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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

of understanding sanctity of will integritie of Conscience beauty and strength of body majesty and empire over the creatures immortalitie and the like and secondly the condition to which we are fallen to wit sinnefullnesse and miserie or doing things unworthy and suffering things worthy of our doings Timothy They that are sicke need the Physitian saith our Saviour Math. 9. 12. who then is this blessed Physitian Lois and Eunice Even Jesus Christ who to this end is by nature both God and man in one person and by office is 1. our Prophet 2. Priest and 3. King Timothy Why is it necessary he should have both a divine and humane nature united in one person Lois and Eunice He must needs bee man because divine equitie requireth that the same nature that sinned should suffer Ezech. 18. 4. and he must needs bee God to give an infinite value to his satisfaction proportionable both to the infinite majesty offended and the infinite sinnes and sinners offending As also hee must be Man that he might die and God that he might overcome death Timothy Why is it necessary that hee should also have these three offices propheticall sacerdotall and regall Lois and Eunice It is necessary hee should bee 1. a Prophet to illuminate us and leade us into all truth 2. a Priest to make satisfaction for our sinnes and to intercede for us to the father 3. a King both to protect us against our enemies and to governe us by his spirit and word Timothy Is this then sufficient to repaire our miserable condition and to re-estate us in that primitive happinesse from whence wee are fallen Lois and Eunice It is indeed sufficient in it selfe but not effectuall to any one who for their part doth not performe those two grand commands of the Gospell to repent and believe Timothy Where is the summe of the gospell best comprised Lois and Eunice In that auncient and Apostolicall Creed which begins I believe in God the Father c. which Creed is the Key of faith and Epitome of all things to be beleeved unto salvation and which all Christians as the badge of their profession ought 1. to learne and get by heart 2. often to repeat and professe to their comfort and establishment 3. to give assent and credit to every Article one by one and lastly to apply each Article particularly to their owne soules for all these foure severall acts of Faith are implied in the word I believe Timothy I pray you if that be so auncient so perfect and so excellent an abridgement of the faith give it me not in the lumpe but breake unto mee that bread of life into the severall pieces thereof Lois and Eunice It consists of 12. short Articles the 1. concernes God the Father the 2. the name nature office and person of Christ the 3 4 and 5. the seven degrees of his Humiliation for our sinnes the 6 7 and 8 the foure degrees of his Exaliation for our righteousnesse the 9. concernes the holy Ghost the 10 11 and 12. concerne the Church of God both in the properties and priviledges of it Timothy Being thus restored what owe we to God for so great a benefit Lois and Eunice Thankefullnesse which consists especially in three things first in conforming our life according to the ten Commandements of God secondly in calling upon his name according to the substance of the Lords prayer lastly in receiving and participating the Sacraments after a prepared and devout manner Timothy I pray you also breake open unto mee those ten holy lawes that I may better know how to keepe them Lois and Eunice God himselfe hath divided them into two tables subdivided them into ten words contracted them into one monosyllable Love the first enjoynes mee whom to worship the second prescribes the inward manner of his worship the third the outward the fourth the solemne time the fifth enjoynes my duty towards my inferiours superiours and equalls the sixt to my neighboursperson the seventh to his chastity the eighth to his estate the ninth to his good name the tenth and last commands me to resist the first risings and thoughts of sin though even without consent of will Timothy But because I am not able to keepe these things of my selfe and that prayer is the best meanes to fetch grace and helpe from heaven and that the Lords prayer is a perfect patterne of prayer therefore I pray you briefely unfold that forme of prayer unto mee Lois and Eunice It consists of foure distinct parts the first is the Preface or preparation unto the praier Our father which art in Heaven the second is the sixe Petitions whereof the three first concerne Gods glory and the three latter our owne bodily and ghostly necessities the third is a thankesgiving or certaine forme of praising God for thine is the kingdome power and glory for ever and ever the fourth is the close and scale Amen Timothy But seeing wee faile in all the former so as our Faith is weake our Obedience is imperfect and our praiers cold what seales hath God given to confirme and strengthen us Lois and Eunice The two Sacraments of baptisme and the Lords supper which through outward and visible signes doc both 1. signifie and 2. conveigh unto us most excellent inward and spirituall graces FINIS A BRIEFE METHODICALL plaine and full forme of doctrine reduced unto xxxi Questions and Answeres so as by learning one onely Question and it's Answer every day the Christian Scholler shall within the space of one Moneth bee well principled in Religion The Collocutors are Paul the Questionist and Gamaliel the Resolutor Acts. 22. 3 1. Iohn 2. 13. I write unto you Young men THE SECOND Forme of Doctrine or the young mans Catechisme PAul What is Catechisme wherunto may it bee compared Gamaliel It cannot better bee defined then out of Heb. 6. 1. The principles of the doctrine of Christ and it may be fitly compared to Sampsons haire wherein was both strength and beauty for so ought catechisme be strong in precepts beautifull in order and method Paul What is Christian doctrine usually called and how may it be defined Gamaliel It is most usually called either Religion or Divinitie and may bee defined to be the Art or science of beleeving aright and of living well Paul How many parts are there then of Religion Gamal Two which Saint Paul Titus 1. verse 1. calls TRVTH and GODLINES and they are the two pillars or supporters of Gods house the shaking of either of which ruines the building Paul Where may bee found united and gathered together those principall and fundamentall Truths which a Christian is to believe to salvation Gamal They are abridged and contracted into the Apostles Creed and are first capable of this distinction that they either concerne God or the Church of God

of Religion Systemes of Divinitie Common places Theologicall theses Catechismes both of topicall Churches and particular men famed all over the Christian world and cried up to be Orthodox methodicall and receaved that at least observing the Oeconomie and fabricke of every one and how the same truths did concurre in a diverse method and order of handling there might out of all of them together compared and collated result and arise what the Author heereof doth now in these ensuing Schedules present Fifthly But then considering that there is the same danger in a spirituall flocke as was in Jacobs Gen. 33. 13. the ghostly guide may over-drive the Children that are tender and the heards that are with young whereas to lead on softly is safe and considering againe that there are three sorts or rather degrees in Religion First Beginners or probationers Secondly Proficients or growers and lastly growne and full statured Christians Ephesians 4. 11 who may challenge the brave title and clogy of Mnason Act 21 16 an old disciple yea that the Scripture it selfe alloweth and beareth up this distinction in two severall texts both 1 Ioh. Epist. chap. 2. verse 13. under the titles of 1 Children 2 Young men and 3 Fathers and also Marke 4. 28. under the tearmes of 1 the blade 2 the Eare 3 the ripe corne in the eare Hereupon the Author hath endeavoured to make sacred Divinitie hold proportion with the severall strengths and capabilities of Christians casting it into three severall moulds or formes The first of 12 Queries and Responses according to the number of the howers of the day or moneths of the Yeere intended to bee the Childs Divinitie the second of 31. after the number of daies in the moneth which is the young mans Divinitie The third into 52. as there are weekes in the yeere which you may call the old mans Divinitie as the severall Title-pages preceding each tractate will more fully declare Sixtly and Lastly whereas the worthy addressing of a mans selfe to the Lords table to receive the blessed Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ is and hath ever beene esteemed an high piece of Pietie and one of the most eminent performances which a militant Christian can goe about as being one of the neerest approaches wee can make to God therefore as a Coronis to the rest here is annexed an Alphabet or Abecedary tractate concerning the Lords supper and our profitable comming thereunto as the frontispice-lease thereof doth shew And this is all the Author hath to say anent this little worke and his intent in publishing of it There yet remaines something to be added touching the right use thereof in the behalfe of the usufructuary or whosoever hands these treatises may fall into in which regard the Authour proposeth these Counsels and Advertisements First Hee adviseth that by all meanes the chiefes and superintendents of families and schooles who are both Priests and Princes within their owne sept and verge see that those who are under their goverment bee initiated and instructed in the principles of Religion whilst they are yet of very tender yeares for it is scarce to be credited if experience did not ascertaine the truth thereof either how inept and indisposed unto divine knowledge such are as are stept into yeeres and having first filled their heads and bardened their hearts with worldly-mindednesse have thereby prevented aud praeoccupated the enterance of the things of God or on the other hand how naturally and sweetly Catechisme is sucked in with the Mothers milke rocked in with the Nurse sported in with play-fellowes hired in with nuts and apples awed in with the twig of a rod c. which howsoever at first in them it may be no more oft times than the bare letter or forme of knowledge yet by the Spirits worke ere long may bee improved unto Saving knowledge This those worthy auncient Christians knew well who taught their infants first to loose their tongues into the articulate and syllabicall pronunciation of the word Hallelujah And surely it 's as easie to teach Children to say Hosanna to Christ as bald-pate to Elisha Aristotle proveth the sweetnesse of knowledge by this that the mouths of Children are so full of questions and there is this reason further in Divinitie that those who are yet innocent as doves shall receive such irradiation of divine light from God as to bee wise as Serpents and those whose wills doe cleave unto good their understanding shall approach unto Truth 2. The second Advertisement is this that the Catechist that is hee or shee who takes upon them the office to instruct and Catechize others stand in some faire and neere relation to the Catechumenoi that is those who are taught and instructed by which meanes it comes to passe that their principles are more authentick authoritative and magisteriall and the doctrine which they instill proves both more strong by reason of the credit of a Superiour and more sweet by reason of the love of a familiar Oh then documents sticke when wee can say I know of whom I have learned them Then rudiments and grounds are indeed Nailes to fasten in the memory and goads to pricke on the Affections Eccles. 12. 11. Thus Samuel was instructed by Eli and young Jehoash by Jehojadah both Priests the great Eunuch by Philip a Deacon Paul by his tutour Gamaliel Timothy by his mother and Grandmother Lois and Eunice Origen by his father Leonides Gorgonia by her brother Nazianzene Saint Basil by his nurse Macrina and Saint Hierom commanded the Lady Paula to set her maids to learne the Scriptures Neither ought any one thinke they lesson themselves unto any low indecencies in playing the duty of a Catechist towards their Novices whilst they see whole Churches Counsels both nationall and oecumenicall particular men of signall note and fame such as Luther and Calvin calling off their pennes from learned Commentaries positive Divinitie polemicall disputes exquisite Sermons and the like even to write Catechismes by way of question and answer Yea how many fathers are there both of the Greeke and Latine Church which have their peculiar forme of doctrine or hypotyposis of wholsome words Clemens of Alexandira his Paedagogue Cyrill of Jerusalem his Catechisme Origen that famous Catechist his bookes of principles Theodoret his Epitome of divine precepts Lactantius his institutions Augustine his encheiridion c. Neither could it bee credited if the voucher were not histories of singular esteeme how eminent persons for learning vertue and honour have descended even unto the practiques herein one I cannot omit Saint Hierom for learning so great a Clerke as S. Augustine seriously wished to equallize him for sanctity so rare as it is farre more easy to counterfeit him then imitate him hee having exhorted Leta to send her daughter to her Grandmother Paula at Bethleem to be educated there addes certaine words wherby hee binds himselfe to become master and Catechist to the child saying hee will carry her upon his armes

Paul Which is the grand truth wee are to embrace concerning God Gamal That in regard of nature essence and being there is but one God yet in regard of divine relation and reall respects in that one Godhead there are three persons Paul Describe mee the nature and essence of God so farre as he may as it were through a glasse he seene and comprehended of our weake capacities Gamal God is that most absolute and first being whose proper Attributes are 1 Simplicitie 2 Eternitie 3 Immensitie 4 Perfection 5 Immutability 6 Immortality 7 Goodnesse 8 Justice 9 Truth 10 Holinesse 11 Omnipotency 12 liberty or freedome and lastly glory and majestie Paul What now is that you call a person of the God-head Gamal It is a relation or respect which taketh nothing from nor addeth any thing to the divine essence but onely distinguisheth the Father Son and holy Ghost among themselves and one from another every one of them having both his incommunicable propriety or nature and every one of them having his owne incommunicable worke or Counsell Paul Which is the incommunicable propriety or nature of the Father the first of the three persons Gamal To beget and not be begotten Paul What is the Fathers proper and incommunicable worke or counsell Gamal Creation for by his Almighty power in making heaven and earth hee cast out vacuitie and emptinesse that great enemy of nature and by his providence which is a continued creation hee keepeth it out still Paul Which is the peculiar property of the sonne who is the second person in order and manner of subsistence Gamal His relative propertie is to be begotten Paul Which is his peculiar worke Gamaliel Redemption which is a stisfaction made to the justice of God for the sinne of man in which regard he hath 4. stiles in the Creed 1. Iesus to note his office of mediatorship in generall 2. Christ to denote his three particular offices sacerdotall propheticall and royall 3. Sonne to note his order and manner of subsistence fourthly and lastly Lord to note his purchase Paul How is our Redemption wrought Gamal Partly by the Humiliation and partly by the Exaltation of the sonne of God the severall degrees of which twaine are accurately and punctually folded up in the very body of the said Creed c. Paul Which bee the severall degrees of his Humilation Gamal They bee sixe in number and are thus to bee enumerated in order 1. his Conception hee was conceived by the holy Ghost 2. his nativity borne of the Virgin Mary 3. his passion suffered under Pontius Pilate 4. his crucifixion which was the extremity of his passion was crucified 5. his death dead 6. his buriall and buried through all which severall degrees of sorrow he passed and was pressed with them as a cart with sheaves that he might beare our sinnes and heale our infirmities Paul Which be the severall degrees of his Exaltation Gamal They be five in number and are thus to bee reckoned 1. his triumph over Hell hee descended into hell 2. his Resurrection hee rose againe the third day 3. his Ascention hee ascended into heaven 4. his session at his Fathers right hand there he sits at the right hand of God 5. his office of judicature from thence hee shall come to judge both the quicke and the dead Paul What is the relative property of the Holy Ghost the third person in manner of subsisting Gamal To proceed Paul What is his proper worke Gamal Sanctification or application for Christ having prepared the remedie leaves it to bee applied by the sanctification of his spirit and as hee justifies us by his merit so hee sanctifies us by his Spirit Paul Having seene those fundamentall truths which concerne God and being now come to those which concerne the Church of God tell mee what a Christian is bound to beleeve concerning the Church Gamal That it is a company of beleevers united to Christ by faith here and by vision hereafter and that the said company is invested with a double property to wit first it is holy in regard of the holinesse both of the outward meanes and inward worke of the Spirit and secondly it is Catholique and universall in regard both of time persons and places Paul What are the benefits which arise to us from our being members of this holy Catholike Church Gamal Foure two whereof accrew in this life to wit first Communion of Saints that is that fellowship wee have both with Christ and all his members in grace and glory secondly Remission of sinnes both incovering and curing them and other two in the life to come first Resnrrection of the body when that which is sowne in corruption riseth againe in incorruption secondly Life everlasting when there shall be a necessary absence of all evill and a necessary presence of all good Paul Having learned the TRVTH of Religion I desire now to goe on to the second part the GODLINESSE of it tell mee first therefore I pray you how it may best be divided Gama Into three heads first our walking with God in holy obedience according to the ten precepts of the decalogue Secondly our Talking with him in devout prayer according to the seven petitions of the Lords prayer Thirdly our Receiving from him in the two Sacraments of the new Testament Paul How is our walking with God according to the Law distributed Gama Either into Holinesse which is our immediate worship of God required in the first table of the law or into Righteousnesse whereby God is mediately served through the love to our neighbour as is required in the latter table Paul On how many feet stands the first table of the Law which concernes our duty towards God Gamal On foure for it enjoyneth 1. that wee place and bestow divine worship on none but the onely true God choosing him to be our Jehovah and to set our heart upon Precept 1. 2. that we worship him with his owne prescribed worship and not after our owne Imaginations or devices Precept 2. 3. that wee shew him due externall reverence also in transacting his worship and service Precept 3. 4. in regard of the time that wee performe it especially and more solemnely on the Lords day Precept 4. Paul On how many feet doth the second table stand which concernes our duty to man Gamal On sixe for it enjoyneth 1. that wee be diligent in all offices and duties towards our superiours inferiours and equals Precept 5. 2. that wee preserve life and health both of our selves and our neighbour to Gods glory and the good both of Church and Common-weale Precept 6. 3. that wee preserve and keepe both inward chastity of heart and the outward of the body Precept 7. 4. that wee preserve the estate and livelyhood both of our selves and neighbour to our owne