eternal happiness of the eight Beatitudes Q. Which be the five Senses A. 1. Seeing 2. Hearing 3. Touching 4. Tasting 5. Smelling Q. Which are the four Cardinal Moraâ— Virtues A 1. Prudence 2. Justice 3. Fortitude 4. Temperance Q. Which be the three Theological Virtues A. 1 Faith 2. Hope 3. Charity Q. What be the seven guifts of the Holy Ghost A. 1. Wisdom 2. Understanding 3. Counsel 4. Fortitude 5. Knowledge 6. Godliness 7. The Fear of the Lord. Q. Which be the twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost A. 1. Love 2. Joy 3. Peace 4. Patience 5. Benignity 6. Goodness 7. Longanimity 8. Mildness 9. Faith 10. Modesty 11. Continence 12. Chastity Q. Which be the three kinds of Good Works A. 1. Alms. 2. Prayer 3. Fasting Q. What be the seven works of Corporal Mercy A. 1. To feed the hungry 2. To give drink to the thirsty 3. To cloath the naked 4. To visit and redeem the Captives 5. To harbour the harbourless 6. To visit the sick 7. To bury the dead Q. What be the seven works of Spirituaâ— Mercy A. 1. To correct the sinner 2. To instruct the ignorant 3. To counsel the doubtful 4. To comfort the sorrowful 5. To take wrongs patiently 6. To forgive wrongs willingly 7. To pray for all men Q. What be the Offices of Christian Justice A. 1. To decline all evil 2. To do all good Q. VVhich be the eight Beatitudes A. 1. Blessed are the poor in spirit For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven St. Mat. 5. 2. Blessed are the meek For they shall possess the earth 3. Blessed are they that mourn For they shall be comforted 4. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness For they shall be filled 5. Blessed are the merciful For they shall find mercy 6. Blessed are the clean in heart For they shall see God 7. Blessed are the Peace-makers For they shall be called the Sons of God 8. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for righteousness sake For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Q. VVho are the persons sanctified by the Holy Ghost A. In one word they are the Church Q. VVhat is the Church A. The Church is a visible company of Christs faithful people for whom He the Son of God taking upon Him the Nature of Man did and suffered all things necessary to their Salvation Q. VVhat do you observe in your Creed concerning the Church A. 1. Her Being that there is a Church 2. Her Proprieties 3. Her Priviledges Q. What are the Prproieties of the Church A. 1. One 2. Holy 3. Catholick 4. Apostolick 5. A Communion of Saints Q. VVhat are the Priviledges of the Church A. 1. Concerning the Soul Forgiveness of Sins 2. Concerning the body Resurrection of the Body 3. Concerning both Body and Soul Life Everlasting Q. What needs this be an Article of your Christian Faith that the Church hath a being For do not all Jews Turks and Infidels c. believe that there is a Church A. They believe that there is such a Sect of Christians in the world as we call the Church But they believe it not to have such means of Salvation such saving truth in the Word such efficacy in the Sacraments such power of binding and loosing such proprieties and priviledges as I believe to be in the Church Q. VVhat is the first propriety of the Church A. To be one Q. How do you say the Church is but One A. The whole multitude of Believers dispersed far and wide over the whole world is but One Collective Mystical Body of our Lord Jesus Christ Therefore I say I believe the Church Not Churches in the plural number but in the singular number One Church as it is intimated in the Apostles Creed and expressed in the Nicene Creed And so it is written There is One Body and One Spirit even as you are called in One hope of your calling One Lord One Faith One Baptism One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in us all Eph. 4.4 5 6. As it is but One Body so it hath but One Head One Supream invisible Rector or Governor even Christ Jesus our Lord whom the Father hath given to be Head of the Church which is His Body Eph. 1.22 23. Thus the Church is but One because She teacheth in all places and at all times one and the same Doctrine of Faith Administreth the same Sacraments is guided by the same Spirit and hath the same invisible Head And so the particular Members though they cannot be all together in one place ought to be of one mind and endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Q. What is the second Propriety of the Church A. She is Holy Q. How is the Church said to be Holy A. First As all things consecrated and set a part for Religious uses are said to be holy so all the Faithful are holy that have dedicated themselves and given up their names in Baptism unto Christ And so then again In Him the Church is holy as a Body that is joyned to an holy Head from Whom as from the Fountain of all holiness the Graces of the Holy Ghost and the Riches of the goodness of the Father are diffused and derived Lastly She is Holy because of the Holy Word that is Preached the Holy Sacraments that are Administred the Holy Service that is performed and the Holy Lives that are practised in the Church Q. VVhy is She called Catholick A. Catholick is as much as General and Universal and then therefore She is called Catholick because being dispersed throughout the whole world She doth in Her Motherly bosome receive embrace and safe-keep all persons of all times places and Nations so that they be of one mind and consent in the Faith and Doctrine of Christ Q VVhy is the Church called Apostolick A. This was added by the Fathers of Nice and Constantinople to prove the Church truly Catholick in that the Doctrine thereof which all men of former ages in all Nations had received and all for the present and hereafter are bound to stand to as received from the very Apostles themselves and from their writings Q. VVhy is the Church called the Communion of Saints A. 1. In respect of Christ the Head in whose benefits every Member hath a common interest in that He took upon Him the Nature of Man not of this or that particular but of all in general and so for all men that believe in Him He effectually suffered all things necessary for their Salvation 2. In regard of the society of all the Elect people of God all the faithful Members of the Church both Militant and Triumphant that have been are or shall be in all times and in all places who hold an inseparable Communion and Unity among themselves as Members of one and the self same body and do help and assist one another with mutual acts of mercy and all good works among whom there is
the Kingdom to God the Father Q. Why is it said that Christ shall come again Did He ever come before to Judgment A. No. But this word again relateth to Christs first coming by His Incarnation for our Redemption and teacheth us that as He came then in the fulness of time to visit us in great humility so He shall come again at the end of the world in His glorious Majesty to Judge both the quick and the dead Q. Why are quick and dead mentioned in this Article A. To shew that all shall not die before the last day of Judgment but some shall be then found alive and these shall only be changed from corruption to incorruption and shall be caught up together with the dead into the clouds to meet the Lord in the ayr and so without separation of the body and soul by death they shall be ever with the Lord 1 Thes 4.15 16 17. 1 Cor. 15.51 c. Q. In what Article of your Creed do you learn to believe in the Third Person of the Trinity the Holy Ghost who hath sanctified you and all the Elect People of God A. In the 8 9 10 11 12th Articles Q. What do you observe in this part of the Creed A. 1. The Person sanctifying 2. The Persons sanctified Q. VVho is the Person sanctifying A. The Holy Ghost called the Paraclete or Comforter Q. VVhat do you mean by the Holy Ghost A. A Ghost is the same that a Spirit which is pure a incorporeal immaterial substance So by the Holy Ghost I mean the Holy Spirit that is the Third Person in the Sacred Trinity Q. But are there not other Spirits besides the Third Person in the Trinity A. Yes The Angels are Spirits Heb. 1.14 And there are the Spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.23 which are the souls of the Elected after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh And these are holy too And in general any thin substance in Nature wanting solidity and grossness of matter by way of resemblance and similitude may be called a Spirit But these are created Spirits and to distinguish the Third Person in the glorious Trinity from these we must call Him Uncreated And to make this distinction plain and evident the Fathers in the Councils of Nice and Constantinople have expounded this Article thus I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life VVho proceedeth from the Father and the Son VVho with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified VVho spake by the Prophets Now here Being Lord distinguisheth Him from Ministring spirits Heb. 1.14 and being giver of life proceeding from the Father and the Son being worshiped and glorified together with the Father and the Son communicating with them in their Substance Nature Power Majesty Glory and Eternity and speaking by the Prophets distinguisheth Him from all creatures whatsoever Q. But is not the Holy Spirit said equally of the Father and of the Son too A. It is true both the Father and the Son are a Spirit and both holy also And therefore indeed this Third Person is not distinguished from the other two by His proper name but is called by a name common to the other two And this comes to pass because of our want of words For we can conceive God under no other Names but such as we borrow from created things so far as we can resemble Him to something that is in Nature and no farther And therefore we can call the First and Second Persons by their proper names because the First Person his communicating of His Substance to the Second is like to Generation that is the Act of Generating or begetting in Nature and so the Substance Generating is one Person of the Father and the Substance Generated is another Person of the Son But the Coming or Proceeding of the Third Person from both the other is like to nothing in Nature and therefore we can call the Act of this communicating of the Substance of the other two Persons to the Third by no other but by the general Name of Comeing or Proceeding and therefore the Person Proceeding in such manner as cannot be expressed no nor conceived by any thing that resembleth it must of necessity to us want His proper name and be called by the name proper to the other two Yet whensoever the Holy Spirit though it be the common name of all Three is joyned with the First and Second Person in the Trinity or with either of them by way of distinction then this particularly signifieth the Third Person in the Deity who ineffably inconceivably and eternally proceedeth from the Father and the Son and is Very God Co-eternal Co-equal and Con-substantial to both and to be worshipped with the same Faith and with equal Honor and Adoration Q. But why is the Third Person called Holy as it were in distinction to the other two A. We must not speak of any Person of the Godhead without holiness and all other Attributes of Perfection either expressed or understood And so the Third Person as the First and the Second is Holy ab intra by nature from all Eternity and Co-equal with them in this as in all other Nominal and Real Relative and Absolute Attributes But He is said to be Holy in distinction to Them by an Holyness of His Office ab extra begun in time as He is the Author and Maker of Holiness in us the Giver of Holy and Spiritual life the Sanctifier of all the Elect People of God Q. How doth the Holy Ghost Sanctifie and make Holy the Elect people of God A. 1. He dedicateth us early to Christs service in our Baptism 2. He alienateth us from the allurements of the world by a religious education 3. He acquainteth us with the holy Scriptures and with the Principles of Religion drawn from the same which â—re able to make us wise unto Salvation â—hrough faith that is in Jesus Christ 4. He exerciseth us therein that is 〈◊〉 the Scriptures and those Principles â—hrough the assistance of grace to have â—lways a Conscience void of offence â—oth towards God and towards men Q. How doth the Holy Ghost exercise 〈◊〉 to have a Conscience thus void of sence A. Many ways 1. By moving us to keep and restrain â—â—r five outward Senses that sin by â—â—em as by open windows enter not inâ—â— our hearts 2. By enabling us to practise the four â—â—rdinal moral Virtues 3. By infusing into our hearts the three Theological Virtues 4. By endowing us with the seven guifts of the Holy Ghost 5. By working in us the twelve Effects or Fruits of the Holy Ghost 6. By giving us a heart and power to do the three kinds of good works as also to perform the seven works of Corporal mercy the seven works of Spiritual mercy and the Offices of Christian Justice 7. By propounding unto us as the excitements of holy duties and the reward of our labours all the external internal and
the Passover was then ended and to be abolished by His instituting this other in the place thereof at the very time of eating the Passover Q. VVhy do not Christians receive this Sacrament at Supper or in the Even-tide that being the time of the day in which it was first instituted A. Because though it might be fit in regard of the thing it self yet it is not so to us not so fit for our preparation and meditation of the worthiness of the Sacraments and of the duties of the Receivers Q. But might not men make themselves fit to receive it at Supper time A. Yes Possibly men may and some men happily would yet because most men are more indisposed to Meditation and Contemplation towards the Evening than in the Morning and have many avocations and occasions to take away their minds by many occurrences before that time of the day therefore the Morning is chosen for that Sacred Action as the time that in regard of mens dispositions and businesses in the world is fittest for all Q. Is not this Sacrament called by other names besides the Lords Supper A. Yes It is called the Propitiatory Sacrifice the unbloody and commemorative Sacrifice the Eucharist and the Communion Q VVhy is it called the Propitiatory Sacrifice A. It is called a Propitiatory Sacrifice not properly and really but figuratively and respectively by way of resemblance and by way of remembrance because it shews the Lords death 1 Cor. 11.26 who is the Propitiation for our sins 1 St. John 2.2 and keeps us in mind of that Propitiatory Sacrifice which our Lord once for all offered by His Death upon the Cross to reconcile us to God and make God propitious favourable and loving toward us and well pleased with us Q. VVhy is it called the Vnbloody Sacrifice A. Because it is not a real Sacrifice which was offered by shedding of blood but only a memorial of that Sacrifice which is commemorated here without blood Q. VVhy is it called a Commemorative Sacrifice A. Because it both representeth and commemorateth unto us that real Sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross and also we in this do represent and commemorate the same to God offering and presenting unto Him in this Sacrament by way of commemoration and remembrance the Body and Blood of His own Son as the only Propitiation and Satisfaction for our sins interposing them between Him and us and pleading them before His Mercies Seat and through them with all humility and confidence desiring the benefits of pardon and grace to be bestowed upon us Q. VVhy is it called the Eucharist A. It is called the Eucharist or Eucharistical Sacrifice from giving of thanks as the word Eucharist of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies which is a part of the duty that is required of the Communicants of the Sacrament and is Tropically put for the whole action when the Lords Supper is called by this name because that the Church in the administration thereof offereth unto God the Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving for her Redemption purchased by Christs Death that is commemorated in this Sacrament Q. Why is it called the Communion A. Because there is taught in this Sacrament 1. A Communion between Christ and us 2. A Communion between us Christians among our selves one with another Q. What is the Communion between Christ and us A. There is a three-fold Communion between Christ and us Q. How is that A. 1. The outward signs in the Sacramen do represent and exhibit to us whol Christ God and man in one Person Then here is a Natural Union and Communion between our Humane Nature and Christs Divine Nature in the Person of the Son of God 2. Christ is the Head of the Church and we are His Members Here is a Mystical Union between our Persons and the Person of Christ God and Man into one Mystical Body 3. Christ is in Heaven and thither by this Sacrament we are assured we shall come And then there will be a Celestial Communion between our Persons glorifyed and the Person of Christ in the world to come And these all follow upon one another 1. Whole Christ is represented and presented in the Sacrament Christ in His Person is God and Man this Union is Natural 2. The Man Christ is Head of the Church this is Spiritual and Mystical 3. All Men that are Members of this Church in the Kingdom of Grace shall be Co-inheritors with Him in the Kingdom of Glory this Celestial Q. What is the Communion of us among our selves one with another A. It is an Union flowing from the former between Christ and us It is the Communion of Saints by which as they are all Members of Christs Mystical Body so though they be many in number yet they are but one Body all subject to that one Head all living by one Faith all nourished by one and the same Spiritual Food all by one Spirit Baptised into that one Body all guided by that one Spirit And this is lively set forth by the Action of this Sacrament wherein the whole Church being many are all partakers of that one Bread and so are one Mystical Body though having many Members as the Bread is one Loaf though made of many Grains 1 Cor. 10.17 Q. What is the outward Sign in the Lords Supper A. Bread and Wine Q. Why is it Bread and Wine A. Because the Lord hath commanded them to be received Q. VVhy did our Lord choose Bread and VVine to be the outward Signs in this Sacrament A. He chose Bread 1. Because it is the most common Diet of all others so Christ is our common Salvation St. Jude 3. He died for all 2 Cor. 5.15 2ly Because Bread is the easiest food for all men to attain to so the word the Word that is God and the Word of God is nigh Rom. 10.1 He is found of them that seek Him not He is made manifest to them that asked not after Him v. 20. Again He chose Bread and Wine 1. Because Bread and Wine are the best of Meat and Drink Bread is the stay Isa 3.1 the staff Ezek. 4.16 of life of the body the strength of mans heart and VVine maketh glad the heart of Man Psal 104.15 So Christ is the best and most necessary food of a mans spiritual life of the Soul The Bread of Life St. John 6.48 The Bread which came down from Heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die v. 50. Nay except ye eat of this Bread that is the flesh of the Son of Man for the bread which He gives us is His flesh which He gave for the life of the World v. 51. and drink His Blood you have no life in you v. 53. 2. Because these two standing for meat and drink are perfect nourishment of the body so is Christ of the soul not in part but in perfection compleat nourishment and Salvation 3. Because the Bread is made of many Grains compact together into one