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The church-catechism enlarg'd and explain'd in an easie and familiar method, with the scripture-proofs annexed thereunto.
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means Acts 13.26 Yes Are all under this common call also called effectually and chosen Mat. 22.14 No. But can this outward call be refus'd without the woful hazard of the Soul Prov. 1.24 26. No. § IS not the Gospel-call a great priviledge and must you not Solemnly thank God our Heavenly Father through Christ for it Psal 147.19 20. Yes Is there not great danger of being drawn from the State to which you are called by damnable doctrines or practices Heb. 10.38 Yes Can you then continue therein and be kept from revolting from your profession without real grace Heb. 13.9 Phil. 2.12 13. No. And if God gives you the first grace is perseverance therein of your Selves Luk. 22.32 No. § WILL you then pray unto God for his Grace to prevent and assist you and consummate at last his work in you Jam. 1.5 Phil. 1.6 Yes And must you not to prayer add the diligent use of all the means that God has appointed Mat. 25.29 Yes Are you willing for your further help that I should teach you what you are to believe and to do according to your promise Heb. 5.12 Yes Catechist Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief Answer I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary Suffered under Pontius Pilate Was crucifyed dead and buried he descended into Hell The third day he rose again from the dead He ascended into Heaven And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead I believe in the Holy Ghost The Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints The forgiveness of Sins The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting Amen § IS this Creed found in so many words any where in Scripture No. Yet is not the whole of it proved by Scripture as being according to the Doctrine of the Apostles and therefore called the Aposiles Creed Eph. 2.20 Yes Is it not agreeable to Scripture that there should be such a Form of sound Words 2 Tim. 1.13 Yes * May we receive any thing as an Article of Faith that is not found in Scripture Gal. 1.8 9. No. Are not all things revealed in the Scriptures to be believed by us Luk. 1.1 Yes But are all things therein alike necessary to be known Joh. 17.3 No. * Are not all things necessary and Fundamental plainly revealed Psal 119.105 Yes * Were not the Scriptures confirm'd by Miracles owned by the Church in all Ages and are they not known by their majesty purity and efficacy on the Hearts of Believers Psal 19.7 8 9. Yes †Will you not then search the Scriptures to prove the Articles of your Belief Joh. 5.39 Yes Qu. What is the first Article Answ I believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth § DOTH not Believing in God denote a practical trusting in and depending on Father Son and Holy Ghost as our Father Redeemer and Sanctifyer Yes Can this be without understanding what God hath revealed concerning himself as standing in these Relations to us Heb. 11.6 No. § DO you not believe that there is a God a most pure and supream Spirit Joh. 4.24 Yes Hath He a body or bodily parts or can He be seen with mortal eyes 1 Tim. 1.17 Deut. 4.15 No. Is He not infinite in his being and blessedness Exod. 3.13 Yes Is He confin'd to Time or place Psal 90.1 or doth He stand in need of any of his Creatures to make Him happy Acts 17.25 No. Is He subject to change or alteration Jam. 1.17 No. Can his attributes and glorious perfections be fully comprehended by us Job 11.7 8 9. No. Is He not most Holy Powerful Wise Good Just and true and this Originally and independently so as no Creature can be Mat. 19.17 Yes § ARE there more Gods than One Deut. 6.4 Is it agreeable to right reason that there should be more than one first Cause on which all things depend Acts 17.28 No. § ARE there not three Persons in the Godhead the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost 1 Joh. 5.7 Yes Is either of these Divine Persons before or after greater or less than the other Joh. 10.30 No. Have they not one and the same Divine nature and are they not distinguished by their Personal properties Yes Did not the Father from eternity beget the Son Psal 2.7 and is not the Son begotten of the Father before all worlds Joh. 1.14 Yes Doth not the Holy Ghost proceed from the Father and the Son Joh. 15.26 Yes § DID not the Almighty power of God appear in the works of his Creation Isa 45.12 13. Yes * Did He not make all things of nothing by the word of his power in the space of 6 days Heb. 11.3 Psal 33.6 Gen. 1.1 Yes Did He make any thing amiss Gen. 1.31 No. †And doth He not by his providence uphold and govern all that He hath made Heb. 1.3 Yes * Did He not in particular make man his body Form'd of the dust and his Soul immediately inspir'd Gen. 2.7 Yes Did not God create him after his own Image a knowing holy creature able also to sulfil the whole Law Gen. 1.26 Yes Did not God Covenant with man to confirm his life and happiness upon condition of his perfect obedience Rom. 10.5 Yes Was the particular command given to try his obedience viz. that He should not eat of the tree of Knowledge of good and evil a hard and impossible thing No. Did not God threaten death on his disobedience Gen. 2.17 Yes Should man have dy'd if he had not sinned Rom. 5.12 No. Did not man understand and agree to his Covenant Gen. 3.3 Yes Qu. What is the Second Article Answ And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord. § DO you not Believe in God the Son the Second Person of the Trinity equal with the Father and partaker of the same essence Phil. 2.6 Yes Though Believers are called Sons by Grace and adoption 1 Joh. 3.1 Yet is not our Lord His only Son by Nature and Eternal Generation Rom. 8.3 Yes § IS not the Son of God called Jesus because He saves his People from their Sins Mat. 1.21 Yes * Was man confirm'd in the holy estate in which He was created as the Elect Angels are now No. Did He not fall from that estate by Transgressing the Law and command which God gave him Eccl. 7.29 Yes Did He not Sin by the temptation of the Devil being left to the freedom of his own will Gen. 3 4 5 6. Yes Can so high an affront to the majesty of the Law-giver that contain'd so much Infidelity and such a total defection from God be reckoned a small Sin No. * Was not Adam our common Father a publick Person and our Representative in the Covenant of works 1 Cor. 15.22 Rom. 5.12 19. Yes Are there then any meer men that are
THE Church-Catechism ENLARG'D and EXPLAIN'D IN AN Easie and Familiar METHOD WITH THE SCRIPTURE-PROOFS Annexed thereunto These words which I command thee this day shall be in thine Heart And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest down and when thou risest up Deut. 6.7 8. LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chappel 1697. THE PREFACE THIS explication of the Catechism supposeth the Reader to be convinc'd of the necessity and excellency of the Duty of Catechizing and the great danger of the neglect thereof in Churches or Familys where there are any that need training up in the way that they should go I am not ignorant that there are many who have written excellently on the Catechism and no wonder when so much of every Ministers time is or ought to be taken up in the use of it But yet there are not many that have made use of this Method The first Designer of it being taken away as is said in his life before He had accomplish't what He intended was followed by Doctor Wallis upon another Catechism Doctor Comber and I think He alone followed him upon this yet He by designing so much brevity and altogether omitting the Scripture proofs hath left room for a further Essay The use of this Mothod is double 1. As to the meanest capacitys it hath a visible benefit in that the Question is so fram'd as to lead the person instructed to his Answer whereby his understanding is both try'd and inform'd and yet the memory not burden'd with words it being evident that many of the more careless sort are frighted from the Catechism by a long Answer impos'd upon the memory and others get words by vote which they understand not and presently singer I only here desire of the Teacher that when He propounds or as be any Question He would not express or recite the Text or Texts of Scripture annexed thereunto partly because these proofs do indeed belong to the Answer and not to the Question though they could not conveniently be places otherwise than they are and partly because such a recital of the Texts Chapter and Verse would make the Question so long as to hinder the attention of the Learner great care being to be taken that He Answers understandingly and not by ghess Yes or No and for that reason He may sometimes be required to repeat the matter of the Question in his Answer as Q. Are there more Gods than One A. No there are not more Gods than One. 2. The other use is for them that have more understanding who must be obliged to answer to the Question by the Scripture annexed in this manner Q. Are there more Gods than One A. No. Q. How prove you that A. From Deut. 6.4 Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is one Lord and I think it cannot be deny'd that the best as well as easiest way of Learning Scripture-principles is in Scripture Phrase Those lively Oracles make a deeper and more abiding impression than any other words And the prudent Catechist may with his Pen mark in every Section such Texts for the Learner to recite at a time as He shall judge for plainness or number to be suited to his Capacity Nor will this hinder the Learning these Principles in distinct propositions as they are set down in other Catechisms but will make it far more easie to Learn the words when they are by this instructed beforehand in the matter therein contain'd In this Composure I have endeavoured to make the Questions very Comprehensive by crowding thereinto as much matter as would consist with the plainness that I studiously design'd so that there is enough in each Question especially when the proof is given in Answer for the Catechist to dilate and enlarge upon in his more Familiar Instructing of those committed to his Charge May the whole be for the Glory of God through Christ and for the Edification of his Flock particularly the Lambs therein R. M. A CATECHISM That is to say An Instruction to be learned of every Person before He be brought to be Confirmed by the Bishop Question WHat is your Name Answer N. or M. Question Who gave you this Name Answer By 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 § WAS not your Name given you at your Baptism as they were wont to receive their Names at their Circumcision Luke 2.21 Yes Is it not in the power of Parents chiefly of Fathers to give Names to their Children Luke 1.60 62. Yes Is it then unlawful for others by the Parents Consent to do it as Godfathers and Godmothers amongst us Ruth 4.17 No. § ARE Infants incapable of receiving any Priviledges or Benefits by Baptism Mark 10.14 No. 1. Are there not certain outward Priviledges confer'd by Baptism as of old by Circumcision Rom. 3.1 2. Yes * Were you not by Baptism made a Member of Christ i. e. of his Body the Church 1 Cor. 6.15 12.13 Yes But have all such Members of Christ a saving interest in him or benefit by him John 15.2 No. * VVere you not thereby made the Child of God Acts 3.25 Rom. 9.4 Yes And are there not many visible Children of God that prove rebels against him Isa 1.2 Ezek. 16.20 Yes * VVere you not further admitted an Heir or inheritour of the Kingdom of Heaven Eph. 3.6 Yes And are there not many visible Heirs or Children of the Kingdom that shall be cast out Mat. 8.12 Yes †Is there then any Reason why they that live in Sin should boast of or rest in these outward Priviledges Mat. 3.9 No. 2. Are there not also inward and spiritual priviledges offered in Baptism and sealed on Gods part to Believers Gal. 3.26 27. Yes Are these bestowed on you without any Conditions required on your part Mark 16.16 No. Do the conditions and terms of the Gospel make the Grace therein not to be free Eph. 2.8 No. †Are you not then by Baptism under an engagement to perform the Gospel-conditions 1 Pet. 3.21 Yes Question What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you Answer They did promise and vow thrée 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 § DID your Sureties say when you were Baptized that you did so repent and believe No. Did they promise in their own Name or bind their own Souls with a Vow that you should do so when you came to Age No. Did they