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A18053 Winter-evenings communication with young novices in religion. Or Questions and answers about certaine chiefe grounds of Christian religion wherein every answer, rightly understood, hath the force of an oracle of God. By Iohn Carter, preacher of Gods Word. Carter, John, 1554-1635. 1628 (1628) STC 4696; ESTC S116222 12,994 42

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Pray continually In all things give thankes 1. Thess 5. 17 18. Q. In all things small or great prosperous or adverse But what reason is there for that A. This is the will of God in Christ Iesus towards you 1. Thess 5. 18. Q. What other reason is there A. He that offereth praise shall glorifie me saith the Lord Psal 50. 23. Q. VVhat set forme of praier hath Christ left unto us to pray and to frame our praiers by A. After this manner pray ye or when you pray say Our Father which art in heaven c. Matth. 6. 9. Luk. 11. 2. Q. Of this most holy praier I have briefly set downe my minde else where Sacraments ARe not Baptisme and the Lords Supper worthy meanes also to uphold our weake faith and to further our zeale towards God and charity one towards another A. Yes For these Sacraments are seales of the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 4. 11. Q. They are indeed seales for confirmation of our most holy faith which even our father Abraham himselfe had need of But are they not in like manner seales for confirmation of Christian unity and amity A. Yes By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body and have been all made to drinke into one spirit 1. Cor. 12. 13. Q. This is a marvellous mystery by one spirit to be all incorporate in our Baptisme into me mysticall body of Christ which is his holy Catholick Church and to be all made to drinke in the Lords Supper into one Spirit by partaking the mysticall Cup or quickning blood of Christ Iesus truely exhibited to all the faithfull therein What doth this blessed Vnion and Communion with our Head Christ and with his holy Body the Church necessarily binde us unto A. To an endeavour of keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Ephes 4. 3. Q. When is that bond of peace kept undefiled A. When there be no dissentions among us but we be knit together in one minde and in one judgement 1. Cor. 1. 10. Q. What is Baptisme A. The washing of the new birth Tit. 3. 5. Q. Wherein consisteth this washing of the new birth A. Not in putting away the filth of the flesh but in the renewing of the holy Ghost 1. Pet. 3. 21. Tit. 3. 5. Q. What is the manner and meanes of this renewing of us who are so wholly polluted and uncleane by nature A. We are washed we are sanctified we are justified in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ and by the Spirit of God 1. Cor. 6. 11. Q. We are washed in Baptisme in token that we are sanctified and justified by the merit of Christ in whose Name we are baptised and by the efficacie of Gods Spirit given unto us therein But why are we baptised in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost A. In token of the Covenant betwixt God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost and us Gen. 17. 11. Q. As Circumcision was so Baptisme is a signe of the Covenant between God and his people What is that Covenant on Gods part A. That he will be our God and the God of our seed Gen. 17. 11. Q. What on our part A. We passe into the Covenant of God to be his people and so to observe all things whatsoever Christ hath commanded us Deut. 29. 12. Mat. 28. 20. Q. Is not this to make three Gods A. No These three the Father the Word and the holy Ghost are one 1. Ioh. 5. 7. Q. They are one in substance and consent yet three Persons or distinct manners of being in the Godhead What is proper to the person of the Father A. To be called one God and the onely true God of whom are all things 1. Cor. 8. 6. Ioh. 17. 3. Q. The Godhead is commonly ascribed to the Father because in him is the beginning of it who hath not onely his essence as God but his personall being as Father of himselfe he is also called the onely true God not to exclude the Sonne and the holy Ghost who are of the same substance and glory with him but all idols and creatures onely What is proper to the person of the Sonne A. He is the onely begotten of the Father the power of God and the wisdome of God by whom are all things Ioh. 1. 14. 1. Cor. 1. 24. and 8. 6. Q. What is proper to the person of the holy Ghost A. He proceedeth and is sent of the Father and the Sonne from whom he worketh all in all things Ioh. 14. 26. and 15. 26. 1. Cor. 12. 11. Q. Set downe some few texts of holy Scriptures prooving this most high and incomprehensible mysterie the Trinity in Vnity and the Vnity in Trinity A. Matth. 3. 16. 17. and 28. 19. 1. Cor. 13. 13. Ephes 2. 18. 1. Ioh. 5. 7. Revel 1. 4. 5. Let him that readeth understand c. Q. What is the Lords Supper A. The Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ 1. Cor. 10. 16. Q. What is the bread which is solemnely blessed and broken A. The body of Christ broken for us 1. Cor. 11. 24. Q. And what is the Cup of blessing which we blesse A. The blood of Christ or the New Testament in his blood Matth. 26. 28. 1. Cor. 11. 25. Q. Doth not this make for Popish transubstantiation A. Nothing at all It is the Spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteh nothing Ioh. 6. 63. Q. It is most true that the spirit or spirituall receiving of the flesh and blood of Christ crucified for us by faith in him giveth life to the receiver the flesh or bodily receiving without that profiteth nothing But why are we to eate this Bread and drinke this Cup A. Doe this in remembrance of me saith our blessed Saviour twice over 1. Cor. 11. 24. 25. Q. To what end are we so solemnely to be put in remembrance of him in this holy action A. That so often as we eate this bread and drink this cup we may shew the Lords death till he come 1. Cor. 11. 26. Q. His most bitter and meritorious death with the sweet fruits of it are upon this occasion to be declared at all hands both publickly and privately with the greatest alacrity joy thankefulnesse and zeal that possibly can be But how are we to prepare and addresse our selves to this holy banquet A. Let every man examine himselfe and so let him eat of this bread and drinke of this cup 1. Cor 11. 28. Q. What is the danger of the neglect hereof A. To be guilty of the body and blood of Christ 1. Cor. 11. 27. Q. No marvell since abuse offered to the Sacrament which is an holy instrument seale and image of the King of Kings even by divine institution must needs redound to the Lord himselfe They must needs therefore eat and drinke their owne damnation that doe so requite the Lord for this inestimable mercy But whereof must we chiefly examine our selves A. Whether we 〈◊〉 in the faith whether Christ be in us or ●● 2. Cor. 13. ● Q Whereby will it appeare that we be of sound religion and have saving faith A. Saving faith purifieth the heart Act. 15. 9. Q. How else A. It worketh also by charity Gal. 5. 6. Q. How else A. It maketh us as new borne babes desire the sincere milke of the Word that we may grow thereby 1. Pet. 2. 2. Q. Whereby shall we know that Christ is in us A. Hereby we know that Christ abideth in us even by the Spirit that he hath given unto us 1. Ioh. 3. 24 Q. And how may the Spirit of God be discerned in us A. By his fruits Love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance Gal. 5. 22 23. Q. How may we be assured that the fruits of the Spirit are in us in truth A. If we live in the Spirit let us walke in the Spirit Gal. 5. 25. Q When by living and walking in the Spirit that is by the habite or customary practise of his fruits with a holy delight therein we have found that Christ abideth in us What remaineth further to be examined A. How we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ 2. Pet. ● 18. Q. A very necessary point to be examined of us all ●o● Christ 〈◊〉 not to grow is to goe downe the 〈…〉 But when is this our solemne and serious examination of our selves throughly performed A. When having considered our waies we turne our feet unto Gods testimonies Psal 119. 59. Question VVHat is constantly to be done of him that desireth a quiet life and to see good daies in this world A. Keep thy tongue from evill and thy lips from speaking guile Depart from evill and doe good seek peace and pursue it Psal 34. 13. 14. Q. And what is to be done to escape the most desperate dangers that can befall men here or hereafter A. Watch you saith Christ and pray continually that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and to stand before the Sonne of man Luk. 21. 36. ACTS 24. 15. I have hope towards God that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust 16. And herein I exercise my selfe to have alwaies a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men FINIS
may without the word be won by our conversation 1. Pet. 3. 1. 2. Q. Be won to the love and admiration of the word and so be prepared to their conversion Is there any other use A. So is the will of God that by well-doing we may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1. Pet. 2. 15. Q. What speciall motive is there to stirre us up unto forwardnesse and fervency in the practise of good workes A. Christ gave himselfe for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity Tit. 2. 14. Q. And what more A. And purifie to himselfe a peculiar people zealous of good workes ibid. Q. What is the danger of not being zealous of good workes A. If we be luke-warme and neither cold nor hot the Lord will spew us out of his mouth Rev. 3. 16. Of the Law or ten Commandements Question IN the performance of good workes what guid are we to follow Will not the light of reason the precepts and examples of men accounted wise civill and honest serve the turne A. What is written in the Law saith Christ how readest thou Luk. 10. 26. Q. So indeed he answered a Lawyer who would needs know of him what he should doe And againe Mat. 19. 17. to a young man enquiring of him what good thing he should doe his answer was Keep the Commandements Teaching us plainely that a good worke is some good thing done in obedience to the Law or Commandements Which are those Commandements A. The ten Commandements which the Lord spake in the mount out of the mids of the fire Deut. 10. 4. Q. Why out of the mids of the fire and with thunders and lightnings c. A. That his feare may be before us that we sinne not Exod. 20. 20. Q. How came they to be written A. The Lord delivered them to Moses in two tables of stone written with his owne finger Deut. 9 10. Q. They were written by the immediate power of God What is the summe of the first Table or foure first Commandements A. The Lord our God is one Lord and Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soule and with all thy minde and with all thy strength Mar. 12. 29. 30. Q. What is the summe of the second Table or six last Commandements A. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe Mark 1● 31. Q. Give me in like manner the short summe of every severall Commandement What is it of the first Thou shalt have none other Gods before mee A. Know God serve him with a perfect heart and willing minde cleave to him 1. Chron. 28. 9. Deut. 10. 20. Q. And they that know thy Name will trust in thee saith David Psal 9. 10. What of the second Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any graven image A. In Divine worship observe to doe whatsoever God commandeth adde nothing there-to nor diminish ought there-from Deut. 12. 30. 31. 32. Q. What of the third Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord c. A. Thou shalt sweare the Lord liveth in truth in judgement and in righteousnesse and every way else knowing God glorifie him as God Ier. 4. 2. Rom. 1. 21. Q. What of the fourth Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy A. Consecrate the Sabbath as glorious to the Lord and honour him not doing thine owne waies nor seeking thine owne pleasure nor speaking thine own words Esa 58. 13. Q. What of the fifth Honour thy father and thy mother A. Render to all their dues giving honour to every one as the Lord hath distributed to them as the Lord hath called Rom. 13. 7. 1. Cor. 7. 17. Q. Render to all their dues both to superiours as parents magistrates ministers aged c. and to inferiours according to their rank and the trust and charge committed to us What of the sixth Commandement Thou shalt not kill A. Put on the bowels of mercy kindenesse humblenesse of minde meeknesse long-suffering forbearing and forgiving one another Col. 3. 12. Q. What of the seventh Commandement Thou shalt not commit adultery A. Possesse thy vessell in holinesse and honour and not in lusts of concupiscence 1. Thes 4. 4. Q. What of the eighth Thou shalt not steale A. Let no man goe beyond or defraud his brother in any matter for God is an avenger of all such 1. Thess 4. 6. Q. What of the ninth Thou shalt not beare false witnesse A. Speake the truth in or from the heart Psal 15. 2. Q What of the tenth Thou shalt not covet A. In whatsoever state thou art therewith be thou content Phil. 4. 11. Q. Can you fulfill all these commandements A. No In many things we offend all Iam. 3. 2. Q. Why can you not fulfill them A. Because the Law is spirituall and I am carnall sold under sinne Rom. 7. 14. Q. What use is there then of the Law A. By the Law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3. 20. Q. To what end A. That it might be our School-master to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith Gal. 3. 24. Q. When the Law hath humbled us and brought us to Christ what use hath it then A. To be a lampe unto our feet and a light unto our paths Psal 119. 105. Of Praier Question BEsides the continuall exercise of the holy Scriptures and practise of good workes what speciall meanes have we to uphold our weak faith and to enflame our cold hearts unto more fervent charity and zeale A. Aske and it shall be given you seek and ye shall finde knock and it shall be opened unto you Mat. 7. 7. Q. What encouragement have we thereunto A For every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh c. Vers 8. Q. Not onely the Apostles and the Saints that excell in vertue but every penitent petitioner none excepted What other encouragment have we A. Parents that are evill give good gifts unto their children how much more shall our heavenly Father give good gifts yea even the holy Ghost to us that desire him Mat. 7. 11. Luk. 11. 13. Q. How is praier limited A. If we aske any thing according to his will he heareth us 1. Ioh. 5. 14. Q. In whose name or mediation are we to aske A. Whatsoever you shall aske the Father in my Name saith Christ he will give it you Ioh. 16. 23. Q. What things are absolutely necessary in praier to make it avaleable A. To abide in Christ and to have his words abiding in us Ioh. 15. 7. Q. What else A. To aske in faith and waver not Iam. 1. 6. Q. What else A. To forgive if any offence be or else our heavenly Father will not forgive us Mark 11. 25. 26. Q. What else A. To be most humble with the poore Publicane lest we take the repulse with the proud Pharisee Luk. 18. 9. Q. What else A. To be fervent in praier and not faint Iam. 5. 16. Luk. 18. 1. Q. What say you of thankesgiving to God A.