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Contemplations for the institution of children in the Christian religion. Collected and published by Iohn Carpenter
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Carpenter, John, d. 1621.
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That I should serue him as I take it and that I should not forget him F. Thou hast sayd the truth and this is the end of creation redemption and regeneration S. What is ment by this worde seruice F. The worde generally noteth that condition of a man whereby he liueth vnder the will and rule of another S. What is that ye call Gods seruice God seruice F. The Seruice of God is no seruile condition but that diuine worshippe and true execution and performance of those good workes which are prescribed and commaunded to be done in the worde of God and namely in those two tables of the lawe wherein are briefely contayned the Tenne Commaundements of Almightie God S. And what are those tē cōmandemēts F. The same which God spake and are written in the 20. chapter of the second booke of Moses which is called Exodus S. I beseech you my father to recite them all vnto me in order F. Then hearken my sonne God spake all these wordes saying The tenne commaundements of God 1 I am Iehouah thy God which haue brought thée out of the land of Aegipt from the house of bondage thou shalt haue no strange Gods before me 2 Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image nor the similitude of any thing that is either in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the water vnder the earth thou shalt not adore them nor worship them for I Iehouah thy God am a iealous God The first Table visiting the iniquities of the fathers vpon the children in the third and fourth generation of them which hate me and shewing mercie to thousands of them that loue me and keepe my commaundements 3 Thou shalt not take the name of Iehouah thy God in vayne for Iehouah will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vayne 4 Remember the Saboth day that thou sanctifie it six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy worke but in the seauenth day is the Saboth of Iehouah thy God in it thou shalt not do any worke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy manseruant and thy maideseruant thy cattell and the stranger that is within thy gates for in six dayes Iehouah made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seauenth day and therefore Iehouah blessed the seauenth day and hallowed it These foure commandements are contayned in the first table the six that follow are of the second table 5 Honor thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be prolonged in the land which Iehouah thy God giueth thée The second Table 6 Thou shalt not kill 7 Thou shall not commit adultrie 8 Thou shalt not steale 9 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neighbour 10 Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife or his seruant or his maide or his oxe or his asse or any thing that is thy neighbours S. The Summe of the tē cōmaundementes How many things doe these commandements generally concerne F. Two things first thy dutie towards God next thy dutie towards thy neighbour S. Ye haue sufficiently taught me cōcerning the nature essence of God Now briefely in the way I beseech you to shew me who is my neighbour F. Who is my neighbour Generally all men borne of Adam and Heuah are thy neighbours but chiefely they which are of the familie of fayth be thy neighbours for all which are of the same familie are also of the same bodie in Christ and coheires of the kingdome of heauen S. Which of those commaundementes do concerne my dutie towards God F. Those foure which are contayned in the first table S. Which doe concerne my dutie towardes my neighbour F. Those sixe cōtained in the second table S. Wherein are those commandements perfected F. In loue The perfection of the law namely that thou loue God and thy neighbour S. How must I loue God F Thou shalt loue Iehouah thy God with al thy hart and with al thy minde Loue God and with all thy strength and with all thy thought S. How must I loue my neighbour F. Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Loue thy neighbour S. Howbeit it seemeth vnto me that some of those commaundements do not prescribe vnto vs any singuler worke but onely do forbid the doing of some certayne things F. Here thou must obserue my sonne that those commandements wherein we are forbidden that which is euill In those commaundementes wherein we are forbidden the euil we are commaunded to doe the good we are commanded to do the contrarie that is that we do that thing which is good and that in those other commandements whereby we be commanded to doe those works which are good honest we are forbidden to do the cōtrary that is such works as be vngodly and dishonest S. I pray you teach me this matter more playnely F. Must gladly howbeit aske of me I will certifie thée of all things S. The first cōmaundement Go to then first God hath said I am Iehouah thy God c what hath God commaunded herein F. First he cōmandeth that we should take and estéeme him the onely Iehouah for our God next that we should not feigne vnto our selues any strange gods S. The 2. VVhat commaundeth he in the second commaundement F. First he forbiddeth all idolatrie and feigned worshippe secondly that thou worship him and serue him onely not in the likenesse of any forme but in spirit and truth S. The 3. VVhat commaundeth he in the third commaundement F. In this he commaundeth thée to abstayne from al vaine oathes and from the prophane abuse of the name of God moreouer he teacheth thée to call on and to sweare by his name with all reuerence and in the feare of God S. The 4. What willeth he in the fourth F. First that sixe dayes thou shalt labour in the worke of thy vocation next that thou presume not on the seauenth day to do any seruile labour but that thou kéepe holy the seauenth day S. What hath he enioyned me in the fift commaundement The 5. F. That thou honour obey thy parents aswell spirituall as bodily with loue reuerence modestie feare and dutie and on the other side that thou dishonour them not nor vnreuerently abuse them nor in any sorte neglect them S. What hath God prescribed me in the sixt The 6. F. That thou kill not any man in thought worde or déede next that thou thinke well of thy neighbour and report him well and that thou endeauour to profit all persons and reléeue them and preserue the life of them to thy power S. What commandeth he in the seauenth commaundement tell me The 7. F. First he commaundeth thée to abstaine from all fleshly lustes and vncleaues of the body secondly that thou walke honestly and soberly in this life S. What saieth he in the eight commaundement
godly lessons institutions and contemplations and there withall ascribe vnto our best and highest God the praise and glory due to his most holy name F. So be it and thus that most good supreme God blesse thée my sonne and grant thée the right wisdome and grace to liue prosperously in thy vocation after his will to the comfort of thy parents friends to the good of the church cōmon wealth to the discharge of thy duty and to his praise glory who hath made formed thée to serue him through his deare sonne our Lord Iesus Christ Amen A godly prayer for Children to vse O Almightie God and our most gracious Father we thy deare children béeing taugth by thy worde doe know the nature of thy goodnesse to be such that as thou art alwayes ready to giue glad to forgiue willing to blesse and prosper them that appertaine vnto thée so thy will and pleasure is that we shold learne thy lawes to the end we may know how to glorifie thée walke in thy wayes and that because there is no man able to performe this without the assistance of thy spirit thou hast promised to send foorth the same vnto them that faithfully desire and runne vnto thée now therefore O good father we acknowledging our faults our vnworthinesse do come vnto thée prostrate our selues before thy footstoole in the hope and assurāce of thy tēder mercies to whō should the childe come but vnto his father and to whom should we come but vnto thée for howsoeuer we haue faulted agaynst heauen and agaynst thée and are vnworthy to be called thy sonnes yet art thou our father and we hope that in the name of thy most deare son Iesus thou wilt not denie vs to be thy children Let it be thy good pleasure O father to pardon all our defects and ignorances to looke on vs in thy loue to imbrace vs with thy fauour and to blesse vs in thy mercie that on vs the swéete influences of thy spirit with the which thou vsest to grace thine elected children may be bountifully powred foorth graciously encreased longsomly continued on vs for our perfect instruction for the benefit of thy church and for thine eternall glory Teach vs O father in the right vse of thy worde to know thée the only true God to know Iesus Christ our sauiour and to know our selues that howsoeuer we be schooled and catechized by our bodily and spiritual fathers whō thou hast in thy wisdome made meanes of our better instruction we may be all taught of thée which giuest an happy encrease to Pauls planting and the Apostles watering Sanctifie vs O father that we may be holy as thou art holy and confirme vs that we may be perfect as thou art perfect then shall we rightly know thy will and walke in thy wayes then shall we indéed feare thée and serue thée as we are bound to holinesse and righteousnes before thée without feare all the dayes of our life and finally pleasing thée we shall enioy that euerlasting inheritance of thy children in the highest felicitie through the worthy merit of thy most deare sonne our sauiour Iesus Christ in whose name only wee presume to come vnto thée praying as he hath taught vs. viz. Our Father which art in heauen c Hereafter follow certayne godly graces for children to vse before and after meat Before meate O Most gracious God we beseech the to sanctifie and blesse all these thy creatures which at this time we shall receiue at thy bountifull hand giue vs grace good father to take and vse the same with right thankfulnesse to thy worthy glory and to our comfort both in body and soule through thy deare sonne Iesus Christ our Lord and sauiour Amen After meate O Lord God our heauenly father most good gracious merciful we yeeld thee praise honour and glory for these and all other thy benefits and bounties powred foorth on vs and and now we humbly beseech thee to be mercifull vnto vs and forgiue vs all out sinnes to grant that thy louing graces and blessings may be both encreased and continued vnto vs thy high glory and our happy comfort in Iesu Christ our sauiour Amen Another AS we haue now receiued those thy gifts O God whereby we be refreshed in our bodies so grant that the may be also spiritually fed and nourished with thy worde and diuine graces in our soules that so both in bodie and soule tasting in both the sweetenesse of thy louing mercies we may prayse and glorifie thy most holy name through the sonne Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Before Supper O Lord our father celestiall Blesse vs and these thy creatures all That we may rightly vse the same And therein prayse thine holy name After Supper O Gracious God we glorifie Thy name and supreame maiestie For all thy gifts which from aboue We haue receiued in thy great loue Oh grant vs grace therefore to be For euer thankefull vnto thee Amen FINIS Fol. pa. lin Faultes Corrections 2 a 3 courteousnes courtesies  b 13 this these 6 a 7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 a 14 naturall soueraigne 10 b 3 senets secrets 14 a 13 ministery mystery  b 11 ministery mystery 15 b 10 blest Best   15 duty deity 16 b 29 accessible inaccessible   22 mutable immutable