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A41968 A brief summe of Christian religion, or, Of things most necessary for a Christians knowledge, practice, and comfort composed by Thomas Greaves. Greaves, Thomas. 1656 (1656) Wing G1805; ESTC R28682 14,893 30

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A BRIEF SUMME OF Christian Religion OR Of things most necessary for a Christians Knowledge Practice and Comfort COMPOSED By THOMAS GREAVES a Minister of the Gospel Deut. 11. 18 19. ch. 6. 6 7. Ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul and ye shall teach them your Children speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way when thou liest down and when thou risest up August de trad. Symb Simplex breve plenum Ut simplicitas Audientium consulat rusticitati brevitas memoriae plenitudo doctrinae It is plain brief full that plainness may be an help to the unlearned briefness to memory fulness to the instruction of the Hearers Printed at London 1656. SEt your hearts unto all the words which I testifie among you For it is not a vain thing for you because it is your Life Deut. 32. 46 47. I pray God that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spirituall understanding That you may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitfull in every good work and encreasing in the knowledge of God Col. 1. 9 10. MAny Testimonies of Scripture for the fuller confirmation of the Doctrine here delivered are in due order annexed ought to be diligently considered Sometimes the same place though but once quoted hath reference to several parts of the same Proposition which I thought unnecessary to iterate All joyned together prove the whole proposition and every branch thereof To the Christian Reader THis short Treatise I chiefly designed for that Congregation to which as a Minister I have peculiar reference which consisting for the greatest part of plain and unlearned people plainness and brevity was purposely sought and intended by me that so being clear to their Understanding and easie for their Memory it might be the better conceiv'd and retein'd The Scriptures themselves do often Summarily express the chief points conteined in them giving us an abridgement of the Law the Gospel and Means of Salvation which Precedent I have willingly followed endeavouring to omitt nothing that is Necessary and likewise to insert nothing but what is agreeable to those holy Writings received by the Ancient and present Orthodoxe Churches I have chosen such words and expressions as are for the most part used in Gods Word and therefore of greatest significancy and weight I hope the plenty of Quotations will not be accounted a superfluity which I added the more copiously at first for my own and now for the Readers satisfaction Better that of such there should be a redundance then a defect and where they most abound I conceive there is greatest need of them as in the 14th Proposition where almost every word requires a several Testimony in this and other places the cited Texts may supply my very brief mention of such weighty Mysteries which in regard of their use and importance deserve the ampler confirmation Controverted Points I have laboured to express in temperate and amicable Terms and to present the Truth with such indifferency and moderation as might reconcile rather then exasperate disagreeing Parties To have severally expounded the Precepts of the Decalogue would have been inconsistent with the brevity here intended therefore I have added one Proposition the 25th as a general explication of all So likewise concerning the Creed and Lords Prayer I desired to mention that which might be some explanation of them yet very brief and proportionable to the rest of the summe Those Secrets of Gods unsearchable Decrees I have sparingly mentioned inculcating rather the Meanes which lead us to the best assurance and certainty here and to a blessed fruition at last of eternal salvation Concerning Ministers I was willing to add the 34th Aphorisme specially for the Peoples sake who not considering the excelloncy of that sacred Office do exceedingly offend God and gratifie their enemy the Devil some by Usurping most by Despising it undervaluing one of the highest fauours and providences of Christ towards his Church for the building whereof and perfecting the Saints as the Apostle affirmes they are peculiarly set and assigned The Doctrines and most of the Expressions also being conteined in the Scriptures I need not be solicitous to make an Apology or give a further account Gods Truth whether we receive or reject it still reteins the same authority and strength and is notwithstanding all our Opposition and Differences the perfect Rule by which we must now Judge and hereafter be judged to which in this summe I only appeal and refer both my self and the Reader I confess that what I here publish is but small yet I cannot say that my labour and study in composing it hath been such also for I think that with as little pains I might have written a large volume To make hard things plain to joyn brevity and perspicuity and comprehend much in little without detriment to the sense and matter to convey the highest things to low capacities is a matter of great Difficulty and industry the very attempt whereof I hope will be favoured though I much fail in the performance As I so others making experiment will I believe acknowledge the words and Observation of a * Person most eminent for piety and learning who with others hath encouraged me to publish this Treatise to be most certain and true that Try it when ever we please we shall finde that to lay this groundwork rightly will put us to the triall of our skill and trouble us a great deal more then if we were to discuss a Controversie or handle a subtile point in the Schools Thus He concerning the Difficulty of this Work and that which he adds concerning the Necessity also is in our careless daies to be sadly consider'd The neglecting hereof is the frustrating of the whole work of the Ministery for let us preach never so many Sermons to the people our labour is but lost as long as the Foundation is unlaid and the Principles untaught upon which all other Doctrine must be builded The Consideration hereof hath chiefly moved me to this labour and my last desire and advise to the Reader is in the words of our Saviour Take heed that you despise not little things and intended chiefly for little ones because they are such without which none can truly be Great or Eternally glorious and happy THO. GREAVES A Brief Summe of Christian Religion 1. THe sure and only way to obtain eternal life and happiness is to know God and his Son Iesus Christ and to honour and serve him as he hath appointed in his Word 2. The holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word and Oracles of God wherein he hath revealed his Will and Truth unto us unto which we ought most diligently to attend 3. The Scriptures principally declare unto