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A58190 A short and plain account of religion for the instruction of families, by being often read in them : recommended especially to those under his charge / by Geo. Raymond ... Raymond, George, A.M. 1700 (1700) Wing R414; ESTC R2514 10,554 15

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we shall be very uneasy upon every Transgression of any of these Laws but find great peace and satisfaction of Spirit in the keeping of ●●em When through the neglect of God and abuse of themselves Depravation of Religion and Corruption of Mankind Men had depraved this Religion by wicked Lives and Idolatrous Worship they became Reprobate in their Minds and vile in their Affections and sunk into a degenerate and forlorn Estate that was as Wretched as it was Sinful Gen. 6.5 Rom. 1.21 26 28. Since our first Parents indulged their Appetite against Reason and so Transgressed the Law of God their Posterity are sunk into Sensuality and by their own unreasonable Inclinations by the wicked Example of others and the Temptations of the World are betrayed into powerful evil Habits which make their return to God and their Duty extreamly difficult When Men become Enemies to God in Temper and Life Paganism they can no longer bear the true Knowledge and Worship of him whereupon wicked Spirits and evil Men take occasion to set up a false Religion that may gratifie such who are departed from the True Such who will not keep God's Laws are yet willing to compound for their Sins by costly Sacrifices and a pompous Service And this gave occasion and rise to Idolatry and that to polytheism or the serving of many Gods and that service was made up of magical Rites and the most unnatural and abominable Customs humane Sacrifices and filthy Mysteries So that Religion whose end is to Unite and Assimulate Men unto God and to perfect their Natures became the Instrument of Mens Alienation and Departure from God and of Debauching and Enslaving their Minds and of filling them with Brutish Lusts and Diabolical Passions Mich. 6.6 7. Rom 1.21 2 Cor. 8.5 Ezek. 16.20 Rom. 1.28 c. This growing impiety God testified against and opposed Patriarchal Religion by the Instructions and Example of those holy Patriarchs whom he raised up by frequent intercourse with Men and special manifestations of his Soveraign Dominion and Power amongst them By the Translation of Enoch who walked with God by the Deluge of the Old World and the signal Destruction of the Sodomites and others who had forsaken God and abused themselves in a most horrible manner These holy Instructions and Examples and Divine Facts were designed to put a stop to the Corruption of Religion and of Men to enforce the Laws of God to encourage the Righteous and to awe the Wicked and to awaken in them a becoming Sense of God and of their Duty But at length God Applyed a most gracious Remedy for the deplorable Condition of lost Men by a Standing Revelation of the true Religion given first by Moses and then by Christ The Holy Scriptures were written by Holy Men moved and guided by the holy Ghost Holy Scriptures and contain a true History and Account of such Divine Facts Messages and Revelations as God saw needful to be transmitted to all Ages of his Church for the Instruction and Benefit thereof 2 Pet. 1.21 2 Tim. 3.16 These Scriptures are the Records of the First Covenant or old Testament that is the Religion which God set up among the Jews by Moses And of the Second Covenant or New Testament i. e. the Religion which God hath set up for all Men by his Son Jesus Christ Heb. 7.8 13. The Ten Commandments are the Substance and chiefest part of God's Covenant with Israel Mosaical Religion and to keep them in the Worship and Obedience of the True God was the design of that Dispensation and the Political and Ceremonial Laws did Minister to the same End and were subservient to the Moral to Effect and Enforce the keeping of them The Rites were such as the Temper of that People and the Circumstances of those times required and they were so many Signs between God and his People Badges of the Servants of the True God and Memorials and Monitors of their Obligations to him God their Creatour their Redeemer and their King dwelt in the midst of them That his Fear might be before their Faces that they might not Sin against him and he sent them Prophets and Preachers of Righteousness and Repentance to reprove and threaten their Disobedience and to perswade them to return to their Duty And by these he foretold the Coming of Christ and the setting up of a better State of Religion by him Now in these last Days God hath spoken unto us by his Son Christian Religion that Divine Person in whom the God-head dwelleth Bodily i. e. really and manifestly who came into the World that he might destroy the Works of the Devil i. e. Idolatry and Immorality that by his Doctrine he might Teach the Laws of God and by his Obedience unto Death vindicate the Honour of them that he might bring in Eternal Righteousness and set up the Kingdom of God by means most proper and fitted for all times and therefore made Perpetual and Unchangeable Heb. 1.2 3. Colos 2.9 1 Joh. 3.8 For he hath taught and assured us in the Name of God The Principles or Doctrine Vnity of God That there is but One God the Creatour of all things and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and thereby condemned Polytheism or the Worship of many Gods Mat. 4.10 1 Cor. 8.6 That God is not to be Worshipped with Sacrifices or by Images True Worship or with the Pomp introduced by Idolatry but with the Natural Acts and Expressions of Divine Honour and proper Tokens of Respect and Reverence and that the best and most acceptable Service of God consists in a holy imitation of him Joh. 4.24 Mat. 5.48 That God who is Propitious in his Nature is reconciled to sinners in his Son Reconciliation whose Obedience unto Death doth worthily vindicate and greatly honour the Laws of God and his voluntary Sacrifice of himself was so well pleasing unto God that he did thereupon enter into a Covenant of Grace and Mercy with Mankind wherein he hath engaged himself to forgive the Sins of those who Believe and Repent and to make them partakers of eternal Life Mat. 5.45 Mark 10.44 John 10.17 Mat. 26.28 That God sent his Son to be the Saviour of the World Glory of Christ and hath appointed him the only Mediatour between God and Man in whom God speaketh unto us and by whom we have access unto God that God hath given him all Power and made him King and Lord of all things That he may be the Author of Eternal Salvation to all them that obey him Mat. 3.17 1 Tim. 2.5 Joh. 5.22 Mat. 28.18 That this same Lord Jesus shall come in Glory to Judge the World Resurrection and Judgment and shall raise the Dead and shall doom the Wicked to the Damnation of Hell and receive the Righteous into Life Eternal Mat. 25.31 46. John 5.27 28 29. The Doctrine of Christ then Teacheth and his Religion obligeth us to Worship
the one true God in a right manner through one Mediatour to look for the Mercy of God upon our Repentance without costly Expiations and Sacrifices and to live Godly Righteously and Soberly in this World looking for the glorious Appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall Raise the Dead Judge the World and render to every Man according to his Deeds The Laws of Christianity Principal and Primary The Laws of Christ are either Principal and Primary or Secondary institution s Subservient and Ministring to the former The Principal Laws which contain the Substantial part of Religion are the same with those Laws of our Creation or Rules of Piety Righteousness and Purity which are before recited and these are delivered and explain'd in the Sermons of our Lord and inculcated in the writings of his Apostles and to these he hath added The Law of Faith that we believe and acknowledge Jesus to be the Christ the Son of God Faith perswading our Hearts of the Truth of his Divine Mission and Doctrine and of the importance of both and that we publickly profess our Faith and Hope in him and confess him if need be even with the hazard of our Lives Rom. 16.26 Rom. 9.10 Mat. 10.32 33. The precept of Repentance enjoyns that we carefully turn and abstain from all that is evil Repentance that we Live with great Care and Observation of our selves that we frequently examine our Principles and Practice that we sorrowfully confess our Faults to God and ask forgiveness for them and that we do the same towards Men in Case of Injury or Scandal Acts 3.19 2 Cor. 13.5 Jam. 5.16 Mat. 5.23 The Law of Christ Obligeth us likewise to Love and Pray for and do good to our Enemies Love of Enemies and of Christians and to bear a most tender Affection and shew singular kindness to our fellow Christians Mat. 5.44 John 15.12 John 17.21 23. It is also the Duty of Christians to Think of Heavenly-mindeduess to Affect to Desire and Hope for that immortal Life and Bliss which the Gospel hath brought to light and to have but little consideration of the things of this Life for which the Gentiles served their Gods and the Jews the God of Israel but to do good and to suffer patiently Looking for their Reward in Heaven 2 Cor. 4.18 Colos 3.2 Phil. 3.20 And so it is also to Study and imitate the Life of Christ Imitation of Christ and having such a Pattern and Guide to endeavour to excell in purity of Heart and Life the best Examples of all other Institutions John 13.14 Mat. 11.29 Mat. 5.46 47. The positive Institutions of Christ are the means he hath appointed for the better observance of these primary Laws of his Religion Secondary Instructions and they are Prayer both Private and Publick which is both an Act of Religion Prayer and a special mean to keep up the Sense and Power thereof in our Hearts and Lives Mat. 6.6 Luke 11.2 13. And so is the Ministry of the Word by an Order of Men fitted and appointed for that purpose Ministry of the Word an excellent mean for informing the Judgments awakening the Consciences perswading the Hearts and influencing the Lives of Christians Eph. 4.11 12 13. Besides these Moral means our Lord hath instituted two Rites as Instruments and Helps of Religion By the one Baptism we are made Disciples of Christ Baptism to learn that Religion which God the Father Taught by his Son and confirmed by the holy Ghost and oblige our selves to the Study Profession and Practice thereof Mat. 28.19 20. By the other the Lords Supper we make a solemn Commemoration of the Death of our Blessed Lord and Saviour The Lord's Supper which was the Sacrifice for our Sins and at and by which his Religion was set up and are thereby put in mind of our mighty Obligations to Holiness and of the great Assurance there is of Remission of Sins and Resurrection to Eternal Life for all those who Believe and Obey the Gospel Luke 22.19 20. John 6.39 40. This is the Religion of Christ The proof whereof is contained in the History of his Life Demonstrations of Christianity and Death Resurrection and Ascension and sending of the holy Ghost If we consider these Facts we must be convinced that Jesus is the Son God and that his Religion is Divine and that they who Believe and Obey him shall be Happy by the forgiveness of their Sins and a Resurrection to Life eternal To set up such a Religion was a Work worthy of God and to Receive and Obey it is the greatest interest and concern of Men. We can neither blame the Doctrine nor refute the Proofs of it but Men become unbelievers by being resolvedly wicked for they being Enemies to the Truth will not receive it We have more reason to give Credit to the things reported in the Gospels than to any thing else which we have not seen with our Eyes and the Religion founded upon these Facts is what we should with to be true and we run a mighty and a most desperate hazzard even of the loss of our immortal Souls by our neglect of it By our admittance into the Church and the fellowship of Christians The Church we are freed from those Chains in which Satan holds the Children of Darkness we are mightly prevented with the Grace of God for our Instruction and Perswasion in the Truth and mightily assured of his continual Assistance and Blessing upon our Religious Endeavours That therefore which is incumbent upon us is by a due use of those helps and means graciously afforded us to get such Religious Knowledge as is needful and by the Divine Assistance which is promised to master our naughty Inclinations and vicious Habits that we may Practice accordingly By being of this reformed Church of England we have vast advantages for Religious Knowledge and Practice which they want who live where Christianity is Debauched and blended with Paganism and how then shall we answer it to God and our Lord Jesus Christ it by the abuse of his Grace and of our Selves we continue Ignorant and Vicious as Papists or Pagans Let us not then Reproach the Author of our holy Religion by being careless and negligent thereof as if God had sent his Son in vain and given the holy Ghost to no purpose and set up a Religion that is not worth our minding nor let us be so foolish for our selves as to perish by sloath and ignorance in our Rebellion against God who of his infinite Mercies hath taken so much Care to Redeem us and to make us Wise and Good and so eternally Happy FINIS A Prayer O God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth we thy Creatures fall down with all humility to Worship thee in whose Hands our Breath is and before whom are all our Ways It is but just and meet that we should Honour and Serve Fear and Love thee above all for thou art the Author of our Beings the Fountain of all our Enjoyments and the God of all our Hopes All thy ways towards us are Mercy and Goodness thy loving kindness is better than Life thy Service is perfect freedom all thy Commandments are Faithful and Right and in keeping of them there is great Reward Thou O God art Righteous but we have done exceeding wickedly in following the imaginations of our foolish Hearts to offend against thy holy Laws We have provoked most justly thy Wrath and Indignation by our wicked Works and have most grievously sinned against our own Souls But blessed be the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who so loved the World that he hath given his only begotten Son that believing in him we might not Perish but may have everlasting Life and hath exalted him to his own Right hand to be a Prince and Saviour to give Repentance and Remission of Sins We beseech thee for his sake to pardon our manifold Sins and Errours which we humbly and sorrowfully confess and to grant that from henceforth we may cleave steadfastly unto thee in Righteousness and Purity in Humility and Charity and all those Divine Vertues of which our blessed Redeemer hath given us so great an Example Give us Grace to withstand the Temptations of the World the Flesh and the Devil that with pure Hearts we may follow thee the only God treading in the blessed steps of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Make us Faithful in the use of all those blessed Advantages thou hast given us for the renewing of our Minds and restoring thine Image in us and bless all thy sacred Appointments for our increasing in Righteousness and Holiness That so whilst we live here a good Conscience may be our greatest Care and Holiness our chief Delight and we being reconciled to thy will may Live and Dye in thy Peace and Favour and at last through thy Mercy may be found meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in Life Hear us most gr●cious Father through the mediation of thy Son our Blessed Lord and Saviour in whose most holy Name and Words we commend to thy Mercy and Protection our Selves and all Mankind saying Our Father c.