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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64670	The principles of Christian religion sumarily sett dovvne according to the word of God: together with a breife epittomie of the bodie of divinitie. By James Usher Bishop of Armaugh.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1645 (1645)	Wing U202; ESTC R215733	23,176	121

Ans. First the corruption of nature called originall sinne derived by continuall discent from Father to Sonne wherewith all the powers of the soule and body are infected and that in all men equally and then actuall sin ariseth from hence Shew how the principall powers of the soule are defiled by this corruption of our nature Ans. First the understanding is blinded with ignorance and infidelity Secondly the memory is prone to forget the good things which the understanding hath conceived Thirdly the will is disobedient unto the will of God understood and remembred by us the freedome and holinesse which it had at the first being lost and is now wholly bent to sin Fourthly the affections are ready to overrule the wil and are subject to all disorder Lastly the conscience it selfe is distempered and polluted In what sort is the conscience thus distempered Ans. The duties therof being two especially to give direction in things to be done and to give both witnesse and judgement in things done for the first it sometimes giveth no direction at all and thereupon maketh a man to sin in doing of an action otherwise good and lawfull sometimes it giveth a direction but a wrong one and so becommeth a blind guide forbidding to doe things which God alloweth and commanding to doe things which God forbiddeth For the second it sometimes giveth no judgement at all nor checking the offender as it should but being benummed and as it were seared with an hot yron It sometimes giveth judgement but falsly condemning where it should excuse and excusing where it should condemne thereby filling the mind with false fears or feeding it with vaine comforts and somtimes giveth true judgement but uncomfortable and fearfull tormenting the guilty soule as it were with the flashes of hell-fire What are the kinds of actuall sinn● Ans. Such as are inward in the thoughts of the mind and lusts of the heart or outward in word or deed whereby the things are done which should be omitted and those things omitted which should be done What is the death which all men are subject unto by reason of these sinnes Ans. The curse of God both upon the things that belong unto them such as are their Wife and Children honour possessions use of Gods Creatures and upon their own persons in life and death What are the curses they are subject to in this life Ans. All temporall calamities both in body which is subject unto infinite miseries and in soule which is plagued somtime with madnesse sometime with the terrour of a guilty conscience sometimes with a benummed and seared conscience sometime with hardnesse of heart which cannot repent and finally a spirituall slavery under the power of the world and the devill What is the death that followeth this miserable life Ans. First a separation of the soule from the body and then an everlasting seperation of the whole man from the presence of God with unspeakable torment in hell-fire never to be ended which is the second death If all mankind be subject to this damnation how then shall any man be saved Ans. Surely by this first Covenant of the Law no flesh can be saved but every one must receive in himselfe the sentence of condemnation yet the Lord being a God of mercy hath not left us here but entred into a second Covenant with mankind What is the second Covenant A. The Gospel or the Covenant of grace wherby God promiseth everlasting life unto man upon condition that he be reconciled to him in Christ for as the cōdition of the 1. was the continuance of that justice which was to be found in mans own person so the condition of the second is the obtaining of that justice which is found without himselfe in the person of the Mediator Jesus Christ. What are we to consider in Christ our Mediator Ans. Two things his nature and his office How many natures be there in Christ Ans. Two the God-head and the Manhood remaining still distinct in their substance properties and actions How many persons hath he Ans. Only one which is the person of the Son of God for the second person in the Trinity tooke upon him not the person but the nature of man to wit a body and a reasonable soule which doe not subsist alone as we see in all other men but are wholly sustained in the person of the Son of God What is the use of this wonderfull union of the two natures in one Person Ans. Our nature being received into the Union of the Person of the Son of God the sufferings and the obedience which it performed became of infinite value as being the sufferings of him who was God equal with the Father What is the Office of Christ Ans. To be a Mediator betwixt God and Man What par● of his Office did he exercise concerning God Ans. His Priesthood What are the parts of his Priestly Office Ans. The satisfaction of Gods justice and his intercession What is required of Christ for the satisfaction of Gods justice Ans. The paying of the price which was due for the breach of the Law committed by mankinde and the performance of that righteousnesse which man by the Law was bound unto but unable to accomplish How was Christ to pay the price which was due for the sinne of mankind Ans. By that wonderful humiliation wherby he that was equall with God made himselfe of no reputation and became obedient unto the death sustaining both in body and soule the curse that was due to the transgression of the Law What righteousnes was there required of Christ in our behalfe Ans. Both originall which he had from His conception being conceived by the Holy-Ghost in all purenesse and holinesse of nature and actual which he performed by yeelding perfect obedience in the whole course of His life unto all the precepts of Gods Law What is the Intercession of Christ Ans. That part of His Priesthood whereby He maketh request unto His Father for us and presenteth unto Him both our Persons and our imperfect obedience making both of them however in themselves polluted by the merit of His satisfaction to be acceptable in Gods sight Thus much of that part of the office of the Mediatour which is exercised in things concerning God how doth He exercise himselfe in things concerning man Ans. By communicating unto man that grace and redemption which he hath purchased from His Father What parts of His Office doth He exercise here An. His Propheticall and Kingly Office What is His Propheticall Office Ans. That whereby He informeth us of the benefits of our redemption and revealeth the whole will of His Father unto us both by the outward meanes which He hath provided for the instruction of His Church and by inward enlightning of our mindes by His Holy Spirit What is the Kingly office Ans. That whereby He ruleth His Subjects and confoundeth all his enemies

they are in him without all measure and further also that they bee not divers vertues whereby his nature is qualified but that all they and every one of them is nothing else but God himselfe and his intire Essence Wherein doth the life of God shew it selfe Ans. In his alsufficiencie and in his holy will Wherein standeth his Alsufficiency A. In his All-knowing wisdome and his Almighty power Wherein doth his wisdome consist Ans. In perfect knowledge of all things that either are or might be In what sort doth God know all things doth he as we doe see one thing after another Ans. No but with one sight he continually beholdeth all things distinctly whether they be past present or to come How is He God Almighty Ans. Because he hath power to bring to passe all things that can be howsoever to us they may seeme impossible Wherein is the holinesse of his will seen Ans. In his goodnesse and in his justice Wherein doth he shew his goodnesse Ans. In being beneficiall unto his creatures and shewing mercy unto them in their miseries Wherein sheweth he his justice Ans. Both in his word and in his deeds How sheweth he justice in his Word Ans. Because the truth thereof is most certaine How sheweth he justice in his deeds Ans. By ordering and disposing all things rightly and rendring to his creatures according to their works What doe you call Persons in the Godhead Ans. Such as having one Essence or being equally common are distinguished not divided one from another by some incommunicable property How commeth it to passe that there should be this diversitie of Persons in the Godhead Ans. Though the Essence or being of the Godhead be the same and most simply as hath been declared yet the manner of this being is not the same and hence ariseth the distinction of persons in that beside the being which is common to all and the self-same in all they have every one some especiall property which cannot be common to the rest Which are these persons and what are these personal Properties Ans. The first Person in order is the Father who begetteth the Son The second is the Sonne begotten of the Father The third is the Holy-Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son Doth the Godhead of the Father beget the God-head of the Son Ans. No but the Person of the Father begetteth the Person of the Sonne Thus much of Gods nature what are we to consider in his Kingdome Ans. First the decree made from all eternity and then the execution thereof accomplished in time How was the decree made Ans. All things whatsoever should in time come to passe with every small circumstance appertaining thereunto was ordained to be so from all eternitie by Gods certaine and unchangeable counsell Did God then before he made man determine to save some reject others Ans. Yes surely before they had done either good or evill God in his eternall counsel set some apart upon whom he would in time shew the riches of his mercy and determined to withhold the same from others on whom he would shew the severity of his wrath What should move God to make this difference between Man and Man Ans. Only his owne pleasure whereby having purposed to create man for his owne Glory forasmuch as he was not bound to shew mercie unto any and his Glory should appeare as well in executing of justice as in shewing mercy It seemed good unto His Heavenly wisdome to chuse out a certain number towards whom he would extend his undeserved mercy leaving the rest to be spectacles of his justice Wherein doth the execution of Gods decree consist Ans. In the works of the Creation and providence What was the manner of the Creation Ans. In the beginning of time when no creature had any being God by his Word alone did in the space of six dayes create all things both visible and invisible making every one of them good in their kinde What are principal creatures which were ordained unto an everlasting condition Ans. Angels altogether spirituall and void of bodies And Man consisting of two parts the body which is earthly and the ●●ule which is spirituall and therefore not subject to mortality In what regard is man said to be made according to the likenesse and Image of God Ans. In regard especially of the perfections of the powers of the soule namely the wisdome of the mind and the true holinesse of his free-will How are you to consider of Gods Providence Ans. Both as it is common unto all the creatures which are thereby sustained in their being and ordered according to the Lords will and as it properly concerneth the everlasting condition of the principal creatures to wit Angels and men What is that which concerneth Angels Ans. Some of them remained in that blessed condition wherein they were created and are by Gods grace for ever established therein Others kept it not but wilfully left the same and therefore are condemned to everlasting torment in Hell without all hope of recovery How is the state of mankinde ordered Ans. In this Life by the tenor of a twofold Covenant and in the World to come by the sentence of a twofold judgement What is the first of these Covenants Ans. The Law or the covenant of workes whereby God promiseth everlasting life unto man upon condition that he performe intire and perfect obedience unto his Law according to that strength wherewith he was indued by nature of his creation in like sort threatneth death unto him if he doe not performe the same What Seale did God use for the strengthning of his Covenant Ans. The two Trees which he planted in the middle of Paradise the one of life the other of knowledge of good and evill What did the Tree of life signifie Ans. That man should have assurance of everlasting life if he continued in obedience What did the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill signifie Ans. That if man did fall from obedience he should be surely punished with everlasting death and so know by experience in himselfe what evill was as before he knew by experience that only which was good What was the event of this Covenant Ans. By one man sinne entred into the World and Death by sinne and so Death went over all men forasmuch as all men have sinned How did sinne enter Ans. Whereas God had threatned unto our first Parents that whatsoever day they did eat of that forbidden fruit they should certainly die They beleeving rather the word of the Devill that they should not dye and subscribing unto his reproachfull blasphemy whereby hee charged God with envy towards their estate as if hee had therefore forbidden the fruit least by eating thereof they should become like God himself entred into action of rebellion against the Lord who made them and openly transgressed his Commandement What followeth from this