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A04155	The key of knowledge which is, a little booke intended to bee of good use, as for all degrees of Christians, so especially for religious families, and religious schooles. The full use and contents whereof must be enquired in the preface or introduction to the worke, which is (first) deliberately to be read of those who desire to receive profit by the booke. By John Jackson, rector of Marsk neere Richmond in York-shire.	Jackson, John, 1600-1648.	1640 (1640)	STC 14297A; ESTC S100135	27,046	126

Paul Which is the grand truth wee are to embrace concerning God Gamal That in regard of nature essence and being there is but one God yet in regard of divine relation and reall respects in that one Godhead there are three persons Paul Describe mee the nature and essence of God so farre as he may as it were through a glasse he seene and comprehended of our weake capacities Gamal God is that most absolute and first being whose proper Attributes are 1 Simplicitie 2 Eternitie 3 Immensitie 4 Perfection 5 Immutability 6 Immortality 7 Goodnesse 8 Justice 9 Truth 10 Holinesse 11 Omnipotency 12 liberty or freedome and lastly glory and majestie Paul What now is that you call a person of the God-head Gamal It is a relation or respect which taketh nothing from nor addeth any thing to the divine essence but onely distinguisheth the Father Son and holy Ghost among themselves and one from another every one of them having both his incommunicable propriety or nature and every one of them having his owne incommunicable worke or Counsell Paul Which is the incommunicable propriety or nature of the Father the first of the three persons Gamal To beget and not be begotten Paul What is the Fathers proper and incommunicable worke or counsell Gamal Creation for by his Almighty power in making heaven and earth hee cast out vacuitie and emptinesse that great enemy of nature and by his providence which is a continued creation hee keepeth it out still Paul Which is the peculiar property of the sonne who is the second person in order and manner of subsistence Gamal His relative propertie is to be begotten Paul Which is his peculiar worke Gamaliel Redemption which is a stisfaction made to the justice of God for the sinne of man in which regard he hath 4. stiles in the Creed 1. Iesus to note his office of mediatorship in generall 2. Christ to denote his three particular offices sacerdotall propheticall and royall 3. Sonne to note his order and manner of subsistence fourthly and lastly Lord to note his purchase Paul How is our Redemption wrought Gamal Partly by the Humiliation and partly by the Exaltation of the sonne of God the severall degrees of which twaine are accurately and punctually folded up in the very body of the said Creed c. Paul Which bee the severall degrees of his Humilation Gamal They bee sixe in number and are thus to bee enumerated in order 1. his Conception hee was conceived by the holy Ghost 2. his nativity borne of the Virgin Mary 3. his passion suffered under Pontius Pilate 4. his crucifixion which was the extremity of his passion was crucified 5. his death dead 6. his buriall and buried through all which severall degrees of sorrow he passed and was pressed with them as a cart with sheaves that he might beare our sinnes and heale our infirmities Paul Which be the severall degrees of his Exaltation Gamal They be five in number and are thus to bee reckoned 1. his triumph over Hell hee descended into hell 2. his Resurrection hee rose againe the third day 3. his Ascention hee ascended into heaven 4. his session at his Fathers right hand there he sits at the right hand of God 5. his office of judicature from thence hee shall come to judge both the quicke and the dead Paul What is the relative property of the Holy Ghost the third person in manner of subsisting Gamal To proceed Paul What is his proper worke Gamal Sanctification or application for Christ having prepared the remedie leaves it to bee applied by the sanctification of his spirit and as hee justifies us by his merit so hee sanctifies us by his Spirit Paul Having seene those fundamentall truths which concerne God and being now come to those which concerne the Church of God tell mee what a Christian is bound to beleeve concerning the Church Gamal That it is a company of beleevers united to Christ by faith here and by vision hereafter and that the said company is invested with a double property to wit first it is holy in regard of the holinesse both of the outward meanes and inward worke of the Spirit and secondly it is Catholique and universall in regard both of time persons and places Paul What are the benefits which arise to us from our being members of this holy Catholike Church Gamal Foure two whereof accrew in this life to wit first Communion of Saints that is that fellowship wee have both with Christ and all his members in grace and glory secondly Remission of sinnes both incovering and curing them and other two in the life to come first Resnrrection of the body when that which is sowne in corruption riseth againe in incorruption secondly Life everlasting when there shall be a necessary absence of all evill and a necessary presence of all good Paul Having learned the TRVTH of Religion I desire now to goe on to the second part the GODLINESSE of it tell mee first therefore I pray you how it may best be divided Gama Into three heads first our walking with God in holy obedience according to the ten precepts of the decalogue Secondly our Talking with him in devout prayer according to the seven petitions of the Lords prayer Thirdly our Receiving from him in the two Sacraments of the new Testament Paul How is our walking with God according to the Law distributed Gama Either into Holinesse which is our immediate worship of God required in the first table of the law or into Righteousnesse whereby God is mediately served through the love to our neighbour as is required in the latter table Paul On how many feet stands the first table of the Law which concernes our duty towards God Gamal On foure for it enjoyneth 1. that wee place and bestow divine worship on none but the onely true God choosing him to be our Jehovah and to set our heart upon Precept 1. 2. that we worship him with his owne prescribed worship and not after our owne Imaginations or devices Precept 2. 3. that wee shew him due externall reverence also in transacting his worship and service Precept 3. 4. in regard of the time that wee performe it especially and more solemnely on the Lords day Precept 4. Paul On how many feet doth the second table stand which concernes our duty to man Gamal On sixe for it enjoyneth 1. that wee be diligent in all offices and duties towards our superiours inferiours and equals Precept 5. 2. that wee preserve life and health both of our selves and our neighbour to Gods glory and the good both of Church and Common-weale Precept 6. 3. that wee preserve and keepe both inward chastity of heart and the outward of the body Precept 7. 4. that wee preserve the estate and livelyhood both of our selves and neighbour to our owne

of Christ the sonne when to the greater comfort of the godly their Saviour shall bee their Iudge and to the wickeds greater terrour he whom they have crucified shall sit upon them Mnason How doe you sence the eighth Article I beleeve in the holy Ghost Apollos That there is an holy Spirit which is a distinct person from the father and the sonne and yet equall to cōsubstantiall with and proceeding from both whose offices are 1 Illumination or knowledge 2 Regeneration or sanctification 3 to unite and joyne us to Christ our head 4 to guide and governe us in the right way to eternitie 5 to comfort our hearts in both inward tentations and outward crosses and 6 lastly to seale us unto the day of redemption Mnason How much is contained in the ninth article I beleeve the holy Catholique Church the communion of Saints Apollos Foure particulars 1. that there is a Church to wit a congregation of men and women elected before time and called in time by the word and Spirit out of the whole masse of mankind to bee a chosen generation unto God 2 that this Church is holy both in regard of 1 Persons 2 meanes 3 time and 4 place of Gods worship 3. that it is Catholique that is not circumscribed or limited but universall in regard of 1 doctrine 2 members 3 time and 4 place 4. that in this holy Catholique Church there is a Societie and communion of Saints which have not onely union with Christ but also Communion one 〈◊〉 another Mnason Recite now the tenth article and then explaine it Apollos I beleeve the remission of sinnes that is I beleeve that every transgression of the law whereof I am guiltie since I had a being is not onely pardonable but after faith and repentance pardoned unto mee and further that though none but God can properly and of himselfe forgive my sinnes yet a lawfull minister who hath gifts from God and calling from men may both declare it to the peace of my Conscience and also bee Gods instrument to conveigh the same unto mee Mnason What importeth the eleventh Article wherein wee professe the resurrection of the body Apollos It importeth 3 things 1 that there shall bee the instauration of the same flesh the recollection of the same bones and dust 2 an evocation of the same soule either out of the place of blisse or misery 3 the reuniting of them together so as there shall be the same individuall compound after the resurrection both for kinde and number as was before death Mnason Tell me first the words and then the meaning of the twelfth and last Article and so you shall have satisfied mee in the first head of Catechisme which is touching thinges to bee beleeved Apollos The wordes are these I beleeve life everlasting the sence is this that there is an unconceaveable unutterable estate of perfect blisse and full happinesse where there shall be a necessary absence of all evill and a necessary presence of all good which ere long shall bee the lot and portion of mee in particular and in generall of all those who in this life are justified and sanctified Mnason Why doe wee conclude the Creed with Amen Apollos It makes it of a perfect and circular forme For Amen the last word is neither more nor lesse in value and importance then I beleeve the first including three thinges I knowledge 2 assent and 3 affiance Summer quarter Mnason Proceed now to the second chiefe head of Catechisme the ten Commandements the rule of love or of thinges to be done and first give mee the most auncient and receaved division of them Apollos That is the very same which was given by God the Lawgiver himselfe who divided these ten precepts into two tables placing foure in the former to point us out our duty to God and sixe in the latter to set forth our duty to man Mnason What rule is most necessary to be premised for the better understanding of these ten holy lawes Apollos This that every Commandement hath either expressed or understood both an affirmative part to bar sinns of Omission and a negative part to barre sinnes of Commission Mnason Shew mee both those parts in the first Commandement Apollos The affirmative part is this Thou shalt choose Iehovah to bee thy God and him onely shalt thou know feare love trust in and serve The negative is expressed Thou shalt not have any other Gods by which is prohibited 1. Atheisme or the having of noe God to worship 2. Polytheisme or the having of diverse Gods 3. Idolatrie or the having of a false God Mnason Shew mee the affirmative and negative parts of the second Commandement Apollos This is the affirmative thou shalt worship God by such meanes and after such a manner as is agreeable to his nature and prescribed in his word to wit in spirit and in truth John 4. 24. the negative is this Thou shalt not worship the true God after a false manner Mnason Doe the like in the third commandement I pray you Apollos The affirmative part of it is this in all things give God his due glory or conferre all due honour to God that is both to his divine nature and essence to his word and to his workes The negative is this thou shalt neither with unreverend thoughts or with blasphemous words or with prophane and irreligious actions strike through the glorious and ever blessed name of God or bereave him of the honour due unto him Mnason Proceed on to the fourth commandement the last of the first table Apollos It 's affirmative part is this Remember to keepe holy the Sabboth day whereby we are commanded two things first to keepe an outward rest or cessation from labour Secondly to sanctifie or keepe holy that rest The negative part is this Thou shalt not prophane the Lords Saboth either in the excesse by a Judaicall and superstitious observation of the outward rest or in the defect by neglecting either the publique or private sanctification thereof as namely by taking libertie to doe any manner of worke which falls not under one of these three heads workes of Pietie Charitie or necessitie Mnason What say you to the fifth commandement Honour thy father and mother Apollos It is a commandement of relations prescribing the mutuall offices of all inferiours and superiours The affirmative part enjoyneth all reverence love obedience and gratitude towards our elders betters in gifts of body mind estate patrons and benefactors domesticall parents scholasticall parents ecclesiasticall parents politicall parents and back againe all care governement protection provision and indulgence of them to us downeward The negative part prohibiteth all manner of disrespects and disregards either of superiours towards their inferiours or of inferiours towards their superiours Mnason Unfold now the sixt commandement Thou shalt not kill Apollos The

and on his shoulders and that as old as hee was hee would teach her stammeringly to pronounce her words and that in this regard hee would not esteeme himselfe lesse glorious then Aristotle who had Alexander the sonne of Philip King of Macedon for his Scholler c. 3. The third Advertisement must be this that the disciple or scholler be throughly acquainted by his Catechist and instructer with the Scheme and method of his institution or Catechisme for as in reading of holy Scripture who so meanes to understand what hee reades must labour to get into his head the structure and fabricke that is the Oeconomie and order of that booke of holy writ that he is reading So whosoever would bee fully instructed in Christian Religion must first get unto himselfe a perfect and methodicall forme of sound doctrine and then before he goe to particulars must possesse his understanding of the generall lineaments and portraiture of that body of Divinitie which hee meanes to make his compasse for his knowledge to saile by To instance in these subsequent moulds and formes of Divinitie The oeconomie and disposition of the first stands in the unfolding of three points 1. Mans misery by the fall 2. His redresse from that misery 3. His thankefulnesse for that redresse which is also the manner and forme both of the Heidelberge Catechisme authorized through all the low Countries and the Palatinate and also of Alstedius his Catechisme which hee calls the little bible and the very same is the oeconomie of the Epistle to the Romans which is called the f Key of scripture The Oeconomie of the second is this it takes the first hint and rise from Saint Pauls dichotomie Titus 1. 1. which distinguisheth Religion into Truth and Godlinesse under the first head of truth is opened and explained the Apostles Creed and under Godlinesse the second head is handled the Commandements the Lords prayer and the doctrine of the Sacraments The third is of a circular forme like a snake holding the taile in the mouth of which forme also are divers of Davids Psalmes which are called circular Odes as Psalm 8. and 117. and the five last Psalmes Enterance is made into it by the very same quere that Calvin doth into his so famous Catechisme that it is translated into all the 3. learned Languages Latine Greeke and Hebrew and from thence like the river of Eden Gen. 2. 10. it spreads it selfe into 4 heads the first of Faith or thinges to bee beleeved the second of Love or thinges to bee done The third of Prayer or things to be asked and the fourth of the Sacraments or thinges to be sealed and this is the Oeconomie of Canisius and Bellarmines Caechismes c. And to adde a word touching the mode and forme of the last tractate concerning the holy Eucharist and the communicants worthy receiving of it it 's method is pure Scripturall for who so hath but saluted the holy origiuall tongue of the old Testament knowes that Ieremies Threnes and diverse of Davids Psalmes are Alphabeticall and that to this end and purpose to helpe memory both to attaine and retaine them with greater ease and lesse industry And beside the authority of Scripture to warrant this way of composing Ecclesiasticall History makes mention of an Abecedary Psalme which Saint Augustine so made up against the Donatists The 4. and last advertisement is this that to make a brave knowing and intellectuall Christian indeed the way is to referre the Scripture which he reads and the Sermons he heares unto those heads and points of Catechisme whereunto they specially and most properly belong And to doe this the better learners and beginners are not onely to make use of their owne dexterity and skill so farre as they are able but also till they be well versed in this way consult with their Superiours and teachers get them to looke over them while they practise intreat them freely to use their asteriskes of approbation where they hit and their spunges and obeliskes where they misse The benefit redounding hence will be this First an admirable establishment and confirmation of the truth to see sermons bookes Scriptures c. all to concurre and be concentrique together Secondly an excellent ingeny and quicknesse both in proving the principles and fundamentals of Religion by Scripture and in referring texts of Scripture and Sermons to principles of Catechisme which may bee called the Genesis and Analysis of Divinity And I doubt not but by practise a Lay Christian may doe as much as Cartwright who hath referred every Proverbe of Solomon to one of the ten Precepts of the morall Law The Author now thinkes hee hath prefaced sufficiently and will remove manum de tabula as speedily as if hee heard an Angell from Heaven say hold thy hand it is enough in all which if hee have iudged any thing truly or wisely hee voweth onely to worship him who is the first truth and chiefest wisdome Now the good will of him that dwelt in the bush be with all those who desire to know the first truth and enioy the chiefe good and to that end blesse this small labour in his Church if it be but to the dispelling of ignorance and darkenesse from off one Soule of which the Author is the more hopefull as being conscions that he hath no other ayme in the Edition hereof save those two intimated in the first Paragraph of the Preface to wit to bee a tribute of duty to some and a present of affection to others A MOST BRIEFE and contracted modell of knowledge and yet withall plaine for the understanding and methodicall for the Memory Wherein whatsoever is truely fundamentall in Christian religion and absolutely necessary to salvation is brought downe unto onely 12. Questions and Answers so as such Children as are very pregnant and of riper yeares may come to be well catechised in one day by proportioning one question and answere to every hower of the day and such as are more young for yeares or dull for capacitie in one yeare if their Parents or nurses as it were playing or doing another thing doe but principle them with one question and answer every Moneth The Collocutours are 1 Timothy learning the holy Scriptures from a child 2 Tim. 3. 15. 2 Lois the grand-mother and Eunice the mother being the Instructors 2 Tim. 1. 5. 1 Iohn 2. 13. I write unto you little Children THE FIRST Forme of Doctrine or the Childs Catechisme TImothy Unto what heads may Christian Religion be brought Lois and Eunice Unto 3. 1. the sence and acknowledgement of our miserable estate by nature 2. A sight of the meanes of our deliverance from such a miserable estate 3. Due gratitude and thankefulnesse for that deliverance Timothy How doth this miserable condition of ours appeare Lois and Eunice It easily appeares by considering 1. the estate from whence wee are fallen even from the Image of God consisting in soundnesse of judgement cleerenesse