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A76705	A twofold catechism: the one simply called A Scripture-catechism; the other, A brief Scripture-catechism for children. Wherein the chiefest points of the Christian religion, being question-wise proposed, resolve themselves by pertinent answers taken word for word out of the Scripture, without either consequences or comments. Composed for their sakes that would fain be meer Christians, and not of this or that sect, inasmuch as all the sects of Christians, by what names soever distinguished, have either more or less departed from the simplicity and truth of the Scripture. By John Biddle, Master of Arts of the University of Oxford.	Biddle, John, 1615-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing B2882; Thomason E1473_2; ESTC R209511	54,377	175

also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all 1 Cor. 15. 24 28. I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God 1 Cor. 11. 3. All are yours And ye are Christs and Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3. 22 23. Qu. Howbeit is not Christ dignified as with the title of Lord so also with that of God in the Scripture A. Thomas answered and said unto him My Lord and my God John 20. 28. Qu. Was he so the God of Thomas as that he himself in the mean time did not acknowledge another to be his God A. Jesus saith unto her Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God Joh. 20. 17. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God which is new Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my God Rev. 3. 12. Qu. Have you any passage of the Scripture where Christ at the same time that he hath the appellation of God given to him is said to have a God A. But unto the Son he saith Thy throne O God is for ever and ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity wherefore God thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy fellows Heb. 1. 8 9. CHAP. V. Of the Holy Ghost Qu. HOw many Holy Spirits of Christians are there A. One Spirit Eph. 4. 4. Qu. Wherein consists the prerogative of the Holy Spirit above other spirits A. The Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God For who of men knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of a man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth none save the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 10 11. Qu. Whence is the Holy Ghost sent A. Down from heaven 1 Pet. 1. 12. Qu. By whom A. God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts Gal. 4. 6. Qu. Doth not Christ affirm that he also sends him how speaketh he A. If I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him Joh. 16. 7. Qu. Had Jesus Christ always the power to send the Holy Ghost or did he obtain it at a certain time A. This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we are all witnesses Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear Act. 2. 32 33. This spake he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified Joh. 7. 39. Qu. What were the general benefits accruing to Christians by the Holy Ghost A. By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit 1 Cor. 12. 13. The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the minde of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God Rom. 8. 16 26 27. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us Rom. 5. 5. Your love in the Spirit Col. 1. 8. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him Eph. 1. 17. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost Rom. 15. 13. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy Ghost Rom. 14. 17. Then had the Churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost were multiplied Acts 9. 31. The he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthned with might by his Spirit in the inner man Eph. 3. 16. Qu. What are the special benefits accruing to the apostles by the holy Ghost what saith Christ to them hereof A. The Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you Joh. 15. 26. When he the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth Joh. 16. 13. Qu. Should the holy Ghost lead them into all truth as speaking of himself and imparting of his own fulness What saith Christ concerning him A. He shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you Joh. 16. 13 14. Qu. Do men receive the holy Ghost while they are of the world and in their natural condition to the end that they may become the children of God may receive the word may believe may repent may obey Christ or after they are become the children of God have received the word do believe do repent do obey Christ A. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever Even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him Joh. 14. 16 17. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 14. Because ye are sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father Gal. 4. 6. When the Apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God they sent unto them Peter and John who when they were come down prayed for them that they might receive the holy Ghost For as yet he was fallen upon none of them onely they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Acts 8. 14 15 16. He that believeth on me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water But this he spake of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet

matters concerning God they are pressed with the plain words of the Scripture as that he would by so doing render us altogether uncapable of finding out his meaning whilst he spake one thing and understood the clean contrary Yea would he not have taken the direct course to make men substitute an Idol in his stead for the Adversaries hold that to conceive of God as having a shape or affections or being in a certain place is Idolatry if he described himself in the Scripture otherwise then indeed he is without telling us so much in plain terms that we might not conceive amiss of him Thus we see that when sleep which plainly argueth weakness and imperfection had been ascribed to God Psal 44. 23. the contrary is said of him Psal 121. 4. Again when weariness had been attributed to him Isa 1. 14. the same is expresly denied of him Isa 40. 28. And would not God think ye have done the like in those forementioned things were the case the same in them as in the others This consideration is so pressing that a certain Author otherwise a very learned and intelligent man perceiving the weight thereof and not knowing how to avoid the same took up though very unluckily one erroneous tenet to maintain another telling us in a late book of his intituled Conjectura Caballistica that for Moses by occasion of his writings to let the Jews entertain a conceit of God as in humane shape was not any more a way to bring them into Idolatry then by acknowledging man to be God as saith he our Religion does in Christ. How can this consist even with consonancy to his own Principles whilst he holds it to be false that God hath any shape but true that Christ is God For will a false opinion of God no sooner lead men into Idolatry then a true opinion of Christ But it is no marvel that this Author other learned men with him entertain such conceits of God and Christ as are repugnant to the current of the Scripture whilst they set so high a rate on the sublime indeed but uncertain notions of the Platonists and in the mean time slight the plain but certain letter of the sacred Writers as being far below the Divine Majesty and written only to comply with the rude apprehensions of the vulgar unless by a mystical Interpretation they be scrued up to Platonism This is the stone at which the Pride of learned men hath caused them continually to stumble namely to think that they can speak more wisely and worthily of God then he hath spoken of himself in his Word This hath brought that more-then-Babylonish confusion of language into the Christian Religion whilst men have framed those horrid and intricate expressions under the colour of detecting and excluding Heresies but in truth to put a baffle on the simplicity of the Scripture and usher-in Heresies that so they might the more easily carry on their worldly designes which could not be effected but through the ignorance of the people nor the people brought into ignorance but by wrapping up Religion in such monstrous terms as neither the people nor they themselves that invented them or at least took them from the invention of others did understand Wherefore there is no possibility to reduce the Christian Religion to its primitive integrity a thing though much pretended yea boasted-of in Reformed Churches yet never hitherto sincerely endeavoured much less effected in that men have by severe penalties been hindered to reform Religion beyond such a stint as that of Luther or at most that of Calvin but by cashiering those many intricate terms and devised forms of speaking imposed on our Religion and by wholly betaking our selvs to the plainness of the Scripture For I have long since observed and finde my observation to be true and certain that when to express matters of religion men make use of words and phrases unheard-of in the Scripture they slily under them couch false doctrines and obtrude them on us for without question the doctrines of the Scripture can be so aptly explained in no language as that of the Scripture it self Examine therefore the expressions of Gods being infinite and incomprehensible of his being a simple Act of his subsisting in three persons or after a threefold maner of a Divine Circumincession of an Eternal Generation of an Eternal Procession of an Incarnation of an Hypostatical Union of a Communication of Properties of the Mother of God of God dying of God made man of Transubstantiation of Consubstantiation of Original sin of Christs taking our nature on him of Christs making satisfaction to God for our sins both past present and to come of Christs fulfilling the Law for us of Christs being punished by God for us of Christs merits or his meritorious obedience both active and passive of Christs purchasing the kingdom of heaven for us of Christs enduring the wrath of God yea the pains of a damned man of Christs rising from the dead by his own power of the Ubiquity of Christs body of apprehending and applying Christs righteousness to our selves by faith of Christs being our Surety of Christs paying our debts of our sins imputed to Christ of Christs righteousness imputed to us of Christs dying to appease the wrath of God and reconcile him to us of infused grace of free grace of the the world of the elect of irresistable workings of the Spirit in bringing men to believe of carnal reason of spiritual desertions of spiritual incomes of the Outgoings of God of taking up the Ordinance c. and thou shalt finde that as these forms of speech are not owned by the Scripture so neither the things contained in them How excellent therefore was that advice of Paul to Timothy in his second Epistle to him chap. 1. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus for if we once let go those forms of sound words learned from the Apostles and take up such as have been coined by others in succeeding Ages we shall together part with the Apostles doctrine as woful experience hath taught us For after Constantine the Great together with the Councel of Nice had once deviated from the language of the Scripture in the business touching the Son of God calling him coessential with the Father this opened a gap for others afterwards under a pretence of guarding the Truth from Hereticks to devise new terms at pleasure which did by degrees so vitiate the chastity and simplicity of our Faith delivered in the Scripture that there hardly remained so much as one point thereof sound and entire So that as it was wont to be disputed in the Schools whether the old ship of Theseus which had in a maner been wholly altered at sundry times by the accession of new pieces of timber upon the decay of the old were the same ship it had been at first and not rather another by degrees

glorified Joh. 7. 38 39. Paul having passed thorow the upper coasts came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples He said unto them Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye believed and they said unto him We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost Act. 19. 1 2. In whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise Eph. 1. 13. That we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith Gal. 3. 14. God made choice among us that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the Gospel and believe And God which knoweth the hearts bare them witness giving them the holy Ghost even as he did unto us Acts 15. 7 8. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the holy Ghost Acts 2. 38. And we are his witnesses of these things and so is also the holy Ghost whom God hath given to them that obey him Acts 5. 32. CHAP. VI. Of Salvation by Christ Qu. IS not Christ in Scripture called a Saviour A. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 3. 18. Q. Is Christ our Saviour originally and of himself or because he was given exalted and raised up by another to be a Saviour A. There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved Act. 4. 12. Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and Saviour Acts 5. 31. Of this mans seed hath God accorcording to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour Jesus Acts 13. 23. Q. How do the Saints expect to be saved by Christ A. We shall be saved by his life Rom. 5. 10. We look for a Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile bodies that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3. 20 21. CHAP. VII Of Christs Mediation Q. IS not Christ called the Mediator between God and men A. There is one God and one Mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. Q. Is not Christ also called the Mediator of the New Covenant or of a better Covenant A. Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant Heb. 12. 24. He is the Mediator of a better covenant Heb. 8. 6. CHAP. VIII Of Christs Prophetick Office Q. IS not Christ dignified as with the title of Mediator so also with that of Prophet A. He shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you For Moses truly said unto the fathers A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me Acts 3. 20 22. Q. Forasmuch as Christ was to be a Prophet like unto Moses and Moses had this priviledge above other Prophets that God made not himself known to him in a vision nor spake to him in a dream but face to face as a man speaketh to a friend and shewed to him the similitude of the Lord Exod. 33. 11. Num. 12. 6 7 8. can you cite any passage of the Scripture which intimateth that Christ did see God before the discharge of his Prophetick Office A. Every man that hath heard and learned from the Father cometh to me Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is from God he hath seen the Father Joh. 6. 45 46. Qu. From whence doth it appear that Christ like to Moses heard from God the things that he spake A. Ye seek to kill me a man that hath told you the truth which I have heard from God Joh. 8. 40. He that hath sent me is true and I speak to the world those things which I have heard from him As my Father hath taught me I speak these things Joh. 8. 26 28. All things that I have heard from my Father have I made known unto you Joh. 15. 15. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me and they have received them Joh. 17. 8. Qu. Can you further cite any passages to prove that Christ as a man ascended into heaven and was there and came from God out of heaven before he shewed himself to the world and discharged his Prophetick Office so that the talking of Moses with God in the person of an angel bearing the name of God was but a shadow of Christs talking with God A. No man hath ascended into heaven but he that came down from heaven the Son of man which is or rather was in heaven Joh. 3. 13. What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascending up where he was before Joh. 6. 62. I came down from heaven not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me Joh. 6. 38. I am the living bread which came down from heaven Joh. 6. 51. Moses gave you not that bread from heaven but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world The Jews then murmured at him because he said I am the bread which came down from heaven And they said Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph whose father and mother we know how is it then that he saith I came down from heaven Joh. 6. 32 33 41 42. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father so he that eateth me shall live by me This is that bread which came down from heaven Joh. 6. 57 58. I proceeded forth and came from God Ioh. 8. 42. Ye are from beneath I am from above ye are of this world I am not of this world Ioh. 8. 29. Jesus knowing that he was come from God and goeth to God Ioh. 13. 1 3. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father His disciples said unto him Lo now thou speakest plainly and speakest no parable Now are we sure that thou knowest all things and needest not that any man should ask thee by this we believe that thou camest forth from God Ioh. 16. 28 29 30. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me and they have received them and known surely that I came out from thee Ioh. 17. 8. Qu. Of what consequence was it in the judgement of Christ himself that his disciples had believed that he came out from God what saith he A. The Father himself loveth you because ye have believed that I came out from God Ioh. 16. 27. Qu. Doth not Iohn the Baptist affirm that Christ surpassed all others because he came down from heaven above what saith he A. He that cometh from above is above all he that is of the earth or rather was from the earth is earthly or rather is of the earth and speaketh of the earth He that cometh from heaven is above all And what he hath seen and heard that he speaketh Ioh. 3. 30 31