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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66403	A manual, or, Three small and plain treatises viz. 1. Of prayer, or active, 2. Of principles, or positive, 3. Resolutions, or oppositive [brace] divinity / translated and collected out of the ancient writers, for the private use of a most noble lady, to preserve her from the danger of popery, by the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Arch-Bishop of York.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1672 (1672)	Wing W2711; ESTC R38653	30,581	162

and the Blood of Christ 2. It keeps us from despair because it assures us our sins are washed away 3. It keeps us from sin For it is a shame for one washed to soil himself again 4. It gives an entrance ●nto the Church 5. It hath a visible sign Water Grace invisible Forgiveness of sins by the blood of Christ VII THe Lords Supper is a distribution of Bread ●nd Wine which seals signs ●nd exhibits or gives unto you Christs true Body offe●ed and his true Blood pou●ed out upon the Cross for ●…our sins as certainly as ●he Priests exhibite unto your hands the Bread and ●he Wine And withal the Supper assures your heart that Christs Body and Blood nourish your soul to eternal life as surely as Bread and Wine doth nourish your body to the offices of this temporal life Mark then the Vses of this Sacrament of the Supper 1. It assures you of all the benefit that is to be expected from the Body and blood of Christ 2. It puts you continually in mind that Christ died for you 3. It strengthens and ascertains your faith if it be received worthily And therefore you must not neglect thrice in the year at the least to approach with all reverence to this heavenly Table VIII THat this Sacrament may be received worthily you must examin your self before the receiving Pray unto God for Faith in the receiving and take heed of gross and premeditated sins after the receiving of this Sacrament IX BEfore the receiving you must examin four things 1. You must examin your knowledge 1. Whether you know how you ought to Live To this end read over the Ten Commandements 2. Whether you know how to Believe Read over attentively your Creed 3. Whether you know how to Pray Say over advisedly the Lords Prayer Without this little knowledge at the least you are not fit to Receive 2. You must examin your Faith Whether you are assured in your heart that Christ hath fully satisfied for your sins and perfectly on your repentance reconciled you unto God not others only but your self also Without this assurance in some measure you may not receive 3. You must examin your Repentance 1. Whether you are sorry for your sins 2. Whether you hate sin 3. Whether you resolve to indeavour to sin no more Without this Repentance you cannot Receive worthily 4. You must examin your Charity 1. Whether you forgive all the world 2. Whether you are free from malice and hutred When you have examined these four points you may receive worthily X. NOw your faith in Christ which you have gotten in Gods Church being thus hatched by the holy Ghost in your heart brought forth by your hearing cherished by your reading of the word sealed by your Baptism and strongly confirmed and strengthened by your part a king of the blessed Sacrament of the Supper must be continually maintained and preserved by these two means Prayer unto God and him only And Good works or holiness of life And this is the sum of all your Notes which I recommend unto you for this time 1. Salvation is only by such faith in Christ as worketh by Love 2. Faith only in Gods Church 3. Where by the Word read or heard Faith is nourished 4. By the Sacrament of Baptism assured 5. By the Sacrament of the Supper ratified and confirmed 6. By Prayer and Good works for ever established A Prayer after the reading of these few Notes O Lord God that I may be partaker of thy Covenant of Grace make me a believing member of thy Church send thy Holy Spirit into my heart to beget there a confidence and full assurance of the remission of all my sins in Christ Jesus let this assurance be still nourished with my hearing and reading of the Word let it be sealed unto me by my Baptism confirmed by the Sacrament of the Supper and fully established by my serving of thee in Prayer and Good Works to the glory of thy Name and the endless comfort and salvation of mine own soul through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A SHORT CATECHISM CONCERNING Faith and good Works To be Read and Meditated upon once every Week at the least which may be well called The Catechism of the Conscience Quest WHy hath God made me a reasonable Creature and not as well he might of a meaner kind Answ That with your whole heart that is with your will and understanding you might serve him and love him Which creatures only indued with reason can do Quest How is God principally served and loved of me Answ By your faith and good works which God commands you in his Word And these good works of yours are twofold Prayer to God Charity to men Quest What is Faith Answ A full belief and perswasion of your heart sometimes called an Assurance whereby you are resolved of these three points 1. That there is one only God one Essence and Three Persons The Father who created you Son who redeemed you Holy Ghost who sanctified you 2. That God the Son came into the world to do all that was to be performed and to suffer all that was to be endured by you for your sins actual and original And hereby obtained for you perfect forgiveness of all your sins and hath bestow'd upon you his own perfect righteousness by the means whereof you are reckon'd just and guiltless before the throne of God on a supposal that you repent and are become a new creature by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance 3. That God hath prompted with his Holy Spirit the Pen-men of the Scriptures to teach you all this faith and belief as also all the course of his worship And that every thing contained in these Scriptures is true Q. Why doth God so much require of me faith and belief A. Because without believing in him you cannot love nor reverence him As if you did not believe your father to be your father you would not love him or reverence him as your father Q. How is this Faith first wrought A. By your hearing of Gods word and using those two Sacraments appointed by Christ in his Church Baptism and the Lords Supper And withal by praying continually unto God and doing of good works Q. How shall I know that I begin to have Faith A. If you find in your self these alterations 1. If you find that you have gotten more knowledge of God and of Religion and are glad thereof 2. If you do desire more than you did to have the Son of God to become your Saviour and to stand betwixt you and Gods wrath for the sins you have committed against God 3. If you take more delight than you did in Reading and hearing the Word of God Receiving the Sacrament 4. If when you find doubtings in your mind you can pray unto God to strengthen your Faith 5. If you endeavour to abstain from fin for fear of offending so good a God 6. If you begin to endeavour to live godly and

favours vanquish with ●hy mighty hand all open enemies and privy Conspirators who oppugn ●heir Religion Life Diadem or Dignity Crown each of them with all virtues these virtues with ●ong lives and their lives at the last with eternal glory Amen For Charity or the works of Mercy O Lord of mercy and compassion I beseech thee by the tender bowels of thy Son Christ Jesus to move my stony heart to the works of mercy that I may keep my hours of Prayers mourn with them that mourn counsel them that are amiss help them that are in misery relieve the poor comfor● the sorrowful help the oppressed forgive them tha● trespass against me pray for them that hate me requite good for evil despise no man or woman reverence my betters respect my equals be humble and courteous to my inferiours Imitate those that are good shun those that are bad embrace virtue eschew vice Be patient in adversity modest in prosperity thankful in either Keep a watch over my tongue Scorn this world and thirst after Heaven Amen For the receiving of the Blessed Sacrament O Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God through whom only is granted forgiveness of sins and life everlasting who didst justifie the Publican when he confessed the woman of Canaan when she prayed Peter when he repented and the thief upon the Cross when he called upon thee grant unto me a most miserable and wretched sinner pardon and forgiveness of all my transgressions which I most humbly confess I have committed against thee that I may receive this Communion of thy Body and Blood not to my judgement and condemnation but to my everlasting comfort and salvation who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Meditation When you have newly received O Lord increase my faith O Lord let the Body and Blood of Christ be fixed in my soul to my comfort in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come Amen For that day you expect to hear a Sermon or when you read upon your Bible ALmighty and everlasting God whose Word 〈◊〉 a lanthorn to our feet and a light unto our paths open and enlighten my understanding that I may learn the mysteries of thy Word so far forth as is necessary to my salvation purely and sincerely And be so transfigured in my life and conversation unto that which I shall learn as to please thee in will and deed through Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen For Sickness and all other Vses you have excellent Prayers in the Book of Common-Prayer PRINCIPLES Few Notes for the private Use of a most Noble LADY A Prayer to be said upon your knees before the reading over of these Notes ALmighty God the Fountain of true Wisdom and Knowledg send thy Holy Spirit into my heart that I may sufficiently understand and stedfastly believe all the Doctrins necessary to my Salvation and adde such practice and obedience to this Faith through the whole course of my life and conversation as I may so serve thee in thy Kingdom of Grace that hereafter I may be made partaker of thy Kingdom of Glory through the only merit and mediation of thy dear Son and my dear Saviour Jesus Christ Amen I. MAn since his fall in Adam hath no hope of salvation but by the Covenant of Grace betwixt God and Man Whereby God promiseth unto man Mercy and Forgiveness of Sins and man unto God true Faith in Christ and holiness of life and conversation II. CHrist is the Saviour as of all so especially of them that believe and these alone are of God's Church Now the Church of God is Any Company or Congregation of men wheresoever living called by God through the sound of the Gospel unto the Faith of Christ and distinguished from other Societies by these five Marks especially 1. hearing and reading the Word 2. Faith thereunto 3. the use of the Sacraments 4. Prayer and 5. Sanctity of life Where these five things are there is ever a Church of God and sufficient means of salvation III. THe Word must be read often upon your Bible with modesty and short desires of the heart unto God to give you grace to understand it to believe it and to practise it It must be heard upon all convenient occasions especially in those two hours of the Lords day appointed by the Church and the State for that Divine Worship and then you must observe four Rules 1. Observe the Preacher with attention and modesty 2. Secondly apply unto your self in particular the Doctrins and Uses which are delivered in general 3. Examin your conscience if you be guilty of the sins there reproved and presently call to God for grace to amend them 4. Think upon these things again when you come to your Chamber IV. THis outward hearing and reading of the Word together with the inward working of the Holy Ghost in your hearts doth beget a true lively and saving faith which is A full belief without doubting that all is true which God hath spoken or promised in the Scripture and that you rest wholly and confidently upon God that he will grant unto your self in particular forgiveness of sins upon your Repentance and Amendment and perseverance unto the end This is the main point you are seriously to meditate upon and therefore observe these precepts 1. If you do not believe or if you do doubt of any thing in Scripture presently pray unto God to strengthen and enlighten you 2. If you doubt whether you may have any particular interest in those general promises of grace in Christ propounded in the Gospel fall again to your prayers for an increase of Faith 3. If you doubt and yet can find in your heart to pray for more faith let your conscience never be troubled with such a doubting 4. Mark well when the Creed is in reading and give an assent with your heart to every Article And as I doubt not you have learn'd it so keep it still in memory V. NOw as this practical and working Faith is wrought in us by the reading and hearing of the Word joyned with Prayer so is it signed and sealed in our hearts by the two Blessed Sacraments Baptism The Lords Supper Observe in either Sacrament two parts A visible sign Water in Baptism Bread Wine in the Supper An invisible grace Remission of sins in Baptism The benefit of Christ passion in the Supper VI. BAptism is the first Sacrament of the New Testament to wit An outward washing of Water appointed by Christ in his Church with this promise that upon your being Baptized you were as certainly washed from your sins Original being an infant and actual if you had been of years by the Holy Ghost and the Blood of Christ as you were rinsed outwardly in body by this Element of Water Mark then these Vses of Baptism 1. It assures us we are washed from our sins by the Holy Ghost