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A12473 Essex doue, presenting the vvorld vvith a fevv of her oliue branches: or, A taste of the workes of that reuerend, faithfull, iudicious, learned, and holy minister of the Word, Mr. Iohn Smith, late preacher of the Word at Clauering in Essex Deliuered in three seuerall treatises, viz. 1 His grounds of religion. 2 An exposition on the Lords Prayer. 3 A treatise of repentance. Smith, John, 1563-1616.; Hart, John, D.D. 1629 (1629) STC 22798; ESTC S117569 350,088 544

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Q What other proofe is there A. Children that are elected to Saluation are holy before Baptisme 1 Cor. 7. 14. they are within the Couenant Gen. 17. 7. the kingdome of heauen belongs vnto them Mark 10. 14. And therefore vndoubtedly they may be saued Qu. How then doth our Sauiour say Iohn 3. 5. Except a man bee borne of Water and the Spirit hee cannot enter into the kingdome of God A. Wee are to marke the person to whom hee speakes it to Nicodemus who might haue beene baptised if hee would So that our Sauiours speech reacheth no further but to those who may haue Baptisme and will not For if none absolutely might bee saued without Baptisme how could the Theefe bee saued who was conuerted vpon the Crosse Luk. 2. 3. Q. Is it lawfull for a priuate person to Baptise A. No For this is to corrupt the holy Seales For none may meddle in the holy things but they that are warranted thereunto by the Lord But priuate persons men or women haue no warrant from the Lord to Baptise and therefore they may not presume to intermeddle in it Heb. 5. 4. Q. What other Reason is there A. Baptisme is a part of the publike Ministry of the Church Math. 28. 19. But priuate persons and chiefly women may not intermeddle in the Churches Ministry And therefore they may not take vpon them to Baptise 1. Tim 2. 11. 12. Q. Yea but there is a case of necessitie in it A. There is no necessitie to breake the Law of God if we may haue the Sacraments according to the Lords institution we are to accept them with Thankfulnesse if wee cannot wee must not thinke it lawfull to come by them wee care not how Q. Zipporah in case of necessitie did Circumcise her childe A. The reason doth not hold For the Sacraments of the New Testament are tyed to the Ministry And therefore none but the Ministers may intermeddle in them But the Sacraments of the Old Testament were not tyed to the Priesthood as appeareth for that Christ and his Apostles caused kill the Passeouer who were not of the Tribe of Leui Luk. 22. 19 Also in that Ioshua did circumcise Iosh. 5. 3. Q. What is the other Sacrament A. The Sacrament of the Lords Supper Q. Why is the Lords Supper needfull after wee be Baptised A. Because by Baptisme wee doe enter into the household of God and by the Lords Supper wee are fed and nourished in the same So that Baptisme is the Seale of our entrance into Christ and the Lords Supper giues vs our further growth and continuance in him 1. Cor. 12. 13. Q. How is this further declared A. By a similitude For as a Master makes prouision for his Family that they may be the more able to goe through with their worke So the Lord hath appointed this Sacrament for the strengthening of his people that they may bee the better able to hold out in the holy labours and duties required at their hands Q. What learne wee by this A. That they who come seldome to the Sacrament must needs bee very faint and weake in the spirit As a man feeles his strength through long fasting to abate so that he is not able to walke with any cheerefulnesse and comfort in his calling Q. What is the outward signe in the Lords Supper A. Bread and Wine and the Sacramentall Rites that bee vsed about them Q. What doth the Bread signifie A. It signifies the Body of Christ. Q. What resemblance is there betweene the Bread and Christs Body A. First as the body cannot liue without bread no more can our soules liue without Christ. And therefore wee must labour for Christ as wee doe for bread Iohn 6. 51. Secondly as bread strengthens the body makes it the more able and fit to worke so that the eye sees the cleerer the hand mooues the quicker the foot sets the faster for it So Christ receiued by faith strengtheneth the Soule and makes it mighty through God to performe the duties of obedience required of it Phil. 4. 13. Q. What Bread did Christ vse in the Sacrament A. Ordinarie and common Bread such as was vsually at that time eaten with their meates Qu. Why did Christ vse common Bread A. First left men if the food had beene finer should haue left the care of feeding their soules and fallen to filling their bellies Secondly that as Naman learned because the Waters of Iordan were not better then the Waters of Damascus Therefore it was not the water of Iordan but the God of Israell that cleansed his leprosie So because this Bread is but ordinant and common bread wee may therefore know that it is not the bread but Christ signified by the bread that sanctifieth the receiuer Q. Why did Christ take the Bread A. Christ by taking the Bread from the Table shewed that hee would separate it to another vse So that where before it serued but to strengthen the body now it should serue to the strengthening of our Faith Q. How did Christ blesse the Bread A. As the Lord blessed the Seuenth day by appointing that day to an holy vse So Christ blessed the Bread by making 〈◊〉 holy Signe and a Sacrament of himselfe Qu. What doth the breaking of the Bread signifie A. The breaking and 〈◊〉 of Christs body vpon the Crosse. For as it is not the whole loa●e but the breed broken that feeds vs So it is not the life of Christ but the death of Christ not Christ walking and working Miracles but Christ Crucified 〈◊〉 and torne with the Nayles and Speare that brings sound peace and comfort to the heart Q. What are wee bidden to take inn this Sacrament A. Two things Bread to the feeding of our bodies and Christ himselfe to the feeding of our soules For as the Bread is offered to our bodies So Christ himselfe is offered to our faith Qu. What learne wee by this A. That hee which comes to this Sacrament must bring two hands with him An hand of the body to receiue the Bread and an hand of Faith to receiue Christ Iohn 1. 12. Qu. Doe not all receiue Christ that come to the Sacraments A. No For then euery one should bee the better for it whereas now many through their owne default are not the better but the worse after God iustly reuenging their irreuerence and contempt 1. Cor. 11. 17. Qu. Who bee they that take no good by this Sacrament A. First they that want Faith which is declared by their euill life For they wanting the hand of Faith must needs defeate themselues of the whole fruite of the Sacrament which is receiued by Faith Secondly such of the godly as doe not quicken and stirre vp their Faith by priuate prayer and meditation when they come to receiue For as a man that hath his arme benummed or asleepe is not able to reach out his hand to receiue the Bagg of gold that is offered him So if our faith bee dead and cold
ESSEX DOVE PRESENTING THE VVORLD WITH A FEVV OF HER OLIVE BRANCHES OR A taste of the Workes of that Reuerend Faithfull Iudicious Learned and holy Minister of the Word Mr. IOHN SMITH late Preacher of the Word at Clauering in ESSEX Deliuered in three seuerall Treatises viz. 1 His Grounds of Religion 2 An Exposition on the Lords Prayer 3 A Treatise of Repentance VPRIGHTNESSE hath BOLDNESSE 1 TIM 3. 16. And without Controuersie great is the Mystery of godlinesse God manifested in the Flesh Iustified in the Spirit seene of Angels Preached vnto the Gentiles beleeued on in the World receiued vp into Glory LONDON Printed by A. I. for George Edwardes and are to be sold at his house in the Old Baily in Greene Arbor at the figne of the Angell 1629. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THOMAS Lord COVENTRY of ALESBOROVGH Lord KEEPER of the Great Seale of England and one of his Maiesties most honourable Priuy Councell c. And to his Right Honourable and Noble Lady ELIZABETH c. Lady COVENTRY all happinesse Right Honourable AS there is nothing which doth more beautifie and adorne this great admirable frame of Heauen and Earth then the wonderfull variety of those rarities created in and about the same in so many subiiects of diuers kinds of things whereof they subsist So amongst those varieties nothing is so wonderfull as the seuerall gifts proceeding from that All-quickening Spirit of God which as at first It moued vpon the waters cherishing vpholding and quickning that rude vndigested great formelesse lumpe vntill by Diuine power it had animated that and all things therein contained setting them in their most beautifull formes breathing as naturall life in man so at length a more abounding spirituall life which should vent and diffuse it selfe in so many thousand seuerall gifts and excellencies as in a maner there are seuerall Christians especially in the Ministers of the Word whose lippes as they preserue knowledge so haue they their seuerall abilities some to cast downe raise vp intreat perswade conuince instruct threaten insinuate reforme illustrate explaine open divide and conueigh truthes to the seuerall capacities of their hearers In which the Author of this Booke a man well known to your Honours being so excellently sometime adorned with a compound of these and many moe gifts in most whereof hee excelled that the memory of so pious painfull and learned a man of God might not be forgotten I aduentured to shrowd this booke vnder your Honours wings of protection to receiue some lustre and countenance by your fauour clearing the obscurity thereof in place of the curious hand of the most worthy Author now dead who as he was and his Name and Fame I hope yet is and euer will be precious in your sight So I hope the Relation hee sometime had with some of yours and estimation from you would purchase me easily a pardon for this intruding boldnesse whereby I haue assayed to declare my selfe euer Your Honours in all humble duty bound I. HART To the Reader I Know not what Apologie to make for my selfe that now in the copious multiplicity of Treatises of this nature I should yet thrust forth more as though I could be a poore meanes to bring vnto thee any new matter which by some former Worthy had not beene said before And surely this had almost discouraged me vntill I called to mind the speech and counsell of a Right Reuerend Father of the Church yet aliue which was That if a thousand seuerall men had all written on these seuerall subiects yet he could wish them all Printed For said he though all doe agree in the maine yet should we see a different carriage of elegancy and variety of the same spirit in the diuers distributions amplifications and prosecutions of the same subiect Whereby at least this profit would come that the soule might now and then be rauished in the admiration of the rarities of that Wonder-working-spirit which so diffuseth it selfe in choyce of excellent abilities all exquisite and diuers among such multitudes of seuerall men This with the delight I tooke in reading trimming and writing them out with very much adoe together with the desire I had to doe some poore seruice to the Church and perpetuate the memory of the All-deseruing most worthy and learned Author sometime my deare friend imboldened mee to venter them vnto thy view at the request of his somtime deare Wife and Executrix I beseech thee therefore fauourably to censure what is done accepting the same in good part from him who chused rather to present thee with a few Crummes which fell from this Holy mans Preaching then altogether bury in silence with him his Words and Workes True it is he wrote an infinite intricate exceeding small abreuiated hand out of all hope and possibility to be read a fault yet incident to too many good Preachers whereby they robbe Posterity of their Labours by reason whereof these three Treatises mangled as they are were with much adoe by a painfull Writer and other helpes fetcht as it were out of the fire and so brought to this imperfect perfection The former two by him were neuer intended for the publike view onely that of Repentance with his owne Epistle he had appointed for the Presse at our earnest intreaty but left it vnfinished to his mind Therefore if therein thou findest any thing pleasing for thy good and so canst measure Exvngue Leonem iudge if the Eccho of his voyce the traces of his foot-steps be such in scattered vnperfect Notes what were those sweet and Excellent Straines of Learning and Piety wherewith he was most Plentifully indowed and wherewith this Booke had beene more abundantly stored if his exact curious hand had limned it out for this vse Much more I might say of him but why should I seeing it were but to extenuate the worth of such a shining and a burning Lampe by labouring to expresse that which was vnexpressable and which my ignorance was neuer able to reach or search into Onely my request vnto thee now is to forgiue my weakenesse and those mangling mistakings which by my ignorance and want of iudgement to dispos● aright are found therein assuring thy selfe I meant well though I could not reach the Altitude of the Author as I wished nor amplifie his breuities as not daring to meddle with Apelles vnfinished Picture which great fauour shall bind me yet further to ayme at thy good remaining in the meane time Thy seruant in Christ Iesus I. HART An Alphabeticall Table to this worthy Worke Wherein we would intreat the Reader to take notice of this one thing to wit that this Booke is diuided into three seuerall Treatises and therefore the Table is made accordingly as for instance where you see T. 1. that stands for Treatise 1. T. 2. that stands for Treatise 2. T. 3. for Treatise 3. And P. stands for the Page of that first second or third Treatise A. ADoption How wee are adopted Treatise 1. Page 19.