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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

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

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 M. A. Minister of the Gospel Jer. 3. 15. I will give you Pastors according to my Heart who shall feed you with knowledge and with understanding 2 Cor. 4. 2. By manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every Mans Conscience in the sight of God London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1691. THE Epistle Dedicatory To that Church of Christ who have given up themselves unto my Pastoral Care Light and Grace and Peace be multiplied Beloved in our Lord and Saviour IT is not a Complement I pass upon you when I tell you that your Souls are very dear to me even as my own and your Salvation as my own desired I am perswaded I was put into the Ministry specially for your sakes and that our Lord gave me the Talents I have that I might improve them to your Spiritual advantage When first I came among you most of you were young and I my self was young also but many years are past and gone since we were first related the one to the other our Age begins to decline Old Age and Death are approaching and who knows but Death may overtake Old Age and come to many of us before it You know how I have laboured in the publick Exercise of my Ministry I have not grudged to spend my self and to be spent for you Those Souls who have reaped profit by my Labours what thanks do I owe them and to God for them How have they obliged Me by having the truest regard unto Themselves I have been with you in the Calm and in the Storm and blessed be God that neither you nor I have been Shipwrackt I have gone through Honour and Dishonour through evil Report and good Report And evil report being sanctified to the humbling of me has done me a greater kindness than the Reporters thought of At this day through the Providence of God over ruling and acting powerfully and graciously even to amazement both you and I and many more enjoy a publick liberty which under Restraint and Persecution we earnestly prayed but could hardly hope for This liberty is a special favour from Heaven is envied us by Hell and I make no question but the Instruments of the Evil One will be very active to deprive us of it Let us but improve it by recourse to the Son of God to make us more free indeed i. e. more free from Sin and more inlarged in the Lords Service and I believe we shall find that Scripture fulfilled Rev. 3. 8. Behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it I am now come to the finishing part and work of my life and are not many of you also And should it not be our care to finish well When the Painter has almost done a curious piece how exact is he in every touch of his pencil his last hand expresses his greatest Skill If the Lord adds more years unto my days I wish they may be the holiest and most useful and then they will be the happiest I have lived The nearer we approach unto Death and the day of Reckoning how exactly should we walk how clean should be our Hearts how heavenly our Minds and Conversations and how doubly refined should all our Services be You that are Husbands you that are Wives the nearer Eternal Life approaches live together more as the Heirs of such a Life be more fervent in Prayer rejoice in Hope and press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God You that are Parents and Masters Oh set fairer copies for your Children and Servants to write after Be more Exemplary for Faith for Love for Meekness for Truth and Righteousness for Humility and Contempt of the World declare plainly that you seek a better Countrey i. e. an Heavenly and that here on Earth is neither your Heart nor Treasure Children and Servants Souls are precious and a great part of your care give them not occasion to Eternity to curse your unfaithfulness to them and carelesness of them Your instructing of them being seconded by such an Example as may demonstrate to them that you your selves are indeed taught of God will be most likely to take impression and to have the desired effect upon them And you of the younger sort that are Children and Servants be sure to value Saving Knowledge and Grace at an high rate and seek after both betimes When the Youth of a Land are universally degenerate and corrupt and affect ignorance and are filled with prejudices against the power of Godliness 't is a great sign of God his being about to depart from that Land and that the Gospel is ready to be removed What a sad prospect is there at this day when the young Generation is seriously considered Horrible Pride outragious Lust Riotous and Intemperate Eating and Drinking every where almost prevail what will become of poor Posterity You young Ones whom I here address unto be intreated to do a kindness to your selves and to the Land of your Nativity The Righteousness of Ten would have done more towards the preservation of filthy Sodom than the wickedness of a multitude would have done towards the destruction of it If some Tens of you did but prize the Gospel entertain it in your Heads and Hearts and adorn it in your Practise and were instant in Prayer for its continuance among us you might do more to the fixing of the Golden Candlestick in its place than the Blind Zeal of the Papists and the ignorance and disobedience of many carnal Protestants can do towards the taking away the Candlestick and its light from us If a considerable Company of young ones in every Age would set their Hearts to study the Word of God and become true Believers sincere Lovers and diligent Doers of his Word The Sun of Righteousness might through a miracle of mercy as it were stand still in England and not haste to go down for many Generations This little Catechism which I now send forth may be of use to Instructers and to them that are to be instructed in Families and as it is very short so I have endeavour'd to make it very plain to the meanest Capacities The Scriptures are added at length to shew how every thing therein is proved That what is learned may come with the greater Autority and Efficacy The

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

signified and sealed the other Benefits of the New Covenant are signified and sealed also Baptism is appointed and required Mat. 28. 19. Go ye therefore and disciple all nations baptizing them The Lords Supper is Instituted 1 Cor. 11. 23. I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you ver 24. Do this in remembrance of me Q. 15. What is Baptism A. Baptism is a washing with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost whereby is signified and sealed our being Born again the purging away of sin by the Blood and Spirit of Christ and our partaking of a new Nature And all that are Baptized whether Believers or their Seed are engaged to be the Lords Baptism is a washing with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Spirit Mat. 28. 19. Baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Baptism signifies and seals our being born again Tit. 3. 5. According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost In the regenerate sin is purged away by the Blood and Spirit of Christ 1 Joh. 1. 7. The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin Gal. 5. 16. This I say then walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh They that are born again have a new nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. That you might be partakers of the Divine Nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust All that are baptised whether Believers or their seed are engaged to be the Lords Rom. 6. 3 4. So many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death and being dead to sin should walk in newness of life Children are engaged as well as the Parents Act. 2. 39. The Promise is unto you and to your Children 1 Cor. 7. 14. Else were your Children unclean but now they are holy separated to him and to his service Q. 16. What is the Lords Supper A. The Lords Supper is an Ordinance wherein after self-examination which is required there is a giving and receiving of the Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment And worthy Receivers discern his Body partake of his benefits and shew forth his death till he come to Judgment Self-examination is required before this Ordinance of the Supper 1 Cor. 11. v. 28. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. In this Supper there is a giving and receiving of Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment Mat. 26. 26 27. Jesus took Bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to the Disciples and said Take eat this is my Body And he took the Cup and gave thanks and gave it unto them saying Drink ye all of it Worthy Receivers discern his Body looking beyond the Bread and Wine to his Body and Blood thereby signified and given to them 1 Cor. 11. 24 25. This is my Body which is broken for you This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood Worthy Receivers partake of his benefits Joh. 1. 16. And of his fulness have all we received and grace for grace In the Supper we shew forth Christs death till he come to Judgment 1 Cor. 11. 26. For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew forth the Lords death till he come Q. 17. When Christ comes to Judgment who must appear before Him A. At the last day the dead will be raised and all must appear at the Judgment seat of Christ Believers who have done good shall be rewarded with eternal life The wicked who lived and died in their sins shall be punished with the vengeance of eternal fire At the last day the dead shall be raised Acts 26. 8. Why should it seem a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead All must appear at the Judgment seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. For we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or evil Believers that have done good shall be rewarded with eternal life Rom 6. 22. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life The wicked shall be punished with the vengeance of eternal fire Mat. 25. 41. Then shall he say to them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels 2 Cor. 5. 11. Knowing the truth and terrour of the Lord we perswade Men. 2 Pet. 3. 7 11. Seeing the Heaven and the Earth are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness The CREED I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth and in Iesus 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 Continued in the State of the Dead Th● third day he Rose again from the Dead he Ascended into Heaven and Sitteth at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty from thence He shall come to Iudge 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 London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1691. A Catechism FOR CONSCIENCE The design of which is to try awaken and instruct the Consciences of Men and to make them faithful to God and to Themselves The Conscience of a grosly Ignorant Sinner is thus to be Questioned Quest 1. WHat are thy thoughts of God Answ I seldom hear and hardly ever think of him Q. 2. Why is not God in all thy thoughts Why dost thou live without him in the World A. I have no knowledge of Him and I do not care to entertain thoughts concerning Him Q. 3. Is not this thy bare ingratitude and folly that God who gave thee thy Being and gives thee every good thing thou hast should never be thought on But tell me Hast thou no apprehensions of God at all A. I sometimes conceive Him to be a good old Man that sits and reigns above in Heaven Q. 4. Foolish and darkned Heart Why hast thou not taken notice that God is a Spirit who really has no bodily parts Why dost thou not consider That they exceedingly dishonour Him who change the glory of the incorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible Man Rom. 1. 23. But dost thou not believe that God always observes thee A. I regard not God and I hope he does not much regard

me nor what I say or do Q. 5. Brutish Heart when wilt thou be wise He that planted the Ear shall he not hear and He that formed the Eye shall not He see But while thus ignorant and regardless of God in what condition dost thou think thou art A. I cannot certainly say but I hope and believe well And truely I see no hurt or danger near me Q. 6. How see no danger Dost thou not know thou art a Sinner A. I know not very well what sin is but I am no more a sinner nor worse than others of my Neighbours Q. 7. Art thou willing to understand thy sin and how exceeding miserable thy sin makes thee A. I am at peace pray do not you disquiet me I have heard of some that have run stark mad and have made away themselves when they have heard preaching of sin and damnation Q. 8. Why hast thou not considered that passage of the Prophet Isa 57. 21. There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Is it wisdom in thee to say peace and safety when God speaks quite the contrary and says Wo to the wicked it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him Isa 3. 11. A. He that made me I hope will save me Q. 9. Dost thou think he will save thee in thy ignorance and wickedness whilst thou dost not desire to be delivered from either How plainly does the Prophet speak Isa 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding therefore He that made them will not save them and he that formed them will shew them no favour A. I am not Book-learned and I hope my ignorance will excuse me Q. 10. Art thou not willingly ignorant And will not the condemnation of them be sore who love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil Joh. 3. 19. Are not they threatned with distress and anguish and destruction as a Whirlwind And told that God will laugh at them in their calamity who hate knowledge and do not chuse the fear of the Lord Prov. 1. 29. A. Pray trouble not your self about me every one shall answer for himself and as the saying is Every Tub shall stand upon its own bottom Q. 11. If a Man were blind and ready to fall into a deep Ditch full of Water should he be angry at one that has Eyes and would stop him and prevent his drowning And dost thou well to be displeased with me who seeing thee in Hells Road and not perceiving thy self whither thou art going endeavour to stop thee and hinder thy falling into that place of Torment A. I do not love to hear of Hell Fire Q. 12. What will it be then to feel it and to be for ever tortur'd in the Flames that are unquenchable A. I find some fears raised in me and begin to doubt all is not well with me Q. 13. Dost thou believe the Bible to be the Word of God and certainly true A. Yes what Christian Man denies that Q. 14. Why then art thou so unacquainted with the Holy Scriptures which when searched and rightly believed make the Believers wise unto Salvation A. I have had other things to do a Trade to mind a Family to provide for and the time I have to spare I spend in merry Company in Sports and Pleasures Q. 15. But is it not unreasonable and Heathen-like only to take thought what thou shalt eat and drink and wherewithal thou shalt be clothed and never to inquire what thou must do to be saved A. I begin to blame my self for my past negligence and carelesness about my Souls health and that I am still so ignorant who have lived so long where there has been so much good preaching Q. 16. How dost thou spend thy time and days A. I mind the World and the profits and pleasures of it all the day long When first I wake in the morning the World presently comes into my thoughts and I continue thinking of it and contriving how to get more of it and how to keep what I have gotten Thus my mind is imployed till I go to Bed at night The World is that which is suitable to me the thing which I most desire and delight in Q. 17. How Earthly minded art thou Does not the Apostle affirm that they are Enemies to the Cross of Christ and that their end will be destruction who mind earthly things Phil. 3 18 19. But tell me Dost thou never pray in secret or in thy Family A. I have long thought that to say Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us when we are sick or come to die had been sufficient Q. 18. Dost thou think that cries forced meerly by fear of calamity will be regarded Does not the Lord speak plainly concerning such who are burthened only with affliction but not with sin who are in fear of death but not desirous to be turned unto God They shall call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me Prov. 1. 28. A. Still my fears increase upon me Q. 19. How is the Lords day spent A. I sit up late on the Saturday night lye long a-bed on the Sunday morning Many times I go not to Church at all if I do go I come away as I went not at all wiser or better And I have wisht Sundays were over that I might return to my worldly business again I have heard of a Book called the Book of Sports I thought it was a very good time when they were allowed of and that those Sports would make Sundays pleasant days indeed Q. 20. What a contempt of God and of his Service and Grace do these words of thine discover and what a wretched carelesness of thy own precious Soul How unfit art thou to keep an Eternal Sabbath in Heaven who now does grudge unto God one day in seven A. I see it had been better to have lived otherwise than I have done Q. 21. As thou hast omitted thy duty so hast thou not allowed thy self in committing iniquity A. Alas with shame I must confess that my Ignorance has not been alone but I have fallen into Drunkenness and Whoredom sometimes I have been guilty of Swearing and Lying to serve a turn and for my own advantage And so I could but do it cleverly I have not stuck at doing unjustly in wronging of my Neighbour Q. 22. How shall the pardon of such sins as these be obtained A. I hope by now saying my Prayers and going constantly to Church and leaving my sins to make amends to God Almighty for them Q. 23. Hast thou never heard of Jesus Christ A. Yes Jesus Christ is our only Saviour Q. 24. Why then dost thou speak of thy praying and duties and performances as if by these thou couldst save thy self A. Certainly sin is to be forsaken and duties are to be done Q. 25. But how shall good duties which when best done have much of