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B07589 A treasure of knowledge: springing from the fountaine of godlinesse, which is the word of God. A little catechisme, wherin is handled the doctrine of the knowledge of God in Iesus Christ. : Also a briefe and pithie exposition of the Ten Commandements of almightie God ... / plainely expounded and delclared in questions and answers, by the late faithfull minister and seruant of Iesus Christ, William Dyke.. Dyke, William 1620 (1620) STC 7431.5; ESTC S91798 25,491 89

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The old man concupiscence sinne that dwelleth in vs the body of sinne the law of the members Rom. 6. 6. 7. 7. 20. 23. Q. When doth this sinne first begin in man A. In his conception Psal 51. 5. Q. What is actuall sinne A. It is the breaking of the Law of God in thought word and déed Q. Are all sinnes equall A. The first motion is not so great a sinne as the outward action some are pardonable some vnpardonable Acts 5. 3. 4. Luke 12. 4. 7. 48. Matthew 12. 31. Heb. 6. 4. Iohn 5. 16. Q. What followed sinne A. Two things guilt and punishment Q. What is that guilt A. It is the desert of sinne whereby we become subiect to the wrath and punishment of God Q. What doth this guiltinesse worke in vs A. 1. It doth still accuse and worketh vnquietnesse in the mind Gen. 4. 7. Rom. 2. 15. 2. It is an horror and torment to the conscience Pro. 28. 1. Q. What is the remedy against this A. 1. To resist and withstand the first motion of sinne 2. To humble our selues to the Lord by confession and repentance for sinne committed Q. What is the punishment A. It is all euill vpon the sinner both in this life and in the life to come Q. What are the euils in this life A. 1. Ignorance darknesse of mind hardnesse of heart pronenesse to sinne Eph. 4. 17. 18. 19. 2. Calamities and miseries vpon the bodies goods or name Deut. 28. 15. 16. 17. c. Q. What is the euill in the life to come A. Euerlasting destruction both of body and soule Rom. 6. 21. 23. Q. Did this guilt and punishment rest in Adam and went no further A. It did not rest in him but spread it selfe to all his posterity Rom. 5. 12. 13. 14. Q. What is the scope of this Scripture A. To shew that the sinne of one mans eating the forbidden fruit is the sinne of all men Q. Why should the posterity of Adam be guilty of that sinne they neuer did A. Because all mankind was in Adams loynes when he sinned as in Abraham Leui is said to haue payd tythes to Melchisedech Q. What followeth vpon this A. That by propagation of our last Parents we are partakers of the transgression of our first Parents Hitherto of the fall Q. What is the repaire of man A. A restoring of mankind to a farre better estate then euer we had in Adam Rom. 5. 15. Q. What is the way to recouer this estate A. Onely by faith in the couenant of grace Q. How doth that appeare that faith is the onely way A. Because the Scripture sheweth that the Fathers before and vnder the Law and Gospell were by this way of faith and by no other iustified and saued Gen. 15. 6. Heb. 13. 8. Q. To whom doth this restoring belong A. Onely to mankind and not to the Angels that are fallen Q. Why doth it not belong also vnto them A. 1. Because the promise of restoring was made onely to man and not to them Gen. 3. 15. 2. Because the restoring was wrought in the nature of man and not of Angels Hebr. 2. 16. Q. What are the outward meanes of this restoring A. The word of God preached and the Sacraments rightly administred Q. What are the parts of the word A. The Law called the couenant of works The Gospell called the couenant of grace Q. What doth the Law require A. Perfection in all things which none can do in any thing Q. If the Law cannot iustifie what vse is there of it A. Though it cannot iustifie yet there is great vse of it First to the vnregenerate 1. To discouer their sinne 2. To aggrauate and increase it 3. To pronounce the sentence of death aainst them and so is a Schoolemaister to bring them to Christ Gal. 3. 24. Secondly To the regenerate 1. It is a light to shew and direct them how to liue aright after they be come to Christ Psal 119. 105. 2. It doth quicken and stirre vp to obedience 3. It kéepeth downe the rebellion of the flesh in the best Q. What rules are to be obserued for the better vnderstanding of the Law A. 1. In euery commandement there is a figuratiue spéech whereby more is commanded or forbidden then is named 2. In euery commandement there be two parts affirmatiue and negatiue whereof the one is expressed and the other vnderstood 3. Whatsoeuer euery commandement commandeth or forbiddeth it commandeth all meanes and occasions thereunto and forbiddeth the contrary 4. The Law is spirituall and therefore is giuen to rule and order as well the inward man as the outward Q. Why is euery commandement set forth in the second person and singular number thou A. That euery particular man may know that God speaketh to him Q. How is the Law diuided A. Into two Tables the first and the second Exod. 34. 1. Deut. 4. 13. Q. What is proper to the first Table A. 1. That intreateth of God and his worship onely 2. The duties and sinnes of the first Table are greater then the duties and sinnes of the second Table if the comparison be equall otherwise not 3. Euery commandement of the first Table haue their seueral reasons annexed vnto thē Q. Why are the reasons of the commandement of the first Table set downe rather then the second A. To shew that there is lesse light left in vs of the worship of God then of the duties we owe to our neighbour Q. What doth the second Table teach vs A. The duties of loue and righteousnesse to our neighbours both in our generall and particular callings Q. What is to be obserued frō hence that God hath ioyned these two Tables together A. That in that obedience which is pleasing to God the duties of both tables must be ioyned together and neuer seuered 1. Ioh. 4. 20. 21. Q. Rehearse the words of the preface A. God spake all these words saying c. Q. What is contained in these words A. The precept it selfe and thrée seuerall reasons set before it Q. What is the first reason A. It is contained in these words I am Iehouah or the Lord whereby God sheweth that he hath absolute power and iust right to command all and therefore of right all are bound to obey whatsoeuer he commandeth Q. What is the second reason A. It is contained in these words Thy God In which God doth bind himselfe by promise to giue vs all good things here in the world to come eternal life therfore we are bound to obey him Heb. 11. 16. Ps 144. 15. Q. What is the third reason A. It is contained in these words Which brought thee out of the land of Egypt c. In which God puts the Iewes in mind what a great deliuerance he had giuen them and therefore bound them to obey him Q. How doth this reason concerne vs A. That deliuerance did shadow out our spiritual deliuerance from sin and the diuel and therfore we are straightly bound