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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29217	A form of sound words, or a brief family catechisme containing the cheif heads of Christian religion. (Fitted for the weakest capacities.) Together with some arguments against atheisme. By J.B. a minister of the Church of England	Brandon, John, b. 1644 or 5.	1682 (1682)	Wing B4249B; ESTC R213088	27,920	76

he who loveth God should love his Brother also And for the other St. Paul tells Christians they must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for Conscience sake Rom. 13.5 St. Peter also joyns together Fear God and Honour the King 1 Pet. 2.17 that none may think he doth the one as he ought while he refuseth to do the other Q. Having told me from Scripture what God is tell me also who is God A. The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost Mat. 28.19 Go saith Christ to his Apostles Teach all Nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Q. How doth this prove Each of them to be true and very God A. It proves it unanswerably and plainly too For 1. We are obliged to worship and serve in a Religious Manner Him in whose Name we are Rightly Baptized And therefore St. Paul would not have it be thought that he Baptized any in his own Name 1 Cor. 1.15 2. Faith and Baptisme are Joyned together Ephes 4.5 But we are to believe in None but God therefore not to be Baptized in the Name of any but God 3. Baptisme truly so called is but one as 't is said in the same Text. But if either of those Persons were a meer Creature there would be two sorts of Baptism For 'T is confessed by all Christians that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is true and very God As Christ himself said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth Matth. 11.25 Now If the Son of the Father Christ himself or the Holy Ghost were but a Creature then the Baptizing in the Name of of those three would bring in apparently Two Baptismes vastly different also One in the Name of God the other in the Name of a meer Creature And if either of those Persons be but a Creature our Lord in commanding the Apostles to Baptize in the Name of his Father and of himself and of the Holy Ghost should command them to Baptise in the same manner and at the same time in the 〈…〉 the glorious God and a meer Creature and so should give the same glory to the one as to the other therein than which what can ever be imagined more wickedly absurd and unreasonable Q. What Scriptures are there that do prove particularly the Godhead of the Son A. Very many and amongst them these two Rom. 9.5 The Apostle speaking of Christ saith He is over all God blessed for ever Joh. 20.28 The Apostle saith unto him My Lord and my God Q. What places prove the Holy Ghost to be true and very God A. Amongst others these two especially 1 Cor. 2.10 The Spirit searcheth all things even the deep things of God Now 〈◊〉 deep things of God is a Word that extendeth to all things in God His Nature Attributes Purposes and Providences for there is no Exception or Limitation added so to seurch them is throughly to know and understand them As God's infallible knowledge of what is in Man is call'd in Scripture his searching the Heart Thus the Spirit the Holy Ghost so called searcheth all things yea the deep things of God which certainly no Creatures are able to do In respect of them that of Paul is ever true That God's Judgments are unsearchable and his ways past finding out Rom. 11.33 So in Isa 6.8 9. What the Lord God said to the Prophet the Apostle applies to the Holy Ghost saying Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the Prophet Acts 28.25 And that very expression is a clear proof for it was God that spake by the Prophets Jer. 1.9 I have put my words in thy mouth Therefore the Holy Ghost is God also of the same substance with the Father and the Son Q. Then there should seem to be three Gods and why can it be said there is but one God when each of these three Persons is God A. They are three Persons and yet but one God because one and the same Divine Nature is in each of them which appears by this that the sarne Divine Honour is to be given to each of them for we are to Baptize in the Name of each of them and we are unchangeably engaged to the Religious worship and service of him in whose Name we are to be Baptized and therefore St. Paul abhorred the thoughts of Baptizeing any in his own Name 1 Cor. 1.15 And as Scripture tells us which Reason it self may inform us of that there is One God or but one God as there is but one Mediator Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 So it assures us that each of these Persons is true and very God so that both are certainly true Q. But how can this be we cannot conceive so strange a thing A. 'T is true indeed this Doctrine of the Trinity is the Highest Mystery in holy Story And it were no Mystery at all if we were able to comprehend it and conceive the manner of it Yet we have Reason to believe what Scripture tells us tho' it be that which is above the reach of humane Reason As we may safely believe that the Dead shall be raised to Life because of Scripture Testimony Joh. 5.28 All that are in the Graves shall hear Christs Voice and come forth Though we cannot conceive the manner of the Refurrection nor answer all curious questions that may be made about it Q. What is the Rule and Pattern of Prayer A. The Lords Prayer After this manner Pray ye c. in Matth. 6.9 Q. Is it therefore only a Rule of Prayer A. No it is also a Prayer it self and to be used as such For our Saviour saith thus Luk. 11.2 when ye Pray say Our Father c. that is Say these words Q. Is it lawful to pray in a Form or to use the same Expressions in Prayer over and over A. Yes For the Lord's Prayer is such a Form and is to be used in those very expressions to the VVorld's End Say Our Father and so forth And Christ's Example is beyond exception herein He prayed the third time saying the same words Matth. 26.44 So Mark 14.39 And again He went away and prayed speaking the same words Surely he had the Spirit indeed and could as easily have prayed in other words if it had been better so to do Q. But what need we pray for God knows our wants without our Prayers and what he gives us he gives for his own goodness sake and not for our Prayer's sake A. Yes we must pray for all that because he hath commanded us to Pray Psal 50.15 Call upon me Isa 55.6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found He is a God that heareth Prayer Psal 65.2 Ask and ye shall have Matth. 7.7 that is in Gods due time And though he had promised Mercies to his People yet for those things he would be sought unto Ezek. 36 37. Q. How many Sacraments are mentioned for Christians to partake of A. Two only Baptisme

The Lord is known by the Judgments that he executeth Psal 9.16 And I am confident he that considers of them with the Reason of a Man shall not at the same time have ignorance enough to become an Atheist Some Examples whereof it will be proper to set down 1. A Souldier of King Pyrrhus being found dead and his Dog by him and could not be driven from him the King had notice of it and caused his Souldiers that were in those parts to be brought to the place and to pass in order two and two by the dead Body when the Murderers came the Dog fell upon them with the greatest fierceness imaginable upon which they confessed the Murder and dyed for it Which none can judge to be a story feigned in favour of Christanity since 't is reported by Plutarch a Heathen Writer in his Book De solertia Animalium Doth not this prove that there is a Supream Being that takes notice of mens wickedness and to whom it belongeth to execute wrath for it He that can think a Dog should do thus Naturally or by chance is a Person too bruitish to be disputed with Salust also a Heathen Writer tells us of Jugurtha that after the many Villanies he had committed and the disturbances he had made his Mind and Conscience was so strook with Terrours that he would go from one Room to another several times in the Night Season in a manner utterly unbecoming a Prince he durst not trust any man in any place he feared all Friends and Foes and would look pale at every noise he heard From whence the Author though a Heathen Man as was said concludeth that there is a God that observeth Mens Actions It is not my purpose to mention the Examples of God's Judgements recorded in Scripture or Church History for tho' those are most considerable in themselves yet too many in this Age can make light of these things supposing them to be the Politick Inventions of Christians to make their Religion regarded in the World But Arguments to the Eye-sight one would think may signifie something to these Men and are such as Mr. Hobbs his Philosophy will not teach them to deny or doubt of And such they might have had in various Instances One having stol'n some things at Reading in Berks being eating said If I know of them I wish to God this Bit may be my Death And by that next Bit he was choked presently and fell down dead in the sight of those that accused him and the things were found about him The Truth of which hath had Testimony enough in that place And more lately An Example beyond exexception was given us in the Year of our Lord 1677. one that had stollen a Bible wished That if he had done so his Hands might Rot off A few days after this wish there began to be a Blackness about his wrists which turn'd to a swelling exceeding painful to himself and as lothsome and offensive to others after it broke at length there came out wormes And having been a Spectacle of God's just Displeasure to Multitudes that came to see him for many weeks his hands did Rot off and he died a little time after on the 21. of June 1677. in King's Swinford in Staffordshire of which there is a Narrative in print published by Dr. Symon Ford with such concurrent Testimony as no sober man can cavil against If this doth not prove that there is a God that took notice of his Stealing and his wicked Wish aforesaid and that God was highly offended thereby I shall never know what is a sufficient proof of any thing And if any man shall impute this great thing to Fortune or Chance or to any thing else than to a Divine power that judgeth in the Earth I shall fear he is one of those who the Devil and Sin hath blinded to Destruction Thus Reader I have proved that an Atheist is a Fool and if thou art so wise as to live like a Christian endeavour to serve thy Lord with Joyfulness of Heart whatsoever Sorrows may threaten thee in the World For his mercy is to everlasting upon them that fear him Psal 103.17 VVhatsoever changes may be in thy self or others yet He who is thy Happiness changeth not Mal. 3.6 If all thy Friends on Earth should forsake thee yet thou shalt live under the care and compassions of thy Heavenly Father who will never leave thee nor forsake thee Heb. 13.5 If thou art never so weak and thy Enemies never so strong yet thou shalt alwaies have an Infinite Goodness and Everlasting strength to trust unto If all the Streams of Creature Comforts should fail thee at once yet still thou shalt have a God to enjoy To whom be Glory for Evermore A Morning Prayer for A Family O Most Great and Glorious Lord our God thy Name alone is Excellent and thy Praise above Heaven and Earth we confess thou art infinitely pure and perfect in thy Self and hast been abundantly good and gracious towards us Thy great goodness hath followed us daily and thy Mercies have been renewed upon us every Morning And it is thy goodness alone O God that we have awaked in Comfort and not in Torment To thee therefore we desire to offer up our Morning Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanks-giving And tho' we are unworthy to offer thee any Sacrifice yet we beseech thee O Lord Accept of us and our services in the worthyness of thy Son Jesus Christ the Righteous for his sake we humbly pray thee forgive us all our Sins of what number or nature soever against thee by Thought Word or Deed by Negligence and Ignorance by Presumption and Wilfulness O let thy mercy be magnified in the pardon of them all And let them never be charged upon us to our Discouragement in this world or our Destruction in the world to come And O Lord we pray thee let us not only find Mercy with thee hereafter but also let us obtain powerful and effectual grace to live as becomes thy Servants Here. O turn our Hearts still more unto thee and fix our Affections on the things that are Above and give us Hearts suitable to those blessed Laws which thou hast commanded us to walk in O Lord we know thou hast the greatest Right unto us O do thou maintain thy Right within us Set up thy Throne in our Souls and let thine own Arm Rule for thee there And graciously subdue every Thought Affection and Passion that exalts it self against thy Law Give us thy Holy Spirit to Sanctifie our Natures more and more and to instruct us savingly in the Truths of thy Holy Word Lord help us so to make it the Rule of our Lives as that it may be our Comfort at our Deaths We know O God it is not in Man to direct his ways we pray thee do thou undertake the work and make our ways acceptable to thy Self To this End increase our Knowledge of thee quicken our Love to thee