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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

must carefully regard this Commandement Thou shalt not Lust Q. It seemeth that rash wishes for some things which either we see other inioy or our selues vpon some occasion thinke we want are against this Law A. True for euen those motions argue a discontentednesse of our owne estate and a wishing of better then God hath giuen vs. Q. The seuerall things that we are forbidden to couet haue beene before handled in the seuenth eighth Commandements so that heere wee neede not any further declaration thereof A. It is so for that that wée are in them forbidden to do or so much as we purpose or be willing to performe we are here forbidden to lust after or to suffer within vs any motion to accomplish it Q. If Gods Commandements require so strict and holy and perfect obedience that it permitteth not so much as any wandring thought at any time to bee cherished within vs considering our owne infirmity and weakenes to withstand sinne nay our pronenesse and inclination to fall from our sincerity in performance of our duety it seemeth it is impossible for any man CHRIST only excepted whose conception was by the holy Ghost to fulfill the lawe A. It is so Q. Why then are wee blamed as transgressors if God require more of vs in his lawe then any man euen the best that liueth is able to performe A. Wee are iustly blamed because God requireth no more at our hands then man by his first creation was made able to performe For the Lawe that now wee haue was written in the table of mans heart at his creation and our first Parents to whom it was giuen were inabled to doe it Now that they through their disobedience whereof both were partakers Eue in intising Adam in being perswaded haue lost that ability to doe the good they would and should doe it is their fault for GOD created them good and holy And as the corruption of bloud euen by mans laws disableth all the posterity when the father hath committed some grieuous fault Rom. 5.14 euen so in Adams sin wee are all transgressours God therefore in commaunding perfit obedience commaundeth no more then of right hee might doe and wee by our disobedience deserue blame because it is our owne corruption that disableth vs that wee cannot doe what wee are commanded yea and what we willingly would doe being now regenerated Q. VVhat vse then haue wee of the lawe since we are not able to keep it A. It is a true glasse wherein if we looke without partialitie we shall behold our selues as we are that is sinners Rom. 3.20 Rom. 5.20 Gal. 3.19 For by the lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne Yea by it sinne is made vnto vs more manifest Seeing then our selues by the lawe to be far from all hope of saluation it driueth vs to séek elsewhere to obtain mercy in which respect it may be well called Gal. 3.24 A Schoole-master to Christ not only in respect of the Ceremonial laws which were but figures and shadowes Christ the truth the body For when we sée it vnpossible for the law to saue vs Rom. 8.3 in asmuch as it is weake because of the flesh then must we séeke vnto him whom God sent in similitude of sinfull flesh Rom. 8.3 and for sin by whom also he condemned sin in the flesh Q. The most cōfortable vse then that we may haue by the law is not to hope by obseruing or keeping it to merit at Gods hands the kingdome of glory as Papists do being so blinded in conceit of their own works that they cānot see thē to be vnperfect being tried by the touch-stone of the law as in truth they are but to looke vnto the remedy that God of his endlesse and infinite mercie hath prouided against our transgressions namely to the satisfaction which Christ hath wrought Gal. 3.13 For Christ hath redeemed vs from the curse of the law when he was made a curse for vs. But haue wee no other vse of Gods lawe A. Yes it is to vs as to a workman his rule and square according to which we ought to frame all our actions And if any thing that we doe agrée not with this rule wee must not onely acknowledge it not to be right but to the vttermost of our power we must indeuour to reforme it according to the rule Q. The promises then of the Gospel free vs not from obedience of the Lawe No Rom. 3.31 Mat. 5.17 God forbid saith Saint Paul that it should so be And Christ telleth them of his time Thinke not that I am come to destroy the law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy them but to fulfill them So that although the lawe can now bring no condemnation to the godly that are in Christ Iesus Rom. 8.1 Yet are we still bound to the obseruation or keeping of the lawe of the commandements A. This to be true many answeres that Christ gaue to such as asked what they should doe to inherit eternall life do plainly proue for he willed them to kéepe the commandements To loue God with all their heart soule and strength and their neighbour as their selfe Yea after him all the doctrine of the Apostles tendeth to that end yea our accusing cōscience when we transgresse them and our excusing heart when in some good measure wee striue to doe them is a strong witnesse within our selues to testifie that wee acknowledge our selues bound to obey them Seeing therefore wee cannot so keepe them as we ought to doe though God in iustice may require this obedience of vs punish our disobedience Let vs humble our selues in feruent and faithfull prayer crauing the assistance of his grace in some good measure to obey his will and pardon for our weaknesse and imperfection in doing the same that of his meere mercy and by vs vndeserued grace we may escape deserued wrath in the day of wrath FINIS