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A79564	The church catechism, analysed, explained, and improved The first part. Wherein, I. The text is set down whole, and entire. II. It is broken into questions, and answers in the very words of the catechism. III. The terms of it are explained, and such short questions and answers added, as are occasioned by it, and seem needful to the discovery of its true meaning, and use. At the end is added matter, and direction for all acts of devotion for morning and evening, mostly in the words of the catechism. The whole accomodated to the capacity, and use of them, that are yet to learn it, and recommend to the rich, to bestow among the poor.		1683 (1683)	Wing C3993A; ESTC R229600	26,096	48

Commandment 74 A. III. Com. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Q. What doth God forbid in the Third Commandment 75 A. In the Third Commandment God forbiddeth to take the Name of the Lord our God in vain Q. What is it to take the Name of God in vain 76 A. To take the Name of the Lord God in vain is to use his Name vainly rashly irreverently falsly or maliciously without just cause without a good end and without due reverence Q. What saith he to afrighten men from taking his Name thus in vain 77 A. To afrighten men from taking his Name in vain he saith For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain but will certainly punish him as a guilty Wretch Q. Which is the Fourth Commandment 78 A. IV. Com. Remember that thou kéep holy the sabbath-Sabbath-day Six days shalt thou labour 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 cattel 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 wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Q. What did God command the Children of Israel in the Fourth Commandment 79 A. In the Fourth Commandment God required the Children of Israel to remember to keep holy the sabbath-Sabbath-day Six days saith he thou shalt labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath the rest of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of work Q. Who were they that were to do no manner of work but to rest on the sabbath-Sabbath-day 80 A. Thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy man-servant and thy maid-servant and thy cattel and the stranger that is within thy gates Q. What Reason doth God give why he blessed hallowed and set apart the seventh day of the week for a day of holy rest 81 A. Because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day therefore and upon that account he blessed the seventh day and hallowed it making it an holy day of rest Q. Which day of the week did God then bless and hallow for a weekly Sabbath 82 A. God blessed the seventh day of the week which is our Saturday and hallowed it to be the weekly Sabbath Q. Why then do not we keep the seventh day of the week Saturday as an holy Sabbath 83 A. Because our Lord Jesus Christ did at his death abolish the seventh-Seventh-day Sabbath And his Apostles and Disciples directed by the Holy Ghost did make the first day of the week which is the Lord's day on which the Lord rose from the dead to be the day of Christians meeting for the Publick Worship of God Q. Which is the Fifth Commandment 84 A. V. Com. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thée Q. What doth God require in this Fifth Commandment 85 A. In the Fifth Commandment God requireth That we honour our Father and Mother Q. What saith he to encourage us to do so 86 A. That so thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Q. Which is the Sixth Commandment 87 A. VI. Com. is Thou shalt do no Murther Q. What doth God forbid in this his Sixth Commandment 88 A. In the Sixth Commandment God forbids To do ought that tends to take away any mans Life unjustly Q. Which is the Seventh Commandment 89 A. VII Com. is Thou shalt not commit Adultery Q. What doth God forbid in the Seventh Commandment 90 A. In the Seventh Commandment God forbiddeth us To be unchaste in our Thoughts Words and Deeds Q. Which is the Eighth Commandment 91 A. VIII Com. Thou shalt not steal Q. What doth God forbid in this Eighth Commandment 92 A. In the Eighth Commandment God forbiddeth To take away or keep from any man unjustly any good thing that belongs to him Q. Which is the Ninth Commandment 93 A. The IX Com. is Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour Q. What doth God forbid in the Ninth Commandment 94 A. In the Ninth Commandment God forbiddeth To slander our Neighbour and to speak or swear falsly of him Q. Which is the Tenth Commandment 95 A. X. Com. Thou shalt not cover thy Neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours wife nor his man-servant nor his maid nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is his Q. What doth God forbid in the Tenth Commandment 96 A. In the Tenth Commandment God forbiddeth To grudge our Neighbour any good thing that he justly enjoys and to covet or desire to have it from him §. VII The Sum of the Ten Commandments Q. What doest thou chiefly learn by these Commandments 97 A. By these Commandments I learn two things I. I learn my duty towards God II. I learn my ducy towards my Neighbour Q. Which of these Commandments teach you your duty towards God 98 A. The first four Commandments teach me my duty towards God Q. Which Commandments teach you your duty towards your Neighbour 99 A. The six last Commandments teach me my duty towards my Neighbour Q. What is your duty towards God 100 A. My duty towards God is 1. To believe in him 2. To fear him 3. To love him with all my heart with all my mind with all my soul and with all my strength 4. To worship him 5. To give him thanks 6. To put my whole trust in him 7. To call upon him 8. To honour his holy Name and his Word 9. And to serve him truly all the days of my life Q. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour 101 A. My duty towards my Neighbour is 1. To love him as I love my self 2. And to do to all men as I would they should do unto me 3. To love honour and succour my Father and Mother 4. To honour and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under Him 5. To submit my self to all my Governors Teachers spiritual Pastors and Masters 6. To order my self lowly and reverently to all my Betters 7. To hurt no body by word or deed 8. To be true and just in all my dealing 9. To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart 10. To keep my hands from picking and stealing 11. And to keep my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering 12. To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity 13. Not to cover nor desire other mens Goods 14. But to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life

unto which it shall please God to call me §. VIII Of the Lords Prayer Q. My good Child doest thou know whether thou art able of thy self to do these things to renounce the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the Flesh and to believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith and to walk in the Commandments of God and serve him without his special grace and help 102 A. I know this That I am not able to do these things of my self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special grace Q. What if you should not perform your Covenant made at Baptism and which you have engaged your self to perform 103 A. He that refuses or neglects to do as he is engaged to do at Baptism continues not in the estate of salvation to which God had called him by Jesus Christ our Saviour Nor is he a true Member of Christ nor a Child of God nor an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven Q. Must you not then learn at all times to call for God's special grace by diligent Prayer to enable you to keep your promise 104 A. Yes I must call for God's special grace by diligent Prayer at all times to enable me to do these things which I am not able to do of my self Q. What Prayer are you to use to call for God's special grace by 105 A. The Lord's Prayer is both a Form for us to use and a Pattern by which we ought to make all our other Prayers Q. Let me then hear you say the Lord's Prayer 106 A. Our Father which art in Heaven 1. Hallowed be thy Name 2. Thy Kingdom come 3. Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven 4. Give us this day our daily Bread 5. And forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us 6. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen Q. To whom do you pray in the Lord's Prayer 107 A. In the Lord's Prayer we pray only to God who is our Father which is in Heaven Q. Which is the first thing you pray for in the Lord's Prayer 108 A. The first thing that we pray in the Lord's Prayer is Hallowed be thy Name Q. What mean you when you say Hallowed be thy Name 109 A. When we say Hallowed be thy Name we pray that God may be honoured feared and worshipped and his holy Name had in all holy Reverence by us and all men Q. Which is the second thing we pray for in the Lord's Prayer 110 A. The second thing we pray in the Lord's Prayer is Thy Kingdom come Q. What do you mean when you say Thy Kingdom come 111 A. When we say Thy Kingdom come we pray that God may be owned and served by all as the great King of Heaven and Earth and his Laws kept and that we and all others may ever be his dutiful Subjects Q. Which is the third thing that we pray in the Lord's Prayer 112 A. The third thing which we pray in the Lord's Prayer is Thy Will be done in earth as it is in heaven Q. What do you pray for when you say Thy Will be done in earth as it is in heaven 113 A. When we say Thy Will be done in earth as it is in heaven we pray that God's Will may be obeyed and done here on earth by us and all men so as it is done in heaven by the holy Angels and Saints there Q. Which is the fourth thing we pray for in the Prayer of our Lord 114 A. The fourth thing that we pray in the Lord's Prayer is Give us this day our daily Bread Q. What do we beg of our heavenly Father in these words 115 A. When we say Give us this day our daily Bread we pray that God our heavenly Father would bestow upon us his Children every day all those things that are needful to the good either of our Souls or of our Bodies Q. What is the fifth thing that we are taught by our Lord to pray for in the Lord's Prayer 116 A. The fifth thing that we pray in the Lord's Prayer is And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us Q. What do we pray for when we say Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us 117 A. When we say Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us we pray that God our Father would mercifully forgive us all the sins and offences that we have committed against him even as we do forgive men all the offences they have committed against us Q. Which is the sixth thing that we are taught in this Prayer to beg of our heavenly Father 118 A. The sixth thing that we beg of God in this Prayer is Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Q. What mean we by these words 119 A. When we say Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil we pray that our heavenly Father would by his care and grace keep us from all those temptations whereby we may be brought to sin against him And that he would save us from the Devil the evil one who tempts us and from sin the evil act to which he tempts us and from punishment the evil misery which he would bring us to Q. What reason is there added at the end why we beg these six Petitions of God 120 A. The reason why we make this Prayer unto God is added in these words For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever That is because we know and acknowledge that in God alone is the Kingdom and Sovereignty over all all Power and glorious Wisdom and Goodness for ever and ever therefore we do thus pray unto him Q. Why say we Amen after this Prayer 121 A. After this Prayer we say Amen So be it O that it may so be and so it shall be to declare that we heartily desire and assuredly trust that our heavenly Father for Christ Jesus his sake will grant these things to them that thus pray unto him aright Q. What desirest thou of God in this Prayer 122 A. In this Prayer 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 1. That we may worship him 2. Serve him 3. And obey him as we ought to do And I pray unto God 4. That he will send us all things that be needful both for our Souls and Bodies And 5. That he will be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins And 6. That it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and kéep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this

sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of his death and be in charity with all men Q. You say That they that come to partake of the Lords Supper are required to examine themselves What must they examine themselves of 176 A. They must examine themselves of three things 1. Whether or no they truly repent of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life 2. Whether or no they have a lively Faith in Gods mercy through Christ together with a thankful remembrance of Christs death 3. Whether or no they be in Charity with all men Q. How may a man know whether he truly repent of his former sins 177 A. Then doth a man truly repent of his former sins when he not only sees owns and confesses all his sins nor only is grieved and sorry for them but also abhors and forsakes them and doth not willingly sin any more Q. How may it be known Whether a man do stedfastly purpose to lead a new life 178 A. Then doth a man stedfastly purpose to lead a new life when his purposes are so strong that nothing prevails with him to return to his former sins but he is brought over to lead a new holy and obedient life Q. How may a man know Whether he hath a lively Faith in God's mercy through Christ 179 A. Then hath a man a lively Faith in Gods mercy when he so believes the mercifulness of God as that he sincerely uses the means and performs the conditions of obtaining the mercies of God Q. Which are those mercies of God through Christ 180 A. The chief mercies that God gives through Christ are 1. Pardon of all our sins 2. The assistance and grace of his holy Spirit 3. Eternal glory and happiness in Heaven Q. Why are these called the mercies of God through Christ 181 A. They are said to be through Christ 1. Because the mercies of God are bestowed on us for the sake of Christ and of what he was did and suffered for us 2. Because they are conveyed to us by Christ 3. Because they are bestowed in Christ's way by those means and upon those conditions that Christ hath appointed Q. How may a man know whether he be in Charity with all men 182 A. He that is in Charity with all men neither designeth nor wisheth nor furthereth the harm of any man but designeth wisheth and furthereth the good of all men to his power Q. What if upon Examination we find that we truly repent have a lively Faith and are in Charity with all 183 A. If when we have examined our selves we find that we truly repent and have a lively Faith and are in Charity with all men then we may safely and will chearfully and comfortably partake of the Lord's Supper Q. What if upon strict Examination we find that we do not truly repent of our former sins have not a lively Faith or are not in Charity with all men 184 A. Such a man is in a most wretched condition unprepared to live well unprepared to dye well unfit to partake of the Lord 's Holy Supper which he must abstain from until he be duly qualified for it Q. What ought such an one to do 185 A. He ought immediately to make himself sensible of his miserable estate and to pray earnestly for the grace and aid of God's holy Spirit and to sincerely endeavour by all God's appointed means to bring his mind to a true Repentance to a lively Faith and to universal Charity and then to come and partake of the Lord's Supper for the strengthning and refreshing of his soul FINIS Daily Acts of DEVOTION REmember my good Child that as ever you would be happy as ever you would keep the love of God and men as ever you would save your Soul from Sin Satan and Hell you must not only know and own your duty to God and your Neighbour but you must actually do it all the days of your life §. I. MORNING DEVOTIONS THerefore when thou first awakest in the morning look up to Heaven and say I thank thee O Lord my heavenly Father that by thy great mercy thou hast defended me from all the perils and dangers of this Night through thy onely Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen After sufficient sleep immediately quit thy Bed and give no way to sloth nor occasion to bad thoughts As thou art dressing suffer no vain talk nor worldly matters to prepossess thy mind but cast thy thoughts round the World consider the Heaven the Sky the Air the Waters the Earth and Hell and the Creatures in them particularly think on thy self and the excellent estate that Adam and Eve were made in and say How Mighty How Wise How good is that God that thus made all these things Blessed be God the Father who hath made me and all the World Then think into how sad an estate Adam and Eve by their sin brought themselves and all their Children and how much worse it would have been if God had not sent his Son to save men from it and say How wretched are men who are spoiled by Sin enslaved to the Devil and liable to Hell Blessed be God the Son who hath redeemed me and all Mankind Then think of the aids of the Holy Ghost and the many ways and means he useth to sanctifie Christians and say Blessed be God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the elect people of God Next you may think how great a mercy it is that you are made a Member of Christ a Child of God and an Heir of the Kingdom of Heaven and say I heartily thank my Lord God our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this estate of salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour When you are ready venture not out till you have withdrawn into the privatest place you can and there think how far you have broken your promise at Baptism and what faults you have committed and then with all humility of soul and sorrow of heart cast your self on your knees or face and say with reverence as in God's presence O Great Creator Sovereign Lord and Just Judge of Men I have been baptized into the Name and service of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and have promised and vowed that by God's help I would renounce the Devil and all his Works the pomps and vanity of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the Flesh Thou O God! hast not refused me thy help But to my shame I confess I have too often yielded to the Temptations of the Devil and done his Works in Pride in Malice in Lying c. I have been foolishly taken with the pomps and vanities of this wicked World and with covetous desires after its needless Braveries Riches Pleasures and Honours I have beastlily followed the sinful Lusts and been led away by the carnal desires of the Flesh in

slothfulness intemperance uncleanness c. O God! be merciful to me a Sinner I then also promised to believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith But O how shamefully have I neglected duly to consider them Openly to own and profess them And Conscientiously to live suitably to them Yea farther I vowed to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and to walk in the same Commandments of God not now and then but all the days of my life from my Baptism to my death But O my God I confess with sorrow and shame that I have too often resisted thy Holy Will and disobeyed thy Commandments and have not made Conscience to keep them nor walk in them all the days of my past life Dispose my mind O my God! to true Repentance and so for Jesus Christ's sake graciously forgive the sin of thy servant Inable me Conscientiously to renew my Covenant with God and give me grace sincerely to keep it Then lift up thy Heart thy Eyes and thy Hands towards Heaven and say I do verily think that I am bound To renounce the Devil and all his Works The Pomps and Vanity of this wicked World And all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh And here before God and his Angels I renounce them all And that I am bound to believe and profess all the Articles of the Christian Faith And to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and to walk in the same all the days of my life And by thy help O God so I will And because I know that I am not able to do these things of my self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special grace therefore I now will call for it by diligent Prayer Then say Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom 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 trespass against us And lead us not into Temptation But deliver us from Evil. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for Ever and Ever Amen Then add O my Lord God our heavenly Father the Giver of all Goodness I beseech thee to send thy Grace to me and to all People that we may worship thee serve thee and obey thee as we ought to do And I pray unto thee that thou would'st send us all things that be needful for our Souls and Bodies And that thou would'st be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins And that it would please thee to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily that neither our souls nor bodies be harmed And that thou would'st keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly Enemy the Devil and his Instruments and from everlasting Death And this I trust O Lord thou wilt do of thy mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ and therefore I say Amen so be it Then rising up you may consider with your self thus How patient how good and gracious is my Lord Who hath prolonged my life and good estate to this day Who hath provided me plenty of good things and yet allow me the means of grace and aids of his Spirit Who hath entrusted me with one day more to strengthen my faith to repent of my sins to serve my God to do good to my Neighbour and to work out my own salvation in with fear and trembling What manner of person ought I to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness Satan is malicious and cunning The World tempting evil Company inticing My flesh weak and deceitful But God's Eye is upon me The love of Christ constrains me I am under the Promises and Vows of Baptism My Soul and its eternal state lies at stake God's glory my Neighbour's good and my own welfare are deeply concerned in my carriage this day I shall be judged according to this days works Hell is open and gapes for the unfaithful and wicked breakers of God's Covenant Eternal Glory is before me the assured reward of faithful perseverance in well-doing Grant O Lord that I may this day truly do my duty in that state of life unto which thou hast called me Then read a Psalm and a Chapter in your course and when you have thought what work you have to do that day sit down on your knees and say O Lord my heavenly Father Almighty and Everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this day defend me in the same by thy mighty power and grant that this day I may fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance and I may do always that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen §. II. EVENING DEVOTIONS I Advise thee my dear Child as ever thou wouldest be truly Religious and happy when the day is done before thou art drowzy and unfit for such a work to get alone and having composed thy thoughts with reverence fall down on thy knees and say O Lord my heavenly Father thou hast safely brought me to the latter end of this day and hast defended me in the same by thy mighty power and hast kept me by thy grace from falling into many sins and from running into many kinds of danger and hast sent me all things needful for Soul or Body for all which I humbly and heartily thank thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. And I beseech thee to give me thy grace to help me to consider what I have done this day and to praise thee for what I have well done and to see confess and repent of what I have done amiss therein Amen Then take a view of all thou hast done that day and consider what duty to God to men or to thy self thou hast omitted and what thou hast thought or said or done amiss and say If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us but if we confess our sins with a due sense of them hearty sorrow for them and utter detestation of them and so forsake them God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness Then fall again on thy knees and say O God the Father Who hast made me and all the World have mercy on me a miserable sinner O God the Son Who hast redeemed me and all mankind have mercy upon me a miserable sinner O God the Holy Ghost Who do'st sanctifie me and all the elect People of God have mercy upon me a miserable sinner I confess before thee O Lord that I have been too negligent of my duty towards thee in not believing in thee not fearing thee not loving thee with all my heart and with all my mind and with all my soul and with all my strength but have over-loved other things besides thee O how have I neglected to worship