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A soul-searching catechism wherein is opened and explained not onely the six fundamental points set down Heb. 6. I. but also many other questions of highest concernment in Christian religion : wherein is strong meat for them that are grown and milk for babes, in a very short catechism at the end, exceeding needful for all families in these ignorant and unsetled times / written by Christopher Blackwood.
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such inspired and cast into his mind by Satan though not arising from himself pray as David Psal 19.12 14. 2. Wash thy heart in Christ his blood that it may be enabled to think good thoughts Jer. 4.14 3. Study good thoughts Carnal men have many good thoughts cast into their hearts which they cast out again as fast but their hearts have no good thoughts arising from them contrarily Gods people Act. 7.23 2. Tim. 2.15 Q. What means are there to govern our tongues A. 1. Pray to God to set a watch over them Psal 141.3 Psal 19.14 Psal 51.15 2. Get an holy frame of heart Mat. 12.34 35. Psal 37.30 31. Prov. 16.23 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things 3. Let the purpose of thy heart be set against unholy speaking Psal 17.3 Psal 39.1 4. Suppress sin when it is onely in the motion so will it not come forth of the tongue Prov. 30.32 Mat. 15.19 5. Be sparing in thy words men that speak much must needs lash out Eccles 5.3 7. Prov. 10.19 Prov. 17.27 6. First think then speak Dan. 2.14 Prov. 16.23 7. The sad account that men who speak idle words must give Mat. 12.36 Jude 1 5. Psal 50. 19 20 21. 8. Consider a happy life depends much on the well-Government of the tongue Psal 34.12 Prov. 21.33 And upon the mis-government of it comes much of our misery 2 Chron. 10.13 14. Prov. 18.21 Jam. 3.6 9. Inure your selves to gracious and savory words Col. 4.6 powdered with salt so that as salt draws out of meat putrifying humors and makes it rellishable for the palate and fit for digestion so should a principle of grace in the heart purge rottenness out of the tongue Of Family-Duties Q. WHat is the duty of a Master of a Family A. To provide for their souls Gen. 18.19 and bodies of his Family 1 Tim. 5.8 Q. What is the Husbands Duty A. To love his wife as himself affording comforts to her as to himself Ephes 5.28 and not to be bitter to her Col. 3.19 Q. What is the Wives Duty A. Submission to their Husbands Col. 3.18 and reverence towards them inward in heart and outward in carriage Ephes 5.33 Q. What are the Parents Duties towards their Children A. To train them up in Gods wayes Prov. 22.6 Ephes 6.4 and to provide for them 2 Cor. 12.14 Q. What is the childs duty A. To honour their Parents Ephes 6.2 and to obey them in all lawful things Col. 3.20 and to requite their kindness 1 Tim. 5.4 Q. What is the Masters duty to his Servant A. To give them what is just and equal knowing they have a Master in heaven Col. 4.1 Q. What is the Servants duty A. To honour their Masters 1 Tim. 6.1 and sincerely to do them service abhorring eye-service Col. 3.22 doing service not onely for the gaine of their wages but principally out of Conscience to the Lord Ephes 6.5 6 7. Col. 3.23 24. Of the Resurrection and last Judgement Q. WHether shall thâ—re be a Resurrection of the Body A. Yes John 5.28 All that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth some to the Resurrection of life and some to the Resurrection of eternal damnation Acts 24.15 Q. What Body shall rise again the same or another A. The same body in number though with more glorious qualities as the same seed that is sown groweth again 1 Cor. 15.36 So that the godly when they rise again shall see God not with other but with these same eyes Job 19.25 26 27. He means the eyes of his body because he saith I and I my self and not a stranger and because he mentions his skin flesh and the same eyes he then had It is just that Jobs eyes that had wept tears and Pauls body that bore brands or markes of the Lord Jesus Gal. 6.17 should be rewarded and not a new made body or new eyes 1 Cor. 15.42 The Apostle pointing at his own body saith This corruptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on immortality John 2.19 Destroy this Temple and I will raise it up meaning the Temple of his body See also Rom. 8.11 John 11.24 Q. How doth it appear that the bodies of Saints shall rise the same bodies but with new qualities A. The Apostle makes it appear by a plain similitude 1 Cor. 15.35 37. of a wheat-corn cast into the earth which being rotten comes forth not naked hard dry without life as it was sown nor rotten as it was in the earth but keeping the same substance and kind it comes forth with new qualities of ears husk stalk being living and full of juice so the same body in number shall rise again but with more glorious qualities Q. What are those glorious qualities our bodies shall rise with A. They are these 1. Incorruptibility they shall not dye any more Mat. 22.30 2. Gloriousness they shall shine like the glorious body of Christ Phil. 3.21 3. Powerfulness it shall be raised in power able to move whither it will 1 Cor. 15.43 1 Thes 4.16.17 4. Spirituality 1 Cor. 15.44 not onely because it shall not need meat drink or apparel but also because it shall be like a spirit in the nimbleness of its motion 1 Thes 4.17 Q. What follows the resurrection A. The last and general Judgement John 6.39 I will raise him up at the last day Q. Who shall be judged A. All persons shall come to judgement the godly having their sins forgiven them shall come to a judgement of tryal 2 Cor. 5.10 Mat. 12.38 but the wicked unto a judgement of condemnation Iohn 5.28 Q. Who shall be the Judge A. Although the Trinity shall judge yet the Exercise and Administration of it is committed to the Son John 5.22 27. Acts 10.42 17.31 He is most fit to be Judge for as God he knows the secrets of all hearts and he is fit to speak to man as being man Q. What are the rules Christ will proceed by in judgement A. Such as never had the Scriptures shall be judged by the Law writ in their hearts they not having walked sutably thereto Rom. 2.13 and those that have had onely the old Testament shall be judged out of that Iohn 5.45 and those that have had the whole word shall be judged out of it Rom. 2.16 Q. What will Iesus Christ do after he is set in judgement A. All shall be called forth and the sheep evidencing their faith in Christ not onely by their words Mat. 12.38 but also by their works Mat. 25.35 shall receive the blessed sentence of absolution Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you but the Goats having neither faith nor fruits Matth. 25.42 43. shall be so straitly reckoned with that they shall be called to an account for every ungodly speech Matth. 12.37 Jude 15. and so shall receive that dreadfull sentence Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the
8.16 Q. What are those grounds A. 1. Because Faith evidences Heb. 11.1 1 John 5.10 That none can lay any thing to my Charge seeing Christ did not onely dye for me but rose again and ascended into heaven making intercession for me Rom. 8.33 So that he appearing for me as my Advocate Heb. 9.24 And his blood speaking good things Heb. 12.24 he is not onely able to save me to the uttermost though my sins be great and many Heb. 7.25 but is also willing in that he promises in no wise to cast off them that come unto him John 6.37 which my poor soul doth Q What other ground is there A. My union with Christ Q. How knowest thou thou art united with Christ A. 1. By my soveraign love to him 1 John 4.19 2. By my being made a new Creature and my crucifying the flesh with the lusts and affections thereof 2 Cor. 5.17 Gal. 5.24 which is not meant as if there were no oldness of nature in me or that every lust were actually and perfectly dead but it 's meant thus my lusts are crucified and I am new intentionally because it is that I aime at and strive after daily 3. He that is united to Christ lives not in sin 1 John 3.6 He that abideth in him sins not which is not meant simply of not sinning for no man lives that sins not 1 Reg. 8.46 therefore it is meant of a purpose of sinning hence those in Christ are said not to walk after the flesh Rom. 8.1 that is though sometimes they may slip yet the constant purpose of their heart is after the guidance of the Spirit 4. He that abides in Christ walkes as Christ walked 1 John 2.6 with an as of similitude though not of equality 1 John 3.7 he endeavours to follow Christ in every step though he cannot take such long strides As a young writer begins and ends his lines and makes his letters like his Master though he cannot write so fair so every Member of Christs body having the same mind in his measure that was in Christ Phil. 2.5 endeavours to follow Christ in all graces and duties and his so walking is evidential unto him and to every one that thus obeys Christ he becomes the Author or Causer of eternal salvation Heb. 5.9 5. He that abides in Christ is fruitful Joh. 15.5 which though Hypocrites may seem to imitate yet the fruitfulness of Christians is easily distinguished in that it 's not from external motives but from Christ Hos 14.8 nor for ends selfish and base but for Christ Rom. 14.7 8. Q. What other ground of assurance for the soul A. I have this ground that my sins are forgiven me because I have the other branches of the new Covenant made over to me as the taking away from me a stony hard heart and my heart and the Commandment closes together and that I know God with a relishing knowledge and not onely with a bare notional knowledge therefore I have this branch of the new Covenant that my sins and iniquities God will remember them no more Jer. 31.34 Ezek. 36.25 Heb. 8.11 12. for all the branches of the new Covenant are undivided and my soul truly repents and therefore God hath promised faithfully to forgive Prov. 28.13 1 John 1.8 9. Luke 24.47 Acts 3.19 Acts 5.31 So that whatever evidences my repentance the same also evidences the pardon of my sin Q. What other grounds of assurance have you for your soul A. I finde an universal change in the understanding from darkness to light Acts 26.18 in the judgement from false discerning to a right discerning Isa 5.20 in the Conscience from benummedness to tenderness 1 Sam. 24.5 in the will from wilfulness to evil Jer. 14.16 Iohn 8.44 to willingness for good Acts 9.6 Rom. 7.19 in the imagination from habitual running upon the World Phil. 3.19 to be often in Heaven Col. 3.1 2. in the desires which formerly were lawless now awed by the eye of God Job 31.23 Q. But seeing there may be changes as from prophaness to civility and from civility to a form of Religion without the power how shall I know my change to be right A. I know it to be a true change because I go from one contrary to another that the things which I hated now I love and the carnal courses I loved now I hate Rom. 7.15 holy duties were tedious now they are delightful and now my soul begins to relish that which formerly I loathed Rom. 8.5 Q. What other ground of assurance have you A. This that I have a true conversion which appeares 1. By the humiliation and confusion of spirit I have for living so long a stranger from God Jer. 31.19 Luke 15.19 Rom. 6.21 being sorry I begun no sooner in Gods wayes and that since I have begun I have made no greater haste 2. By my high esteem of my present condition in a converted estate though never so base that I would not change my condition with the greatest man upon earth that is a stranger from the Lord Heb. 11.25 26. Acts 8.39 Q. What other ground of assurance have you A. As the Saints of God of old have gathered comfort and assurance from their uprightness 1. Chron. 29. and Paul had rejoycing from their uprightness and godly sincerity 2 Cor. 1.12 so we may gather assurance from them when 1. We ordinarily and usually look at the eye of God in the things we do Col. 3.23 Eph. 6.6.7 and have a desire if it might be alwayes to look at his eye Isa 38.3 2 Cor. 2.17 by-ends beings a grief unto us Rom. 7.15 2. Uprightness is seen by a disposition to part with whatsoever God commands when we cannot hold Christ and such enjoyment together Mat. 19.21 3. When the same sins we avoid in publick we avoid in secret out of Conscience to God Job 31.1 Gen. 39.10 and the same duties we do before men we labour to do them in secret before God Mat. 6.6 4. When a bare Command moves us to act in our duty though no second respects of credit or profit accompany Esth 4.16 Mat. 14.3 and contrary though second respects of credit and profit which are offered move us to act against duty yet we will not act out of Conscience of our duty to God Gen. 39.10 Q. But how do you alledge all the fore-named signs do you make the soul to stay upon these as a righteousness to answer divine justice A. In no wise but I make them evidences that I have the Spirit of Christ in my heart and having the Spirit I also have the blood of Christ because these are not severed one from the other in justified persons 1 Cor. 6.10 11. Rom. 8.30 Q. What is that righteousness which answers Divine Justice A. It was the satisfaction of Christ upon the Cross for the merit or desert whereof God did not only forgive us our sins but did also blot out take away and by nailing to the Cross did tear all