vnderstand the doctrine gathered and in heart to affect the vse made after I haue either read or heard it 5. Conference by asking of superiours and Ministers by reasoning with equals and teaching inferiours all in reuerence and humilitie to vnderstand that I know not to be resolued in that I doubt of and to call to memorie what I haue forgotten 6. Continuall prayer with practise of it in my particular calling Q. Do you thinke you are thus bound to forsake the diuell the vvorld and the flesh to beleeue in God to learne to knovv and do his vvill as they haue promised for you A. Yes verily and by Gods helpe so will I indeauour to do or else were I vnthankfull to God my Father that hath called me into the state of saluation making me his child and also vnmindfull of my sureties that haue so bound themselues for me Q. But tell me if any vndergo such a charge hovv can any be suretie to God for you that you should doe as they haue promised for you A. Being assured by faith that the seed of the faithfull are blessed they iudging me charitably to bee one of them did promise by the grace of God belonging vnto me in Christ and the meanes which they would vse J should performe the same Q. VVhat are the meanes vvhich they haue premised to vse A. That I should be taught so soone as I shall be able to learne what a solemne vow promise and profession I. haue made by them II. That they will exhort me to heare sermons and to learn all things which a Christian ought to know for his soules health but especially the principles of religion conteined in these foure the Creed the Lords prayer the ten Commaundements and the doctrine of the Sacraments The second part Q. Let vs then see vvhether they haue vsed those meanes and hovv you haue profited rehearse the articles of your beleefe A. I beleeue in God the Father almightie c. Q. VVhat do you chiefly learne out of these articles of your Christian faith A. 1. J learne to beleeue that there is a God to beleeue God and also in him 2. That he is but one in substance yet distinguished into three the Father Sonne and holy Ghost which distinction is in person propertie and manner of working 3. That this God hath a Church to which onely he is truly knowne and by the same sincerely worshipped Q Hovv can you be persvvaded that there is a God A. 1. By his created workes declaring 2. by my conscience accusing 3. by iudgements terrifying 4. by order obserued in all things 5. by heathen authors consenting 6. By the Scripture confidently auouching the same Q. VVhat is God vve cannot tell ther fore tell me vvhat a one he is A. A spirituall substance most holy and of glorious maiestie infinite in his being as euery where present in wisedome foreseeing rightly disposing all things in power doing what he list in iustice punishing whom he will iustly and in mercie to saue whom he pleaseth Q. Hovv do you behold and conceiue of this God A. Not by any bodily shape but spiritually by his word as he hath therein manifested himselfe and by his workes of creation preseruation and gouerning euery thing according to his foreknowledge and appointment therein to his owne glorie Q. VVhat beleeue you concerning God the Father A. That he is God Almightie in order the first person in the Trinitie begetting the Sonne from euerlasting of his whole substance maker of heauen and earth men and Angels and all things else very good onely by his word of nothing at the beginning in sixe dayes and still by his prouidence preserues the same for my benefite Q. VVhat vvas man especially made of A. Man consists of bodie and soule the first mans bodie was made of the dust of the earth but our bodies come by generation and are with his mortall and both his and all our soules by inspiration and are immortall Q. VVhat estate good man in by creation and vvhat a one did God make him A. In the estate of innocencie void of all sin free from any punishment and was made after Gods image that is holy and righteous hauing perfect knowledge of God and his will as much as was needfull for him and also readinesse of will in heartie affection with bodily strength to fulfill the same and had withall the rule of all Gods creatures made for his benefite Q. Hovv then came you into this vvretched estate A. By the fall of Adam and Eue my first parents who wilfully disobeyed God by the diuels enticement infidelitie and pride possessing their hearts and who stood and fell in the roome of all mankind Q. Hovv can our soules be sinfull that come not by propagation but by inspiration A. 1. For that his soule was deputie for all soules of men naturally begotten 2. Because man sinned and man is not man before body soule be knit together which being conioyned become together as man partaker of mans fal corruptiō Q. Doth any thing of that image of God remaine yet in vs A. Yes 1. In the mind a certaine generall corrupt knowledge of nature concerning good and euill to make vs inexcusable before God 2. In the conscience a power to reproue and represse in part vnbridled affections 3. In will though a free yet a weake choice in euery naturall and ciuill action Q. VVhat euils do vve receiue by this fall A. 1. In the mind ignorance of heauenly things vnaptnesse to learne them or to iudge of them aright but apt to learne euill and to inuent the same 2. In conscience impurenesse to excuse sin not to accuse beeing dead or benummed and to accuse for well or ill doing 3. In will want of power to will any true good but to resist it and onely to will that which is euill 4. In affection to hate good and runne after ill 5. In bodie fitnesse to begin sinne by receiuing outward obiects and occasions theteof by the senses and also to execute the same when the heart hath conceiued it in word and deed and this is called Originall sinne which is in euery man Q. Do all men continue in this sinfull and cursed estate for euer A. No but onely the reprobate whome God hath not decreed to saue to manifest his iustice for the elect being predestinate to eternall life are in this world in their appointed time called effectually through Gods word and his spirit iustified and sanctified and so shall continue in this estate of grace to be glorified for that God will also shew his mercie and all for his owne glorie Q. Are none of the reprobate euor in the estate of grace and Gods fauour A. No verily though many of them endued with the common gifts of the spirit may in outward appearance for a time seeme to be of the elect in the iudgement of the Church Q. Can any of the elect then be euer before God in the
death till his comming againe Rom. 4. 11. 1. Cor. 11. 26. Q. VVhat ought you to do before you come A. Prepare my selfe by examination 1. Cor. 11. 28. Q. VVhat ought you to come vvith to the Sacrament A. With foure things 1. knowledge both of my miserie Gods mercie and the doctrine of the Sacrament 2. with faith in Iesus Christ Heb. 11. 6. 3. with repentance for all my sinnes Esa 1. 10. 11. 14. 15. 16. 4. with heartie loue vnto my neighbor Mat. 5. 23. Q. VVhat if you come vnprepared vvithout these A. I come vnworthily I am guiltie of the body and bloud of Christ 1. Cor. 11. 27. I do eare and drinke my owne damnation vers 29. God may punish me vers 40. and the diuell may enter into me as he did vnto Iudas and bring me to destruction of bodie and soule Ioh 13. 27. Of Prayer Q. VVhat is Prayer A. It is a right heartie and faithfull request made vnto God in the name of Iesus Christ 1. Ioh. 5. 14. Rom. 8. 26. Iam. 1. 6. Ioh. 14. 14. 15. 16. Mat. 3. 17. Q. Can or doth euery one pray that vttereth vvords and vseth a forme of prayer A. It is a speciall gift to Gods children and such onely pray as haue knowledge what to aske a hearty desire in asking and faith to beleeue Q. VVhat direction of prayer haue you A. The same which our Sauiour Christ taught his disciples Our Father vvhich art in heauen hallovved be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy vvill be done in earth as it is in heauen Giue vs this day our daily bread and forgiue vs our trespasses as vve forgiue them that trespasse against vs. And lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill Amen Q. VVhat desirest thou of God in this prayer A. I desire my Lord God our heauenly Father who is the giuer of all goodnesse to send his grace vnto me and to all people that we may worship him serue him and obey him as we ought to do And I pray vnto God that he will send vs al things that be needfull both for our soules and bodies and that he will be mercifull vnto vs and forgiue vs our sinnes and that it will please him to saue and defend vs in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keepe vs from all sinne and wickednesse and from our ghostly enemie and from euerlasting death And this I trust he will do of his mercie and goodnesse through our Lord Iesus Christ and therefore I say Amen So be it The first part of Catechisme Of new birth Q. WHat is your name A. Channauel God is gracious to vs. Benalleuel Loue wholy the Lord with the heart Q. VVho gaue you this name A. My Godfathers and my Godmothers who with my father brought me to the Minister into the congregation to be baptized and were especiall witnesses of the same and professours of my faith and obedience to God for me Q. VVhy vvere you baptized A. That I might receiue a badge of my Christian religion and be admitted into the Church to liue amongst the professors of Christs name to be receiued of them and accounted as a mēber of Christ the child of God and an inheritour of the kingdome of heauen vntill I shew the contrarie Q. VVhereby may you novv be certaine that you are such a one indeed A. If I do what my Godfathers and Godmothers did make profession of for me Q. VVhat did your Godfathers and Godmothers make profession of for you A They did professe three things in my name the first was the forsaking of the diuell and al his workes the pompes and the vanities of this wicked world and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh Q. VVhat vvere you then bound to them that you haue promised to forsake them A. Yea verily I am a bondslaue to Sathan by the corruption of my nature prone to all vice hauing the seed of all sinne in me and do hate both God and my neighbour Q. Hovv can you then forsake this vvofull state and cease from any euill being thus bound and prone thereunto A. Not by any naturall power in or of my selfe but onely by the grace of God when it is giuen vnto me Q. Are you sure you haue forsaken them are you not deceiued A. I am not deceiued for I hate vnfainedly the workes of the diuell the worlds vanitie all the vngodly manners of euery man and I labour by all good meanes to die to all sinne daily louing the word of God following it and all godly examples indeauoring to kill speedily euery ill motion but cherishing the good in my heart by meditation vowes fasting and prayer Q. But can you tell me vvhat are the vvorkes of the diuell the vvorlds vanitie and the ill motions of the heart A. Whatsoeuer I or any other do thinke speake or do against the will of God reuealed in his word written Q. VVhat hath mooued you to forsake the diuel the vvorld and the flesh A. For that I haue learned and do well perceiue by knowledge from the word and mine owne experience that these three be the onely malicious spirituall powerfull subtill and continuall enemies of my eternall felicitie Q. VVhat are the other things that your Godfathers and Godmothers promised for you A. Secondly was the beleeeuing of all the twelue articles of my christian faith and the third was the learning diligently of Gods holy will and commaundements and an obedient walking in the same all the dayes of my life Q VVhere is this vvill of God to be learned A. Not from mine owne fantasie mans wisedome traditions or examples of men but onely out of the Scripture which is the word written by his Prophets and Apostles in the bookes of the old and new Testament which is sufficient to teach vs all things necessarie that we need to beleeue for our saluation Q. VVhat reasons haue you to persvvade your selfe that this Scripture vvhich vve hold is the true vvord of God and none other A. First from the pen-men being many and most of them simple and plaine persons who doe mutually consent setting downe their own faults without partialitie Secondly from the matter aboue naturall mens reach of mans creation resurrection last iudgement and of the Trinitie in vnitie prophecies also fulfilled in all circumstances Thirdly from the manner of speaking peremptorily reproouing or allowing without sinister respects Fourthly from the effect binding conscience conuerting men to hate euen life it selfe for Gods glorie Fifthly the miraculous preseruation thereof with punishment of such as seeke to ouerthrowe either it or the professours thereof Lastly that it ascribes all glorie to God the maine end which it aymeth at Q. VVhat meanes must you vse to come to the sauing knovvledge of this vvord A. 1. Daily reading 2. Learning the Catechisme the grounds of religion 3. Hearing the word with mind and affection both read and preached publikely by Gods ministers 4. Meditation in mind to
state of damnation A. No indeed albeit both before the conuersion and also after they be called they falling by infirmitie and lying a time in their sinne may appeare in shew to the Church to be none of the elect yet can they not fall away wholy nor finally Q. May not men then liue as they list sithence he being a reprobate cannot be saued or an elect he cannot be damned A. Not so for that one elected cannot but vse the meanes which are ordained for him to walke in to make his election sure to himselfe which whoso doth not cannot be saued Q. VVhat beleeue you concerning God the Son A. That he is God the second Person in the Trinitie Christ Iesus the onely naturall Sonne begotten of the Father our Lord made man cōceiued and sanctified by the holy Ghost ioyning two natures into one person borne according to the promise of the Virgin Marie who perfectly fulfilled the lawe humbled and suffered vnder Pontius Pylate was crucified bearing vpon him Gods curse and hellish torments who died and was buried and being a while held captiue of death in the graue he was exalted and victoriously rose againe the third day and is ascended vp into heauen and there he sits on the right hand of God his Father hauing all power in heauen and earth to rule and gouerne his Church where his manhood doth and shall at all times though in his Godhead he be present with me euer remaine vntill he shall come from thence to iudge vs all here on earth both quicke and dead at the last day which day cannot be nowe farre off Q. VVhy should he neede to be both God and man A. That he might be the onely Mediator betwixt God and man to satisfie for sinne which neither the manhood by deseruing nor Godhead by dying alone could do Q. VVhy is he called Christ A. To declare that he was the promised Messias and to signifie his offices that he was annointed not with materiall oyle but with the gift of the spirit without measure to be our King Priest and Prophet from which name we are called Christians and are by him Kings Priests and Prophets Q. Hovv is Christ a King A. He is King not onely as God but as hee is the head gouerning the Church without any generall Vicar vnder him by his word and spirit immediatly making lawes and ordeining Ministers to the gathering together and preseruation thereof 2. By destroying Sathan his Angels vnbeleeuers idolaters heretickes Antichrist and the whole kingdome of darknesse Q. Hovv is Christ a priest A. 1. By satisfying for all the sinnes of the elect by his passion and fulfilling of the lawe 2. For that he maketh prayer continually to God for them Q. Hovv is Christ a Prophet A. By immediatly reuealing from his Father his word and meanes of saluation contained in the same Q. VVhy is he called Iesus A. To signifie that he is a Sauiour to euery true beleeuer neither is there any other meanes of ourselues or by any orher either in part or whole to obtaine saluation but onely by him alone Q. VVhy is he called Lord A. Because we owe all homage and dutie in ioue to him for our redemption Q. VVhat beleeue you concerning the holy Ghost A. That he is God the third person in the Trinitie proceeding from the Father and the Sonne who spake by the Prophets dwelling in the faithfull sanctifying them in part in this life working by the word and holy motions an vtter loathing of sinne and a heartie loue of righteousnesse leading them into all truth perswading them of Gods fauour teaching them in prayer bearing them vp in temptation quickening renewing and increasing his gifts in them that they may know beleeue loue and do that which is good which he will perfect fully in the life to come Q. VVhy did this God thus make redeeme sanctifie and hereto preserue you A. That I might prayse his name in liuing godly righteously and soberly according to all his commandements in my calling in all things whatsoeuer my estate be in this present world Q. VVhat do you beleeue concerning the Church A. That it is but one mysticall bodie whether militant or triumphant visible or invisible in heauen or in earth being a companie of the Lords elect holy by Christ catholike gathered of the dispersed abroad and hauing speciall prerogatiues aboue the rest of mankind communion with Christ and one with another by the bond of the spirit the forgiuenesse of all sinnes the ioyfull resurrection of the bodie and life euerlasting wherof I beleeue my selfe to be one and therfore that the same things belong also vnto me Q. VVhat are the markes of the true Church here on earth A. Inwardly faith and loue outwardly besides the vncertaine notes of vniuersalitie antiquitie and consent these two Christs word truly preached his Sacraments rightly administred whereto adde faithfull prayer and holy discipline Q. Js the Church of Rome a true Church of Christ A. No but of Antichrist the Pope the chiefe teacher of the doctrine of diuels Q. VVhat reason haue you to disallovv that religion A. For that it is a false religion I. The author is the diuell II. The meanes vsed to vphold it are vnlawfull 1. deceiued Councels 2. vnwritten verities and forged authors 3. falsifying the Fathers 4. corrupting Scripture by adding thereto 5. by taking from it by false interpreting 6. reteyning the people in ignorance by forbidding to studie the word and teaching it in an vnknowne tongue 7. pretending reuelations and shewing lying miracles 8. counterfeit holinesse 9. bloudie persecution III. The matter of their religion is vntruthes idolatrie heresie and nouelties inuented by man IV. The forme in the seruice ridiculous by foolish gestures carnall by fleshly pompes and delights their worship is by hypocrisie V. The end to aduance men by worshipping of Saints and extolling mans power and merits VI. The benefite gotten therby is nothing because it keepes a man in the estate of damnation and alloweth the breach of all the ten Commaundements 1. To feare God by mens doctrines 2. To worship Images 3. Magicke and coniuring 4. Idol-seruice 5. Treason against Christian Princes 6. Assoyles for murtherers 7. Stewes and restraint of mariage 8. Wages for no lawfull labour to Masse-mongers and for deceites 9. To breake an oath to a Christian made lawfully 10. That concupiscence is no sinne 7. Gods iudgements against many of the most fierie professours thereof which is neuer seene to happen to zealous and constant professours of the truth Q. VVhat must be done to maintaine the Church and to ouerthrovv heresie that destroyes the foundation errours corrupting religion scismes breaking the peace of the Church and vices stayning our profession A. 1. To cleaue onely to the written word which is both in time before and in authoritie aboue the Church to iudge all controuersies in religion 2. To call sufficient men and ordaine them Ministers to teach allowing necessarie maintenance but suffering no
Christ Papistrie wil-worship good intents without warrant our owne fantasies mens traditions worship of Images pilgrimages not to destroy errors heresies and monuments of idolatrie The contrarie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the third commaundement A. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine c. Q. VVhat doth this commaundement teach you A. Not to bereaue God of his honour that is due vnto him but in all things to giue him his due glorie The occasion of this commanndement was our readinesse to abuse God his name word and workes Q. VVhat things are hereby forbidden A. To thinke or speake of God of his word or workes lightly or contemptuously without reuerence to sweare by any thing but by God or by him without a calling in our ordinarie talke where neither Gods glorie our brothers saluation nor magistrate requireth it to sweare falsely So blasphemie witchcraft coniuring and cursing to denie the knowne truth to professe pietie and liue wickedly the contrarie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the fourth commaundement A. Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day c. Q VVhat doth this Commaundement teach you A. That euery day in the weeke I prepare my selfe to keepe the Lords day holy that when it comes it be not prophaned nor the publike worship of God letted but furthered by me and mine The occasion of this commaundement our aptnesse to fall from God without daily meanes be vsed Q. VVhat things are hereby forbidden A. To do vnnecessarie labours without godlinesse and charitie fayres iourneys or vaine sports eating and drinking that may hinder deuotion not to heare Gods word preached or to heare carelesly sleepily with wearinesse or without purpose to amend To omit meditation and conference For ministers to omit ordinarily the preaching of the word to preach in a strange language vaingloriously falsely hypocritically flatteringly or by constraint without cheerefulnesse for any to absent themselues negligently or wilfully from the Sacrament the contrarie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the fifth commaundement A. Honour thy father and thy mother c. Q. VVhat doth this commaundement teach you A. To preserue the dignitie of euery one by all meanes that is any way to be preferred either by his place age or gifts and that no waies I diminish the same The occasion of this commaundement was our proud and enuious nature that cannot abide to be vnder gouernment not to giue men their due Q. VVhat things are hereby forbidden A. Contempt of our betters vnreuerent behauiour towards them by word or deed to disobey their lawfull commaundements counsels or aduice All treason and rebellion The contratie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the sixt Commaundement A. Thou shalt do no murther Q. VVhat doth this Commaundement teach you A. I must neither hurt nor hinder either mine owne life or the life of my neighbour but by all meanes preserue the same The occasion of this commaundement was our impatiencie and vncharitable desire of reuenge Q. VVhat things are hereby forbidden A. Want of loue anger malice enuie gâ—udging a frowning countenance desire of reuenge contention rayling quarelling mocking offensiue ieasting oppression fighting murther any bodily hurt to neglect to vse meanes of health or to hinder the same to be contentious and not to seeke after peace The contrarie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the seuenth Commaundement A. Thou shalt not commit adulterie Q. VVhat doth this commaundement teach you A. I must not any way hurt or impaire the chastitie of my neighbour but euery way seeke to preserue the same The occasion of this commaundement was our lustfull and fleshly nature Q VVhat things are hereby forbidden A. Lustfull desires fornication adulterie with all occasions hereunto idlenesse wanton attire a rolling eye corrupt and vnhonest talke wanton songs lasciuious pictures vnchast playes mixt dauncing of men and women vnseemly gestures and acts and companying with wantons The contrarie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the eight commaundement A. Thou shalt not steale Q. VVhat doth this commaundement teach you A. That I must not any way hinder or diminish my neighbours goods but by all meanes preserue and increase the same The occasion hereof was our couerous nature discontent euer with our present estate Q. VVhat things are herely forbidden A. Pilfering and robberie any way to take or keepe that which is not ours vnlawfully all theft with all occasions thereunto Not to restore things found borowed or left onely to be kept of trust to giue what is not thine either in whole or part Not to liue contentedly all couetous desires idlenesse out of calling or lithernesse in it The contrarie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the ninth commaundement A. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour Q. VVhat doth this commaundement teach you A. That I must not diminish the good name or credit of my neighbour whither friend or foe knowne or vnknowne but carefully preserue the same The occasion of this commaundement was our seditious nature Q. VVhat things are herely forbidden A. Lying in ieast or earnest backbiting slandering reuealing secret infirmities and priuate offences before admonition false witnesse by adding or detracting in words or sense to take a doubtfull matter in the worst part also all occasions to this sinne as enuie disdaine anger selfe-loue to be too suspitious to be readie to receiue a false report against our neighbour The contrarie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the tenth commaundement A. Thou shalt not couer c. Q. VVhat doth this Commaundement teach you A. That I may not haue once an vnlawfull lust to that which is my neighbours but for euer thinke good towards him The occasion of Q. VVhat is prayer A. It is a right request made onely to God in the name of Iesus Christ by a true beleeuer for such things as be lawfull Q. VVhat rule haue you to direct you in your prayer aright A. The same which our Sauiour Christ taught his disciples called the Lords prayer Q. Let me heare it A. Our Father which art in heauen c. Q. Hovv many parts are thereof this prayer A. Foure I. a preface II. sixe petitions III. a confirmation IV. a conclusion Q. VVhich is the preface A. It is contained in these words Our Father vvhich art in heauen Q. VVhat learne you out of this A. 1. That a preparation must be made to pray 2. It shewes the properties of true prayer Q. VVhat must you aforehand prepare in going to God to pray A. 1. I must prepare these 6. things My mind to meditate of heauenly things before I set to pray and vnderstand that it is commaunded and promised what I purpose to aske 2. My heart withdrawing it from former passions a while to affect earnestly with feruencie that I will aske 3. My words to be vttered aptly with the heart agreeing with the matter 4. My behauiour to a holy reuerence considering Gods iustice and maiestie and my wickednesse and basenesse 5. My faith to apprehend as much as shall be
necessarie 6. My hope to waite without appointing God either the time place manner or quantitie of the matter 7. My will to vse afterwards all the honest meanes appointed to obtaine the same Q. VVhat be the true properties of prayer A. 1. That it be in true loue for we must remember to pray for all our brethren not departed this life for there is no Purgatorie 2. It must bee made onely to God for him only can we call heauenly Father neither to Saints nor Angels 3. In the name of Christ through whom onely he is our Father by adoption 4. In faith for that he is a Father and will not deny his children 5. Without a carnall conceipt of God vaine babling or wandering thoughts for he is in heauen Q. VVhich be the sixe petitions A. Hallowed be thy name c. Q. VVhat do these teach you A. The summe of all the things which I can lawfully aske at Gods hand for body or soule wherof the first three concerne the glorie of God and the latter three the good of man Q. VVhich is the first petition and vvhat desire you in it A. The first is Hallovved be thy name and I desire therein in the first place that I and all other may acknowledge God so truly in his word and workes as in euery of our thoughts wordes and deeds he may be highly worshipped and praysed Q. VVhich is the second and vvhat desire you in it A The second is Thy kingdome come and desire that he will send vs the meanes thus to honour his name that is his word and spirit with all things that do further thereunto that so the elect may be gathered and Christ come to the last iudgement to giue vs his kingdome of glorie Q. VVhich is the third petition and vvhat desire you in it A. The third is Thy vvill be done and I desire that as we haue the meanes to glorifie him so here we pray to do not ours but his will as all his commaundements and word teacheth vs and as the blessed Saints and Angels do in heauen heartily wiâ—hout hypocrisie willingly without grudging readily without lingring faithfully without sinister respects ioyfully without murmuring and constantly without wauering vnto the end Q. VVhich is the fourth petition and vvhat desire you in it A. The fourth is Giue vs this c. and I desire that he will provide those necessaries for our bodies without which we cannot serue him and that we may depend patiently vpon his prouidence vsing diligent labour and all honest meanes to helpe our selues and others Q. VVhich is the fifth petition and vvhat desire you in it A. The fifth is And forgiue vs our trespasses c and I desire that he would forgiue all of vs friend or foe our sinnes lest they either hinder vs of the former mercies or cause them to be taken froÌ„ vs and that he will perswade our consciences that we are forgiuen by giuing vs grace to forgiue freely and to forget those offences whereby in any thing or any way our neighbours haue bene grieuous vnto vs. Q. VVhich is the sixt and last petition and vvhat desire you in it A. The sixth is Leade vs not into temptation c. and I desire that as he will pardon vs so he would also giue vs the gift of continuance that though we be tempted yet may we ouercome and be deliuered from sinne and Sathan and neuer fall againe any more from God Q. VVhich is the confirmation A. For thine is the kingdome c. Q. VVhat learne you by this A. I do learne hereby two things 1. that it is a reason not to moue God but to stir vp our affections and to strengthen our faith in asking Q. Hovv doth it this A. When it teacheth me to acknowledge the kingdome to God our Father that is his dominion and right ouer all and that his power is the greatest to compell all to do what he will and as he will and his glorie the highest which himself maintaines and we seeke aboue all Q. VVhat is the second thing vve learne A. 2. A thanksgiuing and praysing of God which we ought to vse in the end as the second part of prayer which is done in giuing to God his owne the rule power and glorie which we desire him to manifest by graunting our petitions and we will acknowledge the same not for a time but for euer and euer Q. VVhich is the conclusion A. This word Amen Q. VVhat meane you by this vvord A. That I am perswaded by the aforesaid reasons that my request is graunted and shall bee performed as my father shall see it conuenient for me and his glorie in time and place And therefore I say it is so or so it shall be which is Amen The fifth part Q. VVhat is a Sacrament A. It is a visible signe and seale of inuisible graces commaunded and ordained with a promise by Christ in the Church to be administred publikely by a lawfull Minister with the preaching of the word which Sacrament with all the rites thereof doth represent and conuey by proportion and relation in the present vse inuisible graces first Christ and then all his benefites for further assurance of the same things which God hath made by the promise of his word vnto a true beleeuer who is with Christ by the holy Ghost vnited and made one Q. VVhat meane you by Christ all his benefits A. Whole Christ God and man with his righteousnesse iustice holines and redemption who as he is Christ one person of two natures is truly said to be really present in the Sacraments not properly in his humanitie but by the communion of properties Q Hovv may you be sure that you haue receiued true benefite by the Sacraments A. If I do feele a dying to sinne and liuing vnto righteousnesse getting strength and also increasing therein daily by the force of Christes death and resurrection Q. Hovv many Sacraments are there A. Two and no moe Baptisme and the Lords Supper VVhat is Baptisme A. It is the first Sacrament in the new Testament by which such as are within the couenant are either washed sprinkled or dipped in the water in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost Q. VVhat is the outvvard signe and rite A. Water and washing Q. VVhat is the inuisible grace A. The bloud of Christ which cleanseth vs of all sinne originall and actuall past and to come Q. Are vve then no more sinners A. Yes in ourselues for originall sinne still is sinne in vs but we are washed from it because it shall not be imputed nor any sinne else vnto me a true beleeuer Q. VVho are to be baptized A. Not onely such as be of yeares that can do testifie their faith but also infants of either father or mother professing Christ and baptized for the promise of saluation belongs to them and to their children Q. Is baptisme so necessarie to saluation that vvithout it children cannot be