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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	13,508	5	5.1021	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77833	A catechisme of the severall heads of Christian religion, gathered together in question and answer, it being intended onely for private use, but now published for the good and benefit of others, by the importunitie of some friends. By Dorothy Burch, living at Stroud in Kent.	Burch, Dorothy.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5612; Thomason E1186_12; ESTC R204940	8,305	24

A CATECHISME of the severall Heads of Christian Religion Gathered together in Question and Answer it being intended onely for private use but now published for the good and benefit of others by the importunitie of some friends By DOROTHY BURCH living at Stroud in Kent Rom. 14.13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brothers way LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons for John Hancock in Popes-head-Alley 1646. ¶ To the Christian Reader CHRISTIAN FRIEND by importunitie of some friends and for the benefit of thy selfe and all those that shall be pleased to peruse this small Book by the way of question and answer I have propounded many very necessary questions with their answers necessary to be knowne and learned of every good Christian When I first collected them together I had no thought of putting them in print but by reason of the Minister of the Parish where I live because my selfe and others will not honour him in the way he is in albeit the way he said descended from Rome yet he hath ever since in publicke and private laboured to make me and others odious in the eyes of the people albeit formerly I was well accounted of him yet now he reviles me and others almost where ever he comes my selfe heard him say that wee were poore ignorant simple people and as concerning God wee knew nothing which thing I desire God to pardon in him which much grieved mee to heare not in respect of my selfe for I thinke my selfe not worthy to be one of them which he so vilifies which are a knowing people and precious in the sight of God The Lord hath promised to teach his people though not all alike it came in my minde to see what God had taught me I set pen to paper and asking my selfe questions and answering of them which one of neere relation to me seeing them desired they might be put in print which I held not necessary because I feare the weaknesse of the worke yet through their perswasion I was contented for three causes First To vindicate the honour of my God whose honour I desire to stand for to the death which hath promised to teach hi● with the teachings of his own Spirit and will not let them be so ignorant that they shall know nothing of him Heb. 8.10 Isai 54.13 The second Reason is that my selfe and other Christians may be able in some measure to answer every one which shall demand a reason of the faith and hope that is in us 1 Pet. 3.15 Thirdly and lastly that it may doe good to my children whose good I must and will desire as my own if any gaine any good or profit by it I desire God may have all the honour and praise thereof and so I rest Thy friend in Christ DOROTHY BURCH A CATECHISME of the severall Heads of Christian Religion Question WHat is God Answer God is a spirit that hath his being of himselfe without beginning and ending of dayes Joh. 4.24 Q. What are the workes of God A. The Creation of the world and all things therein and preserving them by his providence Gen. 1.21 Q. How did he create the world and all things therein A. He spake the word it was done Gen. 1.3 Q. In what state did he make man A. He created him in his own image in righteousnesse and true holinesse Gen. 1.26 Q. How came they to lose that glorious estate A. By the subtilty of the Devill in perswading the Woman to eat of the forbidden fruit Gen. 3.1 2. 4. Q. How did the Devill or the Devill in the Serpent deceive our first parents A. By telling them they should be as Gods knowing good and evill so thinking to be as God they lost all that Image they had of God Gen. 3.5 Q. What came to them by eating thereof A. The Lord said to them in the day that they should eate thereof they should dye the death Gen. 2.17 Q. What death was it the death of the body or the death of the soule or both A. Of both and none can escape this punishment but such as were before elected in Jesus Christ Ephes 1.4 For whom Christ suffered and by death freed them from this death Q. What was the reason they dyed not A. They dyed in the decree of God although their death was not then executed Q. Did God elect who should be saved before the world was made A. Yes he did elect before the world was made who should be saved by Christ so that they which are not in Christ both these deaths doe lye upon them Ephes 1.4 Q. How can it be said the soule can dye seeing God breathed in them living souls which breath he breathed not into other creatures A. To be absent from the life which is in Christ is the death of the soule Joh. 3.36 10.10 Q. What priviledge have they that have their life in Christ A. The greatest and happiest priviledge in the world all other priviledges are but as shadowes to this great substance Q. In what doth their happinesse consist A. Christ is to them wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 Q. How is Christ said to be all this to his people A. Christ came into the world to take all our sinnes upon him and to give his graces to us by imputation Joh. 1.16 Q. What was the cause Christ hath done this for his people A. It was God the Fathers will to send his Sonne into the world and Christ his Sonne was willing to doe the will of his Father to suffer for his people that they might be saved Matth. 26.39 Q. What did he suffer for his people A. The losse of the honour which he had of God his Father and tooke on him our nature and our sinnes and suffered for them to fulfill the Law in perfect holinesse that he might present us holy without spot so wee are comely with the comelinesse that he hath put upon us 2 Cor. 5.21 Ephes 5.26 27. Ezek. 16.14 Q. Could not God have pardoned the sinnes of his people if Christ had not come and paid what their sinnes had deserved A. God is a God of justice as well as of mercy and in sending his Sonne he shews himselfe so to be in punishing of sinne although in his Sonne it shews his great mercy in sending his Sonne to die for his people Q. Was Jesus Christ made man in the flesh and God in the Spirit A. No then he could not have been perfect man and could have but redeemed mans body and no more but he was perfect man in soule and body and perfect God also so he was of two natures divine and humane not mixt together but joyned together Isai 9.9 Q. Why must Christ be God and man A. Because man had sinned and man must suffer for sinne he must be God or else his sufferings had not been of an