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A47179	A short Christian catechisme for the instruction of children in the grounds and practice of Christian religion being (for the most part) an abridgment of a larger, formerly printed, where many questions and answers that were in the larger, are omitted, and others shortened, to fit the capacity of children, and some new questions, with their answers inserted, on several heads, which were not in the larger / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1698 (1698)	Wing K212; ESTC R14138	15,116	34

A SHORT Christian Catechisme FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN In the Grounds and Practice of Christian Religion being for most part an Abridgment of a larger formerly Printed where many Questions and Answers that were in the larger are omitted and others shortned to fit the Capacity of Children and some new Questions with their Answers inserted on several Heads which were not in the larger By George Keith LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill Price 3 d. A SHORT Christian Catechisme For the Instruction of CHILDREN in the Grounds and Practise of Christian Religion being for most part an Abridgment of a larger formerly Printed where maeny Questions and Answers that were in the larger are omitted and others shortened to fit the Capacity of Children and some new Questions with their Answers inserted on several Heads which were not in the larger By G. Keith SECT I. Q. WHat is the Christian Religion A. It is a Knowledge Belief and Practise of certain things by means of which we may attain to Eternal Life and Happiness Joh. 20.3 Rom. 6.22 Q. Where are these things taught us A. In the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament John 5.39 Rom. 15.4 Rom. 16.26 Q. What things are to be known and believed by us A. First concerning God and his Works of Creation and ●rovidence Secondly Concerning Christ his only begotten Son and our Redemption by him Thirdly Concerning the holy Spirit and his saving Gifts and Graces Heb. 11.3 1 Tim. 3.16 1 Cor. 2.11 12. Q. What things are to be practised by us A. The Commandments of God briefly contained in the ten Precepts of the moral Law and some other Commandments given us by Christ in the New Testament Exod. 20.1 Matth. 28.20 Q. Whence came the Holy Scriptures A. They came from God who did inspire and move holy Men to commit them to writing for our Instruction 2 Tim. 3.16 Q. Are they the words of God A. Yea John 17.8 Q. Are they not also the word of God A. Yea John 17.20 Acts 13.26 1 Cor. 4.20 Gal. 6.6 Phil. 1.14 2 Tim. 4.2 Q. Seeing Christ is called the Word in Scripture John 1.1 Is it not false to call the Scriptures the Word for the Scriptures are not Christ but testifie of him A. It is no more false than to call the Sun light because God is called Light in Scripture 1 John 1.5 Q. How is then the Word distinguished A. The essential Word is Christ but the Doctrinal Word that was first spoken and then committed to writing is that contained in the holy Scriptures Q. Doth the holy Scripture contain all things belonging to Faith and Practice A. Yea 2 Tim. 3.15.16 Q. Are they then a full and compleat Rule of the whole Duty of Man A. Yea. Q. What doth chiefly move us to believe the Truth of them and that they are given by divine Inspiration A. The Spirit of God by his secret Operation in our Hearts 2 Cor. 4.13 Phil. 1.29 Q. What doth give us the spiritual and saving Understanding of them A. The same holy Spirit by his secret Inspiration and Illumination in us 1 Cor. 2.11 2 Cor. 4.4 6. SECT II. Q. WHat doth the Scripture teach us concerning God A. That he is a Spirit of infinite Understanding Power Wisdom and Goodness Eternal Unchangeable Omniscient Omnipotent Omnipresent Merciful and Gracious long Suffering Faithful Just and Holy that he is Light and in him is no Darkness at all the Fountain of living Waters the only living and true God Deut. 7.9 1 John 1.5 Jer. 2.13 Jer. 10.10 John 4.24 Psal 147.5 Gen. 17.1 1 Chron. 29.11 Rom. 1.20 Rom. 2.4 Psal 31.19 33 11.139 1. to 12. Exod. 3.4 6 7. Deut. 32.4 Q. Are there any more than one God A. There is but one God over all through all and in all Deut. 6.4 Eph. 4.6 Q. Is God any Body or hath he any Parts or Passions A. Nay Numb 33.19 Q. What doth the Scripture further teach us concerning God A. That this one God is three Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and these three are one in Essence and Substance or Being from everlasting to everlasting equal in Wisdom Goodness Power and Glory John 5.7 Matth. 28.19 Q. Are the Father and the Son and the holy Ghost so distinguished that the Son is not the Father but was begotten of the Father before all Ages and the holy Ghost is neither the Father nor the Son but did proceed from the Father and from the Son before all Ages and neither the Father nor the holy Ghost was made Flesh was born of a Woman suffered Death rose again in the true Nature of Man but only the Son A. Yea John 1.14 SECT III. Q. WHich are God's Works of Creation A. All things visible as the visible Heavens and Earth and Waters and all things contained in them and all things invisible as the invisible Heavens Angels and Souls of Men Gen. 1.1 Coloss 1.16 Q. By whom did God Create and make all things A. By his Word his eternally begotten Son and Spirit John 1.2 Ephes 3.9 Psal 33.6 Q. Was it any difficulty to God to Create and make all things A. Nay For he spake and it was done he commanded and they were Created Psal 33.9 Q. What is understood by his resting on the seventh Day A. His ceasing to Create and finishing his Works which he had made in six days Q. Whence come all Men and Women of all Nations A. Of Adam our common Father and Eve our common Mother by ordinary Generation Acts 17.26 Rom. 5.12 Q. On which day were they made A. On the sixth day Male and Female Ge. 1.26 27. Q. In what Estate did he make them A. In his Image and after his Likeness Holy Upright Wise and Good with Dominion over the Creatures Col. 3.10 Eph. 4.24 Eccles 7.29 Q. Of what parts did they consist A. Of Soul and Body Matth. 10.28 Q. Was the Soul of the Earth as the Body was A. Nay For God breathed into him the Breath of Life and he became a living Soul Q. Where did God place them A. In the Garden to work in it and to keep it Gen. 2.15 Q. Did he give them a Law of Obedience A. Yea Which was that of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the midst of the Garden they should not eat but of every other Tree in the Garden they might freely eat Gen. 2.16 17. Q. Why did God forbid them to eat of that Tree A. To try their Obedience as well as for other Causes known to him Deut. 13.3 Q. Did they transgress that Command A. Yea. Q. What did that Transgression bring upon them A. It brought Death and other great Miseries upon them and their Posterity Q. What was that Death A. A Spiritual Death unto Holiness and Righteousnes whereby they lost Communion with God and fell under his Judgment and Wrath together with their Posterity and also that the Body

the Foundation of the World to be Holy and without Blame before him in love Psal 89.28 Isaiah 59.21 Psal 40.6 7. Heb. 12.24 Eph. 1.4 Q. When was this Covenant made betwixt God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son A. It was designed in the Counsel and Purpose of God before all Ages but the Administration of it began in time after Man's Fall 2 Tim. 1.9 10. Q. What was to be performed by Christ on his part by Virtue of this Covenant A. To dye for us and be a Sacrifice to God for our Sins to Suffer in our stead and make Satisfaction to the Justice of God to apply to us the Merits Virtue and Efficacy of his Death and Sufferings for the Remission of Sins by his giving us the holy Spirit to work in us Faith and Repentance and all other saving Graces and Virtues to enable us by his Grace to perform sincere Obedience to God's Commands Eph. 2.10 Dan. 9.27 Heb. 7.22 1 Pet. 3.18 Eph. 4.12 16. Q. What is required in the Covenant of Grace on our part that we may partake of the Benefits of Christ's Redemption and Mediation A. Repentance towards God and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ Acts 20.21 Q. What is Repentance A. It is not only a real Sorrow and Grief for Sin but a true and real forsaking of it the Hatred and Aversion of it and a Sincere turning of the Heart to God and Christ and a true Resolution to keep God's Commandments 2 Cor. 7.9 10 11. Prov. 28.13 Acts 3.19 Psal. 119.104 Acts 11.23 Psal 119.106 Q. What is the chief moving cause to true Gospel Repentance A. The having sinned against a most holy and a most merciful and gracious God and such a merciful and gracious Redeemer and Saviour our Lord Jesus Christ who suffered so great Sorrow and Grief for our Sins Zach. 12.10 Q. What is Faith towards the Lord Jesus Christ A. It is not only to assent to the Truth of his Doctrin but a receiving relying and resting upon him for Life and Salvation and upon the Mercy and Favour of God through him as held forth in the Doctrin and especially in the Promises of the Gospel John 20.31 John 1.12 Isaiah 11.10 Isaiah 32.2 Jude 21. Matth. 11.28 2 Cor. 1.20 Q. Doth the Gospel contain not only Promises but also Commands of God and of Christ A. Yea John 14.21 John 15.10 Q. Doth the Gospel and Covenant of Grace require holiness of Life and good Works A. Yea Mathh 5.16 48. i Thess 4.7 i Tim. 6.18 Q. How doth it require them as any part of satisfaction to Divine Justice or by way of merit to our Justification before God or to be the foundation and cause of it A. Nay Q. How then doth it require them A. As our duty and to answer the great love of God and of Christ and the great end of his coming into the world and his dying for us that we being dead unto sin might live unto righteousness and that by them and in the performance of them we might please God and find acceptance of him through Christ and for his sake and be thereby fitted for Communion with God and being made like him for the Inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven 2 Cor. 5.14 Titus 2.14 1 Pet. 2.24 1 Joh. 3.22 1 Joh. 1.7 Colloss 1.12 Q. Do then the good works and holy living of the Saints by sincere obedience please God and are they accepted of him and rewarded by him A. Yea Heb. 11.5 6. Colloss 3.24 Rev. 22.12 Q. How can that be when they fall short of that perfection which the Law requires A. Wherein they fall short God doth pardon them for Christ's sake and accepts of them in and through him so far as they are sincerely performed in faith and love by the help of his holy Spirit Micah 7.18 Eph. 4.32 Psal 103.12 13.14 Q. Are any justified before true faith and repentance is wrought in them A. Nay Q. How are Believers justified by the righteousness and obedience of Christ wrought by him without them and imputed unto them are they equally righteous with him or are they without all spot or sault before God while they have sinful imperfections in them A. Nay 1 John 1.8 Q. What then is the true sense of the imputation of Christ's righteousness unto Believers A. That God for the sake of Christ's righteousness freely pardoneth their sins giveth them a right to eternal life dealeth with and accepteth them as righteous in his sight owneth and favoreth them in the relation of Children Mal. 3.17 Eph. 1.6 Isa 63.8 9.2 Cor. 6.18 Q. How is Christ Jesus the object of faith for remission of sin justification regeneration and sanctification Is it not as he is both God and Man and as being Man as he dyed for us and rose again and is in Heaven our Advocate and Mediator with the Father A. Yea Rom. 8.34 Rom. 10.8 9.10 Q. Is it not therefore a great error in them who teach that it is sufficient to our Salvation to believe in Christ only as he is God and as he is the word and light that lightens every Man that comes into the world without all knowledge of Christ crucified and raised from the dead and without all faith in him as such A. Yea Philip. 3.8 Q. What is the nature of true saving faith and how is it evidenced A. It is a lively operative faith that worketh by love and is fruitful in good works and is never alone but is always accompanied with hope charity temperance justice humility meekness patience holy fear and other Evangelical Virtues and fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5.6 22. Q. How is faith wrought in God's ordinary way in Men A. By hearing the word and doctrine of the Gospel outwardly preached or read the Spirit of God inwardly operating with and by the word Rom. 20.14 17. 1 Cor. 1.21 24. Q. Are such excluded from the possibility of having saving faith in Christ Jesus and of Salvation by him who hear not the word outwardly preached either for want of the sense of hearing or for want of all possible means to hear it A. Nay for although in God's ordinary way it hath pleased God to save Men by the foolishness of Preaching and that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God as outwardly taught by preaching or reading yet God is abundantly sufficient to work that faith in any by his Spirit who worketh when where and how he pleaseth Q. But is not the neglect of hearing the word outwardly taught and of using other outward means of grace where they can be had such a hainous sin that if continued in takes away all ground of hope of Salvation A. Yea Heb. 2.1 2.3 Heb. 6.12 Heb. 10.25 SECT IX Q. WHat use hath that inward law of righteousness or illumination in all Men both good and bad Believers and Unbelievers Christians and Heathens if no promise be given of God that any shall be eternally saved by that alone