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A brief exposition of the church-catechism, with proofs from Scripture; Book of common prayer. Catechism.
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Church of England.; Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
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from this present evil world Q. Why do you call it this wicked world A. Not from any evil in the world it self for it was made very good a but because of the evil it tempts to b and the evil use it 's put to by bad men a Gen. 1.31 God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good b 1 Joh. 2.15 Love not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him Jam. 4.1 2 4. Q. What is meant by Pomps A. Honour and worldly Glory Act. 25.23 Agrippa came with great pomp Q. What is it to renounce the Pomps of this world A. It 's to refrain from all immoderate desires after the honour and glory of the world and from all pride and ostentation in what any one enjoys of it 1 Joh. 2.16 The pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world Phil. 2.3 Let nothing be done through vain glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves Q. What do you understand by the Vanity of this world which you are to renounce A. Covetousness a or the lust of the eye 1 Joh. 2.16 a Eccles 4.7 8. I saw vanity under the Sun there is one alone and there is not a second yea he hath neither child nor brother yet is there no end of all his labour neither is his eye satisfied with riches c. 1 Tim. 6.9 10. They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and burtful lusts c. Q. What is the third enemy you are to renounce A. The sinful lusts of the flesh 1 Joh. 2.16 Q. What do you understand by the sinful lusts of the flesh A. All unlawful pleasures to which we are provoked by our sensual inclinations such as uncleanness drunkenness c. Gal. 5.19 21. The works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication c. Q. What is the second Duty you were in your Baptism obliged to perform A. To believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith Of this see the Belief Q. What is the third Duty then required of you A. To keep God's holy Will and Commandments and to walk in the same all the days of my life Of this see the Decalogue Q. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and to do as they have promised for thee A. Yes verily and by God's help so I will And I heartily thank our Heavenly father that he hath called me to this state of Salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour And I pray to God to give me his grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Q. Why do you think your self bound thus to believe and do what they promised for thee A. Because what was then promised was in my name and by Proxies that acted in my stead Q. Are you resolved to do according to what they promised for you A. Yes by God's help or else I must expect to forfeit the blessings belonging to that state which I was then called and admitted into Heb. 2.3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation Q. What is that state A. A state of Salvation Q. Why do you call it a state of Salvation A. Because I have thereby all the means necessary to Salvation Rom. 1.16 The Gospel is the power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth 2 Tim. 3.15 From a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation Q. How came you into this state A. Our Heavenly Father called me to it through Jesus Christ and instated me into it by Baptism Tit. 3.5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost Q. How do you think to be enabled to do and to continue in the performance of what was then required A. I depend upon the Grace of God a to prevent b assist c and confirm d me in it a 2 Cor. 3.5 Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God. Phil. 2.13 It is God which worketh in you b to will c and to do d Phil. 1.6 Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it Q. How do you think to obtain God's Grace A. I will pray unto God for it Luk. 11.9 10 13. Ask and it shall be given seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you c. If ye being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more will your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him PART II. Of the Creed or Belief Q. WHat was the second Duty undertaken in your name A. That I should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith. Q. What do you mean by the Christian Faith A. The Doctrine revealed by Christ and contained in the Holy scripture Acts 24.24 Feâ—â—â— heard Paul concerning the Faith in Christ or the Christian Doctrine Q. What do you mean by the Articles of the Christian Faith A. I thereby mean such Points of Christian Doctrine as are most necessary to be believed Heb. 6.1 The Principles of the Doctrine of Christ Q. Where are those Articles briefly contain'd A. In the Apostles Creed Q. Why is it called the Apostles Creed A. Partly because of the Apostolical Doctrine contained in it and partly because it was in the main Branches of it composed in the Apostolical times as we read of a form of sound words 2 Tim. 1.13 Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief The Creed A. 1. I believe in God the father Almighty Maker of Deaven and Earth 2. And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord. 3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary 4. Suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried He descended into Hell. 5. The third day he rose again from the Dead 6. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the father Almighty 7. from thence he shall come to judge the Duich and the Dead 8. I believe in the Holy Ghost 9. The Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints 10. The forgiveness of Sins 11. The Resurrection of the Body 12. And the Life everlasting Amen Q. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief A. First I learn to believe in God the father who hath made me and all the World. Secondly In God the Son who hath redeemed me and all mankind Thirdly In God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the elect People of God. Q. What do you observe from these three parts into which the Creed is divided A. 1. I observe a distinction of Persons the Father the Son and the
Seventh A. It 's in remembrance of Christ's Resurrection from the dead on that day which was the great confirmation that all was sinished a which he undertook Joh. 19.30 He said it is finished and he bowed his head and gave up the Ghost Acts 17.3 Christ must needs have risen John 2.22 Q. How is this day to be employed A. In works of Piety a and Charity b in serving God and doing good to others a Acts 20.7 Vpon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break bread b 1 Cor. 16.2 Vpon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him the week before Q. What doth the second Table concern A. My duty towards my Neighbour Q. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour A. My duty towards my neighbour is to love him as my self and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me To love honour and succour my father and mother To honour and obey the King and all that are put in authority under him To submit my self to all my Governors Teachers spiritual Pastors and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters To hurt no body by word or deed To be true and just in all my dealing To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart To keep my hands from picking and stealing and my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity Not to covet nor desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me Matt. 22.39 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Gal. 5.14 Matt. 7.12 All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do ye even so to them Q. What are the Commandments which contain thy duty towards thy Neighbour A. The last six Q. What is the Fifth Commandment A. Command 5. Honour thy Father and Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Q. What is here to be understood by the Terms Father and Mother A. More especially I thereby understand 1. My natural Parents whom I am to love honour a and succour b a Mal. 1.6 A son honoureth his father Ephes 6.1 Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right b 1 Tim. 5.4 Let children learn to shew piety or Charity at home and to requite their parents care by succouring them in their necessity Mark 7.11 12 2. The King and all that are put in authority under him a whom I am to honour and obey b in all lawful and honest things a Isa 49. 23. Kings are call'd Nursing-fathers b 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as supreme vers 14. or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him c. 3. Teachers and Spiritual Pastors a to whom and whose spiritual and pious instructions I am to submit b a Judg. 17.10 Thou shalt be unto me a Father and a Priest 1 Cor. 4.15 b Heb. 13.17 Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls c. 1 Tim. 5.17 4. Masters of Families call'd Fathers as 2 Kings 5.13 and to whom if a Servant I am to submit in all reasonable things belonging to that condition Ephes 6.5 6. Servants be obedient to them that are your Masters c. not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart Tit. 2.9 10. 5. All my Betters a to whom I am to order my self lowly and reverently b a Acts 7.2 St. Stephen said Men Brethren and Fathers b 1 Pet. 5.5 Ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility Levit. 19.32 Q. What encouragement is there for obedience to this Command A. There is annexed to it the Promise of a long and prosperous Life which ordinarily attends it That thy days may be long in the land c. Ephes 6.1 2. Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise Q. Which is the Sixth Commandment A. Thou shalt do no Murer Command 6. Q. What is the sin forbidden in this Commandment A. Murder or the wilful killing of a man's Neighbour Q. What are the kinds of that which you call wilful killing of another A. There are two sorts 1. A less which is the killing of another in heat of Blood usually called Man-slaughter but what the Scripture calls Murder Numb 35.16 17 18. If he smite him with an instrument of iron c. he is a murderer 2. A greater which is a contrived and deliberate killing of another a usually call'd wilful-murder a Exod. 21.14 If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with guile Numb 35.20 21. Q. What was the punishmenr for this sin A. Death Gen. 9.5 6. He that sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Numb 35.16 17 21. Q. What is further forbidden in this Commandment A. That I hurt no body by word or deed and bear no malice nor hatred in my heart And so this Commandment forbids all degrees incentives and provocations to this sin such as causeless rash and immoderate anger a hatred b malice spight and revenge bitterness and reviling c a Matt. 5.21 22. Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time thou shalt not kill and whoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment But I say unto you That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause c. Eph. 4.26 b 1 Joh. 3.15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer c Eph. 4.31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Q. What is required in this Commandment A. 1. Peaceableness not to provoke others Rom. 12.18 If it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men 2. Meekness not to be provoked to do evil to others Rom. 12.17 Recompence to no man evil for evil 3. Charity or readiness to forgive and to do good when provoked Rom. 12.20 21. If thine enemy hunger feed him c. 4. Succouring another in danger and distress as the good Samaritan Luke 10.33 Q. What is the Seventh Commandment A. Command 7. Thou shalt not commit Adultery Q. What is Adultery A. It 's a violation of that Covenant a made at Marriage b between one Man and one Woman c which makes the Man to be the Husband of the Woman and the Woman to be the Wife of the Man. a Malac. 2.14 She is the wife of thy covenant b Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all c Mal. 2.15 Did not he make one Matt. 19.4 5. Q. When is that Covenant