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A64969	The principles of the doctrine of Christ, or, A catechism in which is contained the sum of the Christian religion, or what is necessary to be believed and done in order to salvation, the answers being but seventeen in number, and in very plain words easie to be understood : unto which is added A catechism for conscience, wherein the consciences of the ignorant, the grosly profane, the young, the meerely mortal, and the hypocrites are examined in order to their instruction and awakening, and the consciences of the sincere Christians are tried in order to their peace and comfort / by Nathanael Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.; Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697. A catechism for conscience.	1691 (1691)	Wing V418; ESTC R25704	37,318	113

walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people God promises to justifie them from and pardon all their Sins Heb. 8. 12. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more God promises to renew and to write his Laws in their Hearts Heb. 10. 16. This is the Covenant I will make with them after those days saith the Lord I will put my laws in their hearts and in their minds will I write them God will give his people Grace sufficient till they come to Glory 2 Cor. 12. My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in ●e●kness 2 Tim. 4. 18. The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me to his heavenly Kingdom to whom be glory for ever and ever Rehearse the Laws of God Exod 20. which by Faith are Established and are our Rule to walk by God spake all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the House of Bondage Com. I. Thou shalt have none other Gods before me Com. II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any Graven Image or any Likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or that is in the Water under the Earth thou shalt not Bow down thy self to them nor Serve them for I the Lord thy God am a Iealous God visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto Thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments Com. 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 Com. IV. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man-servant nor thy Maid-servant nor 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 Sabbath day and hallowed it Com. V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Com. VI. Thou shalt not Kill Com. VII Thou shalt not commit Adultery Com. VIII Thou shalt not Steal Com. IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour Com. X. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-servant nor his Maid-servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbours Q. 11. What is the Sum of the Law contained in the Ten Commandments A. The Sum of the Law is Love to God which will cause us to Worship him in Spirit to Sanctifie his Name and Day and Love to our Neighbours as to our Selves which will hinder us from doing any thing contrary to the Dignity Life Chastity Estate or good Name of our Neighbour and all motions of the Heart to work ill to him The Sum of the Law is Love to God Mat. 22. 37 38. Jesus said unto him Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind this is the first and great Commandment So great that it comprehends all others And Love to our Neighbour ver 39. The second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Rom. 13. 10. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour and therefore love is the fulfilling of the law Q. 12. How is grace to be obtained whereby we may keep Gods Commands A. Grace to keep the commands of God is obtained by Prayer wherein 't is our Duty to offer up our desires to God in Christ's Name by the Spirits assistance confessing Sin and giving thanks for Mercies Grace which strengthens us to keep Gods Commandments is obtained by Prayer Psal 119. 10. With my whole heart have I sought thee Oh let me not wander from thy Commandments Psal 138. In the day when I cried thou answeredst me and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul Prayer is our Duty Luke 18. 1. Men ought always to pray and not to faint always i. e. at their set times and all fit seasons In Prayer we offer up our desires to God Psal 38. 9. Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee Prayer must be in Christs Name Joh. 16. 23. Verily verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my Name he will give it you Prayer must be by the Spirits assistance Rom. 8. 26 27. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered And be which searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Prayer should be with confession of Sin Psal 51. 3. I acknowledge my iniquity and my sin is ever before me There ought to be a giving thanks for Mercies Col. 4. 2. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving Q. 13. What is the Rule for our direction in Prayer A. The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in our Supplications but especially the Lords Prayer which he taught his Disciples The whole Word of God directs us in Prayer for it reveals his Will according to which our Prayers ought to be made 1 Joh. 5. 14. And this is the confidence we have in him that if we ask any thing according to his Will he heareth us The Lords Prayer which he taught his Disciples is our special direction how to pray Mat. 6. 9 10 11 12 13. After this manner therefore pray ye 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 out 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 Amen Q. 14. How hath God confirmed his New Covenant A. God hath confirmed his New Covenant by the Sacraments which are the Signs and Seals of it and these Sacraments under the New Testament are Two Baptism and the Lords Supper Sacraments are Signs and Seals of the New Covenant What the Apostle speaks of the Sacrament of Circumcision in the Old Testament is true of the Sacraments under the New Rom 4. 11. He received the sign of Circumcision a seal of the righteousness of Faith and where the righteousness of Faith is

The Principles OF THE Doctrine of Christ OR A Catechism In which is contained the Sum of the Christian Religion or what is necessary to be believed and done in order to Salvation The Answers being but Seventeen in number and in very plain words easie to be understood Unto which is added A Catechism for Conscience Wherein The Consciences of the Ignorant the grosly Profane the Young the meerely Mortal and the Hypocrites are examined in order to their Instruction and Awakening and the Consciences of the sincere Christians are tried in order to their Peace and Comfort By Nathanael Vincent M. A. Minister of the Gospel Jer. 3. 15. I will give you Pastors according to my Heart who shall feed you with knowledge and with understanding 2 Cor. 4. 2. By manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every Mans Conscience in the sight of God London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1691. THE Epistle Dedicatory To that Church of Christ who have given up themselves unto my Pastoral Care Light and Grace and Peace be multiplied Beloved in our Lord and Saviour IT is not a Complement I pass upon you when I tell you that your Souls are very dear to me even as my own and your Salvation as my own desired I am perswaded I was put into the Ministry specially for your sakes and that our Lord gave me the Talents I have that I might improve them to your Spiritual advantage When first I came among you most of you were young and I my self was young also but many years are past and gone since we were first related the one to the other our Age begins to decline Old Age and Death are approaching and who knows but Death may overtake Old Age and come to many of us before it You know how I have laboured in the publick Exercise of my Ministry I have not grudged to spend my self and to be spent for you Those Souls who have reaped profit by my Labours what thanks do I owe them and to God for them How have they obliged Me by having the truest regard unto Themselves I have been with you in the Calm and in the Storm and blessed be God that neither you nor I have been Shipwrackt I have gone through Honour and Dishonour through evil Report and good Report And evil report being sanctified to the humbling of me has done me a greater kindness than the Reporters thought of At this day through the Providence of God over ruling and acting powerfully and graciously even to amazement both you and I and many more enjoy a publick liberty which under Restraint and Persecution we earnestly prayed but could hardly hope for This liberty is a special favour from Heaven is envied us by Hell and I make no question but the Instruments of the Evil One will be very active to deprive us of it Let us but improve it by recourse to the Son of God to make us more free indeed i. e. more free from Sin and more inlarged in the Lords Service and I believe we shall find that Scripture fulfilled Rev. 3. 8. Behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it I am now come to the finishing part and work of my life and are not many of you also And should it not be our care to finish well When the Painter has almost done a curious piece how exact is he in every touch of his pencil his last hand expresses his greatest Skill If the Lord adds more years unto my days I wish they may be the holiest and most useful and then they will be the happiest I have lived The nearer we approach unto Death and the day of Reckoning how exactly should we walk how clean should be our Hearts how heavenly our Minds and Conversations and how doubly refined should all our Services be You that are Husbands you that are Wives the nearer Eternal Life approaches live together more as the Heirs of such a Life be more fervent in Prayer rejoice in Hope and press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God You that are Parents and Masters Oh set fairer copies for your Children and Servants to write after Be more Exemplary for Faith for Love for Meekness for Truth and Righteousness for Humility and Contempt of the World declare plainly that you seek a better Countrey i. e. an Heavenly and that here on Earth is neither your Heart nor Treasure Children and Servants Souls are precious and a great part of your care give them not occasion to Eternity to curse your unfaithfulness to them and carelesness of them Your instructing of them being seconded by such an Example as may demonstrate to them that you your selves are indeed taught of God will be most likely to take impression and to have the desired effect upon them And you of the younger sort that are Children and Servants be sure to value Saving Knowledge and Grace at an high rate and seek after both betimes When the Youth of a Land are universally degenerate and corrupt and affect ignorance and are filled with prejudices against the power of Godliness 't is a great sign of God his being about to depart from that Land and that the Gospel is ready to be removed What a sad prospect is there at this day when the young Generation is seriously considered Horrible Pride outragious Lust Riotous and Intemperate Eating and Drinking every where almost prevail what will become of poor Posterity You young Ones whom I here address unto be intreated to do a kindness to your selves and to the Land of your Nativity The Righteousness of Ten would have done more towards the preservation of filthy Sodom than the wickedness of a multitude would have done towards the destruction of it If some Tens of you did but prize the Gospel entertain it in your Heads and Hearts and adorn it in your Practise and were instant in Prayer for its continuance among us you might do more to the fixing of the Golden Candlestick in its place than the Blind Zeal of the Papists and the ignorance and disobedience of many carnal Protestants can do towards the taking away the Candlestick and its light from us If a considerable Company of young ones in every Age would set their Hearts to study the Word of God and become true Believers sincere Lovers and diligent Doers of his Word The Sun of Righteousness might through a miracle of mercy as it were stand still in England and not haste to go down for many Generations This little Catechism which I now send forth may be of use to Instructers and to them that are to be instructed in Families and as it is very short so I have endeavour'd to make it very plain to the meanest Capacities The Scriptures are added at length to shew how every thing therein is proved That what is learned may come with the greater Autority and Efficacy The