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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20776	The catechisers holy encouragement to the profitable exercise of catechising in the Church of England	Downing, Thomas.	1623 (1623)	STC 7158.5; ESTC S4617	16,779	34

the Catechising and charging the Catechiser either of tediousnes or of hardnes or of confusednes or else odiously presuming to compare what one doth with what another Minister doth if they cannot deny but it is good yet mince it is not so good as such a ones and in my mind such a course were more commodious when none will content them that are so combustuous but these are sleights of the deuill to discourage the Ministers to discomfort the Congregation to chill the new kindled courage of the children to dishonour the ordinance of God whiles the deuill doth leade them out by the elbowes from likeing any thing that is good but we hope our parents while we are setting forth the prayses of Iesus Christ with our mouthes will not haue stony heart but spread the boughes in the way and cast the garments of gratitude and honour in the pathes of his ordinance for the same Quest What is the locke of this garden Can. 4. to keepe you and that is implouted in you in this exercise and what blessings do you desire of your parents after Catechising Ans We haue two priuate domesticall petitions to put into their hands at home yet as children haue a priuiledge we may tell the truth in publike let not our parents be angry if we speake to them here for our encouragement to be domesticall schoolmasters at home examining vs ouer and ouer what we haue learned at Church and as they haue faculty more plentifully as our heauenly Father commaunds that they should whet them continually vpon their children Deut. 6.6.7.8.9.10.11.12 and bind them as frontlets or signes of remembrance and write them vpon the postes of their doores and if they shall set them vp vpon the dry and dead postes of their houses or else one post will cry out to another for iudgement for neglect of Gods commaundement how then shall we their suruiuing posterity perishing how loud shall our bloud cry for iudgement against our parents 1. Kin. 20.31 and therefore if the seruants of Benhadad can slay the Kings of Israel are mercifull if the aduersaries can we may much more that our gratious King of England is mercifull to the little people in his kingdome and we doubt not but that the Lord tooke of that spirit which was vpon King Dauid Num. 11.25.29 and put it on our King when he in Psal 34.11 Calls and sayes Come little children hearken vnto me I will teach you the feare that is the true Religion of the Lord the Lord take of the same spirit and giue it to the threescore and ten Elders we meane the Ministers of his word and the Masters of the families of this populous kingdome that as we are as Salomon saith of himselfe the sonnes of our fathers their derlings and tenderly beloued of our mothers Pro. 4.4 so the fruite may be seene by being instructed by them and locking our hearts to hold fast Gods word and to keepe our Kings commaundements that so we may liue liue here religiously liue with the King of Kings hereafter eternally Quest What is your second petition wherein you do conclude all you are able to craue at their hands Ans The last is this that though we be not all one mens sonnes nor all of one degree and birth nor of letter and shape nor all of one stature of body nor of one nature disposition and faculty of soule yet from the honourablest to the meanest that is a child from the beautifullest to the homeliest that hath a father from the strongest to the weakest that is borne of a mother that they would God to helpe consecrate vs to the best seruice and worship of God in this life that we are fit for not regarding bloud beauty or bignes to our hinderance in the holiest things for if the seminaries of heresie doe giue such encouragement and their blinded kings do as Nebuchadnezar did Dan. 1.3 first speake to their Eunuches to pricke chuse of the childrē of Israel of the kings seed and of the Princes Secondly children in whom was no blemish but well fauoured Thirdly ripe witted instruct in all wisedome and well seene in knowledge Fourthly strong and without in firmitly in body or without impediment in speech able to vtter knowledge and such as were able to stand in the kings palace if they that are the princes Eunuches of Babell be so laborious so liberall to prouide euery day such children for their king and such portions of the kings meate for the children they corrept and corrupt to the end they may stand and instruct their kings to cary them to hell and destruction then how much more should our spirituall and naturall parents of Ierusalem of what degree or dignity soeuer enourage vs in the true way to God and saluation and when they haue seene at our Catechising any hope of profit or veine of godlinesse and virtue in our faces they would thereafter let their hearts and hands goe as Gods doe Pro. 20.11 for as Salomon saith A child is knowne by his studies Syra 33. whether his workes be pure or right hopefull or noe fit for our calling if not for another though not as Samuell did yet growing a little in fauour and credit both with God and men with these on earth Transition and him in heauen So be it Amen Quest Turne your hearts now from the matter of encouragement in Catechising it selfe and from the manner of it either in the Minister or your selues or your parents turne your hearts from these two and tell me the third meanes of hartning you from the meanes we all haue by Gods blessing Ans 2. Cor. 6. The meanes to make our hearts large with comfort to vs all is very large and the waies many but that we may goe downe from the Temple with the same comfortable stepps numberly that we came vp the meanes we finde is threefold Before At and After Quest What are the meanes Ans 1. Temples our harts are 2. Temples our bodies are in 3. Temples that they shal be in hereafter Qu. Before we come what are the temples of courage Ans Three First Iesus Christ our head is a Temple of comfort to vs the holiest of holiest to our hearts Eph. 2.20.21 Iesus Christ himselfe being the head corner stone in whom all the building being coupled together groweth vnto an holy Temple to the Lord. For if it were a comfort to good Ioseph Luk. 2.16 and the blessed Virgin Mary to find him in the Temple after three daies seeking him when he was but twelue yeares old and when the Temple of his body was to be destroyed Ioel. 2. behold a thousand times more encouragement it is to vs to seeke him in the Temple of glory that neuer perisheth whether we are taught he is raised and ascended and where are we to learne to worship God through him Que. Which is the 2. part of this spirituall Temple Ans