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A64231	A practical and short exposition of the catechism of the Church of England by way of question and answer. Wherein the divine authority and reasonableness of every question and answer, every doctrin and practice in it recommended, are evidenced and improved against most contemners of it and dissenters from it. With that moderation and plainness that it may engage all to adhere to, and especially may instruct children in the true Protestant religion of the Church of England. Humbly offered for the good of schools and youth. By Nathanael Taylor, M.A.	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing T544B; ESTC R222427	64,394	147

death 5. All our good comes from God who must make us gracious and glorious if we be either 6. Our best duties tho done through Gods assistance yet are attended with many infirmities Isa 64.6 7. coldness weariness c. 7. There is no proportion between our work and this reward therefore it must be the gift of Gods free Grace Q. What improvement do you make of this Article A. 1. If eternal misery be the wages of sin it shews mans folly in daring to act sin when for a moments pleasure here he must meet with eternal torments hereafter 2. If eternal life be given to the godly it should engage us to the practice of godliness Our labour is not in vain 1 Cor. 15.58 Q. What is meant here by the word Amen A. It is here an Asseveration or Affirmation of our consent to the truth of all the premised Articles In which O Lord encrease our Faith and enable us to lead the Life of Faith that at the end of our lives we may have the end of our Faith the Salvation of our Souls SECT II. Q. THe Rule of Faith in the Articles of the Creed being considered What is yet remaining of your Baptismal Vow A. The Rule of obedience in my keeping all Gods Commandments and walking in the same all the days of my life Q. How many Commandments are there A. Ten and therefore they are sometimes called the Decalogue Q. Which be they A. The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus Exod 20. saying I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt and out of the house of bondage c. Q. What is considerable in this Preface to these Commandments A. 1. The Authority of the Law-giver I am the Lord thy God The Lord that made thee and thy God in Covenant with thee who may give Laws to my Creatures and declare my will to my People which they are bound to obey 2. The obligations on the people to obey their deliverance from the Aegyptian bondage Q. Do these Commandments oblige us A. Dr. Arrowsmiths Tact. Sac. lib. 2. Cap. 4. Sect. 4. Mar. 5 6 7 Chap. Rom. 13.9 Ephes 6.2 James 2.8 9. 1. The Jews if considered as a Church had a Ceremonial Law abolisht by Christ As a state they had a judicial Law not obliging all Nations But this Law they had as men and Gods rational Creatures given them by God as their Creator therefore it obligeth us as men so long as we continue our being 2. The precepts of this Law are repeated by Christ and his Apostles and proposed by them to us as a rule to walk by 3. The obligations on us are greater then on the Jews to observe them God is not only our Lord and our God in Covenant with us Bish Ni. cholson on Cat. p. 13.21.134 but we enjoy the substance of their shadows the fulfilling of their promises prophecies and Types And our deliverance by Christ is far greater then from an Aegyptian bondage ours was from an infernal Pharaoh the Devil a deliverance of both Soul and body from eternal misery by the blood of Christ Q. Why is it called the moral Law Hookers Polity lib 1. sect 8. Leighs body of Divinity p. 124. A. Because it relates to manners and containing our duties to God and Man Q. Why is it called the Law of nature A. 1. Because its duties were impressed on mans Nature at his Creation 2. Mans reason rightly improved will dictate all these dutys Bish Nicholson on Cat. p. 81. for that reason which dictates the being of a God will certainly teach he ought to be worshipped and that there can be but one Almighty God to be worshipped who therefore ought to hear his name Reverenced his ordinances and Laws observed always and at sometimes more publickly and solemnly by his People And as it is the dictate of Nature to do to others as we desire they should do to us so it will teach us to Honour whom it is due to B. Wilkins Natural Religion to abstain from murthering of or committing uncleanness with or stealing from or bearing false witness against or inordinately coveting after any thing of our Neighbours 3. The Heathen have acknowledged a Deity to whom they paid worship and observed some more solemn times then others to do it in and have been so exemplary in declaiming against and punishing of 14 all sins against the second Table That they may be Witnesses against us unless we labour to keep these Laws of God Q. How are these ten Commandments divided A. Into two Tables relating to the twofold object of duty God and Man Q. Which Commandments contain our dutys towards God A. The four first Q. Which Commandments contain our dutys towards Man A. The six last Q. Why are more delivered Negatively then affirmatively A. 1. To shew our proneness to evil which requires so many restraints 2. To shew there must be a ceasing from sin before we can do good Q. What general Rules are there for the understanding these Commandments A. James 2.10 1. That the same Authority is offended in breaking one that is in breaking all 2. All Negative commands disswade not only from sin but command the contrary duty 3. All positive commands command not only the duty but also forbid the contrary sins 4. Both positive and Negative disswade from all Evil thoughts as well as Evil words and actions and oblige to have purity as well as to Holiness of the tongue or conversation 5. They both oblige to avoid all things tending to any sin and to use all means that may further us in any duty 6. Leigh 's Body of Divinity p. 205. Affirmative precepts are not so obliging as the Negative the first oblige to duty but not always as works of mercy and the like may be done on the Sabbath And obedience to God is better then Honour to a Superior without Gods Honour but the Negative oblige to avoid all sin and alwaies because it is never lawful to act Evill that good may come thereby Q. Why are the Commandments given in the second person singular A. 1. Leigh 's body p. 207. Because thus there can be no evasion from Duty 2. Every one is concerned in the obedience which is due to them 3. To shew God is no respecter of persons he speaks to Poor and Rich to all alike Q. What is the first Commandment A. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me Q. Which is here to be learned A. 1. That we are prone to Idolatry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuag in loc See Jun. Trem. in loc 2. That there is but one God whom alone we ought to worship 3. that we should not adore a plurality of Gods as the Heathens did 4. That God is every where present and beholds the Idolatry of heart and life Thou shalt have no other Gods before me Q. What are the

his Church a Body whereof he is the Head which is twofold Invisible and Visible Mat. 7.21 1 Cor. 7.19 1. The Invisible Church of Christ contains all glorified Saints in Heaven and all true Believers on Earth and of this Church all who are Baptized are not Members but those only who being Baptized live the life of Faith 2. B. Ushers Body of Divinity p. 187. The Visible Church contains all professors of Christianity and of this Church all who are Baptized are reputed as Members Q. What is meant by A Child of God A. Joh. 1.12 Gal. 4.5 Joh. 20.17 Heb. 2.11 Rom. 8.16 This priviledge necessarily follows the other for all true Members of Christ's Church receive the honour to be sons of God by Adoption and are admitted to have God their Father Christ their Brother the Holy Ghost their Comforter here and hereafter are co-heirs with Christ of an eternal glory Q. What is meant by an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven A. This Priviledge doth succeed both the other Luk. 12.32 Ja. 1.12 1 Pet. 1.4 5. Joh. 14.3 Col. 3.4 2 Cor. 5.1 for those who are Members of Christ and Sons of God have a Kingdom purchased for them and promised to them yea by Christ they now have taken possession of it and shall hereafter have the full enjoyment of it Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you A. They did promise and vow three things in my name 1. That I should renounce the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the flesh 2. That I should believe all the Articles of the Chrstian Faith 3. That I should keep Gods holy will and Commandments and walk in the same all the daies of my life Q. What are the parts of this Baptismal vow and promise A. Its parts are suitable to the two parts of Sanctification a death to Sin World Flesh Devil and a life unto Righteousness in a true Faith and an obedience to the Will of God Q. What do we renounce in renouncing the Devil and all his works A. 1. Dr. Hammond pract Cat. l. 6. sect 3 Joh 8 44 Ja. 3.17 All belief in or worship of any Heathenish God or Idol 2. All heathenish and sinful practice as Lying Envy Pride sowing Discord and those sins which represent Satan 3. All Combination or Contracts with the Devil and all use of Conjurations 4. Ja. 1.14 Eph. 5.11 All Temptations and first motions to sin 5. All evil Exhortation or evil Example whereby we entice others to act sin and so act the Devil's part Q. How may the Devil and ●is Works be withstood A. Jam. 4.4 1 Pet. 5.5 8 9. By the use of 1. Prayer 2. Fasting 3. Faith 4. Watchfulness against them 5. Care to walk according to Gods Will. Q. What is meant by the pomps and vanities of this wicked world to be renounced A. Eph. 5.11 1 Cor. 6.10 20. 1. That we absent as much as may be from wicked company the ruin of many souls 2. That if in company we partake not of their sins chusing rather their anger than Gods 3. Not inordinately to pursue the worlds profits pleasures or honours nor to be too much delighted with 1 Joh. 2.15 16. Jam. 4.4 Mat. 16.26 or confident in them but so to sit loose to them that we may readily part with them if in competition with Christ and our Souls Q. How may the soul be armed against the Worlds enticements and discouragements A. Eccles 1.1 2. 1. By considering the vanity and uncertainty of all its enjoyments Its pleasures but skin-deep sensual and but for a moment Heb. Pro. 23.5 Ps 49.7 11.20 its Honours the breath of others no sign of God's love and leave us at Death Its Riches the dust of Earth cannot free from Death here nor Hell hereafter 2. By considering the smalness and shortness of our Troubles in the World They can but hurt the Body Mat. 10.28 Exod. 2.23 in whose greatest troubles the Soul is at Liberty its worst punishment is Death which sends the soul sooner to eternal life Isa 43.2 2 Cor. 4.17 18. They cannot hinder us from God's presence here and may prepare us for a greater glory hereafter 3. By considering we are here but Strangers and Souldiers in our Enemies Tents Joh. 15.20 John 16. last which may reasonably expose us to troubles as our Captain Christ Jesus and his Apostles all met with 4. Ro. 8.18 By considering our Glory in Heaven will recompence all our losses on Earth Q. What is meant by renouncing the Lusts of the Flesh A. 1. Dr Ham. prac Cat. 16. sec 3. Jer. 4.14 1 Cor. 6.19 All coveting of or indulging our selves in any lust or desire which is contrary to the Word of God and so sinful 2. All spiritual and heart Sins and all bodily uncleanness This Enemy is the more dangerous because daily with us and ready within us to betray us to Satans Temptations Q. How may these lusts of the Flesh be subdued A. By Sobriety Chastity Gal. 5.16 17 20. Watchfulness Praver and a care to walk answerable to the Word of God Q. What is that part of Sanctification included in your Baptismal Vow yet to be Considered A. ●oh 3.16 Ti● 3.8 A life of righteousness in these two great duties of the Gospel Faith and Obedience Q. What is the Faith here promised A. Bis Pearson on Creed p. 12. 1. An assent of our Hearts 2. A Confession or Profession with our lips And 3. A suitable Conversation in our lives Q. What do we promise thus to believe A. All the Articles of the Christian Faith Q. What is the Obedience promised in Baptism A. That which is the product of true Faith an Universal Obedience of our whole man to all the commands of God sincerely performed with constancy to our lives end Q. Can the Godfathers or Godmothers promise this for the Child and is the Child bound to perform it A. 1. Yes because Children are in the power of the Parents to be devoted to the Service of God Deut. 6.6 7.29.10 11 31.11 12 2 Tim. 2.19 Eph. 5.11 Heb. 11.6 Tit. 2.14 whom God also hath obliged to do it 2. There is nothing contained in this Baptismal Vow but what is lawful becomes Christianity and is our bounden Duty to perform 1 Pet. 2.11 1 John 5.4 1 Pet. 5.8 3. The Non-performance of the Vow by the Child may justly forfeit God's promises in Baptism made to the Child 4. Parents usually oblige their Children in civil contracts and bargains Hooker 's Volity l. 5 sect 64. who are by their Parents contracts bound to observe the Covenant or else must forfeit the advantages that might accrue to them by its observance Much more sure then may Parents engage their Children in what is the Child 's absolute duty on whose performance so great a mercy depends Q. Dost

Church least I throw my self out of visible hopes of Salvation Q. What is the next Article A. The Communion of Saints Q. What is meant by the Saints A. The People of God and members of Christs Holy Catholick Church because 1. They are in part Holy here 2. shall be perfect Saints hereafter Q. What Communion is here believed A. 1. Dr. Sherlock on Cat. Their Communion with the ever Blessed Trinity as Sons of God Members of Christ Sanctified by the Holy Ghost 2. Their Communion of Gifts for each others edifying 3. Their praying with and for each other 4. Their relieving of each others wants to their powers Q. What improvement do you make of this Article A. 1. B. Pearson on Creed p. 359. It shews the priviledges of Gods people who have an interest in Gods mercies and in each others gifts 2. It may ingage us to communicate our gifts and to pray for each other 3. It should disengage us from all fellowship with sin and sinners as much as may be Be not with them here whose company you desire not hereafter 4. It should engage our labours after holiness that we may be Saints Q. What is it to believe the Remission of sins A. 1. That we are all sinners and every one is obliged to ask pardon in the Lords Prayer B. Pearson on Creed 370. Isa 64.6 and to believe it obtainable in the Creed 2. That as we are sinners every one needs Gods pardon because as such we deserve his anger and cannot satisfie it by the world or our Righteousness Ephes 2.2 2 Cor. 5.18 Psal 49.6 7. 3. That thro Christs merits and mediation Gods justice is satisfied and mercy obtained so that we may returning have a pardon Luke 24.47 1 ●ohn 1.8 9 10. 4. I in this Article declare I am obliged to return from sin by a true Repentance and through Christs merits I may obtain from God the Remission of sins Q. What is it to believe the Resurrection of the body A. That this flesh or body of ours which is or may be buried and turned to dust shall be raised again and live Q. How do you prove the Resurrection of the Body A. 1. Mat. 22.32 Christ pleads it from Gods being God of Abraham after he was dead and that he is God of the living 2. God can as easily unite our dust into our bodies as he did at first make our bodies of nothing 3. God is the God of the whole man Leigh 's Body of Divinity p. 1150. and will raise our bodies that as they have been Co-workers of sin or holiness here they may be Co-sufferers of punishment or Co-partakers of Glory hereafter 4. Mat. 28.14 Mat. 27.53 1 Cor. 15.19 1 Cor. 15.36 Several instances of dead bodies which have been raised prove it 5. If we rise not Christ is no compleat Saviour because then death and the grave are yet unconquered and we most miserable 6. The Resurrection is dayly manifested to us the day dyeth into night and riseth again in the morning Corn dyeth in the earth and riseth again to bring forth fruit Q. How prove you this body shall rise again A. This very body as to its substance shall be raised again tho it shall then have other qualifications 1. Calvin Instit lib. 3. Cap. 25. Sect. 4.8 Else it is no Resurrection but a new Creation 2. The word Resurrection or reviviscence signifies that very body which was dead shall live and which was buried shall arise 3. Gods justice pleads for it the same and not another body must be punished or glorisyed for the Evil or good done here 4. Christ and others prove it to be so B. Pearson on Creed p. 382. They arose with their same bodies they had when alive Christs body when raised had the print of the Nails and Spear which it had at its Crucifixion Q. What improvement do you make of this Article A. 1. Cor 6.18 1. Not to slight our bodies which with our Souls shall enjoy an Eternity 2. 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. Not to prostitute them to sin and Satan which we hope ere long shall be glorifyed 3. It may comfort us under all troubles and natural infirmities or deformities when our bodies are raised again they shall all be done away Rev. 21.4 4. It may arm us against all trouble Phil. 3.20 ere long all sorrow shall cease 5. It may make us not fear death our bodys which suffer most gain by it and shall arise in glory fashioned like Christs glorious body 1 Thes 4.17 6. It may make us not too much mourn for our dead Friends they are but gone before and we in due time must follow 13 Q. What is meant by the life Everlasting in the Creed A. Luk. 16. Mat. 2● 34 41 46. I believe that there is an everlasting Life of bliss or misery to be expected by us and every of us hereafter shall be stated in one of them and this the Heathen apprehended 11 Q. Why is the state of the damned called a Life A. 1. B. Pearson on Creed p. 389. There shall be a vital union between Soul and body of them which shall never be dissolved 2. They shall live for ever in torment Q. Why then is this state called a death A. 1. Death is more eligible then it 2. they are deprived of Gods gracious and glorious presence which is the life of the Soul 1 Tim. 5.6 without which Souls in Scripture are said to be dead 3. They are ever in killing Torments Q. Is it just that eternal torments should be inflicted on sinners A. 1. Yes They sinned their Eternity on Earth yea will continue sinning for ever in Hell and while they sin God may justly punish 2. They sinned against an infinite God and therefore deserve an infinite punishment Crimes are much agravated from the object against whom they are as a word against the King may by the Law of the Land deserve death which probably might be no great offence against a private man and consequently sin against God may reasonably deserve Eternal death He being an Eternal King 3. They refused an Eternal life offered them on Earth and therefore it is but just they should be punished to Eternity Q. How is this Eternal life ours A. 1. By Gods free gift thro Christ Rom. 1 Pet. 1.9 6.23 2. By our Faith laying hold on Christ and living to him Q. Is it not given as a reward to our merits as well as Hell is a punishment of our sins A. 1. No for we owe our obedience to God as Creatures 1 Cor. 6.19 Rom. 6.23 Isa 64.6 Phil. 2.13 2. If we perform it not we are by his law condemned as sinners 3. We cannot perform duties so perfectly as we ought and if we did yet we should but do our duty and could not merit Luke 17.18 4. nothing is our own properly but sin which deserves