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A37090 A summarie platform of the heads of a body of practicall divinity which the ministers of the Protestant churches abroad have sued for, and which is farther enlarged in a treatise intituled, An earnest plea for gospel-communion, &c. Dury, John, 1596-1680. 1654 (1654) Wing D2890; ESTC R37314 6,354 13

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in respect of our Neighbours The life of Religiousness in respect of God The formal Union of these parts stands in the life of universal obedience whereby the whole man in all his acts is inwardly and outwardly subordinate unto the will of God according to the tenour of his Law where the Doctrine of the ten Commandements should be delivered in three things 1 In the Rules of interpreting the Commandements 2 In the Abstract of Duties shewing how all vertues commanded and vices forbidden are to be referred to the ten words of the Law given upon Mount Sinai 3 In the spiritual watch to be kept over ones self and over others where the means and helps to duties the signes and causes of sins are to be laid open The circumstantial life of Godliness is the state of the life wherein we walk circumspectly before God in respect of our severrl relations and callings where the duties relating to the circumstances of our natural and of our spiritual states and callings severally and to both jointly are to be opened Our natural states callings are differences by the properties of sexes and by the several kindes of humane societies and the relations arising between the members thereof The sexes being male and female the works proper to each of them are to be described and the limits of their power and authority in their employments set forth from the preeminencie of the properties which are in the one above the other The natural societies of men arise either from the unity of bloud or of outward interests From the unity of blood there is 1 The society of man and wife to propagate mankinde 2 The society of parents and children 3 The society of brethren and sisters of kindred and allies From the unity of outward interests there is 1 The society of master and servant 2 The society of Magistrate and Subject 3 The society of Proprietor and Tenant The spiritual societies arise in the Church from the several conditions and joynt relations 1 Of members to each other and to their Officers 2 Of Officers to each other and to their members Of all these states and relations the duties should be laid open as they are prescribed in the Word distinctly Then the state and calling which hath a respect to all sorts of societies joyntly as being the seed-plot and seminary of all the vertues to be exercised therein is the state of Schools where ought to be delivered 1 What kindes of Schools ought to be constituted suitable to the principles and life of Christianity 2 To whom the care of erecting and reforming of Schools doth belong and what necessity there is of this work 3 What the peculiar duties are of School-masters and Mistresses and of Scholars of both sexes Hitherto the first and positive part of the Body of Practical Divinity hath been delineated the other part which should contein the Cases of Conscience may be divided into two parts whereof the first should be a general direction how all Cases ought to be resolved the second should be a special collection of the most considerable Cases which ought to be resolved distinctly by themselves In the general direction two things should be taught 1 How all believers should endeavour to resolve their own doubts according to the Analogie of Faith Hope and Charity by the general principles of the Covenant and the fundamental Rules of duties pertaining to Godliness 2 How Teachers or experienced Christians should endeavour to help the weak and doubting professors to resolve their Cases by reflecting upon the nature of the subject whereunto the doubt doth belong and by considering the capacity of the person who maketh the scruple and the occasion upon which it is raised In the special collection of particular Cases the chief thing advisable is concerning the ordering of them that they should be ranked in the method whereby they relate unto the parts of the positive Doctrine and as they may from thence arise in the minde of a weak Christian so that whether the Cases be collected and put into one distinct part of the body by themselves or divided severally and dispersed into the whole body under the heads of the matter whereunto they belong the method may still be the same to finde them out upon all occasions when a resolution is to be sought after FINIS