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A17053 The life of religion: or Short and sure directions teaching how to 1 beleeue aright. 2 Liue aright, & 3 pray aright. In the forme of exposition on 1 the Creed. 2 The ten Commandements. 3 The Lords Praier. Put into this kind of method, that it might the better 1. Informe the vnderstanding. 2. Affect the soule, and 3. Helpe the memory. Hereunto is added also a short treatise on the Lords Supper: with praiers to be vsed before, at, and after the communion. By R.B. minister of Gods Word. Bruch, Richard, minister of Gods word. 1615 (1615) STC 3927; ESTC S114246 69,848 288

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vnto him in his person Whether is more to be blamed think you this or that 3 As respect and kindnesse is required of the children so is the same affection also of the Parents for if loue and kindnesse doe not first discend how should they ascend we loue God because he loued vs first where the Parent is an Ostrich if the child doe proue a viper it is but a iust plague where the Ruler esteemes his people but as sheep and oxen and beasts of the field if the people be rebellious and lifting vp the heele doe doe kicke against authority it is but like for like If those in authority neglect and contenme their charge if those vnder authority despise their gouernment not respecting the worthinesse of their persons which stands 1. In the dignity of their places 2. In the excellency of their gifts 3. In the length of their daies Whether is the greater defaulter iudge you the one or the other 2. The negatiue of this Conmaundement We may not derogate any thing from the dignity of our Parents The things forbidden in this precept 1. Resisting of them in their iust commands 2. Prouing vnfaithfull and vnthankfull towards them 3. Hating of their persons and dealing frowardlie with them For 1. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft 1. Sam. 15.23 2. He that forsakes his father is a blasphemer Eccle. 3.16 3. To whom will a man be kind and louing if he be wicked and churlish vnto them Vse 1. Hearken therefore O you sonnes and daughters of disobedience you wiues of vndutifulnes you Subiects of rebellion you seruants of stubbornesse stiffenecked and peruerse you that would so faine cast of the yoke loose the cords and breake the bonds in sunder Here is the reproofe of your vngodlines lay it to your hearts but aboue all you children heare feare listen and learne consent and obey 1. To doe reuerence to your parents 2. To follow their admonitions 3. To beare their chasticements Lest he seuerely punished your vndutifulnesse that commāds this dutie 2 Here ●ou children of Beliall vntoward ingratefull take the confusion of your sin vpon you is this the requitall of the loue and kindnes of your parents which gaue you life with great care and cost haue nourished and brought you vp that you should with-draw your selues from their helpe that you should spoile rob them render them euil for good and suffer their eies to faile looke to the stocke from whence you were hewen and to the pit from whence your are digg'd I meane to the father that begat you and to the mother that bare you in her body brought you vp vpon her knees that yee pay vnto them the things that yee owe 1. Loue for their loue 2. Helpe for their helpe 3. Prayers for them for their good wishes for you Lest God at the hearing of their sighes sight of their teares bee moued to wrath against you 3 Hearken O you scorner the abomination of the Lord. Pro. 3. Is it a small thing for you to detract your due obedience and to leaue vndone that which iust authority hath imposed but that you will also hate despight the parsons of your parents masters rulers lay you hand on your heart correct the thoughts of your hearts that your sinne may be forgiuen you put on the charity of those that are set ouer you in the Lord and shew your selues no more vnreuerent in your 1. Bitter speaches 2. Froward lookes 3. Vnseemely gestures Least there be laide vpon you from the Lord iudgements prepared for scorners stripes for the backs of fooles Pro. 19.29 3. The Appendix A promise of long life to the obseruers of this Commandement now they prolong our daies 1. By their fatherly care and prouision 2. By their praiers and 3. By their blessing Eccl. 3.9 For 1. Hereby it giueth well with vs. Ephe. 6.2 2. Hereby they procure this blessing from God vpon vs. 3. Hereby the houses of the children are established Vse 1. Is it not great reason thinke you that wee should haue a care of them to loue honour and obey them all our life who haue prouided for vs from the wombe and from the cradle and ministred vnto vs for the necessity and commodity of our life by whom we haue this that we doe not onelie liue but also liue more happilie being furnished by their care 1. With food and raiment for our bodies 2. With good instructions for our soules 3. With honest arts and trades of liuing So wanting nothing that is good needfull 2 Is it not better and more profitable to haue them pray to God for vs then to sigh to God against vs whereas God will giue vs sorrow for their sighes and blessings for their praiers the blessing of long life for which that they may be earnest suitors vnto God the father of heauen let vs doe all suites and seruice vnto them our fathers here on earth and performe out duties to them 1. Constantly 2. Willingly 3. Cheerefully So failing in no point of the honor that we owe them 3 It is not a thing to be wished for of vs that each care that heares vs then might blesse vs each eie that sees vs might giue witnes vnto vs Iob 29.11 then was Iob deceiued who reckoned this among other as his chiefe crowne and glory and a witnes of the vprightnes and integrity of his life But if this be to be desired from any man much more from these by whom we are men and so much the more to be desired because their blessing will establish their curse will root out the foundation the Lord blessing when they blesse and hearing when they curse vs in the bitternesse of their soules and bringing the disobedient 1. To shame and rebuke 2. To a morsell of bread 3. To an euill end So pouring out his vengeance and wrath vpon them The sixth Commandement Thou shalt not kill 1. The affirming part of this precept We must make much account of the life of man The thing commanded in this precept are 1. That wee bee peaceable in our whole conuersation 2. That our hearts be fraught with pitty and compassion 3. That we defend and deliuer asmuch as in vs lieth our selues and others from danger violence and vexation For 1. If it be possible as much as in vs lieth we must liue peaceable with all men Rom. 12.18 2. We must be mercifull euen as our father also is mercifull Luk. 6.36 3. If wee shall not saue and succour when we may we doe kill and murther Vse 1. Let them come hither now that are the sons of wrath and trespas ready to offer to their brethren all indignities and wrongs impatient of the least yea but supposed crosses and offences from others and learne to doe away the fiercenesse of their natures the roughnesse of their manners the iniquity of their conditions as occasions and things inclining to strife and bloodshed that the peace be
Article And in Iesus which saueth vs 1. From the guilt of sinne 2. From the punishment of sinne 3. From the power of sin and Satan For 1. He was made sin for vs. Gal. 3.13 2. He was made a curse for vs. Ga. 4.4 3. Hee appeared to loose the workes of the diuell Ioh. 16.54 Vse 1. Whereas therefore the law of God accusing me in my selfe I am but a lost creature and can find nothing in me but 1. A froward heart 2. A wicked life and 3. A defiled conscience I betake me to this saluation 2. Whereas wrath is here gone forth against me and hell else-where prouided that I may yet haue hope and safety 1. In life 2. In death 3. In iudgement I cleaue vnto this Iesus 3. Whereas solde vnder sinne a captiue to the Diuell I haue liued long in bondage that now I may be freed from such 1. Bad Masters 2. Heauy chains 3. Seruile labours I flie vnto this Sauiour Christ annointed vnto vs 1. A Prophet 2. A Priest 3. A King For he 1. Teacheth his people the will of his Father 2. Maketh atonement twixt them and their God 3. Doth mightily gouerne and defend his Church Vse 1. I therefore leaue all other teachers which speake not as the word of God to harken to this Prophet with whose 1. Threatnings I am terrified 2. Promises I am allured 3. To whose precepts I doe obey Because hee hath the words of truth and peace 2 I come vnto the father through him offering spirituall sacrifice trusting to be accepted and lay hold vpon his sacrifice which was 1. Priest 2. Altar 3. Sacrifice Because hee is the high and only sacrificer 3 I count me happy liuing in his gouernment and will shew me faithfull to him that so 1. Mightily ouer-rules and punisheth his enemies 2. Gratiously rules protects his subiects 3. Bountifully rewardeth all their seruices Because he is the King of p●ace righteousnesse His onely Sonne 1. Not by creation 2. Not by adoption 3. But by eternall generation For 1. So are oth●r men and Angels sonnes of God 2. So are sonnes all the chosen people of God 3. So is Iesus Christ himselfe alone Vse 1. These ot●er therefore men and Angels though they are called sonnes of God as being from him in the institution of their nature in whome 1. They liue 2. They moue 3. They haue their being Yet do they not partake of Gods own nature 2. These other Saints of God and chosen people ●hough they haue the honour to bee called the Sonnes of God because they are 1. Elect of him before all worlds 2. Begotten of his immortall seede the word 3. Borne againe of water and of the spirit Yet do they not communicate of Gods owne essence 3 But this his Sonne alone his vndefiled of-spring begotten of him before all worlds and deare to him that did beget him is rightly called his onely Sonne being 1. The bright image of his Father 2. Light of his light 3. Coaeternall to him and consubstantial Because hee alone communicates of the diuine nature and essence Our Lord 1. Potestas arrepta Accepta Not by a power vsurped and vniust 2. Not by a power borrowed and limitted I●genita de Soto 3. But by a power ingenit and lawfull purchase For 1. So are Lords also the tirants of the earth 2. So are Lords also those that raigne by him 3. So is he our Lord alone that is heire of all things Vse 1. Hence therfore am I quickened in my seruice to performe all due obedienc● and doe willingly resigne to him my body soule substance whom I serue Greg. li. 2. Morall 1. Out of the affection of charity 2. Out of the loue of iustice 3. Free from all seruile feare and terror Because his gouernment is so iust and equall 2. Hence draw I no small comfort both for the hope of the reward of my seruice and helpe in need and trouble as also from the dignity of this my calling that I serue a power 1. Whose ability is not poore to reward 2. Whose arme is not short to helpe 3. Whose will cannot bee crossed by a greater power Because he is chiefe Lord subordinate to none 3. Hence thinke I of the account that I am to make of my goods and tallent and withall referre all that I haue to his goodnesse and all that I speak think or do to his praise from whom I haue so much receiued and whose I am by right of 1. Creation 2. Redemption 3. Preseruation Because he is my true and naturall Lord. Vrfin in loco The third Article Which was conceiued by the Holy Ghost 1. After the will of God alone 2. After a manner vnspeakeable 3. After the prophecies that went before For 1. He decreed it thus to come to passe 2. Wee cannot conceiue nor vtter how 3. They spake thus of it long agoe A Virgin shall conceiue All which was done Vse 1. That he might be without all spot or blemish in his conception 1. The sourse of corruption being stopped in his mother 2. Purenesse infused into the masse wherof he was made 3. The humane nature vnited vnto the god-head That so his integrity might couer our defects 2. That we might know that by the same spirit Christ may be formed in our hearts ●ulgent li. de incarnatio August in Ps 17 by which he was conceiued in the wombe if we haue the virginity of the minde which is 1. Sound faith 2. Solid hope 3. Sincere charity That so a fit receptacle bee prouided for him in our soules 3. That we might be assured that nothing shal fall to the ground which the Lord hath spoken though it seeme as impossible to vs as a Virgin to conceiue a thing 1. Which is beyond the course of nature 2. Which hath not entred into the heart of man 3. Which hath not otherwise been hard of in the world That so our faith may bee confirmed in the promises Borne of the Virgin Mary A thing 1. In reason wonderfull 2. In example singular 3. In effect desirable For 1. Who can tell out of his generation 2. Who can euer instance in the like 3. Blessed and happy is the wombe that beares him Vse 1. I acknowledge herein therefore the great worke of God maruellous in our eies so strangely ioyning these three things together Bern. ser in vigil natiu 1. God and man 2. A mother and a maide 3. Faith of these things and the hart of man And magnifie his glorious name therefore 2. I regard herein the humility and loue of my Sauiour which being borne from euerlasting of the father God rich ouer all dwelling in the heauenly palaces came downe into this earth to be 1. Borne of his hand-maide 2. Wrapt in clouts 3. Laide in a manger And follow him in and loue him for these vertues 3. August I long to beare him blessedly in my heart as the mother of God did beare him
iudge euill of others 2. That we should not easily report euill of others 3 That we should not easily receiue an euill report against others So t●●der is he of mens fame and credit 3. The Appendix A caueat to beware of the breach of this commandement least transgressing it 1. We be made like vnto the diuell 2. Wee be punished in the same kinde 3. We be shut out from the presence of God For 1. He was a lier from the beginning and an accuser of the brethren Iohn 8.44 Apoc. 12.9.10 2. How should not other men speake cursedly of vs when our heart doth know that we haue slandered others Eccl. 3. He that telleth lies shall not tarrie in his fight Ps 101.7 Now then Vse 1. You may glory in the patterne whereto you haue conformed your selues you slanderers and backbiters other sinnes make men like vnto beasts as his lechery the lasciuious person to a goate or dog his wrath the foolish person to a shee beare robbed of her whelpes Pr● his drunkennesse the intemperate person to a swine and so in other sinnes and other persons but your sinne with the branches and circumstances thereof makes you like to the diuell 1. Whose dialect of lying is in your tongues 2. Whose marke of impudency is in your foreheads 3. Whose image and superscription of falshood is in all your thoughts As all your words and gestures plainely shew 2. You may boast of the gaine that you haue purchast by your lying when you haue cast vp your accoūts you false lying tongues you haue traduced and defamed others and borne downe your brethren by false witnesse you haue loued to speake all words that might doe hurt Ps but when you looke to the reckoning you shall finde your selues no gainers vnlesse it be gaine as you haue spoken euill of others so to heare and beare your owne reproach oppressed with slanders accusations 1. In the same 2. In the like or 3. In worse things As it is iust with God to giue your deseruings Quintil. 3. You may reioice in that which you haue gotten you false excreable accursed speakers your flatteries and false witnes sings lyings and slanderings haue perhaps giuen you fauour with some men that you haue gratified therby or that are like vnto your selues but they haue quite cast you out of fauour with God who hath in his word 1. Condemned euery one that loueth or maketh lies Reu. 2. Threatned to destroy him that priuily slandereth his neighbour Ps 3. Promised to be a swift witnesse against all false witnesses As we may reade in diuerse passages therof The tenth Commandement Thou shalt not couet thy neighbors house thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife nor his man-seruant nor his maid seruant nor his oxe nor his asse nor any thing that is thy neighbours 1. The affirming part of this precept We must bee wholy possest with the affection of loue The things commanded in this precept are 1. That our heart bee full fraught with charity 2. That wee detest all sinne and iniquity 3. That we delight in all righteousnes and equity For 1. Loue is the fulfilling of the law 2. He that committeth sin is of the diuel Ioh. 3.8 3. So the Lord will delight in vs and make vs partakers of his heauenly pleasures Now then Aug. de laude charit Vse 1. If as Saint Augustine speaketh he that hath charity in his manners hath that which is laid open that also which is hid in the booke of God If the end of this Commandement the Commandement be loue out of a pure heart 1. Tim. 1 5. a good conscience and faith vnfained let vs all striue to be rooted and grounded in loue to be fulfilled with this charity which will so guide the motions of our hearts 1. That we shall affect the things that wee ought Vrsin 2. That we shal affect them in such sort as we ought 3. That we shall affect them to that end that we ought The appetites of our nature being ordered aright 2. If sinne be deadly not onely in the birth and growth thereof but also in the conception If we beare the image superscription of the diuell not onely in our words and actions proceeding from our corruption but also in our very thoughts and motions of our hearts we must if we will hate sinne with a perfect hatred not onely abhorre and condemne the enormity of euill words and actions but also the irregularity of our thoughts as a transgression of this precept and contrary to originall iustice and righteousnes which is 1. The true light of knowledge in our spirit 2. A perfect desire inclination and power to good things in our soules 3. A ready disposition of all the parts of the body to obey Gods knowne will The whole frame of our nature being disposed aright 3 If to delight in good things be the way to attaine to Gods refreshing if God require our heart and to giue our heart to God be to set our delight on the things that are his liking righteousnes peace goodnes and the fruits thereof why doe wee not with Moses hauing respect vnto the recompence of the reward Heb. 11.16 Renounce all the pleasures of sinne euen that of the thought and so imbrace all righteousnes that it and nothing but it 1. Bee the song of our eares 2. Bee the hony of our mouths 3. Be the iubilie of our hearts The desire of our affections being se● and ordered aright 2. The Negatiue Wee may not concerne any thing in our minds tending to our Neighbours hurt The things forbidden in this precept are 1. Euill thoughts arising out of our owne corruption 2. Euill entertained from the diuels suggestion 3. The least pleasure or delight in any euill motion For 1. As God forbiddeth and hateth the bitter fruits of wickednes so doth he the first roote spring and blossomes thereof 3. If we giue place to the diuell Ephe. 4 27. he will fill our hearts Act 9.3 and incline them vnto wickednes 3. This delight will draw on the consent consent the action Vse 1. Here therefore are wee taught the perfection of this doctrine aboue all doctrines of men of this law aboue all humane lawes men teach that the passions are euill this doctrine saith that the propassions are also euill mens lawes require onely an outward discipline and order this that we set our thoughts in order they meete with sinfull and wicked actions when they are committed this cuts the throate of vices in the minde Ps 137.9 Fulgent de orat com cordis ad Probam Hieroni. epist ad Demetri and takes and dasheth the little ones of Babylon against the rocke in which the foote-steps of the serpent are not seene that wee should learne thereby an holy cruelty to kill sinne and wickednesse in the wombe which cruelty is the onely kinde of piety 1. Acceptable to God 2. Profitable to our selues 3. Offensiue to