duty of Catechizing yet they perform it so slightly and remisly that it is almost as good left undone possibly they will Catechise the six Sundays in Lent that is they will hear the younger sort by rote repeat over those arswers contained in the Catechism and when they are able to rehearse them readily they believe them sufficiently instructed in the Catechistical points although they understand very little of the true sense and meaning of what is contained therein and the truth of this is plain from hence if you do but propound to them one question out of order is it is not placed in the Catechism or vary but a very little in the words of the question from what it is in the Book they are not able to give an account of it I wish these persons would heartily consider that Canonical obedience they promised when entrusted with A PLAIN and BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE CHVRCH CATECHISM Q. VVHat is your name A. N. or M. Q. Why begin you your Catechism with this Question A. Because this name was given me when I was made a Christian so that whensoever I call to mind this my name I may remember that I am a Christian and what those duties are that this my Holy Profession binds me to observe and do Q. Who gave you this name A. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a member of Christ the child of God and an inheritour of the Kingdom of Heaven Q. When was this name given you A. At my Baptism and therefore it is call'd my Christian name because it was given me when I was made a Christian a member of Christ Q. Was you then made a Christian A. Yes this favour was not bestowed upon me at my first birth but at my second when at my Baptism I was washed in the Laver of Regeneration then I was made a Christian admitted into the number of Christs visible members Q. In what condition was you then in before your Baptism A. I was in a weak and infirm capacity the powers and faculties of my soul being in no mean degree impaired and corrupted Q. How came you into this miserable estate A. By the fall of the first man Adam God made a Covenant with Adam and in him with all mankind wherein God on his part promised to confer on mankind divers mercies and Adam on his part promised an exact unsinning unerring obedience but Adam by eating the forbidden Fruit contrary to the express command of his Maker became disobedient and so broke the bond of the Covenant and hereby brought both himself and the whole Race of mankind into this wretched miserable estate Q. By what means was you raised out of this wretched estate A. By the meritorious sufferings of Christ the second Adam who by taking upon him our nature and therein performing exact unerring obedience according to the conditions of the first Covenant and tasting death upon the Cross for every man hath hereby satisfied for the sins of Adam and for the sins of all mankind and by this means delivered me with the rest of mankind out of this desperate condition Q. How come you to have a right to those benefits purchased by Christ A. By Baptism which is the Seal of the second Covenant at the setting on of which Seal these three Priviledges are bestowed to become a member of Christ a child of God and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven Q. Are all them that are Baptized members of Christ A. All that are Baptized in the name of Christ and profess the Christian Religion may be term'd members of his visible Body but those only who both by profession and practice are sincere Christians belong to his mystical Body that is are united to him live in him and are informed by his Spirit these are indeed Gods real Children by Adoption and Grace and shall in the end be made inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers promise for you A. They did promise and vow three things in my name first that I should renounce the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of this wicked world and all the sinful lusts of the flesh secondly that I should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And thirdly that I should keep Gods holy will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my life Q. Why are you bound according to the first part of your Batismal promise to renounce the Devil and all his works A. Because these are enemies to God and hateful in his sight and before I renounce all that God hates it is impossible that I should be so nearly united to him as to be his true child and member Q. What is the Devil A. The Devil is an evil Spirit who once was an Angel of light but for his Pride and Rebellion was thrown from Heaven into the horrid Regions of Darkness Q. What are the works of the Devil A. The works of the Devil are all manner of sin and wickedness even whatsoever contradicts the Will and Commands of God and defiles our own Souls Q. Why are these stiled the works of the Devil A. Because he was the first Author of Sin Rebellion and Disobedience he in the beginning acted it against God learnt it our first Parents and makes it his whole employment daily to infuse it into the hearts of all mankind Q. What do you mean by the pomps and vanities of this wicked world A. By these I mean all manner of secular honours pleasures and preferments all those perishing delights and transient vanities which this world may present unto us to withdraw our hearts from intending the due performance of that promise we made at our Baptism Q. What are the sinful lusts of the flesh A. The sinful lusts of the flesh are all those abominations and impieties which our rebellious flesh lusteth after and provoketh us to run into Q. The next thing which you say that your Sureties promised for you is to believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith what is it to believe or what is Faith viz. that Faith which on your behalf was promised at your Baptism A. Faith is such an hearty perswasion of the truth of Gods promises and of every thing else that he hath spoken as makes us obedient in all things to his commands Q. What is the object of this Faith or what is it that we are bound to believe A. I am to believe that Form of sound words and wholesom Doctrine which Christ and his Apostles delivered to the World and that we have epitomized and briefly summ'd up in that Confession of Faith commonly called the Apostles Creed Q. Why is this Confession of Faith called the Apostles Creed A. It is so called either because the Apostles were the Authors of it it being composed by them or else because it is an abridgment of the Doctrine delivered by the Apostles Q. How must your
belief of this Rule of Faith be qualified A. It must be intire and universal I must neither add to not diminish from this Confession of Faith but I am obliged by my Baptismal vow to believe all and every Article of this Christian Faith Q. The last thing which your Sureties promised for you was to keep Gods Holy will and Commandments and to walk in the same all the days of your life How or by what means come you to know the will of God A. He hath revealed it in his Holy Word wherein he hath at large manifested how and in what manner he will be worshipped and served Q. For what end and purpose hath God made known his mind unto us A. That we might make it the Rule of our lives and walk according to that Rule all the days of our lives Q. Dost thou think that thou art bound to believe and do as they promised for thee A. Yes verily and by Gods help so I will and I heartily thank our Heavenly Father that he hath called me to this state of Salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour And I pray unto God to give me his Grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Q. How comes it to pass that thou art bound to perform that promise which others made A. Because they only made it in my behalf when by reason of my tender Years I was uncapable of making of it in my own person which promise I am bound actually to perform when I come to years of discretion Q. Are you then able to perform that promise which was made on your behalf A. I am not by my own strength but by the grace of God I am which he hath faithfully promised to give to all those that heartily beg it Q. What think you of this Estate which by your Baptism you are placed in A. I think it is an excellent and blessed Estate as far excelling my natural condition as light doth darkness the one being a state of death and the other a state of life Q. How come you to have a right to this excellent condition A. By vertue of Christs sufferings who hath purchased this condition for me by his Death and Blood-shedding in which by the help and grace of God I do resolve to continue unto my lives end Q. Rehearse the Articles of thy belief A. I believe in God the Father Allmighty maker of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he arose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and there be sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of Sins the Resurrection of the Body and the Life everlasting Amen Q. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy belief A. First I learn to believe in God the Father who hath made me and all the World Secondly in God the Son who hath redéemed me and all mankind Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the Elect people of God Q. In which Article do you learn to believe in God the Father A. This I learn in the first Article I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth Q. How many Gods are there A. There is but one only the true everliving and eternal God Q. How can that be when you profess that you believe in God the Father God the Son God the Holy Ghost How sayest thou then that there is but one God A. In the God-head indeed there are three Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost but these three are but one God and this great truth St. John thus expresseth There be three that bare record in Heaven the Father the VVord that is Jesus Christ the Son of God the VVord incarnate and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Q. What is God A. God is a Spirit Infinite in all his Attributes and Perfections Q. How knowest thou that there is such a being as God A. Several ways by his wonderful work of Creation the Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy work but especially by my own Conscience which this Infinite Being hath placed within me to accuse me of all those Crimes I commit against his Divine Majesty Q. Vpon what grounds do you call God Father A. He is my Father by Creation giving me at the first my Being he is also my Father by Adoption having through the Gate of Baptism received me into the number of his Servants and Members Q. How did God at the first create you A. By his Almighty and Infinite Power by vertue whereof he can do whatsoever pleaseth him both in Heaven and in Earth Q. And did he finish the Heavens and the Earth and all the rest of his Creation by his Power and Word alone A. Yes he spake and it was done he commanded and they were brought forth Q. In what time did God finish his Creation A. In the space of Six days and rested the Seventh day Q. Why did God at the first give you a Being A. To advance his Honour and to perform his sacred Will Q. Of what did God make Man A. He made his Body of the dust of the ground and breathed into his Nostrils the breath of Life and so he became a living Soul Q. In which Article do you learn is believe in God the Son who redeemed you and all mankind A. In these And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge both the quick and the dead Q. What is this Jesus Christ in whom you believe A. He is perfect God and perfect Man equal to the Father as touching his God-head but inferiour to the Father as touching his Man-hood Q. What Relation stands this Person in to God A. He is his only Son begotten of the Father before the world his first born from all Eternity Q. Why did this Eternal God take upon him our nature and so become Man A. That he might Redeem me and all mankind Q. But how can this be that God should be made Man A. He became Man not by turning the God-head into the nature of Man but by taking Mans nature into the God-head that so one person might be both God and Man Q. What need was there that so excellent a Person as the Son of God should thus abase himself A. Because there
until he do publickly own and profess that he will faithfully stand to those conditions and terms that were made in his Name when through the gate of Baptism he was graciously received into the number of Christs Holy Catholick Church that he will not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified but couragiously continue persevere in that high calling wherein he is called magure all opposition to the contrary and manfully fight under Christs Banner against sin the world and the Devil and continue Christs true and faithful Servant and Souldier to his lives end And that this is the Church of Englands sense of confirmation is very plain from the office which is then to be used which requires that all persons who are confirmed shall audibly and publickly in the presence of God and of the Congregation renew that solemn promise and vow that was made in their names at baptism ratifying and confirming the same in their own persons and acknowledging themselves bound to believe and do all those things which their Godfathers and Godmothers then undertook for them She only hereby intends that we should be in reality and truth what we outwardly profess our selves that as we at large bear the name of Christians Because of the number and living amongst the Society of them and in communion with them so likewise we should specifie as much by our actions having our Conversation such as becometh the Gospel of Christ denying all ungodliness and worldly lusts and behaving our selves soberly righteously and godlily in this present evil world which is no more than that duty which the Grace of God that hath appeared unto all men and bringeth salvation hath taught us It is no more than what we have strictly obliged our selves to perform when we took upon us the honourable name of Christians for then we faithfully engage to renounce the Devil and all his works that is to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to keep Gods holy will and Commandements walking in the same all the dayes of our lives whose sacred Laws teach us to behave our selves soberly righteously and godlily in this present evil world So that the Churches design is very good and pious in continuing this wholsome Institution and as clearly opposite from either Superstition or Will-worship as light is from darkness it is only the spiritual good of her sons that she would advance by the administration of this Rite cause them openly to acknowledg themselves Gods faithful Servants that they are resolved by his assistance so to continue chearfully and heartily performing his sacred pleasure stopping up their cares and barring up their hearts against all corrupt and wicked insinuations that may tempt them to the contrary 2ly It is an Act of Confirmation on Gods part who confers a new Grace to strengthen in those persons that are confirmed those holy principles and that good resolution of which they have made a faithful profession and to enable them to continue and persist in it so that God doth confirm our confirmation that is he doth by the assistance of his good Spirit confirm and corroborate our resolutions and purposes in performing our vow made at Baptism The Reverent Bishop of Down enforms us in his Epistle before his Treatise writ upon this very subject that some wise and good men have piously believed which is no small addition to the honour of this Ministration that when baptized persons are confirmed and blessed by the Bishop that then it is that a special guardian Angel is appointed to keep their souls from the assaults of the Spirits of darkness And all that he adds to it of his own sentiments is this that the piety of this supposition is not at all disagreeable to the intention of this Rite for since by this the holy spirit of God the Father of all spirits is given it is not unreasonably thought by them that the other good Spirits of God the Angels who are ministring spirits sent forth to minister for their sakes who are heirs of Salvation should pay their kind offices in subordination to their Prince and Fountain Neither can I discover any thing in this opinion which is Heterodox but that it may be very safely entertained for if these glorious Angels as the Scripture enforms us minister for the good of mankind namely that part of it as are obedient to the divine Laws of the great Soveraign of the Universe then certainly there cannot be a more proper season for them to enter upon this charitable employment than about that age as it is requisite for confirmation to be administred and it is very agreeable both with the goodness wisdom of Almighty God then to place the securest guard over his Servants when they are the most vigorously assaulted by their spiritual enemies which is at the publick owning of themselves to be Christs real members and declare a profest enmity against the Devil and all his works when we openly profess Christianity and acknowledge out Baptismal vow then it is that the rage of the Devil is most furious and violent imagining if ever he can seduce us it will be at the first hand before we are well settled and throughly grounded in our holy resolutions But howsoever as the above mentioned Bishop very well observes there are greater and stranger things than this that God does for the soul of his Servants and for the honour of the Ministries which himself hath appointed and in this very Ministry will have the powerful assistance of the spirit of all spirits the eternal spirit of God is our guide and our coadjutor to assist our own abilities and undertakings in abiding in that high calling whereunto we are called at our Baptism he now by his gracious influence and blessed aid helpeth our infirmities and supplies our natural imperfections making us able to do that which is good and what the Lord requires of us As in Baptism the Holy Ghost was conveyed as a sanctifyer so herein as a comforter and strengthener now that the person is entring upon a great contest and conflict with himself his own unruly lusts the world and principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesses in high places It is true in Baptism we receive the Spirit of God by it we are then regenerated made members of Christ Children of God and shall in the end be made inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven that is if we continue constant in the profession of the Faith of Christ crucified performing our part of the Covenant made in Baptism to do which it requires a greater and more powerful assistance of the Holy Ghost which is given in confirmation By Baptism we are Heirs and are adopted to the inheritance of Sons admitted to the Covenant of Repentance and engaged to live a Godly life yet as the judicious Prelate learnedly observes this is but the Solemnity of the Covenant which must pass into other Acts by other influences of the same Divine Principle untill
A Plain and Brief EXPLANATION UPON THE Church Catechisme Different from what hitherto hath been Extant Wherein the first Elements and grounds of Religion are reduced to such plain and familiar Questions and Answers as are obvious to the meanest Capacity To which is added A plain and useful TRACT OF CONFIRMATION The second Edition corrected By Nathaniel Blithe M. A. Rector of Dowesby in Lincolnshire London Printed for Edw Millington at the Bible in Little Brittain 1674. Imprimatur Samuel Parker May 11. 1672. The Reader is desired to take notice that that gross Error Page 16. line 7. with which the Author hath been divers times Charged was a mistake of the Printer which is now Corrected in this Second Edition according to the Original Copy The preface to the READER WHen I consider what care the Church of England hath taken for the instruction of her Children in the mattters of Religion both by Preaching Catechizing and reading of the Holy Scriptures whereby plentiful provision is made for all capacities it is matter of very great wonder that so considerable a number of Christians should live and dye in that Ignorance as our own experience too sadly informs us Many amongst us who although they attain to the full age of Man yet they are almost as Ignorant even in the fundamentals of Religion as if they had all their time conversed amongst Pagans Possibly they can rehearse the Creed the Lords Prayer and the Ten Commandments by rote but they are very ignorant of the true sense and meaning of them Perhaps also they may know at large that Christ dyed for Sinners and they hâ—pe to be saved by him but they understand not that vow and promise they made when they were received into the number of his members and hereby are ignorant of those conditions which must be performed by all those that can receive benefit by his meritorious undertakings this and much more which would be too long to insist upon is the ignorance that divers aged Christians groan under And I know no one reason whereto this wretched ignorance can so justly be attributed as either to the utter omission of that so necessary duty of Catechizing or to the irregular and indiscreet performance of it And to the very same cause I am apt in a great measure to assign that wickedness and lewdness which is so confidently and universally practised amongst us Neither is it strange that many should walk so disorderly when they understand not those Laws and Precepts that require strictness and sobriety in their Conversations and if we do but duly consider how apt young and tender natures are to receive any impressions whether verâ—uous or vitious we cannot not but imagine it to be a business of very great moment by Catechizing to instruct the younger sort betimes in the grounds of Christianity for when vitious habits are by a continued practise rooted in their natures and grown customary it will be almost as difficult to eradicate them as to remove a Mountain and we shall hear divers persons when they fall into daily gross miscarriages they will presently be complaining of their own natural weakness and blaming their original guilt whereas the main cause of these their vices proceeds from a corrupt and ill Education they are so accustomed to the committance of evil that according to the expression of the Prophet it is as hard for them to decline their vitious courses as for the Blackamore to change his skin or the Leopard his spots and therefore to prevent these early corrupt inclinations Solomon adviseth us to train up a Child in the way wherein he should walk to season his tender years with the sound knowledge of Religion and betimes to sow the seeds of goodness and vertue in his heart before it grows hard and impenitrable this is the only way to give him a right understanding of his whole Duty whether relating to God his neighbour or himself to inform him what he is to believe and what he is to do in reference to his happiness and well living in another world And this also is the most compendious way to implant in him such Orthodox and sound knowledge as may fortifie him against all the Juglings and Delusions of cunning Impostors for when they rightly understand their Baptismal vow what they are to belive and that duty they are to perform both towards God and Man as also the Doctrine of both the Sacraments which our Church Catechism plainly and fully treats of when they have a thorough knowledge of these matters engrafted in their minds it will be impossible for them to be imposed upon by every peevish Schismatick As unjustly as the Papists make ignorance the Mother of Devotion so truly may we call it the Mother of Faction It was the opinion of the learned King James that the cause of the miscarriage of our people into Popery and many other destructive errours was their ungroundedness in points of Catechism neither can it at all seem strange that those Souls should be carried about with every wind of Doctrine who are not well ballassed with solid information in the first principles of Religion And upon an impartial enquiry we shall find that the great promoters of those idle false opinions amongst us are ignorant in a very great measure I confess they may have a form of Godliness and a mysterious form of words by which to express it that is stuffed with unintelligible nonsense but they are very far to seek in the knowledge of the great intendment and design of the Christian Religion they wholly busie themselves in prying into the Mysteries if Heaven things which neither are profitable nor possible for them to know and in the mean time let slip the plain necessary duties of Religion and this renders them unstable in all their wayes embracing every sudden fancy as an inspiration from Gods Spirit and delightfully entertaining every fond opinion which a hot-headed Zealot shall broach And therefore if Gatechizing was duly and rightly performed it would lay a good foundation and implant the wholsom truths of Religion betimes in our natures and so consequently our knowledge would encrease with our years and hereby we should be capable of examining opinions before we embrace them rejecting whatsoever is contrary to our Creed or repugnant to that duty God requires of us There is also another great advantage we shall receive by the due exercise of Catechizing this will prepare us for the better understanding of Sermons and the holy Scriptures when by this means a good foundation is layd then we have some Reason to hope that whatsoever is built upon it will prosper when we are hereby established in the plain necessary truths of Christianity this will give us a good insight into the more difficult mysterious truths of the Gospel which are frequently delivered in Sermons It was a complaint which the Author to the Hebrews made of that Church that they were dull of hearing the deep
things of God in Christ and the reason was because they had not well learned the first principles of the Oracles of God Heb. 11.12 And we read in the Acts of the holy Apostles that Apollos was first instructed or Catechized in the way of the Lord as the Original renders it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this made him Capable of Speaking to others diligently the Words of the Lord. Seeing therefore these are the fruits and good effects of Catechizing we cannot assign these disorders amongst us viz. the ignorance of some the debaucheries of many the factiousnes of not a few to any cause so much as to the neglect of this weighty duty But notwithstanding these inestimable benefits that do attend this so necessary a performance it is too apparent that a very great neglect is made which is occasioned not only by the default of Parents and Masters of Familes but also by those that are entrusted with the care of Souls many of those whom God hath blessed with Children are strangely careless in their Education being far more ready to debauch their tender years than to endeavour by wholsome instructions to season them with the sound principles of Religion an idle story a vain song or a wanton expression they can hear repeated by them with far more delight than those plain necessary truths contained in the Catechism and they will on the Lords day rather enjoyn them to employ that time in following such little worldly occasions as they are capable of or suffer them to idle it away in play and pastime wherein they should be rehearsing their Catechism before the Congregation Nay I fear there are some who do absolutely forbid or at least seek occasions to hinder their Children and Servants from being publickly instructed in the Church Catechism I would to God that those who are in this nature guilty would seriously consider with themselves that almighty God hath not only commanded us to know his sacred will and to retain it in our memories but also to teach it to our Children and to instruct our families therein according to our several capacities And certainly those to whom God hath given that great blessing of Children will be strangely confounded and full of terrour at the great and universal day of judgment when they shall behold the fruits of their own loyns rejected with a depart from me ye cursed occasioned principally through their carelessness and neglect in their education But besides these it is too evidently manifest that those also who should feed the flock of Christ are very remiss in administring such food to these tender Lambs as is most suitable to their weak appetites and it is very strange they can be guilty of so great an omission if they would but seriously ponder with themselves that charge and duty that is incumbent upon them that they are strictly bound if they intend to be accounted good and faithful stewards to give to every one his portion of meat in due season what they can alleage in defence for this their negligence may be reduced to one of these heads either they affirm that Catechism is an enemy to Preaching or else they do not well rellish the Church Catechism In answer to the first of these pretences the Church of England hath not without abundance of Prudence and Wisdom enjoyned every minister under strict penalties to instruct the younger sort in the Catechism every Sunday in the afternoon which if duely performed we might hope to see a good reformation in the loose practises of the younger sort Neither can it enter into my head how this can possibly be an enemy to preaching in regard it is the most usefull way of preaching and if this was rightly exercised no method could be more proper seasonable to increase the knowledge of most capacities especially in Country congregations where all sorts are in no mean degree ignorant of those plain common truths contained in our Church Catechism The judicious Mr. Hooker terms the publique performance of Catechising in the open hearing of the Congregation preaching in reference whereto he describes preaching to be the open publication of heavenly mysteries or the making known the summe and substance of the Gospel now which way soever this is done whether by a continued discourse as in a Sermon or by question and answer as in Catechizing it may properly enough be stiled Preaching But others there are who possibly may be convinced that Catechizing may be advantagious yet they neglect it because they cannot affect the Church Catechism which they are enjoyned to use I must confess my self uncapable of giving satisfaction to this scruple in regard I am altogether ignorant of the reasons they give in defence of it I know but one which is too frequently given in cases of this nature viz. they do not like it because it is the Church Catechisme that is because it is enjoyned by Authority it contains no Doctrine but what is Orthodox and it includes most if not all the fundamentals of Christianity Three things are required in compiling a Catechisme 1. That it be plain 2. Methodical 3. That it contains the grounds of Religion all which are comprehended in the Church Catechism 1. It is plain and without much difficulty to be understood all it contains is levelled to the weaker capacities 2. It is Methodical it begins with our Baptism which is our initiation into Christianity into the number and society of the Church it shews us what we are by Gods grace and mercy which grace is given us at our Baptism when as we are made members of Christ Children of God and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven wherein also is implyed our condition by nature that we are in a state of misery our Souls very much defiled and the faculties thereof very much impaired and weakned by the guilt of Original sin it also at large explains our Baptismal vow by shewing us what we are to believe and those commands we are to observe in order to the faithful discharging of that solemn promise and then it manifests our insufficiency of our selves to do these things without Gods special grace and assistance which we are to beg of him by prayer and here also it gives us a rule and president for our prayers viz. the Lords prayer and afterwards in brief it explains both the Sacraments From all which it appeares in the third place that it contains the first principles elements of Religion so that I cannot apprehend what just ground of exception can be made against the use of this Catechisme but that every Minister ought to use it as not only being wisely and prudently composed but also as being hereto obliged by the higher Powers to whose lawful commands we are to yield an active obedience But But these are not the only guilty per … for besides these there are others to whose trust are committed some part of Christs flock who although they do not â—holly omit this