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Milk for babes. Drawn out of the breasts of both Testaments. Chiefly, for the spirituall nourishment of Boston babes in either England: but may be of like use for any children. By John Cotton, B.D. and teacher to the church of Boston in New-England.
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MILK FOR BABES DRAWN Out of the Breasts of both TESTAMENTS Chiefly for the spirituall nourishment of Boston Babes in either England But may be of like use for any Children By JOHN COTTON B. D. and Teacher to the Church of Boston in New-England LONDON Printed by J. Coe for Henry Overton and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head Alley 1646. Aprill 9 th MILK FOR BABES Q. WHat hath GOD done for you A. God hath made me a Psa 119.73 Ps 128 4.5 6 7 8. Isa 63.1 He keepeth me and He can save me Q. Who is God A. God is a Spirit of b Iob. 4.24 Exo. 3.14 himself and for himself Q. How many Gods be there A. There is but one God in three Persons c 1 Cor. 8.6 1 Ioh. 5.7 the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost Q. How did God make you A. In my first Parents d Gen. 1.26 27. Eccles 7.29 holy and righteous Qu. Are you then born holy and righteous A. No my first father e Is 43 2â— Ro. 12. â—9 sinned and I in him Q. Are you then born a sinner A. I was conceived in sinne and f Ps 51.5 born in iniquity Q. What is your birth-sinne A. ADAMS sinne imputed to me g Rom. 5.12 13 14. Eph 4 22 and a corrupt Nature dwelling in me Q. What is your corrupt Nature Answ My corrupt nature is empty of h Rom. 7.7.18 Gen. 6.5 Grace bent unto sinne and onely unto sinne and that continually Q. What is sinne Answ Sinne is the i 1 Ioh. 3.4 transgression of the Law Qu. How many commandements of the Law be there Answ Deut. 4.13 k Ten. Q. What is the first Commandement A. Thou shalt have no other Gods but l Ex. 20.3 me Qu. What is the meaning of this commandement A. That we should m Mat. 4.10 worship the onely true God and no other beside him Q. What is the 2 d. Commandement n Exo 20.4 5. A. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image c. Qu. Wat is the meaning of this Commandement Ans That we should worship the o Ioh. 4.24 De. 12.32 Mat. 15.9 true God with true worship such as God hath ordained not such as man hath invented Q. What is the third commandement A. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain c. Qu. What is here meant by the Name of God A. God p Deut. 28 58. Ex. 33.19 with 34.6 1 Kin 9.3 Psa 138.2 Iob. 1.21 himself and the good things of God whereby he is known as a man by his name as his Attributes worship word and works Qu. What is it not to take his Name in vain A. To make use of God and the good things of God to his glory and our q 2 Kings 1.3 Lev. 10.3 Iob. 36.24 1 Cor. 10 31. Iob. 5.27 Deut. 8.16 â—er 2.30 Lev. 26.2 Heb. 4.2 good not vainly not unreverently not unprofitably Qu. What is the fourth Commandement A. Remember that thou keep holy the r Exod. 20 8 9 10.11 Sabbath day c. Q. What is the meaning of this Commandement A. That we should rest from labor and much more from play on s Isa 58.13.14 Exo. 32.6 the Lords day that we may draw nigh to God in holy duties Quest What is the fifth Commandement Answ Honour thy Father and thy mother 8 Exod. 20 12. t that thy dayes may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Quest Who are here meant by Father and mother Answ All our superiours whether in u Prov. 23 22. 2 King 5.13 and 2.12 1 Cor. 4.15 2 Chr 29 1â—â— Tim. 5.1 1 Sa. 25.8 Gen 4.20 21. Family School Church and Commonwealth Quest What is the honour due to them Answ Reverence w Mal. 1.6 Heb. 12.9 Eph. 6.1 1 Tim. 5.4 obedience and when I am able Recompence Quest What is the sixth Commandement Answ Thou shalt do no x Exo. 20.13 murther Qu. What is the meaning of this Commandement Answ That we should not shorten the y Math. 5.22 2 Cor. 7.10 1 Sam. 26 24. Mar. 3.4 life or health of our selves or others but preserve both Quest What is the seventh Commandement Answ Thou shalt not commit z Exo. 20.14 Adultery Quest What is the sinne here forbidden Answ To defile our selves or others a Gen. 38.9.10 Lev. 18.24 with unclean lusts Quest What is the duty here commanded Answ Chastity to possesse b Tit. 2.5 1 Pet. 3.2 1 Thes 4.4.5 our vesels in holinesse and honour Quest What is the eight Commandement Answ Thou shalt not c Exod. 20.15 steale Quest What is the stealth here forbidden Answ To take away d Luk. 19.8 1 The. 4.6 Pro. 21.20 another mans goods without his leave or to spend our own without benefit to our selves or others Quest What is the duty here commanded Answ To get our goods e Pro. 13.11 Ioh. 6.12 Luk. 19.16 15 13. honestly to keepe them safely and to spend them thriftily Quest What is the ninth Commandement A. Thou f Exo. 20 16. shalt not bear false witnesse against thy Neighbour Quest What is the sinne here forbidden Answ To g Ep. 4.25 Ier. 9 4 5 Iosh 9.22 Prov. 13.7 lye falsly to think or speak untruly of our selves or others Quest What is the duty here required h Ep. 4.25 Mat. 23.23 A. Truth and faithfulnesse Quest What is the tenth Commandement Ex. â—â— 17 A. Thou shalt not covet c. Q. What is the coveting here forbidden Ro. 7.7 Heb. 13.5 Answ Lust after the things of other men and want of contentment with our own Qu. Whether have you kept all these Commandements l Ro. 7.14 and 3.23 Answ No I and all men are sinners Qu. What is the wayes of sin m Ro. 6.23 and 2.8 9 A. Death and damnation Quest How look you then to be saved n Acts 4.12 Answ Onely by Jesus Christ Qu. Who is Jesus Christ A. The eternall Son of God who for our sakes o 1 Ioh. 5.20 Prov. 8.23 24 25. Iohn 1.14 2 Cor. 8.9 Lu. 1.68 69 and 2.11 became man that he might redeem and save us Qu. How doth Christ redeem and save us A. By his righteous life and bitter death and glorious resurrection to life p Gal. 4.4 5. Math. 20 28. Phi. 2.7 8 Rom. 4.25 again Qu. How do we come to have part and fellowship with Christ in his Death and Resurrection A. By the power of his q Ioh. 17 20 21. 2 Co. 5.20 1 Co. 6.17 Word and Spirit which bring us to Christ and keep us in him Qu. What is his Word A. The r 2 Tim. 3 15 16. Holy Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles The Old and New Testament Law and Gospell Qu. How doth the Ministery of the Law bring you towards Christ A. s Ro. 3.20 Gal. 3.10
24. Ro. 7.9 10 By bringing me to know my sinne and the wrath of God against me for it Qu. What are you thereby the nearer to Christ A. t Gal. 3.10 24. So I come to feel my cursed estate and need of a Saviour Quest How doth the Ministery of the Gospell helpe you in this cursed Estate Answ By humbling me u Luk. 3.4 5 6. yet more and then raising me up out of this Estate Quest How doth the ministery of the Gospell humble you more Answ By revealing the w 2 Tim. 1.10 1 Tim. 1.15 Ioh. 16.7.9 6.44 Lu. 19.10 grace of the Lord Jesus in dying to save sinners and yet convincing me of my sinne in not believing on him and of mine utter insufficiency to come to him And so I feele my selfe utterly lost Quest How then doth the Ministery of the Gospel raise you up out of this lost estate to come unto Christ Answ By x Ioh. 12.32 2 Cor. 5.19.20 Can. 5.10 to 16. with 6.1 2 Cor. 3.18 Lu. 19.10 Mat. 9.13 Gal. 3.5 Rom. 10.17 with 1.16 teaching me the value and the vertue of the death of Christ and the riches of his grace to lost sinners By revealing the promise of grace to such and by ministring the Spirit of grace to apply Christ and his promise of grace unto my selfe and to keepe me in him Qu. How doth the spirit of Christ apply Christ and his promise of grace unto you and keepe you in him Answ By begetting in me y Rom. 10.17 10.14 Zach. 12.10 Rom. 16.25.26 2 Cor. 10.4.5 faith to receive him Prayer to call upon him Repentence to mourne after him and new obedience to serve him Quest What is Faith Answ Faith is a grace of the z Phil 1.29 2 Cor. 4.13 Phil. 3.8.9 spirit whereby I deny my selfe and believe on Christ for righteousnesse and salvation Quest What is Prayer Answ It is a calling upon a Mat. 6.9 Ioh. 16.23 Rom. 8.26.27 1 Ioh. 5.14 Acts. 5.31 Zach. 12.10 Eze. 6 9. Iob. 42.6 2 Sam. 24.10 Levit. 26.40.4 Pro. 28.13 Zach. 12.10 1 Sam. 7.2 Psal 51.1.2 10. God in the Name of Christ by the helpe of the Holy Ghost according to the will of God Quest What is Repentance Answ Repentance is a b grace of the spirit whereby I loath my sinnes and my selfe for them and confesse them before the Lord and mourne after Christ for the pardon of them and for grace to serve him in newnesse of life Quest What is newnesse of life or new obedience Answ Newnesse of life is a c Rom. 7.6 1 Pet. 4.2 3 4. Psal 1â—6 9 119 9.105.115 Psal 16.3 grace of the spirit whereby I forsake my former lusts and vaine company and walk before the Lord in the light of his word and in the Communion of his Saints Qu. What is the communion of Saints A. It is d 1 Cor. 1.2 Phil. 1.5 Act. 2.47 Rom. 9.4 1 Cor. 12.13 the fellowship of the Church in the blessings of the Covenant of grace and the seales thereof Qu. What is the Church A. It is a Congregation of e Psal 89.5 50.5.16 Ezek. 20.37 Act 2.42 1 Cor. 14.23.26 Saints joyned together in the bond of the Covenant to worship the Lord and to edify one another in all his Holy Ordinances Q. What is the bond of the Covenant in which the Church is joyned together A. It is f 2 Cor. 8.5 9.13 Gen. 17.7 the profession of that Covenant which God hath made with his faithfull people to be a God unto them and to their seede Qu. What doth the Lord binde his people to in this Covenant A. To g Iosh 24.15 21 24 25. 2 Cor. 8.5 Eph. 5.21 Neh. 9.38 vvith 10.28.29 to 34. give up themselves and their seede first to the Lord to be his people and then to the Elders and Brethren of the Church to set forward the worship of God and their mutall edifycation Q. How do they give up themselves and their seed to the Lord A. By receiving through h Ioh. 1.12 Gen. 17.9.10 Isa 56.6.7 Gen. 18.19 faith the Lord his Covenant to themselves and to their seed And accordingly walking themselves and trayning up their Children in the wayes of his Covenant Qu. How do they give up themselves and their seed to the Elders and Brethren of the Church A. By confession of i Mat. 3.6 Act 8.37 2 Cor. 9.13 Act. 2.38.39 their sinnes and profession of their faith and of their subjection to the Gospell of Christ And so they and their seede are received into the fellowship of the Church and the seales thereof Qu. What are the seales of the Covenant now in the dayes of the Gospel A. Baptisme k and the Lords Supper Qu. What is done for you in Baptism A. In baptisme l Rom. 4.11 vvith Col. 2.11.12 1 Cor. 11.25 the washing with water is a signe and seale of my washing with the blood and spirit of Christ and thereby of my ingrafting into Christ of the pardon and clensing of my sinnes of my rising up l Heb 10.22 12.24 Ioh. 3.5 Rom. 6.2.3 Act. 22.16 Lu. 3.3 1 Pet. 3.20.21 1 Cor. 15 29. out of Affliction and also of my resurrection from the dead at the last day Quest What is done for you in the Lords Supper Answ In the Lords Supper the receiving of the bread broken and and the m 1 Cor. 10.16 Mat. 26.26 28. 1 Cor. 12 13. Ps 104.15 Ioh. 6.55 wine powred out is a signe and seal of my receiving the Communion of the body of Christ broken for me and of his bloud shed for me And thereby of my growth in Christ of the pardon and healing of my sinnes of the fellowship of his Spirit of my strengthening and quickning in Grace and of my sitting together with Christ on his throne of glory at the last judgement Quest What is the resurrection from the dead which was sealed up to you in Baptisme â— Ioh. 5.28 29. Act 24.15 Ans When n Lu. 22.27.29 30. Christ shall come to his last judgement all that are in the graves shall arise again both the just and unjust Quest What is the last judgement which is sealed up to you in the Lords Supper A. At the last p 2 Cor. 5.10 Mat. 12.36 1 Cor. 4.5 Ecc. 12.14 day we shall all appear before the judgement seat of Christ to give an accompt of our works and to receive our reward according to them Qu. What is the reward that shall then be given Ans The q Mat. 25.34 Mat. 25.46 righteous shall go into life eternall and the wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire with the Devill and his angels FINIS