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A09219	Iosuahs godly resolution in conference with Caleb, touching houshold gouernement for well ordering a familie With a twofold catechisme for instruction of youth; the first short, for the weaker sort, set forth in sixe principall points; the latter large for other of greater growth, and followeth the order of the common authorized catechisme, and is an explanation thereof: both set forth for the benefit of his Christian friends and wel-willers. by Richard Bernard preacher of Gods word, at Woorksoppe in Nottingam-shire.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. Large catechisme.; Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. Double catechisme.	1612 (1612)	STC 1953; ESTC S113310	37,811	96

That I must not diminish the good name or credit of my neighbour whether friend or so known or vnknown but carefully preserue the same The occasiō of this commandement was our seditious nature Q. What things are hereby forbidden A. Lying in ieast or earnest backbiting slandering reuealing secret infirmities and priuate offences before admonition false witnesse by adding or detracting in words or sense to take a doubtfull matter in the worst part also all occasions to this sin as enuie disdaine anger selfe-loue to be too suspitious to be readie to receiue a false report against our neighbour The contrarie is commanded Q. What is the tenth commandement A. Thou shalt not couet c. Q. What doth this commandement teach you A. That I may not haue once an vnlawful lust to that which is my neighbors but for euer think good towards him The occasion of this cōmandement was the frailty of our ' flesh which intermitteth the work of the holy Ghost by sinful fantasies Q. What things are hereby forbidden A. Lust and sudden motions against our neighbour without consent which come from the corruption of nature also such as be offered by Sathan or man so farre as we giue any way consent thereto not to resist il motions The contrary is cōmanded Q. Are these commandements a prayer A. No but the summe of the morall law which is the other part of Gods word teaching the righteousnes of God and shewing me my sins and cursed estate and is a schoolemaster vrging to Christ and therfore ought in order first to be preached and then the Gospel shewing deliuerance and giueth grace withall Q. How must this law be obeyed A. Perfectly willingly and continually to God and my neighbour in thought word and deede agreeing with Gods nature and our first estate by creation Q. Can you then keepe the commandements A. No for I breake them alwaies either wittingly or ignorantly in committing euil or omitting my duty besides that I am guilty of them by naturall corruption through Adams fall before I could in my selfe either thinke speake or do any euill Q. What is this breach of the law called A. Sinne whereby the infinite iustice of God is iniured Q. What is then the reward of sinne A. The infinite wrath of God and his vengeance for euer in this world and in the world to come is due for the least sinne whether it be mortall or veniall Q. What are the punishmēts of sin in this life A. In name slander and shame in goods losses in his bodie paines and sicknesse all maner of aduersity all corporal plagues befalling in this life In the soule ignorance madnesse an ill conscience accusing benummed dead or desperate a heauie stony heart likewise disobedient and wicked children a disloyall wife false friends cruell aduersaries to be suffered to fall into sinne God taking away his grace especially the sin of whoredome as a punishment for sinne And lastly bodily death ordinarie or sudden Q. Comes alwaies afflictions as punishments for sinne A. Afflictions first came for sinne but are also to try our patience faith and constancie to weane vs from our selues and the world to become cōformable to Christ in persecutions that Gods power and goodnes may appeare to vs these afflictions be called fatherly chastisements of the godly to euery one in his measure Q. How may you perswade your selfe that afflictions are chastisements and not punishments of a Iudge when they befall A. If I can make good vse of them to further me in godlinesse els are they but fore-runners of my eternall destruction as they be to the reprobate that are not bettered by them Q. What are the punishments for sinne after death A. The separation from God the losse of heauen and of the ioyfull company of Angels Patriarkes Prophets Apostles Martyrs Saints the true professours of Christ for euer to be damned with the diuel his angels the infernall fiends with all the wicked accursed to hell there to be tormented vnspeakably without end Q. How must you escape this vengeance of God A. By no good deeds that I can doe but only faith in Iesus Christ who is the merit onely and wholly of my saluation without whome my best thoughts words and deedes are abhominable before God seeme they neuer so holy in mine and other mens iudgement Q. Why then should you doe good workes if you cannot nor may not thinke to win heauen by them A. I must do good works because I am already ordained to be saued 1. To make my electiō the more sure to my self which is certaine with God 2. To shew my loue and thankfulnes to God for it by obeying his commandements 3. To confirme the conuerted and to winne others not yet called 4. To stop the mouthes of the wicked to shame them by well doing when they speake ill of v 8. 5. To benefit one another for our quiet peaceablenes in Church and common-wealth Q. Are not then workes necessary A. Yes verily to such as will haue assurance of saluation for without works baptisme hearing the word knowledge faith loue hope fasting sorrow prayer and profession are in vaine Q. What is a good worke A. Whatsoeuer is done or spoken without doubting from the warrant of Gods word of a true beleeuer in charity and to Gods glory Q. Though our good workes merit not may we not yet thinke that they shall be rewarded A. Yes verily for in his mercy he hath so promised to doe both in this world and in the world to come Q. What is the blessing and reward in this life A. Increase of knowledge in Gods word assurance that his gifts in vs are graces and not only common fauours al earthly blessings a good name wealth honor friends and prosperous successe so farre as it shall be for Gods glory and my spirituall safety faith to apprehend as much as shall be necessary 6. My hope to waite without appointing God either time place manner or quantity of the matter 7. My will to vse afterwards all the honest meanes appointed to obtaine the same Q. What be the true properties of prayer A. 1. That it be in true loue for we must remember to pray for all our brethren not departed this life for there is no Purgatory 2. It must be made only to God for him only can we call heauenly Father neither to Saints nor Angels 3. In the name of Christ through whom onely hee is our Father by adoption 4. In faith for that hee is a Father and will not deny his children 5. Without a carnall conceipt of God vaine babling or wandering thoughts for he is in heauen Q. Which be the sixe petitions A. Hallowed be thy name c. Q. What doe these teach you A. The sum of al the things which I can lawfully aske at Gods hands for body or soule wherof the first 3. concerne the glory of God and the latter 3. the good of man Q. Which

3. 4 5 6 7. Rom. 11. 12. 2. Tim. 4. 8. Q. Why hath God thus made redeemed sanctified and hitherto preserued you A. To serue him truly all the daies of my life Eph. 2. 10. Tit. 2. 11. 12. Luk. 1. 74 75. Q. How must God be serued A. Onely after his will reuealed in his written word Deut. 30. 8. 10. and 4. 2. 2. Cor. 4. 6. Of our strengthening in the state of grace for the certaintie of our glorification Q. Is it needfull for such as are elected and once called iustified and sanctified that they should continue stil in vsing meanes to saluation A. Yea truely else they will fall away Pro. 29. 18. 2. Chro. 15. 2. Heb. 3. 12. 13. Q. What things must you continue in to assure your selfe of saluation and to grow strong in the way of life A. I. In the knowledge of Gods word Psal 1. 2. Act. 2. 42. 2. Pet. 1. 19. Ioh. 10. 27. 28. II. In faith Ioh. 3. 36. III. In loue to the godly Ioh. 13. 35. 1 Ioh. 3. 14. IV. In obedience Eze. 36. 26. Psa 15. 5. Ier. 32. 39 40. V. In patient suffering for Christ Rom. 8. 17. Iam. 1. 12. VI. In alonging after Christs comming 2. Tim. 4. 8. VII In sincerity without hypocrisie which will appeare by my appealing to God in these things Ioh. 21. 15. Of the Sacraments Q. Hath God giuen any helpes and commanded further any other meanes besides the word for the strengthening of vs herein A. Yes these two Sacraments praier Q. What is a Sacrament A. An outward signe and seale of inuisible graces Q. How do the Sacraments strengthen you A. By a reuerent vsing and meditating of them rightly vnderstood as signes representing Christ and his benefits and sure seales of his couenant with vs. Gen. 9. 9. to 18. and 17. 9 10. Q. How many Sacraments are there A. Only two Baptisme and the Lords Supper 1. Cor. 10. 1 2 3 4. Mat. 28. 19. and 26. 26 27. 1. Cor. 11. 23 24 25. Q. What is the signe and thing signified in Baptisme A. The signe is water and the grace is the blood of Christ by which I am washed from my sinnes Act. 2. 38. and 22. 16. Q. What are the signes and things signified in the Lords Supper A The signes are the bread and wine the things signified are the body blood of Christ 1. Cor. 11 23 24 25. Q. Why come you to receiue A. To strengthen my faith and to keepe in remembrance Christ his death till his comming again Rom. 4. 11. 1. Cor. 11. 26. Q. What ought you to doe before you come A. Prepare my selfe by examination 1. Cor. 11. 28. Q. What ought you to come with to the Sacrament A. With 4. things 1. Knowledge both of my misery Gods mercy the doctrine of the Sacrament II. With faith in Iesus Christ Heb. 11. 6. III. VVith repentance for all my sinnes Esa 1. 10. 11. 14. 15. 16. Prou. 21. 27. IV. VVith heartie loue vnto my neighbour Math. 5. 23. Q. What if you come vnprepared without these A. I come vnworthy I am guilty of the bodie and blood of Christ 1. Cor. 11. 27. I doe eate and drinke my owne damnation verse 29. God may punish me verse 40. and the diuell may enter into me as he did into Iudas and bring me to destruction of body and soule Ioh. 13. 27. Of Prayer Q. What is prayer A. It is a right hearty and faithfull request made vnto God in the name of Iesus Christ 1. Ioh. 5. 14. Rom. 8. 26. Iam. 1. 6. Ioh. 14. 14. and 15. 16. Math. 3. 17. Q. Can or doth euery one pray that vttereth words and vseth a forme of prayer A. No. It is a speciall gift to Gods children and such onely pray as haue knowledge what to aske a heartie desire in asking and faith to beleeue Q. What direction of prayer haue you A. The same which our Sauiour Christ taught his disciples Our Father which art in heauen c. Q. What desire you of God in this prayer A. I desire my Lord God our heauenly Father who is the giuer of all goodnes to send his grace vnto mee and to all people that we may worshippe him serue him and obey him as wee ought to doe and I pray vnto God that hee will send vs all things that be needfull both for our soules and bodies and that hee will be mercifull vnto vs and forgiue vs our sinnes and that it will please him to saue and defend vs in al dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keep vs from all sinne and wickednes and from our ghostly enemy and from euerlasting death And this I trust hee will do of his mercy and goodnes through our Lord Iesus Christ and therefore I say Amen So be it The first part of Catechism Of new birth Q. WHat is your name A. Channanuel God is gracious to vs. Loue wholly the Lord with the heart Benalleuel God is gracious to vs. Loue wholly the Lord with the heart Q. Who gaue you this name A. My Godfathers and my Godmothers who with my father brought mee to the Minister into the congregation to be baptized and were especiall witnesses of the same and professours of my faith and obedience to God for me Q. Why were you baptized A. That I might receiue a badge of my Christian religion be admitted into the Church to liue amongst the professors of Christs name and to be receiued of them and accompted as a member of Christ the child of God an inheritour of the kingdome of heauen vntil I shew the contrary Q. Whereby may you now be certaine that you are such a one in deede A. If I doe what my Godfathers and Godmothers did make professiō of for me Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers make profession of for you A. They did professe three things in my name the first was the forsaking of the Diuell and all his workes the pompes and the vanities of this wicked world all the sinfull lusts of the flesh Q. What were you then bound to them that you haue promised to forsake them A. Yea verily I am a bondslaue to Sathan by the corruption of my nature prone to all vice hauing the seede of all sinne in me and do hate both God and my neighbour Q. How can you then forsake this wofull estate and cease from any euill being thus bound and prone thereunto A. Not by any naturall power in or of my selfe but onely by the grace of God when it is giuen vnto me Q. Are you sure you haue forsaken them are you not deceiued A. I am not deceiued for I hate vnfainedly the workes of the diuell the worlds vanity all the vngodly manners of euery man and I labour by all good meanes to die to all sin daily louing the word of God following it all godly examples endeauouring to kill speedily euery ill motion but cherishing the good in my heart by

care shew any such spirituall coniunction The members of the body in the bodily communion doe teach vs this where euery member careth for the welfare of each other and if any one be out of ioynt all with one consent seeke to bring it in againe The bodily fellowship worketh this mutual compassion which keepeth the body in welfare so ought our spiritual ioyning together work the like commiseration towards euery erring mēber to keepe the Church in peace Cal. You haue here from a naturall worke plainely set out our duty in a spirituall action nature forceth the one and therefore grace I hope will set vs forward to the other Ios If this suffice not let this mooue vs that our not seeking to saue them in our place is to make our selues guilty of their sin he that is silent consenteth he that consents is worthie of death Rom. 1. 31. He is accessarie to treason who knoweth it and reuealeth it not sinne is rebellion against God we must attach the partie at least by a brotherly rebuke lest we let him escape as Achab let goe Benadad and his sinne be made our transgression and so procure vnto our selues death Againe let the enlarging Christs kingdome incite vs to this duty yea the great reward and glorie which belongeth to him that saueth a soule he shall couer the multitude of sinnes he Iam. 5. Dan. 12. 3. shal shine as the starres for euer and euer The care of sauing a soule and the goodnesse of Ioh. 3. 16. the worke mooued God the Father to giue his onely Sonne to die and Christ himselfe was willing to suffer great and vnspeakeable torments to bring a poore sinner vnto safetie Cal. If neither the commandement of God the griefe of heart for sinne the sinners Abriefe repetition of all the reasons misery holy mens exāples the bond of fellowship mutuall communion our own danger in the neglect hereof the care to enlarge Christs kingdom the reward of happines nor the loue of god nor Christs sufferings can mooue vs to doe our best to saue a poore sinner let the deuill teach vs to look vnto it who with his members studiously endeauonr to draw men frō God to thēselues to bring them to destruction If he his be so forward to ill the reward whereof is death why should not we do more to oppose him his instruments for mans life and saluation especially ministers in feeding their flocke who are charged to do it vpō their loue to Christ Ioh. 21. 15. 16. 17. 2. Tim. 4. 1. 2 Ezec. 33. 8. Gouernours of families shold tea●h their houshold vpō their alleageance to their soueraigne to avoid blood guiltines and to preuent eternall vengeance And nothing lesse are gouernours of families tied thereunto they see blame and not vnworthily ministers that neglect their flocke but they find not the same fault in themselues for carelesse omitting the instruction of their family which they be in their own persōs Reasons as much bound to discharge as a minister is to feed his flock the Congregatiō is the ministers cure so the family is the masters charge wherein the chiefe of the house the Deut. 5. 7. Eph. 6. 4. 1. Cor. 14. 35 Gen. 18. 19. 2. Tim. 1. 5. with 3. 15. father the mother the master and Gouernour is to teach their children and houshold in the waies of God So are they cōmanded so examples teach them to doe Ios Thou hast truly spoken Honourable Caleb for we that haue charge of families are commanded to informe thē euen necessitie to keepe a holy vnity among vs should hereto perswade vs how else can there be peace if the Lambe and the Lyon dwell together a Cain and an Abel a mocking Ismael and faithfull Isaac a scorning Michol a zealous Dauid How can ministers reforme whole Assemblies if we do not our endeauour to help them in our families This want of priuate helpe maketh the publike ministery so vnprofitable as cōmōly it is The whole burthē of care for soules is laid vpō the Ministers shoulders when a priuate watch is imposed vpō euery man houshold instructiō vpon euery faithful religious Gouernour of a family Therefore families haue bin called the Churches of God wherein God was euer ought to be worshipped with holy exercises And how can a master be a domesticall head and let his members perish The diuell so much opposing it mans nature so much distasting it all so vsually neglecting it doe declare it sufficiently to be a most holy and worthy worke to be carefully vndertaken and with all good conscience performed Cal. Vndoubtedly if the benefit which hence would arise first to our selues to our children and houshold then to the help of the publike ministery were well weighed there be none that haue either care of thēselues wish well to their children desire faithfulnesse in their seruants and couet to see Ierusalem in prosperity but they would betake them speedily to this so great so necessary and godly a worke How come children often to destruction but by parents negligence in their religious education If we bring them vp well wee may by Gods mercie preuent their ill ende if wee vse meanes and they perish yet our soules receiue comfort that we are no way guilty whereas otherwise the childe may say Wo is me and wo to you my parents who haue neglected my education and parents may answer Wo to vs our sonne therefore seeing thee now so miserable and our selues hereby so vncomfortable Ios I therfore and my house by Gods help will serue the Lord as God hath giuen mes grace to see and know the euill I will endeauour to preuent it in me and mine Cal. Your speech in the order thereof teacheth mee as I take it not onely your care herein to do what you ought but your wisdome in an orderly proceeding therein Ios It is well noted of you I set my selfe Doctrine before my houshold because the head leadeth first the body before the body can mooue by the members to performe any office So it is in the naturall constitution of a body so in the politicall gouernment of the common wealth let Princes leade the people will follow for from the head Vse commeth life motion to the body And the same order is to bee obserued in well guiding of a family There is litle hope to finde a godly family where the master is either carelesse or prophane He must set on and go before if he intend to haue the rest good His life is of authority his example draweth other to him his words are of force and in doing his duty may he expect a blessing Cal. I doe perswade my selfe that some haue good desires hereunto more perhappes by this may bee set forward to settle their housholds in order but euery one that gladly would doe well know not how to doe so therefore let me obtaine most Noble Lord the knowledge of

Inwardly faith and loue outwardly besides the vncertaine notes of vniuersality antiquity and consent these two Christs word truely preached his Sacraments rightly administred whereto adde faithfull prayer and holy discipline Q. Is the Church of Rome a true Church of Christ A. No but of Antichrist the Pope the chiefe teacher of the doctrine of diuels Q. What reason haue you to disallow that religion A. For that it is a false religion I. The author is the diuel II. The meanes vsed to vphold it are vnlawfull 1. deceiued Councels 2. vnwritten verities and forged authors 3. falsifying the Fathers 4. corrupting Scripture by adding thereto 5. by taking from it by false interpreting 6. retaining the people in ignorance by forbidding to study the word teaching it in an vnknowne tongue 7. pretending reuelations shewing lying miracles 8. counterfeit holines 9. bloody persecution III. The matter of their religion is vntruths idolatry heresie nouelties inuented by man IV. The forme in the seruice ridiculous by foolish gestures carnal by fleshly pomps and delights their worship is by hypocrisie V. The end to aduance men by worshipping of Saints extolling mans power merits VI. The benefit gotten thereby is nothing because it keepes a man in the state of damnation and alloweth the breach of all the 10. commandements 1. To feare God by mens doctrines 2. To worship images 3. Magick coniuring 4. idol-seruice 5. Treason against Christian Princes 6. Assoyles for murtherers 7. Stewes and restraint of mariage 8. Wages for no lawful labour to Masse-mongers for deceits 9. To breake an oath to a Christian made lawfully 10. That cōcupiscence is no sinne VII Gods iudgments against many of the most fiery professours thereof which is neuer seene to happen to zealous and constant professours of the truth Q. What must bee done to maintaine the Church and to ouerthrow heresie that destroies the foundation errors corrupting religion scismes breaking the peace of the Church and vices staining our profession A. 1. To cleaue only to the written word which is both in time before and in authority aboue the Church to iudge all controuersies in religion 2. To call sufficient men and ordaine them ministers to teach allowing necessary maintenance but suffering no insufficient to creep in or to abide still neither the able to liue idlely by carelesnesse pride or couetousnesse 3. That there be a godly order established peaceably kept of euery one without giuing offence 4. That there be a holy and right vse continually of true discipline to admonish suspend and excommunicate obstinate offenders whosoeuer they be Q. Are not the articles of your beleefe a prayer A. No but only a summe of the Gospel which is one part of Gods word containing the promises of saluatiō by Christ and is also a rule by which I must examine my faith Q. What meane you by faith A. Not faith to work miracles which is past nor historicall only beleeuing that to be true which God saith nor tēporary to know professe to teach Christ feare to commit sin sorrow after to make satisfaction to destroy the wicked to make many praiers wishing heauen to liue for a time in shew honestly yet out of Christ but iustifying faith is here meant Q. What is iustifying faith A. It is a gracious and true perswasion in my heart grounded vpon Gods promises concerning Christ whereby I do apply him and all his benefits to my selfe beeing assured that hee is my wisedome strength righteousnesse holinesse and redemption and that what hee hath done it is as well done for mee as for any other and so is mine as if my selfe had done it Q. How came you by this faith A. By the holy Ghost working the same inwardly by the outward ministery of the Gospell preached ordinarily and is by the same word sacraments and prayer confirmed continued and increased Q. What profit reape you by this beleefe A. I a wretched sinner in my self being pardoned of sinne and Christ giuen to me am in him the adopted sonne of God and righteous before him my heart purged my conscience quieted my imperfect workes doe please him all crosses are for comfort and further to saluation holy Angels tend vpon me heauen is mine inheritance I am set at liberty from the curse of the law Satan the world and fleshly lusts without feare of death damnation and hell fire Q. Hath euery one this faith and so these benefits A. No but onely such as shew repentance the fruits of faith Q. What is repentance A. It is a true turning of my mind will and heart wholly from the world the flesh and diuell vnto God with full purpose to attend carefully to the counsell of his word and spirit and through the whole course of my life readily and constantly endeauour to follow the same Q. What are the true tokens of this true repentance A. 1. A continuall striuing of the flesh and spirit 2. A hatred of my former vanities auoiding occasion company counsell or example to ill with loue vnfained to the contrary 3. Increase of peace in conscience with an affection for righteousnes sake 4. A ioy full expecting and wishing Christs comming to iudgement Q. May not a man that truely repenteth fall afterward A. Yes indeed and into the same sinne or some other Q. How then may a man be perswaded that his repentance was then true before A. 1. If this be of infirmity feeling before and in the committing a dislike therof for after true repentance sinne is neuer wholly committed 2. If that godly sorrow follow which is not either for earthly shame temporall punishments hellish torments or losse of heauen but for displeasing God so mercifull a Father and this is called renewed repentance Q. How should this appeare to be true A. 1. By an vtter loathing and condemning my selfe for the sinne newly committed with desire and perswasion of pardon 2. A godly anger and burning zeale against my selfe with taking reuenge vowing and practising strictly the contrarie vertue for offending 3. A watchfull care and continuall feare lest I fall afterwards at any time againe into the same Q. What may comfort a troubled conscience A. These things 1. That God can pardon any sinne 2. That he will by promise made pardon euery penitent 3. That he which feeleth a true desire to leaue sin and to please God is bound to beleeue his sins are both pardonable pardoned 4. That doubting of saluation with feare to offend God is a signe of saluation 5. No condemnation to such as are in Christ and therefore their sins cannot damne them 6. Iustification must not be iudged after sanctification there is no perfection here the best children of God haue grieuously fallen haue felt this sting of conscience 7. The assurance of saluatiō must not be iudged as men feele assurance in afflictiō but by the stability of Gods promises from former comforts and tokens of grace but in trouble from present

is the first petition and what desire you in it A. The first is Hallowed bee thy name and I desire therein in the first place that I and all other may acknowledge God so truly in his word and workes as in euery of our thoughts words and deeds he may be highly worshipped and praised Q. Which is the second and what desire you in it A. The second is Thy kingdome come and I desire that he will send vs the meanes thus to honour his name that is his word and Spirit with all things that do further thereunto that so the elect may be gathered and Christ come to the last iudgement to giue vs his kingdome of glorie Q. Which is the third petition and what desire you in it A. The third is Thy will be done and I desire that as we pray to do not ours but his will as all his commandements and word teacheth vs and as the blessed Saints and Angels doe in heauen heartily without hypocrisie willingly without grudging readily without lingring faithfully without sinister respects ioyfully without murmuring and constantly without wauering vnto the end Q. Which is the fourth petition and what desire you in it A. The fourth is Giue vs this c. and I desire that he will prouide those necessaries for our bodies without which we cannot serue him and that we may depend patiently vpon his prouidence vsing diligent labour and all honest meanes to help our selues and others Q. What is the fifth petition and what desire you in it A. The fifth is And forgiue vs our trespasses c. and I desire that he would forgiue al of vs friend or foe our sinnes lest they either hinder vs of the former mercies or cause them to be taken from vs and that he will perswade our consciences that we are forgiuen by giuing vs grace to forgiue freely and to forget those offences whereby in any thing or any way our neighbours haue beene grieuous vnto vs. Q. Which is the sixth and last petition and what desire you in it A. The sixth is Leade vs not into temptation c. and I desire that as he will pardon vs so he would also giue vs the gift of continuance that though we be tempted yet may we ouercome and be deliuered from sinne and Satan and neuer fall againe any more from God Q. Which is the confirmation A. For thine is the kingdome c. Q. What learne you by this A. I do learn hereby 2. things 1. that it is a reasō not to moue God but to stir vp our affectiōs to strēgthē our faith in asking Q. How doth it this A. When it teacheth mee to acknowledge the kingdome of God our Father that is his dominion and right ouer al and that his power is the greatest to compell all to doe what he will and as he will and his glory the highest which himselfe maintaines and we seeke aboue all Q. What is the second thing we learne A. 2. A thanksgiuing praising of God which we ought to vse in the end as the secōd part of praier which is done in giuing to God his owne the rule power glorie which we desire him to manifest by granting our petitiōs we wil acknowledg the same not for a time but for euer euer Q. Which is the conclusion A. This word Amen Q. What meane you by this word A. That I am perswaded by the aforesaid reasons that my request is granted and shall be performed as my Father shall see it conuenient for me and his glorie in time and place And therefore I say it is so or it shall be which is Amen The fifth part Q. What is a Sacrament A. It is a visible signe and seale of inuisible graces commanded ordained with a promise by Christ in the Church to be administred publikely by a lawfull Minister with the preaching of the word which Sacrament with all the rites thereof doth represent and conuay by proportion and relation in the present vse inuisible graces first Christ and then all his benefits for further assurance of the same things which God hath made by the promise of his word vnto a true beleeuer who is with Christ by the H. Ghost vnited made on Q. What meane you by Christ and all his benefits A. Whole Christ God man with his righteousnes iustice holines redemption who as he is Christ one person of two natures is truly said to be really present in the Sacrament not properly in his humanitie but by the communiō of properties Q. How may you be sure that you haue receiued true benefite by the Sacraments A. If I do feele a dying to sinne and liuing vnto righteousnes getting strength and also increasing therein daily by the force of Christs death and resurrection Q. How many Sacraments are there A. Two and no more Baptisme and the Lords Supper Q. What is Baptisme A. It is the first Sacrament in the new Testament by which such as are within the couenant are either washed sprinkled or dipped in the water in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost Q. What is the outward signe and rite A. Water and washing Q. What is the inuisible grace A. The blood of Christ which clenseth vs of all sin original actual past to come Q. Are we then no sinners A. Yes in our selues for originall sinne still is sinne in vs but wee are washed from it because it shall not be imputed nor any sinne else vnto me a true beleeuer Q. Who are to be baptized A. Not only such as be of yeares that can and do testifie their faith but also infants of either father or mother professing Christ baptized for the promise of saluation belongs to them to their childrē Q. Is baptisme so necessary to saluation that without it children cannot be saued A. It is necessary to al that haue it but not of necessity to such as cannot rightly come by it for not the want but the careles neglect and contempt thereof condemneth Q. How oft should we be baptized A. But once for wee may not be baptized againe after true baptisme for beeing once borne wee cannot bee borne againe naturally nor spiritually Q. What is the Lords Supper A. It is the latter Sacrament in the new Testament whereby we are nourished and preserued in the Church to eternall life Q. What be the outward signes A. Bread and wine Q. What be the things signified A. The body and blood of Christ Q. What are the rites A. The actiōs of the Minister receiuer Q. What are the actions of the Minister A. 1. To take the bread and wine into his hands 2. to blesse it 3. to breake the bread and powre forth the wine 4. to offer and giue them to the receiuer Q. What are the actions of the receiuer A. 1. To take the bread wine offered into his hand 2. to eate the one and drink the other and so digest concoct