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A78329
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A brief and perspicuous manuduction to practical divinity, by way of question and answer wherein the chief principles of religion are so explained as to infer a good life from them.
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1670
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Wing C13A; ESTC R229568
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things the doing whereof importeth any thing of goodness or perfection whatsoever he will and how he will nay more than he wills to do or hath yet actually done Q. What learn you hence A. I learn to trust and fear him above all creatures good Angels Devils or Men which are at his beck and subject to his power being confident that which he hath promised or threatned shall be certainly fulfilled though it seem impossible to flesh and blood Q. Eternal You said fifthly God was eternal what mean you by that A. I mean that he hath neither beginning of being nor end of continuance Q. What learn you from hence A. I learn to reverence him as the most Ancient of dayes and the onely author of eternal rewards or punishments Q. Infinite in all perfections You added lastly God was infinite in all perfections What mean you by that A. I mean that no imperfection ought at any time to be ascribed unto him or affirmed of him but all perfections in the highest degree we can conceive of and beyond what we can conceive without measure or limits Q. What learn you hence A. Never to admit any low or unworthy thoughts of God and when I have the highest then to remember I know him best when I admire him most devoutly Q. The end for which God made us You have already told me you were made and that God was your maker whom you have well described to me Tell me now further for what end did God make you A. That by faithful service to him I might be happy in the enjoyment of his presence and favour Q. What learn you hence A. Carefully to perform my duty towards him and never to seek happiness in worldly pleasures or profits or any thing below or without him Q You were made you say Our chief rule in order to that end H. Scripture to serve God but how will he be served A. According to his will revealed principally in the Holy Scriptures which are the Word of God that is the declaration of his mind and contain in them all those supernatural truths we are obliged to know believe and practise in order to eternal happiness Q. Why believe you the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the Word of God that is as you intimated the inspired and infallible revelation of his mind and will A. The agreeing testimony of the Church of God first recommends them unto me for such which I have no reason to gainsay oppose or doubt of but on the contrary much reason to give credit to and Then the incomparable excellency and harmony of the truths therein revealed confirm me in this good belief which motives lastly by the inward operation of the sacred spirit grow up into the certainty and assurance of divine perswasion Q. What learn you from hence A. I learn thankfully to embrace and value them as such and with reverence fidelity care and diligence to read search study apply and improve them accordingly Q. That I may perceive your proficiency in the perusal of these sacred Oracles let me hear what they teach you concerning Man which you have not yet told me of A. The Scripture account of man's primitive estate by creation They do in the first place give the history of the Creation of the World by God in the space of six dayes out of nothing and therein of Adam the first man Q. How was Adam the first man created A. God made him upright in his own image and likeness and placed him in Paradise as Lord over the Creation Q. What learn you hence A. To admire God's Wisdom Power and Goodness in making the World and Man in it in such an excellent estate Q. Of man's fall by sin Did Adam always continue in the happy estate wherein God made him A. No he grosly disobeyed God's command in eating the forbidden fruit as is more largely declared in the book of Genesis and so fell from it by his voluntary disobedience Q. What learn you hence A. Never to charge God foolishly with man's sin but condemn him onely whose misbehaviour was unworthy towards God and cruel both to himself and his posterity Q. What was the state into which he fell A. A state of sin and misery Q. And what I pray is the condition wherein you and the rest of his posterity are left by him A. Mine and every man's naturally descended from him is the same The covenant being broken which gave assurance of immortal life and bliss we are under the same curse and we find within our selves lust conceiving and bringing forth sin which finished bringeth forth death Q. What learn you hence A. I learn to bewail this sad and lamentable condition into which I am plunged and from which I am not able to deliver my self Q. O wretched man that thou art who can or will deliver thee A. Of the means of man's recovery by Jesus Christ I thank God through Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world whom he out of his love to lapsed and lost man hath provided Q. Who is this Jesus Christ the Saviour A. Who he is God and man or God manifested in the flesh The eternal Son of God before all time wonderfully conceived and born of the B. Virgin Mary in the fulness of time Q. How do you conceive of the union of the divine and humane nature the Godhead and manhood in Christ A. As the reasonable soul and flesh is one man so God and man is one Christ Q. What learn you hence A. I learn to be much encouraged notwithstanding my sad and deplorable condition since my Saviour being both God and man is able and willing to help me Q. What he did What hath Jesus Christ done for you A. He perfectly revealed the will of God concerning man's duty and way to happiness He lived an innocent holy and exemplary yet a miserable life and died a sacrifice for our sins upon the cross was buried and continued among the dead till the third day wherein he arose out of the grave and having shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs forty days on earth he ascended visibly into heaven from whence he sent down the Holy Ghost in cloven tongues as of fire upon his Apostles and where He ever lives in glory to make intercession for and bless us by turning us from our iniquities a royal priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech who was both King and Priest Q. What learn you hence A. I learn stedfastly to believe and chearfully to obey him yea and willingly to part with every thing for his sake who gave his life for me in a painful shameful and accursed death and is still mindful of me in his Glory What is to be hoped for from through him Q. What good do you hope for and expect from and through this Saviour A. From and through him I look foâ—