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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

T it 3.5 2 Cor. 3.18 Q. VVhat is it to be redeemed A. When both soul and body are freed from the curse of the Law here and eternal wrath hereafter Rom. 5.18 19. Q What are the outward means for obtaining of faith A. The hearing of the Word of God preached Prov. 29.18 Rom. 10.17 Q. VVhat are the outward means for confirming of saith A. The receiving of the Sacraments and prayer Rom. 9.11 Mark 9.24 Q. VVhat is a Sacrament A. It is an outward visible signe of an inward and spiritual Grace instituted by Christ in his Church to signifie seal and exhibit all the benefits of his Mediation for the strengthening and increase of Faith and all other Graces unto his people Q. How many Sacraments hath Christ instituted in his Church A. Two and no more namely Baptism and the Supper of the Lord Matth. 17.5 Q. VVhat is Baptism A. It is a Sacrament of the new Testament wherein Christ hath ordained the washing of Water in the name of the sacred Trinity to be a signe and seal of ingrafting into himself of remission of his sin by his blood of our entrance into the Covenant of Grace Matth. 28.19 Joh. 3.5 Gal. 3.17 1 Cor. 6.11 17. Q. Who are to be admitted into Baptism A. All such as in charity be within the Covenant of Grace and promise of Life that profess the Faith of Christ and live in obedience to him 1 Cor. 7.14 1.16 Q. What is the Lords Supper A. It is a Sacrament of the new Testament instituted and ordained by Christ for the spiritual nourishment of the soul and groth in grace whereby the faithful have their union and communion with Christ confirmed and mutual fellowship with each other as members of the same mystical body 1 Cor. 12.12 and 10.16 Joh. 14.18 Ephes 2.17 Q. What are the parts of this Sacrament A. They are three the Word sanctifying the Bread and Wine signifying and the Body and Blood of Christ signified Q. What is required of those that are to receive the Sacrament A. Examination and preparation Q. Wherein ought they to examine themselves A. In such things as are required in every worthy receiver Q. VVhat are those A. Knowledg in the use and ends of the Sacraments of our being in Christ of our Faith to apply Christ and his benefits to us of repentance in forsaking and leaving sin before we presume to take Christ of our love to God and our Brethren and of our charity to all men 1 Cor. 11.18 Q. What are the ends of the Sacrament A. The confirmation of faith the pledg of our communion with Christions the memorial of Christs death the seal of our assurance of happiness and the seeding of our souls in assured hope of eternal his 1 Cor. 10.16 Revel 20.6 Matth. 16.28 Joh. 6.5 Q. May all that profess the Faith some to the Lords Supper A. No such as are grosly ignorant and openly scandalous are not to be admitted notwithstanding their outward profession until they receive instruction and manifest their reformation unto the Church of God Mat. 7.6 Q. VVhat is the danger if we receive unworthily A. If we come unworthily we eat and drink damnation to our selves we run the hazard of causing God to punish us in body and afflict us in soul and to give us over to further hardness of heart and blindness in minde 1 Cor. 11.29 30. Q. VVhat is required of us in the time of administring the Sacrament A. A diligent observation of the Sacramental Elements and actions heedfully discerning the Lords body and affectionately meditating on his death and sufferings waiting upon God in that Ordinance with all holy reverence and attention Q. VVhat is required of us after we have received the Sacrament A. A vigilancy over our souls for the time to come that we may fulfil our vows made to God at that Sacrament and a care to praise God for his mercies that hath left us such a seal of his love to strengthen and comfort us for ever Q. VVhat is prayer A. It is a calling upon God in the name of Christ for all things needful either for body or soul 1 Joh. 5.14 Ioh. 14.14 1 Tim. 2.1 2. Phil 4.6 1 Sam. 1.17 Q. What is required in asking of things needful A. An earnest desire of the heart and faith to believe Q. VVhat ought chiefly to be desired A. That God might be glorified that sin might be mortified that the soul might be sanctified and strengthned by the power of God against all temptations Q VVhat followeth the life of man on earth A. Death which is the separation of the soul from the body 1 Cor. 15.26 Rom. 6.23 Q Shall Death selfe upon all men A. Yes verily all save such as shall be found alive at Christs coming unto whom there shall be a change instead of death Psal 49.19 Q Death being the wages of sin why are not the righteous freed from it A. They are freed from the sin and curse of it and are made thereby capable of further communion with Christ in glory Rom. 8.1 Zach. 13.1 Rom 6.14 Gal. 3.13 Q. VVhat is their communion in glory with Christ A Their communion is their perfection of holiness which their souls shall enjoy beholding the face of God in light and glory waiting for the full redemption of their bodies till at the last day they be again united to their souls 1 Cor. 15 53. Q. What are we to believe concerning the Resurrection A. That all must appear before the Lord Jesus Christ both just and unjust and shall be raised up by the power of Christ the bodies of the Saints being made up like the glorious body of Christ but the bodies of the wicked shall be raised up in shame and dishonor Matth. 25.14 1 Thes 4.16 17. Q. What shall immediately follow after the resurrection A. The general and final judgment of Angels and men Q. How shall the judgment be executed on the elect and on the reprobate A. The reprobate shall be thrown into hell but the elect carried into Abrahams bosom Matth. 10.18 25.46 Q. What are we to conceive of life eternal A. It shall be so sweet a communion with God as that through Christ by the quickening power of his Spirit God himself shall give life for ever unto all the elect Ioh. 14.19 20. Col. 3.34 1 Iohn 4.15 Q. What are we to think of the perfect glory in Heaven A It shall be an incomparable excellency which the Elect as Christ himself shall enjoy though in a lower degree yet these shall be above measure glorious both in souls and bodies in a far more excellent state then any heart can wish or desire Luk. 20.36 Phil. 3.21 Col. 3.4 Q. VVhat shall be the estate of the reprobate in Hell A. They shall undergo unconceiveable and everlasting torments being separated for ever from the presence of God that their misery shall be as a continual death wherein they shall be always dying never dead always consuming never consumed Matth. 25 41. Revel 21.8 2 Thes 1.9 Q. VVhat is the principal end of the Saints blessedness and the reprobates misery A. The glory of God who in his eternal Purpose and Decree hath for his due ended all things to his own glory Prov. 16.4 Rom. 11.36 Q. What is the eternal decree of God concerning men and Angels A. It is a free appointing and fore ordaining of them for a certain and everlasting state for his own glory Rom. 9.22 23. 1 Thes 5.9 Q. What be the parts of this decree A. Two Election and Reprobation Q. What is Election A. It is an act of Gods free grace whereby according to the good pleasure of his will he doth ordain some both men and Angels to everlasting blessedness for the declaration of the glory of his goodness Ephes 1.5 6. 1 Tim. 5.21 Q. What is reprobation A. It is Gods fore-ordaining of some both men and Angels to eternal shame and dishonor for the manifestation of the glory of his justice Jude 4. Rom. 9 22. 1 Pet. 2.8 2 Tim. 2.21 Q. How may a man be assured of his election A. By the power of the Word the witness of the Spirit and the fruits of sanctification 1 Thes 1.4 5 6. Rom. 8.18 Ephes 1.9 2 Thes 2.15 Joh. 15.16 1 Pet. 2 9. Q May not this assurance be lost and he that is elected totally and fully fall away A. No for the foundation of God remaineth sure and though the communion of Gods children may be lessened yet their union can never be dissolved Isa 46.10 2 Tim. 2.19 Ioh. 6.37 Matth. 25.34 Rom. 11.2 Q. Doth not the doctrine of Assurance beget security in mans heart A. No but rather an acknowledgment of Gods goodness to us and the riches of his free-grace that thereby we may be the more zealous in good works Eph. 1.4 1 Thes 2.13 Deut. 14.2 Rom. 11.2 1 Pet. 2.9 16. Q. What shall be the condenmation of the reprobates at the last judgment A. The living shall be changed in a moment and at the sound of the Trumpet be stricken with horror and dread and the dead shall rise to condemnation having immortal bodies without glory Ioh. 5.29 Matth. 25.41 1 Thes 4.16 17. FINIS

THE MARROW 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 Prov. 22.6 Train up a Childe in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu Hor. London Printed for Marmaduke Boat and are to be sold neer Pauls Wharfe at the White Lyon 1649. TO The READER Courteous Reader I Am not ignorant how that the Presses swell with subjects of this nature and though many worthy men have written in this kinde yet here I dare be bold to say thou shalt be sure to finde the quintessence of their writings closed within this cabinet of brevity Let it therefore move thee to read and try by experience what is therein contained and thou shalt finde the pureness of golden Truths brought within the compass of a little room which for thy memory being shorter I hope will prove the better the better to be carryed away and the better to be kept and the better to be called for when thou hast use for them what benefit therefore thou doest reap from this short Compendium Give God the glory and I am therefore fully satisfied in my reward and rest The least and unworthiest of the Churches Servants Geo. Burches A short Catechism Question WHat ought to be the main end of mans chiefest endeavors A. Mans chiefest endeavor ought to be the glory of his God the gaining of Christ and the enjoyment of Heaven 2 Corinth 10.31 Phil. 2.12 Q. How doth it appear that there is a God A. By the Book of Nature the Book of Scripture and the Book of Conscience Q. VVhat is the book of nature A. The glorions work of the Creation wherein the vast fabrick and frame of the world moved by a supream power shew that there is a God Psal 19 1. Q What is the Book of Scripture A. It is the revealed will of God written in this word given by inspiration of God unto his people and contained in the old and new Testament Math. 11.25 2 Tim. 3.16 Q. VVhat is the book of conscience A. The book of conscience is that light which God hath left in mans soule since Adams fall called the Law written in our hearts informing mans judgment of a God to be feared and of an Hell to be avoided Rom. 2.15 Q. VVhat is God A. He is a Spirit incomprehensible immutable most wise most holy most merciful eternal John 4.24 Jer. 23.34 Jam. 1.17 Psal 147.5 Rom. 11.13 Psal 5.4 Isai 6.3 Exod. 3.6 7. Psal 90.2 Q. Are there more Gods then one A. There is but only one and no more Deut. 6.4 Isai 44.6 8. Q. How is this God to be conceived of us A. As he hath revealed himself by his properties and works Deut. 4.16 Judg. 13.18 Tim. 6.16 Q. VVhat are the chief properties of God A. His wisdom his holiness his omnipotence his omniscience his eternity his mercy and his justice Job 12.13 Isai 6.3 41.4 Psal 139. Q. What are the works of God A. That eternal Decree whereby God hath determined with himself shall come to pass the creation of the world and all things therein and the continuation of their being by his special providence Gen. 1.1 Act 17.18 Q. What are we further to conceive concerning God and to beleeve A. That in one simple and undivided Godhead there be three distinct persons Father Son and Holy Ghost which three are one God equal in glory coeternal in majesty though distinguished by their person properties Matth. 8.19 2 Cor. 13.13 1 John 5.7 Q What are the personal properties A. It is proper to the Father to beget the Son the Son to begotten of the Father and the Holy Ghost to proceed from them both Psal 2 7. Joh. 1.14 7.16 Q. How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father A. By their names and attributes works and worship ascribed unto them Isai 9.6 Deut 9.16 John 14.18 28. Q. What was the first state and condition of man A. It was a most happy and glorious condition Gen. 1.26 1 Cor. 11.7 Col. 3.10 Psal 8.6 7.8 Q Wherein stood the happiness and glory of it A. In that man was the character of his God created after his Image standing in wisdom and holiness voyd of the least tincture of evil Ephes 4.24 Gen. 3.1 9 6. Psal 139.14 Q. Did man continue long in this happy estate A. No but fell from wisdom to folly from righteousness to sin Eccles 7.29 Rom. 18.19 Psal 49.12 Q. Wherein doth this state of misery appear A. In the loss of Gods favor in the loss of his Image and in the exposing of the whole posterity of Adam to endless shame and misery Rom. 8.7 1 Cor. 2.14 Eph. 2.2 Job 15.15 16. Q. How came this great misery on man A. By Adams swarving from his God who standing in the room of whole mankinde did through his transgression bring misery upon all Rom. 6.12 Q. What is sin A. The least breach of the Law of God 1 John 3.4 Q. How many sorts of sins be there A. Two Original and actual Psal 51.5 Job 15.14 Jam. 3.2 Q. What is original sin A. A determinate and wilful transgression of the Law of God depriving all the parts and faculties both of soul and body of all kinde of goodness and all maner of happiness Gen. 6.5 Tit. 1.15 Rom 3.12 Q How is this sin conveighed from our first parents unto their posterity A. By natural generation so that all that proceed from them that way are conceived and born in sin Job 15.15 16. Psal 51.5 Q. What is actual sin A. It is the fruit of original corruption whereby the soul of man walks in darkness and contrary to the Law of God Psal 82.5 Rom. 7.15 16. Q How is actual sin distinguished A. internally Externally Q. How internally A. By the faculties of the soul as the minde will and affections Eccles 8.11 Ephes 4.22 23. Q. How externally A. By the outward Members of the Body concuring with the faculties of the soul acting contrary to the will of God Eph. 2.2 2 Cor. 10.5 2 Tim. 2.26 Q. How is actual sin effected A. It is effected either by omitting things that ought to be done or committing that which is forbidden Q. What be the differences of actual sins committed A. Their differences appear when committed either through ignorance or knowledg presumption or obstinacy Acts 17 30. Isai 59.2 Rom. 1.28 Q. What are the punishments of sin in this life A. They are either inward in the soul as blindness of minde hardness of heart horror of conscience and the like or else outward as the curse of God upon the creature for our sakes whereby good things bestowed upon us become snares unto us Eph. 4.18 19. Deut.