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A41788	St. Paul's catechism, or, A brief and plain explication of the six principles of the Christian religion, as recorded Heb. 6., 1,2 with some considerations of the principles of natural and universal religion, as previous, and yet subservient to the rules of revealed and positive relgion: containing also, the duties of children to their superiors, written chiefly for the instruction of young Christians, children and servants in all Christian families / by Tho. Grantham.	Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.	1687 (1687)	Wing G1545; ESTC R39432	35,919	64

any Examples of this kind in the New Testament F. 1. Our Saviour raised a young Man as he was carried upon the Bier to be buried Luk. 7. 13 14 15. 2. He raised also the Daughter of Jairus Mark 5. 40 41 42. 3. Christ raised Lazarus when he had been dead and buried commanding the Dead to come forth and though he was bound hand and foot yet he came forth by the Power of God John 11. 43 44. 4. St. Peter raised Tabitha to Life by the strength of Christ Act. 9. 40 41. 5. But the greatest Instance of all is the Resurrection of Christ himself by which God hath given assurance to all Men that all Men shall rise again both the Just and Unjust Act. 17. 31. S. Was this Article of Faith received by the Prophets before the coming of Christ F. The Prophet David spake of the Resurrection of the Body of Christ Psal 16. 8. and of the hope of his own Resurrection also This was the hope of Israel Act. 23. 21. 24. 15. 2. The Prophet Isa hath these words Thy dead Men shall live together with my dead Body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in the Dust Isa 26. 19. Augustine refers this to the Resurrection 3. Daniel tells us That many that sleep in the Dust of the Earth shall awake some to everlasting Life and some to everlasting shame and contempt Dan. 12. 2. 4. Hosea 13. 14. as interpreted by the Apostle 1 Cor. 15. is very plain I will ransom them from the Power of the Grave I will redeem them from Death O Death I will be thy Plagues O Grave I will be thy destruction S. These Testimonies are very clear I desire some further confirmation of this Truth from the New Testament F. 1. For this I refer you to the serious reading of 1 Cor. 15. throughout where the Apostle by divers Arguments confirms this Truth and especially by the Resurrection of Christ and the importance of the thing it self making all Religion insignificant unless there be a Resurrection from the Dead 2. I will here insert this excellent Testimony to the Thessalonians I would not have you ignorant Brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope For if we believe that Jesus died and rose a●ain then they also which sleep in Jesus shall God bring with 〈◊〉 For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord 〈◊〉 we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent or hinder the Resurrection of them that are asleep For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the Voice of the Arch-angel and with the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Thess 4. S. I bless God for these clear Testimonies I desire now to be instructed concerning the Eternal Judgment The Sixth Principle of St. Paul's CATECHISM Or The Eternal Judgment Father THE manner of Christ's coming to Judgment is thus described Then shall appear the Sign of the Son of Man in Heaven And then shall all the Tribes of the Earth mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with great Glory And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds from one end of Heaven to another Mat. 24. 30 31. S. This will be a terrible day Who is this Son of Man F. This Son of Man is Christ Jesus For God 〈◊〉 se●d Jesus who before was preached unto you Act. 3. 20 The same Jesus which you have seen go up into Heaven sha●● so come in like manner as you have seen him go into Heaven Acts 1. 11. Behold he cometh with Clouds and every Eye shall see him and they also who pierced him and all Nations shall wail because of him Rev. 1. 7. S. Why shall the Nations wail because of him F. Because when the Son of Man shall come in his Glory and all the Holy Angels with him then shall he sit upon the Throne of his Glory And before him shall be gathered all Nations and he shall separate them one from another as a Shepherd divideth his Sheep from the Goats Mat. 25. 31 32. S. To what end shall Christ thus divide the Nations F. To give to every Man according as his Work shall be For he shall set the Sheep on his right Hand and the Goats on the left Then shall the King say to them on his right Hand Come ye Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World for I was hungry and ye sed me c. Then shall he say also unto them on his left hand Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels For I was an hungry and ye gave me no Meat Mat. 25. 34 35 41 42. S. This is a glorious and terrible description of the Judgment of the World. I pray by what Records will Christ judg the Nations F. He shall especially proceed in Judgment with all Men according to the Gospel that is according to the means of Grace which he gave them Rom. 2. 15 16. For this is the condemnation That Light is come into the World and Men love Darkness rather than Light John 3. 17 18. And yet more particularly they that have sinned without Law shall perish without Law and they that have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law. And those that have the Gospel the Word which Christ hath spoken shall judg them at the last day S. There are several Books spoken of in Rev. 20. 10. What are these Books F. The Books are Metaphorical and signify 1. God's Omniscience for he shall bring every Work to Judgment with every secret Thing whether it be Good or Evil Eccles 12. ult 2. The Consciences of Men which then shall be awakened to condemn them or acquit them Rom. 2. 15 16. may here be called Books S. I desire to know what is meant by the Book of Life and whether any that were once written in it may be blotted out of it F. The time when this Book shall be opened will best resolve the first Question But thus much we know That the Promise and Covenant of Life made with Adam renewed with Noah and with Abraham and confirmed by Christ is to us the Book of Life out of which Men may blot themselves or render themselves unworthy of Eternal Life by Sin and especially by Unbelief Mark 16. 16. He that believeth not shall be damned Act. 13. 46. See and consider Exod. 32. 32. Psal 69. 28. Rev. 3. 5. 21. 17. S. Shall the punishment of ungodly Men be perpetual shall it never end F. The

Counsel of God against all Power in Heaven and Earth Matth. 28. 17 18. being not baptised in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost S. I confess we have the foot-steps of Christ most plain in the case of Baptism but have we any thing from him to favour us in the Laying on of Hands with Prayer for the promised Spirit F. Yes verily we have as much from his own Example herein as the case could bear for Jesus as soon as he was baptised prayed and the Heavens were opened and the Holy Ghost descended in the bodily shape of a Dove upon him and a Voice came from Heaven which said This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased The things which from hence favour our Cause in hand are these 1. Christ did not ask this sealing and confirming Spirit till after he was baptised but as soon as baptised he prays and receives the Holy Ghost Here is nothing wanting but the Administrator which could not be found among Men for who durst pray for Christ that he might receive the Spirit I could object upon others that in Christ's Baptism Repentance was wanting Yet sure his Baptism is very precedential to us it coming as near us as the case would bear and so likewise he comes as near us in his waiting for the Spirit after Baptism as the case will bear S. I desire to see the Grounds of those two Duties Baptism and Laying on of Hands in a few Particulars F. The Grounds on which these Duties may be asserted and defended are 1. The express Command of Christ or the express Doctrine of Christ they being both Principles of his Doctrine 2. Christ's own Example or President as far as the greatness and holiness of his Person would bear it to be exemplary in either 3. The undoubted necessity of the chief Blessings annexed to the religious use of these Services respectively 4. Sufficient Example of many thousands of Christians Men and Women at Jerusalem and Samaria c. submitting to these Services at their Principles 5. No repeal of these Services or of either of them since their institution in the Church of Christ 6. The undeniable consent of Antiquity for some hundreds of Years down from the very dayes of the Apostles 7. The Scriptureless trifling self-contradicting and nonsensical Objections which hitherto have been brought against Sacred Baptism or Prayer with the Laying on of Hands for the Ends for which they were at first observed The Fifth Principle of St. Paul's CATECHISM Or The Resurrection of the Dead Son. WHat is the true definition of the Resurrection of the Dead according to Christian Doctrine and Faith Father The Resurrection of the Dead is an Act of Divine and Almighty Power quickning dead Bodies and restoring them to a state of such perfection as to have an eternal duration but does not necessarily infer the happiness of the Dead so raised but with respect to the Event of that Trial which they then shall undergo And therefore the Resurrection is distinguished into two parts by Christ himself John 5. 28 29. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice and shall come forth they that have done good to the Resurection of Life and they that have done evil to the Resurrection of Condemnation S. Shall the same Body in respect of it's Flesh and Bones rise again F. It must either be the same Flesh and Bones or nothing seeing there is nothing else laid in the Grave that may be called Man. And this is the ancient Faith of God's People as appears in Job 19. 26 27. Though after my Skin Worms destroy this Body yet in my Flesh shall I see God Whom I shall see for my self and not another though my Reins be consumed in me S. I confess this agrees with our Saviour's words before mentioned All that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice and come forth But does not Christ speak mystically of the Graves of Sin F. No he had spoken of those that are dead in Sin before vers 25. The hour is coming and now is when the Dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live This he speaks of the powerful preaching of the Gospel to convert those that were dead in Sin. Then adds Marvel not at this for the hour is coming that all that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice and shall come forth but some of these to Condemnation which respects the Last Judgment undeniably S. How then does the Apostle say That Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 15. 50. F. 1. He explains himself in the next words neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption He speaks of Men in their sinful and mortal state They must be regenerate by the Work of the Spirit and freed from mortality in the Resurrection or as the next Verse shews partake of a change which is equivalent or else they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven 2. It is certain our Saviour was Flesh and Bones after he was risen from the Dead Luk. 24. 39. Yet he entered into Heaven it self there to appear in the presence of God for us Heb. 9. 24. S. I confess it must follow that if no Flesh can enter into Heaven then Christ's glorified Body cannot be there which doubtless it is But have we sufficient Testimony that our Bodies shall put off Mortality and be glorified with his glorious Body F. Yes for it is written This Mortal must put on Immortality and this Corruption must put on Incorruption and so Death shall be swallowed up in Victory And again He shall change our vile Body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious Body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3. 21. S. Are there any Examples that any of the Dead who had lain long in the Graves was raised F. Yes there is a full Instance of that Mat. 27. 52 53. The Graves were opened and many Bodies of the Saints which slept arose and came out of the Graves and appeared to many Now these Saints doubtless had been long dead for we read of no Saints dying at Jerusalem about the time of Christ's Suffering S. Are there any other Examples to confirm this great Article of our Faith F. It pleased God to give an Instance of his Power and of his Will in this behalf near the beginning of the World in that he translated Enoch that he should not see Death Gen. 5. 24. Heb. 11. 5. 2. God also took Elijah the Prophet up into Heaven without tasting of Death 2 King. 2. 1 11 12. 3. Elisha by the Power of God raised a dead Child to Life 2 King. 4. 33 34 35. 4. By God's Power a dead Man was raised to Life at the touch of the Bones of the Prophet Elisha 2 King. 13. 21. S. Are there