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The church-catechism with a brief and easie explanation thereof for the help of the meanest capacities and weakest memories. By T.C. D.D.
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Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.
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§ Are not Blasphemy and Cursing vain and false swearing and also taking unlawful or breaking our â—awful Oaths and Vows heinous sins against this Commandment Yes * Will the Lord suffer them to escape his righteous judgment who wilfully break this Commandment No Com. IV. Of the solemn time of our Worship § Dot not the fourth Commandment enjoyn us to keep Holy the Sabbath day by spending it 1. In worshiping God both in public and private Yes 2. Or in the works of necessity and mercy Yes †Do not they sin against this Commandment 1. Who spend the Sabbath Day in idleness Yes 2. Or about their worldly business or recreations Yes § May Masters command or permit these things to those who are under their charge No * Should not 1. Gods allowing us six days for our own imployment 2. and his challenging a special propriety in the seventh 3. His own Example 4. and his blessing and sanctifying the Sabbath Day move us to obey his Commandment Yes § Is it sufficient to worship God on the Sabbath Day only No § Ought we to set apart some time for it every day Yes § And must we religiously observe the Fasts and Festivals of the Church Yes Of our duty to man contained in the six last Commandments § Is it not the sum of our duty to our neighbour to love him as our selves Yes § Do we thus love our neighbour unless we do to others what we would have them do to us No Com. V. Of the duties to our Relations § Doth not the fifth Commandment enjoyn us to perform the duties we owe to our several Relations especially to our Superiors Yes †Is not this Commandment broken 1. By Children who are undutiful irreverent or unkind to their Parents or Guardians Yes 2. By Subjects who dishonour disobey or rebel against the King or those in Authority under Him Yes 3. By People who despise their Minister resist his Doctrine or withold his Dues Yes 4. By Servants who are stubborn slothful or unfaithful to their Masters Yes 5. By any other Inferiors who behave themselves proudly and scornfully towards their Betters in Age Gifts or Estate Yes * Can they expect long life or prosperity who break this Commandment No Com. VI. Of Humanity § Doth not the sixth Commandment require all lawful endeavours to preserve our own and our neighbours life and health Yes †Do not they sin against this Commandment who hurt their own or their neighbours life or health Yes § May we be intemperate or urge others to be so No § May we use angry or provoking words No Or bear malice or desire of revenge in our hearts No Com. VII Of Chastity § Doth not the seventh Commandment enjoyn Chastity in heart speech and behaviour Yes †Do not they break this Commandment 1. Who admit of any unclean thoughts and desires Yes 2. Or use any filthy or unchast words or gestures Yes 3. Especially who commit Fornication Adultery or any other Acts of uncleanness Yes § May we use any provocations thereunto No Com. VIII Of Justice § Doth not the eighth Commandment require the lawful furthering of our own and our neighbours wealth and outward estate Yes †Do not they sin against this Commandment 1. Who wrong others in their estates by stealing oppression deceit or any other unjust taking or with-holding what is anothers Yes 2. Or by Idleness or Prodigality wast their own Yes § May we steal small things because we are poor No § May we keep from the owner what is found by us No Com. IX Of Veracity § Doth not the ninth Commandment enjoyn the speaking of truth and the promoting our own and others good name Yes †Do not they break this Commandment 1. Who deny conceal or oppose the Truth Yes 2. Or injure their own or neighbours good name Yes 3. Especially who bear false witness in publick Yes § May we in any case tell any manner of Lye No § May we slander or flatter others No Or vainly boast of our selves No Com. X. of Contentation § Doth not the tenth Commandment require 1. Our being content with our own Condition Yes 2. And rejoicing at our neighbours welfare Yes †Do not they sin against this Commandment 1. Who are discontent with their own estate Yes 2. Or who envy or grieve at their neighbours good Yes 3. Or inordinately desire any thing that is his Yes Catech. Of our need of Gods grace and of the means to obtain it § Are we able of our selves to believe and to do all these things which we have promised and are ingaged to No § Is not prayer a special means to obtain the assistance of Gods grace to enable us hereto Yes § Ought we therefore daily and upon all occasions to pray unto God for it Yes § May we pray less than twice every day No § And will our prayers be acceptable to God unless our minds and hearts go along with our words No Qu. 12 13. Of the Lords Prayer consisting of a Preface seven Petitions and a Conclusion § May we pray for any thing but what is agreeable to the will of God No § Is not the Lords Prayer both a most perfect Form and also a Pattern of Prayer Yes The Preface Doth not the Preface direct us 1. To pray unto God 1. As our Father in Christ and therefore willing to help us Yes 2. As in Heaven and therefore able to help us Yes 2. And to Pray with and for others Yes I. Petition § Ought we not chiefly to aim at Gods Glory in every thing Yes § Are we able of our selves to honour God aright No * Do we therefore in the first Petition pray That God would enable us and others in every thing to glorifie and honour Him above all in heart word and deed Yes II. Petition § Are not we and all men by nature under the dominion of Sin and Satan Yes § Can we rescue our selves from that slavery No * Do we therefore in the second Petition pray 1. That Satans Kingdom may be destroyed Yes 2. That Gods Kingdom of Grace may be advanced by bringing us and others into it and by keeping us all in it Yes 3. And that his Kingdom of Glory may be hastened Yes III. Petition § Are not we naturally prone to rebel against Gods Commands and to murmur at his Providence Yes § And inclined to do the will of the Flesh and the Devil Yes * Do we therefore in the third Petition pray 1. That God would make us and others able and willing to obey his word and submit to his will in all things Yes 2. And both these with the like chearfulness sincerity and constancy as the Angels do in Heaven Yes IV. Petition § Can we by our own Industry procure the outward comforts of this life or can they of themselves sustain us without Gods blessing No * Do we therefore in the fourth Petition pray 1. That upon
THE Church-Catechism With a BRIEF and EASIE EXPLANATION THEREOF For the help of the meanest Capacities and weakest Memories By T. C. D. D. LONDON Printed by M. C. for Henry Brome and Robert Clavel in S. Pauls Church-yard MDCLXXXI An Advertisement THE end of this short Explication is to render the Principles of Christian Religion comprized in the Church Catechism plain and easie to the meanest capacities And the method thereof is this 1. The Catechism is printed in a different letter on the left hand page that it may be first learned by it self 2. The several Questions of the Catechism are put under a proper Title containing the Subject of each Question and the Answers to them are broken to pieces by a few brief and plain Explicatory Questions so that ignorant Learners may easily understand the full meaning of them And those who cannot read or cannot get long Answers by heart which want Instruction the most need not be discouraged by this method because they are not required hereby to Answer any more than Yes or No which will be no burthen to their memory and yet will exercise their Judgment and as well teach them to understand the sense of their Catechism as try whether they do so or no. Yet those of better capacity may exercise their memory also and by frequent reading the Explicatory Questions will be able to repeat them after the Catechist and turn them into an Affirmative or Negative Proposition thus Qu. Ought your name c. Answ Yes my name c. ought c. Qu. Are not Infants c. Answ No Infants are not c. Now this may be of use as well to Parents in private as to Ministers in Publick who may first ask the Learners so many Questions of the Church Catechism as they think fit for one time and then beginning again may first tell them the Title or Subject of each Question and then examine them by the Explicatory Questions belonging thereunto And if the Minister please to inlarge a little in a plain discourse upon every Explicatory Question and also to shew unto what part of the Answer in the Church Catechism it doth refer the Learner will better understand it which will make the necessary duty of Catechising still more profitable and will drop knowledg by degrees into those narrow mouthed Vessels for whose sake this method was contrived And the success it hath had on many very young Children and very ignorant Country people hath incouraged the Publication thereof in hopes it may be very serviceable not only for private Families but also for Country Congregations as well to invite the Learners to come in greater numbers by its easiness as to instruct them by its plainness And the whole is no other than the Church Catechism injoyned by Law briefly Explained and no more imposed to be gotten by heart than that which the Church requires the rest being only contrived to make that understood and try if it be so It is hoped the Right Reverend Governours of the Church to whose censure the whole is humbly submitted will not dislike the publication thereof in order to the sitting the more ignorant sort for those great Duties of Confirmation and the Lords Supper I need not here add any thing concerning the Divine Institution and Antiquity of Catechising the Excellency of our Church Catechism both for its agreeableness to Primitive forms and its exact Method nor shall I now enlarge upon the necessity and use of this Profitable and Pious Duty Having in a peculiar Discourse upon Catechising treated of these particulars and exhorted 1. Ministers to promote not only the learning the Catechism by rote but the understanding thereof 2. Parents and Masters both to instruct their Children and Servants in Private and to bring them to Church to be publickly Catechised 3. And excited the Younger and Ignorant people to come willingly To which Discourse I refer the Reader Companion to the Altar page 451 452 c. THE INTRODUCTION § ALmighty God having Created our first Parents after his own Image did condescend to enter into a Covenant with them wherein he promised life to them and their Posterity upon condition of perfect and perpetual obedience and threatned their disobedience with death § Our first Parents through the temptation of Satan wilfully transgressed the Commandment of God in eating the forbidden fruit and thereby brought themselves and all their posterity into an estate of sin and misery § God hath not left mankind to perish in the estate of Sin and Misery into which they fell by the breach of the first Covenant But hath been pleased of his meer love and mercy to make a second Covenant of Grace wherein he freely offereth pardon and salvation by Jesus Christ to all those who shall truly repent and believe in him § And seeing this Covenant is solemnly to be enter'd into in our infancy by Baptism which is the first benefit and favour we are capable of after we are born It seemed good to the excellent compilers of this Catechism to begin it where we begin our Christianity and by the mention of our name received in Baptism to take occasion to mind us of our Obligations and Priviledges thereby THE Church Catechism Question 1. WHat is your Name Answer N. or M. Question 2. Who gave you that Name Answer My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a member of Christ the Child of God and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven Question 3. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you Answer They did promise and vow three things in my Name First that I should renounce the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanity of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the flesh Secondly that I should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And Thirdly that I should keep Gods holy will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my Life Question 4. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and to do as they have promised for thee Answer Yes verily and by Gods help so I will And I heartily thank our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this state of salvation through Iesus Christ our Saviour And I pray unto God is give me his grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Question 5. Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief Answer I. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth II. And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord III. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary IV. Suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried He descended into Hell V. The third day he rose again from the dead VI. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty VII From thence he shall come to judg the quick and the dead VIII I believe in the Holy Ghost IX The Holy Catholick Church