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A50246	A catechisme, or, The grounds and principles of Christian religion set forth by way of question and answer wherein the summe of the doctrine of religion is comprised, familiarly opened, and clearly confirmed from the Holy Scriptures / by Richard Mather, teacher to the church at Dorchester in New England.	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing M1268; ESTC R43433	66,565	136

he would therefore it had been no unrighteous thing if God had left him in that misery whereinto he had brought himselfe Pro. 1. 31. Q. Did the Lord worke the deliverance of man because man did importunately seek and sue unto him for the same A. Man did not seek and sue unto God at all but fled from him Gen 3. 8. Rom. 3. 11. And if he had sought unto God for helpe God was not bound to afford it and how much lesse when he sought it not Q. If God did not worke the deliverance of man because himselfe had need of it or because man did desire it what then was the cause that moved him to it A. Onely his free grace mercy and love Iohn 3. 16. Eph. 2. 4 5. Titus 3. 4 5. Q. What is the true way and means of deliverance A. Onely the Lord Jesus Christ Genes 3. 15. Acts 4. 12. 1 Iohn 5. 12. CHAP. 13. Of the person of Christ and his divine and humane nature Q. WHat things are to be known and believed concerning Christ A. His Person his Office his Actions the benefits that come by him and the means how we are made partakers of him and all his benefits Q. What is his person A. It is God and man united together in one person Q. How may it be proved that Christ is God A. By sundry places of Scripture wherein he is expresly so called Isa. 9. 6. Iohn 1. 1. Rom. 9. 5. Phil. 2. 6. 1 Iohn 5. 2● Q. How else A. Because Eternity a Omnipotency b Omniscience c and Omnipresence d which are properties peculiar to God are all of them ascribed unto Christ Q. How else may the Godhead of Christ be proved A. Because the creation of the world e the forgivenesse of sinnes f the working of miracles g which are workes that can be done by none but God are all of them ascribed to him as the authour of them and because he is made a lawfull object of divine worship h Q. Why was it requisite that Christ our Saviour should be God A. That he might beare the weight of Gods wrath without sinking under the same i that he might overcome death k and his sufferings might be of sufficient worth and value to satisfie the infinite justice of God l Q. Is Christ also truely partaker of the nature of man A. Yes for he is frequently called man and the sonne of man m and said to be made flesh n and partaker of flesh and blood o Q. Why was it requisite that he should be man A. That he might suffer death for us p sanctisie our nature q and that we might have accesse with boldnesse unto God r Q. But sith he was God from everlasting how came be to be man also A. When the fulnesse of time was come s he became man not after the ordinary and usuall way of generation by man and woman together but he was conceived by the holy Ghost in the womb of a Virgin without a father t Q. Sith there are two natures in Christ the Divine and humane whether is Christ then two persons A. By no means but one onely 1 Cor. 8. 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Q. But is not Christ a person in respect of his Godhead A. Yes the second person in the blessed Trinity Q. Is not another man who hath the whole nature of man in him both body and soule a perfect person A. Yes it is even so Q. Why then is not the humane nature in Christ a distinct person A. Because it never had subsisting and being of it selfe but in the person of the Son of God being assumed unto it from the first moment of its being Heb. 2. 16. Q. If both the humane and divine nature be in Christ and yet Christ but one person is then the Godhead become the manhood and the manhood the Godhead A. Not so this Union of two natures in one person doth not confound the two natures nor destroy the properties of either but these still remain unconfounded and distinct in that one person CHAP. 14. Of the Office of Christ to be a Mediator Q. HAving spoken of the person of Christ tell in the next place what is Christs Office A. His Office in the generall is to be a Mediator between God and man to worke reconciliation betwixt them 1 Tim. 25. 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. Q. What need was there of such a Mediator A. Very much need because by the sinne of man there was now grown enmity between them God being offended with man and man being enemy to God Rom. 5. 9 10. Col. 2. 21. Q. Is Christ the onely Mediator or are there not others that may be mediators also A. Properly there is no other mediator between God and man but Christ onely 1 Tim. 2. 5. Iohn 14. 6. Q. Who gave Christ a Commission or calling to the Office of a mediator A. As no man can lawfully intrude himselfe into any office without a lawfull calling no more did Christ intrude himselfe into the office of a Mediator but was lawfully called and authorized thereunto by the father Isa 42. 1 6. Iohn 6. 29. 10. 36. Heb. 5. 4 5. Q. How was he furnished with gifts and abilities for discharge of this office A. As God never calleth any to any office but he gives them gifts requisite thereto so Christ was furnished with all wisdom knowledge and other gifts of the spirit that might fully fit him for his office of Mediator Col. 2. 3. Isa. 11. 2. 61. 1. Heb. 1. 9. Iohn 3. 34. Q. Whether is Christ Mediator according to his humane nature or according to his divine A. The office of mediation belongeth to whole Christ as he is God and man and not in respect of either nature alone Q. How may that appeare A. A Mediator should be a fit and middle person to deale between two that are at variance but if our mediator be considered as God onely he should then be too high to treat with man and had he been man only he should have been too low for God Q. VVhat may be a further reason thereof A. If the acts of his mediation doe proceed from him being considered onely as God they then cannot be applicatory unto us and if they proceed from him onely as man they then cannot be of sufficient value to be satisfactory unto God Q. Doe you then think that in the execution of his office of mediator both the natures doe joyntly concurre A. It is even so indeed God-man whose Christ is our mediator Q. How long hath Christ had this office A. In respect of Gods decree he was appointed to it from eternity a in respect of vertue and efficacy he was mediator from the beginning of the world when need was b Q. But when was he manifested in the flesh A. In respect of his manifestation in the flesh he was given in the

is Christ a King A. Over all creatures in Generall h over the visible Church in speciall i and over the elect in a most speciall manner above all other k Q How is he King over all creatures A. In sustaining and disposing of them all by his providence as may be for his glory and the good of the elect Heb. 1. 3. Col. 1. 16. Pro. 8. 15 16. Isa. 43. 14 15. Q. And how is he King of the visible Church A. In that he gathereth men into it l appoints Ordinances and Officers unto it m and prescribeth laws n for the manner of carrying on all things therein Q How doth Christ all these things in the Church A. He doth them all by his word which is therefore called the word of the Kingdome Mat. 13. 19. Q. And how is Christ King of the Elect A. Not onely by his providence as over all creatures nor only by his Word and Ordinances as to the visible Church but also by the speciall working of the grace of his holy Spirit in their hearts Ezek. 36 26. Eph. 1 22. Col. 1 18. Q. Hath not the Kingly office of Christ some that are enemies unto it A. Yes sin and the world the divel and death Q. VVhat are the acts of Christs Kingly office in respect of those his enemies and the enemies of his Church and elect people A. To bridle o and subdue p them all Q. VVhat are the properties of Christs Kingdom A. It is lawfull q spirituall r powerfull s righteous t large u and everlasting w CHAP. 19. Of Christ his humiliation Q. HAving spoken of the person Offices of Christ how are we in the next place to consider of his actions A. In a twofold estate his state of humiliation and his state of exaltation Q VVhat are the generall acts of his humiliation A. Laying aside the full manifestation of his divine Majesty for a time a and assuming unto him the nature of man b Q. VVhat else A. It was a great act of his humiliation that he became subject to the law c and not onely a man but in the meanest condition of men d Q. VVhat may be evidences that he was a man of a very mean condition and state A. His poore birth his afflicted and poore life his shamefull and accursed death with the things that follow afterward do evidently shew the same Q. What was his poor birth A. He was born of a poor Virgin for his mother who was espoused to a Carpenter for her husband and when he was born was wrapped in swadling clothes and layd in a manger because there was no room for his poor mother in the Inne Luke 2. 7. Q. What else was the testimony of his poore birth A. When he was presented to the Lord in the temple with an offering the offering was but a paire of turtle doves or two yong pigeons which was an offering appointed at the birth of children of the poorest sort of people Luk. 2. 24. Levit. 12. 8. Q. What was his poore and afflicted life A. His fleeing into Aegypt from the rage of Herod e his poverty in outward estate f and his subjection to his parents g as any other child Q. VVhat else were testimonies of his afflicted life A. His temptations from the divell h his wearysome journeys from place to place i and his manifold persecutions from the hands and tongues k of wicked men Q. What was his shamefull painefull and accursed death A. It was his crucifying or death upon the Crosse l which was a death accursed by the Law m Q. Wherein was the shame of that death A. It was shamefull in that he was Crucified in the midst betwixt two theeves n and Barabbas a Murtherer counted more worthy then he o Q. What else was the shame and paine of that death A. He was Crowned with thornes and otherwayes derided by the people and priests his hands and feete were nailed to the Crosse and his side was pierced with a Speare to the effusion of water and blood Math. 27. 29. 30. 31. Iohn 19. 34. Q. What else was there in his death A That which was the greatest of all was that he endured a grievous agony with his fathers wrath Mat. 26 37. 38. and 27. 46. Q What followed after his death A. He was buried in the grave p and continued under the power and dominion of death for a time q Q. What was the end of all this Humilation of Christ Q. That he might make satisfaction to the justice and honour of God which had been wronged by our sinnes r and to procure for us reconciliation with God and eternall life s Q. How came Christ to be liable to make satisfaction for our sinnes A. Because he voluntarily became our Surety and so was to pay the debt that we were in unto God Heb. 7. 22. Psal 40. 7. CHAP. 20. Of the exaltation of Christ and his Resurrection from the dead Q. HAving considered of Christs Humiliation how are wee in the next place to consider of his exaltation A. The exaltation of Christ is to be considered both in respect of his Godhead and his manhood and in the severall degrees thereof Q. What is his exaltation in respect of his Godhead A. It is nothing else but the manifestation of that divine power and glory of his which had beene so much concealed in all the time of his humiliation Iohn 175. Rom. 1. 4 Q And what is his exaltation in respect of his Manhood A. It consists partly in laying aside all those infirmities which it had beene subject unto in the time of Humiliation by hunger thirst wearinesse and the like which are all of them removed and done away 1 Cor. 15. 43. Q. Wherein else doth this exaltation consist A. In that the humane nature of Christ was filled with all the glorious excellencies that a creature is capable of and this both in respect of his soule a and in respect of his body b Q. Doth the bodie of Christ by meanes of his exultation or Glorification become infinite or Omnipresent or in many places at once A. As the soule of Christ being Glorified doth still retaine the nature of a soule so his bodie doth still retaine the essentiall properties of a bodie c and therefore is not infinite nor omnipresent for that were to destroy its essentiall properties Q. VVhat are the degrees of Christs exaltation A. His resurrection from the dead his ascention into heaven and his sitting at the right hand of God Q. VVhat meane you by his resurrection from the dead A. I meane that his body which was dead was quickned againe d by the uniting together of his soule and body againe which in death had been separated and also that being quickned he came forth again out of the grave e Q. VVhat certainty is