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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77835	The marrovv of divinity Wherein the weakest Christian may be informed in the whole body of gospel-truths. By George Burches batchelor in divinity; rector of Woodchurch, within the county of Cheshire; and sometimes minister of St. Johns Church in Chester.	Burches, George, d. 1658.	1649 (1649)	Wing B5614; Thomason E1376_1; ESTC R209237	7,914	16

28.16 17 18. Psal 69 22. Jere. 12.13 Q. What are the punishments of sin when this life is ended A. Everlasting separation of both soul and body from the comfortable presence of Almighty God being for ever exposed unto unutterable torments Isa 59.2 Job 31 2. Heb. 10.27 Matth. 25.41 2 Thes 1.9 Q. Doth God leave all mankinde thus wofully to perish A. No but of his free-grace and mercy delivereth his elect out of it and giveth them an estate of perpetual happiness Deut. 4.6 7. Joh. 6.37 Rom. 9.15 16. Eph. 1.5 6. Q. How may a man attain to this happiness A. Only by Jesus Christ Isai 55.1 John 6.35 37 40. Act. 4 12. Q. VVhat is Jesus Christ A. He is the eternal Son of God made man like unto us in all things sin only excepted Isai 9.6 John 1.14 Phil. 3.7 Rom. 9.5 Q. How prove you that Jesus Christ is God A. By his omnipotence and his omniscience who is the knower of the heart working wonders by the power of his Spirit in converting and saving his people Isai 9.6 7. Rom. 1.4 1 Thes 1.5 Q. How prove you that he is man A. By partaking of humane infirmities common to mans nature as to be hungry sad sorrowful and the like Matth. 26.38 Heb. 4.15 Q. How could Christ be very man and yet without sin A. Because he was not begotten after the ordinary course of nature but was formed as man of the only substance of the Virgin being sanctified in the conception and freed from the least stain of sin by the power of the Holy Ghost Mat. 1.18 Luke 1.35 Gen. 3.15 1 Pet. 1.19 Q VVhy was is requisite that he should be God A. That the humane nature might be supported from sinking under the infinite wrath of God and the power of death and that Gods justice might be satisfied and his mercy procured for his people Ephes 1.7 Isai 63.3 Col. 2.10 Heb. 7.6 Q. VVhy was it requisite that he should be man A. That the proper works of each Nature might be accepted of God for us and relied on by us as the works of the whole person Gal. 1.4 5. Q. VVhat are we farther to know and believe concerning Christ A. That his divine and humane nature though distinct one from another are united and make up but one person 2 Cor. 5.19 Heb. 13.8 Q VVhat is the personal Vnion A. It is the assuming of the humane nature into the person of the Son of God so that the manhood being not a person in it self is received into the unity of person with the second person in the Trinity and both wholly and onely subsist in the same Gal. 4.4 Joh. 1.1 1 Tim. 3.16 Q. VVhat necessity was there that Christ should assume mans nature rather then any other A. That God might be satisfied in the same nature that had offended there being no remission of sins to be granted without effusion of blood and therein he became a fit Mediator to plead in mans behalf with the Father both God and man Heb. 9.24 Q. VVhy did the second person in the Trinity assume our nature A. To repair the Image of God in us who was himself the Image of his Father and being himself the Son of God hereby makes us the sons of God Heb. 1.3 2 Cor. 4.4 Rom. 8.29 Q. VVhat are the offices of Christ to make him all-sufficient A. He is a Priest a Prophet and a King Q VVhy is he a Priest A. To be a reconciliation for the sins of his people who being a sacrifice without spot to God makes continual intercession for them 1 Pet. 1.19 1 Cor. 5 7. Q. How doth the short time of Christs sufferings satisfie eternal wrath A. Because though the Godhead of Christ did not suffer yet Christ suffering God suffered which is more then if for eternity the world it self had suffered Acts 20.28 2 Cor. 5.16 Q VVhy is he a Prophet A. To reveal unto his Church by his Spirit and Word the whole Will of God and all things that concern their edification and salvation Deut. 18.18 Ioh. 15.15 and 17.8 Col. 2.3 Q. VVhy is he a King A. In electing a peculiar people unto himself and in bestowing graces upon them giving them Laws whereby they may be visibly governed and powerfully ordering all things for his own glory and their good Isai 9.6 Rom. 1.14 Col. 2.15 Q. How may Christ become ours with all his benefits A. If we endevor to be united to Christ for union with him begets communion with all his benefits Ioh. 6.53 56. Phil. 3 9. Q. How are we united to Christ A. Mystically and spiritually Eph. 4.15 16. 1 Cor. 6 17. Q. What is mystical and spiritual union A. It is the cohabitation and residence of Christ in our souls by his Spirit and by Faith whereby we become one with Christ Ioh. 1.12 13. 1 Ioh. 3.24 Q. VVhat is Faith A. It is a supernatural gift of God wrought in our hearts by the power of Gods Spirit whereby we do apply Christ and all his benefits in particular unto our selves Tit. 1.1 Rom. 15.17 Gal. 3.27 Eph. 2.8 Col. 2.12 Ioh. 1.12 Q. How are men brought to this faith A. By preparation and operation having their hearts fitted to receive it and thereby working faith in them Job 11.13 14 15. Jerc. 4.3 4. Ezek. 36.26 27. Q. How is the heart fitted to receive faith A. By being bruised and humbled and mollified Isai 57.15 Ezek. 11.19 Q. How doth God humble a man A By bringing him to a sight of his sins and a true sorrow for them Job 7.20 Luke 18.13 Ioh 42 6. Luke 15.18 19. Q. How comes he to a sight of his sins A. By the Moral Law of God called The ten Commandments Rom. 7.7 Q. How is he brought to a sorrow for them A. By apprehending the dreadful curse of the Law of God temporal and eternal denounced for the smallest act of disobedience or breach of one Commandment Deut. 27.26 Gal. 3.10 2 Cor. 3.7 Q. When mens hearts are prepared how is Faith wrought in them A. By being sensible of the necessity of gaining Christ with an hungering desire of that Grace that is offered in Christ to be made partakers of it Matth. 11.28 Luke 15.7 Isai 55.1 Iohn 7.37 Q. What are the fruits of these desires A. A special perswasion of Gods love towards the poor sinner wherby God doth imprint in the heart by the work of his Spirit the assurance of his love and of the pardon of sin Isa 65.24 Ioh 17.19 Matth. 7.7 1 Tim. 1 15 16. Q. What are the benefits a faithful soul receives by Christ A. Justification Sanctification and Redemption Tit. 3.5 1 Cor. 1.30 Q. What is it to be just before God A. When Christs obedience is made ours and we hereby esteemed just in Gods eyes Rom. 5.19 6.10 2 Cor. 5.21 Q. What is it to be sanctified A. When our natures are inwardly renewed according to Gods Image in righteousness and true holiness Eph. 2.1