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A04155	The key of knowledge which is, a little booke intended to bee of good use, as for all degrees of Christians, so especially for religious families, and religious schooles. The full use and contents whereof must be enquired in the preface or introduction to the worke, which is (first) deliberately to be read of those who desire to receive profit by the booke. By John Jackson, rector of Marsk neere Richmond in York-shire.	Jackson, John, 1600-1648.	1640 (1640)	STC 14297A; ESTC S100135	27,046	126

comfort and the good of others Precept 8. 5. that wee beare up and maintaine our owne and others fame and credit accompting it as a precious ointment Precept 9. Lastly that we resist and suppresse in the first risings thereof all concupiscence and evill motions though they bee before consent of will Precept 10. Paul Tell me now what prayer or holy talking with God is which was proposed to be the second part of Godlinesse Gamal It is a moving of God the father in the name of his Sonne by the power of his holy Spirit for such things as are agreeable to his will the best president and platforme whereof is the Lords prayer Paul How is this prayer divided Gamal Into 4. parts 1. the preface or preparation to prayer Our Father which art in heauen 2. the petitions or things asked Hallowed be c. 3. the doxologie or thanksgiving for thine is c. 4. the seale or conclusion Amen Paul The petitions being the chiefe part how many are they in number and how are they to be divided Gamal They be six and are usually referred to two heads namely those that concerne God which are the three first and those which concerne our selves which are the three last Paul How doe you subdivide those 3 first which concerne God Gamal They either concerne his glory 1 Petition where we pray that his name which is himselfe may be magnified and hallowed or else they concerne the meanes of his glory Petition 2 and 3 where wee pray for the comming of his Kingdome both of power grace and glory and for the doing of his will both by us in active obedience and upon us in passive Paul How doe you subdivide the three last petitions which concerne our selves Gamal They are either such as concerne this life petit 4. as the asking of daily bread under which is comprehended all thinges necessary for our naturall life or else they concerne the life to come as the asking remission of sinnes in regard of what is past petit 5. and deliverance of temptation and the evill thereof in regard of what is to come petition 6. Paul Wee are now come to the third and last piece of Pietie the receiving the Sacraments tell mee therefore what a Sacrament is and how many there bee Gamal A Sacrament cannot better bee defined then out of Romans 4. and 11. a seale of the righteousnesse by Faith of which there are onely two properly so called Baptisme and the Lords Supper Paul What is Baptisme Gamal A Sacrament of entring us into Christianitie or of engrafting us into Christ consisting of the outward signe which is dipping in or sprinckling with water and of the inward grace which is washing away of our sinnes by our sanctification in the blood of Christ. Paul What is the Lords Supper Gamal A Sacrament of our continuance and growth in Christianitie consisting also of the outward visible signes of bread and wine proportionate to the inward and invisible Grace of Christs blessed body and blood eaten and digested by faith Paul At the first you compared Catechisme to Sampsons haire which was strong and faire as therfore you have given mee a sufficient tast of the strength of it in being the very pith and marrow of the Oracles of God so now I pray you shew mee the beauty and fairenesse of it in the order and method thereof Gamal First wee did begin with Faith by which wee live secondly we did come to the Law by which wee walke thirdly we proceeded on to Prayer least wee should faint in faith or waxe weary of good works Lastly finding faith but weake obedience imperfect and prayers cold and distracted wee have the obsignation of the Sacraments which are as Gods seales to secure our estate in him which also is observed to bee the very methode and oeconomie of th' authorized Catechisme of the Church of England FINIS A Theologicall Circle OR THE WHOLE BOdy of Divinity cast into the mould of the yeere that is into 52. Questions and Answers according to the number of Lords Daies Whereby the Catechumenoi learning one onely Question and Answer every Sunday shall in the revolution of one yeare be instructed after a manner more then vulgar and come to know all the grand and necessary truths of the Christian Religion The Speakers are 1. Mnason an old disciple Acts 21. 16. 2. Apollos one mighty in the Scriptures 1 Iohn 2. 13. I write unto you Fathers THE THIRD Forme of knowledge or the Fathers Catechisme Winter quarter MNason What is that which is the thirst of every mans soule and the chiefe scope of mans life Apollos That very same thing which in one word or tearme is called Felicitie happinesse or beatitude others call it the chiefe good Mnason Wherein doth mans chiefe good or happinesse consist Apollos Neither in 1 wisdome or knowledg nor in 2 glory and honour nor 3 in pleasure nor 4 in dignitie nor 5 in riches nor 6 in health and strength nor 7 in favour and esteeme nor 8 in morall vertue nor 9 in temporall life nor 10 in immortality it selfe Neither any of these nor all of these together nor any other created thing can quench the thirst of mans soule nor be said to bee the chiefe good of the reasonable creature Mnason Why so I pray you Apollos Because whatsoever may prove mans chiefe good must necessarily be invested with this double propertie 1. that it bee All-sufficient that is simply and absolutely able of it selfe to fill the heart and satisfie the soule 2. That it be indeficient and perpetuall so as the Soule cannot bee made sad either with the sence or feare of loosing it Now the very best of created and sublunary felicities if they incline any thing to sufficiencie or perfection they are commonly very short and momentany if they be more lasting they are usually very dilute and imperfect Mnason What then is if these bee not neither can be Apollos Onely the All-sufficient Lord himselfe who is All in all both in himselfe and unto us and who is onely able and willing to fill every corner of the heart with sátietie and content and to give us full measure pressed downe shaken together and running over Mnason Whereby then may wee be so knit and united unto God as to be partakers of his All-sufficiency and beatitude Apollos Religion is the thing which doth unite and cement man unto his God whence it hath its name from tying and knitting because our soules which by lapse and sinning were dissevered from God by religion and divine worship are conjoyned unto him againe Mnason Can any Religion or kinde of divine worship doe this Apollos Noe onely the true christian religion can doe it To which purpose the words of the 18 Article agreed on by the whole clergy of both

and on his shoulders and that as old as hee was hee would teach her stammeringly to pronounce her words and that in this regard hee would not esteeme himselfe lesse glorious then Aristotle who had Alexander the sonne of Philip King of Macedon for his Scholler c. 3. The third Advertisement must be this that the disciple or scholler be throughly acquainted by his Catechist and instructer with the Scheme and method of his institution or Catechisme for as in reading of holy Scripture who so meanes to understand what hee reades must labour to get into his head the structure and fabricke that is the Oeconomie and order of that booke of holy writ that he is reading So whosoever would bee fully instructed in Christian Religion must first get unto himselfe a perfect and methodicall forme of sound doctrine and then before he goe to particulars must possesse his understanding of the generall lineaments and portraiture of that body of Divinitie which hee meanes to make his compasse for his knowledge to saile by To instance in these subsequent moulds and formes of Divinitie The oeconomie and disposition of the first stands in the unfolding of three points 1. Mans misery by the fall 2. His redresse from that misery 3. His thankefulnesse for that redresse which is also the manner and forme both of the Heidelberge Catechisme authorized through all the low Countries and the Palatinate and also of Alstedius his Catechisme which hee calls the little bible and the very same is the oeconomie of the Epistle to the Romans which is called the f Key of scripture The Oeconomie of the second is this it takes the first hint and rise from Saint Pauls dichotomie Titus 1. 1. which distinguisheth Religion into Truth and Godlinesse under the first head of truth is opened and explained the Apostles Creed and under Godlinesse the second head is handled the Commandements the Lords prayer and the doctrine of the Sacraments The third is of a circular forme like a snake holding the taile in the mouth of which forme also are divers of Davids Psalmes which are called circular Odes as Psalm 8. and 117. and the five last Psalmes Enterance is made into it by the very same quere that Calvin doth into his so famous Catechisme that it is translated into all the 3. learned Languages Latine Greeke and Hebrew and from thence like the river of Eden Gen. 2. 10. it spreads it selfe into 4 heads the first of Faith or thinges to bee beleeved the second of Love or thinges to bee done The third of Prayer or things to be asked and the fourth of the Sacraments or thinges to be sealed and this is the Oeconomie of Canisius and Bellarmines Caechismes c. And to adde a word touching the mode and forme of the last tractate concerning the holy Eucharist and the communicants worthy receiving of it it 's method is pure Scripturall for who so hath but saluted the holy origiuall tongue of the old Testament knowes that Ieremies Threnes and diverse of Davids Psalmes are Alphabeticall and that to this end and purpose to helpe memory both to attaine and retaine them with greater ease and lesse industry And beside the authority of Scripture to warrant this way of composing Ecclesiasticall History makes mention of an Abecedary Psalme which Saint Augustine so made up against the Donatists The 4. and last advertisement is this that to make a brave knowing and intellectuall Christian indeed the way is to referre the Scripture which he reads and the Sermons he heares unto those heads and points of Catechisme whereunto they specially and most properly belong And to doe this the better learners and beginners are not onely to make use of their owne dexterity and skill so farre as they are able but also till they be well versed in this way consult with their Superiours and teachers get them to looke over them while they practise intreat them freely to use their asteriskes of approbation where they hit and their spunges and obeliskes where they misse The benefit redounding hence will be this First an admirable establishment and confirmation of the truth to see sermons bookes Scriptures c. all to concurre and be concentrique together Secondly an excellent ingeny and quicknesse both in proving the principles and fundamentals of Religion by Scripture and in referring texts of Scripture and Sermons to principles of Catechisme which may bee called the Genesis and Analysis of Divinity And I doubt not but by practise a Lay Christian may doe as much as Cartwright who hath referred every Proverbe of Solomon to one of the ten Precepts of the morall Law The Author now thinkes hee hath prefaced sufficiently and will remove manum de tabula as speedily as if hee heard an Angell from Heaven say hold thy hand it is enough in all which if hee have iudged any thing truly or wisely hee voweth onely to worship him who is the first truth and chiefest wisdome Now the good will of him that dwelt in the bush be with all those who desire to know the first truth and enioy the chiefe good and to that end blesse this small labour in his Church if it be but to the dispelling of ignorance and darkenesse from off one Soule of which the Author is the more hopefull as being conscions that he hath no other ayme in the Edition hereof save those two intimated in the first Paragraph of the Preface to wit to bee a tribute of duty to some and a present of affection to others A MOST BRIEFE and contracted modell of knowledge and yet withall plaine for the understanding and methodicall for the Memory Wherein whatsoever is truely fundamentall in Christian religion and absolutely necessary to salvation is brought downe unto onely 12. Questions and Answers so as such Children as are very pregnant and of riper yeares may come to be well catechised in one day by proportioning one question and answere to every hower of the day and such as are more young for yeares or dull for capacitie in one yeare if their Parents or nurses as it were playing or doing another thing doe but principle them with one question and answer every Moneth The Collocutours are 1 Timothy learning the holy Scriptures from a child 2 Tim. 3. 15. 2 Lois the grand-mother and Eunice the mother being the Instructors 2 Tim. 1. 5. 1 Iohn 2. 13. I write unto you little Children THE FIRST Forme of Doctrine or the Childs Catechisme TImothy Unto what heads may Christian Religion be brought Lois and Eunice Unto 3. 1. the sence and acknowledgement of our miserable estate by nature 2. A sight of the meanes of our deliverance from such a miserable estate 3. Due gratitude and thankefulnesse for that deliverance Timothy How doth this miserable condition of ours appeare Lois and Eunice It easily appeares by considering 1. the estate from whence wee are fallen even from the Image of God consisting in soundnesse of judgement cleerenesse

affirmative part is this Thou shalt by all direct and lawfull means safeguard and defend the life and person both of thy selfe and of thy neighbour The negative is this Thou shalt neither with a violent hand nor a virulent tongue nor a hanging countenance no nor so much as an uncharitable thought hurt limme or life soule or body of thy selfe or thy neighbour Mnason Expound the 7. commandement Thou shalt not commit adulterie Apollos The affirmative part is thus much thou shalt preserve to thy selfe and to thy neighbour both the inward puritie of the soule and the outward chastlty of the body The negative thus much thou shalt shun all fleshly uncleanenesse both of the heart in motions and passions and of the eyes in lookes and speculations and of the eares in listening to filthy talke and of the tongue in wanton speaking and of the body in perpetrating any sort of uncleane action Mnason Explaine the eigth commandement Thou shalt not steale Apollos In it God makes an hedge about our estate and the affirmation of it is this thou shalt first by just getting and then by faithfull disposall and stewardship of thy goods beare up thine owne and thy neighbours estate that you may bee rather helpefull then needfull to others The negation is this thou shalt neither by idlenesse nor improvidence nor cousenage nor injustice nor riot or by any other meanes wast or impoverish the lively-hood and estate of thy selfe or thy neighbour whereby you ●ought to provide for your selves and your families and relieve the necessities of the Saints Mnason Give mee the sence of the ninth commandement Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour Apollos In it God setteth a watch before the doore of our lips and the affirmative of it is this thou shalt not onely thy selfe not hurt or give a willing eare to the detractors tongue but thou shalt uphold and propugne according to truth and justice the credit and good name of thy selfe and neighbour The negative is this thou shalt neither by publique slander nor by private backbiting nor by secret whispering nor by causlesse suspitions nor by wrested misconstructions nor by listening to others accusations and suggestions scandalize thine owne or thy neighbours fame Mnason Lastly Sir what meaneth the tenth and last of the commandements thou shalt not covet c. Apollos Oh this precept is able to humble and smite on the knees the most prevaricating sinner and proud Pharisie in the world for if there be any that be conceited on his owne righteousnesse and thinke hee hath kept the 9 former yet must he needs confesse his guilt in this last for the affirmative part of it enjoynes us holy thoughts holy desires sanctified imaginations pure and unpolluted fantasies and the negative forbids not onely formed concupiscences or those second motions which are accompanied with acts of reason and consent of will but even the first stirrings and ticklings of the minde to sin and even such imperfect concupiscences as whereunto wee yeeld no liking or consent Mnason Who then can be saved can any man keep the Law Apollos Yea as it is qualified by the Gospell for Evangelicall obedience abateth and taketh off the rigour of the Law and is satisfied with weake performances if so be they bee filled up with repentance and faith in the bloud of Christ. The poore who could not offer a lambe were to offer a dove that is they who cannot performe innocencie must offer penitencie Autumne quarter Mnason Proceed on to Prayer the third Catechumenall head and first tell mee why the preface of the Lords prayer is in these and none other words Our father which art in heaven Apollos To strengthen our faith before wee pray in the persuasion and acknowledgement first of his goodnesse in that he is Our father and therefore will helpe us and secondly of his power in that hee is in heaven and therefore can helpe us Mnason What doe we implore in the first petition hallowed be thy name Apollos That Gods name that is first himselfe secondly his word thirdly his works may bee magnified and hallowed and honoured and praised and glorified and sanctified both of himselfe of Angels of men of bruites of vegetables and of all creatures according to the power and language given them by God Mnason What doe you aske in the second petition thy kingdome come Apollos That whereas Gods kingdome is 3 fold of power of grace and of glory wee pray that the kingdome of his power may come upon us the kingdome of his grace may come into us and for the kingdome of his glory that we may come into it Mnason What is the meaning of the third petition thy will be done Apollos Wee pray first that Gods will may be done actively by us that nothing that wee doe may displease God and passively upon us that nothing that God doth may displease us And wee further pray that this both our active obedience in reference to Gods commanding will and passive obedience in reference to Gods disposall will may be as cheerfully speedily sincerely universally and constantly performed by us as it is by the Saints and Angells in heaven Mnason What is contained in the fourth petition give us this day our daily bread Apollos In it wee beg all necessary blessings and every word of the petition is to have the full weight for the word bread teacheth contentation the word our teacheth us justice and diligence the word us teacheth us charitie the word give Gratitude the words to day and daily moderation of minde in regard of too much and sollicitous caring for to morrow Mnason What beg wee of God in the fifth petition forgive us our trespasses c. Apollos As in the 3 petition God was mans patterne so here in this man is Gods patterne for wee beg that God would remit unto us all our sinnes whether actuall or originall whether of omission or commission whether of ignorance or knowledge whether open or secret whether great beames and camels or small moates and gnats whether raigning or onely molesting whether of our child hood youth manhood or old age whether lastly of thought word or deed and all this according to the rule and stander● of our owne charity as wee forgive them that trespasse against us so that wee burthen our selves and bind our selves with most grievous ferrers if we our selves perform not what we undertake and professe Mnason What beg wee in the sixt petition leade us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Apollos That whether tentations be ascending or injected whether they be tentations of probation or deception whether they be tentations to sinne or for sin whether we be tempted by God or by Sathan or by man or by our owne lusts and concupiscences yet wee pray that God would deliver us from the evill