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A18954 Dauid's catechisme. By E.A. Alport, Edward. 1623 (1623) STC 537; ESTC S115913 13,035 40

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DAVID'S CATECHISME By E. A. MICAH 7.8 Rejoyce not against mee O mine enemie though I fall I shall rise againe PSAL. 94.17 If the Lord had not holpen mee my soule had almost dwelt in silence LONDON Printed by G. ELD 1623. TO The right Honorable right Reuerend right Worshipfull Worshipfull and all his religious worthy faithfull Friends with the Oblation of his Mite E. A. wisheth the increase of honour and happinesse here and everlasting joy and felicity hereafter YOV who are the Center of my divided distracted affections in whose retayned favour they meet and are united the knowledg of your devotion unto GOD and affection unto my selfe whilest I lived and exercised my Ministery amongst you and the experience thereof in my extremitie when my paines in Catechizing and Preaching was rewarded with no little damage to my function state and person presses me out of press to send this little Tractate with the gratefull acknowledgement of what I owe unto you For those that know me well well know that I owe you more then I am besides that debt which though I daily pay can never satisfie Accept this then I beseech you such as it is for unto you it is due with the best interpretation Sorrow being the Scribe and Distraction the Inventor I bring you here in a plain dish not curiously drest such a service as I well know your soule loveth which I suppose some Dogs will bee snarling or snatching at till vengeance that dogges them at the heels Iesabel like devours or excludes them aedibus sedibus Holy things then be wholly theirs that bee holy matters divine for persons devout are most fit for use and imployment I have therefore unto you dedicated this little Catechisme of DAVID's because you are loyall of the feare of GOD because you are religious It is little that you may reade it plain that yours also may understand it It hath Antiquity and necessity profit and pleasure to pleade for it entertaine it then if you please it will pleasure you for Confirmation and yours for Information And the LORD multiply upon you both his best blessings for CHRIST IESVS his deare Son's sake AMEN Yours in all humble observance obliged and devoted EDWARD ALPORT The Author being absent at the impression the Printer prayeth you to correct these faults IN the second page of the Epistle place a parenthesis before sorrow and after Author p. 1. l. 11 for this reade the. p. 8. l. 27. for euer r. euen p. 10. l. 4. for perior r. pronior p. 10. l. 11. for tread r. lead p. 12. l. 13. place the comma at well after then p. 22. l. 19. for of r. hereof p. 23. l. 27. for ACAE r. ACHAB p. 27. l. 13. for hands r. hand TO THE READER Christian READER I Conceive how difficult an adventure it is to put my poore Talent unto publike view seeing greater graces kept in silence But I know how hard it is to hide and therefore deeme it better to hazard it then my selfe View then the matter which may pleasure thee and favour the Author with the furtherance of thy prayers and the Author of every good gift give thee faith and feare here and the end of both hereafter In suite for which I remaine pressed ever ready unto any Christian Office Thine in all Christian duty E. A. DAVID 's Catechisme SInce the ancient and laudable constitution of our Church and profitable practice therein of Catechising Children is so much sleighted and neglected in this declining age of the world that many not caring for GOD fall out with the Man and meanes which should make them good and godly It hath pleased this King 's sacred Maiestie in his princely care of his people and zeale unto Gods glory by especiall Command to revive the same I though the meanest of my brethren yet a Minister of the Gospell of Christ thought it my duty not onely to perform the same in my particular charge but also according unto my ability to publish unto the view of others the Antiquity and necessity thereof in the exposition of these words of the Psalmist Psal 34.11 Come yee Children Text Psal 34.11 hearken unto mee I will teach you the feare of the Lord. In handling of which words I will speake First Division of the Parties who are invited to Hearken Children Come yee Children hearken unto mee Secondly of him that will teach them DAVID a Prince and a Prophet I will teach you Thirdly and lastly the Lesson which hee will learne them The feare of God I will teach you the feare of the Lord. First concerning the Parties who are invited to hearken I observe these three things 1 their Name 2 their Invitation 3 their Direction First their Name Children Secondly their Invitation Come Thirdly their Direction Hearken Come yee Children hearken By name they are called children Varro Pueri quasi puri as Iuvenis from Iuvans a child is called puer because he is Pure I know that Children in this place may be taken for all Inferiors and subordinate estates of men yea an old man too Isai 65.20 Puer contum annerum whose age hath snowne downe winter upon his head whose hayres be heraulds of prudence centum annorum may be a child for his puerisenes How be it the ancient Fathers use the word more strictly eyther for them who had newly received the faith or else for Children who learned the rudiments of Religion whom they else-where tearmed Catechumenoi Tertul. de poenit for Tertullian hath these words Nemo sibi aduletur quia inter auditorum tyrocinia deputatur c. where hee understandeth by Auditors hearers those onely who are named altogether by Origen Catechumenoi who are taught the principall doctrines of Christian Religion And S. Cyprian saith that Cypr. epist lib. 32. epist 22. Optarus With consent of Ministers Teachers and Readers hee ordained Optatus doctorem audientium A teacher or instructer of hearers id est of young men who were catechised Pantaenus Such a Teacher of such Hearers was Pantaenus immediately after the Apostles time Clemens in the Church of Alexandria whom Clemens succeeded in the same Office and after him followed Origen Origen Clemen's Scholler being chosen and ordayned by Demetrius then Bishop of Alexandria Hercules Greg. Nyss Orat. 1. and Hercules succeeded Origen Againe Gregory Nissen in his first Oration giveth us to understand that The Pastors of the Church in the beginning auditoribus proponerent did deliver unto their Auditors or hearers certaine easie lessons of Religion as it were their A B C then by degrees they explained and opened unto them more hard and hidden mysteries of Divinity All which serve for proofe of what I have alleaged already to wit that by Children the ancient Fathers understand their Catechumenoi young men trayned up in the rudiments of Christian Religion They therefore who are to learne the doctrine of the beginning of Christ Heb.