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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39926	A sermon of catechizing thought fit for affinity of subject to be annexed to this treatise of the (Practicall use of infant-baptisme) / by the same authour.	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1501; ESTC R209608	27,115	58

onely in manners and morality for that Heathens did and 't is strange even amazing what rules Plutarch and Aristotle c. give for this But this admonition of the Lord is Christianorum proprium saith he and implies a training them up in ver â pietate ver â religione ver â Dei cognitione doctrinam coelestem in liberorum animos semper instillando In true Religion and the knowledge and worship of God 2. Pregnant presidents 1. Of Catechizert Without doubt all the Patriarchs before Moses were such for there being till Moses no written Word of God the mind of God was undoubtedly conveighed from Fathers to children by tradition and as undoubtedly through the diligence of some parents and the neglect of others in this duty the true knowledge of God continued in Seths and Noahs and Sems and Abrahams families whiles most of the rest turned Heathens and Idolaters Concerning Abraham the Scripture is expresse Gen. 18. 19 I know Abraham saith God that bre will command his children and his houshold after him c. q. d. I know Abraham so well that of all men he will not neglect it David was so see how he catechizeth Solomon his son 1 Kin. 2. 2 3. 1 Chron. 28. 9. And thou Solomon my son know thou the God of thy father and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing minde c. So useful a way it was that he invites others also to learn of him Ps 34. 11. the Catechisme is more large Prov. 4. 4. c. Bathshebs also the mother who took no lesse pains with Solomon as appears from his own mouth Prov. 31. 1. The Apostle Paul thought it not more beneath him to give milk to babes i. e. to instruct ignorant and weak Christians in plain Catechism grounds of Religion more then to speak wisdome i. e. higher truths among knowing and judicious Christians 1 Cor. 3. 1 2. whom he calls perfect This also in 2 Tim. 1. 5. and 3. 15. compared is the special commendation of Lois and Eunice Afterwards it became a special office in the Church to be a Catechist ut suprà 2. Of catechized Thus it is most likely Henoch holy Henoch that walked with God and whom God so gloriously translated to himself was thus instructed and this appears from his very name which is taken from the word in my Text Chanak and signifies catechized or instructed Likely Abel was so before him Concerning Solomon it is clear before Theophilus whom the Spirit of God honours so far as to admit him to be the first person to whom any portion of Scripture was dedicated was thus catechized in the History of the Gospel Luke 1. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So was Apollos to whom this commendation is given that he was a man mighty in the Scriptures Acts 18. 25. he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paul himself was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel Acts 22. 3. a great Jewish Doctour Timothy is commended that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from a suckling he had known the Scriptures 2 Tim. 3. 15. Nay what shall we say when our Saviour himself condescends to be catechized for so divers interpret his hearing the Doctours and asking them questions which was the way of their training youth and 't is likely so Paul was bred at the feet of Gamaliel What famous Fathers were Catechumeni I have in part shewn before To whom let me adde Arnobius And Luther professeth though he were a studied Divine yet he was beholden to Catechisme 3. Demonstrative Arguments The first is in this Syllogisme Reason 1. If there be a way wherein children must goe and they cannot without being catechized know that way then it is the duty of those that have charge of them so to catechize them But there is a way wherein they ought to go and they cannot know this way without catechizing c. First that children in their tenderest years have a way in which they should goe a duty belonging to their age is clear 1. To God In that God requires them to remember their Creatour in the dayes of their youth Eccles 12. 1 And the persons spoken to are th●se whose vain courses the wise man tar●ly reprehends in the clause of the former chapter Where he mindes children and young men alike of the sicklenesse of those buds and blossomes of their prime childhood saith he and youth are vanity ch 11. 10. Hence God commends Timothy for having learned the Scriptures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from a sucking child 2 Tim. 3. 15. Solomon was instructed very young for Josephus saith he was but fourteen years old others but twelve when he began to reign and his parents had catechized him before that age And 't is not inconsiderable that God takes children themselves into Covenant Deut. 29. 11. 2. This for their duty to God They have also a duty which they owe to parents Ephes 6. 1. And both these are clear in that God appoints correction as a great means to keep them in even from their Infancy Now God allows not correction but for faults and there can be no fault where there is no duty But God appoints the rod for little children See Pro. 22. 15. Foolishness i. e. wickednesse is bound in the heare of a child implying that there is a bundle of it and that it is fixed setled naturall what then is the way to remove it the rod of correction shall setch it out Sol. 23. 13. Withhold not correction from the child for if thou be●test him with the red be shall not dye implying that there are damning corruptions in Infants hearts and the way to save them from damnation is correction Sure God doth not promise salvation to children barely because they are whipped and corrected but as the end of that means when rightly used seeing the rod is an instrument to bring the child into a way of salvation And 't is observable that the way is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in both places as in my Text. 2. That they cannot know this way without instruction is cleare 1. It we consider that none is borne a Chistian farther then in profession Job 11. 12. Man is born like a wild asses colt Vaine man or empty man is foolish and he is born so like an asse the dullest and foolishest of all creatures foolish to a proverb and like a wild asse the dullest and most unteachable of Asses and such a colt is man borne 2. That we have no knowledge by inspiration without the use of means A child would neither speak nor go were he not taught though God can give both without means yet he will not so neither will he infuse knowledge immediately having appointed means for us to use to that end If a child be bred where the name of God and Christ and religion is not heard needs must he be an Atheist 2. Reason teacheth us that when we attempt to alter the naturall disposition of any thing we must begin