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A64969	The principles of the doctrine of Christ, or, A catechism in which is contained the sum of the Christian religion, or what is necessary to be believed and done in order to salvation, the answers being but seventeen in number, and in very plain words easie to be understood : unto which is added A catechism for conscience, wherein the consciences of the ignorant, the grosly profane, the young, the meerely mortal, and the hypocrites are examined in order to their instruction and awakening, and the consciences of the sincere Christians are tried in order to their peace and comfort / by Nathanael Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.; Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697. A catechism for conscience.	1691 (1691)	Wing V418; ESTC R25704	37,318	113

every imagination of the thoughts of his Heart was only evil continually Q 5. What is Sin A. Sin is a transgression of the Law of God and the desert and wages of it is Death and Hell Sin is a transgression of the Law of God 1 John 3. 4. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the Law for sin is a transgression of the Law The desert and wages of Sin is Death Rom. 5. 12. Death passed upon all men for that all have sinned The desert and wages of Sin is Hell Psal 9. 17. The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God Q. 6. Who is the Saviour from Sin and Hell A. Jesus Christ the Son of God took Mans Nature and died upon the Cross that he might put away Sin and deliver Man from Wrath by the Sacrifice of himself and he arose from the dead and sat down at the Right Hand of God Jesus Christ the Son of God took Mans Nature John 1. 14. The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his Glory the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth Christ died upon the Cross Luke 23. 33. And they Crucified Him and the Malefactors one on the right Hand and the other on the left Christ by his Death puts away Sin Heb. 9. 26. But now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself Christ delivers from Hell and Wrath. Rom. 5. 9. Being now justified by his Blood we shall be saved from wrath through Him Christ arose from the Dead Luke 24. 34. The Lord is risen indeed Acts 13. 37. Rising the third day he saw no corruption Christ Ascended into Heaven and sat at God's Right Hand Heb. 1. 3. When he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High Q. 7. What are the Offices of Christ Jesus A. Christ has a threefold Office He is a Prophet to teach a Priest by his satisfaction and intercession to reconcile and a King to govern and defend his Church and People Christ is a Prophet to teach Acts 7. 37. A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethren Him shall you hear Luke 24. 45. Then opened He their understandings that they might understand the Scriptures Christ is a Priest to reconcile Heb. 2. 17. It behoved him in all things to be made like unto his Brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-Priest to make reconciliation for the sins of the People Christ reconciles by his Death which was satisfactory to God who had been by sin offended and by his Intercession Rom. 8. 34. Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather is risen again who also maketh intercession for us Christ is a King to govern his Church and People Col. 1. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son Christ defends his Church against all Enemies Rom. 8. 37 Nay in all these things we are more than Conquerors through Him that loved us Q. 8. How is Christ made known A. Christ is made known by the Word in the Holy Scripture which is given by Inspiration of God The Old Testament gave a discovery of Him but in the New Testament he is more fully revealed Christ is made known by the Word in the Holy Scripture Col. 1. 27. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this Mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you the hope of glory The Holy Scripture is given by Inspiration of God 2 Tim. 3. 16. All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God The Old Testament gave a discovery of Christ John 5. 46. If ye had believed Moses you would have believed Me saith Christ for He wrote of Me. Acts 26. 22 23. Saying none other things than what Moses and all the Prophets did say should come that Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and shew light to the People and to the Gentiles In the New Testament Christ is more fully revealed 2 Cor. 3. 18. We all with open face beholding as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image Q. 9. How are we made partakers of Christ and interested in Him A. We are drawn to Christ by the Spirit working Faith in us whereby we receive Christ and rest upon him alone for Salvation unto which Faith Repentance is joined whereby we sorrow for sin and turn from it to God with the whole Heart We are drawn to Christ by the Spirit working Faith in us 2 Cor. 4. 13. We having the same Spirit of Faith Phil. 1. 30 Vnto you it is given in the behalf of Christ to believe on him By Faith we receive Christ John 1. 12. To as many as received him he gave power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe in his Name By Faith we rest upon Christ alone for Salvation Phil. 3. 8 9. I count all things but dung that I may win Christ and be found in Him not having my own Righteousness which is by the Law Acts 4. 12. Neither is there Salvation in any other Unto Faith Repentance is joined Acts 20. 21. Testifying both to the Jews and to the Greeks Repentance towards God and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance is a sorrowing for Sin Jam. 4. 9. Be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness Repentance is a turning from Sin to God with the whole Heart Isa 55. 7. Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Joel 2. 12. Therefore now also saith the Lord turn ye even unto me with all your heart Q. 10. What is that Covenant which God hath made with them that repent and believe A. God hath made a New Covenant with penitent Believers wherein he hath promised to be their God to justifie them from and pardon all their Sins to renew and write his Laws in their Hearts and to give them Grace till they come to Glory God hath made a New Covenant commonly called the Covenant of Grace Heb. 8. 8. Behold the days come saith the Lord when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and of Judah They that repent and believe are in Covenant An Heart to repent and believe is from God Ezek. 36. 26. A new heart will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh The Lord in the Covenant promises to be his peoples God 2 Cor. 6. 16. I will dwell in them and

walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people God promises to justifie them from and pardon all their Sins Heb. 8. 12. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more God promises to renew and to write his Laws in their Hearts Heb. 10. 16. This is the Covenant I will make with them after those days saith the Lord I will put my laws in their hearts and in their minds will I write them God will give his people Grace sufficient till they come to Glory 2 Cor. 12. My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in ●e●kness 2 Tim. 4. 18. The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me to his heavenly Kingdom to whom be glory for ever and ever Rehearse the Laws of God Exod 20. which by Faith are Established and are our Rule to walk by God spake all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the House of Bondage Com. I. Thou shalt have none other Gods before me Com. II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any Graven Image or any Likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or that is in the Water under the Earth thou shalt not Bow down thy self to them nor Serve them for I the Lord thy God am a Iealous God visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto Thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments Com. III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Com. IV. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man-servant nor thy Maid-servant nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates for in Six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the Seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it Com. V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Com. VI. Thou shalt not Kill Com. VII Thou shalt not commit Adultery Com. VIII Thou shalt not Steal Com. IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour Com. X. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-servant nor his Maid-servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbours Q. 11. What is the Sum of the Law contained in the Ten Commandments A. The Sum of the Law is Love to God which will cause us to Worship him in Spirit to Sanctifie his Name and Day and Love to our Neighbours as to our Selves which will hinder us from doing any thing contrary to the Dignity Life Chastity Estate or good Name of our Neighbour and all motions of the Heart to work ill to him The Sum of the Law is Love to God Mat. 22. 37 38. Jesus said unto him Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind this is the first and great Commandment So great that it comprehends all others And Love to our Neighbour ver 39. The second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Rom. 13. 10. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour and therefore love is the fulfilling of the law Q. 12. How is grace to be obtained whereby we may keep Gods Commands A. Grace to keep the commands of God is obtained by Prayer wherein 't is our Duty to offer up our desires to God in Christ's Name by the Spirits assistance confessing Sin and giving thanks for Mercies Grace which strengthens us to keep Gods Commandments is obtained by Prayer Psal 119. 10. With my whole heart have I sought thee Oh let me not wander from thy Commandments Psal 138. In the day when I cried thou answeredst me and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul Prayer is our Duty Luke 18. 1. Men ought always to pray and not to faint always i. e. at their set times and all fit seasons In Prayer we offer up our desires to God Psal 38. 9. Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee Prayer must be in Christs Name Joh. 16. 23. Verily verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my Name he will give it you Prayer must be by the Spirits assistance Rom. 8. 26 27. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered And be which searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Prayer should be with confession of Sin Psal 51. 3. I acknowledge my iniquity and my sin is ever before me There ought to be a giving thanks for Mercies Col. 4. 2. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving Q. 13. What is the Rule for our direction in Prayer A. The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in our Supplications but especially the Lords Prayer which he taught his Disciples The whole Word of God directs us in Prayer for it reveals his Will according to which our Prayers ought to be made 1 Joh. 5. 14. And this is the confidence we have in him that if we ask any thing according to his Will he heareth us The Lords Prayer which he taught his Disciples is our special direction how to pray Mat. 6. 9 10 11 12 13. After this manner therefore pray ye Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us out Trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from Evil for thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever Amen Q. 14. How hath God confirmed his New Covenant A. God hath confirmed his New Covenant by the Sacraments which are the Signs and Seals of it and these Sacraments under the New Testament are Two Baptism and the Lords Supper Sacraments are Signs and Seals of the New Covenant What the Apostle speaks of the Sacrament of Circumcision in the Old Testament is true of the Sacraments under the New Rom 4. 11. He received the sign of Circumcision a seal of the righteousness of Faith and where the righteousness of Faith is

my days to grant me no more Sabbaths nor indeed any longer space for repentance Q. 23. Art thou now willing to sanctifie the Lords day to attend upon those Ministers that preach as being in good earnest that speak most to the Consciences of their Hearers and are desirous and wise to win Souls A. These above all I have hated but all the while I did so I now perceive I had no true love unto my self Q. 24. Dost thou consent to submit unto the easie yoak of Christs commands as well as desire pardon and reconciliation by his Blood And dost thou look upon it as unreasonable to hope to be saved by Christ if thou art resolved that Sin and the Devil shall still rule thee A. The wages of Sin is Death why should I serve such a Lord any longer Oh that I may become a Servant indeed to the best Lord of All. Q. 25. Art thou willing to be a true Convert unto God To have thy Eyes turned to look to him Thy Feet turned to walk in all his ways And thy Heart turned to love and fear and cleave unto Him A. Lord turn thou me and then I even I as bad as I have been shall indeed be turned The Conscience of the Young Man who is vain in his Youth is to be dealt with after this manner Q. 1. O young Man thou rejoicest in thy youth and seemest void of care and fear What is the ground of this thy joy A. I walk after the sight of my Eyes and in the way to which my heart is inclined and the fulfilling of my youthful Lusts is very pleasant Q. 2. But is not thy Creator to be remembred in the days of thy youth And is not his service infinitely better than to have thy Lusts thy Lords A. I reckon it time enough to think of God when I am old Q. 3. How dost thou know thou shalt live to be old A. I find Nature in me vigorous and strong And now what is gratifying to my Senses puts me into a transport of joy Mirth and Musick delight my Ear Meats and Drinks do please my apperite Brave Apparel is my Pride Sports and Recreations are my principal business and Amorous Thoughts and Desires are constant Guests which my heart entertains with wonderful complacency My mind aspires to worldly greatness and I hope to be somebody before I die Q. 4. Why dost thou not consider that the hour of Death may be near notwithstanding the strength of Nature and that many as young and lusty as thy self and who as confidently reckoned upon longer life have been by the small Pox or Feaver or some other malady or by unexpected accident suddenly sent unto their graves A. Pray don't talk of Death 't is a melancholick subject which I don't care to hear or think of Q. 5. But will the putting of Death out of thy mind be any defence against its stroke or keep Death off from thee A. To think much of Death would make life miserable it would be a torturing of ones self and a dying every day Q. 6. But if thou livest so as that to die will be gain to thee will the thoughts of Death be unpleasant then A. I have no inclination at all to change my course of life Q. 7. Why shouldst thou resolve to live a fool deceived and enslaved by thy lusts and pleasures and to venture dying miserably A. Pray let me alone I am not sensible of any bondage I am under I live a merry life and an ounce of mirth is better than a pound of sorrow Q. 8. If an ounce of carnal mirth which may so quickly end and end in endless sorrow be of so much account with thee what is a far more exceeding and eternal weight of joy and glory A. That joy is unsuitable to me That Man methinks spake very good sense who said Soul take thine ease eat drink and be merry thou hast Goods laid up for many years Q. 9. Does not God call that Man a Fool And did not Death which came to him many years sooner than he expected prove him to be both Fool and Wretched And did not Hell make him sensible of his folly when it was too late A. I dislike the thoughts of death but much more of what is to follow after Q. 10. Is it not a Lesson that the Wise man would teach the Young man Eccles 11. 9. But know that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment A. I dread that day and cannot endure to think of the account I am then to give to Him that is to be my Judge Q. 11. Not thinking of Judgment does it not make thee secure and careless in making ready for it And hereupon will not thy account be with the greater grief and horrour A. I am sorry I have entred upon this discourse if once these things come to have a deep and abiding impression upon my heart I must bid farewel to all my joy and sorrow must fill up the remainder of my days Q. 12. Why dost thou suffer thy self to be deceived and abused Is not a greater joy to be preferr'd before a less A true and lasting joy before that which is but a shadow a dream and vanishes in a moment A. I cannot conceive that Religion should ever prove such a pleasant thing to me Q. 13. Why then does the Scripture speak of strong consolation Of a peace that passes all understanding Of a joy unexpressible and full of glory A. These strong comforts and joys seem to me to be but strong phancies and meer imaginations Q. 14. Hast thou not reason to say so of thy sinful Comforts But pray consider Is it not God the great Creator of all things which has put into the creatures that power they have to delight thy senses And cannot He himself infinitely more delight thy Soul A. Spiritual pleasures are things I do not understand I have had a deal of satisfaction in the delights that are fleshly Q. 15. Dost thou think the Holy Angels have no pleasure because they have no flesh How full of Torment are the Devils though they have no bodily senses to be tormented And have not the elect Angels though they have no bodies a far higher delight in God than a body is capable of A. I confess I have not minded my Soul which is a Spirit but have pleased my senses and my fancy as if there were no higher happiness Q. 16. While thou hast thus pleased thy bruitish part for Beasts have senses which they please hast thou not shewed thy self rather a Brute than either Saint or Man A. You intimate that to be a Saint is to act with the greatest reason But I would fain enjoy my sensual pleasures a little longer and afterwards I am for repenting and turning Saint indeed Q. 17. God who commands thy turning to him and turning Saint does he not command thee to do it presently Does not the Holy Ghost say To day if ye