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A64572	A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of religion, that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of godliness. Namely, I. Of four Christian-duties, viz. 1. Reading the Scriptures. 2. Preparation for the Lords Supper. 3. Estimation of the ministry. 4. Sanctification of the Lords-day-Sabbath. II. Of four family-duties, viz. 1. Houshold-catechising. 2. Family-prayer. 3. Repeating of sermons. 4. Singing of Psalms. With an epistle prefixt, to inform and satisfie the Christian reader, concerning the whole treatise. By William Thomas, rector of the church at Ubley in the county of Somerset.	Thomas, William, 1593-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing T988; ESTC R37887	203,614	274

benefits of this Redeemer Answ. Not so because Christ and his saving benefits are applyed and received only by faith which all have not but the elect only and which they that want are condemned already because they believe not in the Name of the only begotten Son of God 17. Quest. Is there not something also to be known and believed concerning the Church Answ. Yes we are to believe that there is an holy Catholick that is Universal Church or Congregation gathered out of all quarters of the world wherein forgiveness of sin in the Name of Christ is preached communion of Saints exercised and eternal life obtained 18. Quest. Is nothing required in Christians but faith Answ. Yes we are to know also that we are bound to lead a godly life that is a life ordered according to the Word of God in righteousness and holiness without which none shall see the Lord 19. Quest. But in many things we offend all What are we therefore to mind further in regard of our sin and manifold disobedience Answ. In regard of our sinful estate naturally and our f●ilings continually we are further to know that Repentance is necessarily required for without that we must perish And is to be still renewed for in that way we must look for pardon and yet ever come to Christ for procuring life Joh. 5.40 Mat. 11.28 20. Quest. What are we to know concerning our estate after death Answ. That the souls of the faithful do immediately after death live with Christ in blessedness but the souls of the wicked go immediately into Hell-torments 21. Quest. And what shall become of the bodies of both Answ. There shall be a resurrection of the bodies of the just and the unjust at the last day at which time all shall appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ in their own persons to receive the things done in their bodies according to that they have done whether it be good or bad 22. Quest. What doth the Scripture declare concerning the last and everlasting disposal of the persons of men at that day Answ. As they are and as they die so they shall be disposed of hereafter The wicked therefore and such as would do nothing for Christ shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Having spoken thus far concerning the General Doctrine of Scripture and the Main Points of Religion the knowledge whereof is more necessary to Salvation I shall now proceed to speak more particularly of the Sacraments and in special of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper of which I should have made mention and inserted them in the fore-going general Instructions but that I purposely reserved them to a peculiar and larger Explication in the now ensuing Questions and Answers An help for unlearned Christians that they may not be unworthy Receivers 1. Quest. What is mans chiefest happiness and only blessedness Answ. To approach unto God in and through Jesus Christ and to partake in a near acquaintance and fellowship with him Job 22.21 2. Quest. Why should all happiness be summ'd up in the enjoyment of God Answ. If they were blessed who continually stood before Solomon how much more they who enjoy the only wise God with Jesus Christ his Son and together with him all things also which are laid up in him which we shall have here as is needful from him and shall have for ever hereafter in all fulness with him 3. Quest. Who are they that are partakers of this blessedness Answ. They whom God is pleased to choose and to take into Covenant with himself not only as persons called but as persons chosen 4. Quest. What are the means whereby we are partakers of the benefit of the Covenant of Grace for our everlasting blessedness Answ. This is done by the Ordinance of God and more especially by the Word and the Sacraments 5. Quest. What difference is there between these two Ordinances Answ. The Word is the Writing reporting and declaring and the Sacraments are the Seals confirming and assuring the benefits of the Covenant unto us 6. Quest. Shew more fully what a Sacrament is Answ. It is a special Ordinance of God signifying and setting before our eyes sealing unto our hearts and conveying into our souls through the Spirit the singular and saving benefits of the Covenant of Grace 7. Quest. What be the parts of a Sacrament Answ. The outward sign which we see and the inward grace which we do not see unless by the eye of faith As in our bodily sustenance there is the food upon the Table which we see but the strength and life which that food gives us we see not but yet feel and find it afterward 8. Quest. How many Sacraments be there Answ. No more then Christ hath appointed for Sacraments that is to say Two only Baptism and the Lords Supper 9. Quest. What is the difference between these two Answ. By Baptism there is an ingrafting into Jesus Christ and a right solemnly manifested unto the Covenant and so the whole benefit thereof is in Gods good time enjoyed by every Infant that belongs to Him and by all them that keep the vow of their Baptism By the Sacrament of the Lords Supper the same Covenant is renewed and the good things thereof are more abundantly afforded to all that are by Baptism received into Christ and his Church for their spiritual nourishment and increasing with the increases of God 10. Quest. Since there is so much good continually coming in by the Sacrament of the Lords Supper What course is to be taken that we may enjoy it Answ. The course which God hath prescribed and which therefore shall certainly be blessed to make this Sacrament beneficial to us is this Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup 1 Cor. 11.28 11. Quest. What are the things belonging to this Examination Answ. We are to be taught and to learn these two things especially What we are to receive and how we are to receive it And then to examine whether those things be in us that are in worthy Receivers of so great mysteries 12. Quest. What is it that we do receive in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Answ. We receive Bread and Wine as the outward signs and together with them if we receive as we ought the Body and Bloud of Christ as the thing signified 13. Quest. Since Christ's natural Body and Bloud are not to be looked for in the Sacrament shew more plainly what is meant when it is said We receive his Body and Bloud Answ. The meaning is that every worthy Communicant receiveth Jesus Christ with all his benefits He receiveth not only the benefits but

Body doth And are you further perswaded that where this never-dying Soul lodgeth and lyeth the first night after your death whe●her it be in Heaven or in Hell there it and you must lodge for ever I say Do you think all these things to be true Let me then beseech you to shew your selves Christians or to shew your selves Men and live not securely in that loose course walk not stubbornly in that wide way which will certainly bring to the worse place but on the contrary Strive to enter in at the straight-gate and go in that narrow way though it be against the hair I mean your own corrupt and undoing hearts by walking wherein you shall assuredly come at last to the better place and possess that everlasting life which is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. For this purpose I have written these following Directions and Admonitions as not knowing what Guides or Goads you will have unto that which is good when I am gone but the better you observe these and all other godly Instructions the more hope you may have to have more of them mean-while I leave these with you which if you have not other helps will be the more needful and if you have other helps will make them the more useful That I might be more profitable to you I have endeavoured plainness yet I confess there is not so much of it as I intended or desired for all men have not that gift of making known their mind to others in a plain and familiar way And besides that something must be yielded to more ripe Readers and in divers things the matter hath carryed me above the capacity of many of you but the better use you make of that which you do understand the sooner you will understand the rest and you being acquainted so long with my way of teaching and manner of speaking may know and find out better then others what my meaning is To conclude Remember that what our Saviour long since said to prove himself the Messiah is fulfilled to you which is this The poor have the Gospel preached to them or they are the persons that are Gospel-lized that is the Gospel is theirs with all the comforts of it but know also that this is not meant of the poor in state only but which a poor state oft is and ever should be an help unto of those that are poor in spirit that though they have lived honestly among their neighbours see themselves undone without a Saviour and therefore when they have little or nothing else or whether they have or no make sure to have Him labour you to be in the number of those that are thus spiritually poor as by the providence of God many of you are outwardly low It 's a lamentable thing when they that have little in this world shall have nothing in the world to come not so much as a drop of water to cool their tongue in that place of torment That it may not be so with you Let me beseech you to study your Souls to esteem the words of Gods mouth whether you read them or hear them more then your necessary food to account one thing necessary which is to sit at Jesus feet and hear his Word from those whom he sends to speak to you This will not hinder you from labouring for your living for the Word of Christ binds you to it but it 's necessary to know there is a more necessary labour that is to know what God would have done first and to do it after For your assistance wherein I desire you to make conscience of the holy Exercises of Religion which are here commended unto you that so you may be furnished for bringing forth the fruits of godliness in your whole conversation Consider what I have said and the Lord give you understanding in all things and so bless unto you these and all other Instructions that you may thrive in knowledge grow in grace and persevere in faith and obedience that I may rejoyce in you and you in me in the day of the Lord Jesus Unto whom I commend you and to the Word of his Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an Inheritance among all them that are sanctified And so remain Your intirely-well-wishing Pastor willing to spend and be spent and now almost spent with and for you William Thomas The EPISTLE TO THE CHRISTIAN READER Dear Christians ALbeit the ensuing Instructions were purposely framed for my own Charge yet finding them to grow under my hand to a more full Treatise then was at first in my thoughts and that now they are like to come into many hands I conceive it needful to say something by way of Preface that what I have written may be more useful to any that shall think fit to read it That which I have to say concerneth the matter handled and the manner of writing The matter is wholly practical save that necessity hath compelled me for the establishing of practical Truths to mixe here and there that which is something controversal All as you may see is referred unto two heads that is Christian and Family-duties Of each sort there are four I shall before-hand give you a tast of them all The first of the first sort is the reading of the Scriptures which may well be put in the first place because the written Word is not only the Foundation of our Faith and the well-spring of saving wisdom but also the ground of Godliness the guide of Practise and a divine Directory for the performance of every good duty whereby not only the Minister and Man of God but the People of God the Sons and Daughters of the Lord God Almighty are educated unto and throughly furnished for every good work For the Scriptures are composed not as the writings of Heathens for vain-glory but for mens Salvation and the Spirit of God hath written them in a plain language that all may easily see what is said at least as far as sufficeth for the guiding of their faith and carriage and the safety of their souls and that no simple men as Chrysostom speaks might make this excuse that the Scriptures are hard for though there be difficulties therein to take down mens pride yet there is enough so plain that not only Gods workman that is the Minister but any workman may see the way to Heaven if he have eyes to see it for to see requires sight as well as light In the next place there is more particular Instructions given concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and that not without need For where Salvation lies at the one end and Damnation at the other there 's great need of Direction that where we seek for the better of these we may not find the worse In the handling of this Subject I have been constrained unto a

afterwards being grown up and come to discover their dispositions reading Scripture hath been laid aside Catechising shaken off Noting Sermons neglected the vain fashions of the world followed and so the upshot and conclusion is the living of a dull worldly life with little sense of Religion and losing that acquaintance with God which they seemed to have or which it was hoped they would have had The Lord open the eyes of such and Blessed be God there are divers young ones that are not such After all this I shall say and may truly say with the Apostle I write not these things to shame you or as if I thought there were not the like or greater cause of complaint in other places but I write them as to my beloved Sons and Daughters to warn you and to stir up both my self and you that it may be yet better by our making the best use we can of the little and uncertain remainder of time of our being together as Pastor and People I gladly pass from this which is displeasing to me but I thought needful for you to affect you with your estate that you might never rest till you be in a good estate And come now to the third and more comfortable thing which is matter of Praising God whereof there is much and that Not only because I hope and know that the great God without whom Ministers can do nothing are nothing hath been pleas'd to make my Ministry profitable to divers neighbouring Parishes at my first coming hither less provided for but especially for the good effect of it among you of this Congregation The same Lord of the Harvest that hath brought I may say laborious preaching into this place where there was so little so long time before hath blessed it here also so far as that I doubt not divers are gone to Heaven that have enjoyed it and are going thither who now enjoy it Not so many God knows as were to be wished but so many as that it sufficiently appeareth that God had a gracious work to do when he sent his Word hither upon the souls of poor people in this place I shall not here forget that which may confirm what I have said and be a sign of the hearty entertainment of the Gospel which is That you did so generally lovingly and earnestly desire my return unto you after I had been for some longer time absent and when I was much desired otherwhere This new Invitation I took as a second Call and a new encouragement to settle with you and therefore forsaking all other I have kept my self or rather God hath kept me only unto you to spend and be spent for you Here also I do with comfort remember your greater respect to the Lords-day more knowledge of and preparation for the Lords-Supper then is to be found in every place where the Word hath been together with some more reverence of the presence and service of God in the publike Assembly you do not use to over-run the blessing as divers that make it a common but it is a very profane custom to go away before the Blessing be pronounced but abide the whole time of divine Service Jacob said I will not let thee go from me They do well that say and resolve Lord I will not go from thee before thou blesse me But amongst and above divers other things there is great cause of blessing God for your constancy in attending Gods Word and Ordinances in the late Erroneous and Congregation-scattering times wherein so many Christians have lamentably and fearfully faln from the truth and wayes of God from whom I know you have not wanted tentations to depart with them upon the pretence of greater light and more holiness from that written Word of God which they that leave or cross and contemn have no morning-light in them and with a reverend and unfained respect whereunto the greatest godliness and holiness is ever-joyned for it is a doctrine according to godliness that is which requires true godliness and stirs up and brings men thereunto But by such tentations many have departed To that God be glory who is able to keep you and hath kept you from so falling Jude v. 24 25. I have little more to say O that I could take off some of that which I have said that is all former Complaints by seeing that done at last which hath not been done at first I mean by seeing those that have lien in ignorance become at length knowing Christians those that have been worldly minded spiritual Christians those that have been loose and given to drinking sober Christians and those who have been only sober truly godly Christians O that they that are old too like Nicodemus that dreamed of entring into his Mothers womb again might be so far awakened and enlightened as to enter as it were into the womb of the Church and know experimentally what the great mystery of Regeneration means by having Christ through the travail of the Ministery formed in them to the glory of God the sealing of the Ministry and the salvation of their pretious Souls in the day of Jesus Christ unto which they do so much hasten and for which they must prepare now or perish then And to speak yet again O that you that are younger would make conscience of remembring your Creator in the dayes of your youth and make it your business to grow in grace as you grow in years not being ever the elder the lower but the taller Christian It 's a miserable thing when a young man grows in nothing but in height or in hair O how that grows in these dissolute dayes or in strength or in wit without having the wit to grow in the knowledge and fear of God I say this is a miserable and most dangerous thing for young men may die as well as old if the Tower of Siloe fall it kills the youngest on whom it falls as well as the oldest In those lead-mines wherein many of you labour how many younger and stronger men have perished on a sudden Now if they that dye whether they be old or young do not live in Jesus while they live how shall they die in Jesus when they die and then how shall they live with him when they are dead And Is it your mind that the Lord Jesus should be in one place and you when you are dead and may die to morrow in another and that a contrary place He in glory and you in torment and that for evermore Beloved I am perswaded better things of you and pray for better things in you even things that accompany Salvation though because I would have you to hear I thus speak I shall speak but once more and I hope they that hear worst will hear me Are you sure there is an Heaven Do you believe there is an Hell Do you know the Soul is Immortal and never dieth as the