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cause_n	evil_a	good_a	work_n	6,191	5	6.9192	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77833	A catechisme of the severall heads of Christian religion, gathered together in question and answer, it being intended onely for private use, but now published for the good and benefit of others, by the importunitie of some friends. By Dorothy Burch, living at Stroud in Kent.	Burch, Dorothy.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5612; Thomason E1186_12; ESTC R204940	8,305	24

believe this and to rest upon Christ in his full free and eternall love of God to their soules Joh. 6.29 though for the measure it is not in all the Lords alike Q. What is Conversion A. It is to open the eyes turning the soul from darknesse to light from Satan to God c. Acts 26.18 this is an act of Gods Spirit upon the spirit of his people working a thorow change in them causing the soule to looke for and rest upon Jesus Christ onely for pardon and salvation Q. What facultie of the soule doth the Lord first worke upon A. Upon the understanding in letting them see the lost condition of those that are out of Christ and the happie condition of them that are in Christ The second facultie the Lord workes on is the Will changing it utterly from all desire of evill to good which causeth his judgement to be changed and his affections to be changed and so doth become a new creature Luk. 24.45 Q. What is the new birth which Christ told unto Nicodemus saying Except a man be borne againe he cannot be saved A. It is not a new birth of the body but of the mind making the mind new Joh. 3.5 Q. Can none be saved without this new birth A. No. Joh. 3.3.5 6 7. Q. How come children to be saved A. God is as able to worke it in children as in others this new birth is the worke of God in the creature and not any worke of the creature nor is any saved for any worke of their own Gods love is free and doth sav● whom he pleaseth we know not how God● saves children with it or without it and we must not presume above what is written and if any teach other doctrine they darken the free grace of God to people and such as doe workes to be saved are as bad as Papists which teach that wee are saved partly by workes and partly by Christ Hosea 14● 4. 1 Cor. 2.12 Q. Why will the Lord have his people to have this new birth in them A. First Because wee were chosen before the world was made in Christ that wee should be a people zealous of good workes which none can be without the Lord worke this new birth in them secondly he will be honoured of his in this life for Christ saith He that honoureth me him will my Father honour thirdly he fits his people for heaven in this life by working in them this new birth this new birth desires new food and not old but hungring and thirsting for spirituall food which God will fully satisfie in heaven Ephes 2.10 Q. Why doth the Lord fit his people for heaven in this life A. Because if he should not give them to thirst after heaven and holinesse heaven would seeme to be a hell to them Take one that hath not this new birth in him and let him be with people that performe holy duties it will be so tedious unto him that he cannot indure it then thinke what he would doe if he were in heaven where there is nothing but holinesse and praising God day and night Q. What is Sanctification A. It is a worke of God in killing sin in all his people in part and giving them the graces of his holy Spirit in part which makes them to live a holy life in part 1 Cor. 13.9 Q. Why is not Sanctification perfected in this life A. Because it is the will of God to reserve it for his people in heaven Q. What is true Repentance A. It is a change of the minde from evill to good as Acts 26.18.20 And this is a mightie worke of God upon his people when he opens their understandings and so lets them see their sins which was a cause that Christ did suffer for them that bitter death upon the Crosse which causeth them to mourne as one that mourneth for his first-borne Zach. 12.10 Q. What are the fruits of Repentance A. An utter hating and loathing of all sinne which God makes knowne to them to be sinne which formerly they had loved and imbraced with delight and loving and delighting in the holy wayes of God and in the people of God which they formerly hated and persecuted Zach. 12.10 2 Cor. 7.10 11. Q. What is the true love of God in us A. It is when wee have brought our hearts to this frame that wee can doe all that wee doe in the service of God onely in love to his Majestie There are three sorts of services in the world and but one right the first is as a slave that doth all he doth for feare of hell the second is as a servant that workes for wages or else he would not worke the third is as a sonne which workes not for feare of punishment nor yet for wages for he knows he is free from all punishment and heaven is given him for an inheritance as a father gives an inheritance to his son not because he hath served him but because he is his sonne which causeth him to serve him with abundance of joy and delight Q. What causeth a soule to love God A. Nothing more then the apprehension of Gods love to his soule 1 Joh. 4.19 Q. What is true Prayer A. It is a powring out of the soule unto God by the helpe of the Spirit of God asking things wee want and returning thankes for mercies received 1 Sam. 1.15 and Rom. 8.26 Q. What is true Patience A. It is a quiet bearing of the hand of God submitting to all his fatherly chastisements Job 1.21 22. Q. What is the providence of God A. It is that by which God ruleth all things in the world and nothing comes to passe by fortune or chance but onely by his providence according to his free will in guiding good and his suffering will to suffer evill to bring his owne purposes to passe Mat. 10.28 26.30 Acts 2.23 Q. What may this teach us A. To eye God in every condition and not to looke upon secondary causes for God hath a hand in every condition we are in Q. What is conscience A. It is part of the minde being tenewed which causeth feare in Gods people to offend God in any of their wayes Q. What is Idolatry A. It is to worship a false God or the true God in a false way which is not according to his Word Deut. 12.32 Q. What is it to have true zeale for God A. It is to have boldness and courage for God and for his truths and wayes and for nothing but for his truths and wayes for there is much false zeale in the world they are zealously affected but not well Gal. 4.17 18. Q. What is the whole dutie of man A. To doe justice to love mercy and to walke humbly with his God and to doe unto all men as they would they should doe unto them Mat. 6.8 Mat. 7.12 Q What is the dutie of one Christian to another A. To be ready to doe good one to another as well in soule as in body as one member in the body is alwayes ready to helpe the other in every condition Ephes 4 4. Q What is the dutie of Christians to their enemies A. They are not to hate them but to overcome their evill with goodnesse and to pitie and pray for them and so doing they shew themselves to be the children of God 1 Pet. 3.9 Mat. 5.44 Q. What is the resurrection A. It is the raising of all mankinde at the day of Judgement then shall Christ joyne the souls and bodies of his people together and then shall they live for ever with him in his kingdome and the wicked with their souls and bodies ioyned together shall be cast into hell-fire where there is weeping and wailing for ever Mat. 25.34.41 Q. What is the Gospel A. It is tidings of great joy to all people that Christ is given to them of God his father as a free gift Rom. 14.5 Q. Who may they thanke that have the gifts of the Spirit and the graces thereof A. God who is the giver of every perfect gift and no creature of it selfe can attaine to any good no more then a dead man can doe the actions of a living man which wee know none can doe James 1.17 Eph. 2.1 Q. What should this teach us if all good comes from God A. Not to glory in any thing of our selves as if it were our owne but onely in God secondly not to hate them which have not the graces of God but pitie them and pray for them and use all meanes to doe them good Q. Why should wee doe so A. Because wee are all one by nature all the difference is in God which pardons the debt in his people which was lost by Adam and hath given them a new stock in the new Adam which is Jesus Christ but in some he requires that which they had and lost in Adam Againe This should teach all his people to make good use of the spirit of God and the graces he hath given them at all times and in all conditions in all companies and to magnifie the goodnes of their God Ephes 4. Q. What is Glorification A. It is to receive full holinesse and happinesse and full contentment with God the Father and God the Sonne and all the holy Angels and Saints and so remaine with them for ever in that glorious and happie condition Joh. 17.24 FINIS