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A49334 Catechetical questions, very necessary for the understanding of the principles of religion conformed to the doctrine of the Church of England / by Simon Lowth ... Lowth, Simon, 1630?-1720. 1673 (1673) Wing L3324; ESTC R14549 47,430 154

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a common Foundation a Communion in unity of Faith in consent of Doctrine in conformable use of Sacraments in Common-prayers Thanksgiving made mutually one for another in a true serious and faithful endeavour for the Peace and Unity of the Church amongst all the dissentions errors and divisions of Hereticks and Schismaticks and out of this Church and without this Communion there is no Salvation Q. But do you then exclude from Salvation all Vnbelievers and Misbelievers Infidels Hereticks Schismaticks Excommunicate Persons c. A. Yes Infidels Jews Turks c. that never were in the Church Hereticks that have forsaken or corrupted the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints Schismaticks that have divided themselves and Excommunicate Persons that are cut off from the Communion of the Church without Reconciliation cannot be saved For most certain is that Rule of St. Cyprian de simp prae and of St. Augustine de symb ad Cate. cap. 13. He shall not have God to be his Father that will not have the Church to be his Mother Q. VVhat do you think of Hypocrites and wicked persons that are within the Church A. I may say of them that to God they are not of the Church and if their folly shall once be made manifest they ought not to be in the Church Yet so long as their hypocrisie and wickedness lieth hid to us and they partake with us in the outward Profession of Faith and Communion of the Church we must in the judgment of Charity take all things in the best sense and esteem them as Members of the Church and if they stand or fall let it be to their own Master Q. What is the first priviledge of the Church A. Remission of Sins Q. How many kinds of Sins are there A. Sin is 1. Original 2. Actual Q. What is Original Sin A. Original Sin is the corruption and naughtiness of Nature derived from Adam to all his Children and so by propagation brought down to us by which we come to be born in Sin drawn from our Parents that were Sinners And this naughtiness of Nature first depriveth us of Original Righteousness then it maketh us to break forth into Actual Sin causing us as Naturally prone to transgress the Law of God to become by our own Act Sinners of our selves in our own persons Q. Who was the cause of Original Sin A. Adam and Eve our first Parents Q. What was their first sin A. The pride of their hearts in desiring to be as God and the disobedience of their actions in eating the forbidden fruit contrary to Gods commandment Q. Do you mean then that Adams Actual sin was the cause of our Original sin A. Yes For Adam being the whole species of Man and all Mankind in one person sinned not as a single Man only but as all Mankind and so by his one act made all his posterity guilty of that sin Q. What is Actual sin A Actual sin is the transgression of the Law Q. How many kinds are there of Actual sins A. Actual sin is distinguished by a two-fold difference 1. In respect of the guilt crime offence or fault some are lesser and some are greater sins 2. In respect of the Actors or persons that commit them some are our own and some are aliene and other mens sins Q. What do you mean by lesser sin A. Some call them Venial yet they bring a guilt upon us and danger of punishment too though that guilt be not much and the pardon of it may be easily obtained at Gods hand Q. But are there any sins that are Venial A. No. None are Venial in their own nature but the very least sin in strictness of Justice is worthy of death Onely I say there are some that are lesser sins for which God of His great patience and mercy is not always chiding us as Psal 103.9 but is willing to pass them over upon our general repentance and our performance of good works of Alms Prayer Fasting and other works of Corporal and Spiritual Mercy Such are the sins of ignorance inadvertency inconsideration sudden irreption c. Q. What do you call the greater sins A. The greater sins are such as separate us from God and are cause of eternal death Q. How many kinds are there of greater sins A. Of these there be three kinds 1. The seven Capital sins commonly called Deadly sins 2. The four Crying sins 3. The six sins against the Holy Ghost Q. Which are the seven Capital on Deadly sins A. 1. Pride 2. Coveteousness 3. Lechery or Lust 4. Envy 5. Gluttony 6. Anger 7. Sloath. And to these there are opposed seven contrary virtues 1. Humility 2. Liberality 3. Chastity 4. Meekness 5. Abstinence 6. Patience 7. Devotion or Godly Diligence Q VVhy are they called Capital sins A. Because they are every one of them the Heads and Fountains of other sins springing from them and contained in them Q. VVhat are the sins of Pride A. Presumption Pertinacy or Stubbornness Hypocrisie Boasting Ingratitude Scorn or contempt of others Disobedience Ambition Curiosity Q. VVhat are the sins of Coveteousness A. Treachery Fraud Deceit Unquietness Perjury Sacriledge Theft Usury Simonie Violence Inhumanity or Unmercifulness Hardness of heart Q. VVhat are the sins of Lechery or Lusts A. Fornication Adultery Rape Incest Sodomie Uncleanness Wantonness Filthy Communication c. Q. VVhat are the sins of envy A. Detraction Discord Hatred Whispering Back-biting Repining at another mans prosperity Rejoycing at another mans Adversity Malice Rancour c. Q. VVhat are the sins of Gluttony A. Surfetting Drunkenness Dulness Drousiness Rudeness Scurrility Prodigality Loquacity Q. VVhat are the sins of Anger A. Impatience Cursing Blasphemy Reproaching Swelling Quarrelling Brawling Clamouring Revenge Despair c. Q. VVhat are the sins of Sloath A. Slackness and sadness about Spiritual matters Weariness Dulness Idleness in doing Duties of Religion Negligence Omission or leaving undone those things which ought to be done Pusillanimity or Faintheartedness Lukewarmness Unsetledness Wandering of the mind Weakness Coldness Diffidence Desparation Q. VVhich be the four Crying sins A. 1. Wilful Murder 2. Oppression of the Widdows and Fatherless and Strangers 3. The sin of Sodom 4. Defrauding the Labourers of their Wages Q. VVhat are the six sins against the Holy Ghost A. 1. Presumption of Gods Mercy 2. Despair 3. Impugning known Truth more freely to sin 4. Envying another mans Spiritual good 5. Obstinacy in sin 6. To die without Repentance Q. VVhat do you mean by Aliene or other mens sins A. Those sins which one man commits and another Man is guilty of by being accessary some way or other to it Q. How can one man be guilty of another mans sins A. Nine ways As 1. By Counsel 2. By Commanding 3. By Consent 4. By Provocation 5. By Praising or Flattery 7. By By Silence 7. By Indulgence or winking at it 8. By partaking in the fault 9. By wicked defending and maintaining of the same Q. Is there Remission of these
Loaf and Wine is made of many Grapes pressed together into one Vessel So again the Members of Christ as they have a Mystical they ought to have also an affectionate Communion one with another And Lastly He used Bread and Wine apart to shew that His Body and Blood were parted His Blood being let out of His Body by a Spear upon the Cross when He died for our sins Q. VVhat do the Bread and VVine signifie in the Sacrament A. They signifie Christs Body and Blood two things in number as they themselves also are but one in use namely Whole Christ Q. In what State or Condition of Christ do these signs represent His Body and Blood A. Dying upon the Cross as His Body was Crucified and His Blood Shed for our sins Q. But then hath this Sacrament of the Lords Supper respect only to Christs death A. By consequence we cannot but consider all the passages of His Incarnation even to the very last act of His coming to Judgment when we receive this Sacrament but directly and immediately it is Christs Death only that we must remember here then our Redemption was finished when He made Himself a Sacrifice for our sins And therefore it is called the Commemorative Sacrifice because it representeth both unto God and us the real Sacrifice of the Death of Christ we our selves being kept in remembrance of the same by this service and in the very action of this Sacrament offering and presenting unto God by way of Commemoration the Sacrificed Body and Blood of His own Son as the only Propitiation and Satisfaction for our sins Q. But might not this Death of Christ be otherwise well enough remembred without the use of this Sacrament A. If it might yet we must think this Sacrament to be neither useless nor superfluous since it is our Masters and only Saviours Care of us thus to help our infirmities by instituting and ordaining these holy Mysteries as pledges of His Love and continual remembrances of His Death that we should never forget but always remember the exceeding great Love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ thus dying for us and the innumerable benefits which by His precious blood-shedding He hath obtained to us But that is not all for whereas the whole confidence of our Salvation consists in this that the satisfaction which Christ gave to the Justice of His Father is as verily ours as if it had been made and done by us our selves It is necessary that we have Christ in our own possession and that we present Him to His Father as a real satisfaction for all our offences otherwise He communicates or imparts not Himself to us but as He is made ours and we have Him in readiness to be offered unto God So it is not enough for us to remember His death only unless also we receive Him dying into our hearts and can assure our souls that He is accepted for our Redemption and that the efficacy power and fruit of His death comes home unto our selves Q. And may not Christ be received by Faith in the VVord and be presented to God in prayer and supplication without the Sacrament A. I grant that too yet not so effectually as in the Sacrament Q. Do the outward signs then do any more in the Sacrament but signifie the Body and Blood of Christ by way of remembrance and representation A. Yes Or else we should have nothing there to offer unto God the Father as the price of our Redemption But they are such signs as are also seals and pledges to assure us of nay they are means to convey unto us the things which they signifie The Sacramental Bread and Wine are not bare signifying signs but such as wherewith our Lord doth indeed exhibit and give to every worthy Receiver not only His Divine virtue and efficacy but also His very Body and Blood as verily as He gave to His Disciples the Holy Ghost by the sign of His Sacred Breath or health to the diseased by the word of His mouth or by the touch of His hand or garment For Christ who is the Truth doth not give us promises without performance nor shew us signs without substance therefore the Body and Blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received of the faithful in the Lords Supper and so the Sacrament is called the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ 1 Cor. 10.16 and this Communion is not of things absent but present and therefore it is called the Lords Supper because our Lord is there To conclude there is a Communion as in the other Sacrament so in this between the outward visible signs and the inward spiritual grace and without both it is no Sacrament And here if you look to the things United the Union is Essential if to the truth of this Union it is real if to the manner how it is wrought it is Spiritual That Christs Body and Blood are there it is a Truth but how they are there it is a Mystery Q. VVhat are the Benefits that come to us by this Sacrament A. 1. Here is Justification in remission of sins and imputation of Righteousness For the Sacrament is a Communion between Christ and us whereby all our sins are charged upon Him He suffereth and satisfieth for them and all His Justice is imputed unto us and we are Crowned for that 2. Here is Sanctification in that we are all made hereby to drink into one Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 there flowing from Christs Nature into our Nature united unto Him by the Communion of this Sacrament the lively spirit and breath of grace which reneweth us to a Spiritual life and so sanctifieth our minds wills and affections that we daily grow more and more conformable to the image of Christ 3. Here is assured hope of Glorification because this Sacrament is the Pledg of our Salvation the Seal of our Adoption by which we are made the Sons of God in Communion with Christ and if Sons then Heirs Co-heirs with Him of an Eternal Inheritance of the future fruition whereof by this we have assureance not only to our souls but to our bodies also which being made instruments of Righteousness Rom. 6.13 Temples of the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6.19 Members of Christ in this Holy Communion shall be raised again at the last day and have Eternal life St. John 6.54 in which we shall live for ever v. 58. Now the consideration of this is a greater comforting and refreshing of our souls by the Body and Blood of Christ the cause of all than our bodies can receive from Bread and Wine or any outward thing whatsoever Q. What is required of them that come to our Lords Supper A. Five things Q. What is the first A. To examin themselves whether they truly repent them of their former sins Q. How shall a man know whether he truly repent him of his sins or no A. By trying himself truly whether he perform all the parts of Repentance Q. Which be the parts of Repentance A. 1. Contrition sorrow of heart for sin 2. Confession 3. Satisfaction Q. VVhat is the second thing required of a Receiver A. Stedfast purpose and resolution to sin no more but to lead a new life Q. VVhat is the third A. Not to despair for sins past nor if through frailty you commit sins again but to have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Christ Q. VVhat is the fourth A. A thankful remembrance as of all others of Gods Mercies so especially of Christs Death and consequently of His Incarnation Nativity Circumcision Baptism Fasting Temptation Agony Bloody Sweat Cross c. as foregoing His Death and of His Resurrection Ascention Sending of the Holy Ghost Session at the right hand of God and coming again to judge the quick and the dead as following His Death Q. VVhat is the fifth thing required in a Communicant A. To be in Charity with all men If you have offended any man you must be sorry for your fault confess your self guilty and resolve and endeavour to make him satisfaction and if any man hath offended you let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and be kind one to another tender hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you Eph. 4.31 32. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without End Amen FINIS ERRATA PAge 6. line 22. them are read them that are p. 8. l. 18. mine since r. my sense p. 28. l. 3. Defends as r. Defend us as p. 30. l. 1. external r eternal p. 33. l. 18. Roman r. A Roman p. 35. l. ●● him Him r. Him p. 38. l. 20. deaths r. death p. 43. l●●5 therefore 2. there p. 45. l. 11. Man r. Him p. ●6 l. ●2 these three 2. these there p. 48. l. 7 pure a. r. a pure 〈…〉 l. 5. as received r. was received p. 72. 〈…〉 〈◊〉 as r. as necessary to l. 22. discent r. 〈◊〉 p. ●0 l. 5. thing thing r. thing p. 104. l. 13. without r. with p. 118. l. 7. the Sacrament r. this Sacrament