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A09077	A double catechisme one more large, following the order of the common authorized catechisme, and an exposition thereof: now this second time published: the other shorter for the weaker sort: both set forth for the benefit of Christian friends and wel-willers. By Richard Bernard, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Worsop in Nottingham-shire.; Large catechisme	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1607 (1607)	STC 1936; ESTC S113787	23,289	50

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

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 wi●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 frō 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