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spirit_n	gild_n	sin_n	slavish_a	24	3	16.2685	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60361	The compleat Christian, and compleat armour and armoury of a Christian, fitting him with all necessary furniture for that his holy profession, or, The doctrine of salvation delivered in a plain and familiar explication of the common catechisme, for the benefit of the younger sort, and others : wherein summarily comprehended is generally represented the truly orthodox and constant doctrine of the Church of England, especially in all points necessary to salvation / by W.S., D.D.	Slatyer, William, 1587-1647.	1643 (1643)	Wing S3983; ESTC R38256	385,949	1,566

others good 9. Uncharitable that hate or love not their brother 10. Hard hearted and cruell or disdainfull that scorne or pitty not others 11. Malecontented that doe enjoy nothing as not content with any thing 12. Idle and sloathfull oppressors and theefe deceiver c. that get not their owne but others bread 13. Unthankfull and they that trust in riches or the arme of flesh and never truly depend upon God to aske or receive it of his gift and so in generall we see all ungodly and ungracious men faile in this as most of the other petitions 20. What pray we against Against both 1. Extreame poverty or want of necessaries 2. Want of quietnesse content peace and other comforts of life 3. Unseasonable weather 4. Invasion of enemies 5. Sicknesse and mortality whereby deprived or cannot comfortably enjoy Gods blessings 6. Idlenesse covetousnesse 7. Worldly care 8. Discontent uncharity whereby wee get not or use not our goods lawfully 9. Too much fulnesse whereby in pride or vanity and excesse we forget God and all moderation of daily bread and abuse his blessings and our selves 21. What in the letter hereof expressed 1. The petition for our selves to obtaine such our daily bread and a blessing upon it 2. The intercession for others for the same grace and gifts from God to bee granted there with us What intimated I. A confession of 1. God the giver of all goodnesse and so of his continuall graces to us in giving us c. 2. Our duty to beg it daily at his hand Our defect and neglect of this duty II. A deprecation against all extreame want and poverty or other hindrances of enjoying our daily bread III. Thanksgiving and praise for 1. For all benefits and blessings in generall or speciall received 2. Deliverance from adversities and want Hope of being heard in the continuance and comfortable enjoying c. 22. How summe you it up together in order I. Our confession of 1. Gods bounty that O Lord that every good gift and every perfect giving commeth downe from above c. and that thou clothest the Lilies and feedest the young Ravens that call upon thee 2. Next our duty the eyes of all things looke up and trust in thee O Lord for thou givest them meat in due season thou openest thy hand and fillest all things living with plenteousnesse 3. Defect too often O Lord wee have gone away from thee and have not looked up to the hils from whence commeth our helpe II. Petition Be mercifull unto us O Lord and give us this day our daily bread III. Intercession Shew us the light of thy countenance give thy blessing unto the people IV. Deprecation defend us O Lord from want and let there be no decay no leading into captivity and no complaining in our streets V. Thanksgiving and praise 1. Happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people that have the Lord for their God 2. We will also tell of thy mercies and sing of thy praise without ceasing 3. In assurance of thy grace we will trust in thy salvation yea Iacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be right glad 23. What the second petition for our selves The fifth in order forgive us our trespasses as we forgive c. wherein we aske forgivenesse of all sinnes errors and offences against God or man as we are in charity affected and in repentance humbled and ready to forgive others without which condition of charity and repentance in faith it is impossible our sinnes should be forgiven 24. What the order of it After asking good things from God our daily bread we are hereby put in minde what is the hindrances of his blessings our sinnes and so taught to desire the impediments may be removed whereby his blessings may more freely descend for our sinnes are a separation of our soules from God and of him and of his favour from us which that it may be removed and we reconciled we pray forgive c. 25. What herein contained 1. The petition wherein the Action forgivenesse Object of our sins 2. The conditions as we forgive them that c. 26. What meant by forgivenesse Gods absolute remission of sin both in guilt and punishment and blotting it out of his booke and remembrance that it never rise up in judgement against us to shame or condemne us with the meanes whereby we desire it gratiously effected in us therein considered I. The giving of his graces of Faith and Repentance Humility Confession II. Forgiving the Guilt of sin spotting the soule Punishment deserved in his anger Death temporall and eternall III. Acquitting us by 1. Applying Christs merits to us 2. Accounting and acknowledging us just before him 3. Renewing our decayes by his Spirit by sanctification and holinesse 27. What meant by sin or our debts Our offences against God or man for which we owe satisfaction and so become debtors which debts we are never able to satisfie and so we pray for forgivenesse of those sinnes offences or debts of ours being so many and so grievous both against God and men 28. What sorts of these debts are there I. Against God many and infinite ones in number and greatnesse as 1. Errors 2. Ignorances negligences 3. All manner of breaches of his Law both in thought word and deed II. Against superiours in disobedience III. Against equalls in love and and charity IV. Against inferious in uncharity and want of mercy V. Against our selves by our intemperance error and rebellion Or we are debtors To God owing love and duty To all superious owing obedience To all men owing justice in love unicuique suum reddere To enemies to put away anger and forgive injury To our selves owing abstinency from ill that hurts the soule by which we are to be rightly ordered towards God our superiours our neighbours our enemies our selves and ought to render every one of these their due or we be else debtors to God and men and sinners against God especially in every of them as breakers of his Commandements 29. Why say we our trespasses As most sensible of our owne sinnes which doe in number passe the sands or the haires on our head in number and are innumerable as the Psalmist speaketh and which may be a motive to us both 1. To forgive others since we have so many sins to be forgiven at Gods hand 2. To pray also for the forgivenesse of others sins which we will if we have either charity or sense therein of ours or others misery 30. Why adde we that condition 〈◊〉 we forgive c. To teach us that without charity as well as saith it is impossible to please God or obtain our prayers to be heard or forgivenesse at his hand therefore if we ever hope to obtaine our prayers we must be in perfect charity and able truly to pray for our enemies perfecutors and slanderers and forgive them that trespasse against us 31. What if we doe not forgive them We may

easie for us by Gods grace in Christ and his Spirit making us to doe those things in love to him which were required under a strict command before and so wee released or freed from the curse of the Law and condemnation borne by Christ for us The slavish feare of the threats that should else terrifie us The tyrannicall seising on us or commanding us who have now a better Law the Covenant of Grace 39. To what use doth the Law then remaine 1. For a rule to square our lives by in godlinesse yet without fearfulnesse in love 2. For a Schoole-master to bring us to Christ shewing how much need we have of him 3. For a Schoole-master in Christ to bring us to true humiliation knowing how much we want true godlinesse and so to seek increase of graces in Christ. 40. What the difference between the Law of workes and of Grace or the Law and the Gospell 1. In that the Law is knowne by the light of nature and the Gospell a mystery to nature 1 Tim. 3. 6. and that Angells so desire to behold unveiled 1 Pet. 1. 12. 2. Sheweth only what is to be done the Gospell how doe it in Christ in faith and love 3. Is full of threats to urge us the Gospell of sweet promises to allure us to performe it 4. It is a Schoole-master to shew us Christ and our need of him or bringing us to him the Gospell admitteth and engrafteth us into him for our comfort 41. How doe the Law and Gospell agree 1. In their Author God that first gave the Law and since his Sonne to fulfill it and in him the Gospell of peace 2. In their end Christ that is pointed at in the one in presence in the other and perfection of both 3. In their threatnings against sin and upbraiding the disobedient and unfaithfull 4. In their promises to the observers and lovers of the Law by striving to doe it eternall life 5. In their consent in the setting forth of Gods glory faith hope and all graces without any contradiction as from one fountaine his Spirit 6. In their constant and continuall provocations to godlinesse 7. In their Ministers the Priests and Levites and servants of God that are to be without blemish called watchmen To live unblameably To set forth the Truth and Law of God To live of their service and of the Altar and whose lippes are to preserve knowledge the people to seeke the Law at their mouthes they to set it forth and the truth both by their life and doctrine 42. How was the Law written or delivered Delivered by the mouth and written by the finger of God to shew the holinesse and perfection of the same 43. Wherein written Both in the hearts of men as their duty to shew it naturall as also morall and so perpetuall Both in the Tables of stone and that twice by him to shew it doctrinall as well as naturall and morall and so to be read for instruction and preserved to perpetuity to all generations 44. How twice written In the first Tables broken by Moses representing the fraile hearts of flesh in which it was written corrupted by their owne inventions as the Israelites were when Moses so brake them by their owne Idolatry and abhominations In the other two Tables prepared againe by Moses to shew the confirmation of them to perpetuity and being restored and so laid up in the Arke of the Testimony and sanctum sanctorum to be preserved and fulfilled in Christ. 45. Why written in two Tables To shew the distinction of the duties in them contained to God in the first to men in the second Table the perfection of their number also pointing at the perfection both of the Law-giver and Law and so the ten Commandements SECT 2. Quest. 8. Concerning the Commandements and first of the Preface c. The severall prefaces to the Commandements three of them as first of the childe answ to the 8. quest wherein the authenticall unchangeablenesse author and authority God speaking and saying Autograph in Exod. and the Tables and other circumstances thereof expended and why it is called Moses Law and the words doubled of speaking and saying so Moses preface secondly analysed thirdly the preface of God himselfe being both a reason and to this first and all the other Commandements wherein to be observed the author and so his authority his name by himselfe uttered to shew his awfull majesty his Attributes calling his Almighty power as well as mercy and goodnesse to minde and so his actions of saving and deliverances from Egypt and the house of bondage litterally by the Iewes and Spiritually by us to be understood Whence his honour feare and reverence with our duty and obedience are powerfull enforced Of the true and right understanding the Law and how we ought to be affected in soule and spirit towards it being of so divine and spirituall A sense sablimate above and beyond the bare letter and so divers prime necessary in number five propounded for the better and more spirituall meaning understanding and interpretation of the same with the exposition of the same as else the contraction of them to a lesse or fewer number and some other lesse prime rules pertaining more to the comparison of the Commandements and Tables so referred to the beginning of the second Table 1. YOu signified ten Commandements which are they The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God c. 2. What observe you here A twofold Preface and then the Commandments 3. What threefold preface Of Moses intimated in his 20. Chapter where he saith God spake all these words saying Of God immediately prefixed to the Commandement I am the Lord c. 4. What is in that first preface The authenticall substance and sum of it being the very same that was 1. Both Written 1. by God In fleshly Tables the heart In the first Tables resembling the broken pitchers men hearts In the second Tables restored and preserved in the Arke 2. By his Spirit in the hearts of the faithfull willingly to doe them 2. Spoken by God himselfe upon Mount Sinai in terrible manner out of the cloud and fire recorded by his servant Moses 3. Delivered so to the Israelites in that majesticke and glorious manner 4. Authorized by God so writing speaking and commanding them saying I am c. 5. How collect you this As plainly expressed in that first place where 1. The appearance authenticall the very same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Author God thus divers wayes divulging it 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he spake it above all other Scriptures with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. Autogragh the Tables with the finger of God written and it recorded in that 20. Chapter of Exodus and also Deut. 5. 3. Authority establishing commanding it and saying 6. How is it said the same As it was not onely the same in substance and effect but the very same in