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The cristall of Christianitie, or looking glasse of Gods love. Containing the principles of our Christian profession, by the way of disputation betweene master and scholler, in schooles and families, fit for the profitable practise of all (especially of youth) to be vsed. / Initiated formerly by others, and amplified by R.P. minister and preacher of Gods word..
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estate neuer to perish neuer to dye a second death as the wicked doe Q. What benefits finde the faithfull after death in the estate of Immortalitie and after this mortall life A. The death of euery faithfull member of Christ washed in Baptisme with his precious bloud is precious in Gods sight and as the sight of God shall bring all celestiall ioy so the presence of God where is all fulnesse of Ioy perpetuall peaee shall fulfill the faithfull so full of that felicitie tranquilitie and heauenly glory which is vnspeakeable for excellencie perpetuitie whether good Lord bring vs all Amen A Prayer at the end of this second part to bee vsed BLessed Lord God as we praise thy Maiestie for thy mercy in instructing vs so we humblie pray thee that wee being instructed in the true knowledg of thy elected Church and sanctified Congregation and hauing learned that as a pledge of thy loue thou hast left the Sacrament of Baptisme by effectuall operation to represent the washing away of our sins and sealing assurance of saluation to our soules by the precious bloud of thy deare Sonne to our eternall safetie Free vs good Lord we beseech thee from all originall corruption By thy holy spirit make perfect our Regeneration by our new birth grant that our old euils of Adam in vs naturally may more and more be mortified the fruits of holinesse in vs may more be increased to thy glory and our good And good father we pray thee by the example of faithfull Abraham which hath by thy word beene taught vs so instruct vs thy seruants that we and our seede may faithfully keepe our promised Couenants made to thee in Baptisme both in obeying thy holy commandements our selues and also instructing our children seruants in the same obedience so that we and our familie may daily endeuour to please and serue thy Maiestie in holy obedience And gratious Lord seeing we feele sinne to haue in our flesh a permanency giue vs such power ouer our sinne that in vs it may neuer haue soueraignitie And grant vs such grace that both bodily death and the graue may bring benefits to vs and to all true beleeuers And in the day of the Resurrection our bodies rising to immortalitie may bee ioyned to our soules to enioy in thy glorious kingdome euerlasting glory through Iesus Christ our Lord and glorious Redeemer Amen ⸫ A Prayer before the Sacrament of the LORDS Supper BLessed holy and heauenly Father without whom there is no felicitie no sanctitie nor at the banket of thy deare son with thy Saints no societie We beseech thee good Lord sanctifie vs poore sinners that both our bodies and soules may from all former impuritie bee purged and with the wedding garment of true Christianitie and charitie bee clothed For our farther preparation peirce our harts with an earnest sorrow for our sinnes that by such penitency we may bee purged from our grieuous offences Moreouer we beseech thee plant in our harts that faith in thy promises that by beleeuing thy Sonne to be the bread of life hee may sustaine our soules to eternall life And we with a liuely faith beleeuing and receiuing those banquetting Dishes and purified Wines may through faith be freed from eternall death And finally grant wee beseech thee to vs such faith and perfect perswasion that in vs this spirituall foode may haue spirituall opperation and wee thereby nourished may in grace be more increased From death eternall by faith freed And by our constant faith euerlasting life may be granted in thy glorious kingdome to liue and raigne with thee and thy deare Sonne through the same thy blessed Sonne our onely Sauiour and Redeemer Amen ⸫ Here followeth the third part of the Cristall of Christianitie wherein the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is discussed very plainely and very familiarly Question PRoceede now to the Sacrament of the LORDS SVPPER and both shew me the outwarde signes of the Sacrament and what inward sauing grates be thereby presented to the Church A. The signes in the Lords Supper are bread and wine signifying by bread his blessed body broken for vs and by wine his precious bloud powred out for remission of our sinnes Q. How doth bread signifie his bodie and represent the blessings of his bodie to vs A. As the word for bread in the true signification doth signifie all kinde of sustentation and nourishment for our bodies so doth the giuing vs his bodie signifie spiritually all sustentation for soule and bodie He is our wisedome he is our sanctification he is our iustification he is our redemption he is our saluation The giuing of Christ from God to mankind is with him giuing all good things to mankind for this life and the life to come for hee is the true bread that came downe from heauen to sustaine vs by his grace on earth vntill wee attaine glory with him in heauen Q. How doth Wine represent his bloud powred out for vs A. Christ calleth himselfe the true Vine and his grapes are spirituall graces and as he is full of grace so his grapes are full of spirituall power and when his head was with thornes rased his hands and his feete with nailes boared his sides and heart pierced the purified Wine of his peirced heart was powred out to comfort our hearts wherewith hee doth commaund his Prophet to comfort his people at the heart namely with pardon of their sinnes which comfort of remission of sinnes doth approue his bloud to haue the propertie of Wine which is comfortable Q. You call it a banquet and a Supper of Christ shew mee for whom this feast is made and especially prouided A. It is made principally to his true church which before I expressed to bee the true beleeuers and none but the true beleeuers are effectually partakers of this spirituall banquet Q. Doe not all that communicate at the Lords table by the signe of bread receiue the sauing graces represented by the bread A. As wicked Iudas receiued the bread of Christ but not Christ the true bread so as many as bee Communicants hauing such or the like corruption can neuer receiue the body of Christ and his benefites presented by the bread consecrated by the Word although they receiue bread and wine at the Sacrament with others Q. How doth the bread that is consecrated differ from other bread which is vsuall for the nourishment of our bodies A. As Waxe before it hath impression of a Seals is bare Waxe and after it is more it is a Seale So the vsuall water in Baptisme and Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper by the word are made sacraments and seaies of assurance from Christ to assure his true Church and euery member thereof of his sauing graces conteined in the Sacraments Q. What may bee the difference of men which communicate all at one Communion A. As the daunger or perill of the one is great because they receiue it vnworthily not considering the Lords bodie
Q. Shew me how and whereby Christians may behold this Christian faith A. The twelue Apostles in a cleare cristall glasie hath described it plainely Q. Kehearse the first Article and shew me what you learne by it A. I beleeue in God the father Almightie c. First I learne hereby God on whom I doe beleeue is my Father and I am his childe by faith in Christ Iohn 1. 12. Gal. 3. Secondly I learne I am one of them to whom God sayth I will be their God and they shall be my sonnes daughters sayeth the Almightie Iere. 33. 1. Thirdly I learne that my almightie Father will so sustaine me that I shall lacke nothing Psal 23. And so defend me that the gate of hell shall not preuaile against me Math. 16. Q. Rehearse the second Article and shew me what you learne by it A. And in Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lord. First I learne the name and nature of Iesus doth assure me that he is my Sauiuiour Mat. 2. By the second title of his name which is Christ and signifieth aunoynted I am taught that as the oyntment on Aarons head did descend to all his garments so on me and all Christians the oyle of grace descendeth from Christ vnto vs. The third as he is the onely sonne of God from euerlasting so he bringeth many children to God euerlastingly to be saued Fourthly I learne That he is my Lord both by right of redemption and my Lord and husband by right of coniunction Hos 2. 19. Q. Rehearse the third Article and shew me what you learne by it A. Which was conceiued by the holy Gost borne of the virgin Mary whereby I learne first that he is free from sinne and altogether pure and vnspotted Heb. 9. Secondly I learne that by his diuine nature and power hee is able to performe what soeuer tendeth to the conquest of mans foes Col. 3. Thirdly it doth assure me that hee being borne of a woman is a perfect man and in his person and manhood indured the wrath of God for the sinnes of mankinde and to free the faithfull by his satisfaction from all their sinne and transgression Esay 53. Q. Rehearse the fourth Article and shew me what you learne thereby A. Suffered vnder Poncius Pilate was crucified dead and buryed he descended into hell First I learne that vnder Poncius Pilate the Iudge he suffered on the Crosse to worke out my Redemption Math. 27. Gal. 3. 14. Secondly his descending into hell signifieth the humbling of his soule to suffer the torments of hell for my sake Psal 22. Q. Rehearse the fixt Article and what you learne out of it A. He rose againe from the dead Hereby I learne that his resurrection doth assure me of my iustification 1. Cor. 15. 17. Secondly I learne that risting from sinne and delighting in righteousnes doth assure me that I am a chosen member of his body Rom. 6. 4. Thirdly I am taught that I rising with him should set my affections on heauenly things where he is Col. 3. 1. Fourthly the rising of his body from the graue so gloriously doth assure me that my body shall arise to enjoy with him eternall glory 1. Cor. 15. 18. Q. Rehearse the fixt Article and what you learne by it A. He ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God c. First I learne by his ascension into heauen that hee hath taken possession for me all his members of the heauenly Mansion Secondly That he is seated on the right hand of God in maiestie doth assure me that he is aboue all Angels placed in a secondary dignitie to the father to whom in his humane nature hee maketh intercession for his members continually Thirdly he there placed in glory assureth me and euery member of his body there to be placed with him in euerlasting glory Q. Rehearse the seauenth Article what you learne by it A. From thence he shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead Wherin first I learne to my comfort that my Sauieur shall come to be my Iudge Iob 19. 25. Secondly I learne that his second comming shall bee with great glory when hee commeth to Iudgement Mat. 25. 41. Thirdly I learne as he shal be glorified in giuing glory to his faithfull members so he shall also be glorified in rendring vengeance in flaming fire to the faithlesse that haue contemned the faithfull and disobeyed the Gospell 1. Thes 2. 8. Q. Rehearse the eyght Article and shew me what you learne out of it A. I beleeue in the holy Ghost wherein first I learne the holy spirit being very God doth certifie my soule and my spirite that I and all faithfull Christians are the children of God and coheires with Christ of his glorious kingdome Rom. 8. 16. Secondly I learne that the spirituall power of the holy spirit mollifieth sinne in mee and maketh all holy desires to take place in my soule and indueth me with true holinesse of life Ephe. 4 23. Q. Rehearse the ninth Article and what you learne therein A. I beleeue the catholike Church whereby I learne that God hath on earth and throughout the world a holy Chuch and sanctified Congregation of people Math. 8. 10. Act. 10. 34. Secondly I learne That in this holy societie there is a Communion of Saints of which number by faith I am assured through thy fauour to be one Ephe. 5. 26. Q. Rehearse the tenth Article and what you learne by it A. I beleeue the forgiuenesse of sinnes by which Article first I learne and stedfastly beleeue although I am a sinner yet Christ making satisfaction for my sinnes and for the sinnes of the whole world my sinnes shall neyther to me be imputed nor to my confusion remembred Ier. 33. 34. Psal 32. 1. Q. Rehearse the eleauenth Article and what you learne by it A. I beleeue the resurrection of the Bodie Whereby I learne that when the trumpet of God thall blow and the Arch-angels sound out this powerfull sentence Rise you dead my body shall be raised from the dust and so raised shall raigne with Christ for euer 1. Thes 4. 17. Secondly I learne I shall bee clothed with Christ his bodie and in my resurrection my vile body shall be glorious 1. Cor. 15. 42. Q. Rehearse the twelfth Article and shew me what you learne thereby A. I beleeue the life euerlasting Wherein first I learne to my comfort that after death I shall be placed in the throne of life and crowned in the kingdome of life Reu. 2. 10. 1. Tim. 4. Secondly I learne the life which I and euery faithfull member of Christ shall receiue shall neuer ende but bee euerlasting Psal 21. Thirdly I learne that of all these graces and fauours of God to mee and to all the faithfull commeth of the free gift of God to me to all the whole Christian Church through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour to whom with the Father and holy spirit I all the faithfull are