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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

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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
Counsel of God against all Power in Heaven and Earth Matth. 28. 17 18. being not baptised in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost S. I confess we have the foot-steps of Christ most plain in the case of Baptism but have we any thing from him to favour us in the Laying on of Hands with Prayer for the promised Spirit F. Yes verily we have as much from his own Example herein as the case could bear for Jesus as soon as he was baptised prayed and the Heavens were opened and the Holy Ghost descended in the bodily shape of a Dove upon him and a Voice came from Heaven which said This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased The things which from hence favour our Cause in hand are these 1. Christ did not ask this sealing and confirming Spirit till after he was baptised but as soon as baptised he prays and receives the Holy Ghost Here is nothing wanting but the Administrator which could not be found among Men for who durst pray for Christ that he might receive the Spirit I could object upon others that in Christ's Baptism Repentance was wanting Yet sure his Baptism is very precedential to us it coming as near us as the case would bear and so likewise he comes as near us in his waiting for the Spirit after Baptism as the case will bear S. I desire to see the Grounds of those two Duties Baptism and Laying on of Hands in a few Particulars F. The Grounds on which these Duties may be asserted and defended are 1. The express Command of Christ or the express Doctrine of Christ they being both Principles of his Doctrine 2. Christ's own Example or President as far as the greatness and holiness of his Person would bear it to be exemplary in either 3. The undoubted necessity of the chief Blessings annexed to the religious use of these Services respectively 4. Sufficient Example of many thousands of Christians Men and Women at Jerusalem and Samaria c. submitting to these Services at their Principles 5. No repeal of these Services or of either of them since their institution in the Church of Christ 6. The undeniable consent of Antiquity for some hundreds of Years down from the very dayes of the Apostles 7. The Scriptureless trifling self-contradicting and nonsensical Objections which hitherto have been brought against Sacred Baptism or Prayer with the Laying on of Hands for the Ends for which they were at first observed The Fifth Principle of St. Paul's CATECHISM Or The Resurrection of the Dead Son. WHat is the true definition of the Resurrection of the Dead according to Christian Doctrine and Faith Father The Resurrection of the Dead is an Act of Divine and Almighty Power quickning dead Bodies and restoring them to a state of such perfection as to have an eternal duration but does not necessarily infer the happiness of the Dead so raised but with respect to the Event of that Trial which they then shall undergo And therefore the Resurrection is distinguished into two parts by Christ himself John 5. 28 29. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice and shall come forth they that have done good to the Resurection of Life and they that have done evil to the Resurrection of Condemnation S. Shall the same Body in respect of it's Flesh and Bones rise again F. It must either be the same Flesh and Bones or nothing seeing there is nothing else laid in the Grave that may be called Man. And this is the ancient Faith of God's People as appears in Job 19. 26 27. Though after my Skin Worms destroy this Body yet in my Flesh shall I see God Whom I shall see for my self and not another though my Reins be consumed in me S. I confess this agrees with our Saviour's words before mentioned All that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice and come forth But does not Christ speak mystically of the Graves of Sin F. No he had spoken of those that are dead in Sin before vers 25. The hour is coming and now is when the Dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live This he speaks of the powerful preaching of the Gospel to convert those that were dead in Sin. Then adds Marvel not at this for the hour is coming that all that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice and shall come forth but some of these to Condemnation which respects the Last Judgment undeniably S. How then does the Apostle say That Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 15. 50. F. 1. He explains himself in the next words neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption He speaks of Men in their sinful and mortal state They must be regenerate by the Work of the Spirit and freed from mortality in the Resurrection or as the next Verse shews partake of a change which is equivalent or else they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven 2. It is certain our Saviour was Flesh and Bones after he was risen from the Dead Luk. 24. 39. Yet he entered into Heaven it self there to appear in the presence of God for us Heb. 9. 24. S. I confess it must follow that if no Flesh can enter into Heaven then Christ's glorified Body cannot be there which doubtless it is But have we sufficient Testimony that our Bodies shall put off Mortality and be glorified with his glorious Body F. Yes for it is written This Mortal must put on Immortality and this Corruption must put on Incorruption and so Death shall be swallowed up in Victory And again He shall change our vile Body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious Body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3. 21. S. Are there any Examples that any of the Dead who had lain long in the Graves was raised F. Yes there is a full Instance of that Mat. 27. 52 53. The Graves were opened and many Bodies of the Saints which slept arose and came out of the Graves and appeared to many Now these Saints doubtless had been long dead for we read of no Saints dying at Jerusalem about the time of Christ's Suffering S. Are there any other Examples to confirm this great Article of our Faith F. It pleased God to give an Instance of his Power and of his Will in this behalf near the beginning of the World in that he translated Enoch that he should not see Death Gen. 5. 24. Heb. 11. 5. 2. God also took Elijah the Prophet up into Heaven without tasting of Death 2 King. 2. 1 11 12. 3. Elisha by the Power of God raised a dead Child to Life 2 King. 4. 33 34 35. 4. By God's Power a dead Man was raised to Life at the touch of the Bones of the Prophet Elisha 2 King. 13. 21. S. Are there