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A17301 Grounds of Christian religion laid downe briefly and plainely by way of question and answer / by H.B. Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. 1631 (1631) STC 4143; ESTC S734 16,088 50

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GROVNDS OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION Laid downe briefly and plainely by way of Question and Answer By H. B. 1. Pet. 3. 13. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready alwayes to giue an Answer to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meeknesse and feare LONDON Printed by G. M. for Robert Bird and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Saint Laurence-Iane GROVNDS OF Christian Religion Quest. WHo made the world Heauen and Earth Answ. God the Father Son and Holy Ghost thrée persons and one God Eternall Omnipotent inuisible allsufficient infinite in his most blessed Essence Q. How proue you God to be three Persons and those to be one God in Essence A. 1. Ioh. 5. 7. There are thrée that beare record in heauen the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these thrée are one Q. Whereof did God make or create the World A. Of Nothing Q. How know you this A. By faith grounded on the Word of God Q. Wherefore did God create all things A. For his owne glory Psal. 19. 1. Pro. 16. 4. Q. What was the chiefe creature on earth that God made A. Man Q. Whereof did God make man A. Of the dust of the earth breathing into him a liuing reasonable soule immortall Q. In what state was man made A. In the image of God in righteousnesse without sinne and in a state of blessednesse Q. Whereof was the woman made A. Of the mans rib that they might be as one inseparable and that all men might come of one bloud Q. What couenant made hee with them A. A couenant of workes which while they kept they should liue happily in an earthly paradise Q. How did God try their obedience A. By forbidding them the eating of a tree Gen. 2. 17. Q. Did they obserue it A. No. Q. How so A. Satan in the serpent told them a lie which they beleeuing fell from God Q. What became of them then A. By sinne they lost God and happinesse became the children of death corporall spirituall eternall and subiect to all kind of misery in this world and in hell fire Q. What is this to vs A. It concernes vs neerely for hereby we are all made guilty of their sinne and punishment Q. How proue you that A. Rom. 5. 12. For both when our first parents receiued the Commandement and when they brake it we were all in their loines so that we sinned and fell in and with them Secondly we are conceiued and borne in originall sinne being of the corrupt séede of Adam Q. What example haue ye to shew this A. A fathers treason against his Prince cuts off all his posterity from the inheritance by mans law And secondly a bondslaues children are all borne slaues by Gods law Such are we by nature Q. But are we not able to recouer our selues from our fall A. There is no meanes left in vs to doe it for neither haue we will nor power to doe any good at all nor can wee satisfie Gods iustice for the least sinne Q. Had not Adam free will before his fall and hath not man the same still A. Adam before his fall had frée will but now he hath quite lost his fréedome of will to any good and is become the seruant of sinne the imaginations of his heart onely euill continually being dead in trespasses and sinnes Q. Then our case is most miserable But is there no helpe for vs A. None in the world but in God alone Q. What meanes hath God giuen to recouer vs from this vnspeakeable misery A. His vnspeakeable mercy and frée loue hath found out the onely all sufficient meanes euen his owne Sonne whom he hath sent Q. How is the Sonne of God a means for vs A. By taking our nature of Adam into the vnity of his diuine person and so Iesus Christ God-man became a perfect Sauiour in dying for our sins and rising againe for our Iustification Q. What be the benefits which Christ hath procured vnto vs by his life and death A. Twofold 1. a fréedome from all curse spirituall temporall and eternall 2. A full interest in all good things spirituall temporall and eternall Q. Are not all still subiect to death diseases and manifold miseries in this life A. Yes but all that are redéemed by Christ are fréed from the curse of death of diseases and miseries not to be hurt or ouercome by them Q. How did Christ free vs from the curse A. By being made a curse for vs vndergoing the curse in our steads Gal. 3. Q. But who are they for whom Christ vnderwent this curse A. The elect of God ouer the world in all ages whom Christ according to his Fathers appointment redeemed Reuel 5. 9. Ioh. 17. 2. 10. 15. Luk. 1. 68. Act. 20. 28. Eph. 5. 23. 25 26. Psal. 130. 8. Rom. 9. 6 7 8. Q. What meane you by the elect of God A. A certaine number of men whom God out of his frée loue fauour and grace did from all eternity choose out of mankind predestinating them by an vnchangeable purpose and decrée to eternall life and glory Q. Did not God chuse men out of a foresight of their willingnesse to receiue grace and of their faith and perseuerance therein A. No in no wise but he chose vs meerely because he loued vs that for his owne sake to shew the glorious riches of his grace and he chose vs that we might line and so bee holy in bringing forth fruit and that our fruit might remaine Q. Is Gods election then the foundation and first cause of all our happinesse and saluation A. Yes surely for electing vs freely out of his meere loue for this very cause he giues vs his Sonne to redeeme vs to bee the authour and finisher of our faith and saluation Q. But how may wee come to know whether we be elected or no A. By our being in Christ and labouring to make our calling and election sure by faith and a holy life 2. Pet. 1. 10 Q. But how come wee to bee in Christ A. By beleeuing in him alone for saluation Q. But are we not to beleeue in God the Father also and in God the holy Ghost A. Yes surely we beleeue in God y e Father in and by Christ in God the Sonne by the holy Ghost all the three persons being ioynt authours and workers of our saluation wherein they are distinguished onely not diuided Q. What is that faith whereby we beleeue in Christ alone as sent of the Father and anoynted by the holy Ghost for our saluation A. It is a sauing liuing iustifying faith being a speciall worke of the Spirit of Christ and gift of grace whereby the heart stedfastly beléeueth in Christs righteousnesse imputed vnto the beléeuer by which righteousnes of Christ imputed he stands perfectly iustified in Gods sight from all his sins and
formes of bread and is not the cup then superfluous A. Neither is Christs body carnally vnder the formes of bread nor is the bread sufficient alone to represent Christs death without the cup which powred out doth represent the shedding of Christs bloud for vs as the bread broken doth the breaking of his body And Christs ordinance must in no sort be broken Q. But doth not the bread wine after the words of consecration cease to be bread and wine their substance being changed or transubstantiated into the very body and bloud of Christ nothing but the colour and sauour of the elements remaining A. The bread and wine being consecrated by the word prayer receiue a change indéed in regard of their vse being now sacred which before were common but not in regard of their substance which remaineth one and the same still Q. But is it not said of the bread This is my body and of the wine This is my bloud And are not Christs words true A. Yes Christs words are true and because they are true therefore the substance of the bread is not changed into the substance of Christs body and so of the wine Q. But is not God omnipotent Cannot he change the substance of bread into the substance of Christs body A. God is omnipotent and therefore he cannot lye But such a change must néeds import and imply a lye for 1. Christs body is in heauen and therefore cannot be in earth and in many places at the same instant 2. Christs body was made of the substance of the Uirgin and therefore not of the substance of a peece of bread Q. Why doth Christ say then This is my body A. He saith no otherwise of this Sacrament then he doth of all the rest both of the old Testament and of the New For so circumcision is called the Couenant being but a signe and seale of it as Gen. 17. 10 11. The Paschall Lambe is called the Passeouer Exod. 12. 11. though it were but the sacrifice and memoriall of the Passeouer v. 27. So baptisme is called regeneration Tit. 3. 5. though it be but a signe and seale of it And thus the Sacramentall bread is called Christs body so that this is the constant language of the holy Ghost in all the sacraments both of the old and new Testament to call the signes by the name of the thing signified that we might not be deceiued in the meaning of the holy Ghosts words Q. But are the Sacramentalll elements bare signes Doe they not worke grace effectually of themselues A. They neither worke grace effectually of themselues nor are they bare signes but these signes are called by the name of the thing signified to signifie that they are meanes ordained of Christ to confirme to the faithfull receiuer the thing signified not of themselues but by vertue of Christs institution where the conditions of faith and repentance be obserued Q. What then is euery man to doe before he come to the Lords Table A. He must examine himselfe 1. Cor. 11. 28. Q. Wherein is a man to examine himselfe A. In two things 1. touching his knowledge of the Sacrament 2. touching his knowledge of himselfe Q. What is a man to know touching the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A. He must be able to discerne the Lords body 1 Cor. 11. 29. Q. How is that Lords body discerned A. By two things 1. by the outward elements of bread and wine as they are consecrated to an ●oly vse which must not be receiued as ●●●●mon bread and wine secondly by the analogy or proportion which they beare to Christs body Q. What analogy or proportion do the consecrated bread and wine hold with Christs body and bloud being receiued by the faith of the Communicant A. A twofold proportion one in respect of the benefits of Christs body and bloud to euery faithfull receiuer signified by the benefits which the body receiueth by the bread wine the other proportion in respect of the communion of Christs mysticall body signified by the nature of the bread wine Q. What be the benefits which the body receiueth by the bread and wine A. These Nourishment strength and comfort bread strengthening and wine comforting mans heart and so becomming one with our body Q. What doe these signifie A. That Christs death receiued and applyed by faith in the Sacrament doth strengthen our faith and comfort our consciences in the pardon of our sinnes and so nourisheth vs to eternall life Christ becomming one mysticall body with vs by faith liuing in vs. Gal. 2 20. Q. What is the other proportion which the bread and wine doe beare of Christs body A. They beare a proportion of the communion of his mysticall body Q. What call you Christs mysticall body A. The whole company of the faithfull elect vnited in one mysticall body of Christ. Q. Wherein stands their communion A. In two things in the vnion of euery true beléeuer to Christ the head 2. In a communion with the members among themselues all ioyned to that one Head Q. How is euery member vnited to Christ the Head A. By the holy Ghost and by a holy faith 1. Cor. 12. 12 13. Gal. 2. 20. Q. How are all the mysticall members of Christ vnited in a communion together as of one body A. By charity and by the vnity of the spirit Eph. 4. 2 3 4 5 6. Q. How doth the Sacramentall bread and wine signifie or represent this communion of Christs mysticall members in one body A. As one and the same bread is made of many graines and one and the same mysticall body of Christ is made vp of many members euen all the faithfull whereof consists the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints Q. What vse make you of this knowledge concerning the sacramentall signes A. It leades me to the examination of a second knowledge namely concerning my selfe before I come to communicate at the Lords Table Q. What are you chiefly to examine concerning your selfe before you come to the Communion A. Two things especially my faith and my charity Q. Why these two especially A. Because by hauing faith and charity I come to discerne the Lords body while by faith I am vnited to Christ my Head and by charity to the mysticall body of Christ the communion of Saints Q. How is your faith to be examined A. By the nature of sauing faith and by the fruits of it Q. You shewed me before the nature of sauing and iustifying faith which you must examine in your selfe whether it be truely in you or no according to that of the Apostle 2. Cor. 13. 5. Tell me therefore what be the speciall fruits and signes of sauing faith A. They are especially two to wit repentance and charity Q. What is true repentance A. It is a godly sorrow causing repentance vnto saluation not to be repented of 2. Cor. 7. 10. Q. Why is it called a godly sorrow A. Because it is a