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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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God Heb. 3.7 compared with Isa 95.7 in the Hebrew it's said They tempted the Holy ghost in the Psalmes They tempted God Acts 28.25 compared with Isa 6.8 in the Acts its said The Holy ghost spake to Isaiah but in Isa it s said the Lord spake unto him yeâ— the Lord whose train filled the temple 1 Cor. 6.20 the Apostle saith We are not our own but the Holy ghosts therefore he hath absolute power over us Now God alone hath absolute power over us Yea he bids us glorifie God with our bodies Now what God means he save the Holy ghost whose bodies he call'd his temple Further his Godhead appears because he searcheth all things yea the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2.10 11. As the minde of a man knows all the things of man because it is in him so doth the Spirit of God know the things of God Acts 7.51 You do always resist the Holy ghost as your fathers did Now whom did their fathers resist in the Books of Moses but God Besides his Godhead was seen in inabling persons to speak with tongues of all sorts without any teaching of them by man Acts 2. Q. Whether is the Holy ghost only a motion action or operation whereby God works effectually in the hearts of the elect or whether is he an understanding willing working substance A. He is an understanding willing working substance because he is said to be blasphemed Matth. 12.30 31. Now an action cannot properly be said to be blasphemed but a person Againe the holy Spirit is said to be a Comforter and to testifie of Christ John 15.26 When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you he shall testifie of me therefore a person Acts 13.2 The Holy ghost bad separate Paul and Barnabas for the work yea he sets overseers over Gods flock Acts 20.28 Acts 15.18 It seems good to the Holy ghost and to us If it seem'd good to him then he is a person indued with understanding Acts 16.6 The Holy ghost forbad the Apostles to go to Phrygia and Bithynia and bad them go to Macedonia because he commands and forbids he is a Substance Rom. 5.5 the love of God is said to be shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy ghost The Apostle herein puts a full difference betwixt the gifts of God and the Holy ghost Besides 1 Cor. 12.11 He distributes gifts to every one even as he pleaseth therefore he is a person or substance Isa 48.16 Qu. Wether is the holy ghost equal with the Father and Son Answ Yes 2 Cor. 13.13 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and communion of the holy ghost be with you The Apostle joyns the holy ghost with the other persons in prayer 1 John 5.7 these three are one Psal 33.6 all the host of Heaven was made by the Spirit as well as by Father and Son Gen. 1.2 The Spirit of God moved upon the waters The holy ghost also takes us into Covenant and in his name are we baptized Matth. 28. which were unlawful were he not God equal with the Father The holy ghost makes covenant with us Heb. 10.15 16. the holy ghost is a witness to us for after he had said before This is the Covenant that I will make with them I will put my Laws into their hearts c. Besides being we are baptized into his name we are baptized into his worship religion faith doctrine Q. What Scriptures prove unto us the Trinity A. These following Isa 63.7 2 Sam. 23.2 3. Isa 61.1 Hag. 2.4 5. Psal 33.6 In the New Testament Matth. 3.16 17. Matth. 28.19 Joh. 1.32 33. Joh. 15.26 Joh. 16.3 13 14 15. 1 Cor. 12.3 Eph. 2.18 2 Cor. 13.13 Tit. 3.5 6. Gal. 4.6 The same name of Jehovah and the same works are ascribed to each person Q. What are the attributes of God A. There are many of them as 1. Spirituality whereby he cannot be touched Luk. 24.29 For a Spirit hath not flesh nor bones nor can he be seen 1 Tim. 6.16 Whom no man hath seen nor can see 2. Eternity whereby he was from everlasting Psal 90.2 Before the mountains were brought forth from everlasting to everlasting thou art God 3. Unchangeableness There 's no shadow of turning with God Iam. 1.17 1 Sam. 15.29 Repentance attributed to God signifies no change in Gods nature but in his actions mutably decreed from eternity God is fain to speak to us as Nurses to chilchildren lispingly because they cannot understand perfect speech 4. Omnipresence In that he is present everywhere Psal 139.7 Whither shall I flee from thy presence and also knows every thing and person Heb. 4.13 All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do so that he knows the very motions of the will of man even before they move 5. His Almightiness in that he is able to do whatsoever he pleaseth Psal 135.6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he Yea he is able to do more then he pleaseth to do he could have raised up of stones children to Abraham Matth. 3.9 He could have given Christ 12 legions of Angels Job 42.2 6. His Self-sufficiency in that he is compleat in himself not needing any thing the creature can do Gen. 17.1 I am God alsufficient 7. His Knowledg whereby God doth perfectly know himself and by himself all other things that are were shall be or can be and that not successively as men do but by one act of understanding Job 42.2 Joh. 21.17 8. The Will of God whereby he wills in a holy manner and works all things according to the counsel thereof Eph. 1.11 Q. What be the parts of Gods Kingdom A. Two 1. his decree 2. the execution of it Q. What is Gods decree A. It is Gods everlasting determination and purpose concerning all things and persons Act. 4.28 To do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Eph. 1.11 Predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his owne will And as God decreeeth concerning all things and persons so doth he decree the circumstance of place time means and manner Act. 27.31 Except these abide in the Ship ye cannot be saved Q. What is Predestination A. It is Gods fore-ordaining all reasonable creatures whether Angels or Men to an everlasting estate either of salvation or damnation 1 Thes 5.9 God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtaine salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ Q. What are the parts of Predestination A. Two 1. Election which is Gods appointing some to Salvation through Christ Rom. 9.23 He made known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had prepared unto glory Eph. 1.5 Having chosen us in him before the foundation of the world 2. Reprobation which is Gods appointing some both Men and Angels to destruction 2 Tim. 2.20 there are some Vessels to dishonour Rom. 9.22 To shew his wrath and make his power known
he endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction Q. Is there no cause or inducement of Election in the Elected themselves or of Reprobation in the Reprobate A. No Rom. 9.18 He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardeneth 2 Tim. 1.9 He hath called us with an holy calling according to his own purpose and grace Eph. 1.9 He made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himself Q. Is not Christ the cause of our Election A. No not of Gods decreeing of it for that he did of his own free-will but of the execution of it that is our Salvation is for and through Christ Eph. 1.4 He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world Q. Is not sin the cause of reprobation A. No for then all men should be Reprobate when God foresaw that all would be sinners but sin is the cause of the execution of reprobation Q. What use are we to make of our election A. It serves to humble us that we had nothing of our selves 2. It should breed in us love to God for his love to us 3. It comforts that our Salvation standeth not in our selves who dayly might lose it but in Gods unchangeable decree Q. Whether is God decreeing the works of the wicked the author of sin A. No though God decrees the sinful works of the wicked for else they had not been as the Jewes crucifying of Christ Acts 2.23 Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledg of God c. So Ioseph's selling into Egypt Gen. 45.7 50 20. yet is nothing sin as God decreeth it or commandeth it Abraham's killing of Isaak being commanded of God was a duty which else God forbiding it was a sin â— God 's decreeing of sin being a way to manifest the glory of Gods Justice is a good thing Qu. What is the execution of Gods decree A. It 's an action of God working all things in time according to his decree Eph. 1.11 Acts 4.28 Q. What are the parts of the execution of Gods decree A. Two 1. Creation 2. Providence Q. What is it to create A. To bring a thing from no being to being Gen. 1.1 Also to bring in a form created of nothing into a praeexistent matter Q. How did God create all things A. By his Word Psal 33.6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made also ver 9. Gen. 1.3 c. Let there be light and there was light Heb. 11.3 The worlds were framed by the word of God Q. Of what made he all things A. Of nothing Rom. 4.17 Heb. 11.3 Things which are seen were not made of things which do appear Which plainly appears in that they are said to be made in the beginning that is when there was nothing but God Gen. 1.1 It was either made of the essence of God or of nothing but Gods essence is indivisible ergo of nothing Q. How long was God in creating the world A. Six days and rested the seventh Gen. 2.1 Exod. 20.11 In six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day Q. Why was God so long in creating the world A. That we might not lightly pass over the works of God which he was so long in creating Q. What is Gods creation A. It 's Gods action whereby he made Nature and all things in nature whether substances or accidents in the space of six days for his own glory and happiness of his Elect. Prov. 16.4 Q. What grounds have we to believe there is a Providence A. 1. From Scripture because nothing falls out without the determinate counsel of God no not the crucifying of the Son of God Act. 4.28 to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Matth. 10.29 30 31. not a hair falls from our heads nor a sparrow to the ground without the will of our Father 2. The providence of God is seen 1. In making innumerable contrarieties serve to one end as heat and cold light and darkness viz. the use of man 2. From the reasonable actions of unreasonable creatures as the shifting Countryes according to the season of the year 3. From the dependence of callings and countryes one upon another 4. The fitting one thing for another man hath an eye colour is the object of it light discovers the colour the air is a clear body through which it is seen 5. The provident provision made for all the creatures as in bringing springs of water to all towns the earth also bringing forth grasse for every creature 6. The fit rewards and punishments that are bestowed and inflicted on the deeds of men so that no wicked man can out-run Justice Judg. 16.30 Esth 6.4 Haman seeking to hang Mordecai is hanged Psal 9.16 Act. 12.22 Q. But if there be a Providence in the world how comes it that ill men have so much prosperity and good men so much adversity A. The prosperity of wicked men tends to further the decree of God to their destruction Prov. 1.32 The prosperity of fools shall destroy them Moreover the adversity good men endure is very profitable in many particular respects as to wean them from the world and to keep their hearts humble and that they being empty of the creature may the more fasten upon God so that good men have acknowledged their adversity good for them Ps 119.71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted Rom. 8.28 All things work together for good to them therefore the adversity is for their good so that God doth so dispose his rewards to his people and punishments to the wicked that to speak properly it never happens ill to the Godly or well to the wicked in this life Q. What is the Providence of God A. It is an outward action of God whereby he doth govern and dispose all and every thing which is made both creatures and their actions and faculties according to the counsel of his will that in every thing he may be glorified As honours Psal 75.6 7. Punishments Amos 3.6 periods of Kingdomes Dan. 2.21 The wills of men Jer. 10.23 yea of the greatest of men even Kings Prov. 21.1 the counsels of men as Achitophel 2 Sam. 17.14 yea the smallest thing as a Sparrows falling Mat. 10.30 yea the most accidental thing as the killing of a man unawares Exod. 21.13 yea the lot cast into the lap is wholly disposed of by him Prov. 16.33 Q. What are the parts of Gods Providence A. Three 1. The keeping the being of things in their kindes in a continued succession as long as he sees good Act. 17.28 In him we live and move and have our being 2. His government whereby as a Monarch he governs all things according to the liberty of his own will so that when any creature goes according to the liberty of its will it is because God