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A41788	St. Paul's catechism, or, A brief and plain explication of the six principles of the Christian religion, as recorded Heb. 6., 1,2 with some considerations of the principles of natural and universal religion, as previous, and yet subservient to the rules of revealed and positive relgion: containing also, the duties of children to their superiors, written chiefly for the instruction of young Christians, children and servants in all Christian families / by Tho. Grantham.	Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.	1687 (1687)	Wing G1545; ESTC R39432	35,919	64

esteemed themselves pe●●● without all Imperfection and they that offend must pray and that Daily too for remission of Sin this teacheth us to humble our selves daily before God. We see here also a necessity of being merciful to such as offend us and to forgive with readiness all that trespass against us specially if they do turn saying I repent Prayer for Mercy without Charity in him that prayeth will not be accepted of God. 8. And lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from Evil. Here we profess to believe that God has the disposing of all Tryals which do attend us in this mortal State And here we pray that he will not suffer us to be tempted above what we are able but that he will with the Temptation make a way to escape that we may be able to bear it 9. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever Here we profess our Faith in Prayer 1. That the Kingdom is His and that therefore we depend on him for the prosperity of it and for the glorious coming of his Kingdom 2. That all Power is his and therefore we depend on him to provide for and to deliver us according to his Will. 3. That the glory is everlastingly due to God and therefore we ascribe it as the Church did not unto us not unto us but unto thy Name give Glory this is also to praise God in Prayer 10. Amen This word being truly expressed shews the full assent of the mind to the whole of the Prayer whether express'd by our selves in private or by such as join sincerely with us in publick S. Is it our Duty to use this form of words or to pray according to the tenor of the words F. Doubtless we are at liberty to use both and for weak Christians and indeed for all Christians in their private Devotions it is safe to use these very words so they be spoken with a Heart and Soul truly breathing after God When ye pray say Our Father c. Luk. 11. 2. S. What other Ordinances hath Christ ordained for the general use of his Church F. Preaching the Word to Edification Exhortation Reproof and Correction of Offenders and the comfort of the Sincere And therewithall the frequent use of the Holy Table of the Lord 2 Tim. 4. 1 2. Act. 2. 42. S. How shall I know a lawful Minister one that is sent of God that I may hear the Word according to the Will of God F. Observe these Rules 1. Know that no Man of true Christian Modesty will pretend to be immediatly sent by a Commission from Heaven And yet 2. God must make Men Ministers by the Gifts of his Grace illuminating their Understanding and capaciating them to speak to edification before the Church can make them Ministers 3. No unbaptised Person let his Parts be what they will has any liberty to be a Minister in the Church of God because he is not yet imbodied with the Church of God nor can be without Baptism And here remember our dear Saviour would not preach one Sermon till he was baptised 4. When Men are competently gifted and qualified in point of Life being Church-members they are to be chosen by the Church and ordain'd to the Work of the Ministery by Prayer and Fasting with the Laying on of Hands of the Messengers and Elders of the Church for such Offices as the Church finds them most capable 5. There is a liberty in the Church for Brethren which are capable to exercise their Gifts to the edification of the Body and Men thus called or priviledged in the Church thou mayest lawfully hear If thou further goest thou goest without Rule S. What honour or respect do I ow to my lawful Pastours or Teachers F. 1. Thou art bound to honour them in Love for the Work's-sake whereunto they are called 2. Thou must obey them in the Lord as they declare to thee the Counsel of God and admonish thee 3. Thou must pray for them that God may make them a Blessing to thee S. Of what concernment is the Holy Table of the Lord F. It is an Ordinance of great concernment being ordained by Christ himself to shew forth a perpetual Memorial of his Death till he come the second time without Sin to Salvation S. I pray shew me the manner of its Ins●itution F. The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took Bread. And when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me And after the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood This do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew forth the Lord's Death till he come 1 Cor. 11. S. What is required of all that partake of this Holy Bread and Cup F. 1. They must be such as continue in the Apostles Doctrine and true Christian Fellowship Act. 2. 42. 2. They must examine themselves whether they walk in the Truth with a good Conscience both towards God and also towards Men. 3. They must labour to discern the Lord's Body as the only Sacrifice for Sin as signified in this Service 4. They must hereby testify true unity with the Church who are hereby shewed to be one Bread and one Body for they are all Partakers of that one Bread. S. What is the danger of eating this Bread and Drinking this Cup unworthily F. They that eat and drink unworthily receive condemnation to themselves not discerning the Lord's Body S. Is this Bread and this Cup the Real Body and the Real Blood of Christ F. This Bread and this Cup is the Real Body and Blood of Christ in a spiritual and mystical Sense but not carnally and corporally S. Are all Members of the Church to partake of the Cup as well as of the Bread F. Yes they have express Command from Christ to take the Cup for he saith Drink ye all of it Matth. 26. 27. The Bread is the Communion of the Body of Christ and the Cup is the Communion of the Blood of Christ and of this Communion the whole Body Mystical the Church are partakers 1 Cor. 10. 3 4 16. S. But were they not all Ministers that sat at the Table with our Saviour F. When Ministers receive that Holy Bread an● Cup they do not receive it as they are Ministers 〈◊〉 as they are Members of the Body 1 Cor. 10. 17. 〈◊〉 dispense the Ordinance as Ministers but they partake●● it as Members S. Whether are we to kneel when we receive th● Holy Ordinance or to sit at the Table F. A reverent Gesture is necessary but decently to sit at the Table of the Lord is most warrantable being according to the Example of Christ and his Apostles at the Institution Matth. 26. 20. Mark 14. 18. Luk. 22.

of Death Heb. 2. 9. For he took not on him the Nature of Angels but he took on him the Seed of Abraham Heb. 2. 16. And in this respect both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one that is one Flesh for which cause he is not ashamed to call them Brethren And as Children are partakers of Flesh and Blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that by means of Death he might destroy him that had the Power of Death that is the Devil Heb. 2. S. This a great Mystery indeed I desire to know how and when this was fulfilled or accomplished F. The Lord Christ was born of the Virgin Mary in the time of Augustus Caesar about the Year of the World 3962. And his Birth was thus effected by the most High God. His Power overshadowed the Virgin and by the Holy Ghost coming upon her she conceived and was with Child Luk. 1. 35. Mat. 1. 18. And at Bethlehem she brought forth her Son and as the Angel had commanded called his Name Jesus which signifies a Saviour the same is called Christ Mat. 1. 21. Luk. 2. 7. as it was foretold by the Prophets Isa 7. 14. Mich. 5. 2. S. Do's any Testimony appear in humane Histories respecting the Time of the Birth and Death of our Lord Christ F. Our Faith must only rest upon the Authority of the Scriptures in these things nevertheless there is som● things remarkable found in the Histories of those Times Learn saith a Learned Writer the Time according to the Prophecy of Daniel when Christ should co●e is now exactly fulfilled 〈◊〉 from the 2d Year of Darius Longamanus when the Ki●●s Commandment went forth to bring the People to b●ild Jerusalem Ezra 4. 24. Hag. 1. 1. to the beginning of Alexander's Monarchy were 144 Years according to the account of Metasthenus the Persian From thence to the Incarnation of Christ was 309 Years by the judgment of Josephus And from Christ's Incarnation to his Baptism was about 30 Years Luke 2. 23. Then count the Prophecy of Daniel 9. 25. After 70 weeks a week containing 7 Years that is 483 Years then shall the Messiah be cut off viz. two Years and an half after his Baptism S. I understand that Christ is the true Messiah of whom Moses and the Prophets did write John 1. 41 45. Deut. 18. 18. Isa 7. 14. I desire therefore to know what I a● farther to believe concerning him that I may be saved F. Thou must with the Heart believe unto Righteousness and with the Mouth make confession unto Salvation Rom. 10. 10. S. What do you mean by believing unto Righteousness F. There is a two-fold Righteousness which true Faith will lead thee unto The one is Imputative the other is Practical The first is called the Righteousness of God Mat. 6. 33. or God's Righteousness Rom. 10. 3. This Righteousness is revealed by the Gospel Rom. 1. 17 18. It is a Righteousness to us without the Law and yet witnessed by the Law and the Prophets Rom. 3. 21 It is the Righteousness of Christ who is the Lord our Righteousness Isa 45. 24 25. Christ made of God un●● us Righteousness 1 Cor. 1. 30. S. I desire to understand this more plainly F. 1. God having made a Righteous Law it must be fulfilled and none was able to do ●his but Christ and he did fulfil it in our behalf Heb. 10. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Psal 4. 5 6 7. and thus the Rig●teousness of the Law is fulfilled in the Children of God because Christ's Righteousness is made theirs through believing Rom. 10 3 4. Phil. 3. 9. And they are made the Righteousness of God in Him 2 Cor. 5. 21. that is a Righteous People to God. 2. The Justice of God cried against us for Sin committed and Sin must be purged by the Blood of Christ He bare our sins that is the punishment of our Sins in his own Body on the Tree 1 Pet. 2. 24. And thus we are justified by his Death and saved by his Life Rom. 5. 9 10. He died for our Sins and rose again for our Justification Rom. 4. 25. S. Where do's God say that Righteousness is a thing imputed to Man F. Rom. 4. 6. David describeth the blessedness of the Man unto whom God imputeth Righteousness without Works saith the Apostle Abraham being fully perswaded that what God had promised he was able to perform It was imputed to him for Righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed unto him But for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up Jesus Christ from the Dead Rom. 4. 21 22 23 24. S. And is this wonderful Grace held forth to all Men in Christ F. Yes The Righteousness of God without the Law is manifested or published being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets even the Righteousness of God which is by Faith of Jesus Christ VNTO ALL and upon all that believe for there is N● difference For ALL have sinned and come short of the ●lory of God Being justified freely by his Grace through the ●edemption that is in Christ Jesus Whom God hath set forth 〈◊〉 be a propitiation for our sins and not for ours only bu● also for the sins of the whole World 1 John 2. 2. throug● Faith in his Blood to declare his Righteousness for the re●ission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God. To declare I say at this time his Righteousness that ●e might be just and the justifier of him that believeth in Je●us Rom. 3. 21 to 27. S. It appears plainly that the Righteousness of Christ in and by Christ is free for all but yet it is received by Faith. But does God require all Men to be●●eve this F. Yes Christ with all his Benefits was tendred to ●he Jews but they being ignorant of God's Righteousness ●nd going about to establish their own Righteousness have not ●●bmitted themselves to the Righteousness of God Rom. 10. 1 2 ● So they would not come to Christ that they might ●ave Life John 5. 40. 2. All are commanded to believe the Gospel which ●eveals this Righteousness of God as the main of it under pain of damnation Mark 16. 15 16. All Me● are therefore to believe that God has Mercy and Grac● and Glory in store for them all 1 Tim. 2. 4 5 6. S. I desire you to give me the sum of the Gospel 〈◊〉 few words F. This Gospel is briefly comprehended in this sa●ing Christ died for our Sins and rose again for 〈◊〉 Justification 1 Cor. 15. 3 4. Which is further e●plained 2 Cor. 5. 18 19 20 21. And the great Hol●ness which it teacheth is set down with the Glory co●sequent to it Tit. 2. 11 12 13 14 15. 1 Pet. 1. 4 ● S. Did Christ our Lord die and rise again for all Me● without exception F. Yes he did For for this cause Christ both die● ro●● and revived