For what saith the Scripture Abraham Rom. 4. 3. believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness Even as David declareth the blessedness of the man unto whom God emputeth Vers 6. righteousness without works saying Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven Vers 7. and whose sins are covered 5. And sanctified And he put no difference between us and Acts 15. 19. them after that by faith he had purified their hearts But ye are of him in Christ Jesus who of Cor. 1. 30. God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption The fifth Principle Q. VVhat are the ordinary or usual means for obtaining of faith A. Faith cometh onely by the preaching of the VVord and increaseth daily by it as also by the administration of the Sâ—craments and Prayer 1. Faith cometh onely by the preaching of the Word and increaseth daily by it But how shall they call on him in whom Rom. 10. 14. they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher Where there is no vision the people decay but he that keepeth the Law is blessed Prov. 29. 19. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge Hos 4. 6. because thou hast refused knowledge I will also refuse thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me and seeing thou hast for gotten the Law of thy God I will also forget thy children 2. As also by the administration of the Sacraments After he received the sign of circumcision Rom. 4. 31. as the seal of the righteousness of faith which he had when he was uncircumcised that he should be the father of all them that believe not being circumcised that righteousness might be imputed to them also Moreover brethren I would not that 1 Cor. 10. 1. ye should be ignorant that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the Sea c. 3. And Prayer For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved The sixth Principle Q. What is the state of all men after death A. All men shall rise again with their own bodies to the last judgement which being ended the godly shall possess the kingdom of Heaven but unbelievers and reprobates shall be in hell tormented with the devil and his angels for ever 1. All men shall rise again with their own bodies Marvel not at this for the hour shall Joh. 5. 28. come in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice And they shall come forth that have done Vers 29. good unto the resurrection of life but they that have done evil unto the resurrection of condemnation 2. To the last Judgement For God will bring every work unto judgement with every secret thing whether Eccl. 12. 14. it be good or evil But I say unto you that of every idle Mâ—t. 12. 36. word that men shall speak they shall give an account thereof at the day of Judgment 3. Which being ended the godly c. And del vered just Lot vexed with the unclean conversation of the wicked And the Lord said unto him Go through Ezek. 9. 4. the midst of the City even through the midst of the City even through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of them that mourn and cry out for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof 4. Shall possess the Kingdom of God Then shall the King say to them on the Mat. 25. 34. right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit ye the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world 5. But unbelievers and reprobates shall be in hell tormented with the devil and his angels Then shall he say unto them on the left Vers 41. hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels The Scriptures for proof were onely quoted by the Author to move thee to search them the words themselves I have expressed at the earnest request of many that thou mayest more easily learn them if yet thou wilt be ignorant thy malice is evident if thou gainest knowledge give God the glory in doing of his will Thine T. S. THE EXPOSITION OF THE SIX PRINCIPLES The first Principle expounded Question WHat is God A. God is a Joh. 4. 24. a Spirit or spiritual substance most wise most holy eternal infinite Q. How do you perswade your self that there is a God A. Besides the Testimony of the Scripture plain reason will shew it Q. What is one reason A. When I consider b Rom. 1. 20. Acts 14. 17. the wonderful frame of the world me thinks the silly creatures that be in it could never make it neither could it make it self and therefore besides all these the Maker of it must needs be God Even as when a man comes into a strange country and sees fair and sumptuous buildings and yet finds no living creatures there besides birds and beasts he wil not imagine that either birds or beasts reared those buildings but he presently conceives that some men either are or have been there Q. What other reason have you A. c Rom. 2. 15. Gen. 3. 8 10. 12. 24. A man that commits any sin as murther fornication adultery blasphemy c. albeit he doth so conceal the matter that no man living know of it yet oftentimes he hath a griping in his conscience and feels the very flashing of hell fire which is a strong reason to shew that there is a God before whose Judgement seat he must answer for his fact Q. How many Gods are there A. No d 1 Cor. 8. 6. more but one Q. How do you conceive this one God in your minde A. Not e Deut. 4. 16. Amos 4. 13. by framing any image of him in my minde as ignorant folk do that think him to be an old man sitting in heaven but I conceive him by his properties and works Q. What be his chief properties A. First he is f Job 2. 13. most wise understanding all things aright and knowing the reason of them Secondly he is g Isa 6. 3. Exod. 20. 5 6. most holy which appeareth in that he is most just and merciful unto his creatures Thirdly he is h Isa 41. 4. eternal without either beginning or end of days Lastly he is i Psal 139. 12. infinite both because he is present in all places and because he is of power sufficient to do whatsoever he k Job 9. 4. Deu. 10. 17. will Q. What be works of God A. l Jer. 10. 12. Psal 33. 6. The creation of the world and of every thing therein and the preservation of them being created by his special providence Q. How know you that God governeth every particular thing in the world by his special providence A. To omit the m
none other God but one He is Creator of all things In the beginning God created the heaven Gen. 1. 1. and the earth Through faith we understand that the Heb. 11. 3. world was ordained by the Word of God so that the things which we see are not made of things which did appeare 4. He is Governour of all things The eyes of the Lord in every place behold Prov. 15. 3. the evil and the good Yea and all the haires of your heads are Mat. 10. 30. numbred 5. Distinguished into the Father the Son and holy Ghost And Jesus when he was baptized came Mat. 3. 16. straight out of the water and loe the heavens were opened unto him and John saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lighting upon him And loe a voice came from heaven saying Ven. 17. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased For there are three that bare record in Joh. 5. 7. Heaven the Father the Word and the holy Ghost and these three are one The second Principle Q. What doest thou believe concerning man and concerning thine own self A. All men are wholly corrupted with sin through Adams fall and so are become slaves of Satan and guilty of eternal damnation 1. All men are corrupted with sin As it is written There is none righteous Rom. 3. 10. no not one 2. They are wholly corrupted Now the very God of peace sanctifie you 1 Thes 5. 23. throughout and I pray God that your whole spirit and soul and body may be kept blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ This I say therefore and testifie in the Eph. 4. 17. Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds Having their cogitations darkned and being Verse 18. strangers from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the hardness of their hearts When the Lord saw that the wickedness Gen. 6. 5. of man was great in the earth and all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were onely evil continually 3. Through Adams fall Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death Rom. 5. 12. went over all men for so much as all men have sinned 4. And so are become slaves of Satan Wherein in times past ye walked according Eph. 2. 2. to the course of the world and after the Prince that ruleth in the air even the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience For as much then as the children were Heb. 2. 14. partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part with them that he might destroy through death him that had the power of death that is the devil In whom the God of this world hath 2 Chr. 4. 4. blinded the mindes that is of Infidels that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ which is the Image of God should not shine unto them 5. And guilty of eternal damnation For as many as are of the works of the Gal. 3. 10. Law are under the curse for it is written Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them Likewise then as by the offence of one the fault came on all men to condemnation so by the justifying of one the benefit abounded towards all men to the justification of life The third Principle Q. VVhat means is there for thee to escape this damnable estate A. Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God being made man by his death upon the Cross and by his righteousness hath perfectly alone by himself accomplished all things that are needful for the salvation of man-kind 1. Christ Jesus the eternal Son of God And the Word was made flesh and dwelt Joh. 1. 14. among us and we saw the glory thereof as the glory of the onely begotten Son of the Father full of grace and truth 2. Being made man For he in no sort took the Angels but Heb. 2. 16. he took the seed of Abraham 3. By his death upon the Cross But he was wounded for our transgressions Isa 53. 5. he was broken for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed 4. And by his righteousness For as by one mans disobedience many Rom. 5. 19. were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous For he hath made him to be sin for us 2 Cor. 5. 21. which knew no sin that we should be made the righteousness of God in him 5. Hath perfectly Wherefore he is able also perfectly to save them that come unto God by him Heb. 7. 25. seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them 6. Alone by himself Neither is there salvation in any other Act 4. 12. for among men there is given none other name under Heaven whereby we must be saved 7. Accomplished all things needful for the Salvation of mankind And he is the reconciliation for our 1 Joh. 2. 2. sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole World The fourth Principle Q. But how mayest thou be made partaker of Christ and his benefits A. A man of a contrite and humble spirit by Faith alone apprehending applying Christ with all his merits unto himself is justified before God and sanctified 1. A man of a contrite and humble spirit For thus saith he that is high and excellent Isa 57. 15. he that inhabiteth eternity whose name is the Holy One I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to give life to them that are of a contrite heart The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit Ps 51. 17. a contrite and a broken heart O God thou wilt not despise 2. By faith alone As soon as Jesus heard that word spoken Mar. 5. 36. he said unto the Ruler of the Synagogue Be not afraid onely believe So Moses made a Serpent of brass and Num. 21. 9. set it up for a sign and when a Serpent had bitten any man then he looked to the Serpent of brass and lived And as Moses lifted up the Serpent in Joh. 3. 14. the wilderness so must the Son of man be lifted up That who soever believeth in him should Vers 15. not perish but have eternal life 3. Apprehending and applying Christ with all his merits unto himself But as many as received him to them he Joh. â— 12. gave power to be the sons of God to them that believe in his name And Jesus said unto them I am the bread of life he that Joh. 6. 35. cometh to me shall not hunger and he that believeth in me shall never thirst 4. Is justified before God
Scriptures Q. How know you that the Scriptures are the Word of God and not mens policies A. I am assured of it first b Eph. 1. 13. because the Holy Ghost perswadeth my conscience that it is so secondly I see it by experience for the preaching of the c Heb. 4. 12 1 Cor. 14. 24 25. Scriptures have the power of God in them to humble a man when they are preached and to cast him down to hell and afterward to restore and raise him up again Q. VVhat is the use of the VVord of God preached A. First it d Rom. 1. 17. breedeth and then it increaseth faith in them which are chosen to salvation but unto them that perish it is by reason of their corruption an occasion of their further damnation Q. How must we hear Gods VVord that it may be effectual to our salvation A. VVe e Jam. 1. 10. Act. 16. 14. Heb. 4. 2. Esa 66. 2. Luk. 2. 51 Psal 119. 11. must come unto it with hunger-bitten hearts having an appetite to the VVord wt must mark it with attention receive it by faith submit our selves unto it with fear and trembling even then when our faults are reproved lastly we must hide it in the corners of our hearts that we may frame our lives and conversations by it Q. VVhat is a Sacrament A. f Rom. 4. 11. Gen. 17. 11. Gal. 3. 1. A sign to represent a seal to confirm an instrument to convey Christ and all his benefits to them that do believe in him Q. VVhy must a Sacrament represent the mercies of God before our eyes A. Because we are dull to conceive and to remember them Q. VVhy do the Sacraments seal unto us the mercies of God A. Because we are full of unbelief and doubting of them Q. VVhy is the Sacrament the instrument of the Spirit to convey the mercies of God into our hearts A. Because we are like Thomas we will not believe till we feel them in some measure in our hearts Q. How many Sacraments are there A. Two g 1 Cor. 10. 1 2 3. and no more Baptism by which we have our admission into the true Church of God and the Lords Supper by which we are nourished and preserved in the true Church after our admission Q. VVhat is done in Baptism A. h Act. 2. 38. Tit. 3. 5. Act. 22. 16. Mat. 20. 18 19. In the assembly of the Church the covenant of grace between God and the party baptized is solemnly confirmed and sealed Q. In this Covenant what doth God promise to the party baptized A. i Gal. 3. 27. 1 Pet. 3. 21. Christ with all the blessings that come by him Q. To what condition is the party baptized bound A. To k Mark 16. 16. receive Christ and to repent of his sins Q. What meaneth the sprinkling or dipping in water A. l 1 Pet. 1. 2. It seals unto us remission of sins and sanctification by the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Christ Q. How cometh it to pass that many after their Baptism for a long time feel not the effect and fruit of it and some never A. The fault is not in God who keeps his Covenant but the fault is in themselves in that they do not keep the condition of the Covenant to receive Christ by faith and to repent of all their sins Q. When shall a man then see the effect of his Baptism A. At m Heb. 10. 10. 1 Pet. 3. 21. what time soever he doth receive Christ by faith though it be many years after he shall then feel the power of God to regenerate him and to work all things in him which he offered in Baptism Q. How if a man never keep the Condition to which he bound himself in Baptism A. His l Deut. 23. 21 22. Eccles 4. 2. damnation shall be the greater because he breaketh his Vow made to God Q. What is done in the Lords Supper A. The former Covenant solemnly ratified in Baptism is renewed m 1 Cor. 1. 23 24 c. 12. 13. in the Lords Supper between the Lord himself and the receiver Q. Who is the receiver A. Every one n 1 Cor. 11. 28 31. Mat. 5. 23 24. Esa 66. 2 3. that hath been baptized and after his Baptism hath truely believed in Christ and repented of his sins from his heart Q. What meaneth the Bread and Wine the eating of the Bread and drinking of the Wine A. These outward actions o 1 Cor. 10 17 19. are a second seal set by the Lords own hand unto his Covenant And they do give every receiver to understand that as God doth bless the Bread and Wine to preserve and strengthen the body of the receiver so Christ apprehended and received by faith shall nourish him and preserve both body and soul unto eternal life Q. What shall a true receiver feel in himself after the receiving of the Sacrament A. p 1 Cor. 10. 16 17. 11. 24. The increase of his faith in Christ the increase of sanctification a greater measure of dying to sin a greater care to live in newness of life Q. VVhat if a man after the receiving of the Sacrament never finde any such thing in himself A. He may well suspect himself whether he did ever repent or not and thereupon is to use means to come to sound faith and repentance Q. VVhat is another means of increasing faith A. Prayer Q. VVhat is prayer A. A r Joh. 5. 14. familiar speech with God in the name of Christ s 1 Tim. 2. 1. Phil. 4. 6. in which either we crave things needful or give thanks for things received Q. In asking things needful what is required A. Two things an earnest desire and faith Q. t VVhat things must a Christian Mat. 11. 24. mans heart desire A. Six things especially Q. VVhat are they A. a Petition I. That he may glorifie God 2. That b II. God may reign his heart and not sin 3. That c III. he may do Gods will and not the lusts of the flesh 4. That d IV. he may relie himself on Gods Providence for all the means of this temporal life e V. That he may be justified and be at peace with God 6. f VI. That by the power of God he may be strengthened against ill temptations Q. What is faith A. A g Amen perswasion that those things which we truly desire God will grant them for Christs sake The sixth Principle expounded Q. After that a man hath led a short life in this world what followeth then A. Death which is the parting a funder of body and soul Q. VVhy do wicked men and unbelievers die A. That their bodies may go to the earth and their h Luke 16. 22 23. souls may be cast into hell fire Q. VVhy do the godly die seeing Christ by death hath overcome death A. They die for this end that
THE FOUNDATION OF Christian Religion Gathered into Six PRINCIPLES And it is to be learned of ignorant People that they may be fit to hear Sermons with Profit and to receive the Lords Supper with Comfort Psal 119. vers 103. The entrance into thy word sheweth light and giveth understanding to the simple HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA LONDON Printed by John Field and are to be sold by John Williams at the Crown in S. Pauls Church-yard and George Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill 1660. TO ALL IGNORANT PEOPLE That desire to be INSTRUCTED POor people your maner is to sooth up your selves as though you were in a most happy estate but if the matter come to a just tryal it will fall out far otherwise For you lead your lives in great ignorance as may appear by these your common opinions which follow 1. That faith is a mans good meaning and his good serving of God 2. That God is served by the rehearsing of the ten Commandments the Lords Prayer and the Creed 3. That ye have believed in Christ ever since you could remember 4. That it is pity that he should live which doth any whit doubt of his salvation 5. That none can tell whether he shall be saved or not certainly but that all men must be of a good belief 6. That howsoever a man live yet if he call upon God on his death-bed and say Lord have mercy upon me and so go away like a lamb he is certainly saved 7. That if any be strangely visited he is either taken with a Planet or bewitched 8. That a man may lawfully swear when he speaketh nothing but the truth and swears by nothing but that which is good as by his faith and troth 9. That a Preacher is a good man no longer then he is in the Pulpit They think all like themselves 10. That a man may repent when he will because the Scripture saith At what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sins c. 11. That it is an easier thing to please God then to please our neighbor 12. That ye can keep the Commandments as well as God will give you leave 13. That it is safest to do in religion as most do 14. That merry ballads and books as Skoggin Bevis of Southampton c. are good to drive away the time and to remove heart-qualms 15. That ye can serve God with all your hearts and that you would be sorry else 16. That a man need not hear so many Sermons except he could follow them better 17. That a man which cometh at no Sermons may as well believe as he which hears all the Sermons in the world 18. That ye know all the Preacher can tell you For he can say nothing but that every man is a sinner that we must love our neighbor as our selves that every man must be saved by Christ and all this ye can tell as well as he 19. That it was a good world when the old Religion was because all things were cheap 20. That drinking and bezeling in the Ale-house or Tavern is good fellowship and shews a good kinde nature and maintains neighborhood 21. That a man may swear by the Mass because it is nothing now and by our Lady because she is gone out of the country 22. That every man must be for himself and God for us all 23. That a man may make of his own whatsoever he can 24. That if a man remember to say his prayers every morning though he never understand them he hath blessed himself for all the day following 25. That a man prayeth when he saith the ten Commandments 26. That a man eats his Maker in the Sacrament 27. That if a man be no adulterer no thief no murderer and do no man harm he is a right honest man 28. That a man need not have any knowledge of Religion because he is not book-learned 29. That one may have a good meaning when he saith and doth that which is evil 30. That a man may go to wizards called wise-men for counsel because God hath provided a salve for every sore 31. That ye are to be excused in all your doings because the best men are sinners 32. That ye have so strong a Faith in Christ that no evil company can hurt you These and such like sayings what argue they but your gross ignorance now where ignorance raigneth there raigns sin and where sin raigns there the devil rules and where he rules men are in a damnable case Ye will reply unto me thus That ye are not so bad as I would make you If need be you can say the Creed the Lords Prayer and the ten Commandments and therefore ye will be of Gods belief say all men what they will and you defie the Devil from your hearts I answer again That it is not sufficient to say all these without book unless ye can understand the meaning of the words and be able to make a right use of the Commandments of the Creed of the Lords Prayer by applying them inwardly to your hearts and consciences and outwardly to your lives and conversations This is the very point in which ye fail And for an help in this your ignorance to bring you to true knowledge unfeigned faith and sound repentance here I have set down the principal points of Christian Religion in six plain and easie Rules even such as the simplest may easily learn and hereunto is adjoyned an Exposition of them word by word If ye do want other good directions then use this my labor for your good instruction In reading of it first learn the six principles and when you have them without book and the meaning of them withal then learn the exposition also which being well conceived and in some measure felt in the heart ye shall be able to profit by Sermons whereas now ye cannot and the ordinary parts of the Catechism namely the ten Commandments the Creed the Lords Prayer and the institution of the two Sacraments shall more easily be understood Thine in Christ Jesus William Perkins THE FOUNDATION OF Christian Religion Gathered into Six PRINCIPLES The first Principle Question WHat dost thou believe concerning God A. There is one God Creator and Governor of all things distinguished into the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Proofs out of the word of God 1. There is a God For the invisible things of him that is Ro 2. 1. 13. his eternal power and Godhead are seen by the creation of the world being considered in his works to the intent that they should be with out excuse Novertheless he left not himself without Act. 14. 17 witness in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness 2. This God is one Concerning therefore meats sacrificed to 1 Cor. 8. 4. idols we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is
Mat. 10. 30. Prov. 16. 13. Scriptures I see it by experience n Lev. 26. 26. Mat. 4. 4. Meat drink and cloathing being void of heat and life could not preserve the life of man unless there were a special providence of God to give vertue unto them Q. How is this one God distinguished A. Into the o John 5. 7. Mat. 3. 16 17. Father which begetteth the Son into the Son who is begotten of the Father into the p Joh. 15. 26. Holy Ghost who proceedeth from the Father and the Son The second Principle expounded Q. Let us now come to our selves first tell me what the natural estate of man is A. Every man by nature is q Eph. 2. 2. Tim. 5. 6. dead in sin as a loathsom carrion or as a dead corps lieth rotting and stinking in the grave having in him the seed of all sins Q. What is sin A. Any r 1 Joh. 3. Rom. 7. 4 7. Gal. 3. 10. breach of the law of God if it be no more but the least want of that which the Law requireth Q. How many sorts of sins are there A. Sin is s Col. 3. 9. Psal 51. 5. either the corruption of nature or any evil actions that proceed of it as fruits thereof Q. In whom is the corruption of nature A. In all men t Rom. 3. 10. none excepted Q. In what part of man is it A. In every u Gen. 6. 5. 1 Thes 5. 23. part both of body and soul like as a leprosie that runneth from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot Q. Shew me how every part of man is corrupted with sin A. First in the x 1 Cor. 2. 14. Rom. 8. 5. minde there is nothing but ignorance and blindness concerning heavenly matters Secondly the y Tit. 1. 15. Eph. 4. 18 19. Isa 57. 20. conscience is defiled being always either benummed with sin or else turmoiled with inward accusations and terrors Thirdly the z Phil. 2. 13. will of man onely willeth and lusteth after evil Fourthly the a Gal. 5. 24. affections of the heart as love joy hope desire c. are moved and stirred to that which is evil to embrace it and they are never stirred unto that which is good unless it be to eschew it Lastly the b Rom. 6. 19. members of the body are the instruments and tools of the minde for the execution of sin Q. What be those evil actions that are the fruits of this corruption A. Evil c Geu 6. 5. thoughts in the minde which come either by a mans own concerving or by suggection of the devil d Joh. 13. 2. Act. 5. 3. evil motions and lusts stirring in the heart and from these arise evil words and deeds when any occasion is given Q. How cometh it to pass that all men are thus defiled with sin A. By e Rom. 5. 12 18. 19. Gen. 3. 9. Adams infidelity and disobedience in eating the forbidden fruit even as we see great personages by treason do not onely hurt themselves but also stain their blood and disgrace their posterity Q. What hurt comes to a man by his sin A. f Gal. 3. 10. He is continually subject to the curse of God in his life time in the end of his life and after his life Q. What is the curse of God in this life A. In the g Deut. 28. 21 22 27 65 66 67. body diseases aches pains in the soul blindness hardness of heart horror of conscience in goods hinderances and losses in name ignominy and reproach Lastly in the whole man bondage under Satan the prince of darkness Q. What maner of bondage is this A. This h Heb. 2. 14. E. h. 1. 2. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Luk. 11. 14. bondage is when a man is the slave of the devil and hath him to reign in his heart as his god Q. How may a man know whether Satan be his god or not A. He may know it by this if he give obedience to him in his heart and express it in his conversation Q. And how shall a man perceive this obedience A. If he i Joh. 8. 44. Joh. 3. 8. take delight in the evil motions that Satan puts in his heart and doth fulfil the lusts of the devil Q. What is the curse due to man in the end of this life A. k Rom. 5. 12. Death whichis the separation of body and soul Q. What is the curse after this life A. l Gal. 3. 10. Eternal damnation in hell fire whereof every man is guilty and is in as great danger of it as the traitor apprehended is in danger of hanging drawâ—ng and quartering The third Principle expounded Q. If damnation be the reward of sin then is a man of all creatures most miserable A dog or a toad when they die all their misery is ended but when a man dieth there is the beginning of his woe A. It were so indeed if there were no means of deliverance but God hath shewed his mercy in giving a Savior to mankinde Q. How is this Savior called A. m Mat. 1. 21. Jesus Christ Q. What is Jesus Christ A. n Heb. 2. 16. Joh. 1. 14. The eternal Son of God made man in all things even o Heb. 5. 7. in his infirmities like other men save onely in sin Q. How was he made man void of sin A. He was p Mat. 1. 28. conceived in the womb of a Virgin and sanctified by the holy Ghost at his conception Q. Why must our Savior be both God and man A. He q 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. must be a man because man had sinned and therefore a man must die for sin to appease Gods wrath he must be God to sustain and uphold the manhood to overcome and vanquish death Q. What be the Offices of Christ to make him an all-sufficient Savior A. He r Psal 45. 7. Luk. 4. 18. Deut. 18. 15 18. Luk. 1. 33. Psal 110. is a Priest a Prophet a King Q. Why is he a Priest A. To work the means of salvation in the behalf of mankind Q. How doth he work the means of salvation A. s Mat. 10. 28 Heb. 7. 25 26. First by making satisfaction to his Father for the sin of man Secondly by making intercession Q. How doth he make satisfaction A. By two means and the first is by offering a sacrifice Q. What is the sacrifice A. t Isa 35. 10. Christ himself as he is a man consisting of body and soul Q. What is the u Apo. 8. 3. Heb. 13. 10. Altar A. Christ as he is God is the Altar on which he sacrificed himself Q. Who was the Priest A. None x Heb. 5. 5. 6 but Christ and that as he is both God and man Q. How oft did he sacrifice himself A. Never but y Heb. 9. 28. once Q. What death did he suffer when he sacrificed himself