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A scriptural catechism useful for all sorts of persons, both sure as desired to teach their families and such as desire to learn the principles of the Christian religion out of the Holy Scriptures / by Owen Stockton ...
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Stockton, Owen, 1630-1680.
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Holiness as well as Knowledge A. Ephes 4.24 And that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Q. When must we begin to remember our creator A. Eccl. 12.1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them Q. Whom must we get for the guide of our youth A. Jer. 3.4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me My Father Thou art the guide of my youth Q. By what means may a young man cleanse his ways A. Psal 119.9 Wherewith all shall a young man cleanse his way By taking heed thereto according to thy word Q. What councel did David give his son Solomon while he was young A. 1 Chron. 28.9 And thou Solomon my son know thou the God of thy Father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever Q. When did David begin to hope and trust in God A. Psal 71.5 Thou art my hope O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth Q. Did not David who began in his youth to trust and hope in God prove so eminent for godliness that he is called a man after Gods own heart A. Acts 13.22 I have found David the son of Jesse a man after mine own heart which shall fulfil all my will Q. Shall not they that seek the Lord early be sure to find him A. Prov. 8.17 I love them that love me and those that seek me early shall find me Q. Did not Josiah begin to seek early after God And was not that the great reason why he proved so eminent and constant in the ways of God A. 2 Chron. 34.2 3. He did that Which was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in the ways of David his Father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left for in the eighth year of his reign while he was yet young he began to seek after the God of David his Father Q. Was not Josiah who began early to seek after God so eminent for godliness that there was no king like him either before or after him A. 2 Kings 23.25 And like unto him was there no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him Q. What councel doth the apostle Paul give to those that are young A. 2. Tim. 2.22 Flee also youthful lusts but follow Righteousness Faith Charity Peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart Q. Do not all things come to pass by the providence of God A. Rom. 11.36 Of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever amen Q. Are those things which seem most casual unto us ordered and disposed off wholely and only by the providence of God A. Prov. 16.33 The lot is cast into the lap but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Q. Is God so careful of us that there is not the least thing befals us not so much as an hair falls off from our heads but by his providence A. Matth. 10.30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered Q. Seeing God is thus careful of us should not this encourage us in all our straits and distresses to cast all our care upon the Lord A. 1 Pet. 5.7 Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you Q. How do you prove that after God had made man upright he did of himself fall from God A. Eccl. 7.29 Lo this only have I found that God hath made man upright but they have sought out many inventions Q. How do you prove that we are born in sin A. Psal 51.5 Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Q. Seeing we are born in sin is it not absolutely necessary that we should be born again before we can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven A. John 3.3 Jesus answered and said unto him verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the Kindom of God Q. Will nothing that any man hath or doth avail him to salvation unless he be a new creature A. Gal. 6.15 In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature Q. By what means are we born again Is it not usually by the hearing the Word of God A. James 1.18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures Q. What is sin A. 1 John 3.4 Sin is the transgression of the Law Q. What is the wages of sin and which way do we come by eternal life A. Rom. 6.23 The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Q. Is the death of the body all the wages that is due to sin or shall the soul of the sinner die also A. Ezek. 18.4 The soul that sineth it shall die Q. What is the second death and who are they that shall die this death A. Rev. 21.8 The fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and Murderers Whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolators and all Liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Q. Do we not sin when we neglect that good which God commandeth as well as when we commit that evil which he forbideth A. James 4.17 To him that knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin Q. Doth not God know all our secret sins A. Psalm 90.8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance Q. Will our sins find us out wherever we go So as we shall not be able to escape the punishment due to them unless we repent of them A. Numb 32.23 If ye will not do so behold ye have sinned against the Lord and be sure your sin will find you out Q. How may we come to be convinced of our sins Will not comparing of our hearts and lives with the Law of God bring us to the knowledge of our fins A. Rom. 3.20 By the law is the knowledge of sin Q. When we are convinced of our sins whither must we look to have our sins taken away must we not look into Christ A. John 1.29 Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the World Q. Is not the heart of man before God works a change in him desperately wicked A. Jer. 17.9 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Q. Seeing the heart
our sins Q. Is it not the great Commendation of Gods love in that he gave his Son to dye for us while we were yet sinners A. Rom. 5.8 God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us Q. Is not Prayer a means to obtain the favour of God and to gain the knowledge of his love A. Job 33.26 He shall pray unto God and he shall be favourable unto him and he shall see his face with joy Q. How should we express our love to God for giving his Son to die for our sins Should we not do it by our hatred of sin that was the cause of the death of his Son A. Psal 97.10 Ye that love the Lord hate evil he preserveth the souls of his Saints he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked Q. How else should we express our love to God for his great love to us A. John 14.15 If ye love me keep my Commandments Q. Ought not Gods love to us make us love him A. 1 John 4.19 We love him because he first loved us Q. Should not Gods love to us cause us to love one another A. 1 John 4.11 Beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another Q. Should not Gods love in giving Christ to die for us encourage us to trust in him that he will freely give us all things A. Rom. 8.32 He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Q. What is the whole duty of man A. Eccles 12.13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man Q. How many Commandments did God deliver to Moses written in two Tables of Stone A. Deut. 4.13 And he declared unto you his Covenant which he commanded you to perform even ten Commandments and he wrote them upon two Tables of Stone Q. What is the Preface to the Ten Commandments which God spake to the People when he gave them his Commandments A. Exod. 20.1 2. God spake all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land Egypt out of the House of Bondage Q. Which are the Ten Commandments Rehearse them in order as they are recorded in the 20th Chapter of Exodus from the 3d to the 18th verse A. 1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image nor any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the Water under the Earth thou shalt not bow down thy self unto them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments 3. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain 4. Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day and hallowed it 5. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee 6. Thou shalt not kill 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery 8. Thou shalt not steal 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his man-servant nor his maid-servant nor his ox nor his ass nor any that is thy neighbours Q. Hath God commanded nothing in his Law but what is holy just and good A. Rom. 7.12 The Law is holy and the Commandment holy and just and good Q. Is not the Law spiritual requiring spiritual duties and forbidding spiritual sins And may we not thereby discern our selves to be carnal A. Rom. 7.14 We know that the Law is spiritual but I am carnal sold under sin Q. Was the Law given us for this end that we might be justified by the deeds of it or Was it given to drive us to Christ that we might seek for justification in Christ through Faith A. Gal. 3.24 Wherefore the Law was our School-master to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith Q. Would there have been no need of the death of Christ if we could have obtained such a righteousness as might have justified us in the sight of God by our observing the Law A. Gal. 2.21 I do not frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness came by the Law then Christ is dead in vain Q. Is not Jesus Christ the end of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth A. Rom. 10.4 Christ is the end of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth Q. Though we cannot obtain Righteousness by the Law yet must we not be very careful to keep the Commandments of God A. Psal 119.4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy Precepts diligently Q. What Promise have you that God will enable you to keep his Commandments A. Ezek. 36.27 I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them Q. Hath not God promised under the New Testament to write his Laws in our hearts which in the times of the Old Testament were written in Tables of Stone A. Heb. 10.16 This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days saith the Lord I will put my Laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them Q. Is there no man upon the face of the earth that keepeth all the Commandments of God at all times without breaking any of them A. Eccles 7.20 There is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Q. If we have respect to all the Commandments of God and endeavour with sincere hearts to obey them Will not God accept us through Christ Jesus although we come short of what the Law requires A. Psal 119.6 Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy Commandments Q. Must we not obey the Commandments of God from a principle of faith and love and with a pure heart A. 1 Tim. 1.5 Now the end of the Commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good Conscience and of faith unfeigned Q. Are not Christians under the New-Testament freed from