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The kernell of Christianity containing a short, yet full summe of our communion with Christ. By Francis Peck Mr of Arts, minister of the Word and pastor at Hartford. Imprimatur Iohn Downame.
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THE KERNELL OF CHRISTIANITY CONTAINING A SHORT YET FVLL Summe of our Communion with CHRIST By FRANCIS PECK Mr of Arts Minister of the Word and Pastor at Hartford Imprimatur Iohn Downam London Printed By G. M. for Iohn Bellamy at the signe of the three Golden-Lyons near the Royall-Exchange 1646. THE KERNELL OF Christianity WHat is every one bound to know that looks to be saved A. Two things 1. Something concerning God 2. Something concerning Man Q. What ought you to know and beleeve concerning God A. That there is own most glorious God Deut. 6. 4. Exod. 33. 18. Q. How doth it appear that God is so glorious A. In four particulars 1. In his Essence which is incomprehensible 2. In his attributes which are those divine perfections whereby he makes himself known to us which attributes are not qualities in God but nature Gods Justice is God himself and Gods power is God himself c. 3. In his persons which are three 1. The Father begetting 2. The Sonne begotten 3. The Holy Ghost proceeding 1. The Father 2. The Sonne 3. The Holy Ghost is glorious in regard of Election Redemption Application 1. The Father 2. The Sonne 3. The Holy Ghost is glorious in choosing the house purchasing the house dwelling in the house that is in the heart of a poor sinner 4. In his works Q. What are those A. 1. His decrees of Election Reprobation 2. His works of Creation Providence Q. What ought you to know and beleeve concerning his work of creation A. That this one glorious God made all things of nothing in six dayes in excellent order and very good Heb. 11. 3. Exod. 20. 11. Gen. 1. 21. Q. What ought you to know and beleeve concerning the work of providence A. That this one glorious God wisely ordereth governeth and disposeth of all things even to the least circumstance Mat. 6. 26. c. and 10. 29 30. Q. What ought you to know and beleeve concerning man A. These six things following 1. What was the glorious and happy condition of man by creation 2. What that miserable and lamentable estate is that man is now fallen into 3. What Jesus Christ is the onely means of deliverance out of this estate 4. What faith is the only means of applying Christ and how it is wrought in the soul 5. What that happy estate is that every man that is in Christ by faith is brought unto 6. What kinde of thankfulnesse and life it is that God requires of all them that be in this estate by Christ Q What are you to know concerning the glorious condition of man by Creation A. God created all man-kind in his own image Q. Wherein did the Image of God consist A. In perfect knowledge righteousnesse and holinesse Col. 3. 10. Ephes. 4. 24. Q. Man being created in a most happy condition wherein did his happinesse consist A. In two things espycially 1. His understanding was full of divine knowledge of the whole minde of God 2. His will and affections were fully conformable to Gods will Q. Wherein did mans happinesse further consist A. In five things 1. He was in favour with God 2. He had familiar communion with God 3. He felt unspeakable joy arising from this communion 4. He had dominion over all inferior creatures 5. He was immortall and should never have tasted of death if he had not fallen by sinne Q. Doth this any way concern us A. Yes his estate was ours in him we being then in his loyns Q. What learn you by this A. Three things 1. To lament and bewaile the losse of this condition by sinne 2. That I ought to labour to get this image of God repaired in me 3. That I ought not to be ashamed of holynesse nor to content my self with some small measures of it much lesse to hate it as profane persons and dissembling hypocrites doe Q. What is that miserable and lamentable estate that man is now fallen into A. His misery now appears in four things 1. In his birth he is borne dead in sinne and so void of all good and full of all evil and so a child of wrath Ephes. 2. 1 2 3 4. Rom. 1. 29. 2. In his life whatsoever he doth is sinne in Gods sight Tit. 1. 15. God and all creatures are his enemies Psal. 5. 5. Iob 5. 23. he remains abondslave of Satan till God convert him Act. 16. 18. and hangs by the twine-thred of life every moment ready to drop into hell 3. In his death then comes an end of all his hopes and pleasures and the beginning of all his woes and sorrowes 4. After death First comes his particular judgement Heb. 9. 27. after this followes his generall judgement when that terrible sentence 15. and the 41. ver. shall be pressed upon him After this followes the execution wherein the vialls of Gods fierce wrath are powred out upon his soul and body which fire shall never be quenched Q. Wherein doth the aggraration of this wofull estate of man by nature appear A. In three particulars 1. He knowes not his misery Rev. 3. 17. 2. He is not affected with it though he should know it Rom. 2. 5. 3. He is unable of himself to come out of it though he should both know it and be affected with it Rom. 5. 6. Q. What learn you from hence A. I learn that Gods wrath against sinne and sinnefull man remaining in this condition is very great Q. How great is it A. So great that nothing without Christ but eternall death of body and soul in the cverlasting torments of Hell can satisfie Gods just displeasure Gal. 3. 10. Q. Is it best now to see your miserable condition by nature and to feel this wrath of God and mourn under it while there is hope and means to come out of it or to stay till the gate of grace be shut and God snatches the soul from all hope and means by death A. It 's farre better to see it and to mourn under it now Q. How and why must a man see and feel himself under this wrath and misery A. 1. Every man must see that he is under Gods wrath for the present else he will never seek to Christ to bear it for him 2. Man must see what this fearfull wrath of God is that is now piled against him else he will never prize Christ to deliver him out of it 3. All men must see that this wrath is ready to light on them every moment in the full measure of it else they will deferre their returne till hereafter 4. A man must see he is bound hand and foot in the chains of his sinnes and cannot come from under them nor lay hold of Christ to help him out of them else he will presume he hath received Christ when he hath not Q. What is to be known of every one concerning Iesus Christ the only means of deliverance out of this estate A. These four things 1. What his person is namely both
God and man united into one person which is Jesus Christ 2. What his love is towards man namely past understanding Ephes. 3. 18 19. 3. What his offices are which are these three 1. His Priestly office whereby he offered himself for his Church Heb. 7. 27. 2. His Propheticall office whereby he teacheth his Church Act. 3. 22. 3. His Kingly office whereby he rules his Church Psal. 2. 6. 4. How he delivers those whom he purposeth to save namely by being made sinne and curse and righteousnesse for them 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gal. 3. 13. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Q. What learn you from hence A. I learn that all my sinnefull duties no nor my death cannot pacifie Gods wrath and deliver me from it It is done only by the perfect righteousnes and death of Jesus Christ Q. How may we come to get this Christ to doe all for us A. By receiving him by Faith Ioh. 1. 12. Q. When may a man without presumption receive Christ as his own A. 1. When the poor soul is so weary and heavy laden with the apprehension of sinne and wrath that it cannot live without Christ Mat. 11. 28 29. 2. When the poor sinner is so out of love with himself that he is content to part with all sinne for Christ Isa. 55. 7. 3. When the poor sinner receives Christ to that end that God the Father offers him namely to be his Priest Prophet and King Q. How may a man come to receive Christ can man create Faith in himself to receive him or must the Lord by an infinite almighty power work it in him A. The Lord must create faith in him by his almighty power Ephes. 1. 19. Q. What is to be known concerning faith the only means of applying Christ A. Two things 1. What Faith is 2. How it is wrought in the soul Q. What is Faith A. It is a speciall grace of God whereby an humbled sinner feeling himself unable to beleeve is drawn and so comes by the help of Gods Spirit to Christ for all good and so rests upon him Mat. 11. 28. Iob 6. 44 45. Phil. 3. 7 8 9. Q. How doth the Lord work this Faith in the soul by his mighty power and how comes the soul to know it is wrought A. By these nine steps 1. The Lord gives the soul a listning eare to the word preached as if God himself were speaking to it 2. The Lord makes the soul to understand the word Mat. 13. 23. 3. The Lord savingly wounds the soul with the sence and apprehension of his lost estate having understood it Act. 2. 37. 4. Then the Lord makes the soul poor in spirit ready to dye for want of grace and Christ Mat. 5. 3. Act. 6. 9. 5. The Lord reveals unto the soul the freenes of his grace and mercy in Christ and then brings the soul to ponder on this mercy from whence ariseth hope of help Joh. 3. 16. hereupon hope comes and waits on Christ for it seeing now it is possible that an unworthy sinnefull lost creature may have it Joel 2. 14. Jonah 3. 9. 6. The Lord reveals the riches of his mercy in Christ whereby the soul hungers after it Ephes. 2. 7. Mat. 5. 6. and is not quiet without it hence the desires and longs and beggs for it with unutterable groans seeing and knowing with the prodigall that there is enough in his fathers house Luk. 15. Rom 8. 26. 7. Then the Lord reveals the worth and excellency of his mercy in Christ and hereby makes the soul to love it Ephes. 3. 7. Hence love to this mercy comes secretly and contents it self with it hereupon the soul promiseth if it may but have this mercy in the Lord Jesus to pity it and receive it it will everlastingly own it and admire the Lord for it Lam. 3. 24. 8. The Lord reveals the sweetnesse of his mercy in the Lord Jesus and hereby gives the soul a satisfying taste of it Psal. 63. 3. and hence the will comes and is perswaded with joy to leave it self for ever upon it here to live or here to die Psal. 39. 7. 9. The soul being thus come up to Christ the Lord doth at last reveal the property of mercy to him thus beleeving whereby the soul is now assured and perswaded that neither height nor depth shall separate him from Gods love in Christ Rom. 8. 38 39. Q. What is that happy condition that every one doth enjoy who are thus in Christ by Faith A. It consists in two things 1. Vnion with Christ 2. The benefits which the soul doth injoy hereby Q. What is Vnion with Christ A. It is that whereby the Spirit makes the soul one with Christ and Christ all to it 1 Cor. 6. 17. Col. 3. 11. Q. What benefits doth the soul immediatly enjoy by Vnion with Christ A. These four 1. Justification 2. Reconciliation 3. Adoption 4. Regeneration Q. What is Iustification A. It is a gracious act of God the Father whereby he imputing the sinnes of a beleever to Christ and Christs righteousnesse to him he accounts him guiltlesse and just before him Rom. 3. 26. 4. 3. 5. 5. 1. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Ephes. 1. 7. Col. 1. 14. Psal. 32. 1 2. Q. What is Reconciliation A. It is a most gracious act of God the Father offended whereby he receives into his favour a justified sinner 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. Col. 1. 21. Q. What is Adoption A. A gracious act of God the Father whereby he accounts a reconciled sinner his sonne and so makes him coheire with Christ Gal. 4. 5 6. Q. What is Regeneration A. It is a gracious act of God in the heart of his sonnes whereby in uniting them unto Christ he infuseth a most glorious life into them Ephes. 2. 10. and 4. 24. Q. What followes a beleevers Vnion with Christ A. Two things 1. Coalition or growing up with Christ 2. Glorification Q. By what means or wherein doth a beleeving soul grow up with Christ A. By increase of faith and sanctification Q. Wherein doth sanctification consist 1. In mortification or dying daily to sinne 2. In vivification or living daily to Christ Rom 6. 3 4 5. Rom. 8. 11. Q. How are Faith and sanctification confirmed and increased A. By the same means that they are begun by and also by receiving of the Sacraments Q. How many Sacraments be there A. Two 1. Baptisme which confirms our Regeneration or new birth 2. The Lords Supper which signifies and seals our groath in Christ Q. What is a beleevers glorification A. When death hath swallowed the bodies of Gods faithfull Servants their blessed souls are taken up to Christ and swallowed up in Glory which never shall have an end 1 Thes. 4. 17. Q. What kinde of thankefulnesse and life is that which God requires of all them that be in this estate by Iesus Christ A. The Lord requires of them to answer his infinite love with their love again to the praise of Iesus Christ testified by obedience to the morral law observing it though not as a Covenant of works yet as a rule of life according to his will Ioh. 14 15. 21. Q. What is this called A. Serving of God Luk. 1. 74 75. Q. How must this be performed A. 1. Without slavish fear 2. With love 3. In holinesse and righteousnesse in all things 4. All this must be done before him or in his sight 5. And lastly this must be done constantly all the dayes of their life in all places at all times in all estates and conditions FINIS