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A28901	A light from Christ leading unto Christ by the star of his word, or, The rich jewel of Christian divinity practically explained in the principles enlightening the children of God how to meet Christ in his ordinances and by strength from Christ to walk comfortably with Christ in the whole course of their lives ... by way of catechism or dialogue, not to answer verbatim or by wrote ... but each one according to his own sence and understanding of the question / by Immanuel Bourn of Ashover in the county of Derby, now preacher of the Gospel to the congregation in Sepulchres C.L.	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1646 (1646)	Wing B3855; ESTC R35779	307,398	743

their dayes Constantine the Great and other Christian Princes in later Ages Yea Isa 49.23 to be as Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers to Christs Church In the Primitive times the Church was exceeding vigilant for this duty of Catechizing they had their Catechumens Noble Theophilus was Catechized in the way of the Lord Luk. 1.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so the Greek importeth That thou maist know the truth of those things in which thou hast been Catechized Acts 18.25 And Apollos was Catechized and many Catechumens were after in the Church therefore they had their Catechists or Catechizers also after the Apostles times Cyprian Epist 24. Eusebius Eccl. hist lib. 3 c. 12 their Docto● s audientium as St. Cyprian calls them Teachers of the Catechumens such a one was Pantenus such was Origen Clemens Alexandrinus and others And for this end divers holy and learned men have both in Ancient and Modern times composed Catechisms as helps and furtherances for this excellent work Heb. 5.12 6.1 2 3. The Apostle to the Hebrews sets down a brief Catechism containing the first Principles of the Oracles of God Learned Hierom tells us there was a Catechism written by Cyril Bishop of Jerusalem and another by John Bishop of the same place Betulaeus Com. ad Lact. lib. 2. cap. 11. which Betulaeus mentioneth in his Commentaries upon Lactantius I passe many other in after Ages our late learned Writers Mr. Calvin Musculus Peter Martyr Ursinus Bucanus Beza Danaeus Zanchius Alstedius Mr. Virel Our English Mr. Nowel Mr. Perkins Mr. Egerton Mr. Dod Mr. Baal Mr. Downame Mr. Allen Dr. Twisse Dr. Majer and many other laborious workmen in the Lords Vineyard What are their sums of Divinity but Catechisms some larger some lesse and all witnesse as their desire so their approbation of this most necessary work of Catechizing Now the great benefit that I have found by experience in this way of Catechizing excellent light somtimes communicated to poor aged people as well as Children And my experience of the present necessity of all that true light which is or may be afforded by any of the Lords Servants Labourers in his Vine-yard the better to prevent Ignorant and Scandalous persons from approaching the blessed Sacrament and to remove dark ignorance and give light to heal the diseases of poor wandring souls hath moved me to cast my Mite into Christs Treasury Luk. 21.1 c. and to hold forth in this Catechism following what Light I have received from Christ to lead unto Christ on whom waiting in use of all good means a fulness of light may be communicated in Gods good time to poor hungry souls and that to their joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1.8 I most humbly present it to Your Honours not that I think any thing of mine in it is worthy of such an Honour but what is in it of the Lord Jesus Christ and his Spirit of Truth and Grace to whom all the Honour belongs Nor that I am not perswaded of Your Honorable and Religious care already for what is or may be fitting in this kinde Nor to prevent the learned and godly labours of any of my Reverend Brethren the Religious Assembly of Divines whose indefatigable endeavours I pray God to direct and blesse to his glory and the good of his Church but to be a light to those who stand in present need and want better directions And to conclude Luk. 2.32 Ioh. 1.9 that the true Light of Christ may more fully shine forth into darkned souls longing after Light Isa 8.20 and all false Lights daily and more duly be discovered that the true light Christ Jesus and his commands may be more fully followed Is 9.6 7. and all false light of Error or Heresie avoided that the light of the Sun of Righteousnesse may not only more richly enlighten Your Honours who are as so many glorious Stars in the firmament of the Common-wealth but may shine gloriously in all the dark corners of the Land Mat. 4.15 15. that as the glorious God hath so highly Honoured You already to begin and lay the foundation stone in the beautiful building of his House the blessed work of Reformation so he will Honour You further to lay the Top stone thereof Zac. 4.7 that all the Christian Princes and Churches in the world may with rejoycing cry Grace Grace unto it And all this by the strength of the great Jehovah For nor by might nor by power Zac. 4.6 but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts That Your Excellencies may be enabled in Gods due time to take particular notice of the Thousands of Churches or Congregations in the Kingdom which want not only learned able faithful and honorable Pastors and Teachers to Preach and Catechize and hold forth the light of Christ unto them but want honorable and comfortable maintenance or encouragement fit for so honorable and great a work of the Lord Christs Ambassadors the faithful Ministers of the most high and mighty Prince the Lord Jesus Christ In a word that if it be the will of God our Soveraign Lord King Charls may be truly enlightned by the light of Christ to see the false light of all evil counsels either from his own heart or any others and may return fully convinced in conscience and rest fully satisfied by his evident experience of the mighty works of Jehovah the great God of Battel in the most faithful Counsels of thi● High Honorable and Highly Honoured Parliament that He and His Posterity may love and Honour You and Yours from Generation to Generation as those who have been His best and most faithful Counsellors that Gods blessing may be upon all the three Kingdoms that Truth Peace Unity and Unanimity in the true light of the Lord Jesus with the God of Truth and Peace of Love Unity and Unanimity may dwell amongst us in Grace until that great King Christ shall come in the Clouds of Heaven and translate us all with all his Saints unto Eternity in Glory All which is and shall be the most humble faithful sincere and hearty Prayer of Your Honours most unworthy most humble daily Orator at the Highest Throne of Grace IMMANUEL BOURN London from my Study in Sepulchres May 1. 1646. To the Right Honorable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor The Right Worshipful Sir Nicholas Rainton Knight Isaac Pennington Sir John Wollaston Knight Thomas Atkin Sir John Cordel Sir Thomas Soam Sir Iohn Gayer Sir Iacob Gerrard Knights Iohn Warner Abraham Reynardson Sir George Garret Sir George Clark Knights Iohn Langham Thomas Andrews Iohn Fowke Iames Bunce William Gibbe Richard Chambers Thomas Cullum Simon Edmons Samuel Avery Iohn Bide George Witham Aldermen Thomas Foot and Iohn Kendrick Aldermen and Sheriffs of the Honorable City of London With the several Families of and within the said City and the Lives of Communication and especially the Beloved Congregation and particular Families of

and within the Parish of Sepulchres a daily increase of Light from CHRIST Right Honorable and Beloved in the Lord Christ THe many burning and shining lights my Reverend Brethren the faithful Ministers of Christ in this Famous City most graciously holding forth the blessed Light of Christ in their constant Preaching the Gospel of your Salvation Eph. 1.13 with their glorious abilities and readinesse to Catechize and instruct both yong and old Acts 20.20 in publike and from house to house known to many of your selves by sweet experience and to my self by assured evidence might well seem to commend my silence rather then this seeming presumption to be a Remembrancer to you or a furtherance of the necessary Duty of Catechizing to this Illustrious and to this day wonderfully preserved City But love and duty on my part and hope of Christian acceptation on yours emboldens me to declare my desires and endeavors for a blessed increase of the true light of Christ amongst your dwellings and in your several Families Me thinks my heart is indicting of a good matter and I cannot but speak the things that pertain to Londons Peace Duo sunt Reipublicae Christianae firmamēta veritas pax praefat Synopsis purioris Theolog. c. Truth and Peace are said to be the stays and pillars of a Christian Common-wealth and so they must needs be of a Christian City yea of the Church of Christ the communion of Saints The Prophet Zachary prefers Truth in the first place and makes Peace to follow in order I may joyn a third as a concomitant or accompanying Grace this is Vnity and Vnanimity especially in the true light of Christ all to go hand in hand together a Brotherly walking in the light of Truth revealed by Christ in the sacred Scriptures Behold how good and joyful a thing it is for Brethren to dwell together in Unity Zac. 8.19 Ierusalem is builded as a City that is compact or at Vnity in it self So is London this glorious City Ps 133.1 122.3 Honorable and Honoured Christians and my daily Prayer is and shall be that as it is in your beautiful Habitations in many parts of it so it may be united and continue to be as one glorious building in your mindes hearts wills and affections and principally in that blessed light of Truth and true Religion I would to God there were not too many different lights glimmering like Glow-worms in dark corners leading aside sometimes some of your dearest Consorts your beloved Children Servants and Apprentices into wayes of different if not contrary walkings from the true light of Christ breeding Divisions even in Families the most Ancient Common wealths One chief Reason I am assured is want of Catechizing in the Principles of Religion and their duties in particular To recover sight and prevent the following of by lights in time to come I am bold to commemorate the excellent practise of Catechizing not only in publike Congregations but in private Families and to bring a light from Christ for this end hath been my desire and endeavour in this Iewel of Christian Divinity I commend it to your Lordship and to you Honoured Fathers of this precious and populous City and to you Religious Worthies Parents and Masters of Fam●lies and to you the particular my beloved the great Congregation of Sepulchres to whom the Lord in his good Providence was pleased by your free Election to call me and this two years and upwards to continue me an Assistant Teacher If it be not so perfect for method or matter as might be expected besides that my intention at first was only to give light to a right preparation for the Lords Supper and not to enlarge my self so fully in the Principles of Divinity my constant Preaching these two years since I began this work beging for three parts of the year three times a week at least and the rest twice or more besides my attendance both on the publike Service and other special occasions may plead my excuse Now that the light of Christ may by the help of this or my lesser Catechism or any other Labours of the Lords faithful Servants shine forth more and more gloriously in all your souls and several Families that they may be enlightned as so many particular Churches of Saints that Christ may walk in the midst of them as of the seven golden Candlesticks Rev. 2.1 Eph. 2.19 that you may be found Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God that being truly lightned by the true light of Christ in the Church Militant you and yours with the whole Israel of God in all the Families of this City and Kingdom may shine as blessed lights for ever in the Church Triumphant is and shall be the daily Prayer of The most unworthy and humble Servant and Minister of the Lord Iesus Christ IMMANUEL BOURN From Sepulchres London May 2. 1646. To the Right Worshipful Sir Edward Worthley Kt. AND Dame ELIZABETH his Religious Lady The Right Worshipful Sir SAMUEL TRYON Baronet And Dame BRIDGET his Vertuous Lady The true Light of Christ here and true Light with Christ in Heaven for ever Right Worshipful THat Honorable respect I did receive above twenty years since as a Minister of Christ from your Religious Mother the Right Honorable the late Countesse of Devonshire and the more ancient relation I had unto your now Religious Lady as living divers years in house with her and her former Husband Sir Samuel Tryon my Honoured Patron with the due respects I owe to Sir Samuel Tryon their Son and his Vertuous Lady together with kindenesse from your self may command a publike acknowledgement of all your private favours And since the Lord hath now enabled me after two years study and labour at times extraordinary almost spared from my necessary sleep rising up early and late taking rest to finish this Light from Christ by way of Catechism which as it concerneth the general I have Dedicated to those Honoured Worthyes in more publike places And do humbly desire every of you also to accept of it as a Light from Christ a help for you and yours better acquaintance with God in your Families in private and your closets in secret that you and yours may be the better enabled to meet Christ with comfort in his Ordinances and to walk joyfully with Christ in every condition in the whole course of your lives And for this end I commend this excellent duty of Catechizing in and by your worthy Names to all the Gentry with their and all others Families in the Kingdom particularly in the County of Northampton my Native country Now Pastor of East-haddon where my Reverend Aged Father hath been a Preacher and Catechizer almost this fifty years and in the County of Derby and Parish of Ashover where by the free love of my Noble Patron aforesaid I was placed and did finde both the want and benefit of Catechizing by good experience that

our faith who for the joy that was set before him edured the Crosse despi●●ng the shame and is set downe at the right hand of the Throne of God Quest 27. You have explained and held forth the duties of Superiors and Juferiors in the oeconomicall or househould estate now what are the duties in the Ecclesiasticall Church or state 1 Cor. 4.15 and Spiritnall Parents or superiours in the Church as Pastors and Treachers or Ministers to the people of God committed to their charge Acts 20.28 und over whom the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers 1 Pet. 2.25 1 P●r. 5.4 1 Cor. 4.1 2. 2 Tim. 3.15 Ans First the holy Scripture holdeth forth the Lord Christ himselfe to be the chiefe Shepheard and overseer and as he is the great Pastor to teach so he hath appointed Pastors and Teachers in his Church And as the Lord Christ is faithfull not as a servant but as a son over his owne house Heb. 3.5 6 1 ●or 4.1 2. 1 Tim. 2.15 so it is the duty of the Mini●●ers and servants of Christ to be faithfull as stewards in the house of Christ the Church of the living God Quest 28. Wherein is this faithfulnesse to be manifested by Ministers in the performance of their duties and what light from Christ to m●ke this evident Ans First Act. 20.28 2 Cor. 5.19 20. in taking heede to themselves as Ambassadors sent of Christ and to all the flock over which the holy Gho●● hath made them overseers 2 Tim. 4.2 to feede the Church of God which he hath purchaz●d with his owne bloud To Preach the Word of God and be instant in season and out of season to Reproove Rebuke Exhort with all long suffering and Doctrine Secondly Rom. 12.8 1 Pet. 5.1 2 3. 2 Cor. 4.5 to feede the flock of God taking the Rule and oversight of them with diligence not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready minde neither as Lords over Gods heritage but as servants to the Church for Jesus sake Thirdly the Overseers Elders Acts 20.28 1 Pet. 5.1 1 Tim. 3.2 3 4. or Ministers of Christ they are Pastors and Teachers and Rulers they ought to be of unblameable life and conversation 1 Pet. 5.3 examples to the flock husband of one wife vigilant 1 Tim. 4.6 c. sober apt to teach not given to Wine no striker not given to filthy lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous 1 Tim. 6.11 12. one that ruleth his own house well having his childen in subjection with all gravity no novice least hee be lifted up with pride 2 Tim. 2.24 Here are foureteene properties in one place the Epistles of blessed Paul to Timothy and to Titus hold forth diverse more Titus 1.6 7 8 9. Titue 2.7 Thus the servant of Christ ought not to strive but in meeknesse to instruct and be a patterne of good work Quest 29. What are the sinnes of Ministers contrary to these duties Ans First unfaithfullnesse running before they be sent Isai 56. to 11. and not feeding the flock of God where they come not Preaching Catechizing administring of the Sacraments J●● 23.1 2 and Prayers and other Ministeriall acts for good of the Church Ezek. 34.1 2 3. being ignorant idoll Shepheards or idle and negligent Sheepheards Not regarding that great charge and honorable office they have taken upon them not performing that trust committed unto them and of which they must give an account to the chiefe Sheepheard Christ Jesus 1 Pet. 5.4 Secondly unfaithfulnesse in not ruling as Elders and not Governing the Church of God with watchfulnesse Eze. 34.4 5 1 Pet. 5.3 4. 3 Iohn 9. Isai 56.11 12. wisedome and humility according to the Rule of Christ but in pride or tyranny as lording it over Gods heritage loving the preheminence contrary to the direction of the Spirit of Christ Thirdly Ministers sinne in unfaithfulnesse in not feeding them by good example of life and conversation being as Iohn the Baptist burning and shining lights Iohn 5.35 But walking disorderly as Eli's sons to the dishonour of their callings and evill example of others any manner of way unbeseeming the Ministers and servants of Christ Jesus 1 Sam. 2.17 22. Quest 30. You have declared the duties of those who are Ministers of Christ 1 Pet. 5.1 1 Cor. 4.15 spirituall Fathers Elders Overseers Pastors and Teachers in the Church and their sins and failings Now what are the duties of spirituall children of the Congregation and people to their Pastors and Teachers Ans The duty of people and congregations 1 Thess 5.17 to their faithfull Pastors and Teachers as Mat. 11.40 1 Thess 5.12.1 Gal. 4.14 1 Cor. 4.1 1 Thess 5.13 1 Tim. 5.17 First to receive and acknowledge them as sent of Christ and over them in the Lord as the Apostles expression is Secondly to Love Reverence and esteeme those Ministers and Elders especially that labour in the word and very highly in love for their worke sake and with double honour as is fit for Ministers and officers of Christ Thirdly to obey them in the Lord as those that have the Rule and over-sight of them Heb. 13.17 Heb. 13.24 and watch for their soules and must give an account that they may doe it with joy and not with greif for that will not profit for those that disobey Gods Ministers and Elders over them in the Lord. 1 Thess 5.22 Gal. 4.15 1 Tim. 5.17 18. Luke 10.5 6 7. Galat. 6.6 7. 1 Co● 9.13 14. Fourthly readily and cheerefully to communicate give or pay unto them that honorable maintenance which is due unto th●m for their labour in the worke of the Mini●try according to the word of God and ordinance of Jesus Chri●t Quest 31. But is there any payment of maintenance due now to Gods Ministers as Ministers of Christ in the new Testament by any Divine-right the neglect or keeping back of which is a sinne because I have heard some affirme that howsoever in the old Testamenet the Lord had the reserved portion of his owne inheritance the Tenth which he gave to his Ministers for their labour and for the honorable and comfortable maintenance of them and theirs besides their Cities and their Suburbs for their cattell Numb 18.20 21 30.31 Levit. 27.30 31 32.1 2.3 4 c. Numb 35. and for their goods and for all their beasts and ●ther helpes more yet in the new Testament since Christ ascended into Heaven the Lord hath nothing peculiar to himselfe and Christ Ministres have nothing due to them for their labour and maintenance by any Divine Right 2 Cor. 5.20 But they must live of Almes and accept of there reward for their labour and maintenance at the pleasure of the people Ans Truely I should have wondred that any one who had professed the least measure of love to Christ should dare to manifest so little