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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38590	Catechistical discovrses in vvhich, first, an easy and efficacious way is proposed for instruction of the ignorant, by a breife summe of the Christian doctrine here delivered and declared : secondly, the verity of the Romane Catholike faith is demonstrated by induction from all other religions that are in the world : thirdly, the methode of the Romane catechisme, which the Councell of Trent caused to be made, is commended to practice of instructing in doctrine, confirming in faith, and inciting to good life by catechisticall sermons / by A. E.	Errington, Anthony, d. 1719?	1654 (1654)	Wing E3246; ESTC R8938	430,353	784

that the more they drinke the more their disease increaseth and their desire of drinke These ought to consider that riches are the creatures of God ordained for vse and if they be not vsed they are abused and the order is peruerted which God ordained in the creation of them Some sinne by excesse in the contrary that they will not thinke nor prouide how to liue but spend as long as they haue any thing and then they passe on a slothfull and carelesse life choosing rather as the common saying is hungar with ease then plenty with paines taking These must consider that God hath prouided sufficiently for them and if they will needs contemne the prouidence of God and spend all then they must vse their limmes to liue by and that euery man must liue of his owne care and labour in his calling The rich haue a more carefull and lesse painefull life the poorer as they haue lesse care so they haue more paines to take And if they be able they must worke and not thinke any more idly and loosely to depende of others then others thinke to depend of them These sinne by too much neglect of riches as they are good the couetous sin by too much loue of that which is base in riches The remedy of couetousnes is to stirre vp in our selues an ardent loue of God that we loue him in our riches and them not for themselues but for his sake and to doe sometimes some deeds of charity for this end that we may keep our harts allways free from the loue of riches and open to the loue of God and of our neighbour O that rich men would remember those words which King Dauid sang ●s 61. If riches abound set not your hart vpon them They might desire riches haue riches and keepe them if they would but keep their harts of them and vse them as God hath ordained them to be vsed Dauid performed himselfe that which in this he commended to others who although he were guilty of some other sinnes yet he is not noted at any time to haue set his hart on riches when they abounded with him as a king in plenty of all things He was a very charitable man gaue much to the building of a temple to God by which it appeareth that he sett his hart on almesdeeds and doeing works of charity and not vpon riches and if all rich men would doe soe they might be happy and blessed in their riches You haue now the ten Commandements declared the Commandements not of any king or superiour vpon earth but of God the maker of heauen and earth and who gaue these Commandements after such a terrible manner to the Israelits that as you haue heard they were allmost killed with feare at the receiuing of them because they were a hard harted people and as stubborne and peruersed children were to be gouerned with the sight of the rodde But we that liue in the law of Christ which is the law of clemency and grace and in which we haue such an example of the loue of God in the mystery of the incarnation and passion of the sonne of God we ought to be drawne by loue to obey him who intreating and exhorting to keepe his Commandements demandeth If you loue mee keepe my Commandements Io. 14. And a litle after he that hath my Commandements and keepeth them he it is that loueth mee We professe ourselues to be christians that is as the disciples seruants souldiers and spouses of Iesus Christ to loue him and we follow obey sight for and adulterate with the deuill his professed enemy O Christian is this thy loue is this to be a Christian the beloued disciple of Iesus Christ saith He that saith he abideth in Christ ought as he walked himselfe also to walke Io. 1.2 You would thinke it a horrible thinge to see a christian to deny his christendome and to become a Turke or Pagan and yet in deedes we deny it when we breake the Commandements of God which then we promised faithfully to keepe Tit. 1. They Confesse that they know God but in their works they deny saith S. Paul This is to be a christian in name onely and not indeede as the traitour or rebell to the king hath the name of his subiect but is not subiect to him and thus S. Iohn Euangelist was inspired to declare Io. 1.1 He that saith he knoweth him and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyer and the truth is not in him If therefor you will be constant to the faith of Christ and beare truely the name of a christian be good christians keepe the Commandements of God let not the pleasure of any thinge draw you from him giue him the first place in your harts care not for the fauour of any soe as to loose the diuine fauour contemne riches forsake all vnlawfull desires beare afflictions losses iniurys imprisonment or any paine what soeuer rather then to committee any mortall sinne powre forth this life which here you enioy to please God the supreme goodnes better then life How many martyrs haue giuen their liues not onely in defence of faith but of the Commandements of God to fly sinne Dun 13. It is better for mee s●ith chast Susanna without the act to fall into your hands then to sinne in the sight of our Lord. Math. 1.2 Allthough all nations obey king Antiochus I and my sonnes and my brethren will obey the law of our fathers said the holy Priest Matathias when the kings officers vrged him against the lawes of God Death suffered for the loue of God maketh a martyr and soe S. Iohn Baptist was a martyr because he suffered for the good works which he did and soe S. Peter was a martyr in minde when for the loue of Christ he said with thee I am ready to goe both into prison and vnto death Luc. 22. And shall we for a moment of delight that endeth be it be begunne breake the Commandements of God loose his fauour and be banished from him for euer Let vs resist temptations couragiously and with zeale of Gods honour say from our harts all though all should obey the world the flesh or the deuill I will obey the law of God I will liue and dy in his seruice Lord my God for euer will I Confesse to thee Psal 29. THE SEAVENTH DISCOVRSE OF THE PATER NOSTER Quest Say the Pater Noster Answ Our Father which art in Heauen Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen Giue vs this day our daily bread And forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them their trespasses against vs. And lead vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euill Amen THIS is that blessed and most perfect prayer which Christ himselfe made and gaue to his disciples to teach them how to pray It is necessary then that the disciples of Christ vnderstand it and learn to

supperlesse to bedd through their couetousnesse Goe too now you rich men saith S. Iohn weepe howling in your miserys which shall come to you Ia. 5. Your riches are corrupt and your garments are eaten of moths Your gold and syluar is rusted And their rust shall be for a testimony to you And shall eate your flesh as sire You haue stored to your selues wrath in the last dayes And presently he giueth the cause saying behold the hyre of the workemen that haue reaped your feilds which is defrauded by you cryeth and their cry hath entred into the eares of the Lord of Sahaoth You haue made merry vpon the earth and in riotousnes you haue nourished your harts in the day of slaughter You haue presented and slaine the iust one And he resisted you not Those that pay not their tithes breake this Commandement Vserers also who by vniust exactions oppresse others spinning by litle and litle their very bowels from them by taking moneys or other profits onely for loane contrary to the commande of Christ Luc. 6. doe good and lend hoping for nothing there by Iudges also who for bribes sell to the rich the causes of poore men Those also that pay not their debts but by prolonging defraude their creditors Of these the holy king The sinner shall borrow and not pay Psal 36. And those who seaze presently vpon their pledges if they be not redeemed iust at the appointed time Those also that gette the saile of corne or other commoditys into their owne hands to raize the rates of them which is called Monopoly He that hideth corne shall be cursed among the peoples Prou. 11. but blessing vpon the head of those that sell All these are a kind of robbers and breake this Commandement And because robbers as well as thecues are bounde to restitution it is necessary to declare who they are that haue this obligation of restitution These are in the first place those that robbe or steale and those that commande them to doe soe for they are the causes and authors of their sinne and the worst of all kindes of theeues Secondly those who hauing not the power to commande perswade others to it Thirdly those that consent Fourthly those that participate of the profit if that may be called a profit which is vniustly gotten Fiftly those that might and ought to haue hindered and did not Sixtly those who conceale dissembling themselues not to know of it when they ought to speake Lastly those that assist harbour or any way protect theeues All these are inuolued in their sinne and are bound to restitution as the theeues themselues That which is obserued of this base and contemptible sinne of theeuery is that it taketh away the truth and fidelity of those that are addicted to it theeues being for the most part full of lyes and deceit For by much deceiuing they get a custome to deceiue and are the most perfidious of all men betraying euen their best freinds if it serue to their purpose Soe Iudas was first a theefe stealing from Christ and the Apostles And then became a traitour to his master The rootes of this sinne are couetousuesse and idlenes Some steale of couetousnes onely when they haue noe neede others of idlenes because they will not worke And these for all their stealing are still needy and in misery and yet will hazard their liues and good names to liue in want when they might follow many other honest courses in which they might liue out of hazard and in more plenty S. Dial. l. 3. c 26. Gregory relateth how that Menas a poore hermite hauing nothing but some bee hiues to liues on there came a robber into those parts who being admonished not to medle with the hermits bees neuerthelesse he spared them not Esa 33. But God who by his Prophet hath threatened woe be to thee that dost robbe shalt not thou also be robbed permitted the deuill to take possession of his body and greeuously to vexe him for it The remedys against this sinne are to doe almes deeds that giuing somethinge of their owne for Gods sake they may keepe their hart open to their neighbour and free from the desire of his goods Let them remember the words of the Apostle Tim 1.6 They that will be made rich fall into the snare of the deuill And let them neuer forgette that general rule of Christ Mat. 7. all things whatsoeuer you will that men doe to you doe you also to them For this is the law and the Prophets THE EIGHT COMMANDEMENT THOV shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour In the former Commandements of this table the sinnes that are committed by worke are forbidden in this we are forbidden to sinne by word But that which is cheifly forbidden here is to giue false testimony in iudgment against our neighbour as being most iniurious and hurtfull to him in that it is auouched by an oth in which God standeth as witnesse and against which the iudge can not except but by euident proofs or by the insufficiency of witnesses But not onely false testimony in iudgment but also out of iudgment is here forbidden for in the booke of Leuiticus where the Commandements are repeated ouer againe the words are more generall You shall not ly neither shall any man deceiue his neighbour Leu. 19. By which it appeareth that all kind of lyes detractions deceitfull and iniurious words are here forbidden That which was said in the former Commandement against theeues may be applyed here to detractors and lyars who are theeues in their kind in that they take away the good name of their neighbour and soe much worse then theeues by how much his good name is more pretious then his riches and are therefor bounde to restitution more then theeues The deuill when he lyeth speaketh of his owne saith Christ because he is a lyer and the father thereof who stood not in verity Io. 8. but falling himselfe into lyes draweth all he can after him to learne to ly What can there be more filthy and base then as S. Iames saith with the same tongue to blisse and to curse God we say our prayers and blesse God and within a while we make some ly and soe curse him Lyars are by S. Paul expresly excluded from the kingdome of heauen Cor. 1.6 And the psalmist asking of God Lord who shall dwell in thy tabernacle Ps 14. answereth presently he that speaketh the truth in his hart that hath not done guile in his tongue Yet these are the commune diseases and plagues of the world Lyers and detractors are as the frogs of Aegypt spred all ouer euery house and chamber is full of them bedds and tables are hanted by them and all conuersation is pestered with this base sinne of noting the imperfections and blemishing the good names of others by which quarrels are bred and false accusations ensue amongst steinds and neighbors Behold saith S.