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A Short and plain catechism instructing a learner of Christian religion what he is to believe and what to practice
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everlasting e Heb. 5.9 salvation Q. What learn you hence A. In no case to entertain any despairing thoughts Q. How must you address your self to God for the obtaining the mercies you hope for by Christ A. f Jam. 4.8 9 10. Isa 1.15 16 17 18. Act. 8.22 First with a deep sense of my unworthiness unfeignedly repenting that ever I sinned against him g Heb. 10.20 21 22. 2 With a real sense of his undeserved goodness humbly by faith in Christ expecting from his free grace h Isa 55.6 7. Act. 9.6 3 Heartily resolving to walk before him in newness of life all my dayes Q. By your answer you may perceive an absolute necessity of repentance faith and newness of life first what is repentance A. Such a sorrow for sin that works hatred and forsaking of it 2 Cor. 7.10 11. Heb. 6.1 Q. What is faith in Christ A. A hearty perswasion that he is the i Joh. 6.69 Chap. 11.27 Saviour that k Mark 1.15 Acts 15.7 what he hath said and what is said of him in the Gospel is true so as to l Heb. 11.8 obey his commands m v. 7. fear his threatnings n v. 13. Rom. 4.18 19 20 21. trust him for the performances of all his promises Q. What is newness of life A. It consists in denying ungodliness and worldly lusts and living soberly righteously and godlily Q. When may you be said to live soberly A. When in all things I live temperately and chastly Rom. 13.13 1 Thes 5.7 8. Tit. 3.2 moderating all unruly passion Q. When may you be said to live righteously A. When in all my dealings I do as I would be done by Mat. 7.12 Q. When may you be said to live godlily A. When in my whole conversation I behave my self towards God as my o Psal 100.1 2. Creator and my p 1 Cor. 6.20 1 Pet. 1.17 18. Redeemer Q. I hope you intend to practise all this but are you able of your self A. No I am not of my self sufficient so much as to think one good thought 2 Cor. 3.5 Q. What must enable you A. Gods blessed Spirit which he hath promised Luk. 11.13 Eph. 3.16 Q. You say the spirit must enable you are you then idly to lye still and do nothing A. No Phil. 2.12 13. I am therefore to work out my salvation with fear and trembling because God works in me to will and to do of his good pleasure Q. If you must not be idle what means must you use A. q 1 Tim. 4.13.15 16. Rom. 10.17 First reading hearing meditating of the Word which is the power of God to salvation r Luk. 11.13 2 Prayer ſ Psal 119.59 Act. 16.25 c. 3 serious consideration of my actions and of all Gods providences to my self and others t Mat. 16.16 1 Cor. 11.24 25. 4 Use of the sacraments Baptism and the Lords Supper Q. I less suspect your knowledge in the rest what is Baptism A. Washing with water in the Name of the Father Mat. 28.19 Son and Holy Ghost Q. Of what use may your Baptism be to you since you was Baptised in your infancy A. The consideration of it provokes to newness of life u Act. 22.16 Rom. 6.4 1 Because outward washing signifies purity x 1 Cor. 1.13 15. 1 Cor. 10.2 2 Because my being baptized in Christs Name engages me to own his Doctrine and keep his Laws Gal. 3.27 Q. What is the Lords Supper A. It 's according to Christs institution bread broken and eaten wine powred forth and drunk Mat. 26.26 27 28. 1 Cor. 11.24 25. in remembrance of Christ whose body was broken for us and blood shed for the remission of sin Q. How is this usefull to provoke you to newness of life A. While the evil of sin and the love of Christ crucified is herein set before my eyes I am constrained to live to him who dyed for me Q. I pray God whensoever you receive this Sacrament you may But do all receive this benefit A. No 1 Cor. 11.21 c. they cannot who understand not the ends of Christs death nor they who desire not to enjoy them Q. What if you neglect these means and quench the spirit A. I shew that I undervalue all that Christ hath done and suffered John 3.18 19. Heb. 2.3 Chap. 10.29 Chap. 12.25 and provoke God to bring on me a greater measure of his wrath for this my contempt than if I had never heard of a Saviour Q. Do you believe God will bring this wrath on you if you thus behave your self A. Yes Acts 17.31 2 Cor. 5.10 I believe God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness and render to every man according to what he hath done in the flesh whether it be good or bad Q. What shall be the condition of all men after the day of Judgement A. To them who by patient continuance in well-doing Rom. 2.7 8 9. Mat. 25.31 c. seek for glory God will give eternal life but to them that obey not the truth and live in unrighteousness tribulation and anguish indignation and wrath the portion of every soul that doth evil Q. Seeing we profess to believe these things what manner of persons ought we to be A. We ought to live in all holy conversation and godliness 2 Pet. 3.11 14.18 being diligent that we may be found of God in peace without spot and blameless growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Ghrist to whom be glory both now and for ever Amen THE CREED I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord which was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell The third day he arose from the dead He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on at the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen The LORDS PRAYER OUR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory for ever Amen The X. COMMANDMENTS GOD spake all these words 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 before me 2 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them For I the LORD thy God am a Iealous God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments 3 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 4 Remember the Sabbath day to kéep it holy Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant nor thy Cattel nor thy 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 Sabbath day and hallowed it 5 Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thée 6 Thou shalt not kill 7 Thou shalt not commit adultery 8 Thou shall not steal 9 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour 10 Thou shalt not cover thy neighbours house thou shalt not cover thy neighbours wise nor his man-servant nor his maid-servant nor his oxe nor his ass nor any thing that is thy neighbours FINIS