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A short instruction for all such as are to be admitted to the Lords Supper
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Gawton, Richard.
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stead of parents as Kings and inferiour Magistrates vnder them 1. Tim. 2.2 1. Pet. 2.17 our spirituall Pastors Teachers Heb. 13.8 17. our Masters and Rulers Ephes 6.5 Col. 3.22 and the ancient and gray headed persons is heere commanded Leuit. 19.32 Secondly a promise of reward with long life to them that are obedient a threatning of cutting off the daies of the disobedient Q. What is the sixth commandement A. Thou shalt not kill Exod. 20.13 Deut. 5.17 Gen. 9.6 Q. How many things are contained in this commandement A. Two things First all killing and murthering are forbidden Secondly we are commanded to cherish and preserue life Rom. 12.19.20 Prou. 25.21.22 Q. What is the seuenth cōmandment A. Thou shalt not commit adulterie Exod. 20.14 Deut. 5.18 Q. How many things are cōtained in it A. Two things First all vncleanesse of the flesh and all prouocations thereunto are forbidden as pride chambering wantonnesse idlenesse riot gluttony drunkennesse c. Rom. 13.13 Luk. 21.34 1. Thess 4.3.4.5 Hebr. 13.4 Secondlie all chast and honest behauiour in thought word and déed is commanded Tit. 2.12 Q. What is the eight commandement A. Thou shalt not steal Ex. 20.15 De. 5.19 Q. How many things are cōtained in it A. Two things First all outward acts are forbidden wherby stealth is committed and all outward occasions of stealth as idlenesse and wastfull spending craft and cozening Secondly all inward stealth of the heart And wee are commanded to labor faithfullie in a lawfull calling and to be sparing of that wee get that wee may giue to others that want Ephes 4.28 Leuit. 19.11 Q. What is the ninth commandement A. Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbor Ex. 20.16 Deut. 5.20 Q. How many things are cōtained in it A. Two things First all periury and false witnesse bearing is forbidden all false reports lies slandering backbiting Pro. 14.5 25. Pro. 19.5 Deut. 19.16 17.18.19 Leu. 19.16 Secondly we are cōmanded to further righteous causes and to speak the truth frō our harts Pr. 31.8.9 Q What is the tenth commandement A. Thou shalt not couet thy neighbors house c. Exod. 20.17 Deut. 5.21 Q. How many things are cōtained in it A. Two First all purenes in nature and vprightnesse in heart are heere commanded Rom. 7.12 Deut. 6.5 Secondly all inward lusts and sinfull motions of the heart are forbidden Rom. 7.7 Q. Is any man able to keep these commandements A. No for by nature we are prone to hate God and breake all his Laws Rom. 7.15 23. Rom. 8.3 Gal. 3.11 Q. Will God in iustice require man to fulfill his law knowing it is not in his power to fulfill it And will hee yet condemn him for not doing of that which he is not able to doe A God in iustice doth not respect what man is now able to doe but what he was able to doe when God created him after his owne Image in righteousnesse and true holinesse and able to do what he willed him Gen. 1.26 Q. How comes our nature to bee so corrupted as no man is now able to keepe Gods commandements A. By Adams transgression whereby we are all of vs conceiued in sinne and carie about in vs carnall concupiscence and are bondslaues to sin Sathan Iob. 14.4 Psalm 51.5 Rom. 8.3 Iam. 1.14.15 Q. What punishment is there due to the breakers of Gods Law A. All plagues and miseries in this life and eternall damnation of soule and body in the last day Deut. 28.15 Gal. 3.10 Mat. 10.28 25.41 Q. How then shall you escape damnation since you breake Gods commandements daily A. Onely by Iesus Christ my Lord and Sauiour Rom. 8.1 10.4 Ioh. 1.17 Q. What hath Christ then done for you A. First hee béeing eternall God became also man for me Phil. 2.6.7.8 taking my nature in the wombe of the Virgin Mary Luke 1.31 Rom. 1.3 that so hee might be the promised séed of the woman that should breake the head of the serpent that is the Diuell Gen. 3.15 Gal 3.16 Q. And what did hee heere in earth for thee A. First hee beeing conceiued by the holy Ghost Luk. 1.30 sanctified my nature in his owne person that by him it might bee purged from all naturall corruption Ioh. 17.19 and indued it with righteousnesse and holinesse And he fulfilled the whole Law for me that in him I may fulfill it Rom. 8.3.4 Q. And what did hee more here for you A. He willingly laid downe his life for you Iohn 10.17.18 and became a slaine sacrifice Heb. 10.12 2. Cor. 5.21 suffering the cursed death of the Crosse Gal. 3.13 to deliuer me from the curse of God and to make mee partakers of the blessing promised to Abraham and to his seed Gal. 3.14 Hee also conquered Sathan in his Kingdome as appeared by his rising againe from the dead the third day Iohn 2.19 Math. 28.6 Marke 16.9 And is ascended into Heauen Mar. 16.19 Act 1.9 and sits at the right hand of God Heb. 12.2 gouerning all things both in heauen and earth Mat. 28.18 Q. VVhat benefite haue you by his ascending into heauen A. First he appeares continually in the presence of God the Father as our Mediator Aduocate and Intercessor Heb. 9.24 And secondly by his holy spirit rules in the hearts of all his elect to bring them to eternall glory Eph. 3.17 1 Pet. 1.3 4 5. Q. Shall all men then bee saued by Christ as they were lost in Adam A. All that lay hold on Christ with a liuely faith shall be saued Iohn 3.16 18 36. Q. What call you a liuely faith A. A full perswasion of my heart grounded vpon the promises of God in the Scriptures of my saluation by Christ onely Heb. 11.1 Act. 16.14 Rom. 4.18.19.20.21 Q. How come you by this faith A. The holy Ghost worketh it inwardly in my heart by the outward preaching of the Gospell Act. 16.14 1. Cor. 2.13 1. Cor. 12.9 Q. Rehearse the Articles of your faith A. I beleeue in God the Father c. Q. What is the sum of these Articles A. Two things First what I am to beleeue concerning God and secondlie concerning his Church Q. VVhat are you taught to beleeue concerning God A. First that there is but one true and eternall God and that in the Godhead are three distinct persons the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Q VVhat are you taught to beleeue concerning God the Father the first person in the Godhead A. First that hee is an immortall and euerlasting Spirit Iohn 4.24 1. Tim. 1.17 who hy his onely word created the Heauens and the Earth Gen. 1.1 and all things therein contained Gen. 1.3 c. to the 26. verse And man after his owne Image Gen. 1.26.27 And secondly that by his diuine prouidence he vpholdeth ruleth and gouerneth all things according to his will Math. 6.26.28.32 Q What are you taught to beleeue concerning the Sonne of God the second person in the God-head A. I am