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The church-catechism with a brief and easie explanation thereof for the help of the meanest capacities and weakest memories. By T.C. D.D.
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Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.
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the Communion of Saints X. The forgiveness of Sins XI The resurrection of the body XII And the life everlasting Amen Question 6. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy belief Answer First I learn to believe in God the Father who hath made me and all the world Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed me and all mankind Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the elect of God Question 7. You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you that you should keep Gods Commandments Tell me how many there be Answer Ten. Question 8. Which be they Answer The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of Bondage I. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me II. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a Iealous God and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain IV. Remember that thou keep Holy the Sabbath day Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy Son and thy Daughter thy man servant and thy maid-servant thy Cattel and the stranger that is within thy Gates For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI Thou shalt do no murther VII Thou shalt not commit adultery VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his servant nor his maid nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is his Qu. 9. What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments Answ I learn two things my duty towards God and my duty towards my Neighbour Qu. 10. What is thy duty towards God Answ My duty towards God is I II. To believe in him to fear him and to love him with all my heart with all my mind with all my soul and with all my strength to worship him to give him thanks to put my whole trust in him to call upon him III. To honour his holy Name and his Word IV. And to serve him truly all the days of my life Qu. 11. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour Answ My duty towards my Neighbour is § To love him as my self and to do to all men as I would they should do to me V. To love honour and succour my Father and Mother To honour and obey the King and all that are put in authority under him To submit my self to all my Governours Teachers Spiritual Pastors and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters VI. To hurt no body by word or deed VII To be true and just in all my dealings VIII To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart IX To keep my hands from picking and stealing X. And my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering XI To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity XII Not to covet and 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 unto which it shall please God to call me page 20. Catechist Catechist My good child know this that thou art not able to do these things of thy self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special grace which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer Question 12. Let me hear therefore if thou canst say the Lords Prayer Answer OVr Father which art in Heaven I. Hallowed be thy name II. Thy Kingdom come III. Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven IV. Give us this day our daily bread V. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us VI. And lead us not into temptation VII But deliver us from evil § For thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory For ever and ever Amen Question 13. What desirest thou of God in this prayer Answer I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father who is the giver of all goodness to send his grace unto me and to all people I. That we may worship him II. Serve him III. And obey him as we ought to do IV. And I pray unto God that he will send us all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies V. And that he will be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins VI VII And that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Iesus Christ and therefore I say Amen So be it Question 14. How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church Answer Two only as generally necessary to salvation that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Question 15. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament Answer I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us ordained by Christ himself as a means whereby we receive the same and a pledg to assure us thereof Question 16. How many parts are there in a Sacrament Answer Two the outward visible sign and the inward spiritual grace Question 17. What is the outward visible sign or form in Baptism Answer Water Wherein the person is baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy-Ghost Question 18. What is the inward and spiritual grace Answer A death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness for being by nature born in Sin and the children of wrath we are hereby made the children of grace Question 19. What is required of persons to be baptised Answer Repentance whereby they forsake sin and Faith whereby they stedfastly believe the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Question 20. Why then are infants baptized when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them Answer