Church least I throw my self out of visible hopes of Salvation Q. What is the next Article A. The Communion of Saints Q. What is meant by the Saints A. The People of God and members of Christs Holy Catholick Church because 1. They are in part Holy here 2. shall be perfect Saints hereafter Q. What Communion is here believed A. 1. Dr. Sherlock on Cat. Their Communion with the ever Blessed Trinity as Sons of God Members of Christ Sanctified by the Holy Ghost 2. Their Communion of Gifts for each others edifying 3. Their praying with and for each other 4. Their relieving of each others wants to their powers Q. What improvement do you make of this Article A. 1. B. Pearson on Creed p. 359. It shews the priviledges of Gods people who have an interest in Gods mercies and in each others gifts 2. It may ingage us to communicate our gifts and to pray for each other 3. It should disengage us from all fellowship with sin and sinners as much as may be Be not with them here whose company you desire not hereafter 4. It should engage our labours after holiness that we may be Saints Q. What is it to believe the Remission of sins A. 1. That we are all sinners and every one is obliged to ask pardon in the Lords Prayer B. Pearson on Creed 370. Isa 64.6 and to believe it obtainable in the Creed 2. That as we are sinners every one needs Gods pardon because as such we deserve his anger and cannot satisfie it by the world or our Righteousness Ephes 2.2 2 Cor. 5.18 Psal 49.6 7. 3. That thro Christs merits and mediation Gods justice is satisfied and mercy obtained so that we may returning have a pardon Luke 24.47 1 â—ohn 1.8 9 10. 4. I in this Article declare I am obliged to return from sin by a true Repentance and through Christs merits I may obtain from God the Remission of sins Q. What is it to believe the Resurrection of the body A. That this flesh or body of ours which is or may be buried and turned to dust shall be raised again and live Q. How do you prove the Resurrection of the Body A. 1. Mat. 22.32 Christ pleads it from Gods being God of Abraham after he was dead and that he is God of the living 2. God can as easily unite our dust into our bodies as he did at first make our bodies of nothing 3. God is the God of the whole man Leigh 's Body of Divinity p. 1150. and will raise our bodies that as they have been Co-workers of sin or holiness here they may be Co-sufferers of punishment or Co-partakers of Glory hereafter 4. Mat. 28.14 Mat. 27.53 1 Cor. 15.19 1 Cor. 15.36 Several instances of dead bodies which have been raised prove it 5. If we rise not Christ is no compleat Saviour because then death and the grave are yet unconquered and we most miserable 6. The Resurrection is dayly manifested to us the day dyeth into night and riseth again in the morning Corn dyeth in the earth and riseth again to bring forth fruit Q. How prove you this body shall rise again A. This very body as to its substance shall be raised again tho it shall then have other qualifications 1. Calvin Instit lib. 3. Cap. 25. Sect. 4.8 Else it is no Resurrection but a new Creation 2. The word Resurrection or reviviscence signifies that very body which was dead shall live and which was buried shall arise 3. Gods justice pleads for it the same and not another body must be punished or glorisyed for the Evil or good done here 4. Christ and others prove it to be so B. Pearson on Creed p. 382. They arose with their same bodies they had when alive Christs body when raised had the print of the Nails and Spear which it had at its Crucifixion Q. What improvement do you make of this Article A. 1. Cor 6.18 1. Not to slight our bodies which with our Souls shall enjoy an Eternity 2. 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. Not to prostitute them to sin and Satan which we hope ere long shall be glorifyed 3. It may comfort us under all troubles and natural infirmities or deformities when our bodies are raised again they shall all be done away Rev. 21.4 4. It may arm us against all trouble Phil. 3.20 ere long all sorrow shall cease 5. It may make us not fear death our bodys which suffer most gain by it and shall arise in glory fashioned like Christs glorious body 1 Thes 4.17 6. It may make us not too much mourn for our dead Friends they are but gone before and we in due time must follow 13 Q. What is meant by the life Everlasting in the Creed A. Luk. 16. Mat. 2â— 34 41 46. I believe that there is an everlasting Life of bliss or misery to be expected by us and every of us hereafter shall be stated in one of them and this the Heathen apprehended 11 Q. Why is the state of the damned called a Life A. 1. B. Pearson on Creed p. 389. There shall be a vital union between Soul and body of them which shall never be dissolved 2. They shall live for ever in torment Q. Why then is this state called a death A. 1. Death is more eligible then it 2. they are deprived of Gods gracious and glorious presence which is the life of the Soul 1 Tim. 5.6 without which Souls in Scripture are said to be dead 3. They are ever in killing Torments Q. Is it just that eternal torments should be inflicted on sinners A. 1. Yes They sinned their Eternity on Earth yea will continue sinning for ever in Hell and while they sin God may justly punish 2. They sinned against an infinite God and therefore deserve an infinite punishment Crimes are much agravated from the object against whom they are as a word against the King may by the Law of the Land deserve death which probably might be no great offence against a private man and consequently sin against God may reasonably deserve Eternal death He being an Eternal King 3. They refused an Eternal life offered them on Earth and therefore it is but just they should be punished to Eternity Q. How is this Eternal life ours A. 1. By Gods free gift thro Christ Rom. 1 Pet. 1.9 6.23 2. By our Faith laying hold on Christ and living to him Q. Is it not given as a reward to our merits as well as Hell is a punishment of our sins A. 1. No for we owe our obedience to God as Creatures 1 Cor. 6.19 Rom. 6.23 Isa 64.6 Phil. 2.13 2. If we perform it not we are by his law condemned as sinners 3. We cannot perform duties so perfectly as we ought and if we did yet we should but do our duty and could not merit Luke 17.18 4. nothing is our own properly but sin which deserves
To vindicate their Reputation 6. To discover what Conspiracies they know of 7. To Pray for them Q. What are the Duties of your Spiritual Relation of Ministers and People A. 1. The Duties of Ministers are 1. Study 2. Preaching to and 3. 1 Tim. 4.14 15 16. 2 Tim. 4.2 3. Heb. 13.17 Ephes 6.19 Praying for and with the People 4. Love 5. Reproof 6. Exhortation 7. Example of Good 8. Visiting Sick 2. Duties of People are 1. To attend Ordinances 2. To Obey what is directed 3. Love 4. Honour 5. Pay dues to him 6. Pray for him Q. What are the Duties of the Conjugal Relation A. 1. The Duties of the Husband are 1. Ephes 5.25 Col. 3.19 1 Pet. 3.7 Ephes 5.26 Col. 3.18 1 Pet. 3.1 2 3 4 5 6. Love to Soul and Body of Wife 2. A due esteem of her 3. Protection 4. Provision for her 5. Fidelity 6. Prayer with and for her 2. The Duties of the Wife are 1. An Honourable esteem of her Husband 2. Outward Respect 3. Love to Soul and Body 4. Obedience to his fit Requests 5. Fidelity to Body and Estate 6. Joynt endeavours for the good of their Family 7. Prayer for him 8. Meekness towards him Q. What are the Duties of Masters and Servants A. 1. The Duties of Masters are 1. To take care they serve God Ephes 6.9 Col. 4.1 2. James 5.4 Ephes 6.5 6. Col. 3.22 2. To provide convenient things for them 3. To Command nothing but what is Lawful to be performed by them 4. To pay their dues of Wages 5. Meekness to them 6. Prayer for and with them 2. The Duties of Servants to Masters are 1. Sincerity 2. Honour 3. Obedience to Lawful Commands 4. Fidelity 5. Submission to Punishments 6. Prayer for them Q. What are the Duties of the Aged and Youth A. 1. The Duties of the Aged are 1. Prov. 16.31 Steadfastness in the Faith 2. Instruction of Youth 3. To communicate Experiences 4. To be Exemplary 5. To prepare for Heaven 2. The Duties of Youth are 1. To Honour the Hoary Head Eccles 12.1 2. Obey their good Advice 3. Observe their good Example 4. To Devote themselves to God betimes Q. What are the Duties of the Rich and Poor A. The Duties of the Rich are 1. To be rich in good Works 2. Humility 1 Tim. 6.17 2. The Duties of the Poor are 1. Humility 2. Contentment And 3. To prepare for a better Estate in another World James 2.5 Q. What is the Sanction of this Commandment A. That thy days may be long in the Land that the Lord thy God giveth thee Q. What doth this import A. 1. That the not performing the Duties of this Commandment may cause God or his Magistrate to cut us off as Malefactors 2. That the performance of them tend to the continuance of our Lives by Gods blessing 3. May entitle us to Heaven of which the Land here meant was a Type Q. What improvement do you make of this Commandment A. That we can be in no Relation or Condition but God expects Duty from us and we ought to perform it Q. What is the Sixth Commandment A. Thou shalt do no Murther Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All actual Murther of our selves or others 2. All with-holding due Relief from our selves or others whereby Life may be lost 3. Exposing our selves or others to manifest dangers 4. Malice and Envy 1 John 3 15. the Murther of the Heart 5. To hurt no body by word or deed Q. What is here Commanded A. 1. The preservation of our own and others Life and Health 2. Peace and Love amongst us Q. What is the Seventh Commandment A. Thou shalt not Commit Adultery Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All unclean thoughts and desires 2. Ephes 4.29 All Corrupt and obscene Speeches 3. All lewd Acts as Fornication Adultery Incest Sodomy Buggery 4. All Luxurious Eating and Drinking which tend to it 5. All wanton gestures which may tempt to the sin Q. What is Commanded A. To keep our Bodies in Temperance Soberness Tit. 2.11 and Chastity Q. What is the Eighth Commandment A. Thou shalt not Steal Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All close or open Theft 2. All Circumventing Cheating 1 Thes 4.6 and Oppression by reason of the want or Ignorance of those we deal with 3. All false Weights and Measures whereby is stollen what would make them just Q. What is here required A. 1. A just dealing in all things 2. Contentment 3. Labour in our Occupations 4. A care to preserve our own and our Neighbours good Q. What is the Ninth Commandment A. Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All rash Oaths and Perjury 2. Lying and Slandering 3. Tale-bearing and Tale-hearing whereof one hath the Devil in his Tongue the other in his Ear. 4. All Subornation of others to be false Witnesses Q. What is Commanded A. 1. A preserving our own and others Credit 2. Speaking and Witnessing Truth Q. What is the Tenth Commandment A. Thou shalt not Covet thy Neighbours House Thou shalt not Covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Servant nor his Haid nor his Ox nor his Asse nor any thing that is his Q. Why is this Commandment set down since it is implyed in the other Nine A. 1. Lest being only implyed in them Men might through their Corruption suppose they might entertain evil Thoughts and be guiltless Q. What is here forbidden A. 1. All evil Concupiscence and Lust 2. All Envy at or Covetousness of any thing that is our Neighbours Q. What is here Commanded A. 1. Diligence in our Callings 2. Contentment with our Estate 3. A suppression of our desires after other Mens Possessions And now let us put a period to the Decalogue with our Churches Prayer Lord have Mercy upon us in the Pardon of our past sins And incline our Hearts for the future to keep thy Laws SECT IV. Q. IS Man able to fulfil the Law of God A. No not without Gods Grace assisting him Rom. 3. at large 1. Because since Adams Fall all Men have their Souls and Bodies depraved 2. They have an averseness from all good and a proneness to all evil 3. Have a corrupt Heart ready to betray them to the least Temptation 4. Have Enemies to Engage with too Powerful and Mighty therein 5. Phil. 2.13 14. The Nature of the Duties are Spiritual and require more than a Natural Power to perform them Q. By what means may Man gain assistance from God to do his Will A. By diligent Faithful Prayer which through Christ is prevalent 1. To protect from all Troubles Temporal Spiritual James 1.5 John 14.13 Eternal 2. To supply all wants of all good Q. What is the Rule for Prayer A. That which was made by our Lord and Saviour and by him recommended to his Disciples and us Q. Rehearse the Lords Prayer A. Our Father which art
Kingdom of Grace in this and Glory in another World may hasten as to us Psal 2.8 and it implies these requests 1. That God would be pleased in order to the bringing Jew and Gentile Med. lib. 4. p. 766 767. all the World to his Kingdom of Grace to make known the Gospel and means of Grace in all Parts and to make them Efficacious or else by some other dispensation to bring them to the true and saving knowledge of himself and his Christ 2. I here Pray that I and all who enjoy Gods Ordinances may by Gods Spirit be Converted and Translated into his Kingdom 3. That I and all his People may willingly Obey and Serve him as our King 4. That his Kingdom of Glory may hasten Rev. 7. when all his and our Enemies shall be destroyed our Sins and Troubles have a Period and our Souls and Bodies be Glorified Q. What then is the Sum of this Petition A. 1. I Pray that the God of all Grace would by his Spirit and Word or by other means Convert me and all his People and as our King would subdue in us all his and our Souls Enemies our sinful Lusts and enable us to pay him all due Obedience and so prepare us all to meet him as King of Glory which Kingdom of Glory I desire may hasten to end Gods dishonour sinners impiety the Godly's Troubles and that God may be for ever Glorified in the Eternal Hallelujahs of his People Q. What is the Third Petition A. Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Q. What is herein Considerable A. The Matter and Manner of the Petition Q. What is the Matter or Thing Prayed for A. 1. An Obedience to Gods will that we may Serve and Obey him as we ought 2. A submissive Contentedness under all Corrections and Dispensations of Poverty Affliction Persecution We Pray his Will may be done and ought not to murmure when it is done though it please us not as in Troubles Afflictions and Persecutions Q. What is the manner after which we Pray Gods Will may be done A. That it may be done on Earth as i◠is in Heaven Q. What doth that teach us A. 1. We Pray it may be Obeyed by all All in Heaven serve him 2. That we might serve God not only so Universally but as sincerely though it cannot be with that Perfection Q. What then is here Prayed for A. That the God our Father King of Grace and Glory would so guide the Thoughts Words Actions of me and all others through the whole Earth that we may all without Hypocrisie serve him in Soul and Body and quietly rest contented in that state the All-wise God our Father hath placed us in Q. What is the First Petition concerning our selves especially which is the Fourth in the Prayer A. Give us this Day our daily Bread Q. What is meant by Bread A. 1. Christ Jesus the Bread of Life 2. Gods Word and Ordinances the Food of our Souls 3. All Necessaries for our Comfortable Subsistence respecting our outward State Life Health Food and Raiment convenient for us Q. Why do we Pray for Daily Bread A. 1. Acts 17.28 To teach us we cannot subsist one day without Gods Blessings 2. To re-mind us of our daily dependance on God so that we should not account what we enjoy (*) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesiod opera l. 1. v. 313. our gettings but Gods Blessings 3. To Oblige us to Pray daily if Blessings be worth having they are worth our asking for 4. Mat. 6.25 to the end To disswade from an Anxious Carefulness for many days or a long time we know not what a day may bring forth and God is every day ready to grant what we every day want and pray for Q. Why are our Enjoyments asked as an Alms from God A. 1. To Humble us who are apt to be Proud by shewing us to be Beggars 2. To teach us we deserve nothing at Gods hand what we have God gives 3. To engage our importunity in Prayer as Beggars who knowing their wants will scarce receive a denial where they know their wants may be supplyed Q. What then is the Sum of this Petition A. I Pray that God would be pleased to send to me and to all People those things which be necessary both for their Souls and Bodies And we and all his People owning our dependance on him may daily seek our Relief from him Q. Which is the Fifth Petition The Second concerning our selves A. Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that Trespass against us Q. Why are Sins in some places called Debts A. 1. Because our Obedience is due to God and not being paid we are Debtors to God 2. We Sinners as Debtors are exposed to the Censure of Gods Law Q. What is the importance of this Petition A. 1. An acknowledgment that we sin daily and daily need ask Gods Pardon 2. A begging of God to Pardon us 3. A desiring God to Pardon our Offenders 4. A desire to be forgiven by God as we forgive those who Offend us Q. Doth not this lay a great Engagement on Christians to forgive each other A. Yes 1. Mat. 6.14 15. Mat. 18. latter end None can Offend us so much as our sins have Offended God 2. If we forgive our Brothers small Offences God will forgive our greater 3. Unless we forgive our Brothers faults God will not Pardon our Crimes 4. He who Prays and forgives not his Brother calls for a Curse on himself and desires he might not be forgiven his sins Q. Are we bound to Pray for Pardon of sins daily A. 1. Yes Scriptures witness none are without sin 2. It is confessed by all our Mouths that we are sinners Hooker on Halak 1.4 Mornaeus de Relig. cap. 16. 1 John 8 9 10. And have gone astray like lost Sheep 3. Our very Prayers are sinful we are too cold in our greatest heat and our thoughts wander in our nearest Addresses to God 4. Sin if not Pardoned is Damning 5. We cannot expect a Pardon unless we Pray for it Q. What is the Sum of this Petition A. That the God of all Mercies would through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ through whom he is my Father forgive me my sins when ever Acted and however aggravated and that he would encline my Heart to a free pardoning and forgiveness of those who Offend me Q. What is the Sixth Petition the last and third concerning us A. Lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from Evil. Q. What is meant by Temptation A. 1. Temptation by Satan to any sin 2. James 1.5 Temptation from God as Tryals of our Graces Q. What is meant by Gods leading us into Temptation A. 1. By permitting what he may be pleased to hinder Satans tempting 2. To leave us in the Temptation so as to sin or under Affliction so that we sin against him Q. What then is Prayed for here
a Child of Grace 4. Here is that effect Baptism should have on us it should make us not to sin but to dye to it and as Children of Grace to live to Christ the Life of Righteousness Q. What is required of Persons to be Bâ—ptized A. Repentance whereby they forsake Sin and Faith whereby they Believe the Promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Q. What is Considerable in this Answer A. 1. That in the first Planting of the Gospel and Practice of Baptism when the World waâ— either Jews or Gentiles without Faith in Christ it was necessary Repentance should be acted for their past sins and a Faith in Christ professed by the Converts before they were by Baptism received as visible Members of Christs Church Order for â—aptism of those of Riper sears And so it is our Churches Practice towards any Converted from Judaism or Gentilism or brought up by their Parents unbaptized That such should give an Account of their Faith before they be Baptized 2. That the Children of Pagans and Jews Converted and the Children of Professing Christians may be Baptized as well as the Child with the Proselyted Parent under the Law was Circumcised Yea the Children of Pagans or Jews brought by Câ—ristians who as Spiritual Parents to them will engage their Endeavours to bring up those Children in the Fear of God and Practice of Christianity may doubtless be Baptized and received into Christs Church Q. Why are Infants Baptized when by Reason of their tender Age they cannot perform them that is cannot act Faith and Repentance A. They Promise them both by their Sureties which when they come to Age themselves they are hound to perform Q. What Reasons are there given for Infant Baptism A. 1. See about God-fathers They have in and by their Sureties or God-fathers and God-mothers promised the performance of them both and that Lawfully 2. They are Obliged to perform that promise when they grow up Q. What other Reasons have you for Infant Baptism A. 1. See Dr. Hammond's 6 Principles and his Cat. p. 388. B. Ushers body of Divinity p. 518. Harmony of Confes Confes Helvetia Belgia Bohem. Saxony In the first Ordaining of Circumcision Old Abraham the Youth Ishmael and Child Isaac were Circumcised and after that all the Children of the Proselytes together with their Parents And so in the Institution of Baptism the Aged and adult Converts were Baptized and then their Children and the Children of all who are Converted to the Christian Faith have the same Right to Baptism Gen. 17. Acts 2.39 1 Cor. 7.14 2. Our Priviledges since Christ are as great as the Jews had before Christ 3. Their Children were Circumcised and ours are as capable of Baptism as theirs were of Circumcision 4. That Covenant of which Circumcision was a Seal was a Covenant of Grace through Christ not yet repealed And in that Covenant Children had a Right to be engaged Deut. 29.10 11. Dr. Patricks Aqua Genitalu and God calls them to enter into Covenant with him Nor is there any Syllable against their being in Covenant with God through Christ in all the New Testament They then are still in it and have Right to the Seal of it which now is Baptism 5. They have an express Right to the Promises of this Covenant Acts 2.39 6. They are Members of Christ Leigh 's body p. 922. Mat. 19.13 Mar. 10.13 Disciples of Christ and Heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven through Christ and so have Right to the Blessings of the Covenant and therefore cannot reasonably be denyed the Seal of it And if it be said that the words of such refer to Persons who are like them in Innocency c. It may be Answered That 1. Of such must respect the Persons of Children B. Towers in locum who are by our Adversaries generally granted to be Heirs of Eternal Glory 2. If God will give a Kingdom to them who are like Children much more to Children whom they are like Craggs against Tombs 7. They are iucluded in the Commission of Christ for Baptism Mat. 28.19 They are part of all Nations And as the Jews taught the Gentiles and on their Confession of their Faith received them by Circumcision So Christ the Messias to the Jews as well as Light to the Gentiles Orders his Disciples to Disciple all Nations by Preaching the Gospel to them Mark 16.16 and by Baptizing them who were Converted to manitest their receiving to be Christs Disciples And as the Jews taught the Circumcised Proâ—clvies father in their Law so Christ orders the Discipled and Baptized Convert to be further taught in his Gospel The Jews first taught the Gentile Parent and then Circumcised him and his Children but then the Children were first Circumcised and then taught and thus the Apostles taught the Aged and then Baptized them and their Housholds forthwith Acts 16.15 31. where is no mention of any ones confessing that Faith the Apostles taught or of their Teaching any but the Jaylor Lydia and the Master or Mistress of that Family 8. Walkers Modest Plea Cap. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ calls Children to come unto him which word is as it were to become Christs Proselyte Now no way can Children come to Christ visibly but by Baptism 9. It is more safe to admit a Child to Baptism whom God accounts capable of engaging in Covenant with him and whom Christ owns as his Disciple and which cannot deceive us than to Baptize an adult Person who for sinister ends may make a great Profession and yet deceive us And if the judgment of Charity must be allowed then we have no Reason to think hardly on Children to whom God and Christ makes such Promises 10. They may have Faith in Seed and Habit as they have Reason Mat. 18.6 And Christ accounts them as Believers several have been Sanctified from the Womb and those whom they deny Baptism to may have received the Holy Ghost and how dare Man make himself Judge of these things Jer. 1.4 5. Luke 1.15 And for those Children which Christ calls Believers they in that place and in its parallel places are expressed in all Tongues to be such Children little Children Infants as could not come but were brought to Christ and such as Christ took up in his Arms. 11. Confirmation and Laying on of Hands in the Order of Ordinances presupposeth Baptism Mat. 19.13 and by our Adversaries is Practised after it And yet Christ laid his Hands on Children and Blessed them and was very angry with those who would have hindred their coming It seems to be between Christ and his Apostles as between greater and inferiour Ministers John 4.2 Christ Baptized none but his Apostles Baptized and he Consirmed 12. It was the constant Practice of the Church of Christ in all Ages Mr. Walkers Modest Plea Cap. 26 27 28. Calvin Instâ—â—ut lib. 4. 〈◊〉 15. 〈◊〉 22. 13. Christ mentions it not
in the New Testament because it was so fully known in the Old that Children were within the Covenant and admitted to the Seal of it That Baptizing them is not a receiving them as Foreigners into the Church of Christ but a more Solemn manifesting them to be so and a witnessing they are Members of Christ who belonged to the Body of his Church before Ephes 2.12 13. Hâ—l 8.6 There needed no new Command to promote an old Practâ—â—e which unless contâ—â—ued I see no great inducement can be offered to perswade a Jew to become Christian Wills against Danvers Second Part p. 36. None of their Priviledges are infringed but ours enlarged the Covenant is unrepealed and Baptism larger than Circumcision as including Females as well as Males as capable Subjects of it 14. The Error of the Anabaptists hath these ill consequences 1. It throws all the World into Heathenism again 2. Makes a Church ever gathering never gathered 3. 1 Cor. 7.14 Makes Children of Turks and Jews equally happy as ours 4. States our Children in the visible Synagogue of Satan by excluding them the visible Church of Christ 5. Gives Parents small hopes of their Salvation by disowning them for Members of Christs Church Mark 16.16 Baxters Infant Church-memb and not esteeming them Believers 6. It may expose to the breach of the sixth and seventh Commandments Q. Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Ordained A. For the continual Remembrance and the Sacrifice of the Death of Christ and the Benâ—sits we receive thereby Q. What things are Considerable in this Answer A. 1. That Christ Offered himself a Sacrifice to God for Mans sins Heb. 5. and 9 Chap. 2. By the Death and Sacrifice of Christ we receive great Benefits 1. Pardon of Sin 2. Peace with God 3. Adoption 4. Gift of Holy Ghost 5. Graces 6. Glory 3. That these Benefits and this Death of Christ ought to be remembred Mat. 26.1 Cor. 11 24. Q. How is the Sacrament a Commemoration of Christs Death A. 1. The Bread and Wine set apart for the Use of the Sacrament denotes Christs separation for the Work of our Redemption the Breads breaking Christs Crucifying its eating our receiving Christ and our Union with him 2. The Wine shews Christs Blood distinct from his Body as shed for us The pouring out the Wine shews the shedding his Blood and our drinking it our applying Christs Blood to cleanse us from sin Q. Why is Christs Death called a Sacrifice A. 1. It was Typified by all the Sacrifices under the Law 2. Christ Offered himself a Sacrifice for us Q. Why is it not yet counted a Sacrifice A. 1. Christ is not again Offered 2. Christ is not ours nor in our power to Offer 3. Heb. 9.25 26. His Offering himself once for all is sufficient Q. What are the outward parts of the Lords Supper A. Bread and Wine which the Lord hath Commanded to be Received Q. Is not the Bread in the Sacrament turned into Christs Body after the words of Consecration since Christ said This is my Body A. No. 1. Gen. 17.10 Exod. 12 Funeral of Mass Brevint against Mass p. 57. Sacraments are spoken in a Figurative sense Circumcision is called the Covenant and the Paschal Lamb the Passover which were but signs of the Covenant And so this is my Body signifieth this is the sign of my Body and our Adversaries grant a Figurative Speech in the use of the Cup where it is said This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood of which the Blood of Christ signified by the Wine was a Seal 2. Transubstantiation against all our Senses We see feel smell taste Bread 3. Then is there no Sacrament because the Sign is destroyed 4. It s Institution iâ— in Remembrance of Christ which implies his Absence 5. It destroys Christs Humanity which cannot be in many places at once 6. It exposeth Christs Body to Rude Accidents our eating him Mice destroying him its moulding and corrupting against Psal 16.10 7. Then the Infidels eating the Bread shall be saved for all eating Christ shall 8. Their Pleas from John 6. unsound Christ spoke there Spiritually nor indeed was the Sacrament then Instituted but some time after a little before his Death 9. Either Christ is in the Sacrament or he is not If in it they Act horrid things to tear Christs Body with their Teeth and if he be not there they Act gross Idolatry in Worshipping a piece of Bread it is a madness to eat our God or adore what we eat in the Heathens account 16 10. It was Confirmed but in the Year 1215. after Christ Q. May not the Cup of Wine be forbidden A. 1. No. This Error succeeded the former Ames Bell. Enervat Tom. 3. Lib. 4. Cap. 7. Fox Act. Vol. 2. pag. 460. A. Bishop Ushers Answer to Jesuit pag. 3. B. Taylors disswasive Cap. 1. Sect. 6. for if Christs Body be in the Bread his Blood is there also and therefore our Adversaries deny the distinct Administration of it But 2. Against the Command and Practice of Christ and his Apostles 1 Cor. 11.24 Mat. 26. 3. Pope Gelasius Decreed this Act to be Sacrilegious and he was as Infallible as his Successors if one be Infallible for them another is so against them 4. No Ancient Council Father or Example of Primitive Church was for it saith the same Gelasius 5. It was Decreed about 1415 after Christ in the Council of Constance Q. What is the inward part or thing signified A. The Body and Blood of Christ which are verisy and indeed taken and received of the Faithful in the Lords Supper Q What is here Observable A. 1. That the Body and Blood of Christ are Offered in the Sacrament to be received by the Communicants 2. That the true faithful Communicant doth receive them and their Benefits 3. His receiving them is by Faith Spiritually applying them to his Soul Q. What are the Benefits we are made Partakers of hereby A. The strengthening and refreshing of our Souls and Bodies by the Body and Blood of Christ as our Bodies are by the Bread and Wine Q. What is herein Considerable A. 1. That as Bread and Wine are great strengtheners and refreshers of our Bodies so doth Christs Body and Blood with the Benefits thence flowing to the Worthy Receiver Dr. Patricks Mensa Mystica p. 382. much strengthen and refresh our Souls in the sense of the Pardon of our sins of our Peace with God comforts of the Holy Ghost Grace against sin our sense of Gods Love Union with him and Right to Glory Q. What is required of Persons who come tâ— the Lords Supper A. To Eramine themselves whether they Repent them truly of their former sins steadfastly purposing to lead a new Life have a lively Faith in Gods Mercy through Christ with a Thankful Remembrance of Christ's Death and be in Charity with all Men. Q. What is Considerable in this Answer A. 1. The Duties of a