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A catechisme to be learned for the training up of youth and others, in the grounds of Christian religion.
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A CATECHISME To be Learned for the Training up of YOUTH And Others In the Grounds of Christian RELIGION LONDON Printed by Robert Ibbitson MDCLIII A Catechisme to be learnt for the training up of Youth and others in the Grounds of RELIGION Question WHat Religion are you of Answer Christian Religion Question How is that distinguished from others Answer I received the sign of it in a Act. 2. 38 39. Baptisme when I had clean b Ezek. 36. 24 25. 1 Cor. 7. 14. water sprinkled upon me wherby I was distinguished from the Heathen and made visibly holy by the professed Faith of my Parents Question What doth Baptisme teach you Answer It teacheth me three things First That I should repent and forsake the devill and all his works the pomps and vanities of this wicked world and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh Matth. 3. 11. Mark 1. 4. Secondly That I should beleeve all things written in the Word of God Mark 16. 16. And Thirdly that I should keep Gods holy will and Commandments walk in the same all the days of my life Rom. 6. 4. Question Doest thou not think that thou art bound to beleeve and to do what thou art thus taught by Baptisme Answer Yes Verily and by Gods helpe so I will and I heartily thank our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this state of salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour And I pray God to give me his grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Heb. 6. 1 2. Question Rehearse the Articles of thy Beleef Answer I a John 14. 1. beleeve in God the b Gal. 1. 1. Father c Gen. 35. 11. Almighty d Gen. 1. 1. maker of Heaven and Earth And e Eph. 1. 17. in Jesus Christ f Joh. 3. 16. his onely Son our Lord g Mat. 1. 20. which was conceived by the holy Ghost h Matth. 1. 23. born of the Virgin Mary i Matth. 27. suffered under Pontius Pilate Was crucified dead and buried k Matth. 28. The third day he rose again from the dead l Act. 1. Hee ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shal come to judge the quicke and the dead m John 14. 26. I beleeve in the holy Ghost n Matth. 28. 19. The holy Catholick Church o 1 Cor. 14. 33. The communion of Saints p Isa 43. 25. The forgivenesse of sins q 1 Cor. 15. the resurrection of the body r Matth. 19. 29. and the life everlasting Amen Question What doest thou cheifly learn in the Articles of thy Beleefe Answer First I learn to beleeve in God the Father who hath made me and all the world Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed me and all mankind that beleeve Thirdly In God the holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the Elect people of God Question You said that Baptisme doth teach you that you should keep Gods Commandments tel me how many there be Answer Ten. Question Which be they Answer THe same which God spake in the xx chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage 1. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me 2. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the Water under the earth Thou shalt not bow downe to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandements 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain For the Lord wil not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vain 4. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day Six dayes shalt thou labor and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy son and thy daughter thy man-servant and thy maid-servant thy cattle and the stranger that is within thy gates For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day Wherfore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it 5. Honor thy Father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee 6. Thou shalt do no murther 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery 8. Thou shalt not steal 9. Thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy Neighbour 10. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours wife nor his servant nor his maid nor his oxe nor his asse nor any thing that is his Question What doest thou cheifly learne by these Commandements Answer I learn two things my duty towards God my duty towards my neighbor Question What is thy duty towards God Answer My duty towards God is a Joh. 14. 1. to beleeve in him b Levit. 25. 15. to fear him and c Deut. 6. 5. to love him with all my heart with all my minde with all my soule and with all my strength to d Exo. 34. 14. worship him to e 1 Thes 2. 13. give him thanks to f Psal 115. 9. put my whole trust in him to g Psal 105. 1. call upon him to honor his holy Name and his Word and to h 2 Tim. 1. 3. serve him truly all the daies of my life Question What is thy duty towards thy neighbor Answer My duty to my neighbor is a Matth. 19. 19. Rom. 13. to love him as my selfe and b Luk. 6. 31. to doe unto all men as I would they should doe unto me to c Matth. 15. 4 5 6. love honor and succour my Father and Mother To d Rom. 13. 1. submit my selfe to them that have authority over me e Heb. 13. 17. To obey spirituall Pastors and Teachers f Luk. 14. To order my self lowly and reverendly to all my betters g Psa 101. 7. To hurt no body by word or deed h Psa 101. 6. To be true and just in all my dealings i Psa 101. 4. To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart k Psa 101. 7. To keep my hands from picking and stealing l Psa 39. 1. my tongue from evil speaking m Psa 101. 7. lying and n Psal 101. 5. slandering To keep my body in o Gal. 2. 3. 5. temperance p 1 Pet. 4. 7. sobernesse and q Psal 101. 3. chastity r Rom. 13. 9. not to covet nor desire other mens goods Å¿ 1 Cor. 7. 20. but to learn and
labor truly to get my own living and t to do my duty in that state of life unto the which it shall please God to call me Question My good friend know this that thou art not able to doe these things of thy selfe nor to walke in the Commandements of God and to serve him without his special grace which thou must learn at all times to cal for by diligent prayer Let me heare therefore if thou canst say the Lords Prayer Answer Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen Question What desirest thou of God in this Prayer Answer I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father who is the giver of all goodness to send his grace unto me and to all people that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to doe And I pray unto God that he will send us all things that be needfull both for our souls and bodies and that he will be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins and that it wil please him to save us and defend us from all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he wil keep us from all sin and wickednesse and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this I trust he wil doe of his mercy and goodnesse through our Lord Jesus Christ And therefore I say Amen So be it Question How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church Answer Two only as generally necessary to salvation that is to say Baptisme and the Lords Supper 1 Cor. 10. 2 3. Question What meanest thou by this word Sacrament Answer I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spirituall grace given unto us ordained by Christ himselfe as a means whereby wee receive the same and as a pledge to assure us thereof Rom. 4. Question How many parts be there in a Sacrament Answer Two the outward visible sign and the inward spirituall grace Question What is the outward visible sign or form in baptism Answer a Ezek. 36. 25. Water wherein the person baptized is dipped or sprinkled with it b Matth. 28. 19. in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Question What is the inward and spiritual grace Answer A death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousnesse for being by nature born in sin and the children of wrath we are hereby made the children of grace Ro. 6. Question What is required of persons to bee baptized Answer a Matth. 3. 6 7 8. Repentance whereby they forsake sin and b Act. 16. 30 31 32 33. faith whereby they stedfastly beleeve the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Question Why then are Infants baptized when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them Answer a 1 Cor. 7. 14. Act. 2. 38 39. Gen. 17. The Parents being visible beleevers their Infant children have a right to water Baptisme by vertue of the promise to beleevers and their children under the Gospell as the male children had to Circumcision under the Law Question Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained Answer For the continuall remembrace of the Sacrifice of the death of Christ and the benefits which wee receive thereby 1 Cor. 11. 26. Question What is the outward part or sign of the Lords Supper Answer Bread and Wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received 1 Cor. 11. 23 24 25. Question What is the inward part or thing signified Answer The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received of the faithfull in the Lords Supper John 6. 55. Question What are the benefits whereof we are partakers thereby Answer The strengthening and refreshing of our soules to eternal life by the body and blood of Christ as our bodies are to a temporal life by the bread wine John 6. 56 57. 58. Question What is required of them that come to the Lords Supper Answer a 1 Cor. 11. 28. To examine themselves whether they repent them truely of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life have a lively Faith in Gods mercy through Christ with a thankfull remembrance of his death and be in charity with all men b 1 Joh. 1. 3. 1 Cor. 14. 33. And to have fellowship with the Saints in Church Communion FINIS