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A Catechism containing the substance of the Christian religion in the words and phrases of Scripture.
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also hath loved us Eph. 5.2 Q. For what other Reason doth it engage us to love each other A. For this Reason because we being many are one Bread and one Body for we are all Partakers of that one Bread 1 Cor. 10.17 Q. What is Prayer A. Prayer is the making known our Requests to God with Thanksgiving for all the good things we have received Phil. 4.6 Q. Must not our Hearts go alone with our Words A. We must lift up our Hearts with our Hands unto God in the Heavens Lam. 3.41 Q. Then you cannot think it lawful to pray in an unknown Tongue as the Papists generally do A. No in no wise Seeing we must (a) 1 Cor. 14.15 pray with the Understanding (b) Ps 62.8 and pour out our Hearts before God Q. Is it not for the same Reason unlawful to use Prayers in the Publick Congregations in a Language unknown to the generality of the People according to the Custom of the Popish Church A. (a) 1 Cor. 14.9 Except Men utter by the tongue Words easy to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken for they shall speak into the Air (b) Ver. 16. and how shall the Unlearned say Amen seeing he understands not what is said (c) Ver. 19. Therefore St. Paul saith he had rather speak five Words in the Church with his Understanding that he might teach others also than ten thousand Words in an unknown Tongue Q. In what posture of Body should we pray A. We should bow down and kneel before the Lord our Maker Ps 95.6 Q. How must we do that our Prayers and thanksgivings may be accepted A. (a) 1 tim 2.8 We must lift up holy Hands without Wrath and doubting of God's Power or Goodness (b) Col. 3.17 And whatsoever we do in Word or Dead we must do all in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ giving Thanks unto God and the Father by him Q. May we not pray to the Angels and the Virgin Mary and other Saints as the Mediators with God for us as the Papists do A. 'T is utterly unlawful so to do For there is one only Mediator between God and Men the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 Q. What if we regard Iniquity in our Hearts when we pray A. (a) Ps 66.18 If we regard Iniquity in our hearts the Lord will not hear us (b) Joh. 9.31 But if any Man be a Worshipper of God and doth his Will him he heareth Q. What shall be after Death A. It is appointed to Men once to die and after this the Judgment Heb. 9.27 Q. Who shall be the Judg A. The Father judgeth no Man but hath committed all Judgment unto the Son Joh. 5.22 Q. Who must appear before this Judg A. We must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5.10 Q. Why must we all appear before Christ's Judgment-Seat A. That every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Q. Who are they that shall not be condemned by this Judg A. There is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus or are true Christians who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8.1 Q. What shall immediately go before the general Judgment A. All that are in the Grave shall hear the Voice of the Son of God and shall come forth Job 5.28 Q. What shall follow the general Judgment A. To them who by patient Continuance in well-doing seek for Glory Honour and Immortality Christ will give eternal Life but to them who do not obey the Truth but obey Unrighteousness Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of Man that doth evil But Glory Honour and Peace to every Man that worketh good Rom. 2.7 8 9 10. Q. What shall become of this World after the Judgment A. The Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent Heat the Earth also and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3.10 Q. Seeing you profess to believe these things what manner of Person ought you to be A. (a) 2 Pet. 3.11 14. I ought to live in all holy conversation and Godliness and to be diligent that I may be found of God in Peace without spot and blameless (b) 1 Cor. 15.58 And to be stedfast immoveable always abounding in the Work of the Lord for as much as I know that my Labour is not in vain in the Lord. THE END The Creed I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried He descended into Hell the third Day he rose again from the dead He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the Right-hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judg the Quick and the Dead I believe in the Holy Ghost The holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints The Forgiveness of Sins The Resurrection of the Body And the Life Everlasting Amen The Lord's Prayer 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 our 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 and ever Amen The Ten Commandments I. GOD spake these Words and said I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt have no other Gods but me II. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the Likeness of any Thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the Water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the Sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shew Mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments 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 IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of Work thou and thy Son and thy Daughter thy Man-Servant and thy Maid Servant thy Cattel and 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 seventh Day and hallowed it V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy Days may be
God A. (a) Rom. 2.4 The Goodness of God leadeth me to Repentance (b) Mark 12.30 and to love the Lord my God with all my Heart and Soul and (c) Luke 6.36 I learn that I ought to be merciful as my Heavenly Father is merciful Q. What learn you from God's Justice and Righteousness A. I learn from God's Justice and Righteousness four things Q. What are they A. First (a) 1 Pet. 5.6 Lev. 26.41 That I should humble my self under the mighty Hand of God and accept of the Punishment of mine Iniquity Secondly (b) 1 Pet. 1.17 That I should pass the time of my sojourning here in the fear of God who without respect of Persons judgeth according to every Man's Work Thirdly (c) 1 Thess 4.6 That I should not go beyond or defraud my Brother in any matter the Lord being the Avenger of all such Fourthly (d) Rom. 12.19 1 Pet. 2.23 That I should not avenge my self but commit my self to him that judgeth righteously Q. What doth God's Truth and Faithfulness teach you A. God's Truth and Faithfulness teach me three Things Q. Which are they A. (a) Ps 15.2 Prov. 12.22 First To speak the Truth in my Heart lying Lips being an Abomination to the Lord. Secondly (b) Ps 37.3 To trust in the Lord and do good Thirdly (c) Heb. 10.22 To hold fast the Profession of my Faith without wavering he being faithful that hath promised and (d) 1 Pet. 4.19 to commit the keeping of my Soul to him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator when I suffer according to the Will of God Q. What doth God's infinite Wisdom teach you A. God's infinite Wisdom teacheth me First (a) Rom. 12.16 Prov. 3.5 1 Cor. 3.19 That I ought not to be wise in my own Conceit nor lean to my own Understanding knowing that the Wisdom of this World is Foolishness with God Secondly (b) Col. 3.23 1 Chron. 28.9 It teacheth me whatsoever I do to do it heartily as to the Lord and not unto Men because the Lord searcheth all Hearts Q. What learn you from God's infinite Power A. I learn from God's infinite Power First (a) Mat. 10.28 Jer. 5.22 That I ought to fera him and tremble at his Prefence Secondly (b) Ps 56.4 Rom. 4.21 That I ought to trust in him being fully perswaded that what he hath promised he is able also to perform Q. Having given me an Account of your Knowledg concerning God the Father I next ask you what you think of the Knowledg of Jesus Christ Is this also necessary A. Yes verily For this is Life eternal to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent Joh. 17.3 Q. What moved God the Father to send Jesus Christ A. God who is rich in Mercy for his great Love wherewith he loved us did shew the Riches of his Grace in his Kindness towards us through Jesus Christ Eph. 2.4 7. Q. For what purpose did God send his Son Jesus into the World A. (a) 1 Joh. 3.5 We know that he was manifested to take away our Sins (b) Joh. 3.17 And God sent not his Son into the World to condemn the World but that the World through him might be saved (c) Chap. 3. 16. and have everlasting Life Q. Have all Men then sinned and by Sin deserved Death tA (a) Rom. 3.23 All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God (b) Rom. 6.23 And the Wages of Sin is Death Q. What is Sin A. Sin is the Transgression of the Law 1 Joh. 3.4 Q. Did not God make Man upright A. God hath made Man upright but he hath sought out many Inventions Eccl. 7.29 Q. Who of Mankind committed the first Sin A. Our first Parents Adam and Eve Q. What Sin did they commit A. They did eat of the Tree whereof God commanded that they should not eat Gen. 3.6 11 12. Q. Who tempted them to this Sin A. The Serpent that is the Devil beguiled Eve and she did eat and she gave to Adam of the Tree and he did eat Gen. 3.13 12. Q. By what Temptation did the Serpent prevail with Eve A. The Serpent said unto the Woman You shall not surely die For God knows that in the Day ye eat thereof then your Eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as Gods knowing Good and Evil. And when the Woman saw that the Tree was good for Food and that it was pleasant to the Eyes and a Tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the Fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her Husband with heer and he did eat Gen. 3.4 5 6. Q. What did follow upon Adam 's Sin A. By that one Man Sin entred into the World and Death by Sin and so Death passed upon all Men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 Q. What did Christ when he was upon Earth to save us from Sin and the Punishment due to it A. (a) Joh. 15.15 Christ first made known to us all things that he had heard from his Father Secondly (b) 1 Pet. 2.21 He left us an Example that we should follow his Steps Thirdly (c) Gal. 3.13 He was made a Curse or Died on the Cross for us and (d) Eph. 5.2 gave himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling Savour Q. What do the Apostles of Christ declare concerning him A. They declare that (a) Joh. 1.14 he is the only begotten Son of the Father (b) Rom. 9.5 and God blessed for ever (c) Euke 1.31 35. that he was conceived of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Ghost (d) Acts 10.38 that he went up and down doing Good (e) Acts 2.22 that he was approved of God by Miracles Wonders and Signs (f) Hebr. 4.15 that he was in all Points tempted like as we are yet without Sin (g) 1 Cor. 15.3 4. that he died for our Sins and was buried and rose again the third Day (h) Mark 16.19 and was received up into Heaven and sate at the Right-hand of God (i) Acts 1.11 and that from thence he shall come again (k) Ch. 10.42 to judge the Quick and Dead (l) Mat. 13.40 at the end of the World Q. What doth Christ now he is in Heaven to save us from Sin and Misery A. (a) Heb. 7.25 He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them And (b) 1 Joh. 2.1 we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous Q. For whom of Mankind did Christ die A. (a) 1 Tim. 2.6 He gave himself a Ransom for all (b) 1 Joh. 2.2 He is the Propitiation for our Sins and not for ours only but also for the Sins of the whole World (c) Heb. 2.9 He tasted Death for every Man (d) Rom. 5.18 And as