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A Tried method of catechising being an abstract of the Bishop of Corke's Shorter notes on the church-catechism : with the Scripture-proofs of them as far as necessary, and directions for the use of the abstract to advantage.
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Rosse, E. Corke.
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Wing T2272A; ESTC R25824
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under the state of a dead and buried Person Article V On the third day early in the Morning his Soul returned into his Body which being thereby again enlivened he came forth of the Grave and openly shewed himself alive conversing with his Disciples and other chosen Witnesses for the space of forty Days Article VI At which time in the sight of his Disciples and those who used to keep with them he went up through the Air into that place far above the Stars where the Glory of the Infinite God more immediately dwells and appears and there received Glory Power and Blessedness unconceivably above the highest Angels or any created Beings all which bow to and worship him Article VII From thence at a time appointed by God and known only to him shall this Christ Jesus come again not as first he came but with Power and great Glory accompanied by numberless Holy Angels and Saints to judge all that shall be then alive and all who have deceased from first to last Article VIII Together with the Father and the Son the Holy Spirit also really is and is God all three one God He is called Holy and Spirit not because more Holy or more a Spirit than God the Father but because he is that Spirit which peculiarly does inspire that is secretly work Holiness in us Article IX Through this Holy Spirit working Faith and Holiness in mens hearts by the Word Sacraments and Prayer God hath gathered to himself a multitude of faithful People called out of all the World named therefore the Catholick Church for Church originally signifies an Assembly or Multitude called out and Catholick signifies out of all the World These faithful People are all of them united to Christ their Head and to one another in one Covenant by Baptism and being so united do partake of the Benefits procured by one and the same Saviour of the Influences of one and the same Spirit and reap Advantages by each others Prayers Love and good Offices By which means they are truly all but one Body Article X To all the Members of this Body upon their observing the Conditions of their Common Christianity that is of the Covenant of Grace full Pardon of Sins and Righteousness before God is graciously vouchsafed by God Article XI The Bodies of all People both Just and Unjust shall at the end of the World be by God wonderfully framed again out of their Dust and their Souls returning into them and enlivening them they shall all again become living Men and Women But those who are then alive shall have their Bodies changed into a condition like to theirs who rise again Article XII After this there shall be no more Death But all Faithful and Holy Persons shall live without end enjoying God in unspeakable unconceivable Blessedness And all Unbelieving Impenitent Wicked People shall be punished with the Devil and his Angels for evermore All this I stedfastly believe that is I am persuaded it is true and I resolve to live as one who is so persuaded A Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer The Invocation or Adoration O Most merciful and bounteous yet Almighty most Glorious and All-seeing Lord God who hast made redeemed and evermore providest for me and all Mankind Petition I From my heart do I pray that thou mayest be ever acknowledged worshipped feared and glorified both by my self and all Creatures whatsoever capable of knowing and fearing thee Petition II And that thy Grace may bring into Subjection my Heart and the Hearts of all People so that the time may soon come when all thy Saints shall reign with thee in Glory everlasting Petition III And in the mean while that both I and all People may most chearfully faithfully speedily and diligently do and submit to thy Will in all things as thy Holy Angels do in Heaven Petition IV As to this World give us good God day by day as long as thou shalt continue us here what may conveniently suffice us Petition V And free us from the Punishments both present and to come due unto all our Sins Even as we desire all People may be freed from the Vengeance due to them for any wrong done us Petition VI And never O Lord withdraw thy Grace from us when we fall under any allurements to Sin or terrors from Duty so as to leave us to be overcome by Sin but preserve us from the Mischief of the Temptation and Power of the Tempter Glorification For thou alone O Heavenly Father both art ever hast been and ever shall be King and Lord most high over all Almighty and Sufficient From thee comes every good and every perfect Gift and to thee be the Glory of all to all Eternity With all my heart I desire it An ABSTRACT of the Bishop of CORK's Shorter Notes on the Church-Catechism with the Scripture Proofs of them as far as necessary On the Title Proposition I TO Catechise is to instruct in Religion by often repeating the first certain and most necessary Points of it Luke 1.3 4. It seemed good to me to write all in order that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed In the Original Catechised Proposition II Religion is the Worship or Service of God Jam. 1.27 Pure Religion Originally pure Worship Proposition III God is a most infinitely perfect Mind Maker Lord and Judge of all Proved under Answer 6. Proposition IV Those plain Truths or Doctrines which bring us to believe love fear and serve God we commonly call the Principles that is beginnings chief Points Fundamentals or Grounds of Religion Heb. 6.1 Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation Proposition V The first and great Principle of all Religion is That there is a God Heb. 11.6 He that cometh to God must believe that he is Another That God hath revealed himself in Holy Scripture ready to receive Sinners to Repentance and enter into Covenant with them Luk. 24 47. It behoved that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in the name of Jesus among all nations On Answ 2. The Covenant of Grace to which God now-a-days calls all of us and into a state of which we are baptised consisteth on God's part of the Benefits which he makes over to us And on our part of the Vow which we make to him commonly in Baptism Jer. 31.33 This is the Covenant I will be their God and they shall be my people The Benefits God makes over to us flowing from that new Estate into which by Baptism we enter are chiefly three 1. Grace by being made Members of Christ our Head Joh. 1.16 Of his fulness have we all received and grace for grace 2. Pardon of Sin and God's favour being made Children of God Acts 22.16 Be baptised and wash away thy sins 3. A Right and Title to Everlasting Happiness being made Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven
Death did Redeem all Mankind even those that perish 1 Tim. 2.6 Christ Jesus gave himself a ransom for all men Heb. 2.9 He tasted death for every man 2 Pet. 2.1 Denying the Lord that bought them they bring upon themselves swift destruction Only those who believe and obey the Gospel shall be saved by this Redemption Heb. 5.9 Christ being made perfect became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him Holiness is purity from Sin Ghost is an old word for Spirit God the Holy Ghost who is also 1. commonly called the Spirit of God is that Spirit which 2. does inspire that is secretly work holiness in us which work we call sanctifying us 1. Gen. 1.2 The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters 1 Cor. 2.11 The things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God 2. Rom. 15.16 Being sanctified by the Holy Ghost The Elect People of God are the Saints or Sanctified the Church the choice and peculiar People of God 2 Thess 2.13 God hath chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth Psal 105.43 He brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladness On Answ 8. Proposit I God has delivered us Christians through Christ from the Spiritual Bondage of customary committing Sin the very foulest sorts of which most of us in this our corrupt State are subject to Joh. 8.34 36. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin If the Son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed The Ten Commandments Paraphrased That is The Sense shortly givon in other words Proposit II To have any thing to ones self for a God is to pay to it the highest possible submission honour love trust and obedience of Soul and Body I. Command Sense Thou shalt own me Jehovah as the alone Maker Lord and Governor of all things and thou shalt not believe love regard trust to or obey any Person or thing so heartily or intirely as thou dost me Or shorter yet Thou shalt have me Jehovah for thy God and Happiness and none other either with me or in my stead Proposit III To make to ones self an Image in the Second Command is to make an Image for use in the Worship of God Levit. 26.1 Ye shall MAKE YOU no Idol or graven Image neither rear you up a standing Image neither shall ye set up any Image of stone in your land TO BOW down unto it for I am the Lord your God II. Command Sense Thou shalt not make to thy self any bodily Image of me who dwell in Heaven neither shalt thou have by thee to worship any such Image of me or of any thing else whether of any thing really being or imagined to be either in the Heaven Air Earth Water or in Hell nor shalt thou so much as bow thy self thereto But to me thou shalt bow down and worship Psal 95.6 O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker Proposit IV To visit the Sins of the Fathers upon the Children is to punish People for several Generations together To take or lift up Heb. the Name of God Proposit V is to swear Proposit VI Swearing is calling God to witness of our truth in what we say as expecting vengeance from him the most Righteous and All-seeing Judge if we think believe or intend other than we speak Judg. 11.10 The Lord be witness between us if we do not so Proposit VII Not to hold guiltless is surely and severely to punish III. Command Sense Thou shalt not either swear falsely or at thy pleasure Neither shalt thou irreverently use my Name as all those do who Swear and Curse in common Discourse Proposit VIII A Sabbath is a day of rest from Servile Work and Common Business Levit. 28.24 25. Ye shall have a Sabbath Ye shall do no servile work therein Proposit IX Servile work is such as we put Servants to Proposit X To keep a day holy is to spend it to those holy Uses and Employmets to which it was set a-part viz. to God's Service Rom. 14.16 He that regardeth a day regardeth it to the Lord. IV. Command Sense Remember that thy whole Life be a rest from Sin to the Service of God and in order thereto Remember to keep holy both in publick and in private all such Days as are by Christian Laws set a-part to my Worship but in a more especial sort the Lord's Day as being the Christian Sabbath Proposit XI By Honour we understand Inwardly a high esteem Outwardly a respectful and dutiful carriage towards others by reason of the good in them or which we receive by them V. Command Sense Thou shalt honour with the degree of honour due to each thy Parents thy King thy Pastors and Teachers As also all that are in Authority or Eminency both in Church and State and even thy Superiors of all sorts VI. Command Sense Thou shalt not knowingly kill or even wound maim or strike any one without lawful Authority Nay thou shalt not to thy power be causelesly angry with any much less bear malice or revenge to or otherwise provoke any Person but thou shalt be careful both of thy own and others Life Proposit XII Adultery here signifies any Naughtiness between either unmarried or married People VII Command Sense Thou shalt not defile any either married or unmarried Woman nor shall any Woman consent to be defiled But in thought word and deed shalt thou endeavour to keep chast and pure both thy self and others Proposit XIII To Steal is to take away from another that which is his without his consent or any lawful Authority VIII Command Sense Thou shalt neither take away nor with-hold any thing from the Owner thereof without either the Owner's consent or due warrant by Law but thou shalt to thy power give and preserve to all their own and be thy self both diligent in thy Calling and thrifty in thy way of living that neither thou nor thine may want but rather be able to help others Proposit XIV To bear witness here is to speak or talk any thing of our Neighbour So Luke 4.22 All bear him witness Proposit XV By Neighbour the Scripture means any Person whatsoever Read Luke 10.29 to 38. IX Command Sense Thou shalt not in any case speak of or against any one what thou dost not know to be true Nay except in Cases of Justice and Charity thou shalt not speak of others that evil which thou dost know of them but always have a care of other Peoples good Name as well as of thine own Proposit XVI To Covet here signifies so to desire as to contrive means how to compass though unjustly what we desire Mark 10.19 Covet not is rendred defraud not X. Command Sense Thou shalt not so desire any thing which thou seest thy Neighbour to have as to contrive to come by it