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The church-catechism enlarg'd and explain'd in an easie and familiar method, with the scripture-proofs annexed thereunto.
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people 1 Pet. 2.9 Yes Are not believers a distinct Body or Society joyn'd to Christ by Faith Eph. 5.23 and to each other by love Col. 2.2 Yes Can this Church be built on any other Head or foundation than our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3.11 No. Is not part of this Church Triumphant in Heaven Heb. 12.23 and part Militant on Earth Col. 1 24. Yes Is the Church known by external Splendour Pomp or Secular Grandeur Acts 2.42 No. § IS not this Church Holy 1 Cor. 3.17 the Saints above perfectly and the effectually called really so Yes Are not all the visible Members thereof called to Holiness and Holy by profession and obligation 1 Thes 4.7 Yes § IS not the Church Catholick or Universal consisting of all Believers Jews and Gentiles Bond and Free Gal. 3.28 Yes Is the Church confin'd to any one place or Nation Acts 1.8 No. Shall the Gates of Hell ever prevail against it Mat. 16.18 No. †May any of the particular Societys of which it doth consist Rev. 1.20 claim the name Authority and priviledges of the Catholick Church Rom. 11.22 No. § AMONGST the many priviledges of the Church Psal 87.3 is not this one that there is the Communion of Saints Yes * Have not Belâ—â—vers Union and Communion with Christ their Head from whence they are called Saints 1 Joh. 1.3 Yes Do they not Communicate by Faith their wants to him 1 Pet. 5.7 and He by his Spirit Communicate his Merits and Grace to them Isa 53.4 1 Joh. 5.12 Yes And will he refuse to such Communion with himself in Glory hereafter Joh. 17.24 No. * Have not the Saints also Communion one with another 1 Joh. 1.7 1 Cor. 12.26 Yes Can they Communicate Merits to each other Mat. 25.8 9. No. * Have not the Saints above Communion with each other in the same Vision Employment and Glory Mat. 8.11 Yes * Have not the Saints below Communion in the same Gifts and Graces Eph. 4.5 Heb. 3.13 in the same Sufferings Heb. 13.3 and if need be in their Worldly goods Heb. 13.16 Yes Qu. What is the Tenth Article Answ The forgiveness of Sins § ARE there any Sins Original or Actual of Omission or Commission of Thought Word or Deed that do not deserve eternal Death Rom. 6.23 No. Yet are there any that are not Pardonable the Sin against the Holy Ghost only excepted Mat. 12.31 No. * Doth not forgiveness of Sins consist in releasing the Sinner from Guilt and Condemnation Psal 32.1 2. Yes Can any but God who is the party offended forgive Sins to Men Psal 51.4 Mark 2.7 No. Yet must not all forgive injuries done to themselves Mat. 18.21 and Ministers Pronounce forgivenese in Christ's name to the Penitent Mat. 18.18 2 Cor. 2.7 10. Yes * Is there any forgiveness but only through Christ and on the account of his Satisfaction Col. 1.14 No. * Doth the Satisfaction of Christ make forgiveness of Sins to be less Free and Gracious Eph. 1.7 No * Have any the actual forgiveness of their Sins before they Repent and Believe Joh. 3.18 No. †Must you not then have a deep sense of your Sins Acts 2.38 Confess them to God Psal 32.5 with a sincere Resolution of forsaking them Pro. 28.13 Yes Must you not earnestly make Supplication for Pardon with a Fiducial trust in the mercy of God through the Merits and Righteousness of Christ alone Acts 10.43 Yes Qu. What is the Eleventh Article Answ The Resurrection of the Body § DID not death come in by Sin as the Sentence of the Law for the Transgression of it Rom. 5.12 Yes * Can any of our Members when turn'd to dust and scatter'd be hid from God's all-seeing Eye Psal 137.15 16. No. Is it above the Almighty power that made the Body at first of dust to raise it out of it again Mark 12.24 No. * And as He is able to raise the Dead so are we to believe that He will do it Joh. 5.28 29. Yes Though all shall be rais'd the just and the unjust Acts 24.15 yet is not the Resurrection the special Priviledge of Believers Luk. 14.14 Yes * Shall the Wicked rise by vertue of an Union with Christ by his Spirit as the Godly shall Rom. 8.11 No. * And will there not be a vast difference between them in the ends for which they arise Dan. 12.2 Yes Is it not agreeable to Divine Justice that the same Bodies for substance which we had here should be raised then 1 Cor. 15.38 2 Cor. 5.10 Yes But will they be raised to the same dying and mortal State they were in before 1 Cor. 15.53 No. Will not the Bodies of the Saints be exceeding Glorious of which the Resurrection of Christ is both an assurance and a Pattern 1 Cor. 15.20 43 44. Yes †And shall not they who are found alive at the coming of Christ be also chang'd 1 Cor. 15.51 52. Yes Qu. What is the Twelfth Article Answ The life Everlasting § SHALL not Believers have a Life of Glory and happiness in the World to come Psal 16.11 Yes * Do their Souls then sleep with their Bodies in the Grave or go to Purgatory Rev. 14.13 No. Are we able to express the Glory of that State which God has prepared 1 Cor. 2.9 and they enter into immediately after Death Phil. 1.23 No. Shall they not enjoy a Beatifical vision and enjoyment of God with Saints and Angels in the highest employment of Praise without Sin or Suffering Psal 17.15 Yes * and shall not their Bodies also partake of this Life of Glory at last 1 Cor. 15.43 Yes § IS it not an everlasting Life in opposition to this fading Life on Earth 1 Thes 4.17 Yes Will the Life above be Subject to decays and changes and interruptions in the happiness of it 1 Pet. 1.4 No. Will they be in danger of forfeiting this happiness or any Enemy be admitted to dispossess them of it Rev. 3.12 No. †Is there not an everlasting Death contrary to this everlasting Life Rom. 6.23 Yes Is this for the Wicked to have their beings taken away and to remain no more Rev. 21.8 No. Is it not to be banished from the presence of God and to undergo the Torments of Hell for ever 2 Thes 1.9 Mat. 25.46 Yes †Do we not say Amen to testifie our firm Belief of these Articles Rev. 22.20 21. Yes Question What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief Answer First I learn to believe in God the Father who hath made me and all the World Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed me and all mankind Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the Elect people of God § IS there not manifested a Divine order in the Works of the Blessed Trinity towards Men Yes When Creation is ascribed to the Father doth it mean that it was not the Work of the Son and Holy Ghost Joh. 1.3 Gen. 1.2 No. Is it not that the Father did Create all things
THE Church-Catechism ENLARG'D and EXPLAIN'D IN AN Easie and Familiar METHOD WITH THE SCRIPTURE-PROOFS Annexed thereunto These words which I command thee this day shall be in thine Heart And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest down and when thou risest up Deut. 6.7 8. LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chappel 1697. THE PREFACE THIS explication of the Catechism supposeth the Reader to be convinc'd of the necessity and excellency of the Duty of Catechizing and the great danger of the neglect thereof in Churches or Familys where there are any that need training up in the way that they should go I am not ignorant that there are many who have written excellently on the Catechism and no wonder when so much of every Ministers time is or ought to be taken up in the use of it But yet there are not many that have made use of this Method The first Designer of it being taken away as is said in his life before He had accomplish't what He intended was followed by Doctor Wallis upon another Catechism Doctor Comber and I think He alone followed him upon this yet He by designing so much brevity and altogether omitting the Scripture proofs hath left room for a further Essay The use of this Mothod is double 1. As to the meanest capacitys it hath a visible benefit in that the Question is so fram'd as to lead the person instructed to his Answer whereby his understanding is both try'd and inform'd and yet the memory not burden'd with words it being evident that many of the more careless sort are frighted from the Catechism by a long Answer impos'd upon the memory and others get words by vote which they understand not and presently singer I only here desire of the Teacher that when He propounds or as be any Question He would not express or recite the Text or Texts of Scripture annexed thereunto partly because these proofs do indeed belong to the Answer and not to the Question though they could not conveniently be places otherwise than they are and partly because such a recital of the Texts Chapter and Verse would make the Question so long as to hinder the attention of the Learner great care being to be taken that He Answers understandingly and not by ghess Yes or No and for that reason He may sometimes be required to repeat the matter of the Question in his Answer as Q. Are there more Gods than One A. No there are not more Gods than One. 2. The other use is for them that have more understanding who must be obliged to answer to the Question by the Scripture annexed in this manner Q. Are there more Gods than One A. No. Q. How prove you that A. From Deut. 6.4 Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is one Lord and I think it cannot be deny'd that the best as well as easiest way of Learning Scripture-principles is in Scripture Phrase Those lively Oracles make a deeper and more abiding impression than any other words And the prudent Catechist may with his Pen mark in every Section such Texts for the Learner to recite at a time as He shall judge for plainness or number to be suited to his Capacity Nor will this hinder the Learning these Principles in distinct propositions as they are set down in other Catechisms but will make it far more easie to Learn the words when they are by this instructed beforehand in the matter therein contain'd In this Composure I have endeavoured to make the Questions very Comprehensive by crowding thereinto as much matter as would consist with the plainness that I studiously design'd so that there is enough in each Question especially when the proof is given in Answer for the Catechist to dilate and enlarge upon in his more Familiar Instructing of those committed to his Charge May the whole be for the Glory of God through Christ and for the Edification of his Flock particularly the Lambs therein R. M. A CATECHISM That is to say An Instruction to be learned of every Person before He be brought to be Confirmed by the Bishop Question WHat is your Name Answer N. or M. Question Who gave you this Name Answer By Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a Member of Christ the Child of God and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven § WAS not your Name given you at your Baptism as they were wont to receive their Names at their Circumcision Luke 2.21 Yes Is it not in the power of Parents chiefly of Fathers to give Names to their Children Luke 1.60 62. Yes Is it then unlawful for others by the Parents Consent to do it as Godfathers and Godmothers amongst us Ruth 4.17 No. § ARE Infants incapable of receiving any Priviledges or Benefits by Baptism Mark 10.14 No. 1. Are there not certain outward Priviledges confer'd by Baptism as of old by Circumcision Rom. 3.1 2. Yes * Were you not by Baptism made a Member of Christ i. e. of his Body the Church 1 Cor. 6.15 12.13 Yes But have all such Members of Christ a saving interest in him or benefit by him John 15.2 No. * VVere you not thereby made the Child of God Acts 3.25 Rom. 9.4 Yes And are there not many visible Children of God that prove rebels against him Isa 1.2 Ezek. 16.20 Yes * VVere you not further admitted an Heir or inheritour of the Kingdom of Heaven Eph. 3.6 Yes And are there not many visible Heirs or Children of the Kingdom that shall be cast out Mat. 8.12 Yes †Is there then any Reason why they that live in Sin should boast of or rest in these outward Priviledges Mat. 3.9 No. 2. Are there not also inward and spiritual priviledges offered in Baptism and sealed on Gods part to Believers Gal. 3.26 27. Yes Are these bestowed on you without any Conditions required on your part Mark 16.16 No. Do the conditions and terms of the Gospel make the Grace therein not to be free Eph. 2.8 No. †Are you not then by Baptism under an engagement to perform the Gospel-conditions 1 Pet. 3.21 Yes Question What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you Answer They did promise and vow thrée things in my Name First That I should renounce the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanity of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh Secondly That I should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And Thirdly That I should keep Gods holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my Life § DID your Sureties say when you were Baptized that you did so repent and believe No. Did they promise in their own Name or bind their own Souls with a Vow that you should do so when you came to Age No. Did they