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A26693	A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees into the minds of the learners : to which is added in the close, a most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self-examination to be daily perused : and to this is subjoined a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock / by Jos. Allaine.	Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652). Shorter catechism.	1674 (1674)	Wing A974; ESTC R25230	60,470	184

Q. In what time did he make them A. In the space of six days Q. Of what quality did he make them A. All very good Q. 10. How did God create man A. God created man male and female after his own Image in knowledge right●ousness and holiness with dominion over the Creatures Q. Who created man A. God Q. Of what kind did he create him A. Male and Female Q. What mean you by Male and Female A. Man and Woman Q. After what image or likeness did he create them A. After his own image Q. Wherein did the image of God on man c●n●●t A. In Knowledge Righteousness and Holiness and Dominion over the Creatures Q. Which was the internal part of Gods image A. Knowledge Righteousness and Holiness Q. Which the external A. Dominion over the Creatures Q. Did God make man in a state of sin or holy and righteous A. Holy and righteous Q. 11. What are Gods works of Providence A. Gods Works of providence are his most holy wise and powerful preserving and governing all his Creatures and all their actions Q. Is there a Providence A. Yes Q. Which are the parts of Gods Providence A. Preserving and Governing all things Q. What things doth God preserve and govern in his Providence A. All his Creatures Q. What even the least yea and the worst and the most casual A. Yes Q. Is there nothing then but Gods Providence doth reach to it A. No. Q. In what doth God preserve and govern all his Creatures A. In all their actions Q. Is there any thing that doth need his preservation A. No. Q. Is there any thing that is not under his government A. No. Q. After what manner doth God preserve and govern all his Creatures A. Holily powerfully wisely Q. Is there wisdom in all Gods Providences A. Yes Q. Is there no sin nor unrighteousness in Gods Providences A. No. Q. 12. What special Act of Providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created A. When God created man he entred into a Covenant of life with him upon condition of perfect obedience forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledg of good and evil upon pain of death Q. When God created man what did he do with him A. He entered into a Covenant with him Q. Into what Covenant A. A Covenant of life Q. Why do you call it a Covenant of life A. Because in this Covenant God promised eternal life Q. How many Covenants hath God made with man A. Two the Covenant of works and the Covenant of grace Q. Which of these was the Covenant which God entered into first with man when he was created A. The Covenant of works Q. Did God promise life to man upon any condition on his part A. Yes Q. What was the condition of this Covenant A. Works or obedience Q. Why was the first Covenant called a Covenant of works A. Because works or obedience was the alone condition of this Covenant Q. What special command did God give to man for the tryal of his obedience A. He forbad him to eat of the tree of Knowledge of good and evil Q. Why was the forbidden tree called the tree of Knowledge of good and evil A. Because thereby man came to know good and evil good by the loss of it and evil by the feeling of it Q. Under what penalty did God forbid him to eat A. Upon pain of death Q. 13. Did our first Parents continue in the state wherein they were created A. Our first Parents being left to the freedom of their own will fell from the estate wherein they were created by sinning against God Q. Did our first Parents fall A. Yes Q. From what did they fall A. From the estate wherein they were created Q What estate was that A. A Holy and happy estate Q What did they fall by A. By sinning against God Q. Who fell from the estate wherein they were created A. Our first Parents Q. What were they forced to sin A. No. Q. Was it by the voluntary abuse of their own free wil● A. Yes Q. Had man free willi nthe state of innocency till he sinned it away A. Yes Q. Were not our first Parents confirmed in the state of innocency A. No. Q. 14. What is Sin A. Sin is any want of conformity unto or transgression of the Law of God Q. What is the Rule which sin is an offence against A. The Law of God Q. What is meant by the Law of God A. The whole word of God Ps. 119. 7. Q. How many ways may we offend against the Law of God A. By coming short of it or transgressing against it Q. Is any want of Conformity to the Law or coming short of it a sin A. Yes Q. Is any transgressing of it a sin A. Yes Q. What is it to transgress the Law A. To pass the bounds that the Law sets Q. What do you mean by Conformity to the Law A. Agreeableness or suitableness to it Q Is any want of agreeableness to the Law a sin A. Yes Q. What if we come short of it in the least A. Yes Q Doth want of Conformity to the Law take in original sin and sins of omission and transgressing of the Law sins of commission A. Yes Q. Is nothing sin but what is against Gods Law A. No. Q. Is the Law the Rule then by which we may know what is duty and what is sin A. Yes Q. 15. What was the Sin whereby our First Parents fell from the Estate wherein they were Created A. The sin whereby our first Parents fell from the state wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit Q. What did our first Parents fall by A. By sin Q. By what sin A. Eating the forbidden fruit Q. 16. Did all Mankind fall in Adams first transgression A. The Covenant being made with Adam not only for himself but for his posterity all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation sinned in him and fell with him in his first transgression Q. Who sinned with Adam and fell with him A. All mankind Q. What did Christ sin in him and fall with him A. No but only all mankind that descended from him by ordinary generation Q. Who of all mankind had an extraordinary generation A. Jesus Christ. Q. In what transgression of Adam did all mankind sin in him and fall with him A. In the first transgression Q. Did they sin in him in all the transgressions that ever he committed A. No. Q. With whom was the Covenant made A. With Adam Q. Was it made with him for himself A. Yes Q. For himself only A. No. Q. For whom was it made with him besides himself A. For all his posterity Q. Is this the reason why all mankind sinned in Adam and fell with him because the Covenant was made with him not only for himself but for all his posterity A. Yes Q. 17. Into what estate did the fall bring Mankind A. The fall brought mankind

state of salvation And must not this be a pinching thought to a compassionate teacher to think that he cannot for his heart perswade men but that the most of them will wilfully throw away themselves Is it not a woful sight to behold the devils driving a great part of our miserable flocks as they did once the herd of swine the keepers themselves amazed looking on I say driving them violently down the hill till they be choked in the water drowned irrecoverably in the gulph of endless perdition Ah miserable spectacle what through the loosness and sensuality of some what throngh the wilful blindness of others what through the halving and cold and customary religion of others how great a number of our flocks is Satan like to carry utterly away from us after all that hath been done to save them Yet I cannot but call after them Hearken unto me O ye Children How long will you love vanity and follow after leasing and trust in lying words As the Lord liveth you are lost except you turn wherefore turn your selves and live ye Ah how mercy woeth you how it waiteth to be gracious to you Hear O sinners hear See you not how the merciful Saviour of the world stretcheth forth his hands all the day long and spreadeth forth his wings and calleth you as a hen doth her chicken Hear you not the soundings of his bowels he hath no need of you yet how do his compassions melt over perishing sinners his heart is turned within him and shall not this turn your hearts his repentings are kindled together and shall not this lead you to repentance Behold he standeth at the door and knocketh O man wilt thou keep Jesus at the door and lodg Barabbas in thy bosom and prefer thy cruel lusts before thy compassionate Lord Oh his melting love to sinners he calleth after them he weepeth over them he cryeth to them How long ye simple ones will you love simplicity will you not be made clean when shall it once be why will you die Turn you at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you Sinner art thou not yet melted Oh come in at his loving calls Come out from thy sins touch the scepter of grace and live why shouldest thou be dashed in pieces by his iron rod kiss the Son why shouldst thou perish in the way set up Jesus as thy King lest he count thee for his enemy because thou wouldest that he should not reign over thee and so thou be called forth and slain before him Oh how dreadful will this case be to perish under the pitiful eyes of his mercy and to die by the hand of a Saviour Oh double hell to have thy redeemer become thine executioner and the hand that was so long stretched forth to save thee to be now stretched forth to slay thee and the merciful heart of Christ himself hardned against thee so as that he should call thee forth and with his own hand hew thee in pieces as Samuel did Agag before the Lord. But I have been too too long in prefacing to what I intended forthwith to have fallen upon indeed I am apt to run out in matters that do so nearly touch upon your greatest concernments Beloved I despair of ever bringing you to salvation without sanctification or possessing you of happiness without perswading you to holiness God knows I have not the least hope ever to see one of your faces in heaven except you be converted and sanctified and exercise your selves unto godliness This is that I drive at I beseech you study to further personal godliness and family godliness 1. Personal godliness Let it be your first care to set up Christ in your hearts See that you make all your worldy interests to stoop to him that you be entirely and unreservedly devoted unto him If you wilfully and deliberately and ordinarily harbour any sin you are undone See that you unfeignedly take the Laws of Christ as the rule of your words thoughts and actions and subject your whole man members and mind faithfully to him If you have not a true respect to all Gods Commandments you are unsound at heart Oh study to get the image and impress of Christ upon you within Begin with your hearts else you build without a foundation Labour to get a saving change within or else all external performances will be to no purpose And then study to shew forth the power of godliness in the life Let piety be your first and great business 'T is the highest point of Justice to give God his due Beware that none of you be a Prayer-less person for that is a most certain discovery of a Christless and a graceless person of one that is a very stranger to the fear of God Suffer not your Bibles to gather dust See that you converse daily with the word That man can never lay claim to blessedness whose delight is not in the Law of the Lord. Let meditation and self-examination be your daily exercise else the Papists yea the Pagans will condemn us That the short questions which I have given you as a help to self-examination may be daily perused by you is the matter of my passionate request unto you If ever you come to any growth in holiness without the constant use of this practice I am grosly deceiv'd and therefore I would beseech yea even charge you by the Lord that you would daily examine your selves by these questions till you have found a better help to this duty But Piety without Charity is but the half of Christianity or rather impious hypocrisie We may not divide the Tables See therefore that you do justly and love mercy and let Equity and Charity run like an even thread throughout all your dealings Be you temperate in all things let Chastity and Sobriety be your undivided companions Let Truth and Purity Seriousness and Modesty Heavenliness and Gravity be the constant ornaments of your speech Let patience and humility simplicity and sincerity shine out in all the parts of your conversations See that you forget and forgive wrongs and requite them with kindness as you would be found children of the most High Be merciful in your censures and put the most favourable construction upon your brethrens carriage that their actions will reasonably bear Be slow in promising punctual in fulfilling Let meekness and innocency affableness yieldingness and courtesie commend your conversations to all men Let none of your relations want that love and loyalty that reverence and duty that tenderness care and vigilancy which their several places and capacities call for This is throughout godliness I charge you before the most high God that none of you be found a swearer or a lyar a lover of evil company or a scoffer or malicious or covetous or a drunkard or a glutton unrighteous in his dealing unclean in his living or a