bodies he shall wound the heads over many countreys and restraining and conquering all his and our Enemies 32. Christ as our Redeemer did execute these three Offices both in the State of his Humiliation when he was upon Earth and still doth execute them in Heaven in his Exaltation 33. Q. Wherein did Christ's Humiliation consist A. Christ's Humiliation consisted (i) Luke 2.7 And she brought forth her first born Son and wrapped him in swadling clothes and laid him in a Manger because there was no room for them in the Inn. in his being born and that in a low condition (k) Gal. 4.4 And when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son made of a Woman made under the Law. made under the Law (l) Heb. 12.2 Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God. V. 3. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds Isa 53.2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender Plant and as a Root out of a dry ground he hath no form nor comliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him V. 3. He is despised and rejected of men a Man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not undergoing the Miseries of this Life (n) Phil. 2.8 And being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross the Wrath of God (m) Luke 22.44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground Matth. 27.46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying ELI ELI LAMASABACHTHANI that is to say My God my God why hast thou forsaken me and the cursed Death of the Cross (o) 1 Cor. 15.4 And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures in being buried (p) Matt. 2.40 As Jonas was three days and three nights in the Whales belly so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth Acts 2.24,25,26,27 31. V. 24. Whom God hath raised having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be holden of it V. 25. For David speaketh concerning him I foresaw the Lord always before my face for he is on my right hand that I should not be moved V. 26. Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope V. 27. Because thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption V. 31. He seeing this before spake of the Resurrection of Christ that his Soul was not left in Hell neither did his flesh see corruption and continuing under the power of Death for a time 34. Q. Wherein consisteth Christ's Exaltation Christ's Exaltation consisteth in (q) 1 Cor. 15.4 And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures his Rising again from the dead on the third day (r) Mark 16.19 So then after the Lord had spoken to them he was received up into Heaven and sat on the right hand of God. in ascending up into Heaven (Å¿) Ephes 1.20 Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places in sitting at the right hand of God the Father (t) Acts 1.11 Which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Chap. 17. V. 31. He hath appointed a day in the which he shall judge the World in Righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead and in coming to judge the World at the last Day 35. Christ our Mediator wrought Redemption from that State of Sin and Misery into which we fell and purchased a happy State of Life and Salvation for all to whom it is applied 36. Q. How are we made partakers of the Redemption purchased by Christ A. We are made partakers of the Redemption Purchased by Christ (u) John 1.11 He came unto his own and his own received him not V. 12. but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his Name by the effectual Application of it to us (x) Tit. 3.5 Not by works of Righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost V. 6. Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour by his holy Spirit 37. Q. How doth the Spirit apply to us the Redemption purchased by Christ A. The holy Spirit applieth to us the Redemption purchased by Christ (y) Ephes 1.13 In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the Word of Truth the Gospel of your Salvation in whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise V. 14. Which is an earnest of our Inheritance until the Redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory John 6.37 All that the Father giveth me shall come unto me and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out V. 39. And this is the Fathers Will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given I should lose nothing but should raise it again at the last day Ephes 2.8 By Grace ye are saved through Faith and that not of your selves it is the Gift of God. by working Faith in us and thereby (z) Ephes 3.17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love 1 Cor. 1.9 God is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. uniting us to Christ in our effectual Calling 38. Q. What is effectual Calling A. Which effectual Calling is the Work of God's Spirit (a) 2 Tim. 1.9 Who hath saved us and called us with an holy Calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and Grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the World began 2 Thess 2.13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you Brethren beloved of the Lord because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth V. 14. Whereunto he hath
called you by our Gospel to the obtaining of the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ John 16.8 And when he is come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgmnent whereby convincing us of our Sin and Misery (b) Acts 2.37 Now when they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles Men and Brethren what shall we do inlightning our Minds in the Knowledge of Christ (c) Acts 26.18 To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness unto light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by Faith that is in me and renewing our Wills (d) Ezek. 36.26 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you hearts of flesh V. 27. And I will put my Spirit within you and will cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them he doth perswade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the Gospel (e) John 6.44 No Man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him and I will raise him up at the last day V. 45. As it written in the Prophets and they shall be all taught of God every Man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me Phil. 2.13 For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure John 7.37 In the last day that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink 39. They who are effectually called do receive and partake of many Benefits by Christ Some in this Lise before they die some at their Deaths and some at the Resurrection in the last day 40. Q. What Benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this Life A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of (f) Rom. 8.30 Moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified Justification (g) Ephes 1.5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of Children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his Will. Adoption (h) 1 Cor. 1.30 Of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption Sanctification and the several Benefits which in this Life do either accompany or flow from them 41. Q. What is Justification A. Justification is an Act of God's free Grace wherein he pardoneth all our sins (i) Rom. 3.24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ V. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God Rom. 4.6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works V. 7. Saying Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered V. 8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin and accepteth us as righteous in his sight (k) 2 Cor. 5.19 To wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation V. 21. For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him only for the Righteousness of Christ imputed to us (l) Rom. 5.17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ V. 18. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men unto condemnation even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life V. 19. As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous and received by Faith alone (m) Gal. 2.16 Knowing that man is not justified by the works of the Law but by the faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the Law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified Phil. 3.9 And be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith 42. Q. What is Adoption A. Adoption is an Act of God's (n) 1 Joh. 3.1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not free Grace whereby we are received into the number and have a right to all the privileges of the Sons of God (o) Joh. 1.12 As many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his Name Rom. 8.17 And if children then heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ if so be we suffer with him that we may be glorified also together 43. Q. What is Sanctification A. Sanctification is the work of God's free Grace (p) 2 Thess 2.13 God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and the belief of the truth whereby we are renewed in the whole Man after the Image of God (q) Ephes 5.23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind V. 24. And that ye put on that new Man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness and are enabled more and more to die unto Sin and live unto Righteousness (r) Rom. 6.4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we should also walk in newness of life V. 6. Knowing this that our old Man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit 44. Q. What are the Benefits which in this Life do accompany or flow from Justification Adoption and Sanctification A. The Benefits which in this Life do accompany or flow from Justification Adoption and Sanctification are Assurance of God's Love Peace of Conscience (Å¿) Rom. 5.1 Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with
with psalms V. 3. For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods V. 6. Oh come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker us in these words For I the Lord. his Propriety in (d) Psal 45.11 So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty for he is thy Lord and worship thou him us in these words Thy God and the Zeal he hath to his own (e) Exod. 34.13 But ye shall destroy their altars break their images and cut down their groves V. 14. For thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God. Worship in these words For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children c. 9. Q. Which is the third Commandment A. The third Commandment is Exod. 27.7 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 Q. What is required in the third Commandment A. The third Commandment requireth the holy and reverend use of God's (g) Matth. 6.9 After this manner therefore pray ye Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy Name Dent. 28.58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law written in this book that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful Name THE LORD THY GOD. Names (h) Psal 68.4 Sing unto God sing praises to his name extel him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH and rejoice before him Titles (i) Rev. 15.3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways thou King of saints V. 4. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorisie thy Name for thou only art holy for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgments are made manifest Attributes (k) Mal. 1.11,14 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered unto my Name and a pure-offering for my Name shall be great among the Heathen saith the Lord of Hosts V. 14. But cursed be the deceiver that hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing for I am a great King saith the Lord of Hosts and my Name is dreadful among the Heathen Ordinances (l) Psal 138.1 I will praise thee with my whole heart before the gods will I sing praise unto thee V. 2. I will worship towards thy holy temple and praise thy Name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth for thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name Word and (m) Job 36.24 Remember that thou magnisie his work which men behold Works Q. What is forbidden in the third Commandment A. The third Commandment forbiddeth all prophaning or abusing of any thing whereby God maketh himself (n) Mal. 1.6 A son honoureth his father and a servant his master If then I be a Father where is mine honour And if I be a Master where is my fear saith the Lord of Hosts unto you O priests that despise my Name and ye say Wherein have we despised thy Name V. 7. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar and ye say Wherein have we polluted thee In that ye say The table of the Lord is contemptible V. 12. But ye have prophaned it in that ye say The table of the Lord is polluted and the fruit thereof even as wheat is contemptible Chap. 2. V. 2. If you will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my Name saith the Lord of Hosts I will even send a curse upon you and will curse your blessings yea I have cursed them already because ye do not lay it to heart Chap. 3.14 Ye have said It is in vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts known Q. What is the Reason annexed to the third Commandment A. The Reason annexed to the third Commandment is That however the Breakers of this Commandment may escape punishment from Men yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous (o) 1 Sam. 2.12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial they knew not the Lord. V. 17. Wherefore the sin 〈◊〉 the young men was very great before the Lord for men abhorred the offering of the Lord. V. 22. Now Eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation V. 24. Nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear ye make the Lord's people to transgress 1 Sam. 3.13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not Deut. 28.58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful Name THE LORD THY GOD V. 59. Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful and the plagues of thy seed even great plagues and of long continuance and sore sicknesses and of long continuance Judgment 10. Q. Which is the fourth Commandment A The fourth Commandment is Exod. 20.8,9,10,11 Remember the Sabbath-day to keep 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 Q. What is required in the fourth Commandment A. The fourth Commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set time as he hath appointed in his Word expresly one whole Day in seven to be an holy Sabbath unto the (q) Deut. 5.12 Keep the Sabbath-day to sanctisie it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee V. 13. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work V. 14. 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 nor thy man-servant nor thy maid servant nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattel nor thy stranger that is within thy gates that thy man servant and thy maid servant may rest as well as thou Lord. Q. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly
ever 1 Thes 4.16 In confidence of which they commit their Souls to God Ps 31.6 Acts 7.59 2 Tim. 4.12 2 Cor. 5.1,4 2 Tim. 4.8 3. They do immediately pass into Glory Phil. 1.23 or else it had been more desireable to enjoy Christ in Bonds than be dissolved See Luke 23.43 Mark the words are not I say this day c. but I say unto thee This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise The Soul of Christ was that day in Paradise therefore the Soul of the penitent was to be with Christ in Paradise that day for he was promised to be with Christ 4. No Man can merit eternal Life or degrees of Glory by his good Works it comes by gift Rom. 6.21 2 Tim. 4.8 SECT XXII Christians are obliged to or by the Moral Law. 1. GOD is the Lord and God of believers therefore they are bound to observe these Commandments 2. They are bound to keep by the equity of that other part of the preface who brought thee out c. A redeemed People must serve their Redeemer 3. The Lord Jesus was the Redeemer out of Egypt and gave the Law to Moses Acts 7.30 to 34. Heb. 12.26 whose voice shook the Earth 4. They Love God therefore it is a Law to them which requires Love Mat. 22.38,39 2. If ye walk in the spirit ye are not under the Law Gal. 5.18 doth not contradict this for we are not under the ceremonial Law nor the moral for Righteousness nor under the coaction and servile obedience nor condemnation of it for it is the Law of the Lord our God who is so in the Covenant of Grace 3. The Law is as it alwaies was a perfect Law therefore our Saviour did not as a Prophet add new precepts to it He instituted new Sacraments and instanced in some duties not known to the Pharisces but they are all reducible to some precept of the ten 4. No Man ever did or can do more than is required in the Law. Our Saviour did the will of God and no more Heb. 10.7 Angels do no more Ps 103.20 Believers are unprofitable Servants Luke 17.10 5. Therefore 1. There are no works of supererogation 2. No Man can merit for himself or others 3. Therefore there is no treasure of merits to be dispensed to them that want Of Christs fulness there is a dispensation made by himself but he hath no Lord Treasurer of merits and indulgences in his Kingdom 4. There are no counsels of perfection The young Man in the Gospel Mat. 19. had more to part with and deny himself in than others but more than self denial was not required of him which is enjoined to all and was practised Acts 2.44,45 5. Vows of poverty make no Man perfect Obj. But as many as be perfect c Phil. 3.15 Answ Christianity is a comparative perfection as Heirs at Age Gal. 4.1,2,3 but absolute A sincere believer is Evangelically perfect in Christ and account of grace but not perfect according to the Law. Commandment I. 1. Prayer was alwaies a duty Ps 27.6,7,8 Our Saviour did not add the Lords Prayer as a new precept to the first Commandment 2. Christ added not the precept of Worshiping himself to the first Commandment for he was alwaies an object of Worship Compare Acts 7.30 Is 6.1,3 with Joh. 12.41 Is 45.23 with Rom. 14.11 Commandment II. 1. God is invisible therefore no Man can make an Image of him 1 Tim. 1.17 His People saw none therefore he forbad them to make any Deut. 4.15,16 Every Image made for God must be a real lye for none can be made like him Acts 17.29 All those representations of him in Scripture Visions are for understanding and not for sight 2. All signs of honour before Images are forbidden Exod. 20.5 Levit. 26.1 Is 2.8,9 chap. 44.13 to 20. 3. It is Heathenish to Worship the true God by Creatures or Images Rom. 1.22,23 4. The Israelites did not believe the golden Calf to be God but made it to be a visible sign of Gods presence The feast was to Jehovah and not to the Calf yet it was abhorred and punished Exod 3â— 5 c. 5. Images begâ—t carnal thoughts of the invisible God therefore are not sit to instruct the vulgar Deut 4.15,16 Jer. 10.8,14,15 Hab. 2.18 Ps 115.4 to 8. Rom. 1.22,23 The Worship of God. 1. God is the only Object of Divine Worship the Father through the Son by the Holy Ghost Ephes 2.18 and no Creature either Saint or Angel Matth 4.10 Deut. 6.13 chap. 10.20 Col. 2.18 Heb. 1.14 Act. 10.25,26 chap. 14 14,15 Rev. 19.20 chap. 22.8,9 2. The Socinians prove that Divine Honour is due to Christ from Luk. 17.5 Matth. 8.25 Act. 7.59,60 2 Cor. 12 7,8 1 Thess 3.11 That the first Commandment is not changed by giving him such honour for he is no strange but a subordinate God. From this Concession of theirs I argue for his Glory against their false Opinion of Christ 1. He who said Thou shalt have no other God but me saith of himself I am Jehovah thy God. We must have none for God but he who is Jehovah Thou shalt have no other God but me or before me Therefore if Christ ought to be worshipped by this Commandment as they confess he is God Jehovah the only true God. He ought to be worshipped with divine Honour by virtue of this Commandment But there is no God to be worshipped according to this Commandment but Jehovah thy God therefore he is Jehovah 2. There is no subordinate Jehovah Christ is Jehovah therefore not a subordinate God. 3. A subordinate God is a strange God Any God but me is a strange God therefore any God but Jehovah is a strange God for Me is a Relative to Jehovah and Me is the same as God Jehovah 4. The Object of our Worship in that Commandment is but one Jehovah thy God If Christ be not that one Jehovah he is not at all to be worshipped by this Commandment but he is to be worshipped as God therefore he is Jehovah 5. There is but one Cause of our Salvation Tit. 1.3,4 chap. 2.13 1 Tim. 2.3 chap. 4.10 therefore it cannot be that Christ is honoured as God by the first Commandment because he is the second Cause of our Salvation 6. If Christ be not God Jehovah and yet ought to be worshipped with divine Honour the Commandment must needs be changed for if there be a new Object of Worship there is a Change of the Commandment 3. The Worship of God is kept pure when it is not depraved with mixtures of false Objects with the true it is entire when the Ordinances are not more nor fewer than Christ hath enjoined nor any part taken from nor added to them 4. When God is worshipped with the Heart he is worshipped in Spirit and when he is worshipped plainly without Types and Shadows he is worshipped in Truth Joh. 4.24 5. The outward manner of God's Worship must be suitable to God and to the
Q What do the Scriptures principally teach A. The holy Scriptures principally teach what Man is bound to believe concerning God and what Duty God requires of (e) 2 Tim. 1.13 Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 3.16 see before Man. 4. Q. What is God A. God is a (f) Joh. 4.24 God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth Spirit (g) Job 11.7 Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection V. 8. It is as high as heaven what canst thou do Deeper than hell what canst thou know V. 9. The measure thereof is longer than the earth and broader than the sea Infinite (h) Psal 90.2 Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. Eternal and (i) James 1.17 Every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of Lights with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of turning Unchangeable in his (k) Exod. 3.14 And God said unto Moses I am that I am and he said Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel I AM hath sent me unto you Being (l) Psal 147.5 Great is our Lord and of great power his understanding is infinite Wisdom (m) Rev. 4.8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him and they were full of eyes within and they rest not day and night saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Isa 6.3 And one cried unto another and said Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory Power (n) Rev. 15.5 Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou only art holy for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgments are made manifest Holiness (o) Deut. 32.4 He is the rock his work is perfect for all his ways are judgment a God of truth and without iniquity just and right is he Justice (p) Exod. 34.6 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth V. 7. Keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and that will by no means clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the childrens children unto the third and fourth generation Goodness and Truth 5. Q. Are there more Gods than one A. This God is one and there is and there can be but one only the living and true * Deut. 6.4 Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord. Jer. 10.10 But the Lord is the true God he is the living God and an everlasting King at his breath the earth shall tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation 1 Cor. 8.4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is none other God but one V. 6. But to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him God. 6. Q. How many Persons are there in the Godhead A. There are three Persons in the Godhead or Divine Being and Nature the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and these three are one God the same in substance equal in (q) 1 Joh. 5.7 For there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Matth. 28.19 Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost 2 Cor. 13.14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen Joh. 10.30 I and my Father are one Phil. 2.6 Who being in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God. Compare Isa 6.3,5,8 with Joh. 12.41 and Acts 28.25 Acts 5.3,4 But Peter said Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land Whiles it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart thou hast not lyed unto men but unto God. Power and Glory and all divine Perfections 7. This one God the Father the Son and Holy Ghost is the first efficient Cause or Creator the preserving and disposing and the final Cause of all things Rom. 11.36 For of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever Amen 8. What soever God hath done and brought forth he did according to his Eternal Purpose and Decrees Ephes 1.11 Who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will. 9. Q. What are the Decrees of God A. The Decrees of God are his Eternal Purpose according to the Counsel of his Will whereby for his own Glory he hath fore-ordained whatever comes to (r) Ephes 1.4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love V. 11. In whom also we obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Rom. 9 22. What if God willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction V. 23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had afore prepared unto glory pass 10. Q. How doth God execute his Decrees A. God executeth his Decrees in the works of Creation and (Å¿) Ephes 1.11 Who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will. Providence 11. Q. What is the Work of Creation A. The Work of Creation is God's making all things of nothing by the Word of his Power in the space of six days and all very (t) Gen. chap. 1. throughout Heb. 11.13 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things that do appear good 12. Q. How did God create Man A. After all the rest of his Works God created Man Male and Female after his own Image in Knowledge Righteousness and Holiness with Dominion over the (u) Gen. 1.26 And God said Let us make Man in our own image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the rish of the sea and over the fowl of the
air and over the cattel and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth V. 27. So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them V. 28. And God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth Col. 3.10 And have put on the new Man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him Ephes 4.24 And that ye put on that new Man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Creatures 13. Q. What are God's Works of Providence A. God's Works of Providence are his most (x) Psal 145.17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works holy (y) Psal 104.24 O Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches Isa 28.29 This also cometh from the Lord of hosts which is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working wise and powerful (z) Heb. 1.3 Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high preserving and governing all his Creatures and all their (a) Psal 103.19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heaven his kingdom ruleth over all Matth. 10.29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father V. 30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbred V. 31. Fear ye not therefore ye are of more value than many sparrows Actions 14. God's Providence is either general towards all his Creatures or special towards Mankind in the state of Creation before the Fall and in the state of Corruption since the Fall. 15. Q. What special Act of Providence did God exercise towards Man in the state wherein he was created A. When God had created Man he entred into a Covenant of Life with him upon condition of perfect Obedience forbidding him to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil upon pain of (b) Gal. 3.12 And the law is not of faith but the man that doth them shall live in them Gen. 2.17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Death 16. Q. Did our first Parents continue in the Estate wherein they were created A. Our first Parents being left to the freedom of their own Will fell from the Estate wherein they were created by sinning against (c) Gen. 3.6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat V. 7. And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons V. 8. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden V. 13. And the Lord God said unto the woman What is this that thou hast done And the woman said The serpent beguiled me and I did eat Eccles 7.29 Lo this only have I found that God hath made man upright but they have sought out many inventions God. 17. Q. What is Sin A. Sin is any want of Conformity unto or Transgression of the Law of (d) 1 Joh. 3.4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the law God. Any defect in keeping strictly and perfectly to the Law or any thing cross or contrary to the Law is Sin. 18. Q. What was the Sin whereby our first Parents fell from the Estate wherein they were created A. The Sin whereby our first Parents fell from that holy and happy Estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden (e) Gen. 3.12 The woman which thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the tree and I did eat Fruit. 19. All Mankind sinned and fell in Adam 's first Transgression For 20. Q. Did all Mankind fall in Adam 's first Transgression A. The Covenant being made with Adam not only for himself but for his Posterity all Mankind descending from him by ordinary Generation sinned in him and fell with him in his first (f) Gen. 2 16. And the Lord God commanded the man saying Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat V. 17. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Rom. 5.12 Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned V. 18. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life V. 19. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous 1 Cor. 15.21 For since by man came death by man also came the resurrection of the dead V. 22. For as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive Transgression 21. Q. Into what Estate did the Fall bring Mankind A. The Fall of our first Parents brought Mankind into an Estate of (g) Rom. 5.12 see above Chap. 3.23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Sin and Misery 22. Q. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that Estate whereinto Man fell A. The sinfulness of that Estate whereinto Man fell consists in the Guilt of Adam's first Sin the want of Original Righteousness and the corruption of his whole Nature which is commonly called Original Sin together with all actual Transgressions which proceed from (h) Rom. 5.10 to 20. Ephes 2.1 And you he hath quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins V. 2. Wherein in times past ye walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience V. 3. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature children of wrath even as others Jam. 1.14 But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own
Sabbath A. From the beginning of the World to the Resurrection of Christ God hath appointed the seventh Day of the Week to be the weekly Sabbath And the first Day of the Week ever since to continue to the end of the World which is the Christian (r) Gen. 2.2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he made V 3. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctisied it because that in it he rested from all his work which God created and made 1 Cor. 16.1 Now concerning the collection for the saints as I have given order to the churches of Galatia even so do ye V. 2. Vpon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come Acts 20.7 And upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break bread Paul preached to them ready to depart on the morrow and continued his speech until midnight Sabbath Q. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified A. The sabbath is to be sanctified by an holy resting all that (Å¿) Exod. 20.8 Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy V. 10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of work thou nor thy son c. day even from such worldly Employments and Recreations as are lawful on other (t) Nehem. 13.15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine-presses on the Sabbath-day and bringing in sheaves and lading asses as also wine grapes and figs and all manner of burthens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath-day and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals V. 16. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein which brought fish and all manner of wares and sold on the Sabbath-day unto the children of Judah and in Jerusalem V. 17. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah and said unto them What evil thing is this that ye do and prophane the Sabbath-day V. 18. Did not your fathers thus and did not God bring all this evil upon us and upon this city yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by prophaning the Sabbath V. 19. And it came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath I commanded that the gates should be shut and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath and some of my servants I set at the gates that there should be no burthen brought in on the Sabbath-day V. 21. Then testified I against them saying Why lodge ye about the wall If ye do so again I will lay hands on you From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath V. 22. And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves and come and keep the gates to sanctifie the Sabbath Remember me O my God concerning this also c. days and spending the whole time in the publick and private Exercises of God's (u) Luk. 4.16 And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath-day and stood up for to read Acts 20.7 And on the first day of the week c. Psal 92. Title A psalm or song for the Sabbath-day Isa 66.23 And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. Worship except so much as is to be taken up in the works of (x) Matth. 12. from V. 1 to 13. At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath-day through the corn and his Disciples were an hungred and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat But when the Pharisees c. V. 12. Is it lawful to do well on the Sabbath-days Necessity and Mercy Q. What are the Sins forbidden in the fourth Commandment A. The fourth Commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the Duties (y) Ezek. 22.26 Her priests have violated my law and prophaned mine holy things they have put no difference between the holy and prophane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and clean they have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am prophaned among them Amos 8.5 Saying When will the New Moon be gone that we may sell corn and the Sabbath that we may set forth wheat making the ephah small and the shekel great and falsifying the balances by deceit Mal. 1.13 Ye said also Behold what a weariness is it and ye have snuffed at it saith the Lord of Hosts and ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus ye brought an offering Should I accept this of your hand saith the Lord. required and the prophaning the Day by (z) Acts 20.7 And upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break bread Paul preached unto them ready to depart on the morrow and continued his speech until mid-Night V. 9. And there sate in a window a certain young man named Eutychus being fallen into a deep sleep and as Paul was long preaching he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead idleness or doing that which is in it self (a) Ezek. 23.38 Moreover thus they have done to me They have defiled my Sanctuary in the same day and have prophaned my Sabbaths sinful or by unnecessary Thoughts Words or Works about our worldly Employments or (b) Jer. 17.24 And it shall come to pass if ye diligently hearken unto me saith the Lord to bring in no burthen through the gates of this city on the Sabbath-day but hallow the Sabbath-day to do no work therein V. 25. Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David riding in chariots and on horses they and their princes the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and this city shall remain for ever V. 26. And they shall come from the city of Judah and from the places about Jerusalem and from the land of Benjamin and from the plain and from the mountains and from the south bringing burnt-offerings and sacrifices and meat-offerings and incense and bringing sacrisices of praise unto the house of the Lord. Isa 58.13 If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shall honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words Recreations Q. What are the Reasons annexed to the fourth Commandment A. The Reasons annexed to press the Observation of the Sabbath-day to the fourth Commandment are God's allowing us six Days of the Week for our own (c) Exod. 20.9 Six days shalt thou labour and
do all thy work Employment in these words Six days shalt thou labour his challenging a special property in the seventh in these words But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God his own Example of finishing all his Works in six days and resting on the seventh in these words For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth c. and rested the seventh day and his blessing the (d) Exod. 20.11 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 Sabbath-day in these words Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day 11. Q. Which is the fifth Commandment A. The fifth Commandment is Exod. 20.12 Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Q. What is required in the fifth Commandment A. The fifth Commandment requireth the preserving the Honour and performing the Duties belonging to every one in their several Places and Relations as (e) Ephes 5.21 Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God. Superiors (f) 1 Pet. 2.17 Honour all men Love the brotherhood Fear God. Honour the King. Inferiors or (g) Rom. 12.10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another Equals Q. What is forbidden in the fifth Commandment A. The fifth Commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of or doing any thing against the Honour and Duty which belongeth to every one in their several Places and (h) Matth. 15.4 For God commanded saying Honour thy father and mother and he that curseth father or mother let him die the death V. 5. But ye say Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profitted by me V. 6. And honour not his father or his mother he shall be free Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition Ezek. 34.2 Son of man prophesie against the shepherds of Israel prophesie and say unto them Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves Should not the shepherds feed the flocks V. 3. Ye eat the fat and cloath you with the wool ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the flock V. 4. The diseased have ye not strengthned nor have ye healed that which was sick nor bound up that which was broken nor brought again that which was driven away nor sought that which was lost but with force and cruelty have ye ruled them Rom. 13.8 Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law Relations Q. What is the Reason annexed to the fifth Commandment A. The Reason annexed to the fifth Commandment is a Promise of long Life and Prosperity as far as shall serve for God's Glory and their own Good to all such as keep this (i) Deut. 5.16 Honour thy father and thy mother as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee that thy days may be prolonged and that it may go well with thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Ephes 6.2 Honour thy father and thy mother which is the first Commandment with promise V. 3. That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth Commandment 12. Q. Which is the sixth Commandment A. The sixth Commandment is Exod. 20.13 Thou shalt not kill Q. What is required in the sixth Commandment A. The sixth Commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own (k) Ephes 5.28 So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies He that loveth his wife loveth himself V. 29. For no man ever hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the Church Life and the Life of (l) 1 King. 18.4 For it was so when Jezabel cut off the the prophets of the Lord that Obadiah took an hundred prophets and hid them by fifty in a cave and fed them with bread and water others Q. What is forbidden in the sixth Commandment A. The sixth Commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own Life or the Life of our Neighbour unjustly or whatsoever tendeth (m) Acts 16.28 But Paul cried with a loud voice saying Do thy self no harm for we are all here Gen. 9.6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man. thereunto 13. Q. Which is the seventh Commandment A. The seventh Commandment is Exod. 20.14 Thou shalt not commit Adultery Q. What is required in the seventh Commandment A. The seventh Commandment requireth the preservation of our own and our Neighbour's Chastity in Heart Speech and (n) 1 Cor. 7.2 Nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and every woman her own husband V. 3. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband V. 5. Defraud you not one the other except it be with consent for a time that ye may give c. V. 34. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin the unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord how she may be holy both in body and in spirit but she that is married c. V. 36. But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely towards his virgin if she pass the flower of her age and need so require let him do what he will he sinneth not let them marry Col. 4.6 Let your speech be always with grace c. 1 Pet. 3.2 While they behold your chaste conversation c. Behaviour Q. What is forbidden in the seventh Commandment A. The seventh Commandment forbiddeth all unchaste Thoughts Words and (o) Matth. 15.19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murthers adulteries fornications thefts false-witness c. Matth. 5.28 But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Ephes 5.3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named amongst you as becometh Saints V. 4. Neither filthiness nor foolish talking c. Actions 14. Q. Which is the eighth Commandment A. The eighth Commandment is Exod. 20.15 Thou shalt not steal Q. What is required in the eighth Commandment A. The eighth Commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the Wealth and outward Estate of our selves and (p) Gen. 30.30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came and it is now increased unto a multitude and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming and now when shall I provide for my own house also 1 Tim. 5.8 But if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own house he hath denied the faith and is worse than an insidel Lev. 25.35
serve them for I the LORD thy God am a jealous 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 III. 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 IV. Remember the Sabbath-day to keep 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 eattel nor the stranger that is within thy gates For in six days the 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 V. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt not kill VII Thou shalt not commit adultery VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife nor his man-servant nor his maid-servant nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is thy neighbour's The LORD'S Prayer MATTH VI. OVR 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 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 * i. e. Continued in the state of the Dead and under the power of Death till the third Day Hell the third Day he arose again from the Dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth on 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 FINIS PART II. A sensible Demonstration of the existence of God. SECT I. God is I. ALL Religion and Righteousness is grounded upon this foundation That God is Besides the belief I have in God by revelation and Spiritual sense I am convinced that he is by these evident proofs laid all together 1. I am certain that I was come into the World before I knew of my coming 2. I am certain I made not my self I was before I knew my self to be what I am 3. I am certain my Parents and other Persons and Creatures were in being before me 4. I am certain that no Being is so likely to make himself and all other things as Man is because he is a rational Being of great invention and contrivance 5. No Men of this inquisitive and learned Age pretend to make or to be present at the making of the admirable frame of the Universe and if any Man or Men of former Ages had made the World we of this Age should have found them in it For 1. They who could make themselves could preserve themselves 2. They who could make themselves and the World must needs be great and happy 3. They who were once great and happy and always continued to be so For 1. if they did depose or divest themselves of their happiness freely and of choice they were defective in Wisdom to exchange a happy Being for a less happy or for nothing and by consequence were not wise enough to make the World. 2. If they grew weary of themselves they were not happy 3. If they were constrained to unmake themselves they were not superior but subject to other Powers Therefore I believe there were no such Men no such self-makers and makers of other things I conclude that I am made by another who made all things else and he is the first infinite Cause in which my thoughts and belief do rest who is infinitely Wise Great and Good to whom be glory for ever Again it is impossible to prove there is no God for all things are mediums to prove that he is and there is no medium to prove that he is not Lastly all Men Die they who are prepared and willing do believe in God they who are unwilling cannot refuse to Die therefore there is a Superior Power that is Lord of Life and Death and he is the living God. SECT II. Of the Holy Scriptures The Scriptures are of God. 1. NO Man can know the mind and will of the infinite God Creator and Governor of the World except he be pleased to make it known That his will should be known is necessary or else we could not worship nor please him by doing his Will. 2. Besides the light of Nature we have his will made know by revelation by which God who made the World is so revealed and declared that as sure as I am that God made the World so sure am I that God gave the Scriptures to direct us in the way of Duty and Happiness 3. I find the Book of God in the possession of his Church and People like a Royal Charter in a City by which the City is constituted and governed and enjoy their privileges When I peruse the Charter I know it to be the King 's and no private Mans invention or forg'd instrument I know the great Charter of the City of God to be his Word 1. By the matter of it For instance Who can describe or declare the infinite God by his Glorious Names and Titles and attributes but himself Who can declare his relation to himself as Father Son and Holy Ghost but himself Who can prescribe his Worship make Laws set down rewards and declare what shall be in the World to come but himself 2. I observe the Style and Manner of speaking the manner of revealing the admirable consent of the Old and New Testament tho given the one so long before the other the scope of the whole their perfection and efficacy as able to make a Man Wise to Salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 by the operation of the Holy Ghost Authority of the Scriptures 1. The Scriptures derive their Authority from God their Author The Church is not the Author of the Scriptures therefore they derive not their Authority from it The Testimony and Tradition of the Church is but Ministerial We are directed to place our faith in the Word as it is Gods who gave it by inspiration 2 Tim.
of Influence a Vine a Shepherd an Husband 4. Faith is the Means Grace or Bond of Union on our parts By Faith we receive Christ Joh. 1.12 live by him Gal. 2.20 and feed upon him Joh. 6.47,48 Ver. 35. 5. The Spirit of God is the Author of this Union and Faith is called the Spirit of Faith 2 Cor. 4.13 as well as of Regeneration and Sanctification wherein Faith is a principal Grace 6. We call this a mystical Union in opposition to a natural and visible Union It is supernatural illustrated by natural artificial and civil Union in metaphorical Shadows and Illustrations We do not darken or deceive the Minds of Men by calling this Union Mystical or Secret The whole of our Religion and in particular this Union is a Mystery 1 Tim. 3.16 Ephes 5.32 and therefore to expose this Term Mystical to derision is to reflect upon the Gospel and our Christianity and calls for Repentance 7. A political Union is an Union of Persons in Policy or Government and is too narrow and low to express this Union for we are united to Christ as a Saviour and receive Benefits from him in all his Offices and not only as King. SECT XIX Of Effectual Calling 1. EFfectual Calling is the same Work of Grace as Regeneration or Conversion When God calls inwardly by his Spirit as outwardly by his Word this Call is effectual or attains its proper Effect to bring a Sinner to God. This Work is set out by Calling because by it we are brought hom who are far from God by Nature not in Place but Affection and Condition When Faith answers and we submit as Paul did saying Lord what wilt thou have me to do Act. 9.6 we are called and saved 2 Tim. 1.9 2. Election and Vocation are not all one The Elect and Called are the same Persons Vocation is the Execution of the Decree of Election which is the Cause or necessary Antecedent of it and is known by it In Vocation Electing Love takes hold of the Sinner to bring him out of Sodom or Egypt or spiritual Bondage into Light and Liberty The one is from Eternity the other in Time the one is in God the other the Work of God upon the Sinner 3. They who love God are called but it is not true that they love God before they are called for then the Answer would be before the Call. If they do not love God before they are called they do not love God before they are elected see Rom. 8.28 where note 1. God doth purpose 2. He calls according to Purpose 3. They who love God are called and called to love God and not because they love God See the Order amplified Rom. 8.30 Ephes 1.4,5 Election and Predestination are before Vocation If our Love to God be the Reason or Motive of God's electing us then we love God first contrary to 1 Joh. 4.19 4. They wrong the Teachers of the Truth who say we deny Free Will whereas we assert it to be as essential to Man as Reason is and that Free Will continues in every state in Innocency Corruption Renovation and Glory Sinful Man is a moral free Agent he doth act according to his Imaginations Propensions and Lusts He doth freely serve Sin and is free from Righteousness Rom. 6.20 When he is made free from Sin by renewing Grace he acts as a new Man freely towards God but with much opposition from in-dwelling Sin. As the Man is so is his Will An unregenerate Man is unwilling averse and perverse impotent and dead one way that is to God's Will and bent another If gracious Motions and Actions are contrary to sinful in the Regenerate they are contrary to and above the performauce of the Unregenerate As every degree of spiritual Light is from above so every degree of Liberty to Good is given of God. If spiritual Objects are not known nor perceived but by Revelation of the things and Illumination of the Mind they are not willed but by the renewed Will. 5. The Socinians I name them for all of the same mind deny Original Sin altogether and therefore assert A Man may of himself believe and obey c. To clear the Truth besides what hath been said for Original Sin 1. To deny Original Sin is in effect to deny Actual 2. To assert Freedom of Will as they do is to fansie Man as able now as before the Fall If we are not fallen into a state of Sin we have no need of a Redeemer nor Faith in him but we are taught the need of Redemption and Regeneration both 3. There is no force nor violence done to the Will of Man when God calls and draws him to himself by Christ 4. What probity or aptness was in Paul a Blasphemer or in the Jews before pricked in their hearts or in the Gaoler or in any Gentile to turn to God or for which God turned them and not others What probity or aptness or inclination towards Conversion was in them who counted the preaching of Christ Foolishness 5. Expound that Text Act. 13.48 by probity of Mind or aptness then the meaning of the place must needs be this As many as were apt to Eternal Life believed and so they were apt to Eternal Life before they believed Were they apt before their Eyes were opened before their Hearts were turned or the Gospel preached But admit they were not the blind Heathens but Proselytes who left their Heathenism and Uncircumcision that are spoken of how came they to be apt to believe whenas many Jews remained Unbelievers The truth is 1. All Preparations and Aptness towards God is not from our Free Will which stands off but Grace God and our selves are opposed Ephes 2.8 If from our selves not from God if of God not from our selves The first beginning of a good Work in us is from Grace Phil. 1.6 the first Will and first Motion is God's Work and not our own Phil. 2.13 Where was this Probity and Aptness in them who say they were foolish disobedient c. Tit. 3.3 and Idolaters c. See 1 Cor. 6.9,10 3. Effectual Calling is from one contrary point and state to another from Darkness to Light Act. 26.18 Ephes 5.8 from Idols to the living God 1 Thess 1.9 from Satan to God Act. 26.18 from Death to Life Ephes 2.1,5 from serving Sin to God Rom. 6.17 to 22. What is in Man's Will and Nature towards God and Holiness but what is not of our selves 6. This heavenly Calling is drawing Joh 6.44 which we profess as well as they to be without force or violence And they who are drawn are taught of God. But then we say 1. There is besides the proposal of exceeding great and precious Promises an inward Teaching by the Holy Ghost and they only who are so taught are drawn powerfully and sweetly to Christ 2. This effectual Teaching and Drawing is not common to all for then all would believe and come Christ as listed up is a drawing Object
and customs Rom. 13.6,7 Commandment IX 1. Equivocation because truth is darkned and 2. Breach of Faith even with hereticks are unlawful Ps 15.1 to 4. Ezek 17.15,16 Rom. 1.31 Rev. 21.8 Commandment X. 1. Concupiscence is sin 2. Thoughts are under Law for it is spiritual 3. Sin remains in the regenerate tho it reign not it is Sin Gal. 5.17,18 2. Every sin deserves Death therefore there are more than seven deadly sins Mat. 24.51 1 Cor. 6.10 Rev. 21.28 SECT XXIII What God requires of Man to escape wrath Faith. 1. FAith should not be defined by ignorance for it is the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 and cannot be without knowledge Joh. 17.3 Joh. 4.22 chap. 10.38 chap. 16.30 chap. 17.7,8 2. Faith is a certain firm assent not only to Doctrines because Christ is the object of it Joh. 1.12 chap. 3.16 Rom. 3.26 3. Unbelief is a disallowance therefore on the contrary faith is an approbation of and consent to the way of Salvation by Christ 1 Pet. 2.4 4. Faith goes further yet it is a trusting in Christ Ephes 1.13 A guilty lost penitent mourner must have a Saviour which he can trust 5. Faith may be abstracted in some consideration but can never be separated from good Works Ephes 2.8,9,10 Gal. 5.6 James 2.14,18,26 6. Faith answers to the offer of the Gospel and therefore receives Christ as a Prophet for Wisdom as a Priest for Righteousness as King for Sanctification and Redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 Mat. 11.28 Joh. 7.37 Mar. 9.7 Repentance 1. Repentance is to be Preached in Gospel times Acts 26.20 Luke 24.47 2. Christ repented not for us it is Gods gift and our duty Acts 11.18 chap. 17.30 3. It is not the sinner who grieves for Sin but the spirit who convinceth of it 4. The Law discovering sin and wrath is subordinate to the Gospel drawing the Soul to God by grace and mercy 5. In or by sin the Creatures heart is turned to Self and Creatures from God by repentance he returns from Self and Creatures to God. 6. An intention to repent once in a Mans Life is not repentance for it is an actual return to God with godly sorrow and with fruit 2 Cor. 7.9 7. Repentance takes in all known Sin the habits and Dominion of which are broken by it yet the in-dwelling of Sin doth hinder it to be a repentance to Life SECT XXIV Outward and ordinary means of Grace 1. THere is no such perfection of grace as to live above Ordinances They who had extraordinary measures of the spirit observ'd Ordinances and brought Converts under them Acts 2.41,42 chap. 6.4 chap. 12.5 chap. 22.7 2. The Administration of them and Preaching the word was and ought to be committed Authoritatively to Ministers and Pastors qualified ordained and called The Apostles went out by commission Mat. 28.19 See Heb. 5.4 Men must be competently able Tit. 1.9.2 Tim. 2.2 for the Office and Work 1 Thes 5.12,13 1 Tim. 4.6 and Ordained by Pastors Tit. 1.5,6,7 1 Tim. 5.22 chap. 4.14 and so he is distinct from brethren 1 Tim. 5.6 over whom he is an officer with authority 1 Thes 5.12,13 Heb. 13.7,17 1 Cor. 14.34,35 1 Tim. 2.12 A minister must give himself to his work 1 Tim. 4.13,14,15 must abide in his calling except necessity requires absence Acts 20.3,4 else how can he watch and be an example to them Believers have enough to do in their own places without taking upon them any part of the Ministers office Ephes 6.4 1 Thes 5.11 Rom. 15.14 and much good might be done if done with humility and judgment SECT XXV Of the Sacraments 1. OUr Lord sealed the New Testament with his Blood and added visible signs and seals as means of Grace Mat. 26.24 c Mat. 28.19 2. There are not seven but two Sacraments which are proper to Christianity and common to all Christians 3. Sacraments are not empty signs but effectual to their end See Rom. 6.3,4 Gal. 3.26 1 Cor. 10.16,17 and they are effectual after their kind for by them we are instructed as by a visible word and excited and sealed 4. They do not confer grace by the very doing or using them for there is no natural vertue of conveyance of grace It is not the outward washing 1 Pet. 3.20,21 nor doth the intention of the Minister make them effectual but the Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 1 Cor. 11.28 1 Cor. 7.19 Ephes 5 25,26 5. The Minister of the New Testament 2 Cor. 3.6 Mat. 28.19 is the only Minister of the Seals 1 Cor. 11.23 Of Baptism 1. The Baptism of the spirit is the Work of the spirit and not the ordinance enjoined We have no Ordinance of Baptism but what is with Water which is necessary to Baptism as Bread and Wine to the Lords Supper 2. Baptism is a necessary duty but it is the unbelief that damneth Mat. 16.16 and not the meer want of Baptism 3. Of the form of Baptism see what is spoken of the Trinity before and of the improvement of Baptism after 4. Note carefully the ground or reason upon which the Apostles received the first converts to Baptism Acts 2.39 for the promise is to you c. 5. There is no particular command for Baptizing Infants by Name but seeing the ground of Baptizing the repenting believing Jews was because the promise was to them and their Children and not only to them but to the Gentiles that were far off and should believe in Christ the Infants of such Parents are included in the command of Baptizing because they are named in the promise or Covenant of grace They who deny their Baptism are obliged to produce by what word or Act of God they are excluded Of the Lords Supper 1. Where ever Christ was Bodily present he was visibly present and seen He is not seen in the Sacrament therefore though believers have Communion with his Body and Blood by Faith 1 Cor. 10.16 he is not present in Body He is in Heaven Acts 3.21 and when he will come he shall be seen Rev. 1.7 2. There is no Transubstantiation if there were any it were more likely that the Body and Blood of Christ should be turned into Bread and Wine because it is Bread and Wine as well after consecration as before than that the Bread and Wine should be turned into the Body and Blood of Christ as sure as it was Bread and Wine before it was blest it is as surely the same after it is blest when eaten and drunk Was there ever any change of one differing and unlike substance into another and the change not seen or sensibly perceived Moses's Rod was not a Rod when it was turned into a Serpent the water was not water but Wine when our Saviour turned it into Wine But here is no change at all perceiv'd when our Saviour spake to his Disciples This is my Body and was he not alive at the table Did they eat him alive or was he at the same time alive at the Table and Dead
fourth Commandment See Cat. Part 3. § 5 c. The outward and ordinary Means c. You cannot but desire the Mercies of this Life such as respect your outward Man. What makes Men outwardly happy but a Competency of the good things of this Life and Prosperity as far as shall be for God's Glory and our Good. Then Men live happily upon Earth when every one doth perform his Duty when we enjoy Peace when we live in Safety Honour Chastity good Repute outward Wealth and are content with our own Condition as you may gather from what is contained in the six last Commandments When you pray you must confess your Sins What Sins See the sinfulness of that State into which Mankind fell and the several Sins against each Commandment Make therefore your Requests known with humble Confession of your Original Sin bewail your Guilt the Loss of Original Righteousness the Corruption of your Nature and your many actual Sins of Thought Word and Deed of Omission or careless Performance of the Duties requ red and of Commission of Sins forbidden in each Commandment See and search each Commandment as opened in the Catechism together with the heinousness of your Sins and the greatness of them with their several Aggravations See Part 2. of the Cat. With a thankful Acknowledgment of his Mercies For what Mercies For all Mercies revealed offered and received particularly for the Covenant of Grace for Jesus Christ the Redeemer for all the Benefits of Redemption for Grace for the Means of Grace for outward Mercies publick private personal We offer up our Desires for what we want and make a thankful Acknowledgment of what we have and enjoy And so the matter of both is the same when you know what to pray for you know also what to be thankful for And to humble us in the sight of God and to make us earnest and importunate let us lay to heart the Misery of our State since the Fall Answ 22 23 c. Here followeth a Form or Pattern of Prayer sramed according to those Directions section 2 O God who art a Spirit Infinite Eternal Unchangeable in thy Being in thy Wisdom Power Holiness Justice Goodress and Truth Although we are not fit to come into thy glorious Presence being both unlike thee dark and foolish impotent and unclean guilty and corrupt thou art graciously pleased to command us to draw nigh unto thee and to seek thy Face in the Name of the Lord sesus Christ our Advocate in whom thou art well pleased For thine infinite Mercies and for thy Goodness sake be nigh unto us by thy Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ According to the multitude of thy tender Mercies be merciful unto us and blot out all our Iniquities A short general Confession We humbly confess and bewail that the Covenant being made with Adam for himself and his Posterity we who descend from him by ordinary Generation sinned in him and fell with him And now O Lord most holy and just we are guilty before thee we have lost Original Righteousness and our whole Nature is corrupted whereby we are apt and prone to all manner of actual Transgressions which proceed from this our Original Sin. We acknowledge that for our Sin we are justly deprived of Communion with thee and fallen under thy Wratn and Curse and made liable to all the Miseries of this Life to Death it self and to the Pains of Hell for ever Oh! we have daily broken thy Commandments in Thought Word and Deed and our Sins are very heinous in thy Sight because of many Aggravations A large Confession of Sin. Holy Lord our Nature is so corrupted and degenerate that we have by acting according to it transgressed all thy holy Commandments Oh! we have not loved thee with all our Heart with all our Soul and with all our Mind We have not loved our selves as we ought nor our Neighbour as our selves We are bound to keep all thy Commandments because thou art the Lord our God and Redeemer But Oh! we have not known thee nor acknowledged thee the only true God and our God nor worshipped and glorified thee accordingly As we have confessed thee with our Mouths so in our Works we have denied thee We have not worshipped and glorified thee as the only true God as God infinitely blessed and glorious but have robbed thee and given that to others which is due to thee alone and have not considered in our Hearts that thou who hatest Iniquity seest all things takest notice of and art much displeased with such Transgressors We have not received observed and kept pure and entire all such religious Worship and Ordinances as thou hast appointed in thy Word nor have we considered thy Soveraignty over us Propriety in us and the Zeal which thou hast to thine own Worship We have not holily and reverently used thy Names Titles Attributes Ordinances Word and Works but have often prophaned the things whereby thou hast made thy self known neither have we laid to heart that though the Breakers of this Commandment may escape Punishment from Men yet thou the Lord our God wilt not suffer them to escape thy righteous Judgments Glorious and holy Lord We have not kept holy to thee such set Times as thou hast appointed not that one whole Day in seven which is our Christian Sabbath We have not sanctified it by an holy Resting all that Day from such worldly Employments and Recreations as are lawful on other Days and by spending the whole time in the publick and private Exercises of thy Worship or only in the Works of meer Necessity and Mercy But on the contrary we have sinned by the Omission or careless Performance of the Duties required by often prophaning the Day by Idleness or that which is in it self sinful and by unnecessary thoughts Words and Works about worldly Employments or Recreations And we have not as we should considered thy merciful allowing us six Days for our worldly Employments thy challenging a special Propriety in the Sabbath-day thine own Example and thy blessing of it all which should have moved us to keep it holy Thus have we sinned against thine infinite glorious Majesty We have sinned against Heaven and against thee To these great Offences against thee the Lord our God we have added many Sins against our Neighbour also We have not only failed in performing the Duty which we owe to every one in their several places and relations but have often and many ways done contrary thereunto We have sinned in not preserving the Honour in not performing the Duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations as Superiors Inferiors and Equals but have neglected or done many things against the Honour and Duty belonging to every one in their several places and relations We have not been so careful and charitable as we ought to do whatsoever tendeth to the Preservation of our own and our Neighbour's Life of our own and our Neighbour's
Ignorant and of them who go out of the way who hast by thy Holy Spirit made the Reading but especially the Preaching of thy Word an effectual Means of convincing and converting Sinners and of building them up in Holiness and Comfort through Faith unto Salvation be pleased for Christ's sake to prepare our Hearts that we may attend to thy Word and receive it as new-born Babes 1 Pet. 2.1 by Faith and Love and lay it up in our Hearts and practise it in our Lives Before the Sacrament or Communion Most holy wise and merciful Lord God when all Mankind was fallen into an Estate of Sin and Misery it pleased thee to enter into a Covenant of Grace to bring thy People out of that sinful and miserable Condition into an Estate of Salvation by thy beloved Son the only Redeemer thou art graciously pleased to teach us convince convert build up and comfort us by thy Word and for our furtherance in Faith Holiness and Comfort to represent to us Jesus Christ and all the Benefits of the New Covenant by sensible signs the Bread and Wine broken poured out given and received and not only to represent Christ to us but also to seal and apply him and the Benefits of the New Covenart Be thou pleased by thy Spirit of Grace to help us to receive the Bread and Wine according to thy divine Appointment that we may receive them worthily and be Partakers by Faith of his Body and Blood with all his Benefits to our spiritual Nourishment and Growth in Grace We pray thee help us to examine our selves and so let us eat Oh let us not eat and drink unworthily not discerning the Lord's Body but give us a clear and saving Knowledge to discern the Lord's Body a lively Faith to feed upon him a renewed Repentance to Life a pure and fervent Love and quicken us to walk in new Obedience to all thy Commandments Oh help us to remember him and shew forth his Death both by our Profession and holy Conversation till he come again For the Lord's Day O Lord our God who hast commanded us to remember to keep holy the Sabbath day for Jesus his sake forgive us our great Forgetfulness both in preparing for it and performing the Duties of it Thou hast been very merciful to us in allowing us six Days for our own Employments Thou hast strictly enjoined us to sanctifie this whole Day and to move us thereunto thou hast set before us thine own Example both of finishing all thy Works in six Days and resting the seventh and hast blessed the Day and sanctified it Yet we have not considered nor regarded these Reasons annexed to this thy holy Commandment to perswade and quicken us to this great and holy Duty Pardon us O Lord according to the Riches of thy Grace this our Transgression and seeing thou givest us hopes of enjoying another Sabbath we beseech thee help us by thy Holy Spirit to sanctifie this Sabbath by an holy Resting all this Day even from such worldly Employments and Recreations as are lawful on other Days In reading hearing singing Psalms Meditation Prayer Conference and to spend the whole time in the publick and private Exercises of thy Worship except so much as is to be taken up in the Works of Necessity and Mercy which thou shalt call us to And keep us by thy Grace from the Omission or careless Performance of the Duties required from prophaning the Day by Idleness or any thing in it self sinful or by unnecessary Thoughts Words or Works about our worldly Employments or Recreations And bless the whole Day to us For Morning for every Day according to Ans 11. Most holy the All-wise and Almighty Lord God who dost by thy most holy wise and powerful Providence preserve and govern all thy Creatures and all their Actions we do most earnestly beseech thee to give us thy Holy Spirit to preserve our Souls from Sin and Temptations to govern our Thoughts Wills Affections our Words and Actions that they may be holy Over-rule our vain sinful Thoughts Imaginations Designs Purposes Motions and Affections to Evil. Raise in us Holiness of Design in our Conversation that we may aim at thy Glory Give us Wisdom and Discretion to order all our Affairs according to thy Laws Give us Ability and Strength that by thy Power we may carry on all the Affairs and Works of our particular Calling preserve us by thy Power therein from our Enemies and from all Harm and Danger We humbly commit our selves to thy holy wise and powerful Providence we desire thy Grace to depend thereupon and to ascribe the Glory of all our Success to thy Blessing Let us see and acknowledge thee in whatsoever shall come to pass this Day for all things are by thee and through thee and for thee to whom be Glory for ever For Night O Lord who hast created the Evening and the Morning and hast by thy great Wisdom ordained the Night for Rest and that part of our Time on Earth should be spent in Sleep and Rest that being refreshed thereby we might be enabled for thy surther Service When we are at rest we have neither Knowledge to discern nor Wisdom to fore see nor Power to resist the Evils that may befal us But thou by thy holy wise and powerful Providence preservest and governest all Creatures in all their Actions Therefore we adore thy Providence and in considence of thy Wisdom Power and Goodness cast our selves upon thee this Night humbly beseeching thee to preserve our Souls from Sin that we imagine not Evil upon our Beds our Persons our Relations our Habitation our Comsorts from Danger and Destruction from all Creatures who are subject to thy Command Keep us that we sleep not the Sleep of Death let neither Men nor Devils nor any other Creature disturb or hurt us And thou who governest all Creatures and all their Actions govern us our Imaginations Affections Senses Actions that sleeping or waking we may be thine And all we beg as in the Name of Christ so for the sake of Christ AMEN Directions to use this Form Perswasions to Family-Prayer especially and Resolution of some Questions briefly touched section 1 YOu see what store of spiritual and divine Matter your Catechism doth afford you to enable you for Prayer and Thanksgiving You shall not have cause to complain of want of Matter such as you ought and such as you may make use of You need no more to say you know not what to pray for for here is a Treasure digged up in your own Ground if indeed you make this little Catechism your own Now labour with your own Hearts and in this small Treatise and the Lord by his own Spirit teach you how to pray I perceive these Prayers to grow to such a length that I sear some will be discouraged from the length and seeming tediousness of all this therefore receive these few Counsels and Directions section
was baptized to him I am joined I am his And O you the blessed Saints of God take notice that I hope to be saved even as you by him whose Name is Jesus who came to save his People from their Sin. O you careless ones who will not be at the Cost of a Sacrament who will not come to the Light forsake your Sins nor be joined to the Lord to be his by a renewed Covenant You that will not take pains to know the Lord Jesus in the great Work of Redemption in which you are deeply concerned that will not take time and pains to prepare your selves for the Supper of the Lord give me leave to ask you these few Questions 1. Have you sinned at all 2. What doth every Sin deserve 3. Is there any other Redeemer but the Lord Jesus Christ 4. Do you think that his Death is shewed forth in his holy Sacrament 5. Ought you not to obey his last Will to make a Remembrance of him And will you not come to remember him Oh what a Sight doth the broken-hearted Penitent see when the Father sheweth the Death of his Son as fully satisfied and pleased in him And when Jesus Christ sheweth forth his Death as satisfying for all with a full Discharge to all that repent and believe the Gospel Oh how must the Heart needs melt and love as Mary wept and loved Let me add Wouldst not thou hate and abhor that Minister that would refuse to baptize thy Child or account thee as an Heathen or a Publican And is it nothing to thee that thou carriest thy self like an Heathen by thy strangeness sinful and slothful refusing to come to this Ordinance Thou dost discover the Ineffectualness of thy Vow in Baptism to bind thee to be a thorow Christian and that thou art not the better for it that thou thinkest that the preaching of Christ is but a dry thing of no power upon thy Heart that there is not that Good to be had by Communion with Christ that we say there is In a word Thou art backward to renew thy Covenant in thine own Person in thy riper Years and wouldest be as slack to be baptized if it were now to be done as thou art to eat the Lord's Supper for both are Seals and Signs of the same Covenant And by consequence thou art backward to become a Christian And what wilt thou be accounted at the last Day section 7 The other Motive is the Loss and Dis-advantage by not Receiving and also by unworthy Receiving The Non-Communicants lose all that true Believers get that Satisfaction Peace Joy Comfort Strength and Growth The unworthy Receiver and unsound Communicant comes for the worse 1. Sin is a great Dis commodity to any one The Sin of unworthy Eating and Drinking is a Sin of great Indecency and Mis-behaviour towards Jesus Christ crucified for Sin Thou art guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord that is thou prophanest that which is most holy and abusest that which should be most dear to thy Soul. 2. Thou eatest and drinkest Judgment to thy self for they who eat and drink unworthily provoke God to punish them they draw down Judgments upon themselves and others also 3. Thou losest the Benefit of spiritual Nourishment and Growth in Grace thy Sins grow thy Heart waxeth worse and worse more deceitful and hard if not more prophane even to nauseate that from which thou receivest no saving Benefit In a word Thou hast no Communion with the Father in his Love with Christ in his Merits with the Holy Ghost in his Grace and Comforts nor with the Saints of God in Love and heavenly Privileges Oh what a Loss and Disadvantage is this Consider what I say and resolve by the Grace of God against affected Ignorance spiritual and killing Sloth and Ease against Unbelief and Falseness of Heart shrinking from thy Covenant Vow and Promise and see that thou sin no more by Omission of this great Duty and Neglect of this high Privilege nor by an unworthy Eating and Drinking But hunger and thirst after Christ and thou shalt be filled with his Grace and Glory Come with thy Wedding-Garment and thou shalt never be cast out If thou wilt shew forth his Death until he come again when he comes he will receive thee to himself and thou shalt be for ever with the Lord. So be it Amen Amen FINIS ERRATA IN the Catechism pag. 6. Letter t for Heb. 11.13 read 11.3 PART II. p 9. l. 3. r. the Law is called a Letter c. ibid. l 24. add the things of the Spirit p. 11. l. antepenult r. if not one jot c. p. 19. Sect. 1. r. Jehovah which signifies c. p. 38. l 12. for put p 49. l. 21. dele in p 59 l. 10. f give r. shew p. 60. n. 5. l. 2. r. and Faith and is called c. p. 77. l. 21 r. but not absolute p. 87. l. 25. dele not p. 88. l 7. r. doth not hinder p 94. l. 15. after bless it add as the Minister doth Other Faults by reason of the Author's distance from the Press have escaped which the Reader is intreated to correct and pardon