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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49513	Principle[s] of faith & good conscience digested into a catecheticall form: together with an appendix: 1. Unfolding the termes of practicall divinity. 2. Shewing some markes of Gods children. 3. Some generall rules and principles of holy life. By W. Lyford, Batchelour of Divinity, and minister of Gods Word at Sherborne in Dorsetshire.	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1655 (1655)	Wing L3555; ESTC R216824	122,930	334

unadvisedly or through force of temptation and when there is no liking or allowance of the evill which we fall into Rom. 7.15 16 19. Luk. 22.33 57. Q. What is a sin of infirmity A. When we be overtaken in some s● contrary to our desires purpose and endeavours Gal. 5.17 John 13 37. Rom. 7 21 22 23. Q. What say you of smaller sins an● sinnes to which we are enclined by natur● or custome and sinnes into which men fa● suddenly Are they to be accounted sin of infirmity A. No unlesse we can say that the desire bent and purpose of our hearts is against them the least and suddenest distempers and failings are reigning sins if they spring from a root within us or b● excused defended and made light of Rom. 8.4 Rom. 6.16 1 Sam. 15.21 Q. What is a sin of presumption A. When a man will venture to doe evill upon a conceit that he shall repen● and doe well anough for all that Num 15.27 31. Deut. 29 19. Q. What is reigning sin A. Sin reigns when corruption remain in us unmortified and there is not whithi● us a principle of Grace set up against it S● that the evill proceeds from an habit an● dispositiō of the soule where sin reigneth Sinne may perhaps be outwardly resisted and restrained as by lawes of men shame c. But where sin doth not reigne there it is resisted by a contrary principle of Life and Grace which striveth against the flesh Gal. 5.17 as when one streame is resisted by another Rom. 6.12 14. 1 Joh. 3.10 Rom. 8.2 Q. How may we judge of a reigning sinne A. Two waies 1. Not by the grossenesse or smalnesse of it nor yet by mens violence in sinning but by the power and sway it hath in us overbearing all motions and commands of the Word that crosse it When we are led by any lust or can plead for it that is a raigning sin 2 Pet. 2.19 Rom. 8.6 13 14. Luk. 16.10 13. Q. What 2ly is a signe that sin reignes in a Man A. When sin is not a burthen to thee when thou art unwilling to heare of it or to be discovered and reproved that is a signe that sin reignes in thee Mat 14 3 4. 1 King 21.20 Againe sin is either against the Law or Gospell Q. What is sin against the law A. Any breach of any one of the ten Commandments Rom. 2.12 14. Rom. 1.28 29. Q When doe men sinne against the Gospell A. As many as reject and disobey the Gospel calling them to repent to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation they sin against the Gospell and so doe all that make bold to sin because there is mercy in Christ and also all that slight and despise the means of Grace Act. 7.51 1 Joh. 3.23 Luk. 7.30 Act. 13.46 Q. Infidelity then Impenitency be sins against the Gospell What is the danger thereof A. Such persons must of necessity perish there being no help left for a man that rejects Christ they sin against the remedy Iohn 3.18 Luk 13.3 Iohn 16.9 Ioh. 8.24 Mar. 16.15 16. Heb. 10.26.27 Q. What is the sinne against the Holy Ghost A. It is a totall renouncing of Christ after some knowledge and taste of the good word of life Heb. 6.4 6. Heb. 10.28 29. Mar. 3.28 30. Ignorant persons nor unbelievers nor backsliders returning unto God doe not sinne against the Holy Ghost Q. Why is this sin never to be forgiven A. Because they think basely of Christ and have no mind to returne by repentance they give the lye to the Spirit as if Christs bloud were no more to be accounted of then common bloud and not able to save Heb. 10.29 Q. Is any the least sin veniall in its own nature A. No all sinnes even the least be in their owne nature damnable and will damne us if we repent not of them Rom. 6.23 Heb. 2.2 Mat. 12.36 CAP. V. How to convince men that they be under sin and under the curse SEeing all unregenerate persons be thus wretched how is it that the most neither feele nor feare any such things by themselves A. 1. Because they are dead in sinnes and trespasses Eph. 2.1 Q. Why 2ly A. 2. Because they judge themselves by false rules and so think themselves to be something when they are nothing Gal. 6.3 Rev. 3.17 Q. What be those false rules whereby they deceive themselves A. Many thinke that because they are a baptized and professe the faith of Christ and b live in good order a civill harmlesse life Whatsoever is short of Regeneration is short of salvation perhaps c better then others or better then themselves have done heretofore that therefore they be in good case and yet an Hypocrite may doe all this a Math 3.9 Rom. 2.17 25 29. Rom. 10 3. b Mat. 19.20 b Luk. 18.11 Phil. 3.4 7. Mat. 7.21 Q. What is the true glasse whereby to judge of our spirituall state aright A. The Scripture which showes how bad we are indeed and what we want and what manner of people we ought to be if we mean to be saved Jam. 1.25 Gal. 3.22 Mat. 5.20 Joh. 3.3 2 Cor. 5.17 Act. 26.18 Q. O but men will confesse that they are sinners and were it not for Christ they should perish But how may it be made appeare to their consciences that for all this their confession they are under the Law and not under grace A. By 7. things 1. By the blind and will conceits they have of God and of Religion Q. What be those blind conceits of carnall people A. They thinke that it is a folly a to be singular and precise and that they have b ever had faith and a good heart towards God c that it was better when there was lesse preaching and lesse knowledge such conceits discover a gracelesse heart a Mat. 5.47 b Mat. 19.20 Rom. 7.9 Phil. 3.6 7. c Jer. 44.17 18. Q. What other blind conceits discover them to be out of the way and in a state of darknesse A. They think it presumption to say a man may be a assured of his own salvation and yet that he is in an ill case that doubts of his salvation that it is no such b hard matter to repent to have a good heart and to save God and that c petty sins are not to be stood upon as omission of duty lesser oathes humouring of men and times c. a they say they doe their best and what would you have more All that thus think doe shew that they are poore deluded soules a 2 Cor. 13.5 2 Pe. 1.10 11. b Eph. 1.19 Ezek. 11.19 c Luk. 16.10 1 Sam. 15.13 14 20. Mat 12.36 Jam. 5.12 d 2 Cor. 10.18 1 Cor. 44. Q. How 2ly may carnall persons be convinced that they be under the Law and not under grace A. By the blind rules they walk by for they a walk in darknesse being b led by carnall reason custome example and motions of their own hearts and not by the

●f sin by which we are bound over to answer Gods justice for offēding his Law Though the act of murther or theft be past yet the offender is liable to justice twenty or thirty yeares after so doth sin it lies at the dore it calls for vengeance as for its wages c. Gen. 3.9 10. Iam. 1.15 Gen. 18.20 Every sinner is a vile and filthy person But that is not all He is also a guilty person under the curse and wrath of God Gal. 3.10 Q. What be the punishments every sin makes one liable unto A. They be three 1. The sinner is in bondage and subject unto wrath and feare all his life long Cursed in his basket and store all the sorrowes of this life are parts and steps to the greater death his sins are treasured up Ps 7.11 Joh. 3.36 Joh. 27.7 14. Job 15.20 21. Job 20.5 11 14. Heb 2.15 Deut. 28.15 16 17. Mal. 2.2 Zach. 5.2 Rom. 2.5 Q. What 2ly A. At his death he is stript off all his comforts the wretched soule is brought naked and singly to the barre of Gods justice The sinner while he lived and flourished was deceived and befooled now death unbefooles thee and makes thee see what a foole thou wert Heb. 9.27 Q. What lastly is the punishment and misery that sin brings A. After death to be tormented with the Devill and his Angels for evermore Rev. 21.8 2 Thes 1.9 10. 1 Pet. 3.19 This is the wofulnesse of a sinner once come to his place and this misery is everlasting unabatable c. 1 Thes 1.10 hath delivered us from wrath to come CAP. Of the kinds and degrees of sin WHat is sin A. It is any transgression or swerving from Gods holy Law and will it is any declining from that Holinesse and uprightnesse wherein God at first did make man Rom. 4.15 1 Joh. 3.4 Sin is either Originall or Actuall Q. What is originall or birth-sin Of Originall sin A. It is that hereditary corruption of our nature wherewith through the disobedience of Adam all his posterity August Confes Art 2. naturally descending from him are infected and are subject to the wrath of God and to the power of sin being void of all righteousnesse untoward and unable to doe any thing that is truly good and prone to all manner of evill Or thus Originall sin is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man that naturally is engendred of the of-spring of Adam whereby man is very faire from originall righteousnesse and is inclined to evill and therefore in every person born into the World it deserveth Gods wrath and damnation Rom 5.12,16 Rom. 3.23 See 39. Art of Ch. of Engl. Art 9. By that first sinne our first parents fell from their originall righteousnesse and so became dead in sin and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of their soule and body and were the objects of Gods wrath Now those sad effects of Adams first sin did not rest and stay in their own persons onely but are conveyed to all their posterity so that from the birth we are defiled with sin void of goodnesse prone to evill and deserve Gods wrath And this pravity and nautinesse of our corrupt Nature because we bring it into the World with us is called Originall sin See this opened in the severall Branches Q. 1. Are all that be borne into the World guilty of sin and subject to Gods wrath A. Yes by reason of Adams fall in whom and with whom we all sinned 1 Cor. 15.22 49. Rom. 5. 12. 14 15 16. Q. 2. Are all likewise from the birth corrupted and defiled in their soules bodies A. Yes we are all as an unclean thing Ephes 2.1 2 3. Psal 51.5 Job 14.14 Rom. 7.24 Q. 3. Are we all borne into the world void of all goodnesse A. Yes and till we be regenerated we cannot doe any thing that 's truly good Being meere morall and naturall men Rom. 7.18 23 24. John 3.6 Eph. 4.18 Math. 7.17 Q. 4. Is this the condition of all that come of Adam A. Yes of all except Christ and Christ is excepted because he was conceived by the Holy Ghost Luk. 1.35 Q. 5. Why is this guilt and corruption called hereditary A. Because we have it by nature before we know how to doe good or evill Esa 1.14 Math. 3.7 and not by imitation Q. You see what Originall sin is What is Actuall sinne A. It is any thought word Actuall sinne or deed in our own persons against any part of Gods Law together with any evill motion of our hearts before or after the consent of our will Rom. 7.19 Jam. 1.14 Actuall sinnes be either of Omission or Commission Q. What is a sinne of Omission A. It is to leave undone any duty which we are bound unto by Gods word or when we faile in the manner of doing the same Mat 25.35 40. 2 Cron 30.18 1 Cron. 15.13 Esa 1.15 Esa 58 3. We must take heed how we heare Lu. 8.18 How we pray Jam. 4 3. How we receive the Lords Supper 1 Cor. 11.28 How we give Almes Mat. 6.8 Q. What 's the danger of sinnes of Omission A. The servant that doth not his Masters will shall be beaten Besides sins of Omission make way for sins of Commission they harden and estrange the heart frō God Luk. 12.48 Jam. 4.17 Mal. 1.8 Q. What is sin of Commission A. It is to doe any thing which we should not doe To doe contrary to that which is commanded or forbidden 1 Tim. 1.9 10. Levit. 26.23 Ezek. 18.24 Again sins be either of Ignorance or Knowledge Q. What is sin of Ignorance A. When a body doth evill and knowes it not 1 Tim. 1.13 Gen. 20.6 John 16.2 Acts 3.17 Q. Is that a sin A. Yes a ignorance is it selfe a sin it is a b cause of other sins c and sins committed through ignorance are not thereby excusable a Hos 4.1 14. 2 Thes 1.8 Luk. 12.48 b Eph. 4.18 Jer. 5.4 Psal 14.4 c Psal 19.12 2 Pet. 3.5 Luk. 23.34 Levit. 5.17 18. Q. What is sin against Knowledge A. It is when we goe against our owne knowledge in any thing when we know to doe well and doe it not Rom. 1.18 21 23 32. Rom. 2.21 1 Kings 15.5 Luk. 12.47 Jam. 4.17 Jer. 44.16 17. Q. What 's the danger of sinning against knowledge A. God usually gives up such persons to impenitency hardnesse of heart and to a reprobate sense Rom. 1.21 24. a Tender Conscience is a sweet Blessing CAP. IV. Of the differences and degrees of sin A Gain sins be either Voluntary or Against ones will Q. What is voluntary sin A. When we sin of our own accord i.e. when sin proceeds from the disposition and inclination of our hearts without force of temptation Heb. 10.26 Joh. 8.44 he sinneth of his own Rom. 6.12 Q. What is sin involuntary or against ones will A. When contrary to the bent and disposition of our hearts we be overtaken