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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44096	The principles of Christian religion in twenty questions and answers whereunto is added, a compendious history of the most memorable passages of Holy Scripture by way of questions and answers, for the use and benefot of the inhabitants of the parish of Wotton in Oxford shire. By John Hoffman B.D. minister of Gods Word.	Hoffman, John, b. 1601 or 2.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2348; ESTC R215272	23,157	80

The History of the two Disciples going to Emaus on Easter day S. JOHN Q. WHat can you say of S. John 1 A. He was one of the twelve Apostles whom Jesus loved he outlived all the Apostles and dyed a naturall death at Ephesus if we believe the Church History All the rest of the Apostles were killed 2 He begins his Gospell with many arguments to prove that Jesus Christ was God from everlasting coaequall to the Father and to the holy Ghost 3 Most of his Histories are omitted by the other Evangelists as 1 The calling of Nathaniel 2 Christs Miracle at a marriage in Cana. 3 Christs dispute with Nicodemus about regeneration 1 His discourse with the Woman of Sa. maria 5 His healing of a man at the poole of Bethesda that had been 38 years sick 6 His severall disputes with the Jewes about his divine nature and concerning his reall Spirituall sence in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper 7 His raising of Lazarus from the dead 8 His washing of the Disciples feet 9 Christs restoring of Peter to his former place by a threefold confession of him as he had before three times denyed him ACTS Q WHat say you of this Book A. The Penman of the Acts of the Apostles was Luke the chiefe Histories whereof are these 1 Christs ascention into Heaven 2 The election of Matthias to be an Apostle in the roome of Judas the traitour 3 The wonderfull comming of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles on the day of Penticost 4 The healing of a Criple by Peter and John 5 The sad end of Ananias and Sapphyra 6 The Martyrdome of Stephen 7 The miraculous conversion of Paul 8 The conversion of Cornelius by Peter and the conversion of many other Gentiles by Paul as of Lydia Sergius Paulus the Jaylour and others ● The Martyrdome of James the imprisonment and deliverance of Peter by an Angell 9 The woefull end of persecuting Herod who was eaten up alive by wormes for his rage against the Church of Christ 10 Paules travells and great sufferings in diverse places both by Jewes and Gentills 11 His Sermons before Felix Festus and King Agrippa 12 His dangerous Sea-voiage to Rome and his behaviour and conversation there The fourteen EPISTLES of S. Paul Q WHat say you of these Epistles of Paul A. The Apostle Pauls end in his Epistles is 1 To convince men of sin and so of a necessity of Christ the onely Saviour of the world 2 To set forth the unsearcheable riches of Gods free grace in Christ to the world 3 To exhort Christians to thankfulnesse and to the performance of their duties towards God and towards men whether our superiors inferiors or equalls The Epistle of S. JAMES Q. 1. VVHat say you of this Epistle 1 A. This Apostle perswades Christians to shew the truth of Faith by good workes 2 The Doctrine of S. James about justification is not contrary to that of S. Pauls in his Epistles as Luther thought at first For As S. Paul teacheth that it is faith that doth justify us before God so S. Iames shewes what Faith it must be namely not a dead but a living fruitfull faith The First and Second Epistle of PETER Q. WHAT say you of these two Epistles 1 A. These two Epistles are called generall Epistles because they were written not to any particular Nation or Citty or Person as those of Paul but to all Christians whether Jewes or Gentiles 2 In these Epistles the Apostle Peters aime is 1 To exhort Christians to make their calling and election sure 2 To exhort us to discharge our duties to God and Man 2 To forewarne us of damnable heresies and false teachers that would trouble Gods Church in the latter times of the world The three EPISTLES of Iohn Q WHat can you say of these A The Apostle Iohn's drift and aime in these three Epistles is 1 To commend unto us the deare love of God in Jesus Christ to his Chosen people 2 To perswade us to Love God againe 3 To assure us that true Love to God doth appeare by our true love to the Bretheren 4 He commends the Noble Lady of Asia for her Piety and Charity 5 He commends one Gajus a charitable harbourer and reliever of persecuted Christians in those dayes 6 He sharply censureth one Diotrephes for ambition and pride loving the preheminence seeking his own Glory more then the Glory of Christ and the honour of the Gospell The Epistle of JUDE WHat canst thou say of this Epistle 1 A The Apostle exhorts Christians to constancy in Faith once received 2 He describeth the evil manners and dangerous opinions of Apostates and Heretiques in the lattter time of the world The APOCALYPS or REVELATION of S. Iohn Q VVHat can you say of Iohns Revelation 1 A S. Iohn for Religion was banished by the Emperour Domitian into a solitary Iland there Jesus Christ appeared to him and by his Angell revealed to him what should befall the Church of God tothe end of the world 2 The three first Chapters are historicall relating the history of the seven Churches of Asia 3 The whole booke is very Mysterious containing visions and very obscure things Yet a specialll blessing is Promised to the carefull reading and meditation of it Chap. 1.3 4 In this booke is told of 1 The evils that should befall Gods Church under Antichrist 2 The rise and fall of Antichrist or Pope of Rome 3 A description of the day of judgement of the Resurrection and of the heavenly Jerusalem and of Gods peoples earnest expectation and longing for the comming of Jesus Christ in glory To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Glory Praise and Thanks-giving for ever and ever AMEN A Prayer for Young People Mornings and Evenings 1. O Most Holy Lord God Creator of Heaven and Earth my mercifull Father in Jesus Christ Thou art light it selfe I am by nature darknesse it selfe dead in sinnes and trespasses Spiritually blind and poore naked and miserable not able of my selfe to have a good thought much lesse to doe one God-pleasing worke worse then the beasts that perish For I am guilty of the first sinne of our first parents in Paradise I was conceived and borne in sinne and have lived in finne to this day I have not kept one of thy holy lawes I have not prized the Gospell of Salvation neither have thy mercies or visitations kindly wrought upon mee I have omitted holy duties and I have committed many evills in thy fight O Lord God so have deserved a thousand waies to be cast out into utter darknesse to have my portion in Hell with the damned for ever Oh that I could bewaile my sins and mourne in secret bitterly for them as I should O Lord I abhorre my selfe in dust and ashes miserable wretch that I am who shall deliver mee from the body of this death 2. O Lord God thou hast sent thy deare Sonne Jesus into the World to save