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A79564	The church catechism, analysed, explained, and improved The first part. Wherein, I. The text is set down whole, and entire. II. It is broken into questions, and answers in the very words of the catechism. III. The terms of it are explained, and such short questions and answers added, as are occasioned by it, and seem needful to the discovery of its true meaning, and use. At the end is added matter, and direction for all acts of devotion for morning and evening, mostly in the words of the catechism. The whole accomodated to the capacity, and use of them, that are yet to learn it, and recommend to the rich, to bestow among the poor.		1683 (1683)	Wing C3993A; ESTC R229600	26,096	48

sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of his death and be in charity with all men Q. You say That they that come to partake of the Lords Supper are required to examine themselves What must they examine themselves of 176 A. They must examine themselves of three things 1. Whether or no they truly repent of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life 2. Whether or no they have a lively Faith in Gods mercy through Christ together with a thankful remembrance of Christs death 3. Whether or no they be in Charity with all men Q. How may a man know whether he truly repent of his former sins 177 A. Then doth a man truly repent of his former sins when he not only sees owns and confesses all his sins nor only is grieved and sorry for them but also abhors and forsakes them and doth not willingly sin any more Q. How may it be known Whether a man do stedfastly purpose to lead a new life 178 A. Then doth a man stedfastly purpose to lead a new life when his purposes are so strong that nothing prevails with him to return to his former sins but he is brought over to lead a new holy and obedient life Q. How may a man know Whether he hath a lively Faith in God's mercy through Christ 179 A. Then hath a man a lively Faith in Gods mercy when he so believes the mercifulness of God as that he sincerely uses the means and performs the conditions of obtaining the mercies of God Q. Which are those mercies of God through Christ 180 A. The chief mercies that God gives through Christ are 1. Pardon of all our sins 2. The assistance and grace of his holy Spirit 3. Eternal glory and happiness in Heaven Q. Why are these called the mercies of God through Christ 181 A. They are said to be through Christ 1. Because the mercies of God are bestowed on us for the sake of Christ and of what he was did and suffered for us 2. Because they are conveyed to us by Christ 3. Because they are bestowed in Christ's way by those means and upon those conditions that Christ hath appointed Q. How may a man know whether he be in Charity with all men 182 A. He that is in Charity with all men neither designeth nor wisheth nor furthereth the harm of any man but designeth wisheth and furthereth the good of all men to his power Q. What if upon Examination we find that we truly repent have a lively Faith and are in Charity with all 183 A. If when we have examined our selves we find that we truly repent and have a lively Faith and are in Charity with all men then we may safely and will chearfully and comfortably partake of the Lord's Supper Q. What if upon strict Examination we find that we do not truly repent of our former sins have not a lively Faith or are not in Charity with all men 184 A. Such a man is in a most wretched condition unprepared to live well unprepared to dye well unfit to partake of the Lord 's Holy Supper which he must abstain from until he be duly qualified for it Q. What ought such an one to do 185 A. He ought immediately to make himself sensible of his miserable estate and to pray earnestly for the grace and aid of God's holy Spirit and to sincerely endeavour by all God's appointed means to bring his mind to a true Repentance to a lively Faith and to universal Charity and then to come and partake of the Lord's Supper for the strengthning and refreshing of his soul FINIS Daily Acts of DEVOTION REmember my good Child that as ever you would be happy as ever you would keep the love of God and men as ever you would save your Soul from Sin Satan and Hell you must not only know and own your duty to God and your Neighbour but you must actually do it all the days of your life §. I. MORNING DEVOTIONS THerefore when thou first awakest in the morning look up to Heaven and say I thank thee O Lord my heavenly Father that by thy great mercy thou hast defended me from all the perils and dangers of this Night through thy onely Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen After sufficient sleep immediately quit thy Bed and give no way to sloth nor occasion to bad thoughts As thou art dressing suffer no vain talk nor worldly matters to prepossess thy mind but cast thy thoughts round the World consider the Heaven the Sky the Air the Waters the Earth and Hell and the Creatures in them particularly think on thy self and the excellent estate that Adam and Eve were made in and say How Mighty How Wise How good is that God that thus made all these things Blessed be God the Father who hath made me and all the World Then think into how sad an estate Adam and Eve by their sin brought themselves and all their Children and how much worse it would have been if God had not sent his Son to save men from it and say How wretched are men who are spoiled by Sin enslaved to the Devil and liable to Hell Blessed be God the Son who hath redeemed me and all Mankind Then think of the aids of the Holy Ghost and the many ways and means he useth to sanctifie Christians and say Blessed be God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the elect people of God Next you may think how great a mercy it is that you are made a Member of Christ a Child of God and an Heir of the Kingdom of Heaven and say I heartily thank my Lord God our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this estate of salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour When you are ready venture not out till you have withdrawn into the privatest place you can and there think how far you have broken your promise at Baptism and what faults you have committed and then with all humility of soul and sorrow of heart cast your self on your knees or face and say with reverence as in God's presence O Great Creator Sovereign Lord and Just Judge of Men I have been baptized into the Name and service of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and have promised and vowed that by God's help I would renounce the Devil and all his Works the pomps and vanity of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the Flesh Thou O God! hast not refused me thy help But to my shame I confess I have too often yielded to the Temptations of the Devil and done his Works in Pride in Malice in Lying c. I have been foolishly taken with the pomps and vanities of this wicked World and with covetous desires after its needless Braveries Riches Pleasures and Honours I have beastlily followed the sinful Lusts and been led away by the carnal desires of the Flesh in

I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Iesus Christ and therefore I say Amen so be it Q. Whom do you desire to grant these things 123 A. I desire God to grant these things Q. What is God to you 124 A. He is my Lord God our heavenly Father and the giver of all goodness every good thing Q. What do you desire your heavenly Father to do 125 A. I desire him to send his grace to me and to all people Q. What do you desire God to send his grace for 126 A. To enable us that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to do Q. How ought you to worship serve and obey him 127 A. We ought to worship serve and obey God with the same Reverence Fear Love and Zeal as readily willingly and chearfully as faithfully sincerely and constantly as the happy people in Heaven do Q. What do you pray for else 128 A. And I pray unto God that he will send us all things that be needful both for our Souls and Bodies Q. Which are the things that are needful for our Souls 129 A. The things that are daily needful for our Souls are All that power and ability all those means and helps all that grace of God that is needful to make us to understand our duty to love it and to do it aright Q. What are the things that are needful to our Bodies 130 A. The things daily needful for our Bodies are Life Health and Strength Meat Drink and Cloathing and other needful conveniences Q. You said that we pray to God that he will be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins How far are we taught to pray and hope that God will forgive us our Trespasses 131 A. We are taught to pray and hope that God will forgive us our sins and trespasses so far as we do truly forgive all them that trespass against us and no farther Q. You said that you prayed God that it would please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily which are the bodily dangers in and from which you pray God to save and defend us 132 A. The bodily dangers from which I pray God to defend us are all those things that may endanger the Life Health or Welfare of our bodies such are Maims Diseases want of Food and Raiment and such like Q. Which are the ghostly or spiritual dangers against which we pray God to defend us 133 A. Ghostly dangers are all those by which our Souls are endangered as when the Devil wicked Men or any thing in the world tempts us to sin against God or when our own flesh inclines us to it then our Souls are in danger to be ruined by that sin and therefore we pray that God will keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and so from everlasting death Q. Who is our ghostly enemy 134 A. Our spiritual enemy is our adversary the Devil who as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour Q. Have you any hope that God will grant you these Petitions 135 A. All this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ and therefore I say Amen so be it Q. Who are they that have good ground to trust that God of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ will grant these Petitions to them 136 A. All those that are faithful to God in the Covenant made at their Baptism and do truly make conscience of keeping it in all Points and who make a diligent use of all the means that God hath appointed for to obtain the good they pray for may be sure that God of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ and for his sake will grant them all these Petitions Q. Who are they that ought not to hope so 137 A. All those that make no conscience to keep their Baptismal Covenant but are false and perfidious Breakers of it and do not diligently use the means that God hath appointed to obtain the good things that they need should not trust that God of his mercy through Christ will grant their Prayers seeing such rather tempt and affront Almighty God than pray to him Q. Which are those means which God hath appointed to obtain the good things that we pray for 138 A. The means that God hath appointed for our obtaining the good things that we pray for are 1. That we apply our minds by diligent study of his Word and hearkning to the good instructions of his Ministers to learn all that concerns us 2. That we bring our Wills to love what is good and to hate all that is evil 3. That we conscientiously employ all our helps and abilities in discharging our duty submitting our selves to the discipline of Christ and to the wise directions of our Superiors watching against the occasions and resisting temptations to sin mortifying the lusts and sinful desires of our flesh and duly using the Sacraments which Christ hath ordained in his Church §. IX Of the Two Sacraments Q. How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church 139 A. Christ hath ordained in his Church onely Two Sacraments as generally necessary to salvation that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Q. Which are those Two onely Sacraments which Christ hath ordained in his Church 140 A. Baptism is one and the Lord's Supper is the other and these Two are the onely Sacraments that Christ hath ordained in his Church Q. Are both these Sacraments so necessary to the salvation of any man that no man can be saved unless he be baptized and receive the Lord's Supper 141 A. Both Baptism and the Lord's Supper are generally necessary to the salvation of every man Q. What mean you to say they are generally necessary 142 A. The meaning is That these two Sacraments are so necessary to the salvation of men that he that wilfully neglects or refuses to be baptized and partake of the Lord's Supper when he might as generally men might if they would cannot be saved Q. When may any be saved without them 143 A. He that is fit and desirous to be baptized and to receive the Lord's Supper but is against his will forced to want them may be saved without them Q. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament 144 A. By a Sacrament I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us which outward sign was ordained by Christ himself as a means whereby we receive that same spiritual grace and a pledge to assure us thereof Q. By whom are these two outward signs of inward and spiritual grace ordained 145 A. They are both ordained by Christ himself Q. What is the outward and visible sign ordained for 146 A. The outward sign is ordained to be a means whereby we receive the inward grace and to be a pledge to assure us of it that as

slothfulness intemperance uncleanness c. O God! be merciful to me a Sinner I then also promised to believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith But O how shamefully have I neglected duly to consider them Openly to own and profess them And Conscientiously to live suitably to them Yea farther I vowed to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and to walk in the same Commandments of God not now and then but all the days of my life from my Baptism to my death But O my God I confess with sorrow and shame that I have too often resisted thy Holy Will and disobeyed thy Commandments and have not made Conscience to keep them nor walk in them all the days of my past life Dispose my mind O my God! to true Repentance and so for Jesus Christ's sake graciously forgive the sin of thy servant Inable me Conscientiously to renew my Covenant with God and give me grace sincerely to keep it Then lift up thy Heart thy Eyes and thy Hands towards Heaven and say I do verily think that I am bound To renounce the Devil and all his Works The Pomps and Vanity of this wicked World And all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh And here before God and his Angels I renounce them all And that I am bound to believe and profess all the Articles of the Christian Faith And to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and to walk in the same all the days of my life And by thy help O God so I will And because I know that I am not able to do these things of my self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special grace therefore I now will call for it by diligent Prayer Then say Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into Temptation But deliver us from Evil. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for Ever and Ever Amen Then add O my Lord God our heavenly Father the Giver of all Goodness I beseech thee to send thy Grace to me and to all People that we may worship thee serve thee and obey thee as we ought to do And I pray unto thee that thou would'st send us all things that be needful for our Souls and Bodies And that thou would'st be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins And that it would please thee to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily that neither our souls nor bodies be harmed And that thou would'st keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly Enemy the Devil and his Instruments and from everlasting Death And this I trust O Lord thou wilt do of thy mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ and therefore I say Amen so be it Then rising up you may consider with your self thus How patient how good and gracious is my Lord Who hath prolonged my life and good estate to this day Who hath provided me plenty of good things and yet allow me the means of grace and aids of his Spirit Who hath entrusted me with one day more to strengthen my faith to repent of my sins to serve my God to do good to my Neighbour and to work out my own salvation in with fear and trembling What manner of person ought I to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness Satan is malicious and cunning The World tempting evil Company inticing My flesh weak and deceitful But God's Eye is upon me The love of Christ constrains me I am under the Promises and Vows of Baptism My Soul and its eternal state lies at stake God's glory my Neighbour's good and my own welfare are deeply concerned in my carriage this day I shall be judged according to this days works Hell is open and gapes for the unfaithful and wicked breakers of God's Covenant Eternal Glory is before me the assured reward of faithful perseverance in well-doing Grant O Lord that I may this day truly do my duty in that state of life unto which thou hast called me Then read a Psalm and a Chapter in your course and when you have thought what work you have to do that day sit down on your knees and say O Lord my heavenly Father Almighty and Everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this day defend me in the same by thy mighty power and grant that this day I may fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance and I may do always that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen §. II. EVENING DEVOTIONS I Advise thee my dear Child as ever thou wouldest be truly Religious and happy when the day is done before thou art drowzy and unfit for such a work to get alone and having composed thy thoughts with reverence fall down on thy knees and say O Lord my heavenly Father thou hast safely brought me to the latter end of this day and hast defended me in the same by thy mighty power and hast kept me by thy grace from falling into many sins and from running into many kinds of danger and hast sent me all things needful for Soul or Body for all which I humbly and heartily thank thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. And I beseech thee to give me thy grace to help me to consider what I have done this day and to praise thee for what I have well done and to see confess and repent of what I have done amiss therein Amen Then take a view of all thou hast done that day and consider what duty to God to men or to thy self thou hast omitted and what thou hast thought or said or done amiss and say If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us but if we confess our sins with a due sense of them hearty sorrow for them and utter detestation of them and so forsake them God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness Then fall again on thy knees and say O God the Father Who hast made me and all the World have mercy on me a miserable sinner O God the Son Who hast redeemed me and all mankind have mercy upon me a miserable sinner O God the Holy Ghost Who do'st sanctifie me and all the elect People of God have mercy upon me a miserable sinner I confess before thee O Lord that I have been too negligent of my duty towards thee in not believing in thee not fearing thee not loving thee with all my heart and with all my mind and with all my soul and with all my strength but have over-loved other things besides thee O how have I neglected to worship