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B15559	A practicall catechisme: or, A view of those principall truths according to godlinesse, which are contayned in the catechisme diuided into three parts: and seruing for the vse, (as of all, so) especially of those that first heard them. By D.R. B. of Divin, minister of the Gospell.	D. R. (Daniel Rogers), 1573-1652.	1632 (1632)	STC 21166; ESTC S116040	309,840	430

third part of the Catechisme such a conuersation also which is rare to finde such as no Pharise or hypocrite shall bee euer able to reach because hee neuer felt or tasted how good the Lord Iesus is How should Simon kisse anoynt wipe the feete of Iesus without his forgiuenesse Hee had little to forgiue and therefore little loue he made a dinner to Christ in courtesie but kissed him not nor anoynted him Looke vp to God now and see in what this whole view of the Catechisme stands Surely by the way of sinne and the Law to carry thee to fayth in the Lord Iesus The scope of this Treatise weigh well 1 Tim. 3. vlt. that the truth of Iesus may lead thee to an holy conuersation this is Christ Iesus the mystery of Godlinesse to feele such perswasion of vndecaying sweetnesse and such presence of this perswasion of loue as might tell thy deerest lusts Rom. 6.21 What fruit haue I had of ye yea make thee stinke before them as he sayd of Dauid that thou mightst bee Christs seruant for euer and that hee might pray reade meditate heare doe suffer obey in thee in his strength walke in all holy conuersation Endeauor it then and the more thou hast toyled with thine owne hands and skill and catcht nothing the more fall downe in the deepe experience of thy vtter nothing those nets of thine owne which thou hast sacrificed so long vnto lay them by and see the vanity of them saying Lord depart from me a sinfull wretch Cast thou out Lord on the right side of the Shi● Thou that hast all the fish in the lake at command to b●ing ●hem together all duties the whole worke of Conuersation to go through with ease and delight O Lord Iesus do thou all my workes in me Esay 26.12 Secondly to this end be admonished not to rest onely Vse 3 in this that thou hast fayth suppose it be true except also thou haue learned the truth of fayth as it is in Iesus As thou hast receaued from the Lord Iesus so walke Remember to stirre vp that spirit of Christ in thee which was once giuen thee let it not lye dead in thee I dispute no questions 2 Tim. 1.14 how farre the abilities of the regenerate reach in point of concurrence with the Grace of the Spirit I dare not thinke that the Spirit puts the reyne out of his owne hand and sway into ours or that he is euer tyed to worke in vs he may desert vs for a time to abase vs much lesse that our principle is actiue from vs as our selues It s enough that he as our actiue principle must worke the will and the deed in vs and do all for vs and that he hath betrusted vs with such an instrumentall ability and influence from himselfe as is endued with fitnes to this Holy conuersation and more then so hath giuen vs the hand of faith to iogge his arme continually to assist vs binding himselfe by promise till wee giue him ouer not so forsake vs in his assistance if we will plead our liberty Oh happy they that can he will not be wanting to vs If when we sought him not he found vs and finding Esay 65.1 reconciled vs to himselfe by his death how much more shall he by his life saue vs and giue vs the hand to helpe vs ouer this great hill of conuersation that so wee reape the fruit of holines eternall life Oh let vs put forth our soules to this worke It is the workeman that must make the Sawe to cut Rom. 5.9 10 Rom. 6.22 by framing it to such a power and cut with it when he hath done Both are his yron cannot make it selfe sharpe alone and beeing sharpe cannot cut alone nor apply it selfe to the wood or stone so heere yet remember he that hath put an instrumentall power into ours soule to obey hath also created the life of fayth in vs to stirre this arme of the Spirit to draw this Sawe ouer our wood and stone that wee may 〈…〉 performe obedience Oh that any who euer sought the Lord for fayth should hang it vp till it rust and neuer set it on worke by prayer selfe deniall and diligence Let vs not bee of the mind of them who thinke themselues safe if once they haue fayth they doubt not but she will set her selfe on worke whether wee be sleeping or waking No no he that will not saue thee for thy obedience will yet saue thee by it and he that doth neyther of both for thee will yet do neyther without thee but he will so bow thy soule to a sweet liberty of loue and delight to obey and to such a confidence in his promise to be enabled yea such a perswasion within thy selfe to encourage that beeing mooued and acted thou shalt act and worke together with his grace thy owne saluation Be not wanting then to such a principle of life and motion in thee Vse 3 Lastly watch to thy selfe duly and dayly and to this worke of conuersation and way that God hath chalked out for thee Do as those Numb 9.19 who attended the watch of the Lord day and night ready vpon the least wauing of the Cloud or fire from the Tabernacle to remooue and vpon the first rest hereof to stand still As the Apostle neuer thinkes himselfe to haue pressed a duty well when he vrges to pray or read or heare or bee armed except hee adde this too Watch thereto Eph. 6.18 1. Pet. 5.8 1. Cor. 16.13 So say I Obey and watch to it walke with GOD in this wheele of thy course and watch to it be aware of each turne of the wheele each duty occasion liberty seruice else it will be in vaine to know it if thy loines bee not girt and thy lampe alway burning to it If GOD haue once purged thy foule heart and seasoned it for thee keepe it so he did it not with much adoo that thou shouldst vndoo it all at once by thy ease and sloth world pleasures wearinesse and the like Let the wise Virgins take heed of nodding in this night of the age we liue it Let them watch to their worke let them see how they grow downeward in rooting and setlednesse vpward in fruitfulnesse skill ease and experience resolution and full purpose of heart to cleaue to God And by so doing wee shall watch to the comming also of our Lord Iesus to translate vs from this our poore walking with him to be with him and to be rid of all our clogs which hinder vs from so doing and goe from this our doing Gods will as it is in heauen to doe it in Heauen Neuer was greater cause for vs to long for this comming then in these times wherein not only we are letted by Satan and the world from our duties I meane the seruice of the time and the grace of our conuersation Oh how well shall it be the when not onely Goates and Sheepe shall for euer be parted but the sad carriage and strangenesse of sheepe to sheepe bee both forgiuen and remoued where Luther and Zuinglius as one sayd where Cranmer and Hooper where Ridley and Sande●s shall accord for euer in perfect amity Come Lord Iesus come quickly Amen Giue God the praise FINIS LONDON Printed by I. N. for SAMVEL MAN dwelling at the signe of the Swanne in Pauls Church-yard 1632.

expiatory for our Redemption his obedience to parents walking in calling keeping company temptings fastings preachings and the like Q. Tell me what especiall heads may this whole worke of his meditation be referred to A. It s a maine point to consider of for the stay of a poore soule for seeing the scope of God and Christ was to giue and receiue so full a price of reconciliation that Iustice accepting it the sinne and curse of the elect might as fully bee pardoned and remoued as if they had neuer sinned or could themselues haue sufficiently satisfied it imports vs to be well seene in the contents hereof For looke how many heads there are thereof so many welheads or springs the soule hath to reuiue and encourage it selfe by in the approaching to the Father I answer then this whole price of Christ stood partly in a qualification of his person to be in case to satisfie Partly in the actuall performance of the satisfaction it selfe Q. Touching the qualification of person what doth it containe A. Two parts Vnion and Vnction Q. What meane you by vnion A. Three distinct things First the incarnation or flesh of Christ Secondly the diuinity of Christ Thirdly the ioyning of these two natures into one person or more truely the assuming of the nature of flesh into the second person of the Sonne of God not to swallow it vp but to retaine still each his owne distinct nature yet within Vnion Q. Proceed on and name the rest that they may be vnder our view all together and then we will touch them briefly in seuerall What meane you by vnction A. The calling or separation of the Lord Iesus being thus vnited in his natures to bee a meete Mediator which was the Sanctification of him in time actually to the worke of a Mediator to which before all time GOD had deputed him Q. Being thus qualified what is the performance it selfe A. It stands of two parts eyther meriting this price for all the elect or actuall applying it vnto them Q. What is the meriting part A It is a double performance both of Actuall obedience to the Law and suffering the curse required thereby and due to sinne Q. And how performed he these two A. By way of reall suretiship and no otherwise for taking vpon him the person of a Mediator to stand betweene wrath and vs not by Arbitrement as in humane Sequesterships but by payment for vs lo he takes therefore our person vpon him becomes piacular that is first seazed with our sinne by imputation that by his righteousnesse hee might deface it and fulfill the Law broken by vs and secondly seazed with our curse that by his suffring death hee might quit vs of the feare and punishment thereof This ground is to bee specially noted Q. Touching the latter of these his suffering or Passion because it hath the honour of a more immediatly essentiall obedience and merit tell me how many parts hath it A. Two the Sacrifice it selfe or Passion and the Conquest or victory ensuing it whereby hee gaue the Passion a full power to become or rather to bee declared satisfactory Q. To conclude what is the applying part A. The act of his interceding Mediation heere ●n Earth and especially in Heauen seruing to settle the merit of Redemption vpon all the elect in the due season thereof Q. You hauing giuen a brief view of this maine article tell m● why you call them wilsprings of saluation shew me the number of them and then in order shew what ech of them is with the vse thereof A. I first call them so because the Holy Ghost Esay 12.3 termes them so and because they are so many grounds of iustifying faith at least meanes of warranting the soule to apply a promise if duly preached and heard Their number is seuen First Incarnation Secondly Diuinity Thirdly Personall Vnion with Anointing attending it Fourthly Actuall obedience Fifthly Passiue Sixthly Conquest Seuenthly Applying of all to the elect Some of which although some doe feuer from the matter of Merit yet wee will heerein take liberty to differ from them by the warrant of the Word Q. What is the first and what meane you by Incarnation A. That by the power of the holy Ghost sanctifying the flesh of the virgin without any actiue principle of conueying sinne by man the Lord Iesus being conceaued in and borne of the poore Virgin did submit himselfe to such vnspeakable abasement as to take vpon him the nature of man Not of Abraham or Peter but of mankind the selfesame nature which sinned in the generality thereof That in and by it he might obey suffer those things which the Diuine Nature could not be capable of and that being seene dwelling and conuersing among men he might put it out of question that not for Angels but for our nature euen man fallen and cursed he became a satisfaction to God And that so he might bring this nature into an happy condition again and euery one that needs it might enioy it without any doubt or distrust See these texts Mat. 1.18 Luk. 35. Iohn 1.2 Gal. 4.4 Q. What vse is there of it A. Very great that the soule thirsty after mercy and yet priuy to her owne basenesse might by this flesh of Christ come the more boldly to plead for pardon as her owne purchased in her owne nature for her selfe whatsoeu●r Satan or vnbeleefe might obiect to the contrary What a comfort is it to thinke that our owne nature in CHRIST who is neere vs flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone being seazed with all our imputed sinne should yet in the same holy flesh of his wo●ke out all righteousnesse and appease all iustice and that not for himselfe who had no sinne cleauing to him of his owne but for vs Esay 53. verse 4. 11. Oh it should cause great consolation and hope in a distressed fearefull soule But I onely point at the vses of these branches for shortnesse sake as a view of that which the larger handling hath more fully taught Q. What is the second branch A. That th● Lord Iesus our Mediator was true God also Not onely that it was the second person who tooke flesh but that God enabled man to doe and suffer that Gods iustice might except against neither as insufficient Eli hath a speech 1 Sam. 2.25 If man sinne against man man may bee a mediator of accord but if against God who shall be his surety I answer man if assisted with the power of God Alas although the flesh of Christ was holy yet finite and mortall no more able to equall Gods offence then a Dwarfe the talnesse of a Giant But as a Dwarfe set vpon a Giants shoulders equals a Giant so the acts and suffrings of the flesh of Christ as flesh set vpon his Diuinity made an equall satisfaction to Gods offended Maiesty The influence and valour of the Diuine nature assisting the humane for the fulfil ing of ●he merit

his deity alway in a manner restrained so that hee appeared not to bee that hee was to his dearest friends And therefore hee concealed his glory further then it made for the discharge of his Office of Mediator as a Prophet or a King for then hee stept out of his basenesse See Matth. 11.12 Luke 1● 3● Q. And what may bee said touching the Passion it selfe A. Somewhat touching the parcels of it and yet somewhat also touching the necessity of moderation For the parts first he endured the forsaking of his dearest Disciples to be taken by his owne seruant Iudas by his own special Officers at the hands of his own Deputies to suffer most intolerable indignities to be accused arraygned endited and sentenced as the vilest malefactor and that at the Gaole deliuery of felons and murtherers After that besides their barbarous spitting vpon buffeting mocking with a Robe Crowne of thornes and reeden Scepter to be put to that shamefull accursed death of the Crosse a death for such as not onely men compted villains but God himselfe in a sort held accursed To which adde the greatest of all both in the Garden and vpon the Crosse that most bitter Cup of wrath which hee dranke from the hand of his Father which made him in an agony of Spirit to sweat drops of blood to pray That the cup might passe from him from feare of drinking it and to cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee And so in that deep anguish of his Spirit to giue vp the Ghost all the Diuels in Hel banding themselues in that houre of darknesse to pull him from his stedfast confidence Q. What meane you by the moderation of it A. That in all this abasement yet that measure was impozed and no more which suted to the dignity of the person suffring and to such a one as in suffring merited and could not be ouer come by suffring Hence was it that hee had intermissions of his agony and feares so that he could goe to and fro to his Disciples to admonish them was vpholden in his sences vnderstanding memory affections in the midst of his dolours shewed his power and God-head euen then in the consternation of his enemies conuersion of the theef his loue and prouidence for his Mother and Disciple rece●ved comfort by the Angels in the want of self-support was dispenced with as touching the measure of torments not being capable of those which reprobates in Hell suffer because they can neuer satisfie the Duration the Disorder and disguisement of these Hellish terrors being accidentall to his Passion and to dying the death onely infinite displeasure of GOD and true separation of Soule and Body which were essentials he endured So also it was impossible the graue should hold him Act. 2.24 Yea and the period of three daies nights of 72. houres were abridged to 40. Q. What did he effect heereby A. Hee being our surety in all this did for vs purchase a full satisfaction of which in the question after and withall first all those benefits Article fourth Then the ratification of his Legacies and Testament Heb. 9.16 17. Col. 2.14 Ephe. 2.16 Heb. 10 2● abolishing of enmity by Law Sinne Satan VVrath Hell and Death As wee know if a Court bee quite put downe all the Officers belonging to it are downe also So also liberty to enter Heauen by a liuing way not the blood of a beast with sundry others Q. Why doth the Scripture so much dwell vpon the Passiue and so little vpon the Actiue obedience in point of our satisfaction A. As I intimated before the Holy Ghost doth more vsually not alwaies See Phil. 2.7 8. Esa 53.11 Mat. 20.28 Rom. 5. ver 18 expresse it this way First because in this curse taken away all the whole satisfaction began to take effect as wee say that the effect of a Prisoners release is deliuery from prison not as if that were all his release yet thence it s denomin●ted because though the debt bee paid before yet this must follow Secondly because the end of a thing is better then the beginning and the consummation of a thing is from the end Perseuerance hath wee know the preeminence of all obedience not as if it were any more then a part of it but it● the finishing and making all out of question Each moment of a Glasses course is part of the houre though the last dust of it be the hou●es end B●t Thirdly and especially beca●se the P ssi●n wa● the greatest hardest and fullest part of the whole satisfaction As fortitude carrieth the name of vertue not ●x●●uding any Q. Well I am satisfied Proceed to the fifth branch and so to the vse of both ioyntly A. The fi●th ●s the Passiue obedience of the LORD Iesus not in other passions and penal ies of his who●e life onely but especially that one vpon the c●osse the most immediate ob●ation and sacrifice of himselfe ●or sinne and it consists in the free yeelding vp himselfe to the wrath of his Father in his soule and body in the one bearing the incomprehensible anger of GOD though according to the limitations requ●site for a person that was GOD and merited and in the other the exhaustion of his life-●lood and separation of body and soule by that accursed death that heereby sinne with all the penalties inward outward and eternall with all the power which the Law and enemies had against vs thereby death and Hell not excepted might perfectly be abolished a●d the iustice of God infini●ly satisfied R●ad Rom. 3.25 Heb. 9. ●3 14 1. Pet. 1.19.1 Ioh. 17. Heb. 12.24 Q What are the vses of the Actiue and Passiue obedience A. F●rst the doctrine heereof may affoord vs a swer● meditation which as there are few a●cient or godly writers ●uch aue obserued so it is pitty we should neglect viz. T●e excellency of the grace of the Gospell purchased by ●his Satisfaction which will appeare by a comparison of ●he wo●ke of Creation with this of Redemption The form●r I gra●t was a solemne worke when the Eternall Word made of Earth the body of Adam inspiring it with the the breath of GOD not onely to be a liuing Creature bu● to beare the Image of God in holinesse And the truth is Moses describes euen this worke more solemnely then the Creation of any of the other to shew the emi●ency thereof ●boue them But when the same eternall Word creates man the ●econd time Lo not a breath not a f●w words will serue himselfe rather must be made a worme and no man God himselfe must empty himselfe of his f●lues and glo●y his loue his teares his miracl●s his prayers the basenesse of his condition will not all serue the turne no other price will bee accpted for this saue both the actu●ll fulfilling of all righteousnes and the shedding not of drops or ounces of other blood but th● last heare and life blood that was in his Holy Body the blood of the