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A scripture-catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours, some of them of the present times / by Thomas Hodges.
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Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.
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beautifull A. Gen. 6.2 The Sons of God saw the Daughters of men that they were faire and they took them wives c. Q. Were Job's three Daughters naturally faire or were they painted so A. Job 42.15 And in all the land were no women found so faire as the Daughters of Job Q. Was it usuall for the Blackamore to chang his skin by painting it white any more than for the Leopard to chang his spots or was it usuall for men to change their haire white or black from it's naturall colour A. Jerem. 13.23 Can the Ethyopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots Mat. 5.36 Neither shalt thou sweare by thy head because thou canst not make one haire white or black Q. Is it probable that Christ was naturally of a beautifull countenance that the Son of David was like David yea fairer then the children of men A. Psal 45.2 Thou art fairer than the children of men grace is powred into thy lips Cant. 5.10 My beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand Q. Was our Saviour's countenance much marred by reason of sorrowes and sufferings that he seemed older than he was and not so lovely as he was before A. Isa 53.2 He hath no forme nor comelinesse and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him Q. When Christ's countenance was so marred did he recover his complexion and beauty by art or when our Saviour's countenance was transfigured and made outwardly glorious was it done by any art of man did that brightnesse of his countenance continue A. Mat. 17.1 2 9. And after six dayes Jesus taketh Peter James and John his brother and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart and was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sun and his raiment was white as the light And as they came down from the mountaine Jesus charged them saying tell the vision to no man untill c. Q. Doe we find Vermilion or the paint amongst all the store and furniture for ornament and bravery which the delicate dames of Judah had in the dayes of the Prophet Isaiah A. No Isa 3.18 to the 24. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their trinckling ornaments about their feet and their cauls and their round tires like the moon the chaines and the bracelets and the mufflers the bonnets the ornaments of the legges and the head-bands and the tablets and the ear-rings the rings and nose-jewels the changeable suits of apparrel and the mantles and the wimples and the crisping pins the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoods and the vailes Q. How did religious women of old time adorne or beautify themselves did they paint to gaine or keep the affections of their husbands A. 1 Pet. 3.3 4 5. Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the haire and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparell but let it be the hidden man of the heart For after this manner in old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves Q. Is it probable that Christian women to whom the Apostle Peter wrote or concerning whom the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy did use painting as well as gold and silver and plaiting the haire A. 1 Pet. 3.3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrell 1 Timoth. 2.9 In like manner also that women adorne themselves in modest apparell with shamefastnesse and sobriety not with broided hair or gold or pearles or costly array If painting had been used then by Christian women that had been lyable to have been abused too and if so 't is not improbable that the Apostles would have mentioned it as well as other things wherein were excesse Q. Would it be better for a religious Woman to come into the Congregation vailed or painted A. 1 Corinth 11.5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head for that is even all one as if she were shaven Q. Is it expedient for a religious woman to paint A. Philip. 4.8 Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things Q. Were common Harlots usually known or distinguished from sober and modest women by their cloathes or outward Garbe A. Prov. 7.10 And behold there met him a woman with the attire of an Harlot and subtill of heart Q. In case religious women should not be disswaded from painting would it not be expedient that they should doe it either with other colours or in some other manner then lewd women use to doe that so they might be known to be honest and modest women A. Rom. 12.2 And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind c. Q. Will painting or auxiliary beauty certainly and continually win or conquer others affections A. See Jerem. 4.30 And when thou art spoiled what wilt thou doe though thou clothest thy selfe with crimson though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold though thou rentest thy face with painting in vaine shalt thou make thy selfe faire thy Lovers will despise thee they will seek thy life Q. What is the best meanes for a woman to have and hold her husbands affections is not the feare of God and meek discreet carriage towards her husband A. Prov. 31.30 Favour is deceitfull and beauty is vaine but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised 1 Pet. 3.1 3 4. Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversatiō of the wives whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrell but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek quiet spirit Pr. 11.22 Q. Had the Virgins who were prepared for and presented to Ahasuerus any paint as well as perfumes allowed them A. Esther 2.12 Now when every Maids turne was come to goe into King Ahasuerus after that she had been 12 moneths 6 moneths with oyle of myrrhe and six moneths with sweet odours and with other things for the purifying of the women Q. But doth not the Scripture say Psal 104.15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oile to make his face to shine And Eccles 9.8 Let thy garments be alwaies white and let thy head lack no oyntment A. In those Easterne hot countryes they did use oile frequently to anoint themselves withall possibly to make their skin smooth and cleare free from beeing too much dried and parched and so wrinkled before ' its time
not For what I would that doe I not but what I hate that doe I. He doth not willingly tug at the Divels oares Sinne remaines in him but doth not raign over him it may captivate him as a Tyrant he ownes it not as his lawfull King and Soveraigne Q. VVas it the practise of Christ the true Messiah and of his Apostles to teach publickly in usuall places of concourse and worship A. Joh. 18.20 Jesus answered him I spake openly to the world I ever taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple whither the Jewes alwaies resort and in secret have I said nothing Act. 18.4 And he reasoned in the Synagogue every Sabbath and perswaded the Jewes and the Greeks Q. Doe false Christs and false teachers draw people away from the publick worship of God into chambers corners and deserts A. Math. 24.26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you Behold he is in the desert goe not forth behold he is in the secret chambers believe it not Q. Doe Ministers prove by Scripture when they prove by deductions and consequences and comparing one place with another although they doe not bring what they say in so many words out of the Scriptures A. Act. 18.28 For he mightily convinced the Jewes and that publickly shewing by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ Chap. 29. Of sundry Popish Errors Q. MAY we call those of the Church of Rome who subject themselves to the Pope and follow him Papists A. Rev. 2.15 So hast thou also them that hold the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans which thing I hate Q. Are we to believe the Scriptures because the Holy Ghost speaks in them or chiefly for the testimony and authority of the Church A. 2 Tim. 3.16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God c. 1 Joh. 5.9 If we receive the witnesse of men the witnesse of God is greater Q. Are the Scriptures so hard and obscure that none but Ministers may read them profitably or to edification A. Deut. 6.6 7. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talke of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest down and when thou risest up Joh. 5.39 Search the Scriptures c. Psal 19.7 The law of the Lord is perfect converting the souls the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple Q. Are all things necessary to salvation contained in the Scriptures or have wee need of unwritten traditions that the man of God may be perfect A. 2 Tim. 3.15 17. And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus c. that the man of God may be perfect thorowly furnished unto all good workes Q. How prove you that the books commōly called Apocrypha are no part of the Canonicall Scripture is this an evidence because the Jewes did not receive them into the Canon A. Rom. 3.1 2. What advantage then hath the Jew much every way chiefly because unto them were committed the Oracles of God Luk. 16.29 And Abraham saith unto him They have Moses and the Prophets let them heare them Luk. 24.44 And he said unto them These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalmes concerning me Q. Are the holy Scriptures to be lastly appealed unto as the Supreame Judge in controversies of Religion A. Is 8.20 To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Q. Are we to believe them that sit in Moses chaire or the Apostles Successors when they teach contrary to Moses and the Prophets or to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles A. Act. 4.19 Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye Q. Ought people to try and examine by the holy Scriptures whether those things be so as the Church or Ministers thereof teach A. Act. 17.11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readinesse of mind and searched the Scriptures dayly whether those things were so Q. Where did our Lord Christ and the Apostles first preach the Gospel in Italy or Judea at Rome or at Jerusalem A. Luk. 23.5 He stirreth up the people teaching throughout all Jury beginning from Galilee to this place Act. 5.28 Did not we straitly command you that you should not teach in this name and behold ye have filled Jerusalem with your Doctrine and intend to bring this man's bloud upon us Q. VVhere at Antioch or at Rome were the Disciples first called Christians A. Act. 11.26 And it came to passe that a whole yeere they assembled themselves with the Church and taught much people and the Disciples were called Christians first in Antioch Q. VVhat is that City which is called Mysticall Babylon in the Revelations A. Rev. 17.9 10 11 12 13 18. The 7 heads are 7 mountaines on which the woman sitteth and there are 7 Kings 5 are fallen one is the other is not yet come c. And the Beast that was and is not even he is the 8th is of the 7th goeth into perdition And the 10 hornes which thou sawest are 10 Kings which have received no Kingdome as yet but receive power as Kings one houre with the Beast These have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast And the woman which thou sawest is that great City which raigneth over the Kings of the earth Q. If the Apostle Peter was at Rome when he wrote his Epistle doth he not call it Babylon A. Yes 1 Pet. 5.13 The church that is at Babylon elected together with you saluteth you Q. Are there any prophecies in the new Testament of a great Apostacy or falling away from the Faith Or was it ever prophecyed or foretold that there should be a great defection or Apostacy in the Christian Church A. 2 Pe. 2.1 2. But there were false Prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies And many shall follow their pernicious waies Rev. 11.2 But the Court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two moneths 2 Thes 2.3 For that day shall not come except there come a falling away 1st and that man of sinne be revealed the Son of perdition c. 1 Tim. 4.1 3. Now the spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing spirits and Doctrines of Devills forbidding to marry and commanding to