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A20412	Milke for babes The English catechisme, set downe in the Common-Prayer Booke, breifly explaned for the private vse of the younger and more vnlearned sort of his parishioners of Apleton, in the county of Berks: By W.D.	Dickinson, William, b. 1584 or 5.	1628 (1628)	STC 6822; ESTC S118600	33,759	48

whosoever hath not from him shal be taken even that he seemeth to haue saith our Sauiour Christ I beseech you therefore beloued Parishioners and exhort you by the Lord Iesus Christ that yee labour to put of all Childishnes in vnderstanding and be strong in the word of God and in the knowledge of his truth and of your Christian dutie goe on from strength to strength from knowledge to knowledge from grace to grace and giue not over till you haue clothed your selues with the whole Armour of God Soe shall you approue your selues worthie of the vocation where with you are called in Iesus Christ and he will accept of your Godly endeauors and zeale and will add there-vnto of his spirit in more abundance and increase you with increase of God vntill he shall haue brought you to be perfect and compleat in himselfe who filleth all things to whome be honour and praise thankesgiuing now and for ever The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all Amen MILKE FOR BABES Question WHAT is your Name Answere N. or M. Question Who gaue you this Name Answere My a Examples shew that Parents haue anciently vsed to giue names to their owne Children Gen. 21.3 1 Sam. 1.20 Luk. 1.63 Mat. 1.21 wherein at this day it is very reasonable that their desire and direction should not be altogether neglected by godfathers and godmothers Godfathers Godmothers in my Baptisme The Christian man wherin I was made a b Not by the bare sprinkling or dipping into the water without the Spirit of God Ioh. 3.5 Rom. 8.9 1 Cor. 12.12.13 by whome wee are properly quickned and made liuely members of Christ Iesus 2. Cor. 3.6 Gal. 4.6.7 Rom. 8. 11. Now faith and the works of a new life wil shew whether the Spirit of God did assist and ioyne with the worke of the Minister or not 1. Cor. 12.3 Gal. 5.16 1. Ioh. 4.2 member of Christ the Child of God and an inheritour of the kingdome of Heauen Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you A. They did promise and vowe three things in my name Note that all the good and benefit in the former answere mentioned and which wee are to expect from Christ in our Baptisme sealed vnto vs is with condition namely if wee shall performe the promise made in our behalfs by our godfathers and godmothers Math. 16.27 Q. What doth your Godfathers promise A. First that I should forsake the Devill and all his workes the pompes and vanities of the wicked world His vowe and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh The reason hereof is because being by baptisme entered and enroled a seruant of God and receiued into his house and familie that is into his Church you are therefore to renounce all loue and obedience to these masters to which by nature you are subiect and to put your selfe in open defiance against his enimies which are the Deuill this world and your owne flesh Math. 6.24 Rom. 6.12 c. Eph. 6.11 c. Secondly that I should beleeue all the Articles of the Christian faith The reason hereof is because Christ hath inseperably tyed and annexed faith vnto Baptisme without which Baptisme profiteth nothing and saluation is not to be had Mar. 16.16 Act. 2.41.8.36.37.38 Thirdly that I should keepe Gods holy will and commaundements and walke in the same all the dayes of my life The reason hereof is because the faith of beliefe here required of such as are Baptized must be a working and a liuely faith openly shewing forth in the sight of God and men their obedience and loue in performing the will and commaundement of God and of our Lord Iesus Christ Math. 5.16 Luk. 1.74.75 Tit. 1.16 Iam. 2.17 2. Pet. 1.4.5 1. Ioh. 5.1.2 Q. Doest thou not thinke that thou art bound to beleeue and to doe as they haue promised for thee A. Yes verily and by Gods helpe so I will 1. Cor. 15.10 Iam. 4.15 and I doe hartily thanke our heauenly Father that he hath called me to this state of saluation through Iesus Christ our Saviour Ephe. 1.3 c. 2. Tim. 1.9 and I pray god to giue me his grace that I may continue in the same to my liues end Math. 24.13 Luk. 22.32 Q. Rehearse Rom. 10.8.9 Math. 10.32.33 1. His beleife Pet. 3.15 then the Articles or seuerall parts or pointes of thy beliefe or of those thinges which thou art to beleeue for the saluation of thy soule A. 1. I Beleeue in God the father Almightie maker of heauen and earth That is I a Act. 8.37 my selfe doe beleeue that God the first Person in the Godhead is the b Math. 3.17 Ioh. 1.14.18 father of our Lord Iesus Christ through him my c Math. 23.9 Ioh. 20.17 Ephe. 1.5 Iam. 1.18 Father also in whom I trust d Luk. 12.22 c. relie on his providence prouision of all things necessarie both for my bodie and soule in as much as he is e Gen. 17.1 Luk. 1 37. Rom. 9.19 able hath the might power to doe all things whatsoeuer he will that he f Ioh. 1.3 Coll. 1.16 Rev. 10. 6. created made the heavens earth all things therein g Eph. 1.11.12 2.10 me in particuler to his owne glory service to the obteining of that salvation which he hath promised to all that beleeue in his sonne Iesus Christ 2 And in Iesus Christ his only sonne our Lord. That is I my selfe doe beleeue that Iesus Christ the second Person in the Godhead is the a Math. 3. 17. Ioh. 1.14.3.16 Colos 1. 15.2.9 only naturall and proper sonne of God begotten from everlasting of the Father having and receaving from him the same nature substance and b Ioh. 5.26 as naturall Children begotten doe receaue from there naturall parents and that he is c Math. 11.27 Luk. 2.11 Rom. 6.23 Lord as well as his Father having power and dominion to rule and dispose of all things according to his owne will and pleasure not onely as he is our d Ioh. 1 1.2.3 Heb. 1.10 creator maker but more especially do I acknowledg him our Lord for as much as he hath e Luk. 1.74 75. Gal. 4.4.5 Rom. 6. 22. redeemed and sett vs free from the power of the Devill sinne and death made vs his servants to serue him in righteousnes and holynes all the dayes of our life 3 Which was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary That is I doe belieue that Iesus Christ the sonne of God was also a Iohn 1.14 Heb. 2.16 made man being b Gen. 3.15 Isa 7. 14 Luk. 1.35 conceiued of the seed of a woman the Virgin Mary by the holy Ghost after an vnspeakeable manner and in due time was borne of her a perfect man bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh in all things d Rom. 8.3 2. Cor. 5.21 Heb. 4.15 sinne

A That is I doe pray God this day and every day to giue blesse and Sanctifie vnto vs all things needfull convenient and properly belonging to this present life as our Foode Rayment Health Peace Dwelling seasonablenes of weather and such like suitable to our condition calling Gen 3 19 Levit 26 4 5 c. Psal 104 27 c. 127.144 145.16 Prov 30 8.9 Mat. 6.26 c 1 Cor 9 27 2 Cor. 9.10 2. Thes 3 8 12 1 Tim 6 6 8 Isay 3 1 c 58 7 Q Which is the fift Petition A Forgiue vs our trespasses as wee forgiue them that trespasse against vs. That is I beseech thee O Father in a Exod. 32.31.32 Deut. 9.18 Ps 51.1 c 32.1 c 79.8 c Isai 64.1 c Hose 14.1 c Acts. 5.31 Rom 8.1 Iam. 1.16 1. Ioh. 1.9 Iesus Christ to remit pardon and forget our sinnes and the manyfolde transgressions of thy holy will and word that wee may not therefore be condemned even as b Mat. 6.14 18.22.35 Mark 11.25.26 Luk 17.3 Acts. 7.60 wee our selues most freely and sincerely from the heart doe remise and forgiue all that revenge and punishment due vnto those men who haue sinned in offending wronging of vs. Q Now you are come to the sixt and last Petition what is it A Leade vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from evill Q What is the meaning of it A That is a Gen. 3 20.6 2. Sam. 24. 1. Psal 5.8 c. 19.13.119..37.117.133.81.11 c. 51.11 Mat. 4.1 c. 26.41 Iohn 17.15 Acts. 5.3 Rom. 1.24.26.28 2. Cor. 12.10 Ephes 6.11 c. 2 Thes 2.11 Iam. 1.14 withhold or take not away the assistance and power of thy grace and spirit that so th● wicked inticements and temptations of the divill the world and our flesh may at any time prevaile over vs and drawe or harden vs in sinne but b Mat. 5.37.13.19 Luk. 1.74 Ioh. 8.44 Prov. 16.20 2. Cor. 12.9 Ephe. 6.11 Gal. 5.12 2. Tim. 4.18 Iam. 1.14 1. Pet. 5. 8. Psalm 141.4 be pleased to preserue keepe deliuer vs from all manner of evill which the wicked one the divill or his instruments or our owne evill deservings hath or may bring vpon vs. Q You haue truely numbred the Petitions what serve the next wordes for for thine is the Kingdome and the power and the Glory for ever Amen A These are the Conclusion of the prayer wherin by divers arguments and reasons wee are taught to assure our selues that our prayers will as certainly take effect as wee haue prayed for For first whome wee pray all right a 1. Sam. 2.8 1. Cor. 29.11 c. Psal 22.28 c. 24.1 c. Rom. 10.12 1. Thes 2.11.12 1. Tim. 6.15 and autoritie of granting our requests only belongs to him the Lord and King and therefore we may assure our selves that he wil be good and gratious vnto vs his Subiects and Servants in hearing our prayers and granting our requests Then he hath b 2. Chron. 20. 6. c. Iob. 42.2 Psal 18.1 89.8 Isay 40.26 Mat. 29.26 power to giue whatsoeuer he will giue or wee haue neeede of and nothing can hinder his good pleasure and therefore we are not to doubte of his goodnesse And lastly all this we are the rather confident he will doe because the honour c Psal 29.1 c. 95.1 c. 115.1 c. Ierem. 33.8.9 1. Tim. 1.17 2. Tim. 4.18 1. Pet. 4. 11. and glory of all shall returne and redounde vnto himselfe from whom everie good and perfect gift cometh vpon his people Even so O Father be al these petitions requests and prayers certainly accomplished in vs for the honour of thy kingdome and power the manefestation of thy everlasting glory and the good of thy Children Q What desirest thou of God in this prayer A I desire my Lord God c. The signes and seales of his Profession Q How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church A Two a There be divers Sacraments in a large sense so called but generally necessary for all people there be two severall Sacraments appointed by Christ as wee may learne out of Mathew 28 19 Mark 14 22 16 15 16 Luke 22 19 20 1 Cor 11 23 12 13 and only two and noe more only as Generally necessarie to salvation that is to say Baptisme by which every one hath his begining and entrance into the life and being of a beleiuing Spirituall or Christian man and the supper of the Lord which affords spirituall foode and norishment to strengthen and preserue him in the saide life and new-beeing The reason is because to the making and being of a Sacrament of the Gospel or New Testamēt there is necessarily required First the worde and appointment of Christ Secondly the Ceremonie or visible signe with a certaine forme of wordes to be vsed there with all Thirdly the promise of grace annexed to the thing worthyly receiued Now these three thinges are to be founde in the Sacraments of Baptisme and the supper of the Lord and in nothing els that we can reade of in the holy Scriptures Q What meanest thou by this word Sacrament A I meane an outward visible signe of an inwarde sprituall grace giuen vnto vs by the hand of Gods minister so ordained by Christ himselfe and none other as a meanes whereby we receiue the same spirituall grace and a pledge or seale to assure vs thereof that we haue indeed received it and are to shew it forth to the honour of Christ Iesus in our life and conversation Q How many partes be there in a Sacrament A Two the outward visible signe and the inward spirituall grace Q what is the outward visible signe of forme in baptisme A Water vnmingled and cleane the vsuall meanes to doe a way filthines wherin the person Baptised is dipped or sprinkled with it and with this certayne forme of wordes In the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Q What is the inwarde and spirituall grace A A death a The outward washing dipping or sprinkling of the body with water whereby the foulnes thereof is vsually clensed a way doth shew and signifie vnto the partie Baptised that the vncleannesse and filthines of his soule that is his sinnes are forgiuen or as it were purged and washed a way in the bloude of Christ Iesus Ezek. 36.25 Acts. 22.16 Ephes 5.26.27 Tit. 3.5.1.1.2.3.21 Reve. 1.5 vnto sinne and a new b The grace of gods holy spirit sanctifiing and renewing the hearts of the Baptised vnto the workes of righteousnes together with their owne promised obedience vnto Gods holy will and Commandements and a purpose of proceeding in all virtue and Godlynes of liveing is the regeneration or New birth vnto rightteousnes heere spoken of which is represented vnto vs by takeing the Baptised out of the Four as it were from the graue of his sinnes washed and purified