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A75970	The Agreement of divers ministers of Christ in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, for catechizing or personal instructing all in their parishes, that will consent thereunto. Containing I. The articles of our agreement. II. An exhortation to the people to submit to this necessary work. III. The profession of faith, and catechism, which we desire them first to learn.		1656 (1656)	Wing A773; Thomason E1653_2; ESTC R208988	22,810	45

into life eternal and the rest into everlasting Punishment I Believe that God the Holy Ghost the Spirit of the Father and the Son was sent from the Father (*) or and by the Son to inspire and guide the Prophets and Apostles that they might fully reveal the doctrine of Christ and by multitudes of evident miracles and wonderful gifts to be the great witness of Christ and of the truth of his holy word and also to dwell and work in all that are drawn to believe that being first joyned to Christ their head and into one Church which is his body and so pardoned and made the sons of God they may be a peculiar people sanctified to Christ and may mortifie the flesh and overcome the world and the Devil and being zealous of good works may serve God in Holiness and Righteousness and may live in the special Love and Communion of the Saints and in Hope of Christs Coming and of Everlasting life I do heartily take this one God (*) In the Trinity of Persons for my only God and my chief good and this Jesus Christ for my only Lord-Redeemer and Saviour and this Holy Ghost for my Sanctifier and the Doctrine by him revealed and witnessed by his Miracles and now contained in the holy Scriptures I do take for the Law of God and the Rule of my Faith and Life And Repenting unfeignedly of my sins I do Resolve through the grace of God sincerely to obey him both in Holyness to God and Righteousness to men and in special love to the Saints and Communion with them against all the temptations of tht Devil the World and my own Flesh and this to the death Note that the first eight Articles of the following Ca●echism do contain ●he foregoing Profession and the four last do express the particulars ●ontained in the two words Holiness and Righteousness and in the ten Commandments The CATECHISM Qu. 1. What do you believe concerning God 1. There is one only God in three persons the Father 1 Cor. 8.4 6. Mat. 2● 13 1 Joh. 5.7 1 Tim. 1.17 Psal 1. ●9 7 8 9. Isa 40.17 Rev. 4.8 Psal 147.5 Neh. 9.6 Psal 135 6. Rev. 15.3 Exo. 34 6. the Son and the Holy Ghost Who is infinite in Being Power Wisdom and Goodness the maker preserver di●poser of all things and the most Iust and Merciful Lord of all Qu. 2. How did God make man and what Law did he give him 2. Pro. 16.4 Gen. 1.26 27. 2.16 17. Rom. 6.23 God made man for himself in his own image and gave him a righteous Law requiring perfect obedience upon pain of Death Qu. 3. Did man keep or break this Law 3. Man being tempted by Satan Gen. 3. Rom 5 1●.28 3.23 6.23 Eph. 2.12 Hos 14.1 Eph. 2. ● 3 5. Gal. 3.10 ●● Act. 26.18 Gen. 6.5 2 Tim 3 15. Hos 11.7 13.2 Psal ●8 17 did w●●fully sin and so fall from God and Happiness under the wrath of God the Curse of the Law and the Power of the Devil so that a e are b● nature dead in sin and prone to do more evil continually to grow worse ●o depart yet further from God Qu. 4. How was man Redeemed 4 God so loved the world Joh. 3.16 ●7 1 Joh. 2.2 Ioh. 4.22 Rom 9.5 10.12 Joh. 10.30 17.11 Heb. ● 14 16. 1 Tim. ● 5 Lu● 1 2● ●1 35. Mat. 1.22 25.20 Heb. 4.15 7 26. Heb. 2 3.4 Act 2.22 7.36 T it 2.14 Heb. 9.26 1 Tim 2.6 Mat. 27.31 35. ●0 1 Cor. 15 3 4 5 6 7 12. Act. 1.9 Eph. 4 8 9 10 11. Act. 10.56 2.36 R●m 14.9 Mat. 28.18 Eph. 1.20 21 22 that he gave his onl● son to be their Redeemer who being God and one with the Father did take to him our nature and became man being conceived by the Holy Ghost in the V●r● in Mary and born of her and called Iesus Ch●ist and having lived on earth without sin and wrought many Miracles for a witness of his truth he gave up himself a sacrifice for our si●s and a ransom for us in suffering death on the Cross an● being buryed he rose again the third day and afterward ascended in●o ●eaven where he i● Lord of all ●n glory with the Father Qu. 5. How and on what ●e ●●s is ●al●ation offered in the Gospel 5 Our Lord Iesus Christ hath ordained in his Testament that all they that receive him by a tine effectual faith 1 Cor. 9.14 Heb 9.15 Col. 2 6. Joh. 1.12 Mar. 16.15 16. Gal. 5.4 Jam. 2 24. Act. 26.18 ●n 24 47. Act. 5.31 11.18 20.21 3.19 2.38 8 2● 26.10 〈◊〉 13.3 Mar. 4.12 Isa 55.7 2.16 Eze● ●8 21 ●0 ●2 33 11. to 20. Mat. 19 2● 29. ●0 3● L●k ●4 26 27 3● T●t 3 ● 7 Heb. 3 14. C●l ● 23 Joh. 15 ● to 12. 8 31. Ro● 1.22 Heb 10.26 38. Rev. 2 1● ●● Mar. 16.15 16. Mat. 28.19 20 21. and that by true Repentance do forsake the Devil the world and the Flesh and heartily turn from them unto God shall freely receive the Pardon of their sins and become the sons of God and Heirs of everlasting life * The conditionality of the promise deny●th not the certainty of faith and perseverance and that if they sincerely love and obey him to the death they shall be glorifyed and that they that will not do all this shall be damned And this he hath commanded his Ministers to preach to all the world Joh. 14.26 15.26 1 Pet. 1.10 11 12. 2 Pet. 1.21 2 Tim. 3.16 Joh. 16.13 Ep. 3.3 5. 2.20 4.11 12 13. Mat. 28.20 ● Tim. 6.14 Isa 8 20. Rev. ●2 18 19. Heb. 3.2 ● 2.3.4 Acts 2.22 19.11.10 19. Gal. 3.1.2 3 5. Joh. 14.12 3.2 10. 25 37 28 1 Cor. 14. Qu. 6. How did Christ reveal and prove his doctrine 6. The Holy Ghost was sent by the Father and the son to inspire and guide the Prophets Apostles and Evangelists that they might truly and fully reveal the Doctrine of Christ and deliver it in Scripture to the Church as the Rule of our Faith and Lise And by multitudes of evident uncontroled miracles to be the great witness of Christ and of the truth of his holy word Act. 26.18 Joh. 6.44 Rom. 8. ● 10 11 Act. 16.14 Eze● 36.16 Act. 15.9 1 Cor. 6.11 19. Col. 1.18 2.19 Eph. 5.30 31.32 3.17 1 Cor. 12. 13.27 Rom. 3.24 Gal. 4 6. Joh. 1.12 Gal. 6.26 Tit. ● 14 1 Pet. 2.9 1 Cor. 6.11 Rom. 8.1.10 14. Gal. 5.17 24. 1 Joh. 2.15 Gal. 6.14 1 Joh. 3.8 Luk. 1.74 75. 1 Pet. 1.22 Joh. 12.34 35. Eph. 2. ●9 Heb. 10 25. ● Cor. ● 9 ● Pet. 3 11 12. Tit. 1.2 3.7 Qu. 7. How are men brought to partake of Christ and life 7. The same Holy Spirit doth by the word enlighten mens

cannot so soon learn our profession we shal expect at least that they learn the Creed the Commandments and the Lords prayer and endeavour to learn the rest in further time as they are able or if any pretend scruples against our Profession or the allowed Catechism they shall use any Orthodox Catechism which themselves will choose VI. When we receive an account from them of what they have learned of these heads of Chatechism we shall also faithfully endeavour to help them in the right understanding of them and to get the truths which they learn into their hearts and lives in all which we shall endeavour as prudently as we can to suit our Instructions and Q●estions to the capacity of the persons to whom we speak Not seeking to disgrace them or puzzle them by hard unnecessary questions or words but express the plainest necessary truths in the plainest words and if they understand not one phrase we shall try whether they understand the same truth in other phrases nor shall we stand so much on their words as their meanings and if they be not able to deliver a fundamental truth in any tolerable words of their own we shall try by their affirmations or negations whether indeed they understand it or believe it when they hear it exprest by us we shall endeavour also to use such love and meekness as may win and avoid such harsh imperious speeches as may offend and to use such seriousness as may tend to awaken the stupid and secure lest all our labour with them be lost and yet such tenderness as that the weak may not be discouraged And because it is a work that requireth such great prudence and holy skill together with zeal and patience we shall the more reverently and cautelously attempt and mannage it avoiding all rashness observing and lamenting and striving against our imprudency unskilfulness and other unfitnesses and earnestly beg of God more fitness for his work VII Those that have not learned the words of any of the aforesaid Principles or Catechisms we shall yet desire to come to us with the rest of their families that we may have opportunity familiarly to discourse with them and instruct them VIII We shall desire that the most learned or judicious and Godly people among us would submit to this course as well as others though they have not the like need lest their forbearance be a pretence to others to keep off especially seeing the wisest and Godliest men are bound by God to obey their teachers and guides as well as others and all Christians have need to keep the great fundamental truths still in memory for their daily use that they may live upon them and the best may yet get some advantage by such conferences which Ministers will fit to their riper state IX Having procured this our Agreement to be printed together with an exhortation to our people to submit to this work we shall first read both to them in the publique assembly upon some Lords day and afterward give and cause to be delivered one Copy thereof to each family in our several parishes that will accept them desiring them that they may be read to all the family X. As for those that after sufficient admonition shal contemptuously and obstinately refuse to be either Catechised or Instructed thus personally by us giving us no valuable reason of their refusal if they are such that have professed themselves members of our Charge in the particular Churches whereof we are Pastors we shall proceed as in other cases of scandal or impenitency til we have either prevailed for their reformation or else rejected and avoided them And if they are such that are only members of the Parish and have withdrawn themselves from our charges and the particular Church by refusing to own and profess their membership we shall yet so far difference them from the rest of the parish who are Tractable and Teachable though refusing to be of our particular Church and charge as that we shall in regard of Communion and the application of sealing and confirming ordinances deal with them as the obstinate despisers of instruction should be dealt with THE reasons which move us to this Agreement and Resolution are these following 1. As it is undeniable that the everlasting perdition of multitudes is caused by their Ignorance and people perish for lack of knowledge so is it most evident that catechizing and familiar personal instruction is a great means to overcome that killing ignorance and that much of the darkness of this Land is chargeable on the neglect of this necessary work 2. The aged among us are too commonly more Ignorant then the younger sort and though their souls should be as much regarded by them yet have we no hope of prevailing with these to come publikly on the Lords day in the face of the congregation to be catechised but yet we are in hope that fewer of them will refuse to come to us in private and seeing we are thus necessitated to deal in private with one part of the family if it be their desire we shall take all together in the same way Perhaps one will encourage another We observe also that the younger when they are once married will come no more to be catechized publikely and so too many forget that which before they had learned which this course may prevent 3. It is the principles and fundamental truths that life or death doth most depend upon in which the essentials of Christianity do consist which therefore no man may be utterly ignorant of that hopeth for salvation and which the ripest Christians have the greatest daily use for and most continually live upon as their bread and drink and those that are well grounded in these fundamentals are likest to stand in a time of trial and to resist temptations and to hold fast and grow up in the knowledge of the superstructure and it is the want of being well grounded in these fundamentals that is the cause of much of the heresie and apostacy of this Age. It is the improvement of these principles that is the true Christians daily work for the managing of his duties the quickening and ordering of his affections and the guidance of his life and it is the want of sound digesting and improving of these that is the cause of much of the hypocrisie and self-deceiving opinionative and factious kind of Religiousness that hath so prevailed In a word the benefit of right Catechizing and the mischiefs that follow the neglect of it are more indeed then we can express or conceive 4. We finde by sad experience that the people understand not our publike teaching though we study to speak as plain as we can and that after many years preaching even of these same Fundamentals too many can scarce tell any thing that we have said when yet we finde that they better understand and lay to heart a familiar Conference 5. The Lords day is short enough for the