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A Tried method of catechising being an abstract of the Bishop of Corke's Shorter notes on the church-catechism : with the Scripture-proofs of them as far as necessary, and directions for the use of the abstract to advantage.
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Rosse, E. Corke.
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17. Cease to do evil Learn to do well To walk in the same all the days of our Life is daily to proceed or grow in obedience and to our death to continue so doing Luke 1.75 To serve him in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life The sum or short of our Baptismal Vow is Repentance from dead Works Faith and a growing lasting Obedience On Qu. and Answer 4. All Christian Children when come to years of discretion are bound to own the Vow made in their name and to do all that was promised for them therein Or else by not owning it they renounce all claim and title to God's Grace to Pardon and to inheriting Heaven Each of us necessarily must chuse life or death Read Deut. 30.15 to the end We must promise nothing in our own strength that is without God helping us James 4.15 Ye ought to say If the Lord will we will live and do this or that John 15.5 Without me ye can do nothing Salvation signifies being saved from Hell 1 Thess 1. last Delivered from the wrath to come Hell is a State and Place of Everlasting Punishment after Death Matt. 25.46 The wicked go into everlasting punishment Luke 16.28 they come into this place of torment A State of Salvation commonly is no more than being of the Church Acts 2. v. last The Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved For those who are in the Church are in a fair way to Salvation as having the means to obtain it Deut. 30.15 See I have set before thee this day life and good That is Good as the way to Life We are called into this State by being baptised and brought into the Church Gal. 3.27 28 29. As many of you as have been baptised into Christ have put on Christ are all one in Christ and heirs according to promise Grace signifies God's help or a strength above what we have by Nature given us freely by God for enabling us to do his Will 2 Cor. 12.9 My grace is sufficient for thee Phil. 4.13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me The Explication of the Creed is omitted here any farther than the Catechism explains it On Answ 6. To believe in God is to be persuaded there is a God and that all which he has said is true 2 Chron. 20.20 Believe in the Lord your God so shall you be established believe his Prophets so shall ye prosper God is an Eternal and infinitely Perfect Spirit or Mind who is of himself and cannot but be who has made upholds rules and has a right to all things and all Persons Proved in all parts following but first opened Eternal is without beginning or end of time Heb. 7.3 Having neither beginning of days nor end of life Psal 90.2 From everlasting to everlasting A Spirit is such a Being as the Soul of Man is without his Body Eccles 12.7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit return unto God who gave it The Soul of Man is that unseen part of him by which the Body lives moves hears sees and the Man thinks judges resolves and does all he does Gen. 2.7 The Lord God formed man that is his lifeless Body out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils or into the Body now formed the breath of life And man became a living soul Matth. 15.19 Out of the heart or Soul proceed evil thoughts c. Infinitely perfect is that to which nothing that is good can be added and which is above the power of all evil Or that which is All Wise All Powerful All Holy and Gracious and which always will be so Proofs of the II d Proposition in all its Parts God is a spirit John 4.24 Eternal Isa 40.28 The everlasting God Infinitely Perfect Rom. 11.35 Who hath first given to him Is of himself and cannot but be Exod. 3. I am that I am or I will be what I will be Thou shalt say to the children of Israel I am or I will be hath sent me Hath made and upholds all things and Persons Isa 40.28 29. The Lord JEHOVAH the Creator of the ends of the earth He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength He rules all Psal 135.5 6. The Lord is great and above all gods Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven and in earth in the seas and in all deep places Has a right to all Things and Persons 1 Chron. 29.14 16. All things came of thee and of thine own we give thee All is thine own God the Father is the great Creator of all 1 Cor. 8.6 The Father of whom are all things To Create is to make a thing at first out of nothing Gen. 1.1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth 1. The only begotten Son of God the Father 2. is called Jesus Christ who 3. is God Eternal 4. one with his Father but 5. was in time made Man 1. There is an only begotten Son of God John 3.8 He that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God 2. Matth. 1.21 Thou shalt call his name Jesus And v. 1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ 3. Rom. 9.5 Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever 4. Joh. 10.30 I and my Father are one 5. Joh. 1.14 The word was made flesh Gal. 4.4 In the fulness of time God sent forth his Son made of a woman Jesus signifies a Saviour Christ Anointed To redeem is to deliver out of Slavery by paying a Price or Ransome Deut. 13.5 The Lord hath redeemed you out of the house of bondage 1 Pet. 18.19 Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot All Mankind by Nature are 1. Slaves to Sin and 2. Captives to the Devil And so 3. liable and as it were bound over to Death Temporal and Eternal 1. Rom. 6.17 Ye were the servants of sin such Servants as wanted to be made free v. 18. that is slaves See both the proof and explication of this Slavery v. 16. 2. 2 Tim. 2.26 If God will give them repentance that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil taken captive by him at his will 3. Rom. 5.12 As by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Christ that he might save us has redeemed or bought us out of all this Slavery and from all this Punishment by giving his Life a Ransome for us Matth. 20.28 The son of man came to give his life a ransome for many Gal. 3.13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us Christ by his
A TRIED METHOD OF Catechising BEING An ABSTRACT of the Bishop of CORKE's Shorter Notes on the Church-Catechism With the Scripture-Proofs of them as far as Necessary And DIRECTIONS for the Use of the Abstract to Advantage Feed my Lambs John XXI 15. LONDON Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street 1698. The Use of this Abstract is as follows LET Children or like Persons when they are perfect in rehearsing the Catechism be set to learn without Book the several Explanatory Propositions here drawn out of the Notes on each Question and Answer as many Propositions at a time as may be a Task suitable to their Capacity When they are able to repeat such a Portion readily let them in their Examination at Church or elsewhere after any Question or Answer in the Catechism have the Question contained in each Proposition belonging thereto put to them and they will scarce fail to give it the proper Answer For that each Question is repeated almost expresly in the Answer Then let them be asked How they prove that Answer And they will be ready to give the Words of Scripture set down which prove it By the next Lord's Day or next Holy-day let them have another like Portion of the Propositions ready and let them then as before be examined in them together with their Catechism and so till the whole be dispatched For Example Quest What is it to Catechise Ans To Catechise is to instruct in Religion by often repeating the first certain and most necessary Points of it Quest How prove you that Ans By Luke 1.3 4. It seemed good to me to write that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed Greek Catechised And here will be the chief need for the Catechist to exercise his Skill in shewing how the proof belongs to and explains or concludes the Proposition or sometimes to what part of the Proposition such or such a Proof belongs so that the Hearers generally may understand the whole Proposition and that it is sufficiently proved As in the foreinstanced Proof It is plain from St. Luke may the Catechist say That in the Primitive Church there were several ways or kinds of Instruction according to the different Capacities of those who were to receive Instruction Now it is said That Theophilus to whom St. Luke writes had been already instructed in some things And St. Luke writes and sends to him this Book that he might further and more fully know the certainty of those things wherein he had been instructed or as in the Original wherein he had been Catechised Therefore Catechising is to instruct in Religion by often plain going over again or repeating the first and most necessary Points of it Thus again in Prop. VIII under Answ 6. without some gloss it will not at first sight appear how the Text cited proves the Proposition The Proposition or Definition is To Create is to make a thing at first out of nothing The proof is Gen. 1.1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth Let it be supposed as is usual both in Scripture and in the first Article of our Creeds by Heaven and Earth is meant the Sum of all Created Beings visible and invisible Now it is said by the Holy Ghost In the beginning that is of things and time when there were yet no Created Beings existent or nothing made God made Heaven and Earth that is all things But there was then existent no Created Being out of which he might make them For then it could not have been truly said In the beginning or at First For that Matter or whatsover we will call it out of which Heaven and Earth might be pleaded to be made must have been or have a Being before Heaven and Earth could be made out of it And then I say it could not truly have been said In the beginning or at first forasmuch as there was Matter before that Therefore it appears hence That when God is said to have created Heaven and Earth he made them out of nothing which is the pretended Notion or Meaning of Creation This Course is only for the Weaker or Younger Sort and to begin with But when such Persons are a little exercised in this Method and have gone through the whole Catechism let the Notes either the shorter or the larger be put into their Hands and if they be in any tolerable way industrious they will be able to understand and give a fuller Account as well of what is contained in this Abstract as of what is omitted here but contained in the Notes particularly touching their Christian Name touching Godfathers and Godmothers c. which things it is not so necessary to trouble them with till they understand the Matters which are more Essential to Religion But though any should miss of the Notes if the Propositions and their Proofs be used as is directed and the Persons so Catechised taught to Read and turn their Bibles it may be hoped by these means through God's Blessing on a little use they will understand by degrees the Body of Plain Christianity and how to prove it out of the Holy Scripture so as not to be easily shaken in it afterwards This is enough to explain the Use of the Abstract And so God bless my poor Endeavours and together all who use them E. Corke Rosse A Paraphrase on the Apostles Creed Article I THere is from ever was and for ever shall be an All-Wise and All-Powerful Mind of most Infinite Perfection and Goodness depending on none but all things both seen and unseen made subsisting and governed by him called therefore generally the Father of all but in a peculiar Sense the Father of his only begotten Son Article II Which Son because the Internal Word or the Wisdom of God the Father and so being of him as to have been one with him before the World was is therefore necessarily of the same Substance with his Father Yet that he might become unto Mankind Jesus Christ an anointed Saviour a Prophet Priest and King and in that quality for the good of Mankind receive all Power in Heaven and in Earth Article III He the same Son of God had a Body such as ours framed him by the Holy Spirit of the Substance of the Virgin Mary which together with a Soul such as ours but without Sin he took upon him and became truly Man being born as an Infant into the World Article IV When he was grown up after a most Holy Life he was notwithstanding accused and first secretly condemned to Death by the Jews then solemnly arraigned and condemned by a Roman Governor called Pontius Pilate most abominably mocked and abused by the Rabble and Roman Soldiers scourged crowned with Thorns and in the end nailed to a Cross and set up hanging thereon till his Soul really departed from his Body And after some time he was laid in a Grave as the manner of the Jews was and continued