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A18053 Winter-evenings communication with young novices in religion. Or Questions and answers about certaine chiefe grounds of Christian religion wherein every answer, rightly understood, hath the force of an oracle of God. By Iohn Carter, preacher of Gods Word. Carter, John, 1554-1635. 1628 (1628) STC 4696; ESTC S116222 12,994 42

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will of God ye might receive the promise Heb. 10. 36. Q. It is true indeed For we must needs drink of the cup which God reacheth unto us neither can any be a true Christian which doth not patiently offer himselfe in sacrifice to God Regeneration HOw doe men attaine to that high dignity of being beleevers in Christ Iesus A. They are borne of God Ioh. 1. 13. Q. Must there then be a new birth A. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5. 17. Q. By what meanes are they borne of God A. By the incorruptible seed of his word 1. Pet. 1. 23. Q. What word of God is that A. The word which by the Gospel is preached unto them 1. Pet. 1. 25. Q. What things are requisite and necessary to the effectuall hearing of the Gospel preached A. To have our hearts opened by God to attend to it as Lydia Act. 16. 14. Q. What else A. To be taught and drawne of God Ioh. 6. 44. 45. Q. What else A. Beleeving to be sealed with the holy Spirit of promise Eph. 1. 13. Sanctification Mortification Question VVE heard before how Christ bare our sins in his body on the tree that we being delivered from sin should live in righteousnesse What is it to live in righteousnesse A. To live henceforth not after the lusts of men but after the will of God 1. Pet. 4. 2. Q. What is the will of God A. This is the will of God even your Sanctification 1. Thes 4. 3. Q. When is our sanctification according to the will of God A. When as he that calleth us is holy so we be holy in all manner of conversation 1. Pet. 1. 15. Q. What reason is given why it should be so A. Because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy Vers 16. Q. So we are commanded to be perfect as our Father which is in heaven is perfect not for the degree for in that we come infinitely short of Gods holinesse or perfection but for truth and universality of obedience to his lawes This leaveth no liberty to men to live after the flesh in any thing A. No For if you live after the flesh you shall die Rom. 8. 13. Q. What course then is to be taken to save our lives A. If through the Spirit we doe mortifie the deeds of the body we shall live Rom 8. 13. Q. By this it plainly appeareth that a necessity lieth upon us of striving to enter in at the strait gate A Yes Because Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that finde it Mat. 7. 14. Of the holy Scriptures Question VVHence is the will of God to be learned A. Out of the holy Scriptures all given by inspiration of God 2 Tim. 3. 16. Q. This is their excellency above all other writings to be all given by inspiration of God Wherein else doe they excell all other writings A. They are able to make us wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Iesus 2. Tim. 3 15. Q How are we to be affected towards them in regard of these excellencies A. Not to let them depart out of our mouth but to meditate therein day and night Iosh 1. 8. Q. To what end A. That we may observe and doe according to all that is written therein ibid. Q What good will come of that A. Then shall we make our way prosperous and then shall we have good successe Iosh 1. 8. Q. Doe not divers very studious of the holy Scriptures meet with many losses and crosses A. Yes but marke the upright man and behold the just for the end of that man is peace Psal 37. 37. Q. How commeth that to passe A. Many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Psal 34. 19. Recovery and reconciliation after Offence Question THe righteous are delivered at Gods appointed time though no alwaies corporally yet most graciously and happily their heavenly Father making all things to worke for their good and sending them as he did his owne Sonne and the holy Martyrs by the chariot of the crosse into their heavenly countrey But when we fall into sinne as who liveth and sinneth not what is then our refuge A. We have an Advocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for all our sinnes 1. Ioh. 2. 1. Q. Who maketh benefit hereof A. He that confesseth and forsaketh his sinne shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. 1. Ioh. 1. 9. Psal 32. 6. Q. What is to be done then of every good man when he hath offended God A. For this shall every one that is godly make his praier unto God in a time when he may be found Psal 32. 7. Q. What speciall fruit commeth of that A. Surely in the flood of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him Psal 32. 7. Q. God will keep them from being swallowed up in the deepest gulfes of dangers and even of death it selfe Doth not this embolden men to sinne seeing their pardon is so ready and certaine A. He that is borne of God keepeth himselfe that the wicked one toucheth him not 1. Ioh. 5. 18. Q. Satan toucheth him not with a mortall wound but what course is to be taken in offences between man and man A. If thy brother trespasse against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him Luk 17. 3. Q. How farre must this readinesse to forgive extend A. And if he trespasse against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turne againe to thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him Luk. 17. 4. Q. And what is more to be done herein A. Confesse your faults one to another and pray one for another that you may be healed Iam. 5. 16. Good Workes Question SInce we are saved by grace through faith Ephes 2. 8. what such need is there of good workes A. They that have beleeved in God must maintaine good workes for necessary uses Tit. 3. 8. 14. Q. What are those necessary uses A. That men seeing our good workes may glorifie our heavenly Father Matth. 5. 16. 1. Pet. 2. 12. Q. What other A. That we may adorne the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things Tit. 2. 10. Q. What other A. Hereby the bowels of the Saints are refreshed Philem. 7. Q. What other A. That we may make our calling and election sure 2. Pet. 1. 10. Q. The foundation of God standeth sure having the seale The Lord knoweth them that are his but the meaning is to make it sure to our owne soules and consciences What other necessary use is there of good workes A. Our worke shall have a reward 2. Chr. 15 7. Luk. 14. 14. Rev. 14. 13. Q. Even to a cup of cold water given to a disciple in the name of a disciple but of grace not of merit What other necessary use is there A. That if any obey not the word they
Pray continually In all things give thankes 1. Thess 5. 17 18. Q. In all things small or great prosperous or adverse But what reason is there for that A. This is the will of God in Christ Iesus towards you 1. Thess 5. 18. Q. What other reason is there A. He that offereth praise shall glorifie me saith the Lord Psal 50. 23. Q. VVhat set forme of praier hath Christ left unto us to pray and to frame our praiers by A. After this manner pray ye or when you pray say Our Father which art in heaven c. Matth. 6. 9. Luk. 11. 2. Q. Of this most holy praier I have briefly set downe my minde else where Sacraments ARe not Baptisme and the Lords Supper worthy meanes also to uphold our weake faith and to further our zeale towards God and charity one towards another A. Yes For these Sacraments are seales of the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 4. 11. Q. They are indeed seales for confirmation of our most holy faith which even our father Abraham himselfe had need of But are they not in like manner seales for confirmation of Christian unity and amity A. Yes By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body and have been all made to drinke into one spirit 1. Cor. 12. 13. Q. This is a marvellous mystery by one spirit to be all incorporate in our Baptisme into me mysticall body of Christ which is his holy Catholick Church and to be all made to drinke in the Lords Supper into one Spirit by partaking the mysticall Cup or quickning blood of Christ Iesus truely exhibited to all the faithfull therein What doth this blessed Vnion and Communion with our Head Christ and with his holy Body the Church necessarily binde us unto A. To an endeavour of keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Ephes 4. 3. Q. When is that bond of peace kept undefiled A. When there be no dissentions among us but we be knit together in one minde and in one judgement 1. Cor. 1. 10. Q. What is Baptisme A. The washing of the new birth Tit. 3. 5. Q. Wherein consisteth this washing of the new birth A. Not in putting away the filth of the flesh but in the renewing of the holy Ghost 1. Pet. 3. 21. Tit. 3. 5. Q. What is the manner and meanes of this renewing of us who are so wholly polluted and uncleane by nature A. We are washed we are sanctified we are justified in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ and by the Spirit of God 1. Cor. 6. 11. Q. We are washed in Baptisme in token that we are sanctified and justified by the merit of Christ in whose Name we are baptised and by the efficacie of Gods Spirit given unto us therein But why are we baptised in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost A. In token of the Covenant betwixt God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost and us Gen. 17. 11. Q. As Circumcision was so Baptisme is a signe of the Covenant between God and his people What is that Covenant on Gods part A. That he will be our God and the God of our seed Gen. 17. 11. Q. What on our part A. We passe into the Covenant of God to be his people and so to observe all things whatsoever Christ hath commanded us Deut. 29. 12. Mat. 28. 20. Q. Is not this to make three Gods A. No These three the Father the Word and the holy Ghost are one 1. Ioh. 5. 7. Q. They are one in substance and consent yet three Persons or distinct manners of being in the Godhead What is proper to the person of the Father A. To be called one God and the onely true God of whom are all things 1. Cor. 8. 6. Ioh. 17. 3. Q. The Godhead is commonly ascribed to the Father because in him is the beginning of it who hath not onely his essence as God but his personall being as Father of himselfe he is also called the onely true God not to exclude the Sonne and the holy Ghost who are of the same substance and glory with him but all idols and creatures onely What is proper to the person of the Sonne A. He is the onely begotten of the Father the power of God and the wisdome of God by whom are all things Ioh. 1. 14. 1. Cor. 1. 24. and 8. 6. Q. What is proper to the person of the holy Ghost A. He proceedeth and is sent of the Father and the Sonne from whom he worketh all in all things Ioh. 14. 26. and 15. 26. 1. Cor. 12. 11. Q. Set downe some few texts of holy Scriptures prooving this most high and incomprehensible mysterie the Trinity in Vnity and the Vnity in Trinity A. Matth. 3. 16. 17. and 28. 19. 1. Cor. 13. 13. Ephes 2. 18. 1. Ioh. 5. 7. Revel 1. 4. 5. Let him that readeth understand c. Q. What is the Lords Supper A. The Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ 1. Cor. 10. 16. Q. What is the bread which is solemnely blessed and broken A. The body of Christ broken for us 1. Cor. 11. 24. Q. And what is the Cup of blessing which we blesse A. The blood of Christ or the New Testament in his blood Matth. 26. 28. 1. Cor. 11. 25. Q. Doth not this make for Popish transubstantiation A. Nothing at all It is the Spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteh nothing Ioh. 6. 63. Q. It is most true that the spirit or spirituall receiving of the flesh and blood of Christ crucified for us by faith in him giveth life to the receiver the flesh or bodily receiving without that profiteth nothing But why are we to eate this Bread and drinke this Cup A. Doe this in remembrance of me saith our blessed Saviour twice over 1. Cor. 11. 24. 25. Q. To what end are we so solemnely to be put in remembrance of him in this holy action A. That so often as we eate this bread and drink this cup we may shew the Lords death till he come 1. Cor. 11. 26. Q. His most bitter and meritorious death with the sweet fruits of it are upon this occasion to be declared at all hands both publickly and privately with the greatest alacrity joy thankefulnesse and zeal that possibly can be But how are we to prepare and addresse our selves to this holy banquet A. Let every man examine himselfe and so let him eat of this bread and drinke of this cup 1. Cor 11. 28. Q. What is the danger of the neglect hereof A. To be guilty of the body and blood of Christ 1. Cor. 11. 27. Q. No marvell since abuse offered to the Sacrament which is an holy instrument seale and image of the King of Kings even by divine institution must needs redound to the Lord himselfe They must needs therefore eat and drinke their owne damnation that doe so requite the Lord for this inestimable mercy But whereof must we chiefly examine our selves A. Whether we 〈◊〉 in the faith whether Christ be in us or ●● 2. Cor. 13. ● Q Whereby will it appeare that we be of sound religion and have saving faith A. Saving faith purifieth the heart Act. 15. 9. Q. How else A. It worketh also by charity Gal. 5. 6. Q. How else A. It maketh us as new borne babes desire the sincere milke of the Word that we may grow thereby 1. Pet. 2. 2. Q. Whereby shall we know that Christ is in us A. Hereby we know that Christ abideth in us even by the Spirit that he hath given unto us 1. Ioh. 3. 24 Q. And how may the Spirit of God be discerned in us A. By his fruits Love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance Gal. 5. 22 23. Q. How may we be assured that the fruits of the Spirit are in us in truth A. If we live in the Spirit let us walke in the Spirit Gal. 5. 25. Q When by living and walking in the Spirit that is by the habite or customary practise of his fruits with a holy delight therein we have found that Christ abideth in us What remaineth further to be examined A. How we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ 2. Pet. ● 18. Q. A very necessary point to be examined of us all ●o● Christ 〈◊〉 not to grow is to goe downe the 〈…〉 But when is this our solemne and serious examination of our selves throughly performed A. When having considered our waies we turne our feet unto Gods testimonies Psal 119. 59. Question VVHat is constantly to be done of him that desireth a quiet life and to see good daies in this world A. Keep thy tongue from evill and thy lips from speaking guile Depart from evill and doe good seek peace and pursue it Psal 34. 13. 14. Q. And what is to be done to escape the most desperate dangers that can befall men here or hereafter A. Watch you saith Christ and pray continually that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and to stand before the Sonne of man Luk. 21. 36. ACTS 24. 15. I have hope towards God that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust 16. And herein I exercise my selfe to have alwaies a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men FINIS