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A scripture-catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours, some of them of the present times / by Thomas Hodges.
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Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.
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I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walke in my Statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and doe them Cap. 12. Of Prayer Q. IS prayer a meanes to obtaine these spirituall blessings at God's hands A. Psal 51.10 Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me Ezek. 36.37 Thus saith the Lord God I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to doe it for them Q. May we call upon an unregenerate man to repent and pray A. Act. 8.22 23. Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse and pray God if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity Q. Is there any hopes that God will heare the prayer of an unregenerate man can you give an instance in Scripture of God's hearing an unregenerate man's prayer A. 2 King 13.2 4. And he did that which was evill in the sight of the Lord and followed the sinnes of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom And Jehoahaz besought the Lord and the Lord hearkened unto him For he saw the oppression of Israel because the King of Syria oppressed them Q. What means then John 9.31 A. By a sinner may here be understood a grievous Sinner such as an Impostor and open Sabbath-breaker compare that text with Luk. 7.37 39. If a man be an Atheisticall notorious profane wretch or an Impostor and goe on to sinne presumtuously saying God is with him God useth not to heare such an one so as to worke miracles at his prayer or intreaty so as to cure one that was born blind But yet he that heareth the cry of the young Ravens is found of those men sometimes that seek him not may if he please and sometimes doth hear and answer the prayer of an unregenerate person I no where read that 't is an abominatioÌ„ to God for an unregenerate man to pray for Grace the sacrifice of the wicked is said indeed to be an abomination to the Lord as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but if God put it into a man's heart if he prepare his heart to pray for peace with God and sanctifying or regenerating grace from God I think 't is not impossible he should prepare his eare to heare he hath not said he would not heare 't is not necessary he should stop his eares to such prayers And as for Prov. 28.9 I say it proves God wil not ordinarily hear profane obstinate presumtuous Sinners when they are in necessity or distresse but yet he may notwithstanding heare the prayer of an Unregenerate Person when he prayes to have his law written in his heart he may not hear one that hath no grace when he prayes for gold but yet may heare him when he prayes for Grace Chap. 13. Of Marriage Q. ARE the Lawes formerly delivered by Moses concerning Marriage so abolished that now a man may marry to his neer kindred A. Mat. 14.3 4. For Herod had laid hold on John and bound him and put him in prison for Herodias sake his brother Philip's wife For John said unto him It is not lawfull for thee to have her Q. In what case is divorce lawfull A. Mat. 5.32 Whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to commit Adultery Rom. 7.2 For the woman which hath an Husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth Q. Are second Marriages lawfull A. Rom. 7.3 But if her Husband be dead she is free from that Law so that she is no Adulteresse though she be married to another man Chap. 14. Of Mothers nursing their own children Q. DID good women of old time nurse their own children A. Psal 131.2 Surely I have behaved and quieted my selfe as a child that is weaned of his Mother Gen. 21.7 And he said who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck Q. Did ever any Queen or Noble person nurse her own child A. Can. 8.1 compared with chap. 1.1 The song of songs which is Solomons O that thou wert as my Brother â—â—â—at sucked the brests of my mother 1 Kin. 11.20 And the Sister of Tahpenes bare him Jenubath his Son whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house Gen. 23.6 compared with 21.7 Heare us my Lord thou art a mighty Prince amongst us And he said who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck Q. Was it reputed a curse or punishment for women to have dry brests A. Hosea 9.14 Give them O Lord what wilt thou give give them a miscarrying womb and dry brests Q. Shall a mother who is a nurse be dispensed with all from some outward acts of piety from doing of which she is hindred by that means or occasion A. 1 Sam. 1.21 22 23. And the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer unto the Lord the early sacrifice and his vow But Hanah went not up for she said unto her husband I will not goe up untill the child be weaned and then I will bring him that he may appeare before the Lord and there abide for ever And Elkanah her husband said unto her Doe what seemeth thee good tarry untill thou have weaned him only the Lord establish his word so the woman abode and gave her Son suck untill she weaned him Chap. 15. Of Womens painting themselves Q. IS the face the cheif part by which we are commonly known one to another A. Galath 1.22 And was unknown by face unto the Churches of Judea which were in Christ Q. Is the face one of our comely parts which hath no need as others of any superadded honour A. 1 Cor. 12.23 24. And those members of the body which we think to be lesse honourable upon these we bestow more abundant honour our uncomely parts have more abundant comelinesse For our comely parts have no need but God hath tempered the body together having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked Q. Did lewd Women use to paint A. Ezek. 23.40 And furthermore that ye have sent for men to come from far unto whom a messenger was sent and loe they came for whom thou didst wash thy selfe paintedst thy eyes and deckedst thy selfe with ornaments Q. Was that Queen a good or a wicked Woman who stood in a window painting her selfe when Jehu came to Jezreel A. 2 Kings 9.30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel Jezebel heard of it and she painted her face and tired her head and looked out at a window Q. Were the daughters of men in the old world really faire that the Sons of God were so taken with their beauty or did they paint and so only seem