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A47130	A Christian catechisme, for the instruction of youth, and others to whom it may be useful in the grounds of Christian religion, and practice of Christian piety wherein the twelve articles of the Christian creed, and the Godhead and manhood natures of Christ and his prophetical, priestly, and kingly office are briefly explained : and the true Christian doctrin, concerning Christ his being a sufficient saviour, as he is both God and man : and with respect to both the absolute necessity, and excellent consistencie of his outward coming in the flesh, and his inward coming, and spiritual appearance in our hearts, through faith in him, and love and obedience to him, in order to our eternal salvation, declared and demonstrated by testimonies of Holy Scripture : and the divine excellency of the light within, in distinction from humane reason, asserted and vindicated : and the question concerning its sufficiency to salvation, truly stated and resolved : where also many other Gospel doctrins, and practical Christian truths and duties are held forth / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1698 (1698)	Wing K150; ESTC R19823	60,929	128

and hearing of the Word and Prayer and Thanksgiving A. Baptism with Water in the Name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and the celebration of the Supper in the use of the external Elements of Bread and Wine with Prayer and Thanksgiving to remember and shew forth the Lord's Death till he come both which are not only proper means to preserve the Doctrin of the Christian Faith being duly practised but are means of Grace Seals of God's Govenant of Grace and Signs of our Union and Communion with Christ and one with another in him Matth. 28. 19. Matth. 26. 27. 28. 29. 1. Cor. 10. 16. 1 Cor. 11. 23. Q. To whom is Baptism to be administred A. To none but such as in the judgment of Charity may be reckoned Members of Christ and of his Church Q. Is it to be administred to any more than once A. Nay but once to the same Person Q. Why but once A. Because that signifieth our ingrafting into Christ and our entrance into the Church as into a new World or Kingdom which is but once Q. Is the Supper to be frequently administred to the Faithful A. Yea as frequently as with possible convenience it can be done Q. Why is it to be administred frequently A. Because we need to be but once Regenerated or born again whereof Baptism with Water is a Sign but being once Regenerated we need to be frequently nourished of which the Supper is a Sign that frequently ought to be used as appears both by the Command of Christ As often as ye eat c. and the example of the Faithful in the Acts of the Apostles Q. Doth not Baptism signifie remission of Sin and our Justification by Christ and his precious Blood shed for us as well as our Regeneration and the mortification and crucifying the Old Man with his Deeds A. Yea. Q. And doth not the Supper signifie remission of Sin and our Justification by Christ as well as our spiritual Nourishment by Christ's Body and Blood and holy Spirit with the saving Gifts and Graces thereof A. Yea. Q. Is the participation of the Body and Blood of Christ together with the holy Spirit and his saving Gifts and Graces so tyed and confin'd to the use of the external Elements that none can have the things signified without these outward Signs A. Nay Q. What need is there then to use them A. Because of Christ's Command and the great Spiritual profit that the Faithful have by the due use of them where they can be duly had even as in the Case of hearing the Word Preached by word of Mouth the ordinary means of Faith yet such hearing i● not of such absolute necessity so as none can have Faith without hearing a Minister Preach for many have had Faith wrought in them by the Word or Doctrin read by them or by others read to them who perhaps never heard the Word duly Preached by any Man Q. How are the words of Christ to be understood this Cup is the New Testament in my Blood shed for the remission of the Sins of many How is the Cup the New Testament A. By the Cup is meant the Wine in the Cup by an ordinary Figure in Speech call'd a Metonymie where the Name of the thing containing is given to the thing contained Q. How is the Wine in the Cup the New Testament in Christ's Blood A. By another Metonymie as Circumcision was called God's Covenant under the Law being the Seal of it so the Wine as well as the Bread in the Supper is called by Christ the New Testament as being the outward Seal of it Q. But what is the need or use of an external Seal of the New Testament or Covenant seeing the Faithful have the inward Seal of the Spirit A. The inward doth no more take away the use and benefit of the outward to the Faithful now than the inward Seal of the Spirit to Faithful Abraham did take away the use of the outward Seal of Circumcision from him which was given him of God to be a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith Q. What is meant by Christ's New Testament and whether it is one and the same with the New Covenant A. It is the same for Matter and Substance but that it further denotes Christ's Legacy left us in his Will and Testament and confirmed by those outward Seals appointed by himself that being the Nature of all Wills and Testaments to be in force by the Death of the Testator Q. How doth it appear that these outward things as Water in Baptism and the Bread and Wine in the Supper are Seals of the New Testament or Covenant of Grace A. Because the nature and manner of all Covenants require some external Signs or Seals for their stronger confirmation and as it is the usual manner of Nations to confirm their Covenants by or with outward Signs or Seals so it hath been always God's way in all his Covenanting with Men or with any People to confirm it by some outward Signs or Seals as the Sacrifices before the Law and Circumcision and the Passover and the Sacrifices under the Law Psalm 50 5. Q Is it not therefore a great Sin and highly provoking to God Almighty and doing contempt to our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ not only to reject the Seals of his Covenant and Testament from practising them so that they can be duly had but to deny and vilifie them with the reproachful Names of beggarly Elements and worldly Rudiments yea if God be not very merciful to them to provoke him to deprive them of the spiritual Blessings of his Covenant for their so great contempt through their great Ignorance God grant that it may not be wilful in some And do they not act as foolishly in the Case as if one that had a rich Legacy left him by the Will of his elder Brother should in his folly tear away the Seal of it which in Law renders it null and void A. Yea. Q. How do the faithful the eat the Flesh and drink the Blood of Christ A. Not by the bodily Mouth but by a true Faith and sincere and servent Love and Devotion Q. But may not Persons feed upon the inward Life and Spirit of Christ without feeding by Faith on the Flesh and Blood of Christ A. Nay according to Christ's plain and express words Joh. 6. 53. Unless ye eat my Flesh and drink my Blood ye have no Life in you the Flesh and Blood of the Son of Man together with the Fat and Marrow of the inward Life and Spirit of Christ even whole Christ God man is the Food of the Faithful by him if an e●●er in the true door he shall go in and out and find Pastore without in his Flesh and Manhood within in his Spirit and Godhead as Augustin and other spiritual Writers have applyed those words John 10. 9. Q. Doth not this hold forth the necessity of Faith in Christ as he was outwardly crucified

be and occasion requireth freely to give more than the Jews gave for the service of the Gospel Q. What is signified by Christ's descent into Hell according to the words of the Creed commonly call'd the Apostolical Creed and the 10th Psalm Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell A. That he remained in the State and Condition of the Dead all that time betwixt his Death and Resurrection in which interval of time he did further Conquer and Overcome the Powers of Hell and Death and made a glorious Triumph over them both at his Death and after his Death being free among the Dead Psal 88. 5. And at his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven having led Captivity Captive Psal 68. 18. Q. How or in what Sense did he lead Captivity Captive A. By his powerful and victorious Conquest over the Devil Death and Hell having loosed the pains of Death it being impossible he could be held or detained by them He overcame the Devil and all his Angels who had Captivated so many Souls and made a Captive of him by means of which many Thousands of many Nations by the Power of Christ through the Preaching of the Gospel soon after Christ's Ascension were rescued from the Devil's Bondage and from serving him by their abominable Idolatries and other vile Sins and Lusts and became Servants of God and of Christ and by the same Victory then obtained the Kingdom of Sin and Satan will be more and more weakned until it be utterly destroyed and the Kingdom of God and Christ in Truth and Righteousness and Holiness advanced until its perfect State Q. Was the Guilt of our Sins laid upon Christ and imputed to him when he suffered Death for our Sins A. As Guilt signifieth obligation to Punishment it was laid upon him and imputed to him but not strictly and properly speaking as it signifieth the blame or the culpableness of them As when that Grocian King with his free consent and desire suffered Punishment for his Son to lose one of his Eyes for his Sons Adultery another Eye being taken from his Son that the honour and justice of his own Law might be preserved yet who will say that the blame of his Son's Crime was his or that he was blame-worthy on that account Q. How is that place of Scripture to be understood Is 53. 9. With his Stripes we are healed Were not these Stripes his Sufferings both of Soul and Body as Man that he suffered without us A. Yea with or by which we are healed because they were of that merit and efficacy that by them he procured and purchased that inward Virtue and Grace to be given us by which the Wound and hurt that Sin had given us is healed and by means of which that pure healing Balsam and Oyl comes from him into our Souls for their healing Q. What Figure or Type of this was given in the Old Testament A. The beaten Oyl that by the beating and bruising of the Olive came out of it which was commanded together with the fine Flower that came out of the Wheat by its being ground to be offered with the daily Sacrifices and 〈◊〉 the Wine that was to be offered with the 〈…〉 ring which was the Blood of the Wine 〈◊〉 after it was pressed also the Water that 〈◊〉 out of the Rock being struck by Moses 〈…〉 that refreshed the Israelites when they were ready to dye for thirst hath the like 〈◊〉 ●…tion the beaten Oyl the fine Flower and the Wine in these Offerings did all of them signifie as well as the Water that came out of the Rock when struck by Moses's Rod the healing nourishing and refreshing Vertue of Christ's Grace which is given us by his Sufferings Exod. 29. 38 39 40 41. Q. Is it not therefore a gross perversion of that place of Scripture to understand by the Stripes of Christ wherewith we are healed as some have understood them the Stripes wherewith Men by their Sins stripe Christ in themselves wound and bruise him as some affirm or yet the stripes that he The Light Within giveth them in their Consciences when they sin A. Yea. Q. Did Christ's Body in the Grave see Corruption A. Nay Acts. 2. 31. Q. Did it really rise on the third day A. Yea. Q. Was it his real Body which appeared to his Disciples after his Resurrection which spoke unto them and did Eat and Drink with them A. Yea. Q. What Sign or Figure of Christ's Restirrection in the third day did Christ himself give out of the Old Testament A. The Sign of Jonas Matth. 12. 39 40. That as Jonas was three days and three nights in the Whale's Belly so should the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth Q. What Figure in the Old Testament did signifie that Christ should rise from the dead on the first day of the Week being the next day after the Sabbath and be the first Fruits of the Resurrection A. The sneaf of the first Fruits of their Harvest Levit. 23. 10. 11. which they were to bring to the Priest and which he was to wave before the Lord on the morrow after the Sabbath that answers to the first day of the Week wherein Christ rose from the dead and became the first Fruits of them that sleep Q What signified the waving of the Sheaf A. The waving of it was the Priest's moving it Southward and Northward Eastward and Westward signifying the Redemption and Salvation of all the Elect by Christ Jesus from the South North East and West Parts of the World called the four Winds of Heaven Luke 13. 29. Q. What other Type in the Old Testament signified our Redemption by the Death of Christ our high Priest A. The Release of the Man-slayer out of the City of Refuge by the Death of the high Priest so that he had liberty to return to his ancient Inheritance Q. What did the year of Jubilee that was each fiftieth year signifie wherein they had their former Inheritances restored after they were sold A. Our Restoration by Christ who came in the fiftieth Generation from the Flood of Noah which was as a beginning of the new World for from Arphaxad who was the first that was born after the Flood to Abraham are eight Generations and from Abraham to Christ forty two Generations making in all fifty Generations Gen. 11. 12. Matth. 1. 17. Beside what Mystery lyeth hid in the number Fifty Q. Is it not a great Error in them who say that Christ 's Body evanished or was changed in Substance and did not ascend but another Body in its place and stead A. Yea. Q. What is the hurt and evil Consequence of that Error A. It overturns not only all the Ground of the Hope of the Resurrection of our Bodies but of our whole Salvation for it Christ be not risen they that are sallen asleep in Christ are perished and all their Faith is vain and Preaching vain and all Men are yet

as he is both God and Man our Elect High Priest Prophet and King Head and Mediator without us in Heaven and as our Faith is exercised on him thus as its Object flowing into us and imparting unto us both the Holy Spirit and his saving Gifts and Graces and the daily encrease of them A. Yea. Q. By what Figure or Type was this signified under the Law A. By the Oyl that was poured on Aaron's Head and did run down from his Head and Beard to the lower Skirts of his Garments Q. What Testimonies of Holy Scripture have we for this A. Many both in the Old and New Testament as Isa 32 ● 2. Isa 59 21. John 1. 14 16. John 7. 38 39 John 4. 14. John 15. 26. Acts 2. 33. Eph. 4. 7 8 15. Q. Can it then be supposed that they have the Holy Spirit or the saving Gifts and Graces thereof who have not Faith in Christ as he is both God and Man without them in Heaven seeing the Promises are only to them that believe in him as such A. Nay Q. Do not such who think they have all within them needful to Happiness and eternal Salvation make themselves equal with Christ and as near to God in way of Union and Communion as Christ And are not such guilty of great Idolatry and Blasphemy A. Yea. Q. Is Christ God-man without us the Head of all gracious Influences not only as the procurer and purchaser of them by the dignity and merits of his most holy Obedience unto Death but also as the real dispenser of them out of the fulness of all Grace and Truth that is in himself so as that he is the great Store-house of Grace out of whom God the Father who dwells in him in all Fulness supplyeth the Church and every true Member thereof A. Yea Eph. 4. 7. 8. 15. 16. Coloss 2. 19. Joh. 1. 16. Col. 1. 19. 2. 3. 9. Q. What are these divine Influences Gifts and Graces which the Faithful receive of God out of Christ and which come down from above from the Father of Lights and descend as the Rain upon the mown Grass A. It is far better to know and enjoy them by spiritual gust taste and feeling than by any nice and dry Speculation of them They are like the Manna from Heaven which though the Children of Israel fed on yet they knew not what it was Exod. 16. 15. Rev. 2. 17. Let it suffice us to know them by the Names which the Scripture calls them Streams of Life living Waters Rain and Dew from Heaven divine Powers Lights and Virtues like the Virtue that went out of Christ that healed the Woman of her Issue of Blood Gifts and Graces Milk Hony Bread Wine and Oyl a Feast of Fat things all which though borrowed and metaphorical Names yet signifie more excellent and precious things than all worldly Treasure for they are the true and incorruptible Substance and Riches which never fade away nor never take Wings to fly from them that love them and him of whom and by whom they have them Isa 12. 3. 55. 1. 25. 6. Psal 68. 9. Hos 14. 5. Psalm 81. 16. Prov. 8. 21. SECT X. Q. WHat are the Laws that God doth write in the Hearts of his People Jerem. 31. 33. Are they not the same that are writ in the holy Scriptures excepting the Ceremonial part that is abolished and some other Laws peculiar to the Jews A. Yea. Q. How doth he write them in their Hearts Is it without all use of outward means A. Nay Q. Then are not the Laws writ in the Hearts of the Faithful by the Spirit in the use of outward means as a Transcript or Copy from the holy Scriptures themselves A. Yea. Q What is the difference betwixt the Law writ in the Hearts of the Faithful and the Law writ in the Hearts of the Unfaithful A. There is a great difference the one hath the Law writ in Stony Hearts the other hath it in Hearts of Flesh that are made by the Lord soft and tender Q Of what service are the Promises contained in the Scripture to the Faithful A. Of exceeding great use and service for by them through the Operation of the Spirit we are made partakers of the divine Nature Q. What is the difference betwixt the manner of God and Christ their being in the Saints and true Believers and the manner of their being in Unbelievers and Unconverted Persons A. As to the essential Presence of God and the essential Word and Spirit that is the same every where and in all things but in respect of Manifestations and Operations the difference is great for the Faithful have peculiar and special Manifestations and Operations of God and Christ in them which none others have Again God and Christ and the Holy Spirit are in the Faithful by Union and Communion and Inhabitation or In-dwelling by Faith and Love but not so in unbelievers and unsanctified Persons Hence it is that unbelievers are said to be without God and Christ in the World without Hope Strangers and Aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel Q. How is Christ in the Saints their Hope of Glory Coloss 1. 27. A. It is not so to be understood as if Christ were only their Hope or the Object and Author of it only as within them and not as without them as he is God-man the great High Priest Mediator and Advocate and as their Head for he is the Saints Hope both ways considered for Paul gave thanks to God for the Hope laid up for the believing Colossians in Heaven 1 Coloss 3. 4. 5. And surely that was more or something else than what they enjoyed of Christ within them unless Men will say as some have said that there is no Heaven at all without Men but only within them nor any Hell but within them which is abominable Ranterism but we cannot have the saving knowledge of him nor that sweet and comfortable experience and enjoyment of him and of his Love and Life and spiritual Blessings but as the Mystery of him is inwardly revealed in us and his Love and Life inwardly felt by us for as Christ within the Saints and without them is but one Christ so it is but one great Mystery which yet may be distinguished into two parts the greater part being God manifest in the Flesh to wit in the Flesh of Christ as he outwardly suffered justified in the Spirit seen of Angels Preached to the Gentiles believed on in the World received up into Glory which Paul said was without Controversie the great Mystery of Godliness and without all doubt is the greater part of the Mystery for the best of the Saints have not the Fulness in them it is only the glorified Man Christ Jesus without them who has that Fulness but every one of the Saints have a measure of the Gift of Grace out of that Fulness as the Water in the Cistern is but a sinall part of that which is in the River