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3 The office of the Catechist is to make his doctrine easy to enter by giving it an edge¹ in perspicuity, method, &c. and of the catechised often to go over the same thing, as a knife doth the whetstone, and to repeat and iterate it, till he have made it his own. This we see in the original words: specially the Greek [Greek or Hebrew] from the which we have our English word Echo, [Greek or Hebrew] is indeed to sound the last syllable, and such sounders happily there be enough, but it is to sound the whole after one: and such a repetition is required of the right Catecumenoi. Catechizing is thus distinguished from preaching. Preaching is the dilating² of one member of religion into a just treatise: Catechizing is a contracting of the whole into a sum. Preaching is to all sorts: catechizing to the younger and rude. Preaching is not exacted to be repeated: catechizing is exacted. We consider here in these three things. An argument or sum, the genus, the delivery of it to children: the first part of catechizing, the redelivery of catechumenoi, which is the second part of the catechism. For warrant in making sums we have Christ, who Math. 22. 37. brought all the whole law into two heads Joh. 3▪ 16. an abridgement of the Gospel is set down, Cod so loveth the world, &c. Eccles. 12 •3. Solomon draws all that, that he had said in his whole book of the Preacher, to these two heads. Fear God, and keep his commandments. The Apostle Heb. 6. 1. reduceth all the principles of Christian religion to these two, Repentance and Faith. As also the learned think, that this form of teaching is meant by Paul, in his pattern ^*or form of wholesome words▪ which he willeth Timothy to have,