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A75970	The Agreement of divers ministers of Christ in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, for catechizing or personal instructing all in their parishes, that will consent thereunto. Containing I. The articles of our agreement. II. An exhortation to the people to submit to this necessary work. III. The profession of faith, and catechism, which we desire them first to learn.		1656 (1656)	Wing A773; Thomason E1653_2; ESTC R208988	22,810	45

family nor one person old or young would deny us this request which we make to our own Labour but for your Good First that you would take some pains to Learn over the Creed with out Expository Profession the Ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer our small Catechism and the Assemblies shorter Catechism Secondly that you would see that all your Children and Servants that are capable learn them especially on the Lords day Thirdly that you would not refuse to come when you are called to give your Teachers an account of your Knowledge and how little soever you have learned yet to receive Instruction by them And think it not too much that we desire you to come to us for as you know it is a more regular and certain way for all to come to one place then for us to go seek after every person not knowing where and when to find them so is it no more then you owe to your Teachers in order to your own good when God hath made them Stewards of his household to give them their meat in due season Luke 12.42 Tit. 1.7 1 Cor. 4.1 2. and hath Commanded you to obey them that have the Rule over you for they watch for your souls as those that must give account that they may do it with Joy and not with Grief for that is unprofitable for you And Mal. 2.7 For the Priests lips should keep Knowledge and they should seek the Law at his mouth for he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hosts If the Lord bow your hearts sincerely to yield to this our advice it will be the Joy of your Families the honour of your Towns Parish●s and Country a good example for the whole Nation to imitate and it will be the Comfort of your Teachers and a good preparative to your own everlasting Peace so great Benefits will follow a Small a Certain a Reasonable duty But if after all that we can say or do you unthankfully and obstinately refuse the help that is freely offered you your Blood will be upon your own heads and your Consciences shall bear us witness that we made you this offer and this our Exhortation shall rise up in Judgement for a witness against you And then Christ will have the glory of his Justice on all that set so light by the Riches of his Grace May 4th 1655. These are the Testimonies Warnings and Requests of us the servants of Christ for the saving of your souls whole names are before written The Ancient Western CREED I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and earth And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was Conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified dead and buryed he descended into Hell The third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the Right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to Judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the Resurrection of the Body and the Life everlasting The Lords Prayer Math. 6. OVR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from Evil For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever Amen The ten Commandments Exod. 20. GOD spake all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of bond●ge Thou shalt have no other Gods before me Tho● shalt not make unto thee any grauen Image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the ea●●h beneath or that is in the water under ●he ear●h ●hou sh●lt not how down thy self to them nor ●erve h●m F●●●●he Lord ●hy God am a jealous God visit●ng ●he iniquiries of the Fa●hers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant nor thy cattel nor the stranger that is within thy gates For in six daies the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy daies may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his man-servant nor his maid-servant nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is thy neighbours The fuller profession of our Faith taken out of Scripture for the better understanding of the Creed I Believe that there is One only God * or in three Persons the Father The Son and the Holy Ghost The Father Infinite in Being the Father The Son Wisdom Goodness and Power the Maker Preserver and Disposer of all things and the most Just and Merciful Lord of all I Believe that Mankind being fallen by sin from God and Happiness under the wrath of God the curse of his Law the Power of the Devil God so loved the world that he gave his only son to be their Redeemer who being God and one with the Father did take to him our nature and became man being conceived of the Holy Ghost in the Virgin Mary and born of her and named Jesus Christ and having lived on earth without sin and wrought many Miracles for a witness of his truth he gave up himself a sacrifice for our sins and a Ransome for us in suffering death on the Cross and being Buried he rose again the third day and afterward Ascended into Heaven where he is Lord of All in Glory with the Father And having Ordained that all that truly Repent and Believe in him and love him above all things and sincerely Obey him and that to the death shall be saved and they that will not shall be damned and commanded his ministers to preach the Gospel to the world He will come again and raise the bodies of all men from Death and will Judge all men according to what they have done in the body and the Righteous shall go

undertaken should bring upon us much more labour or trouble to the flesh then all our Publike preaching doth We are frail sinners and have flesh and blood as well as you that would fain draw us back from such troublesome duties and perswade us to take our ease and not to lose the love of our Neighbours by molesting them But woe to us and you if this should prevail you should therefore rather encourage us and warn us to be Diligent and to take heed to our Ministery which we have received in and of the Lord and to fulfill it Col. 4.17 If we were Stewards for the supply of your bodily wants you would call to us for help and not stay till we seek to you much less would you refuse it We have all need to joyn heart and hand to help one another safe to Heaven and all little enough when we have such enemies within us and without us and so many difficulties before us to overcome We know that you will have many Temptations from Satan to keep you back from this profitable work He that is unwilling of your Salvation will be unwilling that you should learn the way to it He will perswade the Rich and worldly-wise that it is a business unbeseeming them to be Catechized or Instructed As if they were too good to obey Christ and hi● Officers or to be saved He will perswade the Aged that they are too old to learn and that it is only for Children or the younger sort As if they were too old to be saved or as if it were not yet time to learn how to Live when they have almost done Living or how to Dye when Death is so neer Alas that any reasonable soul should be so brutish when most of their lives is already spent in Ignorance and worldliness and living to the fl●sh and they should speedily lament their former folly and Redeem the little time that doth remain when one would think they should day and night be afraid left Death should snatch them away in their sin and Ignorance that yet they should not only delay and loyter but wilfully refuse and say they are too old to learn When you know Certainly th●t you must be shortly in another world in endless Joy or Torment is it not time to know wh●● world it must be Or at least to use your utmost diligence that you miscarry not in a ma●ter of such unspe●k●ble Consequence Should not ●he old that are neerest their Journeyes end be most Careful to know whither they are going and where that end will be and to see lest they have hitherto mist ●he wa● While there is lise ●ime there is ●lop● of mercy if you have but willing minds to use Gods m●ans But if you remain unwilli●g till time be g●●e ●here will never be the least hop● of R●m●dy more Truly Brethren if Christianity were a fa●●e and there were no such things as Heaven or Hell when this short life is ended but men dyed as D●●● do we should never then trouble your minds wi●h these matters but let you live in ease and pleasure w●ile you may But we know that the Living God is True and Heaven and Earth shall sooner fail then one tittle of his sacred Word We know that we and you are hasting to the Judgement seat of Christ where we must be accountable for our Teaching and you of your learning and both of our Obeying and Love to the Truth and of all the time and means that we did possess We know that it is but a little while till we and you must be all gone hence and the places where we live must know us no more We know that then we shall wish we had been more diligent in Teaching and you will wish you had been more diligent in Learning and all of us in Obeying O Sirs what should you so much think on as the God whom you say you love and honour and the heaven that you say you hope for ever to enjoy and the Necessary way that leads thereto If you are Christians what should you more mind then Christ and his Benefits Col. 4.1 2 3 4 5. Math. 16.19 20 21 23. John 6.27 Will you drop out of the world before you have well Considered what you had to do in it will you lose the last hour or part of your Lives as you have done the rest yea and make that a reason for it As if you would not Learn in your Age because you learned no sooner will you live all your youth with purposes to repent and turn to God in your Age and then when Age comes will you refuse to Return because you did it not sooner What is this but to abuse Christ all your youth and then abuse him more in your Age because you abused him in your youth How will you think of this foolish wickedness when you look back upon it in Hell if your found Repentance and Returning to God by Christ prevent it not Believe it true Repentance is a through turning from the flesh and the world to God and not only a wish that you had been wiser which is meerly forced by the sight of death woe to that man for ever that dyeth before he hath done the business of his l●fe and that must go to Christs Judgement before Christ have had his heart We beseech you therefore rather lay by any thing then these needful works you have nothing else to mind that in Comparison of this is worth the minding it is for this that all things else must be Used In themselves they are but as childrens toys will you play with them till they and you do fall together into the dust and that while greater things stand by It is Christ and Grace and the promised Glory that will never deceive you if you will but seek him and set your heart upon him and esteem him above these transitory things and make it the chief business of your life to Please and Enjoy him which cannot be without the knowledge of him Is it not pitty that God should have any Reasonable Creature that Knoweth not his Maker or his Laws or his own happiness it not pitty after all that Christ hath done and suffered for the world that any that call themselves his Disciples should so little know him and the salvation which he hath purchased and should set so light by him as to reject his invitations and so neglect this great salvation Math. 22.5 6. Heb. 2.3 O that you had but felt what it is to be under the bond of Gods Commands I especially the great Command of the Gospel then you would see that you refuse not him that speaketh For if they scaped not that refused Moses that spake on Earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven Heb. 12.25 O that you did feel but what it is to be under the power of constraining Love 2 Cor. 5.14 And to have