The bread of the Sacrament is given for to be a seale of the food of the soule Other bread is but for the belly Q. Let me understand more clearely who is said to discerne the Lords body A. He is truely said to discerne the Lords body who trembling in all reverence cometh to the table and receaveth the bread not as common bread for the belly but as consecrate for to be a seale of the spirituall food of the soule Q. What is the punishment of these that communicate unworthily A. The punishment of the godly is sore sicknesse great sorrowes and sometimes death of body Q. What is the punishment of the wicked A. Death both of soule and body Q. Thinkest thou that the godly will whiles communicate unworthily A. Yea verily and for that the Lord will fearfully chastise them in this life The fourtie foure Sunday Q. IS it not good for the godly that they be so chastised for their negligence A. It is most certaine Q. How knowest thou that A. The Apostle sayeth when wee are judged wee are chastened of the Lord that wee should not bee condemned with the World 1 Cor. 11.32 Q. I see that there is great difference betweene the unworthie communicating of the godly and of the wicked A. Yea verily for God chasteneth the godly for their negligence but hee condemneth the wicked for their contempt Q. But will not this make many of the godly the more carelesse in their preparation seeing that though they communicate unworthily they shall not be condemned A. The chastisement of their negligence is to great that it should make the best of us to tremble divers calamities as sicknesse death losse of goods terrours of conscience are appointed for such The fourtie five Sunday Q. WHat should we thinke upon when we are come to the Lords table A. We should lift up our hearts to Christ in the heavens Qu. When thou seest the bread of the Sacrament broken what should thou remember A. That even so the body of Christ was broken upon the crosse with unspeakable dolours for my sinnes Q. When thou seest the wine povvred out vvhat shouldest thou remember A. That even so the blood of Christ was powred out upon the crosse for me Q. When thou eatest that bread of the Sacrament what sayeth thou in thy self A. I say Lord so feed my soule with Christs body the bread of life Q. When thou drinkest the wine what sayeth thou in thy selfe A. I say Lord quench the thirst of my soule with the vertue of Christs blood The fourtie sixth Sunday Q. DOE we eat with our teeth the flesh of Christs body at the Sacrament A. No not Qu How then eat we his body A. In a spirituall manner Q. How is that done A. While we believe that his body was broken for us we are said to eate his body Q. Wherefore is our believing called a eating and a drinking A. Because as our bodies live by eating and drinking so our souls live by believing that Christs body was broken and his blood powred out for our sins Q. What is the chiefest end of this Sacrament A. That the Lords death may thankfully be remembered Q. What is our duty after wee have received the Sacrament A. To give GOD most humble thankes Q. How should we thanke him A. We must declare the Lords death untill he come againe Q. What is that to declare the Lords death A It is to publish to solemnize to have in honour and estimation to spread abroad and make famous all the sufferings of the Lord. The fourtie seven Sunday Q. WHat more is required in our thankes then to declare the Lords death by publishing the same by word A. It is required that by a holy and reformed life wee glorifie God that others seeing our godly conversation may praise our heavenly Father Q. What wordes of thankes hast thou for God after thou hast received the Sacrament A. My soule praiseth God for his love which moved him to send his Son to the world to die for me I glorifie the Son of God for dying so willingly for the salvation of my lost soule Q. How concludest thou thy thanksgiving A. I say now unto the King eternall immortall invisible the only wise God be glory for ever and ever Amen 1 Tim. 1 vers 17. Q. What is thy exercise the rest of that day A. I with a thankfull heart meditate the mercies of my God who sent his Son to die for me and by his death to deliver me from hell fire Q. What doest thou more A. I call to memorie all the paines and dolours which Christ my Saviour suffered from his Cratch to the Crosse and praise him for the same To whom with the Father and the holy Spirit the Comforter be glory power and praise for evermore Amen TO THE NOBLE LADY D. Anne Campbell Daughter to the Noble and Potent Earle the Earle of Argyle c. MADAME I Heere humbly dedicate unto your Ladiship now of tender yeeres these two compends of the Catechisme Saint Iohn the Cusin and beloved Disciple of Iesus Christ who for his high doctrine was compared to an Eagle that mounteth very high disdained not to write unto Children In one chapter of a short Epistle hee hath I write unto you little children and againe in the same words I write unto you little children of that his writing hee giveth two reasons the one is in these words because your sins are forgiven you for his Names sake the other reason is in these words because yee have knowne the Father For this end Madame have I written unto you these two compends that yee may know the Father whom I most humbly intreat to increase his graces begun in your Ladyship in a good measure From Glasgow the 19. of Ianuar 1639. Your Ladiships most humble Servant M. ZACHARY BOYD. A short compend of the Catechisme needfull for little Children I. OF GOD. Question HOW many Gods be there Answer Onely one God Q. How many persones be there in the Godhead A. Three the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Q. What hath God the Father done for thee A. He hath created me Q. What hath God the Son done for thee A. He hath redeemed me Q. What hath the holy Ghost done for thee A. He hath sanctified me Of Mans Creation Q. WHereof was this world made A. Of nothing Q. Whereof was man made A. His body was made of the dust of the ground Q. How was his soule made A. The Lord breathed into his nosthrils the breath of life Q. How was man created at the first A. According to Gods own image Q. What is that image of God A. Holinesse and happinesse Of Mans Fall Q. DID man keepe that image A. No not Q. How lost he it A. By sinning against God Q. What was his sinne A. He did eate of the forbidden tree Q. What other sinnes did goe before that A. Pride unbeliefe a miscontentment with his own estate Q. What
humble Q. Is there nothing in man but dust A. There is a living soule Q. How was man made at the first A. According to Gods image Q. What is that image of God according to which man was made A. Perfect holinesse and righteousnesse Q. What other thing is to be considered in that image of God A. The likenesse and resemblance of man with God was also in respect of that rule and authoritie given unto him by God over all the creatures 3. Of Mans Fall The sixth Sunday Q. DID man keepe that image of God A. No not Q. How lost he it A. By sinning against God Q. What was his sin against God A. He did eat of the forbidden tree Q. What other sin had he A. Pride and unbeliefe Q. What was his pride A. He would be equall unto God Q. What was his unbeliefe A. He believed Sathan and not God Q. What said Sathan unto him that he beleeved A. He said he should be equall unto God himselfe Q. What said God unto him A. He said that hee should die the death Q. Who were the instruments of mans fall A. The Divel the Serpent and the Woman Q. How did these three deceive the man A. The Divel entered a lying spirit into the Serpent and by the Serpent seduced the woman who entised her husband to eate of the tree Q. What deserved they for such eating A. Death and eternall Condamnation Q. But how could God in justice for so light a sin destroy all mankinde A. The sin was not light because it was done against an infinit Majestie Q. What hath followed upon this sin A. All men since that fall are borne in sinne and conceived in iniquitie The seventh Sunday Q. WHat is sin A. The transgression of Gods Law Q. How many sortes of sinne bee there A. Two originall sin and actuall sin Q. What callest thou original sin A. That corruption wherein all mankinde is conceived and born since the fall of Adam Q. What hath this sinne done to man A. It hath defiled all the faculties of his soule Q. What hath it done to his minde and understanding A. It hath so blindfolded it that the wisdome of God seemeth folie to man Q. What hath it done to his will A. It hath made it perverse and froward against the will of God Q. What hath it done to his affections A. It hath set them altogether upon corruption and uncleanes Q. This then is thy meaning that originall sin like a leprosie hath desiled the whole man A. It is even so The eight Sunday Q. WHat callest thou actuall sinne A. Every omission of our duety and commission of that which is against the law of God Q. In how many wayes sin we A. In three wayes especially in thought in word and in work Q. Can a lightword be sinne A. For every ydle word we shall give account Q. But is not our thought free A. No not Q. How knowest thou that an evill thought is sin A. Christ hath said that to lust after another mans wife is to commit adulterie in the heart Q. How differeth originall sinne from actuall sinne A. As the tree from the fruite or as the root from the branches Q. Thy meaning is that originall sinne is the root from whence spring all our actuall sins A. I understand so The ninth Sunday Q. ARE all men sinners A. Yea verily Q. Is it not said that these that are borne of God sin not A. Sin reigneth not in their mortall bodies Q. When is sin said to reigne in a man A. When hee so taketh delight in his sins that hee careth not in any wife for the offending of God Q. Doe the godly sin with such a delight A. No not they doe the evill they would not Q. How is that done A. The flesh coveteth against the Spirit Q. What understandest thou by the coveting flesh A. That remainder of naturall corruption which as yet is unmortified in the godly Q. Wherefore callest thou these rests of corruption in the faithfull after the name of flesh A. Because through the flesh or through carnall generation the filthinesse of sin is conveyed unto the whole man Q. What other reason may bee given A. Because the flesh or body is the instrument to execute the lustes of our naturall concupiscence Q. What understandest thou by the Spirit against whom our corruptions covet A. By the Spirit I understand the holy Spirit and his working whereby our naturall corruptions are subdued Q. What deserve our sinnes at Gods hand A. Death Q. How many sortes of death be there A. Two the death of the body and the death of the soule Of Mans Redemption The tenth Sunday Q. WEE have heard first of GOD secondly of mens creation thirdly of his fall into sin which deserveth death now it followeth that thou declare who is mans Saviour A. Jesus Christ. Q. Who is Iesus Christ A. The Sonne of GOD conceaved miraculously by the holy Ghost in the wombe of a Virgine Q. Beleevest thou that he is that promised seede of the woman A. I do so with my heart Q. Whether was he man onely or both God and man A. He was both GOD and man in one person Q What needed the Saviour of man to be man A. That hee might die for our sinnes Q. What other reason be there A. Seeing it was man that had sinned the justice of GOD required that a man should suffer for the sin of man Q. Wherefore needed our Saviour to be GOD A. That he might beare that infinite wrath of GOD and at last overcome death Q. What other reason hast thou A. That his death might be of ane infinite merite Q. Thou thinkest then that none but hee who was also GOD could overcome death and by his death make a full satisfaction to GODS justice A. I beleeue so The eleventh Sunday Q. WHerefore was Hee called Jesus A. Because Hee came to save his people from their sins Q. Wherefore callest thou Him CHRIST A. Because hee was anointed with the spirituall oyle of grace and that without measure Q. Whereunto was he anointed A. Unto three spirituall offices Q. What were his offices A. He was a King a Prophet and a Priest Q. What needed our Saviour to be a King A. For to rule and defend us against our enemies Q. Who are our chiefest enemies A. The Divel the world and the corruptions of our own flesh Q. What needed him to bee a Prophet A. For to teach us by his word the way of salvation Q. Wherefore was he a Priest A. For to offer up sacrifice for us Q. What sacrifice offered he up A. Hee offered up himselfe once for all Q. What sort of death died he for us A. A cursed death upon á tree Q. Wherefore died Hee such a cursed death A. That hee might deliver us from the curse of God Q. Is there such a power in Christs death A. Yea verily Q. Wherefra cometh this power A. From the dignitie of
Spirit Q. By what meanes A. By the preaching of the Word Q. How is our faith made stronger A. By the hearing of the word and receiving of the Sacraments Of the Sacraments Q. WHAT is a Sacrament A. It is an outward seale appointed by God for to certifie us of our Salvation in Christ. Q. How many Sacraments are there A. Two Baptisme and the Lords Supper Q. What is Baptisme A. A seale of our entrance into the Church Q. What is signified by the washing made by water A. The washing away of our sins by Christs bloud Q. What is the Lords Supper A. A seale of our spirituall nourishment in the Church Q. What signifieth the breaking of the bread A. The breaking of Christs body with many sorrowes Q. What signifieth the powreing out of the wine A. The powreing out of Christs blood upon the Crosse. Q. Who are worthy communicants A. God accounts these worthy who have faith love and repentance A prayer at the houre of Death Because death is very uncertaine and Pastors can not be ever pre sent at the last houre of dying men I have set down this Prayer for the com for t of such MOST gracious GOD most dear and loving Father let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart be acceptable in thy sight for thou art our Lord our strength and our Redeemer We most unworthie to speake for our selves are hold heere to call upon thee and most humbly to intreate thee to be gracious and mercifull to this thy faithfull servant now going from the earth to his long home in the heavens Thou Lord Jesus who can not lie hast said unto us That whatsoever we shall aske the Father in thy name thou wilt give it unto us O Father of mercies we seeke from thee in the name of thy Son Jesus that all the sinnes of this thy now dying servant may be forgotten and fully and freely forgiven him though his sins have indeed beene red like Scarlet and Crimson let it please thee so to wash him with the vertue of the blood of Jesus that his soule once polluted and defiled with sinne may be made white like the woole yea whiter then the snow Thou Lord understandest the groanes of thine own Spirit thou hast begun a good worke in him now as thou dost with the yeere crowne it with thy goodnesse seale up in his heart that peace which thou hast purchased with the blood of Christ Jesus the Prince of peace Assure him now of the rest of these joyes whereof he in his life hath had by thy grace a mercifull foretaste in the very throes of death greatest throngs of temptations uphold him with the hope of glory Let his faith get a full victory over all the enemies of his salvation Let the vertue of Christs Crosse crucifie the world unto him and him unto the world let the death of Jesus be the death of his sinnes and the life of his soule Say unto his soule Bee of good comfort all thy sinnes are forgiven thee Seeing while he is heere at home in the body he is absent from the Lord make thou him confident and willing rather to be absent from the body that he may bee present with thee his Lord in the heavens among the Angels and and spirits of just men who are alwayes in thy presence beholding thy face wherein is fulnesse of joy Now Lord while his flesh and his heart faile him be thou the strength of his heart and his portion for ever for whom hath he in heaven but thee and there is none on earth whom hee desires besides thee make haste Lord come Lord Jesus come Open now the doores of thy mercy and suffer this wearied traveller to enter into thine everlasting rest O Spirit of comforts the Comforter of troubled soules seale up in his heart the pardon of all sinnes with the blood of Jesus and now crowne all thy gifts and graces in him with thy glory Lord Jesus receive his spirit Father into thine hands wee commend his soule To the Father Son and holy Ghost bee everlasting glory praise power and dominion for ever and ever Amen FINIS Act. 26 29. Luke 22 28. vers 29. vers 30. 2 Iohn 1 2 Tim. 1.18 Q. 1 Joh. 2 12 vers 13 Psal. 19.14 Eccles. 12.5 Iohn 14.13 Isa. 1.8 Psal. 65.11