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A80203 The church-catechism with a brief and easie explanation thereof for the help of the meanest capacities and weakest memories. By T.C. D.D. Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699. 1681 (1681) Wing C5444A; ESTC R223943 15,091 34

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THE Church-Catechism With a BRIEF and EASIE EXPLANATION THEREOF For the help of the meanest Capacities and weakest Memories By T. C. D. D. LONDON Printed by M. C. for Henry Brome and Robert Clavel in S. Pauls Church-yard MDCLXXXI An Advertisement THE end of this short Explication is to render the Principles of Christian Religion comprized in the Church Catechism plain and easie to the meanest capacities And the method thereof is this 1. The Catechism is printed in a different letter on the left hand page that it may be first learned by it self 2. The several Questions of the Catechism are put under a proper Title containing the Subject of each Question and the Answers to them are broken to pieces by a few brief and plain Explicatory Questions so that ignorant Learners may easily understand the full meaning of them And those who cannot read or cannot get long Answers by heart which want Instruction the most need not be discouraged by this method because they are not required hereby to Answer any more than Yes or No which will be no burthen to their memory and yet will exercise their Judgment and as well teach them to understand the sense of their Catechism as try whether they do so or no. Yet those of better capacity may exercise their memory also and by frequent reading the Explicatory Questions will be able to repeat them after the Catechist and turn them into an Affirmative or Negative Proposition thus Qu. Ought your name c. Answ Yes my name c. ought c. Qu. Are not Infants c. Answ No Infants are not c. Now this may be of use as well to Parents in private as to Ministers in Publick who may first ask the Learners so many Questions of the Church Catechism as they think fit for one time and then beginning again may first tell them the Title or Subject of each Question and then examine them by the Explicatory Questions belonging thereunto And if the Minister please to inlarge a little in a plain discourse upon every Explicatory Question and also to shew unto what part of the Answer in the Church Catechism it doth refer the Learner will better understand it which will make the necessary duty of Catechising still more profitable and will drop knowledg by degrees into those narrow mouthed Vessels for whose sake this method was contrived And the success it hath had on many very young Children and very ignorant Country people hath incouraged the Publication thereof in hopes it may be very serviceable not only for private Families but also for Country Congregations as well to invite the Learners to come in greater numbers by its easiness as to instruct them by its plainness And the whole is no other than the Church Catechism injoyned by Law briefly Explained and no more imposed to be gotten by heart than that which the Church requires the rest being only contrived to make that understood and try if it be so It is hoped the Right Reverend Governours of the Church to whose censure the whole is humbly submitted will not dislike the publication thereof in order to the sitting the more ignorant sort for those great Duties of Confirmation and the Lords Supper I need not here add any thing concerning the Divine Institution and Antiquity of Catechising the Excellency of our Church Catechism both for its agreeableness to Primitive forms and its exact Method nor shall I now enlarge upon the necessity and use of this Profitable and Pious Duty Having in a peculiar Discourse upon Catechising treated of these particulars and exhorted 1. Ministers to promote not only the learning the Catechism by rote but the understanding thereof 2. Parents and Masters both to instruct their Children and Servants in Private and to bring them to Church to be publickly Catechised 3. And excited the Younger and Ignorant people to come willingly To which Discourse I refer the Reader Companion to the Altar page 451 452 c. THE INTRODUCTION § ALmighty God having Created our first Parents after his own Image did condescend to enter into a Covenant with them wherein he promised life to them and their Posterity upon condition of perfect and perpetual obedience and threatned their disobedience with death § Our first Parents through the temptation of Satan wilfully transgressed the Commandment of God in eating the forbidden fruit and thereby brought themselves and all their posterity into an estate of sin and misery § God hath not left mankind to perish in the estate of Sin and Misery into which they fell by the breach of the first Covenant But hath been pleased of his meer love and mercy to make a second Covenant of Grace wherein he freely offereth pardon and salvation by Jesus Christ to all those who shall truly repent and believe in him § And seeing this Covenant is solemnly to be enter'd into in our infancy by Baptism which is the first benefit and favour we are capable of after we are born It seemed good to the excellent compilers of this Catechism to begin it where we begin our Christianity and by the mention of our name received in Baptism to take occasion to mind us of our Obligations and Priviledges thereby THE Church Catechism Question 1. WHat is your Name Answer N. or M. Question 2. Who gave you that Name Answer My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a member of Christ the Child of God and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven Question 3. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you Answer They did promise and vow three things in my Name First that I should renounce the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanity of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the flesh Secondly that I should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And Thirdly that I should keep Gods holy will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my Life Question 4. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and to do as they have promised for thee Answer Yes verily and by Gods help so I will And I heartily thank our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this state of salvation through Iesus Christ our Saviour And I pray unto God is give me his grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Question 5. Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief Answer I. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth II. And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord III. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary IV. Suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried He descended into Hell V. The third day he rose again from the dead VI. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty VII From thence he shall come to judg the quick and the dead VIII I believe in the Holy Ghost IX The Holy Catholick Church