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A33455	A catechism containing the principles of Christian religion together with a preparation sermon before the receiving of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper, as it was preach'd in Serjeants-Inn Chappel in Fleet-Street, London / by James Clifford.	Clifford, James, 1622-1698.; Clifford, James, 1622-1698. A preparatory sermon for the worthy receiving of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.	1694 (1694)	Wing C4702; ESTC R27090	66,204	177

is entred into the very heaven to appear now in the sight of God for us Q. What is the Kingly Office of Christ A. It is that whereby Christ exerciseth the Power given him of his Father over all Things distributing his Gifts and disposing of all things for the Good of God's Chosen All power is given to me both in heaven Mat. 28. 18. and in earth Which Office Christ performs Two ways 1st In the Spiritual Government of his Church which stands partly in collecting and gathering his Church and the Members of it out of the World and from under the Tyranny of the Devil Sin and Death Who hath delivered us from the Col. 1. 13. power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son And partly in keeping it being collected and gathered in the way unto Eternal Life The encrease of his government and peace shall have none end he shall sit upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and to stablish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth and for ever 2dly In the Destruction of his and their Enemies partly in this World but most fully in the End of this World in the Day of Judgment Then shall the wicked man be revealed 2 Thes 2. 8. whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall abolish with the brightness of his coming Q. What be the Laws of Christ's Spiritual Government by which he governs it and the Members of it They are Two 1st His Word namely the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles written in the Old and New Testament 2dly The Power and Operation of his Spirit in the Hearts of his Servants Mark 1. 14. Isa 53. 1. Jer. 31. 33. Q. How is Christ and all his Benefits available to us A. By being made ours For otherwise they shall no way help us to the satisfying of God's Justice even as other Mens Riches avail nothing to deliver us out of Debt except they become ours Q. How therefore may his Gifts and Benefits be made ours A. If we be made one with him For by the Benefit of that Union we are made Partakers of all his Spiritual Graces and Riches which are no less imputed unto us before God than if they were ours by Nature For this cause saith the Apostle That we are by Christ reconciled in Col. 1. 22. the body of his flesh through death to make you holy and unblameable and without fault in his sight Q. Can no Man therefore be a Partaker of Christ's Gifts except he be made one with him A. He cannot even as a Woman cannot be a Partaker of the Riches and Honour of some Great Man except she be joyned with him in Marriage so that they become one Body and one Flesh The Members also cannot draw Life from the Head if they be not joyned with it Therefore there is no true partaking of Christ except there be an Union with him For this cause Christ saith Except ye eat the flesh of the son of Joh. 6. 53. man and drink his blood ye have no life in you Q. How are we United to Christ and made One with him A. As many as are United to Christ are Incorporated and made Members of that Mystical Body whereof Christ is the Head As St. Paul saith For we are members of his Body of his Eph. 4. 30. flesh and of his bones Q. What manner of Union is it whereby we are joyned and made one with Christ A. Our Incorporation into Christ and Union with him is a great Mystery As St. Paul saith This is a great mystery but I speak Eph. 4. 32. concerning Christ and the church A. And not any way Corporeal but Spiritual For He that is joyned with the Lord is one 1 Cor. 6. 17. spirit Q. How are we to conceive of that Mystical Union with Christ A. Thus That our Mystical Union with him is a most near and real Union For as the body is one and hath many 1 Cor. 12. 12. members and all the members of the body which is one though they be many yet are but one body even so is Christ And that our whole Person Body and Soul are united to the Body and Soul of Christ so that we are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones For Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ and that we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones And by his Flesh we are also joyned ot his Godhead to his Divine Nature For that whereby we have Fellowship with God joyns us to God Now by the Flesh of Christ we have Fellowship with God Therefore the Flesh of Christ doth joyn us to God By the new and living way which he hath prepared for us through the vail that is his flesh Q. Now shew unto me the M●ans how we are united and made one with Christ A. We are Spiritually united to Christ Two ways 1st The Spirit of Christ one and the same Spirit being both in Christ and in us First in Christ and then in us For by one spirit we are all baptized into one body whether we be Jews or Grecians And we know that we dwell in him 1 Joh. 4. 13. and he in us because he hath given us of his spirit 2dly By Faith As Christ himself testifieth in the Prayer which he made to God for all the Faithful Father I pray thee for such as shall Joh. 17. 20. believe in me that they all may be one as thou O Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us Q. Seeing that by Faith we are united and made one with Christ sh●w me what true Faith is A. It is not only a certain Knowledge whereby I surely assent to all things which God hath revealed unto us in his Word As the devils they believe that there Jam. 2. 19. is one God but also an assured Trust Neither did Abraham doubt of the pro-mise Rom. 4. 20. through unbelief but was strengthned in the faith Being fully assured that he which had Ver. 21. promised was able also to do it kindled in my Heart by the Holy Ghost This is the work of God that ye Joh. 6. 29. believe in him whom he hath sent For flesh and blood hath not revealed Mat. 16. 17. it to thee but my Father which is in heaven through the Gospel For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Rom. 1. 16. Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth whereby I make my Repose in God being assuredly resolved that Remission of Sins Everlasting Righteousness and Life is given not only to others but to me also For being justified by faith we have Chap. 5. 1. peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ and that freely through the Mercy of God for the Merit

make us understand how much he detesteth Sin that so also we might detest it and withal he tameth the Rebellion of our Flesh and daily more and more teacheth us Obedience It is good for me that I was afflicted Psal 119. 71. that I might learn thy statutes 3dly God worketh in us that we should learn to pity such as be in distress for no Man hath Compassion or suffereth with another who himself hath not suffered before For We have not an high priest which cannot Heb. 4. 15. be touched with our infirmities but such an one as was in all things tempted in the like sort yet without sin 4thly By Afflictions the Lord shaketh off our Deadness and Drowsiness and doth stir us up the more earnestly to come and call upon him by fervent and hearty Prayer Call upon me in the time of thy trouble Psal 50. 15. and I will hear thee 5thly By them the Lord maketh tryal of our Faith for they do either Consume the Wicked through Impatience or else Harden them through Despair On the other side they Soften the Hearts of the Godly to make them call upon God and to trust the more upon him Blessed is the man that endureth temptation Jam. 1. 12. for when he hath been tryed he shall receive the Crown of life 6thly By Afflictions God doth call our minds away from these Earthly things that we may the more earnestly desire the Life to come Seeing then there is so many Comforts by Affliction My son despise not the chastning of the Heb. 12. 5 Lord neither faint when thou art corrected of him For whom he loveth he chasteneth 6. Q. Why is he said to be Almighty A. Because he is able to do whatsoever he will Whatsoever pleased the Lord that did Psal 135. 6. he in heaven in earth in the sea and in all the depths Yea he is able to do more than he will For I say unto you God is able of these Mat. 3. 9. stones to raise up children to Abraham Q. What Comfort is there in that God is said to be Almighty A. It strengthneth me in my Prayer to him assuring me that he can make good whatever Promises he hath made unto me in his Word Being fully assured that he which Rom. 4. 21. had promised was also able to do it And though I be weak and unable to resist mine Enemies bodily or spiritual and no way able to help or provide for my self yet my heavenly Father is of all Majesty and Power guiding and over-ruling continually Men Angels and Devils and all Creatures to serve for his own Glory and the Good of his Children Yea though I should walk through the Psal 23. 4. valley of the shadow of death I will fear none evil for thou art with me When the ways of man please the Lord Prov. 16. 7. he will make his enemies to be at peace with him Q. What is meant in saying He was Maker of Heaven and Earth A. That he formed and framed this whole World and all the Creatures that are therein only by the Power of his Word and Commandment even of Nothing By the word of the Lord were the heavens Psal 33. 6. made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth Q. What Comfort cometh by this A. That although through Adam I had lost the Right both of Heaven and Earth and of every Creature so as I could have no Comfort in the Use of them yet through my Saviour the Second Adam since I truly Believed in him I am restored to a far better Estate being made in him a right Heir of all and all the Creatures are blessed and sanctified to me that I may have a holy Use of them For if we be children we are also Rom. 8. 17. heirs even the heirs of God and heirs annexed with Christ 2dly All the Creatures in Heaven and Earth are at league with me to help for my Good so far as may stand with his Glory For the stones of the field shall be in Job 5. 23. Hos 2. 18. 1 Cor. 3. 21. league with thee and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee Q. Declare unto me the Second Part of the Creed concerning Faith in God the Son Which is the Second Article A. And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord. Q. What is signified by that Word JESUS A. This Word signifieth a Saviour Thou shalt call his name Jesus for Mat. 1. 21. he shall call his people from their sins Q. Why is the Son of God called Jesus that is a Saviour A. Because he saveth us from all our Sins Therefore he is able also perfectly to Heb. ● 25. save them that come unto God by him Neither ought any Safety to be sought for from any other nor can elsewhere be found Neither is there salvation in any other Act. 4. 12. name ●●der heaven whereby we must be saved I even I am the Lord and beside me Isa 43. 11. there is no saviour Q. Whom doth he save A. He saveth all and only the Elect and Believers which have been are or shall be even from the Beginning to the End of the World God so loved the world that he gave Joh. 3. 16. his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Q. What Evils doth he deliver his Elect from A. From all Sin So the Angel testifieth He shall save his people from their Mat. 1. 21. sins The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us 1 Joh. 1. 7. from all sin And also from the Punishment of Sin For the Cause being taken away which is Sin the Effect is taken away which is Punishment Now then there is no condemnation to Rom. 8. 1. them that are in Christ Jesus I give unto them eternal life Q. How doth Christ save his Elect 1st He saveth us by his Merit or Satisfaction Because by his Obedience Passion Death and Intercession he hath merited for us Remission of Sins Reconciliation with God and Everlasting Life The blood of Jesus Christ his Son 1 Joh. 1. 7. cleanseth as from all sin By the obedience of one many shall be Rom. 5. 19. made righteous He was wounded for our transgressions Isa 53. 5. he was broken for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed He hath made him to be sin for us 2 Cor. 5. 21. which knew no sin that we should be made the righteousness of God in him Christ hath redeemed us from the curse Gal. 3. 13. of the law 2dly He saveth us by his Efficacy Power and Operation Because he not only obtaineth by his Meriting for us Remission of Sins and that Life which we had lost but also applieth effectually unto us by virtue of his Spirit through Faith the whole Benefit of our