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A37981	The watch-mans lanthorn being a summ of divinity in a short but very plaine exposition of the Ten commandments, the Lords prayer, and the Creed : fittest to the meanest capacity in a nature of a dialogue / by A.E.	A. E., a servant of Jesus Christ.	1655 (1655)	Wing E2; ESTC R25569	96,065	185

righteousness and for as much as none but Psal 5 4 5 6. 2 Cor. 6. 14. the highest righteousness could please God it behoved that the rule of life which he set out should be throughly perfect moreover the Law requireth nothing of us but that we are bound to performe But sith we are farr from due Iob 4. 17. 25. 14. Gal. 2. 16. obeying the Law men can have no sufficient or lawful excuse to defend themselves be●ore God a●d so the Law accuseth all men for guilty yea and condemneth them before the Judgement Seat of Rom. 3. 19. 7 8 10. Gal 3. 10. God and that is the cause why Paul calleth the Law the Ministry of Death and Damnation M. Doth then the Law set all men in this m●st remediless estate S. The unbelieving and the ungodly Deut. 27. 26. Rom 3. 10. the Law doth both set and leave in such case as I have spoken who as they are not able to fulfil the least jot of the Law so have they no affiance at all in God through Christ but among the godly the Law hath other us●s M. What uses S. First the Law in requiring so precise Deut 6. 6 7. Ios 1. 7 8. Psal 1. 2. perfectness of life doth shew to the godly as it were a Mark for them to level at and a Goale to run unto ●hat daily profiting they may with earnest endeavour travel toward thc highest uprightness ●his purpose and desire the godly by the guiding of God do conceive but principally they take heed so much as they are able to do and attain to that it may not be said that there is any notorious fault in them Secondly wheras the Law requireth things farr above mans Psal 119. 5. Rom 7. 14. 2 Cor. 3. 5. power and where th●y find themselves too weak for so great a burthen the Law doth raise them up to crave strength at the Lords hand Moreover when the Law doth continually accuse them it Deut 27. 26. Rom. 3 1● 11. 12. 2 Cor. 3 9. stricketh their heart with a holsome sorrow and driueth them to the repentance that I speak of and to begg and obtain pardon of God through Christ and therwithall restraineth them that they trust not to their own innocency nor presume to be proud in the sight of God and is alway to them as a bridle to withhold them in the fear of God Finally when beholding by the Law as it were in a Glass the spots and uncleanness of their Rom. 3. 9. 7. 7. souls they learn the●by that they are not able to attain perfect righteousness by their works by this means they are trained Prov. 10. 9. Rom. 1. 20 21. Gal. 2. 16. to humility and so the Law prepareth them and sendeth them to seek righteousness in Christ M. Then as farr as I perceive thou sayest that the Law is as it were a certain Scboolmaster Rom. 10. 4. Gal. 3. 10. c. 24. to Christ to lead us the right way to Christ by knowing our selves and by Repentance and Faith S. Yea surely The Second PART Of the Gospel and Faith M. SIth now my dear Child thou hast so much as it may be in a short Abridgement largely answered this matter of the Law and Obedience good Order requireth that we speak next of the Gospel which containeth the Promises of God and promiseth the mercy of God through Christ to them that have broken Gods Law and to the which Gospel Faith hath specially respect for this was the second Point in our Division and this also the very orderly course of those matters that we have treated of hath as it were brought us by the hand unto What is now the Summ of the Gospel and of his Faith S. Even the same wherin the chief Articles of the Christian Faith have been in old time briefly knit up and contained and which is commonly called the Creed or Symbol of the Apostles M. Why is the summ of our Faith called a Symbol S. A Symbol by interpretation is a Badge Mark Watch Word or Token wherby the Souldiers of one side are known from the Enemies for which cause the short summ of our faith by which Christians are severally known from them that be not Christians is rightly called a Symbol M. But why is it called the Symbol of the Apostles S. Because it was first received from the Apostles own mouth or most faithfully gathered out of their Writings and allowed from the very beginning of the Church and so continually remained among all the godly firme and steadfast and unremoveable as a sure and stayed rule of Christian faith M. Go to I would have thee now rehearse to me the Symbol it self S. I will I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried He descended into Hell the third day He rose again from the Dead He ascended into Heaven there he sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence shall He come to Judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the Body and the life everlasting Amen M. These things my child thou hast briefly and in short summ set forth wherefore it is good that thou declare more plainly and at large what thou thinkest of every particular and first into how many parts dost thou divide this whole Confession of Faith S. Into foure principal parts in the first wherof is treated of God the Father and the Creation of all things In the second of his Son Jesus Christ which part also containeth the whole summ of the redemption of man in the third of the Holy Ghost in the fourth of the Church and of the benefits of God toward the Church M. Go forward then to declare me those four parts in order and first in the very beginning of the Creed what meanest thou by this word Believe S. I mean therby that I have a true and a lively faith that is to say a Christian mans faith in God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and that I do by this form of confession testifie and approve the same faith M. Is there any faith that is not a true and lively faith S. There is indeed a certain general faith as I may so call it and there is a Rom. 1. 32. Tit 1. 16. dead faith M. Sith then it is a matter of no small weight that thou comprehendest under the name of believing and of a Christian faith that is to say a true and lively faith tell me now what faith that same is and how it differeth from the general faith and also from the dead faith S. The general faith is that which crediteth Mat

28. 18. 1 Cor. 15. 24 25. 27 28. Rom. 14. 9. Phil. 2. 9 10. Luke 17 21. and of heaven also and Lord both of quick and dead meet it was that He should Govern his Kingdome in order unknown to our senses for if he should be within reach of sight then must he needs change place and seat and be drawn now hither now thither and now and then remove into sundry Countreys to do his affairs for if in one moment of time he were ever present with all men thcn should he seem not to be a man but some Ghost and not to have a very body but Imaginative or as Euteche● thought that his body was turned into his Godhead that it might be thought to be every where wherof would by and by arise infinite false opinions all which he hath driven away with carrying his body up whole into heaven and hath delivered mens minds from most foul Errors yet in the mean time though he be not seene of us he wonderously ruleth and governeth Mat. 28. 18. Phil. 2. 9 10. the world with most high Power and Wisdom It is for men to govern and order their Common-weales after a certain order of men but for Christ that is the Son of God to do it after the manner of God M. Thou hast touched certain of the chief of the infinite and unmeasurable benefits the fruit wherof we receive by the Death Resurrection and Ascention of Christ for the whole cannot be conceived by the mind and heart of man mueh less in any wise expressed with words and utterance But yet thus farr I will try thy knowledge in this matter to have thee set me out briefly in a summ the chief principal points whereunto all the rest are referred S. Then I say that both of these and of the other doings of Christ we take two kinds of profit the one that whatsoever things He hath done He hath done them all for our benefit even as far●●● they be as much our own so that with stedfast and lively faith we Isa 9. 6. 1 Cor. 15. 48 49. Rom. 6. 6 7. c. and 8. 32. 13. 14. Gal. 2. 20. 17. Heb. 3. 14. 10. 17. cleave unto them as if we our selves had done them He was crucified and we also are crucified with him and our sins punished in him He died and was buried we also together with our sins are dead and buried and that so all the remembrance of our sins is for ever forgotten He rose from death and we also are risen again with him being so made partakers of his Resurrection and Life and that from thenceforth death hath no more dominion over us for in us is the same Rom. 8. 11. Spirit which raised Christ from the dead Finally beside that since his Ascension we have most abundantly received the gifts of the holy Ghost he hath lifted and carried Eph. 4. 8. us up into heaven with him that we might as it were with our Head take possession therof These things indeed are not seen but then shall they be brought to light when Christ which is Ioh. 8. 12. Rom. 8. 23. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Col. 1. 5. 2. 3. 4. 3. 11. 1. Pet. 1. 4. the Light of the World in whom all our hope and wealth is set and setled shining with immortal glory shall shew himself openly unto all men M. W●at manner of profit is the other which we receive of the doings of Christ S. That Christ hath set himself for an Examplar for us to follow to frame our Ioh. 13. 15 1 Pet. 2 ●● 1 Joh ● life according thereunto where Christ dyed for sin and was buried he but once suffered death from whence he did arise again with power and Ascended into heaven he now dyeth no more but enjoyeth eternal life and raigneth in most high and everlasting glory So if we be once dead and buried Rom. 6. 2 3. 10 Gal. 2. 19. Col. 2. 20. 3. 1. 2 Tim. 2. 11. to sin how shall we hereafter live in the same if we be risen again with Christ if by assured faith and stedfast hope we be conversant with him in heaven then ought we from henceforth to bend all our cares and thoughts upon heavenly divine and eternal things not earthly worldly and transitory and as we have Rom. 8. 20. 1 Cor. 15. 47 48 49. heretofore borne the Image of the earthly man we ought from henceforth to put on the Image of the heavenly man quietly and patiently bearing after his example all sorrows and wrongs and following and exprssing his other Divine vertues so farr as mortall men be able and wheras Christ our Lord never ceaseth to do us good continually to entreat for and to crave his Fathers mercy for us to give us his holy Spirit and wonderfully and continually to garnish his Church with most liberal gifts it is meet that we in like manner with our whole endeavour Ioh. 13. 18. 15. 12. Ephe. 5. 2. H●b 12. 14. should help our neighbour and we be bound to all men in most streight bonds of love concord and most near friendship so much as shall lye in us and so to be wholly framed after the manner of Christ Gal. 2. 20. 1 Pet. 2. 21. 1 Ioh. 2. 6. as our only Exampler M. Are we not also here by put in mind of our duties toward Christ S. We are indeed admonished that we obey and follow the will of Christ whose we are wholly and whom we profess to be our Lord that we so again on our part and with all our affection love esteeme and embrace Christ our Saviour which shewed us such deare love while we are yet his enemies as his most entire love toward us could not possibly be encreased that we hold Christ dearer to us then our selves that to Christ which hath so given himself wholly to us we again yeeld our Mat. 10. 19. 37. 16. 25. Luke 9 23 24. 14 26 selves wholly and all that is ours that we esteem riches honors glory our Countrey parents children wives and all dear pleasant and delightful things of no value in Comparison of Christ and account light and despise all dangers for Christ Finally that we loose our life and our very soul rather then forsake Christ and our love and dutie toward him for happy is the death that being due to Nature is chiefly yeilded for Christ for Christ I say which offered and yeilded himself to willing death for us and which being Mar 8. 3● the Author of life both will and is able to deliver us being dead from death and Mar. 8. 31 restore us to life M. Go forward S We are furthermore taught purely and sincerely to worship Christ the Lord now raigning in heaven not with any earthly worship wicked traditions Mat. 15. 5. 6. 89. Ioh 4. 21. 22. ●●h 4 23 24 and cold inventions of men but with heavenly and