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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26345	The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally receiv'd as being prov'd from scripture : now further cleared and confirm'd by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1675 (1675)	Wing A493; ESTC R32695	131,046	217

will be a means to come to a distinct sight of your own vileness and sinfulness as also if you are renewed how you ought to walk but that you can never merit Gods favour by the best works of the Law Yet you ought mightily to oppose the first motions and risings of any corruption in your hearts and carefully to avoid all such occasions as are likely to give advantages to those corruptions and betray you into their hands Mal. 4.4 Iam. 1.23 Rom. 7.7 Gal. 3.10 22. Iam. 2.10 3.2 1.25 Mat. 5.18 19. 1 Tim. 1.8 Rom. 4.2 Gal. 2.16 Luk. 17.10 Iam. 1.14 4.7 1 Thes. 5.22 Mat. 13.37 Mat. 26.41 7 Hereupon Enter into your Closets be convinc'd of sigh and mourn over your own impotency inability and unwillingness to come to Christ till you are effectually drawn Alas you find by comparing your selves with the Law that you are neither able nor willing of your selves to keep the Commandments but do daily break them in thought word and deed yea and with aggravating circumstances in the sight of God deserving his wrath and curse both in this and the future world Which may make you sit down and bemoan your low estate and cry out What shall we do to be saved Then Ioh. 6.44 45 65. 5.40 1 King 8.46 Ecclss. 7.20 Prov. 20.9 Col. 1.21 Gal. 5.17 2 Cor. 10.5 Isa. 46.8 Act. 2.37 16.30 8 Look up to Christ by an eye of faith trust to him alone and repent of your sinfulness which keeps you from God Consider him who hath satisfied Divine Justice as he is offered in the promises and give credit unto them which are in him Yea and Amen Put your affiance in him alone who is the Saviour for acceptance of your persons remission of your sins and obtaining of eternal life God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself your great great concern then is to receive him who saves his people from their sins resign up your selves unto him as Mediatour and through him unto God Be sorrowful after a godly sort for all that which offends him which is not only an outward forbearance of sin but a particular inward loathing and hatred of all sin as sin striving against it and endeavouring to mortifie it Act. 6.31 2.38 3.19 1 Ioh. 5.13 Phil. 3.7 8 9. Ioh. 3.14 15. 6.29 47. Act. 13.38 39. Isa. 28.12 Prov. 3.5 2 Cor. 5.19 Ioh. 1.12 Rom. 5.11 17. Mat. 1.21 Zach. 12.10 c. Act. 5.31 Psal. 119.104 97.10 Iam. 4.8 9 10. Act. 8.22 Col. 3.5 9 Be careful to observe the institutions of Christ and all his Ordinances as he hath prescrib'd Hear Read Receive the Sacraments as he hath appointed waiting for the Spirit who makes all means effectual Oh! delight to meet God in publick Ordinances and give up your selves to be ruled and directed by him therein And therefore take a very especial care for the due observance of the Lords-day which is appointed for the more solemn worshipping of God and the benefit of man to refresh him with heavenly things This you should spend in the Lords-work and not in worldly pleasures or profits I can assure you the Author of this Explanation did make great conscience hereof and express'd much distaste of those who did sleight or prophane it The last Sermons he preach'd were to urge a due observance of the Lords-day And on the Lords-day-morning a little before he departed hence He told us He was going to keep a Sabbath in heaven and here strangers did not intermeddle with his joy Mat. 28. ult Isa. 63.5 Psal. 19.8 Ioh. 5.39 Act. 26.18 Rom. 10.13 1 Cor. 3.7 12.13 Ier. 31.31 c. Col. 3.16 Mark 16.16 Luk. 22.19 20. Mark 2.27 Isa. 56.6 58.13 10 And lastly Be much in prayer to God through Christ in the Spirit which indeed should go before accompany and follow after daily mercies other duties and enjoyments You should constantly perform this Duty with all intention of mind and heartiness both in publick and your Families at all praying-seasons and more especially in secret which if you rightly do from a pure heart a good conscience and faith unfeigned according to the Rule to measure our requests by to the honour of God in the Name of his beloved Son will keep up the life of Religion and be prevalent for a blessing upon all you take in hand and enjoy Mat. 26.41 42. Col. 4.1 Phil. 4.6 Mat. 6.6 Ioh. 15.16 16.23 26. Psal. 66.18 1 Ioh. 5.14 Heb. 4.16 Rom. 8.26 27. Psal. 92.1 2. 50.15 Thus My Friends I have as briefly as I could laid before you these Ten Directions to help you in your Christian practice agreeable to the materials more largely spoken to in the Book it self I earnestly intreat you to work them upon your hearts and set in heartily to practise by the prudent use of these Helps I have unto them affixed Texts of Scripture which do abundantly prove them It may be some of you will not only turn to them in your Bibles and read therein the proofs confirming each direction grounded for the main upon the Articles as these are upon Scripture but will take the pains to write out the Scriptures at large in a Paper-book as they fall under the general heads which would be a notable means to imprint them in your minds and deeply affect your hearts with the things and engage you to do as God in his word requires That you may all consent to wholesome words even the words of our Lord Iesus Christ and to the Doctrine which is according to godliness Fear God and keep his Commandments Be happy in knowing and doing of these things is that I aim at And believe it Friends If I my self do not in some measure endeavour through Christ enstrengthening me to live agreeable to these Directions I have now given to you I must expect the wrath of God should abide upon me And if you remain heedless and careless after you have received or rejected this Token of my love to your Souls it will be a Witness against you But Beloved I am perswaded better things of you That the God of Heaven may make you all wise unto salvation and bless these and all other endeavours for your spiritual temporal and eternal welfare is the unfeigned Prayer of Your Friend and Remembrancer from and unto God Ri. Adams Aug. 3. 1675. To the Reader Christian Reader TO promote that knowledg without which the mind is not good and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord I acknowledg my self to lye under the greatest obligations In order whereunto considering the necessity and usefulness of instructing souls distinctly in the Principles of Christian Doctrine i. e. those fundamental Truths on which life or death doth depend and wherein the very essentials and vitals of Christianity do consist and having by me this short and easie Explanation of those Catechetical Articles of Religion most generally received amongst us I thought good to publish it More especially

the Spirit of God doth highly commend the practice according to it as that wherein he much delighteth and therefore makes it necessary to us who should be solicitous to please him yea in the Families wherein we live as well as in the Congregation as a part of that solemn service he hath appointed in his word with Prayers and Praises Unless persons learn the Principles of Christian Doctrine they will not be able to hear Sermons with profit nor understand clearly and distinctly the nature of Faith Repentance Iustification c. nor to give a reason of the hope that is in them which they are required to do And the rather that they may withstand fundamental errors as well as resist evil practices which was memorably seen in the very Children of Merindol who made a solemn Confession of their Faith from Scripture amazing and confounding their persecuting adversaries That shining Star Luther in the dawning of the Reformation used to say his Catechism was parva Biblia the little Bible meaning a short sum of that heavenly Doctrine which the very Son of God did publish from the bosom of his eternal Father and which the Holy Spirit did reveal by the Prophets and Apostles for the salvation of our souls This might move him reforming the Church from the dregs of Idolatry and Superstition to carry his Catechism always along with him to read and peruse it almost every day as he did affirming seriously that he always learned something from it which he did not at least so practically know before Agreeable whereunto in our age said laborious holy and zealous Mr. Ioseph Alleine concerning Catechism If any think themselves above it 't is from their pride or ignorance for my part I account my self a learner And therefore a Sum of Christian Principles methodically digested and explain'd ought to be sought after and embrac'd by us as a precious treasure yea for the elder to have recourse to but more especially for the younger who almost from their very Cradles may learn something of it as the Apostle speaks that as new-born Babes they may receive the sincere milk of the word that they may grow thereby Upon this account I earnestly intreat you who can justly claim a superiority in your own houses that you would bethink your selves what an authority you are entrusted with from God who requires you to exercise it with an holy zeal and maintain it with all Christian prudence without Lordliness and rigour endeavour to be well skill'd in the Scripture consult the several tempers of those within your doors allot fit and stated seasons for the getting of these Principles by heart and watch over them daily with care both as to their set task and practice answerable to these Principles keeping them seriously to mind both the business of Religion in their general Calling and of their distinct worldly employments in their particular Callings Suffer not your selves and houses to go hurrying to Hell by opposing Gods most wise government of the world which he carries on orderly for the safety and comfort of his Servants by well-instructed Families such as Abrahams was who became instrumental to carry down the knowledg of God in all peaceableness to posterity so as to leave an expectation of Gods blessing upon them whose welfare Nature it self doth move us to promote The truth is My Friends if we did but remember our selves as we are Christians dedicated to God by Baptism expecting benefit by the purchase of Christ we should consider we are not our own but bought with a price under the greatest obligation to live to him that hath bought us and should take all possible care that we and ours might be His. Do then I beseech you all you can to save your selves and others Oh! pity their poor souls defiled by sin and expos'd to misery Oh! let them not perish through your carelesness lest any of them say in Hell as Cyprian brings in Children saying their Parents were their Murderers 'T is long of you that we lye in easeless torments Bewail the corrupted sad estate of your Children as descending and deriving pollution from you Let them timely know the only remedy bring them to reverence the holy God and read his word with greatest awe shewing them the danger of breaking his Commandments the benefit of ordering their lives according to his mind that they may truly glorifie and enjoy him Charge them to take heed they be not carryed away with an inordinate love to the profits pleasures and honours of this life but learn the great lessons of self-denial and cleaving to the Lord Jesus with full purpose of heart bearing patiently whatever he is pleas'd to try them with And be sure you neglect not seasonably and duly to admonish and correct them that their iniquities be not their ruine Do you who are Inferiours willingly submit Oh! take heed of refusing instruction or opposing the means which is used to bring you acquainted with God and your selves lest you be found guilty of shutting out the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God that it may not shine into your hearts II. Concerning the import and usefulness of this small Book I do here put into your hands and houses praying the spiritual matter of it may reach to and abide in your hearts You see here be under four chief Heads or Chapters an 107 short Articles which also are Answers to the Questions in the Margin now generally received These A.'s are as so many entire Sentences or distinct Propositions and Aphorisms the Commandments are Ten of them without depending for their sense upon any Question containing the fundamentals of Christian knowledg and practice so that the Learner may by committing them to memory lay up in his heart the Sum of Christianity and make a profession confession or repetition of it when call'd in a continued speech or else answer to any part of it particularly when the Questions in the Margin are used by another making enquiry into his knowledg These several Articles you find have plain proofs from Scripture at large to shew that these necessary matters of Faith and Obedience are surely founded upon the never-failing word of God whose supream authority should be of force to awe our consciences and engage our hearts to the practise of those things which do appear to be our indispensable duties Unto Divine warrant for further illustration and confirmation here are the Testimonies brought from the authentick Records of Reformed Religion amongst us I mean the Articles and Homilies of the Church of England as agreeing with and clearing or strengthening of the several Propositions yea and very consonant to the main body of the materials in the short Catechism which is in the Common Prayer Book to be learn'd by every Child before he be confirm'd or admitted to receive the Holy Communion For the four chief heads there are the Creed or things to be