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<P>GOOD CHRISTIAN LOOKE TO THY CREEDE: FOR <HI>A TRVE TRIALL</HI> OF AN HOLY PRO|FESSION, AND OF THE truth of Religion, from all crooked by-paths. BY RICHARD BERNARD RECTOR of Batcombe in Sumer|&s;et&s;hire.</P>
<P><HI>AT LONDON,</HI> Imprinted by <HI>Felix Kyng&s;ton,</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>Edward Blackmore,</HI> at the Angell in Pauls Church-yard. 1630.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="catechism">
<PB N="1" REF="3">
<HEAD>QVESTIONS AND ANSWERES OVT OF THE CREED, AND OTHER GROVNDS of Religion, for the A&s;&s;urance <HI>of a Christian mans</HI> Saluation.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Que&s;tion.</SPEAKER>
<P>_WHat are you by your Profe&s;&s;ion in Religion?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>A Chri&s;tian.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Where is &s;et downe the &s;umme of your Chri&s;tianitie?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>In the Creed.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What doth it teach you?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>To beleeue in one God, the Father, the Son, and the holy Gho&s;t, and that this God hath
<PB N="2" REF="4"> a Church holy and Catholicke for the Sal|uation whereof, the Sonne of God became man, and hath purcha&s;ed for it an eternall Inheritance in the highe&s;t heauens.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is then your a&s;&s;ured hope of body and &s;oule, if you hold on in this faith to the end?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Life Euerla&s;ting.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Doth not Death cut off the hope of en|ioying thereof?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, for I beleeue the re&s;urrection of the body at the la&s;t Day.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>To be &s;ure hereof, what is it which you mu&s;t beleeue and labour for before you die?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The forgiuene&s;&s;e of &s;innes: for if I bee not pardoned, I can neuer be &s;aued.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What manner of per&s;on then mu&s;t you be, to be certaine of the pardon of your &s;innes?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>A Saint: for Saints onely inherit heauen.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>With whom then mu&s;t you &s;eeke to haue fellow&s;hip and familiaritie heere in this life?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>With Saints.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is this your fellow&s;hip with them called?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The Communion of Saints.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="3" REF="4">
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Being in this Communion, of what bo|dy are you a member?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Of the Catholike Church: out of which is no Saluation.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What doth gouerne and guide both it and you?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>The holy Gho&s;t: who is in all and euery member thereof.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>If you be &s;ure of the forgiuene&s;&s;e of &s;ins, that you are a Saint in the Communion of Saints, a member of the holy Catho|like Church, and ruled by the holy Gho&s;t, what is it that now you de&s;ire and dayly looke for?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The comming of Ie&s;us Christ from Hea|uen, to iudge both the quicke and the dead.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is Hee, that you can &s;o loue and long after his appearance?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>He is the onely Sonne of the Father, our Lord, God and man our Sauiour.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How came he to be man?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>He was conceiued by the holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Of whom was hee borne?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Of the Virgin Mary.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What hath he done for you?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>He hath perfectly fulfilled the Law, being being obedient to his Father in all things, Hee &s;uffered vnder Pontius Pylate, was
<PB N="4" REF="5"> crucified, dead and buried, hee de&s;cended into hell: and the third day hee ro&s;e againe from the dead.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What then became of him after his a|bode here a while?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>He a&s;cended into Heauen.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What doth he there now?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hee &s;itteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty making Interce&s;&s;ion for vs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>But may you apply particularly and be|leeue, that he hath done all the&s;e things for you, as well as for any other?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes verily I may &s;ay, that he was conceiued <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 2. 20.</NOTE> and borne for me, &s;uffered and crucified for me, dead and buried for me, that hee de&s;cended into hell for me, that hee ro&s;e a|gaine, and a&s;cended vp into Heauen for me, making reque&s;t to the Father euen as well for me, as for any other true beleeuer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How are you able thus to apply him?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By the power of Faith and the operation of the holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>But may not others &s;ay thus much out of a pre&s;umptuous imagination?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Tes, no doubt through the Spirit of error &s;educing them.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then how doe you know, that this par|ticular
<PB N="5" REF="5"> applying of Chri&s;t, and his bene|fits to you? ari&s;eth not of &s;uch a pre&s;ump|tuous conceit?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>By my confermitie to him in &s;ome &s;ort as hee is &s;et out to vs in &s;uch Articles of the Creed as doe concerne him.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Relate if you can the particulars, the better to di&s;couer the &s;ure grounds of this your confidence.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I.</HI> As I beleeue Ie&s;us Chri&s;t to be the be|gotten of the Father, and to bee his Sonne:</P>
<P>So mu&s;t I be begotten of God. <HI>Iam.</HI> 1. 18. 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 4. 15. <HI>Philem.</HI> ver&s;e 10. and bee Gods Childe by adoption. <HI>Iohn</HI> 1. 12. <HI>Gal.</HI> 4. 5.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> As hee was conceiued, and &s;anctified by the holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P>So mu&s;t I be &s;anctified by the &s;ame Spirit. <HI>Rom.</HI> 15. 16. <HI>Act.</HI> 26. 18.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> As hee was borne.</P>
<P>So must I be borne anew. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1. 13. <HI>&amp;</HI> 3. 3. 5. 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 25.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> As hee obeyed his Father, and did al|waies <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn</HI> 8. 19.</NOTE> tho&s;e things that plea&s;ed him.</P>
<P>So must I obey and endeauour to plea&s;e him in all things. <HI>Coll.</HI> 1. 10. 1. <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 4. 1. <HI>Heb.</HI> 12. 28. 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 9.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> As hee &s;uffered.</P>
<PB N="6" REF="6">
<P>So must I &s;uffer with him, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 17. 2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 12. 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 21. and for him, for &s;o we are hereunto called, 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 21. <HI>Act.</HI> 14. 22. 2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 12.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>VI.</HI> As he was crucified.</P>
<P>So must I be crucified with him, <HI>Gal.</HI> 2. 20. euen the old man, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 6. and al&s;o the fle&s;h, with the affections and lu&s;ts thereof, <HI>Gal.</HI> 5. 24.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>VII.</HI> As hee was dead.</P>
<P>So must I be <HI>dead</HI> with him <HI>vnto &s;in, Rom.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 14.</NOTE> 6. 2. 8. and <HI>dead</HI> vnto the <HI>Law, Gal.</HI> 2. 19.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>VIII.</HI> As he was buried.</P>
<P>So must I be buried with him by Bapti&s;me, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 4. <HI>Coll.</HI> 2. 12.</P>
<P N="9"><HI>IX.</HI> As he de&s;cended into Hell.</P>
<P>So must I bee humble in mine owne eyes, and de&s;cend downe in my thoughts of my &s;elfe, as iustly de&s;eruing Hell; If I were rewar|ded according to my owne de&s;erts.</P>
<P N="10"><HI>X.</HI> As he ro&s;e againe.</P>
<P>So must I be quickned. <HI>Eph.</HI> 2. 5. and ri&s;e with him through the faith of the opera|tion of God, <HI>Coll.</HI> 2. 12. and being aliue with God, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 11. I must liue vnto righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 24. and walke in newne&s;&s;e of life. <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 4.</P>
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<P N="11"> <HI>XI.</HI> As he a&s;cended into Heauen.</P>
<P>So must I a&s;cend in my affection after him, &s;triuing to be di&s;&s;olued and to be with him, <HI>Phil.</HI> 1. 23. &s;etting in the meane &s;ea&s;on my minde on things aboue, <HI>Coll.</HI> 3. 1. Hauing my conuer&s;ation in Heauen, <HI>Phil.</HI> 3. 20.</P>
<P N="12"><HI>XII.</HI> As he &s;itteth on the right hand of God in Heauen.</P>
<P>So must I with others &s;it together in heaunly places in Christ Ie&s;us, <HI>Eph.</HI> 2. 6. vpon the&s;e grounds doe I a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe to haue a right in my ble&s;&s;ed Sauiour, to apply him particular to my &s;elfe for my endle&s;&s;e com|fort.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>And indeed &s;o well thus you may doe, but now hauing certainely this right in Ie&s;us Chri&s;t his onely Sonne our Lord, what doth this faith worke in you to|wards God his Father?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>To beleeue in him, and that hee is become my Father al&s;o, and that hee will doe for me aboue all that I can aske or thinke,</HI> Ioh. 16. 23. and 15. 17. and 14. 13. <HI>for his &s;ake.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>But what think you of his diuine power?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>That hee is exceedingly able aboundantly <HI>Ephe.</HI> 3. 20. to doe for me aboue all that I can thinke, becau&s;e he is Almighty.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="8" REF="7">
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wherein doth this appeare?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Becau&s;e he made Heauen and Earth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What doe you conclude now out of all the&s;e things?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>That I am &s;afe vnder his al-&s;ufficiency for the good of body and &s;oule, by who&s;e power, through faith I am kept vnto &s;aluation, and &s;o to enioy life euerlasting. 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 5.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>May you then liue &s;ecurely, as it were carele&s;ly vpon this confidence.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>God forbid; for I am commanded to worke out my Saluation with feare and trembling, <HI>Phil.</HI> 2. 12. And in my Creed I am taught to beleeue, that there is as well a Hell for the wicked, as a Heauen for the Godly.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Now be&s;ides this your <HI>Creed,</HI> are there any other helps, to awe a man to God|ward, and to keepe him from carnall &s;e|curitie?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes indeed, very ea&s;ie to be conceiued, and to be gathered out of the other parts of the Common Catechi&s;me with &s;etled medita|tions thereupon.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>As how I pray you, vpon the Comman|dements?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I.</HI> To thinke &s;eriou&s;ly who&s;e they be, euen
<PB N="9" REF="7"> the precepts of the God of Heauen and earth, terrible in wrath and without re&s;pect of per&s;on in executing vengeance again&s;t tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> That they are the rule of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, to euery Christian concerning his dutie to God, to man, and to him&s;elfe.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> That a cur&s;e is vpon euery one, hat either wilfully or carele&s;ly leadeth a life without con&s;cionable re&s;pect vnto the&s;e Commandements.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> That by our Church we are taught, and with our mouthes wee pray, that the Lord would haue mercy vpon vs, to encline our hearts to keepe euery Law, and we be&s;eech him to write all the&s;e his Lawes in our hearts.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> That in thus praying in words, and yet without affection of heart, or con&s;cience of obedience we mocke God, and prouoke him the more to wrath, by &s;o dallying with &s;uch a dreadfull Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>VI.</HI> That this Law was giuen in great ter|rour, making all I&s;raell to feare and trem|ble at the deliuery thereof: Oh then thinke what wilbe that horror in mens hearts, when God comes to execute his Iu&s;tice, pow|ring vyals of wrath vpon the rebellious.</P>
<PB N="10" REF="8">
<P N="7"> <HI>VII.</HI> That God hath for our incouragement exhorted vs to obey them, left memorable examples of men liuing in obedience, ble&s;|ing and rewarding them for well doing, with promi&s;es of his mercies to all others that &s;o doe, and to reward them with euer|la&s;ting glory in the end.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>VIII.</HI> And la&s;tly, that God on the con|trary hath dehorted vs from tran&s;gre&s;&s;i|ons, left fearefull examples of his wrath vpon Offendors, threatning &s;till to take vengeance vpon exery &s;uch wicked one, and in the end to ca&s;t them all into Hell, there to be tormented in flaming fire with the Deuill and his Angells for euer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>The&s;e eight Meditations may &s;hake the &s;toute&s;t heart and humble the highe&s;t thoughts of &s;uch as make no con&s;cience of &s;inne, and goe on in their cour&s;es. But how may a man from the <HI>Lords prayer,</HI> rouze vp his heart from carnall &s;ecuri|tie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>If rightly vnderstanding what he asketh, and hath al&s;o a true de&s;ire to obtaine what hee craueth of God, if I &s;ay, hee &s;hall de|mand questions of him&s;elfe before hee pray, thus meditating.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> How can I (except I re&s;olue to mocke
<PB N="11" REF="8"> God) &s;ay hallowed be thy Name, by me in an holy conuer&s;ation, and yet liue in all prophanene&s;&s;e, lewdly di&s;honouring his Name, abu&s;ing his mercy and benefits, not regarding his Iustice, and liuing without all re&s;pect of his Glory and prai&s;e?</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> How can I &s;ay thy Kingdome come, and de&s;ire that God may erect vp here a King|dome of grace in our hearts, by his Spirit, Word, and the Mini&s;tery of faithfull Teachers, to prepare vs to Glory, and yet re&s;i&s;t the motions of the Spirit, refu&s;e to be ruled by him, hate Gods Mini&s;ters, mocke at the preaching of the Word, ie&s;t at the reading of Scriptures, and liue as if there were neither Heauen nor Hell, God nor Deuill, nor any day of Iudgement!</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> How can I begge heartily to doe Gods Will here in Earth as it is in Heauen, and yet liue in ignorance of Gods Will, follow|ing my owne lu&s;ts, or other mens wills; de|&s;pi&s;ing the reuealed will of God, neuer do|ing what God would haue done, as hee re|quires his will to be done, to wit, willingly, readily, ioyfully, faithfully, &s;incerely, &amp; co~|&s;tantly: But if I do it, it is too too vnwilling|ly with deferring off, by halfes, with by-re|&s;pects, and but onely by fits in &s;ome &s;icke|ne&s;&s;e,
<PB N="12" REF="9"> or other cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> How can I euery day &s;ay, Giue me this day my dayly bread, to wit, that which is mine, hone&s;tly and iu&s;tly come by; and yet liue either idly or di&s;tru&s;tfully in exce&s;&s;iue care, or fraudulently, getting maintenance by coozonage and deceit, and riches by op|pre&s;&s;ion, v&s;ury and extortion, by &s;hifting, by gaming, yea by &s;wearing, for&s;wearing, rob|bery and theft, di&s;tru&s;ting continually Gods prouidence, in the v&s;e of lawfull meanes, as fearing lo&s;&s;e thereby?</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> How can I de&s;ire with &s;orrow, in &s;ight of &s;inne, the pardon of &s;inne, euen as I forgiue others tre&s;pa&s;&s;ing again&s;t me, and yet wal|low in &s;inne, as the Swine in mire, in drun|kenne&s;&s;e, adultery, gluttony, murther, &s;lan|der, lying, &s;wearing, for&s;wearing, and gree|dy coueting, al&s;o in malice, enuie, grudging, ill-will, with de&s;ire of reuenge, and in o|ther vncharitable cour&s;es?</P>
<P N="6"><HI>VI.</HI> How can I de&s;ire to bee deliuered from euill, and the power of temptations, and yet wilfully runne into ill company, hearken to ill Coun&s;ell, follow ill examples, auoiding the &s;ocietie of &s;uch as be well di&s;po&s;ed; but ea&s;ily yeelding to Sathans &s;ugge&s;tions, &s;tu|dying to fulfill the de&s;ires and lu&s;ts of the
<PB N="13" REF="9"> fle&s;h, and conforming to euery vaine fa&s;hi|on, cu&s;tome and practice of this pre&s;ent world?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, if euery man would thus aske him&s;elfe, before he begin to pray, either it would reforme him, or make him mo&s;t inexcu&s;able at the Barre of Gods Iu&s;tice, would it not?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, without all peraduenture, if a man withall con&s;ider:</P>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> That Prayer is an immediate pre&s;enting of a mans &s;elfe into Gods holy pre&s;ence, a Ma|ie&s;tie infinite and of great glory, not to be abu&s;ed with idle lip-labour.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> That hee pre&s;umeth to call God Father in Heauen, which cannot bee but by diuine grace, and by the &s;pirit of adoption, there|fore hee being gracele&s;&s;e mu&s;t needs herein abu&s;e God by claming a Sonne-&s;hip without the &s;pirit of Regeneration.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> That his owne mouth witne&s;&s;eth again&s;t his owne wayes, while hee making reque&s;t, for that which he vtterly in heart, and yet in life oppo&s;eth, and &s;o prepareth for him|&s;elfe without all excu&s;e matter of iu&s;t con|demnation, except hee v&s;e the meanes to attaine to that which in words hee &s;eemeth
<PB N="14" REF="10"> dayly to reque&s;t for him&s;elfe at Gods hands.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Can you &s;hew me how a man may bee moued to a holy life, by meditating vpon his bapti&s;me?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes: <HI>I.</HI> He must know, that by it, he is made a member of Chri&s;t, the Child of God, and an Inheritor of the Kingdome of Heaven: If he be renued by the holy Gho&s;t, reformed in life, and haue the &s;tipulation of a good con&s;cience, as all haue that bee bapti&s;ed with the holy Gho&s;t, which is that inward bapti&s;me.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> That he made a great and &s;olemne Co|uenant then before God and before the Lords people. 1. To for&s;ake the Deuill, the world, and the fle&s;h, and neuer to be led by them. 2. To fight under Christs Banner again&s;t all Christs and his &s;piri|tuall Enemies, continuing Chri&s;ts faith|full Souldier and Seruant to his liues end.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> That this Couenant thus made, &s;o &s;o|lemnely, &s;o &s;ealed with Christs pretious blood, the performance of it will be a&s;&s;u|redly required at his hands one day.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How may a man &s;tirre vp his &s;oule to the thought of heauenly things, and to a+mendment
<PB N="15" REF="10"> of life from the Lords Sup|per.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By con&s;idering what the whole action &s;et|teth forth vnto him,</P>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> A liuely repre&s;entation vnto our eyes, in the &s;ignes of the death and pa&s;&s;ion of our Lord and Sauiour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, the ble&s;&s;ed pro|pitiation and &s;acrifice for our &s;innes.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> Gods infinite mercie in giuing his &s;onne, and Chri&s;ts vn&s;peakeable loue in being willing to die for vs mi&s;erable &s;inners.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> Hereupon to iudge of the de&s;perate, and vtterly forlorne e&s;tate of all mankinde, with lo&s;&s;e of Gods fauour, and the hope of heauen, being accur&s;ed for euer and dam|ned in Hell, if this had not beene a reme|die beyond merit of all men and Angels, and the worth of ten thou&s;and Worlds.</P>
<P>And that therefore wee owe to God for this &s;o vn&s;peakable a benefit our bodies, our &s;oules, our goods, our liues, yea all and euery thing, what&s;oeuer we be, to his glory and prai&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, mee thinkes, that the&s;e things &s;hould pre&s;&s;e the mo&s;t rebellious heart that may be, to haue remor&s;e for &s;inne, and to leaue off all his impious cour&s;es, and to &s;et him&s;elfe carefully to the holy &s;eruice of his Maker and Redeemer: But
<PB N="16" REF="11"> yet I finde by experience euery where, that is not &s;o: What thinke you may be the cau&s;e, that mo&s;t, for all this, liue &s;o &s;e|curely, without any feare of Hell, and are &s;o vainely confident of their enioying of Heauen, and yet no better prepared for it?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The maine rea&s;on is the ignorance of their &s;pirituall e&s;tate through the darkne&s;&s;e that is in them, and inbred corruption dimming the eye-&s;ight of the Soule, that they cannot &s;ee what they are, nor whither they be go|ing.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>In how many things doe this ignorance of them&s;elues appeare?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Principally in two things.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Which is the fir&s;t?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>That they cannot be per&s;waded that they bee &s;o bad, as they indeed are. This con|ceit we may &s;ee in <HI>Hazael,</HI> 2. <HI>Kings</HI> 8. 13. who would no more beleeue what the Pro|phet &s;pake of his cruell nature, then hee could beleeue him&s;elfe of a man to be tur|ned into a dog: <HI>The proud Phari&s;ee</HI> denied him&s;elfe to bee an extortioner or vniu&s;t, <HI>Luke</HI> 18. 11. And yet he was full of Ra|uin, <HI>Luke,</HI> 11. 39. The Prie&s;ts in <HI>Mal.</HI> 1. 6. 7. would not be held de&s;pi&s;ers and pollu|ters of Gods Name, nor the <HI>Iewes</HI> guilty
<PB N="17" REF="11"> of blood, <HI>Ier.</HI> 2. 34. 35. nor the <HI>wicked</HI> at the la&s;t day to haue beene vnmercifull, but will out-face Chri&s;t with a flat deniall, <HI>Mat.</HI> 25. yea <HI>Peter</HI> was tainted with this conceitedne&s;&s;e for by no words of Chri&s;t, would he beleeue him&s;elfe to be &s;uch a Co|ward, as to bee brought to deny Chri&s;t, <HI>Matth.</HI> 26. and yet he did, the malitious, will not be malitious, nor the proud, proud, nor the couetous, nor the vaine glorious &s;o, nor &s;o.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How commeth this conceite to bee &s;o &s;trong in them?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Through ignorance of their owne corrup|ruptions; the deceitfulne&s;&s;e of their owne hearts, and carele&s;ne&s;&s;e to try and &s;earch out their waies, to know them&s;elues.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Which is the other thing in which the ignorance of them&s;elues appeareth?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>In being conceited that they are farre bet|ter then indeed they be. The <HI>Iewes</HI> guilty of blood, &s;aid, we are innocent, <HI>Ier.</HI> 2. 35. The <HI>blinde guides, Matth.</HI> 13. will boa&s;t that they &s;ee, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 9. 41. <HI>Rom.</HI> 2. 17. 24. They that are nothing, yet will thinke them&s;elues &s;omething, <HI>Gal.</HI> 6. 3. <HI>Zidkias</HI> will &s;uppo&s;e him&s;elfe to haue the Spirit of of God, 1. <HI>Kings</HI> 22. when it was a lying
<PB N="18" REF="12"> &s;pirit of Sathan. The <HI>Rich young man Matth.</HI> 19. 20. held him&s;elfe perfect and wanting nothing, &s;uch a conceited foole was the <HI>Laodicean Angell, Reu.</HI> 3. yea there is a generation pure in their owne eyes, and yet are not clen&s;ed from their fil|thine&s;&s;e, <HI>Pro.</HI> 30. 12.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What maketh them to be then conceited of them&s;elues?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I.</HI> A flattering humour in them, apt to &s;oothe them&s;elues in their owne conceit, <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 6. 2. And &s;o to ble&s;&s;e them&s;elues a|gain&s;t all dangers, <HI>Deut.</HI> 29. 18, 19. <HI>Amos</HI> 9. 10. <HI>E&s;a.</HI> 28. 15. <HI>Ier.</HI> 5. 12, 13. <HI>Zeph.</HI> 1. 12. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10. 6.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> Gods pa&s;&s;ing them ouer with &s;ilence, and not afflicting nor puni&s;hing them: where|vpon they thinke God to be like vnto them|&s;elues, to allow of their cour&s;es, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 50. 21. El&s;e not to &s;ee, or not to regard their wayes, or &s;eeing them, yet that hee then forgiue them; &s;o doe they put Gods Iudge|ments farre away out of their &s;ight. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10. 5, 11, 13.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> By comparing them&s;elues, fir&s;t with their owne &s;elues, looking onely vpon that which they like, and that which they thinke others will like in them, as the Phari&s;e,
<PB N="19" REF="12"> who looked vpon his fa&s;ting, praying, ty|thing, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke</HI> 18.</NOTE> and what euill he had not done, but not what euill he did. Secondly, By com|paring them&s;elues with other like them|&s;elues; doing what they doe, the Phari&s;es &s;aid, doe any of the Phari&s;es and Elders <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ioh.</HI> 7. 45. 48</NOTE> belieue on him; &s;o the fal&s;e Apo&s;tles did, 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 10. 12. Thirdly, By comparing them&s;elues with &s;uch as are in their con|ceit wor&s;e then them&s;elues; Thus the Pha|ri&s;ee preferred him&s;elfe before the poore Publican, <HI>Luke</HI> 18. And the Elder &s;onne before his prodigall brother, <HI>Luke</HI> 16. 29. Not then di&s;cerning his contempt to his Father, and his vnnaturalne&s;&s;e to his Bro|ther. Fourthly, By comparing them&s;elues with the Godly, not in beholding their ver|tues, but their falls; from which if they can finde them&s;elues cleere outwardly, then they lift vp their crests, and crow alowd in their owne prai&s;es.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> By doing &s;ometimes &s;ome things which procure them &s;ome prai&s;es with the Godly, as <HI>Iehu</HI> did, who had <HI>Ionadab,</HI> with him in his zealous pro&s;ecution of Gods Com|mand, again&s;t the hou&s;e of <HI>Ahab,</HI> and <HI>Ba|als</HI> Prie&s;ts.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> By hauing &s;ome forme of Godline&s;&s;e,
<PB N="20" REF="13"> though they be without the power thereof; 2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 5. By &s;aying &s;ome prayers, by comming to Gods Hou&s;e, they thinke the euils done is acquitted thereby, <HI>Ier.</HI> 7. 10. and they for comming to heare God: Word, to be accepted of Chri&s;t, <HI>Luke</HI> 13. 26.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>VI.</HI> By their outward pro&s;perity and wealth &s;ometimes, &s;o they doe thinke them&s;elues wi&s;e, <HI>Prou.</HI> 28. 11. and ble&s;&s;e God, becau&s;e they are rich, though the manner of get|ting be naught, <HI>Zacha.</HI> 11. 5. and hauing no changes like other men, they grow &s;e|cure without feare of euill, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10. 6.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>VII.</HI> By their con&s;cience lying a &s;leepe or dead in them, neuer troubling them, which commeth to pa&s;&s;e either through gro&s;&s;e ig|norance, or wilfull carele&s;ne&s;&s;e going on in &s;in, and &s;o grow ob&s;tinate through cu&s;tome in &s;inning: they conclude peace with God, and &s;o to be in a happy e&s;tate, <HI>Deut.</HI> 29. 19. when all this time the &s;trong man keepes hou&s;e in them, <HI>Luke</HI> 11. 21.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>VIII.</HI> Becau&s;e they liue perhaps very ciuil|ly and quietly walking in morall hone&s;ty with prai&s;e of men, ab&s;tayning from out|ward &s;candalous cour&s;es, whoredome, drunkenne&s;&s;e, coozening trickes, and other
<PB N="21" REF="13"> foule euils, which they &s;ee others to com|mit, vpon which they conciude (making withall a generall profe&s;&s;ion of Chri|&s;tianity) that they are indued with hea|uenly graces of Gods regenerating Spirit, not knowing, or not con&s;idering, that this may be but the re&s;trayning power of God, as in <HI>Abimelech. Gen.</HI> 20. 6. or feare and &s;hame with holding, as it did the Enemies of Chri&s;t, and of his Apo&s;tles; <HI>Acts</HI> 4. 14. 21. or &s;ome awe and re&s;pect vnto &s;ome man of authoritie and wi&s;edome, as in <HI>Acts</HI> 5. 34. 38, 39. or onely &s;ome pollicie to ab|staine for a time; as in <HI>Ab&s;alon</HI> and in <HI>Haman,</HI> who forbore a &s;pace from outward <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 13 22</NOTE> violence, <HI>E&s;ter</HI> 5. 10. or it may be a well tempered nature, guided by worldly wi&s;e|dome, and not by &s;auing grace.</P>
<P N="9"><HI>IX.</HI> Becau&s;e they can and doe &s;ometimes commend good things in tho&s;e that are worthy prai&s;e, doe allow of them and de&s;ire their company, as <HI>Iehu</HI> did <HI>Ionadabs, Adoniah Ionathans,</HI> 1. <HI>Kings</HI> 1. 41. <HI>Da|rius Daniels</HI> good and liberty. <HI>Dan.</HI> 6. or for that they can <HI>&s;peake again&s;t the euill deeds of others,</HI> iu&s;tly to be condemned, as did the Scribes and Phari&s;es <HI>Mat.</HI> 23. 29, 30, 34. vpon the&s;e things they con|clude,
<PB N="22" REF="14"> that they loue the Godly, and hate the wicked, and &s;o thinke them&s;elues to be in a good ca&s;e, when yet we &s;ee, how the wicked may doe as much.</P>
<P N="10"><HI>X.</HI> When &s;ome afflictions befall them, then if they can &s;ay that the&s;e are cro&s;&s;es which God &s;ends them for tryalls, or for their &s;innes, and can &s;ay with &s;ome light &s;igh, God haue mercy on vs, and can &s;ay, I pray God we may make a good v&s;e there|of, they conclude that they are penitent, that they haue made a good confe&s;&s;ion, and that they are humble, and are very good Chri&s;tians, although they remaine altoge|ther the &s;ame per&s;ons they were before. The&s;e and many other &s;uch like rea&s;ons doe make them to thinke &s;o well of them|&s;elues.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>But why doe not &s;uch labour to finde out their deceits, and learne better to know them&s;elues?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Rea&s;ons may be the&s;e:</P>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> Their not giuing Credit to their Teachers in&s;tructions, concerning the&s;e things, and the need of trying them&s;elues.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> Their not di&s;cerning wherein other either are, or can be in better ca&s;e before God, then they them&s;elues: for they perceiue not
<PB N="23" REF="14"> the inward power of Religion, and liuely effectualne&s;&s;e of grace, they being &s;en&s;uall hauing not the holy Spirit, 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 2. 9. 10, 11, 14. <HI>Iude</HI> 9.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> Their ignorance of the true meanes to finde out them&s;elues, and carele&s;ne&s;&s;e to know them; thinking the labour but a needle&s;&s;e curio&s;ity.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> Their being bu&s;ied about the World, fol|lowing their profits, or plea&s;ures, or hun|ting after honours, fulfilling the de&s;ires of the fle&s;h and the minde, as the Apo&s;tle &s;peaketh, wherewith they are &s;o taken vp, as they cannot po&s;&s;ible attend to the&s;e things of an higher Nature, and deeper &s;traine;</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> Their pre&s;umptuous conceit of mercy, and putting vp all on Chri&s;ts &s;core, without a|ny more adoe, till they come to their &s;icke bed, and to bid farewell for euer to the World.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>VI.</HI> Their liberty which in many things they take to them&s;elues agreable to their cor|rupt nature, to the fa&s;hions and cu&s;tomes of the World according to the pre&s;ent times (which they inwardly effecting, neither can, nor will let goe) &s;uffereth them not to come to a more narrow &s;earch of their
<PB N="24" REF="15"> wayes; nor to a more &s;trict examination of their cour&s;es.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>VII.</HI> The liberty which they &s;ee mo&s;t doe take: &s;uch as be of the wi&s;er &s;ort (&s;o re|puted in the world) learned men, great per&s;ons in Church and common wealth; whom they &s;et before them as patterns and doe de&s;ire to follow.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>VIII.</HI> And la&s;tly, their Iudgement indif|ferent in Religions; this or that; they holding it fit for priuate per&s;ons to profe&s;&s;e the Religion of the State, be it what it will be without di&s;pute, whether right or wrong of God or man. The&s;e if men would exa|mine them&s;elues throughly &s;hall be found the rea&s;ons, why men make no &s;traiter &s;teps in their profe&s;&s;ion of Religion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Verily it's very likely, but &s;eeing too many make an indifferency of Religion. Let mee que&s;tion you further in a few things; Tell me whether there bee any other Religion, then the true Religion?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>True Religion, is the onely Religion and is but only one; &amp; all other are &s;uper&s;titions and Idolatry, and no Religion indeed, but humane or diabolicall inuentions, drawing men from the true God and wor&s;hip of his Name.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="25" REF="15">
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is then true Religion?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>True Religion and vndefiled before God the Father, is the true wor&s;hip and right &s;eruing of him, according to his owne Will in Spirit and in Truth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Seeing fal&s;e religions will pretend much, what are the certaine markes of true Re|ligion, differing it from all the&s;e fal&s;e re|ligions?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I.</HI> It teacheth and directeth to onely one, and that the true and euer liuing God: The Trinity in Vnity, and the Vnity in Tri|nity.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II</HI> It teacheth and directeth to a true and right wor&s;hipping of the &s;ame God, in Spi|rit and Truth.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> It teacheth and directeth to one onely true Rule, euen his owne Will, made knowne hy his owne Word, how, and accor|ding to which, this his wor&s;hip is to be done and none otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> It teacheth and directeth man to the right knowledge of him&s;elfe, to know that he was perfect by Creation; but by the fall is wholly corrupted, and &s;eperated from Gods fauour, till reconciliation be made.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> It teacheth and directeth to one onely mo&s;t &s;ure and certaine meanes of mans re|couery
<PB N="26" REF="16"> into Gods a&s;&s;ured loue againe, euen by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t his &s;acrifice, mediation and interce&s;&s;ion making an attonement and purcha&s;ing for vs an eternall inheritance.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>VI.</HI> It teacheth and directeth vs how to bee thankefull for &s;o great mercies, both for matter, manner, and end, thereof in well plea&s;ing obedience to God; in duties of loue and charity to our neighbour, and to keepe our &s;elues vn&s;potted of the world.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>This indeed is true Religion, but now in your profe&s;&s;ion, can you difference your &s;elfe rightly by &s;ome one maine point or other, from all &s;orts of wicked ones; and from their paths of death and damnati|on?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Yes I &s;uppo&s;e, if you plea&s;e to try me.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How difference you your &s;elfe from the <HI>Athei&s;t</HI> and his <HI>Athei&s;me?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>By beleeuing a God, and liuing thereafter.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from the <HI>Gentiles,</HI> the Heathen I|dolatours, and their Gentili&s;me?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By beleeuing one God the true God, and wor&s;hipping him without any Idoll or I|mage.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from the meere Naturali&s;t, know|ing God by his workes, and di&s;cour&s;e of rea&s;on onely?</P>
</SP>
<PB N="27" REF="16">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>More cleerely and truely from Gods owne Word by the illumination of his Spi|rit, guiding my Iudgement therein.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from Iewes and their Iudai&s;me?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By beleeuing that their yet expected Me&s;|&s;ias, is our Lord and Sauiour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and none other; by who&s;e comming the Ceremoniall Law of Mo&s;es is vtterly a|boli&s;hed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from Turkes, and their Turci&s;|me?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By beleeuing God to be the Father beget|ting, the Sonne begotten, and the holy Gho&s;t proceeding; and that their Maho|met was a wicked Seducer, his law forged, and he a damned fal&s;e Prophet.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from all Hereticks in generall?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By holding euer the truth in loue, and ne|uer defending any Error ob&s;tinately.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>But &s;eeing their hath beene, and are many Hereticks; how doe you difference your &s;elfe from euery of them?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>They haue beene innumerable; and this were an endle&s;&s;e worke; but if you plea&s;e, aske of the&s;e which now are mo&s;t common|ly knowne, and which are often mentioned and read of.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>With a good will; How doe you diffe|rence
<PB N="28" REF="17"> your &s;elfe from <HI>Arrians</HI> and Aria|ni&s;me?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By acknowledging that Ie&s;us Chri&s;t the &s;econd per&s;on in Trinity is both God and man, as God equall with the Father, and the &s;ame &s;ub&s;tance.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from <HI>Montani&s;ts,</HI> and their Mon|tani&s;me?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By holding that the per&s;ons in the God|head are three, and di&s;tinct, that the &s;e|cond marriages are lawfull.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from <HI>Nouatus</HI> and his followers, the Cathari&s;ts, or Puritans, and Nouati|ans.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By granting that the vnfeined penitent, after their falls (though to the denying of Chri&s;t) are yet vpon their repentance, to be receiued againe into the Church. That we doe not affect to be called pure, or Puri|tans, neither doe appropriate puritie to our &s;elues before others.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from the <HI>Donati&s;ts?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By holding that the wicked pollute not the Godly in receiuing the Sacrament. That bapti&s;me is true bapti&s;me out of their a&s;|&s;emblies; That one once bapti&s;ed need not to be bapti&s;ed againe; That the vertue of the Sacrament, dependeth not vpon the
<PB N="29" REF="17"> worthine&s;&s;e of the Mini&s;ter.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from <HI>Pelagians?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By holding that mans nature is corrupt by <HI>Adams</HI> fall, That we all are borne in Ori|ginall &s;inne; That we haue not power in and of our &s;elues to beleeue, and to will and worke out our owne &s;aluation.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How from <HI>Anabapti&s;ts?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By allowing that children of beleeuing parents are to be bapti&s;ed; That children are borne with inbred corruptions, that e|lection is before all time, that prede&s;tinati|on is not of all to life, but of &s;ome, and the&s;e of his meere mercie, and not conditionally, if they repent and beleeue. That the elect called and iu&s;tified &s;tand &s;o by the grace and power of God, and not vpon their owne will, neither can they fall away totally nor finally; That Magi&s;tracie is allowed of God, and the Mini&s;tery is a calling of God, and di&s;tinctly a&s;&s;igned onely to &s;ome to ex|ecute the &s;ame.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> Browni&s;ts <HI>and</HI> Separati&s;ts <HI>and their</HI> Schi&s;me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By keeping the vnitie of the Spirit in the bond of loue with other Churches: di&s;clai|ming vtterly popular gouernment, and a &s;ingularly bold conceit of interpreting holy
<PB N="30" REF="18"> Scriptures differing from the generall iudgement of the Learned and Godly in the Church of Chri&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> Libertines?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By reuerently e&s;teeming of holy Scriptures, making them the Rule of my life, and not mine owne dreames, nor the fanta&s;ie of my owne &s;pirit, by which they iudge any thing to be lawfull, and to be done without checke of Con&s;cience, though the &s;ame in other mens iudgement bee neuer &s;o wicked, and al&s;o condemned in Scriptures, becau&s;e &s;ay they, it is by naturall inclination.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from the</HI> Familie of Loue?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By holding propriety of goods lawfull, and not a Communitie, and that I am not one per&s;on, as I am a Chri&s;tian, and another as I am a Citizen, outwardly yeelding to any Religion, &s;o bee it that &s;ecretly I keepe mine owne Religion within my &s;elfe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> Opinioni&s;ts?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By auoiding &s;ingularitie of opinion, comit|ting humbly my conception of minde euer to the iudgement and common receiued o|pinion of the Church.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from all</HI> Sectaries <HI>and</HI> Noueli&s;ts?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By keeping my &s;tanding in the Ancient Catholike veritie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="31" REF="18">
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from the</HI> Vbiquitaries?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By denying, con&s;ub&s;tantiation and belei|uing that Ie&s;us Chri&s;t according to his hu|manitie is only in Heauen, there remaining vntill his &s;econd comming, though in the meane &s;pace, Chri&s;t as God, is euery where.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>But how from the <HI>Papi&s;ts?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By giuing to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t his full and due glory, communicable to neither men nor Angels.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Is this then the maine difference be|tweene vs and them, in their robbing him of his glory?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes verily: For if I hold and beleeue Ie&s;us Christ to be, that which indeed he is, and that I doe not impart his glory to any o|ther, I can neuer be a <HI>Papi&s;t.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>In how many things con&s;i&s;ts this his glory?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Infoure things principally.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> If I doe hold and beleeue, that Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is onely and alone the &s;pirituall Head of his Church, &s;ending his holy Spirit to bee onely his generall Vicar, and not any mortall man: for this cuts off the proud bla&s;phe|mous <HI>Goliahs</HI> head, the Popes v&s;urped &s;u|premacie, and all that dependeth there|upon.</P>
<PB N="32" REF="19">
<P N="2"> <HI>II.</HI> That Ie&s;us Christ is onely and alone the Law-giuer to our con&s;ciences, and his writ|ten Word the onely infallible rule of all his wor&s;hip and &s;eruice.</P>
<P>For this cuts off their traditionall word, all the Popes lawes, and infinite humane in|ventions, burthening the con&s;ciences of Papi&s;ts.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> That Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is the onely and alone Mediator of Interce&s;&s;ion, as well as of Re|demption betweene God and vs.</P>
<P>For this cuts off their idolatrous praying to the &V;irgin <HI>Mary,</HI> Saints and Angels.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> That Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is the onely and alone Sauiour, by the meanes of his pa&s;&s;ion paci|fying Gods wrath, and purcha&s;ing for vs in Heauen an eternall Inheritance.</P>
<P>For this cuts off (not good workes done in thankfulne&s;&s;e &amp; in obedience) but the con|ceit of meriting by them; al&s;o the damned idoll of the Ma&s;&s;e, that pretended vnbloo|dy &s;acrifice, all &s;atisfactory pennance and puni&s;hment to God; this al&s;o quencheth out the fire of purgatorie, and quite marreth the Popes Market.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How doe you difference your &s;elfe from all <HI>will-wor&s;hippers?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By con&s;tantly &s;eruing God, onely as hee
<PB N="33" REF="19"> pre&s;cribeth and commandeth in his Word, without any additions of men, as part of his wor&s;hip.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Now becau&s;e euen in the true Church, all that profe&s;&s;e the Go&s;pell in peaceable dayes, are yet not right, let mee demand &s;ome Que&s;tions, touching &s;ome &s;uch: How difference you your &s;elfe from <HI>Hy|pocrites?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>By &s;eruing God inwardly, as well as out|wardly, and performing to my Neighbour all duties of loue, being giuen to good works readily, and that without vaine-glory.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Now how from a <HI>Newtralist?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By being con&s;ciably confident of the truth of my Religion; and not go halting betweene Two opinions.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> Temporizers?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By being one and the &s;ame con&s;tantly at all times.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> Machiauel-like Polititians?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By hauing my will &s;wayed by good rea&s;on, euer ruled by the power of Religion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> Luke-warme Laodiceans?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By being a Prote&s;tant euer in earne&s;t fer|uently zealous in my Christians profe&s;&s;ion, with &s;ound Iudgement.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> Prophane per&s;ons?</P>
</SP>
<PB N="34" REF="20">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By hauing alwayes an holy estimation of Religion, of Gods Word, Mini&s;tery, Sacra|ments, Prayer, and all diuine Ordinances.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from all</HI> obstinate Impenitents?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By willingly learning, humbly &s;ubmitting to, &amp; admitting of whole&s;ome reproofes, for my reformation wherein &s;oeuer I doe a|mi&s;&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> pre&s;umptuous &s;inners?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By an awefull feare of God, euen becau&s;e he is gracious and mercifull.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from</HI> Hopele&s;&s;e desperates?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By laying hold fast on the mercies of God in Christ, and beleeuing the promi&s;es of Saluation made to vs in him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How from the</HI> carnall Securitans?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>By dayly examining my wayes, by louing and longing for the appearing of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and by wayting with preparation for death, and the la&s;t iudgement Day, which the Lord ha&s;ten, and end the&s;e our dayes of &s;inning, that in glory we may prai&s;e him euerla&s;tingly. <HI>Amen, Amen.</HI></P>
</SP>
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<PB REF="20">
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