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The principles of religion by Edward Boughen.
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Boughen, Edward, 1587?-1660?
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in judgement the right of the stranger of the Fatherlesse and Widow And z Ib. v. 24. Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour secretly Q. Who is my Neighbour A. Not only those that are of our Kindred or such as are neere us by acquaintance or habitation or Country but even those that are of another Nation and Religion as our Saviour manifests in his Parable of the Jew and Samaritane S. Luc. 10.30 c. Q. We are now come to the last tell me that A. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house c. This last takes away all evasion from those who conceive only actuall adultery and actuall theft to be sinne For if sinne be a breach of Gods Law then is it sinne to covet or lust after that which is none of mine Thus this precept teacheth us to resist all evill motions and to root out all lusts and covetous desires that so they may never break forth into Rebellion against God and bring the second death upon us Q. Art thou able to keep these Consmandements A. Of my selfe I am not but a Phil. 4.23 I can doe all things in God that strengthneth me We are taught therefore at the end of each Commandement to call upon the Lord by Prayer Lord have mercy upon us and encline our hearts to keep this Law And after the last Commandement Lord have mercy upon us and write all those thy Lawes in our hearts we beseech thee And I am taught b Câ—â—ech in Common Prayer Book at all times to call for his speciall grace by diligent Prayer that I may walke in his Commandements Q. What Prayer doest thou chiefly use A. The Lords Prayer Q. Why is it called so A. Because our Lord Jesus Christ made it and commanded his Disciples to make use of it in these words c S. Luc. 11.2 When yee pray say OVR FATHER c. Our Church therefore When as often as we pray in â—â—blique commands to use this prayer And we do so d Praemissâ— legitimâ ordinariâ oratione quasi fundamento accideraium iâ—â— est de fideriorum Testul de Dâ—al 〈◊〉 in the beginning of our first and second Service that so laying this for a foundation we may justly proceed to our ensuing requests Q. Why so A. 1. In obedience to our Saviours injunction 2. Because it is so absolute a Prayer that it comprehends breifly what we may or ought to pray for 3. Because e Hooker Eccles Pol l 5. §. 35. it fully perfecteth whatsoever may be defective in the rest And 4. It is observed that f Ib. Tertullian and S. Austine terme it Orationem legitimam the prayer which Christ's owne Law hath tyed his Church to use in the same prescript form of words wherewith he himselfe did deliver it Besides it is called g Tertul de Orat. c. 9. the ordinary or usuall prayer because it is used in all the Churches of the Saints And * The Lords prayer is called quotidiana oratio fide lium Aug-Enthirid c. 71. our dayly prayer because Christ hath taught us to use it every day by commanding us to pray for our dayly Bread this day that so praying but for this day we might be bound to make use of this prayer every day Q. Repeat the whole Prayer A. Our Father which art in Heaven c. This Prayer consists of a Preface h Hooker Eccles Pol. l. 5. §. 35. Septem petitiones continere Dominica videtur oratio Aug. Enchirid. c. 115. de Ser dom in Monte. l. 2. seven Petitions and the reason why we begge these things at his hands Q. Which call you the Preface A. Our Father which art in Heaven Herein we manifest whom we pray to viz. to that holy blessed and glorious Trinity the Father the Son and the holy Ghost As these three Persons are but one God and one Lord so they are in respect of us but one Father each person hath an equall interest in our Creation preservation and Regeneration Hence is it that as we are created by the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost so are we Baptised in the Name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost As we are Baptised so we beleeve and as we beleeve so we pray in whom we beleeve to them we pray Q. Is not God every where that we say which art in Heaven A. Every where he is without question by his Essence since i Act. 17.28 In him we live we moove and have our being but in the soules of the faithfull he is by his Grace and in Heaven by his Glory Hence is the k Is 66.1 earth called his Footstool and Heaven his Throne We confine him not to Heaven but we name Heaven as the place where his Glory is most eminent where our Saviour is said to sit at his right hand the Angels to attend him and the soules of the Saints departed have the fruition of Ioy and Glorie Q. Why begin we our Prayers so A. 1. To put us in mind that our Pedegree is from Heaven 2. That we may take care to behave our selves as the Children of such a Father And 3. That the inheritance we hope for is in Heaven We are not therefore to set our minds upon earthly but heavenly things Q. Who may pray thus A. None but those that are Baptized In the primitive Church l Quomodo dicunt Pater noster qui nonduÌ„ nati sunt sciticet per BaptismuÌ„ Aug. de Symbolo ad Catechum l. 1. c. 6. quinquag homil 42. Consule Gab. Alvaspin Observat l. 1. c. 19. the Catechumeni such as were prepared for Baptisme learned it for an Instruction or preparation but they might not use it as a prayer till they were Baptized Immediatly after Baptisme they did and so do we The Heathen cannot say Our Father Our Creator Our Lord they may The Jewes as Jewes were never taught to say Our Father this prayer is peculiar to Christians Our Father he is by grace and we his sonnes by the same grace God make us sonnes in glory Q. Which is the first Petition A. Hallowed be thy name wherein we desire not that his Name may be made Holy we know m Ps 99.3 it is so and it cannot be otherwise But our prayer is that his Name and his word may be used and mentioned by us holily that in all our actions we may honour Our Father and the stocke we come off and that we may ever seek his honour and glory and not our owne That as we beare his Name so we may behave our selves as beseemes his Name and good Christians not only by worshiping him at the Church but by our dayly and hourely conversation in all places Q. The second Petition A. Thy Kingdome come his Kingdome of grace and his Kingdome of glory That his Kingdome of grace which is his Church may so spread over the face of the whole earth that his word may be
to his bone and sinewes and flesh came upon them and flesh upon the skin and breath enter'd into them and they stood up an exceeding great armie Q. When shall this Resurrection be A. g 1. Cor. 15.24 At the last and great day of Doome Q. What becomes of the Soule all this while does that also dye A. No. Q. How prove you that A. h Mat. 22.32 God calls himself the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob but God is not the God of the dead but of the living Though then they be dead in body in soule they live i Luc. 16.22 We finde Lazaru's soule alive in a place of blisse k Ib v. 24. and Dive's soule in a place of torment l Ib. v. 28. while his brethren were living here on earth And our saviour promised the penitent Theif that m Luc. 23.43 he should be that day with him in Paradice Which was spoke of his soule for n Io 19.31 32. his body was that day buried in the grave To these may be added o Rev. 6.9 the soules of the Martyrs which lye under the Altar Q. By whose power shall they be raised A. By the power of Christ For p Ioh. 5.28 29. all that are in their graves shall heare the voyce of THE SON OF MAN And shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the Resurrection of damnation If then we should not have these our own very bodies at the resurrection God should deale unjustly to torment those bodies in hell fire which had never done amisse Q The last Article A. The life everlasting For they that have done good q Dan. 12.3 shall shine as the stars for ever and ever r Mat. 25.41 and they that have done evill shall be cursed into everlasting fire Å¿ Athan. Creed This is the Catholique Faith which execept a man beleive faithfully he cannot be saved Q. You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did also promise for you that you should keep God's Commandements Tell me how many there be A. Ten. Q. Which be they A. The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of bondage This is the preface wherein he shews who it is that speaks unto them and laies this obligation upon them to harken to his words Q. Which is the first Commandement A. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me None but this God who by a strong hand and stretched out arme delivered them out of the hands of Pharao and from all his Host and brought them as safely as miraculously through the red Sea Q. What God is this A. The same God whom in our Creed we confesse to be the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth Q. VVhy then doth he not tell them so A. Because they were eye-witnesses of this his miraculous power wherein he manifested his Omnipotencie t Ex. 14.21 in commanding the Winds and the Sea u Ex. 13.21.14.20 in making the day as night to the Egyptians and the night as day to the Israelites by the Cloud and Fiery Pillar * Ib. v. 24.25 c. In routing and destroying the mighty and delivering the naked from the perill of the sword x Num. 20.11 Ps 114.8 In causing the rock of flint to yeeld a spring of water y Ex. 16.13.15 and the heavens to showre downe Manna and Quailes for their food This his late kindnesse bound them to harken to him Q. Which is the second Commandement A. Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any Graven Image nor the likenesse c. Q. Is it not lawfull to make a Graven Image A. It is otherwise z 1. Kings 6.23 Solomon would not have made a 1. Kings 6.23 those two Cherubims much lesse have b Heb. 9.5 placed them in the Holy of Holies over the mercy seat and these are they as I take it which are called the Cherubims of Image-worke 2. Chron. 3.10 Neither would he have made the c 1. Kings 6.29 carved Cherubims Palm-trees upon the walls d Ib. v. 32.35 and upon the doores both of the Temple and Oracle nor e 2. Chron. 4.3 the molten Oxen or f 1. Kings 7.36 graven Lyons g Ib. v. 51. All which he caused to be set in the house of the Lord. Q. Where 's the fault then A. In making them to thy selfe to be thy God in bowing downe to them and worshiping them Elsewhere therefore it is said h Lev. 26.1 Yee shall not set up any Image of stone in your Land TO BOW DOWN VNTO IT And i Deut. 17.15 Ps 97.7 the curse is laid upon those that worship carved or molten Images not upon those that make them unlesse they make them for that or the like use Q. VVhy so A. Because this is God's honour and he will not part with it to any other Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and HIM ONLY SHALT THOV SERV. k Deut. 13.4 So the Law l S. Mat. 4.10 so the Gospell As then they offend that give God's worship to Idols so do they sinne against his Commandements that do not bow downe to God and worship him As the former are Jdolaters the latter are little better then Atheists for m Tit. 1.16 in their workes in their Church duties they deny him to be their God Q. Hath not God himselfe given a reason for this A. He hath in the very next words For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God And the condition of jealousie is that as it cannot endure to have that which is our due given to another neither can we disgest to have it denied to our selvs For it is all one to me to have that which is mine denied me or given to another Q. What followes upon this A. That God is equally angry with them that do not bow downe to him and with those that bow dow down to Idols he counts them equally haters of himsefe and will equally Visite the sinnes of the Fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that sin against him either way Q. But how doth he esteem of them that detest Idolatry and give him his due worship that bow downe to him and worship him A. He reckoneth them among his lovers and friends they love me saith he and keep my Commandements And as they love him so doth he love them for in them he will shew mercy unto thousands of their generation And surely this is reason sufficient to move every Christian n Ps 95.6 to worship and fall downe and kneele before the Lord our God Q. The third Commandement A. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh