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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09333	Two twinnes: or Two parts of one portion of scripture. I. Is of catechising. II. Of the ministers maintenance. By Richard Barnard, preacher of the word of worship in Nottinghamshire	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1613 (1613)	STC 1964; ESTC S115305	35,775	56

Catechise Hence therefore follow diuers vses to be made of Manifold vses of the doctrine this doctrine to sundry sorts of persons First vnto the reuerend Fathers and all Ecclesiastical To Ecclesiasticall Gouernours Officers set ouer the Ministers for to ouer-see them not to see ouer Ministers neglecting this so necessary a dutie You are to see vs performe this you take oaths Motiues or inducements to the dutie of Church-wardens to present this woefull neglect if thereby the fault be found out God forbid you should let so great a neglect in Ministers passe vvithout censure and controule tythe not I pray you Mint and Cummin and let passe this most weighty poynt of the Law of God and our King Your neglect to punish vvill be our neglect of dutie the Canon is very strict Canon 59. it thundreth in sound of words but if you shall forbeare the execution vvhich is the life of good Lawes it may be terriculum sed vix sane nostrum cu●quam terriculamentum it will be as a Canon without powder or Bullet standing for terrour but neuer shot off The end of Synods is to good purpose in their right vse for preseruation of good things well established and for reformation of abuses Oh let not then the end of our meeting be that you should call and wee answeare to our names crying here Syr and there an end as if the purpose of Synodes were to know nothing else but eyther whither wee had forgot or lost our names or out run our liuings Sed quid ego edoceam peritos pauca Sapi 〈…〉 and therefore I proceed to the rest Secondly to Church-wardens that you present To Church-wardens such as continue herein negligent it is your Oath great is the benefit which both you the elder as also the yonger sort both children and seruants shall reape by Motiues Catechising Care for your soules cause Archippus to fulfill his Ministery rest not with reading alone tho it be also an ordinance of God without interpretation if you may haue it nor with preaching alone without Catechising together are they strong meanes by Gods blessing to bring you to God Thirdly to Minister and first to such as doe make To Ministers and first to such as doe Catechise of which 3. sorts 1. The diligent Motiues conscience of this doing it vvith diligence and profit to the people goe on still my good brethren you see it is a Diuine ordinance your duetie a necessary meanes much approued by law established by the Apostles practised and by Christ himselfe goe on with the yong in yeeres they need Milke you haue law to compell them and to enforce their parents to bring them yet doe as much by gentle meanes as you may Our Sauiour commanded children to bee brought vnto him and rebuked those that would haue kept them from him we are in Christs steed command 2 Cor. 5. children to bee brought and rebuke such as hinder them Saint Paul went from house to house to them Acts 20. in his time familiar teaching profiteth much winneth the peoples loue to the truth as they get knowledge for ignoti nulla cupido it emboldeneth them much and by your wise cariage procureth to your selues reuerence Lastly thinke how they haue soules to saue and are the tender lambes of Christ which you must feed as you loue the Lord Iesus In going on with the babes in yeeres draw forward yonglings in knowledge the olde babes in yeeres as much as lyeth in you suffer not them to perish for lacke of knowledge winne them by fauour whom you cannot bring perforce come to them priuately vvhom you conueniently cannot deale with publikely You brethren know that ignorant mindes are a seed plot for the Papists to sowe their heresies to set in their superstitions and to plant their abhominable Idolatries Win them therefore to this plant in them religious grounds for so you shall beget in them a loue of the Word a reuerent estimation of the Ministery and a care of sanctifying of the Sabaoth which three they almost make no conscience of but through prophanenesse as Esau set these things to sale for a messe of pottage Consider how without the grounds of Catechisme they cannot pray they know not what it is as appeareth by many who account the repeating of the words of the Creed and ten Commandements to be a prayer How can they examine themselues and prepare themselues to the Lords Supper being ignorant of the doctrine of the Sacraments with what comfort can vvee admit such persons so ignorant though liuing in the Church to the Lords Supper when the Teachers in the primitiue time would admit none but the vvell instructed vnto Baptisme Saint Hebr. 5. 6. Paul Catechised the Auncient as wee haue heard and wee haue a commandement in the Booke of Common-Prayer to admit none to the Sacrament vncatechised which haue not learned their Catechisme I will not say therefore vnto thee my brother which makest conscience of this excellent worke Perge in virum play the man but perge precor in bonum ministrum performe the part of a man of God and a great reward shall be giuen vnto thee And thus much to the first sort which doe Catechise diligently The second sort of such as doe this worke are they 2. Sort negligent Ier. 48. 10. Reproofe with the reasons that doe it but as guiltie of that curse in Ieremy Cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently both in doing and for the time they leaue it vndone for in Catechising they do it without care of the peoples profiting onely hearing them repeate words but not examining how they vnderstand vvhat they doe say so as they are very little better for such teaching it is something as good as nothing as we may see where onely the people be thus taught Againe this so cursorie a course is but a little before Easter and all the yeere else are they le●t to themselues and neuer examined this childish kinde of teaching bringeth contempt to so holy so necessarie a worke and the negligent passing it ouer so long causeth youth and other to thinke that it is not so necessarie or profitable as indeed it is in the hands of a cunning workeman The third sort of such as catechise are they which 3. Sort diligent but not so profitable as they might be take paines and that diligently but yet if I might so speake with their good fauour without offending not very profitably And this is either when one two or halfe a dozen or as many as you please are asked one and the same Question when by the first the rest doe learne to answere though before they neuer tooke care to commit it to memory and so it remayneth not with them and the negligent onely care to giue some small contentment for the time or when but onely one or two and euer the same stand forth for all and answere

need not be ashamed of the worke Though the vvord be deliuered homely yet if it be reuerently done and the food wholesome it is to be vvell approued of all humble spirits and of all such as be religiously disposed But yet rather than the time should be spent in vnprofitable preaching I could vvish that omitted till better preparation and the labour bestowed in this course of Catechising The other sort of them that doe not Catechise are Such as can Catechise and preach but wil doe neither they that wil neither preach nor catechise though they can or could haue done both well Such are not resident vpon their Flocke because they be not cord● cum cura animarum though corpore with neglect of dutie for residencie is thus defined by the Canonists Residentia est Clerici in Ecclesia beneficium tenentis cum voluntate debiti praestandi seruitij praesentia So that it is not enough to be present in body among his Parishioners but that he willingly performe such seruice as the Lord requireth of him for their edification and therefore saith one vpon that definition parum esset praesentiam sui exhibere curam seu seruitium Ecclesiae negligere This wilfull neglect sheweth that they loue not the Lambs of Christ that they be without conscience of their dutie without Christian compassion vvhich was in Christ towards the multitude such people hauing Math. 9. such Pastours are as Sheepe without a Shepheard If the loue of God dwell not in them that haue vvorldly riches to relieue the bodies of the needy and doe shut vp their compassion from them how dwels it in these who shut vp Gods graces and gifts and will not relieue the staruing soules of Christs poore people The worldly wealthy may haue some excuse because by giuing they diminish their goods but these the more they bestow the more may they encrease in gifts and graces How can these men comfort themselues vvhen they are charged by the Apostle before God and his Angels at the appearing of the Lord Iesus to be instant 2 Tim. 4. 1. 2. in season and out of season and yet doe neglect wilfully Iam 4 17. so great meanes of the peoples saluation Their sinne is great and great punishment shall be inflicted vpon such as know to doe well and doe it not Now brethren to you of the Laity if it be our Vse to the people dutie to Catechise you it is your part to come to bee Catechised and to yeeld your selues to be taught you I meane that be yet ignorant of the principles of religion Motiues be not ashamed to know the truth Godly men are commended in Scripture for their humilitie herein Luke 1. Acts 8. Acts 28. Hebr. 5. 12. 1 Cor. 15. 34. you haue an example in noble Theophilus in that honourable Eunuch in eloquent Apollo● and the conuerted Iewes whose grace let vs follow it is no disgrace to learne as wee see by these but a shame to vs to bee ignorant in the very grounds of our profession The Ecclesiasticall Histories make mention of the Eus lib 6. cap. 3. 7. Catechised called Catechumeni remember you auncient that you are to be instructers and Catechisers of Heb. 5. 12. Exod. 12. 26. 27. Deu. 4 9. 7. 7. Psal 78. 3. 4. 5. 67. Prou. 22. 6. your owne families now how can you doe this and be ignorant of that you should teach yea Fathers must doe it Deut. 6. 7. Ephes 6. 4. an example vvee haue in Abraham Gene. 17. 12. 13. 14 and 18. 17. 18. 19. in Dauid also Prouerb 4. 3 4. 1 King 2. 1. 3. 4. Mothers must be instructours Prouerb 18. example wee haue in Salomons Mother Pr●u 31. in Lois and Eunice 2 Tim. 1. 5. 3. 15. Hu●bands must teach their wiues 1 Cor. 14. 35. yea euery one must admonish and edifie another 〈◊〉 18. 17. 1 7 b. s. 11. Hebr. 3. 13. Rom. 13. 14. how much more then should Gouernours of Families haue care of their owne households If these things moue you not consider how many of you haue solem●nly promised in being God-fathers God-mothers to teach other mens children the Catechisme or see that they be taught it If this dutie were performed you should greatly further the publike ministery yea by your sound knowledge in the matters of Catechisme Sermons would be better vnderstood of you 1 Iohn 4. 1. 1 Thes 5. 21. Acts 17. 11. 1 Cor. 11. 2 Cor. 13. 5. 1 Pet. 3. 15. you would be able to try better the Spirits to examine your selues and so be made fit for the Lords Table and not rush vnto it as many doe to their condemnation You should be able easily to answere some aduersary to giue an account of your Faith readily as you are commanded if you be well Catechised by the ignorance whereof you cannot be but very vnstable in your profession building without foundation you lose the benefit of profitable hearing of Sermons you easily yeeld to by-paths and are turned about with euery wind of doctrine But you that are of yeeres perhaps haue gathered Answere made to such as obiect against Catechising Obiect excuses and thinke hereby to auoid this dutie of learning the Catechisme you are ashamed to be knowen to be ignorant Ah my brethren are you more ashamed of the knowledge of your ignorance then of ignorance it selfe Know this that your ignorance shall be knowne if you so remayne in it and God will seuerely 2 Thes 1. 7. punish it therefore now hide it not but rather seeke to remoue it Know also that ignorance is a great sinne and wilfull ignorance a heauie punishment of God for sinne But that you may not be held backe by this shame consider that all are first ignorant before they get knowledge that it is no cause of shame to learne that vvhich we doe not know In many earthly matters we can both acknowledge our ignorance and yeeld our selues to learne why not in heauenly also without shame the Apostles were ignorant and desired to be taught to pray and many other things so other in the Acts 2. 37. 16. primitiue Church did confesse their ignorance to the Apostles and the like did diuers after them to their Successors whose godly humilitie vve should follow for this kinde of shame ariseth of a wretched pride a sinne hatefull to God Doth not the Priests lips preserue Mal. 2. 7. knowledge and are not you to seeke it at his mouth Obiect But you will yet say that your Ancestors and forefathers had no such teaching and yet say you they did well How well they did in that ignorant estate in their blindnesse superstition and idolatrie I leaue to shew and how they are onely God best knoweth yet howsoeuer they did know you you cannot doe vvell if you neglect instruction for you haue the meanes which they had not their ignorance was of necessity in those times but yours