But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. Q. Is not the Church of Christ so firmly built and established that all the power and policy of all the Devils in Hell shall never be able to destroy it A. Matth. 16.18 Upon this Rock I will build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it Q. Is not Christ the Head of the Church and the Church the Body of Christ A. Ephes 1.22 23. And hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the Head over all things to the Church which is his Body the fulness of him that filleth all in all Q. Is not the true Church which is the Houshold of God known by imbrasing and professing the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles and being built upon Jesus Christ A. Ephes 2.19 20. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and forreiners but fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone Q. Why must we follow holiness A. Heb. 12.14 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. Q. Doth not the Lord require that we should be holy in all manner of conversation A. 1 Pet. 1.15 As he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation Q. How doth the grace of God teach us to live in this present world A. Tit. 2.11 12. The grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Q. Is it not the duty and care of godly men to labour to have always a Conscience void of offence both towards God and men A. Acts 24.16 Herein do I exercise my self to have always a Conscience void of offence towards God and toward Men. Q. What profit is there in godliness A. 1 Tim. 4.8 Bodily exercise profiteth little but godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come Q. Are not the ways of God full of peace and pleasantness A. Prov. 3.17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace Q. Must not such as would live godly in Christ Jesus expect to meet with Persecution A. 2 Tim. 3.12 Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer Persecution Q. Are not they blessed that are persecuted for righteousness sake and shall they not enjoy the Kingdom of Heaven A. Matth. 5.10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Q. Are not righteous men more excellent then any other men that are in the whole world A. Prov. 12.26 The righteous is more excellent then his neighbour but the way of the wicked seduceth him Q. Are not they blessed that hunger and thirst after Righteousness as well as they that have obtained Righteousness A. Matth. 5.6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Q. Who is a godly mans portion A. Lam. 3.24 The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him Q. Is there no portion in Heaven or Earth like to this to have God for our portion A. Psal 73.25 26. Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon Earth that I desire besides thee My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever Q. Are not they the most happy men in the whole world that have the Lord for their God A. Psal 144.15 Happy is that people that is in such a case yea happy is that people whose God is the Lord. Q. When once the Lord is become our God will he not be our God for ever and ever A. Psal 48.14 This God is our God for ever and ever he will be our guide even unto death Q. Why will not the Lord forsake us after it hath pleased the Lord to make us his people A. 1 Sam. 12.22 The Lord will not forsake his people for his great Names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people Q. If we give up our selves unto the Lord to be his servants and obey his voice will he not become our God and own us for his people A. Jer. 7.23 Obey my voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my people and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you that it may be well unto you Q. Is it not wonderful and amazing love that the great and holy God should own such poor and sinful creatures as we are for his children A. 1 John 3.1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not Q. Who are they upon whom God bestoweth this great favour and priviledge to be his sons A. Joh. 1.12 As many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his Name Q. Are all that have faith in Christ the Children of God A. Gal. 3.26 Ye are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus Q. Are not all Gods Children heirs of God and coheirs with Jesus Christ A. Rom. 8.17 And if Children then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also-glorified together Q. Is it not the duty of Gods Children to imitate and follow their Father A. Ephes 5.1 Be ye therefore followers of God as dear Children Q. Doth not the Lord love righteous men A. Psal 146.8 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down the Lord loveth the righteous Q. What kind of love is it which Jesus Christ beareth to us A. John 15.9 As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love Q. Shall no creature be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus A. Rom. 8.38 39. I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Q. How hath God manifested his great love to us A. 1 John 4.9 In this was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him Q. Was not this love of God expressed towards us before we had any love for him A. 1 John 4.10 Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for
he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noysom Pestilence Q. What promise have you that God will preserve you in a time of Famine and in a time of War A. Job 5.19 20. He shall deliver thee in six troubles yea in seven there shall no evil touch thee In Famine he shall redeem thee from death and in War from the power of the Sword Q. Hath not God promised to preserve his people at all times and in all places at home and alroad going out and coming in A. Psal 121.8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even for evermore Q. What must you do at such times as you are afraid A. Psal 56.3 What time I am afraid I will trust in thee Q. Is not Prayer as well as Faith an effectual means to obtain deliverance from our fears A. Psal 34.4 I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears Q. What did God say to Abraham to encourage him against his fears A. Gen. 15.1 After these things the Word of the Lord came unto Abram in a Vision saying Fear not Abram I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward Q. Hath not God given his Angels a charge concerning us to keep us in all our ways A. Psal 91.11 12. He shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways they shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone Q. What promises have you that may encourage you to hope in God that he will feed you and supply all your needs and not suffer you to want A. Psal 37.3 Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the Land and verily thou shalt be fed Phil. 4.19 My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus Psal 23.1 The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want Q. What did Jacob say to Joseph when he was dying to comfort him when he and the rest of his Brethren should be left fatherless A. Gen. 48.21 And Israel said unto Joseph Behold I die but God shall be with you Q. What was David ' s hope when he was left father less and motherless A. Psal 27.10 When my Father and my Mother forsake me then the Lord will take me up Q. Hath not God an especial care of fatherless Children A. Hos 14.3 In thee the fatherless findeth mercy Q. When godly men die and know not the state or condition of their Children and can mind them no more Will not God be in the stead of a Father to their Children A. Isa 63.16 Doubtless thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer thy Name is from everlasting Q. What must we do that we may not enter into temptation A. Matth. 26.41 Watch and pray that ye enter not into tempration The Spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Q. Seeing the Devil lays snares for us in all places and in all things Is it not needful that we should watch in all things A. 2 Tim. 4.5 But watch thou in all things Q. If we resist the Devil will not he flee from us A. James 4.7 Submit your selves therefore to God resist the Devil and he will flee from you Q. What promise have you that God will tread Satan under your feet A. Rom. 16.20 The God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly Q. Is not a wounded spirit a very heavy burden A. Prov. 18.14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity but a wounded spirit who can bear Q. Whether must we go for healing when our spirits are wounded A. Hos 6.1 Come and let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up Q. Will not God soon heal those whom he hath wounded if they return to him A. Hos 6.2 After two days will he revive us and the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight Q. What means should we use to obtain light when we find our solves in a dark condition Must we not look to Christ who is the light of the world A. John 8.12 Then spake Jesus again unto them saying I am the light of the World he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life Q. Unto whom hath God promised that there shall arise light in darkness A. Psal 112.4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness Q. What promise have you that God will lead you when you are to go in unknown ways such as you have not walked in before A. Isa 42.16 I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not I will lead them in paths that they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight these things will I do unto them and not forsake them Q. What promises have you to look unto when you are under deadness A. Psal 69.32 Your heart shall live that seek God John 10.10 I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly John 11.25 Jesus saith unto her I am the Resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live Q. What promises have you to look to when you are sensible of your weak and strengthless condition A. Isai 40.29 He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he encreaseth strength Isa 41.10 Fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God I will strengthen thee yea I will help thee yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness Q. Doth not God sometimes hide himself from his people A. Psal 88.14 Lord why castest thou off my soul why hidest thou thy face from me Q. When God hides himself must we not look and wait for him A. Isa 8.17 I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face from the House of Jacob and I will look for him Q. Must we not cleave to God and believe him to be our God and cry after him when he seems to forsake us and to disregard our Prayers A. Psal 22.1 2. My God My God why hast thou forsaken me why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season and am not silent Q. Though we should look and wait so long upon God before he returns to us as that we should verily think God hath cast us out of his sight Must we continue still to look to him and wait upon him A. Jonas 2.4 Then I said I am cast out of thy sight yet I will look again toward thy holy Temple Q. If we continue to
any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him Q. Is it not a dreadful sin for a man to forsake God A. Jer. 2.12 13. Be astonished O ye Heavens at this and be horribly afraid be ye very desolate saith the Lord for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living Waters and hewed them out Cisterns broken Cisterns that can hold no water Q. What promise have you that God will cause you to persevere in his ways A. Job 17.9 The righteous also shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger Q. Have we not great assurance from the Intercession of Christ that our faith shall not fail though we be assaulted with many temptations A. Luke 22.31 32. And the Lord said Simon Simon behold Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not and when thou art converted strengthen thy brethren Q. After God hath given us faith Will he not keep us by his Almighty Power till he hath brought us to salvation A. 1 Pet. 1.5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto Salvation Q. Is there not a warfare in Christians between the flesh and the spirit And are they not in this warfare sometimes led captive by their sins A. Rom. 7.23 I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members Q. Though good men may fall yet will not God so far uphold them that they shall not be utterly cast down A. Psal 37.23 24. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way though he fail he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand Q. What shall that man inherit that overcomes his spiritual adversaries A. Rev. 21.7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son Q. By what means do we get the victory over the world A. 1 John 5.4 Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith Q. How did the Saints in former times overcome Satan A. Rev. 12.11 They overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death Q. Is it not appointed for all men that they shall die and after death go to be judged for what they did whilst they lived A. Heb. 9.27 It is appointed for men once to die but after this the judgment Q. Is not our life upon the earth very short and uncertain so that we have no assurance one day that we shall live unto another A. James 4.14 Ye know not what shall be on the morrow for what is your life It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away Q. Seeing we know not how suddenly God may come and take us away by death ought we not every day yea every hour to be prepared to die A. Luke 12.40 Be ye therefore ready also for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not Q. Should we not live every day as though it were our last day and continue this course till our change come A. Job 14.14 All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come Q. Is not death gain to those that serve and glorifie Christ A. Phil. 1.21 To me to live is Christ and to die is gain Q. Is not the sting of death taken away by the death of Christ so that Christians may triumph over death and what is the sting of death A. 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory the sting of Death is Sin and the strength of Sin is the Law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Q. Are not all they that die in the Lord in a blessed condition A. Rev. 14.13 I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me Write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them Q. Will not Gods presence with us take away the fears of death A. Psal 23.4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me Q. Seeing we are going apace to our graves and there is no work to be done when we come there should not this make us do whatever our hand findeth to do with all our might A. Eccl. 9.10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with all thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledg nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest Q. When we die do not our souls depart from our bodies A. Gen. 35.18 And it came to pass as her soul was in departing for she died Q. When a man dieth what becomes of his body and whither goeeth his soul A. Eccl. 12.7 Then shall the dust return unto the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it Q. Shall there not be a general Resurrection of the dead both of good and evil men A. 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 unto the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation Q. Shall they that have lien in their graves till their reins are consumed and they are eaten up of the worms rise again with the same bodies that they had whilst they lived in this world A. Job 19.25 26 27. I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me Q. Though our bodies shall be the same for substance at the Resurrection as they are now yet shall not their qualities be changed A. 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. So also is the Resurrection of the dead it is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body Q. Shall our bodies that are now vile be made like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ A. Phil. 3.21 Who 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