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A17258	A guide vnto godlinesse: or, A plaine and familiar explanation of the ten commandements, by questions and answeres fittest for the instruction of the simple and ignorant people. By Francis Bunny, one of the prebendaries of the Cathedrall Church of Durham.; Guide unto godlinesse.	Bunny, Francis, 1543-1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 4100; ESTC S119539	83,481	241

vnthankfulnesse to him bitterly by his Prophet Hosea because they said I will goe after my louers Hos 2.5 that giue me my bread and my water my wool and my flaxe mine oyle and my drinke As the Iewes in like manner thought it was well with them when they burnt incense to the Queen of heauen say they had we plenty of vittailes and were well Ier. 44.17 and felt none euill But since we left off to burne incense to the Queen of heauen and to powre out drink offerings to her wee haue had scarcenesse of bread and haue been consumed by the sword and by famine vers 18. Euen as now our silly papists lul them selues in security of superstition because say they we had a good or merrie world before this new learning was knowne among vs for so basely they reckon of the glorious light of the Gospell But as by Hosea God threatneth that vnthankfull people of Israel to take those his blessings from them because they yeelded not thankes to him for them but to their louers that is to their Idols so hee by his seruaunt Ieremy telleth the Iewes they had no cause to bragge of their welfare when they worshipped the Quéen of heauen for the Lord considered of it ver 21.23 and plagued them for it Q. What duty then doth the Lord require of vs for his benefits that hee bestoweth vpon vs Can we make anie recompence to God for the same A. None at all For hee standeth not in néed of any thing that we haue The whole world is his and all that is therein Only a thankefull heart is the acceptable Sacrifice What shall I render vnto the Lord saith Dauid for all his benefits towards mee Psal 116.12 I will take the Cup of thankesgiuing for my saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord 13. I will offer to thee a Sacrifice of praise 27. Of which sacrifice of praise God himself giueth this testimony Psal 50.23 He that offreth praise shall glorifie mee This dutie Noah performed at his going out of the Arke Gen. 8.20 Gen. 12.7 Abraham when God promised to his seed the land of Canaan and after also at diuers times when vpon sundry occasions he had in his hart this promise confirmed Gen. 13.4.18 Gen. 26.25 Isaak also vpon promise of Gods presence and multiplying his seede Lastly Iaacob when he had escaped the danger of his brother Esau built an Altar there that is at Shechem where hée bought a piece of ground to set vp his Altar thereon and in token of a thankfull heart for his great deliuerance he called the Altar The mighty God But among infinite examples of this Sacrifice which the godly did offer for Gods goodnes towards them I will conclude with that of Iosaphat and his Souldiers who when God had giuen them a great victorie ouer their enemies 2. Chron. 20.26 they blessed the Lord in the valley of Berachah vpon performance of which godly duety that it should neuer be forgottē that place receiued that name And as if this had not beene sufficient once to haue giuen thanks vnto God for this benefit euery one of them goe to Ierusalem yea to the very Temple to reioyce before the Lord for this his mercy Thus were the godly at all times very careful by offering to God only praise for his goodnesse to acknowledge their obediēce to the first Commandement and to professe that they trusted not in any other God but in him alone Q. The summe of all that is sayd is this that God forbiddeth all kind of religious worship either to the works of mens hands or fancies of mens braine or to the Host of heauen or to Angels though excellent and glorious creatures of God then also all vaine confidence in worldly helpes or in any kind of thing that we haue or can doe Lastly all inordinate or excessiue loue to any creature or delight whatsoeuer Then it commandeth vs that wee rest vpon him as our only hope and helpe looking for all good things from him alone praying vnto him for whatsoeuer wee want and intreating him to keepe vs from whatsoeuer wee feare or would shun and in regard of his manifold mercies whereof we daily taste vnlesse we be too senselesse let vs knit vp the duties required of vs in this Cōmandement With giuing thankes alwaies for all things to God euen the Father in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ Eph. 5.20 A. These are in deed the generall duties that God here requireth of vs in this first precept whereby we are to learne that seeing we must know that all good must come from him we must not then thinke that wee can so much as offer to God a good thought of our selues much lesse doe a good deed vnlesse he inable vs and therefore he must haue the glory of all that we haue or can doe Q. Let vs now come to the second Commandement wherein it seemeth to mee GOD teacheth vs how and after what manner hee will bee worshipped A. Very true and it is néedfull hee should so do For when wee are once assured that there is a God our own heart within vs telleth vs that this God must bee worshipped and therefore wee search and examine by our own reason and iudgement vnlesse we follow the light of GODS word what may be the most acceptable seruice vnto Him whom wee estéeme as God This hath béene the cause that euen the Gentiles and such as knew not the true God haue thought those things that most delight the sences to be also best pleasing to their false gods And for that cause they had Musicke to please the Eares Lights and gay shewes to satisfie the Eyes Perfumes Odours for delighting the Nose and so as they set vp to themselues vaine gods and such as could make them no help so they serued them with vaine worship and such as could not be acceptable to the Diuine power Q. What is then the end which God here especially respecteth in this Commandement when Hee forbiddeth grauen Images any likenes of any thing in Heauen aboue or in the Earth beneath or in the waters vnder the earth A. God would not that his people should imagine that such worship as consisted onely in outward obseruances might please Him Hee would that his seruice should be answerable to his Nature spirituall and heauenly for as Christ saith The true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and Truth In Spirit I say Ioh. 4.23 and sincerity of heart without hypocrisie and in Truth not only in outward rights and obseruances which were but shadowes and figures of the true worship For saith our Sauiour Christ the Father requireth euen such to worship him Q. If God meant hereby to command a spirituall seruing of him why did he charge his people by the ministery of Moses with so many outward ceremonies as hee did and that euen in that place and about that

very time that hee gaue the Law of the Commandements vnto them A. God gaue the Law of that Carnall Commandement Heb. 7.16 as the Apostle to the Hebrewes calleth it for a time to traine his people in obedience to him which in outward obseruances they would more readily learne but in such obseruances as had in euery one of them a spirituall meaning and might haue led them to that true worship that GOD requireth and is delighted in Circumcision was the first that God appointed and that before the Law Moral was giuen about 400. yéeres The next vnto it was that ceremonie of the Paschall Lamb commanded about two Moneths before the Law was giuen as may bee gathered if wee compare the 33. of Numbers verse 3. with the 19. Chapter of Exodus verse 1. Q. What spirituall meaning was in those two obseruances required A. Circumcision did giue this to vnderstand that they brought with them from their Mothers womb such corruption of flesh as must bee taken away if they will be in truth the people of God therfore that they should looke farther then to the outward ceremonie For if thou be a transgressor of the Law thy circumcision is made vncircumcision Rom. 2.25 as S. Paul teacheth For he is not a Iew that is one outward neither is that circumcision that is outward in the flesh Verse 28. But he is a Iew that is a true seruant of God that is one within and the circumcision is of the heart in the spirit not in the letter or outward obseruance whose praise is of GOD Verse 29. and not of man And therefore Ieremie calling the men of Iudah and Ierusalem to the true consideration of that ceremonie wherein they so iustified themselues aboue other that were not circumcised thus exhorteth them Ier. 4.4 Breake vp your fallow ground and sow not among the thornes be circumcised to the Lord and take away the foreskin of your hearts So that this ceremony giuing them to vnderstand how by naturall birth all flesh is corrupted and sinfull they should acknowledge their pollution and indeuour to become new Men. Q. And is this all that circumcision teacheth A. No It assureth them also of grace and mercy And therefore is it called the Couenant which is indeed as is called in the next verse the signe of the Couenant saith God between mee and you Gen. 17.11 Because God thereby assured to them the blessednesse that he promised to Abraham and his séed In which respect also S. Paul saith that Abraham receiued the signe of circumcision Rom. 4.11 as the seale of the righteousnesse of Faith which he had when he was vncircumcised Q. Circumcision was then vnto the people of Israel as the sacrament of Baptisme to vs. A. It is very true sauing onely that in the outward signes they differ For as in Baptisme wee haue a promise of the fauour of God forgiuenesse of sins and of euerlasting life if by a true Faith wee take hold of the promises So they had also and as God requireth of vs that wee who are baptized should die vnto sin and as the Apostle admonisheth vs should walke in newnes of life Rom. 6.4 So did hee require of Abraham that hee should walke before God and be perfit Gen. 17.1 And as we acknowledge all this to be performed vnto vs in Christ in whom al the promises of God are Yea 2. Cor. 1.20 and are in him Amen euen so they also were not to looke for the promised blessings but in the promised seed of Abraham Q. Had the Paschall Lambe also a spiritual meaning or was it but a sign for that time by which the destroyer might know what houses should bee free from the destruction and the people might by that sacrament be the rather incouraged to rest vpon God A. It was not onely an assurance to Gods people of their deliuerance from Egypt but also in that they were commanded yeerely to solemnize that feast they were taught that God would haue them alwaies mindfull of that redemption Moreouer this their deliuerance from Egypt was vnto them an assurance of their deliuerance from the bondage of sin as their planting in the land of Canaan should haue made them lift vp their hearts to that Spirituall blessing in that heauenly inheritance wherof the land of Canaan was but a shadow perswading themselues that as neither we in this world so they had not here a continuing Citie Heb. 13.14 but we seeke for one to come Euen one that hath a foundation Heb. 11.10 whose builder and maker is God Q. I see plainly that by that Sacramēt the people of God were not only put in mind of a temporal happinesse but had also promise of eternal glory in which respect 1. Cor. 5.7 S. Paul speaking of that Ceremony incorageth the Corinthians to looke for endlesse blessednes But what learne we or what was taught them by the Ceremonies vsed in the eating of their Paschall Lamb A. First the Lambe it selfe must be without mayme or spot of a yeere old a Weather Lambe to point to the great perfection that must bee in him that should frée vs from sin greater I say then can bee in any man conceiued according to the common course of nature It was to bee kept from the tenth day of the Moneth vntill the foureteenth shewing that as the Apostle saith Heb. 7.26 Hee must bee separate from sinners The bloud of the Lambe must bée sprinkled to teach that without sheading of bloud there is no remission Heb 9.22 And this particular sprinkling of the doore-posts of euery house with the said bloud sheweth that not a generall knowledge of Christ his satisfaction for sinnes is sufficient for vs vnlesse euery one of vs do find in our own hearts by the grace of God and the effectuall working of Gods Spirit this atonement by faith that Christ hath made for vs. Q. This that hath bin spoken concerneth the Lambe it selfe and how it should be vsed and the bloud sprinkled Now let me heare how the Israelites should eat the same A. Some of the Ceremonies vsed in eating of it signified their speedie departing out of Egypt as wee must vpon any occasion offered speedily and in haste shake off the fetters of sinne such was their eating with shooes on their feete their staues in their hand and perchance their rosting it and their eating it with vnleuened bread for they might not stay to sowre it with leauen Their eating it with sowre hearbes might put them in mind of their hard diet in Egypt and therefore make them more thankfull when they came to better Or els rather that being made free from that Egypt yet many aduersities might be looked for Hereby also we see that though we be freed from the bondage of the spirituall Egypt the power of sin yet wee shall haue many sharpe combates with our corrupt affections and many afflictions in this