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A80737	Knovvledge & practice, or, a plain discourse of the chief things necessary to be known, believ'd, and practised in order to salvation. Drawn up, and principally intended for the use and benefit of North-Cadbury in Somersetshire, / by Samuel Cradock, B.D. & Pastor there: sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge.	Cradock, Samuel, 1621?-1706.	1659 (1659)	Wing C6751; Thomason E1724_1; ESTC R209799	322,548	715

sinners saies we should snatch such out of the fire v. 23. Obj. 6. But does not our Saviour say we must not give that which is holy to dogs nor cast pearls before swine Mat. 7.6 And what are lewd sinners but such Sol. Every disorderly liver is not to be accounted as a dog or a swine in the sense our Saviour useth the word For of some such Paul speaketh 2 Thes 3.15 And saith We must not account them as enemies but admonish them as brethren Whom therefore we are to account as dogs and swine appears by our Saviours own words in that place even such as not only out of a swinish basenesse trample under foot the precious Word of God offered to them in a reproof but out of a doggish rage and fierceness are ready to fly at the throats of such as out of good will to their souls offer to loosen them from the devils thraldom and to help them on towards Heaven Lest saies our Saviour they trample them under their feet and turn again and rent you If you meet then at any time with such desperate wretches that you are in danger of violence from if you stop them in their course of sin you may forbear medling with them And seeing they will be filthy let them be filthy still Seeing there is no other remedy let them swear on swagger on drink on and at last despair die and be damned O sad condition Whose bowels do not turn within him that thinks of their woful misery But as for others as we have opportunity let us endeavour their amendment and salvation Thus much for the Second thing the removing the prejudices and answering the Objections that are conceiv'd against this duty I come now in the third place to give some Directions for the right practise of it I. Labour to walk circumspectly thy self look well to thy own life and conversation that it may be as much as in thee lies blameless and harmlesse that so thou maist be more capable of performing this duty with advantage towards others II. Look well to thy own heart that thy ends and intentions be upright and sincere in this businesse Take need thou be not moved to this duty out of any proud humour of contradicting or controlling others or of purpose to disgrace others or out of vain glory and a secret ambitious desire of purchasing to thy self a Name or for any such by and base end but let thy motive be an earnest desire to discharge thy duty to God to abate sin and advance holiness in the world and to save thy brothers soul III. Look well to it that the thing thou offerest to reprove be a fault in it self and a fault that he is guilty of to whom thou addressest thy reproof else thou mistakest thy mark IV. Before thou settest upon this work send up fervent prayers either solemn supplications if thou hast time or secret mental ejaculations unto the Lord for the pardon of thy own sins and to direct assist and blesse thy endeavours to his own Glory and the amendment and salvation of the party to whose benefit thy admonition is design'd V. Let the reproofs thou dost minister be usher'd in with prefaces of good will and mannaged with evidences of love pity and real affection to the party reproved Reproof is a bitter pill and sometimes must be lapt up in Sugar and Pap but not so neither as to make it lose its operation When we reprehend the faults of men 't is not amisse many times to commend what is good in them that they may see we are as forward to take notice of what is good and commendable in them as to reprehend what is evil And this will make them take reproof the better VI. Be serious in reprehending others A loose and trifling reprehension between jest and earnest usually doth more harm than good and rather confirms the sinner in his sin than reforms him Well may he think it matters not much whether he leave his sin or no when he sees others make but a jest at it Solomon saies fools make a mock at sin Prov. 14.9 Let thy heart therefore be deeply affected with the dishonour done to God the danger the parties soul is in if he go on in his sin and then shew him plainly and seriously the evil of it VII Back and confirm thy reproofs with plain places of Scripture that the party may see and feel that 't is God reproves him rather than thou and that thou dost but mind him what God hath declared concerning men in his condition Tell him 't is not as thou wilt nor as he will who shall be sav'd and who shall not but as God will Now God hath reveal'd that such as live thus and thus shall never enter into his Kingdom Therefore entreat him to consider where such courses will end and what must needs become of his soul if he do not timely repent and forsake those evil waies VIII Be discreet in ministring reproofs Call in prudence to assist Charity Distinguish prudently between person and person For though all are to be reproved except they be dogs or swine or obstinate obdurate Hereticks Tit. 3.10 yet all are not to be dealt with in the same manner This Caution St. Jude gives us Jude v. 22. Of some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire Some are of a more flexible nature and therefore fair and loving admonitions are likeliest to work upon them Some are hardned and obdurate sinners these should be rebuk'd sharply Tit. 1.13 when gentler means will not do and with fear must be pull'd out of the fire i. e. must be terrified with Gods Judgments that they may fear him who is able to cast both soul and body into Hell IX Be impartial in reprehending those it is thy duty to rep●ehend Do not do in reproving men as Saul did in executing the Command he had against Amalek who spared the fat and chief and destroyed only the refuse Put on a truly noble and Christian resolution and fear not the face of men in performing thy Duty to God God is dishonoured by one mans sins as well as by anothers and sin is destructive to the soul of one man as well as another Therefore one should be admonish'd as well as another Great men should be admonish'd because their temptations are great and because they may do great good or hurt by their example And the meanest should be admonish'd also because their souls are as precious as the others and poor creatures they are many of them very insensible of their sin and danger X. Do not strive to make any man more guilty than he is If he denies the charge and pleads his innocency fairly and friendly lay open the grounds upon which thou speakest but at no hand stand much upon doubtful proofs nor wrest things to the worst sense but accept of the most favourable construction of words and actions

as a Letter written by the hand of God from Heaven unto us If an Angel should bring us a letter from Heaven we should highly value it and regard it The Bible is a message sent from Heaven to acquaint us with the mind of God If we own the divine authority thereof let us read it with reverence and due regard 2. Beg the Spirit of God that endited the Scripture that inspired and infallibly guided and assisted the pen-men thereof to open thy eies to illuminate thy mind and to encline thy heart to a full belief and perswasion that it is the very Word of God and to bring over thy will to a sincere obedience and compliance with the will of God therein revealed 3. Remember that all things necessary to mans salvation are either expresly set down in the Scripture or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced there-from Unto which nothing is at any time to be added either by new revelations or traditions of men it being a perfect Canon a perfect rule of Faith and life St. John who outlived the rest of the Apostles sealed up the Canon Rev. 22.18 19. which was a great mercy to the world For God saw what a liberty man enclin'd to in divine things and therefore needed to be tyed up to a rule which here is given us There is enough delivered in the Scripture to make us wise unto salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 What should a Christian desire more and the Apostle tels us we ought to give heed thereto till the day-star arise in our hearts that is till we have full communion with Christ Mr. Manton on Jude For our reward in Heaven is expressed by the morning-star Rev. 2.28 To him that over-cometh I will give the morning-star 4. Take notice that those things that are necessary to be known believed and observed for salvation are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other that not only the learned but the unlearned also in a due use of the ordinary means God hath appointed may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them If there arise any question about the true and full sense and meaning of any Scripture it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly The certain rule of interpreting the Scripture is the Scripture it self The Scripture saies Camero is so penn'd that they that have a mind to know may know They that have a mind to wrangle may take occasion enough of offence and justly perish by the rebellion of their own reason for God never intended saith he to satisfie men of a stubborn and perverse wit And Tertullian long before him hath told us that God hath so disposed the Scripture that they that will not be satisfied might be hardened 5. And lastly Remember that the supream Judge by which all con●rove●sies of Religion are to be ●ried all decrees of Councils opinions of ancient writers doctrines of men and private spirits are to be examined in whose sentence we are to rest can be no other than the Holy Spirit of God speaking in and by the Scriptures for what the Scripture saies God speaks by it Isa 8 20. To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them John 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testifie of me V. 4● For had ye believed Moses ye would have believed me for he wrote of me Acts 17.11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so V. 12. Therefore many of them believed also of the honourable women which were Greeks and of men not a few Luke 16.29 Abraham saith unto him they have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them V. 31. And he said unto him if they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead 2 Pet. 1.19 We have also a more sure word of Prophesie whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts V. 20. Knowing this first that no prophesie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation V. 21. For the Prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Tim. 3.15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus V. 16. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousnesse V. 17. That the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works Luke 10.26 What is written in the Law how readest thou Rom. 15.4 For whatsoever things were written afore-time were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Deut. 17.18 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdome that he shall write him a Copy of this Law in a book out of that which is before the Priests the Levites V. 19. And it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the daies of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of this Law and these statutes to do them Psal 19.7 The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the Testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple Psal 119.9 Wherewithall shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word V. 105. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my paths V. 130. The entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding unto the simple Psal 147.19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his Judgments unto Israel V. 20. He hath not dealt so with any Nation and as for his Judgments they have not known them Praise ye the Lord. Mat. 4.4 But he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God V. 7. Jesus said unto him it is written again thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God V. 10. Then he saith unto him get thee hence Satan for it is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Eph. 2.20 And are built upon the foundation of Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone Luke 24.27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself V. 44. And he said unto them these are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you that all things