Doctrine in that 1 Cor. 7.14 15 16. noted already Quest 19. But what outward means is there then to separate and distinguish these truly from the world when these come to years of discretion Ans I have answered this Question in part too already I now adde Not to be Baptized again as some are in these dayes as if that had power of it self to convey an inward Grace or communicate the holy Ghost or to make and evidence them to be true Disciples as some dream For certainly men may be outwardly Baptized and made outside Disciples and have outward common gifts of knowledge utterance to professe the Faith of Christ and be Rebaptized and yet be but Hypocrites and no true Disciples nor Teachers Rom. 2.28 29. as were many in the Primitive times and too many amongst our selves Quest 20. What outward means then will suffice Children Baptized when they come to years of discretion to evidence them without Rebaptizing as far as any outward badge can do to be true Christians separated from the world and approved of as Members of the Church of Christ and of the Congregation of Saints Ans first a professiō of total resigning thēselves to Christ with a right preparation in themselves with gifts of Grace from Christ outward and inward evidencing the truth of their knowledge Faith and Regeneration or new conversion unto God in Christ so far as can be discerned by the Church in Christian charity Secondly a right Examination of them and their knowledge Faith and other Graces to this end with admission of them by the Church or Ministers and Elders of the Church to the Lords Supper after Examination and sufficient proof and approbation aforesaid Thirdly their joyning with the Church in that Sacrament of Establishment and confirmation of their Faith in Christ and communion with the Saints of the most high in Profession of Faith and holinesse Fourthly and lastly their Religious walking in all holinesse and good works according to their callings manifesting their Christian thankfulnesse to God for his Free-grace in Christ to Gods glory the good of Gods Church and joy of their own souls in Christ Iesus These may suffice to evidence and approve them Christians without Rebaptization or separation of themselves from the publike Preaching of the Gospel Heb. 10.22 c. and communion of Saints as the manner of some is Quest 21. What profit or comfort can there come by Baptizing of Infants Ans First It may be a comfort to the Parents in this assurance that their Children are within the Covenant of Promise when as Infidel can have no such assurance of their Children that they might praise God for such goodnes And Secondly Great profit to their Children themselves for their Instruction when they come to years of discretion what Covenant they are ingaged in by Baptism to be Gods Children and have as Children in Covenant with God in Christ right to many Prerogatives which Infidels have not no nor their Children Quest 22. What is the end and use of this Sacrament of Baptism Ans To set forth and seal First Our ingrafting into Christ as Rom. 11.17 18. 6.4 c. Secondly And our union and communion with Christ and his Church 1 Cor. 12.12 13 27. Thirdly Our putting on of Christ and Righteousnesse in graces Gal. 3.27 Fourthly To hold forth our inward washing in Christ blood partaking in the vertue of Christs death and Resurrection Rom. 6.3 4 c. Fifthly Our assurance of Repentance and remission of sins Acts 22.16 Sixthly Our Adoption to be Gods children Gal. 3.24 4.4 5. Seventhly Assurance of Eternal life when this life is ended 1 Pet. 1.9 Gal. 3.20.29 Rom. 4.11 Quest 23. But should not children be Dipped over head and ears the whole body in the Water as some thinks Iohn Baptized in Iordan and as Papists did use to Baptize their children Ans It is not the outward dipping or washing that clenseth away sin but the vertue of the blood of Christ And we read no absolute command of Baptizing in a River or washing the whole body in water nor do we believe the Iaylor and his houshold Baptized at midnight went forth to a River to be dipped all over It is sufficient to Baptize or wash part as Christ said to Peter in washing the Disciples feet He that is washed needs not have to wash his feet but is clean every whit For if Christ wash any part of the soul or body with his blood he washeth the whole man Ioh. i. 7 Rev. 5.6 Ioh. 13.8 9 10. Heb. 12.24 it needs then save to Baptize or wash the head or face of a man woman or childe with water in Baptism That may suffice to seal our Spiritual washing with the blood of Sprinkling which speaks better things then did the blood of Abel Quest 24. What say you of the Popish custom of Dipping the whole body of the childe all over in water three times First in the Name of the Father Secondly in the Name of the Son Thirdly in the Name of the holy Ghost Ans It is evident to me that they rested too much in the work done and outward action Christ giving no command for such a threefold baptizing of the body and I conceive the like of baptism of some Adversarie to Poedobaptism in a River too much magnifying the manner of the outward action of their Baptizing of their whole body of their Rebaptized Disciples For which kinde of Baptizing the whole Body or Baptizing in a River Mat. 28.19 Christ gives no word of command that we finde in Scripture in the Institution of Baptism Quest 25. You have held forth divers grounds from the Word of God to shew the lawfulnesse of Baptizing the chil-of Believing Parents But I desire the resolution of another doubt Do you believe I pray you that there is such a necessity of Baptizing children that if they die without Baptism they are damned or go to Limbo as the Papists dream and too many Popishly affected amongst us Ans I answer I believe Baptism is not a thing indifferent to be used or not used at pleasure but it is necessary to be used of Christians according to the Institution of Christ Mat. 28.20 And if it cannot be obtained by men of ripe years converted or for children of Believers yet it is to be sought for and desired in a right and due manner with the Word adjoyned unto it not resting on Baptism but on Christ for Salvation And yet I do not believe that outward baptism makes a Christians soul Gal. 6.15 or Baptism to be so absolutly necessary to Salvation or the Grace of God in Christ to be so tied unto the Sacrament that those who desire it and die without it cannot be saved or that they go into some Limbo and not into Heaven as Papists and ignorant people have dreamed Or that believing Parents should be so troubled for their children dying without Baptism as if they were
their Judgement at that Day Ans Yes 1 Thes 4.14 c. 1 Cor. 15.51 52 none excepted or priviledged but when the Trumpet shall sound and the voyce of the Archangel shall call the dead shall arise incorruptible the living shall be changed Rev. 20.12 and all shall appear before the Lord Christ to receive their sentence according to their works Quest 21. How shall the unbelievers and all wicked impenitent ones who have been enemies to the Lord Christ and to his wisdom holinesse and government stand affected at that Day Ans They shall tremble with horror Mat. 24.33 Rev. 1.7 2 Pet. 3.10 Rev. 3. 12 c. amazement and unspeakable sorrows when they shall see the Son of man the Lord Christ come in such glorious and terrible Majesty and though they cry to the Mountains to fall on them and to hide them yet they shall not escape the wrath of the then angry Lamb. Quest 22. How shall believers and the Saints of the most High be affected at the presence of Christ Luke 21.28 Act. 3.19 Mat. 1.21 Rev. 1.5 Ans They shall be affected with joy unspeakable at that day of Resurrection when they shall behold him to be their Iudge who is their Lord and Saviour and who hath washed them from all their sin in his own Blood Quest 23. What are or ought to be the affections of Saints towards Christ coming to Judgement Rom. 5.2 Heb. 9.28 1 Thes 1.10 Ans They should rejoyce in hope and look and wait daily for Christ who hath saved us from wrath to come Quest 24. Are not Gods Children then in a most happy condition above all other in the world being freely delivered from this damnable estate of the wicked and made Heirs of the grace of life Eternall Ans Yes verily the righteous is more excellent then his Neighbour Prov. 12.23 Isa 64.4 i Cor. 2.9 as it is written for the eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the hearts or men the things which God hath prepared for them that love him both in grace and glory Quest 25. By whom are we thus Redeemed from sin death and Eternall damnation and made partakers of life Eternall and to be Citizens in that Kingdom of glory Ans Only by Iesus Christ the Author and finisher of our Faith in whom God the Father is well pleased with us Acts 4.12 1 Pet. 1.11 19. Heb. 12. Matth. 17.5 The tenth Classis or Company of Questions 1 Question YOu have declared the knowledge of God and of our selves Now what should we know concerning Christ that we may draw near with comfort to this Sacrament of the Lords Supper And know more fully how the Lord doth govern us by Christ in Grace till he brings us to glory Ans We ought chiefly to know Christ First In his natures Ioh. 3.2 1 Cor. 2.2 Phil. 3.7 c. Divine and Humane Secondly In his Person and wonderfull union with our natures 1 Cor. 1.30 Iohn 1.16 2 Cor. 5 i9 c. Thirdly In his offices 1. Priest 2. Prophet 3. King exercised in Active and Passive obedience and application to both Fourthly In the glorious fruits and benefits which the Lord Iesus by his vertue and power as Mediator communicates to poor sinners for their everlasting Salvation Quest 2. How must Christ be known in respect of his nature Ans That he is perfect God and perfect Man both of a Divine and Humane nature that Immanuel God-man or God with us in our Humanity the Son of God and the Son of Man mighty to save full of grace and truth Isa 9.6 Joh. 1.14 Zach. 13.7 Isa 7.14 Joh. 3.16 Matth. 25.31 Isa 63.1 Mat. 1.21 Heb. 7.25 Iohn 1.16 Quest 3. How and when was Christ our Saviour God Ans He was God of God from all eternity not made but begotten of God the Father before all worlds and from everlasting very God of very God being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made the unchangeable wisdom and essentiall Word of God abiding God for ever Joh. 1.1.14 11. 1 Ioh. 5.20 Ioh. 10.30 1 Ioh. 5.7 Joh. 1.2 3. Col. 1.15 c. Prov. 8.12 c. Tit. 1.3 Iude 23. Rev. 19.13 1 Tim. 1.16 17. Rev. 1.11 1 Tim. 6.14 15 16. Heb. 1.8 9. Quest 4. You say Christ the Son of God in his Divine nature was God of God How I pray you do you understand that the Son of God was God of God was it or is it in respect of his Divine Essence or in respect of his Person and his filiation or Sonship only Ans This is a great mystery as is the mystery of his Incarnation But I humbly conceive and believe that in respect of the Person of the Son or of his Sonship he was God of God the Father Iohn 8.42 and is said to be God of God Light of light very God of very God But in respect of his Divine Essence he is Auto-Theos God of himself Iohn 10.30 and by himself from all Eternity and one Essence with God the Father blessed for ever Quest 5. But how can the Son of God be said to be begotten of God the Father since God the Father is a Spirituall Essence and can one Spirit be said to beget another or how might this be Ans This is a great mystery more fit for Faith to believe then Reason to apprehend nor do I know any similitude can truly and fully expresse this mystery but the learned endeavoring to give some light of it have held forth the eternall generation of the Son of God in these and the like expressions First as the minde of a man when it thinketh of and understands it self by reflection upon it self doth form and beget in it self and as it were of it self some Image or likenesse of it self though not perfect or distinctly of it self subsisting So God the Father when as he fully knoweth and beholdeth himself in his Eternity and infinity After an unutterable manner he did beget in himself the most perfect Image and expresse likenesse of himself distinctly subsisting and yet wonderfully co-essentiall with himself from all eternity and to this effect Christ is called the brightnesse of Gods glory Heb. 1.3 and the expresse Image of his person Col. 1.15 and of the invisible God and the like in holy Scriptures Secondly As a word is the Image of the minde Iohn 1.1 2. and begotten of the minde so the essentiall word is the Image of God the Father Thirdly not far different from this others expresse it thus That as a man looking his naturall face in a glasse doth beget his own image or likenesse which so long as he looketh continueth as his own expresse image though that is not subsisting by it self So God the Father beholding himself from all Eternity in the eternall glasse of his own most glorious Essence he did eternally or from all eternity beget his own Son his own
God is said to purchase the Church with his own blood which blood was ascribed to Christ-God not as God but as the Son of Man Thus you see the properties of both natures are ascribed each to other by this union Thirdly So in the 1 Tim. 2.5 there is one God and one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Iesus That office of Mediatorship is ascribed to the Manhood which is common to both natures God and Man The eleventh Classis or Company of Questions 1 Question YOu have Answered concerning the natures and Person of Christ Now what is to be known concerning Christs Offices that we may come with more comfort to the Lords Table Heb. 12.24 1 Tim. 2.5 Psal 110.1 2. Deut. 18.18 19. Psal 2.6 Luk. 1.32 33. Rev. 19.16 Ans That the Lord Christ is the Mediator of the new Covenant the eternall high Priest the eternall high Prophet and the eternall King of his Church Quest 2. What are the principle parts or acts of Christs Priestly office Ans Chiefly two First as a holy and perfect Mediator Advocate and High Priest of God not only Originally in his holy nature and Actually in his life to keep the whole Law and fulfill all righteousnesse but passively in his death and passion as our surety to satisfie the wrath of God and drink the bitter Cup for our Redemption Heb. 12.24 and 3.1 Luke 1.35 1 John 2.1 2. Mat. 5.17 and 3.15 Isa 53.5 6. 1 Pet. 2.21 c. Mat. 26.38 39. Col. 1.23 Gal. 3.13 Rom. 5.10 Quest 3. But how could Christ dye and as a surety and by his death and passion make satisfaction to Gods Iustice for our sins since he was God and man in one Person and God cannot dye Rom. 13.4 4.25 Heb. 2 1 c. Ans As he was Man he dyed for our sins and by the power of his Godhead he rose again for our Justification Quest 4. But since Christs death and passion were temporall only and but for a short time How could that satisfie the Iustice of God due to our sins and free us from torments both of soul and body which should have been Eternall Ans The sufferings of Christ in his death ahd passion Isa 53.2 c. 63.2 3 Lam. 1.12 Gal. 3.13 14. 1 Pet. 2.23 24. Mat. 26.38 39. 26.48 42. 6.74 75. 27.20 c. Luk. 22.41 c. 23.46 Acts 20.28 Mat. 17.5 1 Thes 1.10 were not only great and bitter none like as in bearing the heavy burden of our sins both in his body and soul with the anguish of Spirit in sense of the wrath of God and curse due to our sins witnessed in his Agony his bloody sweat his desire that bitter Cup might passe from him and that dolefull cry of Gods forsaking him But above all the dignity of his Person being God and Man united by a Personall union this made his merit of so unmeasurable a vertue that it was price sufficient to satisfie for a world of sinners to please God the Father free them from wrath to come and procure for them Eternall life Quest 5. But is not Christ then inferior to the Father being thus united to our humane nature and subject to such a passion for us to be our Mediator Ans Though Christ be Gods fellow and one with the Father as he is God the second Person in Trinity yet as Man Zac. 13.7 Ioh. 10.30 and Mediator between God and Men thus humbling himself Ioh. 14.28 Phil. 3.6 and suffering for our sin he is inferior to his Father though he be Mediator as God and Man Quest 6. Are Christs sufferings so great and of such value that we need not further to satisfie Gods Iustice for our sins neither in this life nor after our death and departure hence Ans The whole sufferings and satisfaction for our sins was performed and endured and finished by Christ perfectly in his death and passion once for all so that there is no more for Gods Children to suffer to satisfie the Iustice of God either in this life or after God the Father being fully well pleased in Christ and his blood cleansing us from all our sins Heb. 10.7 c. Ioh. 19.28 c. Col. 2.13 Mat. 3.7 Rom. 8.12 1 Ioh. 5.8 9 10. and 1.7 Luke 16.23 and 23.43 Rev. 14.13 Quest 7. If Christ hath satisfied fully Wherefore then are Gods faithfull servants subject to so many sufferings and miseries both inward and outward in this life Acts 14 22. 1 Cor. 15.19 2 Cor. 6.4 5 6. 1 Cor. 4.9 c. 2 Cor. 11.24 c. Isa 53.10 11. Dan. 9.24 Eph. 2.8 Ans Of all the sufferings of the Saints not any for satisfaction of Gods Iustice for sin for that is satisfied fully already in Christ and God is well pleased Mat. 17.5 Heb. 10.4 c. Tit. 3.5 Rom. 3.24 25. 1 Pet. 2.24 Rom. 8.18 nor are all the sufferings of this life worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed But the Lord afflicts and suffers his Children to be afflicted for other ends Quest 8. For what ends or causes doth the Lord afflict or cause his Children to be afflicted or suffer them many times to lose their estates and lives by tyrants and wicked persecutors as Rom. 8.35 36 37 Ans First God doth this sometimes that his Children may be Martyrs and witnesses to testifie the truth of God and the Gospel for the greater condemnation of the wicked and the glory of the Saints which God freely giveth them whom he pleaseth to honour with the Crown of Martyrdome Thus Abel the first Martyr before Christ Gen. 4.8 Thus Steven that great Martyr after Christ Acts 7.55 c. and 5.41 and 22.17 c. Quest 9. What is the second end why God suffers his Chrildren to be oppressed Ans Sometimes God doth let wicked tyrants and ungodly men go on in oppression 1 Kings 21.29 Rom. 2.17 Mat. 23.34 c. Rev. 6.10 c. for the greater manifestation of his Iustice in requiring all the blood of his servants by some fearfull Iudgements upon such bloody men and women Quest 10. What is the third end why God afflicts or suffers his Children to be afflicted since their sins are satisfied for by Christ Micah 6.8 9 Deut. 1.23 Gen. 35.1 2 3. Iudg. 2.21 22. Iob. 1.42 Gen. 27.24 28. Psal 119.71 Heb. 12.11 2 Cor. 15.14.15 Rom. 8.28 8.17 1 Pet. 4.13 Ans Sometimes God doth it to teach his Children to walk more humbly with God or more carefully and circumspectly in his wayes or to renew our Covenant of Reformation or for exercise and tryall of Fair and Patience or other graces or to fit and prepare them better for other conditions of life for which he intends them or to make them more sensible of punishment which sin deserveth or which Christ hath suffered for their sins that they may prize and love Christ more but alwayes afflictions
heavenly bread Christ for our everlasting comfort The eighteenth Classis or Company of Questions 1 Question VVHat analogy resemblance or similitude and fitnesse of agreement is there between the wine and the blood of Christ in the Sacrament Ans First Gen. 49.11 Deut. 32.14 Isa 63.2 c. Iohn 15.1 5. Luke 22.42 c. Mat. 27.24 c. as the wine is made of the blood of Grapes pressed and strained in the winepresse for the benefit of men and women so the blood of Christ was pressed out in the winepresse of the wrath of God which Christ did endure in his most bitter agony and passion for our Redemption Quest 2. What is a second resemblance and analogy between Wine and the Blood of Christ Ans As wine when it is drunken doth â—â—rm the stomack Psal 104.15 Prov. 3.6 Psal 119.13 Ier. 16.7 Mat. 26.27 c. Acts 10.28 Col. 1.10 Heb. 12.24 Iohn 1.7 Rev. 1.5 6. 5.8 c. chear up the spirits and make glad the hearts of men and women in times of sorrow as a cup of consolation of old time yea doth quicken and strengthen to labour and duty so likewise the blood of Christ received and drunken by faith doth by Christs vertue and merits warm the life of grace in the soul in assuring remission of sins purchased with his blood cherish comfort and quiet the soul and make it able and ready to every good work to the glory of God in Christ good of his Church and joy of our own hearts Quest 3. What is a third analogy or simulitude between Wine and the Blood of Christ 1. Cor. 10.3 Mat. 26.27 1 Cor. 12.4 Gal. 3.27 28. Eph. 4.3 c. Ans As many Grapes pressed together make but one wine and all that receive the Sacrament drink of one and the same blood and juice of the Grape as of the cup so all the vertue of the passion of Christ his active and passive obedience to his Fathers will for us makes one cup of precious blood for the faithful to drink and all the faithful drink of the same blood of Christ as of one cup of love to signifie and seal our union and communion with Christ and one with another in love as all made one in Christ Iesus Quest 4. Now what kinde of union and presence is this between the signes and the things signified if it be not a corporal and local union and presence Ans First for the union between the signes and the things signified though there he not a corporal or local or place union yet it is not an imaginary but a true Spiritual relation and union by vertue of which and of the Covenant of Grace in Christ the things signified are really and truly communicated to all them that lawfully and rightly partake of the outward signes in this Sacrament 1 Cor. 10.16 Quest 5. How is there a presence of the thing signified with the signes if there be not a local presence or that the things signified be not present in place with the outward signes either by way of Transubstantiation the Bread and Wine turned into the Natural Body of Christ as Papists or of Consubstantiation or of the Natural body in or under Bread and Wine as some others have imagined Ans There is a fourfold manner of presence in and by which one thing may be said to be present with another which being rightly observed a man may easily see how Christ and things signified are and may be said to be united and present to the outward signes in the Sacrament and to Believers that partake of them Quest 6. What is the first of these Heb. 2.14 Luke 24.38 c. Mat. 28.6 Acts 3.20 21. 1 Cor. 8.17 12.13 27. Ans The first a local or place-presence a bodily presence in a place as a man is present in a house as Christ was in the Temple or the Sun in the Firmament or the like and with this presence Christ may be said to be present not bodily but in respect of his Divine Person and Spirit by which he is alwayes present with his to the end of the world yet not by the presence of his Natural body either by Transubstantiation or turning the bread and wine by vertue of the Priests words of consecration into the Natural body and blood of Christ as the Papists or by Consubstantiation as if in or under the bread and wine the Natural body and blood of Christ were contained as some Lutherans have affirmed Christs Natural body though glorified being finite like ours and cannot be in multitudes of places and persons at the same moment of time But indeed is in heaven and there to continue till the day of Iudgement yet present by spiritual union with us as we are Members of his Body Quest 7. What is the second manner in which one thing may be said to be present in or with another Ans By a Sacramental sâ—mbolical Gal. 13.1 1 Cor. â—0 16 or figurative presence when a thing is represented to the minde of a man by some outward signe as a thing is represented by a word or a voyce or a man to the sight by a Picture And thus Sacramentally Christs true natural body and bloud are present as represented to the eye of the soul the minde of a believer by the outward signe of Bread and Wine in the Sacrament Quest 8. What is the third manner of presence Ans The third is a spiritual presence Heb 11 i 1 Cor. 10.3 4 5. Ioh. 8.56 when we represent a spiritual thing not present as present to and with us by Faith as faithful Abraham by the eye of Faith did see Christ day many hundred yeers before Christ was born or as by a prospective Glasse we do bring the body of the Sun or Moon or of a Star far off to be neer and as it were present to the eies of our bodies and thus Christs natural Body and Blood his passion death resurrection ascension and all his benefits are present to our souls and bodies by Faith to our joy and comfort Quest 9. What is the fourth kinde of presence in and by which one thing may be said to be present in or with another Ans This is a virtual presence when that which is distant and far off in place Mat. 28.20 Mat. 18.20 1 Cor. 10.16 is by the virtue power and efficacie present to and with us for our comfort and nourishment as the Sun in the firmament is far off in place and yet the vertue the light and warm'th of the Sun is present with us here on the earth to direct revive quicken nourish and cherish the creatures yea men and women whom experience teacheth to be refreshed by it And thus vertually Christ is present yea his natural Body and Blood whole Christ and his vertue present for the nourishment of true believers and their assurance of eternal salvation by Christ sealed in this Sacrament Quest 10.
sence of seeing both bodily by eyes of your body and spiritually by eyes of faith Ans I must still by the power of Christ exercise these three spiritual acts or actions of my soul to be exercised in every particular sacramental action 1. Diligent observation 2. Divine meditation 3. Faithful application and appropriation of all to my own soul Quest 21. How must observation be exercised by you What light shineth from Christ for your direction Ans I ought diligently by the spirit of Christ to observe the sacramental action of breaking bread Luk. 22.17 c. or powring out or giving of the wine according to the institution of Christ as it is a sacramentâ—l actâ—on for the end for which Christ appointed it Qâ— st 22. How ought you to exercise medi ation Ans By help of Christ I ought so to meditate and think of the breaking bread and powring out of the wine as to meditate of Christ crucified his body broken with torments as before noted and his blood shed for my sins Gal. 3.1 Qâ—est 23. How ought you to exercise spiritual and faithful Application and appropriation of all to your self Ans By the strength of Christ and Christs spirit strengthning and communicating strength of life from Christ to my soul I ought to apply by faith and appropriate all this that Christ hath done or suffered as done and suffered by Christ for me and my Redemption and as loving me and giving himself for me his soul to be made an offering for my sin his body to be broken with torments and his blood to be shed to the death for my eternal Redemption and salvation Isaiah 53.10 Galathians 2.20 Heb. 9.12 The twenty eighth Classis or company of Questions 1 Question VVHat is the fifth Sacramental action or objâ—ct of your sences corporal or spiritual Or upon which your sences or acts of life in your soul and body are to be exercised when you are at this holy Sacrament Ans Sacramental commemoration of the death and passsion of the Lord Iesus Christ Luk. 22.19 20. 1 Cor. 11.23 c. and of his Institucion of this blessed Sacrament the same night in whâ—ch he was betrayed his passion crucifying and death so lively set before my eyes in the celebration of this Sacrament and by Christs command to be commemorated and remembred as it is shewed forth until he come Quest 2. What are you to do in this act of commemoration Ans To exercise those three acts before specified 1. Diligently to observe how this Sacrament doth remember me of that sacrifice of the death of Christ of his inestimable love in dying for me and of the most glorious benefits that I am made partaker of in a right meeting of Christ at the Lords Table Quest. 3. What is the second 1 Ioan 4. Divine meditation I ought by the power of Christs spirit 19. Ioh. 17.20 21. to think of this memorial of Christs Death Passion and Resurrection and benefits till I be so affected with it as to rejoyce with it and never to forget this love of Christ but to be delighted with his love as to love Christ again until I come to glory with Christ Quest 4. What is the third Ans By the power of the spirit of Christ and by faith to apply the memorial of this action and passion of Christ unto my soul that it may be engraven upon my heart to be recorded and set before my eyes for ever that evening and morning and mid-day I may remember what Christ hath done for my soul and Christs love may for ever be in my heart and I may say as the Apostle Gal. 2.20 Christ loved me and gave himself for me Qâ—est 5. What is a sixth Sacramental action object or act on Christs part or on yours which is the object of your senses corporal or spiritual or in which these senses operations or actions of the soul and body are to be exercised in this holy Ordinance of Christ Ans Christs congratulation or Sacramental welcom he gives to his faithful prepared guests Take eat Take drink yea all of this and thus bidding them welcom 1. As in the Institution of Christ is evidently set forth unto us Mat. 26.26 27 28. Luke 22.19 20. 2. As Christ invited his Spouse his Church and children Canticles 5.1 Eat friends and drink abundantly O beloved that is eat abundantly not of the outward bread and drink abundantly not of the outward Wine but eat spiritually of the body of Christ by faith and the merits of Christ crucified for me and drink abundantly of the vertue of Christs blood which was shed for me For Christs flesh is meat indeed and Christs blood is drink indeed Ioh. 6.51 c. If I thus eat of Christs flesh and drink of Christs blood I shall live for ever Quest 6. What is to be acted by you And how are your corporal and spiritual sences to be exercised in this congratulation or heavenly welcom which Christ gives your soul at this Table Ans First a diligent observation of this welcom when I hear it with the ears of my body from the voyce of Christs Minister speaking comfortably cheerfully to me from Christ as to a prepared believing penitent humble hungry communicant Take and eat Take and drink in the Name of Christ bidding me welcom to Christs Table as Mat. 26. Luke 22. Quest 7. What is a second thing to be acted Answ A Divine meditation as if by the ears of my soul I did at the same time hear the voyce of Christ as once he spake to his Disciples at his last Supper so now speaking to my soul from heaven and bidding me welcom Eat my friend and drink my beloved I have loved thee I have given my self for thee I have given thee my body crucified my bloodshed for thee and for many for remission of sins feast and refresh thy soul with abundance of assurance of my love to thee at my Table O poor believing hungry and humble soul thou art welcom here in and amongst my congregation of Saints at my Table of grace and thou shalt one day be welcom and eat and drink heavenly and gloriously with me at my Table of glory in the Kingdom of heaven for ever Matthew 22. Luke 22.19 Quest 8. What is the third Ioh. 4.14 15. 6.33 c. Answ A sweet and short ejaculation or ejaculatory and darting prayer to this or this like in effect Even so Lord Iesus I blesse thy name for this sweet assurance of being welcom to thy Table strengthen my faith enliven mine eyes and hand and mouth of faith that I may see and discern thy body and thy blood I may so receive and feed on thy body and blood that I may finde and feel and enjoy such an everlasting vertue and sap and juyce of life from thee my Saviour which may enliven and strengthen thy life of grace in me here in this life to life everlasting in the
world to come Quest 9. What it the seventh Sacramental act or object held forth as from Christ by his Ministers on which your corporal and spiritual sences acts and operations of soul and body are to be exercised by the power of Christ Ans Sacramental Foederation or Covenant-promises held forth by Christ to his Disciples the night before his Passion 1 Cor. 11.23 c. when he did Institute this Sacrament and held forth now to my soul in this Sacrament of the Lords Supper Quest 10. Wherein doth this Sacramental Foederation or Covenant consist Ans In those promising words of Christ to his Disciples the same night he was betrayed First when he took bread and brake it and said This is my Body which is given for you as is recorded Luke 22.22 or which is broken for you as blessed Paul expressed 1 Cor. 11.24 that is this Bread which I thus take in my hand and give to you is my Sacramental body by which another thing is meant for this Bread thus broken and given signifieth and sealeth and communicateth to you and assureth you of this my natural body which is now with you which you now see with your bodily eyes as well as you do this Bread which I break and give unto you Matthew 26.26 27. Quest 11. Wherein further doth this promise appear Ans And secondly in that it is as much as if the Lord had said further as verily as I do now give you this Bread broken as my Sacramental Body so verily I do now promise to give you this my natural body to be crucified and broken with torments for you and for many and this my promise and Covenant I do seal to you in giving you this Sacramental body of mine this Bread so blessed and broken yea behold the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the Table this night will Judas betray me with a kisse and the servants of the High-Priest shall take me and shall lead me to be accused and condemned and crucified not for any sins of my own but for your sins Ioh. 10.15 I say and not for yours only but for all my sheep for whom I do willingly lay down my life and do by this Sacramental Covenant and Promises engage my self to lay down my life for yours and their salvation and I do appoint this Sacrament that you may never forget my love thus witnessed by my death and thus held forth and sealed to you And this is my promise which you shall see performed after few dayes read Matthew 26 and 27 Chapters and Luke 22 and 23 Chapters 1 Cor. 11.23 24. Quest 12. But doth not the words of Christ in blessing and giving of the Wine hold forth the same Sacramental promise Ans Yes verily for at the same time he took the cup and gave thanks and gave to them saying Drink ye all of this and then he giveth them the same promises as a reason why they should drink of that cup for saith he This is my blood of the New Testament which is sealed for you and for many for remission of sins as Mat. 26.27 21. and in Luke 22.22 compared may appear this is my blood of the New Testament or of the New Covenant the Covenant of Grace to your souls not that the Bread broken is my natural body which shall be crucified for you or that the Wine in the cup which I now give unto you is my natural blood which shall be shed for you But these are my Sacramental body blood signifying and sealing this promise for as verily as I do now give you this cup this Wine to drink which I call my blood of the New Covenant because it is a seal and pledge and earnest of my blood which I do now this night promise shall be shed for you within few dayes and as sure as I now give you my Disciples this Wine to drink so verily do I now give you my blood to be shed for you Mat. 26.27 28. and for many for remission of sins and this my promise shall be speedily verified and fulfilled For that as if Christ had said this night when as anon we shall go out to the Mount of Olives according to our trust 1. Some of you shall see that my Agony and bitter Passion will begin Ioh. 1.19 when in sense of the heavy burden of sins which the Lord my Father hath laid upon me and which as a Lamb of God I take away even the sins of the world and which I have most willingly undertaken to bear for you and for all my people whom I will save from all their sins Mat. 1.21 the burden of which are so great that I shall desire if it were my Fathers will this cup of wrath so bitter might passe from me 2. You shall see my Agony will be so vehement and grievous that I shall sweat even great drops of blood 3. And you shall see it more when being crowned with thorns and crucified with Nails in my hands and feet and my side pierced with a spear my blood my hearts blood shall flow in abundance for your sakes This I promise Isa 53. Mat. 26.27 Luk. 22.23 Mat. 1.21 1 Cor. 11.24 c. and this you shall see performed even with your own eyes and that within three dayes this I conceive humbly to hold forth plainly the Sacramental promises of Christ in this Sacrament as by comparing the Prophets and Evangelists and the Apostle Paul you may finde evident Quest 13. This indeed may hold forth that promise that Christ made at his last Supper and the institution of this Sacrament before his Passion and which he did promise and fulfil when he died for us But how can the same words be a Sacramental pnomise to you who desire to come to the Lords Table Ans Yea verily the same promise of Christ continueth in force in respect of the vertue truth power and efficacy of it to my believing soul and to all Believers to the end of the world Quest 14. How can this appear and upon what grounds Heb. 13.8 Ans First Christ Jesus is the same yesterday for the benefit of his Church yesterday and to day 1 Cor. 10.2 3. and for ever And as the Patriarks before Christ did all eat of the same spiritual meat drink the same spiritual drink and drunk of the spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ believing the promises they fed on Christ the Messiah then to come by vertue of the promise Secondly As the Apostles in the first Institution and participation of the Sacrament did by faith feed on Christs body 1 Cor. 12.24 c. which was then promised to be given to be crucified for them and drink of his blood which was then promised to be shed for them and of which they were assured by that word of Christs promise even so likewise I now being a believing humbled hungry soul do now by
vertue of the same promise of Christ who hath performed and sealed now in the Sacrament what he promised Receive assurance that Christ hath given his body to be crucified and given his blood to be shed for my sins And thirdly by the same Sacramental promise I am now assured that I shall receive all the vertue merits and efficacy of the body and blood of Christ necessary for assurance of my Justification sanctification and salvation as assuredly as if I had been present when Christ spake those words or made that promise to his Disciples or that I did now hear the bodily voyce of Christ now speaking unto me from heaven by the ear of my body as he speaks to the ear of my body by his Minister and now speaks to the ears of my believing soul by the voyce of his spirit perswading and enabling me to believe the truth of these Sacramental promises Fourthly Therefore I conclude that I may eat and drink at this Table to my joy and comfort Now I may be assured that Christ gave his body to be crucified and his blood to be shed for my sins or that he loved me and gave himself for me Quest 15. What now is to be acted by you when you hear and see the Sacramental promises held forth unto you Ans I may follow the former Directory in a threefold respect 1. Diligent observation of the promisory words This is my body given for you broken for you This is my blood shed for you and for many for remission of sins Take and eat Take and drink 2. A divine meditation of this promise the same or like effect as before is declared in the Paraphrase of it in answer of the former Question 3. A sweet and rejoycing Application by faith of this promise to my own soul Mark 14.22 23. for my comfortable emboldning and encouragement to take and eat take and drink and feed on Christ to my souls cherishing comfort and the refreshing of life of grace in my heart Quest 16. What is the eighth Sacramental action object or subject in this Ordinance of Christ in and about which your senses acts or actions corporal or spiritual may be exercised when you are at the Lords Table Ans Sacramental participation 1. In taking and eating of that Bread the Sacramental body of Christ and taking and drinking that Wine the Sacramental blood of Christ with the hand and mouth of the body Matthew 26.26 27. 2. In taking and feeding on Christs body crucified 1 Cor. 10.16 and taking and drinking of Christs blood shed for me and of the vertue power and merits of Christ and all the benefits of Christs Passion Death and Resurrection not corporally or carnally with hand or mouth of my body but spiritually by a true and lively feeling apprehending and applying faith which is the hand and mouth of my soul to strengthen and nourish my soul and body my life of grace in me to life Eternal Quest 17. What may be done for better quickning your soul in this participation of Christ and this blessed feast at Christs Table Ans 1. I may and ought to observe diligently this rich feast upon which I feed Isa 25.6 as a feast of fat things which the Lord promised his people a feast of fat things full of marrow a feast of wines on the lees well refined Yea not onely Bread and Wine for my body but Christ himself and all his rich benefits to feed my soul Iohn 6.27 c. to strengthen my life of faith by the living vertue of Christ ingrace till I get possession of glory Quest 18. What is the second Ans A divine meditation of Christ as of the Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God Gen 2.9 3.22 Re. 22.2 22.17 Ioh. 4.14 Phil. 4.11 c. of which whosoever eateth shall live for ever as a Tree of Life yea a Tree of life which beareth twelve manner of fruits and yield fruit every moneth and oftner if I meet Christ oftner in his Ordinances yea living fruit which hath a living vertue to revive and quicken a dying fainting soul to strengthen a weak and almost decaying grace as of Knowledge Faith Repentance Love Joy Peace contentment in my heart yea the very leaves of this Tree Christ are good to heal all diseases and infirmities in a soul every taste of Christ in this feast is restaurative filling my dead heart with cheerful and soul-rejoycing spirits of life vital spirits indeed as from Christ himself that everliving fountain of water of life springing up in me to life eternal so that I may and can do all things and glorifie God with sweet contentment and rejoycing delight in every condition through Christ that strengthneth me Quest 19. What is the thing in exercise whereof your soul may be more fully revived and strengthned in the participation of Christ at the Lords Table Ans 3. A lively faithful application Psa 27.8 Cant. 5.1 Psal 19.10 Iohn 6.57 58. in feeding by faith upon Christ and the assurance of Christs love unto me a sweet spiritual eccho answering of Christs welcom as if thou shouldst say Lord thou bidst me eat and drink and welcom yea eat thy flesh and drink thy blood in and by believing that thou gavest thy body to be crucified and thy blood to be shed for my sins Now by faith I do eat by faith I do drink I do feed on thee I do rejoyce in thee I finde sweetness in thee above all the sweetness in the world sweeter then the hony and the hony-comb still feed thou my soul and shew me thy gracious and thy glorious refreshings more and more until I come to feast with thee in glory Quest 20. What is the ninth Sacramental object act action fruit or benefit in this feast of the Lord in and about which you should exercise your senses acts and operations of body or soul in or at this blessed Sacrament Ans That Sacramental union or communion with Christ and the Saints of God fellow-members of Christ and those most refreshings from Christ in the enjoyment of Christ and his spiritual and most joyful presence to my soul held forth in these Sacramental promises which Christ the God-man hath spoken in his holinesse and which makes my soul rejoyce within me and having the present possession of Christ in feeding on Christ spiritually eating his flesh and drinking his blood and so having an admirable union communion with Christs Iohn 6.56 Psal 16.12 in enjoyment of all his benefits Christ now dwelling in me and I in him as one day I shall in his presence have fulnesse of joy and pleasures for ever more Quest 21. What may you now do by vertue of Christ Or What acts of your soul may you exercise Or in what may you wait on Christ for your greater profit and comfort in this most gracious union and communion with Christ and the Saints Rom. 8.17 the heirs
Sacrament Ans First I am to joyn with the Minister of Christ 2 Cor. 2.14 Col. 1.12 13. and the congregation of Saints in solemn thanksgiving unto God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost for the inestimable gift of the Lord Iesus Christ for his taking our humane Nature upon him that he might be a fit Mediator betwixt God and my soul to reconcile me to God for his Passion Death Resurrection Ascention and Intercession and all his rich merits and benefits of my Redemption Vocation Iustification Sanctification and Glorification so gloriously set forth and sealed and so graciously communicated in this Sacrament to my soul and to all Saints with me at the Lords Table Secondly Humbly and faithfully to joyn in Petition for assurance that all failings and infirmities in my performances are pardoned in Christ my pardon sealed my person whole service accepted with the sweet merits and incense of Christs righteousness upon the golden Altar with a continual influence of power and vertue from Christ that all the congregation of Saints may keep covenant with the Lord and declare our thankfulnesse by our fruitfulnesse in all good works as becometh the people of God who have received so great ahd assuring plesges of the love of God to us in Christ and of our eternal salvation in and by the Lord Iesus Quest 21. What is the fourth and last thing to be acted or joyned in with the Congregation Ans Divers particulars 1. After the example of Christ to glorifie God in a holy Hymn or Psalm if it be thought fit praising the Lord for his goodnesse to his Church in Christ Iesus and to his congregation present in his Ordinance And secondly waiting for the blessing giving in and with which the congregation is dismissed according to the practise of Christ the Apostles and Churches of Christ as of old to leave the people of God with a blessing as Numb 6.22 c. 2 Sam. 6.17,18 1 Kings 8.55 c. Luke 22.50 51. And the blessing which the Apostle gave when they took leave of the Church in several Epistles as Rom 16.24 c. 2 Corinthians 3.15 And thirdly I should return home with rejoycing as the Eunuch did after he was baptized or the two Disciples who met with Christ as they went to Emmaus and take notice my self and tell others how my heart burned within me and how my souls was affected 1. With grief for my sins And 2. With joy in my Saviour while I heard Christ talking with me 1. Outwardly by the voyce of his Minister 2. Inwardly by the voyce of his spirit at his Table and how it was declared out of the Scriptures that Christ ought to suffer that his most bitter Passion and cursed Death for my sins and to rise again for my Iustification and so to enter into his glory And 3. How Christ was known to me in the breaking of the Bread in the powring out of the Wine and in Christs giving and my receiving of those soul-reviving and soul-cherishing refreshing which I enjoyed at his Table And 4. And lastly by the strength of Christ and this refreshing from Christ I am resolved with the assistance of the spirit of God the Father and God the Son and of God the holy Ghost daily to keep in memory that feast of the Lord with that sweet welcom I had at the Lords Table and in this or the like manner to bespeak my soul every morning O my soul thou hast this night received a sweet refreshing from the Lord for thy body praised be the Name of thy God and Father in Christ who is the keeper of Israel who never slumbreth not sleepeth who hath kept thee from the dangers of this night past and brought thee to the light of this day who hath awakened thee out of sleep and given thee a kinde of Resurrection from the dead Quest 22. How may I stir my soul to this Ans In this or the like manner Now O my soul be thou awakened and break thy fast with Christ and call to minde the sweet refreshing the Lord did give thee the last Sacrament at his Table and in what thou didst see and hear 1. His invitation to draw near and partake of the feast that he hath prepared 2. Didst thou not see Bread and Wine set upon the Table and with the eye of faith didst thou not behold Christ himself prepared for thy spiritual refreshing 3. Didst thou not hear the Minister of Christ consecrate those Elements to that holy use and with the ear of faith hear how God the Father had consecrated and sealed his beloved Son Iesus for thy Redemption 4. Didst thou not see the Bread broken and Wine powred out and by the eye of faith see Christs body broken with torments and his blood shed to the death for thy sins to Redeem thee from Hell and death eternal 5. Didst thou not hear Christ bidding thee welcom Take eat this is my body Drink this is my blood which is shed for thee and for many for remission of sins Mat. 26.26 27 c. 6. Didst thou not observe and believe those Sacramental promises assuring that Christ loved thee and gave himself for thee and as verily as Christs Minister having blessed and broken the Sacramental Bread and blessed and powred out the Sacramental Wine did present and give them unto thee to eat and to drink so verily hath Christ given and did Christ present and give and reach out himself for a spiritual and heavenly refreshing to thee to nourish thee to life eternal according the the Govenant of Grace 7. O my soul didst thou not take and eat the Bread and take and drink the Wine and so spiritually feed on the body and blood of Christ that in strenght thereof thou mightest walk thy great journey of this life not as Elijah fourty dayes and fourty nights to Horeb the Mount of God but to Heaven Gods Kingdom of glory 8. O my soul didst thou not actually renew thy Covenant with the Lord as God in giâ—ing and thou in actual receiving and partaking of these seals and pledges of his love consider thy self what hast thou now to do any more with sin and Satan with the World the Flesh or the Devil with any sin of omission or commission that may grieve the spirit of life Remember thy Covenant thy Promises thy Vow thy Protestations to thy God and be conscientious by the power of Christ to keep them all the dayes of thy life 9. O my soul was there not a soul-satisfying feast set before thee at that time never to let thee to return to the feast of sin again 10. And was it not the command of Christ to celebrate that Sacrament in remembrance of him Acts 8.39 Luk. 14.13 Phil. 4.11 c. 2 Tim. 4.7,8 and what he hath done for thee O then remember that holy feast every morning when thou awakest every evening when thou goest to bed Thus thou maist feed daily on
the servants and apprentices Titus 2.9 is to be well pleasing to seek to please their Masters and Mistresses Gen. 13.8 and fellow servants in all lawfull and good things as Brethren and Sisters Gen. 24.33 34 35. Gen. 24.37 41. and keep quietnesse in the Family and to performe their Covenants to and with their Masters and Mistresss es when they are with them and to Respect them as their Fathers and late Antient a Masters when they are freemen and departed from them yet then to have an honourable respect of them as is comely in the Lord. Question 24. You have manifested the duties of Servants and Apprentices towards their Masters and Mistresses now declare I pray you what light the Lord Christ hath held forth in Scripture to discover the sinnes of servants and Apprentices contrary to these duties Answ The Scripture and Christ in the Scripture revealeth divers sins of servants and Apprentices as First the Servants and Apprentices doe sinne in not loving and honouring their Masters and Mistresses 1 Tim. 6.1 2 3 4 5. Rom. 13.7 or in any way hating of them despising dishonouring or discrediting of them especially refusing or not receiving Instruction Pro. 13.18 Psal 50.17 but hating it from Masters and Mistresses or in not submitting to be Catechized by them in the truth of Christ and their duties Prov. 15.32 according to the word of God and that light their Masters and Mistresses have received from Christ Jesus If Abrahams duty be to Catechize his Family and command them to know the Lord and his will Gen. 18.18 19. Matt. 8.8 9. Job 19.16 Mâ—tt 24.48 49.50 c. Ephes 6. With good wâ—ll doe service as to the Lord not men 1 Cor. 15.33 Judg. 5 9 Titus 2 9. 2 Cor. 9 7. Matt. 25.26 Rom. 11.12 Prov. 10.4 Prov. 12.24 Prov. 18 9 Prov. 6.6 Prov. 10.26 Jerem. 23.24 Titus 2.10 Luke 16.1.2 8. Zacâ—ar 5.4 Ephes 4.28 Ephes 6.5.6 John 8.44 Psal 101.7 Levit. 19.11 Coloss 3.9 2 Sam. 16.3 2 Sam. 19 27. Jere. 17.9 Revel 2.23 Revel 21.8 Revel 22.15 Acts 5.31 then the servants and apprentices duty is to learn and submit to be Catechized and Instructed by them and the contrary is sinne in any whosoever Secondly it is a sinne in servants and apprentices to be rebellious or disobedient to the just commands of their Masters or Mistresses or to do their commands and directions unwillingly and grudgingly or with murmurings and repining with denyings or evill words which câ—rrupt good manners and manifeâ—â— their disobedience which is sinne as contrary to the Rule of Christ by the Apostle God cannot abide unwilling or grudging service Thirdly servants and apprentices sinne in being idle carelesse sluggards negligent or sloathfull to do service or to performe the will direction and lawâ—ull orders of their Masters and Mistresses without diligence and faithfull endevotr in absence as well as presence of Superiors Fourthly servants and apprentices sinne in doing their service unfaithfully and unâ—ustly when they purloine rob and steale from their Masters or Mistresses when they waste or mispend their Masters goods or embezell them any manner of way Fifthly the servants and apprentices sinne in not serving their Masters in sincerity and truth in word or deed but with lying fraud and deceit a servant must not tell his Master an untruth he must not lie for or against his Masters profit but speake truth as knowing that the Lord knoweth the heart least with lying Gehezi hee get the curse of a Leprosie to his shame and hell for his portion except God give graces of faith and Repentance in Christ Jesus Sixthly Malac. 1.6 the servants sinne in not keeping all their Masters counsells and secrets which ought not to be revealed or in dishonouring or seeking the discredit of their Masters or Mistresses 1 Pet. 2.18 19. or their disprofit contrary to the true and lawfull trust reposed in them and not subjecting to fit correction if they faile in duty Seventhly Titus 2.9 Ch istian example Rom. 15.1 2 3. Rom. 1.30 31. Hester 2.7.20 Hester 8.1 the servants and apprentices sinne in not endevouring to please but wilfully or carelessely displeasing them nor performing their covenants with their Masters while they are with them not honouring them when they are departed from them as good servants ought to honour those who have nourished taught and respected them as good and wise Masters ought to respect servants and apprentices and as children their foster Parents to honour them when they are from them as Queene Hester did to Mordecai Quest 25. You have given a light for servants and apprentices to see their duties and their sinnes and failings now what light have you from Christ to reveale how servants and apprentices may get not onely assurance of pardon for their sinnes but wisdome and power to performe these duties and avoid these sinnes and failings that so they may walke comfortably with Christ in their callings and course of their lives Ans Onely in and by Christ who is made unto us of God Wisedome 1 Cor. 1.30 and Righteousnesse and sanctification and Redemption Therefore Servants and apprentices must seeke unto and waite upon Christ in the Gospell as to the fountaine opened to the house of David for sinne Zâ—ch 13.1 1 Iohn 1.7 and for uncleannesse that by his Bloud they may be cleansed from all sinne Secondly they must seeke to Christ as to the Tree of life in the middest of the Paradise of God that beareth fruit every month Revel 2.22 and the leaves are good to heal the nations with Seek to Christ for health of soule and life power to strengthen and quicken them with wisdome and strength of grace to performe their duties Thirdly Gen. 24.12 26.27 servants and apprentices they must imitate that Religious practize of Abrahams faithfull servant John 16.23 pray to God to blesse their endeavours as he did O Lord God of my Master Abraham I pray thee send me good speed this day thus seeking in the name of Christ they shall finde a blessing to their comfort Quest 26. But what if in all these meanes and performances of duties on each part Husbands cannot find good Wives nor Wives finde good Husbands Parents not finde good children or children good Parents Masters not finde good servants nor servants although they performe their duties cannot find good masters what is the duty of each one in such condition Ans The Husband is to pray for his Wife and the Wife for her Husband the Parents are to seeke the Lord for their children and the children for their Parents the Masters for their servants and the servants for their Masters and to use all good meanes that in and by Christ their hearts may be changed their corruptions mortified Luke 9.23 and their infirmities healed and to beare their crosse Heb. 12.2 and endure the affliction with patience looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of