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A29492 Catechetical exercises, or, Questions and answers for youth to learn that they may better understand the church catechism : with the catechists enlargements upon them / by Jos. Briggs ... Briggs, Jos. (Joseph) 1696 (1696) Wing B4662; ESTC R36511 101,779 204

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For Heb. 10.4 It was not possible that the bloud of Bulls and Goats offered in sacrifice should take away sins But all the vertue they had was as Types and Figures of the pretious Blood of Christ the Son of God as of a Lamb without spot and without blemish 1 Pet. 1.18 So God he must be whosoever will undertake to satisfie for our sins by suffering for them and God he was who purchased his Church with his own blood Act. 20.28 Q. How prove you by your Creed then that Jesus Christ is true God A. I believe Him to be His to wit Gods only Son our Lord. Catechist The Son of God must needs be God God of God very God of very God Now God owned him for his Son by a voice from heaven at his Baptism Matth. 3.17 This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased Now to anticipate an Objection the next Question and Answer shews how our being Gods Sons differs from His being so And thereof the Apostle Heb. 1.1 compared with chap. 2.1 3. gives a very remarkable application Q. Are not we also Sons of God and how then is he Gods only Son or how doth his being Gods Son prove him to be God A. We are only Sons of God by Adoption in Christ but Christ is Gods Son by eternal Generation He is Gods only begotten Son very God of very God as really God of the substance of the Father begotten before the World as he was Man of the substance of his Mother born in the World Catechist 2 Tim. 1.13 Let us hold fast this form of sound words in Faith and Love which is in Christ Jesus and always carry in mind the Apostles inference from it in the forequoted place God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past to the Fathers by the Prophets Hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son as the Great Mediator between Him and us Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things we hear lest at any time we let them slip For if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him Let us pass on then to the other proof of Christs Divinity Q. How did Christ become our Lord A. He both made us and redeemed us with his pretious blood and we have in Baptism given up ourselves to him to be his Servants Catechist Ps 100.3 He made us and not we ourselves So is he our Lord as we are his Creatures For John 1.3 All things were made by him and without him was nothing made that was made And being lost he also redeemed us so that he is our Lord by right of purchase 1 Cor. 6.20 He bought us with a price therefore we are not our own but his therefore is he our Lord. And being so our Lord he is certainly God for who but God is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 1.6 and who but God can be called by that incommunicable Name of God Jehova and so is Christ Hos 1.7 I will have mercy upon them and will save them by the Lord Jehova and not by how or sheild O what cause have we then to own him for our Lord by devoting our selves to his Service Cast we then our eyes upon the other Nature of his Q. How prove you by your Creed that Jesus Christ is true man A. I believe him to be Conceived in the Womb by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary Catechist An answer containing what the Apostle 1 Tim. 3.16 Calls the great Mystery of Godliness God manifested in the flesh Nay John 1.14 The Word made flesh and thus runs the Argument to prove Christs Manhood He had an Human Conception and Human Birth was conceived like other men and was born of a woman as other men are and therefore he was Man For further understanding of all its particulars I ask you Q. Had Christ any natural Father as Man A. No. Q. By what power then was he Conceived in and born of a woman A. By the power of the Holy ghost Catechist Of this we are assured by the Angel which said unto Mary Luk. 1.31 Thou shalt conceive and bear a Son c. and when she demanded How can this be seeing I know not a man he answered her ver 35. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee Therefore that Holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God So by the Blessed Virgins protestation it is evident she knew not a man therefore had her Son no natural Father Q. What do you learn from that A. That taking our nature of her substance in such an extraordinary way the Holy Ghost purifying it He took it without sin being to suffer for our sins Catechist For Heb. 7.26 Such must our High Priest be Holy harmless and undefiled separate from sinners He must have no sin of his own who undertook to satisfie Gods Justice for our sins Q. Who was this Virgin Mary A. She was of the tribe of Judah of which Tribe the Messiah was to come Catechist That she was of that Tribe appears by Christs pedegree or Genealogy Mat. 1. and Luk. 3. as also by Joseph's and Mary's going to be taxed at Bethlehem Judah for this very reason because they were of that Tribe Luk. 2.3 4. Q. How then do you prove Christ to be the true Messiah A. All the Prophecies were exactly fulfilled in him as to his Tribe parents place and time of Birth and his manner of Life and Death and Resurrection Catechist The Messiah the Saviour of the world was foretold to come of the Tribe of Judah of the root of Jesse and house of David Luk. 1.27 to be conceived of a Virgin Isa 7.14 Behold a Virgin shall conceive c. and for the place to be born in Bethlehem Micah 5.2 And thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah art not the least of the Princes of Judah for out of thee shall come a Governour that shall rule my people Israel And for the Time to come as Shile when the Scepter should be departed from Judah Gen 49.10 And after the Seventy weeks was determined by Daniel ch 9.24 and while the second Temple stood by the Prophet Haggai chap. 2.9 which within Fourty years after Christ was demolished so that not one stone was left upon another And the purity of his life and the cruelty and violence offered him in his death are clearly spoken of by the Prophet Isaiah chap. 53. throughout And his Resurrection by the Psalmist Ps 16.11 So that all things came to pass according to the Prophecy Learn this argument therefore against all Jews and Infidels Nothing befel Christ which was not foretold and
your duty to your Neighbour Rehearse it out of the Church-Catechism A. My duty to my Neighbour is to love him as my self c. Catechist In this Answer you have first your whole duty to your Neighbour summed up in a few words and then set before you in its several branches as the particular precepts of Gods law require them I pray then first Q. What is the summ of your duties towards your Neighbour A. To love my Neighbour as my self and to shew that love by doing to all men as I would they should do unto me Q. May I not do to others as they do unto me A. No but as I would they should do unto me Catechist That to love my Neighbour as my self is the summ and substance of the Six last Commandments and so of all the duties we owe him appears by Rom. 13.9 For this saith the Apostle Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness Thou shalt not co●●t and if there be any other Commandment it is briefly compreh●nded in this saying Thou shalt Love thy Neighbour as thy self For we must manifest our loving him as our selves by doing to all as we would they should do unto us And whosoever doth so he cannot do any act of injury or wrong or injustice to any person forbidden by any of these Commandments If a man indeed do to others as others do unto him This is Revenge and he cannot but do them wrong as or because they injure him But he that doth to others as he would have others to do to himself in the like case This man cannot deal unjustly or uncharitably with any person in any cause or matter He will neither fail of doing his duty to his Superiors Inferiours nor Equals against the fifth Commandment because were he in their place and station he would expect such duty from them to himself He will neither wrong any person in his body person Goods or good name against the other Commandments because he would by no means have them so to wrong himself in the like case So this is a Comprehensive Law containing all others in it whether of justice or charity all the Six last Commandments Let us now cast our eyes upon every of them apart One by one Q. What duties doth the fifth Commandment Honour thy father and thy mother c. require of you A. The respective duties of all Inferiours and Superiours to each other Q. Shew them particularly in the words of your Catechism A. To love honour and succour my Father and Mother to Honour and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under ●im to submit my self to all my Governours Teachers spiritual Pastors and Masters to order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters Catechist My good children These are great Lessons and very proper for you to learn and have a special care to practice for our Relative duties have a most considerable place in true Religion and no man can be said to be truly Religious that makes no conscience of a careful performing them For further understanding whereof Let me acquaint you in the first place That the great thing required in this Commandment is in other words S. Pauls precept Rom. 13.7 Render therefore to all their Dues tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Owe no man any thing c. More particularly Children must love their parents their natural parents their Father and Mother And that this is included in the word honour as belonging to parents is evident by the Prophet Malachi opposing that honour which is due to fathers to that fear which belongs to servants towards their Masters Mal. 1.6 A Son honours his father and a servant his Master If I then be a father where is my honour and if I be a Master where is my fear And the love children owe to their parents is not denied but implied in that of our Saviour when it interferes not with our duty to God Mat. 10.37 He that loveth Father or Mother more than me is not worthy of me 2 Children must honour their parents which you see is the letter of the Commandment that is have a high and reverend esteem of them in their hearts 3 They must succour them that is in case of poverty want old age or sickness relieving their wants and helping their Infirmities 1 Tim. 5.4 If any widow have children or nephews Let them learn to shew piety at home and to requite their parents For this is good and acceptable to God And in a word which is the result of all they must obey them in all their lawful commands and fulfil them Col. 3.20 Children obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing to God Now besides natural parents there are civil and political parents the Fathers of our Country the King and such as are in Authority under him and there are Spiritual parents Governours Teachers Spiritual pastors and Masters and all our Betters in Age or quality or estate have a sort of parental Relation to us and so all these are included in the words Father and Mother in the Commandment For Subjects then their duty is to honour the King and all that represent the King in their respective places and offices all that are in Authority under him to honour them for his sake as bearing his Authority And this Honouring the King is so necessary that God joyns these two together in one precept as if we could not do the one aright without the other Prov. 24.21 My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change 1 Pet. 2.17 Fear God Honour the King And this Honouring him in our hearts must be shown by obeying their good Laws in our Actions whether concerning our manners or concerning their tributes and prerogatives For so Christ himself teacheth Matth. 22.21 Render to Caesar the things which are Caesars as unto God the things which are Gods Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the Higher powers c. Ver. 4. They are the Ministers of God for Good Ver. 6. For this cause pay ye tribute also they being Gods Ministers attending continually on this very thing Of this therefore we that are Christs Ministers are to put you always in mind Tit. 3.1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers to obey Magistrates And so S. Peter teacheth how contrary soever his pretended Successors the Pope and Priests of Rome teach 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by Him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well As for Governours Teachers and Spiritual pastors to them the Catechism saith is due the peoples submission One Text is sufficient to