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A Catechism containing the substance of the Christian religion in the words and phrases of Scripture.
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also hath loved us Eph. 5.2 Q. For what other Reason doth it engage us to love each other A. For this Reason because we being many are one Bread and one Body for we are all Partakers of that one Bread 1 Cor. 10.17 Q. What is Prayer A. Prayer is the making known our Requests to God with Thanksgiving for all the good things we have received Phil. 4.6 Q. Must not our Hearts go alone with our Words A. We must lift up our Hearts with our Hands unto God in the Heavens Lam. 3.41 Q. Then you cannot think it lawful to pray in an unknown Tongue as the Papists generally do A. No in no wise Seeing we must (a) 1 Cor. 14.15 pray with the Understanding (b) Ps 62.8 and pour out our Hearts before God Q. Is it not for the same Reason unlawful to use Prayers in the Publick Congregations in a Language unknown to the generality of the People according to the Custom of the Popish Church A. (a) 1 Cor. 14.9 Except Men utter by the tongue Words easy to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken for they shall speak into the Air (b) Ver. 16. and how shall the Unlearned say Amen seeing he understands not what is said (c) Ver. 19. Therefore St. Paul saith he had rather speak five Words in the Church with his Understanding that he might teach others also than ten thousand Words in an unknown Tongue Q. In what posture of Body should we pray A. We should bow down and kneel before the Lord our Maker Ps 95.6 Q. How must we do that our Prayers and thanksgivings may be accepted A. (a) 1 tim 2.8 We must lift up holy Hands without Wrath and doubting of God's Power or Goodness (b) Col. 3.17 And whatsoever we do in Word or Dead we must do all in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ giving Thanks unto God and the Father by him Q. May we not pray to the Angels and the Virgin Mary and other Saints as the Mediators with God for us as the Papists do A. 'T is utterly unlawful so to do For there is one only Mediator between God and Men the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 Q. What if we regard Iniquity in our Hearts when we pray A. (a) Ps 66.18 If we regard Iniquity in our hearts the Lord will not hear us (b) Joh. 9.31 But if any Man be a Worshipper of God and doth his Will him he heareth Q. What shall be after Death A. It is appointed to Men once to die and after this the Judgment Heb. 9.27 Q. Who shall be the Judg A. The Father judgeth no Man but hath committed all Judgment unto the Son Joh. 5.22 Q. Who must appear before this Judg A. We must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5.10 Q. Why must we all appear before Christ's Judgment-Seat A. That every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Q. Who are they that shall not be condemned by this Judg A. There is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus or are true Christians who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8.1 Q. What shall immediately go before the general Judgment A. All that are in the Grave shall hear the Voice of the Son of God and shall come forth Job 5.28 Q. What shall follow the general Judgment A. To them who by patient Continuance in well-doing seek for Glory Honour and Immortality Christ will give eternal Life but to them who do not obey the Truth but obey Unrighteousness Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of Man that doth evil But Glory Honour and Peace to every Man that worketh good Rom. 2.7 8 9 10. Q. What shall become of this World after the Judgment A. The Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent Heat the Earth also and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3.10 Q. Seeing you profess to believe these things what manner of Person ought you to be A. (a) 2 Pet. 3.11 14. I ought to live in all holy conversation and Godliness and to be diligent that I may be found of God in Peace without spot and blameless (b) 1 Cor. 15.58 And to be stedfast immoveable always abounding in the Work of the Lord for as much as I know that my Labour is not in vain in the Lord. THE END The Creed I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried He descended into Hell the third Day he rose again from the dead He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the Right-hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judg the Quick and the Dead I believe in the Holy Ghost The holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints The Forgiveness of Sins The Resurrection of the Body And the Life Everlasting Amen The Lord's Prayer OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this Day our daily Bread And forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into Temptation But deliver us from Evil For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Ten Commandments I. GOD spake these Words and said I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt have no 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 jealous 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 thy 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
A CATECHISM Containing The Substance of the Christian Religion IN THE WORDS and PHRASES OF SCRIPTURE IMPRIMATUR Guil. Sill R. P. D. Henr. Episc Lond. Ã Sacris Domesticis LONDON Printed by J. D. and are to be sold by Jonathan Robinson in St. Paul's Church-Yard and Samuel Crouch in Pope's Head-Alley next Cornhill 1693. A CATECHISM Q. HOw came the Heavens and the Earth to be A. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth Gen. 1.1 Q. HOw came your self to be and the rest of Mankind A. God made of one Blood all Nations of Men for to dwell on all the face of the Earth Acts 17.26 Q. Why did God create all things A. For his Pleasure or the fulfilling of his Will they are and were created Rev. 4. last Q. Why did God make your self and all Men A. That we might seek the Lord that is do his Will and enjoy his Favour Acts 17.27 Q. Who preserveth you and bestoweth upon you the good things you enjoy A. (a) Psal 36.6 The Lord preserveth both Man and Beast (b) Acts 17.25 He giveth unto All Life and Breath and all Things Q. What good Things hath God bestowed upon you A. If I should declare and speak of them they are more than can be numbred Psal 40.5 Q. What doth God require of you for his wonderful Goodness and loving Kindness to you A. He hath shewed thee O Man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do Justly and to love Mercy and to walk Humbly with thy God Micah 6.8 Q. You have told me that God made and preserveth the World doth he not also govern it and all Things therein A. (a) Psal 67.4 God judgeth the People righteously and governs the Nations upon Earth (b) Psal 103.19 He hath prepared his Throne in the Heavens and his Kingdom ruleth over all Q. Is there any more than one God A. There is none other God but one 1 Cor. 8.4 Q. What is said of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost A. It is said That these Three are One 1 Joh. 5.7 Q. Can you perfectly understand what God is A. I cannot by searching find out God I cannot find out the Almighty to Perfection Job 11.7 Q. How hath God discovered himself to Mankind A. The invisible Things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen being understood by the Things that are made even his eternal Power and Godhead so that the Heathens themselves are without excuse And that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewn it unto them Rom. 1.20 19. Q. Hath God made himself known any otherwise than by his Works of Creation and Providence A. Yes He spake in times past to the Fathers by the Prophets and hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son Heb. 1.1 Q. What do the holy Scriptures inform us concerning God's Nature and Perfections A. The holy Scriptures inform us that (a) John 4.24 God is a Spirit who is (b) Ps 90.2 from everlasting to everlasting (c) Rev. 4.8 most holy (d) Mat. 19.17 Ps 103.8 most good merciful (e) Ps 11.7 most just (f) Deut. 7.9 most faithful (g) Ps 147.5 most wise and (h) Luke 18.27 Dan. 4.35 most powerful Q. What do you understand by God's being a Spirit A. I understand by God's being a Spirit that he (a) Luke 24.39 hath not Flesh and Bones (b) 1 Tim. 1.17 Chap. 6. 16. is invisible and no Man hath seen or can see him with the Eyes of his Body (c) Esay 40.18 and that there is no likeness that we can compare unto him Q. What learn you from God's being a Spirit A. I learn from God's being a Spirit that he must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth Or with the Soul as well as the Body Joh. 4.24 Q. What learn you from his being invisible c. A. I learn from his being invisible that we should take good heed to our selves lest we make to our selves any Likeness to worship him or graven Images Deut. 4.15 16. Exod. 20.45 Q. What do you understand by God's being most Holy A. I understand by God's being most Holy (a) Prov. 15.9 that the Way of the Wicked is Abomination to the Lord and that (b) Jam. 1.13 he cannot be tempted with Evil neither tempteth he any Man Q. What understand you by God's being most Good A. I understand by God's being most Good that (a) Ps 145.9 he is good unto all (b) Vers 16. and satisfies the Desire of every living Thing (c) Jam. 1.5 and giveth to all Men liberally and upbraideth not Q. What understand you by God's being most Merciful A. I understand by God's being most Merciful (a) Ps 145.9 that his tender Mercies are over all his Works (b) Exod. 34.67 that he is full of Compassion and Long-suffering forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sin (c) 2 Pet. 3.9 That he is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance (d) Lam. 3.33 And doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of Men. Q. What is meant by God's being most Just A. By God's being most Just is meant (a) Acts 10.34 that he is no Respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him (b) Gen. 18.25 That God the Judg of all the Earth will do right and (c) Job 34.23 that he will not lay upon Man more than is right Q. What is meant by God's being most True and Faithful A. By God's being most True and Faithful is meant that (a) Titus 1.2 he cannot lie (b) Dan. 9.4 and that he keepeth Covenant and Mercy to them that love him and keep his Commandments Q. What is meant by God's being most Wise A. By God's being most Wise is meant that (a) Ps 139.2 3. he understan deth our Thoughts afar off and is acquainted with all our Ways (b) Rom. 11.33 And that his Judgments are unsearchable and his Ways past finding out Q. What understand you by God's being most Powerful A. By God's being most Powerful I understand (a) Luke 1.37 that with him nothing is impossible and (b) Ps 135.6 that he doth whatsoever he pleases in Heaven and in Earth Q. Now because that Knowledg which leads not to Practice is but little worth tell me what Duties you learn from these several Attributes or Perfections of the Divine Nature And first What learn you from the unspotted Purity and Holiness of God A. I learn from the Purity and Holiness of God that (a) 1 Pet. 1.15 as he who hath called me is holy so ought I to be holy in all manner of Conversation (b) 1 Joh. 3.3 and to purify my self as God is pure Q. What learn you from the infinite Goodness and Mercy of