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A04155 The key of knowledge which is, a little booke intended to bee of good use, as for all degrees of Christians, so especially for religious families, and religious schooles. The full use and contents whereof must be enquired in the preface or introduction to the worke, which is (first) deliberately to be read of those who desire to receive profit by the booke. By John Jackson, rector of Marsk neere Richmond in York-shire. Jackson, John, 1600-1648. 1640 (1640) STC 14297A; ESTC S100135 27,046 126

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affirmative part is this Thou shalt by all direct and lawfull means safeguard and defend the life and person both of thy selfe and of thy neighbour The negative is this Thou shalt neither with a violent hand nor a virulent tongue nor a hanging countenance no nor so much as an uncharitable thought hurt limme or life soule or body of thy selfe or thy neighbour Mnason Expound the 7. commandement Thou shalt not commit adulterie Apollos The affirmative part is thus much thou shalt preserve to thy selfe and to thy neighbour both the inward puritie of the soule and the outward chastlty of the body The negative thus much thou shalt shun all fleshly uncleanenesse both of the heart in motions and passions and of the eyes in lookes and speculations and of the eares in listening to filthy talke and of the tongue in wanton speaking and of the body in perpetrating any sort of uncleane action Mnason Explaine the eigth commandement Thou shalt not steale Apollos In it God makes an hedge about our estate and the affirmation of it is this thou shalt first by just getting and then by faithfull disposall and stewardship of thy goods beare up thine owne and thy neighbours estate that you may bee rather helpefull then needfull to others The negation is this thou shalt neither by idlenesse nor improvidence nor cousenage nor injustice nor riot or by any other meanes wast or impoverish the lively-hood and estate of thy selfe or thy neighbour whereby you ●ought to provide for your selves and your families and relieve the necessities of the Saints Mnason Give mee the sence of the ninth commandement Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour Apollos In it God setteth a watch before the doore of our lips and the affirmative of it is this thou shalt not onely thy selfe not hurt or give a willing eare to the detractors tongue but thou shalt uphold and propugne according to truth and justice the credit and good name of thy selfe and neighbour The negative is this thou shalt neither by publique slander nor by private backbiting nor by secret whispering nor by causlesse suspitions nor by wrested misconstructions nor by listening to others accusations and suggestions scandalize thine owne or thy neighbours fame Mnason Lastly Sir what meaneth the tenth and last of the commandements thou shalt not covet c. Apollos Oh this precept is able to humble and smite on the knees the most prevaricating sinner and proud Pharisie in the world for if there be any that be conceited on his owne righteousnesse and thinke hee hath kept the 9 former yet must he needs confesse his guilt in this last for the affirmative part of it enjoynes us holy thoughts holy desires sanctified imaginations pure and unpolluted fantasies and the negative forbids not onely formed concupiscences or those second motions which are accompanied with acts of reason and consent of will but even the first stirrings and ticklings of the minde to sin and even such imperfect concupiscences as whereunto wee yeeld no liking or consent Mnason Who then can be saved can any man keep the Law Apollos Yea as it is qualified by the Gospell for Evangelicall obedience abateth and taketh off the rigour of the Law and is satisfied with weake performances if so be they bee filled up with repentance and faith in the bloud of Christ. The poore who could not offer a lambe were to offer a dove that is they who cannot performe innocencie must offer penitencie Autumne quarter Mnason Proceed on to Prayer the third Catechumenall head and first tell mee why the preface of the Lords prayer is in these and none other words Our father which art in heaven Apollos To strengthen our faith before wee pray in the persuasion and acknowledgement first of his goodnesse in that he is Our father and therefore will helpe us and secondly of his power in that hee is in heaven and therefore can helpe us Mnason What doe we implore in the first petition hallowed be thy name Apollos That Gods name that is first himselfe secondly his word thirdly his works may bee magnified and hallowed and honoured and praised and glorified and sanctified both of himselfe of Angels of men of bruites of vegetables and of all creatures according to the power and language given them by God Mnason What doe you aske in the second petition thy kingdome come Apollos That whereas Gods kingdome is 3 fold of power of grace and of glory wee pray that the kingdome of his power may come upon us the kingdome of his grace may come into us and for the kingdome of his glory that we may come into it Mnason What is the meaning of the third petition thy will be done Apollos Wee pray first that Gods will may be done actively by us that nothing that wee doe may displease God and passively upon us that nothing that God doth may displease us And wee further pray that this both our active obedience in reference to Gods commanding will and passive obedience in reference to Gods disposall will may be as cheerfully speedily sincerely universally and constantly performed by us as it is by the Saints and Angells in heaven Mnason What is contained in the fourth petition give us this day our daily bread Apollos In it wee beg all necessary blessings and every word of the petition is to have the full weight for the word bread teacheth contentation the word our teacheth us justice and diligence the word us teacheth us charitie the word give Gratitude the words to day and daily moderation of minde in regard of too much and sollicitous caring for to morrow Mnason What beg wee of God in the fifth petition forgive us our trespasses c. Apollos As in the 3 petition God was mans patterne so here in this man is Gods patterne for wee beg that God would remit unto us all our sinnes whether actuall or originall whether of omission or commission whether of ignorance or knowledge whether open or secret whether great beames and camels or small moates and gnats whether raigning or onely molesting whether of our child hood youth manhood or old age whether lastly of thought word or deed and all this according to the rule and stander● of our owne charity as wee forgive them that trespasse against us so that wee burthen our selves and bind our selves with most grievous ferrers if we our selves perform not what we undertake and professe Mnason What beg wee in the sixt petition leade us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Apollos That whether tentations be ascending or injected whether they be tentations of probation or deception whether they be tentations to sinne or for sin whether we be tempted by God or by Sathan or by man or by our owne lusts and concupiscences yet wee pray that God would deliver us from the evill
of understanding sanctity of will integritie of Conscience beauty and strength of body majesty and empire over the creatures immortalitie and the like and secondly the condition to which we are fallen to wit sinnefullnesse and miserie or doing things unworthy and suffering things worthy of our doings Timothy They that are sicke need the Physitian saith our Saviour Math. 9. 12. who then is this blessed Physitian Lois and Eunice Even Jesus Christ who to this end is by nature both God and man in one person and by office is 1. our Prophet 2. Priest and 3. King Timothy Why is it necessary he should have both a divine and humane nature united in one person Lois and Eunice He must needs bee man because divine equitie requireth that the same nature that sinned should suffer Ezech. 18. 4. and he must needs bee God to give an infinite value to his satisfaction proportionable both to the infinite majesty offended and the infinite sinnes and sinners offending As also hee must be Man that he might die and God that he might overcome death Timothy Why is it necessary that hee should also have these three offices propheticall sacerdotall and regall Lois and Eunice It is necessary hee should bee 1. a Prophet to illuminate us and leade us into all truth 2. a Priest to make satisfaction for our sinnes and to intercede for us to the father 3. a King both to protect us against our enemies and to governe us by his spirit and word Timothy Is this then sufficient to repaire our miserable condition and to re-estate us in that primitive happinesse from whence wee are fallen Lois and Eunice It is indeed sufficient in it selfe but not effectuall to any one who for their part doth not performe those two grand commands of the Gospell to repent and believe Timothy Where is the summe of the gospell best comprised Lois and Eunice In that auncient and Apostolicall Creed which begins I believe in God the Father c. which Creed is the Key of faith and Epitome of all things to be beleeved unto salvation and which all Christians as the badge of their profession ought 1. to learne and get by heart 2. often to repeat and professe to their comfort and establishment 3. to give assent and credit to every Article one by one and lastly to apply each Article particularly to their owne soules for all these foure severall acts of Faith are implied in the word I believe Timothy I pray you if that be so auncient so perfect and so excellent an abridgement of the faith give it me not in the lumpe but breake unto mee that bread of life into the severall pieces thereof Lois and Eunice It consists of 12. short Articles the 1. concernes God the Father the 2. the name nature office and person of Christ the 3 4 and 5. the seven degrees of his Humiliation for our sinnes the 6 7 and 8 the foure degrees of his Exaliation for our righteousnesse the 9. concernes the holy Ghost the 10 11 and 12. concerne the Church of God both in the properties and priviledges of it Timothy Being thus restored what owe we to God for so great a benefit Lois and Eunice Thankefullnesse which consists especially in three things first in conforming our life according to the ten Commandements of God secondly in calling upon his name according to the substance of the Lords prayer lastly in receiving and participating the Sacraments after a prepared and devout manner Timothy I pray you also breake open unto mee those ten holy lawes that I may better know how to keepe them Lois and Eunice God himselfe hath divided them into two tables subdivided them into ten words contracted them into one monosyllable Love the first enjoynes mee whom to worship the second prescribes the inward manner of his worship the third the outward the fourth the solemne time the fifth enjoynes my duty towards my inferiours superiours and equalls the sixt to my neighboursperson the seventh to his chastity the eighth to his estate the ninth to his good name the tenth and last commands me to resist the first risings and thoughts of sin though even without consent of will Timothy But because I am not able to keepe these things of my selfe and that prayer is the best meanes to fetch grace and helpe from heaven and that the Lords prayer is a perfect patterne of prayer therefore I pray you briefely unfold that forme of prayer unto mee Lois and Eunice It consists of foure distinct parts the first is the Preface or preparation unto the praier Our father which art in Heaven the second is the sixe Petitions whereof the three first concerne Gods glory and the three latter our owne bodily and ghostly necessities the third is a thankesgiving or certaine forme of praising God for thine is the kingdome power and glory for ever and ever the fourth is the close and scale Amen Timothy But seeing wee faile in all the former so as our Faith is weake our Obedience is imperfect and our praiers cold what seales hath God given to confirme and strengthen us Lois and Eunice The two Sacraments of baptisme and the Lords supper which through outward and visible signes doc both 1. signifie and 2. conveigh unto us most excellent inward and spirituall graces FINIS A BRIEFE METHODICALL plaine and full forme of doctrine reduced unto xxxi Questions and Answeres so as by learning one onely Question and it's Answer every day the Christian Scholler shall within the space of one Moneth bee well principled in Religion The Collocutors are Paul the Questionist and Gamaliel the Resolutor Acts. 22. 3 1. Iohn 2. 13. I write unto you Young men THE SECOND Forme of Doctrine or the young mans Catechisme PAul What is Catechisme wherunto may it bee compared Gamaliel It cannot better bee defined then out of Heb. 6. 1. The principles of the doctrine of Christ and it may be fitly compared to Sampsons haire wherein was both strength and beauty for so ought catechisme be strong in precepts beautifull in order and method Paul What is Christian doctrine usually called and how may it be defined Gamaliel It is most usually called either Religion or Divinitie and may bee defined to be the Art or science of beleeving aright and of living well Paul How many parts are there then of Religion Gamal Two which Saint Paul Titus 1. verse 1. calls TRVTH and GODLINES and they are the two pillars or supporters of Gods house the shaking of either of which ruines the building Paul Where may bee found united and gathered together those principall and fundamentall Truths which a Christian is to believe to salvation Gamal They are abridged and contracted into the Apostles Creed and are first capable of this distinction that they either concerne God or the Church of God
comfort and the good of others Precept 8. 5. that wee beare up and maintaine our owne and others fame and credit accompting it as a precious ointment Precept 9. Lastly that we resist and suppresse in the first risings thereof all concupiscence and evill motions though they bee before consent of will Precept 10. Paul Tell me now what prayer or holy talking with God is which was proposed to be the second part of Godlinesse Gamal It is a moving of God the father in the name of his Sonne by the power of his holy Spirit for such things as are agreeable to his will the best president and platforme whereof is the Lords prayer Paul How is this prayer divided Gamal Into 4. parts 1. the preface or preparation to prayer Our Father which art in heauen 2. the petitions or things asked Hallowed be c. 3. the doxologie or thanksgiving for thine is c. 4. the seale or conclusion Amen Paul The petitions being the chiefe part how many are they in number and how are they to be divided Gamal They be six and are usually referred to two heads namely those that concerne God which are the three first and those which concerne our selves which are the three last Paul How doe you subdivide those 3 first which concerne God Gamal They either concerne his glory 1 Petition where we pray that his name which is himselfe may be magnified and hallowed or else they concerne the meanes of his glory Petition 2 and 3 where wee pray for the comming of his Kingdome both of power grace and glory and for the doing of his will both by us in active obedience and upon us in passive Paul How doe you subdivide the three last petitions which concerne our selves Gamal They are either such as concerne this life petit 4. as the asking of daily bread under which is comprehended all thinges necessary for our naturall life or else they concerne the life to come as the asking remission of sinnes in regard of what is past petit 5. and deliverance of temptation and the evill thereof in regard of what is to come petition 6. Paul Wee are now come to the third and last piece of Pietie the receiving the Sacraments tell mee therefore what a Sacrament is and how many there bee Gamal A Sacrament cannot better bee defined then out of Romans 4. and 11. a seale of the righteousnesse by Faith of which there are onely two properly so called Baptisme and the Lords Supper Paul What is Baptisme Gamal A Sacrament of entring us into Christianitie or of engrafting us into Christ consisting of the outward signe which is dipping in or sprinckling with water and of the inward grace which is washing away of our sinnes by our sanctification in the blood of Christ. Paul What is the Lords Supper Gamal A Sacrament of our continuance and growth in Christianitie consisting also of the outward visible signes of bread and wine proportionate to the inward and invisible Grace of Christs blessed body and blood eaten and digested by faith Paul At the first you compared Catechisme to Sampsons haire which was strong and faire as therfore you have given mee a sufficient tast of the strength of it in being the very pith and marrow of the Oracles of God so now I pray you shew mee the beauty and fairenesse of it in the order and method thereof Gamal First wee did begin with Faith by which wee live secondly we did come to the Law by which wee walke thirdly we proceeded on to Prayer least wee should faint in faith or waxe weary of good works Lastly finding faith but weake obedience imperfect and prayers cold and distracted wee have the obsignation of the Sacraments which are as Gods seales to secure our estate in him which also is observed to bee the very methode and oeconomie of th' authorized Catechisme of the Church of England FINIS A Theologicall Circle OR THE WHOLE BOdy of Divinity cast into the mould of the yeere that is into 52. Questions and Answers according to the number of Lords Daies Whereby the Catechumenoi learning one onely Question and Answer every Sunday shall in the revolution of one yeare be instructed after a manner more then vulgar and come to know all the grand and necessary truths of the Christian Religion The Speakers are 1. Mnason an old disciple Acts 21. 16. 2. Apollos one mighty in the Scriptures 1 Iohn 2. 13. I write unto you Fathers THE THIRD Forme of knowledge or the Fathers Catechisme Winter quarter MNason What is that which is the thirst of every mans soule and the chiefe scope of mans life Apollos That very same thing which in one word or tearme is called Felicitie happinesse or beatitude others call it the chiefe good Mnason Wherein doth mans chiefe good or happinesse consist Apollos Neither in 1 wisdome or knowledg nor in 2 glory and honour nor 3 in pleasure nor 4 in dignitie nor 5 in riches nor 6 in health and strength nor 7 in favour and esteeme nor 8 in morall vertue nor 9 in temporall life nor 10 in immortality it selfe Neither any of these nor all of these together nor any other created thing can quench the thirst of mans soule nor be said to bee the chiefe good of the reasonable creature Mnason Why so I pray you Apollos Because whatsoever may prove mans chiefe good must necessarily be invested with this double propertie 1. that it bee All-sufficient that is simply and absolutely able of it selfe to fill the heart and satisfie the soule 2. That it be indeficient and perpetuall so as the Soule cannot bee made sad either with the sence or feare of loosing it Now the very best of created and sublunary felicities if they incline any thing to sufficiencie or perfection they are commonly very short and momentany if they be more lasting they are usually very dilute and imperfect Mnason What then is if these bee not neither can be Apollos Onely the All-sufficient Lord himselfe who is All in all both in himselfe and unto us and who is onely able and willing to fill every corner of the heart with sátietie and content and to give us full measure pressed downe shaken together and running over Mnason Whereby then may wee be so knit and united unto God as to be partakers of his All-sufficiency and beatitude Apollos Religion is the thing which doth unite and cement man unto his God whence it hath its name from tying and knitting because our soules which by lapse and sinning were dissevered from God by religion and divine worship are conjoyned unto him againe Mnason Can any Religion or kinde of divine worship doe this Apollos Noe onely the true christian religion can doe it To which purpose the words of the 18 Article agreed on by the whole clergy of both