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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	forgive_v	pray_v	trespass_n	3,167	5	11.1087	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41788	St. Paul's catechism, or, A brief and plain explication of the six principles of the Christian religion, as recorded Heb. 6., 1,2 with some considerations of the principles of natural and universal religion, as previous, and yet subservient to the rules of revealed and positive relgion: containing also, the duties of children to their superiors, written chiefly for the instruction of young Christians, children and servants in all Christian families / by Tho. Grantham.	Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.	1687 (1687)	Wing G1545; ESTC R39432	35,919	64

esteemed themselves pe●●● without all Imperfection and they that offend must pray and that Daily too for remission of Sin this teacheth us to humble our selves daily before God. We see here also a necessity of being merciful to such as offend us and to forgive with readiness all that trespass against us specially if they do turn saying I repent Prayer for Mercy without Charity in him that prayeth will not be accepted of God. 8. And lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from Evil. Here we profess to believe that God has the disposing of all Tryals which do attend us in this mortal State And here we pray that he will not suffer us to be tempted above what we are able but that he will with the Temptation make a way to escape that we may be able to bear it 9. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever Here we profess our Faith in Prayer 1. That the Kingdom is His and that therefore we depend on him for the prosperity of it and for the glorious coming of his Kingdom 2. That all Power is his and therefore we depend on him to provide for and to deliver us according to his Will. 3. That the glory is everlastingly due to God and therefore we ascribe it as the Church did not unto us not unto us but unto thy Name give Glory this is also to praise God in Prayer 10. Amen This word being truly expressed shews the full assent of the mind to the whole of the Prayer whether express'd by our selves in private or by such as join sincerely with us in publick S. Is it our Duty to use this form of words or to pray according to the tenor of the words F. Doubtless we are at liberty to use both and for weak Christians and indeed for all Christians in their private Devotions it is safe to use these very words so they be spoken with a Heart and Soul truly breathing after God When ye pray say Our Father c. Luk. 11. 2. S. What other Ordinances hath Christ ordained for the general use of his Church F. Preaching the Word to Edification Exhortation Reproof and Correction of Offenders and the comfort of the Sincere And therewithall the frequent use of the Holy Table of the Lord 2 Tim. 4. 1 2. Act. 2. 42. S. How shall I know a lawful Minister one that is sent of God that I may hear the Word according to the Will of God F. Observe these Rules 1. Know that no Man of true Christian Modesty will pretend to be immediatly sent by a Commission from Heaven And yet 2. God must make Men Ministers by the Gifts of his Grace illuminating their Understanding and capaciating them to speak to edification before the Church can make them Ministers 3. No unbaptised Person let his Parts be what they will has any liberty to be a Minister in the Church of God because he is not yet imbodied with the Church of God nor can be without Baptism And here remember our dear Saviour would not preach one Sermon till he was baptised 4. When Men are competently gifted and qualified in point of Life being Church-members they are to be chosen by the Church and ordain'd to the Work of the Ministery by Prayer and Fasting with the Laying on of Hands of the Messengers and Elders of the Church for such Offices as the Church finds them most capable 5. There is a liberty in the Church for Brethren which are capable to exercise their Gifts to the edification of the Body and Men thus called or priviledged in the Church thou mayest lawfully hear If thou further goest thou goest without Rule S. What honour or respect do I ow to my lawful Pastours or Teachers F. 1. Thou art bound to honour them in Love for the Work's-sake whereunto they are called 2. Thou must obey them in the Lord as they declare to thee the Counsel of God and admonish thee 3. Thou must pray for them that God may make them a Blessing to thee S. Of what concernment is the Holy Table of the Lord F. It is an Ordinance of great concernment being ordained by Christ himself to shew forth a perpetual Memorial of his Death till he come the second time without Sin to Salvation S. I pray shew me the manner of its Ins●itution F. The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took Bread. And when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me And after the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood This do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew forth the Lord's Death till he come 1 Cor. 11. S. What is required of all that partake of this Holy Bread and Cup F. 1. They must be such as continue in the Apostles Doctrine and true Christian Fellowship Act. 2. 42. 2. They must examine themselves whether they walk in the Truth with a good Conscience both towards God and also towards Men. 3. They must labour to discern the Lord's Body as the only Sacrifice for Sin as signified in this Service 4. They must hereby testify true unity with the Church who are hereby shewed to be one Bread and one Body for they are all Partakers of that one Bread. S. What is the danger of eating this Bread and Drinking this Cup unworthily F. They that eat and drink unworthily receive condemnation to themselves not discerning the Lord's Body S. Is this Bread and this Cup the Real Body and the Real Blood of Christ F. This Bread and this Cup is the Real Body and Blood of Christ in a spiritual and mystical Sense but not carnally and corporally S. Are all Members of the Church to partake of the Cup as well as of the Bread F. Yes they have express Command from Christ to take the Cup for he saith Drink ye all of it Matth. 26. 27. The Bread is the Communion of the Body of Christ and the Cup is the Communion of the Blood of Christ and of this Communion the whole Body Mystical the Church are partakers 1 Cor. 10. 3 4 16. S. But were they not all Ministers that sat at the Table with our Saviour F. When Ministers receive that Holy Bread an● Cup they do not receive it as they are Ministers 〈◊〉 as they are Members of the Body 1 Cor. 10. 17. 〈◊〉 dispense the Ordinance as Ministers but they partake●● it as Members S. Whether are we to kneel when we receive th● Holy Ordinance or to sit at the Table F. A reverent Gesture is necessary but decently to sit at the Table of the Lord is most warrantable being according to the Example of Christ and his Apostles at the Institution Matth. 26. 20. Mark 14. 18. Luk. 22.

Wicked shall be turned into Hell and all that forget God Psal 9. 17. Where their Worm di●th not and their fire is not quenched Mark 9. 44 45. They shall be punished with everlasting destruction 2 Thess 1. 19. The Hellish Torments are for the Devils and the Wicked for ever There is no promise of any Pardon to the Damned nor that their Torments shall have an end and therefore for any to say these Torments shall end is presumptuous Folly. S. Of what duration shall the Glory of the Saved be F. Their Life and Glory is every where said to be Everlasting their Kingdom incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away God shall wipe away all Tears from their Eyes and there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Rev. 21. 4. They shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and as the Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. 3. S. Shall the Children of God know one another and so rejoice together in the Kingdom of their Father F. 1. Yes they shall be like the Angels who know one another and rejoice together in Heaven Luke 15. 7 10. They shall be like Christ for they shall see him as he is and as he conversed of the things concerning his Kingdom after he was risen He will tell them also of his Brethren and what kindness they shewed to them 2. St. Paul tells the Thessalonians That they were the Hope and Crown of his rejoicing in the Day of the Lord Jesus Christ yea his Glory and Joy. But how this should be and he not know them is not easy to conceive 3. The Communion of the Faithful in Heaven shall far exceed what it was on Earth but this cannot well be unless they know each other S. Does the last Judgment agree to the Principles of common Justice and Equity F. 1. There is nothing in it contrary thereunto for when Life and Death are set before Men and Men chuse Death by chusing sinful ways against the known Will of God it 's just with God to give them their choice 2. If there were not a Judgment to come wicked Men would go unpunish'd for in this World they commonly escape they can bribe almost any wicked Action even Murder it self Now all Principles of Justice cry for Vengeance in this Case both to the Offender and he that covers Iniquities And hence the Last Judgment is necessary and agrees with all Principles of Common Justice 3. If there were not a Judgment to come the Just and Righteous People of God would be of all Men most miserable 1 Cor. 15. 19. for here they are oftentimes exposed to the hardest things and that for well-doing too Now 't is equal that they should have a time of refreshing and to this common Principles of Justice do agree Finally We can none of us perfectly understand how hainous the Sins of those are who reject the Grace of God in the Gift of his Son and therefore we are not able to measure what Punishment is proportionable to such Iniquity But here we must rest That the Judg of all the Earth will do ●ight For if there were Unrighteousness with God How then should he judg the World Rom. 3. 5 6. But all his Ways are Judgment a God of Truth and without Iniquity Just and Right is he Deut. 32. 4. S. When shall be the Time of this Eternal Judgment F. God has not revealed that to Man but in that our Life here is very short this Judgment is at hand in respect of us For it is appointed unto Man once to die and after that the Judgment Heb. 9. 27. S. I am well satisfied concerning these Sacred Principles of the Christian Religion I desire some further Instruction concerning my walking with God in the Communion of his Church F. Being thus a Christian built upon this Foundation Christ being the chief Corner-Stone thou must continue in the Faith Colos 1. 23. and keep thy self in the Love of God praying in the Holy Ghost Judge 20. walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless Luke 1. 6. obeying all thy Superiors S. I desire you to shew me the Rules of Prayer And also the Rules of my Obedience to my Superiors F. These things are briefly comprehended in the Lord's Prayer which he taught his Disciples and in the fifth Commandment which is the first Commandment with Promise Matth. 6. 9 10 11 12 13. Ephes 6. 2. which in the next Discourse we will consider Of the Duty of Prayer Son. WHo may warrantably pray according to Christ's Directions in the Prayer set down Mat. 6. 9 c Father Although it is the Duty of all Men to humble themselves in Prayer before the Lord their Maker yet these Rules were given to the Disciples of Christ to the Children of God. S. In what sence are Christians the Children of God F. By Adoption and Regeneration they are born of God or of the Spirit and received into Grace and Favour S. I desire you to expound unto me the Lord's Prayer F. That I shall endeavour to do 1. Our Father which art in Heaven Christ teacheth us to put on Charity when we pray that is to include our Brethren with our selves When we pray unto God we must also pray in Faith believing that he heareth us Jam. 1. 6 7. Mat. 21. 22. 2. Which art in Heaven Here we profess that our God is in Heaven as the place of his special Residence Hence our Saviour in Prayer did frequently lift up his Eyes to Heaven 3. Hallowed be thy Name We are to make the Honour and Glory of the Name of God the dearest to us of all things thus Moses was more willing to die than that the Name of God should be reproached 4. Thy Kingdom come The Kingdom of God is to be considered with respect to his Church in this World. And then we pray in this Petition for it's growth in Number and in Grace We ought also to hope for the coming of Christ's Kingdom in the Glory of it and by Prayer to seek for it 5. Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven It is evident here that by Heaven is meant Heaven in a literal sence the place which is opposed to the Earth And in all Prayer we must submit our will to the Will of God and to beware that we do not act contrary to his Will and so contradict our own Prayer 6. Give us this Day our Daily Bread. Here we acknowledg that our common Mercies are all in the Hand of God to give them or to withhold them We are also taught to live by Faith in these Enjoyments and not only by some because God has promised that all these things shall be added to those that seek him rightly 7. And forgive us our Debts as we forgive our Debtors We learn here that the best of God's Children are liable to offend they never