and Godliness and be preserved in Body and Soul to everlasting Life through Jesus Christ in whose name and words I further continue to pray unto thee Our Father c. An Expedient to further Peoples often and orderly receiving the Holy Communion in the Parish of Cartmel IN the Order for the Administration of the Holy Communion we have among others this Rule both pious and reasonable viz. That every Parishioner that is all above sixteen years old shall communicate or receive the Sacrament at least three times in the Year of which Easter is to be one for the better observation whereof let it be remembred 1. That by Gods assistance if no great inconvenience hinder it there will be a Sacrament at the Church upon the first Lords Days of December April August especially for the Inhabitants of Stavely Division or the West of Broughton and part of Allithwait that is the Inhabitants of Stavely Farigge Hasslerigge Field-End Over-Carke Wood-Broughton Ainsome and part of the Church-Town to Headless-Cross or of any other place in that part of the Parish And that the Sunday before each of these three Sacrament-Days there will be a Sermon at Stavely Chappel in the After noon 2. That there will likewise be a Sacrament upon the first Lords Days of January May September especially for the Inhabitants of Cartmelfell or the East of Broughton Division that is to say the Inhabitants of Cartmel-fell Ayside the Greaves Barbar-Green Field-Broughton Hampsfield and the Grange or of any other place in that part of the Parish And that the Sunday before each of these three Sacrament Days there will be a Sermon at Cartmelfell-Chappel in the After noon 3. That there will be a Sacrament on the three first Lords-Days of February June October especially for the Inhabitants of Allithwait Division that is to say the Inhabitants of Birkby Allithwait Templand Kentsbank Kirket End Lindal and both the Newtons or of any other place in that part of the Parish And that the Sunday before each of these three Sacrament Days there will be a Sermon at Lindal-Chappel in the After-noon 4. That there will be a Sacrament on the first Lords Days of November March July especially for the Inhabitants of Holker or Walton Division that is to say the Inhabitants of Browedge Backbarrow Speel-bank Origge Beckside Burnses Walton Part of the Church-Town Holker Carke Flookborough or any other place in that Division And that the Sunday before each of these three Sacrament Days there will be a Sermon at Flookborough-Chappel in the After-noon Concerning Catechising That we may believe and live as we ought to do and that the Lords Table may be furnished with more knowing and worthy Communicants Parents Family-governours and Teachers of publick or private Schools are intreated as the Laws of God and the Constitutions of the Church require to be carefull to instruct those under their Tuition and Charge and particularly in the Church Catechism that they may be able to give an account of the same when thereunto called The Church Catechism Question WHat is your Name Answer N. or M. Quest Who gave you this Name Ans My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a Member of Christ the Child of God and an Inheritour of the Kingdom of Heaven Quest What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you Ans They did promise and vow three 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 sinfull 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 Quest Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and to do as they have promised for thee Ans Yes verily and by Gods help so I will And I heartily thank our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this State of Salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour And I pray unto God to give me his Grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Cat. Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief Ans I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his onely 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 at the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge 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 Quest What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief Ans 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 Quest You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you that you should keep Gods Commandments Tell me now how many there be Ans Ten. Quest Which be they Ans The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage I. Thou shalt have none 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 in 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 the 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 long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt do no murder VII Thou shalt not commit adultery VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt
me c. S. Mat. 26. 41. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation Jer. 10. 25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that have not known thee and upon the Families that call not on thy Name S. Mat. 6. 6. But thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly 1 Cor. 11. 26 27 28. For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. But let a Man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. S. Luke 22. 19 20. And he took Bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying this is my Body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me Likewise also the Cup after Supper saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood which is shed for you We may sometime begin our Closet Prayers admiring with S. Augustine Gods glorious Perfections WHAT art thou O my God what art thou I beseech thee but the Lord my God for who is Lord besides our Lord or who is God besides our God O thou Supreme most powerfull most mercifull most just most secret most present most beautifull most incomprehensible most constant and yet changing all things immutable never new and never old and yet renewing all things ever in Action yet ever at rest heaping up yet needing nothing creating upholding filling protecting nourishing and perfecting all things Thou lovest and yet thou art not transported thou art angry yet never art unquiet thou art jealous yet void of fear thou dost repent yet art thou free from sorrow Thou requirest profit at our hands yet who hath any thing but of thy Gift Thou payest debts when thou owest nothing Thou forgivest debts and yet thou loosest nothing And what shall I say O my God my life my joy my holy dear delight or what can any Man say when he speaketh of Thee and wo be to them that speak not of Thee but are silent in thy Praise for even they who speak most of Thee may be accounted to be but dumb Have mercy upon me O Lord that I may speak unto thee and praise thy Name Amen A Prayer for all Conditions of Men. Note that one alone may say We and Our and Us as usually in the Lords Prayer because of the Communion of Saints O God the Creator and Preserver of all Mankind we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of Men that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them thy Saving Health unto all Nations More especially we pray for the good estate of the Catholick Church that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of Truth and hold the Faith in unity of Spirit in the bond of Peace and in Righteousness of life And we also commend unto thy Fatherly Goodness all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed in Mind Body or Estate that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their severall necessities giving them Patience under their Sufferings and an happy Issue out of all their Afflictions and this we beg for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the King and Kingdom ANd that in one Blessing we may all of us be blest I beseech thee O thou who art the Maker and Saviour of all Kings and Nations of the earth to bless our dread Soveraign Lord King CHARLES with the richest Blessings of thy Grace Strengthen him with the faith of Abraham endue him with the mildness of Moses arm him with the magnanimity of Joshua exalt him with the humility of David assist him with the counsel of Hushai beautifie him with the wisdom of Solomon and replenish him with the Goodness and Holiness of them all that so he may be a powerfull Protector of his People a religious Defender of thy sacred Faith a bountifull comforter of thy Holy Church a glorious Triumpher over all his enemies a gracious Governour of all his Subjects and a happy Father of children to rule this Nation by Succession in all ages O let his Reign be prosperous and his Days many let Peace and Plenty Love and Piety Justice and Truth and all Christian vertues flourish in his time Let his People serve him with honour and obedience and let him so love and serve Thee here on Earth that he may hereafter everlastingly reign with Thee in Heaven through Jesus Christ our Lord. Here may be added the Prayers or Thanks-givings in the Book of Common Prayer upon their severall Occasions Sometimes also the Creed may be repeated with that pithy Ejaculation said before it Lord I believe help my unbelief And the Ten Commandments with that short Prayer after them Lord have mercy upon us and write all these thy Laws in our Hearts we beseech thee Here also may be said the Morning or Evening Collect respectively on our own and the behalf of those that belong to us O Lord our Heavenly Father Almighty and Everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this Day defend us in the same with thy Mighty Power and grant that this Day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy Governance to do alwaies that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lighten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great Mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this Night for the love of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen A general Thanksgiving O Most gracious God I give thee humble and hearty Thanks for all thy Goodness and Loving kindness to me and to all men I bless thee for my Creation Preservation and all the Blessings of this life but above all for thine inestimable love in the Redemption of the World by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of Grace and for the hope of Glory And I beseech thee give me that due sense of all thy Mercies that my heart may be unfeignedly thankfull and that I may set forth thy Praise not only with my lips but in my life by giving up my self to thy Service and by walking before thee in Holiness and Righteousness all my days through Jesus Christ my Lord to whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen A devout Prayer which may be used at any time by one alone GRant me O gracious Lord in what lawfull undertaking soever a pure intention of Heart and a stedfast regard of thy Glory let Christ be my pattern thy Word my rule
of offending Thee and more solicitous to please Thee then ever we have yet been being more wisely zealous and active for thy Glory and more reverent in the use of all things that relate unto Thee That thou wouldest give us an universal Good Will towards others in the World that we may love our Neighbours as our Selves and love even our Enemies for thy sake and be more carefull that we do hurt unto none but deal justly and mercifully towards all as we would that they should do unto us That thou wouldest help us to perform more and better then ever those Duties which we owe unto our selves that we may live yet more in the exercise of Meekness of Humility of Temperance and Contentedness of Mind Thus O Lord that thou wouldest help us to serve Thee all our days in the Uptightness of our Hearts improving all opportunities of doing and receiving Good preparing for our great Change from time to Eternity and in every respect by a constant watchfulness over all our Thoughts Words and Actions so behaving our selves as those that know and stedfastly believe that we have Thee an everliving God to serve that we have precious and Immortal Souls to save that we have endless Woes to avoid and Everlasting Happiness to seek after And O God with us we beseech Thee likewise to bless all those that desire or stand in need of our Prayers and to communicate of thy Grace and Mercy according to their and our severall wants and necessities Oh do Thou enlarge the Church and Kingdom of Christ weaken and destroy the Power of Sin and Antichrist be favourable in particular to these Nations wherein we live vouchsafing to us those Mercies we stand in need of and turning from us those Judgements which our sins may cry for Bless our Magistrates and Ministers bless those that are near unto us by the bonds of Nature with all such as suffer sickness or any other affliction or misery Bless this Place and grant that real Godliness Saving Knowledge Peace and Truth may flourish here more and more Accept of Praise for all thy Mercies hitherto vouchsafed unto us Continue we pray Thee thy mercifull Protection over us this night keep us from sin and the dangers that a Night may bring forth let us be refreshed and raised the next Day more able and willing to serve Thee in the Duties of it These and all other needfull Mercies we humbly beg for the sake of Christ continuing further to pray unto Thee as he himself hath taught us saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. Concerning the Lords-Day LEt it always be remembred before it comes to prepare for it and when it is come to keep it Holy It hath been honoured 1 by God the Father forming thereupon the Elements of the World 2 by God the Son rising from the Dead and appearing several times after his Resurrection 3 by God the Holy Ghost descending with his miraculous Gifts and Graces upon the Apostles and Others 4 by the Christian Church making it the time of her Solemn Assemblies Let us not therefore profane any part of it but be now as carefull for the Welfare of our Souls as we are upon other days for our bodily Sustenance Excepting such time as is for works of absolute Necessity which cannot be done the Day before or the Day following let us with Chearfulness spend it wholly in hearing the Word of God read and taught in private Devotion and publick Prayers which are both for the Morning and After-noon in acknowledgment of our offences to God and amendment of the same in reconciling our selves charitably to our Neighbours where displeasure hath been in often Receiving the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ in Visiting of the Poor and Sick and using all good and sober Conversation Thus we shall please the Will of God and conscientiously obey our Civil and Ecclesiastical Governours who strictly enjoyn the same by their Power derived from God Thus we shall have a more deep and lasting sense of God and Religion imprest upon our Hearts and so live more holily the Week following Besides prudent and good Men have observed their outward worldly Affairs most prospered that Week which they began with a diligent and religious Observation of the Lords-Day But However that is most certainly if we duly sanctifie this Day of Rest here we shall celebrate an Everlasting Rest and Sabbath hereafter If now we sincerely and willingly joyn with the Congregations of Gods People to worship him as we ought to do we shall in due time joyn with the Blessed Company of Saints and Angels above to sing his Praises for evermore Psal 118. 24. This is the Day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it V. 20. This is the Gate of the Lord the Righteous shall enter into it Psal 122. 1. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the House of the Lord. Revel 1. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lords-Day Acts 20. 7. And upon the First Day of the Week when the Disciples came together to break Bread Paul preached unto them 1 Cor. 16. 2. Upon the First Day of the Week let every one of you lay by him in Store as God hath prospered him A Morning Prayer for the Lords-Day which may be used by more together or by one alone for the reason mentioned page 4 PRaised be thy holy Name O God for all thy favours and benefits bestowed upon us from time to time concerning this or a better Life Blessed be thy Goodness for the Mercies of the last Night and this Morning that thou hast brought us to the beginning of another Christian Sabbath Oh let not our former unfruitfulness hinder thy present Blessing and Assistance in what we have to do but do thou we pray Thee in Christ Jesus pardon and mend us both at once And help us now so to remember and esteem this thy Day as to lay aside all secular businesses and diversions and to apply our selves to all those private and publick Duties which concern the Sanctification thereof not doint after our own ways nor finding our own Pleasures nor speaking our own words but consecrating our own selves and services to thy more especial Worship spending the whole Day in works of Religion Necessity and Mercy Be graciously present with all those Assemblies of thy Saints which do on this Day meet together for thy Worship and Service More especially be pleased to direct and assist the Minister to whose charge we belong that he may speak to the Consciences and Conditions of this People And do thou remove from us all irreverence distraction dulness prejudice and unbelief in hearing of thy Word that having the same accompanied by the Power of thy Spirit it may be effectual for the further enlightning of our Minds the quickening of our Affections the bettering of our Hearts and the amendment of our Lives And let
us think we have done nothing in Hearing Reading Praying Receiving Singing of Psalms Confering Meditating till in all we have glorified Thee our Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier till our Souls be brought something nearer unto Heaven unto thy Self And all we beg upon the account of Christ saying further as he hath taught us Our Father c. A Family Prayer for the Evening on the Lords-Day OEternal God and most Gracious Father we thine unworthy servants do here cast down our selves at the Footstool of thy Grace acknowledging that we were conceived in sin and have actually in thought word and deed transgressed thy Holy and Righteous Precepts so that if thou shouldest look upon us as in our selves we could not expect any thing but thy Wrath and our own Condemnation But O holy Father for Jesus Christ thy dear Sons sake for the Merits of his Obedience and Bloodshed we beseech Thee to have Mercy upon us pardoning to us all our sins and freeing us from the Shame and Confusion which is due unto us for them And we pray Thee inspire thy Holy Spirit into our Hearts that by his Illumination and effectual Working we may have the inward sight and feeling of our sins and natural corruptions and not through Custom be blinded or hardened in them That we may more and more loath them and be heartily grieved for them endeavouring by the use of all good means to overcome and to get out of them Oh let us feel the Power of Christs death killing sin in our mortal Bodies and the vertue of his Resurrection raising up our Souls unto Newness of Life that living in thy Fear unto thy Glory we may die in thy Favour and in thine Appointed time attain unto the Blessed Resurrection of the Just unto Eternal Life In the mean while O Lord increase our Faith in the sweet promises of the Gospel and our Repentance from dead works the assurance of our hope and our love unto thy self and thy children especially those whom we shall see to stand in need of our help and comfort that so by the fruits of Piety and a Righteous Life we may be assured that thy holy Spirit doth dwell in us and that we are thy Children by Grace and Adoption And grant us Good Father the continuance of Health Peace Maintenance and all other outward things so far forth as thy Divine Wisdome shall think meet and necessary for us And we beseech thee O Lord to be mercifull likewise to thy whole Church and particularly to these Kingdoms wherein we live vouchsafing to us those Mercies we stand in need of and turning from us those Judgements which our sins may cry for Preserve the Kings Majesty bless all the Royal Family bless our Magistrates and Ministers this place those that are near unto us by Kindred or Neighbourhood be graciously present with all our Christian Brethren that suffer sickness or any other affliction or misery grant them patience to bear thy Cross and Deliverance when and which way it shall seem best unto Thee And O Lord let us not forget our last End and those accounts which then we must render unto Thee In Health and Prosperity make us mindfull of Sickness and the evil Day that is behind that these things may not overtake us as a snare but that we may in good measure like wise Virgins be found prepared for the Coming of Christ to call us by Death unto Judgement And here O Lord we do from our very Souls render unto Thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy Blessings bestowed upon us concerning this Life and that which is to come We praise Thee especially for Christ the Fountain and Foundation of all thy Mercies we ever yet received or hope hereafter to receive from Thee In him we praise Thee for the Mercies thou hast this day bestowed upon us or given us occasion to remember whether concerning the Creation of the World or the Redemption of Mankind We praise thee for thy holy Word and Sacraments and seasons of Grace yet vouchsafed unto us We praise Thee that by thy good Providence we have been preserved and provided for to this very moment intreating Thee likewise to continue thy Mercifull Protection over us this night And O Lord we beseech Thee let those saving Truths which have been delivered unto us sink down into our Hearts and spring up in our Conversations Let us keep up such holy Purposes and heavenly Affections as may have been wrought in any of us whilst attending upon Thee Let our lives be in some measure answerable to the means we enjoy Let the fruit of this Day appear in us the Week following and all the days of our Lives following Henceforth let our resolution of pleasing Thee and doing good in our Generation be more confirmed let the felicities of Heaven be more esteemed let our desires of Earthly things be more abated let the Breathings of our Souls after a fuller enjoyment of thy Self be more enlarged Let our sins those of our holy things be pardodoned our persons and performances accepted and our Souls eternally saved And al upon the alone account of Jesus Christ it whose prevailing Name we continue to pray unto Thee saying Our Father c. As for those who are furnished with Bibles and the Book of Common Prayer I shall direct them if they desire it how to use part of the Morning and Evening Service according to the Liturgy by themselves or with their Families But because many Pious Divines are of opinion that the Reverence due to the Book of Common Prayer is best preserved by imploying it only in the Publick Divine Service or in Private where there is one in Holy Orders to officiate And because we should always strive to be present at the Publick Service of the Church on any Holy Day especially on the Lords-Day and such Festivals as are in Remembrance of our Saviour Christ You have to the former here added one Prayer more which you may use on any such Festival in Remembrance of our Blessed Saviour that is to say On the Days of his Incarnation Birth Circumcision Epiphanie Presenting in the Temple Passion Resurrection Ascension and Mission of the Holy Ghost A Prayer upon any of the foresaid Festivals in Remembrance of our Blessed Lord and Saviour O Most glorious God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of lights from whom cometh every good and perfect Gift it is our bounden Duty and our great Priviledge constantly to acknowledge Thee with joy and exaltation of Spirit in remembrance of thy infinite Bounty to us and to all the World Every day tells us how good Thou art and every one of thy Creatures calls upon us to magnifie love and serve Thee who hast made so many of them to serve us But this Day gives us occasion to remember thy more special and extraordinary kindness to us the Children of Men which calls for our highest Praises to be joyned with those of the
with his own Blood By the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one both night and day with tears S. Luke 12. 42. Who then is that faithfull and wise Steward whom his Lord shall make Ruler over his Houshold to give them their portion of meat in due season Col. 1. 28. Whom we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all Wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Mal. 2. 7. For the Priests lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth for he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hosts S. Mark 4. 34. And when they were alone he expounded all things to his Disciples Hebr. 5. 12. Ye have need that one teach you again which be the first Principles of the Oracles of God and are become such as have need of Milk and not of strong Meat 1 Cor. 4 1. Let a man so account of us as of the Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God Hebr. 13. 17. Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you 1 Thess 5. 12 13. We beseech you Brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake and be at peace among your selves A brief Explication or Profession of our Faith taken out of Scripture for the better understanding and improvement of the Apostles Creed I Believe that there is one only true God who is a Spirit infinitely glorious and being One in Nature is yet Three in Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost which are three and one after a wonderfull and mysterious manner The Father God the Son God and the Holy Ghost God and yet not three Gods but one God infinite in Being Wisdom Power and Goodness the Maker Preserver and Disposer of all things the must just and most mercifull Lord of all I believe that Mankind being fallen by sin from God and Happiness under the wrath of God the curse of his Law and the power of the Devil God so loved the World that he gave his only Son to be their Redeemer who being God and one with the Father became Man also in the same Person by taking to him our Nature as to which he was conceived by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and born of her without sin and named Jesus Christ and having lived on earth without sin and wrought many miracles for a witness of his Truth he gave up himself a Sacrifice for our sins and a Ransom for us in suffering death on the Cross and being buried he rose again the third day and afterward ascended into Heaven where he is Lord of all in Glory with the Father And having ordained and appointed that all that truly repent and believe in Him and love him above all things and sincerely obey him and that to the death shall be saved and that they that will not shall be damned and commanded his Ministers to publish thus much and to preach the Gospel to the World he will come again and raise the bodies of all Men from death and will judge all men according to what they have done in the Body I believe that God the Holy Ghost the Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son was sent by them to inspire and guide the Prophets and Apostles that they might fully reveal the Doctrine of Christ and by multitudes of evident Miracles to be the great witness of Christ and of the Truth of his holy Word and also to dwell and work in all that are drawn to believe that being first joyned unto Christ their Head and into one Church which is his Body and so pardoned and made the Sons of God they may be a peculiar People sanctified to Christ and may overcome the world the flesh and the devil and being zealous of good Works may serve God in Holiness and Righteousness and may live in the special love and Communion of the Saints and in hope of Christs appearing and of everlasting life I do heartily take this One God in the Trinity of Persons for my only God and my chief good And this Jesus Christ for my only Lord-Redeemer and Saviour And this Holy Ghost for my Sanctifier and Comforter and the Doctrine by him revealed and witnessed by his Miracles and now contained in the Holy Scriptures I do take for the Law of God and the rule of my Faith and Life And repenting unfeignedly of my sins I do resolve through the grace of God sincerely to obey him both in Holiness to God Righteousness to Men and in special love to the Saints and in Communion with them against all the temptations of the devil flesh or world and this to death The Catechism or Christian Doctrine and Practice Note that the first eight Questions and Answers contain the foregoing Profession and the four last do express the Particulars contained in the two words Holiness and Righteousness and in the Ten Commandments Question 1. What do you believe concerning God THere is one only God in three Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost who is Infinite in Being Power Wisdom and Goodness the Maker Preserver and Disposer of all things and the most just and mercifull Lord of all 1 Cor. 8. 4 6 1 John 5. 7. 1 Tim. 1. 17. Psal 139. 7 8 9 Isa 40. 17. Revel 4. 8. Psal 147. 5. Nehem 9. 6. Psal 135. 6. Revel 15. 3. Exod. 34. 6. Quest 2. How did God make man and who Law did he give him God made Man for himself after his own image in Righteousness and true Holiness and gave him a righteous Law requiring perfect obedience upon pain of death Prov. 16. 4. Gen. 1. 26 27. 2. 16 17. Rom. 6. 23. Deut. 27. 26. Gal. 3. 10. Quest 3. Did man keep or break this Law Man being tempted by Satan did wilfully sin and so fall from God and Happiness under the wrath of God the curse of the Law and the power of the Devil so that we are by Nature dead in sin and prone to do more evil continually and to grow worse and to depart yet further from God Gen. 3. Rom. 5. 12 18. 3. 23. 6. 23. Eph. 2. 12. Hos 14. 1. Eph. 2. 2 3 5. Gal. 3. 10 13. Acts 26. 18. Gen. 6. 5. 2 Tim. 3. 13. Hos 13. 2. 2 Tim. 2. 16. Quest 4. How was Man redeemed God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son to be their Redeemer who being God and One with the Father did take to him our Nature and became Man being conceived by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and born of her and called Jesus Christ and having lived on earth without sin and wrought many Miracles
for a witness of his Truth he gave up himself a Sacrifice for our sins in suffering death on the Cross and being buried he rose again the third day and afterward ascended into Heaven where he is Lord of all in Glory with the Father John 3. 16 17. 1 John 2. 2. John 4. 42. Rom. 9. 5. John 10. 30. 17. 11. Heb. 2. 3 4. 4. 15. â— 14. 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Luke 1. 27 31 35. Mat. 1. 18 20 23. Heb. 4. 15. 7. 26. Acts 2. 22. 7. 36. 1 Tim. 2. 6. Mat. 27. 31 35 60. Tit. 2. 14. Heb. 9. 26. 1 Cor. 15. 3 4 5 6 7 12. Acts 1 9 11. Eph. 4. 8 9 10 11. Acts 10. 36. 2. 36. Rom. 14. 9. Mat. 28. 18. Eph. 1. 20 21 22. Quest 5. How and on what terms is Salvation offered in the Gospel Our Lord Jesus Christ hath ordained in his Testament that all they that receive him by a true effectual Faith and that by Repentance forsake the devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of the world and the sinfull lusts of the flesh and heartily turn from them unto God shall freely receive the pardon of their sins and become the Sons of God and Heirs of everlasting Life And that if they sincerely love and obey him unto death they shall be glorified And that they that will not do all this shall be damned And this he hath commanded his Ministers to preach to all the World 1. Cor. 9. 14. Heb. 9. 15. Col. 2. 6. John 1. 12. Mark 16. 15 16. Gal. 5. 6. Jam. 2. 24. Acts 26. 18. Luke 24. 47. Acts 5. 31. 11. 18. 20. 21. 3. 19. 2. 28. 8. 22. 26. 20. Luke 13. 3. Mark 4. 12. Isa 55. 7. 1. 16. Ezek. 18. 21 to 32. 33. 11. to 20. Mat. 19. 27 29. 10. 37. Luke 14. 26 27 33. Tit. 3. 5 7. Heb. 3. 14. Col. 1. 23. John 15. 1. to 12. 8. 31. Rom. 11. 22. Heb. 10. 26 38. Rev. 3. 12. 2 Thes 2. 12. Mark 16. 15 16. Mat. 28. 19 20 21. Quest 6. How did Christ reveal and prove his Doctrine The Holy Ghost was sent by the Father and the Son to inspire and guide the Prophets and Apostles and Evangelists that they might truly and fully reveal the Doctrine of Christ and deliver it in Scripture to the Church as the rule of our Faith and Life And by multitudes of evident uncontrolled Miracles to be the great Witness of Christ and of the Truth of his Holy Word Joh. 14. 26. 15. 26. 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. 2 Pet. 1. 21. 2 Tim. 3. 16. Joh. 16. 13. Eph. 3. 3 5. 2. 20. 4. 11 12 13. Mat. 28. 20. 1 Tim. 6. 14. Isa 8. 20. Rev. 22. 18 19. Heb. 3. 2 3. 2. 3 4. Acts 2. 22 19. 11. to 19. Gal. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. John 14. 12. 3. 2. 10. 25 37 38. 1 Cor. 14. Quest 7. How are men brought to partake of Christ and Life The same Holy Spirit doth by the Word enlighten mens Understandings and soften and open their Hearts and turn them from the power of Satan unto God by Faith in Christ that being joyned to Christ the Head and into one Church which is his Body and freely justified and made the Children of God they may be a peculiar People unto him zealous of good Works serving God in Holiness and Righteousness and living in special love and Communion of the Saints and in hope of Christs coming and of everlasting Life Acts 26. 18. Joh. 6. 44. Rom. 8. 9 10 11. Acts 16. 14. Ezek. 36. 26. Acts 15. 9. 1 Cor. 6. 11 19. Col. 1. 18. 2. 19. Eph. 5. 30 31 32. 3. 17. 1 Cor. 12. 13 27. Rom. 3 24. Gal. 4. 6. Joh. 1. 12. Gal. 3. 26. Tit. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Rom. 8. 1. to 14. Gal. 5. 17 24. 1 Joh. 2. 15. Gal. 6. 14. 1 Joh. 3. 8. Luke 1. 74 75. 1 Pet. 1. 22. Joh. 12. 34 35. Eph. 2. 19. Heb. 10. 25. 1 Cor. 1. 7. 2 Pet. 3. 11 12. Tit. 1. 2. 3. 7. Quest 8. What shall be the end of the Righteous and of the Wicked The Lord Jesus Christ will come again at the end of this World and will raise the Bodies of all Men from the dead and judge all men according to their works And the Righteous shall go into everlasting Life and the rest into everlasting Punishment Acts 1. 11. 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thes 4. 16 17 18. Joh. 5. 22 27. 2 Cor. 5. 10. Rom. 2. 6 7. Mat. 25. 2 Thes 1. 8 9 10. 2. 12. 2 Tim. 4. 8 18. Luke 10. 11. Joh. 17. 24. 12. 26. Mat. 13. 40. to 43. Quest 9. What are the publick means which Christ hath appointed to Salvation Christ hath appointed that fit Men shall be ordained Bishops and Pastors in his Church to disciple the uncalled and baptize all that are Disciples in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost and to congregate his Disciples and to oversee and guide the several Congregations and each Member thereof Particularly to teach them the Word of God to pray and praise God with them and for them to administer the Lords Supper in remembrance of him and to bless them in the Name of the Lord Especially on the Lords-Day which he hath appointed for Holy Communion in such works Also to rebuke with authority the scandalous and unruly and to reject those that are obstinately impenitent and unreformed It is therefore the Peoples duty to joyn with such Churches in the foresaid worship of God and to know hear submit to and obey these their Guides that are over them in the Lord and to avoid Discord and Division and to live in Unity Love and Peace Mat. 28. 19 20. Mark 16. 15. Rom. 10. 7 8 14 15. 1 Tim. 3. 1 2. 2 Tim. 2. 2. Acts 14. 23. Acts 2. 42. 20. 7 28. Eph. 4. 11 12 14. Ezek. 3. 17 18 21. Mal. 2. 7. 1 Cor. 12. 17 28 29. Col. 1. 28. Acts 26. 18. Jam. 5. 14. Neh. 11. 17. 9. 5. 8. 4 5 6 8. 1 Cor. 10. 16. 9. 13 14. 11. 24. Num. 6. 23 24. Deut. 10. 8. 1 Chr. 23. 13. Heb. 7. 7 8 9 10. 1 Cor. 9. 1 Cor. 4. 1. 1 Tim. 4 13 14 15. Rev. 1. 10. Acts 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 2. Mark 1â— 2 9. Joh. 20 1 19. Tit. 2. 15. 1 9 11. 1 Tim. 5. 1 19 20. 3. 5. Tit. 3. 10. 1 Cor. 5. 4 5 11 13. Acts 2. 42. Heb. 13. 7 17 24. 1 Thes 5. 17. 1 Cor. 16. 16. Luke 12. 42. 10. 16. 1 Cor. 1. 10. 3. 3. Rom. 16. 17. Eph. 4. 2 15 16. Col. 2. 2. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Quest 10. What are the secret Holy Duties which every one must use The secret Duties of Holiness are frequent and serious Meditation of God and his