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A76964	A plaine & profitable catechisme whereunto is added a sermon preached upon Exod.23.2. / By that reverend and judicious divine Mr James Bacon, late minister of Burgate in Suffolke. Now first published by his son in law H.W.	Bacon, James, minister of Burgate, Suffolk.; Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1660 (1660)	Wing B344; Thomason E1853_3; Thomason E1853_3*; ESTC R210346	58,042	143

receive this Treasure Act 3.16 Rom 3.24 25. Joh 1.12 Q. Is it Faith alone that saveth the Believer A. True Faith never goeth alone without other graces and fruits of the sanctifying Spirit but yet Faith onely is it which as an hand or instrument applying Christ doth save us Galat 5.22 Mark 5.36 Rom 3.28 Q. Have all those true faith who professe to believe in Christ A. No faith is in the mouthes of many but in the hearts of few An historicall faith may be found in many but a Justifying saving Faith is proper to the elect children of God and therefore it is stiled the Faith of Gods elect 2 Thes 3.2 Joh 10.26 Act 13.48 Tit. 1.1 Q. How may this precious grace be described what is Faith A. Faith is a speciall gift of God whereby the Believer being convinced of the truth and goodnesse of the doctrine of the Gospell embraceth the promise of speciall mercy in Christ and applyeth Christ with all his merits to himselfe Ephe. 2.8 Phil. 1.29 1 Tim. 1.15 Gal. 3.26 27. It is a speciall gift of God whereby the Believer appropriateth and applyeth the generall promise of grace and mercy in Christ to himselfe in particular resting wholly upon Christ for life and salvation Gal. 2.20 Cant 8.5 Act. 15.11 Q. What is the Object of Faith A. The generall and compleate Object of Christian Faith is the written word the whole will of God revealed unto us in his Word Act 24.14 Joh 20.31 The speciall and principall Object of a Justifying Faith is Christ crucified Christ promised and offered in the Gospell or the Promise of speciall grace and mercy in Christ 1 Cor 2. vers 2. Rom 10. vers 9. Gal 2. vers 16. 3. vers 26. Mar 1. vers 15. Joh 1. vers 12. Q. What is the proper Subject or Seate of Faith A. The whole Heart and Soule The understanding being inlightned doth see the promise of grace revealed in the Gospell and doth acknowledge it to be true The will being effectually inclined by the Spirit of God gladly receiveth and embraceth the promise of grace as sweet and good Act 8.37 Rom 10.10 Eph 1.17 18. 1 Cor 2.12 Act. 16.14 1 Tim 1.15 Q. What are the parts of Faith A. They are three Heb 11.13 Q What is the first of them A. Knowledge The understanding cannot yeeld assent to that divine truth which it knoweth not Faith therefore doth presuppose a distinct knowledge of what is propounded to be believed Although knowledge may be where Faith is not yet Faith can never be where knowledge goes not before Joh 6.40 1 Joh 4.16 Act 16.18 Q. What is the second A. Assent the Believer in his understanding giveth firme and full Assent to whatsoever is revealed and promised in the Gospell Rom 4.20.21 Heb 11.13 Q What is the third A. Affiance The Believer with his heart embraceth the Promise of grace as his own and casteth himselfe wholly upon Christ cleaving to him trusting in him and depending upon him for remission of sinnes and eternall happinesse Cant 6.3 Heb 11.13 Job 19.25 2 Tim 1.12 Q What is the principall Act of a Justifying Faith wherein doth it chiefly consist A. It consisteth chiefly in the particular Application of the generall Promise of grace or in Affiance and Reliance upon Christ when the Soul dependeth wholly and only upon Christ looking after no other help Gal 2.20 Joh 20.28 Psal 22.1 25.2 Hab 1.12 Cant 8.5 Q. Seeing that Faith unites the Believer to Christ tell me therefore what are the fruits that follow upon this Vnion what are the chiefe benefits that every Believer receiveth from Christ A. Justification and Sanctification here and this Salvation which is begun here shall be perfected in unspeakable happinesse and eternall Glory hereafter 1 Cor 1.30 Q. What is Justification A. By the Justification of a Sinner we are to understand that Action of God whereby God beholding the sinner in Christ absolves and acquits him from all his sinnes pronounceth him righteous and consequently accepts him to life everlasting Rom 3.30 8.33 Act 13.39 Rom 2.13 Q. Is not a man justified before God by that righteousnesse that is inherent in himselfe A. No we are justified in Gods sight not by my righteousnesse inherent in us but by the righteousnesse and obedience of Christ imputed unto us and therefore Christ is stiled the Lord our righteousnesse As our sinnes were imputed to Christ so Christs righteousnesse is imputed to us as the sinne for which Christ suffered is inherent in us not in Christ so the righteousnesse whereby we are justified is inherent in Christ not in us 2 Cor 5.21 Rom 4.6 Jer 23.6 2 Cor 5.21 Rom 10.4 Q. But this seemes to be an absurd Doctrine that a man should be made righteous by the righteousnesse of another We know a man cannot be wise with another mans wisdome a man cannot be warme with the cloathes another weareth and therefore how can we be made righteous how can we be justified in Gods sight by that righteousnesse which is resident in the Person of Christ and not in our selues A. Although the righteousnesse whereby we are justified be inherent in the Person of Christ and not in us yet it is not Christs alone but as it is his so it is ours also Look how the sinne and Transgression of Adam is made our sinne in like manner the righteousnesse of Christ is ours As the sinne of Adam was of force to condemne us because we were in his loynes so the righteousnesse and obedience of Christ our Surety is much more availeable to justify us Rom 5.12 19. Q. In what sense is the righteousnesse of our Saviour Christ ours A. As this righteousnesse whereby we are justified before God is Christs properly and inherently so it is ours truely and really both in regard of our right and interest to it and in regard of the use and fruit of it See Gen 27.15 27. Q. When is this righteousnesse made ours A. At what time we are effectually called and spiritually united to Christ and made members of his mysticall Body For being truly and really united to Christ the righteousnesse of Christ our Head is truely and really made ours Rom 8.1 Q. How is this righteousnes of Christ made ours A. By the free gift and gracious Imputation of God and by the Application of Faith 1 Cor. 1.30 Rom. 4.6.11 Rom. 3.22 4.13 Phil. 3.9 Heb. 11.7 Q. What are the parts of Justification A They are two Absolution from sinne and Acceptation to life eternall both which presuppose the imputation of the merits and righteousnesse of Christ The forgivenesse of our sinnes Christ merited by his passive Obedience our gracious Acceptation and Admittance to eternall life Christ merited by his active obedience Rom. 4.6 7 8. Rom. 5.18 2 Cor 5.19 Col. 1.21 22. Rom 5.18 19. Q. Hitherto of Justification tell me now what is sanctification A. Sanctification is the Conformitie of our nature to the pure

bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the councells of the hearts out of the Book of Gods remembrance the Lord will declare the good deeds of the godly and the sinnes of the wicked Every mans conscience shall be made either to accuse him or to excuse him Now the wicked mans conscience is like a closed or sealed book but then it shall be so touched and as it were opened that he shall remember all his particular offences wheresoever and whensoever committed and the conscience of every wicked man shall be as good as a thousand witnesses to accuse him and to condeme him By these two bookes all men shall be examined and the wicked shall be convicted Rev. 2.23 Joh. 21.17 1 Cor. 4.5 Mal. 3.16 Hos 7.2 Rom. 2.15 16. Q. Is there any other book that shall be opened A. Yes the Book of life wherein the names of all the Elect are written shall be opened that is it shall then be declared before all the World who are Elect and who are Reprobates by the exact separation of the one from the other and by the definitive Sentence which shall accordingly be executed Rev. 20.12 Luk 10.20 Phil. 4.3 Rev. 3.5 and 13.8 and 17.8 Q. How are we to conceive of the definitive Sentence of the Judge and in what order will Christ give sentence A. The definitive Sentence which Christ will give is twofold one for the Godly another against the wicked The Elect and godly shall first receive the Sentence of Absolution and Salvation and then Unbelievers and Reprobates shall receive the Sentence of condemnation Mat 25. Q. Why shall the godly be acquitted and absolved before the wicked be condemned A. That the godly may be Assessors with Christ in the Judgement to be pronounced and executed upon the ungodly The Godly being cleared shall have the dignitie to sit with Christ the Judge of all flesh and shall approve and applaud his most righteous judgement upon the wicked and so after a sort shall judge the world with Christ Mat. 19.28 1 Cor 6. ● 3. Q. What is the Sentence of absolution and Salvation which the Godly shall receive A. Christ shall say to the Godly Come ye blessed of my Father inherite the Kingdome prepared for you before the foundation of the world Mat. 25.34 Q. What is the Sentence of Condemnation which the wicked shall receive A. Christ shall say to the wicked Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Divell and his Angels Mat. 25.41 Q. When this double sentence is pronounced what shall follow A. The definitive sentence being pronounced shall be executed immediately The wicked shall presently be bound and cast into Hell where they shall suffer eternall death endlesse miserie And then the godly shall goe into Heaven where they shall live in eternall glory and enjoy perfect felicitie Mat 13.41 42. and v. 49 50. Mat. 25.46 Dan. 12.2 3. Q. What shall be the estate of the wicked in Hell How may we conceive of their future Miserie A. 1. The wicked shall be excluded and shut out of Heaven and banished from the glorious presence of God for ever Luk. 13.28 2 Thes 1.9 2. They shall be cast into utter darknesse where shall be nothing but horrour and confusion sinne and torment they shall have their portion with the Divill and his Angels in a lake of fire and brimstone invented by the infinite wisedome of God and kindled by the Justice and wrath of God where eternitie shall be added to the extremitie of their torments where they shall live a dying life and die a living everlasting death Mat 8.12 and 22.13 Mat. 25.30 Mat 13.42 50. Mat. 25.41 Isa 30.33 Rev. 14.10.11 and 21.8 Is 66 24. Mat. 3.12 Mark 9.43 44. and 48. Q. What shall be the estate of the godly in heaven how are we to conceive of their future happinesse 1. The godly shall be perfectly free from all sinne and Miserie and from all societie with the wicked Rev. 21.4 and 32.3 5. Psal 9.17 Mat 13.41 2. They shall enjoy the societie and fellowship of all the glorious Saints and Angels They shall be made like unto Christ their head in holinesse and happinesse they shall behold even with their bodily eyes the glory of Christ their Lord and Saviour and with the eyes of their soules the Father also and the holy Ghost yea they shall have that perfect communion with the blessed Trinitie wherein consisteth perfect felicitie Mat 8.11 Heb. 12.22.23 1 Joh 3.2 1 Cor 13.10 11. Joh. 17.24 Phil. 1.23 1 Thes 4.17 Psal 36.9 1 Joh. 3.2 Rev. 1.22 23. Rev. 22.4 3. Securitie and perpetuitie shall be added to the perfection of their happinesse In Heaven shall be happy securitie and secure happinesse happy eternity and eternall felicity Rev. 21.25 Psal 16.11 and 17.15 Isa 66.23 1 Thes 4.17 Rev. 22.9 Q. Seeing such shall be the Miserie of the wicked and such shall be the happinesse of the godly after the last Judgement tell me now for conclusion how may we escape this eternall Miserie How may we attaine to this eternall happinesse A. We must learne to know the onely true God as he hath revealed himselfe in his Word 2. We must learne to know our selves that we are sinfull and miserable by nature 3. We must learne to know Christ his person his natures his offices his saving benefits 4. We must be humbled by the Law that we may be willing to come out of our naturall condition and may be fit to receive Christ tendered unto us in the Gospell We must make sure our Union with Christ we must by a true and lively Faith depend and rest wholly upon the Mercie of God and Merits of Christ for the remission of our sinnes and the salvation of our soules 5. When we are united to Christ by a justifying faith and have the seed of regeneration sown in our hearts then we must waite upon God in a conscionable use of his holy Ordinances whereby faith and all other graces of the sanctifying spirit may be confirmed strengthned and encreased in us daily Finally Grace is the seed and infancie of Glory and therefore we must be infants in Grace before we can be Heires in Glorie If we have part in the first Resurrection if our soules be raised to a spirituall life here then certainly we shall be sharers in the glorious resurrection of the just hereafter Rev. 20.6 There are two degrees of spirituall life the life of Grace and the life of Glorie If we doe not attaine to the first of these we cannot attaine to the Second We must therefore live the life of Grace here if we defire to live the life of Glory hereafter AN APPENDIX Wherein these four Doctrines appertaining to the first Principle are more fully expounded viz. The Doctrine of The Attributes of God The Blessed Trinitie The Creation of the World Divine Providence DOCT. I. The larger Exposition of the Attributes of God WHat

Son of God suffered death it is more then if all men in the world had suffered for ever 1 Cor 2.8 Tit. 2.13.14 Act. 20.28 Q. Did Christ suffer for us the first death only A. The whole curse of the Law due to our sinnes was laid upon Christ our Suretie and therefore as Christ suffered the first death for us so he tasted of the second death also he did drink up the bitter cup of his Fathers wrath even the torments of Hell which made him cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Mat. 27.46 Isa 53.5 Heb. 2.9 Mat. 26.38 39.42 Luk. 22.44 Isa 63.3 Q. What are the fruits and effects of Christs death A. By the death of Christ the wrath of God is appeased the sinnes of the redeemed are remitted Satan Death and Hell are vanquished and consequently those that were miserable captives are gratiously and powerfully delivered out of the hands of all their spirituall Enemies Now those who are thus delivered from the captivitie of Sinne and Satan here shall have perfect deliverance from all sinne corruption wrath and miserie hereafter Christ hath merited perfect and eternall Redemption for us and therefore we expect a day of full Redemption Eph. 5.2 Heb. 9.26 Col. 1.14 and Ephes 1.7 Isai 53.12 Ephes 4.8 Col. 2.15 Heb. 2.14 15. Luk. 21.28 Rom. 8.23 Heb. 9.12 Ephes 1.14 and 4.30 Q. Hath Christ left any thing to those that are redeemed by him to be done or suffered in way of merit or satisfaction to the justice of God A. Nothing at all Christ is a most absolute and perfect Redeemer and Saviour Christ alone hath done and suffered all things that are needfull for the Salvation of man and therefore the glorie of that great worke of Mans Redemption and Salvation belongeth to Christ alone The righteousnesse obedience and suffrings of Christ are no way defective The satisfaction that Christ hath made to the Justice of God is absolutely perfect now that which is perfect is marred by adding ought unto it Heb. 7.25 Tit. 2.14 Act. 4.12 Q. What is required of those that are Redeemed by Christ A. The redeemed ought to live accoding to the will of their Redeemer See Luc 68.74 75. 1 Cor 5.15 1 Pet 2.24 The fourth PRINCIPLE Q. BVt how mayest thou be made partaker of Christ and his benefits A. A man of a contrite and humble spirit by faith alone apprehending and applying Christ with all his merits to himselfe is justified before God and sanctified The Exposition Q. What are the parts of this Principle A. This Principle layeth downe these three things 1. The quality and disposition of the person that shall attaine to salvation by Christ in these words a man of a contrite and humble spirit 2. What every one that would be saved must do viz. by faith apprehend and apply Christ with all his merits to himselfe 3. The fruits and benefits which follow upon our Union with Christ which are two Justification and Sanctification Q. How must the sinner be qualified that he may be made partaker of Christ A. He must be humbled bruised and broken This Humiliation and contrition prepares the sinner for Christ before the sinner be thoroughly humbled and kindly broken he is altogether unfit to receive Christ Isai 57.15 66.2 Isai 61.1 Q. Why must a Sinner be thus humbled before he can be made partaker of Christ A. Because every man hath naturally a proude hard and stony heart and God will not poure the oyle of his grace and mercy into any other but a broken Vessell the sinner therefore must have his proud and hard heart humbled and broken Sinners must understand themselves to be what they are indeed by nature before they will be willing to come out of their naturall condition See Matt. 9.12 13. Eze. 11.19 36.26 Zech. 7.12 Isai 48.4 Psal 51.17 147.3 Zeph. 3.12 Q. Wherein doth this Humiliation whereby the sinner is prepared for Christ consist A. In such a sight of Sinne and sense of Misery as drives a man to Gods Mercy and makes the sinner seeing no meanes of help in himselfe or the creature flee unto Christ Matt. 11.28 Prov. 30.1 2 3. Rom. 7.24 25. Q. How is it wrought A. God by the morall Law which is a perfect Rule of righteousnesse discovers to the sinner his sinne and the punishment of it and convinceth the sinner of his miserable and wretched condition and lets him see that it is impossible for him to come out of this condition by his owne strength and that it is in vaine to expect help from the Creature Now when a sinner is come to a right knowledge of himselfe to a true sight and sense of his vilenesse wretchednesse and spirituall wants then lest he should be swallowed up of despaire the Lord lets the sinner see his divine goodnesse and his readinesse to forgive and the Mercy that is layd up in Christ Jer. 23.29 Rom. 3.20 7.7 Rom 4.15 7.9 Gal 3.10 Job 33.16 19. 23.24 Gal 3.22 24. Q. What followes hereupon A. When the sinner seeth himselfe to be a bundle of sinne and misery when he seeth his sinne and the strict Justice of God threatning death and damnation on the one hand and the great Goodnesse of God with the Mercy that is revealed and offered in Christ on the other hand then he loathes himselfe bewailes his sinne fleeth unto God for mercy being willing to take Christ upon any termes upon any conditions When the heart of the sinner is thus kindly broken it is then a fit vessel to receive the precious oyle of Gods Mercy Ezek 36.31 Zech 12.10 Act 2.37 Jer 31.18 Luc 15.18 19. Matt 11.28 Isai 61.1 Isai 42.3 Hos 14.3 Q. Are there not degrees of this Humiliation A. Yes but every sinner must be humbled so farre as may prepare him and make him fit to receive Christ Now a sinner is then prepared for Christ when he is convinsed of the Necessity of a Saviour when he is made sensible of sinne and misery and flexible and tractable to good when he is willing to yeeld and submit unto Christ and disposed to take any impression from Gods hand Act 2.37 Act 9.6 Act 16.30 Q. When a sinner is thus humbled what must he do that he may be saved A. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ Act. 16.30 31. Faith in Christ is the only way to life and salvation Mar 16.16 Joh 3.14 15 16. Joh 6.47 20.31 Rom 1.17 10.9 10. Q. How doth Faith save us A. As an Instrument applying Christ When we say that Faith saveth us the meaning is that Christ apprehended by faith doth save us As the hand may be said to feed and nourish the Body so Faith may be said to save the Soul Christ is the Saviour of sinners and Faith is the hand of the Soul that layeth hold on Christ and cleaveth to this Saviour Christ is the Treasure that doth make us rich and Faith is the hand wherewith we