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The lambs of Christ fed with sincere milk of the Word in a short Scripture-catechism / by the author of Christianity in short.
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Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700.
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THE LAMBS of CHRIST Fed with the Sincere Milk of the WORD In a SHORT Scripture-Catechism By the Author of CHRISTIANITY in SHORT Joh. XXI 15. Lovest thou me Feed my Lambs 1 Pet. II. 2. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by W. Rogers at the Sun over against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleetstreet and Tho. Elis Bookseller in Mansfield 1692. A SHORT Scripture-Catechism Quest. IS not Religion or the Fear of GOD your whole duty Answ. Yes To fear GOD and keep his Commandments is the whole duty of man Eccl. XII 13. Q. Can you fear GOD if you believe not first that there is a GOD A. No. I must first believe that GOD is Heb. XI 6. Q. Do you mean by GOD the Maker of all things A. Yes He that built all things is GOD Heb. III. 4. Q. Do you know by the things that are made that there is a GOD A. Yes By the things that are made may be known his eternal Power and Godhead Rom. I. 20. Q. Do not you know there is a GOD by his Word A. Yes GOD who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his SON Heb. I. 1. Q. Hath GOD a Body or is he a pure Spirit A. GOD is a Spirit John IV. 4. Q. Hath a Spirit flesh and bones A. No. A Spirit hath not flesh and bones Luke XXIV 34. Q. Can GOD then be seen A. No. He is invisible whom no man hath seen nor can see 1 Tim. I. 17. 1 John IV. 12. Q. Is GOD the fountain of life A. Yes With him is the fountain of life Psal. XXXVI 9. Q. Hath GOD beginning or ending A. No. He is eternal from everlasting to everlasting he is GOD Deut. XXXIII 27. Psal. XC 2. Q. Is GOD mutable Can he change A. No. He changeth not nor is there with him any shadow of turning Mal. III. 6. Jam. I. 17. Q. Is GOD every where A. Yes He filleth Heaven and Earth we cannot fly from his presence Jer. XXIII 24. Psal. CXXXIX 7. Q. Is he Almighty A. Yes He is the LORD GOD Almighty he can do every thing Gen. XVII 1. Job XLII 2. Q. Doth GOD know all things A. Yes He knoweth all things his understanding is infinite John XXI 17. Psal. CXLVII 5. Q. Is he a GOD of wisdom A. Yes He is the only wise God wisdom is his 1 Tim. I. 17. Dan. II. 20. Q. Is GOD perfectly Good A. Yes There is none good but one that is GOD he is good to all and his Goodness endureth continually Matt. XIX 17. Psal. CXIX 9. LII 1. Q. Is GOD most Holy A. Yes There is none holy as the LORD glorious in holiness 1 Sam. II. 2. Exod. XV. 11. Q. Is he most true and faithful A. Yes He is the LORD GOD of truth the faithful GOD Psal. XXXI 5. Deut. VII 9. Tit. I. 2. Q. Is he most just and righteous A. Yes GOD is most upright just and right is he Isa. XXVI 7. Deutr. XXXII 4. Q. Is he a merciful GOD A. Yes His mercy endureth for ever Psal. CXXXVI 1. Q. Is he most loving A. Yes GOD is love 1 Joh. IV. 8. Q. Is there any more than One GOD A. No. There is none other GOD but One 1 Cor. IV. 8. Q. Are not the FATHER SON and HOLY GHOST three GODS A. No. They are three but these three are One 1 Joh. V. 7. Q. Did GOD make Heaven and Earth A. Yes GOD made the world and all things therein Act. XVII 24. Q. Did he make any thing evil A. No. All that GOD made was very good Gen. I. 31. Q. Doth GOD preserve all things A. Yes He giveth to all life and breath and all things Act. XVII 25. Q. Doth he still rule and order all things A. Yes His Kingdom ruleth over all Psal. CIII 19. Q. Doth he take care of all things A. Yes Not a sparrow falleth to the ground without him Matt. X. 29. Q. Did GOD make nothing but what is seen A. Yes He created all things visible and invisible Col. I. 16. Q. Made he any Spirits called Angels A. Yes GOD maketh his Angels Spirits Heb. I. 7 14. Q. Did some of them become evil Angels called Devils A. Yes Some of them sinned and are evil Angels and Devils whom GOD cast down to Hell 2 Pet. II. 4. Ps. LXXXVIII 49. Mar. I. 24. Q. Is there not a Prince or chief of Devils A. Yes Beelzebub the Prince of Devils called the Dragon the old Serpent the Devil and Sathan Matth. XII 24. Rev. XII 9. Q. Who was the first Man A. The first man was Adam 1 Cor. XV. 45. Q. Did GOD make Adam A. Yes The LORD GOD formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul Gen. II. 2. Q. Who was the first Woman A. The first woman was Eve the mother of all living Gen. III. 20. Q. Did GOD make Eve A. Yes The LORD caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he took one of his ribs and made it a woman and brought her unto the man Gen. II. 21 22. Q. Hath not man a Soul or Spirit as well as a Body A. Yes For we are to glorify GOD both in our body and in our spirit 1 Cor. VI. 20. Q. Did GOD make man in his own Image A. Yes In his own image created he him Gen. I. 27. Q. Do you mean that he made him holy and good A. Yes GOD made man upright in righteousness and true holiness Eccl. VII 29. Col. III. 10. Eph. IV. 24. Q. Did GOD place the man in a Garden A. Yes He put the man into the Garden of Eden Gen. II 15. Q. Did GOD forbid him to eat of any Tree there A. Yes GOD commanded the man saying Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Gen. II. 16 17. Q. Did Adam eat of that Tree A. Yes The Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty and she did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat So by one man sin entered into the world 2 Cor. XI 3. Gen. III. 6 13. Rom. V. 12. Q. Is sin the breaking of GOD's Commandments A. Yes Sin is the transgression of the law 1 John III. 4. Q. What is the punishment of sin Is it death A. Yes The wages of sin is death Rom. VI. 23. Gen. II. 17. Q. Should not man have died if he had not sinned A. No. Death enter'd into the World by sin Rom. V. 12. Q. Did Adam's sin bring death on us all A. Yes In Adam all die 1 Cor. XV. 22. Q. Have we all sinned in Adam A. Yes By one man's disobedience many are made sinners and death hath passed upon all men