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A18053 Winter-evenings communication with young novices in religion. Or Questions and answers about certaine chiefe grounds of Christian religion wherein every answer, rightly understood, hath the force of an oracle of God. By Iohn Carter, preacher of Gods Word. Carter, John, 1554-1635. 1628 (1628) STC 4696; ESTC S116222 12,994 42

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will of God ye might receive the promise Heb. 10. 36. Q. It is true indeed For we must needs drink of the cup which God reacheth unto us neither can any be a true Christian which doth not patiently offer himselfe in sacrifice to God Regeneration HOw doe men attaine to that high dignity of being beleevers in Christ Iesus A. They are borne of God Ioh. 1. 13. Q. Must there then be a new birth A. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5. 17. Q. By what meanes are they borne of God A. By the incorruptible seed of his word 1. Pet. 1. 23. Q. What word of God is that A. The word which by the Gospel is preached unto them 1. Pet. 1. 25. Q. What things are requisite and necessary to the effectuall hearing of the Gospel preached A. To have our hearts opened by God to attend to it as Lydia Act. 16. 14. Q. What else A. To be taught and drawne of God Ioh. 6. 44. 45. Q. What else A. Beleeving to be sealed with the holy Spirit of promise Eph. 1. 13. Sanctification Mortification Question VVE heard before how Christ bare our sins in his body on the tree that we being delivered from sin should live in righteousnesse What is it to live in righteousnesse A. To live henceforth not after the lusts of men but after the will of God 1. Pet. 4. 2. Q. What is the will of God A. This is the will of God even your Sanctification 1. Thes 4. 3. Q. When is our sanctification according to the will of God A. When as he that calleth us is holy so we be holy in all manner of conversation 1. Pet. 1. 15. Q. What reason is given why it should be so A. Because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy Vers 16. Q. So we are commanded to be perfect as our Father which is in heaven is perfect not for the degree for in that we come infinitely short of Gods holinesse or perfection but for truth and universality of obedience to his lawes This leaveth no liberty to men to live after the flesh in any thing A. No For if you live after the flesh you shall die Rom. 8. 13. Q. What course then is to be taken to save our lives A. If through the Spirit we doe mortifie the deeds of the body we shall live Rom 8. 13. Q. By this it plainly appeareth that a necessity lieth upon us of striving to enter in at the strait gate A Yes Because Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that finde it Mat. 7. 14. Of the holy Scriptures Question VVHence is the will of God to be learned A. Out of the holy Scriptures all given by inspiration of God 2 Tim. 3. 16. Q. This is their excellency above all other writings to be all given by inspiration of God Wherein else doe they excell all other writings A. They are able to make us wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Iesus 2. Tim. 3 15. Q How are we to be affected towards them in regard of these excellencies A. Not to let them depart out of our mouth but to meditate therein day and night Iosh 1. 8. Q. To what end A. That we may observe and doe according to all that is written therein ibid. Q What good will come of that A. Then shall we make our way prosperous and then shall we have good successe Iosh 1. 8. Q. Doe not divers very studious of the holy Scriptures meet with many losses and crosses A. Yes but marke the upright man and behold the just for the end of that man is peace Psal 37. 37. Q. How commeth that to passe A. Many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Psal 34. 19. Recovery and reconciliation after Offence Question THe righteous are delivered at Gods appointed time though no alwaies corporally yet most graciously and happily their heavenly Father making all things to worke for their good and sending them as he did his owne Sonne and the holy Martyrs by the chariot of the crosse into their heavenly countrey But when we fall into sinne as who liveth and sinneth not what is then our refuge A. We have an Advocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for all our sinnes 1. Ioh. 2. 1. Q. Who maketh benefit hereof A. He that confesseth and forsaketh his sinne shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. 1. Ioh. 1. 9. Psal 32. 6. Q. What is to be done then of every good man when he hath offended God A. For this shall every one that is godly make his praier unto God in a time when he may be found Psal 32. 7. Q. What speciall fruit commeth of that A. Surely in the flood of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him Psal 32. 7. Q. God will keep them from being swallowed up in the deepest gulfes of dangers and even of death it selfe Doth not this embolden men to sinne seeing their pardon is so ready and certaine A. He that is borne of God keepeth himselfe that the wicked one toucheth him not 1. Ioh. 5. 18. Q. Satan toucheth him not with a mortall wound but what course is to be taken in offences between man and man A. If thy brother trespasse against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him Luk 17. 3. Q. How farre must this readinesse to forgive extend A. And if he trespasse against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turne againe to thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him Luk. 17. 4. Q. And what is more to be done herein A. Confesse your faults one to another and pray one for another that you may be healed Iam. 5. 16. Good Workes Question SInce we are saved by grace through faith Ephes 2. 8. what such need is there of good workes A. They that have beleeved in God must maintaine good workes for necessary uses Tit. 3. 8. 14. Q. What are those necessary uses A. That men seeing our good workes may glorifie our heavenly Father Matth. 5. 16. 1. Pet. 2. 12. Q. What other A. That we may adorne the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things Tit. 2. 10. Q. What other A. Hereby the bowels of the Saints are refreshed Philem. 7. Q. What other A. That we may make our calling and election sure 2. Pet. 1. 10. Q. The foundation of God standeth sure having the seale The Lord knoweth them that are his but the meaning is to make it sure to our owne soules and consciences What other necessary use is there of good workes A. Our worke shall have a reward 2. Chr. 15 7. Luk. 14. 14. Rev. 14. 13. Q. Even to a cup of cold water given to a disciple in the name of a disciple but of grace not of merit What other necessary use is there A. That if any obey not the word they