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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18013	Contemplations for the institution of children in the Christian religion. Collected and published by Iohn Carpenter	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1601 (1601)	STC 4662; ESTC S114418	35,320	98

also how this Fayth commeth F. Faith commeth by hearing of Gods word As faith is a frée gift of God as I said before so God will that this fayth should come by hearing and namely of the worde of God S. How is that wrought F. By the operation of the holy ghost which engendreth faith right happely in the hart of him who is a fruitfull hearer of the worde of God S. What is that word of God VVhat is that which ye call the worde of God F By the worde of God in this place is vnderstoode the holy scriptures both of the old new Testaments the which with many strong arguments doth demonstrate the will and workes of God and especially those promises which concerne the redéemer and eternall life for those scriptures we call the worde of God which béeing comfortable happie effectuall sufficient to man doth both instruct him in his dutie in this life also derect him to that euerlasting word of God which was with god before al worlds S. How must this worde be vnto me applied F. By the ministrie of the preachers How this word is to be applyed vnto vs. and ministers of the same S. Who be the preachers and ministers of this worde F. Those parsons The Preachers and ministers of the word whom the Lord sendeth foorth furnished with méete gifts lawfully called into the church which chiefly regard to celebrate to praise to commend with feuencie of spirit that openly before all men the name of God and the worde of his grace the kingdome of God S. What shal I do whē ther is not a preacher nor a meete minister of the word F. First thou must pray the Lord of the haruest to send foorth labourers into his haruest then What is to be done there where the pastor is absent it is meete that thou read both dilligently reuerently the worde of God and meditate therein with a pure minde euery day S. VVhat if I cannot reade F. It behoueth thée to repayre to them that can reade and instruct thée concerning God and thy duty towards him S. How must this worde be preached and read F. How this word is to be preached and heard Faythfully distinctly discréetely wholy diligently cōstantly reuerently S. How must this worde be heard F. With faith diligence reuerence feare of the Lord and harty desire to learne it to vnderstand it and to reforme this life thereby S. Thus haue ye taught me the ordinary meanes to obtayne faith now tell me also how this faith is confirmed F. How faith is conformed Ioh. 4. There was a time when that faith which came by hearing was confirmed by miracles and workes of wonder S. In what time was it confirmed F. In the time of Christ and his Apostles and in the primitiue church and néedfull it was then when the truth of the Gospell began to be published the which béeing now sufficiently confirmed vnto vs miracles are no longer néedfull S. Wherby is faith cōfirmed in vs now F. The vse of ● Sacraments Euen in the exercise of the same word by the which it was begon but chiefely in the true vse of the Sacraments S. How may I beter vnderstand this F. As the Sacraments themselues are the seales of Gods promises made to vs so the right vse of them ratifieth in vs that faith by the which we apprehend that which is promised S. What is that which ye cal a sacramēt What is a Sacrament F. Not only the seale of those things of which God hath promised vs as I haue before sayd but also an externall signe of some internall vertue or grace S. VVhereof is a Sacrament made F. Of these two things Whereof a sacrament is made namely the worde of God and the Element S. VVhereunto serueth the worde F. To the eare in the lawfull ministetrie thereof and to the inward man by the operation of the diuine spirite S. VVherunto serueth the Element F. To the eye the fast the féeling and eternall man for as a man is of two natures namely of the soule and body of the spirite and flesh so is he of the grace mercie of god edified in either of them S. How many Sacraments be there in christian vse There be two ●acramentes F. Two which are called Sacraments of the new Testament S. VVhat are those two F. Babtisme and the Supper of the Lord both the which are also signified in that water and bloud which issued from the side of Christ on the crosse S. Baptisme What is that sacrament of Baptisme F. This sacrament of baptisme or washing is diuersly defined for it is said to be either the badge of regeneration into a new life 1 Ioh. 2. and eternall health or the signe of our purgation in Christs bloud or the scale of the promise of remission of sinnes in the name of Iesus Christ S. The elemēt in Baptisme What is the Element whereunto the word adioineth to make this sacrament F. Water which washeth onely the bodie without S. VVhat is the inward grace which is therein signified F. The cleansing of vs from our sins S. And are they throughly cleansed which are washed in that water F. No for that inward washing commeth not of that worke wrought but of the holy ghost in the faythfull which vse this element as a simbole of this washing and not as the cause S. Who instituted and commaunded this to be done and vsed in the church F. Our Lord Iesus Christ who hath promised life vnto them which beléeue and be baptised and hath threatned death to them which beléeue not Mat. 16. S. What is that sacrament of the Lords supper F. The Supper of the Lord is a spirituall banquet The Lordes Supper whereby Christ witnesseth himselfe to be the bread of life by the which our soules are fed to the true imortalitie of the soule or it is an holy Simbole or signe wherein Christ offereth and communicateth his body and bloud thereby to certifie vs of the remission of sinnes and life euerlasting or it is the happy memoriall of the death of Christ and an whoalsome and memorable signe of that Sacrifice which hée made once for all on the Altar of the crosse S. VVhat is the outward Element of this sacrament The elemēt F. Bread and wine which féedeth and cheareth the bodie S. What is the inward grace which is signified thereby and giuen to the worthy receiuers thereof F. The body and bloud of Christ by the which we are nourished and cheared to eternall life S. Thus haue I hapely learned how saith is conformed in me Now also would I gladly learne how the same is encreased F. How faith is increased This faith which commeth by hearing and is confirmed in the vse of the Sacraments is also happely encreased by godly cogitations and meditations but chiefly by good conference and talke of

That I should serue him as I take it and that I should not forget him F. Thou hast sayd the truth and this is the end of creation redemption and regeneration S. What is ment by this worde seruice F. The worde generally noteth that condition of a man whereby he liueth vnder the will and rule of another S. What is that ye call Gods seruice God seruice F. The Seruice of God is no seruile condition but that diuine worshippe and true execution and performance of those good workes which are prescribed and commaunded to be done in the worde of God and namely in those two tables of the lawe wherein are briefely contayned the Tenne Commaundements of Almightie God S. And what are those tē cōmandemēts F. The same which God spake and are written in the 20. chapter of the second booke of Moses which is called Exodus S. I beseech you my father to recite them all vnto me in order F. Then hearken my sonne God spake all these wordes saying The tenne commaundements of God 1 I am Iehouah thy God which haue brought thée out of the land of Aegipt from the house of bondage thou shalt haue no strange Gods before me 2 Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image nor the similitude of any thing that is either in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the water vnder the earth thou shalt not adore them nor worship them for I Iehouah thy God am a iealous God The first Table visiting the iniquities of the fathers vpon the children in the third and fourth generation of them which hate me and shewing mercie to thousands of them that loue me and keepe my commaundements 3 Thou shalt not take the name of Iehouah thy God in vayne for Iehouah will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vayne 4 Remember the Saboth day that thou sanctifie it six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy worke but in the seauenth day is the Saboth of Iehouah thy God in it thou shalt not do any worke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy manseruant and thy maideseruant thy cattell and the stranger that is within thy gates for in six dayes Iehouah made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seauenth day and therefore Iehouah blessed the seauenth day and hallowed it These foure commandements are contayned in the first table the six that follow are of the second table 5 Honor thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be prolonged in the land which Iehouah thy God giueth thée The second Table 6 Thou shalt not kill 7 Thou shall not commit adultrie 8 Thou shalt not steale 9 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neighbour 10 Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife or his seruant or his maide or his oxe or his asse or any thing that is thy neighbours S. The Summe of the tē cōmaundementes How many things doe these commandements generally concerne F. Two things first thy dutie towards God next thy dutie towards thy neighbour S. Ye haue sufficiently taught me cōcerning the nature essence of God Now briefely in the way I beseech you to shew me who is my neighbour F. Who is my neighbour Generally all men borne of Adam and Heuah are thy neighbours but chiefely they which are of the familie of fayth be thy neighbours for all which are of the same familie are also of the same bodie in Christ and coheires of the kingdome of heauen S. Which of those commaundementes do concerne my dutie towards God F. Those foure which are contayned in the first table S. Which doe concerne my dutie towardes my neighbour F. Those sixe cōtained in the second table S. Wherein are those commandements perfected F. In loue The perfection of the law namely that thou loue God and thy neighbour S. How must I loue God F Thou shalt loue Iehouah thy God with al thy hart and with al thy minde Loue God and with all thy strength and with all thy thought S. How must I loue my neighbour F. Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Loue thy neighbour S. Howbeit it seemeth vnto me that some of those commaundements do not prescribe vnto vs any singuler worke but onely do forbid the doing of some certayne things F. Here thou must obserue my sonne that those commandements wherein we are forbidden that which is euill In those commaundementes wherein we are forbidden the euil we are commaunded to doe the good we are commanded to do the contrarie that is that we do that thing which is good and that in those other commandements whereby we be commanded to doe those works which are good honest we are forbidden to do the cōtrary that is such works as be vngodly and dishonest S. I pray you teach me this matter more playnely F. Must gladly howbeit aske of me I will certifie thée of all things S. The first cōmaundement Go to then first God hath said I am Iehouah thy God c what hath God commaunded herein F. First he cōmandeth that we should take and estéeme him the onely Iehouah for our God next that we should not feigne vnto our selues any strange gods S. The 2. VVhat commaundeth he in the second commaundement F. First he forbiddeth all idolatrie and feigned worshippe secondly that thou worship him and serue him onely not in the likenesse of any forme but in spirit and truth S. The 3. VVhat commaundeth he in the third commaundement F. In this he commaundeth thée to abstayne from al vaine oathes and from the prophane abuse of the name of God moreouer he teacheth thée to call on and to sweare by his name with all reuerence and in the feare of God S. The 4. What willeth he in the fourth F. First that sixe dayes thou shalt labour in the worke of thy vocation next that thou presume not on the seauenth day to do any seruile labour but that thou kéepe holy the seauenth day S. What hath he enioyned me in the fift commaundement The 5. F. That thou honour obey thy parents aswell spirituall as bodily with loue reuerence modestie feare and dutie and on the other side that thou dishonour them not nor vnreuerently abuse them nor in any sorte neglect them S. What hath God prescribed me in the sixt The 6. F. That thou kill not any man in thought worde or déede next that thou thinke well of thy neighbour and report him well and that thou endeauour to profit all persons and reléeue them and preserue the life of them to thy power S. What commandeth he in the seauenth commaundement tell me The 7. F. First he commaundeth thée to abstaine from all fleshly lustes and vncleaues of the body secondly that thou walke honestly and soberly in this life S. What saieth he in the eight commaundement