requires except we do it in a holy serious and reverent manner A. No. Q. 57. Which is the fourth Commandment A. The fourth Commandment is Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy six days shalt thou labour and do all thy works but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant nor thy cattel nor thy stranger that is within thy gates for in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that is in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it Q. 58. VVhat is required in the fourth Commandment A. The fourth Commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his Word expresly one whole day in seven to be a holy Sabbath unto himself Q. Doth the fourth Commandment require any espeâ—ial time to be kept holy A. Yes Q. What time A. Such as God hath appointed in his Word Q. Doth the fourth Commandment then determine of the special time for divine worship as the three foregoing Commands do of the Object means and manner of worship A. Yes Q. Hath God left us to keep what time we please A. No. Q. What proportion of time hath God expresly set apart in his word to be kept holy to himself A. One wdole day in seven Q. Is this Commandment to be understood of the seventh day in order that is the last of the seven or the seventh in number that is one in seven A. Of the seventh in number Q. Hath God left the determining which day in seven it should be whether the first or the last to some other precept A. Yes Q. Is the fourth Command then a Moral precept that is to say of perpetual force binding Christians now as well as Jews heretofore to the observation of it A. Yes Q. Doth it cease to be of force A. No. Q. 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath A. From the beginning of the world to the Resurrection of Christ God hath appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath and the first day of the week ever since to continue to the end of the world which is the Christian Sabbath Q. Which day of seven was at first appointed for the Sabbath A. The last Q. Which day of the seven did God since appoint to be the Sabbath A. The first Q. When was the seventh or last day of the week appointed to be the Sabbath A. From the beginning of the world Q. Was it only from the time of the giving of the Law of Moses A. No. Q. Was it ordained for man in Paradise at the beginning of the world A. Yes Q. How long did the seventh or last day of the week continue to be the Sabbath A. Until the Resurrection of Christ. Q. How long hath the first day been the weekly Sabbath A. Ever since the Resurrection of Christ. Q. Was the Resurrection of Christ and the finishing the work of our Redemption on the first day of the week the reasons why Christians do keep it as the Sabbath A. Yes Q. And is it therefore called the Lords day A. Yes Q. And is the first day of the week or the Lords day a Christian Sabbath A. Yes Q. How long doth it continue to be the Sabbath A. To the end of the World Q. What is the meaning of the word Sabbath A. A day of holy rest Q. 60. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified A. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by an holy resting all that day even from such worldly imployments and recreations as are lawful on other days and spending the whole time in the publick and private exercises of Gods worship except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy Q. Is the Sabbath to be sanctified A. Yes Q. In what sense is God said to sanctifie the holy Sabbath A. By making it holy Q. In what sense are we said to sanctifie the Sabbath A. By keeping it holy Q. Did God sanctifie it by way of consecration Q. Yes Q. And must we sanctifie it by way of application i.e. applying it to those ends and exercises for which God did consecrate it A. Yes Q. Is the rest of the Sabbath a part of our sanctifying it A. Yes Q. What kind of rest must it be a meer civil rest A. No. Q. Or a meer carnal and bodily rest such as the Oxe and the Asse must have on the Sabbath A. No. Q What rest then A. An holy rest Q. How long must this be A. All that day Q. From what must we rest from spiritual employments and recreations A. No. Q. From what then A. From worldly employments and recreations Q May we not do our own work upon the Sabbath day A. No. Q. Nor follow our own sports and pastimes nor spend the time in our ease and sloth A. No. Q Fro n what worldly employments and recre tions must we rest from such as are sinful in themselves and unlawful at any time A. Yes Q. And not only from such but even from those that are lawful at other times A. Yes Q. And how must we spend the time A. In the exercise of Gods worship Q. May we spend it idly A. No. Q. In what exercise must we spend it A. Both in the publick and private exercises of Gods worship Q. May we stay at home and spend our time in the Private Exercises of Gods Worship with the neglect of the Publick A. No. Q. May we not rest satisfied in giving attendance on the publick worship but must we also be careful at home in the Private A. Yes Q. May not worldly business be done in any Case upon the Sabbath day A. Yes Q. What works then may lawfully be done on the Sabbath day besides the works of Piety A. The works of Necessity and Mercy Q What do you call the works of Necessity A. Such as could not be done before and cannot be deferred until after the Sabbath Q. May works of mercy be done upon the Sabbath day such as visiting the sick feeding our bodies and our beast c. A. Yes Q. And why is this Commandment delivered as to all in general so especially to governours of families Is it because it is not enough for them to sanctifie the Sabbath themselves but they must also look that it be strictly observed in and by their families and because they are apt to hinder their housholds in and by business of their own A. Yes Q. 61. What is forbidden in the fourth Commandment A. The fourth Commandment forbiddeth the omission or careful performance of the duties required and the prophaning the day by idleness or doing that which is in it self sinful or by unnecessary thoughts words or works about worldly imployments or recreations Q. Doth it forbid the omission
of the duties required A. Yes Q. What do you mean by the omission of them A. The leaving them undone Q. Doth it forbid the careless performance of the duties of the Sabbath A. Yes Q. And the prophaning of the day A. Yes Q. How many ways may the Sabbath be prophaned A. Three 1. By idleness 2. By doing that which is in it self sinful 3. By unnecessary thoughts words or works about worldly imployments and recreations Q. May we not be idle upon the Sabbath day A. No. Q. May we sleep and loiter away the time A. No. Q. Is it prophaning the day by doing that which is in it self sinful A. Yes Q. Is it enough to forbear that which is sinful though we do neglect that which is good A. No. Q. Is it a prophanation of the Sabbath to let our thoughts unnecessarily run upon worldly affairs A. Yes Q. Or to let our tongues run upon worldly business A. Yes Q. Or to set our hands to worldly imployments A. Yes Q. Must we neither work nor play upon the Sabbath day A. No. Q. But spend all the day in Gods special Service A. Yes Quest. 62. What are the Reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment A. The reasons annexed to the fourth Commandment are Gods allowing us six days of the week for our own imployment his challenging a special propriety in the seventh his own example and his blessing the Sabbath-day Q. Are there many reasons annexed to the fourth Commandment to enforce it A. Yes Q. How many are there A. Four viz. 1. Gods allowing us six days of the week for our own imployment 2. His challenging an especial propriety in the seventh 3. His own example 4. His blessing the Sabbath day Q. Hath God allowed us any days in the week A. Yes Q. What hath he allowed them to us for A. For our own imployments Q. Is it Gods will that every one should have some imployment A. Yes Q. How many days hath God allowed us for our own imployments A. Six Q. And is it his will that men should ordinarily spend the six days of the week in their imployments A. Yes Q. And is this a reason why we should not cut short Gods allowance of one day for his work because he hath allowed six times as much for ours A. Yes Q. In which words of the Commandment is this reason hinted of Gods allowing of us six days of the week for our own imployment A. In these words Six days shalt thou labour and do all thyork Q. Must we dispatch all our work upon the six days that we may have nothing to hinder us upon the Lords day A Yes Q. In which words doth God challenge a special propriety in the seventh day A. In these words but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God Q. In which words is Gods own example urged as a reason why we should work six days and keep holy the seventh A. In thâ—sâ— words sor in six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day Q. In which words is Gods blessing the Sabbath day hinted as a reason why we should keep it A. In these words wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Q. Hath God then blessed the Sabbath-day and appointed it to be a means of blessing unto us A. Yes Q. Doth God require us to Remember the Sabbath-day as a means for the keeping of it holy A. Yes Q. Are we apt to forget it A. Yes Q. And cannot we duly sanctifie it without we remember it before hand to prepare for it and conveniently to dispatch our worldly business in season out of the way A. No. Q. 63. Which is the fifth Commandment A. The fifth Commandment is Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Q. 64. What is required in the fifth Commandment A. The fifth Commandment requireth the preserving the honour and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations as superiors inferiors or equals Q. Are all sorts of Relations comprehended under the words Father and Mother in the fifth Commandment A. Yes Q. And all sorts of duties in the word Honour A. Yes Q. What doth this Commandment require with reverence to our Relations A. Preserving the honour and performing the duty belonging to them Q. How many sorts of Relations be there A. Three Superiors Inferiors and Equals Q. What do you mean by superiors A. Such as are any way above us whether in Family Church or State Q. Are all that are above us whether in Power or Wealth or age or gifts Superiors A. Yes Q. Doth this Commandment require reverence respect submission and obedience towards Parents Masters Husbands Magistrates Ministers c. as being Superiors A. Yes Q. What do you mean by Inferiors A. Such as are below us in Gifts Place Estate or otherwise Q. Are Subjects Wives Children Servants Hearers the Poor the weak in grace or knowledg comprehended under the name of Inferiors A. Yes Q. And must their Superiors be careful in performing their duties towards them by caring for their bodies and souls governing them with meekness and gentleness correcting and reproving with moderation and wisdom A. Yes Q. Are there duties to be performed to our equals A. Yes Q. May we slight them and carry our selves scornfully towards them A. No. Q. Doth this Command require kindness and affableness towards our Equals readiness to yield to them and prefer them before our selves A. Yes Q. 65. What is forbidden in the fifth Commandment A. The fifth Commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of or doing any thing against the honour and duty which belongeth to every one in their several places and relations Q. Doth it forbid the neglecting our duty to our relations A. Yes Q. And the doing any thing against it A. Yes Q. May we disgrace or dispise our supe riours or speak evil of them or carry our selves irreverently towards them or oppose and resist them A. No. Q. May we despise and slight our inferiours or be rigorous towards them and careless of their spiritual or temporal good A. No. Q. Is it a sin to neglect to instruct them correct them and keep them under government or to neglect to encourage and countenance them when they do well A. Yes Q. May we be discourteous or envious towards our equals or usurp over them or rigorously stand upon our terms with them A. No. Q. 66. What is the reason annexed to the fifth Commandment A. The Reason annexed to the fifth Commandment is a promise of long life and prosperity as far as it shall serve for Gods glory and their own good to all such as keep this Commandment Q. Is there any reason annexed or joined to the fifth Commandment A. Yes Q. What is the reason A. A promise of long life and prosperity Q. How far forth are these and
What is the meaning of Amen A. 1. So let it be 2. So it shall be Useful Questions Whereby a Christian may every day examine himself Psal. 4. 4. Commune with your heart upon your beds EVery Evening before you sleep unless you find some other time in the day more for your advantage in this work sequester your self from the world and having set your heart in the presence of the Lord charge it before God to answer to these Interrogatories For your Duties Q. 1. Did not God find me on my Bed when he looked for me on my knees Job 1. 5. Psal. 5. 3. Q. 2. Have not I prayed to no purpose or suffered wandring thoughts to eat out my duties Mat. 15. 8 9. Jer. 12. 2. Q. 3. Have not I neglected or been very overly in the reading Gods holy word Deut. 17. 19. Josh. 1. 7 8. Q. 4. Have I digested the Sermon I heard last Have I repeated it over and prayed it over Luke 2. 19 51. Psal. 1. 2. 119. 5 11 97. Q. 5. Was there not more of custom and fashion in my family-duties than of conscience Psal. 101. 2. Jer. 30. 21. Q. 6. Wherein have I denyed my self this day for God Luke 9. 23. Q. 7. Have I redeemed my time from too long or needless visits idle imaginations fruitless discourse unnecessary sleep more than needs of the world Eph. 5. 16. Col. 4. 5. Q. 8. Have I done any thing more than ordinary for the Church of God in this time extraordinary 2 Cor. 11. 28. Isa. 62. 6. Q. 9. Have I took care of my company Prov. 13. 20. Psal. 119. 63. Q. 10. Have not I neglected or done something against the duties of my Relations as a Master Servant Husband Wife Parent Child c. Eph. 5. 22. to chap. 6. v. 10. Col. 3. 18. to the 4. v. 2. For your Sins Q. 1. Doth not sin sit light Psal. 38. 4. Rom. 7. 24. Q. 2. Am I a mourner for the sins of the Land Ezek. 9. 4 Jer. 9. 1 2 3. Q. 3. Do I live in nothing that I know or fear to be a sin Psal. 119. 101 104. For your Heart Q. 1. Have I been much in holy Ejaculations Neh. 2. 4 5. Q. 2. Hath not God been out of mind Heaven out of sight Psal. 16. 8 Jer. 2. 32. Col. 3. 1 2. Q. 3. Have I been often looking into mine own heart and made conscience even of vain thoughts Prov. 3. 23. Psal. 119. 113. Q. 4. Have not I given way to the workings of pride or passion 2 Chron. 32. 26. James 4. 5 6 7. For my Tongue Have I bridled my Tongue and forced it in Jam. 1. 26. Jam. 3. 2 3 4. Psal. 39. 1. Q. 2. Have I spoken evil of no man Tit. 3. 2. Jam. 4. 11. Q. 3. Hath the Law of the Lord been in my mouth as I sate in my house went by the way was lying down and rising up Deut. 6. 6 7. Q. 4. Is there no company I have come into but I have dropped something of God and left some good savour behind Col. 4. 6. Eph. 4. 29. For your Table Q. 1. Did not I sit down with no higher end than a beast meerly to please my appetite Did I eat and drink to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10. 31. Q. 2. Was not my appetite too hard for me Jude 12. 2 Pet. 1. 6. Q. 3. Did not I arise from the Table without dropping any thing of God there Luke 7. 36 c. Luke 14. 1 c. John 6. Q. 4. Did not I mock God when I pretended to crave a blessing and return thanks Acts 27. 35 36. Mat. 15. 36. Col. 3. 17. 23. For your Calling Q. 1 Have I been diligent in the duties of my Calling Eccles. 9. 1 Cor. 7. 17. 20. 24. Q. 2. Have I defrauded no man 1 Thes. 4. 6. 1 Cor. 6. 8. Q. 3. Have I dropped never a lye in my shop or trade Prov. 21. 6. Eph. 4. 25. Q. 4. Did not I rashly make nor falsly break some promise Psal. 106. 33. Josh. 9. verse 14 c. Psal. 15. 4. An Addition of some brief Directions for the Morning D. 1. If through necessity or carelesness you have omitted the reading and weighing of these questions in the Evening be sure to do it now D. 2. Ask your self what sin have I committed what duty have I omitted Against which of these Rules have I offended in the day foregoing And renew your repentance and double your watch D. 3. Examine whether God were last in your thoughts when you went to sleep and first when you awoke D. 4. Enquire whether your care of your heart and ways doth increase upon your constant using of this course for self-examination or whether it doth abate and you grow more remiss D. 6. Impose a task of some good meditation upon your selves while you are making ready either to go over these Rules in your thoughts or the heads of the Sermon you heard last or the holy meditations for the purpose in the practice of Piety or Scudders daily walk D. 6. Set your ends right for all that day D. 7. Set your watch especially against those sins and temptations that you are like to be most incident to that day To the most endeared People the Inhabibitants of Taunton Salvation Most dearly beloved aud longed for my Joy and Crown MY hearts desire and prayer for you is that you may be saved This is that which I have been praying and studying and preaching for these many years and this is the end of my venturing and suffering and writing at this prsent time God that knoweth all things he knoweth that this is my wish Oh that I could but come at your souls And that this is the prize and the gain that I run for that I might win souls I seek not other gifts give me your hearts let me but part between your sins and you suffer me but to save you Give me leave to carry you over to Jesus Christ and I will not ask you any more I will serve you gladly I will suffer for you thankfully so I may but save you Do not wonder why I follow you so pressingly why I call upon you so frequently let not my importunity be grievous to you all this is but to save you Christ did not bethink his blood and shall I bethink my breath or ink in order to your salvation What pity is it that any of you should miscarry at last under the power of ignorance or by a prophane negligence or a formal and lifeless profession of strict godliness Beloved I am afraid of you lest as to many of you I have run in vain I cannot but most thankfully acknowledg that considering the paucity of these that are saved there are not a few of you who are the joy of your Ministers the glory of Christ. But it cannot be dissembled that far the greater number give little ground to hope that they are in the
the praise nor the promise Hath Christ honoured catechizing with his presence and will not you own it with your practice Say not they are careless and will not learn What have you your authority for if not to use it for God and the good of their souls You will call them up and force them to do your work and should you not at least be as zealous in putting them upon Gods work Say not they are dull and are not capable If they be dull God requires of you the more pains and patience but so dull as they are you will make them to learn how to work and can they not learn as well how to live Are they capable of the mysteries of your trade and are they not capable of the plain principles of Religion well as ever you would see the growth of religion the cure of ignorance the remedy of prophaness the downfall of error fulfil you my joy in going through with this duty I have been too long already and yet I am afraid my letter will be ended before my work be done How loth am I to leave you before I have prevailed with you to set to the work to which you are here directed will you pass your promise will you give me your hands Oh that you would you cannot do me a greater pleasure Ask what you will of me See if I will not do as much for you Oh that your families might be a joy to me as that twice noble Ladies to John who professes he had no greater joy then to find her children walking in the truth Beloved why should you not give the hand one to another mutually engage each to other for more vigorous and diligent endeavours in promoting family godliness I must tell you God looks for more than ordinary from you in such a day as this He expects that you should do both in your hearts in your houses somewhat more than ever under these his extraordinary dispensations my most dearly beloved mine own bowels in the Lord will you satisfie the longings of a travelling Minister will you answer the calls of divine providence would you remove the incumbent or prevent the impending calamities would you plant nurseries for the Church of God would you that God should build your houses and bless your substance would you that your children should bless you that your Father should bless you Oh then set up Piety in your families as ever you would be blessed or be a blessing let your hearts and your houses be the temples of the living God in which his worship according to all the forementioned directions may be with constancy reverently performed Pardon my prolixity and importunity in so earnest pursuing of you I am yet afraid I have done too soon and shall end without my errand The Lord God perswade you To him I turn me for I am well assured he can prevail with you O Father of Spirits that hast set me over thy flock to watch for their souls as one that must give an account I have long studied thy will and taught in thy name and do unfeignedly bless thee that any have believed my report I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me and they have received them I have manifested thy name unto them and they have kept thy word And now I am no more with them but I come unto thee Holy Father keep them through thine own name for they are thine As they have kept the word of thy patience so keep thou them in the hour of temptation They are but a flock a little and a helpless flock but thou art their shepherd suffer them not to want Do thou feed them and fold them Let thy rod and thy staff comfort them and let not the beasts of prey fall upon them to the spoiling of their souls But what shall I do for them that will not be gathered I have called after them but they would not answer I have charged them in thy name but they would not hear I have studied to speak perswasively to them but I cannot prevail Yea I said I have laboured in vain I have spent my strength for nought and in vain yet I cannot give them over much less may I give thee over Lord perswade Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem. Lord compel them to come in and lay the hands of mercy upon them as thou didst on lingring Lot and bring them forth that they may escape for their lives and not be consumed Lord I pray thee open their eyes that they may see and lay hold upon their hearts by thine omnipotent grace Do thou turn them and they shall be turned O bring back the miserable captives and suffer not the enemy of mankind to drive away the most of the flock before mine eyes and to deride the fruitless endeavours of thy labourers and boast over them that he can do more with them though he seek to ruin them than all the beseechings counsels and charges of thy servants that seek to save them Lord if I could find out any thing that would pierce them that would make its way into their hearts thou knowest I would use it But I have been many years pleading thy cause in vain O let not these endeavours also be lost O God find out every ignorant every prophane sinner every prayerless soul and every prayerless family and convince them of their miserable condition while without thee in the world Set thy image upon their souls set up thy worship in their families Let not pride ignorance or slothfulness keep them in neglect of the means of knowledg Let thine eyes be over the place of my desires for good from one end of the year to the other end thereof Let every house therein be a seminary of Religion and let those that cast their eyes upon these lines find thee sliding in by the secret influence of thy grvce into their hearts and irresistibly engaging them to do thy pleasure Amen Amen FINIS Books printed for Edw. Brewster at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1674. THe Apostolical History containing the Acts Labours Sermons Discourses Miracles Successes of the Holy Apostles from Christs Ascention to the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titsn By Sam. Cradock B. D. Fol. A Prospect of Divine Providence By T. C. M. A. 8 vo Cases of Conscience Practically Resolved by the Reverend and Learned John Norman late Minister of Bridgwater 8 vo The Righteous mans Evidence for Heaven By Timothy Rogers 12. Mr. John Ball his large and small Catechism 8 vo The Doctrine of the Bible 12. The last Will and Testament of Basil Valentine Monk of the Order of St. Bennet which he hid under the Table of Marble behind the High Altar of the Cathedral Church of the Imperial City of Erford leaving it there to be found by him who in Gods Providence should make worthy c. 8 vo Moses Revived A Treatise proving that it is not lawful and therefore sinful for any man or woman to eat blood 8 vo The History of Reynard Fox 1. 2 p. 4. a Deut. 6. 6 7. b Gen. 18 19. c Prov. 22. 6. the margin Definitio nominis Rom. 10. 1. a Psal. 4. 2. b Jer. 7. 4. c Ezek. 18. e Hos. 11. 8. f Rev. 3. 20. g Isa. 55. 1. h Luk. 19. A1 42. i Prov. 1. 21 22 23. k Jer. 13. 27. l Psal. 2. 9 12. m Luke 19. 27. n Psal. 68. 21. Ezek. 18. 20. o Psal. 119. 34. p Psal. 11. 6. Rom. 6. 13. q Psa. 14. 4 Job 15. 4. r Joh. 5. 39. s Psa. 1. 1 2 t Prov. 13. 20. Jaâ— 5. 12. Rev. 21. 8. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. u 1 Cor. 16. 19. Gal. 5. 19. 20 21. w Joh. 24. 15. x Psal. 101 2. y Isa. 34. 16 Joh. 5. 39. z Psal. 118. 15. So Christ singing with his family viz. his Disciples Mat. 26. 30 Luke 9. 18. * Herein you must be followers of Christ Mat. 13. 10 36. 51. Mark 4. 10 11. a Exod. 20. 19. Lev. 23. 3. b Psal. 92. 1 2. Exod. 30. 7 8. c Jer. 10. 25. Luke 1. 9 10. d Eph. 6. 18. e Jer. 29. 11 12. 2 Sam. 7. 29. f Mat. 25. 24 c. g Jam. 5. 14 to 19. Acts 12. 5. 10. 12. 2 Cor. 1. 11. h Deut. 6. 6 7 8 9. 4. 9 10. 11. 18 19 20. i Pro. 22. 6 The margin k Gen. 18. 19. l Gen. 14 14. the margin m Luke 2. 46.