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A38590	Catechistical discovrses in vvhich, first, an easy and efficacious way is proposed for instruction of the ignorant, by a breife summe of the Christian doctrine here delivered and declared : secondly, the verity of the Romane Catholike faith is demonstrated by induction from all other religions that are in the world : thirdly, the methode of the Romane catechisme, which the Councell of Trent caused to be made, is commended to practice of instructing in doctrine, confirming in faith, and inciting to good life by catechisticall sermons / by A. E.	Errington, Anthony, d. 1719?	1654 (1654)	Wing E3246; ESTC R8938	430,353	784

the end his blessed and glorious sight we purposing to vse those meanes which he hath procured for our obtaining of it Thirdly at Masse we are inflamed vnto acts of charity and vehement loue of God hauing before our eyes such a testimony of his loue towards vs that he would send his beloued sonne to take vpon him the imperfections of our nature and to be soe vnworthily treated and killed to redeeme vs that killed him This should make the hart of a Christian to melt with the loue of God and without doubt it would doe soe if we could rightly consider and apprehende it and the whole scope of the Masse tendeth to this to imprint in our mindes a liuely apprehension of our Sauiours Passion We then praise and extoll in the highest manner that we can his sacred merits we set him in the sight of God and propose him as our mediatour before his eternall father beseeching him that he will not looke vpon our sinnes but vpon his owne deere Sonne soe handled for the loue of vs to obtaine our pardon and to reconcile vs to him Fourthly the Masse is a thanks giuing to God for the infinite and immense benefits which he bestoweth allwais vpon vs and especially for the mystery of the Incarnation If we giue but a litle almes or doe neuer soe small a curtesy to our neighbour we expect at least to hatie thanks returned presently for it Why then shall not we be as thankefull to God as we would haue our neighbour to be to vs and we hauing nothing of our owne with which we could worthily gratify the benefits of God therefor Christ would leaue to vs the Sacrifice of his owne body that in it we might haue a worthy offering and a rich and pretious gift by which our gratitude might be acceptable to him Fiftly by being present at Masse we are disposed to repentance for our mortall sinnes and to come to the state of grace by a good Confession For as the Israelits that were stung by the fiery serpents were cured by beholding the brazen serpent erected soe we by meditating vpon the Passion of our Sauiour and by beholding him eleuated on the Cros are cuted of the wounds of the fiery serpents of hell and those that heare Masse in the state of grace obtaine a plentifull remission of their venial sinnes much more then by any other good worke Sixtly the Masse is not onely beneficiall to the liuing but also to the dead and the most efficacious worke of charity which can be done for them by the generall commemoration which is then made for the soules of purgatory and they when they are released are not forgetfull of those that helped them in misery Seauenthly those that are present at Masse may receiue the B. Sacrament with more deuotion at least spiritually in hart and minde vniting themselues with an ardent desire to the life giuing flesh of our Sauiour and noe doubt but shall carry away the effect of that sacred foode in their harts For as it were not fitting that those who wait at the tables of Princes or at great feasts should goe away hungry for want of meate soe those that attende at this blessed feast shall not depart vnsatiated with it but euen as one that entreth into a wine cellar of strong and pretious wines is comforted and strengthened with the strength and smell of them although he tast them not soe those that are present at this sacred banquet ate spiritually refreshed comforted and filled with the vertue and strength of the B. Sacrament although corporally they receiue it not Finally not onely the Priest that saith Masse but all that are present offering vp that Masse with him teceiue spirituall distributions at the hands of God who giueth something to euery one of them for the offering which they gaue to him And not onely spirituall but also temporall benefits are obtained by the Masse because as it is a Sacrifice it may be offered vp for the obtaining of any good or the auoiding of any euill whatsoeuer Iacob offered Sacrifice for the good successe of his iourney Melchisedech offered Sacrifice in thanks-giuing for his victory Noe in thanks-giuing for his preseruation in the deluge Iob for his children Sacrifices were offered for women before their deliuery and after their deliuery for their purification Chrys ho. 21. in act Aug. l. 22 cap. 1. de ciu Dei and for bodily health and cleansing from leprosy and other impuritys Saint Chrysostome mentioneth how that Sacrifice was offered in his time for the fruits of the earth and for temperatnes of ayre Saint Augustine relateth how that himselfe caused it to be offered in houses hanted with euill spirits and that they were expelled by it Saint Bede as you haue heard of a gentleman that was miraculously deliuered out of captiuity by hauing Masse said for him And Saint Anthony Archbishop of Florence commonly called Saint Anthonine relateth of the men the one of which who had not heard Masse on a holy day was suddenly strucke dead with thunder and the other was saued by miracle for that he had heard Masse By all which we may see that there is no kind of benefit but it may be obtained by the Masse and that there is nothing so efficacious for the obtaining of benefits as to procure Masses to be said for that end And therefore it is a deuotion very acceptable to God that which many pious people haue of hearing Masse euery day and a deuotion which Saint Augustine hath commended in his mother Saint Monica that she let no day passe without being present at the Sacrifice of the Church For as parents are pleased to see their children come euery day to acknowledge their superiority and to doe their filial duety to them so it is a thing very pleasing to God to see vs his children come euery day as it were to aske his blessing by the holy Sacrifice as the worship due and proper to him from vs and as parents are moved with tendernesse towards their children to pardon their falts and to cherish and bestow gifts on them when they see them continue this daily submission and duety to them so the loue and mercy of God must needs be moued towards vs to pardon our sinnes and to bestow graces vpon vs when he seeth vs euery day at Masse Wee ought then to conceiue a very great deuotion to this holy Sacrifice and with all modesty silence and reuerence to be present at it Allways when we are going to Masse let vs thinke that we are then going to present our selues before the diuine Maiesty to offer to him a very rich and precious offering the greatest that is in the world that which astonished heauen and earth when it was offered on the Crosse and we may imagine that we were going to Mount Caluary to see the very crucifying of Christ and that ioyning our selues to the company of our blessed Lady and of Saint Iohn Euangelist

and cheerfully a change when he shall send it and God will send a good change if they expect his time But the remedy of remedys and the prime remedy for all inconueniences should haue bene to haue foreseene and preuented them before marriage by considering well whether they were called of God or noe to that state of life And this I will tell them how they shall examine it First let them resolue that in this busines which concerneth them for all their life after they will doe nothing rashly but will take time to consider of it and to commende it well to God and hauing had the Councell of their ghostly father and his prayers and confessed and communicated for that end let them then take a time to consider of it First let them offer themselues vpon their knees to God firmely purposing to serue him all their life time in whatsoeuer state he shall call them to Hauing made that firme purpose let them then pray to him to enlighten them and to our B. Lady their good Angell and their particular patrone to assist them in that worke that they may know and follow the will of God in it Then they may examine their natural inclinations and complexion and other circumstances how they sute with this or that state And it will not be amisse to thinke that if they were then at the hower of their death what they would wish to haue chosen Hauing weighed well all things that which with most peace and quietnes offereth it selfe as best for them that they may resolue vpon and follow it as the calling of God and can haue no● iust cause to repent it afterwards Finally I commende againe much loue to married folkes but it must be a spiritual and supernatural loue such as Bishops Sales in his Introduction to a deuout life commendeth to them such as is betwixt Christ and the Church Introd par 3. c. 37. for Gods sake Beasts and birdes loue their mates with a natural loue onely Heathens loue their wiues and husbands with a natural and rational loue but Christians being contracted by a Sacrament must haue a higher loue to wit sacramental and gracious for the loue of God because it is his will otherwise it is but beastly or at most a humane loue such as heathens haue and will not last in them Those that are to marry must declare in three things First whether they haue made any vow inconsistent with marriage Secondly whether they be not allready contracted with some other Thirdly whether their marriage be with their parents consent for they ought to haue at least their interpretatiue consent as yong Toby had when by the Angels directions he was married without the knowledge of his parents but not without their probable good liking of it And as children in this owe a duety to their parents soe it is fitting that parents should haue some respect to the affection and liking of their children and not to force them to marriages which they can not affect for as marriages without consent of parents soe forced marriages haue seldome good successe The Romane Catechisme aduiseth here to warne the married that vpon festiual dayes and in times of pennance they absteine from the acts of matrimony This is to be vnderstoode by way of Councell not of obligation Yet it is a Councell to be noted and followed as rendring matrimony more honourable betwixt them when it is vsed in due circumstances I haue said now all that I haue to say of the Sacraments You haue seene in generall of them all that they haue their power and effect through the merits of Christ as issuing out of his blessed side vpon the Cros and as the onely meanes of our sanctification With what deuotion then ought we to come to them Thinke with thy selfe when thou goest to receiue any of the seauen Sacraments that thou carriest then thy soule vnto Iesus Christ to be washed in his blood and although it were neuer soe sicke lame or wounded yet if thou commest worthily to any Sacrament he will turne vnto it take it into his hands and cure it Nay if the damned soules could possibly receiue any Sacrament worthily they should be freed out of hell by it because the merits of Christs Passion are infallibly applyed by any Sacrament worthily receiued And in this consisteth the horrour of the damned that they are not in state nor euer shall be worthy to receiue the Sacraments of the Catholike Church And this is our happines in this life that allthough our sinnes be neuer soe great yet as long as we haue time to receiue the Sacraments or onely to desire them for the loue of God we may be freed from sinne and sanctifyed by them But without them at least in desire we cannot be freed from mortall sinne For although by contrition sinnes may be forgiuen yet that contrition includeth desire of the Sacraments Besides that contrition is hard to be obtained For the sinner wounded by sinne and vnder the feete of his enemy held downe by his power and by his owne euill inclinations is easily kept in subiection and hardly rizeth to that perfect loue of God which contrition requireth and therefor we haue the Sacraments to helpe our weakenesse in that case that if they haue but the feare of damnation and the loue of glory and will apply a Sacrament to that feare and loue it conteineth the vertue of Christs passion and will soe cherish and strengthen them that allthough they were dead it would reuiue them to life And therefor our blessed Sauiour breathing vpon his disciples said receiue ye the holy ghost to shew the power of the Sacraments in forgiuing of sinnes And at the reuiuing of Lazarus he weeped groned in spirit troubled himselfe prayed for him and called vpon him with a lowd voice to shew the horrible state of men in mortall sinne signifyed by Lazarus that was dead and that soe we might esteeme more of the Sacraments by which they are not onely reuiued againe but soe highly honored as to become his beloued spouses euen as though some poore handmaid were taken out of slauery and brought to the kings pallace to be made his wife If thou dost remember these things when thou goest to the Sacraments that thou goest then to be clensed with the blood of Christ and to be made the spouse of God thou wilt detest thy sinnes with thy whole hart and prepare thy selfe with much loue and deuotion to thy heauenly spouse And we must neuer come to the Sacraments vntill we haue this preparation in our selues THE SIXT DISCOVRSE OF THE COMMANDEMENTS Question Say the tenne Commandements Answ Exod. 20. Thou shalt not haue strange Gods before mee Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine Remember thou sanctify the Sabaoth day Honour thy father and thy mother Thou shalt not committe adultery Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neihhbour Thou

in vs is persited He that loueth God loueth all those whom God loueth and soe he loueth his neighbour because God loueth him and will haue him to loue him Euery man is by nature our neighbour and because our father and mother haue most propinquity of nature with vs therefor the Commandements of the second table that concerne our neighbour beginne with the loue of our father and mother that all others might be vnderstoode by them who are our neerest neighbors In the first place our superiours spiritual and temporal are vnderstoode by parents Heb. 13. Of the first the Apostle saith Obey your Prelates and be subiect to them For they watch as being to render account of your soules Of the second S. Peter Be subiect to euery humane creature for God Pet. 1.2 wh●ther it be to the king as excelling or to rulers as sent by him c. for soe is the will of God Here we are to speake both of the duety of children and of parents For as children owe a duety to their parents soe parents owe their duety to God as his children Children are to loue honour and obey their parents and to releeue them in their needes and parents are to instruct and correct their children and to prouide for their mainteinance Children must loue and reuerence their parents in their harts and must speake well of them and loue to heare them well spoken of and performe submissiuely all those filiall respects which children vse to their parents They must obserue them and learne at their good example They must obey them willingly and haue their consent in those thinges that concerne their course of life knowing that it is a mortal sinne in things lawfull and of moment to disobey them But if they should commande somethinge which were vnlawfull then we must hate our father and mother that we may be worthy of Christ and answere with S. Act. 5. Peter God must be obeyed rather then men Dutifull children shall haue a duble reward a long life in this world and an euerlasting life in the next Piety is profitable saith the Apostle to all things hauing promise of the life that now is and of that to come Tim. 1.4 And this reward consisteth not onely in the longnesse but in the happinesse of their present life that they shall liue prosperously and in felicity For in Deuteronomy where the Commandements are repeated more at large Deut. 5. it is honour thy father and mother c. that thou wast liue a long time c. and it may be well with thee They are to releeue their parents in all but most of all in their spirituall necessitys to see that they want noe necessary helpe for their soules As for the duety of parents to God they are to loue their children not for themselues but for Gods sake they are to instruct them or to see that they be instructed in their prayers christian doctrine and good life in which there is a great negligence in some parents The loue of parents to their children ought I say to be for Gods sake and not as some who are soe immoderate and vnwise in the loue of them that indeede they make fooles of them for want of instruction and dew correcting of their falts These haue not the right spirit of parents and their father which is in heauen will not omitt to punish this falt in them Will you see a pittifull example of this Reg. 1.4 Heli was a very good man but that he is noted of too much indulgence to his children and therefor both he and they were examplarly punished of God with suddaine death Israel being worsted in batle by the Philistaeans sent for the arke of our Lord into the campe amongst them and receiued it with such showtes and acclamations of ioy that the earth rang with the sounde of their cry and their enemys were terrifyed to heare it Great then were the hopes of Israel and their expectation of another day The day of batle was come and Heli not being able to be present himselfe at the fight for that he was almost a hundred yeares old caused a stoole to be sett ouer against the way and satt him downe on it to expect the newse of their good successe A messenger com's fast enough with ill newse and letteth him know that Israel was put to flight a great ruine was made of the people his two sonnes were slaine and that which was worst of all the arke of God was taken by the enemy With all which the old mans hart was soe surcharged that his strength beganne to faile his spirits to faint and by litle and litle quite forsaking him he fell backwards ouer and broke his necke A pittifull spectacle to behold the most venerable personage of all Israel the high Priest and Prince of that people to ly in that posture dead with sorrow And this imputed byauthors to noe other sinne in him but to too much indulgence towards his children This is a loue which beside the hurt which childrē receiue by it hindereth much the loue of God in parents diuerting their mindes from him and as it were turning him out of possession who ought to possesse the centre of our harts It is as hame for christians to haue noe better loue then that of nature which is commune to dumbe beasts The loue which parents ought to haue of their children ought to be gracious and orderly for the loue and honour of God and of such loue they may haue as much as they can but to preferre the loue of kindred before God is disorderly and vnworthy of a christian The man of the ghospell Luc. 9. whom Christ called to follow him excused himselfe for that he had his father to bury but this was not a good excuse natural loue being to yeeld and to obey God Christ knew what he had to doe and if he had not called him he had done a good worke in burying of his father but Christ calling him he ought to haue forsaken all and to haue followed him and therefor he said let the dead bury their dead but goe thou setforth the kingdome of God Those that preferre the loue of any thinge before God are spiritually dead as S. Tim. 1.5 Paul saith the that is in deliciousnesse liuing is dead But thou if thou regardest the life of thy soule follow mee and loue mee aboue thy kindred and all things Yet parents must take heed on the other side that they be not soe seuere in correcting of their children falts as to dull and disharten them Fathers saith S. Col 3. Paul prouoke not your children to indignation that they become not discouraged Let parents obserue this rule that they neuer seeme to correct their childre in anger but allwais for the desire of their good and let their children allwais see this desire in them For such reprehensions and corrections as they perceiue to proceede onely out of

foretelling the mistery of his Passion Peter could not endure to heare of it but disswaded him from it desiring that which was hurtfull both to himselfe and to all mankind in the hinderance of Christs suffering and therefor his master rebuked him saying Goe after mee Satan thou art a scandall to mee God sheweth his loue as much in denying our prayers when they are hurtfull as in granting them when they are profitable to vs and therefore we ought to be as well contented with the one as with the other and neuer to repine at the not obtaining of our prayers For if we haue not our desire we haue that which is better for vs. If we were hindered by a freind for taking of countrefeit gold insteed of true or from drinking of poyson insteed of good drinke had we not good reason to thanke him for it He that reflecteth vpon the passages which haue happened to him and obserueth diligently how he hath obtained or not obtained his prayers shall see without doubt and in his hart confesse the manifest prouidence of God in denying himsome things which he hath prayed for This I thanke God I haue often seene in my selfe and found by experience that sometimes I haue prayed to be freed from some dangers when if I had had my desire I had manifestly incurred farre greater which none but God could foresee and preuent And once in my youth by my earnest prayers especially by the intercession of S Ignatius of Loyola whose assistance I particularly then implored I was strangely freed from a very great affliction which troubled mee But after a while it returned againe vnto mee and that to my great good as since I haue perceiued and haue often acknowledged the goodnesse of God both in taking it away to shew the power of his Saint and in restoring it againe it being necessary for mee The liberality of God is infinite and and his care neuer faileth towards vs but he will grant our petitions as they are conuenient and will not make vse of our ignorance to hurt vs nor always grant that which we thinke but that which he knoweth to be good for vs. These therefore in breife are the cheife hinderances from obtaining of our prayers The sinnes which we are guilty of hardnes of hart against our enemys and against the poore want of deuotion and attention at our prayers and the inconuenience of that which we pray for Hauing said thus much of prayer in general let vs now declare the petitions of the Pater Noster THE FIRST PETITION OVR Father which art in Heauen Hallowed be thy Name The first words Our Father which art in Heauen are an exordium of humility reuerence and confidence which we vse to God He is our father in many respects First as we haue our being from our fathers so we haue it more principally from him who gaue being both to vs and our fathers Secondly God is our father in his care and prouidence ouer vs. He sendeth vs as Pilgrims to trauail in this world but he committeth vs as his children to the Angels of his Court to be as our Tutors to guard and protect vs. Holy Tobias was a good father to his sonne when sending him a dagerous iourney he thought of some carefull man to be his guide but God was a better father to him who sent an Angell to guide him and to deliuer him out of those dāgers out of which no man could haue deliuered him This father of ours had but one onely naturall sonne and desiring to adopte vs for his children he sent that onely sonne to redeeme vs and to giue his life as the price of our ransome Io. 1. and so he made vs his children giuing vs power as saint Iohn saith to become the sonnes of God and to be borne of him He neuer forgetteth vs not ceaseth to prouide for vs in our needs although we forgette our duty to him Ps 88. and behaue not our selues as his good children He correcteth vs as a father with pitty Iob 5. He visiteth in a rod our iniquitys and our sinnes in stripes yet he taketh not away his mercy from vs. He wounds and cures saith holy Iob he striketh and his hands shall heale againe He woundeth vs for our good For by those wounds he cureth vs. Finally he is in all things a louing and blessed Father and maketh his children glorious by obeying him God is the Father of all as he created and prouideth for all but he is especially the father of Christians whom he hath begotten into the Faith of Christ by Baptisme ●al 5. You are all the children of God by Faith in Christ Iesus saith the Apostle As long as we continue in his fauour we haue the benefits of his children and a portion of glory is due to vs but when we loose his fauour by mortall sinne we become then of his children his ennemys and loose all the right which we had vnto glory and can not say as Christians ought to say our Father Which art in Heauen God is in all places essentially for his power being in all places conseruing all things and all places and his power being the very same as himselfe it followeth that himselfe is by essence in all places But he is said to be in Heauen because he is there after the most eminent manner communicating himself in glory to his creatures Hallowed be thy Name Authours haue commonly diuided the Pater Noster into seauen petitions and the first is to desire that then a me of God be hallowed For this is the first and cheife good and the principall thing which wee are to desire and pray for that God may haue that honour which is due to him We aske in this petition that the externall honour of God may increase amōgst his creatures for his intrinsecall honour and perfections are infinite and increase not and that his true worship may be knowne and giuen him by the enemys of the Catholike Faith and that Catholiks may liue according to the holines of their profession But how farre are we from the performance of this prayer Those that in words say hallowed be thy Name Rom. 2 and hallow it not in works blaspheme it By you the Name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentils They are like the souldiers of Pilate who kneeled downe to Christ Mat. 27 saying Haile King of the Iewes and then spitted in his face and strucke him about the head with a reede So they kneele down to their prayers and seeme to honour God in words but rising vp from them they dishonour him in worke This is not like good children Mat. 5. nor according to the command of Christ when he said So let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heauen THE SECOND PETITION THY Kingdome come Here we aske the blessed state of Heauen which is therefore called the Kingdom of