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A26388 The Addresse of some ministers of Christ in the Isle of Wight & County of Southampton to the people of their respective charges, by way of exhortation, to discharge their parts of those two great and necessary duties, private conference and catechising 1658 (1658) Wing A545; ESTC R8217 16,345 31

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enter into that relation and not learne the duties of it How will you that are to be a Husband dwell with your wife according unto knowledge if you suffer nothing to dwell with your selfe but ignorance And how will you that are to be a wife submit your selfe to your own husband as it is fit in the Lord if you doe not know the Lord And how will both of you live together as Heires of the grace of life when through the ignorance that is in you you are meere strangers to a life of Grace Or how will you teach your children and servants what you would never be perswaded to learne your selves Marriage we know is common to mankinde and Heathens may enter into it but this we are constrained to let you know that if persons professing Christianity expect that we should have any hand in the celebration of it between such among them as neither know their duty to God nor to one another nor will be perswaded to learne it whether it be a duty incumbent upon us to doe it we must at least take Time to consider Qu. What if we understand the principles of Religion well enough already Sol. Yet you ought by your Example to incourage others to let us that are your Ministers know it that wee may blesse God for you propound you as patternes to the rest and receive from you an Evidence of your fitness for the Lords Supper which if duly qualified you ought to partake of and wee to administer We hope we need not use more arguments with persons that know they have soules to prevaile with them for a compliance with us in those things that so apparently tend to their salvation Secondly For private Conference with the Heads and Governours of families wee have seriously and sadly considered the ignorance of many under a long enjoyment of the meanes of knowledge and the prophaneness of more under as long an enjoyment of the meanes of Grace And having nothing to adde to our publique ministeriall labours as a further meanes of your proficiency in grace and knowledge but a more familiar way of personall instruction by Private Conference wee doe hereby offer our selves also to this service of your soules and in the name of Christ whose Messengers we are in this errand beseech you to accept of it and that it may reach the end that both wee and you ought to aime at wee desire 1. That wee may meet you either at your houses asunder or a greater number of you together at such Times and places as wee shall appoint for that purpose or if any inconvenience be found in what wee shall offer you would be pleased to propound a better methode your selves and wee shall readily comply with you in it ance shall refuse to be perswaded to the duties wee have mentioned assure your selves that even this paper shall be a witnesse against you at the day of Judgement which is sent you the Lord knowes to no such purpose by Yours in the service of the Gospel Robert Tuchin Minister of Newport John Barnes Minister of Whippingham Edward Buckler Minister at Calbourne Robert Dingley Minister of Brixton James Creswick Minister of Fresh-water John Martyn Minister of the Gospell at Yarmouth Vincent Sparke Minister of Shalfleete Josh Tompkins Minister at Brooke Simon Pole Minister at West Cowes Tho Clarke Minister of Gods-hill William Harby Minister of Shanklin Martin Wells Minister of Yaverland William Bicknell Minister of the Gospel at Newport Richard Beminster Minister of Wotton Matthew Hearne Minister of Lawrence Luc. 24 47. Deut. 32. 7 10. Isa. 30. 26. Rom. 6. 23 Acts 4. 12. Heb. 12. 14. Acts 5. 31. Luk. 19. 14. 1 Tim. 2. 4. Exod. 20. 10. Psal. 119. 9. Mercer Jansen in Pro. 31. 26. 2 Joh. 1. 4. Joh. 21. 15. Joh. 3. 6. Job 25. 4. Joh. 3. 3 5. Gen. 5. 3. Coloss. 3. 10. Eph. 4. 24. Eccles. 6. 3. Psal. 58. 8. V. 3 5 11 12. Junius in loc. Basil Doron l. 2. p. 95. Matth. 8. 9. Eph. 6. 5. Coloss. 3. 22. 1 Tim. 6. 1 2. Titus 2. 9. Gen. 18. 19. Gen. 35. 2 3 4. Josh. 24. 15. Exod. 20. 10. Apoc. 20. 12. 2 Thes. 1. 8. Isa. 27. 11. Pro. 13. 13. Chemnit Har. Evang. 6. 15. Zanch. Vol. 3. Tom. 8. p. 580. E●cles. 12. 1. Acts 21. 16. 1 King 18. 12. 2 Tim. 3. 15. Psal. 119. 60. Rom. 16. 7. 1 Pet. 3. 7. Coloss. 3. 18. Eph. 4. 18.
the way of the Lord Gen. 18. 19. And from hence doe learned men collect that it was in that age the holy practice of such as feared God to Catechize their families and instruct them concerning the Creation of the world fall of man destruction of the old world Gods providence the Messiah to be revealed everlasting life to come and such like If you neglect Abrahams practice you are never like to come to Abrahams Honour who was called The friend of God James 2. 23. 3 Consider What care the Spirit of God takes to keep alive their memories to all generations who have planted religion in their families Aquila and Priscilla had a Church in their house 1 Cor. 16. 19. Nymphas and Philemon had Churches in their houses Coloss. 4. 15. Philem. 2. not only in that they were hospitable to the Beleevers and entertained them in their houses or that the meetings of Christians for the worship of God was wont to be in their houses but also in regard of the piety of their families each houshold might be called a Church a company taught to know God and to serve him And Cornelius was a man that feared God with all his house Act. 10. 2. These are mentioned with Honour and have been so neare sixteen hundred yeares already and shall be so as long as the Sun and Moone endureth 4 Consider The pronenesse of youth to every thing that is evill If you doubt what the inexperience rashnesse heat pride ignorance and confidence which most in their youth have a sufficient stock of may put them upon look back upon what you were your selves When David asketh wherewithall shall a young man cleanse his way Psal. 119. 9. is it not an intimation that his way is ordinarily thorow the pollutions of the world And when David prayes Remember not the sins of my youth Psal. 25. 7. doe ye thinke there be very many in the world that in their age have no need to goe to the Throne of Grace in the same errand And when Job complaines Thou makest me to possesse the sins of my youth Job 13. 26. we thinke t will follow that Jobs youthfull time was his worst time T is reported of Bellarmine that when the Priest came to absolve him he could not remember any particular sin to confesse till he went back in his thoughts as farre as his youth either the Cardinalls memory failed him or youth will be sinfull though no age else be t is doubtlesse the worst season of the best men and for grosse and scandalous miscarriages most commonly of the worst too Now wherewithall shall these young ones cleanse their wayes what meanes must be pitcht upon to mortifie youthfull lusts but the word of God and what fitter expedient for the application of that remedy to this disease then to let it into their Heads and Hearts by Catechizing by infusing those Scriptures that doe assert the damnable nature of sin the necessity of regeneration the Tendency of the course they are in to their everlasting destruction c. 5 Consider On the other Hand that if ever you meane your families shall learne the wayes of God you lose at least the fairest probability of successe if you fall not upon teaching them in their younger yeares Let us crave liberty to lay and leave before you but these Observations 1 Observe the fitness of that season to receive instruction that besides our originall pollution we are very early capable of sinning may be discovered even in little children every day I know not saith Augustine the sins I committed in my infancy yet I know that then I sinned and he knew it from hence that he had observed anger and envy in sucking children he was he confesseth a little child and a great-sinner and Gregory gives us an account of horrid blasphemies by a child of five yeares old we will not say that goodnesse hath so timely or so easie an entertainment as sin hath we know reasons to the contrary you will how ever receive no dammage by beginning seasonably you were better lose some labour than any Time We have read of some that have been ordained to the office of publique Readers in the Church at eight years old of some suffering Martyrdom at thirteene of others discovering a capacity of learning what ever you would take the pains to teach them very betime We beseech you not to pretend such a disproportion between the Intellectualls of these and of the young ones in your families as is enough to excuse a neglect of Catechizing them till you have tryed and when you have let it not serve your turne for a neglect of this duty to the rest that are of understanding enough to learn other things in their younger yeares as we said you have hopes of fastening upon them the Things of God Prepossession is a great matter the more time you give sin and vanity to grow upon them the lesse hopes you have of planting in them the mysteries of Religion 2 Observe How few there be whose youth hath been suffered to passe in ignorance that are brought to the saving knowledge of God in Christ in their elder dayes Habits are difficultly removed and how long will a vessell savour of the first liquor you season it with If ever you meane to meet your families in Heaven guide them thitherward at their first setting out 6 Consider How much Religion is concerned in this duty of Catechizing set it up you provide abundantly for the welfare of it you goe the way to supply her with professors knowing solid setled such as doe espouse her because they love her and love her because they know her neglect it and you contribute to the ruine of it if she have any other followers then such as are prophane ignorant ungrounded unstable carried about with every winde of Doctrine such as she will be ashamed to own for her children and who had not own'd her but that it was the first they lighted upon she will have no cause in the world to thank you for it This is so necessary a course to settle people in what they first take in that the Jesuites boast themselves the Grand Conservators of the Romish Religion in that they are Catechizers and they have formerly stirred up one another to all possible diligence in this work by the example of the Protestants We are sorry and ashamed that if for divers yeares last past the Jesuites had wanted a provocation to Catechizing from the example of Protestants they would not have been able to have fetcht it hence We beseech you Brethren let not our Religion have occasion to complaine from any neglect of yours that she cannot take up this confessed advantage against her enemy nor prophanesse ignorance popery errours heresies and blasphemies to acknowledge that they owe their planting watering and increase amongst us to nothing more then that we have not seasoned the younger yeares of our respective families with better things Now