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A Tried method of catechising being an abstract of the Bishop of Corke's Shorter notes on the church-catechism : with the Scripture-proofs of them as far as necessary, and directions for the use of the abstract to advantage.
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Rosse, E. Corke.
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Rom. 8.17 And if children then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ that we may be also glorified together To be a Member of Christ is to be a Member of the Church whereof Christ is the Head Ephes 5.30 Members of his body which is the Church And v. 23. Christ is the head of the Church To be a Child of God is to be put into the Condition of a Child or into an Estate of God's Fatherly favour 1 Cor. 12.13 We are baptised into one body by one spirit Namely Rom. 8.15 The spirit of adoption by which we cry Abba Father that is truly call God Father and may come to him as a Father with humble boldness Ephes 2.18 and 3.12 To be an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven here is to have a right to inherit it For in this Life we can only have a right Revel 22.14 That they may have a right to enter in through the gates into the city Heaven is a State and Place of Everlasting Happiness or Bliss after Death 1 Pet. 1.4 An inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you By the Kingdom of Heaven is meant the Glory and greatness of that Happy State with God and Christ in Heaven Coloss We shall appear with him in glory Rom. 8.17 Be glorified together On Answ 3. To vow is to make a solemn Promise to God as strong as an Oath Psal 132.2 He sware unto the Lord and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob. The Vow which we made to God in Baptism consists of three things 1. Repentance or foregoing all wicked Life in renouncing the Devil and all his works the Pomps c. 2. Faith in believing all the Articles of the Christian Faith 3. Obedience growth and continuance therein in keeping God's holy Will and Commandments and walking c. proved by the form of Baptism To renounce is to disclaim disown or vow against Devils are Angels fallen from Heaven into an Estate of most malicious Sinning and most dreadful Torments Jude 6. The Angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day Angels are such Beings as our Souls are without Bodies but exceedingly much more knowing and powerful Psal 103.20 Ye Angels that excel in strength that do his commandments hearkening unto the voice of his word All manner of Sin may be called the work of the Devil 1 John 3.8 He that committeth sin is of the Devil for the Devil sinneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he may destroy the works of the Devil But especially seeking to the Devil or to those who are believed to deal with him Levit. 20.27 A man or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard shall surely be put to death they shall stone them with stones 1 Chron. 10.13 Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to enquire of it As also all Pride Envy Malice Murther Lying False accusing Temping others and Falling off from God Pride which is commonly believed one of the Sins by which Angels fell to be Devils Isa 14.12 13 14. How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer c. Envy or Malice Jam. 3.14 15. If ye have bitter envyings or strife in your hearts this wisdom is earthly sensual devilish Lying and Murther John 8.44 Ye are of your father the Devil and the lusts of your father ye will do He was a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him When he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the father of it False Accusing Revel 12.10 The accuser of our brethren which accused them before God day and night Corrupting or temping others to sin 1 Thess 3.5 The tempter hath tempted you Apostacy or falling from God Jude 6. The Angels which left their first estate The Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World are all lewd Shews and Sights provoking lust in our selves or others As also all remains of Heathenish Customs yet visible amongst us All other Customs contrary to Christ's Laws as is any making a sport of Sin And finally all wild Revelling Riot Luxury wanton Apparel and Habit above our Quality Lewd Shews and Sights provoking Lust Ezek. 23.14 15 16. She increased in her whoredoms for when she saw men pourtrayed on the walls exceeding in dyed or party-colour'd attire on their heads after the manner of the Babylonians she doted on them 1 John 2.16 All that is in the world the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but of the world Remains of Heathenish Customs 1 Cor. 10.20 21. The things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to Devils and not to God and I would not that ye should have fellowship with Devils Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of Devils Ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of Devils Customs contrary to Christ's Law Rom. 12.2 Be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God Making a sport of Sin Prov. 14.9 Fools make a mock at sin Wild Revelling and Riot c. 2 Thess 3.6 We command you brethren in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that ye withdraw your selves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not after the tradition which he received of us Habit above our Quality 1 Pet. 3.3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel Lust signifies an earnest desire commonly in some evil way The Flesh signifies the outward Natural Man as generally corrupt with all its Senses and Faculties Gal. 5.19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness The desires of the Flesh are sinful when they offend against the Christian Law That is when they are either of things evil and forbidden 1 Cor. 10.6 We should not lust after evil things as they also lusted Or of the unseasonable or immoderate use of things allowed Such was the Israelites lusting after Flesh in the Wilderness Psal 78.20 29 30. The Articles of our Christian Faith are the several parts of the Belief To believe these is to be so heartily persuaded of the truth of them as thereby to stir up our selves to the performance of our duty Acts 24.14 Believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets Gal. 5.6 Faith worketh by love To keep God's holy Will and Commandments is to do what he has bid us to do and to avoid what he has forbidden 1 Pet. 3. Eschew evil and do good Isa 1.16
under the state of a dead and buried Person Article V On the third day early in the Morning his Soul returned into his Body which being thereby again enlivened he came forth of the Grave and openly shewed himself alive conversing with his Disciples and other chosen Witnesses for the space of forty Days Article VI At which time in the sight of his Disciples and those who used to keep with them he went up through the Air into that place far above the Stars where the Glory of the Infinite God more immediately dwells and appears and there received Glory Power and Blessedness unconceivably above the highest Angels or any created Beings all which bow to and worship him Article VII From thence at a time appointed by God and known only to him shall this Christ Jesus come again not as first he came but with Power and great Glory accompanied by numberless Holy Angels and Saints to judge all that shall be then alive and all who have deceased from first to last Article VIII Together with the Father and the Son the Holy Spirit also really is and is God all three one God He is called Holy and Spirit not because more Holy or more a Spirit than God the Father but because he is that Spirit which peculiarly does inspire that is secretly work Holiness in us Article IX Through this Holy Spirit working Faith and Holiness in mens hearts by the Word Sacraments and Prayer God hath gathered to himself a multitude of faithful People called out of all the World named therefore the Catholick Church for Church originally signifies an Assembly or Multitude called out and Catholick signifies out of all the World These faithful People are all of them united to Christ their Head and to one another in one Covenant by Baptism and being so united do partake of the Benefits procured by one and the same Saviour of the Influences of one and the same Spirit and reap Advantages by each others Prayers Love and good Offices By which means they are truly all but one Body Article X To all the Members of this Body upon their observing the Conditions of their Common Christianity that is of the Covenant of Grace full Pardon of Sins and Righteousness before God is graciously vouchsafed by God Article XI The Bodies of all People both Just and Unjust shall at the end of the World be by God wonderfully framed again out of their Dust and their Souls returning into them and enlivening them they shall all again become living Men and Women But those who are then alive shall have their Bodies changed into a condition like to theirs who rise again Article XII After this there shall be no more Death But all Faithful and Holy Persons shall live without end enjoying God in unspeakable unconceivable Blessedness And all Unbelieving Impenitent Wicked People shall be punished with the Devil and his Angels for evermore All this I stedfastly believe that is I am persuaded it is true and I resolve to live as one who is so persuaded A Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer The Invocation or Adoration O Most merciful and bounteous yet Almighty most Glorious and All-seeing Lord God who hast made redeemed and evermore providest for me and all Mankind Petition I From my heart do I pray that thou mayest be ever acknowledged worshipped feared and glorified both by my self and all Creatures whatsoever capable of knowing and fearing thee Petition II And that thy Grace may bring into Subjection my Heart and the Hearts of all People so that the time may soon come when all thy Saints shall reign with thee in Glory everlasting Petition III And in the mean while that both I and all People may most chearfully faithfully speedily and diligently do and submit to thy Will in all things as thy Holy Angels do in Heaven Petition IV As to this World give us good God day by day as long as thou shalt continue us here what may conveniently suffice us Petition V And free us from the Punishments both present and to come due unto all our Sins Even as we desire all People may be freed from the Vengeance due to them for any wrong done us Petition VI And never O Lord withdraw thy Grace from us when we fall under any allurements to Sin or terrors from Duty so as to leave us to be overcome by Sin but preserve us from the Mischief of the Temptation and Power of the Tempter Glorification For thou alone O Heavenly Father both art ever hast been and ever shall be King and Lord most high over all Almighty and Sufficient From thee comes every good and every perfect Gift and to thee be the Glory of all to all Eternity With all my heart I desire it An ABSTRACT of the Bishop of CORK's Shorter Notes on the Church-Catechism with the Scripture Proofs of them as far as necessary On the Title Proposition I TO Catechise is to instruct in Religion by often repeating the first certain and most necessary Points of it Luke 1.3 4. It seemed good to me to write all in order that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed In the Original Catechised Proposition II Religion is the Worship or Service of God Jam. 1.27 Pure Religion Originally pure Worship Proposition III God is a most infinitely perfect Mind Maker Lord and Judge of all Proved under Answer 6. Proposition IV Those plain Truths or Doctrines which bring us to believe love fear and serve God we commonly call the Principles that is beginnings chief Points Fundamentals or Grounds of Religion Heb. 6.1 Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation Proposition V The first and great Principle of all Religion is That there is a God Heb. 11.6 He that cometh to God must believe that he is Another That God hath revealed himself in Holy Scripture ready to receive Sinners to Repentance and enter into Covenant with them Luk. 24 47. It behoved that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in the name of Jesus among all nations On Answ 2. The Covenant of Grace to which God now-a-days calls all of us and into a state of which we are baptised consisteth on God's part of the Benefits which he makes over to us And on our part of the Vow which we make to him commonly in Baptism Jer. 31.33 This is the Covenant I will be their God and they shall be my people The Benefits God makes over to us flowing from that new Estate into which by Baptism we enter are chiefly three 1. Grace by being made Members of Christ our Head Joh. 1.16 Of his fulness have we all received and grace for grace 2. Pardon of Sin and God's favour being made Children of God Acts 22.16 Be baptised and wash away thy sins 3. A Right and Title to Everlasting Happiness being made Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven