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A00509 The necessitie and antiquitie of catechizing. By IF. I. F., fl. 1617. 1617 (1617) STC 10641; ESTC S118328 5,183 23

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THE NECESSITIE AND ANTIQVITIE OF CATECHIZING BY I. F. PRO Cap. 22. Ver. 6. Traine vp a Childe in the way hee should goe and when hee is olde he will not depart from it LONDON Imprinted for R. M. 1617. DEI VERITAS FILIA VERBVM DEI OF THE NECESSITIE AND ANTIquitie of Catechising Question I. WHat is a Catechisme Answere It is an instruction in the Principles of true religien which the superiour teacheth the inferiour Questeon 2. Whether is catechising necessary Answere Yea for these two reasons First because otherwise no man could cyther know or worship GOD aright Secondly because it is Gods ordinance as hereafter it shall appeare Question 3. Of what antiquitie is the doctrine and practise of catechising Answere It is of great antiquitie as it may appeare by a briete and orderly narration thereof in these thrée distinct times First from the creation of the world vnto the dayes of Moses Secondly from Moses to Christ Thirdly from Christ to this present The first time Question 4. WAs it practised from the Creation to Moses Answere Yea. First God instructed Adam Secondly Adam and the religious Patriatres in the Church instructed their potterity from age to age Question 5. Did God instruct Adam Answere Yea both before and after his fall Question 6. Shew that God instructed Adam before his fall Answere This may be the men two dayes First by reason Secondly by the particular instructions which he gave to Adam Question 7. By what reason can you shew that God instructed Adam before his fall Answere By these two First as no man knoweth the thinges of man saue the spirit of mā which is in him euen so the thinges of God knoweth no man but the spirite of God 1. Cor. 2.11 and therfore if God had not instructed Adam he could not haue knowne nor done the will of God Secondly where no Law is there is no transgrassion Rom. 4.15 Therefore if God had not instructed Adam and giuen him lawes hée could not haue sinned for sinne is nothing el●● but the transgression of the Law 1. Iohn 2.4 Question 8. What then bee the particular instructions which God gaue to Adam before his fall Answere They are diuers and namely these fiue First that mankind should bee multiplied in the holy estate of mariage Matth. 9.5 Gen. 2.24 therefore shall a man leaue his father and his mother and shall cleaue to his wife and they shal be one flesh and all other multiplication of mankind out of the holy estate of marriage is ordinarily accompanied with some iudgement of God Secondly that hee should haue authority and dominion ouer the fishes of the Sea and ouer the soules of the heauen and ouer euery beat that moueth vpon the earth Gen. 1.28 Thirdly that his meate should bee the hearbes of the earth and the fruit of the trées Gen. 1.29 for man lineth not by bread onely but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Matth. 4.4 Fourthly that he should not liue i●ely but dresse and keepe the garden of Eden Gen. 2.15 Fiftly that hee should not eate of the fruite of the tree of knowledge of god and euill vpon paine of death Gen. 2.17 for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye Question 9. Shew me now also what instructions God gaue to Adam after his fall Answere God gaue Adam these fiue instructions after his fall First he instructed Adam in the mistery of redemption Gen. 3.15 when God speaking to that old Serpent called the Diuell and Sathan Apoc. 12.9 sayeth thus I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seed and her seed it shall breake thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele when he sayeth it shall breake thy head his meaneth the seede of the woman that is Christ the seede of the Virgine Mary who at his first comming conqueted Sathan and deliuered the faithfull out of his thraldome Hebrewes 2.14 For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and bloud he also himselfe like wise tooke part of the same that through deatly he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Deuill and deliuer them who through seare of death wereall their life time subiect to bondage Secondly he instructed Adam to offer sacrifices which were types and shadowes of the sartifice of Christs body to be offced to make satisfaction to God for the sins of all the faith full Thirdly he taught Adam that in offering of sacrifices hee must by faith apprehend Christ who was shadowed and prefigured in those sacufices or else he could not be acceptable to God whereupon it is written Heb. 11.4 that by faith Abell offered vnto God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain Fourthly he taught Adam that those were acceptable to God which beleeuedin the promised seede of the woman that is in Christ who was to come and that those were not acceptable to God which beleeued not in Christ to come and so it was knowne euer since the fall of Adam that some beleeued in Christ and mere saued and some did not beleeue in Christ and there sore were reiected of God Fiftly when men beganne to bée multiplyed vpon the earth the Lord forbade the faithfull to make mariages with the vnbelauers as it appeareth by the teproofe of such marriages Gen. 6.2 and this is confirmed in the new Testament which disagraeth not from the old 2. Cor. 6.14 Bee yee not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers Question 10. Seeing these instructions giuen to Adam presently after his fall are fundamental points of true religion and the fourth instruction is the effect of the three former declare the same more euidently that it being better knowne may make a deeper impression in our mindes Answere This may bee plainely declared foure wayes First by the examples of Cain and Abel because Abell by faith was accepted Heb. 11.4 and Cain for his infidelity was reiected 1. Iohn 3.12 for it was faith that made Abels worke that is his sacrifice acceptable Heb. 11.4 and it was want of faith that made Kaines worke that is his sacrifice vnacceptable to God because without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 Secondly the faithfull though declining are called the sonnes of God and the posterity of vnbelécuers are called the daughters of men Genes 6.2 Thirdly this difference of beléeuers and vnbeleeuers was typically shadowed out in the distinction of cleane and vncleane beasts Gen. 7.2 where Noah is commaunded to take into the Arke of euery cleane beast seuen and of vnclean two And a plain interpretation hereof wee haue Act. 10.15 where the Lord forbiddeth Peter to count those Gentiles vncleane whose hearts God had purified by faith Acts. 15.9 Fourthly since the fall of Adam there was no saluation to any but by faith in Christ for all the promises of God are yea and Amen in Christ 2. Cor. 1.20 and therefore the faithfull Patriarkes that liued before and after the flond are