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A scriptural catechism useful for all sorts of persons, both sure as desired to teach their families and such as desire to learn the principles of the Christian religion out of the Holy Scriptures / by Owen Stockton ...
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Stockton, Owen, 1630-1680.
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Holiness as well as Knowledge A. Ephes 4.24 And that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Q. When must we begin to remember our creator A. Eccl. 12.1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them Q. Whom must we get for the guide of our youth A. Jer. 3.4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me My Father Thou art the guide of my youth Q. By what means may a young man cleanse his ways A. Psal 119.9 Wherewith all shall a young man cleanse his way By taking heed thereto according to thy word Q. What councel did David give his son Solomon while he was young A. 1 Chron. 28.9 And thou Solomon my son know thou the God of thy Father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever Q. When did David begin to hope and trust in God A. Psal 71.5 Thou art my hope O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth Q. Did not David who began in his youth to trust and hope in God prove so eminent for godliness that he is called a man after Gods own heart A. Acts 13.22 I have found David the son of Jesse a man after mine own heart which shall fulfil all my will Q. Shall not they that seek the Lord early be sure to find him A. Prov. 8.17 I love them that love me and those that seek me early shall find me Q. Did not Josiah begin to seek early after God And was not that the great reason why he proved so eminent and constant in the ways of God A. 2 Chron. 34.2 3. He did that Which was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in the ways of David his Father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left for in the eighth year of his reign while he was yet young he began to seek after the God of David his Father Q. Was not Josiah who began early to seek after God so eminent for godliness that there was no king like him either before or after him A. 2 Kings 23.25 And like unto him was there no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him Q. What councel doth the apostle Paul give to those that are young A. 2. Tim. 2.22 Flee also youthful lusts but follow Righteousness Faith Charity Peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart Q. Do not all things come to pass by the providence of God A. Rom. 11.36 Of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever amen Q. Are those things which seem most casual unto us ordered and disposed off wholely and only by the providence of God A. Prov. 16.33 The lot is cast into the lap but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Q. Is God so careful of us that there is not the least thing befals us not so much as an hair falls off from our heads but by his providence A. Matth. 10.30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered Q. Seeing God is thus careful of us should not this encourage us in all our straits and distresses to cast all our care upon the Lord A. 1 Pet. 5.7 Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you Q. How do you prove that after God had made man upright he did of himself fall from God A. Eccl. 7.29 Lo this only have I found that God hath made man upright but they have sought out many inventions Q. How do you prove that we are born in sin A. Psal 51.5 Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Q. Seeing we are born in sin is it not absolutely necessary that we should be born again before we can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven A. John 3.3 Jesus answered and said unto him verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the Kindom of God Q. Will nothing that any man hath or doth avail him to salvation unless he be a new creature A. Gal. 6.15 In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature Q. By what means are we born again Is it not usually by the hearing the Word of God A. James 1.18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures Q. What is sin A. 1 John 3.4 Sin is the transgression of the Law Q. What is the wages of sin and which way do we come by eternal life A. Rom. 6.23 The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Q. Is the death of the body all the wages that is due to sin or shall the soul of the sinner die also A. Ezek. 18.4 The soul that sineth it shall die Q. What is the second death and who are they that shall die this death A. Rev. 21.8 The fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and Murderers Whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolators and all Liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Q. Do we not sin when we neglect that good which God commandeth as well as when we commit that evil which he forbideth A. James 4.17 To him that knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin Q. Doth not God know all our secret sins A. Psalm 90.8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance Q. Will our sins find us out wherever we go So as we shall not be able to escape the punishment due to them unless we repent of them A. Numb 32.23 If ye will not do so behold ye have sinned against the Lord and be sure your sin will find you out Q. How may we come to be convinced of our sins Will not comparing of our hearts and lives with the Law of God bring us to the knowledge of our fins A. Rom. 3.20 By the law is the knowledge of sin Q. When we are convinced of our sins whither must we look to have our sins taken away must we not look into Christ A. John 1.29 Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the World Q. Is not the heart of man before God works a change in him desperately wicked A. Jer. 17.9 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Q. Seeing the heart
Doctrine of Christ hath not God He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ he hath both the Father and the Son Q. Must we not get Bibles and keep them and give our selves to the reading of the Scriptures all the days of our lives A. Deut. 17.18 19 He shall write him a copy of this Law in a book out of that which is before the Priests the Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do them Q. Is not a daily and diligent searching of the Scriptures a great means to beget faith A. Acts 17.11 12 They searched the Scriptures daily therefore many of them believed Q. Will not meditation on what we read and hear help us to profit greatly by reading and hearing A. 1 Tim. 4.15 Meditate upon these things give thy self wholy to them that thy profitting may appear unto all Q. How will God bless that man that delights and meditates in his word night and day Shall he not bring forth his fruit in season and prosper in all that he doth A. Psalm 1.2 3. His delight is in the Law of the Lord and in his Law doth he meditate day and night And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doth shall prosper Q. Will not feeding on the word by meditation make it the joy and rejoycing of our hearts A. Jer. 15.16 Thy words were found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoycing of mine heart Q. How did David improve the word to keep himself from sinning against God A. Psalm 119.11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee Q. Is it not enough to get the knowledge of the word but must we practice it also if we would be happy A. Joh. 13.17 If you know these things happy are ye if you do them Q. Must we not teach our children Gods Word and take all occasions to speak of the Scriptures both when we are at home in our own families and when we are abroad with others A. Deut. 6.6 7. These words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up Q. Is not Baptizing persons in the name of the Father Son and Holy-Ghost by such as are sent to preach the word an Ordinance of Jesus Christ which he will have continued and with which he will afford his presence to the end of the world A. Mat. 28.19 20. Go ye therefore and teach all Nations Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy-Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world Amen Q Do not such as are Baptized in Christs name put on Christ A. Gal. 3.27 As many of you as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ Q. Doth not Baptism seal up to us our interest in the death of Christ and ought not such as are baptized to walk in newness of life A. Rom. 6.3 4. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life Q. Is not Baptism a seal of eternal life to such as believe in Jesus Christ A. Mark 16.16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved Q. Is not Baptism to be administred to all to whom the Promises belong and so consequently to the Children of Believers seeing they are heirs of the Promises A. Acts 2.38 39. Peter said unto them Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost For the Promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call Q. When was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper instituted and by whom and what doth the breaking and giving of the Bread fignifie Is it not a sign and seal that the Body of Christ was broken for us A. 1 Cor. 11.23 24. I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me Q. What doth the Wine signifie which we drink in the Lords Supper Is it not a sign and seal of the new Covenant which is ratified in the Bloud of Christ A. Ver. 25. After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Bloud this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me Q. Are not the Bread and Wine which we receive in the Lords Supper signs and seals of our communion with the Body and Bloud of Christ A. 1 Cor. 10.16 The Cup of Blessing which we bless Is it not the Communion of the Bloud of Christ The Bread which we break Is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ Q. Must not all that receive the Lords Supper drink of the Cup as well as eat the Bread that is given in that Ordinance A. Matth. 26.27 And he took the Cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it Q. Is not the Lords Supper to be received often and to be continued in the Church till the coming of Christ to Judgment A. 1 Cor. 11.26 As often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come Q. Are not they guilty of the Body and Bloud of Christ that receive the Lords Supper unworthily A. 1 Cor. 11.27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Bloud of the Lord Q. Do not they eat and drink their own damnation that receive the Lords Supper unworthily A. 1 Cor. 11.29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lords Body Q. Seeing it is such a great and dangerous sin to receive the Lords Supper unworthily Is it not needful that we should examine our selves about our right to and fitness for that Ordinance before we come to the Lords Table A. 1 Cor. 11.28