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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B21355	A catechism, or, Familiar instructions on the principal points of the Christian religion written for the use of his own family by Mr. Drelincourt.; Catechisme, ou, Instruction familiere sur les principaux points de la relgion chrêtieno. English	Drelincourt, Charles, 1595-1669.	1698 (1698)	Wing D2159	63,542	132

doth not command us to imitate as the effects of his Omnipotency but ho● will have us imitate his vertues and his perfections that we learn of him that he is meek that we be merciful as he is merciful and that we be holy as he is holy Lastly he will that we imitate his labour and his rest Q. Why was God six days in making Heaven and Earth A He could create them in a moment but he was six days about it that we may meditate distinctly and in order upon the works of the Creation and that we may learn to do nothing with precipitation and confusion Q. What is the rest of God A. It is not that God had need to recover his strength for he acts always without pain and without weariness but the meaning is that the seventh day he left off working in the Creation of the Universe Q. How did God sanctifie that day A. In dedicating and consecrating it to his worship and himself contemplating the admirable beauties of the works of his hands Q What do you say of those who spend their lives in doing nothing A. What St Paul saith 2. Thess cap. 3. he that will not work neither shall he eat he that will not imitate God in his work shall have no share in his rest Q. What do you think of the Church of Rome 's Holy-days A. That it is a yoke which our Lord Jesus Christ hath not imposed and that they are directly against the permission that God gives us here to work six days in the week and against what the Apostle saith let no man judge you n meat or in drink or in respect of an Holyiday Colos 2. Q. What will become of those who instead o● keeping the Lord's day holy and of consecrating i● to the service of God spend it in games in debaucheries and insolences A. God will punish them as profane and breakers of his Sabbath Q. And what ought we to hope for those who observe religiously the day of rest and who as the Prophet speaks of it calls the Sabbath their delight Isaiah 5.8 A. They shall go from Sabbath to Sabbath till they go to prostrate themselves before the face of God and enter into eternal joy and rest prepared for them from the foundation of the world Isa 66. Of the fifth Commandment Q. WHAT do you mean by the Father and the Mother that God commands us to honour A. Not only those who have begotten and brought us into the World but also our Kings and Princes our Governours and our Magistrates our Guardians our Pastors our Masters our Tutors and generally all our Superiors Q. How must they be honoured A. We ought not only to have for them a singular esteem but also show our respect to them by our words our gestures and our actions to love them cordially fear to offend them obe● their commands and if they be in want to ●elieve them with all our power Q. But m●st that honour be paid to all superiours without any exception A. Ye● ●o ●ll not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward 1 Pet. 2. we must be subject not only for f●ar of wrath but also for conscience sake Rom 13. Q. Must they be obe●ed in all things A. Yes in every thing wherein God is not offended as the Apostle St Paul teacheth us in Ephes the 6. and Colos the 3d. Children obey your Parents in all things in the Lord for this is right Q. But if our superiours command us things against the Law of God against the rules of his worship as to embrace a false Religion or to commit some act of Idolatry to murder or steal and other like things in this case must we obey them A. By no means but in imitation of the Apostles of the Lord Jesus we must answer them in all humility whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye we ought to obey God rather than man Act. 4.5 Q. But if in not obeying them we are persecuted A. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Matth. 5. Q. Why is it that God adds that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee A. Because Parents bear his Image in a particular manner God will that we honour them above every body in the World and to incite us to that duty he makes us that promise Q. What signifies may be long when God saith that thy days may be long in the land A. The meaning is not that our days shall be longer than they are to be for they are determined God hath prescribed our limits and we shall not go beyond Job 14 But the meaning is that we shall prosper and that we shall live long on the Earth as St Paul shews it Ephes 16. Q Of what land doth God speak he●e A. It is especially of the land of Canaan that God gave the Children of Israel in heritage Q. Doth this promise of living long on the ●arth concern particularly the Jews or doth it belong in general to all the Faithful A. It concerns particularly the Jews because the land of Canaan was the figure of the heavenly inheritance and that a long and happy life in that land was the Image of the Eternal felicity we shall enjoy in Paradice but it belongs also to all the faithful for the Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof and every where the hoary head is a Crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness 1 Cor. 10. Prov. 16. Q. Doth God give long life to all the Children that honour their Parents A. There are several to whom God accomplishes this promise literally and that he blesses with his most precious blessings but there are also Children most obedient to their Parents and in which one may see the seeds of a great Piety the da●s whereof God shortens Q How is it that God accomplishes his promise to the Children that ●e taketh so soon out of the World A. All temporal promises ought to be understood conditionally as much as God judgeth it expedient for his glory and our salvation God in taking those Children out of the World receiveth them into his glory for Jesus Christ teacheth us that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them Matth. 19. Of the sixth Commandment Q. WHAT doth God forbid in the sixth Commandment A. Not only deliberate Murder but all means of shedding blood as beating striking quarrelling abusing our Neighbour he forbids also hatreds and animosities for whosoever hateth his Brother is a Murderer 1 John 3. Q. The Prince and the Magistrate who causes Criminals to be put to death ought he to be put in the rank of Murderers A. By no means for he bears not the Sword in vain he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth Evil. Rom. 13. Q Those who bear Arms

spheres of the Planets and of the Stars and it is in that Heaven that God hath placed the Tabernacle of the Sun as it is said Ps 19. The third is the heavenly Paradice where St. Paul saith he was caught up and heard unspeakable words 2 Cor. 12. of this third heaven it is here spoken Q Is God contained in that Heaven A. The heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him The heaven is his Throne and the Earth is his Footstool 1 King 8. Isaiah 8.66 Q. Why do you say then that God is in Heaven A. Because it is there where he makes manifest his Glory in a particular manner and where the triumphant Saints and the Angels of Light praise and worship him without ceasing There thousand thousands minister to him and ten thousand times ten thousand stand continually before him Dan. 7. Of the first Petition Q. IN how many ways is the name of God taken A. In three principally first for his fame as it said Ps 8. O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the Earth Secondly for the names God makes himself known by as the Prophet Jeremiah sa●s cap. 28. the name whereby he shall be called is the Lord our Righteousness Thirdly for God himself as it is said Joel 2. whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved Q. In how many ways is the word hallow taken A. In three first for rendring a thing holy that was not so before thus the Holy Ghost sanctifies us and makes us new Creatures Secondly for dedicating and consecrating for an holy use Thus Moses sanctified Aaron and his Sons and all the Utensils of the Tabernacle Lastly for acknowledging and making manifest the sanctity of a thing which in itself is holy And thus it must be taken here Q. What signifies then that the name of God be hallowed A. That God be acknowledged adored and glorified every where in the world Of the second Petition Q. HOw many sorts of Reigns or Kingdoms are there A Three the reign of Nature the reign of Grace and the reign of Glory Q. What do you mean by the reign of Nature A. That which God exercises generally over all creatures and of this reign it is spoken Psalms 93. the Lord reigneth he is cloathed with Majesty Q What do you mean by the reign of Grace A. That which Jesus Christ exercises on Earth by his Spirit in his Church and in the heart of his Elect. Our Lord speaks of it St. Luke 17. the Kingdom of God comes not with observation neither shall they say lo here or lo there for behold the Kingdom of God is with you Q. And what is the reign of glory A. It is the glorious felicity which waits for us in heaven where we shall reign with Jesus Christ for ever and ever Rev. 22. and it is in that respect that he will say to us in the last day come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World Mat. 25. Q What difference is there between the reign of grace and that of glory A. They do not differ in kind but only in degree for grace is glory begun and glory is grace compleated wherefore the one and the other is called the Kingdom of God Q. What reign is spoken of in this petition Thy Kingdom come A. It is not of the reign of nature but of the reign of grace and of that of glory Q. ●ow is that A. It is that we pray to God that he will lead all thoughts prisoners to his subjection and that he will hasten the vengeance of his Enemies ●nd the glorious deliverance and magnificent triumph of his Children according as the bride cries out Rev. 22. Come Lord Jesus come Of the third Petition Q. HATH God more than one will A. Properly speaking God being an Act most pure and most simple there can be ●n him but one only will but to make him●elf be understood by us and to suit himself to ●ur infirmities he speaks to us of two sorts of ●ills Q. Which be they A. The one is his eternal Councel touching ●hings that he is pleased to do or permit of the which the Apostle speaks Eph. 1. he pre●estinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will The other is the Declaration what he will have us do wherefore the same Apostle speaks Thes 4. This is the will of God even your Sanctification that ye should abstain from Fornication Q. Of which of these two wills must this Petition be understood thy will be done A. Of both Q. How A. It is that we pray God to make us to be subject to the conduct of his providence in such manner that whatsoever befals us we may say as the faithful ●cts 21 the will of the Lord be done and on the other side that he will give us Grace to obey his holy commands and with David to say to him with all my heart Ps 143. teach me to do th● will for thou art my God Q What signifies what is added in Earth as i● is in Heaven A. That we may submit to all that God doth and that we may apply our selves to do all wha● he commands us with the same humility the same zeal and the same promptness as the Angels in heaven who admire all his works and who fly to the execution of all his Commandments Q May we hope for such perfection here A. Not absolutely but at least we ought to aspire to it and to apply our selves therein ●i● we come to Heaven where there shall be n● defect in our obedience and where we shall se● God face to face 1 Cor 13. Of the fourth Petition Q. WHat do you mean by the bread which you beg of God A. I mean all things necessary for the sustenance and maintenance of this temporal life and it is the ordinary stile of holy Scripture Q. Why is it that God comprehends all sorts of sustenance under the name of bread A. To teach us to be content with what is necessary without begging of him what is delightful or to use them soberly and with thanksgiving if through his liberality he gives them us Q. What do you mean by our bread A. That which is necessary for us which is our own and that we do eat in the sweat of our brows Q. Since it is ours why do we beg it of God A. Because all our labour is useless without the blessing of God who enriches or impoverishes when it pleases him Q. Why do we beg bread of God but for one day A. To teach us to rely on his providence and on his paternal care and to oblige us to call upon him every day Q. But doth God forbid us all sort of care A. He forbids not the care of an holy forecast Contrarily he sends us to the School of Ants Proverbs 6. Go to the Ant