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Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledg which so much reigns both in young and old / prepared and presented to them in a plain and easie dialogue, fitted to the capacity of the weakest, by John Bunyan.
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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
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him in the World through the Ignorance that is in Man and through the Power of their Sins Ephes 4.18 19. Q. Wherein doth this alienation from God appear A. In the love they have to their sins in their being loth to come to him in their pleading idle excuses for their sins and in their ignorance of the excellent mysteries of his blessed Gospel Ephes 2.2 3 11 12. Rom. 1.28 Ephes 4.18 19. Q. What is temporal death A. To have Body and Soul separate asunder the Body returning to the Dust as it was and the Spirit to God that gave it Gen. 3.19 Eccles 12.7 Q. What is Everlasting Death A. For Body and Soul to be separate for ever from God and to be cast into Hell-fire Luk. 13. Q. Do Men go Body and Soul to Hell so soon as they die A. The Body abideth in the Grave till the sound of the last Trump but the Soul if the Man dies wicked goes presently from the face of God into Hell as into a Prison there to be kept till the day of Judgment 1 Cor. 15.52 Isa 24.22 Luke 12.20 Q. Do we come into the World as upright as did our first Parent A. No He came into the World sinless being made so of God Almighty but we came into the World sinners being made so by his Pollution Q. How doth it appear that we came into the World polluted A. We are the fruit of an unclean thing are defiled in our very conception and are by nature the Children of wrath Job 14.4 Psal 51.5 Ephes 2.3 Q. Can you make further proof of this A. Yes It is said that by one Man came Sin Death Judgment and Condemnation upon all Men Rom. 5.12 15 16 17 18 19. Q. Do we then come sinners into the World A. Yes we are Transgressors from the Womb and go astray as soon as we are born speaking lies Isa 48.8 Psal 58.3 Q. But as Adam fell with us in him so did he not by faith rise with us in him for he had no 〈…〉 A. He fell as a publick person but believed the Promise as a single person Adam's faith saved not the World though Adam's sin overthrew it Q. But do not some hold that we are sinners only by imitation A. Yes being themselves deceived But God's Word saith we are Children of Wrath by Nature that is by Birth and Generation Q. Can you bring further proof of this A. Yes In that day that we were born we were polluted in our own Blood and cast out to the loathing of our persons Again the Children of old that were dedicated unto the Lord a Sacrifice was offered for them at a month old which was before they were sinners by imitation Ezek. 16.4 5 6 7 8 9. Num. 18.14 15 16. Q. Can you make this appear by experience A. Yes The first things that bloom and put forth themselves in Children shew their Ignorance of God their disobedience to Parents and their innate enmity to Holiness of life their inclinations naturally run to vanity Besides little Children die but that they could not were they not of God counted sinners for death is the wages of sin Rom. 6.23 Q. What is sin A. It is a transgression of the Law 1 John 3.4 Q. A transgression of what Law A. Of the Law of our Nature and of the Law of the Ten Commandments as written in the holy Scriptures Rom. 2.12 14 15. Exod. 20. Q. When doth one sin against the Law of Nature A. When you do any thing that your Conscience tells you is a transgression against God or Man Rom. 2.14 15. Q. When do we sin against the Law as written in the ten Commandments A. When you do any thing that they forbid although you be ignorant of it Psal 19.12 Q. How many ways are there to sin against this Law A. Three By sinful thoughts by sinful words and also by sinful actions Rom. 7.7 Mat. 5.28 chap. 12.37 Rom. 2.6 Q. What if we sin against but one of the Ten Commandments A. Whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all for he that said do not commit adultery said also do not kill now if thou commit no adultery yet if thou kill thou art a transgressor of the Law Jam. 2.10 11. Q. Where will God punish sinners for their sins A. Both in this World and in that which is to come Gen 3.24 chap. 4.10 11 12. Job 21.30 Q. How are Men punished in this World for sin A. Many ways as with sickness losses crosses disappointments and the like sometimes also God giveth them up to their own hearts lusts to blindness of mind also and hardness of heart yea and sometimes to strong delusions that they might believe lies and be damned Lev. 26.15 16. Amos. 4.7 10. Rom. 1.24 28. Exod. 4.21 chap. 9.12 13 14. Zeph. 1.17 Rom. 11.7 8. 2 Thes 2.11 12. Q How are sinners punished in the World to come A. With a Worm that never dies and with a Fire that never shall be quenched Mar. 9.44 Q. Whither do sinners go to receive this punishment A. The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God Psal 9.27 Q. What is Hell A. It is a place and a state most fearful Luk. 16.28 Act. 1.25 Luk. 16.21 Q. Why do you call it a place A. Because in Hell shall all the damned be confined as in a Prison in their chains of darkness for ever Luk. 12.5 58. chap. 16.26 Jud. 6. Q What a place is Hell A. It is a dark bottomless burning lake of Fire large enough to hold all that perish Mat. 22.13 Rev. 20.1 15. Isa 30.33 Pro. 27.20 Q. What do you mean when you say it is a fearful state A. I mean that it is the lot of those that are cast in thither to be tormented in most fearful manner to wit with wrath and fiery indignation Rom. 2.9 Heb. 10.26 27. Q. In what parts shall they be thus fearfully tormented A. In Body and Soul for Hell-fire shall kindle upon both beyond what now can be thought Mat. 10.28 Luk. 16.24 Jam. 5.3 Q. How long shall they be in this condition A. These shall go away into everlasting punishment and the smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night for they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his Power Mat. 25.46 Rev. 14.11 2 Thes 1.9 Q. But why might not the ungodly be punished with this punishment in this world that we might have seen it and believe A. If the ungodly should with punishment have been rewarded in this World it would in all probability have overthrown the whole order that God hath settled here among Men. For who could have endured here to have seen the flames of Fire to have heard the groans and to have seen the tears perhaps of damned relations as Parents or Children Therefore as Tophet