It is the gift of God 2. By uniting us to Christ by Faith Eph. 3.17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith 3. The Spirit unites us to Christ in our effectual calling 1 Cor. 1.9 God is faithful by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ 31 Q. What is Effectual Calling A. Effectual Calling is the work of Gods Spirit whereby convincing us of our sin and misery enlightning our minds in the knowledg of Christ and renewing our Wills he doth perswade and enable us to embrace Iesus Christ freely offered to us in the Gossel 1. Effectual Calling is the work of Gods Spirit 2 Tim. 1.9 Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling 2. In effectual Calling the Spirit of God convinceth us of sin and misery Act. 2.37 When they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said unto Peter and the rest of the Apostles Men and brethren what shall we do 3. The Spirit of God enlightneth our minds in the knowledg of Christ Act. 26.18 To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God 4. The Spirit of God renews our wills Ezek. 36.26 I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh 5. The Spirit of God perswades and enables us to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the Gospel Joh. 6.44 45. No man can come unto me except the Father who hath sent me draw him 45 Every man that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me 32 Q. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of Iustification Adoption Sanctification and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them They that are effectually called do in this life partake of 1. Justification Rom. 8.30 Whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified 2. Adoption Eph. 1.5 Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto himself 3. Sanctification and several other benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from Justification Adoption and Sanctification 1 Cor. 1.30 Of him ye are in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption 33 Q. What is justification Ninth Day A. Iustification is an Act of Gods free-grace wherein he pardoneth all our sins and accepteth us as righteous in his sight only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us and received by Faith alone 1. Justification is an Act of Gods free-grace Rom. 3.24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ 2. In Justification God pardoneth all our sins Eph. 1.7 In whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace 3. In justification God accepteth us as Righteous in his sight 2 Cor. 5.21 He hath made him sin for us that knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 4. We are accepted as Righteous in Gods sight only for the Righteousness of Christ imputed to us Rom. 5.19 As by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous 5. The Righteousness of Christ which is imputed to us by God for our Justification is received by Faith alone Gal. 2.26 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ 34 Q. What is Adoption A. Adoption is an act of Gods Free-grace whereby we are received into the number and have right to all the priviledges of the Sons of God 1. Adoption is an Act of Gods Free-grace 1 Joh. 3.1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God! 2. By Adoption we are received into the number of the Sons of God Joh. 1.12 As many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his Name 3. By Adoption we have right to all the Priviledges of the Sons of God Rom. 8.17 If children then heirs heirs of God and joynt-heirs with Christ 35 Q. What is Sanctification A. Sanctification is the worrk of Gods frée-grace whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the Image of God and are enabled more and more to die unto sin and to live unto righteousness 1. Sanctification is the work of Gods free-grace 2 Thes 2.13 God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit 2. By Sanctification we are renewed in the whole Man after the Image of God Eph. 4.24 And that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness 3. By Sanctification we are enabled more and more to die unto sin and to live unto righteousness Rom. 8.1 There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 36 Q. What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from Iustification Adoption and Sanctification A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or slow from Iustification Adoption and Sanctification are assurance of Gods love peace of Conseience joy in the Holy Ghost increase of Grace and perseverance therein unto the end The benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from Justification Adoption and Sanctification are 1. Assurance of Gods Love Rom. 5.5 Hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our bearts through the Holy Ghost which is given unto us 2. Peace of Conscience Rom. 5.1 Being justified by Faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Phil. 4.7 The peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus 3. Joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 5.2 By whom also we have access by Faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God 4. Increase of Grace Prov. 4.18 The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day 5. Perseverance in Grace unto the end 1 John 5.13 These things have I written unto you that Believe on the Name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal life 1 Pet. 1.5 Who are kept by the power of God through Faith unto salvation 37 Q. What benefits do Believers receive from Christ at their death Tenth Day A. The souls of Believers are at their death made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into Glory and their bodies being still unsted to Christ do rest in their Graves till the Resurrection At their
death Believers 1. Souls are made persect in holiness Heb. 12.23 To the spirits of just men made perfect 2. Souls do immediately pass into Glory Phil. 1.23 Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ Luk. 23.43 To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise 3. Bodies are still united unto Christ 1 Thes 4.14 Them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 4. Bodies do rest in their Graves Isa 57.2 He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightness 5. Bodies do rest in their Graves till the Resurrection Joh 19.26 Though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flâ—sh shall I see God 38 Q. What benefits do Believers receive from Christ at the Resurrection A. At the Resinrection Believers being raised up in Glary â—all be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of Iudgment and made perfectly blessed in full enjoying of God to all Eternity At the Resurrection Believers shall be 1. Raised up in Glory 1 Cor. 15.43 It is sower in dishonour it is raised in glory 2. Openly acknowledged and acquitted in the daâ— of judgment Mat. 10.32 Whosoever shall confess mâ—â— before men him will I also confess before my Father which is in Heaven 3. Made perlectly blessed in full enjoying of God 1 John 3.2 When he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 4. Blessed in the enjoying of God to all Eternity 1 Thes 4.17 So shall we ever be with thâ—â— Lord. 39 Q. What is the duty which God requireth of Man The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to his revealed will Mic. 6.8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God 40 Q. What did God at first reveal unto Man for the Rule of his Obedience The Rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience was the Moral Law Rom. 2.14 15. When the Gentiles which have not the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves 15. Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts 41 Q. Where is the Moral Law summarily comprehended Eleventh Day The Moral Law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments Deut. 10.4 He wrote on the Tables according to the first writing the Ten Commandments Mat. 19.17 If thou wilt enter into life keep the Commandments 42 Q. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments The sum of the Ten Commandments is to love 1. The Lord our God with all our heart with all our soul with all our strength and with all our mind Mat. 22.37 38. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind 38. This is the first and great Commandment 2. Our Neighbour as our selves Mat. 22.39 And the second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self 40. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets 43 Q. What is the Preface to the Ten Commandments The Preface to the Ten Commandments is in these words I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the House of â—â—ndage Exod. 20.2 44 Q What doth the Preface to the Ten Commandments trach us A. The Preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us That because God is the Lord and our God and Redâ—mer therefore we are bound to kéep all his Commandments The Preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us that we are bound to keep all Gods Commandments 1. Because God is the Lord. Deut. 11.11 Thou shalt love the Lord and keep his Commandments alway 2. Because the Lord is our God Deut. 11.11 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his Commandments alway 3. Because the Lord is our Redeemer Luke 1.74 75. That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear 75. In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our lives 45 Q. What is the first Commandment Twelfth Day The first Commandment is Thou shalt have no other Gods before me Exod. 20.3 46 Q. What is required in the first Commandment A. The first Commandment requireth us to know and acknowledg God to be the only true God and our God and to worship and glorifie him accordingly God requireth us 1. To know him to be the only True God 1 Chron. 28.9 And thou Sâ—lomon my Son Know thou the God of thy Father 2. To acknowledg him to be our God Deut. 26.17 Thou hast avonâ—hed the Lord this day to be thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes and his Commandments and to hearken to his voice 3. To worship and glorifie him as the only true God and our God Mat. 4.10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve 47 Q. What is forbidden in the first Commandment A. The first Commandment forbiddeth the denying or not worshipping and glorifying the true God as God and our God and the giving that worship and glory to any other which is due unto him alone God forbiddeth 1. The denying of him to be the True God Psal 14.1 The fool hath said in his heart there is no God 2. The not-worshipping and glorifying of him as God Rom. 1.20 21. â—â—â—y â—e without excuse because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God 3. The not-worshipping and glorifying of him as our God Psal 81.11 My people would not hearken unto my voice and Israel would none of me 4. The giving that worship and glory to any other which is due to him alone Rom. 1.15 Who changed the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and served the Creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever 48 Q. What are we especially taught by these words Before me in the first Commandment These words Before me in the first Commandment teach us that God who seeth all things taketh notice of and is much displeased with the sin of having any other God Psal 44.20 21. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange God 21. Shall not God search out this 49 Q. Which is the second Commandment Thirteenth Day The second Commandment is Thou shalt not make unto thée any graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a Iealous God visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy to thousands ofthem that love me and keep my Commandments Exod. 20.4
God in Thought Gen. 8.21 The imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth 4. Every meer man since the fall doth daily break the Commandments of God in word Jam. 3.8 The tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil full of deadly payson 4. Every meer man since the fall doth break the Commandments of God in deed Jam. 3.2 In many things we offend all 83 Q. Are all the transgressions of the Law equally hainous Some sins in themselves and by reason of several aggravations are more hainous in the fight of God than others Joh. 19.11 He that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin 84 Q. What doth every sin deserve Twenty-third Day A. Every sin deserveth Gods wrath and curse both in this life and that which is to come Every sin deserves Gods wrath and curse in 1. This life Gal. 3.10 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them 2. That life which is to come Mat. 25.41 Then shall he say unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels 85 Q. What doth God requrre of us that we may escape the wrath and curse due unto us for sin A. To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin God requireth of us Faith in Iesus Christ repentance unto life with the diligent use of all outward means whereby Christ communicatrth to us the benefits of Repentance To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin God requireth of us 1. Faith in Jesus Christ Joh. 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life 2. Repentance unto life Act. 20.21 Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeâ—â— Repentance towards God and faith towards our 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ 3. The diligent use of all outward 〈◊〉 whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of Redemption Prov. 2.1 to 6. My Son if thou wilt receive my words and hide my Commandments with thee 2. So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart unto understanding 3. Yea if thou criest after knowledg and liftest up thy voice for understanding 4. If thou seekest for her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasure 5. Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledg of God 86 Q. What is Faith in Iesus Christ A. Faith in Iesus Christ is a saving grace whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for Salvation as he is offered to us in the Gospel 1. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace Heb. 10.39 We are not of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul 2. By Faith we receive Jesus Christ Joh. 1.12 As many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his Name 3. By Faith we rest upon Jesus Christ alone for Salvation Phil. 3.9 And be found in him not having mine own Righteousness which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ the Righteousness which is of God by Faith 4. By Faith we receive and rest upon Jesus Christ as he is offered to us in the Gospel Isa 33.22 The Lord is our Judg the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King he will save us 87 Q What is repentance unto life Twenty-fourth Day A. Repentance unto life is a saving grace whereby a sinner out of the true sense of his sin and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ doth with grief and hatred of his sin turn from it unto God with full purpose of and endeavour after new obedience Repentance unto life 1. Is a saving grace Acts 11.18 Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto life 2. Ariseth out of the true sense of Sin Acts 2.37 When they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said unto Peter and the rest of the Apostles Men and Brethren what shall we do 3. Ariseth out of the true apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ Joel â— 13 Rent your hearts and not your garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil 3. By Repentance unto life a sinner doth with grief and hatred of his sin turn from it unto God Jer. 31.18 19. Turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God 19. Surely after I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth 4. Repentance unto life is accompanied with full purpose of and endeavour after new obedience Psal 119.59 I thought on my ways and turned my feet into thy Testimonies 88 Q. What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of Redemption A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of Redemption are his Ordinances especially the Word Sacraments and Prayer all which are made effectual to the Elect for Salvation Acts 2.41 42. Then they that gladly receiveâ— his word were baptized 42. And thâ—y continued dedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers 89 Q. How is the Word made effectual to Salvation A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading but especially the preaching of the Word an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners and of building them up in holiness and comfort through Faith unto Salvation The spirit of God maketh the reading but especially the preaching of the Word an effectual means of 1. Convincing and converting sinners Psal 19.7 The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple 2. Building up Saints in holiness and comfort 1 Thes 1.6 Ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the Word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Ghost 3. Building up Saints through faith unto salvation Rom. 1.16 I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth 90 Q. Twenty-fifth day How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to Salvation A. That the Word may become effectual to Salvation we must attend thereunto with diligence preparation and prayer receive it with faith and love lay it up in our hearts and practise it in our lives That the word may become effectual to Salvation we must 1. Attend thereunto with diligence Prov. 8.34 Blessed is the man that heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors 2. Attend thereunto with Preparation 1 Pet. 2.1 2. Laying aside