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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37186	Feed my lambs, or, A small systeme of divinity minced into a catechism and fitted for the instruction of children and young beginners in Christianity it may serve also for an exposition of the catechism in the liturgy of our church, the greatest part thereof, being as it falleth into the method, with some little variation, taken into it / by J.D., M. of A.	J. D.	1686 (1686)	Wing D34; ESTC R40375	8,369	17

signifie A. God's offering and giving Christ with all his benefits Q What doth the Communicants receiving the bread and wiue signifie A. His receiving Christ by Faith Q. What is eating the bread and drinking the wine A. His feeding upon Christ crucified by Faith as on spiritual food Q. What is signified by the bread and wine thus received and fed upon in the Lords Supper A. Christ crucified with all the benefits of his death and passion Q. What are the benefits of Christ's death which hereby we are made partakers of A. The pardon of our sins the strengthening of our graces and the refreshing of our souls Q. What are the ends for which we should receive the Lords Supper A. That we may remember Christ dying for us and obtaining the aforesaid benefits of his death and passion Q. How may we so receive the Lords Supper as to be hereby made partakers of the benefits of Christ's death and passion A By doing what is required of us before in and after our receiving it Q What is required of us before we receive it A. That we examine our selves whether we truly repent of our sins believe in Christ Jesus have a thank full sense of his mercy in dying for us and true love to him and our brethren Q What is required of us in receiving A. That exercising of our Repentance faith love and thankfulness with reverence and joy Q. What is required of us after our receiving A. That we examine our selves how we have received be heartily thankfull to God for his goodness to us therein firmly resolve to walk carefully in his ways and earnestly endeavour to grow in grace Q. When are we to receive this Sacrament A. When we understand the Doctrine and can perform the duties of it Q. What if we receive it unworthily A. We are guilty of the body and bloud of Christ 〈…〉 eat and drink damnation to our selves Q. You said that Faith was wrought in us outward 〈…〉 the word and inwardly by the spirit and ●hat 〈…〉 encreased by praying and receiving the L●●d's Su●per can faith thus wrought and increased in us be fruitless and unprofitable A. No for it worketh by love Q What is one of the chief and principal works of it A. Its purification of the heart Q. How may we know when faith is thus wrought and encreased in us A. By the fruits and effects of it Q. What are the fruits and effects of faith A. A loathing renouncing and abhorring of sin in our hearts and a leaving forsaking and turning from it in our lives Q What else A. Love and delight in that which is good with a sincere desire to please God in all things Q. How may we please God in all things A. By believing and doing what he requires Q. What is the rule which God hath given us to direct us in our believing what he would have us to believe A. His whole written word or the whole Bible with all the Truths Doctrines Promises Threatnings therein Q What is the Summ of those truths that are to be believed by us A. The Creed or that we commonly call the Apostles creed Q. How are the doctrines or truths contained in this creed divided A. Into twelve Articles and a Conclusion Q. Which are the twelve Articles A. 1. I believe c. 2 And in Jesus c. 3. which was conceived 4. Suffered under 5. He descended 6. He ascended 7. From thence 8. I believe 9. the Holy 10. the Forgiveness 11. the Resurrection 12. the Life Q. What is the conclusion A. Amen Q. What doth Amen signifie here A. So it is or so I believe it to be Q. What doest thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief A. In the first I learn to believe in God the Father the Creator who made the World In the 6 next in God the Son the Redeemer and in the 5 last in God the Holy Ghost the Sanctifier of all the elect people of God Q. What is the rule which God hath given us to direct us in the doing of what he would have us to do A. It is his holy and righteous Law or the commandments he hath given us in his word Q. What is the Summ of those Commandments A. That which we call the Moral law or the 10 Commandments given by God to the Israelites Q. How are these X Commandments divided A. Into two Tables Q. How many are the Commandments of the 1st Table A. Four Q. What do these four first Commandments teach us A. Our duty towards God Q. What duties towards God doth the first Commandment teach us A. To believe in him fear him according to his word 1st to love him with all my soul with all my heart and with all my strength 2d The 2d To worship him and him onely in spirit and in truth and to give thanks to him 3d. The 3d. to honour and reverence his holy Name and his word 4th The 4th to keep holy his day and to serve him truly both that day and all the days of my life Q. How many are the Commandments of the 2d Table A. Six Q. What do these six last Commandments teach us A. Our duty towards our Neighbour Q. What is thy duties towards thy Neighbour A. My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as my self and to do unto all men as I would they should do unto me Q. What duties to thy Neighbour do these 6 last Commandments teach thee A. The 1st teacheth me to love honour and succour my 5. Father and Mother to honour and obey the King and all that are put in authority under him to submit my self to all my Governours Teachers spiritual Pastors and Masters and to order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters 6. The 2d teacheth me to bear no malice nor hatred in my heart to hurt no body by word or deed but to preserve my own and others life and health 7. The 3d. teacheth me to keep my Body in temperance soberness and chastity and to preserve and promote chastity and sobriety in others 8. The 4th teacheth me to be true and just in all my dealings to keep my hands from picking and stealing and to preserve my own and my Neighbours Estate and Goods 9. The 5th teacheth me to keep my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering and to maintain my own and my Neighbours good name and credit 10. The last teacheth me not to covet nor desire other mens goods but to learn and labour to get my own living and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me Q. What is the Summ of this Law A. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and thy Neighbour as thy self Q. Is any man able to keep this Law A. No not perfectly for in many things we offend all but he may and must earnestly strive and sincerely endeavour to keep it Q. Should not a man therefore omit and give over doing of good seeing he cannot do it so well as he ought A. No but he must still strive and continue doing it as well as he can Q. What if notwithstanding we do strive and continue doing as well as we can we yet break God's law and sin A. We must confess and bewail our sins before God reform our lives and relying upon the promises of mercy and pardon through Christ persevere in doing our endeavour unto our lives end Q. What is the state of the Godly after this life A. A state of everlasting rest joy and glory Q. What is the state of the wicked A. A state of endless woe and misery Q. When shall the happiness of the select be compleat A. At the day of Judgment Q. Who shall be Judge at that day A. J. Christ ordained of God to be Judge of quick dea● Q. When shall Christ come to Judgment A. We are not told when he shall come but we are bid t● watch and prepare for his coming Q. How or in what way and manner shall he come A. He shall come visibly in the clouds descending from heaven with a shout the voice of the Archangel an● the Trumpet of God and he shall be most royally attended with innumerable multitudes of mighty Angels Q. Whom shall he Judge at his coming A. The Apostate-Angels and Men and Women of all sort● Q. How shall those be judged at that day whose bodie are rotted turned into dust or eaten by birds beast or fishes A. They shall by the power of God be raised up brought together and have their souls united to them Q. What are we to believe of them that shall be found alive at Christ's coming to Judgment A. They shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye and so presented before the Judgment-seat of Christ Q. What shall be the effect and issue of this Judgment to the Godly A. A sentence of blessedness Q. In what words is that sente●●●●xpressed in the Scriptures A. In these words Come ye blessed of my Father inheri● the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World Q. What shall be the effect and issue of it to the wicked A. A sentence of cursedness Q. In what words is that sentence expressed A. In these words Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels FINIS