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A37981	The watch-mans lanthorn being a summ of divinity in a short but very plaine exposition of the Ten commandments, the Lords prayer, and the Creed : fittest to the meanest capacity in a nature of a dialogue / by A.E.	A. E., a servant of Jesus Christ.	1655 (1655)	Wing E2; ESTC R25569	96,065	185

knowledge of whom and in obedience towards him true godliness consisteth God having pity upon us hath opened and clearly set it out unto Act 26. 18. 1 Pet. 2. 9. us and the same so clearly set out he hath left in the Book of the two Testaments Gal. 4. 24. Heb. 8 6. and 9. 15. Mat. 20. 26. 2 Tim. 3. 16. Mat 22. 29. which are called the holy Scriptures to the end that we should not be uncertainly carried hither and thither but that by his heavenly Doctrine there should be made us as it were a certain entry into heaven Ma. Why dost thou call Gods Word a Testament Sch. Because it is evident that in conceiving Mar. 12 24. Mat. 7. 21. 12. 50. Gal. 3. 15 17. Deut 4. 2. 5. 32. 28. 14. Mat 15. 3 4. 5 6 9. of Religion it is the chief point to understand what is the Will of the everliving God And sith by the name of Testament is signified not only a will but also a last and unchangeable Will we are hereby admonished that in Religion we follow nothing nor seek for any thing further then we are therein taught by God but that as there is one only true God so there is but one godly worshipping and pure Religion of one only God we should daily forge our selves new fained Religions and every Nation every City and every Man would have his own several Religion yea we should in our doings follow for our guid not Religion and true godliness the beginning and foundation of vertues but Superstition is a deceitful shadow of godliness which is most plain to see by the sundry and innumerable not religious but worse then doting Superstitions of the old Gentile Nation who otherwise in Deut. 12. 13 and 13. 3 4. Rom. 1. 23. worldly matters were wise men Ma. Dost thou then affirme that all things necessary to godliness and salvation contained in the written Word of God Sch. Yea for it were a point of intollerable Deut. 15 14 18. Psal 12. 6. and 18. 29. 9. 6. c. Ioh. 4. 25. 1 Cor. 1. 19. and 2. 6. Gal. 1 8 9. Col. 1. 25. Deut. 4 2 40. Pro. 30. 6. Isa 10. 21. ungodliness and madness to think either that God had left an unperfect Doctrin or that men were able to make that parfect which God left unperfect therfore the Lord hath most straightly forbidden men that they neither add any thing to nor take any thing from his Word nor turn any way either to the right hand or to the left Ma. If this be true that thou sayest to what purpose then are so many things so oft in Councels and Ecclesiastical Assemblies decreed and by learned men taught in Preaching or left in Writing Sch. All these things serve either to exponnding of dark places of the Word of God and to take away controversies that rise among men or to the orderly stablishing of the outward governance of the Church and not to make new Articles of Religion for all things necessary to salvation that is to say how Godliness 2 Tim. 3 15 16 17. Holiness and Religion are to be purely and uncorruptedly yeelded to God what obedence is to be given to God by which alone the order of a godly li●e is to be framed what affiance we ought to put in God how God is to be called upon and all good things to be imputed to him what form is to be kept in celebrating the divine Mysteries all these things I say are to be learned of the Word of God without the knowledge wherof all things are either utterly unknown or most absurdly done so as it were farr better that they were not done at all as the Lord himself witnesseth that ignorance of the Scriptures is the Mat 2● 29. Joh. 20. 9. Act 23. 27. Mat. 19. 4 and 21. 13 Ma● 7 6 〈…〉 A●●● 1● 1● and 15. ●● mother of all Errors and he himself in his t●aching doth commonly all●dge the writt●n Word of God and to it he send●●● 〈…〉 ●●●rn of it for this cause ther●●●● 〈…〉 times also the Word of God wa● op●●●y read in Churches and the help of expounders used when they might have them as appeareth by the His●ories of the Church and the Lord himse●f immediatly before his ascending to heaven gave principally in charge to his Apostles whom hee had chosen that Mat. 18. 20. Mar. 16. 13. 15. Act. 14. 23. they should instruct all men throughout the world with his word And Paul following his Example ordained that some should be appointed in every Church to teach the people for he knew that Faith and all things pertaining to godliness do hang upon the reading and hearing of the word of God and that therefore Appostles Teachers Prophets Rom. 10. 14. 17. 1 Cor. 12. 28. Ephes 4. 11. 12 and Expounders are most necessary in the Church of God Ma. Dost thou then think that we are bound to hear such Teachers and Expounders Sch. Even as the Lord himselfe if hee were present so far as they teach only those things which they have received of the Lord which himself witnesseth saying He that heareth you heareth me He that Matth. 10. 20. 40. Joh. 13. 20. despiseth you despiseth me Yea and moreover to these Preachers of his word he hath given the power to binde and loose that whose sins soever they by the Joh. 20. 23. word of God shall pardon or detaine in Earth the same shall be pardoned or detained in Heaven Ma. Is it enough to heare them once treat of Religion Sch We ought to be the Schollers of Matth. 10. 22 24. 12. Rom 11. 22 Christ to the end or rather without end it is not therf●re ●nough for a man to begin unle●● 〈…〉 and such is our 1 Cor. 9. 24. 2 Tim. 3 14. Psal 106. ● 14. dulness an●●o g●tfulness that we must oft be taught and put in remembrance oft pricked forward as it were pulled by the Ear for things but once or seldome heard are wont highly to slip out of mind and for this cause as is aforesaid every Sabboth day as appeareth by the Ecclesiasticall hystory the people Act 13. 15. 27. 15. 21. assembling together the word was openly read and the Expounders thereof if any were present were heard which custome is also at this day received in our Churches by the Ordinane of the Apostles and so of God himself Ma. Doest thou then thinke that the word of God is to be read in a strange Tongue and such as the people understand not Sch. That were grosly to mock God Dent. 4. 10. 31. 11. 12. 13. Ios●a 8 35. and his people and shamelesly to abase them both For whereas God commandeth that his word be plainely read to young and old men and women namely to the intent that all may understand and learn to fear the Lord their God as he himself in his own word expresly witnesseth It