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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

which the Lord left to prove Israel by them and they were to prove Israel by them to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord. Judg. 3. 1 4. The Lord God of Israel saith I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever but now the Lord saith Be it far from me for them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed 1 Sam. 2. 30. Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel saying It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king for he is turned back from following me and hath not performed my commandments 1 Sam. 15. 10 11. Hezekiah prospered in all his works Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land God left him to try him that he might know what was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes brought it forth wilde grapes Isa 5. 4. Thus saith the Lord Stand in the court of the Lords house and speak unto all the cities of Judah If so be they will hearken and turn every man from his evil way that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them Jer. 26. 2 3. This word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord saying Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel and against Judah It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin Jer. 36. 1 2 3. The word of the Lord came to me saying Prepare thee stuff for removing and remove by day in their sight it may be they will consider though they be a rebellious house Ezek. 12. 1 3. In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. As we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel so we speak not as pleasing men but God which tryeth our hearts 1 Thess 2. 4. Qu. How must we worship God A. They that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth Joh. 4. 24. Qu. How must one love him A. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might Deut. 6. 5. Qu. Could we love him with all the heart if he were three or is his oneness the cause hinted by Moses why we should love him thus How sound the words according to the * See Ainsworth's Translation truth of the Hebrew text A. Hear O Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one Deut. 6. 4. Qu. Wherein consisteth the love of God A. This is the love of God that we keep his commandments 1 Joh. 5. 3. Whoso keepeth his word in him verily is the love of God perfected 1 Joh. 2. 5. Qu. What if a man say he loveth God and in the mean time hateth his brother A. If a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a lyer for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 Joh. 4. 20. Qu. What advantage will it be to you to know the Father the onely true God How speaketh Christ in his prayer to the Father concerning this thing A. This is life eternal that they may know thee the onely true God Joh. 17. 3. CHAP. III. Of the Creation Qu. WEre the heaven and earth from all eternity or created at a certain time and by whom A. In the beginning God created heaven and earth Gen. 1. 1. Qu. How long was God a making them A. In six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is Exod. 20. 11. Qu. How did God create man A. The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul Gen. 2. 7. Qu. How did he create woman A. The Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in stead thereof And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man Gen. 2. 21 22. Qu. Why was she called woman A. Because she was taken out of man Gen. 2. 23. Qu. What doth Moses infer from her being made a woman and brought unto the man A. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh Gen. 2. 24. Qu. Where did God put man after he was created A. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed Gen. 2. 8. Qu. What commandment gave he to the man when he put him into the garden A. The Lord God commanded the man saying Of every tree of the garden thou maist freely eat But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Gen. 2. 16 17. Qu. Was the man deceived to eat of the forbidden fruit A. Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression 1 Tim. 2. 14. Qu. By whom was the woman deceived A. The serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty 2 Cor. 11. 3. Qu. How was the woman induced to eat of the forbidden fruit and how the man A. When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat Gen. 3. 6. Qu. What effect followed upon their eating A. The eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons Gen. 3. 7. Qu. Did the sin of our first parents in eating of the forbidden fruit bring both upon them and their posterity the guilt of hell-fire deface the image of God in them darken their understanding enslave their will deprive them of power to do good and cause mortality If not what are the true penalties that God denounced against them for the said offence A. Unto the woman he said I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee Unto Adam he said Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I

transgression Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed Rom. 4. 14 15 16. In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith working by love God 5. 6. The just shall live by faith For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness Rom. 1. 17 18. Qu. What answer then would you give to a man who wresting the words of Paul in certain places of his Epistles to the Romans and the Galatians should bear you in hand that all good works whatsoever are excluded from justification and salvation and that it is enough onely to believe A. Wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works is dead Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God Ye see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith onely Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way For as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead Jam. 2. 20 22 23 24 25 26. Qu. What is the advice of Paul to Titus concerning the business of faith and works and the Law A. This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works these things are good and profitable unto men But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and vain Tit. 3. 8 9. Qu. You shewed even now out of Paul that the faith of him that will be saved must be accompanied with justice or righteousness I would therefore know of you who is a just or righteous man is it not such a one as apprehendeth and applyeth Christs righteousness to himself or at most desireth to do righteously Is not he accepted of God A. Let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous He that committeth sin is of the Divel for the Divel sinneth from the beginning In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Divel whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God 1 John 3. 7 8 10. If we know that he is righteous know ye that every one that doth righteousness is born of God 1 John 2. 29 God is no respecter of persons But in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted of him Acts 10. 34 35. If a man be just and and do that which is lawful and right Hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel neither hath defiled his neighbours wife neither hath come near to a menstruous woman And hath not oppressed any but hath restored to the debtor his pledge hath spoiled none by violence hath given his bread to the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment He hath not given forth upon usury neither hath taken any increase hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity hath executed true judgement between man and man Hath walked in my Statutes and hath kept my judgements to deal truly HE IS JUST he shall not dye Ezek. 18. 5 6 7 8 9. Qu. May not righteous men depart from their righteousness and believers from their faith and so perish And is it not false that once in Christ and ever in Christ A. When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity and doth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doth shall he live all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespass that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned in them shall he dye Ezek. 18. 24. When I shall say unto the righteous that he shall surely live if he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity all his righteousness shall not be remembred but for his iniquity that he hath committed he shall dye for it Ezek. 33. 13. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Divels 1 Tim. 4. 1. This charge I commit unto thee son Timothy that thou war the good warfare Holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme 1 Tim. 1. 18 19 20. The younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ they will marry Having condemnation because they have cast off their first faith 1 Tim. 5. 11 12. The love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows 1 Tim. 6. 10. Their word will eat as doth a canker of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus Who concerning the faith have erred saying that the resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God But exhort one another daily lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. 12 13. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief Heb. 4. 11. It is impossible for those who were once enlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the holy Ghost And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come If they fall away to renew them again to repentance Heb. 6. 4 5 6. Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the maner of some is but exhorting one another For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins He that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward Now the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him But we are not of them that