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A09219	Iosuahs godly resolution in conference with Caleb, touching houshold gouernement for well ordering a familie With a twofold catechisme for instruction of youth; the first short, for the weaker sort, set forth in sixe principall points; the latter large for other of greater growth, and followeth the order of the common authorized catechisme, and is an explanation thereof: both set forth for the benefit of his Christian friends and wel-willers. by Richard Bernard preacher of Gods word, at Woorksoppe in Nottingam-shire.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. Large catechisme.; Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. Double catechisme.	1612 (1612)	STC 1953; ESTC S113310	37,811	96

meditation vowes fasting and prayer Q. But can you tell me what are the works of the diuell the worlds vanitie and the ill motions of the heart A. Whatsoeuer I or any other doe thinke speake or doe against the will of God reuealed in his written word Q. What hath mooued you to forsake the diuell the world and the flesh A. For that I haue learned and do well perceiue by knowledge from the word mine owne experience that these three be the onely malicious spirituall powerfull subtill and continuall enemies of my eternall felicity Q. What are the other two things that your Godfathers and Godmothers made profession of for you A. They secondly made profession of my beliefe to all the twelue Articles of my Christian faith and thirdly of my willingnesse to learne diligently Gods holy will commandements and to walke obediently in the same all the daies of my life Q. Where is this will 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 necessary that we neede to beleeue for our saluation Q. What reasons haue you to perswade your selfe that this Scripture which we holde is the true word of God and none other A. First from the pen-men being many and most of them simple plaine persons who doe mutually consent setting downe their owne faults without partiality Secondly from the matter aboue naturall mens reach of mans creation resurrection last iudgement and of the Trinity in vnity 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 ouerthrow either it or the professours thereof Lastly that it ascribes all glory to God the maine end that it aymeth at Q. What meanes must you vse to come to the sauing knowledge of Gods word A. 1. Daily reading 2. Learning the Catechisme the grounds of religion 3. hearing the Word with mind affection both read preached publikely by Gods Ministers 4. Meditation in minde to vnderstand the doctrine gathered 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 humility 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. Doe you thinke you are thus bound to forsake the diuell the world and the flesh to beleeue in God to learne to know and doe his will as they haue promised for you A. Yes verily and by Gods helpe so will I endeauour to doe 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 made such a profession for me Q. But tell me how could any perswade themselues that you should doe as they haue made profession for you A. By beeing assured by faith that the seede of the faithfull are blessed they iudging me charitably to be one of them did hope by the grace of God belonging vnto me in Christ and through the meanes which should be vsed I would performe the same Q. What are the meanes which ought to be vsed A. 1. To be taught so soone as I shall be able to learne what a solemne profession I haue made by them 2. To be exhorted to heare Sermons and to learne all things which a Christian ought to know for his soules health but especially the principles of religion contained in these foure the Creede the Lords prayer the tenne Commandements and the doctrine of the Sacraments The second part Q. Let vs then see whether these meanes haue beene vsed and how you haue profited rehearse the articles of your beleefe A. I beleeue in God the Father c. Q. What doe you chiefly learne out of these articles of your Christian faith A. 1. I 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 property 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. How can you be perswaded 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. What is God we cannot tell therefore tell me what a one he is A. A spirituall substance most holy of glorious maiestie in finite in his beeing as euery where present in wisedome foreseeing and 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. How doe 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 glory Q. What beleeue you concerning God the Father A. That he is God almighty in order the first Person in the Trinity 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 daies and still by his prouidence preserues the same for my benefite Q. What was man especially made of A. Man consists of body and soule the first mans body 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. What estate stood man in by creation and what a one did God make him A. In the estate of innocency void of all sinne 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 needefull for him and also readinesse of will in hearty affection with bodily strength to fulfill the same and had withall the rule of all Gods creatures made for his benefite Q. How then come you into this wretched estate A. By the fall of Adam and Eue my first parents who wilfully disobeyed God by the diuels inticement infidelity and pride possessing their hearts and stood and fell in the roome of all mankinde Q.

IOSVAHS GODLY Resolution in conference with Caleb touching houshold gouernement for well ordering a familie WITH A twofold Catechisme for instruction of youth the first short for the weaker sort set forth in sixe principall points the latter large for other of greater growth and followeth the order of the common Authorized Catechisme and is an explanation thereof both set forth for the benefit of his Christian friends and wel-willers By RICHARD BERNARD preacher of Gods word at Woorksoppe in Nottingam-shire 1. Pet. 2. 2. As new-borne babes desire that sincere milke of the word that ye may grow thereby Printed at London by IOHN LEGATT Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne by Simon Waterson 1612. To the right Worshipfull Sir Henrie Pakenham Knight and to his religiously affected Ladie all good and sound comforts tending to the best and most assured ioyes in glorie are heartily wished RIGHT Worshipfull man was made for his Creators glorie the way is to know him to obserue his good pleasure and with alacrity of spirit to doe his will Though all receiue Being of him yet most as the Heathen know him not at all Some sort in the world professe him but are little obseruatiue of his will these onely say Lord Lord and therewith rest so content other doe aske what he would haue done and when they know his pleasure they haue it onely vpon their tongue but far from practise Very few know with faith and doe what they beleeue and know with conscience Turks for their liues are as good as many Christians and these no better then other but for an idle profession Meanes sure haue we many to amend this as his holy word his multitude of mercies and manifold chastisements But the first is despised therefore it preuaileth not the second is vnthankefully abused and mercies mooue vs not and the last is contemned we grow hard and therefore o Lord saue vs for iudgements reclaime vs not But the godly wise will I hope lay these things to heart though most be carelesse lest correction turne to destruction mercies be remooued and of the Gospel we be vtterly depriued The Lord may thus doe it is our deseruing that by iustice he reuenge not himselfe of vs it is mercy still without any mans merit God make vs thankefull that our knowledge may cause an acknowledgment heartily with amendment seriously so shall we enioy what we haue and haue what yet we possesse not for our greater good My words of complaint and my heartie wish tend to stirre vp some to well doing that if so God please in a world of wickednesse there may be found Noahs preparing the Arke and godly Lots dwelling in Sodome that when destruction commeth such may find in that day fauour in Gods sight for themselues and their families For this end I haue sent forth with the principles of religion and the points of Catechisme certaine instructions deliuered Dialogue wise teaching and perswading all Christians to a mutuall care of one an others saluation euery houshold gouernour with the members thereof to an orderly disposing of themselues that Iesus Christ may dwell amongst them and that the houses of Christians may be lodgings for the Lord and not dennes of infidells or habitations of diuells What hath bin deliuered after an other maner the same changed for a more easie information I now offer right Worshipfull thankefully vnto you let it please you to accept my litle labour for your Worships so large kindnesse alreadie shewed I do acknowledge my selfe beholden I professe readinesse to expresse still more thankfulnesse as time shall afforde fit occasion In the meane space I shall not cease to pray for you that Iosuahs resolution may be euer in you that you may follow the steppes of Father Abraham and your good Ladie imitate the holy graces of Sarah to your housholds happinesse and both your endlesse comforts here and in heauen Amen Worksoppe August 1. Your Worships to be commanded Richard Bernard Iosuahs resolution of houshold gouernment Iosua 24. 15. But I and my house will serue the Lord. IOSVA CALEB LET me speake vnto you Coherence of the text with that which went before O yee house of Israel our fathers haue receiued mercy diuers wayes wee their children haue experience of the goodnes of our God we haue sound proofe of his assured promise vs hath he deliuered our enemies confounded hath giuen vs possessiō ouer Canaan as appeareth this day Now my aduise and will is that you would therefore feare the Lord serue him in vprightnesse and truth and serue him alone abandoning all idolatry and not follow your own corrupt wayes nor errors of Forefathers in so great an euill If it seeme good vnto you so to doe I shall reioyce it is that I wish heartily for your good but if you will not bee it knowen vnto you all this day and take notice of my full determination herein that I and my house will serue the Lord. Cal. God forbid God forbid that wee should O most noble Prince be of any other mind then so also with thee to seeke the honour of our God and to serue him Ios Surely you well perswade mee of Gods continuing mercy to vs hereby for if we seeke him he will be found of vs if we 2. Chr. 15. 2 1. Sam. 2. honour him he will honour vs but if wee forsake him he will forsake vs. It is also my hearts ioy that we do conioine as one herein but neuertheles this know that though company doe encourage men to serue the Doct. First Lord yet if a man be alone and all do forsake him that is no barre that a resolued Christian should desist in his holy purpose Cal. Godly men tie not their religion Proofe vpon other mens sleeues they resolue with Peter to follow Christ if all els doe forsake him thy words Iosuah declare herein thy iudgement and thy promise what wee all ought to practise Ios Therefore as I purpose so ought Vse ye to walke with God alone if none will else ioyne with you Cal. Vrge I beseech thee this point vpon the people with reasons that they may see how they may perswade themselues herein to a resolution Ios The Lord in giuing his law doth Reasons speak singularly in the second person as to one man Thou shalt haue no other Gods before me Thou shalt make no grauen Image and so in the rest as if he had said Though other will not serue me though some will haue other Gods though all other will commit idolatrie yet see thou doe not so I charg al as one one as al that euery man may be obediēt to single himselfe forth alone to serue me the Lord his God Againe we all do couenant one by one at our baptisme and some doe promise as much for this that Infant that in particular God shall by them be worshipped now God will

3. 4 5 6 7. Rom. 11. 12. 2. Tim. 4. 8. Q. Why hath God thus made redeemed sanctified and hitherto preserued you A. To serue him truly all the daies of my life Eph. 2. 10. Tit. 2. 11. 12. Luk. 1. 74 75. Q. How must God be serued A. Onely after his will reuealed in his written word Deut. 30. 8. 10. and 4. 2. 2. Cor. 4. 6. Of our strengthening in the state of grace for the certaintie of our glorification Q. Is it needfull for such as are elected and once called iustified and sanctified that they should continue stil in vsing meanes to saluation A. Yea truely else they will fall away Pro. 29. 18. 2. Chro. 15. 2. Heb. 3. 12. 13. Q. What things must you continue in to assure your selfe of saluation and to grow strong in the way of life A. I. In the knowledge of Gods word Psal 1. 2. Act. 2. 42. 2. Pet. 1. 19. Ioh. 10. 27. 28. II. In faith Ioh. 3. 36. III. In loue to the godly Ioh. 13. 35. 1 Ioh. 3. 14. IV. In obedience Eze. 36. 26. Psa 15. 5. Ier. 32. 39 40. V. In patient suffering for Christ Rom. 8. 17. Iam. 1. 12. VI. In alonging after Christs comming 2. Tim. 4. 8. VII In sincerity without hypocrisie which will appeare by my appealing to God in these things Ioh. 21. 15. Of the Sacraments Q. Hath God giuen any helpes and commanded further any other meanes besides the word for the strengthening of vs herein A. Yes these two Sacraments praier Q. What is a Sacrament A. An outward signe and seale of inuisible graces Q. How do the Sacraments strengthen you A. By a reuerent vsing and meditating of them rightly vnderstood as signes representing Christ and his benefits and sure seales of his couenant with vs. Gen. 9. 9. to 18. and 17. 9 10. Q. How many Sacraments are there A. Only two Baptisme and the Lords Supper 1. Cor. 10. 1 2 3 4. Mat. 28. 19. and 26. 26 27. 1. Cor. 11. 23 24 25. Q. What is the signe and thing signified in Baptisme A. The signe is water and the grace is the blood of Christ by which I am washed from my sinnes Act. 2. 38. and 22. 16. Q. What are the signes and things signified in the Lords Supper A The signes are the bread and wine the things signified are the body blood of Christ 1. Cor. 11 23 24 25. Q. Why come you to receiue A. To strengthen my faith and to keepe in remembrance Christ his death till his comming again Rom. 4. 11. 1. Cor. 11. 26. Q. What ought you to doe before you come A. Prepare my selfe by examination 1. Cor. 11. 28. Q. What ought you to come with to the Sacrament A. With 4. things 1. Knowledge both of my misery Gods mercy the doctrine of the Sacrament II. With faith in Iesus Christ Heb. 11. 6. III. VVith repentance for all my sinnes Esa 1. 10. 11. 14. 15. 16. Prou. 21. 27. IV. VVith heartie loue vnto my neighbour Math. 5. 23. Q. What if you come vnprepared without these A. I come vnworthy I am guilty of the bodie and blood of Christ 1. Cor. 11. 27. I doe eate and drinke my owne damnation verse 29. God may punish me verse 40. and the diuell may enter into me as he did into Iudas and bring me to destruction of body and soule Ioh. 13. 27. Of Prayer Q. What is prayer A. It is a right hearty 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. and 15. 16. Math. 3. 17. Q. Can or doth euery one pray that vttereth words and vseth a forme of prayer A. No. It is a speciall gift to Gods children and such onely pray as haue knowledge what to aske a heartie desire in asking and faith to beleeue Q. What direction of prayer haue you A. The same which our Sauiour Christ taught his disciples Our Father which art in heauen c. Q. What desire you of God in this prayer A. I desire my Lord God our heauenly Father who is the giuer of all goodnes to send his grace vnto mee and to all people that we may worshippe him serue him and obey him as wee ought to doe and I pray vnto God that hee will send vs all things that be needfull both for our soules and bodies and that hee will be mercifull vnto vs and forgiue vs our sinnes and that it will please him to saue and defend vs in al dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keep vs from all sinne and wickednes and from our ghostly enemy and from euerlasting death And this I trust hee will do of his mercy and goodnes through our Lord Iesus Christ and therefore I say Amen So be it The first part of Catechism Of new birth Q. WHat is your name A. Channanuel God is gracious to vs. Loue wholly the Lord with the heart Benalleuel God is gracious to vs. Loue wholly the Lord with the heart Q. Who gaue you this name A. My Godfathers and my Godmothers who with my father brought mee 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. Why were you baptized A. That I might receiue a badge of my Christian religion be admitted into the Church to liue amongst the professors of Christs name and to be receiued of them and accompted as a member of Christ the child of God an inheritour of the kingdome of heauen vntil I shew the contrary Q. Whereby may you now be certaine that you are such a one in deede A. If I doe what my Godfathers and Godmothers did make professiō of for me Q. What 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 all his workes the pompes and the vanities of this wicked world all the sinfull lusts of the flesh Q. What were 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 seede of all sinne in me and do hate both God and my neighbour Q. How can you then forsake this wofull estate 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 vanity all the vngodly manners of euery man and I labour by all good meanes to die to all sin daily louing the word of God following it all godly examples endeauouring to kill speedily euery ill motion but cherishing the good in my heart by

How can our soules be sinfull that come not by propagation but by inspiration A. 1. For that his soule was deputy for all soules of men naturally begotten 2. Because man sinned and man is not man before body and soule bee knit togither which being conioyned become togither as man partaker of mans fall and corruption Q. Doth any thing of that Image of God remaine yet in vs A. Yes 1. In the minde a certaine generall corrupt knowledge of nature concerning good and euill to make vs inexcusable before God 2. In the conscience a power to reprooue and represse in part vnbridled affections 3. In will though a free yet a weake choice in euery naturall and ciuill action Q. What euils doe we 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 learn euill and to inuent the same 2. In conscience impurenesse to excuse sinne 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 only to will that which is euill 4. In affection to hate good and runne after ill 5. In body fitnesse to begin sinne by receiuing outward obiects and occasions thereof 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. Doe all men continue in this sinfull and cursed estate for euer A. No but onely the reprobate whom God hath not decreed to saue to manifest his iustice for the elect beeing 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 bee glorified for that God will also shew his mercy and all for his owne glory Q. Are none of the reprobate euer in the estate of grace and Gods fauour A. No verily though many of them indued 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 state of damnation A. No indeed albeit both before their conuersion and also after they bee called they falling by infirmity 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 wholly or finally Q. May not men then liue as they list sithence he beeing a reprobate cannot be saued or an elect cannot be damned A. Not so for that one elect cannot but vse the means which are ordained for him to walke to make his election sure to himself which who so doth not cānot be saued Q. What beleeue you concerning God the Sonne A. That he is God the second person in the Trinity Christ Iesus the only naturall Son begotten of the Father our Lord made man conceiued sanctified by the holy Ghost ioyning two natures into one person borne according to the promise of the virgin Mary who perfectly fulfilled the law humbled suffered vnder Pontius Pilate 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 hee 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 remaine though in his godhead he be present with me euer vntil he shal come from thence to iudge vs all here on earth both quicke and dead at the last day which day cannot be now farre of Q. Why should he neede to be both God and man A. That he might be the only Mediatour betwixt God and man to satisfie for sinne which neither the manhood by deseruing nor godhead by dying alone could doe Q. Why is he called Christ A. To declare that he was the promised Messias and to signifie his offices that he was annointed not with material 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. How is Christ a King A. I. He is King not onely as God but because he is the head gouerning the Church without any general Vicar vnder him by his word and spirit immediately making lawes and ordaining Ministers to the gathering together and preseruation thereof II. By destroying Sathan his angels vnbeleeuers idolaters heretikes antichrist and the whole kingdome of darkenesse Q. How is Christ a Priest A. I. By satisfying for all the sinnes of the elect by his passion and fulfilling of the law II. For that he maketh prayer continually to God for them Q. How is Christ a Prophet A. By immediatly reuealing from his father his word and meanes of saluation contained in the same Q. Why is he called Iesus A. To signifie that he is a Sauiour to euery true beleeuer neither is there any other meanes of our selues or by any other either in part or whole to obtaine saluation but onely by him alone Q. Why is he called Lord A. Because we owe all homage and duty in loue to him for our redemption Q. What beleeue you concerning the holy Ghost A. That he is God the third person in the Trinity proceeding frō the Father the Son 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 doe that which is good which he will perfect fully in the life to come Q. Why did this God thus make redeeme sanctifie and hitherto preserue you A. That I might praise 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. What doe you beleeue concerning the Church A. That it is but one mystical body whether militant or triumphant visible or inuisible in heauē or in earth being a cōpany of the Lords elect holy by Christ Catholike gathered of the dispersed abroad hauing speciall prerogatiues aboue the rest of mankind cōmunion with Christ one with another by the bond of the spirit the forgiuenes of al sins the ioyful resurrectiō of the body life euerlasting wherof I beleeue my selfe to be one therefore that the same things belong also vnto me Q. What are the markes of the true Church here on earth A.

That I must not diminish the good name or credit of my neighbour whether friend or so known or vnknown but carefully preserue the same The occasiō of this commandement was our seditious nature Q. What things are hereby 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 sin as enuie disdaine anger selfe-loue to be too suspitious to be readie to receiue a false report against our neighbour The contrarie is commanded Q. What is the tenth commandement A. Thou shalt not couet c. Q. What doth this commandement teach you A. That I may not haue once an vnlawful lust to that which is my neighbors but for euer think good towards him The occasion of this cōmandement was the frailty of our ' flesh which intermitteth the work of the holy Ghost by sinful fantasies Q. What things are hereby forbidden A. Lust and sudden motions against our neighbour without consent which come from the corruption of nature also such as be offered by Sathan or man so farre as we giue any way consent thereto not to resist il motions The contrary is cōmanded Q. Are these commandements a prayer A. No but the summe of the morall law which is the other part of Gods word teaching the righteousnes of God and shewing me my sins and cursed estate and is a schoolemaster vrging to Christ and therfore ought in order first to be preached and then the Gospel shewing deliuerance and giueth grace withall Q. How must this law be obeyed A. Perfectly willingly and continually to God and my neighbour in thought word and deede agreeing with Gods nature and our first estate by creation Q. Can you then keepe the commandements A. No for I breake them alwaies either wittingly or ignorantly in committing euil or omitting my duty besides that I am guilty of them by naturall corruption through Adams fall before I could in my selfe either thinke speake or do any euill Q. What is this breach of the law called A. Sinne whereby the infinite iustice of God is iniured Q. What is then the reward of sinne A. The infinite wrath of God and his vengeance for euer in this world and in the world to come is due for the least sinne whether it be mortall or veniall Q. What are the punishmēts of sin in this life A. In name slander and shame in goods losses in his bodie paines and sicknesse all maner of aduersity all corporal plagues befalling in this life In the soule ignorance madnesse an ill conscience accusing benummed dead or desperate a heauie stony heart likewise disobedient and wicked children a disloyall wife false friends cruell aduersaries to be suffered to fall into sinne God taking away his grace especially the sin of whoredome as a punishment for sinne And lastly bodily death ordinarie or sudden Q. Comes alwaies afflictions as punishments for sinne A. Afflictions first came for sinne but are also to try our patience faith and constancie to weane vs from our selues and the world to become cōformable to Christ in persecutions that Gods power and goodnes may appeare to vs these afflictions be called fatherly chastisements of the godly to euery one in his measure Q. How may you perswade your selfe that afflictions are chastisements and not punishments of a Iudge when they befall A. If I can make good vse of them to further me in godlinesse els are they but fore-runners of my eternall destruction as they be to the reprobate that are not bettered by them Q. What are the punishments for sinne after death A. The separation from God the losse of heauen and of the ioyfull company of Angels Patriarkes Prophets Apostles Martyrs Saints the true professours of Christ for euer to be damned with the diuel his angels the infernall fiends with all the wicked accursed to hell there to be tormented vnspeakably without end Q. How must you escape this vengeance of God A. By no good deeds that I can doe but only faith in Iesus Christ who is the merit onely and wholly of my saluation without whome my best thoughts words and deedes are abhominable before God seeme they neuer so holy in mine and other mens iudgement Q. Why then should you doe good workes if you cannot nor may not thinke to win heauen by them A. I must do good works because I am already ordained to be saued 1. To make my electiō the more sure to my self which is certaine with God 2. To shew my loue and thankfulnes to God for it by obeying his commandements 3. To confirme the conuerted and to winne others not yet called 4. To stop the mouthes of the wicked to shame them by well doing when they speake ill of v 8. 5. To benefit one another for our quiet peaceablenes in Church and common-wealth Q. Are not then workes necessary A. Yes verily to such as will haue assurance of saluation for without works baptisme hearing the word knowledge faith loue hope fasting sorrow prayer and profession are in vaine Q. What is a good worke A. Whatsoeuer is done or spoken without doubting from the warrant of Gods word of a true beleeuer in charity and to Gods glory Q. Though our good workes merit not may we not yet thinke that they shall be rewarded A. Yes verily for in his mercy he hath so promised to doe both in this world and in the world to come Q. What is the blessing and reward in this life A. Increase of knowledge in Gods word assurance that his gifts in vs are graces and not only common fauours al earthly blessings a good name wealth honor friends and prosperous successe so farre as it shall be for Gods glory and my spirituall safety faith to apprehend as much as shall be necessary 6. My hope to waite without appointing God either time place manner or quantity of the matter 7. My will to vse afterwards all the honest meanes appointed to obtaine the same Q. What 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 Purgatory 2. It must be made only to God for him only can we call heauenly Father neither to Saints nor Angels 3. In the name of Christ through whom onely hee is our Father by adoption 4. In faith for that hee 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. Which be the sixe petitions A. Hallowed be thy name c. Q. What doe these teach you A. The sum of al the things which I can lawfully aske at Gods hands for body or soule wherof the first 3. concerne the glory of God and the latter 3. the good of man Q. Which