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A brief and perspicuous manuduction to practical divinity, by way of question and answer wherein the chief principles of religion are so explained as to infer a good life from them.
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1670
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things the doing whereof importeth any thing of goodness or perfection whatsoever he will and how he will nay more than he wills to do or hath yet actually done Q. What learn you hence A. I learn to trust and fear him above all creatures good Angels Devils or Men which are at his beck and subject to his power being confident that which he hath promised or threatned shall be certainly fulfilled though it seem impossible to flesh and blood Q. Eternal You said fifthly God was eternal what mean you by that A. I mean that he hath neither beginning of being nor end of continuance Q. What learn you from hence A. I learn to reverence him as the most Ancient of dayes and the onely author of eternal rewards or punishments Q. Infinite in all perfections You added lastly God was infinite in all perfections What mean you by that A. I mean that no imperfection ought at any time to be ascribed unto him or affirmed of him but all perfections in the highest degree we can conceive of and beyond what we can conceive without measure or limits Q. What learn you hence A. Never to admit any low or unworthy thoughts of God and when I have the highest then to remember I know him best when I admire him most devoutly Q. The end for which God made us You have already told me you were made and that God was your maker whom you have well described to me Tell me now further for what end did God make you A. That by faithful service to him I might be happy in the enjoyment of his presence and favour Q. What learn you hence A. Carefully to perform my duty towards him and never to seek happiness in worldly pleasures or profits or any thing below or without him Q You were made you say Our chief rule in order to that end H. Scripture to serve God but how will he be served A. According to his will revealed principally in the Holy Scriptures which are the Word of God that is the declaration of his mind and contain in them all those supernatural truths we are obliged to know believe and practise in order to eternal happiness Q. Why believe you the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the Word of God that is as you intimated the inspired and infallible revelation of his mind and will A. The agreeing testimony of the Church of God first recommends them unto me for such which I have no reason to gainsay oppose or doubt of but on the contrary much reason to give credit to and Then the incomparable excellency and harmony of the truths therein revealed confirm me in this good belief which motives lastly by the inward operation of the sacred spirit grow up into the certainty and assurance of divine perswasion Q. What learn you from hence A. I learn thankfully to embrace and value them as such and with reverence fidelity care and diligence to read search study apply and improve them accordingly Q. That I may perceive your proficiency in the perusal of these sacred Oracles let me hear what they teach you concerning Man which you have not yet told me of A. The Scripture account of man's primitive estate by creation They do in the first place give the history of the Creation of the World by God in the space of six dayes out of nothing and therein of Adam the first man Q. How was Adam the first man created A. God made him upright in his own image and likeness and placed him in Paradise as Lord over the Creation Q. What learn you hence A. To admire God's Wisdom Power and Goodness in making the World and Man in it in such an excellent estate Q. Of man's fall by sin Did Adam always continue in the happy estate wherein God made him A. No he grosly disobeyed God's command in eating the forbidden fruit as is more largely declared in the book of Genesis and so fell from it by his voluntary disobedience Q. What learn you hence A. Never to charge God foolishly with man's sin but condemn him onely whose misbehaviour was unworthy towards God and cruel both to himself and his posterity Q. What was the state into which he fell A. A state of sin and misery Q. And what I pray is the condition wherein you and the rest of his posterity are left by him A. Mine and every man's naturally descended from him is the same The covenant being broken which gave assurance of immortal life and bliss we are under the same curse and we find within our selves lust conceiving and bringing forth sin which finished bringeth forth death Q. What learn you hence A. I learn to bewail this sad and lamentable condition into which I am plunged and from which I am not able to deliver my self Q. O wretched man that thou art who can or will deliver thee A. Of the means of man's recovery by Jesus Christ I thank God through Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world whom he out of his love to lapsed and lost man hath provided Q. Who is this Jesus Christ the Saviour A. Who he is God and man or God manifested in the flesh The eternal Son of God before all time wonderfully conceived and born of the B. Virgin Mary in the fulness of time Q. How do you conceive of the union of the divine and humane nature the Godhead and manhood in Christ A. As the reasonable soul and flesh is one man so God and man is one Christ Q. What learn you hence A. I learn to be much encouraged notwithstanding my sad and deplorable condition since my Saviour being both God and man is able and willing to help me Q. What he did What hath Jesus Christ done for you A. He perfectly revealed the will of God concerning man's duty and way to happiness He lived an innocent holy and exemplary yet a miserable life and died a sacrifice for our sins upon the cross was buried and continued among the dead till the third day wherein he arose out of the grave and having shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs forty days on earth he ascended visibly into heaven from whence he sent down the Holy Ghost in cloven tongues as of fire upon his Apostles and where He ever lives in glory to make intercession for and bless us by turning us from our iniquities a royal priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech who was both King and Priest Q. What learn you hence A. I learn stedfastly to believe and chearfully to obey him yea and willingly to part with every thing for his sake who gave his life for me in a painful shameful and accursed death and is still mindful of me in his Glory What is to be hoped for from through him Q. What good do you hope for and expect from and through this Saviour A. From and through him I look foâ—
that diâ—th not and torments intolerable the portion of every soul that doth evil Then shall the wicked go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Q. Seeing we Christians do all profess to believe these things The Conclusion what manner of persons ought we to be A. We ought to live in all holy conversation and godliness being diligent that we may be found of God in peace without spot and blameless growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To whom with the Father and H. Spirit be glory as is due both now and for ever Amen Amen Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing but that servant which knew his Lords will and prepared not himself neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes Luke 12.43 47. The end of the Commandment charity out of a pure heart and of good conscience and of faith unfeigneâ— from which some having swerved haâ—â— turned aside unto vain jangling 1 Tim. 〈◊〉 5 6. This is a faithful saying and the things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in Goâ— might be careful to maintain gooâ— works These things are good and profitable unto men But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and stirrings about the law for they arâ— unprofitable and vain Tit. 3.8 9. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth James 3.13 14. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that hath promised and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works Heb. 10.23 24. Giving all diligence add to your faith vertue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to â—emperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity For if these things be in you â—nd abound they make you that you shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in â—he knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath for gotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall for so an entrance shall be ministred to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though ye know them and be stablished in the present truth Yea I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in rmembrance knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me Moreover I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance 2 Pet. 1.5 to 〈◊〉 Yet therefore beloved seeing yâ— know these things before beware lesâ— ye also being led away with the erroâ— of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To him be glory both now and for ever Amen châ—p 3.17 18. Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous He that commiteth sin is of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil 1 Joh 3.7 8. The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly rigteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and that glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2.11 14. Blessed are they that do his commandments â—hat they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in thorow the gates into the City Rev. 22.14 PRevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everâ—asting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty Lord and everlasting God vouchsafe we beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws and works of thy commandments that through thy most mighty protection both here and ever we may be preserved in body and soul through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen ALmighty God who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin and also an example of godly life give us grace that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit and also daily endeavour to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God who shewest to them that be in error the light of thy truth to the intent that they may turn into the way of righteousness grant unto all them that are admitted into the fellowship of Christs Religion that they 〈◊〉 eschew those things that are contrary to 〈◊〉 profession and follow all such things as a … … greeable to the same through our Lord 〈◊〉 Christ Amen BLessed Lord who hast caused all holy S … tures to be written for our learning g … that we may in such wise hear them read 〈◊〉 learn and inwardly digest them that by pat … and comfort of thy holy Word we may emb … and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlas … life which thou hast given us in our Savi … Jesus Christ Amen The End The Stationers Advertisement to the Reader THere is a most useful Tract now in the P … from the same Author explaining the genu … meaning and rational equity of that comprehen … rule of righteousness Do as you would be done by â— and applying of it to particular states and cases 〈◊〉 life in order to the cure of many misdemeanours prâ—vailing among us Newly printed the third and fourth part of T … Friendly Debate