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A39501 An Earnest call to family-catechising and reformation by a reverend divine. 1693 (1693) Wing E95; ESTC R31403 30,606 74

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and all that were with him Put away the strange gods that are among you and be ye clean and let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God c. Gen. 35. 2 3. So do you say unto your Family when you are making your House a Bethel a House of God 3. See that your Family get the Answers of the Assembly's Catechism by memory so as to be able to repeat them perfectly and distinctly without Book which when they have done so far as is necessary for your beginning then set a-part some convenient time at least once a Week and if any extraordinary Occasion necessarily diverts you at that Season be sure you take some other And when you actually engage in this Holy Exercise let not the Family be scatter'd here and there nor some engage in the Service of the World or be idly chatting while others are engag'd in the Service of God but summon the whole Family together and let them solemnly present themselves as before the Lord. 4. As to the Actual Performance of the Duty it self I would direct you to a Method so easie that those of the meanest Capacities may comply with it And 1. Begin with Prayer to God for his Assistance and Blessing in this Work for it is he must teach to profit Isa 48. 17. and none teacheth like him Job 36. 22. Pray that God would make it a Means of Enlightning your Minds Confirming and Establishing your Judgments Convincing your Consciences Moving your Affections Engaging your Hearts of Converting you to God and Building you up in Faith and Holiness and so of bringing you to eternal Happiness and Salvation Having thus prayed to God 2. Apply your selves to your Family asking them some Questions in the Assembly's Catechism to which let them return the Answers without Book audibly distinctly and seriously Two or Three Answers I conceive are as many as you can well insist on at one time And since learning these and repeating them only by rote is of little Signification I do further advise you 3. To ask them By-Questions for the Proving and Improving their Understandings in those Truths and for your own and their Ease in this Part of the Work I do recommend to you Mr. Lye's Explanation of the Assembly's Catechism or that written by Mr. Joseph Allein The former is more full Mr. Lye writing his last of that nature after the other and having also a peculiar Talent for promoting this excellent Work Toward the close of which Book there is a most Useful Alphabetical Table explaining the difficult Words and Terms throughout the Catechism But the Latter some have chosen to use as more familiar In both these you have Questions fitted to your Hand so that you need only to read them distinctly and intelligibly and the Matter is reduc'd to such a Method especially in Mr. Lye's that the Learner may return his Answers with a single Yes or No. 4. When you have finished this Part of your Work I would have you if time will permit else at some other time read Mr. Thomas Vincent's Explicatory Catechism so far as concerns the Answers you have been upon 5. When you have done Catechising sing the whole or some part of a Psalm suited so near as you can to that subject you have been upon And upon Acquaintance with the Psalms it will hardly be possible for you to insist upon any Two or Three Answers but you may find some Psalm very suitable thereto This being devoutly performed will yield unspeakable both Delight and Profit Then 6. Conclude all with Prayer to God for a Blessing on his own Ordinance And if the time you pitch upon be the Evening you may in that concluding Prayer commit your Selves and Families to God for that Night and remember to join Praises with your Prayers All this I conceive may be performed in one Hours time or within it unless reading Mr. Vincent's Explicatory Catechism should cause you to exceed To prevent which you may as you see Occasion omit some part or the whole of that till some other Evening of the Week 7. You may also do well to signifie That if any of them have Doubts and Objections they should at convenient times move them to you which will put you upon further Study and Consideration and so in teaching them you will learn your selves If their Questions or Objections puzzle you so that you cannot resolve them with due Satisfaction apply your selves to your Minister which will put him upon studying the Case and be a Mutual Advantage both to him and you Yea he will hereby in some measure know the Spiritual State both of the Sheep and Lambs of his Flock 8. When you have throughly versed your Selves and Families in the shorter you may proceed to the Larger Catechism of the Assembly And having first gone through the Catechisms without the Proofs you may then put your Family upon learning those and particularly examine them what Part of the Answer the Proof is brought to confirm and what Part of the Proof confirms that Part of the Answer This will not a little promote your knowledge of and confirmation in the Truths of God I have been more large on this Fourth Particular because it is directive to the Actual Performance of this Duty Beside the Books before-mention'd Mr. Doelittle's Scheme of the Assembly's Catechism Printed in a single Sheet is worth every Families having 5. Labour to be well grounded your selves and confirm those under your Charge in the great Articles of Christian Faith as the Being of God the Oneness of his Essence the Trinity of Persons or Subsistences the Lord Jesus Christ his Person his Natures Divine and Humane his Offices Kingly Priestly Prophetick his Sufferings Resurrection Ascension Intercession sitting at God's Right Hand his future Judging the World with all other his Glorious Performances the absolute Necessity of Faith in him and intire reliance on his Merits as the only Matter of our Righteousness for Justification that true Justifying Faith works by Love and without Works Faith is Dead The total Impotence of corrupt Nature as to all Spiritual Operations and the Absolute Necessity of the Energy of the Spirit of God yet that it is our Duty to be conversant with the Means That the Holy Scriptures are a sufficient Rule for Doctrine Worship Discipline and Conversation Let these and the like Principles be engraven on your Hearts that you may be nourished up in the words of faith and of good Doctrine whereunto you have attained 1 Tim. 4. 6. 6. Take great care that God's Sabbaths be strictly observed and industriously employed by your Selves and Families As the Misimproving of this day is one great in let to all prophaneness so the Spiritual Improvement of it will much advance all true Piety The Sabbath should have its Double of Offerings You will thrive in Spirituals all the Week according to your Spiritual Industry that day The Fourth Command is