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A49513	Principle[s] of faith & good conscience digested into a catecheticall form: together with an appendix: 1. Unfolding the termes of practicall divinity. 2. Shewing some markes of Gods children. 3. Some generall rules and principles of holy life. By W. Lyford, Batchelour of Divinity, and minister of Gods Word at Sherborne in Dorsetshire.	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1655 (1655)	Wing L3555; ESTC R216824	122,930	334

of men professing the faith of Christ may be known to be the true Churches of Christ A. The true Church of God on earth is known by two markes 1. By the purity of Doctrine and Faith which they hold and teach 2. And by the purity of Worship preserved amongst them from pollutions of Idolatry and Superstition Pure faith and pure worship shew a true Church Jude vers 3. Acts 24.14 Hos 2.2 4 5. Papists call themselves Catholicks but falsely being both Heriticall in Doctrine Idolatrous in Worship a Catholicke is a right believer All true believers in the world make but one Catholick Church as there is but one Christ one Faith one Baptisme one Heaven and one way to life eternall Eph. 4.5 6. Heb. 11.40 Those people that maintaine Heresy or Idolatry are not the true Churches of Christ Col. 2.16 19. 2 Cor. 6.15 Rev. 18.4 Q. Doe you believe in the Church A. No there is no trust nor helpe in man for matters of salvation Ps 49.7 8 Mic. 6.7 Q. What then doe you believe A. I believe that God ever had and ever will have to the end of the world a company of faithfull people to serve him and that I am one of the number Q. How doe you know that you are one of the Church A. Because I am not of the world but have seperated my selfe from the evill manners and sinfull courses thereof and doe now heare and follow the voice of Christ Joh. 10.16 Gal. 1.4 Rom. 12.2 CAP. XXIII Of the Communion of Saints Q. WHat meane you by the communion of Saints A. I meane that this holy People have a spirituall fellowship with Christ their Head and one with another The members of the Church are coupled together with Christ their Head and one with another Eph. 4.4 6. 1 Joh. 1.3 Q. Wherein have they a fellowship with Christ their Head A. In all the priviledges riches which God hath bestowed on the man Christ as in his sufferings in his graces righteousnesse and Kingdome Christ is a Son so are we Christ is justified from our sinnes so are we As Christ the first borne is such are we in relation unto God Rom. 8.17 Joh. 14.19 Eph. 5.30 32. Joh. 17.24 Joh. 1.16 These places shew that the true believer hath a fellowship with Christ in his Sonship in his Life in his Graces in his Kingdome Q. By what bonds is this spirituall union betwixt Christ and your soule made up A. They be two one coming from Christ to us and that is his a Spirit whereby he doth apprehend and quicken us the other going from us to Christ and b that is our faith whereby we embrace hold him fast By these two we are knit unto Christ and so partake of all his riches a 1 Cor. 12.12 13. 1 Cor. 6.17 Rom. 8 9. b Eph. 3.17 Heb. 3.14 Rom. 11.20 Q. How doth it appear that you have communion with Christ the Head A. By this I know it because I have the same Spirit of Christ whereby I am conformed and made like unto him in all things his will and waies his friends and foes be mine even as if the same soule were in two bodies they would move alike and affect the same things Col. 2.19 1 Ioh. 4. 13. 1 Ioh. 1.6 Joh. 17.21 Rom. 8.14 Exek 10.17 Phil. 2.1 5. Q. Wherein have the Saints a fellowship one with another A. In faith and love Eph. 2.19.20 Q. In faith How A. They are all partakers of one Hope one Spirit one Faith one Baptisme and all goe one way to Heaven And are all confederate with Christ to serve him according to the covenant of faith and obedience against all sects heresies mis-believers and loose livers whatsoever 1 Cor. 10.1 4. 2 Pet. 1.1 Eph. 4.5 13. Phil. 1.27 Zeph. 3.9 Q. In love How A. By that one Spirit whereof all partake we are united together in love so that all the faithfull doe love a and esteeme each of other and b communicate each to other in all good things ever wishing well to the prosperity of Gods Church and cause in all the World a Philem. v. 16 17. 1 Ioh. 5.1 1 Pet. 2.17 b Act. 2 42 45 46. Act. 4.32 1 Cor. 12.13 25. Psal 137.6 Q. How are the members of the Church called Saints seeing in many things they sin A. Because they are made holy in part and are perfectly holy in Christ We must be Saints here else we shall never be Saints in Heaven Eph. 1.1 Heb. 12.14 CAP. XXIV Of forgivenesse of sinnes Q. WHat is sinne A. Any transgression of Gods Law 1 John 3.4 Gen. 3.11 Q. What is the punishment due to sinners A. Eternall death the curse of God for ever in Hell fire Rom. 6.21 23. Mat. 25.41 Q. Are you a sinner A. Yes I was borne in sinne and doe daily break Gods holy Lawes Psal 51.5 Rom. 5.14 There is sinne in Infants Q. Shall you then be damned in Hell fire A. I deserve damnation but I believe that through Christ my sinnes shall be forgiven me Rom 8.1 Q. Are sinnes forgiven in this life A. Yes now or never 1 Joh. 2.12 Col. 1.13 Mat. 9.2 Rev. 2.17 Rom. 5.5 The conscience is now absolved and it shall be hereafter declared solemnely before Men and Angels Act. 3.19 Q. What is forgivenesse of sinnes A. It is a free and full discharge of a sinner from the guilt punishment of sin so that in Gods sight they are as if they had never been Esa 43.25 Mic. 7.18 19. Rom. 8.33 34. The afflictions and miseries which the Godly endure in this World are not punishments for sin in a way of justice and satisfaction for sin as if they were the cause why sins are forgiven to us 1. Because Christ alone hath borne the chastisement of our peace and none of the people with him 2. Because the afflictions of the Godly are for the good of the party afflicted and not in a way of revenge to satisfie divine justice 3. And not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us Q. Who doth forgive sinnes A. God alone who is offended and dishonoured by them Mar. 2.7 9. Lu. 23.34 Men doe forgive one another the Trespasse but not the sin as it is sin Q. Why and for whose sake doth God forgive sinnes A. For Christs sake without respect to any thing that we can doe or suffer 1 Iob. 2 12. Act. 2.38 Eph. 4.32 Rom. 3.24 Q. Why for Christs sake A. Because he being surety of the New Covenant hath in my nature room and stead answered the Law pacified Gods wrath 2 Cor. 5.21 Heb. 7.22 Q To what manner of persons is remission of sins granted in the Gospell A. To them only that believe repent and amend their lives and turne from the evill of their doings Luk 13.3 Mar. 16.16 Ezek. 18.21 Esay 1.18 Act. 16.31 Joh. 5.24 Q. Do you think in your conscience that your sins in particular be forgiven A. Yes that is

Ezr 6.21 2 Chro 30.17 18. God had smitten them c. Ezek. 44.7 1 Cor. 5.6 13 Infants and naturall Fooles and all persons that cannot examine thēselves nor discern the Lords body as also all open impenitent sinners all such persons must not meddle with the Lords Supper ● Cor. 11.28 29. 1 Cor. 5.7 13. Q The least sinne that a man knows by himselfe unrepented i● a just cause to keep himselfe from the Sacrament But are all the sinnes we kn●w by other men a just cause for us to keep them from the Lords Supper A. Not only such offences as are openly known and scandalous to the congregation The rest doe professe with their mouthes and if they do not believe with their hearts and repent indeed they are no better then Judas who seemed to be one of the rest but was not It is not our own private knowledg or suspicion of the parties unsoundnesse that must put him off unlesse the party be accused and admonished of his sinne by them that have authority in the name of Christ for the good of the party and the satisfaction of the Congregation to restraine them Christ knew Iudas from the beginning yet c. Iohn 13.11 18. 1 Cor. 5.1 2. It is reported c. Mat. 22.2 10 11 12. Mat. 18.15 17. Q. Is not the rest of the congregation polluted by the mixture of unworthy persons with them A. No The wicked doe not pollute the Godly at the Lords Supper unlesse they be consenting unto their wickednesse for Iudas b did not defile Christ The wicked among the Jews did not make the ordinances of Circumcision of preaching in the chaire of Moses of the Passeover and of Sacrificing uncleane unto the godly of those times Christ himselfe held Communion with the Church of the Jewes which at that time was marvilously corrupted both in Doctrine and Discipline a 1 Cor. 5.2 6. with 2 Cor. 7.11 Cleare in this matter els not Luk. 2.22 24. Luke 3.21 Iohn 2.13 1 Sam. 2.16 24. 1 Cor. 11.17 29. to himselfe c. b Mat. 26.20 21. He sate down with the Twelve Judas as he was imployed in the Apostleship with the rest so he was admitted also with the rest unto the fellowship of all divine worship and ordinances to teach us that neither is the Sacrament the worse nor are the Comunicants polluted albeit some unworthy and undiscovered Hypocrites be in company with them at the Lords table the Pollution of the Sacrament remained with Judas alone The state of the visible Church is like to ten Virgins whereof some were wise and some foolish Mat 25.1 To a great house 2 Tim 2.20 1 Cor. 11.33 with 1 Cor 3.3 1 Cor 10.17 21. Q. Then it is Christs will that evill livers should be excomunicated to the end they may be brought to shame and repentance Who to be Excommunicated A. It is so scandalous persons if they obey not the admonitions of the Church but remain obstinate ought to be cast out and kept from the Lords Supper Mat 18.18 Iohn 20.23 1 Cor 5 3 4 5 13. 1 Tim 1.20 Wicked and obstinate persons are to be banish●d from the fellowship of the faithfull 1. By the Authority and in the name of Jesus Christ 2 Dispenced by the office and judgement of the Ministers of the Gospel 3 With the assistance and consent of the Congregation 1. Who to be admitted 1. All that professe repentance toward God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ are to be admitted if they offer themselves as Judas Simon Magus Ananias and Saphira and those severall divided parties at Corinth which are for that cause called Carnall 1 Cor. 3.3 and surely they did judge one another unworthy If a company of Men should agree in some evill Action we joyne with them then we were partakers of their evill But when Christians Agree to serve the Lord Jesus if some joyne that do it not as they ought they joyne with us in our good not we in their sin or unworthinesse and therefore did communicate apart 1 Cor. 11.18 21. Yet Paul bids them all that were divided into factions to Tarry one for another v. 34. that so their eating together might testifie and maintain their Christian charity and unity in the body of Christ Neither is there any danger to the Godly by the cōpany of them that doe thus professe Faith Repentance and new Obedience though in deed and in truth they be not such as they professe Because in such a mixt congregation all doe joyne in an acknowledement that men are saved by Christs blood and ●hat is true 2. And we all joyne in profession of Christianity and in a solemne vow and promise of living holy and Christian lives for time to come and that we may doe lawfully and sincerely with them who are not sincere but meer outside professors And therefore such mixture of good and bad in that ordinance can be no sufficient warrant and ground either for the Minister to refuse to doe his office or for the people to refuse to partake of this Ordinance 2. Who should forbeare to come 2. Howbeit all carnall persons who are conscious to themselves of their ignorance or hypocrisy that they are not in truth what they seem to be or are privy to themselves of living in any sin ought in good conscience to keep themselves back from the Lords table 3. Who must be kept back 3. And all such Persons as are grosly ignorant of Christ or else are guilty of grosse errors and scandelous sins inconsistent with Faith and Repentance they ought to be kept back by the discipline of the Church Q. Thus of the publicke Are there any private helps of a Christians conversation and communion with God A. Yes Many as private reading prayer self-examination calling our waies to account trials of the grounds of our hopes private fasting and humiliation holy medidation of the worth of things heavenly the vanity of things earthly of the Attributes of God of promises c. also private admonitions comforting one of another Holy resolutions against the corruption of the times of our own hearts c. AN APPENDIX Containing and Explication of certain Theologicall Terms Phrase frequently used in English Books Sermons be either not mentioned or not sufficiently explained in the foregoing Treatise GRACE signifieth in Scripture two things 1. Gods free favour and love to man 2. The effects thereof in us thus faith is a grace c. Predestination is the eternall purpose of God touching the everlasting state of men wereby of his own free will he ordaineth some to Salvation and others to destruction Election in the eternall purpose of God whereby according to the counsell of his own will he chuseth some to salvation out of the corupted masse of Mankind not because he foresaw they were or would be better then otners but because it so pleased him to the praise of his rich grace