of God who helpeth our infirmities putteth good motions into our minde and good words into our mouth Q. What is the best rule of prayer which we have A. That patterne of Christs Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name c. Q. How many parts are they in the Lords prayer A. Three the preface the petitions and the conclusion The thirtie three Sunday Q. WHat are the wordes of the preface A. Our Father which art in Heaven Q. What good learne we of these wordes A. To come with boldnesse to our GOD because Hee is our Father and also with great respect because hee is our heavenly Father Q. How many petitions are in the Lords prayer A. Six Q. How divide you these six petitions A. The first three concerne GODS owne glory the last three concerne our selves and our neighbour Q. What is the first petition A. Hallowed bee thy Name Q. What is the meaning of these wordes A. That GOD may be knowne to be a holy GOD and so may bee reverenced and worshipped by all his creatures Q. What is the second petition A. Thy kingdome come Q. What is the meaning thereof A. That Christ may both inwardly in our hearts and outwardly among men rule and governe untill hee put all his enemies under his feete Q. What is the third petition A. Thy will bee done in earth as it is in Heaven Q. What is the meaning thereof A. That GOD bee obeyed as perfectly by his Saints on Earth as by the Saints and Angels of Heaven The thirtie fourth Sunday Q. I have heard of the first three petitions which concerne God now tell me what is the first of the three petitions which concerne our selves and our neighbour A. The first of those three is Give us this day our dayly bread Q. What is the meaning thereof A. That GOD would give unto us the things of this world as meat drink cloathing honour children or any other worldly thing so far as hee thinketh it expedient for his owne glory and for our well Q What is the second petition A. Forgive us our trespasses as wee forgive them that trespasse against us Q. What is the meaning thereof A. That GOD in his mercy would most freely pardon our sins Q. Wherefore is this subjoyned as we forgive these that trespasse against us A. To teach us to be mercifull to these that offend us Q. What is the last petition A. And leade us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Q. What is the meaning thereof A. That GOD deliver us from the snaires of the Devil of the world and of our owne corruptions and from all other dangers whatsoever Q. What is the conclusion of that most perfect prayer A. For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever Q. How many things are to be considered in these words A. Foure first that God is a King Secondly that he is powerfull Thirdly that hee is glorious Fourthly that hee is eternall The thirtie five Sunday Q. WHat is the fourth and last part of GODS service A. To give God thanks for all his benefites Q. What thankes requireth God of us A. That we set foorth his glory with heart tongue and hand Q. How thank we GOD with our hearts A. When wee think honourably of him and acknowledge his goodnesse Q. How thank we him with our tongues A. When our tongues are instruments of setting foorth his glory in godly words Q. How thank we God with our handes A. When the actions of our life are so holy that these who see them are moved to praise our heavenly Father Q. What is the summe of the whole Covenant betweene GOD and man A. That GOD shall bee a friend to man and that man shall serve GOD by believing in him by obeying him by praying unto him and by giving him thanks Q. Thou understandest heere the Covenant betweene God and man is a mutuall promise betweene God and man to wit that God shall be a friend to man and man shall be a faithfull servant unto God A. I understand so The thirtie six Sunday Q. WHat callest thou a Covenant A. A league or agreement betweene two or more parties Q. What is the Covenant of God and man A. A league or agreement which God hath made with men for salvation Q. What other name hath this Covenant in Scriptures A. It is called a Testament Q. What is properly called a Testament A. That which we commonly call a mans will and appointment for the bestowing of his goods among his friends Q. Wherefore is Gods Covenant called a Testament A. Because it was confirmed and ratified by the death of Christ who made the Covenant and also because it containeth his last will written down Q. How many Covenants hath God made with man A. Two the Covenant of workes and the Covenant of grace Q. What callest thou the Covenant of workes A. It was a league which God made with Adam and all his posteritie on condition of their perfect obedience Q. Did man keepe that Covenant A. No not Q. Is he now able to keepe it A. No not Q. Wherefore is it then delivered unto men in the Scriptures A. To convince them of sin that they may seek mercy in Christ. Q. What callest thou the Covenant of grace A. It is an agreement concerning men to bee freely saved through faith in Christ. Q. What is the substance of this Covenant A. Salvation by faith in Christ. Q. When and where was the Covenant of grace made A. Incontinent after Adams fall GOD in Paradise promised that Christ the feed of the woman should tread down the head of the Divel the old Serpent Q. How many Covenants of grace hath GOD made with man A. Onely one Q. In Scriptures I read of an old Testament or Covenant and of a new Testament or Covenant A. The same Covenant of grace is either old or new in diverse respects and circumstances being one for Substance Q. Wherefore callest thou the Covenant of grace the old Covenant A. In regard of the first dispensation of it by Moses towards the Jewes in diverse rites and ceremonies which in time like old things vanish away Q. Wherefore is it called a new Testament or Covenant A. In regard of the dispensation of it by Christ without such rites and figures to endure alwayes new and the same unto the end of the world 6. Of the Sacraments The thirtie seventh Sunday Q. WEE have heard of the first five parts of the Catechisme First of God Secondly of mans Creation Thirdly of his Fall Fourthly of his Redemption Fifthly of mans dueties to GOD for the same which is the summe of the Covenant between GOD and man now let me heare of the seales of that Covenant A. The Sacraments are these seales Q. Wherefore serve these seales A. For the confirmation of our Faith Q. What neede have we of seales unto Gods promises seeing God cannot lie A. Because our faith is weake
Spirit Q. By what meanes A. By the preaching of the Word Q. How is our faith made stronger A. By the hearing of the word and receiving of the Sacraments Of the Sacraments Q. WHAT is a Sacrament A. It is an outward seale appointed by God for to certifie us of our Salvation in Christ. Q. How many Sacraments are there A. Two Baptisme and the Lords Supper Q. What is Baptisme A. A seale of our entrance into the Church Q. What is signified by the washing made by water A. The washing away of our sins by Christs bloud Q. What is the Lords Supper A. A seale of our spirituall nourishment in the Church Q. What signifieth the breaking of the bread A. The breaking of Christs body with many sorrowes Q. What signifieth the powreing out of the wine A. The powreing out of Christs blood upon the Crosse. Q. Who are worthy communicants A. God accounts these worthy who have faith love and repentance A prayer at the houre of Death Because death is very uncertaine and Pastors can not be ever pre sent at the last houre of dying men I have set down this Prayer for the com for t of such MOST gracious GOD most dear and loving Father let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart be acceptable in thy sight for thou art our Lord our strength and our Redeemer We most unworthie to speake for our selves are hold heere to call upon thee and most humbly to intreate thee to be gracious and mercifull to this thy faithfull servant now going from the earth to his long home in the heavens Thou Lord Jesus who can not lie hast said unto us That whatsoever we shall aske the Father in thy name thou wilt give it unto us O Father of mercies we seeke from thee in the name of thy Son Jesus that all the sinnes of this thy now dying servant may be forgotten and fully and freely forgiven him though his sins have indeed beene red like Scarlet and Crimson let it please thee so to wash him with the vertue of the blood of Jesus that his soule once polluted and defiled with sinne may be made white like the woole yea whiter then the snow Thou Lord understandest the groanes of thine own Spirit thou hast begun a good worke in him now as thou dost with the yeere crowne it with thy goodnesse seale up in his heart that peace which thou hast purchased with the blood of Christ Jesus the Prince of peace Assure him now of the rest of these joyes whereof he in his life hath had by thy grace a mercifull foretaste in the very throes of death greatest throngs of temptations uphold him with the hope of glory Let his faith get a full victory over all the enemies of his salvation Let the vertue of Christs Crosse crucifie the world unto him and him unto the world let the death of Jesus be the death of his sinnes and the life of his soule Say unto his soule Bee of good comfort all thy sinnes are forgiven thee Seeing while he is heere at home in the body he is absent from the Lord make thou him confident and willing rather to be absent from the body that he may bee present with thee his Lord in the heavens among the Angels and and spirits of just men who are alwayes in thy presence beholding thy face wherein is fulnesse of joy Now Lord while his flesh and his heart faile him be thou the strength of his heart and his portion for ever for whom hath he in heaven but thee and there is none on earth whom hee desires besides thee make haste Lord come Lord Jesus come Open now the doores of thy mercy and suffer this wearied traveller to enter into thine everlasting rest O Spirit of comforts the Comforter of troubled soules seale up in his heart the pardon of all sinnes with the blood of Jesus and now crowne all thy gifts and graces in him with thy glory Lord Jesus receive his spirit Father into thine hands wee commend his soule To the Father Son and holy Ghost bee everlasting glory praise power and dominion for ever and ever Amen FINIS Act. 26 29. Luke 22 28. vers 29. vers 30. 2 Iohn 1 2 Tim. 1.18 Q. 1 Joh. 2 12 vers 13 Psal. 19.14 Eccles. 12.5 Iohn 14.13 Isa. 1.8 Psal. 65.11
it hath neede to be strengthned Q. What is a Sacrament A. It is an outward seale appointed by God for to certifie us of our Salvation in Christ. Q. How many Sacraments had the Jewes under the law A. Two Circumcision and the Paschall Lambe Q. What was the outward seale in Circumcision A. The cutting away of the foreskine Q. What did that represent and seale A. The cutting away of the Superfluitie of Sin Q. What was the outward signe and seale of the Sacrament of the lambe A. The lambe was first killed after it was eaten Q. What did all that represent and seale A. That Christ was killed for to be food for our soules The thirtie eight Sunday Q. HOW many Sacraments are they under the Gospell A. Two Baptisme and the Lords Supper Q. What is Baptisme A. A seale of our entrance into the Church Q. What is the visible signe in Baptisme A. The element of water with the outward actions as the sprinkling washing dipping into water abiding under the water and comming out of the water Q. What doth the water represent unto us A. The blood of Jesus Christ and his Spirit Q. What are the speciall graces sealed up untous while wee are baptized A. Our Justification and Sanctification Q. What outward action represents our justification A. As the water washeth away all uncleanesse from the body so the blood of Christ washeth away all sinnes from our soules which is our justification Q. What outward actions represent our Sanctification A. They be cheefly three first the dipping of the body Secondly the staying under the water Thirdly the comming out of the water Q. What signifieth the dipping of the body A. It signifieth the mortification of sinne or fellowship with Christ in his death Q. What signifieth the staying under the water A. It signifieth the buriall of sin Q. What signifieth the comming out of the water A. The resurrection from sin to newnesse of life Rom. 6.3 Q. What is the differences of these two graces Iustification and Sanctification which are sealed by our Baptisme A. Justification is the absolution of a sinner from the guilt of sinne Sanctification is an alteration of qualities from evill to good Q. Make the matter yet more cleare A. Justification consists in remission of sinnes and imputation of justice for the obedience of Christ Sanctification is a renovation from our corrupt nature Q. What other difference is betweene these two A. Justification is perfect in this life but Sanctification is heere imperfect Q. To whom belongs the Sacraments of Baptisme A. To all the faithfull and to their children Q. By what reason provest thou that little children should be baptixed A. Because they are entered into the Church and Baptisme is a seale of their entrance into the same The thirtie ninth Sunday Q. WHAT is the Lords Supper A. A seale of our spirituall nourishment in the Church Q. What are the visible signes A. Bread and wine Q. What other signes are in the Lords Supper A. The outward actions to wit the breaking of the bread and powring out of the wine and the distributing of the same Q. What doth the bread in the Sacrament represent A. The blessed body of Christ. Q. What doth the breaking of the bread represent A. The breaking of Christs body and soule with unspeakable torments Q. What doth the wine signifie A. The blood of Christ. Q. What doth the powring out of the wine signifie A. The powring out of Christs blood Q. What is the spirituall grace represented and offered unto us by the elements and actions A. The nourishment of our souls Q. Make that more cleare A. As the bread eaten feeds the body and as the wine drunke rejoyceth the heart so the body and blood of Christ apprehended by a lively faith like meat strengthneth and like wine rejoiceth the soule The fourtie Sunday Q. MAY not little children be partakers of the Sacrament of the Supper as well as of Baptisme A. No not Q. What is the reason A. Baptisme is a Sacrament of our entrance into the Church but the Sacrament of the Supper is onely for these that have understanding Q. How knowest thou that A. Because it is enjoined to all these that partake of the Supper to try examine themselves which infants cannot do Q. What are the spirituall duties of these that would rightly communicate A. That every man examine himself and so eate of that bread and drinke of that cup. Q. Wherein consists that examination A. That a man try himselfe if he hath these three things faith love and repentance The fourtie one Sunday Q. WHAT should he try of his faith A. If he knoweth God and is in some measure assured that Christ died for him Qu What if his faith be weak may he come to the table of the Lord A. This Sacrament is not for these that are perfect but for to strengthen these that are weake Q. What should the communicant try of his love A. If hee loveth his God better then all things Q. What should he try concerning his love towards his neighbour A. If he desireth by all meanes not only not to hurt but also to his neighbour in his person name helpe and estate Q. What shall he try of his repentance A. If hee from his heart bee sory for his bypast sins and also bee resolved to amend his life in all times to come Q. By what singes will this repentance appeare A. By seven Q. What is the first A. A care to leave the sinne wherein hee is fallen 2 Cor. 7.11 Q. What is the second A. An utter condemnation of himselfe for sinne with a craving pardon Q. What is the third A. A great anger against himselfe for his carelesnesse Q. What is the fourth A. A feare least hee should fall into the same sin againe Q. What is the fifth A. A desire ever to please God Q. What is the sixt A. A zeale or increase of affection in well doing Q. What is the seventh A. Revenge upon himself for his former offence 2 Cor. 7.11 The fourtie two Sunday Q. THinkest thou that a man must have faith love and repentance in a good measure before he come to the table of the Lord A. Yea verily for the wedding garment is made of these three graces Q. What then should be our chiefe exercise before we come to the Lords Supper A. To try if we have faith love and repentance Q. What if wee want any of them A. Let us seek them from God by earnest prayer Q. But may wee not come to the Sacrament without them A. No not Q. What danger is if we come without them A. We eate and drinke judgement to our selves Q. Wherefore that A. Because we discerne not the Lords body The fourtie three Sunday Q. WHat callest thou to discerne the Lords body A. It is to put a difference betweene the Sacramentall bread the seale of his body and other common bread Q. What is the difference A.