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A26388 The Addresse of some ministers of Christ in the Isle of Wight & County of Southampton to the people of their respective charges, by way of exhortation, to discharge their parts of those two great and necessary duties, private conference and catechising 1658 (1658) Wing A545; ESTC R8217 16,345 31

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so you do for your Swine and are servants indeed of no more value than these have they not souls capable of blessednesse as well as you you differ not in stuffe but in use and that only by Gods ordinance from the poorest servant in your Family Ob. Our servants will not submit and what then shall we do Sol. 1. We hope they will we cannot think that any persons will be so base and low as to serve you that will by no means be perswaded to serve God or will submit to learn a Trade to live by but not to be saved by we hope at least better things Sol. 2. Have you Tryed have you set it before them and pressed it seriously frequently earnestly upon them as a duty if you have not we beseech you now to begin let them see what they owe to God to their own souls yea what obedience they owe to you Take the Scriptures in the margine and lay them home upon their consciences and in a way of prayer from God expect the issue Sol. 3. What are you wont to doe to make your servants comply in other things use the same authority in this if any will tell you though you have a coercive power over your servants in other matters yet you have none in this that you may compell them to learne how you may be served but not how themselves may be saved pray take Time to beleeve them till they have told you by what authority Abraham commanded his houshold to keep the way of the Lord and whether a Civill authority to command without a power to cause obedience be of any signification What commission Jacob had to reforme his whole family or how Josua will be excused from rashnesse in that resolute undertaking that He and his House would serve the Lord And untill they have offered you an expedient how you shall observe that Law of seeing the Sabbath sanctified by your men servants and maid servants if God that hath made it your duty shall account it your sin to cause it to be put in execution But we hope as we said you will finde no such difficulty in a work of so much consequence and that you may not wee have a request 2. To all in our respective Parishes that are under the family-Government of others children and servants of both sexes of what age soever if capable of being instructed and our request is for the Lords sake for your souls sake and as you wi●l answer the contrary at your perill when the dead both small and great shall stand before God and Christ shall come in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that doe not know him When He that made you will have no mercy on you and He that formed you will shew you no favour in case he finde you a people of no understanding when every despiser of knowledge shall be eternally destroyed that you would constantly use all Helps at home and present your selves in the methode and order we shall appoint you to us your respective Ministers in the Congregation to be Catechized and instructed in the necessary Grounds of Religion Consider 1. We are not setting up a New way of Teaching you but reviving an old one a way that the Church of God hath walkt in many ages before we were borne the Church of God both Jewish and Christian and in the Christian Church men of the choicest Character for learning and piety have discharged the office of Catechizers as Clemens Alexandrinus Origen Optatus Basil Augustine Ambrose Cyrill c. whose names we beleeve many of you have heard of as of men famous in their generations 2. It s a way of Teaching that Christ himselfe in his child-hood was pleased to Honour with his presence when he was Twelve yeares old his parents found him in the Temple sitting in the midst of the Doctours both hearing them and asking them Questions Luc. 2. 46. This as Learned men observe was a meeting for Catechizing and we will but offer it to your observation whether the 47 verse and all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers affordeth not ground enough to beleeve that Christ himselfe was Catechized and gave answers to the Questions that were propounded to him Dare you entertaine so much as a d●eame of salvation by this Christ and yet despise that ordinance which he hath Honoured 3. How Honourable it is to remember your Creator in the dayes of your youth to know God betimes It is mentioned to the great credit of Mnason that he was an old Disciple one that had knowne and followed Christ a long time of Obadiah that he feared the Lord from his youth of Timothy that he had knowne the holy Scriptures from a childe of David that he made hast and delayed not to keep Gods Commandments of Andronicus and Junia that they were in Christ before Paul and it will be your Honour and happiness to be instructed in the wayes of God betimes Ob. But some of us are very young and we may stay a while it will be Time enough to learne what belongs to Relig●on and the wayes of God hereafter Sol. 1. A child is to be Trained up in the way that he should walk P●o 22. 6. Sol. 2. If you that can make this objection be not too young to be damned you cannot be too young to be Catechized those that are old enough to sin are old enough to perish and there 's no life eternall but to know God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent Joh 17. 3. Ob. Some of us are at men and womens estate ready to be married and we are ashamed to come and stand among the little children to be Catechized Sol. 1. If you are ashamed that you have at this age need to be Catechized t is a good signe it proceeds we hope from a sense of your ignorance and a conviction of your sinne in neglecting this meanes of instruction all this while and we shall look upon it as an Argument that you will not goe on to sin against your consciences in neglecting it any longer 2. If you be ashamed to own and learne the Doctrine of Christ see what impressions will be upon your spirits after you have laid to heart that resolution of Christ which you finde recorded Luke 9. 26. Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his own glory and in his Fathers and of the holy Angels 3. Whether doe you think it more advisable to goe to Hell with graver company or to Heaven with children or doe ye beleeve you shall ever meet them at the end with whom you are ashamed to be seen in the way 4. That you are ready to be married is an Argument that we would borrow of you to perswade you to be the readier to be Catechized will you