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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18013	Contemplations for the institution of children in the Christian religion. Collected and published by Iohn Carpenter	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1601 (1601)	STC 4662; ESTC S114418	35,320	98

knowne then the former what is the third thing F. That thou know to what end and purpose thou art made and formed Sonne Neither indeed should wee bee ignorant thereof if wee thinke to liue well What is the foorth thing which is to bee learned out of that text Fa. That thou forget him not which made formed thee but that thou inuocate and remember him with all thankfulnesse Sonne And meete it is wee should so doe els were wee too ingratefull and wicked But let it please you that the perticulers bee briefly examined for my better instruction Father With all my heart for I am most willing to teach and resolue thee in all thinges and what sayest thou my Sonne S As for the first point my father what am I taught by this that I am made or formed Father Thou art taught that thou hast not this thy béeing and sufficiencie of thy selfe as God Allmightye is of himsele but that thou art made and formed by the worke and wisedome of another S. What is ment by this making or forming Father The word which the Prophet Isayah héere vseth noteth and that not vnaptlye sometimes election sometimes creation or forming sometimes regeneration redemption sanctification and conformation of man to the Image of God for it is applyed aswell to the Soule as to the body and so to the whole man Sonne Then by this worde I must learne that I am elected created regenerated redeemed sanctified and conformed to the Image of God howbeit not of my selfe but by the wit and wisdome of another Fa. Yea and whatsoeuer blessings graces or benefites else thou inioyest in this life or hopest to haue in the life to come they are not of any thine own desertes industries studies power or worthinesse but of the grace goodnesse and power of another S. Then am I vtterly excluded from all merite or desert Man is excluded from all merit of goodnesse hauing in my selfe no maner of right of those effects wherof I finde not within me the causes F. Thou hast sayde the trueth and this teacheth thée to be poore in spirite not to arrogate to thy selfe that which is not thine owne nor to derogate from another that which onely to him belongeth S. Teach me therefore I pray you to whome I must referre the operation of those good things in me and ascribe the praises of the same F. God is the author of our health Thou must referre all this to him alone who hath said I made or formed thée that is to God to whom onely this thing with the glory thereof belongeth S. Ye haue thus farre right well instructed me my father and seeing this worke and the praise thereof must bee ascribed to God teach me also somwhat both of the name and of the nature of God F. The name of god psal 82. 1 cor 8.8 Ioh. 10.32 This word or voyce God which we so commonly vse is not the propper name of the highest essence but a name of power and is common both to the diuine Nature and to all such as haue any lawfull authority and honour aboue others S. What is that proper name of God then F. The proper name of the Deitie is IEHOVAH Iehouah for this best fitteth his most excellent nature neither is the same rightly attributed to the nature of any thing else or is or may be common to others This the Iewes called the Name ineffable for that the degrée thereof is excéeding high and thereof was it that they should neither write nor name nor vse this most holy name in things common or prophane And therefore the Gréekes also according to the number of the letters thereof called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the name written with fower letters S. This is then a most glorious and reuerent Name but how will yee expound it F. The signification of this name is taken from that essentiall and substanall verbe HAIAH and it signifieth that one diuine Essence or Existence He hath beene or He is which hath béene from euerlasting which is and which shall be without any chaunge foreuer the same of the which all creatures in their creation had and haue their first Essence and according to his most frée will are either kept in béeing or abolished or changed who also hath declared and wil dedeclare himselfe such and the same indéed and action the which he hath promised and manifested himselfe in his word wherein he hath said I wil be the which I wil be Exo. 2.14 S. There be some who for this word Iehouah do put Lord and others put God in their translations F. It is true howbeit this is the proper name of God Iehouah for euer neither by any other word whatsoeuer can either the diuine Essence or his proper signification bee so well expressed Therefore it is to bee wished that this most holy name might be onely pronoūced according to those letters pointes in the which the same is written in the holy Scriptures and not so translated Lord or God the which wordes indéed stand rather amongst his attributes to be considered S. But the word as yee said was ineffable and not to be pronounced either among the Iewes or amōg the Graecians F. It was so indéed before the cōming of the most holy Messiah from and after the which time the name is both expoūded and pronounced of all Christians in the reuerend name Iheschuh or Iesus which is made of the former name and effable by the interposition of the Hebrew letter ש wherein is contayned a soueraigne ministery of godlines Tim 3.16 S. And may we not thinke the like of the Hebrew worde Iahh for it seemeth to spring of the same roote F. Indéede we may so thinke thereof not withstanding this difference is interposed that Iahh is a diuinitiue of Iehouah signifieth God diminished as spoken vnproperly that is Iesus the son of God who was abased crucified and dead in the flesh in like sort as of that ful name Eloahh or Elohim is made the short voice El. which signifieth God touching his presence as Iahh doth cōcerning his essence And hence was it that in the elder time the Sonne of God and very God vsed this word of the futuretence Ehieh I wil be before that he had assumed the humane flesh that thereby hee might fore shew himselfe to be the same which shold come So being made man constituted in his ministery worke of mans redemption hee saith not of himselfe Ioh. 8.58 I wil be but he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am S. Yee haue vttered great and high matters my father in this ministery of Godlines the Lord giue me wisdome rightly to vnderstand the same Now I pray you to shew me what thing God is F. I can much sooner tell thée what thing God is not then I am able to shew thée what thing God is S. Why say you so my father F. It cannot be fully

and sauor to the glorie of God the benefit of his Church and your owne health Neither ought yee so much as imagine that the holy Contemplation of diuine things nothing belongeth to young children Moreouer consider what is taught you in the sacred Scriptures Solomon the wifest of all the Kings thus counsaileth you Remember thy maker in the dayes of thy youth And omitting other places Christ Iesus saith Suffer little Children to come vnto me and forbid them not Habel beeing thus schooled by his Parents Adam and Heuah being yet but young offered vp vnto God a right acceptable Sacrifice So Enoch in his childhood walked with God and pleased him so Isaack the son of Abraham and Iacob the sonne of Isaack were religious and godly affected euen in their yong and tender yeares Samson being a Nazarite was an absteiner from his birth sanctified vnto God Samuell as yet but a little boye was by Hannah his mother brought forth and dedicated to the Lord. Thus also both Dauid and Solomon thus Iosiah and Daniel and Ieremy and Tobiah and many others the children of God whiles they were very young sauoured of the holy religiō Lastly for a perfect example of your imitation Christ Iesus being yet but twelue yeares of age exhibited and declared himselfe most learned in the diuine contemplation euen in the middest of the learned doctors in Ierusalem Therefore haue I the sooner on these my briefe Institutions imposed the title of contemplation the same being indeede godly contemplations with the which if yee shal be first seasoned yee shall by the grace of God prosper and proue more able to all vertues in the same Iesus who beeing the true vnderstanding wisdome Immanuell is to bee sought for imitated and followed of all aswell children as elder persons towardes the father Almighty in godly contemplation Wherefore good Christian children vse you these contemplatiōs both godly and happily to your natural good and to the eternall glory of the highest Iehouah And if it shall follow that this my laboures shall be any thing profitable vnto you by the which the sooner yee shall prosper through the operation of the blessed Spirite in the right Seruice of God and holye religion I shall be during my life most glad and ioyfull thereof and I will withall both freelie and thankefully acknowledge that I haue receiued that recompence and reward for those my labours which thereof I might haue expected And thus fare yee well and prosper in all Godlinesse in the Author of our saluation and finisher of our faith More yours then mine owne in Christ Iesu IOH CARPENTER Christian Contemplations ❀ THE Childe being called of his father asketh the question to learne his father briefly answereth and teacheth him Father Come hither my sonne and learne of me Sonne I am here present my father what will ye that I should learne F. I would that thou shouldest learne the feare of the Lord. S. What is that feare of the Lord. F. The feare of the Lord is that reuerence of God and godlinesse The feare of the Lord. psal 111.10 p 10.1.7 wherein God is worshipped and the same is the beginning of wisedome S. Most gladly would I be learned in that feare of the Lord that thereby I may attaine to wisedome therefore I pray you father teach me the same F. The duty of a father and of a son Most willingly will I teach thee my Sonne that thou maiest learne for thus it becommeth me to instruct thee and it is no lesse thy dutye to learne of me S. Well then my father As I am here present before you harkning vnto your wordes of instruction so am I ready to learne and obserue the same accordingly wherefore speake in the name or God F. The holy Scriptures are full of good lessons The holye Bible is a plentifull Sea of wholesome lessons of the which I haue chosen one especiall place for the Theme or Argument of our present talke S. What haue yee found there written F. Thus saith Iehouah to his people the Children of Israell consider this O Iacob The Argument Isa 44.21 and Israell for thou art my seruaunt I made thee that thou shouldest serue me O thou Israell forget me not Sonne Out of what place of the Scriptures haue yee taken this Argument Fa. Out of the prophesie of Isayah chap. 44. verse 21. S. And are those the wordes of God my father F. Yea doubtlesse my sonne they are the wordes of God Sonne How spake God to his people Father God hath vsed in those tymes to speake unto the people by the happye meanes and Ministerie of his seruants How God ●peaketh to h●s people Sonne Who are Gods seruants Father God hath many seruauntes Who are the seruants of God for all the creatures serue him in their kinde but in this he hath vsed the holy Prophets Apostles Euangelists and Martyres Sonne Whome vseth hee in this time F. The faithfull preachers and ministers of this word S. How must wee esteeme of them and of their wordes F. The estiemation of the minister of the word 1. Cor. 4.1 We must estéeme of them as of the ministers of Christ and disposers of the Senets of God S. How speaketh God to them and by them to the people F. Mat. 10.20 God speaketh to them in the Spirit inspiring them which Spirit also speaketh in them with the tonge of man vnto the people S. Then he that heareth them in this their ministery heareth God himselfe and who so contemneth them contemneth God F Thou hast rightly said it as they are the ministers of Gods word S. Thus farre I vnderstand you but how appertaine these wordes to mee which were spoken to the Isralites F. The application of the Prophets wordes to vs. Although they were spoken to the Israelites as chiefly appertaining vnto them yet do they likewise belong vnto all the people of God from whose number and society I would not thou shouldest be excluded S. Who are Gods people Heb. 4.9 But who are those people of God F. By this name I vnderstand all them which doe confesse the name of God haue dedicated themselues wholy vnto him especially the Elected sons of God new borne in Christ by the holy Ghost whom the Lord himselfe possesseth for his owne eternall inheritaunce and chosen lot for euer S. So I acknowledge those wordes of the Lord to be both spoken to them and to me likewise to appertaine perswading my selfe to be one of that nūber and holy society but what shall I learne out of those wordes F. There be many good things to be learned thereof and namely foure most notable things S. What is the first tell me I beseech you F. Thou must learne to know thy selfe to be made and formed S. And that is very needefull to be knowne what is the second point F. That thou consider wel who made and formed thée S. And this is no lesse necessary to be