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A03697	Points of instruction for the ignorant as also, an expositition on the ten commandements, and the Lords Prayer, by questions and answeres. With an examination before our comming to the Lords table. And a short direction for spending of time well. By Robert Horne.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.; Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. aut	1617 (1617)	STC 13824; ESTC S120917	35,674	114

body truly to put difference betwéene the signes and things signified VVhat of your faith Whether I bee in the faith beleeuing ●…hat t●…e death of Christ as it is auail●… for all the 〈◊〉 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 per●…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 〈◊〉 ●…olpen by it 〈◊〉 ●…ing that in the Sacrament which 〈◊〉 but heare of in the Word namely the par●…cular offering and receiuing of Christ in his body and sauing bloud by all bele●…ing Communicants So much 〈◊〉 that which concerneth our selue●… alone what is that that concerneth our selues with others It concerneth our growing vp with Christ and our communion with our breth●…en How do we receiue our growing vp 〈◊〉 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 〈◊〉 his ●…dinance blessed vnto vs. How do we receiue our communion with our brethren By 〈◊〉 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 l●…fe of glory which in heauen we shall be partakers of Amen So much for our examination before the Sacrament 〈◊〉 23. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a Ruler 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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 call●…g trade of life to liue in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or hée is no sound member of the Christian common wealth 〈◊〉 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 ●…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 ●…lthie speaking foolish talking 〈◊〉 that is not comely and contention that causeth stri●… 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 consi●…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 d●…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 ●…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

apparell and nothing regard Gods fearefull workes So much for that which is forbidden what is here commanded To vse holy things Gods creatures rightly and to sweare truely and with reuerence when wee are called to take a lawfull o●…th So much for the Commaundements of dueties euery day what is that of dueti●…s one day in s●…uen The ●…t ●…ourth precept which is Remember the Sabbaoth day to sanctifie it c. What do you obserue therein The occasion and the commandement it selfe What was the occasion Our apt●…es to fall from God and from our lawfull callings What doe you obserue in the Commandement it selfe A double precept the one of the sixe dayes labour the other of the Sabbaoth VVhat is that of the sixe dayes labour That which commandeth vs to labour sixe dayes in our seuered calling saue where when the Church doth in the wisedome of the Spirit set apart some for holy assemblies or when some day or part of day is necessarie and to bee vsed for honest recreation But some hold that these words sixe dayes thou shalt labour are words of permission only and no commandement If the precept of the sixe dayes labour be not here established there is no commandement by which it can can be proued that the not labouring in a vocation lawfull sixe dayes is an immediate sin against God VVhat doth this teach That not to labour the sixe dayes in some particular profitable calling doth breake the fourth precept as wel as the not kéeping of the seuenth day holy Somuch for the precept of the sixe dayes labour what is that of the Sabbaoth That wee keepe the day holy to God VVhat do you obserue therein The thing forbidden and that which is commanded VVhat is forbidden The contempt or not vsing of the meanes which God hath prescribed for the edi●…ying of his Church on this day Of what sorts are they Publike and priuate What are the publike Workes of holinesse and mercy VVhat are the workes of holinesse The vse of the Word and Sacraments VVhat are they of mercy To visit the sicke and in prison by generall collection to prouide to minister to y● necessities of the poore So much for publike what are the priuate meanes The meditation of the creation and redemption of the world with good application to our selues also the examination of our selues and of our families how we or they haue gone forward or backward in knowledge faith repentance holinesse and other graces So much for that which is forbidden what is commanded Upon the Lords day from early in the morning to late at night as much as may be to seuer our soules and bodies from the world to the seruice of God publikely and priuatly in the Workes of holinesse and mercy Who are reproued here They who make the Sabboth not a holy but a playing day or day of worldly labour So much for the duties of the first Table concerning holinesse what say you of the second It containeth duties that we owe to our neighbour or to our selues In what consisteth the first sort of duties In righteousnesse In what consisteth the second In sobrietie What say you of the first It forbiddeth all acts and purpose of vnrighteousnesse or the motions thereunto Where are acts and purpose of vnrighteousnesse forbidden In the fiue next Commandements What say you of them That they pertaine to Superiors or others Where are we taught our duties to Superiors In the first of the fiue which is honour thy Father and thy Mother c. What doe you obserue therein The occassion and matter of the Commandement What was the occasion Our proud nature that cannot abide to be vnder gouernment What say you of the matter It may be considered in the particular duties and persons Vnder what word are the duties specified Under the word honour by which is meant all subiection of bodie and minde in the Lord. What is the subiection of the body Obeisance or outward seruice Wherein standeth that In obedience and thankfulnesse How must we obey In our words and deeds VVherein standeth our thankfulnesse In procuring their good and in praying for them Somuch for the subiection of the body what is that of the minde The inward estimation loue and reuerence that we beare them Somuch for the duties what are the persons to whom wee owe these duties All superiors comprehended vnder the names of Father Mother Of what sort are these They are publike or priuate VVhat are the publike Such as are in the common-wealth as the King and his Magistrates or in the Church as Pastors and other Ministers VVhat are the priuate Such as are in the family as Parents Masters and Dames or out of it as the ancients of our kindred and olde men to all these wee must submit in y● Lord with all reuerence loue and humility likewise to euery ordinance that God hath set vp for gouernment So much for the precept belonging to Superiours What Commandements belong to others The foure next How are they diuided Into duties belonging to their persons and into duties in things that belong to their persons What are the duties belonging to their persons Innocency in the next and purity in the seuenth Commandement What are the words of the next Commandement Thou shalt not kill VVhat doe you consider therein The occasion and matter thereof VVhat was the occasion Our fierce and murtherous nature VVhat say you of the matter It forbiddeth to shedde blood and commandeth to preserue life Or it forbiddeth vs to bee Authors of wrong and chargeth vs neither to suffer it nor to be abettors to it How may blood be shed or wrong done Inwardly or outwardly How inwardly By rash anger malice enuie hatred desire of reuenge vnmercifulnesse and other cruell affections which within draw much bloud How outwardly By our words or deeds How by our words By mocks taunts reproches by bitter and cursed speaking and by churlish and froward talke How by our deeds When we hurt or kill another or our selues secretly and cunningly by poyson or openly with some weapon So much for that which is forbidden what is commanded To do whatsoeuer may preserue or cherish our Neighbors life or our owne exercising the works of mercy pitty compassion and tendernes toward all yea our very enemies So much for innocencie what say you of purity The next precept commandeth it which forbiddeth Adultery the contrary thereunto What are the words Thou shalt not commit Adultery What do you obserue in them The occasion and further opening of them What was the occasion Our vnchaste adulterous nature What say you of this further opening of the Commandement Under the name of Adultery we are forbidden al vncleanenesse in our selues or toward others and commanded to vse all meanes for the preseruing of our own and our neighbours Chastitie

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 ●…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 〈◊〉 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 c●…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 sanctiūe the Sabbath and auoide the vnfruitfull works that defile it VVhat works are required to the ●…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 an●… 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 ●…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 〈◊〉 the time for the dayes are ●…ill A briefe rehearsall of the tenne Commandements for the ●…se of the 〈◊〉 1 SEE that thou haue no God●… 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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 28. This 〈◊〉 and thou ●…alt liue FINIS Titus 1. 1 Eccles. 1. 9 ●… 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 1● Iohn 〈◊〉 1 2 〈◊〉 1. 14 〈◊〉 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 Ioh●… 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tim. 1. 12 Psal. 51. 〈◊〉 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.