer our selues to be ●…attered in that which is false or to be set downe vniustly by enuious tongues thinking the worse of our selues for their detracting from vs. So much for the thing forbidden what is commanded To haue a charitable opinion of our neighbour to speake the truth with a good affection and to a 〈◊〉 end abhorring to lye as we would to be or be accounted the Deuils children Also to speake louingly of others and modestly of our selues So much for the Commandements that concerne all acts and purpose of vnright cousnesse where are we forbidden all motions thereunto In the next last Commandement which is Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house c. What do you obserue therein The occasion and matter VVhat was the occasion The frailtie or ill disposition of our nature declining from the rule of Charitie to our neighbour and of Sobrietie to our selues VVhat doe you obserue in the Commandement it selfe The things forbidden cōmanded VVhat is forbidden The least and shortest thought or desire of the heart against our neighbour tickling it to sinne though we yeeld not to it And here all lus●…s are forbidden contrary to charity on our neighbours behalfe and temperance on our own Of what sorts are these They are either originall corruption as it were the firebrand it selfe or the effects as it were sparks that flie from it And these are our fond wishings and wouldings with other foolish thoughts of the mind desires of the heart and deepe 〈◊〉 of the head about matters tending to the impeachment of our neighbours welfare or of that vertue of contentednesse which wee should affect and labour for in that estate and place wherein God hath set vs. So much for that which is forbidden what is commanded Being contented with our portion we must dispose of all our thoughts and wishings according to charity wishing and delighting in our neighbours welfare as in our owne and 〈◊〉 against all euill desires to the contrary though of neuer so short continuance So much for the Commandements of duties to our neighbour in righteoufnesse what say you of Sobriety commanded to our selues This passeth through euery Commandement of the second Table cōmanding Humility in the 〈◊〉 meeknesse in the 〈◊〉 cleanenesse in the seuenth contentation in the eight charitable truth in the ninth and pure desires in the tenth Commandement So much for the Law what is due to those that breake it Punishments more or lesse in this life and the wrath and curse of God to damnation in the life to come That is paines temporal by ●…ments and death and paines eternal of soule and body in hell What call you Hell That euerlasting fire or treasury of secret fire prepared and kept in a place of the greatest distance from heauen for the punishment of all vngodly sinners Where is the place of hell God hath not reuealed And let vs that haue the hope of the Saints rather endeauor neuer to feele it then to know it When a house is on fire 〈◊〉 stand not to inquire how it came but do our best to quench it Wherein consist the torments of this place of hell Generally in these two punishments of losse and sense What call you the punishment of losse An euerlasting separation from God and Christ which is a plague of plagues and the very bottome of the 〈◊〉 of Gods wrath in full per●… torments of soule and body after Christ shall say to the wicked on his left hand Depart ye cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the diuel and his Angels Math. 25. 41. VVhy call you this separation from God so great a plague and torment If the absence of the Sunne cause darknesse what ioy must néedes be lacking and sorrow abound where the Sun God of saluation shall neuer in the beautifull beames of his presence be séene any more where shall be no more glimpses of fauour but darke tempests and snares vpon all the ●…nhabitants of that land of 〈◊〉 and where they 〈◊〉 so depart from God 〈◊〉 neuer to 〈◊〉 which made 〈◊〉 to say that the tears of hell were not 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Somuch for the punishment of losse what is that of sense That when euery member of the body and 〈◊〉 of the soule shall be tormented togither 〈◊〉 not for some thousands of yeeres and so an end but for thousands vpon thousands and thousands that 〈◊〉 no end For as the righteous say of Gods mercy that his mercy endureth for euer so of his iustice the danmed may say that his iustice endureth for euer What is this called in Scripture It hath many names giuen to it to shew how terrible it is and therfore it is called hell fire the wo●…me that neuer dyeth vtter darknes the burning lake and second death What do you gather of this If a man would not to gaine the world lye on a 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 wood for a very short time how much and 〈◊〉 must the 〈◊〉 needes suffer who shall bee tormented in a lake of burning fire for euer and if a little disease in one part so trouble vs vpon a soft bed how shall the wicked endure that worme of vnquiet conscience that will day and night and not as a disease of some short time gnaw vpon al parts of their 〈◊〉 and powers of their tender mind and not vpon their pallats of ease but beds of glowing fire How doth the Scripture further and for more terrour speake of this place and the torments of hell By calling it a place prepared for the diuell and his angels What gather you of this That as it would bee a grieuous thing to a man to liue a banished mans life in som dark prison couer'd with deadly obscurity but more gréeuous to liue there among the most spitefull enemies of his father fathers house so to be cast into a prison of eternal banishment from God and pit of vtter darknesse is a most woful thing but it is much more wofull not only to be so but to be bound in chains of perpetuall fellowship with those who from the beginning
POINTS Of INSTRVCTION for the Ignorant As also An Exposition on the ten Commandements and the Lords Prayer by Questions and Answeres WITH An Examination before our comming to the Lords TABLE AND A short Direction for spending of Time well By ROBERT HORNE The Second Edition much enlarged LONDON Printed by George Purslowe for Francis Burton and are to bee sold at his shop at the signe of the Greene Dragon 1617. To the CHRISTIAN Reader the sauing knowledge of that truth which is according to godlinesse CHRISTIAN Reader this short Catechism thus gathered set downe for the help of the ignorant cannot be called new but renewed for their sakes For I may say in this case as Salomon in his Ecclesiastes sayd 〈◊〉 a like case What is that that hath been that that shal be And what is that that hath been done that that shall be done and there is ●…o new thing vnder the Sunne The portion of meate which is heere offered to the taste of the simple is no other then that which he hath already tasted of if hec haue tasted any thing of the things of God and it is but the substance of other Cat●…chisms set before him in another kinde of seruice that is with some difference of Cookery and dressing which considering our too great distaste with one kinde of meate though neuer so wholsome if wee be continually fedde with it without diuersitie may not be without some good vse at least for some short time For the affections of men stand no lesse diuersly affected towards the variety of Gods gifts in deliuering one and the same matter then doth the stomake toward the dressing of one and the same kind of meate in a diuers manner by some-alteration of forme and manner of doing it And yet it is 〈◊〉 part of my meaning to hold vp the market of no●…lty by 〈◊〉 s●…ch eye-seruice as te●…deth rather 〈◊〉 tickle the care then to satisfie the s●…der iudgement or to say any thing for those who make bookes like to the apparell which they weare 〈◊〉 fashio●…s that they are weary of when a ●…wer comes Only hauing taught these Principles most of them 〈◊〉 a few pri●…tely and finding it more easie to print them then to write them ●…or the surer keeping of them in their memories who had leared them and the good of 〈◊〉 abroad that desired them I was not vnwilling thus to giue them content by the benefit of the ●…resse and of p●…ting Neither haue I done this for any w●…nt for there is store of Catechisms abroad to which this worme of mine is no way comparable and God hath 〈◊〉 mercif●…ll with our age for the meanes of knowledge but we famish spirit●…lly at the ful measure of these 〈◊〉 either by 〈◊〉 vsing them 〈◊〉 all or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sh●…ld This 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 I could haue made 〈◊〉 larger but that I c●…sidered 〈◊〉 my Cruse of st●… the Vessels that I had to fill which could 〈◊〉 well recei●… more and so left pouring as I per●…ed their filling Accept therefore Reader what is here offered to thy gentlenesse and take it in 〈◊〉 good part as it is meant vnto thee And so I 〈◊〉 thee and thy gro●…th in 〈◊〉 to the grace 〈◊〉 assist●…ce of Almighty God and rest 〈◊〉 in all Christian good will ROBERT HORNE POINTS of Instruction for the Ignorant WHat is true happinesse To know God and to know my selfe Can you knowe God Not so plainely and fully here as we shall hereafter by face but as he hath reuealed himself vnto vs. How is that By his workes without vs and within vs and by some description ●…f his nature and effects in his word How doth the VVord describ●… him Generally thus I am that I am And more particularly thus a Spirit euery way infinite goodnesse it selfe Creatour Prese●…er and Ruler of all things ●…istinguished into thr●…e persons Father Sonne and holy Ghost So much for the knowledge of God what say you of the knowledge of your selfe It may bee consi●…red before the fall or since What were you by creation in Adam before the Fall A reasonable creature consisting of soule and body made after the Image of God in knowledge righteousnesse and true holinesse What are you since by Adams fall A ●…nner and by sinne subiect to al kinde of misery and punishments as to the death of my body and the death of my soule which is endle●…e damnation VVhat are your sinnes A guiltines in Adams 〈◊〉 offence th●…t is a depriuation of all good thereby and a dispo●…tion of my whole heart to euery thing that is against the Law of God with innumerable corrupt fruits thereof i●… thought word and 〈◊〉 What doe you consider in man thus fallen 〈◊〉 reco●…ry to saluation and duty for it What say you of his recouery It may be considered in the worker thereof or the meane of ●…ding it What say you of the worker The worker or substance of it is Christ Iesus the Sonne of God who in Mans nature which hee tooke in the wombe suffered the death of the cro●…e and 〈◊〉 the Law for all that receiue him VVhat is the meane whereby Christ is apprehended Faith which is a speciall perswasion of Gods sauour in his Word wrought in my heart by the h●…ly Ghost whereby I doe truely and in particular bele●…ue that Christ is made vnto mee wisdome righteousne●…e sant●…cation and redemption When doth this faith begin to breed and take place in your heart When by Gods grace I begin to be touched in conscience for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hunger and thirst after Christ and his merits aboue all 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 do begin to beleeue By what meanes is this wrought It is begunne 〈◊〉 by the preaching of the 〈◊〉 and it is confirmed by the same meanes as also by the reading of the Word and the reuerent vse of Prayer and ●…ments What is Prayer A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God through Christ with faith whereby I aske graces wanting and giue thankes for benefits receiued What is a Sacrament A visible 〈◊〉 of the Gospell fully assuring the faithfull of Christ by two 〈◊〉 instruments of grace Then there be two Sacraments Yea. Which are they Baptisme and the Lords Supper What is Baptisme A seale of our entrance into the name that is Church and 〈◊〉 of Christ by 〈◊〉 with water What do you 〈◊〉 therein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thing 〈◊〉 VVhat is the outward 〈◊〉 The 〈◊〉 of water or 〈◊〉 sprinkling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Holy 〈◊〉 VVhat 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 grace or 〈◊〉 thing 〈◊〉 The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…dily 〈◊〉 Somuch for Baptisme what is the Lords Supper A seale of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Christ signified by bread and wine VVhat do you consider therein The outward
body truly to put difference betwéene the signes and things signified VVhat of your faith Whether I bee in the faith beleeuing ●…hat t●…e death of Christ as it is auail●… for all the 〈◊〉 so it is particularly auaileable for me VVhat of your loue Whether I bee in charity with all men euen with my very enemies louing them vnto and for their true welfare and not my friends only VVhat of your repentance Whether I acknowledge my sinnes with a sorrowfull and melting heart and vnfainedly purpose to depart from all practice of them heereafter by amendment of life VVhat of your thankfulnesse Whether I be ready to expresse it in my Christian conuersation and new life for my redemption by Christ. VVhat of the workes of your particular calling Whether with some greater measure of obedience and better of better conscience in all patience and good faithfulnesse I walke or do truly purpose to walke therein to mine owne great peace and the benefit of those to whom God hath ioined me So much for that which you giue to Christ the Head what giue you to the Church his members A fellow stone in the spirituall building that is a member to help to make perfect the body of Christ. What doth this teach That they that are negligent or prophane commers to the Lords Table do detract from the per●…ion of Christs body and seuer themselues from the society of his Church So much for our giftes what doe we receiue at the Lords Table That which we receiue there concerneth our selues alone or our selues with others What is that that concerneth our selues alone The strengthening of our faith and memory by the reuerent and right vse of that holy action How is our faith strengthened and 〈◊〉 ●…olpen by it 〈◊〉 ●…ing that in the Sacrament which 〈◊〉 but heare of in the Word namely the par●…cular offering and receiuing of Christ in his body and sauing bloud by all bele●…ing Communicants So much 〈◊〉 that which concerneth our selue●… alone what is that that concerneth our selues with others It concerneth our growing vp with Christ and our communion with our breth●…en How do we receiue our growing vp 〈◊〉 Christ We receiue it with Christ by spiritual eating and drinking and by a more full partaking with him and his graces through faith increased and that vse 〈◊〉 his ●…dinance blessed vnto vs. How do we receiue our communion with our brethren By 〈◊〉 our mutuall agréement in as much as we eate all of one bread and drinke all of one Cup. How else By feeding all of the same foode bodily and spiritually and by drawing all life from the same fountaine as the life of grace which heere we receiue and the l●…fe of glory which in heauen we shall be partakers of Amen So much for our examination before the Sacrament 〈◊〉 23. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a Ruler 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thee A short Direction for spending of time well HOw doe you diuide the daies of mans life Into the daies of labour and daves of holinesse VVhat say you of the daies of labor These concerne the works of our calling or workes of helpe vnto them What be the works of our calling The workes of that trade of life in which God hath placed vs. What must a man do in these By offering them to God he must walke in them neither slackly nor deceitfully but with Christian diligence and good conscience following his owne businesse with quietnesse and walking with God Then euery one must haue some speciall call●…g trade of life to liue in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or hée is no sound member of the Christian common wealth 〈◊〉 a rotten member in the body of the same that deserueth a cutting off So much for the workes of our callings what say you of the workes of helpe vnto them They concerne duties to be done before the worke or that day after What must we doe in the morning before our worke Prayse God for his mercy the night past and pray vnto him for his further mercy and blessing the day present How shall we prayse God By giuing him thanks and by shewing our thankfulnesse How is our thankfulnesse shewed Inwardly or outwardly How inwardly By pleasing God in our vnderstanding thoughts desire affections and ●…ill How outwardly By pleasing him in our words and deeds How in our words When they be gracious alway VVhat things hurt this grace of speech Lying swearing brawling ●…lthie speaking foolish talking 〈◊〉 that is not comely and contention that causeth stri●… How in our deedes These are in the duties of our generall callings as we are Christians or our particular trades of life wherein some are Magistrates some Masters and seruants some Marchants Artificers Husbandmen and the like What are our duties as we be Christians These concerne God or man What are they that concerne God They are in the foure Commaundements of the first Table called godlinesse What are they that concerne man They concerne our selues or our neighbour What is that that concerneth our selues Sobriety which is inward and teacheth vs not to presume aboue that which is meete and outward in our apparell dyet outward members and senses What must our apparell be Such as becommeth those that professe the feare of God What call you sobriety in dyet That grace of temperance that consi●…eth in the moderate vse of meates drinkes sleepe and such outwarde things What sobriety is that which you call sobriety of sense and the outward members Sobriety of sense is a watchfulnes in it and sobriety of the members a chastity in them So much for the generall d●…ety that concerneth our selues called sobrietie what is that that concerneth our neighbour It is contained in the sixe last Commandements being Commandements of the second Table called Righteousnesse So much for our general duties as we be Christians what say you of our particular duties or duties of trade of life These reach vnto all callings in the Church and Common-wealth but to our purpose in a family they concerne the Husband or Wife Parents or their Children the Master and his Seruants What is the Husbands dutie To dwel with his wife as a man of knowledge by instructing her and by obseruing for her better incouragement the good parts that are in her and to loue her as his owne ●…esh What is the wiues dutie To helpe her husband in the duties of the family also to feare and to be subiect to him What be the Parents duties They concerne the father and niether iointly or by themselues What be their ioint duties to their children In their tender yeeres they must instruct them plainely and season them with good things young giuing them due correction and at more yeeres fit them for some honest calling and when time serues laying vp somthing for them giue them in