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[Summarie and short meditations touching sundry poynts of Christian religion] [gathered by T.VV. and now published for the education and profit of Gods saints].
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T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.
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true holinesse and righteousnes before God and men all the daies of our lif Redemption because that by offeriâg vp himself once vpon the altar of the crosse he hath redeemed vs from sinne and set vs free from the diuell and eternall condemnation keeping vs so in his hands that none shall pull vs out of the same vntil the full manifestation of our adoption shall appeare euen the deliuerance of our bodies from all corruption and sinne at what time hee shall returne our redeemer ârom heauen and shall change the bodies of our basenes that they may be made like vnto his glorious bodie To conclude it hath pleased the Father that in him should bee hidden all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge and that in him should all fulnes dwell yea the verie fulnes of his godhead bodilie and of all other good things whatsoeuer that so the Church which is his bodie euery particular sound member thereof might receiue of his abundance as it is writen Of his fulnes haue wee all receiued and grace for grace that is grace vpon grace or as a man would say graces heaped one vpon another and that so he should be the beginning and ending yea the very yea and Amen of all Gods Promises To know these things in such sort as before is declared yea and in more ample manner than is here set downe and not to haue the particular feeling of them in a mans owne conscience is to little or no purpose at all vnlesse it bee more and more to afflict the conscience for want of comfortable feeling of them and to plung vs into a more great and grieuous iudgment because he that knoweth the will of his Master and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes Wherefore it greatly behooueth vs to striue to attaine the meane whereby we may lay hold of them and that meane yea the only meane is nothing else but a true and liuely faith for by faith Christ and we are lincked together he and all his merites being become ours and we his whilest he purgeth our hearts by faith yea dâelleth in them and maketh vs fruitfull âo all good workes This faith sealeth vp in our hearts forgiuenes of past sinnes Freedome from condemnation to come and assurance of eternall life pacifying our consciences towards God and instructing vs to apply particularly vnto our selues Christ Iesus and all his merites And by this faith it pleaseth almightie God to purifie and purge the corruption of mans heart and to frame it and fashion it to new obedience Yea it is appointed by God to bee a necessarie instrument whereby wee may ouercome the world and as a shield of steele by which we may quench all the fiery dartes of the wicked and in which being stedfast we must resist and vanquish the diuell Other singular effects and fruites of this liuely faith are largely reckoned vp in the Epistle to the Hebrues chap. 11. But this faith is not of all men that is most true yea wee affirme that no man hath it by nature arte wit or any such other meane in man but that it is the onely free and gracious gift of God to his owne children alone For the effecting of this precious grace in them the Lord himselfe vseth two effectuall instruments to worke it in their hearts by The one is inward and the same most powerfull namely his most ââly and blessed Spirit speaking for knââââdge peace and all good graces more effectually to our hearts than the outward sound doth to the eare The other outward and that is the whole ministerie of truth whether it be in the Word Sacraments Prayer c. wee diligently subiecting our selues thereto carefully receiuing the same and daily growing in grace thereby as wee doe in yeeres and strength in the bodie This Spirit is called the spirit of adoption because it beareth witnes vnto our spirits that God hath adopted vs to be his children and heires of his kingdom teaching vs also with confidence and boldnes to crie Abba Father This Spirit is called the Comforter because he ministreth vnto the children of God in all their heauinesses and distresses whatsoeuer either outward or inward vnspeakable ioyes He is called the Spirit of truth because he alone doth not only free vs from the errors of the wicked and the darknesse of our owne hearts but also inlightneth our vnderstanding and leadeth vs into all truth He is called the Spirit of sanctification because he frameth them in whom he dwelleth to sanctification and holinesse and fitteth them indeede to all good workes He maketh vs able to search into and to vnderstand the deep things of God yea such deepe and hidden secrets as the eye hath not seene the eare hath not heard neither haue they entred into mans heart He frameth and fashioneth in vs vnfained loue to God and to his people for his sake working also in vs a sound minde in al the duties and seruices that we doe either to God himselfe in heauen or to men vpon earth This Spirit helpeth our infirmities teaching yea inabling vs who know not what to aske or pray as wee should to send foorth requests vnto God with sighes and groanes which cannot be expressed Also when or wheresoeuer it be bestowed it bringeth with it a most holie and heauenly libertie because if the Son by his blessed spirit make vs free we shall be free indeed Lastly he is as it were the very earnest penâ and assured seale or pledge of the trueth of the gracious promises which Almightie God hath made vnto vs in Iesus Christ generally for all good things and especially for our eternall election in Christ before the foundations of the world were laid Touching the word I take it in generall to be the ground and foundation of our faith and that therefore it is rightly called the arme of the Lord as vpon which onely we must leane But most specially I meane that part which containeth Gods most louing promises made vnto vs in Iesus Christ and is rightly called the Gospell And this Gospell is the glad tidings of great ioy and the mightie power of God vnto saluation to euery one that beleeueth Yea it is indeed the message of peace becauâe it offereth quietnes of conscience through the forgiuenes of sinnes to those that are farre off and to those that are nigh It is called the word of grace as well because it is freely bestowed vpon vs as also because it offereth vnto vs the grace of God It is the word of truth because it manifesteth to vs all truth both of faith and obedience and setteth out before vs the truth of God in the accoâplishing of his promises It is also the word of life not onely because it offereth life euerlasting for that it doth to al in the Church but also because that being rightly and reuerently
the fruites of our lips will fall downe as water spilt on the earth The first petition is Hallowed be thy name wherein wee pray for the knowledge and reuerence of God so to be in our hearts that all our thoughts words and deedes may in all godlinesse onely so shine before men that God our heauenly Father may thereby be glorified And on the other side wee pray against ignorance and contempt of God and of all these meanes whereby hee hath made himselfe knowne vnto vs as his word workes c. Also wee pray against all loose life and vngodly behauiour whatsoeuer The second petition is Thy kingdom come wherein we pray for the effectuall feeling and working of Gods blessed spirit and all his gifts in vs as righteousnes peace comfort c also for the sincere preaching reuerent hearing and right receiuing of Gods holy word and discipline We pray for Magistrates and Common-wealths and for the Church of Christ wheresoeuer dispersed and we pray for the glorious appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ either particularly to visite euery one of vs or generally to iudge the quicke and the dead with wonderfull glorie and maiestie in that great and last day On the other side we pray against all the illusions suggestions and assaults either of Sathan or of our owne corruption wee pray against the bondage of sinne the kingdome of Antichrist and the contempt and forgetfulnes of Gods either particular or general iudgement The third petition is Thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen wherein wee pâây for wisedome will power and grace that we may yeeld our selues our soules and our bodies with euery part and member both of the inward and outward man and that all other things also together with vs may bee made conformable here vpon earth vnto the obedience of Gods will declared by his word as his Angels which bee his heauenly creatures studie nothing but to please him without any motion to the contrarie On the other side wee pray against presumption wilfulnes ignorance rebellion muttering grudging or repining against his good will and pleasure together with all such inordinate and fleshly desires resting in vs as are contrarie to his blessed will and ordinance The fourth petition is Giue vs this day our daily bread wherein wee pray for meate drink apparel health wealth libertie peace good order and all other good things whatsoeuer that God knoweth to bee meete for vs in this world to sustaine keep and defend our bodies and liâes by On the other side wee pray against hunger nakednesse scarsitie pestilence âicknes pouertie bondage warres disorder and all manner of euils whatsoeuer tending to the hurt of our bodies and liues And let vs marke the words with which we vtter this petition We rather say giue than pay because wee cannot require bodily things much lesse spirituall things for any desert that is in vs but for Gods âree and gratious goodnesse onely And wee say Giue vs rather than me to teach vs that in charitable loue wee are bound both to pray and labour for others and not of selfe-loue onely for our selues as worldlings doe And wee require rather this day daily bread than euery day daintie fare because wee should learne rather to stay our selues vpon and to content our âelues with Gods continual prouidence âinistring vnto vs alwaies sufficient for âresent necessitie than to incomber our ââlues with worldly care and carking to âet by indirect meanes or to keepe any ââperfluitie The fift petition is ãâ¦ã trespasses as we forgiue ãâ¦ã against ãâã wherein wee pray ãâ¦ã feeling of Gods ãâã purâhaâed ââto vs by Christ anââis obedience only to put away all our sinnesâ we pâây also for peace and ioy of conscience ãâã for vnfained loue and broâherly râcoââciliation amongst men which is an assured pledge of the freââardon and full âorgiuenes of all our iniquities before God On the other side wee pray against wrath vengeance despaire and many strong illusions that may bee and are raised vp in vs vnto condemnation in sinne also against hatred and hard hartednes towards men The sixt petition is And leade vâ not into temptation but deliueâ vs froâ euill wherein we pray for Christian patience strength and continuance against all temptation and suggestions whatsoeuer to sinne also for contempâ of the world mortifying of the ãâã and quickning of Gods holie Spirit Confession of sinnes Foure witnesses that we are sinners 1. Our owne conscience 2. God himself 3. Gods iuââââments 4. Gods vvoââ vvhich chargeth vs vvitââ 1. Adams fallâ 2. Originall sâââ 3. Tâe fruites of originall sinâ â good ãâã to bring ãâã the fee ãâã of Gods ãâã ements ãâã comparing ãâã ans filthiââââe and Gods ââââtâousnesse The grieââusnesse of sin ââmmitted 3. The multitude of transgressions 4. Gods heââ iudgement vvhich arâ executed 1. Vpon the creatures 2. Vpon men this lifeâ and are either invvard or outâvvard ãâ¦ã ââternall conââânation ân being fâlt ââliefe must be âught â Angels 2. Dead Saints 3. Men vnregenerate 4. Men regenerate 5. Goods and riches 6. Counterfeite holines 7. VVill worshippings cannoâ appease the consâiânce vvounded with the feeling of Gods iudgements and sin Christ alone must be our refuge VVe haue Gods ovvne testimonie for it And Christs owne vvord Christs names full of doctrine and comfort Iesus Christ. 1. Christs kingdome 2. Christs priesthood 3. Christs Prophecie Christs person Christ God 3. Christ man 4. Christ God and man our onâly Sauiour Christ alone takes away sin 1. Christ is our vvisedome 2. Christ is our righteousnes 3. Christ is our holinesse 4. Christ is our redemption 5. Christ is all in all Faith and knowâedâe must gâe together Notable âffâcts of true faâth 1. Faith vvorketh peace in our consâiânces 2. Faith clenseth our heart 3. Faith ouercommeth the vvorld the flesh and the diuâll Faith is the freâ giât of God Faith fâamed in vs two manner of vvaies Spirit of adoption Spirit a comforter Spirit of truth Spirit of sanctification Spirit together vvith the powers and effects thereof Gods vvord generally the groând of faiâh But most specially the Gospel 1. Gospell what it is 2. The message of peace 3. The vvord of grace 4. The vvord of truth 5. The vvord of life 6. A mysterie or secret How the vvord must be receiued and for what cause Prophets Christ Iesus Apostles Euanâgelists Pastorsâ Doctors and Ministers whaâ manner of men they ought to be âhe ends of the holy Ministery Ministers and Ministery must be much made of 1. The doctrinâ preached painteth out Christâ death and passion 2. It sealeth to vs our saluation 3. It vvorketh our regeneration How the word is milke âow and when âhe vvord is ârong meate Gods goodnes Mans frailtie The tvvo Sacramânts aides âo our faith 1. Baptisme seââleth our ingraââting into the Church 2. Our regeneration 3. Remission of sinnes 4. Our adoption 5. Our spirituâll vnitie 6. Our mortification and sanctification in Christs death and resurrection 7. Our resurrection 1. The supper pledgeth our eternall life 2. Christs death and passion 3. Our spirituall nourishment in and by him 4. The vnion betvvixt Christ and his church 5. The vnitie amongst the members of the Church Examination before the Supper Tvvo parts of it âaith and râpentance tovvards God and sincere loue towards men Faith vvhat it is Repentance what it is Loue and what it comprehendeth True faith is not fruitlesse 1. Naturall corruption 2. Other mens manners 3. And the fashions of this world no rules to ârame our liues by 4. But Gods worâ onely Two tables ten commaundements VVe must flie ârom euill and doe good 1. Act of sinne 2. Consent to the same 3. Yea lust or motion must be auoided 1. Gods law is obserued or broken after tvvo sorts Outvvard breach Inward and outward obedience Things forbidden by the first commaundement By the second By the third By the fourth By the fifth By the sixth By the seuenth By the eighth By the ninth By the tenth Vnlavvfull vvishes Things commaunded by the first precept By the second By the third Three ends of an oath By the fourth By the fifth By the sixth By the seuenth By the eight By the ninth By the tenth Our vvant of abilitie is supplied by earnest prayer to God Spurs to prayer specially foure 1. Gods commandement 2. Gods promises 3. The assured pledge of the âpirit 4. Our ovvne vvants Seuen poynts to be marked before we pray 1. Our wretchednesse 2. Gods greatnesse ãâ¦ã od will anââods great power muât not be sundered in prayer 3. That God onely must be called vpon 4. Iâ the name of his âonne Christ onely 5. Good things onely must âe asked 6. And that to good ends only 7. Mouth and heart must be ioyned together Outvvard behauiour in prayer must plainely preach reuerence of Gods maiestie Men may not be tied of necessitie to thât or any forme of praier or to any sort of gesture therein The preface to the Lords prayer expounded 1. Earnest in prayer 2. Vnfained loue 3. Gods prouidence and our obedience 4. Gods povver The first petition vvhat we pray for VVhat vve pray against The second petition vvhat vve pray for VVhat vve pray against The third petition vvhat we pray for VVhat vve âray against The fourth petition vvhat vve pray for VVhat vve pray against 1. Merits ouerthrovvne 2. Selfe-loue euill 3. Gods prouidence our only stay ãâ¦ã pray for VVhat vve pray against The sixth petition vvâ at vve pâay for