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The principles of holy Christian religion, or, The catechism of the Church of England paraphrazed for the use of Borwick-Hall.
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Sherlock, R. (Richard), 1612-1689.
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support and the relief of others 2. Rom. 7.7 1 Joh. 2.16 Mat. 15.19 Jam. 1.15 I am herein forbidden not only not to wrong my neighbour in body goods or good name but not so much also as to covet or desire it neither in relation to my profit to covet my neighbours house oxe asse neither in relation to my pleasure to cover his wife maid neither yet in relation either to profit or pleasure to covet any thing that is his Quest What doest thou chiefly learn by these Commandements Answ I learn two things to be chiefly and summarily enjoyned and commanded me namely 1. My duty towards God 2. My duty towards my neighbour Mar. 22 37 38 39 40. Exod. 31.18 32.15 16. which divides these ten Commandements into two Tables the former consisting of the four first and the latter of the six last Commandements Quest What are the particulars of your duty towards God in the four first Commandements enjoyned Answ The sum of all in general is Deu 30.16 20. Mat. 22.37 Luk. 10.27 to love the Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul with all my minde and with all my strength More particularly Command 1 * To beliebe in him to fear him to put my whole trust in him to call upon him by servent and frequent prayers to give him thanks for his mercies and daily to praise and magnifie his name Command 2 * To worship him and that not only with all inward devotion of soul but also with all outward reverence and low prostration of body Command 3 * To honour his holy Name and hie Word and what ever hath his holy name and mark imprinted thereon Command 4 * To serve him truly all the daies of my life and also punctually to observe those daies that are consecrate to his publick and solemn worship Quest What are the particulars of your duty towards your neighbour in the six last Commandements enjoyned Answ The sum of all in general Rom. 13.9 Mat. 7.12 is to love my neighbour as my self and to express this love by doing unto all men as I would they should doe unto me More particularly Command 5 * To love honour and succour my father and mother to honour and obey the lawful Power of the land whether supreme or subordinate to submit my self to all my Governors Teachers spiritual pastours and Masters to order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters and affably courteously and kindly to all persons whatsoever Command 6 * To hurt no body by word nor deed to bear no malice nor hatred in my heart Command 7 * To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity Command 8 * To be true and just in all my dealings and to keep my hands from picking and stealing Command 9 * To avoid all evil speaking lying and slandering Command 10 * Not to covet or desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life whereunto it shall please God to call me Lord have mercy upon me and write all these thy Lawes in my heart I beseech thee and give me thy grace enabling me to express my obedience hereunto in all the actions of my life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen CHAP. III. Of the Lords Prayer Quest DOest thou think that thou art able to do all these things of thy self to walk in the Commandements of God and to serve him Answ I do most humbly confess that without Gods special Grace Isa 26.12 Joh. 15.5 Phil. 2.13 4.13 Psal 105.4 Mat. 7.7 11. Luk. 11.9 10 11 12. I cannot observe to do the least of Gods commandements I must therefore learn at all times to cal upon God by diligent prayer for the assistance of his divine grace Quest After what manner are you to pray unto God Answ After the same manner that Christ in his holy Gospel hath taught me saying Our Father which art in heaven hallowed c. Quest Of how many parts doth this prayer consist Answ Of three parts 1. The Preface 2. The Petitions 3. The Doxologie or conclusion Quest Rehearse the parts distinctly Answ 1. The Preface in these words Our Father which art in heaven 2. The Petitions are six in number The three first concern the glory and service of God viz. 1. Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come 3. Thy will be dome in earth as it is in heaven The three last concern our own wants and engagements viz. 4. Give us this day our daily bread 5. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgve them that trespass against us 6. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil 3. The Doxologie or conclusion in these words For thine is the Kingdome the power and the glory forever and ever Amen Quest What do you desire of God in this Prayer Answ I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father Preface who is the giver of all goodness and gives willingly because a father and plentifully because in heaven that he would be pleased to send his grace unto me and unto all people Petition 1 1. That we may worship him as we ought to do That his ever blessed name may be sanctified by me and by all men upon whom his holy Name is called Petit. 2 2. That we may serve him as becomes the faithful subjects of his kingdome submitting unto and walking after his most holy Lawes Petit. 3 That we may obey and do his will both readily sincerely and constantly here upon earth as 't is done by the blessed Angels and Saints in heaven Petit. 4 And I do further pray unto him that as our necessities are renewed every day so he would be pleased to send us day by day all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies Petit. 5 That he would be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins through Jesus Christ resolving for his sake and according to his command to forgive all others in what they do or shall offen â—â—nd trespass agninst me Petit. 6 That he would save and defend us from all dangers ghostly and bodily preserving us from the evil of sin by his Grace and delivering us from the evil of punishment by his Mercy and more particularly that he would deliver us from all the temptations of that grand enemy of our souls the Devil that so we may be delivered from the wrath of God and from everlasting death and damnation hereafter And this I trust he will do of his great mercy and goodness Conclusion being infinite in both as he is in glory power and dominion His Kingdome is over all His Power is infinite and His Glory is above the heavens and this from everlasting to everlasting And 't is the hearty desire of my soul that it should be so and therefore I say Amen that is So be it Quest Must you alwaies make use of this form when you pray unto God Answ
The Apostles Creed and that 's the object of our faith and a little breviary or sum of the Gospel 2. All that we are bound to practise and obey is commanded in the 10. Commandements and that 's the Rule of our Life and the Epitome of the Law And these are the two parts of holy Religion Faith and Obedience Faith which the Gospel requires and Obedience which the Law exacts which Obedience is also called Charity or Love For Love is the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 12.10 therefore S. Paul reduceth all Religion to Faith and Love Gal. 5.6 2 Tim. 1.13 But because we can neither believe nor do any thing as we ought Phil. 2.13 without the Divine Grace assisting us thereunto therefore God hath ordained and commanded unto us the use of Prayer and of the Sacraments as the means and conveyances of his Graces into our souls to enable us both to believe in him and also to love and obey him in a manner holy and acceptable unto him 3. Therefore the next general head of Catechism is the Lords Prayer as the sum pattern and perfection of all Prayer and Devotion 4. And the fourth and last head is the Doctrine and use of the Sacraments the ground and reason whereof is briefly this All those things which concern the good of our souls are according to the nature of the soul spiritual divine and invisible and so are not easily conceived by our frail understandings which apprehend not but by organs of sense therefore God hath been pleased mercifully to ordain certain outward visible elements to signifie and seal his inward invisible graces unto our souls and to be pledges to assure us thereof and these are Baptism and the Lords Supper And upon these four generall heads all the severall questions in the Catechism besides do depend either 1. By way of introduction to put us in minde of our obligation hereunto by solemn vow and promise when we were Baptized Or 2. for the connecting and joyning of these generals together by a fit method for memories sake Or 3. for the more clear and full understanding of each of them as will further appear in the several Questions and Answers ensuing Open mine eyes O Lord and enlighten my minde that I may both see and rightly understand the wondrous things of thy Law and carefully frame my heart and all the actions of my life thereafter through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen THE PRINCIPLES OF Holy Christian Religion OR The Catechism of the Church of England paraphrased The Introduction 1. Question BEcause your Name is the badge and cognizance of that holy Christian Religion you profess therefore 't is first demanded of you What is your name Answer R. T. W. 2. Question And since together with your Name you received Christianity 't is therefore secondly askt Who gave you this name Answer * Such as scruple at the name and use of Godfathers may remember 1. That it is the universal practise of the Church against which no modest man will presume to argue since Church Customes are of sufficient authority with S. Paul 1 Cor. 11.6 That 2. it is not without example in holy Scripture Isa 8.2 3. Luk. 1. from vers 57. to 64. 3. That Infants cannot come themselves to Baptism nor therein answer for themselves 4. That their parents may die before they come to years or else may be seduc'd into Heresie or Schism 5. That hereby a spiritual kindred amongst Christian neighbours is contracted and Charity which is the life of Christianity is maintained and increased And for the name of Godfathers 't is more proper then that of Witnesses or Sureties if we consider either 1. Their office which is both to offer up unto God the party baptized and devote him to his service and also to profess Repentance Faith and Obedience unto God in their names Or 2. The benefit they receive by Baptism which is to be made the children of God in which respect chiefly their sureties are called Godfathers My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a Christian and therefore it is called my Christian name 3. Question What happiness or benefit is it unto you to be baptiz'd and become Christian Answer I am thereby made 1. A member of Christ 2. A childe of God 3. An heir of the Kingdome of heaven or more fully thus Whereas I was born in sin Psal 51.5 Ephes 2.3 Rom. 5.12 Joh. 3.5 1 Cor. 12.3 Rom. 8.7 Gal. 4.7 Act. 22.16 and am by nature the childe of wrath and heir of Death and Hell by being born again of water and of the Holy Ghost in Baptism I am not only 1. ingraffed into Christ's Mystical body the Church but am also 2. reconciled unto God through Christ and made his childe by Adoption and Grace and not only a childe but also 3. an Heir even an Heir of God and joynt-heir with Christ of the Kingdome of heaven 4. Quest Are these great Blessings confer'd upon you through Baptism absolutely or upon condition only Answ Upon condition Mark 16.16 Act. 8.37 2.38 that I do observe and keep that promise and vow which was made in my name being baptized 5. Quest What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then promise and vow for you Answ They did promise and how three things in my name 1 That I should forsake the Devil and all his works Luk. 1.74 75. the pomps and banities of this wicked world and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh 2 That I should believe all the Articles of the Christian faith 3 That I should keep Gods holy will and commandements and walk in the same all the days of my life 6. Quest Doest not thou think that thou art bound both to believe and do what they have promised for thee Answ Yes verily I do beleeve it to be my bounden duty and by Gods help I will perform the same And I heartily thank our heavenly Father Act. 3.19 who through Baptism hath called me to this state of salvation through Iesus Christ our Saviour And I pray God to give me his grace that I may continue in the same to my lives end carefully observing this vow of my Baptism which is the general duty of every Christian 7. Quest What is the meaning of the first part of your Christian duty or vow in Baptism Answ By promising to forsake the Devil and all c. I do oblige my self to resist Eph. 6.10 c. 1 Tim. 1.18 19. 6.12 Joh. 8.34 and manfully to fight under the banner of Christ against all temptations whether arising from the Devil the world or the flesh and not suffer my self to be vanquished by them and be led captive to the service of sin And this is that which is also call'd Repentance from dead works Heb. 6.1 Act. 26.18 Eph. 4.22 c. 1 Pet. 2.1 c. Heb. 12.1 2. where 't is remembred as the first of the principles of the