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A75934	Milk for babes; or, A mothers catechism for her children Wherein chief saving principles of Christian religion, through the body of it, fit first to inform children in; are 1. propounded. 2. expounded. 3. applied. The sum of which is set down in the following pages; together with the questions and answers which are the grounds of the catechism. Whereunto also annexed, three sermons; preached at Andrews Holborn at a publike fast, and at Covent-Garden, upon severall occasions. By Robert Abbot preacher of Gods word at Southwick in Hantshire.	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1646 (1646)	Wing A69aA; ESTC R229746	144,259	361

Exod. 20. Deut. 15. Those tenne words which God wrote in two Tables of stone and are set downe in Exodus and Deuteronomie Marke here two things Ten Precepts two Tables Deut. 4.13 Exod. 34.28 The number of Gods lawes and the course that God tooke to notice them to us unworthy creatures As to their Number they are tenne words or tenne Commandements and must not be made fewer by us As to Gods perpetuattng their notice unto us after the publishing of them he wrote them in two Tables of stone Had we not blotted out a great part of them and contracted hearts harder then a stone God would not have written them in stone Had any stone beene sufficient to have written them in he would not have order'd their publishing againe Exod. 20. Deut. 5. and againe in the second and fifth bookes of Moses besides all the explications of Christ Moses the Prophets and Apostles Now seeing I enquire after these lawes and thou dost characterize and marke them out by their Number tenne and by Gods perpetuating them to posterity by stones and writings doe but admire the wisdome of God who can give so large a Volume in so few words and remember to take notice of the lawes of God in generall and of all ten particulars of them Vse First We must know the laws of God thou must take speciall notice of the lawes of God and therefore I aske and thou answerest concerning them Hence the Jewes were commanded to write them upon the posts of their houses Deut. 4.6 and upon their gates and in truth they are thy wisdome out of Christ they are thy wisedome unto Christ and they are part of thy wisdome in Christ They are thy wisdome out of Christ for Moses saith Doe them Deut. 4.6 for they are your wisdome and your understanding in the sight of the people They have an excellent politicall use to order thy going in and out for the good of the common-wealth and family They are thy wisdome unto Christ for they are the best Schoolemaster Gal. 3.19.24 in thy sinfull state to bring thee unto him They are like the storme of fire and brimstone which drave Lot out of Sodome For while they require perfect personall righteousnesse to justificaion and for want of this doe reveale sinne and uncloth thee of all worth Rom. 8. Heb. 12.20 21. and by reason of sinne doe ingender the spirit of bondage by making thee feare and quake they make thee haste to Christ without whom the curse will swallow thee up in sorrow They are besides part of thy wisdome in Christ for by manifesting the reliques of sinne they will keep under thy carnall part Mic. 6. and so make thee walke humbly with thy God and they will be such an hedge of all morall duties as they will make thy faith shine in adorning thy Christian calling with good works to all well pleasing Vse Therefore my deare Child neglect not this dutie know the good lawes of thy God They are briefe for memory cleare for capacitie and so perfect that they shall not need either addition correction or repealing It may be thou mayst think that now thou art not under the Law but under Grace It is true Rom. 6. that when God hath put thee into Christ thou art delivered from the exaction malediction and irritation of the law but remember this similitude So long as an oake grows it shadows thee from the warmth of the Sunne but when thou hast cut it down thou canst make wedges out of it self to rent it in pieces and make it serve for thy severall uses so when the law doth overtop thee during thy being under the power of nature thou art deprived of the comfort of the Sunne of righteousnesse but when it is thrown down by the power of the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 7. then mayst thou make instruments out of it selfe to kill that sinne by way of repression and mortification which the law occasioned and to lay open the path of obedience wherein for the justification of thy faith thou mayst run the way of Gods commandements Psal 119. Secondly We must know every commandement thou must not onely take notice of these laws in generall but of every particular of them as which is the first second third fourth and so of the rest God hath neither swelled them into to twentie nor shrunk them into nine And for these ten Deut. 4.13 he hath given none of them in vain but hath in the least discovered a world of wisdom and goodnesse which is particularly to be noticed to thee except thou wilt dishonour thy good God Vse Therefore be thou my child sure to be diligent in this dutie When thou prayest wouldst thou know in confessing thy sinnes how to rise from lesse sins to greater till thou shake thy heart and cover thy face with confusion then know the commandements and the power of them distinctly Wouldst thou know to speake supplications to God for for thy selfe or others that he would adorne his providence by thee and them Then know the commandements distinctly Wouldst thou know how to examine thy heart and life and to referre vertues and vices to their proper heads that thou mayst make use of them accordingly Then know the commandements distinctly To help thee therefore with the milk of Babes in this particular we shall passe thorough a briefe sum of them all in order Tell me therefore 9. Q. What is the first Commandement Exod. 20.3 A. Thou shalt have no other God before me Here God requires the having of the true God onely to be thy God What God requires in the first commandement Thou must have a God thou must have the true God thou must have him onely thou must have him to be thy God Gen. 3. Thou must have a God or else thy wicked nature will be a God to thy self Adam was tempted to be so and it did undoe him and us and thou wilt be so without further temptation and be accursedly miserable Thou must have the true God for all false gods are dung hill gods and lying vanities which cannot profit thee Thou must have him onely for as marriage and Monarchy cannot endure corrivals so cannot God endure that any should be joyned with him Thou must have him to be thy God for a man is not chiefly comforted but with that which is his own A mans own house land wife children gold and silver speake best content unto him and so will God when he is thy own It may be thou wilt wonder how thou canst have God Thou canst not have him as thou hast money in thy purse How God may be had cattell in thy ground or cloathes on thy back yet mayst thou have him as an husband hath a wife or a wife an husband A man and his wife may be a thousand miles asunder and may not see one another in many yeares and yet

rule over him bring him forth and slay him before me FINIS THE SOVL SECVRED OR A Sermon preached in Covent Garden upon PSAL. 31.5 Into thy hand I commit my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth BOth upon humbling dayes and upon joyfull dayes it is ever good to Secure our souls In humbling times if we do it not we will be swallowed up of sorrow If we do it not in joyfull times we will be swallowed up of sinne Therefore we living in both these times times of sorrow under the burthen of publike calamities and times of joy when God flings in varietie of particular mercies to be as the first fruits of a larger harvest it is our duty to engage our souls to seek their own security without which we perish And that we may do it it is a comfortable thing to know where our strength lies Sampson knew the hair of his Nazariteship Hares know the thickets and Conies the stony rocks so wee must know some place of safety or else we are in ill case Look therefore upon David He was in fearfull troubles and he knew that his life was kept by committing it to God Hence he beats upon it again and again in prayer in this Psalm as if he were never weary of asking the same protection from his good God This David doth not out of Poverty of spirit Matth. 6.7 which brings forth these idle repetitions condemned by Christ Matth. 26.42 but out of aboundance of spirit as Christ did in time of the hour of darknesse to shew the excellent use of repetitions in this case and to clear fervency of spirit when a man would settle and assure any good to the soul Amongst other things commended to God Davids soul hath a chief place in this verse read In which be pleased to consider 1 Davids confession of God 2 Davids profession for himself His confession is his foundation and his profession is his building upon it We cannot build upon God except we know him David through the mercy of God knew him and thence makes use of it in confessing him 1 For soveraignty to be his Lord Redemptoris jus 2. 1 Propinquitatis 2 Proprietatis 2 For the signe of it thou hast redeemed me for he had the right of propriety to him Masters might redeem their servants and Lords their vassals 3 For his veracity O Lord God of truth thou hast promised to deliver me and thou hast been as good as thy word Hence I might discourse unto you of Gods Lordship over his people and therefore that they must walk before him with fear and trembling as those that must give an account unto him of all their doings I might discover more fully the use that God makes of his Lordship not to tyrannize but to deliver poor captives which is an excellent president for those in high places I might presse the condition that Gods people are subject unto to be in bondage to miseries and the footing we have in God for our rescue that he is a God of truth and will be as good as his word without exception But I passe these things and onely pitch upon Davids profession for himself into thy hands I commit my spirit From whence I present three particulars 1 The Nature of the soul 2 The Castle of the soul 3 The Care of the soul For nature you learn that the soul is a spirit The nature of the soul It is a spirit If you refer the word Spirit unto a man it signifies sixe things in the Scripture 1. The hid man of the heart as when it is said Joh. 3.6 that which is born of the spirit is spirit that is is the new creature the spirituall part of man 2. It signifieth Conviction as when it is said of reprobates that sinne unto death that they are made partakers of the Spirit Heb. 6.4 that is they are convinced of the truth of the Gospel 3. It signifies Sanctification as when David prayes Psa 51.11 renew a right spirit within me that is give me a sanctified soul that I may go right in thy way 4. It signifies Extrordinary graces as when it is said of Stephen that he was filled with the Spirit that is Act. 6.5 he had extraordinary gifts and graces 5. It signifies the Gospel 2 Cor. 3.6 as when we are said to be Preachers of the Spirit that is of the Gospel which brings life to the soule 6. It signifies authoritie as when Paul saith when ye are gathered together and my spirit 1 Cor. 5.3 that is by vertue of my authoritie But among the rest it signifies the soule as when Christ saith Father Luk. 23.46 into thy hands I commend my spirit and Peter saith that Christ by Noah 1 Pet. 3.19 that Preacher of righteousnesse preached unto the spirits that are now in the prison of hell Heb. 12.9 and the Apostle to the Hebrews calls God the Father of spirits In all which places the word spirit signifies the soule Ob. You will say then it may be that the soule is God because God is a spirit Joh. 4. Sol. But it follows not because the soule is a created spirit but God is uncreated God is a simple spirit without all mixture but the soule is compounded of a present being and a possibilitie not to be if God please Yet for all that the soule is the more excellent for being a spirit as God is because in it it resembles God in his Immortalitie for time to come A parte post Gen. 2.3 whereof there are three arguments in the creation of it That it was as it were breathed by God into man and therefore more heavenly and that it was breathed for the breath of lives Lives is spoken dually to signifie the life of it hereafter as well as here Therefore Christs convincing argument makes for it Mat. 22.32 that God is not the God of the dead but of the living therefore though Abraham Isaac Jacob be dead in body yet they live in spirit Domus viventium in which respect the grave is called the house of the living Use 1 Hence give me leave to make a threefold exhortation unto you If the soule be a spirit provide spiritually for it Joyne it to him that is spirit and thinke of a better place for it then here First provide spiritually for it If a child aske a father bread Matth. 7.9 10. will he give him a stone If he aske him a fish will he give him a serpent will he not provide for him according to his nature Deale you no worse with your soules and it will be the better for you I read of an usurer who loved his bags so well that when he died he chewed and swallowed and being asked the reason he said that he was eating up his mony and when he saw that he must dye he offered all to his poor soul to stay with