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A31334	Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein all the necessary points of religion are methodically proposed in Scripture-language, abundantly confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, and in some places concisely expounded : in the whole, all controversies are warily shunn'd, so that all true Christians, of what persuassion soever, may (if they need the help of others) use this catechism for their children, or others that are under their power and card / written upon request, by a lover of truth and peace.	Norton, John, 1606-1663.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1480; ESTC R9600	51,156	148

he that in these things Righteousness Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of Men. See Joh. 12.26 Rom. 16.18 Rev. 1.1 In Eph. 5.22 c. Wives submit your selves unto your own Husbands as unto the Lord for the Husband is the Head of the Wise even as Christ is the Head of the Church and he is the Saviour of the Body Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ so let the Wives be unto their own Husbands in every thing To serve God and Christ is from Love to obey them as having respect to the Authority of both and aiming at the Glory of both 1 Pet. 1.2 and v. 14. Heb. 5.9 Joh. 5.27 Mat. 28.18 c. Rom. 16.27 Ephes 3.21 Phil. 1.11 1 Cor. 10.31 Rom. 15.6 2 Thess 1.12 Thus to live is to live not to the Lusts of Men but to the Will of God 1 Pet. 4.2 Q. You said That God according to his purpose did thus promise What mean you thereby A. I mean That God having through his Grace so purposed before the World began did at length bring to light this purpose of his and that by Jesus Christ Tit. 1.1 2 3. Paul a Servant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ according to the Faith of God's Elect and the acknowledging of the Truth which is after Godliness in hope of eternal Life which God that cannot lie promised in purpose before the World began But hath in due time manifested his Word Promise through preaching the publication of his purpose which is committed unto me c. 2 Tim. 1.9 10. Who hath saved us and called us with an Holy Calling not according to our Works but according to his own Purpose and Grace gracious Purpose which was given us in Christ Jesus before the World began but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath abolished Death and hath brought Life and Immortality an Immortal Life to Light through the Gospel Q. You said That God hath thus promised to Believers that they might be to the praise of his Glory What is your meaning here A. I mean this That God in thus promising had for his principal end therein that the Glory of his Grace Wisdom and Power might be shewen forth on Believers and praised by them Ephes 1.12 2.7 Q. Now tell me What is it for Men to be partakers of this Promise of God A. Men are then said to be partakers of this Promise when they become Heirs of Eternal Life and do at length possess it Gal. 3.29 Tit. 3.7 Heb. 6.17 Jam. 2.5 1 Pet. 3.7 Heb. 1.14 10.36 Q. What is it to be partakers of this Promise by the Gospel A. Men are said to be Partakers of the Promise by the Gospel Because Faith cometh by the Gospel and because the Gospel is the Power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth Rom. 10.17 Ephes 1.13 Rom. 1.16 Q. But what do you mean by the Gospel A. The Gospel is that Revelation of the Mystery concerning the Promise of Eternal Life which began to be spoken by the Lord Jesus The word Gospel is used to express a word in Greek which in general denotes any good and joyful Message or good and glad Tydings and which in special and by way of eminency signifies that good and glad Tydings brought into the World by Jesus Christ in which sense some would rather use the term Evangelie than Gospel following therein most Nations who retain in this sense the Greek word and that not unadvisedly That we call the Gospel is that Revelation or discovery of the Mystery concerning the Promise of Eternal Life which first began to be spoken by Jesus Christ See Rom. 16.25 Ephes 3.3 c. Joh. 1.17 Heb. 2.3 It is called the Revelation of the Mystery concerning this Promise because this Promise was before the coming of Christ contained in a Mystery that is in Types and Figures after an obscure way and manner But Christ hath expounded this Promise making known the substance of the shadow and bringing forth clearly the Spirit that is the meaning of the Letter Rom. 4.13 c. and 9.8 9. Heb. 6.13 Joh. 1.17 2 Cor. 3.6 2 Tim. 1.10 Q. Before we return I have one Question yet to ask you namely Whether nothing else but Eternal Life is in this Promise promised to Believers A. In the Promise of Eternal Life all good things that must come from God and are necessary for obtaining it are necessarily included in this Promise 1 Tim. 4.8 Godliness is profitable unto all things having the Promise of the Life that now is and of that which is to come Touching the matter of this Answer see in that which follows CHAP. VII Of God's Work by Jesus Christ for the saving of Sinners Q. YOu having thus spoken of the Promise of Eternal Life which is the Promise of the New Covenant let us consider the Work of God for the saving of Men by Jesus Christ which you said is that Work of God and that Work of Jesus the Christ of God that Men may be saved What have you learned in the general concerning this Work A. Concerning God's Work for the saving of Men or preparing them for Salvation by Jesus Christ I have learned that this Work doth respect first Those that are the Servants of Sin and the Children of the Devil Secondly Those that are the Servants of Obedience the Children of God Q. It being so we will speak of this Work accordingly beginning with that part which respecteth the former sort of Persons you mentioned But because it will be needful to know who they are I therefore ask you Who are they that are the Servants of Sin and Children of the Devil A. All they who live in Sin which is the transgression of the Law of God are the Servants of Sin and Children of the Devil The Law of God is a binding direction from God concerning Duty forbidding that which is Evil and commanding that which is needful to be done Now the Transgression of this Law either in doing what it forbids or leaving undone what it commands is sin 1 Joh. 3.4 5.17 That man whoever he be that lives in Sin or committeth Sin by loving Sin and walking in it is a Servant of Sin and a Child of the Devil Joh. 8.34 Verily verily I say unto you saith Christ Whosoever committeth Sin is the Servant of Sin Rom. 6.2 Such are said to live in Sin 1 John 3.10 In this the Children of God are manifest and the Children of the Devil Whosoever doth not Righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his Brother Q. But why are they that live in Sin thus called A. They that live in Sin are called the Servants of Sin because they yield their Members Servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity and may expect the Wages of Sin which is Death and they are called the Children of the Devil

assist them in their need m a Gal. 5.26 b 1 Sam. 1.6 7. c Rom. 15.1 2 3. d 1 Cor. 13.5 e Mat. 5.38 39 c. f Rom. 1.31 g Chap. 12.17 19. Matth. 6.12 14 15. Mat. 18.21 c. h Luk. 17.3 4. Matth. 23.34 i 1 Pet. 3.8 k 1 Pet. 3.13 l Mat. 5.42 m Tit. 3.1 2. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good Work to speak evil of no Man Gr. to blaspheme no Man to be no Brawlers but gentle shewing all meekness unto all Men. Jam. 3.17 The Wisdom that is from Above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easy to be intreated full of Mercy and good Fruits without partiality or without wrangling and without hypocrisy See Job 29.12 c. Q. I would hear something which you have learn'd concerning the Duty of Believers in their several Relations to others and first as being of the same Kingdom or Common-Wealth Here tell me What is their Duty who govern as in a Kingdom the King doth and they that are sent of him for the punishment of Evil Doers and for the praise of them that do well A. He that ruleth over Men must be just ruling in the Fear of God 2 Sam. 23.3 Q. What is their Duty toward their Governors A. They must submit themselves to every Ordinance of Man Gr. to every Humane Creature that is to every one whom Men set up to Rule and Govern for the Lord's sake that is for Conscience-sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of Evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well 1 Pet. 2.13 14. See the thirteenth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans See Tit. 3.1 Q. VVhat is their Duty being Husbands toward their VVives A. An Husband ought to love his Wife as himself nourishing and cherishing Her as his own Body rendering her due Benevolence and giving honour to the Wife as to the weaker Vessel and not being bitter unto her and all this notwithstanding she be an Unbeliever whom therefore he must not forsake but must endeavour her Conversion Ephes 5.25 c. 1 Cor. 7.3 c. 1 Pet. 3.7 Col. 3.19 1 Cor. 7.11 16. Q. What is the Duty of Wives toward their Husbands A. A Wife ought to love her Husband and to submit to him as to the Lord by reverencing and obeying him and must render unto him due Benevolence and all this though he be an Unbeliever Tit. 2.4 Ephes 5.22 23 24 33. Col. 3.18 1 Pet. 3.1 c. 1 Cor. 7.3 c. vers 10 c. Q. What is the Duty of Parents toward their Children A. It is the Duty of Parents not to provoke their Children to Wrath lest they be discouraged but to bring them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord and to provide for them Ephes 6.4 Col. 3.21 Prov. 29.15 2 Tim. 3.15 1 Tim. 5.8 Q. What is the Duty of Children towards their Parents A. It is the Duty of Children to honour their Father and Mother Ephes 6.2 Exod. 20.12 Mal. 1.6 Q. But what is it for Children to honour their Father and Mother A. First Children that are under the Power of their Parents ought to honour them by obeying them in the Lord. Ephes 6.1 2 3. Children obey your Parents in the Lord for this is right Honour thy Father and thy Mother which is the first Commandment with promise that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest live long on the Earth Col. 3.20 Children obey your Parents in all things which they as Parents may command for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord. See Rom. 1.30 2 Tim. 3.2 Secondly Children under the Power of their Parents ought to honour them by so regarding them when they justly correct as to be ashamed and amend and not to be provoked to Anger when so chastised Heb. 12.9 Thus it is written in the Law of Moses Deut. 21.18 c. If a Man have a stubborn and rebellious Son which will not obey the Voice of his Father or the Voice of his Mother and that when they have chastened him will not hearken unto them then shall his Father and his Mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the Elders of his City and unto the Gate of his Place and they shall say unto the Elders of his City This our Son is stubborn and rebellious he will not obey our Voice he is a Glutton and a Drunkard And all the Men of his City shall stone him with Stones that he die So shalt thou put Evil away from among you and all Israel shall hear and fear Thirdly Children under or not under the Power of their Parents ought to honour them by reverencing their Father and Mother Levit. 19.3 Ye shall fear reverence every Man his Mother and his Father Deut. 27.16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his Father or his Mother and all the People shall say Amen Prov. 30.17 The Eye that mocketh at his Father and despiseth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the Valey shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Fourthly All Children ought to honour their Parents by shewing the natural Affection of Children to them in being a delight and glory to them and useful and profitable to them in what they can Prov. 10.1 A wise Son maketh a glad Father but a foolish Son is the heaviness of his Mother Prov. 23.24 The Father of the Righteous shall greatly rejoice and he that begetteth a wise Child shall have joy of him Prov. 28.7 Whoso keepeth the Law is a wise Son but he that is a Companion of riotous Men shameth his Father Matth. 15.4 c. God commanded saying Honour thy Father and Mother and he that curseth Father or Mother let him die the Death But ye Pharisees say Whosoever shall say to his Father or Mother It is a Gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me and honour not his Father or Mother he shall be free Thus saith Christ have ye made the Commandment of God of none effect by your Tradition Prov. 19.26 He that wasteth his Father and chaseth away his Mother is a Son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach Exod. 21.15 He that smiteth his Father or his Mother shall be surely put to death Q. What is the Duty of Masters towards their Servants A. 'T is the Duty of Masters to give unto their Servants that which is just and equal moderating Threatnings Knowing that their Master also is in Heaven and that there is no respect of Persons with him Col. 4.1 Ephes 6.9 Q. What is the Duty of Servants toward their Masters A. 'T is the Duty of Servants to count their Masters worthy of all Honour due to Masters and to be obedient to them with fear and trembling that is pleasing them well in all things not answering again or gain-saying in singleness of

their Heart as unto Christ that is not with Eye-Service as Men-pleasers but as the Servants of Christ doing the VVill of God from the Heart with good VVill doing service as to the Lord and not to Men not purloining but shewing all good fidelity And all this not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward for this is thank-worthy if a Man for Conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully But if they have Believing Masters they must not despise them because they are Brethren but rather do them Service because they are faithful and beloved partakers of the Benefit Ephes 6.5 c. Col. 3.22 c. Tit. 2.9 c. 1 Pet. 2.18 c. 1 Tim. 6.1 2. Q. What is the Duty of Believers towards Believers A. Believers ought to love one another with a pure heart fervently and to continue therein 1 Pet. 1.22 Heb. 13.1 Q. But how are they to shew their love one to another A. First They are to follow after the things that make for Peace as lowliness or humbleness meekness long-suffering and the like Rom. 14.19 Ephes 4.2 3. Q. What else A. They also are to follow after the things wherewith they may edify one another as by restoring them that are taken in a Fault by confirming exhorting and comforting one another Rom. 14.19 Gal. 6.1 1 Thess 5.14 Act. 15.32 Heb. 10.24 c. Q. Is there any thing else A. Yes for Believers ought in an especial manner to be ready unto every good Work towards their Brethren and that with the hazard of their own Lives if need be for the relief succour and safety of their Brethren when they are poor sick imprisoned banished or any otherwise in affliction and danger Gal. 6.10 Heb. 13.16 1 Joh. 3.16 Joh. 13.34 Mat. 25.34 c. Heb. 13.1 2 3. 1 Joh. 3.15 c. Rom. 12.13 Phil. 2.30 Q. Have you any thing more to add A. I shall sum up all in this That Believers ought to rejoice with them that rejoice and to weep with them that weep to be of the same mind one towards another and to serve one another in love Rom. 12.15 16. Gal. 5.13 Q. What is the Duty of their Elders that Teach and Rule among them A. They ought to feed the Flock of God taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind neither as being Lords over God's Heritage but being Ensamples to the Flock 1 Pet. 5.2 3. Q. What is the Duty of the Flock towards those that feed them A. Their Duty is to know obey and esteem them very highly in love for their Works sake and to communicate to them in all good things 1 Thess 5.12 13. Heb. 13.17 Gal. 6.6 Q. I am now willing to hear what you have learn'd touching the Duty of Believers in reference to their temporal Life and the good things belonging thereto as Pleasures Riches Honours and in reference to the contrary wherefore I ask you What is the Duty of Believers in reference to their Temporal Life A. Their Duty in the general is To love their Lives in seeking to save them when they may so do and not lose them for ever also to hate their Lives in not seeking to save them when by losing them they may save them for ever 1 Pet. 3.10 Luk. 14.26 Q. When may a Man be said to lose his Life for ever in seeking to save it for a time A. Then when a Man cannot save his Life and serve God together Q. Well What is the Duty of Believers for the saving of their temporal Lives A. They as Men trusting in God and obeying him must seek to provide that which may preserve their Lives and to avoid that which may destroy them Q. How may they thus seek that which may preserve their Lives A. When with Prayer and thankfulness to God daily for their daily Bread they seek to get by diligence in some honest Imploiment or if need be by Benefits from others that which is needful and to keep necessary things not wastfully spending them nor sinfully with-holding them when called to lend them unto the Lord. Mat. 6.11 1 Tim. 4.4 5. Mat. 6.25 c. Ephes 4.28 1 Thess 4.11 12. 2 Thess 3.6 c. Prov. 6.6 c. Luk. 22.35 Act. 4.34 20.35 Eccles 3.6 Prov. 21.20 23.21 29.3 22.16 Prov. 11.24 28.27 19.17 Q. How must they seek to avoid that which may destroy their Lives A. Among other things they must first keep themselves free from all sins for which God sometimes doth or Men justly may take away their Lives Psalm 55.23 1 Cor. 11.30 Rom. 13.4 1 Pet. 4.15 Secondly They must seek to keep themselves safe from those that seek their Lives and this either by Power when Right and Law arms them against their Enemies or only by Prudence when Power is wanting or may not be used lawfully Esth 8.11 c. 1 King 1.12 Mat. 10.16 c. Ephes 5.15 16. Col. 4.5 Q. When must Believers hate their Lives in not seeking to save them A. Then must they hate their Lives when they cannot with the perservation of their Lives keep a good Conscience towards God They must be always free to hazard their Lives in the performance of their Duty to God Rev. 12.11 Matth. 16.24 c. Luk. 14.26 c. Joh. 12.25 Rom. 8.17 Act. 15.26 20.24 Judg. 5.18 Q. Now let us speak concerning Worldly Pleasures and their Contrary What have you learn'd touching the Duty of Believers in reference to worldly Pleasures A. I have learn'd That Believers who may use lawful Pleasures must be moderate in the use of them and avoid all sinful Pleasures and Delights being chast and temperate in shunning Adultery Fornication Unnatural Uncleanness Lasciviousness Surfeiting Gluttony Drunkenness Rioting or Revelling Idleness and the like Eccles 3.12 5.18 c. 9.7 c. Phil. 4 5. 1 Cor. 7.29 c. Prov. 21.17 Luk 8.14 1 Tim. 5.6 2 Tim. 3.4 11. Heb. 11.25 Tit. 2.12 1 Pet. 3.2 1 Thess 4.11 Gal. 5.23 2 Pet. 1.6 1 Cor. 9.25 c. Tit. 1.8 2.2 Gal. 5.19 Ephes 5.3 Rom. 1.24 c. Deut. 23.17 1 Cor. 6.9 1 Tim. 1.10 Jude 7. Exod. 12.19 Levit. 18.23 Mark 7.22 1 Pet. 4.3 Luke 21.24 Prov. 23.21 Mat. 11.19 Rom. 13.13 Gal. 5.21 Ezek. 10.49 1 Tim. 5 13. 2 Thess 3.11 Q. What is the Duty of Believers that are in sorrow by reason of Afflictions A. It is their Duty to be patient in all to rejoice in the Lord always and to endeavour that all may be for profit and good unto them Rom. 12.12 Jam. 5.7 c. Phil. 4.4 Jam. 1.2 Heb. 12.11 Q. Let us now speak of Worldly Riches What is the Duty of Believers that are Rich A. Their Hearts must not be lifted up in Pride because of their Riches They must not despise the Poor nor oppress them nor trust in uncertain Riches but in the living God and they ought to be rich in good Works Ezek. 28.5 Ps 49.6 Prov. 28.11 Jam. 2.6 Prov. 17.5 14.31 1 Tim. 6.17 Q. What is their Duty who are not Rich A. They must be content with the things that they have not willing resolving and labouring to be rich nor envying those that are Heb. 13.5 1 Tim. 6.8 c. Prov. 23.4 1 Cor. 13.4 Rom. 13.13 Psal 73.2 c. Q. We are now to speak of Worldly Honour Tell me how must they that are in Honour behave themselves A. They must be lowly and walk worthy of the Honour they have Prov. 11.2 16.18 19. Act. 24.2 Q. Upon this occasion tell me What is the way of getting and keeping an honourable Esteem and Reputation with others A. The right way to get and keep our selves in an honourable Esteem with others is To abstain from all appearance of Evil to excel in Wisdom and Vertue and to b●have our selves modestly and discreetly in all Converse with others 1 Thess 5.22 1 Cor. 14.12 1 King 4.30 Phil. 2.29 30. Prov. 31.10 c. 15.33 Luke 14.8 c. 1 Tim. 2.9 c. 1 Cor. 11.13 c. Psal 112.5 Tit. 2 5. Prov. 11.22 12.16 19.11 18.13 Eccles 10 1. Prov. 25.9 10. Q. You have now spoken much of good Works Have you any thing more to say of this Matter A. There is much more to be spoken concerning good Works but I am willing to conclude this Discourse now with that of the Apostle Paul in Phil. 4.8 Finally Brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any Vertue and if there be any Praise think on these things THE END