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A64969	The principles of the doctrine of Christ, or, A catechism in which is contained the sum of the Christian religion, or what is necessary to be believed and done in order to salvation, the answers being but seventeen in number, and in very plain words easie to be understood : unto which is added A catechism for conscience, wherein the consciences of the ignorant, the grosly profane, the young, the meerely mortal, and the hypocrites are examined in order to their instruction and awakening, and the consciences of the sincere Christians are tried in order to their peace and comfort / by Nathanael Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.; Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697. A catechism for conscience.	1691 (1691)	Wing V418; ESTC R25704	37,318	113

signified and sealed the other Benefits of the New Covenant are signified and sealed also Baptism is appointed and required Mat. 28. 19. Go ye therefore and disciple all nations baptizing them The Lords Supper is Instituted 1 Cor. 11. 23. I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you ver 24. Do this in remembrance of me Q. 15. What is Baptism A. Baptism is a washing with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost whereby is signified and sealed our being Born again the purging away of sin by the Blood and Spirit of Christ and our partaking of a new Nature And all that are Baptized whether Believers or their Seed are engaged to be the Lords Baptism is a washing with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Spirit Mat. 28. 19. Baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Baptism signifies and seals our being born again Tit. 3. 5. According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost In the regenerate sin is purged away by the Blood and Spirit of Christ 1 Joh. 1. 7. The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin Gal. 5. 16. This I say then walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh They that are born again have a new nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. That you might be partakers of the Divine Nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust All that are baptised whether Believers or their seed are engaged to be the Lords Rom. 6. 3 4. So many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death and being dead to sin should walk in newness of life Children are engaged as well as the Parents Act. 2. 39. The Promise is unto you and to your Children 1 Cor. 7. 14. Else were your Children unclean but now they are holy separated to him and to his service Q. 16. What is the Lords Supper A. The Lords Supper is an Ordinance wherein after self-examination which is required there is a giving and receiving of the Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment And worthy Receivers discern his Body partake of his benefits and shew forth his death till he come to Judgment Self-examination is required before this Ordinance of the Supper 1 Cor. 11. v. 28. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. In this Supper there is a giving and receiving of Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment Mat. 26. 26 27. Jesus took Bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to the Disciples and said Take eat this is my Body And he took the Cup and gave thanks and gave it unto them saying Drink ye all of it Worthy Receivers discern his Body looking beyond the Bread and Wine to his Body and Blood thereby signified and given to them 1 Cor. 11. 24 25. This is my Body which is broken for you This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood Worthy Receivers partake of his benefits Joh. 1. 16. And of his fulness have all we received and grace for grace In the Supper we shew forth Christs death till he come to Judgment 1 Cor. 11. 26. For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew forth the Lords death till he come Q. 17. When Christ comes to Judgment who must appear before Him A. At the last day the dead will be raised and all must appear at the Judgment seat of Christ Believers who have done good shall be rewarded with eternal life The wicked who lived and died in their sins shall be punished with the vengeance of eternal fire At the last day the dead shall be raised Acts 26. 8. Why should it seem a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead All must appear at the Judgment seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. For we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or evil Believers that have done good shall be rewarded with eternal life Rom 6. 22. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life The wicked shall be punished with the vengeance of eternal fire Mat. 25. 41. Then shall he say to them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels 2 Cor. 5. 11. Knowing the truth and terrour of the Lord we perswade Men. 2 Pet. 3. 7 11. Seeing the Heaven and the Earth are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness The CREED I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth and in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was Conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried he Descended into Hell Continued in the State of the Dead Th● third day he Rose again from the Dead he Ascended into Heaven and Sitteth at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty from thence He shall come to Iudge the quick and the dead I Believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the Forgiveness of Sins the Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting Amen London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1691. A Catechism FOR CONSCIENCE The design of which is to try awaken and instruct the Consciences of Men and to make them faithful to God and to Themselves The Conscience of a grosly Ignorant Sinner is thus to be Questioned Quest 1. WHat are thy thoughts of God Answ I seldom hear and hardly ever think of him Q. 2. Why is not God in all thy thoughts Why dost thou live without him in the World A. I have no knowledge of Him and I do not care to entertain thoughts concerning Him Q. 3. Is not this thy bare ingratitude and folly that God who gave thee thy Being and gives thee every good thing thou hast should never be thought on But tell me Hast thou no apprehensions of God at all A. I sometimes conceive Him to be a good old Man that sits and reigns above in Heaven Q. 4. Foolish and darkned Heart Why hast thou not taken notice that God is a Spirit who really has no bodily parts Why dost thou not consider That they exceedingly dishonour Him who change the glory of the incorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible Man Rom. 1. 23. But dost thou not believe that God always observes thee A. I regard not God and I hope he does not much regard

The Principles OF THE Doctrine of Christ OR A Catechism In which is contained the Sum of the Christian Religion or what is necessary to be believed and done in order to Salvation The Answers being but Seventeen in number and in very plain words easie to be understood Unto which is added A Catechism for Conscience Wherein The Consciences of the Ignorant the grosly Profane the Young the meerely Mortal and the Hypocrites are examined in order to their Instruction and Awakening and the Consciences of the sincere Christians are tried in order to their Peace and Comfort By Nathanael Vincent M. A. Minister of the Gospel Jer. 3. 15. I will give you Pastors according to my Heart who shall feed you with knowledge and with understanding 2 Cor. 4. 2. By manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every Mans Conscience in the sight of God London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1691. THE Epistle Dedicatory To that Church of Christ who have given up themselves unto my Pastoral Care Light and Grace and Peace be multiplied Beloved in our Lord and Saviour IT is not a Complement I pass upon you when I tell you that your Souls are very dear to me even as my own and your Salvation as my own desired I am perswaded I was put into the Ministry specially for your sakes and that our Lord gave me the Talents I have that I might improve them to your Spiritual advantage When first I came among you most of you were young and I my self was young also but many years are past and gone since we were first related the one to the other our Age begins to decline Old Age and Death are approaching and who knows but Death may overtake Old Age and come to many of us before it You know how I have laboured in the publick Exercise of my Ministry I have not grudged to spend my self and to be spent for you Those Souls who have reaped profit by my Labours what thanks do I owe them and to God for them How have they obliged Me by having the truest regard unto Themselves I have been with you in the Calm and in the Storm and blessed be God that neither you nor I have been Shipwrackt I have gone through Honour and Dishonour through evil Report and good Report And evil report being sanctified to the humbling of me has done me a greater kindness than the Reporters thought of At this day through the Providence of God over ruling and acting powerfully and graciously even to amazement both you and I and many more enjoy a publick liberty which under Restraint and Persecution we earnestly prayed but could hardly hope for This liberty is a special favour from Heaven is envied us by Hell and I make no question but the Instruments of the Evil One will be very active to deprive us of it Let us but improve it by recourse to the Son of God to make us more free indeed i. e. more free from Sin and more inlarged in the Lords Service and I believe we shall find that Scripture fulfilled Rev. 3. 8. Behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it I am now come to the finishing part and work of my life and are not many of you also And should it not be our care to finish well When the Painter has almost done a curious piece how exact is he in every touch of his pencil his last hand expresses his greatest Skill If the Lord adds more years unto my days I wish they may be the holiest and most useful and then they will be the happiest I have lived The nearer we approach unto Death and the day of Reckoning how exactly should we walk how clean should be our Hearts how heavenly our Minds and Conversations and how doubly refined should all our Services be You that are Husbands you that are Wives the nearer Eternal Life approaches live together more as the Heirs of such a Life be more fervent in Prayer rejoice in Hope and press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God You that are Parents and Masters Oh set fairer copies for your Children and Servants to write after Be more Exemplary for Faith for Love for Meekness for Truth and Righteousness for Humility and Contempt of the World declare plainly that you seek a better Countrey i. e. an Heavenly and that here on Earth is neither your Heart nor Treasure Children and Servants Souls are precious and a great part of your care give them not occasion to Eternity to curse your unfaithfulness to them and carelesness of them Your instructing of them being seconded by such an Example as may demonstrate to them that you your selves are indeed taught of God will be most likely to take impression and to have the desired effect upon them And you of the younger sort that are Children and Servants be sure to value Saving Knowledge and Grace at an high rate and seek after both betimes When the Youth of a Land are universally degenerate and corrupt and affect ignorance and are filled with prejudices against the power of Godliness 't is a great sign of God his being about to depart from that Land and that the Gospel is ready to be removed What a sad prospect is there at this day when the young Generation is seriously considered Horrible Pride outragious Lust Riotous and Intemperate Eating and Drinking every where almost prevail what will become of poor Posterity You young Ones whom I here address unto be intreated to do a kindness to your selves and to the Land of your Nativity The Righteousness of Ten would have done more towards the preservation of filthy Sodom than the wickedness of a multitude would have done towards the destruction of it If some Tens of you did but prize the Gospel entertain it in your Heads and Hearts and adorn it in your Practise and were instant in Prayer for its continuance among us you might do more to the fixing of the Golden Candlestick in its place than the Blind Zeal of the Papists and the ignorance and disobedience of many carnal Protestants can do towards the taking away the Candlestick and its light from us If a considerable Company of young ones in every Age would set their Hearts to study the Word of God and become true Believers sincere Lovers and diligent Doers of his Word The Sun of Righteousness might through a miracle of mercy as it were stand still in England and not haste to go down for many Generations This little Catechism which I now send forth may be of use to Instructers and to them that are to be instructed in Families and as it is very short so I have endeavour'd to make it very plain to the meanest Capacities The Scriptures are added at length to shew how every thing therein is proved That what is learned may come with the greater Autority and Efficacy The

God exercised patience and did not presently punish the wicked man did he not hereupon imagine the Lord was altogether such an one as himself and because he loved his sin that God did not so much hate it And does it not follow Consider this ye that forget God lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver Psal 50. 21 22. And may you not read in another place A brutish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this when the wicked spring as the grass and all the workers of iniquity flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever Psal 92. 6 7. A. You can talk to me of nothing but Destruction and that for ever Q. 8. Do I talk of Destruction to thee to any other end but to prevent thy being destroyed But pray let me ask thee Dost thou not believe that thou must die A. Yes and I am for a merry Life because I know not how short it may be Q. 9 But what is like to become of thy Soul after Death A. I never spake with any that came from the other World you talk of to inform me where the Souls of men do go Q. 10. Dost thou not believe the word of the God of Truth and what he says concerning the worth of thy Soul which thou so little mindest the irreparableness of its loss and what he tells thee concerning Hells Terrour and Heavens Glory A. I am certain of what is perceivable by my Senses therefore I pursue the good which my Senses are taken with and fly from the evil which distastes and dislikes them But as for things invisible as matters of Faith are I regard them not Q. 11. To mind only the things of sense is it not to play the bruit Dost thou not think thou art capable of an higher happiness and of greater misery than the beasts A. I must confess that if Souls at last should prove immortal and be found so precious and the things revealed in the Scriptures should be indeed realities I and such as I should be but in an ill case Q. 12. If there were but a probability of the Scriptures being the word of God and consequently the word of truth would it not be agreeable to prudence and right reason to be less concerned about things temporal and more about things that are Eternal But how much more when there is so great a certainty A. That certainty is not apparent unto me Q. 13. Was not the Gospel confirmed by the Miracles which Christ wrought and which he enabled his Apostles to work also And our Lord pretending to work Miracles and that openly if he had not indeed wrought them would his Doctrine have been at all received Would not he and his Doctrine have been derided especially since 't is so contrary to corrupt nature imposes such strict commands and requires self-denial and taking up the Cross also A. I must confess that the Gospel being so displeasing to mens fleshly and sensual inclinations would hardly have been embraced unless Christ who pretended to a power to do them had really done wonders to confirm the truth of it Q. 14. Besides Does not the Gospel shew it self to be of God by its effectual working at this day Does it not search the Heart and make the secrets of it manifest Does it not mortifie the strongest lusts does it not open the eyes of blind minds does it not change hearts that are hard as an Adamant and as foul as Hell into hearts clean and tender finally does it not raise them that are dead in sin and make them alive to God and to Righteousness A. I never felt this power of the Gospel which you speak of Q. 15. But have not many others A medicine that has cured multitudes dost thou not believe it a good one though thy self did never try it And let me further ask thee whether thou art now willing to feel this efficicacy of the Gospel A. It must be a powerful word indeed if it work upon such an heart as mine and turn such a Sinner such a Sot such a Devil incarnate into a Saint Q. 16. Is there any thing too hard for the Lord who is Almighty What gross sinners has his word been a means to convince and bring to Repentance A. Now my sinful delights and gains are represented to me as alluring and desirable and I cannot find in my heart to part with them Q. 17. The Rich man that lived in pleasure and fared sumptuously every day and was clothed in Purple which was the royal attire when he came to be tormented in Hell Flames did he then admire his former sensual happiness Nay did he not desire that his surviving Brethren might be warned not to take up with and be deceived still with such a poor felicity A. If I should change my course of life I should be derided and scorn'd and trampled on like dirt What Songs would my drunken Companions make of me Q. 18. Why should a man in his Wits be concerned to behold the mad Men in Bedlam laugh at him for his sober carriage And is it not better to break company with the wicked though they deride thee than to go along with them to that place of woe where their laughter will be at an end and end in eternal sorrow and mourning A. If I would be Religious I know not how to be so Q. 19. Art thou willing to be instructed Wilt thou cry to God for knowledge Wilt thou search into his Word where 't is to be found Wilt thou say to thy debauched Companions whether they laugh or chaff at thee Depart from me ye evil-doers for I will keep the commands of God A. All this you speak seems most truely for my good Q. 20. Wilt thou count that the time past of thy Life does more than suffice to have walked in lasciviousness lusts excess of Wine Revellings Banquettings and other abominable wickedness And wilt thou live the rest of thy time in the flesh to the will of God A. If I think seriously of Eternity I shall waste no more of my precious time of which perhaps there may be but very little remaining Q. 21. How hast thou been used to spend the Sabbath A. Alas that was a day always devoted to sins service in a special manner Upon other days I minded the work and business of my Calling but the Sabbath was wholly wasted in the works of wickedness I fear I have been guilty of more sin that day than upon all the six days of the Week besides Q 22. Is not thy sin exceedingly aggravated because then served most when God should have been served and worshipped Should it not trouble thee that none of thy time has yet been improved as it ought to have been but especially should it not afflict thee that Hallowed Time has been lavisht away most profanely A. This my way has been my folly and madness It were just with God speedily to put an end to