and solemn worship of God with the rest of his Church and people 2. I am forbidden on this day Exod. 31.14 34.21 Jer. 17 21 c. Deut. 5 14. Mat. 12.10 11 12 13. either my self to do or suffer any I have command over to do any servile work but what is of necessity or charity that so I may the better attend the service of God both publick and private And the reason is given Gen. 2.2 3. Exod. 31.17 Heb. 4.4 because the Lord after six daies labour in the work of the Creation rested on the seventh called therefore the Sabbath which signifies rest the commemoration whereof we Christians observe on the first day of the week which is Sunday Mat. 28.1 Ioh. 20.19 Rev. 1.10 because our blessed Lord arose on that day from death to life and perfected thereby the great work of our Redemption Quest What is the fifth Commandement Answ Honour thy father and thy mother that thy daies may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Quest What is herein commanded and what forbidden Answ 1. I am commanded in general to give honour to whom honour is due and to have respect to all my superiors Rom. 13.7 Lev. 19.32 whether in age quality or condition more particularly Eccles 10.20 Prov. 11.29 30.17 Ephes 6.1 Col. 3.20 Tit. 3.1 Prov. 24.21 Mat. 22.17 c 1 Pet. 2.13 14 15 16 17 18. Heb. 13.17 to reverence and obey my natural Parents in all their just and lawful domestick commands to obey Kings and all that are in authority paying them tribute custome and honour to obey also all civil Masters and all my spiritual Governour Pastors and Teachers according to their several respective interests and authority over me 2. I am herein forbidden all disrespectfulness to my superiors Eccles 10.20 Prov. 30.17 Rom. 13.2 3. 1 Pet. 2.18 Cos 3.20 c. all disobedience to the commands and contempt of the persons of my Parents and of all higher powers all murmurings and repinings against such as are in authority over me whether Civil or Ecclesiastical And this is the first Commandement with promise Ephes 6 2. 1 Tim. 2.2 For that all peace and security depends upon this that every one do his duty in all his relations unto others Quest What is the sixth Commandement Answ Thou shalt do no murther Quest What is commanded and forbidden herein Answ 1. Mat. 22.39 Ephes 5.29 Gen. 9.5 Rom. 12.18 Heb. 12.14 Rom. 13 9 10. 1 Pet. 1.22 1 Joh. 3.11 4.7 8. Mat. 5.43 44. Luk. 6.32 c. I am herein commanded to use all means for the preservation both of my own life and the lives of others also And to this end to live peaceably and charitably and to love all men even my very enemies 2. Gen. 9.6 Psal 55.23 Ephes 9.31 Col. 3.8 Lev. 19.17 Rom. 13.13 1 Thess 5.15 1 Pet. 3.9 Mat. 5.21 22. I am forbidden not only to avoid all manner of murder and bloudshed whether directly or indirectly but also all anger wrath hatred variance strife contention revenge and reviling of others though we be provok'd thereunto Quest What is the seventh Commandement Answ Thou shalt not commit adultery Quest What is commanded and what forbidden herein Answ 1. 1 Cor. 6.13 c 1 Thess 4.3 4 5. 5.6 8. 1 Pet. 1.13 4.7 I am herein commanded to be chaste sober and temperate that both my soul and body may be preserved the pure spotless and immaculate members of Christ and temples of the Holy Ghost 2. I am forbidden adultery Deut. 5.18 1 Cor. 2.10.8 Gal. 5.19 Ephes 5.3 Col. 3.5 2 Cor. 7.1 Mar. 5.27 28. Gal. 5.24 Rom. 13.13 Luk. 21.34 1 Cor. 5.9 11 1 Pet. 3.2 3. 4.3 Job 31. 1. Isa 3.16 c. 2 Pet. 2.14 Col. 3.8 Ephes 5.4 fornication and all kinde of corporal uncleanness which is not conjugal together with all kinde of unclean thoughts and desires words and behaviour and all provocations thereunto viz. all riot and excess surfetting gluttony and drunkenness all wanton and loose company light attire wandring eyes and filthy communication Quest What is the eighth Commandement Answ Thou shalt not steal Quest What is commanded and what forbidden you herein Answ 1. Isa 56.1 33.15 Psal 15.2 Prov. 3.3 vers 27 28. Psal 82.3 Ecclus 4.1 34.21 22. Mat. 5.42 Levit. 6.4 5. 24.21 Rom. 13.7 Luk. 19.8 Dan. 4.27 I am commanded to be just and upright in all my dealings that so no man may by me be depriv'd of what rightly belongs unto him and to my power I am commanded to be charitable also that the poor be not depriv'd of their proper livelihood and subsistence which is my superfluity And if in case of any wrong done by me I am hereby enjoyned to make restitution to the party wronged by me or if that cannot be done to give it to the poor 2. Lev. 25.14 17. Ezek. 22.12 Lev. 19.11 13. 1 Thess 4.6 Luk. 6.30 Rom 13.8 Tob. 4.7 8 9. I am forbidden all oppression and extortion stealth cousenage circumvention denial of an almes to the poor and in a word all waies and means whereby either publickly or privately by force or by fraud I may acquire or detain from any what either by the rule of righteousness or charity belongs unto them Quest What is the ninth Commandement Answ Thou shalt not bear salse witnese against thy neighbour Quest What is herein commanded and forbidden you Answ 1. Psal 15.2 Luk. 8.16 Ephes 4.25 Prov. 22.1 Eccles 7.1 Rom. 13.9 10. Jam. 3.9 10. Col. 4.6 I am commanded in general to give testimony to the truth upon all occasions and particularly to preserve and advance the good-name and esteem of my neighbour and to speak well of all men as far as in truth and modesty and without flattery I may 2. I am forbidden all false and evil speaking lying and slandering Lev. 19.11 16. Tit. 3.2 Jam. 4.11 Rev. 22.15 Prov. 10.18 Psal 110.5 1 Pet. 3.9 10. Mat. 7.1 c. Prov. 11.13 18.8 Ecclus. 19.6 7 c. 21.25 26. 20.25 Jam. 1.19 railing and reviling rash censuring and condemning others And to this end I am forbidden all tale-bearing and much medling and talking of other mens lives and manners wherein by some respective duty I am not concerned Quest What is the tenth Commandement Answ Thou shalt not cover thy neighbours house thou shalt not cobet thy neighboures wife nor his serbant nor his maid nor his oxe nor his asse nor any thing that is thy neighbours Quest What is commanded and what forbidden you herein Answ 1. Phil. 4.11 1 Tim. 6.6 8. Heb. 13.5 Ephes 4.28 2 Thes 3.8 c. Prov. 10.4 13.4 21.5 I am commanded to be content with my present state and condition what ever it be and in order hereunto to be diligent and industrious in the duties of my calling both for my own
The Apostles Creed and that 's the object of our faith and a little breviary or sum of the Gospel 2. All that we are bound to practise and obey is commanded in the 10. Commandements and that 's the Rule of our Life and the Epitome of the Law And these are the two parts of holy Religion Faith and Obedience Faith which the Gospel requires and Obedience which the Law exacts which Obedience is also called Charity or Love For Love is the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 12.10 therefore S. Paul reduceth all Religion to Faith and Love Gal. 5.6 2 Tim. 1.13 But because we can neither believe nor do any thing as we ought Phil. 2.13 without the Divine Grace assisting us thereunto therefore God hath ordained and commanded unto us the use of Prayer and of the Sacraments as the means and conveyances of his Graces into our souls to enable us both to believe in him and also to love and obey him in a manner holy and acceptable unto him 3. Therefore the next general head of Catechism is the Lords Prayer as the sum pattern and perfection of all Prayer and Devotion 4. And the fourth and last head is the Doctrine and use of the Sacraments the ground and reason whereof is briefly this All those things which concern the good of our souls are according to the nature of the soul spiritual divine and invisible and so are not easily conceived by our frail understandings which apprehend not but by organs of sense therefore God hath been pleased mercifully to ordain certain outward visible elements to signifie and seal his inward invisible graces unto our souls and to be pledges to assure us thereof and these are Baptism and the Lords Supper And upon these four generall heads all the severall questions in the Catechism besides do depend either 1. By way of introduction to put us in minde of our obligation hereunto by solemn vow and promise when we were Baptized Or 2. for the connecting and joyning of these generals together by a fit method for memories sake Or 3. for the more clear and full understanding of each of them as will further appear in the several Questions and Answers ensuing Open mine eyes O Lord and enlighten my minde that I may both see and rightly understand the wondrous things of thy Law and carefully frame my heart and all the actions of my life thereafter through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen THE PRINCIPLES OF Holy Christian Religion OR The Catechism of the Church of England paraphrased The Introduction 1. Question BEcause your Name is the badge and cognizance of that holy Christian Religion you profess therefore 't is first demanded of you What is your name Answer R. T. W. 2. Question And since together with your Name you received Christianity 't is therefore secondly askt Who gave you this name Answer * Such as scruple at the name and use of Godfathers may remember 1. That it is the universal practise of the Church against which no modest man will presume to argue since Church Customes are of sufficient authority with S. Paul 1 Cor. 11.6 That 2. it is not without example in holy Scripture Isa 8.2 3. Luk. 1. from vers 57. to 64. 3. That Infants cannot come themselves to Baptism nor therein answer for themselves 4. That their parents may die before they come to years or else may be seduc'd into Heresie or Schism 5. That hereby a spiritual kindred amongst Christian neighbours is contracted and Charity which is the life of Christianity is maintained and increased And for the name of Godfathers 't is more proper then that of Witnesses or Sureties if we consider either 1. Their office which is both to offer up unto God the party baptized and devote him to his service and also to profess Repentance Faith and Obedience unto God in their names Or 2. The benefit they receive by Baptism which is to be made the children of God in which respect chiefly their sureties are called Godfathers My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a Christian and therefore it is called my Christian name 3. Question What happiness or benefit is it unto you to be baptiz'd and become Christian Answer I am thereby made 1. A member of Christ 2. A childe of God 3. An heir of the Kingdome of heaven or more fully thus Whereas I was born in sin Psal 51.5 Ephes 2.3 Rom. 5.12 Joh. 3.5 1 Cor. 12.3 Rom. 8.7 Gal. 4.7 Act. 22.16 and am by nature the childe of wrath and heir of Death and Hell by being born again of water and of the Holy Ghost in Baptism I am not only 1. ingraffed into Christ's Mystical body the Church but am also 2. reconciled unto God through Christ and made his childe by Adoption and Grace and not only a childe but also 3. an Heir even an Heir of God and joynt-heir with Christ of the Kingdome of heaven 4. Quest Are these great Blessings confer'd upon you through Baptism absolutely or upon condition only Answ Upon condition Mark 16.16 Act. 8.37 2.38 that I do observe and keep that promise and vow which was made in my name being baptized 5. Quest What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then promise and vow for you Answ They did promise and how three things in my name 1 That I should forsake the Devil and all his works Luk. 1.74 75. the pomps and banities of this wicked world and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh 2 That I should believe all the Articles of the Christian faith 3 That I should keep Gods holy will and commandements and walk in the same all the days of my life 6. Quest Doest not thou think that thou art bound both to believe and do what they have promised for thee Answ Yes verily I do beleeve it to be my bounden duty and by Gods help I will perform the same And I heartily thank our heavenly Father Act. 3.19 who through Baptism hath called me to this state of salvation through Iesus Christ our Saviour And I pray God to give me his grace that I may continue in the same to my lives end carefully observing this vow of my Baptism which is the general duty of every Christian 7. Quest What is the meaning of the first part of your Christian duty or vow in Baptism Answ By promising to forsake the Devil and all c. I do oblige my self to resist Eph. 6.10 c. 1 Tim. 1.18 19. 6.12 Joh. 8.34 and manfully to fight under the banner of Christ against all temptations whether arising from the Devil the world or the flesh and not suffer my self to be vanquished by them and be led captive to the service of sin And this is that which is also call'd Repentance from dead works Heb. 6.1 Act. 26.18 Eph. 4.22 c. 1 Pet. 2.1 c. Heb. 12.1 2. where 't is remembred as the first of the principles of the
support and the relief of others 2. Rom. 7.7 1 Joh. 2.16 Mat. 15.19 Jam. 1.15 I am herein forbidden not only not to wrong my neighbour in body goods or good name but not so much also as to covet or desire it neither in relation to my profit to covet my neighbours house oxe asse neither in relation to my pleasure to cover his wife maid neither yet in relation either to profit or pleasure to covet any thing that is his Quest What doest thou chiefly learn by these Commandements Answ I learn two things to be chiefly and summarily enjoyned and commanded me namely 1. My duty towards God 2. My duty towards my neighbour Mar. 22 37 38 39 40. Exod. 31.18 32.15 16. which divides these ten Commandements into two Tables the former consisting of the four first and the latter of the six last Commandements Quest What are the particulars of your duty towards God in the four first Commandements enjoyned Answ The sum of all in general is Deu 30.16 20. Mat. 22.37 Luk. 10.27 to love the Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul with all my minde and with all my strength More particularly Command 1 * To beliebe in him to fear him to put my whole trust in him to call upon him by servent and frequent prayers to give him thanks for his mercies and daily to praise and magnifie his name Command 2 * To worship him and that not only with all inward devotion of soul but also with all outward reverence and low prostration of body Command 3 * To honour his holy Name and hie Word and what ever hath his holy name and mark imprinted thereon Command 4 * To serve him truly all the daies of my life and also punctually to observe those daies that are consecrate to his publick and solemn worship Quest What are the particulars of your duty towards your neighbour in the six last Commandements enjoyned Answ The sum of all in general Rom. 13.9 Mat. 7.12 is to love my neighbour as my self and to express this love by doing unto all men as I would they should doe unto me More particularly Command 5 * To love honour and succour my father and mother to honour and obey the lawful Power of the land whether supreme or subordinate to submit my self to all my Governors Teachers spiritual pastours and Masters to order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters and affably courteously and kindly to all persons whatsoever Command 6 * To hurt no body by word nor deed to bear no malice nor hatred in my heart Command 7 * To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity Command 8 * To be true and just in all my dealings and to keep my hands from picking and stealing Command 9 * To avoid all evil speaking lying and slandering Command 10 * Not to covet or desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life whereunto it shall please God to call me Lord have mercy upon me and write all these thy Lawes in my heart I beseech thee and give me thy grace enabling me to express my obedience hereunto in all the actions of my life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen CHAP. III. Of the Lords Prayer Quest DOest thou think that thou art able to do all these things of thy self to walk in the Commandements of God and to serve him Answ I do most humbly confess that without Gods special Grace Isa 26.12 Joh. 15.5 Phil. 2.13 4.13 Psal 105.4 Mat. 7.7 11. Luk. 11.9 10 11 12. I cannot observe to do the least of Gods commandements I must therefore learn at all times to cal upon God by diligent prayer for the assistance of his divine grace Quest After what manner are you to pray unto God Answ After the same manner that Christ in his holy Gospel hath taught me saying Our Father which art in heaven hallowed c. Quest Of how many parts doth this prayer consist Answ Of three parts 1. The Preface 2. The Petitions 3. The Doxologie or conclusion Quest Rehearse the parts distinctly Answ 1. The Preface in these words Our Father which art in heaven 2. The Petitions are six in number The three first concern the glory and service of God viz. 1. Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come 3. Thy will be dome in earth as it is in heaven The three last concern our own wants and engagements viz. 4. Give us this day our daily bread 5. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgve them that trespass against us 6. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil 3. The Doxologie or conclusion in these words For thine is the Kingdome the power and the glory forever and ever Amen Quest What do you desire of God in this Prayer Answ I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father Preface who is the giver of all goodness and gives willingly because a father and plentifully because in heaven that he would be pleased to send his grace unto me and unto all people Petition 1 1. That we may worship him as we ought to do That his ever blessed name may be sanctified by me and by all men upon whom his holy Name is called Petit. 2 2. That we may serve him as becomes the faithful subjects of his kingdome submitting unto and walking after his most holy Lawes Petit. 3 That we may obey and do his will both readily sincerely and constantly here upon earth as 't is done by the blessed Angels and Saints in heaven Petit. 4 And I do further pray unto him that as our necessities are renewed every day so he would be pleased to send us day by day all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies Petit. 5 That he would be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins through Jesus Christ resolving for his sake and according to his command to forgive all others in what they do or shall offen â—â—nd trespass agninst me Petit. 6 That he would save and defend us from all dangers ghostly and bodily preserving us from the evil of sin by his Grace and delivering us from the evil of punishment by his Mercy and more particularly that he would deliver us from all the temptations of that grand enemy of our souls the Devil that so we may be delivered from the wrath of God and from everlasting death and damnation hereafter And this I trust he will do of his great mercy and goodness Conclusion being infinite in both as he is in glory power and dominion His Kingdome is over all His Power is infinite and His Glory is above the heavens and this from everlasting to everlasting And 't is the hearty desire of my soul that it should be so and therefore I say Amen that is So be it Quest Must you alwaies make use of this form when you pray unto God Answ
This is alway to be annext to my prayers Mat. 6.9 c. Luk. 11.3 either before or after for 't is both the Pattern according to which I am to pray Mat. 6.9 And the form also I am to use when I pray commanded Luk. 11.3 O Holy Jesu who hast taught me to pray unto God aright give me the heart with all religious carefulness and devotion of soul to observe thy directions and commands herein and daily to powre forth my soul unto God in that divine and heavenly inspired prayer which thou hast taught me And let my prayers be ever acceptable unto God through thy blessed mediation and intercession for me who art my only Advocate and Mediator blessed for ever Amen CHAP. IV. Of the Sacraments Quest WHat other means hath God ordained for the conveyance of his graces into our hearts Answ The use of Sacraments Quest How many Sacramente hath Christ ordained in his Church Answ Two only as generally necessary to salvation Exo. 31.13 15. Ephes 5.31 32. Act. 13.3 Mat. 28 19. 26.26 27 28. Rom. 6.3 Gal. 3.27 Col. 2.7 Joh. 6.53 54 55 56. There are other external representations of Gods mercies and rites of conveying the same but there are only two commanded as absolutely necessary to salvation that is to say 1. Baptism 2. And the Supper of the Lord By Baptism we are admitted members of Christs Church by the Lords Supper we are confirmed and grow up to be perfect men in Christ therefore children are admitted to the Sacrament of Baptism but not to the Lords Supper till they be grown up to ripeness of years Quest What meanest thou by this word Sacrament Answ I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward spiritual grace given and ordained by Christ himself as a means whereby we receive the same and a pledge to assure us thereof Or thus Because the graces and mercies of God in Christ are inward and invisible 1 Pet. 3.21 1 Cor. 11.26 therefore Christ complying with the weakness of our souls which understand not but by bodily organs hath ordained in his Church certain Rites called Sacraments which are not only visible and apparent signs of his invisible and hidden Graces but also the means whereby we are made partakers of his Graces and pledges to assure us of them Quest How many parts be there in a Sacrament Answ Two 1. The outward visible sign or thing signifying 2. The inward invisible Grace or thing signified Quest What is the outward visible sign or form in Baptism Answ That which we see with our eyes in Baptism is Water Act. 10.47 wherein the person baptized is dipped or sprinkled with it And the form of words to be used when the person is so washed is In the Name of the Father Mat. 28.19 of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Quest What is the inward or spiritual Grace thereby represented Answ The washing of the soul from sin 1 Cor. 6.11 Ephes 5.26 Act. 22.16 Rom. 6.3 4. Phil. 3.10 1 Joh. 3.14 Joh. 3.5 Psal 51.5 Ephes 2.3 Joh. 1.12 and sanctification to the sacred service of God which is called in holy Scripture A death unto sin and a new virth unto righteousness for being by nature born in sin and the children of wrath we are hereby made the children of grace Quest What is required of persons to be baptized Answ Two things Act. 2.38 8.36 37. 1. Repentance whereby they forsake sin and consequently the service of the world the flesh and the Devil tempting unto sin 2. Faith whereby they stedfastly believe the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Quest Why then are children baptized when by reason of their tender age they can neither believe nor repent Answer They have Faith and Repentance in the possibility Mar. 10.14 though not in the actuall being thereof and they do perform these duties though not by themselves yet by their sureties who promise and vow both Faith and Repentance in their names 2 Pet. 2.20 which when they come to age themselves are bound to perform otherwise they forfeit the benefits of their Baptism Quest Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained Answ For two reasons chiefly 1. For a Sign 2. For a Seal 1. For a Sign to signifie and represent unto us the sacrifice of Christs death for the sins of the world Luk. 22.19 Joh. 6.56 whereof we ought to have the continual remembrance 2. For a Seal to convey or pledge to assure us of the great benefits we receive by the death of Christ Quest Since in every Sacrament you say there are two parts the outward sign and the inward grace what is the outward part or sign of the Lords Supper Answ The outward elements in this Sacrament are Bread and Wine 1 Cor. 11.23 Luk. 22.19 which the Lord hath commanded to be administred and received saying Take eat drink ye all of this do this in remembrance of me Quest What is the inward part or thing signified by the Sacramental Bread and Wine Answ The body of Christ Joh. 6.51 broken upon the Crosse by the Bread and his bloud powred out by the Wine and as the Bread and Wine are truly taken and received corporally so verily and indeed is the body and bloud of Christ taken and received spiritually of every true faithful soul in the Lords Supper Joh. 6.56 63. 1 Cor. 10.16 if rightly administred Quest What are the benefits whereof we are made partakers by the right receiving of the Lords Supper Answ Our souls are thereby strengthned with divine grace Mat. 11.28 Rom. 8.32 Phil. 4.13 Ephes 1.7 8. 1 Pet. 2.3 Ephes 5.30 Joh. 6.55 56. Psal 104.15 and refreshed with the sense of Gods mercy by the vertue of Christs body and bloud spiritually received even as our bodies are strengthened and refreshed in the use of common and material bread and wine Quest What is required of them that come to the Lords Supper that they may be made partakers of the benefits thereof Answ To examine themselves 1. 1 Cor. 11.28 2 Cor. 6.14 Psal 24.4 26.6 Whether they repent them truly of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life 2. Whether they have a lively faith in the mercies of God through Christ 2 Cor. 7.1 Heb. 6.4 5 6. Joh. 3.15 16. 6.25 7.38 Jam. 2.14 17 20 24 26. 1 Cor. 11.24 25. 2 Pet. 1.15 Psal 53.2 3. Mat. 5.23 24. 1 Tim. 6.18 Heb. 13.16 Mat. 6.14 15. Ephes 4.32 Col. 3.13 now the life of faith is obedience or good-works for faith without works is dead 3. That they have a thankful and devout remembrance of Christs death 4. That they be in charity with all men which charity is exercised in giving and forgiving 1. Giving unto others what their necessities require and our abilities afford 2. Forgiving others in what they have any way provok'd or injur'd us O Holy Jesus who hast vouchsafed not only to redeem me unto God in thy bloud but also to ordain Sacraments whereby I may not only be engraffed into thee but also nourished by thy most precious body and bloud O fill my heart with true thankfulness unto thee for such unspeakable mercies and grant that in the wise and pious use hereof I may grow up into thee in all grace and godliness to the hopes of a full and immediate enjoyment of thee face to face in glory blessed Jesus Saviour and Redeemer Amen THE END Lately printed for R. Royston a Book in 4º Entituled A Discourse 1. Of the Holy Spirit of God his Impressions and workings on the Souls of Men. 2. Of Divine Revelation Mediate and Immediate 3. Of Error Heresie and Schism the Nature Kindes Causes Reasons and Dangers thereof with Directions for avoiding the same By R. Sherlook B.D. at Borwick-Hall in Lancashire