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saint_n	church_n	day_n	festival_n	1,263	5	11.0355	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45419	Of fundamentals in a notion referring to practise by H. Hammond.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing H554; ESTC R18462	96,424	252

Christ that pardon of sin and sufficience of strength and grace which were purchased by his death and typified and consigned to us by the sacramental elements so 't is again the ridding us of all our discouraging fears and the animating and obliging of us to make use of that grace which will carry us if we doe not wilfully betray our succours victoriously through all difficulties § 20. 4thly As it is a federal rite betwixt God and us as eating and drinking both among the Jewes and heathens was wont to be so 't is on our part the solemn undertaking of the condition required of us to make us capable of the benefit of God's new Evangelical covenant and that is syncere performance of all duties prescribed the Christian by Christ And he that doth no longer expect good from God then he performs that condition is ipso facto devested of all those fallacious flattering hopes which pretended to make purifying unnecessary and must now either live purely and piously or else disclaim ever seeing of God § 21. Lastly As this supper of the Lord is a token and engagement of charity among the disciples of Christ so it is the supplanting of all the most Diabolical sins the filthiness of the spirit the hatred variance emulation strife revenge faction schism that have been the tearing and rending of the Church of God oft-times upon pretense of the greatest piety but were by Christ of all other things most passionately disclaimed and cast out of his Temple And if by the admonitions which this Embleme is ready to afford us we can think our selves obliged to return to that charity and peaceable-mindedness which Christ so frequently and vehemently recommends to us we have his own promise that the whole body shall be full of light Mat. 6. that all other Christian virtues will by way of concomitance or annexation accompany or attend them in our hearts § 22. And the several happy influences of all and each of these considerations especially when they are superadded to the three former grand instruments and frequently every month at least and every great Festivity called in to reinforce our watch to remand us to our scrutinie the examination and search of out hearts and purging out all impurity that hath been contracted in those intervals and to renew our vows of temper and vigilance may very reasonably be allowed to have some considerable virtue and efficacy in them to advance that work for which Christ came out from the bosome of his Father to superstruct the practise of all virtue where the Faith of Christ is once planted § 23. After these four which are thus subordinate and preparative the one to the other the later still bringing with it an addition of weight to the former Two more there are which are several from and yet being of continual use are interweaved and mixt with every of these and having their distinct energie proper to themselves when they are in conjunction with the former or added to them they must needs accumulate and superadde a considerable weight unto them § 24. The first is the use of Liturgie the second the word of exhortation among the Jewes and in the Apostles times and proportionable to that the sermons or homilies of the Church § 25. The Liturgie as it contains the whole daily office consisting of Confession prayers Psalms hymnes reading of the scripture of both Testaments Creeds supplications intercessions thanksgivings injunctions of Gestures and of Ceremonies and of Holy-daies is both the exercise of many parts of Piety and the conservatory of the Foundation on which all Piety together is regularly built and a means of hightning devotion and infusing zeal into it And the diligent worthy continual in stead of the negligent formal rarer use of it and the unanimous accord of whole societies and multitudes herein would certainly be very efficacious advancers of all Christian virtue of piety of charity of purity over the world of the two former directly and of the later by way of diversion the frequent performance of such offices obstructing and sealing up the fountains of impurity and intercepting that leisure which is necessary to the entertaining the beginnings of it § 26. So for Preaching or exhorting the people by way of Homilie it appears to have been received from the Jewish by the Christian Church and by the phrase by which it is expressed in the Acts a word of exhortation to the people it appears to have been generally imployed in reprehension of vices and exhortation to virtuous living And if we survey the Homilies of the Antient Church such are those of S. Chrysostome most eminently we shall discern that as upon Festival daies the subject of the Homilie was constantly the business of the Day the clearing the mysterie the incarnation of Christ c. and the recommending the actions or sufferings of the Saint and raising mens hearts to acknowledge the goodness of God in setting up such exemplary patterns and guides before us So upon other daies after some short literal explication of some place of scripture the custome was not to raise doctrinal points according to every preachers judgment or phansie but presently to fall off to exhortation to temperance continence patience and the like Christian virtues which either the propriety of the Text or the wants and sins of the auditory or the times suggested to them And this so farre from being a fault in their method of preaching that it was an eminent exemplary piece of Christian prudence observable and imitable in them as a means of keeping false or unnecessary definitions out of the Church which tend to the increase of disputes and contentions and whilst they they doe so are not to the edification and benefit but to the destruction and mischief of the hearers § 27. Of this usage of the Church it is most visible if it be but by the ill uses which are made of it many times in stirring up seditions rebellions murthers hatreds animosities calumnies revilings of superiors c. in disseminating of heresies infusing of prejudices c. what advantage may be had toward the advancement of all parts of Christian life by a due performance of it 'T is very much in the power of a popular Orator to represent vices in so formidable yet just appearances and to set out each virtue in so amiable a form and to apply this so particularly to those that are concerned to be thus wrought on that the Covetous person shall flie from and scatter most liberally his beloved Idol wealth the rageful person shall finde a calm the lustful a coldness insensibly infused upon his breast and the auditor's phansie and sensitive affections being called in to joyn with his reason and the Spirit of God it will by the blessing of that Spirit be in the power of meditation to radicate these seeds to fix this transient gleam of light and warmth to confirm inclinations and resolutions

of bringing down that most sacred name whereby we should be saved to be the vilest instrument of all carnality and by the power of thy convincing Spirit Lord humble and subdue all that exalts it self against the obedience of Christ And when thou hast cast out so many evil spirits be pleased thy self to possesse and inrich our souls to plant and root and confirm and secure in us all those pretious fruits of piety and faith and obedience and zeal toward thee of purity and meekness and simplicity and contentedness and sobriety in our selves of justice and charity and peaceableness and bowels of mercy and compassion toward all others that having seriously and industriously as our holy vocation ingages us used all diligence to adde unto our faith virtue and to virtue patience and perseverance in all Christian practise we may adorn that profession which we have so long depraved and having had our fruit unto holiness we may obtain our end everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Contents CHAP. I. THe Notation of the word Fundamental Page 1 CHAP. II. The Division of the discourse into four parts What are Fundamental in general Page 15 CHAP. III. A particular view of Fundamentals Jesus Christ indefinitely Page 24 CHAP. IV. Jesus Christ Crucified Page 35 CHAP. V. Jesus Christ raised c. Page 38 CHAP. VI. Other Articles of Belief in Christ Page 42 CHAP. VII The Faith in Baptisme Page 56 CHAP. VIII Of the Creeds in general and first of the Apostles Creed Page 58 CHAP. IX Of the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds together and severally of the Nicene Page 82 CHAP. X. Of the Athanasian Creed Page 91 CHAP. XI Of the Superstructure and the particular branches thereof Page 94 CHAP. XII Of the Doctrines that hinder the superstructing of good life on the Christian belief first among the Romanists a Catalogue of them especially that of the Infallibility of the Church 2. Among others 1. that of the Solifidian Page 108 CHAP. XIII Of the Fiduciarie Page 120 CHAP. XIV Of Christ's dying for none but the Elect Page 130 CHAP. XV. Of the irrespective decrees of Election and Reprobation Page 145 CHAP. XVI Of the Predetermination of all things Page 156 CHAP. XVII Of the Spirits acting all things within the man Page 192 CHAP. XVIII Of the Mistakes concerning Repentance Page 202 CHAP. XIX Of the necessaries to the superstructing of good life on this Foundation Page 211 A Prayer Page 240 THE END ERRATA PAge 51. line 12. re Christ p. 60. § 4 l. 9. re Eutychen p. 77. l. 1. after omitted adde p. 90. l. 25. after practise adde p. 95. l. 17. after the adde most p. 110. marg the note subditos-with that next following it Valdi belong to p. 111. l. 7. and the word guilt p. 111. the note Summorum belongs to lin 19. and the word deviabilis p. 111. the note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 belongs to p. 112. l. 16. and the word secure p. 114. l. 19. after principle for put l. 20. after falshoods for put l. 21. after practises adde l. 23. after bread adde of l. 24. after God adde p. 128. l. 4. after not re but be reasonable p. 172. l. 19. after nature adde and p. 178. l. 10. dele was p. 189. l. 20. re 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 198. l. 17. re § 11. p. 200. l. 5. for if re of p. 204. l. 27. after being adde l. 30. after God adde p. 206. lin 9. after Repentance adde which is not repentance p. 213. l. 17. after § 6. re First p. 219. l. 3. for in re of p. 223. l. 7. for service re sacrifice p. 229. l. 26. re diffused Foundation is a relative and figurative word The relation of it to superstructure Building on the sand and on a rock The difference between them The Superstructure to which Foundation here relates Two sorts of Superstructures Heaven The Church Heaven cannot be it for two Reasons The first The second Fundamental to a Church to Piety and Christian life This notion of Fundamental confirmed by S. Athanasius Edifying Four branches of discourse proposed The General way of defining Fundamentals by what the Apostles taught every where The foundation laid 1 Cor. 3.11 1 Tim. 6.20 Jude 3. 2 Tim. 1.13 Eph. 4.5 Approved in common by the Apostles Comprehensive of all necessaries to the planting of a Church not to the conversion of every particular person Some Jews reduced to good life without this foundation Synesius a Bishop before he believed the Resurrection Jesus Christ the Foundation 1 Cor. 3.11 The Christian foundation compared with the Natural with the Judaical with the heathen and Mahomedan Christ crucified the Foundation What propriety the Crosse hath to this Christ's resurrection the Foundation an Argument of the greatest conviction A pawn of our Resurrection Corporal and Spiritual An example of new life to us The Mysterie of Godliness 1 Tim. 3.16 God made manifest by the Flesh The Arians doctrines against it De Fide p. 53. God justified by the Spirit God seen of Angels Preached among the Gentiles Believed on among men the Jewes the Gentiles Received up into glory The Father Son and holy Ghost The Apostles Creed Proved to be the Apostles † Ecclesia per universum orbem usque ad sines terrae seminata ab Apostolis à discipulis corum accepit eam fidem quae est in unū Deū patrē omnipotentē c. Iren l. 1. c. 2. * Quid si neque Apostoli quidem scripturas reliquissent nobis nonne oportebat Ordinem sequi traditionis quam tradiderunt iis quibus constituebant Ecclesias Cui ordinationi assentiunt mullae gentes barbarorum quorum qui in Christum credunt sine chartâ atramento scriptum habentes in cordibus suis salutare veterem eruditionem diligenter custodientes in unum Deum credentes c. Iren l. 3. c. 4. The articles thereof fundamental to good life * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The article of God the Father Of God the Son Of God the holy Ghost Of the Holy Catholick Church Of the Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins Misinterpreted Rightly understood The want of this to Renovation in a first a second a third respect The necessity of it The belief of the Resurrection of the Body Fundamental to Renovation The want of it very hurtful The perswasion gainfull Everlasting life The necessity of the belief of that The design of ●●●er Creeds Defined Of the Nicene One God Of all things visible and invisible One Lord Jesus Christ c. The H. Ghost the Lord and giver of life c. One baptisme for the Remission of sins The Doctrine of the Athanasian Creed The Censures The generall nature of the Superstruction in five particulars The specialties of it Piety in opposition to Idolatrie Piety in opposition to Formality To Hypocrisie To Sacrilege To Profaneness Obedience to Superiors Charitie e. Puritie Contentedness· Taking up the Crosse