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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17301	Grounds of Christian religion laid downe briefly and plainely by way of question and answer / by H.B.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1631 (1631)	STC 4143; ESTC S734	16,088	50

GROVNDS OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION Laid downe briefly and plainely by way of Question and Answer By H. B. 1. Pet. 3. 13. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready alwayes to giue an Answer to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meeknesse and feare LONDON Printed by G. M. for Robert Bird and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Saint Laurence-Iane GROVNDS OF Christian Religion Quest. WHo made the world Heauen and Earth Answ. God the Father Son and Holy Ghost thrée persons and one God Eternall Omnipotent inuisible allsufficient infinite in his most blessed Essence Q. How proue you God to be three Persons and those to be one God in Essence A. 1. Ioh. 5. 7. There are thrée that beare record in heauen the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these thrée are one Q. Whereof did God make or create the World A. Of Nothing Q. How know you this A. By faith grounded on the Word of God Q. Wherefore did God create all things A. For his owne glory Psal. 19. 1. Pro. 16. 4. Q. What was the chiefe creature on earth that God made A. Man Q. Whereof did God make man A. Of the dust of the earth breathing into him a liuing reasonable soule immortall Q. In what state was man made A. In the image of God in righteousnesse without sinne and in a state of blessednesse Q. Whereof was the woman made A. Of the mans rib that they might be as one inseparable and that all men might come of one bloud Q. What couenant made hee with them A. A couenant of workes which while they kept they should liue happily in an earthly paradise Q. How did God try their obedience A. By forbidding them the eating of a tree Gen. 2. 17. Q. Did they obserue it A. No. Q. How so A. Satan in the serpent told them a lie which they beleeuing fell from God Q. What became of them then A. By sinne they lost God and happinesse became the children of death corporall spirituall eternall and subiect to all kind of misery in this world and in hell fire Q. What is this to vs A. It concernes vs neerely for hereby we are all made guilty of their sinne and punishment Q. How proue you that A. Rom. 5. 12. For both when our first parents receiued the Commandement and when they brake it we were all in their loines so that we sinned and fell in and with them Secondly we are conceiued and borne in originall sinne being of the corrupt séede of Adam Q. What example haue ye to shew this A. A fathers treason against his Prince cuts off all his posterity from the inheritance by mans law And secondly a bondslaues children are all borne slaues by Gods law Such are we by nature Q. But are we not able to recouer our selues from our fall A. There is no meanes left in vs to doe it for neither haue we will nor power to doe any good at all nor can wee satisfie Gods iustice for the least sinne Q. Had not Adam free will before his fall and hath not man the same still A. Adam before his fall had frée will but now he hath quite lost his fréedome of will to any good and is become the seruant of sinne the imaginations of his heart onely euill continually being dead in trespasses and sinnes Q. Then our case is most miserable But is there no helpe for vs A. None in the world but in God alone Q. What meanes hath God giuen to recouer vs from this vnspeakeable misery A. His vnspeakeable mercy and frée loue hath found out the onely all sufficient meanes euen his owne Sonne whom he hath sent Q. How is the Sonne of God a means for vs A. By taking our nature of Adam into the vnity of his diuine person and so Iesus Christ God-man became a perfect Sauiour in dying for our sins and rising againe for our Iustification Q. What be the benefits which Christ hath procured vnto vs by his life and death A. Twofold 1. a fréedome from all curse spirituall temporall and eternall 2. A full interest in all good things spirituall temporall and eternall Q. Are not all still subiect to death diseases and manifold miseries in this life A. Yes but all that are redéemed by Christ are fréed from the curse of death of diseases and miseries not to be hurt or ouercome by them Q. How did Christ free vs from the curse A. By being made a curse for vs vndergoing the curse in our steads Gal. 3. Q. But who are they for whom Christ vnderwent this curse A. The elect of God ouer the world in all ages whom Christ according to his Fathers appointment redeemed Reuel 5. 9. Ioh. 17. 2. 10. 15. Luk. 1. 68. Act. 20. 28. Eph. 5. 23. 25 26. Psal. 130. 8. Rom. 9. 6 7 8. Q. What meane you by the elect of God A. A certaine number of men whom God out of his frée loue fauour and grace did from all eternity choose out of mankind predestinating them by an vnchangeable purpose and decrée to eternall life and glory Q. Did not God chuse men out of a foresight of their willingnesse to receiue grace and of their faith and perseuerance therein A. No in no wise but he chose vs meerely because he loued vs that for his owne sake to shew the glorious riches of his grace and he chose vs that we might line and so bee holy in bringing forth fruit and that our fruit might remaine Q. Is Gods election then the foundation and first cause of all our happinesse and saluation A. Yes surely for electing vs freely out of his meere loue for this very cause he giues vs his Sonne to redeeme vs to bee the authour and finisher of our faith and saluation Q. But how may wee come to know whether we be elected or no A. By our being in Christ and labouring to make our calling and election sure by faith and a holy life 2. Pet. 1. 10 Q. But how come wee to bee in Christ A. By beleeuing in him alone for saluation Q. But are we not to beleeue in God the Father also and in God the holy Ghost A. Yes surely we beleeue in God y e Father in and by Christ in God the Sonne by the holy Ghost all the three persons being ioynt authours and workers of our saluation wherein they are distinguished onely not diuided Q. What is that faith whereby we beleeue in Christ alone as sent of the Father and anoynted by the holy Ghost for our saluation A. It is a sauing liuing iustifying faith being a speciall worke of the Spirit of Christ and gift of grace whereby the heart stedfastly beléeueth in Christs righteousnesse imputed vnto the beléeuer by which righteousnes of Christ imputed he stands perfectly iustified in Gods sight from all his sins and

sorrow for sinne wrought in the heart by Gods Spirit it being a gift of God 2. Because this sorrow mourneth more for Gods dishonour then our owne by-sins more for Gods Law broken then for the punishment deserued 3. While we giue God the whole glory in the séeking pardon of sinne taking to our selues the whole shame 4. While in a sincere purpose and endeauour for amendment we rather chuse to suffer the torments of hell then afresh to sin against God Q. How doth godly sorrow differ from worldly A. Both in the kind and in the end of it Q. How differ they in kind A. Worldly sorrow is a carnall and legall re pentance looking mainely at the punishment of sinne such was Ahabs and Iudas his repentance but godly sorrow is euangelicall looking through the spectacles of faith vpon a father offended by our sinne but appeased in Christ. Q. How doe godly and worldly sorrow differ in their end A. Godly sorrow causeth repentance to saluation neuer to be repented of but worldly sorrow causeth death Q. How is this godly sorrow a fruit of sauing faith A. Because a man can neuer sorrow godly till he beléeue in Christ the redéemer so as looking on Christ the Sauiour with the eye of faith he therewithall reflects vpon himselfe as the sinner saued by Christ. Q. What is the second speciall fruit and signe of sauing faith A. Charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith vnfained 1. Tim. 1. 5. Q. What be the chiefe obiects of true charity that is whom doth true charity chiefly respect A. In the first place our charity respecteth God in Christ louing him aboue all for the manifestation of the riches of his glory and grace in electing and redéeming vs 1. Ioh. 4. 19. 2. Our charitie looks vpon our brethren and fellow-members in Christ who heare his image for which sake we loue them as truely and intirely as our owne soules This charity being the badge of a true beléeuer 1. Ioh. 2. 14. 16 17 19. 3. Our charitie reacheth to strangers yea to our very enemies to helpe them in extremity and to pray for their conuersion And 4. we must haue an intire loue to God-ward and to his ministers accounting their féet beautifull that bring vs the glad tidings of saluation Q. But many professe loue to God and to the brethren wherein stands the proofe of our loue A. Not in a bare profession but we must proue it first by our inward seruent affection as also by the many reall fruits of loue louing not in word onely but in déed and in truth Q. What els are you to examine in your selfe before you come to the Lords Supper A. I must stirre vp my heart to a spiritual hunger and thirst after Christ in the Sacrament because according to this hunger I shall be satisfied with his swéetnes and shall féelingly finde him a Sauiour of life vnto my soule Q. How may your spirituall appetite be stirred vp to hunger after Christ in the Sacrament A. By finding mine owne emptines and how wretched I am without Christ and how blessed in him this must be by sound repentance and humiliation Q. What conclusion doe you draw from this duty of examination before the Sacrament A. First hence I learne that the sacrament is a high mystery and strong meat for men of ripe yeares hauing their wits exercised to discerne good and euill 2. That no ignorant persons such as cannot giue a reason of their faith nor of the nature and vse of the Sacrament may be admitted to the Lords Table Well comming thus duly prepared what are you to doe in the time of Administration A. I am to meditate of Christs death by the things I sée and heare of the wonderfull loue of God towards me a poore wretched sinner in that he spared not his Son but gaue him vp to death for me that I by beléeuing in him might liue for euer that as by my body I receiue eate and drinke the bread and wine so by faith I receiue and féed vpon Christ tasting how swéet the Lord is to my soule and that I stir vp my heart to be excéeding thankefull for so precious benefits as Ps. 103. 1. c Q. What are you to doe after you haue receiued the Sacrament A. I must endeauour to walk in the strength of that spiritual meat as Elias did vntill I come to the mount of God the kingdome of heauen Q. Will receiuing the Lords Supper once in the yeare or so sufficiently strengthen a man for his whole life as baptisme is but once administred A. No the comparison holds not A science is but once grafted as we into Christ by baptisme but must be often nourished as in often hearing of the Word and often communicating at the Lords Table for saith the Apostle as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye shew the Lords death till he come whereby he teacheth vs to frequent the Lords Table vpon all occasions and constantly to continue the remembrance of his death that so we may be kept watching and waiting for that appearing looking for and hasting vnto the comming of the day of God that we may bee found of him in peace without spot and blamelesse Q. What other duty is requisite for a Christian to practise that he may grow in grace A. To call vpon God in all occasions Q. When must we pray especially A. Though we are to pray continunually yet especially we are to kéepe constant times morning and euening as Psal. 55. 17. 92. 2. Q. To whom must we pray A. To God alone in the name of Christ for Christ taught vs to pray Our Father c. Q. May wee not also pray to Saints departed and to the Angels in heauen A. No in no wise Q. Why A. Because prayer is a diuine worship of God alone For whom we call vpon by prayer we beléeue also in him Rom. 10. 14. But we may not beléeue in Saints and Angels Q. But may we not make Saints and Angels our Mediators of intercession to God for vs in the Court of heauen A. No for there is but one Mediatour betwéene God and man Iesus Christ. 2. Tim. 2. 5. In his name whatsoeuer we aske the Father he will giue it vs. And Christ alone is our intercessour in heauen Rom. 8. 24. He is our onely high priest who hath entred into heauen now to appeare in the presence of God for vs. Heb. 9. 24. So that none can bee our Mediatour or Intercessour in heauen but onely our High Priest which is Christ. Heb. 9. 11 12. Q. But may we not be stirred by pictures and images of God and of Christ and the like and so before them pray vnto God A. No in no sort for this is flatly against the second commandement Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen image c. Q. But may we not pray before them though we pray