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A64231	A practical and short exposition of the catechism of the Church of England by way of question and answer. Wherein the divine authority and reasonableness of every question and answer, every doctrin and practice in it recommended, are evidenced and improved against most contemners of it and dissenters from it. With that moderation and plainness that it may engage all to adhere to, and especially may instruct children in the true Protestant religion of the Church of England. Humbly offered for the good of schools and youth. By Nathanael Taylor, M.A.	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing T544B; ESTC R222427	64,394	147

his Church a Body whereof he is the Head which is twofold Invisible and Visible Mat. 7.21 1 Cor. 7.19 1. The Invisible Church of Christ contains all glorified Saints in Heaven and all true Believers on Earth and of this Church all who are Baptized are not Members but those only who being Baptized live the life of Faith 2. B. Ushers Body of Divinity p. 187. The Visible Church contains all professors of Christianity and of this Church all who are Baptized are reputed as Members Q. What is meant by A Child of God A. Joh. 1.12 Gal. 4.5 Joh. 20.17 Heb. 2.11 Rom. 8.16 This priviledge necessarily follows the other for all true Members of Christ's Church receive the honour to be sons of God by Adoption and are admitted to have God their Father Christ their Brother the Holy Ghost their Comforter here and hereafter are co-heirs with Christ of an eternal glory Q. What is meant by an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven A. This Priviledge doth succeed both the other Luk. 12.32 Ja. 1.12 1 Pet. 1.4 5. Joh. 14.3 Col. 3.4 2 Cor. 5.1 for those who are Members of Christ and Sons of God have a Kingdom purchased for them and promised to them yea by Christ they now have taken possession of it and shall hereafter have the full enjoyment of it Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you A. They did promise and vow three things in my name 1. That I should renounce the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the flesh 2. That I should believe all the Articles of the Chrstian Faith 3. That I should keep Gods holy will and Commandments and walk in the same all the daies of my life Q. What are the parts of this Baptismal vow and promise A. Its parts are suitable to the two parts of Sanctification a death to Sin World Flesh Devil and a life unto Righteousness in a true Faith and an obedience to the Will of God Q. What do we renounce in renouncing the Devil and all his works A. 1. Dr. Hammond pract Cat. l. 6. sect 3 Joh 8 44 Ja. 3.17 All belief in or worship of any Heathenish God or Idol 2. All heathenish and sinful practice as Lying Envy Pride sowing Discord and those sins which represent Satan 3. All Combination or Contracts with the Devil and all use of Conjurations 4. Ja. 1.14 Eph. 5.11 All Temptations and first motions to sin 5. All evil Exhortation or evil Example whereby we entice others to act sin and so act the Devil's part Q. How may the Devil and ●is Works be withstood A. Jam. 4.4 1 Pet. 5.5 8 9. By the use of 1. Prayer 2. Fasting 3. Faith 4. Watchfulness against them 5. Care to walk according to Gods Will. Q. What is meant by the pomps and vanities of this wicked world to be renounced A. Eph. 5.11 1 Cor. 6.10 20. 1. That we absent as much as may be from wicked company the ruin of many souls 2. That if in company we partake not of their sins chusing rather their anger than Gods 3. Not inordinately to pursue the worlds profits pleasures or honours nor to be too much delighted with 1 Joh. 2.15 16. Jam. 4.4 Mat. 16.26 or confident in them but so to sit loose to them that we may readily part with them if in competition with Christ and our Souls Q. How may the soul be armed against the Worlds enticements and discouragements A. Eccles 1.1 2. 1. By considering the vanity and uncertainty of all its enjoyments Its pleasures but skin-deep sensual and but for a moment Heb. Pro. 23.5 Ps 49.7 11.20 its Honours the breath of others no sign of God's love and leave us at Death Its Riches the dust of Earth cannot free from Death here nor Hell hereafter 2. By considering the smalness and shortness of our Troubles in the World They can but hurt the Body Mat. 10.28 Exod. 2.23 in whose greatest troubles the Soul is at Liberty its worst punishment is Death which sends the soul sooner to eternal life Isa 43.2 2 Cor. 4.17 18. They cannot hinder us from God's presence here and may prepare us for a greater glory hereafter 3. By considering we are here but Strangers and Souldiers in our Enemies Tents Joh. 15.20 John 16. last which may reasonably expose us to troubles as our Captain Christ Jesus and his Apostles all met with 4. Ro. 8.18 By considering our Glory in Heaven will recompence all our losses on Earth Q. What is meant by renouncing the Lusts of the Flesh A. 1. Dr Ham. prac Cat. 16. sec 3. Jer. 4.14 1 Cor. 6.19 All coveting of or indulging our selves in any lust or desire which is contrary to the Word of God and so sinful 2. All spiritual and heart Sins and all bodily uncleanness This Enemy is the more dangerous because daily with us and ready within us to betray us to Satans Temptations Q. How may these lusts of the Flesh be subdued A. By Sobriety Chastity Gal. 5.16 17 20. Watchfulness Praver and a care to walk answerable to the Word of God Q. What is that part of Sanctification included in your Baptismal Vow yet to be Considered A. ●oh 3.16 Ti● 3.8 A life of righteousness in these two great duties of the Gospel Faith and Obedience Q. What is the Faith here promised A. Bis Pearson on Creed p. 12. 1. An assent of our Hearts 2. A Confession or Profession with our lips And 3. A suitable Conversation in our lives Q. What do we promise thus to believe A. All the Articles of the Christian Faith Q. What is the Obedience promised in Baptism A. That which is the product of true Faith an Universal Obedience of our whole man to all the commands of God sincerely performed with constancy to our lives end Q. Can the Godfathers or Godmothers promise this for the Child and is the Child bound to perform it A. 1. Yes because Children are in the power of the Parents to be devoted to the Service of God Deut. 6.6 7.29.10 11 31.11 12 2 Tim. 2.19 Eph. 5.11 Heb. 11.6 Tit. 2.14 whom God also hath obliged to do it 2. There is nothing contained in this Baptismal Vow but what is lawful becomes Christianity and is our bounden Duty to perform 1 Pet. 2.11 1 John 5.4 1 Pet. 5.8 3. The Non-performance of the Vow by the Child may justly forfeit God's promises in Baptism made to the Child 4. Parents usually oblige their Children in civil contracts and bargains Hooker 's Volity l. 5 sect 64. who are by their Parents contracts bound to observe the Covenant or else must forfeit the advantages that might accrue to them by its observance Much more sure then may Parents engage their Children in what is the Child 's absolute duty on whose performance so great a mercy depends Q. Dost

of that dignity he is admitted to by being a Christian a Name in which the Primitive Christians Gloried And we still honour with precedence to our Sirname it being better not to have been born then not to be a Christian 4. This Teacheth him not to stain his Christian Name by sin we are careful to act without dishonour to our Sirname or Family and the Consideration of our Christian Name should engage us not to act any thing unbecoming our Religion This practice would best silence Disputes and gain most Proselytes whereas its neglect causeth Divisions amongst men and dishonours God How can either Jew or Gentile be encouraged to embrace our Religion when God ●y all manner of sin is dishonoured and Christs ●ospel scandalized Let not the Name be ●ithout the Life of a Christian 5. 2 Pet. 2.21 Heb. 10.38 It is a constant warning to continue Christians to our lives end we account it 〈◊〉 shame as men to disown our Names And as Christians should not be ashamed ●f our Profession 6. Gen. 13 8 1 John 4.7 11. John 13.35 The Remembrance of this Name en●ageth a mutual love among Christians who are fellow Brethren by Nature and ●ellow Christians by Grace and fellow Sol●iers by Baptism Love was and is the true mark of Chri●●ians Q. Who gave you this Name A. My Godfathers and my Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a member of Christ a Child of God and an inheritor of the King●om of Heaven Q. What is in this Answer considerable A. Three things 1. The Givers of my Name My Godfathers and Godmothers 2. The time when it was given In my Baptism 3. The Priviledges I was by Baptism admitted to A Member of Christ c. Q. Who were the Givers of thy Name A. My Godfathers and Godmothers Q. Who are those A. Book of Common-Prayer in pub Bapt. Persons engaged to God and h● Church in the stead and behalf of me to gether with my Parents to see me brough● up to lead a Christian and a godly life Q. Have these Persons any other Title b● sides Godfathers and Godmothers A. Yes some who scruple the Name but own the thing call them Sureties an● Witnesses Q. Why are they called Sureties A. Because by them the Child is entre● into the Baptismal Covenant and the● are in the name of the Child engaged t● God and the Church Ch. Cat. in Dec. Sacram. as much as in them lie to see the Child brought up in the true R●ligion And as such our Church owns th● Q. Why are they called Witnesses A. 1. They are Witnesses that the Chi●● by Baptism is received into Christ's Churc● 2. They are Witnesses to testifie to th● Child when grown up that it was Baptized and so may proceed to the partakin● of other Ordinances And this hath been a laudable Custom in th● Church above 1200 years saith * Leigh's B●ly of Divinity l. 8. ● 8. p. 928. Mr. Perkin Q. Why are they called Godfathers an● Godmothers A. 1. They are engaged to God and h● Church as Spiritual Parents to see the Chil● Baptized brought up in the Principl● and Practices of the True Religion 2. They are engaged as in God's Cause so for his sake on the account of Religion to take care of God's Glory and the Childs welfare Q. What reasons are there for the use of Godfathers c. Buxtorf Syn. Jud. l. 1. c. 2. Isa 8.2 3 4. Jun. Tremel in loc Lu. 1.59 Plat ina in Vita H●gini Hooker 's Polity l 5. s 64. A. 1. It was the practice of the Jews at the naming of their Children at their Circumcision to have those by called Sponsors by them by others Witnesses and Sureties and by us Godfathers 2. It was the practice of the Church under the New Testament 3. It was the practice of Christ's Church almost ever since as History manifests as an Expedient to propagate the Gospel and Christian Religion That if the Natural Parents were ignorant and could not or wicked and would not bring up their Children in the true Religion These Godfathers and Godmothers might Or if the Natural Parents were by Persecution taken away or otherwise dyed or Apostatized from the Faith Lest he Children should be brought up in Heathemsm The Church of Christ wisely and tenderly practiced what it had grounds for from all Antiquity the joyning of other persons with the natural Parents as Godfathers and Godmothers engaging them on Gods account to take care for the Child 's good Education Q. Though Godfathers and Godmother might have been necessary in those times 〈◊〉 Persecution yet why are they used now in o● times of Peace A. 1. They are as necessary now as ever● if we consider that tho we have yet thr● God's mercies peace in the Church yet w● know not how soon Persecution may attend us Walker's Medest Plea c. 9. sec 7. 2 Tim. 3 1. Dr. Sherlock on Cat. p. 63 2 Tim. 3.4 5 6. 2 Pet. 2.1 2. And it may be reasonably feared the Child now Baptized may live to se● Troubles for Religions sake in these las● daies and worst times 2. If God should be pleased to bless them with peace in Church and State yet the consideration of those Errors and Heresies that Schism and Division the Age too much abounds with will pload it necessary to have Godfathers c. to have the Child brought up in the principles of the true Religion 3. If to these we add the sad Prophaness Debauchery Atheism and Impiety of this Generation it will appear greatly necessary to engage persons to take care Children be brought up in the sear of God and the practice of Religion It is sad indeed the thing is so much abused which causeth it to be so slighted yet this pleads it not to be unlawful to be used let it be serious●● and Christianly undertaken faithfully and conscientiously discharged and then the benefit thence arising will demonstrate it convenient to be retained to prevent persons Shipwrack of Faith and Conscience Q. When was this Name given A. In my Baptism As agreeable 1. Gen. 21.3 4. Isa 8.3 4. Luk. 1.59 and 2.4 To the practice of God's people under the Law when the Children received their Names at their Circumcision 2. Agreeable to their practice under the Gospel 3. At Baptism the Children are received into Christ's visible Church and then as being owned visible Christians they receive their Christian Names 4. Sueton. Nero. Claud. Caes c. 6. Calvin Instit l. 4 c. 15. s 1 The Heathens had their days of washing and then they had their Names Q. What are the Priviledges the Child receives by Baptism A. Three 1. Membership with Christ I am made a Member of Christ 2. Adoption A Child of God 3. Heirship of Glory An inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven Q. What is meant by our being Members of Christ A. Members relate to a Body Col. 1.18 Eph. 4.16 and Christ calls