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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	father_n	heaven_n	maker_n	3,071	5	10.1314	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15827	A short and briefe summe of saving knowledge consisting of the creed, ten Commandements, Lords prayer and the sacraments. And is made profitable introduction to the larger art of divinitie, composed by the methodicall tables of A.R. and published by I.Y.	Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.	1621 (1621)	STC 26088; ESTC S113976	8,831	32

A SHORT AND BRIEFE SVMME Of saving Knowledge Consisting of the Creed ten Commandements Lords Prayer and the Sacraments And is made as a profitable Introduction to the larger Art of Divinitie composed by the methodicall Tables of A. R. and published by I. Y. 1 PETER 2.2 As new borne babes desire the sincere milke of the Word that yee may grow thereby Not as babes ever sucking never batling LONDON Printed by I. D. for Fulke Clifton and are to be sold vnder St Margrets Church on Fish-streete hill 1621. ¶ To the Religious Student of the Art of Well-liuing THou mayest Christian Reader after thou hast studied and well pervsed this short Summe of Religion purchase to thy selfe if thy purse and paines will suffer thee the learned Theologie and Divinitie of that worthy man of God Mr Alexander Richardsonne This may be for preparation that will bee for further perfection Heb. 6.1 Leaving the beginning of Christ let vs goe on to perfection It is a shame ever to be vnder the spoone and never to vse the knife Ever learning and never to come to the knowledge of the Truth 2. Tim. 3.7 Yet soft and sure is the best pace Leap-Christians like horse-coursers Iades gallop into profession and then shamefully tyre and giue in It lames a weake Childe to vse limmes too soone and over-much forwardnes argues no perpetuitie Learne we then first to goe easily and afterwards to runne with speed the wayes of Gods Commandements The Catechisme defined and distributed CHAPTER I. Of Faith in God Question WHat inducements to Religion are prefixed before your Catechisme Answere Foure first the giuing vp of my name to God in Baptisme and that in the dreadfull name of Father Sonne and holy Ghost Secondly that being not able to giue it vp my selfe it was done by others according to the auncient custome of the Church ever conioyning Baptisme and Confession together Math. 3.6 Aug. Epist 24. Papists would haue it to contract spirituall kindred but surely it maketh honest loue amongst neighbours Thirdly They that gaue it vp for me did promise in my name that I should liue according to Religion Fourthly I beleeue in conscience that I am bound to performe what they haue promised Thus because I am Gods and bound to him by sureties vowes promises and Conscience it selfe It is my dutie being nowe come to yeeres of discretion to learne to beleeue in him and obey him Q. What then is Religion A. It is the acknowledgement of the truth which is after godlinesse Tit. 1.1 Q. What are the parts A. Faith and Workes the summe of the one is contained in the Creed of the other in the ten Commandements Lords prayer and the Sacraments Tit. 3.8 Q. What is Faith A. A confidence in God grounded vpon knowledge Ioh. 16.30 Wee know and by this beleeue Q. How is Faith grounded vpon knowledge A. In regard of God and his Church the maker of the Couenant and the people with whom it is made Ier. 31.33 Q. How in respect of God A. As we beleeue in one God and three persons for our happinesse Ioh. 14.1 Q. How in one God A. In respect of nature essence and being Deut. 4.35 Q. How in three persons A. Three in regard of divine revelation or reall respects in that one most pure essence Mat. 28.19 Q. What is the essence A. That whereby God is of himselfe the most absolute and first being Isa 41.4 Q. What is a person A. That one pure pure God with the relation of a Father Sonne and holy Ghost 1. Ioh. 5.7 Q. Doth the relation adde any thing to the essence A. Nothing but respect or relation as Abraham the Father of the faithfull hath the same nature as he is a Father and as he is a man Q. What is the Relation A. It is either to send or be sent and both these are done either by nature or counsell Ioh. 15.26 the spirit proceedeth from the father and sonne by nature and is sent to vs by counsell Q. Is there no other relation A. Yes either to beget or be begotten and the father begets his onely sonne by nature and the rest of his children by counsell Heb. 1.3 Iam. 1.18 A man hauing the relation of a father is said to beget children by nature or counsell as adopted children are freely begotten not of the bodie but the will Iam. 1.18 Of his owne will begat he vs not so his onely sonne who is as naturall to his Father as burning to the fire and as Isaac to Abraham Q. What then is the first person A. God the father who by nature begets his sonne by his counsell creats the world Heb. 1.2.5 Q. What is the propertie of the Father A. To beget and not to be begotten Ioh. 3.16 Q. What is his manner of subsisting A. To be the first person for the begetter is before the begotten and yet being Relatiues they are together in nature for no man is a father before he haue a sonne though in order the father be first Q. What is the fathers worke A. Creation for I beleeue in him as maker of heauen and earth and the reason is because he is the first person to whom the first worke belongs Q. What is Creation A. A worke of the Father who of himselfe by his sonne and spirit makes the world of nothing exceeding Good Gen. 1.31 Heb. 1.3 Q. What is giuen to the Father in respect of Creation A. Almightie power for the Father in himselfe is pure act which act is power as it may be felt of his creatures which are in power to be Q. What is omnipotencie A. It is that whereby the Father is able to doe all that he doth and more then hée doth if it contradict not his owne nature or the nature of things Q. How is Creation devided A. Into heauen and earth Gen. 1.1 Q. What meane you by heauen A. The third heauen with the Angels both which were made perfect in the very first beginning of time Gen. 1.1 Q. What meane you by earth A. All that matter which was closed and compassed about with the third heauen and was made at the same instant with it to prohibite and keepe out vacuitie or emptinesse and fill vp the whole compasse of it otherwise the parts of themselues would haue fallen together to haue kept out that enemy of nature Gen. 1.1 Q. Are wee to vnderstand no more by earth then that first matter A. Yes wee are to vnderstand the forming of it into the foure elements fire ayre water and earth as likewise the filling of if and them with inhabitants beth aboue and below as also the providence of the Father in preseruing gouerning of them all to their ends and vsee for the Father carries the worke according to his proper manner of working vntill wée come to Redemption and there the sonne takes it vpon him in a peculiar manner Q. What is the second person A. The sonne who is begotten of the Father