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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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