death 1 John 3.11 CHAP. VIII Concerning the Commandments in general Q. VVHat is the chief end of the Commandments A. To teach us the love of God and our Neighbour He that loveth hath fulfilled the Law Q. Why did God give the Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in thunder and lightning A. To move us to a careful keeping of them Q. Is it possible to keep them all A. It is by Gods grace Zachary and Elizabeth were both just before God walking in all the Commandments of our Lord without reproof S. Luke 1. v. 6. Q. Are we bound to keep them A. We are He that shall break any one of these least Commandements and teach men so to do he shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven S. Mark 5. v. 10. The Commandements in particular The first Commandement Q. Say the first Commandement A. I am the Lord thy God c. thou shalt not have strange Gods before me c. Q. What are we commanded by this A. To love serve and worship one only true and living God and no more Q. What is forbidden by it A. To worship Idols or give any creature the honour due to God Q. What is the honour due to God A. Supream and Soveraign honour we must worship him as our Creator Redeemer and last end Q. Is it lawful to honour the Images of Christ and his Saints A. Yes with an inferior and relative honour in as much as they represent unto us heavenly things but not with God's honour Q Do Catholicks pray to Images A. No by no means we pray before them indeed to keep us from distractions but not to them for we well know that they can neither see nor hear nor help us Q. What benefit then have we of them A. They movingly represent to us the mysteries of our Saviours Passion the martyrdoms of his Saints Q. What benefit have we by honouring and Canonizing Saints A. It strongly moves us to imitate their examples by shewing their rewards Q. How do we honour Saints and Angels A. With an inferiour honour as the Friends and Creatures of God not as Gods or with Gods honour Q. Is it lawful to honour the reliques of Saints A. Yes with relative honour foâ— the Handkerchief and Aprons which had but touched the body of S. Paul cast out Devils and cured all Diseases Act. 19 v. 11. The second Commandment Q. SAy the second Commandment A. Thou shalt not take the Naâ—â— of the Lord thy God in vain Q. What forbidden by this A. All false rash and unnecessary Oaths Q. What is commanded by it A. To speak with reverence of God and his Saints Q. In what case is it lawful to swear A. When God's honour our own our Neighbours lawful defence requireth it Q. If a man swear to do evil is he bound to keep his Oath A. No he is bound to break it for an Oath is no bond of iniquity The Third Commandments Q. SAy the third A. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day Q. What is commanded by this A. To spend the Sunday in prayer and hearing divine service Q. What is forbidden by it A. Servile work and prophane imployment Q. Why was the Jewish Sabbath changed into the Sunday A. Because Christ rose from the dead and sent down the Holy Ghost upon a Sunday Q. By whom was it changed A. By the Church in the Apostles time The second TABLE of the LAW Expounded The Fourth Commandment Q. SAy the fourth A. Honour thy Father aâ—â— thy Mother Q. What is commanded by this A. To love reverence and obeâ— our Parents in all that is not sin Q. What is forbidden by it A. All sowerness stubborness disobedience to Parents Q. Why are we bound to love theâ—â— A. Because under God they arâ— the chief causes of our very liâ—â— and being Q. How to Honour them A. Not only inwardly in our hearts but also outwardly in our carriage Q. Why to obey them A. Because they have a power from God both to instruct direct and correct us Q. What is the reward of dutiful Children A. Long and happy life good Children if they Marry and a good death Q. What is the reward of undutiful A. A short and sinful life accompanied with an untimely death witness Absolon 2. of King 18. chap. Q. What signifies the word Father A. Not only our corporal Parents but also our Ghostly Fathers and all lawful Superiors Q. Is any great honour due to Priests and Ghostly Fathers A. Very great for they are Gods anointed who represent the person of Christ and are the Fathers and feeders of our souls Q. In what are we bound to be lieve and obey them A. In all things belonging to faith and the government of our souls The Fifth Commandment Q SAy the fifth A. Thou shalt not kill Q. What is forbidden by this A. All wilful Murther unjuâ—â— shedding of blood fighting anâ— quarrelling Q. What is commanded by it A. To defend our own and innocent Neighbours life The sixth Commandment Q SAy the sixth A. Thou shalt not commit Adultery Q. What is forbidden by this A. All carnal sin with anothers Wife or Husband as also fornication and pollution Q What else A. Unchast touching of our selves or others with all delight in lustful thoughts or kisses Q. What is commanded by it A. To love and be faithful to our own Wives and Husbands Q. Why is Lust hateful in the sight of God A. Because it defileth in us the Image of God the Member of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Ghost The seventh Commandment Q. SAy the seventh A. Thou shalt not steal Q. What is forbidden by this A. All unjust taking away or keeping of that which is another mans Q. What is commanded by it A. To give every man his own Q. What doth these oblige us to A. To restore the thing stolen to the right owner if we be able else the sin will not be forgiven us The Eighth Commandments Q. SAy the eighth A. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour Q. What is forbidden by this A. All false testimonies rash judgments and lies Q. What else A. Backbiting flattery detraction Q. What is he bound to who hath hurt his Neighbour in this kind A. To make him satisfaction and restore his good Name Q. What is commanded by this precept A. To speak and witness the truth in all things For the Devil is a lyer and the Father of lyes S. John the 8th v. 24. The 9th and 10th Commandments Q. SAy the ninth and tenth A. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours goods Q. What is forbidden by these A. All inordinate desires of Lust Adultery and Theft Q. What else A. All deliberate and voluntary delight in covetous or impure thoughts Q. What are we commanded by these A. To entertain chast and honest thoughts and be contented with our own estates CHAP. IX The Commandments of the Church Q.
Vergin Mary A. It means that Christ was born of her in Bethlehem on Christmass-day she still remaining a pure Virgin Q What doth the birth of Christ avail us A. It perfecteth us in Faith Hope and Charity The fourth Article Q. WHat is the fourth article A. Suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead buried Q. What understand you by this A. I understand that Christ after a most painful life of three and thirty years suffered most bitter torments under the wicked President Pontius Pilate Q. What were these torments A. His bloody sweat his whipping at the pillar his purple Garments his crowning with thorns his scepter of a Reed his carriage of the Cross c. Q. What means the word was crucified A. It means that he was nailed to a disgraceful Cross betwixt two Thieves for our offences on Good-Fryday Q. What signifies dead buried A. It signifies that Christ sufferred for us a true real death and was buried with honour as the Prophet Isaiah foretold The fifth Article Q. WHat is the fifth Article A. He descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead Q. What meaneth He descended into Hell A. It means that as soon as Christ was dead his blessed Soul descended into Limbo to free the holy Fathers that were there Q. What signifies On the 3d. day he rose again from the dead A. It signifies that when Christ had been dead part of three days on the third day being Easter-Sunday he raised up his blessed body from the dead Q. What benefit have we by this belief A. It comfirms our faith and hope that we shall also rise again from death by and with Jesus The sixth Article Q WHat is the sixth Article A. He ascended into Heaven sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty Q. What means he ascended into Heaven A. That when Christ had conversed forty days on earth with his Disciples after his Resurrection then he ascended triumphant into Heaven in their sight Q. On what day A. On ascention Day and from the top of Mount Olivet Q. Why is it said into Heaven A. To draw our hearts to Heaven after him Q. What understand you by siteth at the right hand of God A. Not that God the Father hath any hands for he is a pure spirit without body but that Christ as God is equal to his Father in all things The seventh Article Q. WHat is the seventh Article A. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead Q. What understand you by this A. I understand that Christ shall come from Heaven at the last day to judge all men according to their works Q. Why is a general judgment requisite seeing every one receiveth his particular Judgment at his death A. That as Christ was rejected by many so he may be glorified before all Q. In what manner will he come to Judgment A. In great power and Majesty tended by many Legions of Angels Q. What are the things that he will judge A. All our thoughts words and works Q. Who will accuse us A. The Devils and our own guilty consciences Q. What will be the sentence of the reprobate A. Go ye cursed into eternal fire which hath been prepared for the devil and his Angels Q. What shall be the sentence of the Elect A. Come O ye blessed of my Father and receive ye the Kingdome which is prepared for you c. Mat. c. 25. v. 34. The Eighth Article Q. WHat is the eighth Article A. I believe in the Holy Ghost Q. What means this Article A. It means that we also believe and put our trust in the third Person of the blessed Trinity who proceedeth from the Father and the Son being the same God with them and descended to us on Whitsunday in fiery Tongues The nineth Article Q. WHat is the ninth Article A. I believe in the Holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints Q. What understand you by this A. I understand that Christ hath a Church on earth that this Church is but one and that we are bound to believe her in all things belonging to faith Q. Why are we bound to believe her A. Because God hath commanded it and she is the Pillar and ground of truth 1 Tim. 3. nor can she erre in Faith Q. Why may not a well-meaning man be saved in any Church or Religion A. Because there is but one Lord one Faith one Baptism the 4th to Ephes 5. Q. What is the Church A. It is the Congregation of the Faithful under Christ Jesus their invisible Head and his Vicar on earth the Pope Q. What are the marks of the Church A. To be one to be holy to be always visible and to be Apostolical Q. What think you then of such as accused the Church of God of Idolatry and errors in faith A. I think them to be Hereticks or Infidels He that will not hear the Church let him be unto thee as a Heathen or a Publican St. Mat. c. 18. v. 18. Q. What means the word Catholick A. It signifies as much as Vniversal and that the true Church hath continued from Christ to this time and shall continue to the end of the world mauger the Devil Q. What else A. That the true Church hath shall be spread over all Nations Q. What means the Communion of Saints A. It means that Catholicks do all Communicate in the same Faith Sacraments and Sacrifice as also in the merits of one another Q. What else A. That the faithful on Earth Communicate with the Saints and Angels in Heaven we by praising and praying to them and they by praying for us There shall be joy before the angels of God for one sinner doing penance St. Luke 15. v. 10. Q. Is it no dishonour to God for us to pray to Saints and Angels A. No it is not for by so doing we honour God in them his creatures Praise ye the Lord in his Saints Psal 150. The Tenth Article Q. WHat is the Tenth Article A. The forgiveness of sins Q. What understand you by this A. I understand that God is able and willing to forgive us our sins if we be heartily sorry for them and confess them both by himself and by his Sacraments The Eleventh Article Q. WHat is the eleventh Article A. The Resurrection of the flesh Q. What means this Article A. It means that these very bodies in which we now live shall at the day of Judgment be raised from death to life by the command of God Q. What are the qualities of a glorified body A. Impassibility Agility Subtility and Clarity Q. What benefit have we by this belief A. It emboldens us to suffer persecutions and death it self in hope of future glory The twelfth Article Q. WHat is the twelfth Article A. And life everlasting Amen Q. What understand you by this A. That such as live well and dye in state of Grace shall live with God in everlasting Glory Q.
many kinds of sin be there A. Two Original sin actual sin Q. What is Original sin A. It is want of Original Justice which we are all born in by means of Adams fall Q. How is Original sin remitted A. By Baptisme Q. Whither go Infants who dye without Baptisme in Original sin A. To the upper part of Hell where they feel no pain of sense but shall never see the Face of God Q. What is actual sin A. It is thought word or deed contrary to the word of God Q. What is a sin of Omission A. To omit any thing willingly which is commanded us by God or his Church Q. How is actual sin divided A. Into mortal sin and venial sin Q. What is mortal sin A. Any great offence against the Charity of God or our Neighbour Q. What is venial sin A. A small and very pardonable offence against God or our Neighbour Q. How is mortal sin remitted A. By hearty Contrition and Penance Q. How is venial sin remitted A. By all the Sacraments by devout Prayer holy water the like Q. Whither go such as dye in mortal sin A. To Hell for all Eternity Q. Whither go such as dye in venial sin or not having fully satisfied for the punishments due unto their mortal sines A. To Purgatory till they have made full satisfaction for them and then to Heaven Q. How know you there is a Purgatory A. Because when the Day of our Lord shall come that is the day of our death the Work of every one of what kind it is the fire shall try c. If any mans work burns as theirs do who go to Purgatory he shall suffer hurt but himself shall be saved yet so as by fire 1 Cor. 3. ver 14 15. Q. How many wayes may a man be made partaker and guilty of anothers sin A. Nine wayes 1. By Counselling it 2. By commending it 3. By consenting to it 4. By provoking him to it 5. By praising or flattering him for it 6. By not speaking when he ought to speak 7. By winking at it 8. By being a partner with him in the fact 9. By defending the ill done CHAP. XV. The seven deadly or capital sins Q. HOw call you the seven capital sins A. 1. Pride 2. Covetousness 3. Lechery 4. Anger 5. Gluttony 6. Envy 7. Sloath. Q. What is Pride A. An inordinate desire of our own worth and esteem Q. What is Covetousness A. An mordinate desire of riches Q. What is â—â—chery A. An inordinate desire of carnal pleasure Q. What is Anger A. An inordinate desire of revenge Q. What is Gluttony A. An inordinate desire or use of meat drink Q. What is Envy A. A sadness or repining at anothers good because it seems to lessen our own Q. What is Sloath A. A lasiness of mind neglecting to begin or prosecute good things The sins against the Holy Ghost Q. HOw many be the sins against the Holy Ghost A. Six 1. Despair of Salvation 2. Presumption of Gods mercy 3. To impugne the known truth 4. Envy at anothers spiritual good 5. Obstinacy in sin .. 6. Final Impenitence The sins that cry to Heaven for Vengeance Q. HOw many such sins be there A. Four 1. Wilful Murther 2. Sin of Sodom 3. Oppression of the Poor 5. To defraud work-men of their wages CHAP. XVI The four last things Expounded Q. WHat be the four last things A. Death Judgment Hell and Heaven Q. What mean you by Death A. That we are all mortal and must once dye how soon we are uncertain and therefore should be alwayes prepared for it Q. What is the best preparative for a good Death A. A good life and to be often doing Penance for our sins and saying with St. Paul I desire to be dissolved and be with Christ Phil. 1. v. 13. Q. What understand you by Judgement A. That besides the General Judgement of the World our souls as soon as they be dead shall receive their particular Judgment at the Tribunal of Christ Q. How must we prepare our selves against this Judgment A. By often remembring that it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. v. 31. Q. What mean you by Hell A. I mean that such as dye guilty of mortal sin shall be tormented there for ever and ever Apoc. 20. v. 10. Q What understand you by Heaven A. I understand that the chosen and faithful servants of God who dye in state of grace shall live with him for ever in his Kingdom Q. What benefit have we by the frequent me mory of these last things A. Very great benefit In all thy works remember thy last things and thou shalt never sin Eccles 7. v. 40. Grace before Meat BLess ye Resp Our Lord. Let us pray BLess us our Lord and these thy gifts which we are to receive of thy bounty through Christ our Lord. Resp AMEN Grace after Meat PRaise we our Lord. Resp Thanks be to God Let us Pray WE give thee thanks O Almighty God for all thâ— benefits who livest and reignest world without end Resp Amen Vers And let the souls of the faithful through the mercy oâ— God rest in peace Resp Amen FINIS