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A64969	The principles of the doctrine of Christ, or, A catechism in which is contained the sum of the Christian religion, or what is necessary to be believed and done in order to salvation, the answers being but seventeen in number, and in very plain words easie to be understood : unto which is added A catechism for conscience, wherein the consciences of the ignorant, the grosly profane, the young, the meerely mortal, and the hypocrites are examined in order to their instruction and awakening, and the consciences of the sincere Christians are tried in order to their peace and comfort / by Nathanael Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.; Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697. A catechism for conscience.	1691 (1691)	Wing V418; ESTC R25704	37,318	113

my days to grant me no more Sabbaths nor indeed any longer space for repentance Q. 23. Art thou now willing to sanctifie the Lords day to attend upon those Ministers that preach as being in good earnest that speak most to the Consciences of their Hearers and are desirous and wise to win Souls A. These above all I have hated but all the while I did so I now perceive I had no true love unto my self Q. 24. Dost thou consent to submit unto the easie yoak of Christs commands as well as desire pardon and reconciliation by his Blood And dost thou look upon it as unreasonable to hope to be saved by Christ if thou art resolved that Sin and the Devil shall still rule thee A. The wages of Sin is Death why should I serve such a Lord any longer Oh that I may become a Servant indeed to the best Lord of All. Q. 25. Art thou willing to be a true Convert unto God To have thy Eyes turned to look to him Thy Feet turned to walk in all his ways And thy Heart turned to love and fear and cleave unto Him A. Lord turn thou me and then I even I as bad as I have been shall indeed be turned The Conscience of the Young Man who is vain in his Youth is to be dealt with after this manner Q. 1. O young Man thou rejoicest in thy youth and seemest void of care and fear What is the ground of this thy joy A. I walk after the sight of my Eyes and in the way to which my heart is inclined and the fulfilling of my youthful Lusts is very pleasant Q. 2. But is not thy Creator to be remembred in the days of thy youth And is not his service infinitely better than to have thy Lusts thy Lords A. I reckon it time enough to think of God when I am old Q. 3. How dost thou know thou shalt live to be old A. I find Nature in me vigorous and strong And now what is gratifying to my Senses puts me into a transport of joy Mirth and Musick delight my Ear Meats and Drinks do please my apperite Brave Apparel is my Pride Sports and Recreations are my principal business and Amorous Thoughts and Desires are constant Guests which my heart entertains with wonderful complacency My mind aspires to worldly greatness and I hope to be somebody before I die Q. 4. Why dost thou not consider that the hour of Death may be near notwithstanding the strength of Nature and that many as young and lusty as thy self and who as confidently reckoned upon longer life have been by the small Pox or Feaver or some other malady or by unexpected accident suddenly sent unto their graves A. Pray don't talk of Death 't is a melancholick subject which I don't care to hear or think of Q. 5. But will the putting of Death out of thy mind be any defence against its stroke or keep Death off from thee A. To think much of Death would make life miserable it would be a torturing of ones self and a dying every day Q. 6. But if thou livest so as that to die will be gain to thee will the thoughts of Death be unpleasant then A. I have no inclination at all to change my course of life Q. 7. Why shouldst thou resolve to live a fool deceived and enslaved by thy lusts and pleasures and to venture dying miserably A. Pray let me alone I am not sensible of any bondage I am under I live a merry life and an ounce of mirth is better than a pound of sorrow Q. 8. If an ounce of carnal mirth which may so quickly end and end in endless sorrow be of so much account with thee what is a far more exceeding and eternal weight of joy and glory A. That joy is unsuitable to me That Man methinks spake very good sense who said Soul take thine ease eat drink and be merry thou hast Goods laid up for many years Q. 9. Does not God call that Man a Fool And did not Death which came to him many years sooner than he expected prove him to be both Fool and Wretched And did not Hell make him sensible of his folly when it was too late A. I dislike the thoughts of death but much more of what is to follow after Q. 10. Is it not a Lesson that the Wise man would teach the Young man Eccles 11. 9. But know that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment A. I dread that day and cannot endure to think of the account I am then to give to Him that is to be my Judge Q. 11. Not thinking of Judgment does it not make thee secure and careless in making ready for it And hereupon will not thy account be with the greater grief and horrour A. I am sorry I have entred upon this discourse if once these things come to have a deep and abiding impression upon my heart I must bid farewel to all my joy and sorrow must fill up the remainder of my days Q. 12. Why dost thou suffer thy self to be deceived and abused Is not a greater joy to be preferr'd before a less A true and lasting joy before that which is but a shadow a dream and vanishes in a moment A. I cannot conceive that Religion should ever prove such a pleasant thing to me Q. 13. Why then does the Scripture speak of strong consolation Of a peace that passes all understanding Of a joy unexpressible and full of glory A. These strong comforts and joys seem to me to be but strong phancies and meer imaginations Q. 14. Hast thou not reason to say so of thy sinful Comforts But pray consider Is it not God the great Creator of all things which has put into the creatures that power they have to delight thy senses And cannot He himself infinitely more delight thy Soul A. Spiritual pleasures are things I do not understand I have had a deal of satisfaction in the delights that are fleshly Q. 15. Dost thou think the Holy Angels have no pleasure because they have no flesh How full of Torment are the Devils though they have no bodily senses to be tormented And have not the elect Angels though they have no bodies a far higher delight in God than a body is capable of A. I confess I have not minded my Soul which is a Spirit but have pleased my senses and my fancy as if there were no higher happiness Q. 16. While thou hast thus pleased thy bruitish part for Beasts have senses which they please hast thou not shewed thy self rather a Brute than either Saint or Man A. You intimate that to be a Saint is to act with the greatest reason But I would fain enjoy my sensual pleasures a little longer and afterwards I am for repenting and turning Saint indeed Q. 17. God who commands thy turning to him and turning Saint does he not command thee to do it presently Does not the Holy Ghost say To day if ye

signified and sealed the other Benefits of the New Covenant are signified and sealed also Baptism is appointed and required Mat. 28. 19. Go ye therefore and disciple all nations baptizing them The Lords Supper is Instituted 1 Cor. 11. 23. I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you ver 24. Do this in remembrance of me Q. 15. What is Baptism A. Baptism is a washing with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost whereby is signified and sealed our being Born again the purging away of sin by the Blood and Spirit of Christ and our partaking of a new Nature And all that are Baptized whether Believers or their Seed are engaged to be the Lords Baptism is a washing with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Spirit Mat. 28. 19. Baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Baptism signifies and seals our being born again Tit. 3. 5. According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost In the regenerate sin is purged away by the Blood and Spirit of Christ 1 Joh. 1. 7. The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin Gal. 5. 16. This I say then walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh They that are born again have a new nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. That you might be partakers of the Divine Nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust All that are baptised whether Believers or their seed are engaged to be the Lords Rom. 6. 3 4. So many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death and being dead to sin should walk in newness of life Children are engaged as well as the Parents Act. 2. 39. The Promise is unto you and to your Children 1 Cor. 7. 14. Else were your Children unclean but now they are holy separated to him and to his service Q. 16. What is the Lords Supper A. The Lords Supper is an Ordinance wherein after self-examination which is required there is a giving and receiving of the Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment And worthy Receivers discern his Body partake of his benefits and shew forth his death till he come to Judgment Self-examination is required before this Ordinance of the Supper 1 Cor. 11. v. 28. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. In this Supper there is a giving and receiving of Bread and Wine according to Christs appointment Mat. 26. 26 27. Jesus took Bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to the Disciples and said Take eat this is my Body And he took the Cup and gave thanks and gave it unto them saying Drink ye all of it Worthy Receivers discern his Body looking beyond the Bread and Wine to his Body and Blood thereby signified and given to them 1 Cor. 11. 24 25. This is my Body which is broken for you This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood Worthy Receivers partake of his benefits Joh. 1. 16. And of his fulness have all we received and grace for grace In the Supper we shew forth Christs death till he come to Judgment 1 Cor. 11. 26. For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew forth the Lords death till he come Q. 17. When Christ comes to Judgment who must appear before Him A. At the last day the dead will be raised and all must appear at the Judgment seat of Christ Believers who have done good shall be rewarded with eternal life The wicked who lived and died in their sins shall be punished with the vengeance of eternal fire At the last day the dead shall be raised Acts 26. 8. Why should it seem a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead All must appear at the Judgment seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. For we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or evil Believers that have done good shall be rewarded with eternal life Rom 6. 22. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life The wicked shall be punished with the vengeance of eternal fire Mat. 25. 41. Then shall he say to them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels 2 Cor. 5. 11. Knowing the truth and terrour of the Lord we perswade Men. 2 Pet. 3. 7 11. Seeing the Heaven and the Earth are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness The CREED I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth and in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was Conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried he Descended into Hell Continued in the State of the Dead Th● third day he Rose again from the Dead he Ascended into Heaven and Sitteth at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty from thence He shall come to Iudge 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 London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1691. A Catechism FOR CONSCIENCE The design of which is to try awaken and instruct the Consciences of Men and to make them faithful to God and to Themselves The Conscience of a grosly Ignorant Sinner is thus to be Questioned Quest 1. WHat are thy thoughts of God Answ I seldom hear and hardly ever think of him Q. 2. Why is not God in all thy thoughts Why dost thou live without him in the World A. I have no knowledge of Him and I do not care to entertain thoughts concerning Him Q. 3. Is not this thy bare ingratitude and folly that God who gave thee thy Being and gives thee every good thing thou hast should never be thought on But tell me Hast thou no apprehensions of God at all A. I sometimes conceive Him to be a good old Man that sits and reigns above in Heaven Q. 4. Foolish and darkned Heart Why hast thou not taken notice that God is a Spirit who really has no bodily parts Why dost thou not consider That they exceedingly dishonour Him who change the glory of the incorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible Man Rom. 1. 23. But dost thou not believe that God always observes thee A. I regard not God and I hope he does not much regard

will hear his voice harden not your hearts Heb. 3. 7 8. If thou wert in pain wouldst not thou be for present ease If thou wert in great danger wouldst not thou be for present security If sick of a death threatning malady wouldst thou not desire to be presently healed Why oh why shouldst thou not be willing to part with sin immediately which is the worst disease and which if not presently cured perhaps may never be cured but issue in eternal death A. Methinks I see that evil in sin I never saw and the bewitching pleasure of it is not so taking a thing as it was formerly Q. 18. Art thou willing to be directed to a Saviour who can deliver thee from Sin and Wrath A. I may die while I am young and when I come to die I shall prize a Saviour certainly I ought now to value him I am willing to be directed to him Q. 19. That thou may'st come to Christ wilt thou flee youthful lusts and pray that thy heart may be cleansed from them and that thou mayest possess thy vessel in sanctification and honour counting it an honour to thy body to have the members of it Instruments of Righteousness unto Holiness A. I perceive my Lusts are hurtful and 't is a foolish thing to serve them to my own ruine Q. 20. When Sinners thy companions entice thee wilt thou refuse to consent and rather reprove them though they call thee fool and fanatick than have any longer fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness A. 'T is better to leave them and be laught at than in hell to weep and despair with them to Eternity Q. 21. Thy wanton and defiling and ensnaring books such as Plays and Romances wilt thou cast away and give thy self to search the Scripture Catechisms and other good books which may help thee in the understanding and practice of the Word of God A. I hope I shall become a student in the Holy Bible labour to be well grounded in the doctrine of the Catechism and add practice to knowledge Q. 22. Art thou sensible that the pleasures of sin are but for a season And are the vanities of the world fallen in thy esteem A. I hope I shall be no longer a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God nor prefer sports and pastimes before Prayer his word and service Q. 23. Dost thou perceive that thy happiness lies in God in being favoured by him in being like unto him in holiness and in enjoying him both here and for ever A. My naughty heart is unsuited to God and looks upon happiness in him with a strange eye but I desire my heart may be circumcised to love him and that I may chuse God himself above all Q. 24. Dost thou consent to receive Christ who is made known and offered to thee in the Gospel to justifie thee by his blood to sanctifie thee by his Spirit and to rule thee by his word and commandments A. I desire my heart may be opened to receive the Lord Jesus Q. 25. Dost thou rely on Christ alone to make thy peace with God as believing this truth there is but One God and One Mediator between God and Men the Man Christ Jesus A. I am perswaded that Christ alone is the Saviour of his Church and People and that there is not Salvation in any other Q. 26. Dost thou see thy inability to come to Christ except the Father who hath sent him draw thee A. The Lord make me willing in the day of his power and draw me to his Son Turn m● to himself that I may never return to my youthful vanity and folly or any wickedness more The meerly Moral Mans Conscience is thus to be Examined Q. 1. What are thy Apprehensions of thy Spiritual state A. I thank God I am not as other Men are Extortioners Vnjust Adulterers None can say black is my Eye I have the the good word and report of my Neighbours I do as I would be done unto I wrong I defraud no Man Q. 2. How dost thou perform thy duty towards God A. I pray and hear Sermons and come to the Communion Table and pay to the Church as well as to the Poor and therefore question not but all is and will be well with me Q. 3. Dost thou not believe that thou art descended from old Adam A. I have heard something of Adam I think he was the first Man but I do not well understand the meaning and intent of your question Q. 4. Dost thou not know that Adam was created innocent and upright but quickly fell from his integrity by believing Satan and eating the forbidden Fruit A. That was done several thousand years ago and I am not to concern my self about it Q. 5. Thinkest thou not that thou didst sin in Adam A. I cannot conceive how I should sin in Him so long a time before I was born Q. 6. Does not the Apostle expresly say that by one Mans disobedience many were made sinners This he speaks of Adam and does he not affirm that death passed upon all men because in Him all sinned Rom. 5. 12 19. A. I do not understand how this can be Q. 7. Dost thou not perceive in thy self the effects of Adam's sin And that thou hast derived from Him a corrupt and depraved Heart and Nature A. I thank God my heart is very true and good I believe that few if any have a better Q. 8. How long has thy Heart been thus true and good A. Ever since I can remember Q. 9. What thinkest thou of that black character which the Heart-searching God gives of the heart of man that it is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jer. 17. 9. A. I never perceived any such wickedness in mine Q. 10. Is it not because thy Heart deceives thee and hides its wickedness from thy Eyes But for thy conviction let me ask thee What kind of thoughts does thy heart entertain A. Thoughts are free and I let them take their course it would be an endless piece of business to observe my thoughts Q. 11. Does not the Scripture say that sinful thoughts as well as ways must be forsaken if we will obtain mercy Isa 55. 7. And does not the Apostle give advice to a man to pray that the thought of his heart may be forgiven Acts 8. 22. Do not these places plainly signifie that thoughts may be sins and need pardon A. I never understood so much before Q. 12. When thou are praying or hearing where are thy thoughts A. I am very reverent and devout in my gestures and behaviour but as for my thoughts I can give no account for I very little if at all mind them Q. 13. Does not God himself say that they worship him in vain who draw nigh to him with their Bodies and honour him with their Lips but their Hearts are removed far from him A. My heart I must confess does rove and wander while I am in

pronounced concerning me Thou art filthy be filthy still thou art unjust be unjust still Q. 17. Art thou willing now at length to be thoroughly awaked out of thy sinful and carnal security A. I am surprized as 't is said Hypocrites shall be with an unusual fearfulness I desire to be deliver'd from the Spirit of slumber and Oh that my Eyes may be indeed enlightened that I may not fall asleep again and sleep the sleep of death Q. 18. Is the applause of men a poor thing with thee Dost thou value the favour and approbation of God and Fellowship with him And dost thou begin to abhor to seem religious only for carnal interest and to make a profession subservient to thy secular advantage A. Lord make me an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile Q. 19. Dost thou consent to be sanctified throughout in Body Soul and Spirit and to be established unblameable in holiness to the end A. Names and Shews will signifie nothing at the day of Judgment I consent therefore to be a Saint indeed Q. 20. Wilt thou make restitutio● of what has been gotten dishonestly either to the persons wronged by thy own self or by the hand of another if prudence so require or if the persons wronged cannot be found wilt thou make restitution to the Poor A. I am glad I have wherewithal and am in a capacity to do thus I am willing to give again what I have robbed and to walk in the Statutes of Life Q. 21. Dost thou know that though satisfaction is made to thy Neighbour by restitution for the wrong thou hast done him yet as that wrong is an offence against God satisfaction can be made alone by the Blood of Jesus the Mediator A. I dare rely on nothing but the Blood of Christ that through him I may receive the atonement though my Faith alas is weak and not without many doubts and fears Q. 22. As presumptuous confidence has been thy sin hitherto so dost thou not think that despair and despondency will be thy sin also if thou givest way to it Though many Woes are thundred out against Hypocrites yet if they are willing to be made sincere is the Door of Hope shut against them A. I am ready to run from one extream to another and to conclude because I find there has been no grace in me that there is no hope remaining Q. 23. Does not the Scripture say 'T is good that a man should hope Is not despair then evil A. Lord pity pardon and hold me up from sinking Q. Wilt thou now be low in thy own thoughts as thou hast but too much reason wilt thou be no longer censorious but charitable in honour preferring others before thy self wilt thou be exactly true in thy words and righteous in all thy future dealings wilt thou be very pure in Body and Spirit and keep a Conscience void of offence towards God and towards Man A. I have talked much of Grace buh have little understood it Oh that tet Grace of God which bringeth Salvation may teach me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world that it may be well with me in the world to come for ever The Conscience of the Sincere but Doubting Christian is thus to be tried in order to his Comfort and that he may Communicate at the Lords Table Q. 1. Why are thy looks so dejected and sad A. Alas my heart is full of doubts and fears and fears of Hell and Wrath must needs have much of torment Q. 2. What is the ground and reason of these fears A. My iniquities are increased over my head and as an heavy burthen are too heavy for me Q. 3. Does not Christ call the labouring and heavy laden to come to him for rest Mat. 11. 28. and since his call is general to all the heavy laden Souls why shouldst thou except and exclude thy self as if the invitation were not made to thee A. There are many things which are ready to kill my hop●s of ever being pardon'd and saved Q. 4. What are those things that have thus bowed thee down and brought thee to the brink of desperation A. None come to Christ but those that are Elected and given to Him of the Father and I fear I am not of that number Q. 5. Is that the first thing to be inquired into whether thou art Elected or no Art thou not first to make thy calling sure and by that to come to the knowledge of thy Election and if thou art effectually called from sin to holiness mayest thou not warrantably conclude thou hast been predestinated unto life A. I am much troubled about Gods decree concerning me Q. 6. If thou makest choice of God and hadst rather have him to be thy portion and inheritance than to have the largest portion of the things of this life mayest thou not from hence certainly infer that he has chosen thee in Christ before the foundation of the world was laid A. But is there not one sin that God will never pardon And I am afraid oftentimes that I have committed that unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost Q 7. Is not the Blood of Christ which does away the guilt and filth of sin precious in thy Eyes and dost thou not highly value the priviledge of being justified and washed by this Blood and if so is it not plain that thou does not trample under-foot the Son of God nor count his Blood an unholy and common thing A. The Blood of Christ is truely precious to me and the benefits thereby purchased if I might partake of them Q. 8. Dost thou count the Miracles that Christ wrought for the confirmation of the Gospel by the power of the Holy Ghost to have been wrought by the power of the Devil A. No no I am satisfied that Satan could not do such wonders as to give sight to the Blind and born Blind and to raise the dead Q. 9. How canst thou think then that thou art guilty of Blasphemy against the Spirit But to put all out of doubt dost thou not desire the sanctifying grace of the Spirit and if so is not this a plain evidence thou hast not committed the unpardonable sin against the Spirit A. I would fain have this well proved that a desire after grace is an evidence I never was guilty of the unpardonable sin Q. 10. Is not this proved from Christs own words Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness Mat. 5. 6. If He that hungers and thirsts after righteousness i. e. desires to be truely holy and still to be more and more holy be indeed a blessed man and shall be filled have what he desires How can he have been guilty of a sin unpardonable and that unremoveably fixes a curse upon him A. But if I have not committed the sin that never is forgiven alas how many other sins have I been guilty of which I fear will be my Eternal

thou not willing to give thy self and heart undivided to him that he may have the pre-eminence above all things in thy affection and esteem A. My whole Heart and self I would gladly give to the Lord Jesus might such an one as I so guilty so defiled be accepted Q. 27. VVas not the returning Prodigal though vile and unworthy received by his Father with open Arms and a joyful Heart was he not entertain'd with amazing mercy and kindness Luke 15. And was not this Parable spoken on purpose to assure returning Sinners of a gracious reception though they have run far away from God A. I find some hope reviving at what you say and some glimmering light of joy but still I tremble I have heard of the Cross of Christ and Self-denial even to the death And if it should once come to such a trial I am confident I should prove a most cowardly Apostate Q. 28. Is not sin the Natural Mans greatest darling If therefore thou givest up thy lusts at present to be slain hast thou any reason to question thy willingness if called to it to lay down thy life for Christs sake Besides in extraordinary trials is there not extraordinary strength and comfort vouchsafed Is Martyrdom to be undergone in Natures powers or does not the Spirit of Glory and of God rest upon Sufferers to carry them through the fiery trial 1 Pet. 4. 14. And why shouldst thou distrust the Lord who is faithful and will not suffer thee to be tempted above what thou art able 1 Cor. 10. 13. A. Though I cannot answer and argue for my unbelief yet alas my Spirit is down and I find it hard for any thing to fasten upon me for my comfort Q. 29. VVhen wast thou at the Lords Table A. I dread the thoughts of approaching to it since the unworthy receivers do eat and drink judgment to themselves Q. 30. Is it any wonder thou art comfortless who livest in the neglect of a duty so expresly commanded and that command given by thy dying Lord Do this in remembrance of me A. But surely 't is better not to Eat and Drink than to Eat and Drink unworthily Q. 31. Hast thou a right understanding of this Gospel-worthiness How greatly art thou mistaken if thou thinkest it a meritorious worthiness Is not worthiness as much as meetness and fitness Is not He the worthy person who is truely sensible of his unworthiness and desires to be found and to be accepted in Christ Is not He the worthy Communicant who feels his Spiritual diseases wants and weakness and desires that Christ in this Ordinance would heal supply and strengthen him A. I dare not come to the Table before I have an assurance of the love of God and know I shall be welcome Q. 32. Is not this to say I will not use the means till I have attain'd the end Is not this Ordinance appointed that weak grace may be strengthened and by being strengthened may be made evident Dost thou not remember that the Disciples the first Communicants of all doubted of their sincerity And when Christ told them one of their number should betray him did they not one of them after another say Lord is it I A. But the Scripture saith He that doubteth is damned if he eat Q. 33. Does not the Apostle speak of doubting concerning the lawfulness of the meat to be eaten not concerning the Spiritual estate of the eater The Disciples doubted whether they were true Ones or Traytors and yet was this a barr to Communion A. If I should come I fear I should receive no benefit but come away from the Table with greater Terrour and Trouble Q. 34. Dost thou not perceive the hand of Satan in all this who is the great Enemy of thy Soul and the peace of it Art thou willing that Grace should be in thee in truth be in thee and abound Art thou willing that World and Flesh should be Crucified and all the Affections and Lusts of it Art thou willing to join thy self to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that may never be forgotten If so why dost thou keep off from the Table who wouldst be so welcome there why dost thou suffer the New Creature in thee to be weak and languishing for want of this Food to sustain and strengthen it keeping thy self a stranger unto peace and comfort A. I am jealous and afraid of comfort lest it should make me careless and presumptuous Q. 35. Did the manifestation of the Fathers kindness to the returning Prodigal make him forward to be gone again into the far Countrey Or did it not rather make him love his Father and Home the better ever after VVhen thou hast tasted that the Lord is good will not this make thee cleave to him with further purpose VVhen thou hast experienced the joys of the Holy Ghost will not sinful and earthly pleasures be contemned VVill it not be enough to silence Satan in all his Temptations when from thy own experience thou canst say that Godliness is a greater gain and pleasure than ever sin did yield to thee A. The Lord increase my Faith Encourage my drooping Spirit Fit me for my Duty Incline me to it And graciously meet me in the doing of it I wish instead of doubts and fears there may be hope and diligence that I may wait upon the Lord in all his ways and find my strength renewed since the Scripture says Blessed are all they that wait for Him These Books written by the same Author are sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chapel WOrthy Walking Pressed upon all that have heard the Call of the Gospel From Eph. 4. 1. I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called The Spirit of Prayer Or a Discourse wherein the Nature of Prayer is opened the Kinds of Prayer are handled and the right manner of Praying discovered Several Cases about this Duty are Resolved From Eph. 6. 18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit c. Unto which is added a Direction for the Attaining the Gift of Prayer That Family Duty may not be omitted nor Secret Duty discouraged through Inability of Utterance and Expressi●n A Heaven or Hell upon Earth Or a Discourse concerning Conscience on Acts 24. 16. Herein do I exercise my self to have a Conscience c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The True Touchstone which shews both Grace and Nature Or a Discourse concerning Self-Examination by which both Saints and Sinners may come to know themselves Whereunto are added sundry Meditations relating to the Lords Supper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The more Excellent Way to Edifie the Church of Christ Or a Discourse concerning Love The Design of which is to Revive that Grace now under such decays among Protestants of ALL Perswasions The Conversion of the Soul Or a Discourse Explaining the Nature of that Conversion which is sincere and Directing and Perswading all to cease their loving Sin and Death and to Turn to God and Live A Warning given to Sinners to prepare for Judgment to flee from Wrath to come and turn from All Sin but especially the Sin which does most easily beset them The Little Child's Catechism In which the Principles of the Christian Religion are in plain words and short answers laid down and suited to the Memories and Understandings of Little Children Whereunto are added several short Histories which may both please and profit them as also Directions how to pra● All Eight ●●●●ten by Nath. Vincent M. A. Minister of the Gospel FINIS