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A29492 Catechetical exercises, or, Questions and answers for youth to learn that they may better understand the church catechism : with the catechists enlargements upon them / by Jos. Briggs ... Briggs, Jos. (Joseph) 1696 (1696) Wing B4662; ESTC R36511 101,779 204

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is a sin and one sin cannot excuse another but aggravates it when it is willful and here it must needs be so because the reason of mens not preparing themselves for the Lords Supper is most commonly because they have a desire to live on in their sins and therefore they have no mind to come to the Lords Supper because it will bind them to leave their sins and put them upon holy purposes and resolutions of new life which they do not think to do Now I pray you read and consider the Ministers Exhortation to the Communion in the Office for it and at present I shall only put you in remembrance of that terrible doom that was passed upon them who excused themselves and refused to come to the Kings feast when they were invited to it Luk. 14.24 The Lord said I say unto you none of those which are bidden shall tast of my Supper Q. What then is the unquestioned Duty of all Christians A. To set upon the Preparing for the Lords Supper whenever they are invited to it to Receive it reverently and devoutly and to be afterwards careful of performing their holy Vows and good resolutions made therein Catechist This evidently follows from all that hath been said and it shews you the duties you are to perform before and at and after your Receiving this Sacrament And now all the Questions and Answers that follow here are for this end to explain those great duties of Repentance New Obedience Faith Thankfulness and Charity to the meanest capacity which since all men know them to be generally required in all good books that treat of this Sacrament and who can say but they are injoyned us in Gods Word in our whole Conversations How much more requisite then are they in us when we are to make our most solemn addresses to Gods Altar I shall only therefore desire my Youth to give some fair account of these duties and spare my further pains and time in quoting particular Texts of Scripture for them referring all both elder and younger to their good books for a more particular instruction concerning them especially that incomparable Book The Whole Duty of man Q. What is that Repentance and New Obedience whereof all must examine themselves in Preparing themselves for the Lords Supper A. A man must compare his heart and life with every Commandment and bewail and confess unto God all the sins he finds himself guilty of and stedfastly resolve to forsake them and ever after to endeavour a new that is an holy life Q. What is that lively Faith required in Gods mercy through Christ A. Knowing his own Misery by sin a man must both understand and believe the sufficiency of Christs Death to Satisfie Gods justice for sin and Gods willingness to pardon sin for Christs sake upon Covenant terms to all Believers Q. What is the Thankfulness required A. A serious considering of Christs wonderful Love in dying to purchase such great benefits and an affectionate Commemorating this with the most hearty Thanksgivings Q. What is that Charity whereof a man must examine himself A. Being sorry for all injuries done to others and ready to make satisfaction to his power a man must be ready to be reconciled to those that have injured him and heartily forgive them and chearfully give them that are in need as he is able Q. What think ye then of the ignorant that do not at all nnderstand the meaning of this Sacrament and of all Vnbelievers or the Vnthankful or malicious persons or them that are out of Charity A. I think they will have no comfort of this Holy Feast of Charity and being unfit for it can have no hope to receive the Pardon or Grace promised in the Covenant and Sealed in this Sacrament FINIS
sin Rom. 7.14 The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 Q By what means then may you obtain Gods special Grace A. By diligent that is by daily fervent prayer Catechist Of the efficacy of our prayers to obtain Gods special Grace Our Saviour assures us and that by way of Argument which gives us much stronger consolation Luk 11.13 If ye being evil know how to give good gifts to your Children how much more will your heavenly Father give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him But then Our asking must be thus qualified that it may obtain it must be daily we must pray continually or without ceasing 1 Thes 5.17 and fervently Jam. 5.16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much Ask therefore and so ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you Matth. 7.7 Q. In what bodily posture must you pray A. Kneeling or at least with the greatest reverence possible Catechist For in this posture of kneeling have Gods Saints always made their solemn prayers or for the most part And as we cannot use too much reverence in our Addresses to so great a God so unto this are we daily invited in the words of the Psal 95.6 O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our maker Q. What things must you pray for besides Gods Grace A. Only for things agreeable to Gods will Catechist 1 Joh. 5.14 This is the Confidence that we have in him that whatever we ask according to his Will he heareth us Q. In whose Name and Mediation must we put up our prayers A. Neither of Saints nor Angels but only that of our Lord Jesus Christ Catechist So he himself directs us For he the is one Mediator betwixt us and the one God 1 Tim. 2.5 Therefore he saith Joh. 14 13.14 Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do that the Father may be glorified in me If ye shall ask any thing in my Name I will do it And he assures us even with an Oath that his Father will do it chap. 16.23 Verily Verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my Name he will give it you And he seems to solve the doubt why he saith he will do it and his Father will do it too ver 26. Ye shall ask in my Name and I say unto you that I will pray the father for you c. For Heb. 7.25 He is able to save to the ultermost seeing he liveth for ever to make intercession for us With great reason therefore doth our Holy Church conclude all her prayers with these words Through Jesus Christ our Lord. And praying in Christs Name we cannot pray better or more acceptably than in his words too Q. Which is the best form of prayer and most perfect pattern to direct you in praying A. The Prayer Christ taught his Disciples called The Lords Prayer Q. Let me hear you then say the Lords prayer A. Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name c. Catechist It is rightly called the Lords prayer as the Eucharist is called the Lords Supper because he composed it as he instituted and ordained this his Supper Now observe when Christ taught his Disciples this prayer it is said in Luk. 11.2 When ye pray say plainly making it Our duty as his Disciples as we will owne ourselves to be Christians to use this form of prayer at all times for it is a most perfect and Comprehensive prayer containing all that is needful to be prayed for and therefore supplying the defects of all other our prayers But at another time Matth. 6.9 He said After this manner pray ye as plainly there making it a pattern to all other our prayers And so doing Our prayers cannot be other than according to Gods will and being so we are sure he will hear and grant our petitions Now tell me what your Catechism teacheth you of this Q. What desirest thou of God in this prayer A. I desire my Lord God our Heavenly Father c. Catechist This is a very solid answer and teacheth you a great deal in a little Compass My part is to help you to understand to what part and petition of your Lords prayer every clause in this answer is to be referred and to make these and all other needful things concerning it as plain as I can In the mean time Let me give you this instruction It will be very good and profitable for you Good Children to get some other good and godly prayers by heart for your daily use out of some or other good books such as those sometimes annexed to your Bibles or those in that excellent Book called The Whole duty of man or the like And till you can do that let me tell you you may make a very good prayer of this your answer and using it devoutly and with understanding it will be acceptable to God Instead of saying I desire my Lord God Our heavenly Father c. it is but altering it thus and it will be a very good prayer O Lord God Our Heavenly Father who art the Author of all goodness I desire thee I beseech thee that thou wilt send thy grace to me and to all people that we may worship thee serve thee and obey thee as we ought to do and I pray unto thee that thou wilt send us all things that be needful both for our bodies and our Souls and that thou wilt be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins and I humbly beg that it will please thee to save us in all dangers Ghostly and bodily and that thou wilt keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our Ghostly Enemy and from Everlasting death And I trust and beg of thee that I may always trust that thou wilt do this of thy own mere mercy ●nd goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen Say this your answer in such a form of ●●ayer upon your knees every day morning and evening ●ith understanding and from your hearts and Souls and doubt not God who delights not in quaint words nor in the multitude of them will graciously accept it both till you have furnished yourselves with some larger forms and afterwards Now for our further understanding of our Lords prayer and of this account your Catechism gives of it I ask you Q. How many parts are there in the Lords prayer A. Three a Preface the Petitions and the Doxology or Conclusion Catechist See what you may learn by the Preface first Q. To whom must you pray that you may be sure to speed A. To our Father in Heaven only Catechist A very necessary Observation since we know the Papists practices of making their prayers to Saints and Angels nay to very Images and especially to the Virgin Mary Which if any Christians can lawfully do it is marvellous that our