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The church-catechism with a brief and easie explanation thereof for the help of the meanest capacities and weakest memories. By T.C. D.D.
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Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.
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the Communion of Saints X. The forgiveness of Sins XI The resurrection of the body XII And the life everlasting Amen Question 6. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy belief Answer First I learn to believe in God the Father who hath made me and all the world Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed me and all mankind Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the elect of God Question 7. You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you that you should keep Gods Commandments Tell me how many there be Answer Ten. Question 8. Which be they Answer The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of Bondage I. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me II. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a Iealous God and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain IV. Remember that thou keep Holy the Sabbath day Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy Son and thy Daughter thy man servant and thy maid-servant thy Cattel and the stranger that is within thy Gates For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI Thou shalt do no murther VII Thou shalt not commit adultery VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his servant nor his maid nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is his Qu. 9. What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments Answ I learn two things my duty towards God and my duty towards my Neighbour Qu. 10. What is thy duty towards God Answ My duty towards God is I II. To believe in him to fear him and to love him with all my heart with all my mind with all my soul and with all my strength to worship him to give him thanks to put my whole trust in him to call upon him III. To honour his holy Name and his Word IV. And to serve him truly all the days of my life Qu. 11. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour Answ My duty towards my Neighbour is § To love him as my self and to do to all men as I would they should do to me V. To love honour and succour my Father and Mother To honour and obey the King and all that are put in authority under him To submit my self to all my Governours Teachers Spiritual Pastors and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters VI. To hurt no body by word or deed VII To be true and just in all my dealings VIII To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart IX To keep my hands from picking and stealing X. And my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering XI To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity XII Not to covet and desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me page 20. Catechist Catechist My good child know this that thou art not able to do these things of thy self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special grace which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer Question 12. Let me hear therefore if thou canst say the Lords Prayer Answer OVr Father which art in Heaven I. Hallowed be thy name II. Thy Kingdom come III. Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven IV. Give us this day our daily bread V. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us VI. And lead us not into temptation VII But deliver us from evil § For thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory For ever and ever Amen Question 13. What desirest thou of God in this prayer Answer I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father who is the giver of all goodness to send his grace unto me and to all people I. That we may worship him II. Serve him III. And obey him as we ought to do IV. And I pray unto God that he will send us all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies V. And that he will be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins VI VII And that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Iesus Christ and therefore I say Amen So be it Question 14. How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church Answer Two only as generally necessary to salvation that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Question 15. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament Answer I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us ordained by Christ himself as a means whereby we receive the same and a pledg to assure us thereof Question 16. How many parts are there in a Sacrament Answer Two the outward visible sign and the inward spiritual grace Question 17. What is the outward visible sign or form in Baptism Answer Water Wherein the person is baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy-Ghost Question 18. What is the inward and spiritual grace Answer A death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness for being by nature born in Sin and the children of wrath we are hereby made the children of grace Question 19. What is required of persons to be baptised Answer Repentance whereby they forsake sin and Faith whereby they stedfastly believe the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Question 20. Why then are infants baptized when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them Answer
Because they promise them both by their sureties which promise when they come to age themselves are bound to perform Question 21. Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained Answer For the continual remembrance of the sacrifice of the death of Christ and of the benefits which we receive thereby Question 22. What is the outward part of sign of the Lords Supper Answer Bread and Wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received Question 23. What is the inward part or thing signified Answer The Body and Blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lords Supper Question 24. What are the benefits whereof we are partakers thereby Answer The strengthening and refreshing of our souls by the body and blood of Christ as our bodies are by the bread and wine Question 25. What is required of them who come to the Lords Supper Answer To examin themselves whether they repent them truly of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life have a lively faith in God's mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of his death and be in Charity with all men The end of the Catechism THE EXPLANATION Of the CATHECHISM Qu. 1 2. Of the Benefits of Baptism § OUght your name recâ—ived in Baptism to put you in mind of the Duties and Priviledges of the Covenant into which you did then enter Yes § Are not Infants by reason of their tender age uncapable of receiving any benefit by Baptism No § Were you in your infancy thereby made and solemnly admitted 1. A Member of Christ and of his Church Yes 2. A Child of God by Adoption Yes 3. And an Heir of the Kingdom of Heaven Yes Qu. 3. Of the Vow of Baptism § Were these great Benefits confer'd on you absolutely without any Conditions to be performed on your part No § Did not your Sureties who presented you to Baptism then solemnly promise in your name and behalf that you should 1. Renounce the Temptations of the Devil and the World and mortifie the evil desires of your own corrupt heart Yes 2. Believe the principles of the Christian Religion revealed by God in holy Scriptures and briefly comprized in the Creed Yes 3. Sincerely and constantly obey all Gods Commandments Yes Qu. 4. Of our Professing to own and promise to perform our Baptismal Vow § Do not you think your self ingaged in your own person to perform that Promise and Vow which your sureties did make for you Yes § And do you now promise and resolve according to your bounden duty to perform these your Baptismal ingagements Yes § Can you do this without Gods help and assistance No § Are you heartily thankful to God for bringing you into this Covenant of Faith and Repentance and so into a capacity of Salvation Yes § And will you daily pray to God for Grace to enable you ever to continue stedfast in this Covenant Yes § Shall those who perform these Conditions fail to reap the blessings of their Baptism No § Or shall those who wilfully break them escape the wrath and curse of God No Qu. 5. Of the Creed consisting of twelve Articles § Are not the twelve Articles of your belief contained in the Apostles Creed Yes § Is not that Creed a brief Summary of all the Articles of the Christian Faith necessary to Salvation Yes § Is there any Article therein which cannot be proved by Holy Scripture No § Can he be a true Christian who denies any of them No § Are you not in this Creed taught to believe and confess that there is one only living and true God Yes § And doth it also teach you to believe that in the unity of the God-head there be three persons of one Substance Power and Eternity Yes § And that these three Persons are God the Father our Creator God the Son our Redeemer and God the Holy Ghost our Sanctifier Yes Explicatory Questions on the several Articles See page 8 9 10 11. Art 1. Of God and his Attributes § Hath God a body parts or passions as men have No § Is he then a most pure invisible Spirit Yes § And is he not Infinite in Being and Perfection Yes § Is he Eternal without beginning ending or any change Yes § Is there any place where God is not present No § Is there any thing past present or to come which he doth not perfectly see and know No § Is there any person too strong or any thing too hard for him No § Is He so perfectly good that he cannot do cause or allow any thing that is evil or unjust Yes Particularly Of the Father his Works of Creation and Providence § Is not the work of Creation principally attributed to God the Father Yes § Did not He by his word alone make all things in heaven and earth of nothing And every thing very good Yes § Is there any Creature which can preserve it self without Gods Providence No § Is there and Person or thing which is not under Gods Rule and Government No § And doth not God order all things most wisely Yes § Did not God at first make Man after his own Image in a holy and happy condition Yes Art II. Of Jesus Christ his Divine Nature Person and Offices § Are not you and all Mankind since Adam's fall born in a very sinful and miserable condition Yes § Can any but He who is called Jesus save you out of it No § And was he also called Christ because he was anointed to Execute the Offices of a Prophet Priest and King Yes § Is not this Jesus Christ the Eternal only Son of God Yes § Could we have been redeemed unless the Son of God had taken mans Nature upon Him No § Is Jesus Christ then both God and Man in two distinct Natures and one Person Yes Art III. Of the manner of Christs Incarnation § Had Christ when he took our Nature any Father upon earth No § Was He as man conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary of her substance and born without Sin Yes § Was the birth of Christ stained with Original or his life with any Actual Sin No Art IV. Of the sufferings of Christ § Was Christ though innocent condemned to die by Pontius Pilate the Roman Governour of Judea Yes § Did Christ undergo for us the wrath of God and the cursed Death of the Cross Yes § Could nothing satisfie Gods Justice for our Sins but the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ No § Was He also buried and did he continue in the State of the dead for a time Yes Art V. of Christs Resurrection § Doth Christ still remain under the power of death No § Did He by his own power rise from the dead on the third day and become alive again Yes § And did He thereby declare himself to have fully satisfied Gods Justice Yes Art VI. Of Christs Ascension and Intercession § Was