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A scripture-catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours, some of them of the present times / by Thomas Hodges.
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Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.
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a man cannot pay too deare for it if false he cannot buy it too cheap Now who would be of such a Religion which may cost him the certaine losse of a temporall and much hazard his eternall estate that will ruine his estate and endanger his soule Now consider what I have said in this preface and what I say in the following Treatise and the Lord give you understanding in all things So prayeth really desirous of your conversion and salvation THO HODGES Chap. 1. Of this way or Method of proceeding by such Questions and Answers or The Introduction Q. MAY we say yes to a Question that is asked us when we answer it Affirmatively or must we necessarily say yea Ans Math. 17.24.25 They that received the Tribute money came to Peter and said Doth not your Mr pay tribute He sayth yes Q. When we answer a Question Negatively must we alwayes say Nay or may we say No A. Joh. 21.5 Then Jesus sayth unto them children have you any meat they answered him No. Q. Doth that place Jam. 5.12 forbid the saying Yes and No when it sayes Let your Yea be Yea and your Nay be Nay A. The Apostle dehorts from customary swearing and adviseth them to be true and faithfull in performing their word and promise he would not have men be I Sr no Sr as we say not yea and nay but one and the same in word and deed in our promises and performances and if we would doe so there would be no need of such common oaths to gaine credit or beliefe And farther I say that the Translators if they had pleased might have rendred the Originall thus Let your Yes be Yes and your No No as in the places above cited Q. Is it lawfull to set down or aske questions about points or matters of Religion and give answers thereunto for the instruction of the ignorant or teaching of those who are as yet babes in knowledge A. Yes Luk. 7.19 20 22. And John calling unto him two of his Disciples sent them to Jesus saying Art thou he that should come or look we for another when the men were come unto him they said John Baptist hath sent us unto thee saying Art thou he that should come or look we for another Then Jesus answering said unto them Goe your way and tell John what things you have seen and heard how that the blind see the lame walke the lepers are cleansed the dead are raised the deafe heare to the poor the Gospell is preached So Mat. 11.2 3 4 5. Hag. 2.11 12 13. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts Aske now the Priests concerning the Law saying If one beare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and with his skirt doe touch bread or pottage or wine or oyle or any meat shall it be holy And the Priests answered and said No. Then said Haggai If one that is uncleane by a dead body touch any of these shall it be unclean And the Priests answered and said It shall be unclean Mat. 13.51 Q. May a man aske or propound a Question about that which he knowes himselfe and make an objection which he can answer himselfe A. Yes Mark 12.35 36 37. And Jesus answered and said while he taught in the Temple How say the Scribes that Christ is the Son of David for David himselfe said by the holy Ghost The Lord said to my Lord sit thou on my right hand 'till I make thine enemies thy footstool David therefore himselfe calleth him Lord and whence is he then his Son So Matth. 22.41 c. Rom. 6.1 what shall we say then shall we continue in sinne that grace may abound God forbid And verse 15. what then shall we sinne because we are not under the Law but under Grace God forbid So chap. 7.7 what shall we say then is the Law sinne God forbid and chap. 9.14 what shall we say then is there unrighteousnesse with God God forbid Q. May we aske what are the opinions of men concerning Christ or Christianity and give answers to them A. Yes Matth. 16.13 14. when Jesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi he asked his Disciples saying whom doe men say that I the Son of man am And they said some say that thou art John the Baptist some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets But whom say ye that I am v. 15th c. Q. Is it lawfull to propound objections for the clearing of the truth A. Yes Luk. 20.41 42 43 44. And he said unto them How say they that Christ is David's Son And David himselfe sayth in the Book of Psalmes The Lord said to my Lord sit thou on my right hand 'till I make thine enemies thy footstool David therefore calleth him Lord how is he then his Son So Mat. 22.41 c. Mar. 12.35 36 37. Q. May a man repeat and answer the objection of adversaries made against the truth or propound such as he thinks the wisdome of the flesh will or may possibly make against the truth A. Yes Rom. 9.19 20. Nay but O man who art thou that replyest against God shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me thus in v. 19. thou wilt say then unto me why doth he yet find fault for who hath resisted his will Q. Is it in any case lawfull to set down the objection or Argument of erroneous or hereticall Persons A. Yes Luk. 20. from 27th to 33. Then came to him certaine of the Sadduces which deny that there is any Resurrection and they asked him saying Master Moses wrote unto us if any man's Brother dye having a wife and he dye without children that his Brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his Brother there were therefore seven brethren and the first took a wife and dyed without children c. therefore in the Resurrection whose wife of them is she for seven had her to wife So Mat. 22.23 c. Cap. 2. Of Errour Q. ARE there any Errors and Heresies destructive to the faith and damnable A. Yes 2 Pet. 2.1 But there were false Prophets also among the people even as there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction 2 Tim. 2.17 18. of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus who concerning the truth have erred saying that the Resurrection is past already and overthrow the Faith of some Q. Are there any blasphemous opinions A. Yes 2 Tim. 2.16.17 18. But shun profane and vain bablings for they will encrease unto more ungodlinesse and their word will eate as doth a canker of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus who concerning the truth have erred c. 1 Tim. 1.19 20. Holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made ship-wrack of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learne not to blaspheme Q. May
9.7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges Q. May they plunder and carve for themselves what they please A. No. Luk. 3.14 And he said unto them doe violence to no man and be content with your wages Q. When Abraham by God's blessing on his sword delivered the oppressed and them who were carried captive namely his Nephew Lot and the King of Sodome c. their persons and goods did he seise all for himselfe and Souldiers as their own by right of conquest A. No. Gen. 14.21 22 23 24. And the King of Sodome said to Abraham give me the persons and take the goods to thy selfe And Abram said to the King of Sodome I have lift up my hand unto the Lord the most high God the possessour of heaven and earth that I will not take from thee a thread even to a shoo-latchet that I will not take any thing that is thine lest thou shouldest say I have made Abram rich save only that which the young men have eaten and the portion of the men which went with me Aner Eshcol and Mamre let them take their portion Q. How did the people of God the Jewes when they stood for their lives and slew thousands of their enemies in the dayes of King Ahasuerus did they take all they could get for themselves A. No Esth 9.10 16. The ten sons of Haman the Son of Hammedatha the Jewes enemy slew they but on the spoile laid they not their hand But the other Jewes that were in the King's provinces gathered themselves together and stood for their lives and had rest from their enemies and slew of their foes 75 000 but they layd not their hands on the prey See also vers 15. but on the prey they laid not their hand Q. Ought not those whose lives and goods are saved to reward the instruments of their deliverance who have jeoparded their lives for them in the high places of the field A. Yes Gen. 14.21 24. And the King of Sodom said unto Abraham Give me the persons and take the goods to thy selfe Save only that which the young men have eaten and the portion of the men which went with me Aner Eshcol and Mamre let them take their portion Q. May we put all to the sword who shall be taken in war A. 2 King 6.22 And he answered thou shalt not smite them wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow set bread and water before them that they may eat and drink Q. VVhat if the case be so that our brethren forsake the Lord and become Idolaters and fall out with us and there happen to be war betwixt us and we conquer how then how did the Lord's people demean themselves in such a case after a victory or when they had their brethren in their power A. 2 Chron. 28.9 10 15. But a Prophet of the Lord was there whose name was Oded and he went out before the host that came to Samaria and said unto them Behold because the Lord God of your Fathers was wroth with Judah he hath delivered them into your hand and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up to heaven And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bond-men and bond-women unto you but are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God c. And the men which were expressed by name rose up and took the captives and with the spoile clothed all that were naked among them and arrayed them and shod them and gave them to eat and to drink and annointed them and carryed all the feeble of them upon Asses and brought them to Jericho the city of Palm-trees to their Brethren Q. What say we to the seventh of Deut. 2. and chap. 20.16 in relation to the Canaanites and to the 13 of Deut. 15. in reference to the Apostate Israelites A. These people were by God devoted to destruction the former expresly and the other upon evident proof of their breaking Articles with God the Lord of Hosts Q. VVhat means Jer. 48.10 concerning Moab A. In case God have a worke to doe suppose to destroy his implacable enemies the Moabites if God make known his mind by his Prophets as to Saul concerning the Amalekites 1 Sam. 15.3 It must be done if it be God will reward the executioner as he did Jehu if it be not done he will punish the negligent as he did Saul and that other mentioned 1 Kin. 20.25 26. Q. May a private man Souldier or other kill an Idolater a seducer to Idolatry or a false Prophet or other offender without being tryed according to law because of Deut. 13.9 and Zech. 13.3 A. Deut. 17.6 7. At the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death but at the mouth of one witnesse he shall not be put to death the hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterward the hands of all the people so thou shalt put the evill away from among you i. e. They may be witnesses against such offenders and be causers of their death in a legall way Q. Did not Phinehas out of zeale kill Zimri and Cosbi in the act of uncleanesse and is he not commended and rewarded for so doing A. Either Phinehas was an officer or had commission from Moses the chief Magistrate as the Levites had formerly in another case or he was moved and carried to this execution by a speciall motion and instinct of the spirit of God Exod. 32.26 27. Num. 25.4 5. Q. Did not Elijah slay the Priests of Baal 1 King 18.40 A. Elijah was an extraordinary Prophet wrought many miracles and at that time God had answered him by fire from heaven to consume his sacrifice and to confute the Idolatrous Priests of Baal and this in the sight of Israel gathered together by the command of King Ahab and possibly the King too might be present at this time because in the next verse immediately after mention is made of Elijah's slaying the Prophets of Baal it followes vers 41. Get thee up eat and drink for there is a sound of abundance of rain and who knowes but the King might tacitly consent if not expresly and openly to this execution of Justice and the people might be ayding thereunto having professedly acknowledged the Lord to be the God in v. 39. and if the King and people at least had not assented and some of them assisted how could one Elijah have slayn 400 Besides whether he or they they did but execute upon them the judgment written Deut. 13.5 and chap. 18.20 A like execution did Jehu by his Captaines and Guards upon the worshippers of Baal 2 Kin. 10.25 And now I desire all Quakers Antiministe rialists who account the Ministers of the Gospel as Priests of Baal would hold their hands from blood untill all the people be gathered together and