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A26693	A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees into the minds of the learners : to which is added in the close, a most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self-examination to be daily perused : and to this is subjoined a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock / by Jos. Allaine.	Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652). Shorter catechism.	1674 (1674)	Wing A974; ESTC R25230	60,470	184

state of salvation And must not this be a pinching thought to a compassionate teacher to think that he cannot for his heart perswade men but that the most of them will wilfully throw away themselves Is it not a woful sight to behold the devils driving a great part of our miserable flocks as they did once the herd of swine the keepers themselves amazed looking on I say driving them violently down the hill till they be choked in the water drowned irrecoverably in the gulph of endless perdition Ah miserable spectacle what through the loosness and sensuality of some what throngh the wilful blindness of others what through the halving and cold and customary religion of others how great a number of our flocks is Satan like to carry utterly away from us after all that hath been done to save them Yet I cannot but call after them Hearken unto me O ye Children How long will you love vanity and follow after leasing and trust in lying words As the Lord liveth you are lost except you turn wherefore turn your selves and live ye Ah how mercy woeth you how it waiteth to be gracious to you Hear O sinners hear See you not how the merciful Saviour of the world stretcheth forth his hands all the day long and spreadeth forth his wings and calleth you as a hen doth her chicken Hear you not the soundings of his bowels he hath no need of you yet how do his compassions melt over perishing sinners his heart is turned within him and shall not this turn your hearts his repentings are kindled together and shall not this lead you to repentance Behold he standeth at the door and knocketh O man wilt thou keep Jesus at the door and lodg Barabbas in thy bosom and prefer thy cruel lusts before thy compassionate Lord Oh his melting love to sinners he calleth after them he weepeth over them he cryeth to them How long ye simple ones will you love simplicity will you not be made clean when shall it once be why will you die Turn you at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you Sinner art thou not yet melted Oh come in at his loving calls Come out from thy sins touch the scepter of grace and live why shouldest thou be dashed in pieces by his iron rod kiss the Son why shouldst thou perish in the way set up Jesus as thy King lest he count thee for his enemy because thou wouldest that he should not reign over thee and so thou be called forth and slain before him Oh how dreadful will this case be to perish under the pitiful eyes of his mercy and to die by the hand of a Saviour Oh double hell to have thy redeemer become thine executioner and the hand that was so long stretched forth to save thee to be now stretched forth to slay thee and the merciful heart of Christ himself hardned against thee so as that he should call thee forth and with his own hand hew thee in pieces as Samuel did Agag before the Lord. But I have been too too long in prefacing to what I intended forthwith to have fallen upon indeed I am apt to run out in matters that do so nearly touch upon your greatest concernments Beloved I despair of ever bringing you to salvation without sanctification or possessing you of happiness without perswading you to holiness God knows I have not the least hope ever to see one of your faces in heaven except you be converted and sanctified and exercise your selves unto godliness This is that I drive at I beseech you study to further personal godliness and family godliness 1. Personal godliness Let it be your first care to set up Christ in your hearts See that you make all your worldy interests to stoop to him that you be entirely and unreservedly devoted unto him If you wilfully and deliberately and ordinarily harbour any sin you are undone See that you unfeignedly take the Laws of Christ as the rule of your words thoughts and actions and subject your whole man members and mind faithfully to him If you have not a true respect to all Gods Commandments you are unsound at heart Oh study to get the image and impress of Christ upon you within Begin with your hearts else you build without a foundation Labour to get a saving change within or else all external performances will be to no purpose And then study to shew forth the power of godliness in the life Let piety be your first and great business 'T is the highest point of Justice to give God his due Beware that none of you be a Prayer-less person for that is a most certain discovery of a Christless and a graceless person of one that is a very stranger to the fear of God Suffer not your Bibles to gather dust See that you converse daily with the word That man can never lay claim to blessedness whose delight is not in the Law of the Lord. Let meditation and self-examination be your daily exercise else the Papists yea the Pagans will condemn us That the short questions which I have given you as a help to self-examination may be daily perused by you is the matter of my passionate request unto you If ever you come to any growth in holiness without the constant use of this practice I am grosly deceiv'd and therefore I would beseech yea even charge you by the Lord that you would daily examine your selves by these questions till you have found a better help to this duty But Piety without Charity is but the half of Christianity or rather impious hypocrisie We may not divide the Tables See therefore that you do justly and love mercy and let Equity and Charity run like an even thread throughout all your dealings Be you temperate in all things let Chastity and Sobriety be your undivided companions Let Truth and Purity Seriousness and Modesty Heavenliness and Gravity be the constant ornaments of your speech Let patience and humility simplicity and sincerity shine out in all the parts of your conversations See that you forget and forgive wrongs and requite them with kindness as you would be found children of the most High Be merciful in your censures and put the most favourable construction upon your brethrens carriage that their actions will reasonably bear Be slow in promising punctual in fulfilling Let meekness and innocency affableness yieldingness and courtesie commend your conversations to all men Let none of your relations want that love and loyalty that reverence and duty that tenderness care and vigilancy which their several places and capacities call for This is throughout godliness I charge you before the most high God that none of you be found a swearer or a lyar a lover of evil company or a scoffer or malicious or covetous or a drunkard or a glutton unrighteous in his dealing unclean in his living or a

us A. Yes Q. Doth he not pray for us vocally then A. No. Q. But vertually A. Yes Q. Hath he finished his intercession together with his sacrifice A. No. Q. To which of Christs offices doth it belong to offer sacrifices and make intercession for us A. To his priestly office Q. 26. How doth Christ execute the office of a King A. Christ executeth the office of a King in subduing us to himself in ruling and defending us and restraining and conquering all his and our enemies Q. Who is the King of the Church A. Christ. Q. Doth Christ execute his Kingly office towards his people A. Yes Q. And towards his enemies A. Yes Q. How towards his people A. First in subduing them to himself and then in ruling and defending them Q. Do we submit to Christ of our own accord A. No. Q. Are we by nature enemies to him A. Yes Q. Is he fain to subdue us by his Kingly power before we become his peculiar people A. Yes Q. To whom doth Christ subdue us A. To himself Q. Are all true believers then Christs subjects and he their King A. Yes Q. And is the Church Christs Kingdome in an especial manner A. Yes Q. Doth Christ leave us to our own care after he hath once subdued us A. No. Q. Doth he rule and govern his people as a King doth his subjects A. Yes Q. Doth he rule them by his Laws and Spirit and Officers and Discipline A. Yes Q. Doth it then belong to Christs Kingly Office to ordain Laws wake Officers and appoint the use of censures for his Church A. Yes Q. What doth Christ do as a King with reference to his enemies A. Restrain them and conquer them Q. Are his enemies ours and ours his A. Yes Q. Whom of our enemies doth Christ restrain and conquer A. All. Q. What Sin Satan Death wicked men the world and all A. Yes Q. Will he suffer his and our enemies to do what they list with us A. No he will restrain them Q. Will he leave us to shift for our selves A. No. Q. Will he suffer any of our enemies finally to prevail against us A. No. Q. Will he conquer them all at last A. Yes Q. To which of Christs Offices doth it belong to subdue and govern us and to restrain and conquer our enemies A. To his Kingly Office Q. 27. Wherein consists Christs Humiliaiion A. Christs Humiliation consists in his being Born and that in a low Condition made under the Law undergoing the miseries of this Life the Wrath of God and the cursed Death of the Cross in being Buried and continuing under the Power of Death for a time Q. Wherein be the four steps of Christs Humiliation A. In his Birth Life Death and after Death Q. What was the first step of Christs Humiliation A. His being Born Q. In what condition was he Born A. In a low condition Q. Under what was Christ made A. Under the Law Q. Was this part of Christs Humiliation to be born and that in a low condition too and made under the Law A. Yes Q. What did Christ undergo in the course of his life A. The Miseries of this life Q. And was this another step of his Humiliation A. Yes Q. And what did he undergo in the close of his life A. The wrath of God and cursed death of the Cross. Q. Did Christ die an ordinary natural death A. No. Q. What kind of death did he die A. The death of the Cross. Q. What death was that A. A cursed death Q. Was it not a most shameful and painful death withal A. Yes Q And did Gods Wrath as well as his curse light upon Christ at his death A. Yes Q. And was his suffering of death another step of his Humiliation A. Yes Q. How was Christ humbled after death A. In his being buried and remaining under the power of death Q. Did Christ immediately rise again A. No. Q. For how long did he remain under the power of Death A. For a time Q. Not for ever A. No. Q. 28. Wherein consists Christs Exaltation A. Christs Exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day in ascending up into heaven in sitting at the right hand of God the Father and in coming to judge the World at the last day Q Which be the four steps of Christs Exaltation A. His Resurrection Ascension Session at the Right hand of God and coming to Judgement Q. Did Christ rise again A. Yes Q. Whence did he arise A. From the Dead Q. When did he arise A. On the third day Q. Whither did he ascend A. Up into Heaven Q. Where doth he sit A. At the Right hand of God the Father Q. What mean you by sitting at Gods Right hand A. His being exalted to chief honour power and favour with God as Princes do set them whom they highly love and favour at their right hand as I Kings 2. 19. Q. Shall be come again A. Yes Q. To what end A. To judge the World Q Who shall be the Judge at the last judgement A. Christ. Q. Whom shall be judge A. The World Q. When shall be judge them A. At the last day Q. Was Christ exalted at his Resurrection Ascension and Session at Gods Right hand A. Yes Q. And shall he be farther exalted in his coming to judgement A. Yes Q. Is Christs Divine nature capable of a real Exaltation A. No. Q. Was that exalted onely declaratively A. Yes Q. Was his humane Nature exalted not only declaratively but really A. Yes Q. 29. How are we made partakers of the Redemption purchased by Christ A. We are made partakers of the Redemption purchased by Christ by the effectual application of it to us by his holy Spirit Q. By whom is Redemption purchased A. By Christ. Q. By whom is Redemption applied A. By his Holy Spirit Q. What do you mean by the applying Redemption to us A. Making it ours Q. Must there be a work of the Spirit then in us without which Christs work for us cannot be available or made ours A. Yes Q. Can we no other way be made partakers of Christs Redemption but by the Spirits application A. No. Q. What kind of applications is that which the Spirit makes A. An effectual application Q. Cannot the Minister do it effectually without the Spirit A. No. Q. 30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the Redemption purchased by Christ A. The Spirit applieth to us the Redemption purchased by Christ by working faith in us and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling Q. What doth the Spirit work in us in order to the applying of Christs Redemption to us A. He works Faith in us Q. Can we believe of our selves A. No. Q. Will not the word of it self work faith in us without the Spirit A. No. Q. No● the Spirit ordinarily without the Word A. No. Q. What doth the Spirit do for us by Faith A. He doth thereby unite us to