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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69075	Christian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1611 (1611)	STC 4707.5; ESTC S118584	158,929	324

elements A probable opinion The fire for when it is said he set light in heauen which is a qualitie of the fire it is to be vnderstood of fire also which hath that qualitie What note you hereof 2 Cor. 4.6 The wonderfull worke of God not only making something of nothing but bringing light out of darknesse which is contrarie What is the second element The aire betweene the cloudes and the earth distinguishing betweene water and water and giueth breath of life to all things that breathe What is the third element The waters seuered from the masse called the earth the seas the floods the springs the lakes c. What is the fourth element The earth called the drie land which remaineth all other being sent of God to their proper places Hitherto of the simple bodies called the foure elements now followeth to speake of the mixt and compounded bodies made of the foure elements vnequally mingled together GEN. 1. vers 14. to the 25. 14 And God said let there be lights in the firmament of the heauen to separate the day from the night and let them be for signes and for seasons and for dayes and yeeres c. WHat is generall in the creation of the compound bodies First that prouision is made for his inhabitants of the earth ere they be made as grasse for the beasts and light for all liuing and mouing creatures and all for man What learne you from hence Not to be carking for the things of this life nor to surfet with the cares thereof seeing God prouided for the necessitie and comfort of the beasts ere hee would bring them into the world What is generall in all the earthly creatures That God proceedeth from the things that be more imperfect to those that are perfecter vntill hee come to the perfectest as from the trees corne herbs c. which haue but one life that is whereby they increase and are vegetatiue vnto the beasts which haue both an increasing and feeling or sensitiue life as fishes fowles beasts c. and from them to man which hath besides both them a reasonable soule What learne you from thence That wee should therein follow the example of the Lord to goe from good to better vntill we come to be perfect What else is generall To haue power and vertue giuen them to bring foorth the like vnto themselues for the continuance of their kinde is generally giuen to all those that are expressed in the creation here albeit there be creatures as stones and minerals that bring not forth the like And this blessing of multiplication is principall in the things that haue the life of sense beside the life of increase And therefore the Lord is brought in to speake to them in the second person which he did not to the grosse corne and trees Gen. 1.22 What learne you from hence That the chiefe and speciall cause of the continuance of euery kinde of creatures to the worlds end is this will word of God without the which they or sundrie of them would haue perished ere this by so many meanes as are to consume them What is the first creation of the compound bodies God hauing caused the waters to retire into their vessels the third night in the third day which followed that night hee clad the earth with grasse for the vse of beasts only corne and trees for the vse of man Seeing that the growth of these is from the influence of the heauenly bodies how commeth it to passe that he first maketh the grasse corne and trees ere hee made the heauenly bodies of the Sunne Moone and Starres To correct our error which tie the increase of these so to the influence of the heauenly bodies euen to the worshipping of them therein forgetting the Lord who hereby sheweth that all hangeth vpon him and not on them for as much as he made them when the heauenly bodies were not What else That the fruitfulnes of the earth standeth not so much in the labour of the husbandman as in the power which God hath giuen to the earth to bring foorth fruite What was made the fourth day Lights all which although they be great in themselues to the end they might giue light to the darke earth that is farre remoued from them yet are they distinguished into great Sunne Moone small the Stars which are as it were certeine vessels wherein the Lord did gather the light which before was scattered in the whole bodie of the heauens Why doth Moses call the Sunne and Moone the greatest lights when there are Starres that exceed the Moone by many degrees Because they are greatest first in their vse and vertue that they exercise vpon the terrestriall bodies Secondly for that they seeme so to vs it being the purpose of the holy Ghost by Moses to applie himselfe to the capacitie of the vnlearned What is the vse of them First to distinguish the times Spring Summer Autumne and Winter from whence their work and naturall effect vpon the earthly creatures is gathered also to distinguish the night from the day the day from the moneth the moneth from the yeere last of of all to giue light to the inhabitants of the earrh Haue they not operation also in the extraordinarie euents of singular things and persons for their good and euill estate No verely there is no such vse taught of them in the Scriptures What was the worke of the fifth day and night To create the Fishes and Birds What were the fishes made of Of all foure elements but more as seemeth of the waters then other liuing things VVhat were the birds made of Gen. 2.19 Of all foure elements yet haue more of the earth and therefore that they are so light and that their delight is in the aire it is so much the more maruellous What is the worke of the sixth night and day Probable In the night thereof he made the beasts of the earth going tame or home-beasts wilde or field-beasts creeping GEN. chap. 1. vers 26 27. and chap. 2. vers 7. 26. Furthermore God saide Let vs make man in our image according to our likenesse and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea and ouer the foule of the heauen and ouer the beasts and ouer all the earth and ouer euery thing that creepeth and mooueth on the earth 27 Thus God created the man in his image in the image of God created he him he created them male and female WHat was made the sixth day Man in both sexes that is both man and woman Why was he made last of all First because hee is the end of all vnreasonable creatures and therefore that hee might glorifie God for all Secondly for that hee would haue him first prouided for ere hee brought him into the world and if he had care of him before he was how much more now he is What note you thereof That man hath not to boast of his antiquitie all the creatures being made

any preparation required to the receiuing of the Sacraments Yes verily Exod. 3.5 1. Cor. 11.28 for seeing men ought to come with preparation to the hearing of the word they ought by so much more come to the Sacraments as God by them offereth greater grace then by the word alone What is the preparation that is required in one that commeth vnto the Sacraments The children of the faithfull excepted and that alone in the Sacrament of Baptisme whereof they ought to be partakers there is required to a worthie participation of the Sacraments knowledge and feeling VVherein ought this knowledge and feeling to consist In the Law and in the Gospell Seeing no man is able to know the Law and the Gospell perfectly much lesse the simple and common people Tell me how farre is this knowledge and feeling necessarie It is necessarie first in the Law that hee bee able thereby to vnderstand the common corruption of all men both in the bitter root of originall sinne and in the poysoned fruits thereof together with the curse of euerlasting death due thereunto and that he be able to applie both these that is the sin and wages thereof to himselfe How far is the knowledge and feeling of the Gospell required First that hee vnderstand the couenant of grace which God in Christ hath made with the sonnes of men and then that by faith he be able to applie the the same to himselfe What ariseth from this knowledge and feeling to a further preparation thereunto Mat. 3.13 Acts 8.36 Luk. 22.15 A great and earnest desire to bee made partaker of them VVhat duties are required in the action of receiuing them First a graue and reuerent behauiour Secondly an attentiue heed for comparing the outward signes and actions in the Sacraments with the inward and spirituall things which they betoken VVhat is to bee done after the partaking of the Sacraments Out of the feeling of the gratious worke of God by them to reioyce with thankesgiuing or to enter into iudgement with our selues and to humble our selues for our want of feeling the fruit the Sacraments doe present vnto vs. And as we ought to bee humbled if wee feele not the worke of God in vs in or after the Sacraments as that which argueth want of preparation before or attention in them so yet ought we not therefore to bee altogether dismaied for as the sicke man feeleth not the nourishment of his meate because of his maladie and yet notwithstanding is nourished so is it in such faithfull ones as doe not so sensiblie feele the working of God by them through the weakenesse of faith which is in them And although we cannot feele it immediately yet after by the fruits wee shall be able to discerne of our profiting How many Sacraments are there There are two onely 1. Cor. 12.13 1. Cor. 10.1.2.3 1. Tim. 6.8 Galat. 3.27 1. Cor. 10.16 for first the two seales assure vs of all Gods graces as of our regeneration entrance and engrafting into Christ so of our growth and continuance in him and therefore we need no more Secondly when the number of Sacraments were most necessary as vnder the Law they had but two wherefore we need require no more Thirdly hauing meate drinke and cloth we ought therewith to be content now by the Sacrament of our entrance our spiritual clothing is sealed vnto vs and by that of our growth is sealed our feeding therefore those fiue other of Matrimonie of Orders Pennance Confirmation and of extreame vnction whereof the two latter coined by the Papists to bee made Sacraments are superfluous the other of them are agreeable to the Word but without the nature and number of Sacraments So much of the number of the Sacraments VVhat is the first of those two Baptisme VVhat is Baptisme It is the first Sacrament of the Gospell Tit. 3. whereby our regeneration or new birth or our entrance and ingrafting into Christ and the body of Christ which is his Church is sealed vnto vs. Why call you it the first Sacrament Mat. 28. Exod. 12.48 Because hee saith that after they haue taught men to beleeue they should be baptized thereby to bee enrolled amongst those of the houshold of God or entred into the number of the Citizens and Burgesses of the heauenly Ierusalem What abuse doth this take away That which sometimes the ancient Church was infected withall namely that they baptized men at their deaths and let them receiue the Lords Supper twice or thrice in a yeere whereas this is the first Sacrament of the Couenant How often is this to be done Ephes 4.5 Once only for they are heere charged to administer Baptisme not Baptismes And although in the Hebrues there be made mention of Baptismes Heb. 6.2 yet that is not to teach that one ought to bee often baptized but to declare the outward baptisme of the water and the inward of the spirit which we receiue at one time Act. 2.41 Secondly it is said the Church continued in prayer and breaking of bread not in baptizing Thirdly it is a pledge of our new birth now a man being borne but once hath no need of this Sacrament but once Mat. 28.19 VVhy is it said that we are baptized into the name of the father the sonne and the holy Ghost Mat. 28.19 Act. 11.26 Because by Baptisme wee being consecrated to God are ioyned to him to beare his name as a wife beareth the name of her husband How is our coniunction with God wrought In children by the secret working of Gods spirit in riper yeeres by faith for being naturally after the fall cut off from God wee are as it were ingrafted into him againe as new plants and incorporate as Malchus eare once dismembred Luk. 22.50.51 was againe by the power of our Sauiour Christ set into his head VVhat is Baptisme to this ingrafting A Seale and a pledge of it wherein is grace exhibited and not the ingrafting or incorporation it selfe considering that we are baptized in the right onely of being members of Christ before though ordinarilie we are actually ingrafted by the Sacrament not by force simplie of the worke done but as it is Gods ordinance and a seale of his couenant VVhat ariseth of our vnion with God Another vniting of vs to the Church as a yong hence ingrafted on an arme of a tree is both one with the arme and tree it selfe What fruit ariseth of this vnion A new birth wherof we being once partakers can neuer be depriued What is the outward matter in Baptisme Water VVhat proportion is there of the visible element with the inuisible grace First the whole action of Baptisme Galat. 3.3 sealeth vp vnto vs our regeneration and putting on of Christ which is our receiuing into the house of God What after The couering of the childs head with water Rom. 6. is a seale that the childs sinnes are couered Secondly as the water doth wash and