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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21065	The Christian schoole-maister, or A dialogue betweene the maister and the scholler. By G.E. minister of Gods word	G. E., minister of Gods word.	1613 (1613)	STC 7433; ESTC S120491	22,781	63

THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLE-MAISTER OR A DIALOGVE BEtweene the Maister and the Scholler By G. E. Minister of Gods word Prou. 22. 9. Instruct a Childe in the Trade of his way and when hee is olde he shall not depart from it LONDON Printed by Tho Creede and are to be sold by Wil. Barringer at his shop neere the great North doore of S. Pauls Church 1613. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER IT is the office and duetie of euery good childe that carefullie and studiouslie laboureth to obey follow his Fathers precepts and cōmandements principally before all things to endeuour to know perfectly the nature and condition of his Fathers will whereof if he be ignorant many times in the same things hee iudgeth best and most pleasing hee most offendeth and incurreth greatest displeasure Euen so wee that be Subiects and Children to the great GOD and Almighty Creator of all that heauen and Earth containeth can doe nothing gratefull and acceptable vnto his Maiestie except we first know his good will pleasure towards vs concerning our duties in beliefe life and conuersation In the knowledge whereof that we might haue a setled foundation and familiar education this ensuing Cat●●●i●me is collected and gathered from the Sacred Worde and will of Almightie God contained in the Olde and Newe Testament The commandement of God to teach and instruct children in religion is general pertaineth to all men of euery age time and therefore as well vnto vs as to the Iewes it is saide Teach 〈…〉 like of them when thou art in thine house as thou walkest by the wa● when thou li●st downe when thou risest vp Deut. 11. 19. Wherevpon ● Paule saith And you Fathers prouoke not your Children to wrath but bring them vp in Instruction and Information in the Lorde Ephes 6. 4. There is but one and the same corruption of nature and our Children are as well conceiued borne in sinne as the childrē of our forefathers which corruption must be reformed by carefull and diligent instruction and long custome euen from tender yeares and this especially is required in the children of the Faithfull and beleeuers who seeing they belong to Gods Church and our Sauiour Christ commanded them to be brought vnto him It were a most heynous fault and odious shame if they should bee found vntaught ignorant of the doctrine of Christ and his Church Therfore Salomon most wisely counselleth in the 12. of his Prouerbs Instruct a Child in the trade of his way and when hee is olde he shall not depart from it That is If you would haue him leade his life godlie iustly honestlie and vertuously you must instruct him when he is young in all those things which belong to the seruice of God to the societie of men and to all speciall duties Consecrate vnto mee saith the Lorde euery one that first openeth the Wombe amongst the children of Israell Exod. 13. By which Ceremonie God did not onely call to their remembrance the benefit long before shewed their Fathers in Aegypt thereby confirme them in the Faith of Redemption that was to come but also put them in minde of their dutie that they ought to cōsecrate vnto him whatsoeuer was most pretious euen their Children especially For though all were not admitted to the Priest-hoode yet all were to bee instructed in the knowledge of God and though the outward Ceremonie therof together with the rest be abolished in Christ yet the commandement remaineth whereby wee are euen at this day bounde to the like holie presentation of their soules For the performance of this did the mother of Samuel voluntarilie binde her selfe vnto God saying If thou wilt giue vnto thy Handmaide a man childe then will I giue him vnto the Lorde all the dayes of his life 1. Sam. 1. 11. This did Ioseph and Marie diligently obserue towards CHRIST whome both according as it is written in the Law of the Lorde they brought him to Ierusalem to present and when hee was come to the Age of twelue yeaes they caried him thither for the seruice of God The better part of man is the soule which cannot bee redeemed with the substance of the whole worlde Are not they then most foolish and very indiscreete in their proceedings who straine themselu●● to prouide for their children things pertaining to the body and the honours of this worlde in the meane time beeing vtterly carelesse whether they haue anie true knowledge of God whether they bee ioyned to him by Faith whether they know wherein consisteth the saluation of their soules and the euerlasting happines of man Abraham and the rest of the holie Fathers were farre wiser then these men whose speciall care was this to haue their Children instructed in the knowledge and feare of God for they knewe that godlines was the greatest gaine of all For these causes then the necessitie of godlie Instruction doeth appeare and to that ende this ensuing Treatise is collected wherein is layde open and expounded the Morall Lawe and the vse thereof out of which a man may knowe his owne wretched estate and his debt wherein hee standeth bounde vnto God that so hee may truely humble himselfe before him and earnestly bethinke himselfe how he may be deliuered from sinne and the punishment thereof and from the wrath of God and from the curse In the nexte place is Expounded the Creede that 〈◊〉 the doctrine of mans deliuerance from miserie by CHRIST of the person and Office of Christ of Iustification by Faith of the Sacraments of the Keyes of the Church and vse of them of true Repentance of good work●s and the necessitie of them for the true seruice of God Of the thankfulnes wee owe vnto God Of the insufficiencie of man in this life to fulfill the Lawe of God Last of all the sense and meaning of the Lordes Prayer This for the glorie praise and honour of the diuine Maiestie and the benefite profite happines and saluation of thy Soule Farewell In Christ Iesus THE CHRIStian Schoole-maister Maister VVHat is the only true comfort of a Christian in this life Scholler That in soule and body whether I liue or die I am not mine owne but I belong vnto my faithfull Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ who by his pretious blood most fully satisfying for all my sinnes hath deliuered me from the whole power of the diuell and doth so p●●serue me that without the will of my heauenly Father not so much as a haire can fall from my head yea and all things are made to serue for my saluation wherefore he doth also assure me by his spirit of euerlasting life and maketh me forward and readie from henceforth to liue vnto him Maister How many things are needfull for thee to know to the end thou enioying this comfort maist liue die a happieman Scholler Thrée things First what is the greatnes of my sinne Secondly by what meanes I may be deliuered from my sinne and miserie And thirdly what thankfulnes