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A79475 A plot for the good of posterity. Communicated in a sermon to the Honorable House of Commons for the sanctifying of the monthly fast. March 25. 1646. / By Francis Cheynell. Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665. 1646 (1646) Wing C3814; Thomason E329_11; ESTC R200698 45,495 60

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their hearts wils consciences to the Will and Pleasure of Jehovah the mighty God the great Creatour the high Possessour and glorious Commander both of Heaven and Earth Secondly His Prudence he laide no unnecessary burthen upon them his Commands were not a Cabala of his owne Invention God did first catechise Abraham and then Abraham was the Doctor of his family and catechised his houshold there is no doubt but he did advise his houshold in Prudentials but he did command them in Points of Faith and Worship to walke in the way of Jehovah It is the most imprudent thing in the world not to distinguish betweene Prudentials and Articles of Religion Articles of Faith Thirdly His Love to the pretious soules of his children servants slaves O happy thrice happy slaves who by the Care and Instruction of a godly Master were brought home to God and made the free-men of the great Jehovah Fourthly His Diligence It was no easie matter to instruct children and bond-slaves with line upon line and precept upon precept Fifthly His Faithfulnesse For all his Commands were Regular Abraham kept close to the rule and therefore neither sonne nor servant could pretend Liberty of Conscience to depart from that Rule which Jehovah who gives Lawes to the Conscience had commanded them to set up for a Rule in their very Conscience No man can grant a licence or give liberty to depart from the Rule for that were to grant an Irregular Liberty an Vnconscionable Liberty Liberty is a Priviledge Irregularity a Sin and no man hath a Priveledge to sinne Observe the Command in the text it is To keepe the way of Jehovah to d●e Justice and Judgement It is the Scripture phrase to expresse Religion under the Notion of a way to teach men to make a constant progresse in Religion By way is meant the way of Faith Worship and Obedience Acts 18. 25 26. Luke 1. 6. Nay the way of inward worship as well as the parts of outward worship Deut. 10. 12. Enoch and Noah walked with God Gen. 5. 22. 24. Gen. 6. 9. It is not meant of obedience onely but of Faith I must not be a Selfe-mover I must not be my owne Rule my owne way or my owne righteousnesse Christ is Jehovah my way and as I have received Christ so I must walke in him and by the grace of Christ I must walke in those good workes which God hath prepared that I might walke in not in the way of the old world the way of Cain the way of Balam any wicked way Divers learned men conceive that Abraham did catechise his houshold in these weighty points Concerning God Creation Providence Concerning the innocency and happinesse of man in his first estate Concerning the Fall Sinne and misery of man Our losse and corruption by the Fall Our danger if we continue in that corrupt estate I change the persons that I may speake to you and my selfe Others there are that adde many more necessary points concerning the Law of nature the Immortality of the soule but the Mortality of the body the Day of Judgement Eternall life and Eternall death And O that we would consider that our soules must certainely have an everlalasting Being either in glory or in torments That we may in this our day consider those things which belong to our everlasting Peace least hereafter they be hid from our eyes But it is out of question that Abraham did communicate many other pretious and saving truths to his beloved family Concerning the rich mercy and free grace of God Concerning salvation by faith in the promised seede Concerning Prayer Vowes Sacrifices the Covenant of Grace and Circumcision the Seale of the Covenant Moreover the Commands of Abraham were not onely Regular but Practicall Commands he did not onely command them to know the way of Jehovah but to walke in it nor were they onely to talke of Judgement and Justice but to d●e it Judgement and Justice are here taken in a strict and practicall notion the 22. Chapter of Jeremiah from the thirteenth to the twentieth verse is an excellent Comment upon my text Jehoiakim the sonne of Josiah and King of Judah was buried with the buriall of an Asse because he did not learne of his Father to doe Judgement and Justice ver. 15. and to judge the cause of the poore and needy ver. 16. If the greatest of men remaine unjust they will have no blessing upon them all their life no honour at their death I shall not so much as examine whether those precepts which some say were delivered to the sonnes of Noah were not onely pressed upon Abrahams family but upon all those that were thought worthy of humane society by this little that hath beene saide it is cleare and evident that Abraham did not goe about to set up himselfe but to set up God in his family by a kinde of Theocracy the best of Goverments But the Jesuites tell us that Abraham had no written Catechisme to communicate to his Posterity and therefore they conceive that they may vent their unwritten lyes upon the Credit of some doating Pope Our answer is briefe The Scriptures have beene necessary * ever since it pleased God to expresse his minde in writing and will be so even to the end of the world We must not expect such unwritten Revelations as were vouchsafed to Abraham because the whole Counsell of God his Royall Will and Pleasure doe now stand upon record as his perfect Law full Testimony Compleate and Supreme Testament nothing is to be added to it or taken from it To say the Scriptures are not perfect is not to dispute but blaspheme and if the Scriptures were not perfect it is for certaine that they could never be perfected by humane traditions which are so full of imperfection A Synod is a solemne Ordinance of Jesus Christ and I looke upon that Counsell Acts 15. not onely as a Precedent but as a Warrant for the Examination of matters of Fact as well as Doctrines of Faith And such a determination of both as doth not onely direct but oblige severall Congregations to doe their duty by vertue of that Ministeriall Authority which is stamped upon such a Synod or Counsell by an Ordinance of Jesus Christ And yet unlesse it were in that Counsell Acts 15. the Church did for about three hundred yeares together convince and condemne Heretiques by scripture before any generall Councels were gathered or the Popes throne erected I have beene at paines to remove a great deale of rubbish that lay in my way but now I shall beginne to build 1. Governours of families are Gods Deputies they must command for God and give an account to him all the power that any man can challenge in his family as an Husband Father Master is a subordinate and limited power not an Independent or Absolute power for we must testifie our dependance upon God and