haue been enemies to man and God the father of mankind I meane the Diuell and all his vncleane angels Shew this yet a little further If Lots righteous soule was vered so much with the vncleane conuersation of the Sodomites with whom he dwelt but for a time how shall they be vered in soule and body that are thrust into hel that euer burning Sodom where they must euer dwel with vncleane spirits ãâã diuels not to be broght out at last by the Angels as Lot out of SodoÌ but there to liue world without end forcing out desperate voices and cursings against their former filthy liues and present vncleane societie Now where hel thus described is due to the breakers of the law what do you gather That without repentance all Idolaters customary and raging swearers rebels to gouernment murtherers by poison or with weapons fornicators thââ¦ues lyers and ãâã of lyes must goe thither And must Idolaters go to hol without repentance what then must Idolaters do to be saued They must ãâã out of their ãâã as an abommable thing the ââ¦ty of ãâã and serue the true God by his Word What must customary and raging swearers do They that take vp for a ãâã the ãâã of the Holy One ãâã that if they be ãâã neuer so little in their ãâã they will prouoke him in his glory and if any thing go against hun their tongues shall goe as ãâã against him either in their games or more earnest ãâã must for hereafter ãâã that great and fearefull name the Lord their God How further doe you perswade this dutie Whatsoeuer is more then yea yea or nay nay to wit by ãâã or negation in common talke is of eâ⦠that is of the ãâã and as the roote of it is ãâã it being a plant of the Diuels setting so the ãâã of it is no better for ãâã is ãâã ãâã ãâã or fruite of such raging mouthes VVhat must rebels to gouernment doe If they be children they must not ãâã by vngracious disobedience their Parents curse for where it ãâã it falles ãâã but ãâã their blessing by dutie and loue if they be servants they must do seruice as to God in lawfull things that is chéerefully and with faithfulnesse and if they bee subiects they must feare the King and honour the Goâ⦠that are sent by him What must Murtherers doe ãâã of ãâã anger ãâã out all leauen of bitternesse bee gentle in word and ãâã sit down by wrongs patiently and ãâã rather then drowne their Christian credits as some Gallants do in bloud What must Adulterers doe ãâã the ãâã out of the ãâã of their mind and be chaste within also ãâã ãâã their ãâã eyes and hands that there be no whoredome in them and not only though ãâã abstaine from all acts of ãâã and ãâã but from all things and meanes that ãâã or may further such ãâã ãâã spââ¦cially ãâã ââ¦cings and ãâã drunkennesse What must theeues doe Remember that flying booke spoken of in Zechary a Booke of bitter ãâã that entreth into the house of the theefe and of him that sweareth falsly And so repent of their theâ⦠with confession to God and satisfaction to men How do you perswade this duty They that do not so or doe otherwaies couet an euil couetousnes to their house And a man were as good put a coale of fire into the thatch of his house or in his barnes as bring stollen goods to his other goods and stuffe better gotten For so many things as we get by stealth from our neighbour so many curses we get to our selues lay vp for our posterity What must lyars doe Not only abhorre to lye in ãâã or earnest but speake the truth from their heart that is with loue except they would go to hell with the father of liars the deuill of hell But lying is become their trade But they that vse the trade shal not be ãâã in it For they are of that fellowship that shal be cast into the Lake of fire And they that loue and make lyes are without that is out of heauen and far from saluation hauing no worthier persons for their Mates then dogs ââ¦chanters ãâã whoremongers idolaters idolaters and the like rabble of wicked sinners But what say you of merry lying There is no ãâã found in Gods Tabernacle And if wee must answere for euery idle word how much more for euery lying word What say you of the officious which some call the good and necessary lie Necessitie can no more priuiledge a man to lye then it can warrant him to steale And if we may not lye to bring glory to God shall we thinke we may lie to bring profit to man Therefore the distinction of lies into a malicious officious and merry lye as if any were lawfull is not of Gods making The superscription is Caesars and it is not from heauen but from Men. What do you conclude of al together That to do the good and hate the euil is the way to liue for they that seeke good not euill shal liue and they that doe these things that is which God hath commanded to be done shall neuer sall or for euer into condemnation But who is sufficient for these things And who then can be saued Indeed it is not in man nor in the best of men to continue in them and therefore is the Law our Schoole-master to bring vs to Christ. that is so to humble vs that Christ may receiue vs. What do you gather of this That by the often sight of our selues in the Law we must be wained from al opinioÌ of our own doings which are so short of perfection and doing the best we can depend onely vpon God in Christ for perfect and meritorious obedience placed wholy out of our selues in him To what end then serueth the Law To be the glasse wherein to view our estate in euery Commandement that we may see how poore and vnable wee are to doe any thing worthy recompence or pardon and not to rest there but to betake vs by Faith to him who hath fulfilled all righteousnesse for vs discharged with the pay of his Passion and obedience his Fathers debt ãâã and brought vs our full acquittance in his death and rising from death that we might not dye but line Then it is necessarie that wee doe our best to keep the Law though wee cannot be iustified by it Yea verily and that wee often go to that counting-booke of God the Law For when in the seuerall sums and parcels we shall find it impossible for vs to pay such a debt it will make vs to fall into a right ââ¦koning of our owne want and his worthinesse that hath released vs from so great both debt and danger And this is Christ and only He to whom be praise for ener Amen The like short exposition of the Lords Prayer in Questions
body truly to put difference betwéene the signes and things signified VVhat of your faith Whether I bee in the faith beleeuing ââ¦hat tââ¦e death of Christ as it is auailâ⦠for all the ãâã so it is particularly auaileable for me VVhat of your loue Whether I bee in charity with all men euen with my very enemies louing them vnto and for their true welfare and not my friends only VVhat of your repentance Whether I acknowledge my sinnes with a sorrowfull and melting heart and vnfainedly purpose to depart from all practice of them heereafter by amendment of life VVhat of your thankfulnesse Whether I be ready to expresse it in my Christian conuersation and new life for my redemption by Christ. VVhat of the workes of your particular calling Whether with some greater measure of obedience and better of better conscience in all patience and good faithfulnesse I walke or do truly purpose to walke therein to mine owne great peace and the benefit of those to whom God hath ioined me So much for that which you giue to Christ the Head what giue you to the Church his members A fellow stone in the spirituall building that is a member to help to make perfect the body of Christ. What doth this teach That they that are negligent or prophane commers to the Lords Table do detract from the perââ¦ion of Christs body and seuer themselues from the society of his Church So much for our giftes what doe we receiue at the Lords Table That which we receiue there concerneth our selues alone or our selues with others What is that that concerneth our selues alone The strengthening of our faith and memory by the reuerent and right vse of that holy action How is our faith strengthened and ãâã ââ¦olpen by it ãâã ââ¦ing that in the Sacrament which ãâã but heare of in the Word namely the parââ¦cular offering and receiuing of Christ in his body and sauing bloud by all beleââ¦ing Communicants So much ãâã that which concerneth our selueâ⦠alone what is that that concerneth our selues with others It concerneth our growing vp with Christ and our communion with our brethââ¦en How do we receiue our growing vp ãâã Christ We receiue it with Christ by spiritual eating and drinking and by a more full partaking with him and his graces through faith increased and that vse ãâã his ââ¦dinance blessed vnto vs. How do we receiue our communion with our brethren By ãâã our mutuall agréement in as much as we eate all of one bread and drinke all of one Cup. How else By feeding all of the same foode bodily and spiritually and by drawing all life from the same fountaine as the life of grace which heere we receiue and the lââ¦fe of glory which in heauen we shall be partakers of Amen So much for our examination before the Sacrament ãâã 23. 1. ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã with a Ruler ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã thee A short Direction for spending of time well HOw doe you diuide the daies of mans life Into the daies of labour and daves of holinesse VVhat say you of the daies of labor These concerne the works of our calling or workes of helpe vnto them What be the works of our calling The workes of that trade of life in which God hath placed vs. What must a man do in these By offering them to God he must walke in them neither slackly nor deceitfully but with Christian diligence and good conscience following his owne businesse with quietnesse and walking with God Then euery one must haue some speciall callââ¦g trade of life to liue in ãâã ãâã or hée is no sound member of the Christian common wealth ãâã a rotten member in the body of the same that deserueth a cutting off So much for the workes of our callings what say you of the workes of helpe vnto them They concerne duties to be done before the worke or that day after What must we doe in the morning before our worke Prayse God for his mercy the night past and pray vnto him for his further mercy and blessing the day present How shall we prayse God By giuing him thanks and by shewing our thankfulnesse How is our thankfulnesse shewed Inwardly or outwardly How inwardly By pleasing God in our vnderstanding thoughts desire affections and ââ¦ill How outwardly By pleasing him in our words and deeds How in our words When they be gracious alway VVhat things hurt this grace of speech Lying swearing brawling ââ¦lthie speaking foolish talking ãâã that is not comely and contention that causeth striâ⦠How in our deedes These are in the duties of our generall callings as we are Christians or our particular trades of life wherein some are Magistrates some Masters and seruants some Marchants Artificers Husbandmen and the like What are our duties as we be Christians These concerne God or man What are they that concerne God They are in the foure Commaundements of the first Table called godlinesse What are they that concerne man They concerne our selues or our neighbour What is that that concerneth our selues Sobriety which is inward and teacheth vs not to presume aboue that which is meete and outward in our apparell dyet outward members and senses What must our apparell be Such as becommeth those that professe the feare of God What call you sobriety in dyet That grace of temperance that consiââ¦eth in the moderate vse of meates drinkes sleepe and such outwarde things What sobriety is that which you call sobriety of sense and the outward members Sobriety of sense is a watchfulnes in it and sobriety of the members a chastity in them So much for the generall dââ¦ety that concerneth our selues called sobrietie what is that that concerneth our neighbour It is contained in the sixe last Commandements being Commandements of the second Table called Righteousnesse So much for our general duties as we be Christians what say you of our particular duties or duties of trade of life These reach vnto all callings in the Church and Common-wealth but to our purpose in a family they concerne the Husband or Wife Parents or their Children the Master and his Seruants What is the Husbands dutie To dwel with his wife as a man of knowledge by instructing her and by obseruing for her better incouragement the good parts that are in her and to loue her as his owne ââ¦esh What is the wiues dutie To helpe her husband in the duties of the family also to feare and to be subiect to him What be the Parents duties They concerne the father and niether iointly or by themselues What be their ioint duties to their children In their tender yeeres they must instruct them plainely and season them with good things young giuing them due correction and at more yeeres fit them for some honest calling and when time serues laying vp somthing for them giue them in
mariage onely in the Lord. So much for the Parents ioint duties what is the Fathers more speciall duty To prouide for his children and specially to haue a speciall eye to the sons of his house as the Mother must to her daughters What is the Mothers speciall duty To nurse vp her children if God haue giuen her ability thereunto What be the childrens duties They be such as they owe to their Parents or one to another What duties doe they owe to their Parents They owe them reuerence in their hearts obedience in their deeds and when their parents shall be in yeeres ââ¦de it is their dutie if they haue wherewith to nourish them What duties do they owe one to another To loue as brethren not to fall out VVhat duties do Masters owe They concerne Religion and so they must help them to God by their instruction the care of their soules or they respect their life here and so paying them their wages iustly they must make honest prouision for them VVhat duties do seruants owe In singlenesse of heart and all good faithfulnes they must do their masters worke be true vnto him and seeke to please him though he be froward So much for our thankfulnes to God expressed in our words and deeds and for our duties the morning before our worke in prayer and praises what duties doe we owe that day after They be duties such as are betwéen or after our worke at night VVhat must we do between our work It concerneth our refreshings or recreation VVhat must we do at our refreshings Pray before meat for Gods blessing giue thanks after for Gods blessings vsing the same for strength or honest delight and no way for excesse or drunkennesse VVhat must we obserue in our recreation That our company be good and sports of good report remembring that ãâã must be redeemed When be our sports of good report When they be lawfull for the nature of them and necessary for the vse not hindring better duties So much for the duties as are betweene our worke what must we doe after it Examine our selues as vpon an account what we haue done the day past and prepare our sleepe that it may bee comfortable How shall wee by such preparation make our sleepe comfortable By committing our selues to God soules and bodies praying him to inspire the soule with good thoughts and to watch the body till the morning that no hurtfull thing breake in vpon it But some go to bed without praier Such sleep in Satans lap haue him for their keeper who therefore maketh a thorow-fare in the thoughts of their heart sowing the tares of many vnclean cââ¦cupiscenses lusts therin which sown in the night grow in the day VVhat reason can you giue to proue the necessity of prayer before wee goe to rest That night for ought wee know may be our long night and that sleepe our last sleepe Which if it be and the Lord hath seal'd no warrant to any that it shall not be must needs bring small hope to our vnpraying soule that it shal be glorified and as little comfort to our body layd downe in so brutish forgetfulnesse that it shall go to God at our next rising VVhat do you conclude of this That those Masters are cruel to their seruants who suffer them to go to their beds as wild beasts to their dens without prayer do not better arme them against the feare of the night So much for the daies of labour what say you of the daies of holinesse On Gods Sabbaths we must first pray God to blesse the duties of them and so keepe them holy How must we keepe them holy By doing as little worldly work as may be by doing Gods work religiously and with all our might In doing of Gods worke what is to be considered That we do the works that sanctiuÌe the Sabbath and auoide the vnfruitfull works that defile it VVhat works are required to the ââ¦ifying of the Sabbath To preuent or defer by rising early to dispatch all businesses that would prophane it and by praying God to blesse his owne ordinances to come with a spiritual forward mind to publike prayer preaching Sacraments VVhat other works are required It is required further before wee come to the assemblie that wee pray read or heare some what read at home that may edifie between the times of publike exercise that wee meditate on that which hath been deliuered and after and between that we talke with others and examine our selues about it VVhat is lastly required That we take a view of God in his works and word pray and reade anâ⦠sing Psalmes priuately doe works of mercy consider Gods special works of mercy iustice goodnesse and truth So much for the works to be done what are the vnfruitfull workes to be auoided The spending of the day in sleepe play drinking worldly talke or businesse ââ¦oolish communication and things that separate from God by a carnall heart Glorie be to God EPHESIANS 5. 15. 16. Take heed therefore that ye walke circumspectly not as fooles but a wise ãâã the time for the dayes are ââ¦ill A briefe rehearsall of the tenne Commandements for the ââ¦se of the ãâã 1 SEE that thou haue no Godâ⦠but one 2 And truly worship him alone 3 Gods name in vaine thou shalt not take 4 The seuenth day holy thou shalt make 5 Honour thy Parents 6 Murther flee 7 A fornicator neuer be 8 Thou shalt not steale 9 False speech eschue 10 And couet not anothers due ãâã ãâã 28. This ãâã and thou ââ¦alt liue FINIS Titus 1. 1 Eccles. 1. 9 â⦠King 4. 4. 6 Ioh. 17. 3. Ier. 9. 24. Luk. 15. 17. 1. Chr. 28. 9 Heb. 11. 6 Exod. 33. 20 7. Cor. 13. 12 Rom. 1. 20. 1. 19. Exo. 3. 14. Ioh. 4. 24. Exo. 34. 6 Psal. 90. 2. 1. Tim. 1. 17 Isa. 45. 5. Psal. 103. 8. Psalm 33 6. 9 Amos 4. 13 1. Pet. 4. 19 Psal. 99 1 2 3 Heb. 1. 3 Act. 17 25 26 1. Ioh 5. 7 Matth 3. 16 17 2. Cor. 13 13 Matth 10. 28 Genesis 1. 27 Colos 3 10 Ephes. 4. 24 Rom. 3. 9 10 Iob. 14 4 Rom. 6 23 5. 18 19 Gal. 3 10 Rom. 5 12. 18. 7 18 Ieremy 17 9 Gen. 6. 5 Matth. 15. 19. Ron. 7. 5 1â Iohn ãâã 1 2 ãâã 1. 14 ãâã 3. 16 Philip. 2. 7 8 Galat 4. 4. 2 Cor. 5. 21 Iohn 1. 12 Galat. 2. 20 Acts 6. 31 Iohn 1. 12 Luke 2. 29 Ephesians 3. 17 1 Cor. 1. 30 Iohâ⦠20. ãâã ãâã Tim. 1. 12 Psal. 51. ãâã Isa. 55. 15 Matth. 5. 6 Phil. 3. 7 8 Mat. 15. 25. 27 Marke 9. 24 Rom. 10. 14. 17 Acts 8. 28. 34. 35. 37. Ioh. 16. 23 24. Pro. 29. 18. Rom. 4. 11 Iohn 16. 23 Iames 1. 6 Philip. 4. 6 Rom. 4. 11 Genesis 17. 11 1. Cor. 11. 25 1.
things ãâã and taken and spirituall graces sealed and applyed VVhat are the outward things The bread and wine giuen and taken What are the inward graces The boâ⦠ãâã ãâã of CHRIST giuen vs by God ãâã ãâã ââ¦th receiued ãâã vs to ââ¦r ãâã ãâã of eternall life in Him So much for ãâã ââ¦couery to saluation what is his ãâã forit True ãâã Whââ¦rein standeth that In new obedience which is to carry in my heart ãâã conââ¦ant purpose not to serue ãâã ââ¦ny ãâã and withall to ãâã in ãâã ãâã life to please Goâ⦠in all his Coââ¦dements doing my duty in ãâã ãâã to God and man Ecclesiast 1â⦠13. Let vs heare the end of all Feââ¦re God and keepe his Commandââ¦ments for this is the whole dutie of man A Short Exposition of the tenne Commandements in Questions and Answeres IN speaking of the Lawe what is to be considered First what the Lawe is and secondly what is due to those that brake it What is the Lawe The Coââ¦ant of workâ⦠throughout the Old and New Teââ¦ment Where is it written Most pithily and very brieââ¦y in the ten Commandeââ¦ents more largely in the rest of the bookes of Moses What are the tenne Commandements The ten words of the Law which God gaue in Horeb and wrot in Tables of stone What do you consider in them The occasion and commandements themselââ¦es What was the occasion of euery Commandement The corruption of mââ¦ns nature ãâã nâ⦠to the ãâã What doe you consider in the Commandements themselues The commandements of dueties to God in the first Table and of duties to mâ⦠in the ãâã What say you of the Commandements of the first Table ãâã ââ¦re in thinâ⦠comâ⦠to them all or proper to each by it selfe What be the things commune That they all haue their reasons ââ¦nd that therefore the preface to the first precept is a reason ââ¦d nâ⦠comâ⦠So much for the things commune what are they that be proper They ãâã duetiââ¦s tâ⦠God such as we owe euery day or onââ¦ââ¦y in seuen What are they that we owe euery day They pertaine to Gâ⦠person or worââ¦ip What Commandement concerneth his person The first which iâ⦠Thou shak haue no other Gods but Mee What doe you consider in this precept The occaâ⦠ãâã matter of the Cââ¦ment What was the occasion Our idolatrous ãâã luââ¦ing ãâã fââ¦lse ãâã What doe you consider in the matter of the Commandement The thing forbiââ¦n and thingâ⦠commanded What is the thing forbidden To honourââ¦d ââ¦d set vp false gods or to suââ¦er ãâã thing to with-draâ⦠ãâã ââ¦r ââ¦y thing in vâ⦠from the true ãâã What doe you meane by false gods All other godâ⦠saue IIHOVA and sâ⦠whââ¦tsoeuer wee hââ¦nour or ââ¦me to hoââ¦our ãâã God though we account it none So much for that which is forbidden what is commanded Tâ⦠iuââ¦d ââ¦r hââ¦rt-whole honour of the ââ¦y trâ⦠Gâ⦠ãâã ãâã alâ⦠ãâã ãâã in and fââ¦r ãâã Wherein consisteth this In the knowledge of God and fruits of the same What fruits ââ¦e they Faith in GOD and the effecteâ⦠thereof What be the effects of faith Loue and feare for they that truâ⦠in God will loue and feare him Wherein consistoth loue In prayer anâ⦠worship Wherein consisteth feare In reuerence and ãâã What is the suââ¦me of all Whomsoeuer ââ¦e loue or feare reuereââ¦ce and obey it must be in aâ⦠for respects to God else wee ãâã them Idoles also we must bââ¦leeue in pray vnto and prayse him only So much for the Commandement that respecteth Gods person what are they which concerne his worship They are in the partâ⦠of his worship or in the manner of vsing theâ⦠What Commââ¦ndement concerneth the parts of his worship The next which is Thou shalt make to thy selfe no grauen image c. What doe you consider therin The occasion and matter of the Commandement What was the occasion Our foolish desire to haue our fancies fed in Gââ¦ds worship What doe you consider in the matter First that which is forbidden and secondly that which is commanded What is that which is forbidden To worshippe other persons or things with the true God or the true God in a false manner Wherein and how do we worship the true God in a false manner First in base estéeming of him and secondly in forging of his worship and seruiââ¦e How doe wee basely esteeme of God When wee imagine him to bee like to man and paint him as Man and when wee sweare by those that are no gods as rood masse light fire Angel Saint or other giuing away his honour in an oath to creatures and filthy idoles How further When we dedicate dayes of holinesse to Angels or Saints and worship God after our own fancies forsaking his word So much for base esteeming what call you sorgery in Gods seruice When wee make the likenesse of any thing in it for holinesse and when we worship God in or before an image the better to remember him or make crosses for vertue anâ⦠signification in Sacraments Somuch for that which is forbidden what is commanded here To hold al religion and religious deuotion to be ââ¦ne that is not commanded in the Word or warrââ¦ted by it also to ãâã to vââ¦derstand the word rightly and rightly in our whole course seruing God to follow it Somuch for the Commaundement concerning the parts of Gods worship what is that that concerneth the right manner of vsing them The third next precept which is Thou shalt not take the name c. What do you obserue therein The occasion and matter of the Commandement VVhat was the occasion The readinesse of our nature to despise God VVhat doe you obserue in the matter The things forbidden and commanded VVhat is the thing forbidden The vnreuerent vsing of any of the parts of Gods name VVherein do those consist In religion and Gods creatures How is Religion abused Inwardly by ignorance and hypocrisâ⦠outwardly by prophaneââ¦esse and frowardnesse VVherein standeth this abuse In a slight regard of the titles of God and abuse of holy things How doe wee slightly regard Gods titles When wee sweare vainely ãâã or falsly by them or when we once name or think of God in a lawfull oath or otherwaies without his due reuerence and here is forbidden all vsuall swearing passionate swearing and forswearing Somuch for the abuse of Gods titles how do we abuse holy things When we abuse Gods word or other his ordinances How do we abuse his word When we abuse doctrine and exhortation How do we abuse his other ordinances When we abuse prayer Sacraments and true discipline So much for the abuse of religion what is that of the creatures When we mock or deface them bâ⦠cloathing naturall fooles in some strange and disââ¦uised manner also when wee abuse to excesse and wantonnesse our meates drinkes or