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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69542	Two sheets for poor families ... by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1665 (1665)	Wing B1441; Wing B1403; ESTC R6530	11,669	17

matter on the by Especially fo● publick good and mens salvation And what you cannot do your selves perswade others to Give them good Books and draw them to the means which are most like to profit them XIII Vnderstand the right terms of Church-Communion especially the Unity of the Universal Church 1 Cor. 12. Eph. 4.3.16 Col. 1.4 Heb. 10.25 Acts 2.41 8.37.12 13. and the Universal Communion which you must hold with all the parts and the difference between the Church as Visible and Invisible For want of these how woful are our divisions Read oft 1 Cor. 12. Eph. 4.1 to 17. Iohn 17.21 22 23. Acts 4 32. 2.42 1 Cor. 1.10 11 13. 3.3 Rom. 16.17 Phil. 2. ● 2 3 4. 1 Thes 5.12 13. Acts 20 30. 1 Cor. 11.19 Titus 3 10. Iames 3. Study these well You must have Vnion and Communion in Faith and Love with all the Christians in the world And refuse not local communion when you have a just call so far as they put you not on sinning Let your usual meeting be with the purest Church if you lawfully may 1 Cor. 1.2 11.18 21. 3.3 4. 1.12 13. and still respect the publick good But sometimes occasionally communicate even with defective faulty Churches so be it they are true Christians and put you not on sin that so you may shew that you own them as Christians though you disown their corruptions Think not your presence maketh all the faults of Ministry Worship or people to be yours for then I would joyn with no Church in the world Know that as the mystical Church consisteth of Heart-Covenanters so doth the Church as Visible consist of Verbal-Covenanters which make a credible profession of Consent And that Nature and Scripture teacheth us to take every mans word as credible till perfidiousness forfeit his Credit which forfeiture must be proved before any sober Profession can be taken for an insufficient title Grudge not then at the Communion of any Professed Christian in the Church Visible Though we must do our part to cast out the obstinately impenitent by Discipline Mat. 13.41 which if we cannot do the fault is not ours The presence of hypocrites is no hurt but oft a mercy to the sincere How small else would the Church seem in the world Iohn 16.2 1 Cor. 1.10 Rom. 16.17 Iames 3.14 15 16 17 18. Outward priviledges belong to outward Covenanters and inward mercies to the sincere Division is wounding and tends to death Abhor it as you love the Churches welfare or your own The wisdom from above is first pure and then peaceable Never seperate what God conjoineth It is the Earthly sensual devilish wisdom which causeth bitter envying and strife and confusion and every evil work Blessed are the Peace-makers 1 Tim. 3.6 Col. 2.18 1 Cor. 8.1 1 Cor. 4.6 1 Tim. 6.4 1 Pet. 5.5 Iames 3.1.17 XIV Take heed of Pride and Self-conceitedness in Religion If once you overvalue your own understandings your crude conceptions and gross mistakes will delight you as some supernal light and instead of having compassion on the weak you will be unruly and despisers of your Guides and censorious contemners of all that differ from you and persecutors of them if you have power and will think all intollerable that take you not as Oracles and your words as Law Forget not that the Church hath alwayes suffered by censorious unruly professors on the one hand and O what divisions and scandals have they caused as well as by the prophane and persecutors on the other Take heed of both And when contentions are afoot be quiet and silent and not too forward and keep up a zeal for Love and Peace Eph. 5. 6. Col. 3. 4. Rom. 13.1.7 1 Pet. 2.13.15 XV. Be faithfull and conscionable in all your Relations Honour and obey your Parents and other superiors Despise not and resist not Government If you suffer unjustly by them be humbled for those sins which cause God to turn your Protectors into Afflicters and instead of murmuring and rebelling against them reform your selves and then commit your selves to God Princes and Pastors I will not speak to Subjects and servants and children must obey their superiors as the Officers of God XVI Keep up the Government of God in your families Command 4. I●s 24.15 Deut. 6.6 7 8. Daniel 6. Holy Famil●es must be chief preservers of the interest of Religion in the world Let not the world turn Gods service into a customary lifeless form Read the Scripture and edifying Books to them Talk with them serio●sly about the state of their souls and everlasting life Pray with them fervently Watch over them diligently Be angry against sin and meek in your own cause Be examples of Wisdome Holiness and Patience And see that the Lords Day be spent in holy preparation for Eternity XVII Let your Calling be managed in Holiness and Laboriousness H●b 13.5 Command 4. 2 Thess 3.10.12 1 Thess 4.7 1 Tim. 5.13 Proverbs 31. 1 Cor. 7.29 Live not in idleness Be not slothful in your work whether you be bound or free In the swear of your browes you must eat your bread and labour the six dayes that you may have to give to him that needeth slothfulness is sensuality as well as filthier sins The body that is able must have fit employment as well as the soul or else body and soul will fare the worse But let all be but as the labour of a Traveller and aim at God and Heaven in all XVIII Deprive not your selves of the benefit of an able faithful Pastor M●l 2.7 Eccles 4.10 11. Prov. 12.1 15.5.10.31 H●b 3.13 to whom you may open your case in secret or at least of a holy faithful friend And be not displeased at their free reproofs Wo to him that is alone How blind and partial are we in our own cause And how hard is it to know our selves without an able faithful helper You forfeit this great mercy when yo● love a flatterer and angr●ly defend your sin XIX Prepare for sickness sufferings and death Overval●e not prosperity Luke 12.40 2 Pet. 1.10 nor the favour of man If s●lfish men p●ove false and cru●l to you even those of whom you have deserved best marvel not at it but pray for your enemies persecutors and slanderers Phil. 1.21 23. Ierem. 9 4 5. Mat. 7.4 5. 2 Cor. 5.1 2 4 8. that God would turn their hearts and pardon them What a mercy is it to be driven from the world to God When the Love of the world is the greatest danger of the soul Be ready to die and you are ready for any thing Ask your hearts seriously what is it that I shall need at a dying hour and let it speedily be got ready and not be to seek in the time of your extremity XX. Understand the true method of Peace of Conscience Exod. 34.6 Heb. 7.25 Iohn 4.41 Iohn 3.16 1 Tim. 4.10

The Second SHEET FOR Poor Families INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HOLY LIFE By Richard Baxter LONDON Printed by Robert White for Francis Tyton at the three Daggers in Fleet-street and for Nevill Simmons Book-seller in Kederminster 1665. The Second Sheet for Poor Familes INSTRUCTIONS FOR A Holy Life ALL is not done when men have begun a Religious life All Trees that blossome prove not fruitfull Colos 1.23 Hebrews 4.1 2 Pet. 2.20 1 Cor. 3. Gal. 3. 4. Matthew 13.41 18.7 and all fruit comes not to perfection Many fall off who seemed to have good beginnings And many dishonour the Name of Christ by their scandals and infirmities Many do grieve their Teachers hearts and lamentably disturb the Church of Christ by their ignorance errors self-conceitedness unruliness headiness contentiousness sidings and divisions In so much that the scandals and the fewds of Christians are the great impediment of the Conversion of the I●fidel and Heathea world Phil. 3.21 Acts 20.30 by exposing Christianity to their contempt and scorn as if it were but the error of men as unholy and worldly and proud as others that can never agree among themselves And many by their passions and selfishness are a trouble to the Families and Neighbours where they live And more by their weaknesses and great distempers are snares vexations and burdens to themselves Whereas Christianity in its true constitution is a life of such Holy Light and Love Matth. 5.16 1 Pet. 3 1. 1 Pet. 2.15 1.8 2 Cor. 1.12 such Purity and Peace such fruitfulness and Heavenlyness as if it were accordingly shewed forth in the lives of Christians would command admiration and reverence from the world and do more to their conversion than swords or words alone can do And it would make Christians usefull and amiable to each other and their l●ves a feast and pleasure to themselves I hope it may prove some help to these excellent ends and to the securing mens salvation if in a few sound experienced Directions I open to you the Duties of a Christian life I. Keep still the true form of Christian Doctrine Desire and Duty orderly printed on your m●nds 2 Tim. 1.13 3.7 Heb. 5.12 Phil. 1.9 Rom. 15.14 that is Understand it clearly and distinctly and remember it I mean the great points of Relig●on contained in Catechismes you may still g●ow in the clearer understanding of your Catech●smes if you live an h●ndred years Let not the words only but the matter be as familiar in your minds as the rooms of your house are Such ●olid knowledge will establish you against seduction and unbelief Eph. 4.13 14. Colos● 1.9 2.3 3.10 1 Tim. 6.4 and will be still within you a ready help for every Gra●e and every duty as the skill of an Artificer is for his work And for want of this when you come among Infidels or Hereticks their reasonings may seem unanswerable to you and shake if not overth●ow your sa●th And you will easily erre in ●esser po●●● and trouble the Church with your dreams and wranglings This is the calamity of many Professors that while they will be most censorious Judges in every controversie about Church-matters they know not well the Doctrine of the Catech●sm II. Live day'y by faith on Jesus Christ as the Mediator between God and you Iohn 17.3 Ephes 3.17 18. Matth. 28.19 Eph. 1.22 23. 4.6.16 Romans 5. 2 Cor. 12.9 Iohn 16.33 1 Iohn 5.4 Heb. 4 14.16 Col. 3 3 4. Acts 7.59 Being well grounded in the Belief of the Gospel and understanding Ch●ists Office make use of him still in all your wants Think on the Fatherly Love of God as coming to you through him alone and of the Spirit as given by Him your Head and of the Covenant of Grace as enacted and sealed by him and of the Ministery as sent by him and of all time and helps and hope as procured and given by him When you think of sin and infirmity and temptations think also of his sufficient pardoning justifying and victorious grace When you think of the world the flesh and the Devil think how he overcometh them Let his doctrine and the pattern of his most perfect life be alwayes before you as your Rule In all your doubts and fears and wants go to Him in the Spirit and to the Father by Him and Him alone Take him as the root of your life and mercies and Live as upon him and by his life And when you die resign your souls to Him that they may be with Him where he is and see his Glory To live on Christ and use Him in every want and address to God is more then a General consufed believing in him III. So Believe in the Holy Ghost as to Live and work by Him as the Body doth by the soul You are not Baptised into his name in Vain Gal. 5.16.25 Matth. 28.19 Iohn 16.13 Heb. 2 3 4. 1 Cor. 12.12 13. Rom. 8.9.13 Iohn 3.5 6. But too few understand the sense and reason of it The Spirit is sent by Christ for two great works 1. To the Apostles and Prophets to inspire them infallibly to preach the Gospel and confirm it by miracles and leave it on record for following ages in the Holy Scriptures 2. To all his members to illuminate and sanctifie them to believe and obey this Sacred Doctrine beside his common guift to many to understand and preach it The Spirit having first indited the Gospel doth by it first Regenerate and after Govern all true Believers He is not now given us for the revealing of new doctrines but to understand and obey the doctrine revealed and sealed by him long ago 2 Tim. 3.15 16. Iude 19 20. Ezech. 36.27 Isa 44.3 Rom. 8.1.5 1 Cor. 6.11 Zech. 14.20 As the Sun doth by its sweet and secret influence both give and cherish the natural life of things Sensitive and Vegetative so doth Christ by h●s Spirit our spiritual life As you do no work but by your natural life you should do none but by your spiritual life you must not only Believe and Love and pray by it but manage all your Callings by it For Holiness to the Lord must be written upon all All things are sanctified to you because you being sanctified to God devote all to Him and use all for Him and therefore must do all in the strength and conduct of the Spirit IV. Live wholly upon GOD as All in All As the first Efficient principal Dirigent Rom. 11.36 1 Cor. 10.31 2 Cor. 5 7 8. ● Iohn 3.1 Rom. 5.1 2 3. Matth. 22.37 Ephes 1.6 2 Cor. 5.19 Gal. 4.4 5 6. and Final Cause of all things Let Faith Hope and Love be daily feeding on Him Let Our Father which art in Heaven be first inscribed on your hearts that he may seem most amiable to you and you may boldly Trust him and filial Love may be the spring of duty Make use of the Son and Spirit to lead you