Colos 3.5 Q. What is the summe of this precept A. The hauing of the true God and him alone and 〈◊〉 with the whole man in the best of all 〈…〉 Q. What is the second Commaundement A. 〈…〉 not make to thy selfe any grauen Image c. Exod. 20.4.5.6 Psal 44.21 and 10â— 35.39 Deut. 4.12 Isay 42.2 Hos 14.8 Hab. 2.18 Math 15.9.1 Iohn 5.21 Q. What is the Summe heereof A. That wee worship God with his owne worship and not our owne deuises Q. What is the third Commandement A. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine c. Deut. 38.58 Psal 5.16.17 Dan. 4.34 Math. 6.9 Rom. 11.33 1. Tim. 6.1 Q. What is the summe thereof A. Due reuerence to be shewed in the worship of God Q. What is the fourth Commandement A. Remember thou keepe holy the Sabboth day c. Neh. 13.15 to 22. Exod. 20.8.9.10.11 Isa 58.13 Ier. 17.27 Rev. 1.10 Q. What is the summe of this law A. All diligence in publique Prayer to God and in learning the will of God especially vpon his owne day CHAPTER IIII. Of Charitie Hitherto of holinesse in the first Table Q. What is that iustice that we owe to our neighbour A. That wee doe to him as wee would hee should doe to vs. Mark. 12.31 Q. What is the first Commandement of this Table A. Honour thy father and mother c. Exod 20.12 Q. What is the summe thereof A. Due respect to our superiours inferours and equalls to honour all according to their place and degree Q. What is the second precept A. Thou shalt not kill Exod. 20.13 Q. What is the summe of it A. Preservation of life as farre as may stand with the good of the Church and Common wealth Q. What is the third Commandement A. Thou shalt not commit adulterie Exod. 20.14 Q. What is the summe of it A. Chastitie both inward and outward in affection and action Q. What is the fourth Commandement A. Thou shalt not steale Exod. 20.15 Q. What is the summe of it A. Iustice and equitie a vertue that readily giues euery man his owne Q. What is the fift Commandement A. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse c. Exod. 20.16 Q. What is the summe thereof A. Truth and our testimony thereunto as often as it shall lawfully bee required Q. What is the sixt Commandement A. Thou shalt not couet Exod. 20.17 Q. What is the summe thereof A. Contentment and resistance against all concupiscence CHAPTER V. Of Prayer Hitherto of the Law Q. What is Prayer A. It is a moving of God the Father in the name of his Sonne by the power of his spirit with things agreeable to his will Rom. 8.27 Ioh. 16.33 Q. Where is the summe of this contained A. In the Lords Prayer Q. How is that devided A. Into a preface the petitions and the conclusion Q. What is the Preface A. It is the preparation of the heart in comming to God for as wee are to come with boldnesse so must wee also come with reverence of his Maiestie that filleth the heauens Psal 26.6 and 115.3 Eccl. 5.1 Isa 66.1 Luk. 15.18 Q. What are the words A. Our father which art in heaven Q. How are the petitions devided A. They either concerne God or our selues Q. How many concerne God A. Three Q. How are they devided A. They either concerne his Glory or the meanes of it Q. Which is the petition concerning his Glory A. Hallowed be thy name Where wée desire that God in his nature attributes word and workes may be sanctified by vs Lev. 10.3 Ezek. 38.23 Act. 12.23 Q. What are the petitions concerning the meanes of his Glory A. Two The comming of his kingdome and the doing of his will Q. What is meant by thy Kingdome come A. That the kingdome of our Lord Iesus Christ both by the inward working of his Spirit and also by the outward meanes may be enlarged daily vntill it be perfected at the comming of Christ to Iudgement Psal 122.6 Isa 62.7 Rom. 14.17 2 Thes 3.1 2 Tim. 4.8 Rev. 22.20 Q. What is meant by the doing of Gods will vpon earth as it is done in heauen A. That all obedience be giuen to God in the most holy and heauenly manner Psal 86 â—1 and 119.36 Mal. 1.6 Act. 24.16 Rom. 8.29 1 Thes 4.3 And for wants eract performance daily prayer for parden with a complaining of our wants Psal 143.2 Rom. 7.18 CHAPTER VI. Of requests for our selues Hitherto of blessings concerning our sanctification of Gods name comming of his kingdome and performance of his will Q. What blessings concerne our selues A. Either such as concerne this life or 〈◊〉 better the bodie or the soule Q. What is the petition for this life A. The giuing of vs our daily bread that is that God would prouide for vs all things conuenient for this life walking faithfully in our vocatioÌ„s and in all things submitting to his heauenly will and good pleasure Psal 37.5 Prov. 10.22 and 16.3 and 30.8 Hag. 1.6 1. Tim. 6.8 Q. What are the petitions for a better life A. In regard of the present forgiuenesse of sinne and for future deliuerance out of all temptations that may any wayes draw vs to sinne Q. What meane you by the first A. That all our sinnes may be forgiuen and neuer laid to our charge either to condenine vs here or to confound vs hereafter and that most freely in Iesus Christ and as we heartily forgiue them that haue offended vs wherewith goeth an humble confession of them to God Psal 40.12 Luke 11.4 1 Ioh. 1.9 Confession and deprecation must goe together Q. What meane you by the second A. The not leading or leauing of vs in temptation but his most gracious and mercifull deliuerance of vs out of them all and in this request we either lament our estate to God or complaine of the wicked who molest vs. Deut. 8.2 and 13.3 2 Chron. 32.31 Psal 13.2 and 55.2.3 Hitherto of Petition Q. What is thankesgiuing A. A gratefull acknowledgment of all the benefits of God and ascribing vnto him domiuion power and glory for euer and euer Amen And this is the sweet concluding of all our Prayers 1 Chron. 29.11 Psal 29.2.9 2 Cor. 1.20 Phil. 4.6 CHAPTER VII Of Sacraments Q. Now wee come to the celebrating of a Sacrament what then is it A. It is a Seale of righteousnesse by faith Rom. 4.11 Q. What are the kinds A. Two Baptisme and the Lords Supper Mat. 26.26 and 28.19 Gen. 17.11.12 Rom. 4.11 1 Cor. 10.1.2 3.4 Q. What is Baptisme A. A Sacrament of our entrance into Christianitie or of our ingrafling into Christ Act. 8.12.38 Q. What is the outward signe A. Water with the sprinkling of it in the Name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Q. What is signified by it A. The washing away of our sinnes and presenting of vs holy to God the Father Q. What is the Lords Supper A. A Sacrament of our continuance in Christianitie or our
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D. for Fulke Clifton and are to be sold vnder St Margrets Church on Fish-streete hill 1621. ¶ To the Religious Student of the Art of Well-liuing THou mayest Christian Reader after thou hast studied and well pervsed this short Summe of Religion purchase to thy selfe if thy purse and paines will suffer thee the learned Theologie and Divinitie of that worthy man of God Mr Alexander Richardsonne This may be for preparation that will bee for further perfection Heb. 6.1 Leaving the beginning of Christ let vs goe on to perfection It is a shame ever to be vnder the spoone and never to vse the knife Ever learning and never to come to the knowledge of the Truth 2. Tim. 3.7 Yet soft and sure is the best pace Leap-Christians like horse-coursers Iades gallop into profession and then shamefully tyre and giue in It lames a weake Childe to vse limmes too soone and over-much forwardnes argues no perpetuitie Learne we then first to goe easily and afterwards to runne with speed the wayes of Gods Commandements The Catechisme defined and distributed CHAPTER I. Of Faith in God Question WHat inducements to Religion are prefixed before your Catechisme Answere Foure first the giuing vp of my name to God in Baptisme and that in the dreadfull name of Father Sonne and holy Ghost Secondly that being not able to giue it vp my selfe it was done by others according to the auncient custome of the Church ever conioyning Baptisme and Confession together Math. 3.6 Aug. Epist 24. Papists would haue it to contract spirituall kindred but surely it maketh honest loue amongst neighbours Thirdly They that gaue it vp for me did promise in my name that I should liue according to Religion Fourthly I beleeue in conscience that I am bound to performe what they haue promised Thus because I am Gods and bound to him by sureties vowes promises and Conscience it selfe It is my dutie being nowe come to yeeres of discretion to learne to beleeue in him and obey him Q. What then is Religion A. It is the acknowledgement of the truth which is after godlinesse Tit. 1.1 Q. What are the parts A. Faith and Workes the summe of the one is contained in the Creed of the other in the ten Commandements Lords prayer and the Sacraments Tit. 3.8 Q. What is Faith A. A confidence in God grounded vpon knowledge Ioh. 16.30 Wee know and by this beleeue Q. How is Faith grounded vpon knowledge A. In regard of God and his Church the maker of the Couenant and the people with whom it is made Ier. 31.33 Q. How in respect of God A. As we beleeue in one God and three persons for our happinesse Ioh. 14.1 Q. How in one God A. In respect of nature essence and being Deut. 4.35 Q. How in three persons A. Three in regard of divine revelation or reall respects in that one most pure essence Mat. 28.19 Q. What is the essence A. That whereby God is of himselfe the most absolute and first being Isa 41.4 Q. What is a person A. That one pure pure God with the relation of a Father Sonne and holy Ghost 1. Ioh. 5.7 Q. Doth the relation adde any thing to the essence A. Nothing but respect or relation as Abraham the Father of the faithfull hath the same nature as he is a Father and as he is a man Q. What is the Relation A. It is either to send or be sent and both these are done either by nature or counsell Ioh. 15.26 the spirit proceedeth from the father and sonne by nature and is sent to vs by counsell Q. Is there no other relation A. Yes either to beget or be begotten and the father begets his onely sonne by nature and the rest of his children by counsell Heb. 1.3 Iam. 1.18 A man hauing the relation of a father is said to beget children by nature or counsell as adopted children are freely begotten not of the bodie but the will Iam. 1.18 Of his owne will begat he vs not so his onely sonne who is as naturall to his Father as burning to the fire and as Isaac to Abraham Q. What then is the first person A. God the father who by nature begets his sonne by his counsell creats the world Heb. 1.2.5 Q. What is the propertie of the Father A. To beget and not to be begotten Ioh. 3.16 Q. What is his manner of subsisting A. To be the first person for the begetter is before the begotten and yet being Relatiues they are together in nature for no man is a father before he haue a sonne though in order the father be first Q. What is the fathers worke A. Creation for I beleeue in him as maker of heauen and earth and the reason is because he is the first person to whom the first worke belongs Q. What is Creation A. A worke of the Father who of himselfe by his sonne and spirit makes the world of nothing exceeding Good Gen. 1.31 Heb. 1.3 Q. What is giuen to the Father in respect of Creation A. Almightie power for the Father in himselfe is pure act which act is power as it may be felt of his creatures which are in power to be Q. What is omnipotencie A. It is that whereby the Father is able to doe all that he doth and more then hée doth if it contradict not his owne nature or the nature of things Q. How is Creation devided A. Into heauen and earth Gen. 1.1 Q. What meane you by heauen A. The third heauen with the Angels both which were made perfect in the very first beginning of time Gen. 1.1 Q. What meane you by earth A. All that matter which was closed and compassed about with the third heauen and was made at the same instant with it to prohibite and keepe out vacuitie or emptinesse and fill vp the whole compasse of it otherwise the parts of themselues would haue fallen together to haue kept out that enemy of nature Gen. 1.1 Q. Are wee to vnderstand no more by earth then that first matter A. Yes wee are to vnderstand the forming of it into the foure elements fire ayre water and earth as likewise the filling of if and them with inhabitants beth aboue and below as also the providence of the Father in preseruing gouerning of them all to their ends and vsee for the Father carries the worke according to his proper manner of working vntill wée come to Redemption and there the sonne takes it vpon him in a peculiar manner Q. What is the second person A. The sonne who is begotten of the Father
by nature and by counsell redeemes mankind Q. What is the relatiue propertie of the sonne A. To be begotten Heb. 1.5 Q. What is his manner of subsisting A. To be the second person in order not in nature for the begotten in relation is naturally as soone as the begetter Q. What is his worke A. Redemption Ephes 1.7 Q. What is Redemption A. It is a satisfaction made to the Iustice of God the Father for Man by a Redéemer Q. Who is the Redeemer A. Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lord. Q. Why call you him Iesus A. Because he is a Saviour of his people from their sianes Math. 1.21 Q. Why Christ A. In regard of his offices as he is anointed our King Priest and Prophet Psal 45.7 Luke 4.18 Act. 4.27 and 10.38 Q. Why his onely Sonne A. Because the Father can haue no more sonnes by nature but one Q. Why our Lord A. By the right of Redemption Rom. 14 9. Q. How is our Redemption wrought A. By the humiliation and exaltation of the Sonne of God Luke 24.26 Q. What be the seuerall degrees of his humiliation A. Seven there be some others left out of the Créed but these expressed are the principall Q. What are they A. 1. His conception 2. his nativitie 3. his passion vnder Pilate 4. his crucifying 5. his dying 6. his buriall 7. his descent into hell Q. What are meant by all these A. That Christ must not onely satisfie in generall but that he must passe through the degrees of our sorrowes and beare our afflictions Isa 53.4.5 Q. What be the seuerall degrees of his exaltation A. Foure which are his Resurrection Ascension Sitting at Gods right hand and returne to Iudgement As in his humiliation he tooke our receits and tasted the bitter potion for vs so all physicke being ended of that kinde hee giues vs his receits of Redemption Ephe. 1.7 Iustification Rom. 3.24 Reconciliation Colos 1.20 Sanctification 1. Pet. 1.2 Entrance into glory Heb. 10.19 these are Cordials for vs and for him after all his penall receits Q. What is the third person A. The holy Spirit who by nature proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne and by counsell applyeth Christ to the Church and euery member thereof the Father being the first person elects the Sonne redeemes and the Spirit sanctifies Ioh. 14.26 and 15.26 Rom. 8.16 1. Cor. 2.12 Iohn 3.5 2. Cor. 1.21 Rom. 8.23 Q. What is his Relatiue propertie A. To Proceede Vnderstanding begets an Image of it selfe and loues it and so from the best vnderstanding to the best obiect of it proceedes a mutuall loue The begetter loues the begotten and the begotten loues the begetter and their loue is equall to themselues and proceedes from them both and to vs. The will of the Father by the wisedome of his Sonne and power of his good Spirit is sayd to doe all Q. What is his manner of subsisting A. To be the third person in order for proceeding from two hee must needes bee the third and yet in nature as soone as either of them for the louers and the loued are Relatiues and therefore together in nature Q. What is his worke A. Application or Sanctification Ephe. 5.26.27 The Sonne hauing prepared the remedy leaues it to be applyed by the Spirit Iohn 16.7 CHAP. II. Of the faith of the Church Hitherto of Faith in God Q. What is the faith of the Church A. Whereby beleeuing in God we also beleeue that wee are of the Church and made partakers of all good things promised vnto it Q. What is the Church A. The number of all those that are applyed to Christ by the spirit New as this Vnion is made by Faith it is called the militant Church as by vision the triumphant Q. Why is it called holy A. Because it is an holy Societie of Saints in regard of the Spirits worke 1. Pet. 2.9 Reu. 11.2 and 21.29 Q. Why Catholicke A. Because it is vniuersall in respect of all times persons and places a familie both in heauen and earth Math. 26.13 Ephes 3.15 1. Iohn 2.1 Reue. 7.9 Q. What are the benefits God bestoweth vpon it A. Two in this life as the communion of Saints and remission of sinnes and two in the life to come as the resurrection of the body and life euerlasting Lam. 3.23 Psal 68.19 Col. 1.5 and 3.3.4 1. Iohn 3.2 Q. What is the communion of Saints A. It is our communicating with God and the godly both in grace and glory or that fellowship that wee haue with Christ our head and all his members Psal 16.5 and 73.26 Isay 55.1 Act. 4.32 Gal. 6.10 Ephes 4.3.4.5.6 Heb. 10.24 Phil. 2.1.2 1. Cor. 10.16 Reue. 3.18 and 6.20 Q. What is remission of Sinne A. It is a worke of mercy whereby the Father being offended and reconciled by his Sonne doth witnesse to our consciences by his holy Spirit that all our sinnes are discharged and that wee are graciously receiued againe into his fauour Iob 33.27.28 1. King 8.47 Hos 14.2 Isa 33.24 and 62.11 God in forgiuing our sinnes doth both couer and cure them 1. Iohn 1.9 Q. What is the resurrection of the body A. It is a standing vp from the dead by the power of Christs resurrection whereby our corruptible bodies are made incorruptible and filled with all glory and erceliency Iob 19.25.26 Iohn 5.28 Act. 3.19 1. Cor. 15.42.43 2. Cor. 5.1 Heb. 11.35 Q. What meane you by life Euerlasting A. That most blessed and happy estate in which all the Elect of God shall reigne with Christ their head in the thirde heauen after this life and after the day of iudgement and that both in body and soule for euer and euer Psal 16.11 Isa 64.4 Iohn 17.20.21 1. Cor. 2.9 and 13.12 and 15.28 2 Cor. 12.4 Phil. 3.21 Reue. 21.22 and 22.2 CHAP. III. Of good workes Q. Hitherto of faith what are the workes of Faith A. That ready act of Faith to doe as we are bidden Rom. 6.16.1 Sam. 12.25 Iam. 2.14 17. Iohn 14.15.1 Thess 1.3 Tit. 3.1.8 Q. How are these workes deuided A. They are either our walking with God or conferring with him or receiuing from him 2. Cor. 7.1 Phil. 1.6 2. Thess 1.11 heb 6.17.18 Faith bids the cleansed goe away and sinne no more but walke after the Spirit it prouokes to prayer and giues vs full confirmation of Gods loue Q. What is our walking with God A. It is our due obseruation of his lawes in all our wayes Psal 119.6 Q. What is the law of God A. The rule that God hath prescribed vs for the holy performance of all our actions Isa 8.20 Rom. 2.15 and 7.7 Q. How is the law distributed A. It is either concerning the worship of God or loue of our neighbour Marke 12.29.30.31 Q. What is the first Commandement concerning the worship of God A. Thou shalt haue no other Gods before my face Gen. 39.9 Iob 31.23.24 Psal I 12.1 Pro. 3.5 Isay 8.13 and 51.12 Haback 1.16 Luke 12.45 Phil. 3.19