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A47179	A short Christian catechisme for the instruction of children in the grounds and practice of Christian religion being (for the most part) an abridgment of a larger, formerly printed, where many questions and answers that were in the larger, are omitted, and others shortened, to fit the capacity of children, and some new questions, with their answers inserted, on several heads, which were not in the larger / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1698 (1698)	Wing K212; ESTC R14138	15,116	34

A SHORT Christian Catechisme FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN In the Grounds and Practice of Christian Religion being for most part an Abridgment of a larger formerly Printed where many Questions and Answers that were in the larger are omitted and others shortned to fit the Capacity of Children and some new Questions with their Answers inserted on several Heads which were not in the larger By George Keith LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill Price 3 d. A SHORT Christian Catechisme For the Instruction of CHILDREN in the Grounds and Practise of Christian Religion being for most part an Abridgment of a larger formerly Printed where maeny Questions and Answers that were in the larger are omitted and others shortened to fit the Capacity of Children and some new Questions with their Answers inserted on several Heads which were not in the larger By G. Keith SECT I. Q. WHat is the Christian Religion A. It is a Knowledge Belief and Practise of certain things by means of which we may attain to Eternal Life and Happiness Joh. 20.3 Rom. 6.22 Q. Where are these things taught us A. In the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament John 5.39 Rom. 15.4 Rom. 16.26 Q. What things are to be known and believed by us A. First concerning God and his Works of Creation and ●rovidence Secondly Concerning Christ his only begotten Son and our Redemption by him Thirdly Concerning the holy Spirit and his saving Gifts and Graces Heb. 11.3 1 Tim. 3.16 1 Cor. 2.11 12. Q. What things are to be practised by us A. The Commandments of God briefly contained in the ten Precepts of the moral Law and some other Commandments given us by Christ in the New Testament Exod. 20.1 Matth. 28.20 Q. Whence came the Holy Scriptures A. They came from God who did inspire and move holy Men to commit them to writing for our Instruction 2 Tim. 3.16 Q. Are they the words of God A. Yea John 17.8 Q. Are they not also the word of God A. Yea John 17.20 Acts 13.26 1 Cor. 4.20 Gal. 6.6 Phil. 1.14 2 Tim. 4.2 Q. Seeing Christ is called the Word in Scripture John 1.1 Is it not false to call the Scriptures the Word for the Scriptures are not Christ but testifie of him A. It is no more false than to call the Sun light because God is called Light in Scripture 1 John 1.5 Q. How is then the Word distinguished A. The essential Word is Christ but the Doctrinal Word that was first spoken and then committed to writing is that contained in the holy Scriptures Q. Doth the holy Scripture contain all things belonging to Faith and Practice A. Yea 2 Tim. 3.15.16 Q. Are they then a full and compleat Rule of the whole Duty of Man A. Yea. Q. What doth chiefly move us to believe the Truth of them and that they are given by divine Inspiration A. The Spirit of God by his secret Operation in our Hearts 2 Cor. 4.13 Phil. 1.29 Q. What doth give us the spiritual and saving Understanding of them A. The same holy Spirit by his secret Inspiration and Illumination in us 1 Cor. 2.11 2 Cor. 4.4 6. SECT II. Q. WHat doth the Scripture teach us concerning God A. That he is a Spirit of infinite Understanding Power Wisdom and Goodness Eternal Unchangeable Omniscient Omnipotent Omnipresent Merciful and Gracious long Suffering Faithful Just and Holy that he is Light and in him is no Darkness at all the Fountain of living Waters the only living and true God Deut. 7.9 1 John 1.5 Jer. 2.13 Jer. 10.10 John 4.24 Psal 147.5 Gen. 17.1 1 Chron. 29.11 Rom. 1.20 Rom. 2.4 Psal 31.19 33 11.139 1. to 12. Exod. 3.4 6 7. Deut. 32.4 Q. Are there any more than one God A. There is but one God over all through all and in all Deut. 6.4 Eph. 4.6 Q. Is God any Body or hath he any Parts or Passions A. Nay Numb 33.19 Q. What doth the Scripture further teach us concerning God A. That this one God is three Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and these three are one in Essence and Substance or Being from everlasting to everlasting equal in Wisdom Goodness Power and Glory John 5.7 Matth. 28.19 Q. Are the Father and the Son and the holy Ghost so distinguished that the Son is not the Father but was begotten of the Father before all Ages and the holy Ghost is neither the Father nor the Son but did proceed from the Father and from the Son before all Ages and neither the Father nor the holy Ghost was made Flesh was born of a Woman suffered Death rose again in the true Nature of Man but only the Son A. Yea John 1.14 SECT III. Q. WHich are God's Works of Creation A. All things visible as the visible Heavens and Earth and Waters and all things contained in them and all things invisible as the invisible Heavens Angels and Souls of Men Gen. 1.1 Coloss 1.16 Q. By whom did God Create and make all things A. By his Word his eternally begotten Son and Spirit John 1.2 Ephes 3.9 Psal 33.6 Q. Was it any difficulty to God to Create and make all things A. Nay For he spake and it was done he commanded and they were Created Psal 33.9 Q. What is understood by his resting on the seventh Day A. His ceasing to Create and finishing his Works which he had made in six days Q. Whence come all Men and Women of all Nations A. Of Adam our common Father and Eve our common Mother by ordinary Generation Acts 17.26 Rom. 5.12 Q. On which day were they made A. On the sixth day Male and Female Ge. 1.26 27. Q. In what Estate did he make them A. In his Image and after his Likeness Holy Upright Wise and Good with Dominion over the Creatures Col. 3.10 Eph. 4.24 Eccles 7.29 Q. Of what parts did they consist A. Of Soul and Body Matth. 10.28 Q. Was the Soul of the Earth as the Body was A. Nay For God breathed into him the Breath of Life and he became a living Soul Q. Where did God place them A. In the Garden to work in it and to keep it Gen. 2.15 Q. Did he give them a Law of Obedience A. Yea Which was that of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the midst of the Garden they should not eat but of every other Tree in the Garden they might freely eat Gen. 2.16 17. Q. Why did God forbid them to eat of that Tree A. To try their Obedience as well as for other Causes known to him Deut. 13.3 Q. Did they transgress that Command A. Yea. Q. What did that Transgression bring upon them A. It brought Death and other great Miseries upon them and their Posterity Q. What was that Death A. A Spiritual Death unto Holiness and Righteousnes whereby they lost Communion with God and fell under his Judgment and Wrath together with their Posterity and also that the Body

and by their obedience to it without some degree of faith in Christ crucified explicite or implicite A. It is of great use both to the Unbeliever and Believer to the Heathen and Christian Isaiah 40.3 Rom. 2.12 14.15 16. Q. What use hath it to the Heathen and Unbeliever A. As a preparatory ministration in a lower degree and kind of operation for convincing of moral duties and the contrary Sins and Vices for restraining them from great immorality for rendring them without excuse and liable to the judgment of Christ according to which they are to be judged and lastly for the government of the World and preserving good order equity and justice among Men It being that whereby mainly God's providential Kingdom is maintained and administred in the World according to Psalm 103.19 and his kingdom ruleth over all Q. What use hath it to true Believers and Christians A. It serves for a rule of life together with the Scriptures in things of moral honesty justice and temperance and obedience to it as a rule of moral life is so necessary that no Man can be saved without sincere obedience to it and all transgressions against it in any are hainous sins Mat. 7.12 Q. What is the summ of the moral Law A. To love the Lord our God with all our heart with all our Soul and with all our mind and to love our neighbour as our self on these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets Matth. 22.37 38.39 40. Deut. 6.5 Lev. 19.18 SECT X. Q. WHat are the Laws that God doth write in the hearts of the faithful as he has promised in the new Covenant Are they not the same contained in the holy Scriptures excepting the Ceremonial part and some other Laws peculiar to the Jews A. Yea Jerem. 31.31 Q. Are not many of these Laws belonging to the new Covenant other and distinct from the Law writ in the hearts of all Mankind commonly called the Law of Nature particularly such as respect the peculiar Doctrins and Precepts of the Christian Religion and the positive Institutions of Christ concerning Baptisme and the Supper and Christian Discipline in the Church of Christ A. Yea. Q. Doth God write those Laws of the new Covenant in the hearts of his People without all use of outward means A. Nay but in the use of them 2 Cor. 3.3 Q. What is the difference betwixt the writing of the Law in the hearts of Unbelievers and Heathens and that writing in the hearts of the faithful A. The former hath it writ in hard and stony hearts the other hath it writ in hearts of flesh that are made by the Lord soft and tender as he hath promised Ezek. 36.26 2 Cor. 3.3 Q. Of what service are the promises contained in the Scripture to the faithful A. Of exceeding great use and service for by them through the operation of the Spirit true Believers are made partakers of the Divine nature and have a lively hope begot in them that what God hath promised he will faithfully perform both in this life and in the life to come 1 Tim. 4.8 Heb. 13.5 2 Pet. 1.4 1 Pet. 4.8 19. Q. Is God and Christ in all Men both Believers and Unbelievers A. God and Christ as the word and also the Spirit are in all Creatures as to their essential presence Psal 139.7 it being one of God's Attributes to be omnipresent as well as omniscient and omnipotent and therefore they are in all Men both Believers and Unbelievers but in respect of their Operations and Manifestations the difference is great Q. What is the difference betwixt the manner of God and Christ their Operations and Manifestations in Be●●●vers and Unbelievers A. Believers have special and peculiar Manifestations and Operations of God Christ and the holy Spirit in them which Unbelievers have not and God and Christ and the holy Spirit are in the Faithful by union and communion and inhabitation or indwelling by Faith and Love but they are not so in Unbelievers hence it is that Unbelievers are said to be without God and Christ in the world without hope strangers and aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel 1 Cor. 2.12 14. Eph. 1.17 18. 1 John 1.3 Eph. 3.17 1 Cor. 6.17 Phil. 2.1 Eph. 2.12 Q. How is Christ the Saints hope of Glory Col. 1.27 is it only as within them considered only as God and as the Word or is it both as without out them as he is God-Man their Prophet Priest and King Mediator and Advocate and Head and also as within them as he is the Word Light and Life A. Christ is the Saints hope of Glory both ways considered for Paul gave thanks to God for the hope laid up for the believing Colossians in Heaven Col. 1.3 4.5 and surely that was without them and not within them only also the hope of the Faithful is said to be as an anker of the Soul sure and stedfast and which entreth into that within the veil whither the forerunner is for us entred even Jesus Heb. 6.18 19. and that place whither Jesus our High Priest is entred is not any place within us though he is spiritually present in us but Heaven without us there to appear in the presence of God for us and that in the true nature of Man Heb. 9.24 SECT XI Q IS Prayer and Thanksgiving with humble reverence both of Soul and Body unto God a most necessary duty to be performed by us both in private and publick and that frequently A. Yea Matth. 6.6 Jer. 10.25 Matth. 18.19 20. Q. Ought the Prayers of all true Christians and their Thanksgivings be offered up to God in the name of our blessed Mediator and Advocate Jesus Christ God-Man and also to him together with the holy Spirit A. Yea John 14.1 3.14 John 16.24 Q. Are Angels and Saints to be prayed unto A. Nay Rev. 19.10 Matth. 4.9 Exod. 20.3 Q. Are Images to be made use of in the worship of God A. Nay Exod. 20.4 5. Acts 17.25 29.30 Q. For whom are we to pray A. Not only for our selves but for all Men for the King and all in Authority and for the whole Church of God and also for our Enemies 1 Tim. 2.1 2. Psal 51.18 Psal 137.5 Matth. 5.44 Q. How are we to pray and give thanks so as to be accepted A. In Spirit and in Truth in sincerity of Heart in Faith in Humility in Holy Fear with the Understanding with Love and Fervency of Heart with frequency and constancy to all which we need the continual help of God's Spirit and Grace to aid and assist us John 4.23 Jam. 1.6 5.16 1 Thess 5.17 1. Cor. 14.15 Heb. 12.28 Q. What are the things for which we are chiefly to pray A. They are briefly contained in that excellent form of Prayer which Christ taught his Disciples saying Our Father c. Q. Doth the Spirit of God teach us to pray without all outward means of instruction or use of the holy Scriptures A. Nay Q. May we