of others As of Bishops Patrones c. The most wicked haue gotten from all the libertie of vsing their voice and sentence and doe at their pleasures present name and approue whom they will As the Examiner the Patrone the Bishoppe c. They commaund and giue licenses with seales and fees and kneelings and blasphemously also will giue the holie Ghost and the authoritie of preaching though they haue not the guift both which the lord onely can giue 119 Prayer at the chosing is vpō the word preached a pronouncing of their earnest desire to haue God their gracious Gouernour in so waightie a matter with an hūble cōfessing wherin and how much they haue need of his help an intreating for the same in the name of Christ Iesus The gathering of voyces consent of the people is a general inquirie who is meete to be chosen when firste it is appointed to thē all being dulie assembled to looke out such persons among thē then the nūber of the most which agree is taken by some of the wisest with presenting and naming of the parties to be chosen if none can alledge anie cause or default against them The ordayning by some of the forwardest wisest is a pronoūcing thē with prayer thanksgiuing laying on of hands if such imposition of handes bee not turned into pompe or superstition that they are called and authorised of God receyued of their charge to that calling 120 What agreement must ther be in the householdes for the gouernement of them There must be an agrement of Husband and Wife of Parentes Children Also of Maister and Seruant and likewise of Teachers Schollers c. This agreement betweene parentes and children is of naturall desert and duetie betweene them But in the other there must be triall and iudgment of ech others meetnes for their likinge and callinge as is shewed before Also there must be a due couenaunt betweene them 120 How doe they shift and thrust themselues into home gouernment There is some disorder wilines or wrong in their agreement There is vnnaturall hardnes in the parentes towards the children or the children doe refuse and cast of their parents They hide away their vntowardnes by some outward bragge and countenaunce By craft feare or power they vndermine them and bring them into bondage As for the couenaunt here betweene husband and wife we vnderstand not the couenaunt which is in the communion of mariage but that which is in the communion of gouernement And this couenaunt is broken if eyther do seeke the destruction of other or doe persecute religion or goodnes likewise also it is broken if by keeping togethr the one can not hould the true religion through the vntowardnes of the other in a wicked and false religion And therefore in such cases a brother or a sister is not in bondage but that the husband may depart from the wife or the wife from the Husband 1 Cor. 7. Yet this departing is not a breach of the couenaunt of mariage but of that communion in gouernment through leauing one an other for a good conscience 120 The gouernement of the Husbande is his authoritie lordshippe and chieftie ouer the wife whereby he vseth her obedience and seruice to partake vnto her the vse and graces of his authoritie and guiding Parentes are persons authorised ouer their children to rule them by naturall desert of begetting and bringing them vp Maisters are persons authorised ouer their seruauntes to rule them by couenant of some maintenance wages or benefite for their bodily seruice Teachers are persons authorised ouer schollers to rule them by couenant to haue maintenance or benefitte by them for the learning which they gette vnder their guiding Triall of eche others giftes meetnes is defined before quest 118. The couenant of Gouernement is an agreement or partaking of condicions to hold the communion thereof so long as it tendeth not to the confusion or destruction of eyther partie Let this Definition be equallie weighed and it will appeare whether wiues may departe from their Husbandes when the vntowardnes of the Husbandes in a false religion and persecution withall doeth driue them to seeke their safetie with true Religion and a good conscience Hitherto of the entraunce and taking on vs the callinges of gouernment now foloweth the due execution of those callings 121 How must Superiours execute their callinge by ruling their inferiours They must esteeme right and due They must vphould the same By appointing to others their dueties They must take accountes 121 How doe the wicked handle their gouernment amisse and abuse the same for their pleasure and lustes They mislike the right and fauour the wronge They leade others vnto wickednes They suffer and let them alone therein 121 For the definition of rule gouernement looke question 112. Execution of their calling is a duetifulnes in them in partaking vnto them which obeye and serue them the whole vse and al the graces of their authoritie and guiding Esteeming right and due in inferiours is a duetie of their calling whereby they are pleased with the worthines thereof and feele or knowe the vse of the same 122 How must they esteeme right and due They must be zealouse for equitie and innocencie They must loue those and reioyse ouer them which doe their dueties They must hate all vanite and wickednes and be angrie and greeued therat 122 How doe they mislike right and due They make light thereof They loath it and take greefe therat They rest and please themselues in euill and wrong 122 Their zeale and Ielousie is the estimation of right and dutie for the worthines thereof whiche prouoketh them to hasten the same to make it sure with all straightnes and watchfulnes Their Loue and Ioye is their high estimation of inferiours in their goodnes whereby they yeelde them selues to them in one mutuall happines and take them as precious and deare which are so obedient and rulie Their anger and hatred is their troubled disliking of the wickednes of inferiours for the contrarietie thereof to their iust guiding and authoritie prouoking them speedily to redresse such wickednes or if that can not be to cast them off and forsake them 123 How must they appoint vnto others their worke and duetie They must teach them They must direct them by their guiding and helpe They must giue them good example 123 How doe they misleade They giue them vp to their ignoraunce or deceiue and beguile them They forsake the vntoward or make them more auke They goe before thē in wickednes 123 Appointing of dueties is that point of gouernement or duetifulnes in Gouernours whereby their inferiours haue their office and charge at their handes Their Teaching is their duetifulnes in vsing the obedience of inferiours to learne and knowe their dueties 124 How must they teach them They must teach them the
Trust. The honor worship of God In huÌ„bling our selues to his gretnes In vsing his goodnes In seeking to him In thankefulnes Humbling our selues Inwardlie In meecknes In patience Outwardlie in homage Meekenes Patience Lowlines and homage Seeking to God For remedie of sinne Confessing faults Asking pardon For the remedie of euil for sinne Complayning of wantes Crauing helpe Confessing faultes Asking pardon Complaining and Crauing helpe Thankefulnes to God In acknowledging his goodnes In dutifulnes for the same Giuing thanks Giuing prayse Acknowledging his goodnes Giuing thankes Praysing God Seruing GOD By learning his will By obedience thereto In our calling In accouÌ„tes therof Learning the will of God By getting knowledge By vsing the same to followe The example of God His guiding Following God guiding vs. Following his example Obedience In taking counsaile In dutifulnes thereby as Our forwardnes vpoÌ„ câ—uÌ„sail Our maner of working Counsaile Deuising Aduising Aduising Of present things Marking and examining Consenting Iudgement c. Conscience c. Of absent Past Remembraunce Counting Comming Foresight Purpose and decree Attendance and watching Reckoning Foresight Purpose Forwardnes Desire Forwardnes Inclining Desire Ioye Prouoking Zeale Ielousie Maner of working Skilfulnes Ordering by time Measure Handsomnes Labor Force Speede Painefulnes Manner of working Gaines or actiuenes Order By time and course By measure of worke Handsomnes Labor and diligence Painefulnes Speede. Forceablenes Stedfastnes Patient bearing Preuayling Stedfastnes In patience In preuayling Patience in labor Preuayling Gathering strength Finishing Dispatching and finishing Accountes Of dueties by a cleare conscience Of blessings by vsing them A good coÌ„science Without guiltines of sinne Without trouble Peace and blessings Special dueties for The name of God His Sabbath The name of God By his special worship By the furtherance of his kingdome The special worship of God Our special humbling by special iudgements Our speciall thankfulnes in straungeâ— blessings By praysing God By vowing vowes and performing them Humb. Pray Thank Vowes Edifying Rebuke Exhortation An Othe or swearing Lotting Church meetings Our speciall furthering of the kingdom of God In spirituall edifying In talke by praysing God exhorting rebuke In doubt and controuersies as by swearing lotteâ—â— In meetinges for the same With the Church With speciall friendes The Sabbath Gouernement In the entrance of that calling In the due execution thereof Righteousnes concerning man In general duties More bouÌ„den coÌ„cerning Gouernement Submission More free for Our own and other mens persons Furniture and goods In speciall duties For name and credit For contentation and auoyding couetousnes Entrance of that calling By assurance of our giftes By our calling to vse them By Gods commaundement By agreement of men Assurance of our gift In our selues Knowledge age godlines c. Outward furniture c. By others as pareÌ„tage birth Knowledge Age and Eldership Birth and Parentage CoÌ„maundement to vse their gift Generall lawe Special Prophecie Warning Prophecie of their calling Particular warnings Church Gouernours Ciuill Magistrates Ciuill Magistrates Householders Agrement of men Ecclesiasticall Ciuill For Magistrates In peace In war For housholders AgremeÌ„t of men Trying giftes godlines Receiuing by obedience Recyuing by choyce Agreement of the Church By trying their gifts and godlines By prophecie By life manners Receiuing thereon By obedience By choise Prayer at the chosing Gathering voyces Ordayning Chosing By God which authoriseth and sendeth By men which receyue and coÌ„firme the authoritie By gathering voyces By ordayning With prayers and thankesgiuing With pronouncing theÌ„ called The gouernmeÌ„t of Husbandes Parents Masters Teachers Couenant of gouernment Home gouernment By natural agreement as betwene Parents Children By couenant and choyse made as Betweene husbande wife Maisters and Seruauntes c. Execution of calling By esteeming right and due By vpholdiÌ„g the same By appointing duties By taking accountes Esteeming right Pleased with it Loue and Ioye Zeale Ielousie Displeased with coÌ„trary Hatred Anger and Wrath. Zeale Loue. Hatred and anger Appointing dueties By teaching By speciall directing Teaching Teaching Deliuering the groundes of Religion and meaning of the Scriptures By interpreting and opening The wordes The matter as The whole meaning The summe whole matter brieflie laied out The methode and order The partes Proofes Sentences By gathering vppon it Generall knowledge Of Religion and holines Of righteousnes wiih men Applying to reforme Skanning duties by Mouing affections Cimending discoÌ„mending Exhorting dehorting Confirming the same By requiring agayne and priuate applying By trying in practise Groundes of Religion Applying Dehorting Requiring againe Directing To doo things with vs In religion worshipping God In al other affaires In doubtes controuersies to decide matters In busines to commauÌ„de tell them their dueties To do things after vs by our exaÌ„ple In the worship of God Deciding matters Particular commaunding Good example Taking accounts In knowing right due By Watching By examining In recompensing Watching Examining Recompensing Inferiours and submission In esteeming them In dutifulnes thereon by Honouring them By seruing them Esteeming In their persons Reuerence Bashefulnes In their autority In iustice In goodnes Esteeming their persons Reuerence Shamefastnes Esteeming theÌ„ in their Iustice. In well doing Feare Zeale In euill doing as greefe Feare Zeale Greefe Loue Ioye Esteeming in goodnes Present Loue. Ioye CoÌ„ming Hope Trust. Hope and Trust. Honouring them In humbling our selues to them In vsing their goodnes Humbling Inwardly In meekenes In patience Outwardlie in homage Homage Meekenes Patience Seeking to them In faultes Confessing faules Asking pardon In other miserie or need Complayning of wantes Crauing helpe Confessing faultes Asking pardon Complaining and Crauing helpe Thankefulnes to theÌ„ In acknowledging goodnes In dutifulnes for the same Giuing thanks Kindnes and duetie againe Acknowledging their goodnes Giuing thankes Kindnes and duetie againe Seruing them By learning of them By obedience thereto In our calling In accounts therof Learning of them By getting knowledge By vsing the same to follow Their guiding Their example Getting knowledge by them Following them guiding Following their example Yeelding to their Iudgementes Accountes In worde In clearing our selues By shewing our faithfulnes In deede by fulfilling taske Clearing Faithfulnes Fulfilling taske Goodnes By esteeming and accounting By dutifulnes thereon In honouring them In pleasuring them Esteming them In prosperitie In their persons In their goodnes In miserie Greefe mercie and compassion Esteeming person Reuerence Shamefastnes Reuerence Shamefastnes Esteming theÌ„ in goodnes Loue. Ioye Loue. Loue of our enemies Ioye Mercie Greefe Partaking shame Honouring By huÌ„bling our selues to them For their worthines Reuerent speache Courtesie and Ministring For agreement Meekenes in pleasing Gentlenes in sparing By vsing their goodnes Humbling Lowlines Courtesie Ministring Meekenes in pleasing By yeelding By appeasing anger Yeelding To request Of suite Of pardon To him that striueth for his opinioÌ„ Pardoning Appeasing Gentlenes in sparing By mildnes By patience in forbearing Infirmities Iniuries Mildnes in speache In talke In rebuke and admonishment Patience Forbearing infirmities Forbearing iniuries Seeking to them In faultes Confessing faults Asking pardon In other miserie or need Complayning of wantes Crauing helpe Confessing faultes Asking pardon Complaining and Crauing helpe Pleasuring them Secrete by prayer for them Shewed By directing and furthering them By maintayning theÌ„ Prayer for them Directing furthering In word by Teaching Counsell In deede By ayding moderatiÌ„g By example Ayding and helping Comforting Maintayning In strift controuersie by iudging and defending their cause and person and reconciling parties In peace quietnes In prouiding good things for them In doing good Iudging Defending Reconciling Prouiding Giuing LeÌ„ding Suertiship Visiting Doing good In bestowing our goods Lending Giuing In bestowing our selues our seruice Suertiship Visiting and ministring c. Defending Duties for our selues In maintayning our Welfare In defending and keeping it In remedying it In vsing it Comfortablie Honourablie WithstaÌ„ding Pleading Assayling Defending By with staÌ„ding In deede c. In word c. By assayling Vsing state comfortablie Remedying want of comfort Vsing state honourablie In abstinence In nature as lust appetite delightes ease c In other pleasures In moderation By purenes chastitiâ—â— By sobernes Abstinence Moderation Purenes chastitie In mariage By preparing thereto By due ioyning In single life Mariage By preparatioÌ„ thereto By triall of meetnes iâ— the parties to be maried By a due couenant By a due ioyning Trying their meetnes By nature Sexe age kindred Personage to our â—â—king By nature bringing vp Godlines Meetnes by trade Meetenes Meetenes for liking Meetenes for calling CouenaÌ„t At mariage to giue No vse of their bodies for generation to others Nor token thereof Before mariage In the parties Betrothing Espousing In friendes as their agreement Bethrothing Espousing Making it further knowne Gladnes in meeting of friends Sobernes Inwarde Outwarde In speache In behauiour and furniture Duetifulnes in goods By getting them By sauing them being gotten Getting By labor in our calling In studies of mind as the artes In work of bodie as sciences and trades By the maner of labouring as before Callings Studies of learning Trades and Sciences Sauing by Keeping froÌ„ the losse By reckoning and Counting By placing Bestowing and vsing wel By spending without waste By mending hurt and vncomelines Keeping from losse Counting and placing Bestowing Spending Mending and dressing
things is his counsaile from euerlasting how all things shall be and fall out His iudginge and markinge is his counsaile of all things present how they are His remembrance as we vnderstand it is his aduising or counsaile of things which are past as it were by occasion of things present though nothing is occasioned to God His counting or reckoning is a whole and full aduising of things passed because he will take accounts of them His foresight is his counsaile wherby he is aduised of all things comming His Purpose and Praedestination is his counsaile whereby he is setled how all things shall be 16 How doth he worke things in their due manner He doth al things in perfect readines and order Also with speed forcible indeauour Also in stedfastnes and finishing his enterprises 16 What say you of their euill handling and marring of matters They are disordered and vntoward They haue their slacknesse and fainting They haue their backwardnes and disuauntage 16 His manner of worcking is the right vse of his knowledge in applyinge the same vnto practise His readines is his perfect mnner of preparing al things which may further his workes His order is his perfect manner of setting and compassing the worke it selfe His speed is his hastning to dispatch the worke His force is the endeuour whereby the woorke wanteth no strength to bring it to passe His Stedfastnes and finishing is the continuance of his enterprise without fayling or letting tyll it be done 17 Howe is hee iust and righteous His righteousnesse standeth in esteeming right and due Also in vpholding the same by appointinge to all thinges their worke and dutie Also in takinge accountes of their workes and duties 17 How are they vnrighteous They mislike the right and fauour the wrong They leade others vnto wickednes They suffer and lette them â—lone therein 17 His Iustice and righteousnes is his holines in the right ruling and gouerning of all things His Esteeming of right is that point of Iustice whâ—rbey he is pleased therewith and displeased with the contrarie 18 Howe doeth he esteeme of right and due He is zealous and iealous for equitie and innocencie Hee loueth those and reioyceth ouer them which do right and dutie He hateth al vanitie and wickednes and is angrie therewith 18 Howe doo they mislike right and due They make light therof They loath it and take greefe therat They rest and please them selues in euill and wrong 18 His zeale and iealousie is his estimation of right and duetie for the worthines thereof whereby he is saide as it were prouoked to hasten the same and maketh it sure with all straightnesse and watchfulnesse His Loue Ioy is his high estimation of any in their goodnes whereby he yeeldeth him self to them in one mutuall happines and taketh them as precious and deare which haue so sought his name and his glorie His wrath hatred is his troubled disliking of wickednes in anie for the contrarietie thereof to his holines prouoking him to pursue them as accursed and to set him self wholie against theÌ„ as hateful vnto him 19 Howe doeth he appoint vnto all their worke and duetie He hath geuen vnto all things power and meanes to obey and serue him if they had kept it He teacheth vs his will and worde He directeth vs by his example and guiding 19 How do they mislead They leaue them in their weakenes or peruert their gifts They geue them vp to their ignorance or deceaue and beguile them They forsake the vntoward or make them more auke 19 His appointing of dueties is that part of his gouernement or that worke of his Iustice whereby all haue their office and charge at his handes His teaching is whereby hee reuealeth and maketh knowne his will His Moderating is a work of his gouernement vsing the obedience of his creatures in following him to put in practise a duetie or office appointed vnto theÌ„ 20 How doeth he take accounts He watcheth vs himselfe and by his Angels and messengers He examineth and trieth vs by his word and our consciences and by outward affliction He recompenceth euerie one according to his workes 20 How do they suffer and let alone in their wickednes They hyde wickednes and shift it away and seeke occasions of euill They ouerslip wickednes and passe by the same Thei flatter and excuse them in their sinne 20 His taking of accountes is a woorke of his gouernement whereby he reckoneth with all things howe they execute his will His watching is â—his continuall mindinge of all his creatures whereby he marketh their obedience and seruice His examining and trying is his forceable taking of accountes whereby he maketh knowne that whiche anie would hyde His recompensing is a worke of his Iustice whereby euerie thing as it sheweth foorth his glorie so it hath the name and the vse thereof in good or euil 21 Hitherto of the Iustice of God what say you of his grace goodnes His goodnes is in preseruing blessing his creatures especially man both in his firste estate wherein he was made after the image likenes of God And in restoring him againe being fallen away from his state Hitherto of the vnrighteousnes of Heathen gods 21 What say you of their cursednes and harming They are a present mischeefe They faile most when they should cheeflie helpe 21 His goodnes is his holines in doing good and increasing his blessings towardes his creatures more then the goodnes which is in them deserueth His preseruation or sauing of things is a worcke of his goodnes whereby he keepeth all his creatures in their state of excellencie and difference of kinde by continuance of his blessing vppon them 22 How doth he maintaine and blesse things in their state He giueth to al their natures Also their glorie and excellencie Also all outward furniture needfull vnto them 22 How are they a present mischiefe The course of nature is corrupted chaunged by them All things are defased and stained All come to marring and spoile 22 The natures of things is the proper ablenesse which euerie thing hath to kepe it selfe in his perfect kinde Their glorie and excellencie is the gifte which they haue to shew forth the glorie of their Creator Their outward furniture is the prouision and stoare of outward helps and furtherances of their welfare 23 What say you of the restoring of man being fallen away from his state by the sinne of Adam God hath prouided the meanes of saluation First in his secrete counsaile Secondly in his redines to helpe vs. Thirdly in the shew of his helpe That we may apply this vnto Antichrist 23 How hath he most failed vs when he seemed to helpe vs Antichrist hath euer an euill minde to the church of God He is alwaies vntoward and vnfit to helpe it He is a plague
whiche striketh vs with the great estimation thereof 92 How must we esteeme him in his iustice Wee must feare and tremble thereat least wee displease him Wee must be zealous for his righte and glorie Wee must hate all vanitie and wickednes and be displeased therewith 92 How doe they make lighte of his lawes They haue their hardnes and stoutenes of hart Also their doubling and halting Also they rest and flatter themselues in their wickednes 92 Esteeming God in his Iustice is a dutie of Religion whereby wee take him for our Lorde and gouernour for his holines in ruling vs most worthelie The feare of God is an estimation of his Iustice whereby we take heede to please him in all thinges and abhorre to prouoke him against vs because we are sure that as we set foorth his excellencie so wee shall haue the name and the vse thereof Zeale to the glorie of God is an high estimation thereof for his worthines prouoking vs most earnestlie to hasten and further the same as being our happines Hatred and anger against wickednes is a troubled disliking thereof for the cursednes and contrarietie thereof both to God and our godlie nature prouoking vs to set our selues wholie against it 93 How must wee esteeme him in his goodnes Wee must loue the lord our God with all our hartes We must continually reioyce in his presence We must al wayes hope and trust in his helpe 93 How doo they make light of his grace and blessinges They haue their misgeuing from goodnes They take greefe thereat They shrinke awaye doubt to goe forward 93 The loue of God is an high estimation of God for his most perfect goodnes whereby we take him for our happines in feeling his presence and good will towardes vs and therefore yeelde vp our selues wholie vnto him Our Ioye in God is an high estimation of the vse of his goodnes whereby wee feele him to bee our happines therein Hope and Trust in God is an high estimatiō of the helpe of God towardes vs prouoking vs to doo all thinges in his name with assurance of his promises and graunte to preuayle We Hope when we haue but the promise wee Trust when we feele a further helpe vpon his promise 94 What honour and worshipp is due vnto God We must humble our selues before him We must seeke to him for his fauour and helpe We must be thankefull for his goodnes towards vs. 94 How would they make God's shame and a skorne They haue their loftines and pride or els their superstition and Idolatrie They forsake the Lords goodnes withdraw themselues like straung children to seeke to false Gods They esteeme their owne worthines and are vnthankfull to God 94 The Honouring and worshipping of God is our holines in shewing by our lowlines before him howe much wee esteeme him aboue vs. Humbling of our selues to God is an honouring or worshipping of him by abasing our selues according to our vnworthines and his excellencie aboue vs. 95 How must we humble our selues vnto God We must be meeke as despising our right and welfare We must be patient in abiding miseries We must be lowlie in our hartes and in our speach and behauiour 95 What is their loftines and pride or their superstition and Idolatrie They are stoute and stubburne and yet slauish to false gods They storme and grudg in aduersitie and yet superstitiously torment thēselues They will be gallaunte and lordlie and yet bowe and abase themselues to vile Idoles 95 Meekenes is an humbling or abasing of our selues in despising our right or welfare as vnworthie to haue or to seeke it Patience is an humbling or abasing of our selues gladlie to suffer miseries and temptations as being meete for vs. Lowlines and homage is an humbling or abasing of our selues as beseemeth his worthines wherby we wholie yeeld vp our selues to giue him his honour 96 How must we seeke to him for his fauour and helpe We must confesse our faultes and offences We must aske pardon forgiuenes We must complaine of our wantes craue his helpe 96 How doe they forsake the Lords goodnes and withdrawe themselues like straung children to seeke to vaine gods They excuse and iustifie themselues in their sinnes or make confession vnto Idoles They are frowarde and wilfull in their sinnes or seeke their false pardons They chaleng desertes or complaine and seeke helpe by false gods 96 Seeking to God is a worshipping of him by a willing desire to vse his goodnes towards vs. Confessing faultes is a seeking to God for his mercie by shewing wherein and howe greatlie we haue offended Asking pardon is a seeking to God to haue our sinnes forgiuen vs with an humble intreating of him for his Christes sake Complayning and Crauing is a seeking to God by shewing wherein and howe much we haue need of his helpe with an humble intreating him for the same 97 How must we be thankfull We must acknowledg his goodnes towardes vs. We must giue him thankes for the same We must praise him in his marueilous workes 97 How doe they esteeme their owne worthines and are vnthankefull to God They sette light and thinke skorne of his graces They talke of their deseruinges They vaunte and boaste in their workes 97 Thankefulnes is an honouring or worshipping of God by abasinge our selues for his blessinges receyued whereby we take our selues wholie indebted vnto him and to be altogither vnprofitable vnto him and neuer able to make him amendes Acknowledging his goodnes is a ful cōsent conscience thereof by continuall mindefulnes and examining of his particular blessings Giuing thankes is a witnessing or shewing of the Lords deseruings both in our hartes or by voyce speach whereby we cōfesse the greatnes of his blessings and our vnworthines Praysing God is a confessing or reckoning vp in our selues or to others of his great workes and blessings to set forth his glorie Hitherto of Esteeming and Worshipping God Now followeth Howe to serue him 98 How must we serue God We must learne his will We must obey thereto in our calling We must giue good accountes of our calling 98 How are the wicked vnrulie They are foolish full of ignoraunce and errour They disobey the Lords will They are altogether sette on their willes and flee from the Lord. 98 Seruing God is a duetifulnes in folowing our calling and vsing our giftes with earnest indeuour whereby the Lorde hath his whole honour by all things we doo Learning of his will is the seruice of our mindes and vnderstanding in vsing his goodnes in teaching vs that we may knowe his will leade our liues thereafter 99 How must we learne the will of God We must gette the knowledge of his word and workes We must follow him guiding vs. We must follow his example so farre as we are made according to his
groundes of religion and the meaning of the Scriptures They must exhort and dehort particularly for reformation of their liues They must require thinges againe which are taught by particular applying and trying their guift 124 How doe they giue them vp to their ignoraunce or deceaue and beguile them They teache them heresies or lette them alone therein and withholde them from searching and learning the truth They incourage strēghthen thē in wickednes by flatteringes and pleasinges but discourage from goodnes by taunts and threats They skoffe mocke at their graces and knowledge if they haue anye or litle regarde their ignoraunce 124 The groundes of religion are the pronounced written or knowen lawes doctrine of God teaching vs the first necessarie and chiefe rules of our christian profession whereof if one of them be denied or refused it is the ouerthrowe of al religion of our whole redēption Applying is an examining or trying out of the liues of men by the trueth of Gods word to make known the secretes of their hartes vnto them and their iust desertes for the good or euill that is in them or proceedeth frō them For the definition of Exhortation looke quest 110. Dehorting is an edifying by sharpe blaming words with threatnings of iudgement to worke in their hartes a misliking of some vice and errour with a hatred and griefe against it Requiring agayne is a seconde or after teaching to confirme things which are taught 125 How must they direct them by their guiding and helpe They must guide thē in the worshipp of God as in the Worde Praier Thanksgiuing c They must gather their Voices Doubtes and Questions and determine Controuersies They must particularlie commaunde and tell them their dueties 125 How doe they forsake the vntowarde or make them more auke They are a spirituall infection and misleade others in a false worshippe and idol seruice They make them slauish to their decrees and traditions They force controule and turne all dueties which waye they will 125 Their directing and guiding is a duetie of their gouernement vsing the obedience of others in following them to do anie thing with them or after thē Guiding in the worship of God is when they worship God with vs and after our maner Gathering voyces doubtes c. is a diligent inquirie of them and determining controuersies is an vsing of their obedience to followe our iudgement in them set downe by the worde of God Particular commaunding and telling of duties is a pronoūcing with authoritie what we appoint them to do whereby we vse their obedience to followe our will Good example is a duetie of their gouernement in forwardnes before them to shew vnto others howe they should followe them doo anie thing after them 126 How must they take accountes They must continually watch them by visiting and looking to them themselues and by others helping vnto them They must trie out and search their state and behauiour by accusations and chardgings with witnesses They must reforme or recompense by rebuke or separation the wicked and vnruly 126 How doe they suffer and let alone in their wickednes They hide wickednes and shift it away and seeke occasions of euill They ouerslippe wickednes and passe by the same They flatter and excuse them in their sinne Hitherto of the dueties of Gouernours now follow the dueties of submission vnto them 126 Our taking of accountes is a duetie of our gouernement whereby we reckon with them howe they do their dueties Watching is our continuall minding of them whereby wee marke their obedience and seruice Examining and trying is a forceable taking of accountes whereby we make known that which anie would hyde Recompensing is a duetie of gouernement whereby as they doo their dueties so we giue them the name and the vse thereof in good or euill For rebuke and Separation looke questoon 48. 127 what say you of the dueties of submission to Superiours They consist in esteeming them In honouring them In seruing them 127 How are inferiours vnduetifull and faultie They despise their Gouernours They make them a shame and a skorne They are vnruly 127 Inferiours or persons gouerned are which giue vse to their Gouernours of their submission and seruice and receyue the vse of their authoritie and guiding and houlde this communion so longe as it tendeth not to the confusion or destruction of either of them Esteeming Superiours is a duetie of submission whereby we consent that they are worthie and meete for to guide vs. 128 How must we esteeme them We must esteeme them in their Persones Also in their Iustice. Also in their Goodnes 128 How doe they despise them They make light of their worthines Also of their will and pleasure Also of their goodnes and the graces and blessinges which they may haue by them 128 Esteeming them in their person is whereby we are moued at their presence and are stricken with their worthines for their cōtinuall good example and due behauiour 129 How must we esteeme them in their persone By reuerence By shamfastnes and bashfulnes 129 How doe they make light of their worthines They are too homelie with them They are boulde and malepert 129 Reuerence is an estimation of them for their owne worthines though we had not to deale with them Bashefulnes or shamefastnes is a troubled disliking of our owne vnworthines because of their presence whom wee better accounte of then of our selues 130 How must we esteeme thē in their iustice By feare By zeale for their right By greefe for their displeasure 130 How doe they make light of their will and pleasure They haue their hardnes and stoutnes of hart Also their dubbling and halting Also they rest and flatter them selues in their wickednes 130 Esteeming them in their iustice is a duetie of submission whereby wee take them to be meete and righteous Gouernours Feare is an Estimatiō of their Iustice wherby wee take heede to please them in all things and abhorre to prouoke them against vs because we are sure that they will recompence vs according to our deseruings Zeale for their right is an highe estimation therof for their worthines prouoking vs earnestlie to hasten and further the same as feeling it our curse if they lose their right Griefe for their displeasure is a troubled disliking of our wickednes and iniurie done to them whereby we feele the hurt and daunger We are in by their displeasure against vs. 131 How must we esteeme thē in their goodnes We must loue them We must reioyse in their presense welfare We must hope and trust of their help in God 131 How do they make light of their goodnes and of their graces blessinges which they may haue by them They haue their misgiuing frō them They are greeued and heauie before them They shrinke awaye and doubt of their helpe 131