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A64231	A practical and short exposition of the catechism of the Church of England by way of question and answer. Wherein the divine authority and reasonableness of every question and answer, every doctrin and practice in it recommended, are evidenced and improved against most contemners of it and dissenters from it. With that moderation and plainness that it may engage all to adhere to, and especially may instruct children in the true Protestant religion of the Church of England. Humbly offered for the good of schools and youth. By Nathanael Taylor, M.A.	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing T544B; ESTC R222427	64,394	147

ought to be the improvement of Christs Exaltation A. Col. 3.1.2 Heb. 4.16 Psal 2. last 2 Pet. 3.10 11. 1. To rise and ascend after him in affection and holiness of life 2. To pray with boldness to him who sits interceding for us 3. To close with and be at peace with him who shall judge us 4. To watch our thoughts words and actions 5. To judge our selves dayly 6. To be always ready to meet Christ at the judgment-seat Acts 24.15 since we know not how soon where how nor when he may call us who are alive as well as those who are dead to judgment The Creed being considered as to God the Father and Son Q. What is the third object of our faith A. The third person of the Trinity God the Holy Ghost Q. Why is he called Ghost A. Gen 1. 1. Because God is a Spirit 2. He is a Spirit Q. Why is he called Holy A. 1 John 5.7 1. Because he is Holy in himself 2. The author of all holiness in us Q. Acts 5.3 4. B. Pearson on Creed p. 220. 2 Pet. 〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉 How is the Holy Ghost proved to be God A. 1. By Scripture 2. The Attributes of God are given to him Psalm 139.3 The works of God as Creation Gen. 1. Sanctification John 16.4 He is the Author of the Scriptures but they were written by men inspired by God Q. What is it to believe in the Holy Ghost A. 1. To believe the Truth of the Article That there is an Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit of God Which also the heathens seem to speak of 12 2. To attend to and obey his motions 3. To prize and improve his ordinances Q. What do the remaining Articles of the Creed concern A. The Consequences of the former the priviledges of a state of grace and glory belonging to Gods Creatures redeemed by Christ and sanctified by the Holy Ghost Q. Which are they Answ Five 1. Church-membership 2. Communion of Saints 3. Remission of sins 4. Resurrection of body 5. Life everlasting Q. Why is it not said I believe in the Holy Catholick Church A. 1. God is the only object of our Faith 2. Implicite Faith or to believe as the Church believes may be amiss Every one ought to believe for himself Q. What then is meant by the Church A. Hookers Polity lib. 3. sect 1. The Church of Christ is invisible of all true Christians and visible of all Christian professors Q. Why is the Church called Holy and Catholick A. They are the two marks of the true Church of Christ without which no Church is true Q. Ames Bel. Enervat Tom. 2. Cap. 3. Why is Christs Church called Holy A. 1. From the better part of the Church the true Christians 2. From the desires after holyness it's members true Christians have Homil. of Engl. on Whit-Sunday 3. From the commands of their God obliging to holiness 4. From the Holiness of it's ordinances Q. Why is it called Catholick A. Leigh 's body p. 623. 627. 1. It 's Doctrine ought to be the Catholick or universal rule of all Churches through the world and so in it's first institution it was Catholick 2. It is a Church continuing it's Doctrin through all ages since Christ Fox Acts vol. 1. p. 10. 887. vol. 3. p. 489. 576. 3. It 's called Catholick because it includes the whole world of Christians every Christian is part of some particular Church and all the particular Churches of Christ make one Catholic Church 4. It is called Catholick because it includes both Sexes and all sorts and degrees of Men and Women high and low rich and poor 5. It must be holy as well as Catholick B. Pearson on Creed p. 335. or else it is Satans Synagogue not Christs Church it's Doctrines must be pure nor must it tolerate any vice in practise Q. What do you believe in this Article A. 1. 1 Co● 12.20 27. Eph. 4.5 That Christ hath a People dispersed through the whole world whom he owns and who serve him in holiness 2. That tho in many places yet it is but one Church having one God one Christ one Faith one Baptism 3. It Shews Romes folly in confineing the Catholick Church to it's self as if Rome was the whole world Q. Is not the Church of Rome the Holy Catholick Church here meant A. No The Church of Rome as now it is in principle and practice is neither Catholick nor Holy 1. It is not Holy Dr. Brevints Samuel and Saul at Endor Dr. Lloyd on funeral of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey all sins are here tolerated Murder and Rebellion in some causes accounted meritorious B. Lincolns Popish principles pernicious to Protestant Princes p. 34 57 60 61 62 63 95 96 97 102 105 111. But Romes sense of its own impiety makes it seldom plead for it's holiness tho it cry aloud for its being Catholick which cannot be granted 1. For its present Doctrines and practices are not agreeable to the Catholick rule of the Scriptures She commands worshipping of Images Scripture forbids it She raceth out the second Commandment the Scripture contains it c. 2. It is not Catholick its Doctrines have not been received ever since the Apostles time most of their opinions differing from Scripture and us are proved not owned for 600 years after Christ 3. Nor are they Catholick as to the places receiving them Many Nations have thrown off the Popish Yoke and Antichristian tyranny 4. That can be no holy Catholick Church of Christ which opposeth Christ in his person and all his offices as the Church of Rome in principle and practice doth Deut. 4. Their Images or pictures of Christ oppose his Deity which cannot be pictured Their Transubstantiation destroy his humanity whereby they make him to be in many places at one time Their Purgatory merits works of Supererrogation worship and Prayer to Saints and Angels destroy his Priesthood and make him but half a Saviour their contempt of Scriptures and equalling Traditions with it owning it no further the word of God then their Church or Pope allow it opposeth his prophetic office together with their prohibiting Gods word or service to be in the common tongue of a Nation their blasphemous Titles of the Pope his usurped power of Heaven and Hell and obliging persons on pain of damnation to the observance of his pleasure Dr. Brevint Sam. and Saul at Endor Cap. 1.2 oppose his Kingly office But all these would be laid aside if Rome was reduced to primitive and Catholic purity Q. What do you learn further by this Article of the Catholick Church A. 1. That I ought not to rest in a bare profession of Religion only but to labour after it's practice also the Church of Christ is Holy as well as Catholick 2. Calvin Instit l. Cap. 1. sect 10. That I ought to take heed of rash Sects and divisions whereby I may forsake this Holy Catholick

a Child of Grace 4. Here is that effect Baptism should have on us it should make us not to sin but to dye to it and as Children of Grace to live to Christ the Life of Righteousness Q. What is required of Persons to be B●ptized A. Repentance whereby they forsake Sin and Faith whereby they Believe the Promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Q. What is Considerable in this Answer A. 1. That in the first Planting of the Gospel and Practice of Baptism when the World wa● either Jews or Gentiles without Faith in Christ it was necessary Repentance should be acted for their past sins and a Faith in Christ professed by the Converts before they were by Baptism received as visible Members of Christs Church Order for ●aptism of those of Riper sears And so it is our Churches Practice towards any Converted from Judaism or Gentilism or brought up by their Parents unbaptized That such should give an Account of their Faith before they be Baptized 2. That the Children of Pagans and Jews Converted and the Children of Professing Christians may be Baptized as well as the Child with the Proselyted Parent under the Law was Circumcised Yea the Children of Pagans or Jews brought by C●ristians who as Spiritual Parents to them will engage their Endeavours to bring up those Children in the Fear of God and Practice of Christianity may doubtless be Baptized and received into Christs Church Q. Why are Infants Baptized when by Reason of their tender Age they cannot perform them that is cannot act Faith and Repentance A. They Promise them both by their Sureties which when they come to Age themselves they are hound to perform Q. What Reasons are there given for Infant Baptism A. 1. See about God-fathers They have in and by their Sureties or God-fathers and God-mothers promised the performance of them both and that Lawfully 2. They are Obliged to perform that promise when they grow up Q. What other Reasons have you for Infant Baptism A. 1. See Dr. Hammond's 6 Principles and his Cat. p. 388. B. Ushers body of Divinity p. 518. Harmony of Confes Confes Helvetia Belgia Bohem. Saxony In the first Ordaining of Circumcision Old Abraham the Youth Ishmael and Child Isaac were Circumcised and after that all the Children of the Proselytes together with their Parents And so in the Institution of Baptism the Aged and adult Converts were Baptized and then their Children and the Children of all who are Converted to the Christian Faith have the same Right to Baptism Gen. 17. Acts 2.39 1 Cor. 7.14 2. Our Priviledges since Christ are as great as the Jews had before Christ 3. Their Children were Circumcised and ours are as capable of Baptism as theirs were of Circumcision 4. That Covenant of which Circumcision was a Seal was a Covenant of Grace through Christ not yet repealed And in that Covenant Children had a Right to be engaged Deut. 29.10 11. Dr. Patricks Aqua Genitalu and God calls them to enter into Covenant with him Nor is there any Syllable against their being in Covenant with God through Christ in all the New Testament They then are still in it and have Right to the Seal of it which now is Baptism 5. They have an express Right to the Promises of this Covenant Acts 2.39 6. They are Members of Christ Leigh 's body p. 922. Mat. 19.13 Mar. 10.13 Disciples of Christ and Heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven through Christ and so have Right to the Blessings of the Covenant and therefore cannot reasonably be denyed the Seal of it And if it be said that the words of such refer to Persons who are like them in Innocency c. It may be Answered That 1. Of such must respect the Persons of Children B. Towers in locum who are by our Adversaries generally granted to be Heirs of Eternal Glory 2. If God will give a Kingdom to them who are like Children much more to Children whom they are like Craggs against Tombs 7. They are iucluded in the Commission of Christ for Baptism Mat. 28.19 They are part of all Nations And as the Jews taught the Gentiles and on their Confession of their Faith received them by Circumcision So Christ the Messias to the Jews as well as Light to the Gentiles Orders his Disciples to Disciple all Nations by Preaching the Gospel to them Mark 16.16 and by Baptizing them who were Converted to manitest their receiving to be Christs Disciples And as the Jews taught the Circumcised Pro●clvies father in their Law so Christ orders the Discipled and Baptized Convert to be further taught in his Gospel The Jews first taught the Gentile Parent and then Circumcised him and his Children but then the Children were first Circumcised and then taught and thus the Apostles taught the Aged and then Baptized them and their Housholds forthwith Acts 16.15 31. where is no mention of any ones confessing that Faith the Apostles taught or of their Teaching any but the Jaylor Lydia and the Master or Mistress of that Family 8. Walkers Modest Plea Cap. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ calls Children to come unto him which word is as it were to become Christs Proselyte Now no way can Children come to Christ visibly but by Baptism 9. It is more safe to admit a Child to Baptism whom God accounts capable of engaging in Covenant with him and whom Christ owns as his Disciple and which cannot deceive us than to Baptize an adult Person who for sinister ends may make a great Profession and yet deceive us And if the judgment of Charity must be allowed then we have no Reason to think hardly on Children to whom God and Christ makes such Promises 10. They may have Faith in Seed and Habit as they have Reason Mat. 18.6 And Christ accounts them as Believers several have been Sanctified from the Womb and those whom they deny Baptism to may have received the Holy Ghost and how dare Man make himself Judge of these things Jer. 1.4 5. Luke 1.15 And for those Children which Christ calls Believers they in that place and in its parallel places are expressed in all Tongues to be such Children little Children Infants as could not come but were brought to Christ and such as Christ took up in his Arms. 11. Confirmation and Laying on of Hands in the Order of Ordinances presupposeth Baptism Mat. 19.13 and by our Adversaries is Practised after it And yet Christ laid his Hands on Children and Blessed them and was very angry with those who would have hindred their coming It seems to be between Christ and his Apostles as between greater and inferiour Ministers John 4.2 Christ Baptized none but his Apostles Baptized and he Consirmed 12. It was the constant Practice of the Church of Christ in all Ages Mr. Walkers Modest Plea Cap. 26 27 28. Calvin Inst●●ut lib. 4. 〈◊〉 15. 〈◊〉 22. 13. Christ mentions it not