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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45443	A practicall catechisme	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1645 (1645)	Wing H581; ESTC R19257	184,627	362

care of our selves and those things wherein we are most concerned the summe of the three latter To which if we annex the Doxology for thine is the Kingdome c. which is the reflecting on God's gloryagain the observation will be enlarged that the glory of God c ought to be our first and last care and all that is good to our selves taken in only as it may best consist with that on each side limited with it Just as we read of the Liturgy used by the Jewes that of the eighteen prayers used in it the three first and three last concerned God and the rest betweene themselves and their owne wants But the truth is the ancientest Greeke copies have not those words of Doxology and there is reason to thinke that they came in out of the Liturgies of the Greeke Church where as now in many places the custome was when the Lords prayer had beene recited by the Presbyter for the people to answer by way of Doxology as after the reading of every Psalme a Glory be to the Father c. For thine is the Kingdome the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen S. Please you then to enter on the particular survey of this prayer Where first occurres the title which we bestow on God in it which I already conceive as a meanes to raise up our hearts to him and a ground of confidence that he can and will heare our prayers But what is the particular importance of it C. 1. That we looke on God as children on a father with all reverence and love and gratitude as on him who is 1. Our creatour and father of our being 2. More peculiarly set out to us in that relation then to any other sort of creatures as Plato said God was a maker of other things but a father of men 3. That all the acts of a father on earth are by him performed to us but in a farre higher and more excellent degree as farre as heaven is above earth Such are 1. His begetting us a new to a lively hope i. e. his giving us his spirit the principle of spirituall and celestiall life 2. His continuance of assisting grace to preserve what he hath begotten 3dly His 1 preventing 2 exciting 3 illuminating grace as a kinde of education to our suoles fourthly His providing an inheritance for us in another world not by the death of the father but by the purchase of the sonne to be enstated on us at our death which is the comming out of our nonage as it were And besides all this wherein he is a Father to our soules and spirits many nay all kind of paternall acts to our very bodies which we owe more to him then to our earthly parents who begat them as also the feeding preserving maintaining adorning and at last crowning of them 2. By this title and in it that particle Our we 1. signifie our beleife of Gods free bounty and fatherly respect to all our kind and labour not to ingrosse or inclose it to our selves 2. We extend our prayers to them as well as to our selves 3. We expresse our faith and relyance and totall plenary dependance on him as Ours and without whom we can hope nothing 3. By the adjunct of this title which art in heaven we celebrate his infinity immensity all sufficiency and all the rest of his attributes whereby he differs from our fathers on earth i. e. from men and the honourablest of creatures S. From the title you may please to descend to the petitions and first to those which concerne God of which all together if you would teach me any thing I shall be ready to receive it C. I shall onely trouble you with this from thence That the forme of wish rather then prayer retained in all those three different from the stile of the three latter doth conteine under it a silent prayer to God to take the meanes or way of performing this into his owne hands and by his grace or providence or however he shall see fit to take care that by us and all mankind His name may be hallowed His Kingdome may come His will be done c. S. What is meant by the first petition hallowed be thy name And 1. what by Gods name C. By his name is meant himselfe God in his essence and attributes and all things that have peculiar relation to him It being an ordinary Hebraisme that thing and word doing and speaking being called and being name and essence as his name shall be called Wonderfull i. e. he shall be a wonderfull one should be taken promiscuously the one for the other S. What is meant by hallowing C. The Hebrew word or Syriacke dialect in which Christ delivered it signifies to seperate from vulgar common use to use in a seperate manner with that reverence and respect that is not allowed to any thing else in that notion that holy is opposed to common or profane Thus is God hallowed when he is used with a reverence peculiar to him above all other things when such power majesty dominion goodnesse c. are attributed to him that are compatible to nothing else Thus is his Name hallowed when it is reverently handled His word or Scripture when weighed with humility received with faith as the infallible fountaine of all saving truth applied to our soules and the soules of our hearers as the instrument designed to our endlesse good the power of God unto salvation Thus is his House consecrated to his service his Preists designed to wait on him and officiate the Revenues of the Church instated on God for the maintenance of his lot or Clergy the first day of the weeke among us as among the Jewes the last set a part for the worshipping of God publickely and solemnely And every of thes● is hallowed when it is thus according to the designe used separately when none of these mounds to fence each are broken downe but all preserved from the inrode of sacrilegious profaners S. Having explained the single termes what is now the meaning of the complex or petition C. I pray to God that he will be pleased by his grace poured into my heart and the hearts of all men and by the dispensation of his gracious providence to worke in all our hearts such a reverence and aw and separate respect unto him his Majesty his attributes his workes of grace his name his word his day his Ministers his consecrated gifts the patrimony of the Church divolved from him upon them that the sinnes of sacriledge and profanenesse and idolatry and irreverence and in devotion c. may be turned out of the world and the contrary virtues of Christian piety set up and flourish among us S. O blessed Father Thus be thy name hallowed by me and all mankind Please you now to proceed to the second Thy Kingdome come And 1. What is meant by Gods Kingdome C. The exercise of Christs spirituall Regall power in the

are none but Disciples the men to whom this Sermon belongs and if so will it not thence follow that the commands conteined in it shall oblige onely the successours of those Disciples the Ministers of the Gospell and so all others be freed from that severity C. That it was given onely to Disciples then it may be acknowledged but that will be of latitude enough to conteine all Christians for to be a Disciple of Christ is no more then so for you know Christ first called Disciples and they followed him some time before he sent them out or gave them commission to preach c. i. e. before he gave them the dignity of Apostles of which as onely the Ministers of the Gospell are their successours so in Discipleship all Christian professours And therefore you must resolve now once for all that what is in this Sermon said to Disciples all Christians are concern'd in indifferently it is command and obligatory to all that follow him S. You have engaged me then to thinke my selfe concern'd so nearely in it as not to have patience to be longer ignorant of this my duty Will you please then to enter upon the substance of the Sermon wherein I can direct my selfe so farre as to discerne the 8 Beatitudes to be the first part I pray how farre am I concern'd in them C. So farre as that you may resolve your selfe obliged to the beleife 1. That you are no farther a Christian then you have in you every one of those graces to which the blessednesse is there affixed 2. That every one of those graces hath matter of present blessednesse in it the word blessed in the front denoting a present condition abstracted from that which afterwards expects them 3. That there is assurance of future blessednesse to all those that have attained to those severall graces S. I shall remember these three directions call upon you to exemplify them in the particulars as they come to our hands and therefore first I pray give me the first of these graces what it is C. Poverty of spirit S. What is meant by that C. It may possibly signifie a preparation of minde or spirit to part with all worldly wealth a contentednesse to live poore and bare in this world but I rather conceive it signifies A lowly opinion of ones selfe a thinking my selfe the meanest vilest creature least of Saints and greatest of sinners contrary to that spirituall pride of the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3. 17. which said she was rich encreased with goods and had need of nothing not knowing that she was wretched miserable poore and blinde and naked This is that insant child-temper that Christ prescribes so absolutely necessary to a Christian Mat. 18. 4. and c. 19. 14. and that in respect of the humility of such c. 18. 4. and the littlenesse Luk. 9. 48. i. e. being in our owne conceit which I conceive is meant there by the phrase in spirit the least and lowest and meanest and as children most impotent unsufficient of all creatures S. What now is the present blessednesse of such C. It consists in this 1. That this is an amiable and lovely quality a charme of love amongst men where ever 't is met with whereas on the other side pride goes hated and cursed and abomined by all drives away servants freinds and all but flatterers 2. In that this is a seed-plat of all virtue especially Christian which thrives best when 't is rooted deepe i. e. in the humble lowly heart 3. Because it hath the promise of grace God giveth grace to the humble but on the contrary resisteth the proud S. What assurance of future blessednesse is there to those that have this grace C. It is exprest in these words for theirs or of them is the Kingdome of Heaven which I conceive signifies primarily that Christ's Kingdom of grace the true Christian Church is made up peculiarly of such as in the answer of Christ to John Mat. 11. 5. a way of assuring him that he was the Christ 't is in the close the poore are Evangelized or wrought on by the preaching of the Gospell and as Mat. 18. 4. He that shall humble himselfe as the child the same shall be greatest in the Kingdome of Heaven i. e. a prime Christian or Disciple of Christ and c. 19. 14. for of such which is a like phrase parallell to of them here is the Kingdome of Heaven i. e. the Church into which he therefore commands them to be permitted to enter by baptisme and chides his Disciples for forbidding them Thus is the Kingdome of Heaven to be interpreted in Scripture in divers places of the New Testament which you will be able to observe when you reade with care S. But how doth this belong to future blessednesse C. Thus that this Kingdome of Grace here is but an inchoation of that of Glory hereafter and he that lives here the life of an humble Christian shall there be sure to reigne the life of a victorious Saint S. What is Mourning C. Contrition or godly sorrow conceived upon the sence of our wants and sinnes S. What wants doe you meane C. Spirituall wants 1. Of originall immaculate righteousnesse and holinesse and purity 2. Of strength and sufficiency to doe the duty which we ought to God our Creatour Christour Redeemer and the Spirit our Sanctifier S. What sinnes doe you meane C. 1. Our originall depravednesse and pronenesse of our carnall part to all evill 2. The actuall and habituall sinnes of our unregenerate And 3. the many slips and falls of our most regenerate life S. What is the present felicity of these mourners C. That which results from the sence of this blessed temper there being no condition of soule more wretched then that of the sencelesse obdurate sinner that being a kind of numnesse and lethargy and death of soule and contrarywise this feeling and sensiblenesse and sorrow for sinne the most vitall quality as it is said of feeling that it is the sence of life an argument that we have some life in us and so true matter of joy to all that finde it in themselves And therefore it was very well said of a father Let a Christian man greive and then rejoyce that he doth so Besides the mourning soule is like the watered earth like to prove the more fruitfull by that meanes S. What is the assurance of future felicity that belongs to this mourner C. 'T is set downe in these words for they shall be comforted Christ who hereafter gives now makes promise of comfort to such the reaping in joy belongs peculiarly to them that sow in teares and godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation when all other worketh death And besides this assurance ariseth from the very nature of comfort refreshment by whichthe joyes of heaven are exprest of which none are capable but the sad disconsolate mourners nor indeed is heaven the vision of God and