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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B23108	The catechism of the Church of England, poetically paraphrased. By James Fowler	Fowler, James, verse-writer.; Church of England. aut	1678 (1678)	Wing F1729A	21,745	62

gain Add yet to this a more concise and brief Account of what you learn from hence in chief Answer Then as three persons in the God-head be The parts of Faith are like it's objects three First I believe in God the great Creator Who when there was as yet nor form nor matter Did by his word make men and all the World Of empty substance in Confusion hurl'd First from a Vacúum from a darksome mist He bids a goodly beauteous world exist Then of the dust the baser part of that Did man the glorious Lord thereof create And then t'enlighten and adorn the whole Stamps a Divine impression on his Soul Making in 's mind his better part to dwell The chief perfections that in God excel Creates him his own image in a Will Perfectly free to chuse or good or ill Gives him a pow'r of Standing but withal To make it truely free a pow'r to fall And this was Paradise but envious Hell Ne're ceas'd till glorious man from glory fell He shews him beauty richly guilded o're That fruit where God had show'd him death before The look gives God the lye and man believes And tast's the tast the man of bliss bereaves He plucks the fairest fruit yet eates but leaves He ate t'tain to knowledg and thereby Deep knowledg gain'd but 't was of misery Whence to redeem t' a second life and bliss The Son of God for ransome paid down his So next I do believe in God the Son Who God of God is God with God but one Stand here my Soul admire the matchless love Which Strong as death it self the Lord could move To leave th' Eternal seats of bliss above To cloath himself with shame and misery To court infirmities and poverty To live inglorious and inglorious dy And all to rescue from the worst of dangers Poor us no more than men no more than strangers Unless 't were more his goodness to despise And spight of favours turn his Enemies Lord what attractive What could win thine eye Is there magnetick pow'r in misery To drawn down mercy What dear God had woo'd The Suff'rers grace t'espouse th' offenders good And write his love in characters of blood Thanks to thy Image and thy mercy Lord One crav'd the help which t'other did afford Thy Image suff'ring in us cry'd to Heav'n For pity pity by thy grace was given Where Heav'n is once ally'd it never can Like unrelenting like unnat'ral man Forget Relation though deserts bespeak His anger he can love for Kindred sake Unfathom'd love that claims abus'd relation And further to endear that obligation First takes mens nature makes himself like them Then gives his Spirit to make them like him That Spirit which the third but equal place In my belief as in the Godhead has God in creating did a Father prove Christ in redeeming shew'd a Brother's love But both these God-like works would be defeated By Nature's counter-works unless repeated Which God the Spirit day by day effects By frequent iterated gracious acts 'T is he preserves us and that preservation May well be call'd continual Creation He daily Sanctifies what daily sin Profanes and so as oft redeems agen This does the Spirit for all that chosen be And in that number as I hope for me May he go on to do it till this State Of humane frailty shall be out of date When this our mortal shall be cloath'd upon With immortality this corrupt put on Such incorruption that like Angels we Shall live from need of all such succours free Question Did you not tell me that your Sureties vow'd That you their charge with pious conscience shou'd When thus instructed in the Christian faith Observe God's Laws and tread an even path In all his holy Precepts bind your hands To execute sincerely his Commands Of these divine Commandments therefore say How many are there Answer Ten. Question And what be they Answer The same which God the great and wise Law-giver Sole Judge of fit and just God blest for ever That Israel rescu'd from Egyptian traps Spake in a dreadful voice of Thunder-claps When his shrill Trumpet Heavens great Axel shook His fiery presence made all round him smoke And at his word the very Mount did quake Then to his ransom'd people thus he spake The Preface I am the Lord thy God O Israel That with a mighty hand Freed thee from that tyrannick Law Of making bricks and seeking straw In cruel Egypts Land Between the Sacred Cherubims I dwell Thine Christian Israelite thy God am I For when thou wast a slave Condemn'd lust sin and Hell to serve And for thy wages only starve My helping hand I gave And set thy slavish Soul at liberty The first Table First Commandment Thou shalt not worship other Gods before me Nor others shalt thou have Worship religious and divine I challenge rightfully as mine No hand but mine can save Let him that would be safe alone adore me Comply not with vain Mortals fond Opinions With them to deify Departed Saints that are at rest Or sue for help to Angels blest Which Creatures are like thee Nor have such Garden-gods as Leeks and Onions Thou shalt not in thy treacherous heart create Temples to serve thy lust Nor set up Honor Ease or Pleasure Belly-delights or Eye-bright Treasure In them as Gods to trust My jealous eye such Idols will detect Second Commandment Thou shalt no image nor resemblance fashion In carv'd or graven matter Of ought that is in Heav'n above Or in the Earth below doth move Or subterraneous Water Nor bow to them nor give them veneration For I th' Eternal God thy Lord Supreme I am a God most jealous I who my glory never gave To others will not yield to have Worship-dividing fellows Nor count that honor mine that 's done to them Vpon the Sons I visit Fathers sins To third and fourth degree Such is my justice to the Creature But so much is my mercy greater To them that honor me I shew 't on thousands of succeeding kins Third Commandment Thou shalt not take the Name of God in vain Nor in discourses idle Usurp it in thy mouth when yet Thy heart perhaps ne're thinks of it Learn well thy tongue to bridle And not that Great and Holy Name profane If by the dreadful Name of God thou swear To honor me thereby For by my Name to swear it shall Be lawful at a lawful call Beware of Perjury Remember whom thou call'st upon to hear The God of Truth who never promise brake Will not for guiltless hold The man that promises by vow Or takes an Oath the truth to show Yet false in heart makes hold God's venerable Name in vain to take Fourth Commandment Remember kéep the Sabbath consecrate For rest 't is only fit Six days thou hast to work beside The seventh is God's and sanctified Thou shalt not work in it Thy servant child nor guest within thy gate For in six days God made the glorious Heav'n And