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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14831	The entrie to Christianitie, or, An admonition to householders very necessary for instruction of their families, as also others, whereby, with some some small labour, they may attaine to the vnderstanding of the Christian faith: (if holy, and Christian exercises, as prayers, and such sanctified meanes) be devoutly vsed. Drawne out of the sacred Scriptures, as also prooued by the iudgement of famous learned writers. Very fit for this diseased and sickly age, where-in popish ignorance and deuilish atheisme dooth so abound. By Thomas Wats, minister of the word of God.; Entrie to Christianitie.	Watts, Thomas, fl. 1571-1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 25128; ESTC S106295	8,423	24

I will beleeue that which my forefathers beleeued Thou beleeuest well if so be that they beleeued well and if they haue deliuered to the posterities such things as be good Otherwise the Iewes and Turkes vnder this pretence defend their errors which they haue receiued of their fathers Let euery housholder therefore beware and take good héed what he teach his houshold A man may finde housholders which be so ignorant and vnskilfull in things diuine that they can by no meanes performe that thing which is heere commaunded Let such not be ashamed to heare and learne yea if it were of little boyes the things which hitherto they haue not knowne A man may finde also some housholders which will not performe their duetie in teaching Religion although they bee able to do it Againe a man may finde others which by wicked force doo euen let their housholds from learning the things which concerne the Religion and seruice of God But herein it belongeth to the Magistrate to vse his office to erect and set forward publike schooles Wolf Musc in Psal 78. vers 5. Speake men of discipline neuer so much complaine they of the want of Church-gouernment neuer so lowde preach they teach they neuer so much abroade vnlesse they will begin discipline in reforming their houses and giue Religion some roume at home they shal trauaile much and profit little Let there be neuer so good lawes in Cities neuer so pure orders in Churches if there be no practise at home if fathers of families vse not doctrine and discipline in their houses and ioyne their hands to Magistrate and Ministers they may indéed but vniustly as many haue done complaine that their Children are corrupted abroade when they were before and are still corrupted at home Exhortation for houshold Discipline Both maried men and Monkes and wiues commonlye haue this contention among themselues who may learne most scriptures Hierom. in Psal 33. Fathers bring vp your children in the learning and nurture of the Lord and teach them the holie Scriptures Ignatius Epist 6. If ye be willing that the holie Scriptures may become sweete vnto you and that Gods Commaundements may profite you as they ought withdrawe your selues from worldly businesses at certaine houres on which euen in your houses reade ouer the word of God and dedicate your selues wholie to his mercie that they may be happelie fulfilled in you which is written concerning the happie man For in the law of the Lord will he meditate day night And that Blessed are they that search his testimonies and seeke him with their whole heart And that Thy words haue I hid within my whole heart that I might not sinne agaynst thee For as you haue heard as he which hideth Gods words in his heart sinneth not so also he which hideth them not ceaseth not to sinne For if it sufficeth not buyers and sellers to make their gaines of one sort of ware only but they get many wares by which they may encrease their substance and if Husbandmen do their endeuour to sowe diuers kinds of seedes whereby they may sufficiently prouide meate for them and theirs how much rather in spirituall gaines ought it not to suffice you that you heare the diuine lessons in the Church but in your houses and at your meales and when the daies be short some houres in the nights also ye ought to labour earnestly in diuine reading to the end that ye may get you spirituall wheate into the Barne of your heart and in the treasuries of your soules lay vp the Pearles of the Scriptures that when at the day of iudgement yee shall come before the iudgement seate of the eternall Iudge ye may bee found as the Apostle saith Clothed and not naked August ad frat in Erem Serm. 56. If through ignorance or otherwise by sinning yee haue done any thing against God be not slacke through your well doings to amend it carefully calling this to your remembrance that the maried man liue in his house quietly and peaceably as it becommeth a good Christian that he honour his father and mother that he loue his wife that with very great discipline he teach his Children the Catholike faith and law of God to the end that they may knowe how to loue feare and honour God For this thing is acceptable before God August ad frat in Erem Serm. 64. Hearken all ye of the world that haue Wiues and Children how S. Paule the Apostle of Christ commandeth you to reade the Scriptures and that not sleightly or as by the waye but with great diligence Chrysost in Epist ad Coll. Hom. 9. Hearken not hereto only here in the Church but also at home let the husband with the wife let the father with the childe talke together of these matters and both to and fro let them both enquire and giue their iudgements and would God they would begin this good custome Idem in Ioh. Hom. 2. Touching the duetie of Housholders for the dayly exercising of their families in Christ his Religion Authoritie of the Scriptures Gen. 18 19. Exod. 20 10. Iosh 24 15. 1. King 10 5 8. Hest 4 16. Psalm 101. Iohn 4 53. Actes 10 2 16 15 31 32 33 34 18 8. Rom. 16 5. 1. Cor. 1 11 16 15. Coll. 4 15. 1. Tim. 3 4 12 5 8. 2. Tim. 4 19. Philem. 2. Iudgement of the Learned AFter the good man of the house is risen out of his bed let him go about none other thing then that that hee may be doing and talking of such matters as by which his whole houshold may profit more and more in Religion And as for the good wife of the house let her be verie vigilant and looke well about her house but let her mutch more care that her whole family diligently studie and do the things that pertaine vnto heauen For if in our worldly affayres before we dispose the things that concerne our owne houses we first of all care for the seruices which we owe to the Common-wealth least for such duties we be drawne into the Lawe punished and with shame discredited how much more in Spirituall matters ought we first to take order for the things that belong to God the creatour and King of all things least we be perforce haled to the place where is gnashing of teeth Chrisost in Matth. Hom. 78. When he speaketh of the Church in Nymphaes house we ought to remember that in one houshold there is prescribed what manner ones it becommeth all Christian housholds to be to wit that they bee so manye little Churches Wherefore let euerye one knowe that this burden is layd vpon him that he instruct his house in the feare of the Lord that he keepe it in holie discipline to be short that he there make a representation of the Church Calvin in Col. c. 4 15. They were well instructed which obeied to be Circumcised without resistance which thing declareth that maisters in their houses ought to be as