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A64231	A practical and short exposition of the catechism of the Church of England by way of question and answer. Wherein the divine authority and reasonableness of every question and answer, every doctrin and practice in it recommended, are evidenced and improved against most contemners of it and dissenters from it. With that moderation and plainness that it may engage all to adhere to, and especially may instruct children in the true Protestant religion of the Church of England. Humbly offered for the good of schools and youth. By Nathanael Taylor, M.A.	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing T544B; ESTC R222427	64,394	147

To vindicate their Reputation 6. To discover what Conspiracies they know of 7. To Pray for them Q. What are the Duties of your Spiritual Relation of Ministers and People A. 1. The Duties of Ministers are 1. Study 2. Preaching to and 3. 1 Tim. 4.14 15 16. 2 Tim. 4.2 3. Heb. 13.17 Ephes 6.19 Praying for and with the People 4. Love 5. Reproof 6. Exhortation 7. Example of Good 8. Visiting Sick 2. Duties of People are 1. To attend Ordinances 2. To Obey what is directed 3. Love 4. Honour 5. Pay dues to him 6. Pray for him Q. What are the Duties of the Conjugal Relation A. 1. The Duties of the Husband are 1. Ephes 5.25 Col. 3.19 1 Pet. 3.7 Ephes 5.26 Col. 3.18 1 Pet. 3.1 2 3 4 5 6. Love to Soul and Body of Wife 2. A due esteem of her 3. Protection 4. Provision for her 5. Fidelity 6. Prayer with and for her 2. The Duties of the Wife are 1. An Honourable esteem of her Husband 2. Outward Respect 3. Love to Soul and Body 4. Obedience to his fit Requests 5. Fidelity to Body and Estate 6. Joynt endeavours for the good of their Family 7. Prayer for him 8. Meekness towards him Q. What are the Duties of Masters and Servants A. 1. The Duties of Masters are 1. To take care they serve God Ephes 6.9 Col. 4.1 2. James 5.4 Ephes 6.5 6. Col. 3.22 2. To provide convenient things for them 3. To Command nothing but what is Lawful to be performed by them 4. To pay their dues of Wages 5. Meekness to them 6. Prayer for and with them 2. The Duties of Servants to Masters are 1. Sincerity 2. Honour 3. Obedience to Lawful Commands 4. Fidelity 5. Submission to Punishments 6. Prayer for them Q. What are the Duties of the Aged and Youth A. 1. The Duties of the Aged are 1. Prov. 16.31 Steadfastness in the Faith 2. Instruction of Youth 3. To communicate Experiences 4. To be Exemplary 5. To prepare for Heaven 2. The Duties of Youth are 1. To Honour the Hoary Head Eccles 12.1 2. Obey their good Advice 3. Observe their good Example 4. To Devote themselves to God betimes Q. What are the Duties of the Rich and Poor A. The Duties of the Rich are 1. To be rich in good Works 2. Humility 1 Tim. 6.17 2. The Duties of the Poor are 1. Humility 2. Contentment And 3. To prepare for a better Estate in another World James 2.5 Q. What is the Sanction of this Commandment A. That thy days may be long in the Land that the Lord thy God giveth thee Q. What doth this import A. 1. That the not performing the Duties of this Commandment may cause God or his Magistrate to cut us off as Malefactors 2. That the performance of them tend to the continuance of our Lives by Gods blessing 3. May entitle us to Heaven of which the Land here meant was a Type Q. What improvement do you make of this Commandment A. That we can be in no Relation or Condition but God expects Duty from us and we ought to perform it Q. What is the Sixth Commandment A. Thou shalt do no Murther Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All actual Murther of our selves or others 2. All with-holding due Relief from our selves or others whereby Life may be lost 3. Exposing our selves or others to manifest dangers 4. Malice and Envy 1 John 3 15. the Murther of the Heart 5. To hurt no body by word or deed Q. What is here Commanded A. 1. The preservation of our own and others Life and Health 2. Peace and Love amongst us Q. What is the Seventh Commandment A. Thou shalt not Commit Adultery Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All unclean thoughts and desires 2. Ephes 4.29 All Corrupt and obscene Speeches 3. All lewd Acts as Fornication Adultery Incest Sodomy Buggery 4. All Luxurious Eating and Drinking which tend to it 5. All wanton gestures which may tempt to the sin Q. What is Commanded A. To keep our Bodies in Temperance Soberness Tit. 2.11 and Chastity Q. What is the Eighth Commandment A. Thou shalt not Steal Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All close or open Theft 2. All Circumventing Cheating 1 Thes 4.6 and Oppression by reason of the want or Ignorance of those we deal with 3. All false Weights and Measures whereby is stollen what would make them just Q. What is here required A. 1. A just dealing in all things 2. Contentment 3. Labour in our Occupations 4. A care to preserve our own and our Neighbours good Q. What is the Ninth Commandment A. Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All rash Oaths and Perjury 2. Lying and Slandering 3. Tale-bearing and Tale-hearing whereof one hath the Devil in his Tongue the other in his Ear. 4. All Subornation of others to be false Witnesses Q. What is Commanded A. 1. A preserving our own and others Credit 2. Speaking and Witnessing Truth Q. What is the Tenth Commandment A. Thou shalt not Covet thy Neighbours House Thou shalt not Covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Servant nor his Haid nor his Ox nor his Asse nor any thing that is his Q. Why is this Commandment set down since it is implyed in the other Nine A. 1. Lest being only implyed in them Men might through their Corruption suppose they might entertain evil Thoughts and be guiltless Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All evil Concupiscence and Lust 2. All Envy at or Covetousness of any thing that is our Neighbours Q. What is here Commanded A. 1. Diligence in our Callings 2. Contentment with our Estate 3. A suppression of our desires after other Mens Possessions And now let us put a period to the Decalogue with our Churches Prayer Lord have Mercy upon us in the Pardon of our past sins And incline our Hearts for the future to keep thy Laws SECT IV. Q. IS Man able to fulfil the Law of God A. No not without Gods Grace assisting him Rom. 3. at large 1. Because since Adams Fall all Men have their Souls and Bodies depraved 2. They have an averseness from all good and a proneness to all evil 3. Have a corrupt Heart ready to betray them to the least Temptation 4. Have Enemies to Engage with too Powerful and Mighty therein 5. Phil. 2.13 14. The Nature of the Duties are Spiritual and require more than a Natural Power to perform them Q. By what means may Man gain assistance from God to do his Will A. By diligent Faithful Prayer which through Christ is prevalent 1. To protect from all Troubles Temporal Spiritual James 1.5 John 14.13 Eternal 2. To supply all wants of all good Q. What is the Rule for Prayer A. That which was made by our Lord and Saviour and by him recommended to his Disciples and us Q. Rehearse the Lords Prayer A. Our Father which art

death 5. All our good comes from God who must make us gracious and glorious if we be either 6. Our best duties tho done through Gods assistance yet are attended with many infirmities Isa 64.6 7. coldness weariness c. 7. There is no proportion between our work and this reward therefore it must be the gift of Gods free Grace Q. What improvement do you make of this Article A. 1. If eternal misery be the wages of sin it shews mans folly in daring to act sin when for a moments pleasure here he must meet with eternal torments hereafter 2. If eternal life be given to the godly it should engage us to the practice of godliness Our labour is not in vain 1 Cor. 15.58 Q. What is meant here by the word Amen A. It is here an Asseveration or Affirmation of our consent to the truth of all the premised Articles In which O Lord encrease our Faith and enable us to lead the Life of Faith that at the end of our lives we may have the end of our Faith the Salvation of our Souls SECT II. Q. THe Rule of Faith in the Articles of the Creed being considered What is yet remaining of your Baptismal Vow A. The Rule of obedience in my keeping all Gods Commandments and walking in the same all the days of my life Q. How many Commandments are there A. Ten and therefore they are sometimes called the Decalogue Q. Which be they A. The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus Exod 20. saying I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt and out of the house of bondage c. Q. What is considerable in this Preface to these Commandments A. 1. The Authority of the Law-giver I am the Lord thy God The Lord that made thee and thy God in Covenant with thee who may give Laws to my Creatures and declare my will to my People which they are bound to obey 2. The obligations on the people to obey their deliverance from the Aegyptian bondage Q. Do these Commandments oblige us A. Dr. Arrowsmiths Tact. Sac. lib. 2. Cap. 4. Sect. 4. Mar. 5 6 7 Chap. Rom. 13.9 Ephes 6.2 James 2.8 9. 1. The Jews if considered as a Church had a Ceremonial Law abolisht by Christ As a state they had a judicial Law not obliging all Nations But this Law they had as men and Gods rational Creatures given them by God as their Creator therefore it obligeth us as men so long as we continue our being 2. The precepts of this Law are repeated by Christ and his Apostles and proposed by them to us as a rule to walk by 3. The obligations on us are greater then on the Jews to observe them God is not only our Lord and our God in Covenant with us Bish Ni. cholson on Cat. p. 13.21.134 but we enjoy the substance of their shadows the fulfilling of their promises prophecies and Types And our deliverance by Christ is far greater then from an Aegyptian bondage ours was from an infernal Pharaoh the Devil a deliverance of both Soul and body from eternal misery by the blood of Christ Q. Why is it called the moral Law Hookers Polity lib 1. sect 8. Leighs body of Divinity p. 124. A. Because it relates to manners and containing our duties to God and Man Q. Why is it called the Law of nature A. 1. Because its duties were impressed on mans Nature at his Creation 2. Mans reason rightly improved will dictate all these dutys Bish Nicholson on Cat. p. 81. for that reason which dictates the being of a God will certainly teach he ought to be worshipped and that there can be but one Almighty God to be worshipped who therefore ought to hear his name Reverenced his ordinances and Laws observed always and at sometimes more publickly and solemnly by his People And as it is the dictate of Nature to do to others as we desire they should do to us so it will teach us to Honour whom it is due to B. Wilkins Natural Religion to abstain from murthering of or committing uncleanness with or stealing from or bearing false witness against or inordinately coveting after any thing of our Neighbours 3. The Heathen have acknowledged a Deity to whom they paid worship and observed some more solemn times then others to do it in and have been so exemplary in declaiming against and punishing of 14 all sins against the second Table That they may be Witnesses against us unless we labour to keep these Laws of God Q. How are these ten Commandments divided A. Into two Tables relating to the twofold object of duty God and Man Q. Which Commandments contain our dutys towards God A. The four first Q. Which Commandments contain our dutys towards Man A. The six last Q. Why are more delivered Negatively then affirmatively A. 1. To shew our proneness to evil which requires so many restraints 2. To shew there must be a ceasing from sin before we can do good Q. What general Rules are there for the understanding these Commandments A. James 2.10 1. That the same Authority is offended in breaking one that is in breaking all 2. All Negative commands disswade not only from sin but command the contrary duty 3. All positive commands command not only the duty but also forbid the contrary sins 4. Both positive and Negative disswade from all Evil thoughts as well as Evil words and actions and oblige to have purity as well as to Holiness of the tongue or conversation 5. They both oblige to avoid all things tending to any sin and to use all means that may further us in any duty 6. Leigh 's Body of Divinity p. 205. Affirmative precepts are not so obliging as the Negative the first oblige to duty but not always as works of mercy and the like may be done on the Sabbath And obedience to God is better then Honour to a Superior without Gods Honour but the Negative oblige to avoid all sin and alwaies because it is never lawful to act Evill that good may come thereby Q. Why are the Commandments given in the second person singular A. 1. Leigh 's body p. 207. Because thus there can be no evasion from Duty 2. Every one is concerned in the obedience which is due to them 3. To shew God is no respecter of persons he speaks to Poor and Rich to all alike Q. What is the first Commandment A. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me Q. Which is here to be learned A. 1. That we are prone to Idolatry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuag in loc See Jun. Trem. in loc 2. That there is but one God whom alone we ought to worship 3. that we should not adore a plurality of Gods as the Heathens did 4. That God is every where present and beholds the Idolatry of heart and life Thou shalt have no other Gods before me Q. What are the

especially in their Adversity however God is slighted by them in Prosperity Q. What is yet remaining of the Catechism A. The Doctrine of Sacraments Q. Why is that considered in the Catechism A. 1. It is a great part of Religion 2. That we might not only be acquainted with our Duty to God but also of what we receive from God 3. That the Catechism might be a compleat Compendium of Divinity Q. How many Sacraments hath Christ Ordained in his Church A. Two only as generally necessary to Salvation that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Q. Why is there but two Sacraments A. 1. To Correspond with the two under the Law Circumcision and the Passover 2. The other pretended Sacraments are not so properly nor as such are they appointed by Gods Word Q. How are these Sacraments said to be absolutely necessary to Salvation A. 1. Leighs body of Divinity p. 910. They are not so absolutely necessary as that Persons not receiving them where through Persecution they cannot or where they being not rightly administred they dare not receive them shall fail of Salvation God dispensed with the Israelites breach of Circumcision in the Wilderness Gen. 17. Josh 5.45 Hookers Polity lib. 5. sect 60 61. though it was strictly Commanded 2. They are necessary as means to be used being Seals of the Covenant of Grace applying Gods Grace to every one receiving them aright 3. They are thus far absolutely necessary in an Established Church that they who slight them of wilfully neglect their receiving them Gen. 17.14 may dread their being cut off from Gods People Q. What mean you by this word Sacrament A. I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and Spiritual Grace given unto us Ordained by Christ himself as a means whereby we receive the same and as a Pledge to assure us thereof Q. What is included in this Answer A. Sir Chr. Wyvel's Triple Crown examined p. 43 44 45. H●mil of Engl. on Sac. Calvin Instit lib. 4. Cap. 19. Sect. 34. Calvin Institut lib. 4. Cap. 19. Sect. 5 6 20. Homil. of Engl. on Sac. Ames Bel. Enerv. Tom. 3. Lib. 7. Cap. 1. 1. That in a Sacrament there must be an outward sign visible subject to our Senses and so Absolution and Confession must fall and be no Sacraments 2. This outward sign must be signifying of an inward and Spiritual Grace Thus Matrimony is no Sacrament it is common to Infidels and by our Adversaries is forbidden to their Priests which if a Sacrament is very absurd 3. To make a Sacrament there must be also a giving and ordaining the outward sign by Christ himself and thus extream Unction and Confirmation are no Sacraments 4. It must be a suitable means to convey the inward Grace and Pardon and so Sacraments must not only be signs of but means and instruments to convey And thus Orders no Sacrament for it hath no outward sign prescribed by Christ nor promise of Pardon made to it 5. It must be as a Seal and Pledge to assure us of that inward Grace Thus those Popish Sacraments which have no Authority of Christ Ordaining them no visible sign representing nor any promise of Grace made to them cannot be Seals of Grace and Pardon to us Sr. Christopher Wyvel's Triple Crown ex un ned p. 43.44 And so according to the definition of a Sacrament they must fall Nor can we suppose that Christ did Ordain one Sacrament only for the L●aity as Matrimony A Second for the Clergy as Orders A Third for the Catechised only as Confirmation A Fourth only for the Sick as extream Vnction And a Fifth only for the Lapsed as Penance B. Bramhall cited in Leighs Body of Divinity p. 913 914. These are without ground from Scriptures Ancient Creed Council Fathers and were first devised by Peter Lombard first Decreed by Pope Eugenius the Fourth first Confirmed in the Provincial Council of Senes and after in the Council of Trent Q. Whence is the name of Sacrament borrowed A. 1. Some say it is brought into this Sacred use from an use among the Romans who called that Oath Sacramentum Dr. Arrowsmiths Tac. Sac. Lib. 1. Cap. 5. sect 1. Book of Common Prayer it Pub. Baptism which each Souldier took to be true to his General and to live and dye with him and it may well represent the Engagement we take on us in the Sacraments to be Christs Faithful and Constant Souldiers and Servants to our Lives end 2. Others say the word Sacrament is used to denote how the Ordinances should be received Sacra mente with an Holy mind Q. How many parts are there in a Sacrament A. Two Calvin Irstir li● 4. cor 1. sect 6 The outward and visible sign and the inward and visible Grace By the sign God condescends to make known to us by things we can understand what through our Ignorance we cannot apprehend Q. What is the outward visible sign or Form in Baptism A. Water wherein the Person is Baptized in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Q. What is here Observable A. 1. The Element and outward sign by which Baptism is Administred Book of Common Prayer Order for Baptism of Riper Years Water 2. The Subject of Baptism in the Word Person which denotes either those adult Persons who being newly Converted from Heathenism or Judaism or those who have been brought up by Parents of the Christian Profession unbaptized or else the Children of the Professors of Christianity with our selves 3. Here is the manner of performing it in the word Baptize which admits of either dipping or sprinkling and our Church allows either Nor can the Anabaptists who call for express Texts from us give us one for their dipping 4. Their Articles given to R. C. 2. 1660. And reprinted in Grantam's Works Here is the Form or Baptism in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost according to Christs Commission Mat. 28.19 And here the Anabaptists are to blame in granting a permission to their Party to be Baptized in the Name of Christ alone Q. What is the inward and Spiritual Grace A. A Death unto Sin and a new Birth unto Righteousness for being by Nature Born in Sin and the Children of Wrath we are hereby made the Children of Grace Q. What is Considerable in this Answer A. 1. Rom. 6.3 4. Here is a Death unto Sin signified by our being Buried with Christ in Baptism Water being therein poured on us as Dust is on our Bodies when Buried and this teacheth us to put off the Old Man the Body of Sin 2. Here is in Baptism represented our filthiness by sin Ephes 2.2 3. 1 Pet. ● 21 2● we need washing from its filth and a Pardon of its guilt being by Nature defiled Creatures and Children of wrath 3. Here are the Priviledges the Christian enjoys by Baptism Of a Sinner he is cleansed and of a Child of Wrath made