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A52008 The church-catechism enlarg'd and explain'd in an easie and familiar method, with the scripture-proofs annexed thereunto. R. M. 1697 (1697) Wing M70A; ESTC R221785 40,396 65

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No. Though your engagement and promise was then declared by others yet can you lay claim to the Benefits of the Covenant without standing to that engagement your selves No. And now you are come to Age do you not renew your Baptismal engagement and are you not desirous to be Confirmed therein by laying on of hands and Prayer Heb. 6.2 Yes Question Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper or●ain'd Answer For the continual remembrance of the Sacrifice of the Death of Christ and of the benefits which we receive thereby § IS not the Lords Supper the other Sacrament and was it not Ordained by Christ as well as Baptism 1 Cor. 11.23 Yes Was it Ordained to be an unbloody Sacrifice or propitiation for the Quick and the Dead Heb. 9.22 25. No. Yet is it not an Eucharist or Spiritual Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and Gospel Service Mala. 1.11 Yes * Was not the death of Christ such a Propitiatory Sacrifice Typifyed by all the bloody Sacrifices of Old Heb. 9.13 14. Yes Did He not bear the punishment of our iniquities Isa 53.6 and by shedding his blood make Atonement for them Rom. 3.23 Yes Are not reconciliation Rom. 5.1 Sanctification Heb. 10.10 and Salvation Rom. 5.9 the Benefits which Believers receive by his death Yes * Is it a small Mercy to have a memorial or remembrance of Christs death when we are so apt to forget it Luk. 22.19 No. Must we not remember his death as a History to improve our knowledge as a Gospel to increase our Faith and as an Example to promote our Patience Gal. 3.1 Yes Is a bare Remembrance sufficient that is not affectionate fiducial and operative 1 Cor. 10.16 17. No. * Is it sufficient that we Remember him in this Ordinance once in our Lives or once in the Year No. Must it not be a continual Remembrance as often as we have opportunity as we go often to our food 1 Cor. 11.25 26. Yes Is this Ordinance Temporary to give place to others as the Jewish Sacraments were Heb. 9.10 No. Will it be continual and remain in the Church till Christ comes to Judgment 1 Cor. 11.26 Yes Question What is the outward part or Sign in the Lords supper Answer Bread and Wine which the Lord hath Commanded to be received § CAN Bread be more necessary to the Body Levit. 26.26 than Christ is to the Life of the Soul Joh. 6.33.57 No. Can Wine be more suited to the thirst than Christ is to the desires of a Believer Joh. 4.14 No. * Are not Bread and Wine most perfect in their Kind Psal 104.15 and apt to signifie a perfect Saviour Yes * Was not our Lord set forth for our Redemption as the Elements are set apart for a Holy use Rom. 3.25 Yes * Doth not the breaking the bread and pouring out the Wine aptly Represent the torturing his body and shedding his bloud 1 Cor. 11.24 Yes * Can we have Life by Christ without Believing any more than our Natural Life can be maintained without Eating and Drinking Habak 2.4 No. § HATH Christ who Commanded us to receive the Elements bid us to lay them up carry them about in procession or to adore them No. Is it sufficient to receive one of these Elements without the other when Christ has Commanded both to be received Mat. 26.27 No. Question What is the imward part or thing signify'd Answer The Body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the Faithful in the Lords supper § WHEN we are pertakers of Christs bloody death and the Benefits thereby are we not said to receive his Body and Blood or to eat his Flesh and drink his Blood Joh. 6.56 Yes * Is this done after a Corporal or Carnal manner as the Jews of Old and Papists now understand it Joh. 6.52 No. Are we to believe that the Substance of the Bread and Wine is changed into the Substance of Christs Body and Blood No. Can we deny our Senses without destroying the Foundation of our Faith in Christ's Resurrection and miracles Luk. 24.39 No. Is it Rational to Believe that our Lord eat his Natural Body with his own mouth or that a true body can be whole in ten Thousand places at once Joh. 6.61 62. No. Is Not that which we eat and drink in the Sacrament called Bread and Wine after Consecration 1 Cor. 11.26 Yes * Is then the receiving Christs body and blood a Phantastical thing done only in Imagination and Pretence No. Do we verily and indeed pertake thereof in a Spiritual manner and by Faith Joh. 6.63 Yes * Is this done by wicked and ungodly men or by any but the Faithful or true Believers Joh. 6.54 56. No. Question What are the Benefits whereof we are made pertakers thereby Answer The strengthening and refreshing of our souls by the Body and Blood of Christ as our Bodies are by the Bread and Wine § IS not the Lords Supper compar'd to a Feast 1 Cor. 5.7 8. wherein the Benefits of Christs Death are the dainties set forth by their excellency and variety Isa 25.6 Yes * Can the bodies of men be more Strengthned at a Feast than the Souls of Believers are Strengthned at the Lords Table Psal 138.3 No. Can there be a better means to Strengthen the habit of Grace in General to enable us to mortify Corruptions overcome Temptations bear our Burdens and improve our Talents No. And doth not every particular Grace therein acted receive Strength by exercise Isa 40.31 Yes * Can any Bodys be more refresh't with Wine at a Feast than the Souls of Believers are Comforted in the Lords Supper Cant. 1.2 and 2.3 4. No. Can any thing be more reviving to a Soul than to have Christ manifesting his Love and Loveliness in all the joys of his Salvation Joh. 14.21 22. No. Question What is required of them who come to the Lords Supper Answer To examine themselves whether they repent them truly of their former Sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new Life have a lively Faith in Gods mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of his death and be in Charity with all men § MAY any be admitted to the Lords Supper who have not a Competency of Knowledge to be ready for Confirmation or are Scandalous and notorious evil Livers Rubr. after Confirmation and before Confirmation No. Is it sufficient to have been approved and admitted by the Church if we do not examine our Selves 1 Cor. 11.28 No. Are not all Naturally unfit to discern the Lords Body or to delight in Communion with God 1 Cor. 2.14 Eph. 2.12 Yes Can any rush unprepared on this Ordinance without dishonour to God and Judgment on themselves 1 Cor. 11.27 29. No. Are there not certain Graces which accompany Salvation Heb. 6.9 which upon Examination may be known 1 Joh. 3.10 especially by the witness of the Spirit Rom. 8.16 Yes * Can we be worthy Communicants without Sincere Repentance for our Sins past 1 Cor. 11.31 No. Must we
not guilty of Adam's first sin and lyable to wrath thereupon Rom. 5.18 Eph. 2.3 No. Is not our nature by the fall corrupted by Original Sin from whence all actual Transgressions flow Psal 51.5 Yes And is there any sin that doth not deserve death and eternal Damnation Rom. 6.23 No. * Has God left all the posterity of Adam to perish in this State into which they brought themselves No. Having chosen some before all time Eph. 1.4 hath He not ●●●red into a new Covenant with them called the Covenant of Grace Ezek. 16.8 Yes Is man left to save Himself by his own wisdom or power Hos 13.9 No. Or is there any other Redeemer from this State of sin and wrath but our Lord Jesus Christ Acts 4.12 No. * Did not the Son of God that He might Redeem us become man and take on him a true body and reasonable Soul Heb. 2.14 Yes Is He not then one Person in two Natures Yes If He had not been man could He have dyed and if He had not been God could he have Merited by dying Acts 20.28 No. § IS not this Jesus the Christ or Messias so long promised and expected Job 8.24 Yes Is He not called Christ because anointed to His Offices by the Spirit which He received without measure Psal 45.7 Joh. 3.34 Yes 1. Were not Prophets anointed 1 Kings 19.16 and had not He the Office of a Prophet Acts 3.21 Yes Could we have known the will of God if his only begotten Son had not revealed it Joh. 1.18 No. Did He not at first preach himself and afterwards send Pastors and Teachers to shew us the whole counsel of God touching our Salvation Eph. 4.11 Yes But is the outward Preaching sufficient without the inward effectual Teachings of the Spirit Joh. 6.45 No. 2. Were not the Legal Priests anointed Exod. 40.13 and Hath not our Lord the Office of a Priest Psal 110.4 Yes * Was not his human nature Soul and Body offer'd up a Sacrifice to satisfie the Divine Justice Isa 53.10 Heb. 9.13 14. Yes Was this Sacrifice offer'd more than once or is it offer'd dayly in the Mass Heb. 9.28 No. * Doth He not now appear in Heaven to make intercession for us Heb. 7.24 25. Yes 3. Were not Kings also anointed 1 Sam. 10.1 and hath not He the Office of a King Psal 2.6 Yes Can any defend the Church Deliver it and Conquer the Enemies thereof but He Rev. 17.14 No. Hath He not subdued Subjects to himself erected Officers and made Laws to govern his Church by Psal 110.3 Yes Is He not rightly Stiled Lord as being rightful Soveraign and our Lord by right of Redemption and our Resignation of our Selves to him Rom. 14.9 Yes Qu. What is the Third Article Ausw Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary § DID He take upon Him the nature of the Angels Heb. 2.16 No. Had He when He took our nature any earthly Father Luk. 3.23 Heb. 7.3 No. * Was He not Conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the Womb of his Mother Mat. 1.21 Yes Did not the Holy Ghost by that wonderful operation sanctifie and purifie that Substance of the Virgin of which He was made man Luk. 1.35 Yes Hath He then by taking on him the same Flesh and Bloud that the Children have the same Original Stain as they Heb. 7.26 No. And was not the Human Nature thus Form'd in the moment of the Conception assum'd into the Person of the Son of God Luk. 1.39 Yes Did He relinquish his Divine Nature or was there a Conversion of the Godhead into Flesh Rom. 9.5 No. But did He not veil his Divinity when in our Flesh He seem'd to many to be no more than a man Phil. 2.7 Yes And is not this wonderful Condescension called his coming down from Heaven for us Joh. 3.13 Yes † Are we capable of Comprehending fully the Mystery of his Incarnation 1 Tim. 3.13 No. * Was it not according to the first promise that He should be the Seed of the Woman Gen. 3.15 Yes Was He not born of a Virgin for further demonstration of his power and purity Isa 7.14 Yes And was He not born of the Virgin Mary as being of the Tribe of Judah and Family of David Rom. 1.3 Yes Was there any thing in his Birth as to time or place which did not fully agree with the Prophecies that went before Gal. 4.4 Luke 2.4 No. Was His Birth in Princes Courts or the splendour of Earthly Grandeut Luk. 2.7 No. Yet did not the Heavenly Host and miraculous Star declare his Dignity Mat. 2.2 Luk. 2.13 Yes * Did He disdain to be made under the Law or to submit to the Ceremonial part thereof particularly in Circumcision Gal. 4.4 5. Luk. 2.21 No. And was He not perfectly obedient to the whole moral Law Mat. 3.15 and 5.17 Yes Qu. What is the Fourth Article Answ He suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and buried He descended into Hell § DID not our Lord Suffer the penalty of the Law for Sinners as well as Submit to the Commands of it Isa 53.5 Yes * Was He not all his life time a Man of sorrows persecuted tempted affronted and Subject to all our natural and sinless Infirmities Isa 53.3 Heb. 4.15 Yes Yet in the midst of the Sufferings of his life did He forbear to Preach work Miracles and to go about doing good Mat. 4.23 Acts 10.38 No. * Was He not betray'd forsaken and deny'd reviled spit on and buffetted accused arraigned and condemned to death Mat. 26 and 27. Yes Was it a small matter that He suffered under Pontius Pilate a man noted for cruelty Luk. 13.1 and by a Death which the Romans would inflict on none but their Slaves No. Was not the Cross a painful lingering shameful and accursed death Heb. 12.2 Gal. 3.13 Yes * But was not his Soul-agony the bitterest part of his Suffering both in the Garden and on the Cross Mat. 26.38 and 27.46 Yes Did He not then as the great propitiation drink the Cup of Wrath which we had deserv'd Isa 53.6 10. Yes § WAS He not really dead by a Separation of his Soul from his body 1 Cor. 19.3 Luk. 23.46 Yes Could He be otherwise than dead when upon the piercing his side there came out forthwith bloud and water Joh. 19.37 No. Did not the darkning of the Sun the rending the Vail the quaking of the Earth and cleaving of the Rocks further confirm this tremendous mystery Mat. 27.51 Yes § AND could there be a greater evidence of his death than his being buried in such a manner as is recorded Mat. 27.59 66. No Yea did not the place and circumstances of his Burial contribute to the assurance of his following Resurrection Joh. 19.39 40. Yes § MAY we doubt of the truth of his descending into Hell because there are variety of opinions about the meaning of it No. If upon his Resurrection He was not left in Hell Acts 2.30 31.