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A25895 The Art of catechising, or, The compleat catechist in four parts ... 1691 (1691) Wing A3786; ESTC R5214 104,546 218

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hope Salvation SECT III. Of the Commandments Question You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you that you should keep God's Commandments tell me how many there be Answer Ten. Question Which be they Answer The same which God spake in the twentieth c. I. COMMANDMENT Thou shalt have no other Gods but me Duties commanded THe meaning is thou shalt acknowledge but one God and that there is none besides him Thou shalt so acknowledge me to be the only true God as to Love me above all things To fear me above all things that is to be afraid to offend me To pay a Reverential Love and awful Fear to none as God besides me And to no Man equally with me Thou shalt so acknowledge me to be God as to hope in me That is comfortably to hope for my Promises whilst thou sincerely performest the Conditions As I am God thou shalt in all humility submit to my Will in doing and suffering it that is by Obedience or Patience Thou shalt trust in me as God that is thou shalt so rely on me and my Providence in all needs and dangers as never to seek to deliver thy self out of them by any unjust or unlawful means Thou shalt so acknowledge me to be God as to Honour me that is alway to carry within thee that awful regard and reverence which is due from a Creature to his Creator As God thou shalt pay me that Worship which is due from a Creature to his Creator Thou shalt pay this Worship both in Soul and Body in the Soul by Prayer and in the Body by approaching to me in those humble and reverent gestures as may best express the inward humility of the Soul All thy breaches of the Commands of me thy God thou shalt repent of thou shalt shew the truth of thy Love by thy Obedience and the truth of thy Repentance by thy Reformation So that they sin against this Commandment who are Atheists Sins forbidden that is who deny dis-believe or doubt the being of a God Or who have more Gods than one for though the adorable Trinity Father Son and Holy-Ghost are three in Person yet they are but one God Or who pay that Worship which is due to God to any Creature whether Saint or Angel Or who love themselves or any of the Creatures inordinately or equally with God Or who despise or neglect any of his Commands Or who make contracts with the Devil or use any Conversation with him Who have recourse to Witches or Conjurers either to recover Health or things lost Or who use Charms Spells superstitious Words or superstitious Customs either to cure Diseases or to recover stollen Goods or to inquire into Secrets Or who are wilfully ignorant of his Laws and his Commands Or who take to themselves the glory of any Action or Power or Excellency that is in them and do not give the Glory to God Or who dis-believe any one Article of the Creed Or who dis-believe any part of the Holy Scripture or put false Interpretations upon it to serve their own ends and purposes Or who are passionate and earnest in the things of this World and cold and indifferent in the things of God and of Religion Or who are Hypocrites in Religion or make Religion serve ill ends who do good to evil purposes or evil to good purposes Or who blaspheme God who think or speak dishonourably of him who repine and murmur against him Or who believe him so little as not to look upon him to be present every where and not to be a Witness to all their Thoughts Words and Actions Or who believe him so little as not to be devout in his Worship obedient to his Commands and penitent for every breach of them In short all those Thoughts Words or Actions of ours which are contrary to our Belief of him to our Love of him to our Fear of him to our Hope in him to our submission to his Will to our Trust in him to his Reverence and Honour to his Worship or to our Repentance for any disobedience to him are here forbidden us If we consider as we ought what is enjoined us in this Commandment and what is forbidden in it and then reflecting upon our own Lives find any of the duties of it neglected by us or any of the Sins against it sadly adventured on by us in Thought Word or Action how affectionately should we say with the Church Lord have Mercy upon us and incline our Hearts to keep this Law That is Lord pity and pardon all our past breaches of this Commandment and so incline our Hearts to Love and Obedience for the future that by the Grace we may very sincerely keep this Law of thine for the remainder of our days II. COMMANDMENT Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image c. THE meaning is That as we are to take the true God for our only God so we are not to make or frame any Image or Picture of the Godhead Any Image by which to represent the shape of the invisible God or to fansie any likeness to him We are by no means to Worship any Image so made That is any pretended Image of the true God the Idols of false Gods or the true God by an Image Thou shalt not pay that Worship which is due to him to any Creature Sins forbidden So neither shalt thou neglect the Worship of him the true God or prophane or abuse or dis-esteem any thing that belongs or relates to his Worship or behave thy self carelesly irreverently or indecently in it So that as these things are forbidden so we are here commanded to worship God in Spirit and in Truth Duties commanded To believe him to be a Spirit or Spiritual substance without any visible form or shape and therefore not to be represented by an Image or Picture or Resemblance We are here commanded to worship the true God in all the substantial and eternal parts of his Worship as Prayer hearing of the Word attendance on the Sacraments and all other Ordinances of his us in Thought Word or Action how affectionately should we say with the Church Lord have Mercy upon us and incline our Hearts to keep this Law That is Lord pity and pardon all our past Breaches of this Commandment and so incline our Hearts to Love and Obedience for the future that by thy Grace we may very sincerely keep this Law of thine for the remainder of our Days III. COMMANDMENT Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord c. Sins forbidden THE meaning is Thou shalt not forswear thy self or be guilty of the dreadful Sin of Perjury And this either by affirming upon Oath what is untrue or by affirming upon Oath what is uncertain unknown to thee and doubtful or by breaking or not keeping a lawful Oath Thou shalt not swear rashly vainly and prophanely in common Discourse either by
Yes Petition for others as well as our selves Should we neglect to pray for others as well as our selves No. Should we not pray for Parents Children Husband Wife Friends and Benefactors and the like Yes Should we forget to thank God for all his Mercies when we pray to him No. Thanksgiving Publick and private Prayer Should not a good Christian pray to God publickly in the Church and in the Family and privately by himself alone Yes Can he do it seldomer than Morning and Evening No. Frequency in it Should not those that have leisure do very well to pray oftner Yes Advantages of it Is it not an Honour a blessed and a Pleasant thing that we can pray to God and beg Mercies of him Yes How to pray May we ever ask of God any thing unlawful No. When we pray must we not pray faithfully and humbly and earnestly and mind what we are about Yes May we think upon other things when we are praying to God No. He that would pray rightly should he not cleanse his heart from all affections to sin Yes Should we not kneel when we pray whether at Church or at Home Yes Of Repentance Is not Repentance a turning from Sin to God Yes Should we not daily repent of our sins Yes May we put it off to our Death-bed No. Is it not a most desperate and dangerous Madness to do so Yes Times for it Besides our daily Repentance should we not set apart some times solemnly to humble our selves before God for sin Yes Should we not do well sometimes to keep a fasting day or to miss a meal and spend that time in humbling our selves before God for our sins Yes Is not the afflicting our selves or the revenging our selves for sin by fasting acceptable to God Yes Can such revenge upon our selves for sin satisfie for our Offences No. Is there any thing but the Blood of Christ that can make Satisfaction for our Offences No. But shall that Blood be applied to any but Penitent sinners No. Branches of it or steps to it Are not these then the steps to Repentance The confessing our sins in Prayer to God the sorrowing for them resolutions of forsaking them and of a new obedience Yes Should not a good man set apart these times for fasting or missing a meal Fasting and caling himself to an account for his sins and returning to God by Repentance as often as he may conveniently Yes Would it not be a happy course if we did it once a week or once a month Yes May a Christian give divine Worship to a Saint or Angel or to any Image No. Is it not Idolatry to do so Yes Idolatry Is it not an Idolatry to love or fear or trust in any thing more than God Yes Sunday VI. To our Selves OUght not a Christian to be humble Yes Humility Is not Humility to have a mean and low opinion of our selves and to be content that others should have so too Yes Does God love the Proud Man No. Pride Is not Pride then a very dangerous sin Yes May a man be proud of Beauty Strength Wit or Grace No. Should we not watch against the beginnings of Pride in the Heart and pray against it Yes Should a Christian hunt after the praise of Men No. Should he not be content to be without it and labour only for the Praise of God Yes Is it not a sinful and dangerous thing Vain-glory. to thirst after the praise of Men Yes Will a good Action be accepted if it be done out of vain-glory No. Whenever we do a good Action should we not seek the praise of God and not the praise of Men Yes Of Meekness Is not Meekness a Christian Duty Yes Is not Meekness a calmness and quietness of Spirit so as not to be apt to be wrathful angry and enraged Yes Will not this Duty liken us to Christ Yes Should not a Christian be of a meek and quiet Spirit toward God and Man toward Superiors Equals Inferiours Friends and Enemies Yes Should a Christian be ever causelesly or immoderately angry with any Man No. May a Christian in his Anger call Names as Rogue Rascal Fool or the like No. Should not a Christian labour to prevent and suppress the first beginnings of Rage and Wrath and Anger Yes Would it not be a good way to do it to shut up the lips Yes Seeing Meekness will so liken us to Christ should we not labour for it and pray for it Yes Is not Consideration a Christian Vertue Yes Consideration Is not the want of Consideration the cause of most of our Sins Yes Should we not often consider the state of our Soul how it stands toward God Of our state or whether we have reason to hope it is in God's Favour Yes Is he in God's Favour that continues in any one willful sin No. And if he die in it can he hope for Mercy at his Hands No. Is not the neglect of Consideration a dangerous things Yes Should we not before we do any action consider whether it be lawful or not Yes Of our Actions When upon consideration we find any action done to be unlawful should we not instantly repent of and amend it Yes Would it not be a good course every night to try and examine the actions of the day past Yes And if any of them were Evil to beg God's Pardon and resolve instantly upon amendment Yes Sunday VII IS not contentedness a Christian Duty Yes Contentedness Should a Christian be pleased with that Condition that God has placed him in Yes May he murmur or repine at it No. May a Christian be a covetous Person No. Is contentedness a good remedy against Covetousness Yes Is not Covetousness the setting our Heart upon Wealth Covetousness or the consenting to any desires of getting or keeping it by any unlawful means Yes May a Christian omit any Duty or commit any Sin to get Wealth No. Can he that is covetous ever perform his Duties either to God himself or Neighbour No. Should not a Christian strive for the vertue of Contentedness and pray for it Yes Is not Diligence a Christian Vertue Yes Should not a Christian diligently watch against all Sin Yes Diligence Watchfulness and Industry Should he not watch most narrowly against that Sin to which he is most inclined Yes And must he not labour to avoid all occasions of it Yes Should we not diligently husband and imploy all the gifts of the Soul so as may bring in most glory to God Yes May we imploy any of them in the Devil's Service or the Service of Sin No. Must we not diligently imploy and use the talent of Grace which God has given us Yes If we do imploy and husband it faithfully will God give us more Yes If we do not imploy and husband what we have will God take it away Yes Must