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A47629	A treatise of divinity consisting of three bookes : The first of which handling the Scripture or Word of God, treateth of its divine authority, the canonicall bookes, the authenticall edition, and severall versions, the end, properties, and interpretation of Scripture : The second handling God sheweth that there is a God, and what he is, in his essence and several attributes, and likewise the distinction of persons in the divine essence : The third handleth the three principall works of God, decree, creation and providence / by Edward Leigh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1646 (1646)	Wing L1011; ESTC R39008	467,641	520

Saviour did not give the people whole Loaves but distributed them by pieces 4 Such an instructing as acquaints them with the meaning of things and spiritually applyes the same for practice It is not enough to say the Creed and Lords prayer but to understand the sence and apply it to practice 5 An instruction by way of question and answer which is thereby made more plaine and familiar The exercise of catechizing hath been proved to be most ancient and very necessary and usefull and therefore it should be alwaies continued in the Church 1 Because there will alwaies be found Babes which stand in need of Milke not being able to beare strong meate 2 Because as no building can stand without a foundation and none can be expert in an Art except he learne the principles thereof so none can have sound knowledge in Divinity except he be trained up in the grounds thereof The best way to performe this exercise is 1 By short questions and answers the Minister demanding the question the people answering 2 It must be done purely ● Cor. 2. 4. 3 Plainly 2 Cor. 3. 2. Heb. 5. 11. 4 Soundly Titus 2. 7. 5 Orderly 6 Cheerfully and lovingly 2 Tim. 2. 24. praising the forward encouraging the willing patiently bearing with all admonishing such as are unruly Amesius his Christianae eatechesios Sciagraphia is usefull this way and Nowels catechisme in Latine in English there are Bishop Vshers Mr Baines Master Cartwrights Mr Balls Catechismes and Mr Crookes Guide Here is a fault that both teachers and hearers must share betweene them Ministers doe not teach principles sufficiently happy is that man which can say with Paul I have kept backe nothing that was profitable 2 Those are to blame which will not be taught children and servants which are stubborne and unwilling to be catechized some say they are too old to learne but are they too old to repent and be saved some say they are past principles they are not now to be grounded but we may say with the Apostle Whereas they ought to be teachers they had need themselves to be taught Such people rebell against their Minister or Master whose duty it is to teach them and God who commands it Let men be exhorted to practice this duty Ministers Masters Parents Schoolmasters teach the A. B. C. and the Grammer suffer little children to come unto me Consider 1. thou broughtst thy children into the world blind and deformed 2 Thou canst not else have comfort in thy children or servants many are crost in their family for want of this and many at the gallowes will cry out if they had lived where they had been instructed they had never died a dogges death Greenham saith thy children shall follow thee up and down in Hell and cry against thee for not teaching them He that will not provide for his family saith Paul is worse then an Infidell and he that will not teach them is worse then a beast The old Nightingale teacheth the young to sing and the old Eagle her young ones to fly Children ill brought up were devoured by Beares to teach parents that since they have done lesse then Beares who shape their whelpes by much licking and smoothing them though Dr. Browne deny this they therefore by beares were bereft of them It is good therefore to season our children with wholsome truths betime a vessell will long keepe the savour of that with which it is at first seasoned and the devill will begin betime to sow his seed Mr. Bolton upon his death-bead spake unto his children thus I doe believe saith he there is never a one of you will dare to meet me at the Tribunall of Christ in an unregenerate condition It will be a great comfort to thee and benefit to them when they are instructed in the points of religion if thy children die yet thou mayst have great hope of them when thou hast acquainted them with the principall grounds of religion The Papists in the preface to the catechisme of the Councell of Trent confesse that all the ground we have got of them is by catechizing and let us looke that we loose not our ground againe for want of it Julian himselfe could not devise a readier meanes to banish Christian Religion then by pulling down the Schooles and places of educating children Egesippus saith that by vertue of catechizing there was never a Kingdome but received alteration in their heathenish religion within forty yeeres after Christs passion All ignorant persons though they be growne in yeeres must be willing to be instructed and catechised See Esay 27. 11. 2 Thess. 1. 8. Theophilus a Noble man and of ripe yeeres was catechized as the Greeke word shewes ignorance bringeth men to the very pit and gulph of destruction Hos. 4. l. and v. 14. 1. Pet. 3. 15. Christians should be ready to give an answer to every man which doth aske them a reason of the hope which is in them the foundation is that which is first and surest laid and hath an influence into all the building The Scriptures are fundamentum quo the fundamentall writings which declare the salvation of Chistians John 5. 39. Christ fundamentum quod the fundamentall meanes and cause which hath purchased and doth give it John 4. 42. The person we must build on is Christ 1 Cor. 3. 11. He is called the foundation of foundations Esay 28. The doctrinall foundation is the written Word of God which is not onely the object and matter of our faith but the rule and reason of it Hold Christ as your Rock build on him the Scripture as your rule and the reason of your believing this is generall there are some particulars 1 Some things are simply necessary It were a notable worke for one to determine this how much knowledge were required of all 2. not absolutely necessary Some make the foundation too narrow some againe too wide some say that if a man meane well and goe on according to the light he hath though he know not Christ he shall be saved others say that all are bound to know distinctly the Articles of the Creed Fundamentall truths are all such points of doctrine which are so plainly delivered in Scripture that whosoever doth not know or follow them shall be damned but he that doth know and follow these though erring in other things shall be saved These points said a reverend Divine now with God are twelve three concerning God three concerning man three concerning the Redeemer three concerning the meanes of attaining good by this Redeemer Concerning God 1 There is one God which is an Infinite Perfect and Spirituall essence 2 This one God is distinguished into three persons or manners of subsistence after an incomprehensible way which we believe but cannot perfectly understand The Father begetting the Sonne begotten and the holy Ghost proceeding 3 This one God the Father Sonne and Holy

must be first laid The excellent definition of catechising which the Apostle here gives yeelds us two good proofes of its necessity 1 It is the doctrine of the beginning of Christ by some rendred not unfitly for the sense which gives beginning in Christ. 2 It is a foundation which beares up all the building without this preaching is to no purpose which though it makes the least shew yet it is of greatest use it establisheth men and keepes them firme from wavering 3 This course is most agreeable 1. To Art all Arts proceed from principles Physitians have their principles Lawyers their maximes Philosophers their chiefe sentences 2 To nature which first formes the vitall parts then the more remote 3. It is sutable to reason Principles are 1. easiest in themselves 2. Facilitate other matters 3. Are the most necessary doctrines of all the rest they beare up all the rest 4. Are of continuall and constant use Prin●ipia sunt minima quantitate maxima virtute 4. Gods order and practise hath been still to lay principles things might easily passe from one to another at first they lived so long Cains and Abels sacrificing is an evidence of catechising before the flood there was no word written then therefore it is like their fathers taught them It was practised by Abraham Gen. 18. 19. the fruit of which observe in his sonne Gen 24. 63. and servant Gen. 12. 26. God himselfe writes a Catechisme for the Jewes describing a short compendium of religion in the two authentique tables of the Law Hannah delivered Samuel to Eli his instructor so soon as he was weaned Jehoida taught the young King Jehoash David and Bathsheba practised it 2 Chron. 28. 8 9. Psalm 34. 11. Prov. 4. 4. 31. 1. and Salomon himselfe seeme to give that precept out of the experience of his owne most excellent education Teach a child the trade of his way and when he is old he shall not depart from it though himselfe scarce did so and Eccles. 12. 23. he drawes all which he had said in his whole booke to two heads Feare God and keep his Commandements Catechising was also practised by Christ and his Apostles Luke 2. 46. Acts 22. 3. Heb. 6. 1 2 3. Christ at twelve yeeres old submitted himselfe to be catechised Luke 1. 4. and allowed of Hosanna sung by children He begins with regeneration to Nicodemus and he drew the whole Law into two heads Matth. 22. 37. John and Christ preacht Faith and Repentance and the Apostles after them Theophilus was catechised Luke 1. 4. Apollos Acts 18. 23. Timothy 1 Tim. 3 15. 2 Tim. 2. 2. The Apostle Paul commends to Timothies custody a patterne of wholsome doctrine which he cals a form of doctrine Rom. 6. 17. and the analogy of faith Rom. 12. 6. This duty principally belongs to Ministers their Office is set down under the name of catechising Let him which is catechised make him that catechiseth partaker Gal. 6. 6. Ministers must plant and beget as well as increase and build up feed the Lambs as well as the Sheepe they are compared to Nurses wise Stewards skilfull builders it must be performed by housholders also Ephes. 6. 4. God chargeth parents to performe this duty Deut. 6. 6 7. Rehearse them continually whet them upon thy children often goe over the same thing as a knife doth the whetstone They are bound to bring up their children in the nurture and information of the Lord children were to be taught the meaning of the Passover Exod. 12. 16. Masters of Families also must instruct their servants which are ungrounded as children Christ instructed his Apostles he taught them how to pray he being the Master of the family and they his family as appeareth because he did eate the Passeover together with them and the Law appoints that every family should celebrate that feast together The reason why God specifieth not this point in the masters duty is because if it be performed by the father it shall be needlesse seeing it is done to the masters hand but if the father neglect it surely the master which succeeds in the fathers roome and hath his authority must see it done For as a father in Israel was bound to see his owne sonne circumcised so he was bound to see his servant circumcised and if to circumcise him sure he must as well make him as his child to know what circumcision meaned And what Christ did as a master of a family that must every master of family doe seeing we must be followers of Christ every one in his place therefore every one must instruct his ignorant servants in the truths of Religion The Jewes did use catechizing Cyprian saith Optatus exercised it at Carthage and Origen at Alexandria Clemens Alexandrinus had his paedagogus Lactantius and Calvin their Institutions Athanasius his Synopsis Austin his Euchiridion his bookes de doctrina Christiana and de catechizandis rudibus Catechizing is institutio viva voce a kind of familiar conference The Hebrew verbe Chanach signifieth to instruct or traine up even from childhood and to initiate or dedicate from which word holy Henoch had his name importing nurture in the feare of God The Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth to sound or resound as by an eccho and is applied even by Heathen writers unto that kinde of teaching which is by word of mouth sounding in the eare of him that is taught and especially unto the teaching of the first rudiments of any science whatsoever It signifieth any kind of vocall instruction Acts 21. 21 24. viz. that whereby the principles of Christian doctrine are made known unto the hearers as Luke 1. 4. instructed or catechized Gal 6. 6. taught or catechised See Acts 18. 25. Rom. 2. 18. 1 Cor. 14. 19. Catechizing is a plaine and easie instructing of the ignorant in the grounds of Religion or concerning the fundamentall principles familiarly by questions and answers and a spirituall applying the same for practice What ever the catechizing in the Primitive Church was in private for the publique it seems not to have been Dialogue-wise by question and answer but in a continued speech with much plainnesse and familiarnesse Catechizing differs from preaching preaching is the dilating of one member of Religion into a just Treatise catechizing is a contracting of the whole into a summe preaching is to all sorts catechizing to the young and rude Catechizing is 1. plaine that none might excuse themselves that the most illiterate might not say at the day of judgement O Lord thy waies were too hard for us 2 That the manner of the teaching might be sutable to the hearers 3 That no Governours might pretend the difficulty of it 2 Instructing which implyeth that originall ignorance and blindnesse we were borne with 3 It is such an instructing which is by way of distilling things in a familiar manner our