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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48737	Solomons gate, or, An entrance into the church being a familiar explanation of the grounds of religion conteined in the fowr [sic] heads of catechism, viz. the Lords prayer, the Apostles creed, the Ten commandments, the sacraments / fitted to vulgar understanding by A.L.	Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing L2573; ESTC R34997	164,412	526

Law of the Lord must meditate in it day and night that so he may time his duties aright and be like the tree planted by the river side which bringeth forth its fruit in due season and thus whatsoever he does shall prosper GOD SPAKE Three months after the children of Israel's departure out of Egypt when they had pitch'd their Tents in the wilderness of Sinai when they had fresh in memory that wonderful deliverance which God wrought for them in their passage over the red-Sea from Pharaoh and his hoast besides those many dreadful miracles which he had shown in Egypt God mindful of the Covenant which he had made with Abraham and his seed the Israelites being now in a convenient place in a desert retired from the observation as well as the invasion of their enemies strikes a league with them that if they will obey his voice and keep his Covenant he will own them for his peculiar people and upon their acceptance of these terms after two dayes solemn preparation the Divine Majesty came down with Thunders and Lightnings and thick Clouds and seated himself upon the top of the Mount Sinai in the midst of fire and smoke with the noise of Trumpet that the Mountain and the Camp both shook with fear and whether by the ministry of an Angel or rather by some other more immediate way with audible voice face to face pronounced the tenour and conditions of the Covenant comprehended in the words of the Law ALL THESE WORDS Christ the second Person is called the Word but he is the word begotten as the Word is the immediate and essential issue of the Mind The whole Scripture too is God's Word that is was by God inspired into the holy pen-men they writing according to the dictates of the Spirit whence that form of speech especially among the Prophets Thus saith the Lord and The Word of the Lord came unto me But these Words God himself utter'd which therefore call for the more heedfull attention and awfull regard If the Lyon roares shall not the beasts of the forrest tremble every word should sound in our eares like a clap of Thunder cause an Earth-quake in our bowels for the Highest hath utter'd his voice even a mighty voice All these words too which requires an universal obedience We are not to pick and choose but receive them all with a like readiness of Faith as the clear manifestations of God's will God at the first creation for every dayes work spoke and it was done Oh! that he would so speak to our hearts that his Spirit may accompany his Word and help us to doe what he commands us to doe O Lord give us strength to perform thy Commands and then command what thou wilt SAYING The Rabbins have a tradition or fiction that God pronounc'd the Law twice over the first time with that hast as if the whole Law had been but one word but at the second going over leisurely and distinctly Whereupon they say that in this portion of Scripture the accents are upon every word doubled to denote that double delivery the one a note of speed the other of stop and pause This I suppose they gather from the two words here used as if he spoke them in hast and said them at leisure or whether they thought it fit the Law should be delivered twice by word of mouth as well as twice written upon tables Whether this were so or no matters not much only it should be our prayer and endeavour that they might be spoken over twice to us to the ear first and then to the heart to the inward man as well as to the outward though we have not the advantages of those terrours and dreadful circumstances wherewith the Law was at first delivered to prepare us with a prostrate humility and a devout reverence yet let us imagine that we hear the trumpet sound to judgement and awaken our attention and let us think we see the flames of Hell those everlasting burnings whither the transgressors of this Law must be dispatch'd and possess our souls with fear and hearken what the Lord will say to his servants The Preface Had God surpris'd them with this terrible appearance they might have been swallow'd up in their fears and been lost in those dazling amazements therefore he gave them two dayes time to prepare themselves here before he makes known to them his Law he acquaints them with the Lawgiver and that he might put their affections into a suitable temper for so solemn an occasion he makes an Introductory Preface wherein he lays down the arguments of their obedience taken partly from his power Soveraignty in that he is the Lord partly from his mercy and kindness seen first generally in that relation wherein he plac'd himself to them as being their God and more particularly discover'd in a late great deliverance he wrought for them and that both in respect of place out of a strange country he had brought them forth out of the Land of Egypt and in respect of condition out of a slavish and toilsom drudgery out 〈◊〉 the House of bondage I Who now speak to thee from the midst of fire out of the thick cloud the fear of thy Fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob I that appear'd to Moses in the burning bush cloathed with Majesty and dread I who have carried thee upon Eagles wings and have brought thee thus to my self to shew my statutes unto thee and to make known my laws Hear O Israel and fear and observe to do for I AM THE LORD The maker of all things the absolute Soveraign of the World Iehovah the Fountain of beings who give being also to my word and promise there is nothing resists my will for my power is infinite wherefore stand in aw and fear before me the subjection and homage of all creatures being due to me by right of creation all things are my servants for from me and to me are all things I spake the Word and they were are created I made all things according to my good pleasure and for my own glory and men more especially for my service and amongst all the sons of men I have chose you for my select people for I am THY GOD by Covenant as well as by Creation by promise no less then by providence I made my self known to thy Fathers and engag'd my loving kindness to them and to their posterity after them I took a particular care of you when you were but few in number that the Nations about you might do you no harm I supported you under your burdens in Egypt and multiply'd you when you were sorely oppress'd in so much that of seventy persons you are become a great people I have own'd you as my charge and have done wondrous things for you in the land of Cham and HAVE BROUGHT THEE OUT with a strong hand and stretched out arm in the sight pursuit of Pharaoh all his hoast

who sunk in the midst of the red Sea which divided it self to give thee passage dry-shod 'T was not thy own wit nor thy own strength that has brought about this great deliverance for thee but it must be confess'd even to the astonishment of the heathen roundabout that my wisdom contriv'd and my power hath effected it by the conduct of my faithful servant Moses who by my appointment by the guidance of my holy Angel has led thee OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT Where thou wast by the tyranny of Pharaoh his task-masters cruelly dealt with and slavishly imployed having neither freedom of body nor of soul deny'd all opportunityes of serving thy self or thy God captiv'd amongst Idolaters straightned in a land of straits in so much that thy number increasing they sought to destroy thee by cruel edicts hating thee out of Antipathy as a stranger and of another religion and out of fear because they saw thee grow numerous wherefore after so many years captivity in a strange and Heathen Land I have call'd thee forth to bring thee to a countrey of peace and plenty flowing with milk and hony and above all the Land of promise and which if you will be a holy people will deservedly be stiled the Holy Land OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE Out of that prison from whence your sighs and groanes have oft pierc'd Heaven out of that Bridewell where you were kept to make brick and raise huge piles to be la●●ing monuments of your misery and the tyrants lust without the allowance of any thing for your labour but blowes not so much as stubble affoorded yet your full tale of bricks required at your hands Consider now at distance what a sad life thou hast escaped the day spent in toils and the night in complaints the Nation kept under in poverty and disgrace and none to relieve thee so much as with their pitty but thy God who have brought thee aside into this solitude that I might make my self and my laws known to thee a favour which I have not shown to any nation besides that I may espouse thee unto my self and make thee a Kingdom of Priests and a holy people if thou wilt obey my Statutes hearken to my Law which I am now proclaiming in thy ears I am the Lord that have right to command and power to punish and therefore fear before me I am thy God who have enter'd into Covenant with thee and will reward those that keep Covenant wherefore I exspect thy love I have brought thee forth of Egypt from a sad bondage where thou wast oppress'd with slavery and want shall provide for thee Libertie and plenty and therefore I look for gratitude and let all three thy fear thy love and thy gratitude tye thee fast unto me the Lord and thy God and thy mighty deliverer and oblige thee to an attention and obedience to my Law Now although this historical passage concerning the delivery out of Egypt be peculiar to the children of Israel yet the obligation and the force of the argument will reach all people whatsoever and the Preface is by Analogie of as large and universal an extent as the Law it self For at Christ's death the vail of the Temple was rent in twain and the wall of separation which distinguished the Iews formerly the only people of God from the rest of the nations who had been till then heathen and as it were excommunicate out of the pale of the Church was broken down so that all the nations of the world are now engaged in Covenant with God and have undertaken and made a stipulation in Baptism to be his people and He to be their God And this History is turn●d into Allegory and denotes the salvation purchas'd by Christ who hath redeem'd us from a spiritual Egypt and the slavery of sin and hath led us forth out of the regions of darkness and the bondage of servile fears to the inheritance of light and the glorious priviledges of the Gospell Besides if we take the deliverance in a temporal sense who is there that when he recounts the several passages of his life will not acknowledge God's gracious dealings and his wonderful mercies in providing for him in his wants preserving him from imminent dangers and delivering him from his fears and the evil consequencies many times of his follies so that if he have any ingenuity upon so many instances of divine favour and particular kindness he must needs confess that God is the Lord his God These words may be look'd on also more particularly to relate to the first Commandement not only as an indication of him whom we are to own as our God but as a reason too why we should own him Nor will it so have the less influence upon the other Commandements since all religous duties depend upon the knowledge and fear of God and Atheism is that root of bitterness from whence all transgressions spring for The fool hath said in his heart There is no God and then it follows They have corrupted their way they have done abominably The first Commandement THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS Thou shalt not follow the example of blind Pagans and entertain a multitude of gods nor pay that devotion to any of the creatures which is due to the creator alone nor set up in thy heart any thing in opposition to me or give thy self up to the obedience of any lust nor hearken to the suggestions of Satan nor be rul'd by the vanity of this wicked world nor turn Atheist and live without God in the world but shalt acknowledge me the only one God in three Persons and shalt learn to know me the Infinite Almighty Everlasting and Ever blessed God shalt fear before me and have thy thoughts taken up with the meditation of my Nature and my Will my Word and my Works and shalt admire me in my Attributes obey me in my Commands thou shalt set me alwayes before thee that thou mayst walk in my wayes thou shalt perform to me that Homage as is due by right of creation thou shalt observe my providences stand in aw of my Iudgements and have regard to my mercies nor shalt thou ascribe whatever befals thee to chance or fortune to thy own wit or strength but look on all events as the contrivances of my wisdom and the effects of my power Thou shalt bear a love to my name and take thy delight in my Law Thou shalt give up thy heart to me and serv me with truth in the inward parts Thy understanding shall be busily imployed in feeling after me and finding me out according as I have made manifestations of my self in my word and in my works and shall guide thee by the dictates of my holy Spirit Thy will shall be enclin'd to a perfect compliance with my will according to the rules of Holiness and Righteousness and thy affections shall be wholly carried out to me as