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A scripture-catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours, some of them of the present times / by Thomas Hodges.
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Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.
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heathens or Infidels A. See 1 Cor. 7.14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your children unclean but now are they holy see Galath 2.15 See Rom. 11.16 Q. Hath God any praise or glory from babes and sucklings A. Psal 8.2 compared with Math. 21.15 16. Out of the mouth of Babes sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger And when the chief Priests and Scribes saw the wonderfull things that he did and the children crying in the Temple and saying Hosanna to the Son of David they were sore displeased And said unto him Hearest thou what these say And Jesus sayth unto them yea have ye never read Out of the mouth of Babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise Q. Was it ever the custome of the Jewes according to Gods own command to present Infants to the Lord at his Temple or place of publique worship A. Luk. 2.22 23. And when the daye of her purification according to the Law of Moses were accomplished they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. As it is written in the Law of the Lord every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord. Chap. 18. Of time for publique worship Q. DID ever God require any set day weekly for his worship service A. Exod. 20.8 9 10. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Six dayes shalt thou labour and doe all thy worke But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God Q. Had our Lord Christ power to alter the weekly Sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the first A. Luk. 6.5 And he said unto them That the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath Q. Was the first day of the week observed a day of meeting of Christians for the worship of God by the primitive Christians A. Joh. 20.19 26. Then the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doores were shut where the disciples were assembled for feare of the Jewes came Jesus c. And after eight dayes again his disciples were within and Thomas with them then came Jesus c. Act. 20.7 And upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread Paul preached unto them 1 Cor. 16.2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come Q. VVhat day was it when the Apostle John was in the spirit A. Rev. 1.10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet Q. VVere the Jewish Sabbaths shadowes of things to come and to end in Christ A. Col. 2.16 17. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath dayes which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ Q. Are the prayers and Administrations of the Elders of the Church more desirable than of others A. Jam. 5.14 Is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him anointing him with the oyle in the name of the Lord. Q. Is it lawfull for Christians delivered from the Jewish observation of dayes to have a set day or time appointed for any duty A. 1 Cor. 16.1 2. Now concerning the collection for the Saints upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come Q. Should Christians Assemble themselves together to worship God A. Heb. 10.25 Not forsaking the assembling of our selves togeither as the manner of some is but exhorting one another c. 1 Cor. 11.20 33 34. When ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lord's supper Wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eate tarry one for another And if any man hunger let him eat at home that ye come not together unto condemnation Q. Is there to be teaching in the Church when the Church meets A. 1 Cor. 14.19 28. Yet in the Church I had rather speak five words with my understanding that by my voice I might teach others also then ten thousand words in an unknown tongue But if there be no Interpreter let him keep silence in the Church and let him speak to himselfe and to God Q. Are women to be publique teachers in the Church A. 1 Tim. 2.11 12. Let the women learne in silence with all subjection But I suffer not a woman to teach but to be in silence 1 Cor. 14.34 35. Let your women keep silence in the Churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak And if they will learne any thing let them aske their husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the Church Q. Doth 1 Cor. 11.5 Philip. 4.2 3. Joel 2.28 Doe all these together authorize Women to be publique teachers in the Church of the Saints A. Prophesying may perhaps be found taken three wayes in Scripture first for foretelling things to come by an extraordinary spirit and so we read of Huldah a Prophetesse and Deborah in the Old Testament and of Anna in the New 2ly For singing or framing or both of Psalmes Hymnes or spirituall songs and so I suppose the word is taken 1 Chron. 25.1 2. And so both Miriam and Deborah prophecyed and perhaps Women did so too in the Church of Corinth whilst they had the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost 3ly For teaching and instructing by expounding and applying some part or portion of God's word and I dare not say because of those Scriptures above named that it was never lawfull for Women to teach in the Christian Church namely whilst those extraordinary gifts lasted and they were not prohibited by the Apostle Paul but I dare not embolden a Woman to be a publique teacher in the Church Q. Do we read of a Woman who pretēded her selfe a Prophetesse would have this preheminence to be a teacher of others in the Church who did really seduce Christians A. Revelat. 2.20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezabel which calleth herselfe a Prophetesse to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication Q. May a Woman teach her children at home the Principles or mysteries of religion A. Prov. 31.1 c. The words of King Lemuel the prophecy that his mother taught him Prov. 1.8 My Son forsake not the law of thy Mother So chap. 6.20 Q. May not Women as well teach authoritatively in the Church as Governe in a Common-wealth A. See Isa 49.23 And Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and Queenes thy nursing Mothers c. Q. If a crown be her Patrimony descending to her
A SCRIPTVRE-Catechisme Towards the confutation OF Sundry ERROVRS Some of them of the present times By THOMAS HODGES B. D. Rector of Soulderne in Oxford-shire Mat. 22.29 Yee doe erre not kowing the Scriptures OXFORD Printed by H. HALL Printer to the University For T. ROBINSON 1658. To my very much Honoured Friend JOHN NORTON of Cotherstock in the County of Northampton Esq Sr A double account may possibly be expected from me namely of the following Treatise and of the present Application A threefold exception may perhaps be made to that that t is a Catechisme that t is an Elenchtical Catechism or a Catechetical confutation of Errors and that 't is such a Scripture Catechisme or the Answers to the Questions mostly the very letter of the Scripture If any blame me saying 't is below a Preacher to publish a Catechisme now in these dayes wherein even some of the people are got up above the highest Ordinances My Answer is that as I have not been ashamed to practise the despised duty of Catechizing at home in my own Congregation so I shall not blush to countenance and avouch it to the world I know and consider that our Lord and Master the great Shepheard and Bishop of soules gave in charge to the Apostle Peter to feed his Lambes as well as his sheep and that 't is the part of a faithfull Steward or dispencer in God's family not as the Papists say to dispense with but to dispense or administer the Ordinances of God and to provide for every one of the family his portion in due season to see that the Babes have Milk as well as Strong men Meat I doe not here set before Christ's little ones whole sheep or whole joints as is done in large Tracts or Volumes of such subjects but these dishes cut up and carv'd out and it may be minc'd too that very children or Babes in knowledge may feed themselves Besides I dare say that there is even in these times but need of Catechizing for want of laying this Foundation how many foolish Builders have fondly built Castles in the aire to no purpose for want of this Ballast how many have been tossed to and fro with every wind of Doctrine And now if we would Regulate mens foolish high-towring fancies one way sure is to lay not to raze Foundations If we would make an everlasting Separation 'twixt these fond lovers and their new-fangled Errours one way is to Reconcile and bring them home againe to and in love with their old first and best Principles For the second exception that 't is a Catecheticall confutation of Errours I say such an Enemy as Error is may lawfully be driven out any way and that 't is but reasonable to use the same method to confute error that others have done to confirme it I shall herein imitate the skillfull Physitian who endeavours to expell the poyson out of the body the same way by which it was first taken in And now if any be dissatisfied that 't is a Scripture-Catechisme I say the Enemy hath in a sort compelled us have they Scripture in their Catechismes seemingly for them so have we really for us have they appealed unto Scripture unto Scripture shall they goe They say the Scriptures are theirs and we say nay but the Scriptures are ours what then is the Scripture neither ours nor theirs but is it divided partly for us and partly for them or have we ten parts in it and they two I answer No in no wise ther 's no such matter It is all ours it is our owne and not Strangers not our enemies with us I confesse such hath been the Injustice and violence of erroneous Persons as to take away sundry Scriptures by force to put them upon the racke and torture them and lay to their charge things they know not to make them confesse against themselves and the truth and us But if this witnesse may be permitted to speak for it selfe to speak freely and fully to speak out to speak all it will say it will testify only to the truth and when the Scripture hath so spoken Errour must either stop it's eares or stop it's mouth For the Scriptures may then say as Paul we can doe nothing against the truth but for the truth or that may be the language of the written word which was of the Essentiall Word of God I came to beare witnesse of the Truth Now if it was an honourable atchievement in Abraham to rescue his Nephew Lot and in David to rescue the men of Ziklag out of the hands of them who had carried them captive I hope such an Attempt as this to rescue so many Scriptures out of the hands of them who have carried them captive and spoiled them and set them some of them in the front of the battell against the truth and us shall have the countenance good-will and good wishes of them that love the truth For my part whether the world smile or frown commend or condemne I resolve to goe out against set upon and grapple with this great Goliah of Errour I desire to goe out against him in the name of the Lord of Hosts endeavouring to sling these smooth stones chosen out of this christall brook the holy Scriptures so as to smite this Philistine in the forehead and cause him to fall And Sr if I may be a champion for truth and by the sword of the Spirit defend the crowne upon the head of it against that Arch Rebel and Traytor Error which would depose it from it's throne and Soveraignty I shall I hope therein rejoyce and triumph although the world should laugh at and trample upon the undertaking I doe not professe my selfe the first or only discoverer of these Monsters D. Owen D. Bailye nor that dared to fight with these beasts I have two eminent Captaines and Champions who have gone before and entred the lists one in a like and the other in the same quarrel to both which I acknowledge my selfe indebted and although I doe not pay the one in the same coine his Treatise being latine yet I hope in plaine English in part at least to satisfie my engagement to them both For as one well saith the Scriptures are a Mine where there will be ever found some oare so long as there is any to digge or like the Widdow's oyle which never ceased running so long as there was ever an empty vessell to receive it I dare not say I have found out any new truths yet perhaps have made some further hue and cry after new Errors And if 't is a commendable thing to discover a new Island or Continent let me not be censured if I point out other Rocks shelves or Sands togeither with a passage to avoid them I mean new found Errors so as to prevent my own others making shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience by them Now if in any place I have given in answer to an objection from Scripture another text