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<P>THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGION.</P>
<Q><P>Come ye Children, and hearken unto me: I will teach you the feare of the Lord. <BIBL>PSAL. 34.11.</BIBL></P></Q>
<Q><P>I &s;eek not mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be &s;aved. <BIBL>1. COR. 10.33.</BIBL></P></Q>
<P>By EDWARD BOVGHEN.</P>
<P>OXFORD, Printed by <HI>Leonard Lichfield</HI> Printer to the <HI>&V;niver&s;ity.</HI> 1646.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="catechism">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>THE PRINCIPLES of Religion.</HEAD>
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<P>Q. <HI>_WHat is your name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> N. or M.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is this your Chri&s;ti|an name, or Sir|name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> My Chri&s;tian name.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why doe you an&s;wer by that name, and not by your other?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e it is my better name; it puts me in mind of my better being, of my &s;econd Birth, when this name was given me.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>When was it given thee?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> At my <HI>Bapti&s;me.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e at that time I became a
<PB N="2" REF="3">new creature, being
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>S Io.</HI> 3.5. In Bap|ti&s;me we receive <HI>new names&punc;</HI> in token that by Bap|ti&s;me we are made <HI>new Crea|tures. Hoo|ker Eccle&s;. Pol. l.</HI> 5. &sect;. 62.</NOTE> <HI>borne anew of water and of the Holy Gho&s;t,</HI> that &s;o I might be <HI>a member of Chri&s;t, a Child of God, and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven.</HI> This then is my name, which I receive from <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> in the Church, and &s;erves at all times to put me in mind of God my Father, and the Church my Mother.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What conceive you to be the rea|&s;on, why the Church hath provided, that this name &s;hould be given us rather at this time, then at any other?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, becau&s;e it is our new birth; and a new name well befitteth a new birth. 2. Becau&s;e <HI>Bapti&s;me</HI> was injoy|ned in &s;tead of <HI>Circumci&s;ion:</HI> and at <HI>Cir|cumci&s;ion</HI> names were impo&s;ed upon the &s;eed of <HI>Abraham.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>How doth that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By the <HI>Bapti&s;t,</HI> and our Saviour.
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 1.59, 63.</NOTE> The <HI>Bapti&s;t</HI> at <HI>Circumci&s;ion</HI> was call|ed <HI>John,</HI> and
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 2.21.</NOTE> our Saviour, <HI>Je&s;us.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who gave you this name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. My God-Fathers and God-mo|thers.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why they, rather then your own Pa|rents?</HI></P>
<PB N="3" REF="3">
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e this name, like the new birth, is not fle&s;hly, but &s;pirituall, there|fore I receive a name from God, and not from man. A new birth, new Pa|rents, and a new name, becau&s;e I am a|dopted into a new familie. Hence is it, that with us they are named <HI>God-Fa|thers,</HI> Fathers from God, or in Gods &s;tead.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Doe they give you a</HI> name <HI>only?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No, they undertake to the Church in my behalfe, the&s;e <HI>three things. Fir&s;t, that I &s;hould for&s;ake the Divell and all his workes, the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World, and all the &s;infull Lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h. Secondly, that I &s;hould believe all the Articles of the Chri&s;tian Faith. And Thirdly, that I &s;hould keep Gods holy will and Commandements, and walke in the &s;ame all the daies of my life.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why doe they promi&s;e this for you, and not you for your &s;elfe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I make this promi&s;e by them. Fir&s;t, becau&s;e at that time I am not able to make it by my &s;elfe. 2^l^y, Becau&s;e we are Baptized in our infancy, &s;ince Bapti&s;me is of &s;uch nece&s;&s;ity, partly by
<PB N="4" REF="4">rea&s;on of our naturall corruption, and partly by rea&s;on of our Saviours in&s;tiru|tion, that
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>S. Io.</HI> 3.3.5.</NOTE> <HI>unle&s;&s;e we be borne againe of Water and of the Holy Gho&s;t, we cannot enter into the Kingdome of God.</HI> At that time therefore we undertake this by o|thers, but confe&s;&s;e now, that we are bound to performe them in our own Per&s;ons.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>You are re&s;olved then, I hope,</HI> to believe, and to doe, as they have pro|mi&s;ed for you.</P>
<P>A. <HI>Yes verily, and by Gods help &s;o I will. And I be&s;eech God to give me his grace, that I may continue</HI> con&s;tant in this re&s;olution and practice <HI>unto my lives end.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>You have promi&s;ed to</HI> believe all the Articles of the Chri&s;tian Faith: <HI>which are they?</HI></P>
<P>A. <HI>I believe in God the Father Al|mighty, maker of Heaven and Earth, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Are all Chri&s;tians bound to believe all this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes; for
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Athan.</HI> Creed.</NOTE> <HI>this is the Catholike Faith, which except a man beleeve faith|fully, he cannot be &s;aved.</HI></P>
<PB N="5" REF="4">
<P>Q. <HI>Why call you it</HI> Catholike?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Catholike &s;ignifies <HI>univer&s;all;</HI> this is therefore called the <HI>Catholike Faith,</HI> becau&s;e all Chri&s;tians <HI>univer&s;ally</HI> are bound to believe it. Be&s;ides, it containes all things, which are of nece&s;&s;ity to be beleeved unto &s;alvation.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How ancient is this</HI> Creed?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> As ancient as the <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> times; ancienter then &s;ome, if not then all the writings of the <HI>Apo&s;tles.</HI> For
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Calvin. in</HI> Heb. 6.1.</NOTE> <HI>Calvin</HI> acknowledgeth, that the <HI>Apo&s;tles Creed</HI> was in u&s;e, before the <HI>Epi&s;tle to the He|brewes</HI> was written.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Was it compo&s;ed by the Apo&s;tles?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It &s;eemes &s;o; for we learne from Antiquity, that
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 28.19.</NOTE> the Apo&s;tles being by our Saviours command to <HI>goe and teach all Nations,</HI> and yet
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Act. 1.4.8.</NOTE> <HI>not to depart from Hieru&s;alem,</HI> till according to his pro|mi&s;e they were furni&s;hed with abilities for &s;o great an employment:
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg"><HI>Di&s;ce&s;&s;u|ri ab invi|cem, norma~ prius futu|rae praedica|tionis in&s;ti|tuunt.</HI> Ru|fin. <HI>in</HI> Sym. n. 10.</NOTE> before they parted to undergoe this great task, they agreed upon this <HI>Creed,</HI> which was to be
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hanc <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">re|dentibus danda~ e&s;&s;e regulam &s;tatuunt.</HI> Ib.</NOTE> <HI>the rule of Faith,</HI> according to which they were to frame their di&s;|cour&s;es; and contrary to which no man
<PB N="6" REF="5">might teach, or beleeve.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What benefit received Converts by embracing this Creed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By this they were fitted for Bap|ti&s;me:
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><HI>Symbolu~ Apo&s;toli|cum, primus qua&s;i in|gre&s;&s;us e|rat in Ec|cle&s;iam ijs, qui Chri&s;to nomen da|bant.</HI> Cal|vin. <HI>in</HI> Heb. 6.1.</NOTE> by this they found ingre&s;&s;e into the Church: and
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg"><HI>Iren. l.</HI> 3. <HI>c.</HI> 4.</NOTE> by confe&s;&s;ion and be|leefe of this Creed many were &s;aved, before any part of the New Te&s;tament was brought unto them.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Was this written, thinke you, before the New Te&s;tament?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not written, but delivered;
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ru&s;&s;in in Symb. n</HI> 12. <HI>Chry&s;ol. Ser.</HI> 57.60, 61 <HI>Hieron. Epi&s;t.</HI> 69. <HI>Aug. de Symb. l.</HI> 1. <HI>c.</HI> 1.</NOTE> not &s;uffer'd to be written for three hundred yeares at lea&s;t, after our Saviours a&s;cen|&s;ion: hence is it u&s;ually called by the Antients,
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg"><HI>Iren. l.</HI> 3. <HI>c.</HI> 4.</NOTE> <HI>the tradition of the Church,</HI> and by S^t <HI>Paul,</HI>
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Rom. 6.17.</NOTE> <HI>that</HI> FORME <HI>of doctrine which was</HI> DELIVERED <HI>you.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>How are we to under&s;tand this</HI> Creed?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In the &s;ame &s;ence it is delivered; that is, in the Literall, Grammaticall, and u&s;uall &s;en&s;e of the words, wherein I am taught: He that hath commanded me to beleeve, hath al&s;o taught me, what to beleeve.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>May we not take &s;ome part of this</HI>
<PB N="7" REF="5">Creed <HI>in a figurative &s;en&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No. As I am taught, &s;o I beleeve. As it was provided for the good of all, &s;o is it made for the under&s;tanding of all. Had it been compo&s;ed of darke and figurative words or phra&s;es, the learned only could have under&s;tood it: indeed it would rather have rai&s;ed controver|&s;ies, then &s;etled one unalterable faith.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>You &s;ay right.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Be&s;ides, the Apo&s;tles had fayled of one maine intent, for which it was provided.
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;tud u|nanimitatis &amp; fidei &s;uae indici|um Apo&s;to|li po&s;uere.</HI> Ruffin. <HI>in Symb n.</HI> 13.</NOTE> Framed it was for this pur|po&s;e, that it might be the <HI>token of their unanimity and faith:</HI> and that
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg"><HI>Per quod agno&s;cere|tur is, qui Chri&s;tum ver&egrave; &s;ecu~|dum Apo|&s;tolicas re|gulas prae|dicaret.</HI> Ib. n. 11.</NOTE> thereby it might evidently be &s;een, who prea|ched <HI>Chri&s;t truly according to the A|postles rules,</HI> and who not. It had been al&s;o contrary to the Apo&s;tles open pro|fe&s;&s;ion, who affirme, that
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 2.1.</NOTE> they <HI>came not with excellency of &s;peech, or of wi&s;edome,</HI> but that
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Rom. 6.19.</NOTE> they <HI>spake after the manner</HI> and cu&s;tome of <HI>men.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>You take then the words of this</HI> Creed <HI>in the literall and plaine &s;en&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I doe &s;o; for
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 3.1.</NOTE> we are not taught at fir&s;t <HI>as spirituall, but as carnall men,
<PB N="8" REF="6">as babes in Chri&s;t,</HI> becau&s;e
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 2.</NOTE> <HI>we are not able to beare</HI> &s;trong <HI>meat,</HI> we <HI>mu&s;t be fed with milke.</HI> And I have learned, that
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hooker. Eccle&s;. Pol. l.</HI> 5 &sect;. 59.</NOTE> <HI>in Scripture, where a literall con&s;tructi|on will &s;tand, the furthe&s;t from the letter is commonly the wor&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Q <HI>That then we may fully di&s;cerne, whether it may be taken in the u&s;uall and ordinary &s;en&s;e, let us take it a&s;under, and weigh the particular words in the &s;eve|rall Articles. How many Articles are there in this</HI> Creed?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Twelve.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I beleeve in God the Father Al|mighty maker of heaven and earth.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How under&s;tand you the&s;e words?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Accordingly as I utter them; namely, that <HI>God the Father</HI> is the God of all might and power: and that
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Act. 14 15.</NOTE> <HI>he made,</HI> or created <HI>Heaven, and Earth, and the Sea, and all things that are therein;</HI> all the&s;e of nothing.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the &s;econd Article?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> And in Ie&s;us Chri&s;t his only Son our Lord.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is he al&s;o</HI> God?</P>
<PB N="9" REF="6">
<P><HI>A.</HI> The <HI>Sonne</HI> of the &s;ame &s;ub&s;tance and nature with <HI>the Father.</HI>
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nicene</HI> Creed.</NOTE> <HI>God of God; very God of very God;</HI>
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><HI>Athan.</HI> Creed.</NOTE> <HI>Coeternall to the Father, and coequall:</HI> and <HI>our Lord</HI> with the Father.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is he al&s;o</HI> Almighty?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Without que&s;tion he is:
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Col. 1.16.</NOTE> for <HI>by him were all things created, that are in Heaven, and that are in Earth, vi&s;ible and invi&s;ible;</HI> and
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 17</NOTE> <HI>by him all things con&s;ist.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>The third Article.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Who was conceived by the holy Gho&s;t, borne of the Virgin Mary.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the meaning of this Ar|ticle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Gal. 4 4.</NOTE> in the fulne&s;&s;e of time
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nicene</HI> Creed.</NOTE> <HI>he was incarnate,</HI> or made fle&s;h <HI>of the Virgin Mary, by the holy Gho&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Was he, who is above, and</HI>
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Col. 1.17.</NOTE> before all things, <HI>made fle&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He, that from all eternity is God with the <HI>Father,</HI> in time was made man;
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Athan.</HI> Creed.</NOTE> <HI>God of the &s;ub&s;tance of the Fa|ther, begotten before the worlds; and man of the &s;ub&s;tance of his mother, borne in the world. Perfect God, and perfect man of
<PB N="10" REF="7">a rea&s;onable &s;oule, and humane fle&s;h &s;ub|&s;i&s;ting.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is not the holy Gho&s;t his Father al&s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No: for in his Incarnation he took nothing of the Holy Gho&s;t. Only the Holy Gho&s;t took the <HI>Seed</HI> of the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> and made it fle&s;h, with|out the help of man, or &s;en&s;e of the wo|man. Which fle&s;h, united to the &s;oule, the &s;econd per&s;on in the Trinity a&s;&s;u|med into his owne per&s;on, and became
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ib.</NOTE> <HI>one Chri&s;t. One</HI> (I &s;ay) <HI>not by conver|&s;ion of the Godhead into fle&s;h, but by ta|king of the manhood into God.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is he not one, as he is the Sonne of God, and another, as he is the Son of man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No; though he con&s;i&s;t of two na|tures, he is but one per&s;on.
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Ib.</NOTE> <HI>For, as the rea&s;onable &s;oule and fle&s;h is one man, &s;o God and man is one Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>May then the Virgin</HI> Mary <HI>be &s;aid to be the</HI> Mother of God?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> She may; becau&s;e &s;he is mother of that man, who is God;
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ib.</NOTE> <HI>not by confu|&s;ion of &s;ub&s;tance, but by unity of per&s;on.</HI> As <HI>Abraham</HI> is the Father of <HI>I&s;aac,</HI>
<PB N="11" REF="7">though not the Father of his &s;oule; &s;o is &s;he the mother of the &s;econd per&s;on in the Trinity, though not the mother of his Godhead.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the fourth Article?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He &s;uffered under <HI>Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried;</HI> he, that very per&s;on, that is the &s;onne of God, and was borne of the Virgin <HI>Mary.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why did he &s;uffer all this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nicene</HI> Creed.</NOTE> For <HI>us men and for our &s;alvation;</HI> for
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 2.24.</NOTE> <HI>he bare our &s;innes in his owne body, that we being dead unto &s;inne, &s;hould live unto righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, by who&s;e &s;tripes we are healed.</HI> He &s;uffered here, that we might not &s;uffer hereafter; he endured the cur&s;ed death, that we might e&s;cape the cur&s;e of the Law: he dyed for a time, that we might live for ever; he was buried, that he might &s;anctifie the grave, and make it a place of re&s;t for us.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Did the &s;econd per&s;on in the Tri|nity &s;uffer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> His per&s;on &s;uffer'd, though not each nature in his per&s;on. As man, but not as God; for God cannot &s;uffer.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who did he &s;uffer for?</HI></P>
<PB N="12" REF="8">
<P><HI>A.</HI> For all the &s;onnes of <HI>Adam.</HI> He took not therefore upon him the per&s;on, but the nature of man, that &s;o he might perfect this great worke of Redempti|on, for all that are of the &s;ame nature with him.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Are you &s;ure of this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Scriptures have taught me &s;o.
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">S. John 8.16.</NOTE> <HI>So God loved the World</HI> (&s;aith our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour) <HI>that he gave his only begotten Sonne, to the end, that</HI> ALL THAT BELEEVE IN HIM <HI>&s;hould not peri&s;h, but have life everla&s;ting.</HI> And S^t <HI>John;</HI>
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1. S. Joh. 2.1, 2.</NOTE> <HI>If</HI> ANY MAN <HI>&s;inne,</HI> WE <HI>have an Advocate with the Father, Je&s;us Chri&s;t the righteous, and he is the propiti|ation for our &s;innes: and not for ours only, but al&s;o for the &s;innes of the</HI> WHOLE WORLD. And Saint <HI>Paul</HI> a&s;&s;ures us, that
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Heb. 2.9.</NOTE> <HI>Chri&s;t ta&s;ted death for</HI> EVERY MAN. What would we more?</P>
<P>Q. <HI>This is comfortable doctrine.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is &s;o; and to this agrees the doctrine of my mother the <HI>Church of England;</HI> who hath taught me
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Artic. 17.</NOTE> <HI>to re|ceive Gods promi&s;es in &s;uch wi&s;e, as they are</HI> GENERALLY <HI>&s;et forth to us in
<PB N="13" REF="8">holy Scripture:</HI> a&s;&s;uring me, that our Sa|viour
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Prayer before the Commu|nion.</NOTE> <HI>upon the Cro&s;&s;e made a full,</HI> PER|FECT, <HI>and &s;ufficient &s;acri&s;ice, obla|tion, and</HI> SATISFACTION FOR THE SINNES OF THE WHOLE WORLD; yea,
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Artic. 31.</NOTE> FOR ALL THE SINNES OF THE WHOLE WORLD, <HI>both originall and actuall.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>How comes it then to pa&s;&s;e, that &s;o many are damned?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Either for want of Faith, or for want of obedience and repentance: for
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">S. John. 1.12.</NOTE> <HI>to as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the Sonnes of God.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the fifth Article?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He de&s;cended into Hell, the third day he ro&s;e againe from the dead.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How under&s;tand you this Article?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Literally, as I doe the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Did</HI> Chri&s;t <HI>goe downe into hell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He did &s;o; otherwi&s;e my <HI>Creed</HI> hath taught me &s;omething, that is not to be beleeved.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Some are of opinion, that it is a Metaphoricall &s;peech, and &s;ignifies, that he was</HI> truly dead.</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I know, there are &s;ome of that
<PB N="14" REF="9">opinion: but I &s;ee no rea&s;on, why I &s;hould a&s;&s;ent thereto.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> For the&s;e five rea&s;ons. Fir&s;t, be|cau&s;e
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 16 23. <HI>Ne ip&s;os qui|dem inferos u&s;piam Scriptura|rum locis in bono appel|latos potui reperire. Aug. Ep.</HI> 99. <HI>de Gen. ad lit. l.</HI> 12. <HI>c.</HI> 33.</NOTE> <HI>Hell</HI> does not &s;ignifie the place of the dead, but the place of the dam|ned, as in the ca&s;e of <HI>Dives.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, our Saviours <HI>death</HI> was &s;uf|ficiently expre&s;&s;ed before, in that it is &s;aid, <HI>he was dead:</HI> and not only &s;o, but <HI>he was buried.</HI> And we <HI>bury</HI> not the li|ving, but the <HI>dead.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Calvin. In&s;tit. l.</HI> 2. <HI>c.</HI> 16. &sect;. 8.</NOTE> <HI>Calvin</HI> &s;aith, it is a <HI>batta|logy,</HI> or needle&s;&s;e repetition; and not probable, that &s;uch vanity &s;hould be ad|mitted into &s;o compendious a briefe of our faith.</P>
<P>Fourthly, it is contrary to the cour&s;e of order, after <HI>buriall</HI> to returne to his <HI>death;</HI> as if he had &s;uffer'd death a &s;e|cond time. But it is methodicall and orderly', after they had done with his <HI>body,</HI> to acquaint us, what became of his <HI>&s;oule,</HI> when he was dead, and to tell us, that it <HI>de&s;cended,</HI> or <HI>went downe into hell.</HI></P>
<P>Fifthly, by the primitive Church, his <HI>de&s;cent into hell,</HI> is not accounted any
<PB N="15" REF="9">part of his <HI>humiliation,</HI> but the fir&s;t de|gree of his <HI>exaltation.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Where learne you this doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In D^r <HI>Nowels Catechi&s;me;</HI> where I find, that
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">D. <HI>Now|els Cate.</HI> upon this Article.</NOTE> by <HI>his de&s;cending into hell</HI> is meant, <HI>that as Christ in his body de&s;|cended into the bowells of the earth, &s;o</HI> IN HIS SOVLE SEVERED FROM THE BODY, HE DESCENDED INTO HELL.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Js not this</HI> D. Nowels <HI>private opi|nion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No, it is the re&s;olution of tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed Reformers under King <HI>Edward</HI> VI. For they tell us, that
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Art. 3.</NOTE> in the three daies of Chri&s;ts death, <HI>His Body was in the Grave,</HI> HIS SOVL IN HELL, <HI>and his Deity every where.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Was not this ca&s;t off as an erroneous opinion in Q.</HI> Elizabeth's <HI>daies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No certainely, for their Scholers in the Articles of 1562. &s;ay thus,
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Art. 3.</NOTE> <HI>As Chri&s;t died for us, and was buried,</HI> SO ALSO IS IT TO BE BELEIVED, THAT HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. But
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Art. 2.</NOTE> <HI>we beleeve, that Chri&s;t truly died, and was buried:</HI> it is therefore
<PB N="16" REF="10">to be beleived, that <HI>he truly de&s;cended into Hell.</HI> But to &s;ay, as we beleive, that <HI>Chri&s;t truly died,</HI> &s;o doe we beleive, that he was <HI>truly dead,</HI> were a mo&s;t ab&s;urd inference, and would be hi&s;&s;ed out of the Schooles.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>This manife&s;ts their re&s;olution; but is this agreeable to the Ancient Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> There is not one Councell, or probable Father in the fir&s;t 500 yeares, but is of this opinion. And S. <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> is &s;o re&s;olute for this Article, that he &s;aith,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Quis, ni&s;i infidelis, negaverit fui&s;&s;e apud inferos Chri&s;tum. Aug. ep.</HI> 99.</NOTE> <HI>Who&s;oever denies Chri&s;ts de&s;cent into Hell, is no Chri&s;tian.</HI> And <HI>Athana&s;ius</HI> in his <HI>Creed,</HI> puts it in among tho&s;e Ar|ticles, whereof he &s;aith,
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Athan. Creed.</NOTE> <HI>which faith ex|cept every one doe keep</HI> WHOLE AND VNDEFILED, <HI>without doubt he &s;hall peri&s;h everla&s;tingly.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Where is this</HI> Hell, <HI>that he went into?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4 9.</NOTE> <HI>In the lower parts of the earth,</HI> then which nothing is <HI>lower.</HI> So S. <HI>Paul.</HI> And
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Chri&s;tum in</HI> corde terrae <HI>tri|duum mor|tis logimus expunctum, id e&s;t, in re|ce&s;&s;u</HI> intimo <HI>&amp; interno, &amp; in ip&s;a terr&acirc; oper|to, &amp; infra ip&s;am cava|to, &amp; infe|rioribus ad|huc aby&s;&s;is &s;uper&s;tru|cto.</HI> Tertul. <HI>de anim&acirc;. c.</HI> 55. <HI>Chri&s;tus ad &s;olvendos inferni dolores de&s;cendit. Aug. ep.</HI> 99.</NOTE> <HI>Tertullian</HI> makes his expre&s;&s;ion &s;o full for the bowels of the earth, that
<PB N="17" REF="10">no man can doubt of his opinion.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What went he thither for?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To triumph over Hell, and to ful|fill that of the Prophet,
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 13.14. 1. Cor. 15.55.</NOTE> <HI>O death where is thy &s;ting? O Hell, where is thy Victo|rie?</HI> To this opinion a&s;&s;ents D. <HI>Nowell</HI> in his Catechi&s;me.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Are all of this opinion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No truly, &s;ome conceive, that he &s;ufferd the torments of hell in his Soul: which cannot be. For
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>&V;el pec|cato, vel</HI> damnatio|ne, <HI>mors</HI> a|nimae <HI>intel|ligi pote&s;t. Aug ep.</HI> 99.</NOTE> fir&s;t, the paines of Hell are the death of the &s;oul: and in that &s;ence it is &s;aid,
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 18.4.</NOTE> <HI>that &s;oule, which &s;innes, &s;hall &s;urely dye.</HI> But <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> &s;oule never &s;inned: and for
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 2.24.</NOTE> <HI>our &s;innes he bare</HI> them <HI>in his Body.</HI></P>
<P N="1">2^l^y The Scriptures teach us, that
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 4.1.</NOTE> <HI>Christ &s;uffered for us in the fle&s;h,</HI> and that
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 3.18.</NOTE> he was <HI>put to death in the fle&s;h;</HI> not in the &s;oule, no &s;uch thing in Scripture.</P>
<P N="3">3^l^y That &s;oule, which is united to the Deitie, is not capable of Hell tor|ments. That were to make the &s;oule of God &s;ubject to the Divell, which can|not be imagined without bla&s;phemy.</P>
<P N="4">4^l^y
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Act. 2. 30, 31.</NOTE> <HI>David being a Prophet &s;aid of the Re&s;urrection of Chri&s;t, that</HI>
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 16.11. Act. 13.37.</NOTE> <HI>his Soule
<PB N="18" REF="11">was not left in Hell, neither did his fle&s;h &s;ee corruption.</HI> If then this was &s;poken of his <HI>Re&s;urrection,</HI> it was not &s;poken either of his Death or Pa&s;&s;ion. As then his body was in the place of <HI>corrupti|on,</HI> but <HI>&s;aw,</HI> but &s;uffered <HI>no corruption,</HI> &s;o his &s;oule was in <HI>Hell,</HI> the place of torments, but &s;uffered no torment.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How under&s;tand you the&s;e two &s;ay|ings of his,</HI>
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 26.38.</NOTE> My Soule is heavy even unto death: <HI>and</HI>
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 27.46.</NOTE> My God, my God, why ha&s;t thou for&s;aken me?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The former he &s;pake as he was man, fore&s;eeing his death at hand, &s;hewing that his Soule was exceeding &s;orrowfull, as ours are, to be parted from the body; The other he &s;pake, becau&s;e the Deity for a time had with|drawen her comfortable vi&s;ion from the &s;oule, that &s;o it might endure, what &s;orrow it was any way capable of. For if there were an <HI>exceeding &s;orrow</HI> in the &s;oule to be parted a while from the bo|dy; what exce&s;&s;e of &s;orrow was in it, think you, when the &s;ight of God was &s;ubtracted from it? &s;ince the vi&s;ion of God is the highe&s;t comfort of the &s;oule:
<PB N="19" REF="11">for
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 16.12.</NOTE> <HI>in his pre&s;ence is the fulne&s;&s;e of joy.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What think you of his</HI> Re&s;urrecti|on?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> After <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> &s;oule had for three daies triumphed over Hell, and all the powers thereof, it was reunited to the body, which aro&s;e from the grave with|out corruption: and both were
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Act. 2.28.</NOTE> <HI>filled with the joy of his countenance.</HI> And to a&s;&s;ure us of this his <HI>Re&s;urrection,</HI>
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Act. 1.3.</NOTE> in his fle&s;h, he was conver&s;ant with his Apo|&s;tles and Di&s;ciples forty daies.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the &s;ixth Article?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. He a&s;cended into Heaven, and &s;it|teth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What doe&s;t thou believe in this Ar|ticle?</HI></P>
<P>A. That the body and &s;oule of <HI>Chri&s;t a&s;cended</HI> together into Heaven, the highe&s;t place of bli&s;&s;e, where they ne|ver were before: and
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Te De|um.</NOTE> at that time <HI>he opened the Kingdome of Heaven to all believers.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Doe&s;t thou understand the&s;e words in the litterall &s;en&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I doe &s;o.</P>
<PB N="20" REF="12">
<P>Q. <HI>Can we &s;ay according to the Let|ter, that God hath a</HI> right hand?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No, we cannot. But both Scri|pture and <HI>Creed,</HI> in this phra&s;e or man|ner of &s;peech, &s;toop to the capacity of man, and expre&s;&s;e unto us hereby that height of glory, which is otherwi&s;e un|expre&s;&s;ible to our under&s;tanding. For it is that glory, which no other eye hath &s;eene, nor care hath heard, neither hath it enter'd into the heart of man to conceive. And how can the tongue ut|ter, what the heart hath not conceived? what is unconceivable is unutterable.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Thou believe&s;t then, that he is a&s;|cended into the highe&s;t place of glory?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I doe &s;o; and that not only in place but in power: for
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 28.18.</NOTE> <HI>to him is all power given,</HI> both <HI>in Heaven and in Earth.</HI> And yet in this height of glory he is in him&s;elfe &s;o humble, and to us &s;o gracious, that
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Ro. 8.34.</NOTE> <HI>he makes continuall in|terce&s;&s;ion for us.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the &s;eaventh Article?</HI></P>
<P>A. <HI>From thence he &s;hall come to judge the quick and the dead.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is this certaine?</HI></P>
<PB N="21" REF="12">
<P><HI>A.</HI> As certain as he is God. And herein is a main comfort for us, that he who &s;uffered for us, and died for us, and continually prayes for us, &s;hall be <HI>our Iudge.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Shall he judge us as he is man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He &s;hall; for
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">S. Io. 5.27.</NOTE> <HI>the Father hath given him Power and Authority to exe|cute judgement.</HI> BECAVSE HE IS THE SONNE OF MAN. And as man
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Heb. 4.15.</NOTE> <HI>he is touched with the feeling of our infirmities,</HI>
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Heb. 5.2.</NOTE> that &s;o <HI>he may have compa&s;&s;ion upon us</HI> weake, wandring, &s;illy men, and apt to be deceived. For
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Heb. 4.15, 16.</NOTE> <HI>in all poynts he was tempted like as we are, yet without &s;inne. Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne of Grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>The eight Article.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. I believe in the Holy Gho&s;t,</HI>
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Nic. Creed.</NOTE> <HI>the Lord and giver of life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne, who with the Father and the Sonne together is wor&s;hipped and glorified; who &s;pake by the Prophets.</HI> The&s;e are three Per&s;ons, and but one God. Thus
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Athan. Creed.</NOTE> <HI>we wor&s;hip
<PB N="22" REF="13">one God in Trinity, and Trinity in &V;ni|ty; neither confounding the Per&s;ons, nor dividing the Sub&s;tance.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>We may not indeed &s;ay, there be three Gods; but may we not &s;ay, there are three Lords?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We may not: for though
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ib.</NOTE> <HI>we be compelled by the Chri&s;tian verity to acknowledge every Per&s;on by him&s;elfe to be God and Lord: yet we are forbidden by the Catholike Religion, to &s;ay there be three Gods, or three Lords.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e, <HI>Lord</HI> in re&s;pect of the three per&s;ons is a name of <HI>&s;ub&s;tance,</HI> not of relation, or property. And <HI>in God</HI> there is but <HI>one Sub&s;tance,</HI> though three|relations.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What meane&s;t thou by relations?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> God is called <HI>Father</HI> with relati|on to his <HI>Sonne;</HI> or becau&s;e he hath a <HI>Sonne.</HI> The &s;econd per&s;on is called the <HI>Sonne,</HI> becau&s;e he hath a <HI>Father.</HI> And the <HI>Holy Gho&s;t</HI> is called &s;o, with relation to them both, becau&s;e he is the <HI>Spirit</HI> both of the Father and the Sonne: for he proceeds from both.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="13">
<P>Q. <HI>We have now the three Per&s;ons in the Trinity, doe we not a&s;cribe to every one of the&s;e a &s;everall worke concerning man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We doe &s;o; to the <HI>Father</HI> we a|&s;cribe our <HI>Creation,</HI> to the <HI>Sonne</HI> our <HI>re|demption,</HI> and to the <HI>Holy Gho&s;t</HI> our <HI>San|ctification.</HI> As the <HI>Father created all,</HI> &s;o the <HI>Sonne redeemed all:</HI> and <HI>the Holy Gho&s;t &s;anctified me, and all the elect peo|ple of God.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why to the</HI> Father <HI>is a&s;cribed the</HI> Creation?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e, though the other two per&s;ons did joyntly and equally create with the Father, yet the originall of that power is in and from him. And yet
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Athan. Creed.</NOTE> <HI>none is afore or after other, none is grea|ter or le&s;&s;e then another.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why to the</HI> Sonne <HI>our</HI> Redempti|on?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e by his blood we are re|deemed from death and Hell.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why to the</HI> Holy Gho&s;t <HI>our</HI> &s;ancti|fication?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e it is his &s;peciall worke to
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 1.2.</NOTE> <HI>Sanctify us</HI> by his guifts and graces.
<PB N="24" REF="14">Hence is it, that we call him the <HI>holy Spirit,</HI> becau&s;e he is the <HI>Spirit</HI> that makes us <HI>holy,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Q. We acknowledge, that the</HI> Sonne of God redeemed all mankind: <HI>why doe we not al&s;o confe&s;&s;e, that the</HI> Holy Gho&s;t Sanctifies <HI>all mankind, but</HI> the elect peo|ple of God?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e <HI>Chri&s;t redeemes all,</HI> that they may be &s;anctified; but <HI>the Holy Gho&s;t Sanctifies</HI> only tho&s;e, that believe in <HI>Christ,</HI> or are bapti&s;ed into <HI>Christ,</HI> that &s;o they may be his elect. For we are
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 1.2.</NOTE> <HI>elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through &s;anctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> So both the&s;e workes mu&s;t concurre to our <HI>election.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the ninth Article?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. I believe the Catholike Church, the Communion of Saints.</HI> Or
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Nic. Creed.</NOTE> <HI>I believe one Catholike and Apostolike Church: Catholike</HI> for time and place, <HI>Apo&s;to|like</HI> for faith and government.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why call you this Church a</HI> Com|munion of Saints?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e it is a &s;ociety of men,
<PB N="25" REF="14">that are Sanctified in Bapti&s;me, by Faith in <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> through the operation of the Spirit.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is a</HI> Church?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Art. 19.</NOTE> <HI>The vi&s;ible Church of Chri&s;t, is a Congregation of faithfull men, in the which the pure word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duely mini&s;tred, according to Chri&s;ts Ordinance, in all tho&s;e things, that of nece&s;&s;ity are requi&s;ite to the &s;ame.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What doe&s;t thou collect from hence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The&s;e three things. 1. That the Church con&s;i&s;ts of <HI>Faithfull men;</HI> that is, of &s;uch who profe&s;&s;e the Chri&s;tian faith. 2. <HI>The word of God</HI> mu&s;t be &s;incerely <HI>Preached.</HI> And thirdly, <HI>The Sacra|ments</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>duely mini&s;tred</HI> to the Congregation, <HI>according to Chri&s;t's Or|dinance.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Js it lawfull for every Chri&s;tian, that will, to preach the word, and admini|&s;ter the Sacraments?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No,
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Art. 23.</NOTE> <HI>it is not lawfull for any man to do &s;o, unle&s;&s;e he be lawfully called and &s;ent to execute the &s;ame.</HI></P>
<PB N="26" REF="15">
<P>Q. <HI>Whom judge you to be</HI> lawfully cal|led and &s;ent?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All tho&s;e,
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>who be cho&s;en and cal|led to this work by men, who have publike authority given unto them in the Congre|gation, to call and &s;end Mini&s;ters into the Lords Vineyard.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who have publike authority given them, to call and &s;end Mini&s;ters into the Lords &V;ineyard?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Onely <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> in the Church of <HI>England:</HI> as is to be &s;een Article 36. and in the <HI>Book of Ordination.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why doth this Church allow no other but Bi&s;hops to give orders?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e &s;he findes no meere men allowed to do it in the New Te&s;tament, but only the <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> their Succe&s;&s;ors. And &s;he keeps clo&s;e to Scrip|ture.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Have</HI> Bi&s;hops <HI>this</HI> Power of Or|dination <HI>conferr'd upon them in Scrip|ture?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is evident they have.
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">At the end of the &s;e|cond Ep. to Timothy.</NOTE> <HI>Timothy</HI> was the <HI>fir&s;t Bi&s;hop of the Church of the Ephe&s;ians.</HI> And upon him S. <HI>Paul</HI> layes this charge,
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1. Tim. 5.22.</NOTE> <HI>Lay hands &s;uddainly on no
<PB N="27" REF="15">man.</HI>
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">At the end of the Ep. to Ti|tus.</NOTE> <HI>Titus</HI> was the <HI>fir&s;t Bi&s;hop of the Church of the Cretians;</HI> And to him the &s;ame Apo&s;tle &s;peakes thus;
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Tit. 1.5.</NOTE> <HI>For this cau&s;e left I thee in Creet, that thou &s;hould, e&s;t ordaine Presbyters,</HI> or <HI>Elders in every City.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is not this power given to</HI> Presby|ters?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not any where in the New Te&s;t|ament.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why doe you &s;ay,</HI> I beleive the Ca|tholique Church, <HI>and not, J beleive in the Catholique Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e it is a part of my Creed to <HI>beleive</HI> that there is <HI>one Catholik Church:</HI> but it is no part of my Creed, to <HI>beleive in,</HI> or to put my confidence in the Church; &s;ince the Church is a Congre|gation of rea&s;onable Chri&s;tian Creatures: and
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg"><HI>H&acirc;c prae|po&s;itionis &s;yllab&acirc; IN Creator a Creaturis &s;ocernitur, &amp; divina &s;eperantur abhumanis. Rufin in Symb. n.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> this is a peculiar which belongs on|ly to the <HI>Creator,</HI> God ble&s;&s;ed for ever. And I will <HI>beleive the Church,</HI> &s;o long as &s;he contradicts not God in his word. But if &s;he doe, I &s;hall forbeare to credit her in &s;uch things. I will <HI>beleive God,</HI> who is truth it &s;elfe; and <HI>believe in that God,</HI> who is able to undeceive her, and
<PB N="28" REF="16">to lead her into the way of all truth. I will only beleive in him, who cannot deceive or be deceived; who cannot be overtopped or cro&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why &s;ay you,</HI> one Catholique Church?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Vniver&s;a Eccle&s;ia ex multis con|&s;tat Eccle|&s;iis, &s;icut univer&s;a terra ex multis ter|ris. Aug. de civit. Dei. l.</HI> 13. <HI>c.</HI> 12.</NOTE> though there be many particular Churches, yet there is but <HI>one Catholique</HI> or univer&s;all Church, which is not bounded but with
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 2.8.</NOTE> <HI>the uttermo&s;t parts of the earth,</HI> and all the&s;e are but <HI>one</HI> in faith and Government; as our Sa|viours Body, though con&s;i&s;ting of many Members, is but one, knit together by &s;inewes, and quickened with the &s;ame Soule.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>The tenth Article?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. I beleeve the forgivene&s;&s;e of &s;ins.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why doth this Article follow imme|diatly after mention of the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e it is a ble&s;&s;ing, which God be&s;towes only in the Church, and upon the Members of the Church.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is Salvation to be hoped for in the Church only?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is &s;o, by the joynt con&s;ent both of the Ancient and Moderne writers.</P>
<PB N="29" REF="16">
<P>Q. <HI>What's the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Eph. 1.22, 23.</NOTE> <HI>The Church is the Body of Chri&s;t.</HI> As therefore no Member, that is &s;eperated from the body, receives life by or with the body; neither doth any Chri&s;tian partake of the life of grace, or forgivene&s;&s;e of &s;innes, that is divided, or cut off from <HI>the Church,</HI> which is <HI>Chri&s;ts Body.</HI> Ob&s;erve, the body receives life from the head, and di&s;tributes it to all the members that it hath.
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Ib. <HI>&amp;</HI> Col. 1.18.</NOTE> <HI>Chri&s;t is the head of the Church;</HI> from him the Church receives life and comfort, and conveies them to every particular member, that &s;o they may live, and di&s;charge their &s;everall duties. But divided from the body, the members can receive no life or comfort from the head.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is this remi&s;&s;ion of &s;innes to be found in all Churches?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes, without que&s;tion in all &s;uch Churches, wherein
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Art. 19.</NOTE> <HI>the pure word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly mini&s;tred, according to Chri&s;ts or|dinance;</HI> but in no other.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>To whom is this forgivene&s;&s;e pro|mi&s;ed?</HI></P>
<PB N="30" REF="17">
<P><HI>A.</HI> To all tho&s;e,
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Ab&s;olu|tion.</NOTE> <HI>that truly repent, and unfeignedly beleeve his holy Gospell.</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 11.28.</NOTE> He calls to all, he is mercifull to all: he hath given us a ta&s;t of his goodne&s;&s;e in pardoning the greate&s;t and fowle&s;t &s;innes. Not that we might imitate or practice them; but that we might un|der&s;tand, that our gracious God is ready to pardon the greate&s;t &s;inner, if &s;o he turne unto the Lord humbly with un|feigned &s;orrow and repentance, and bring forth fruits worthy of amendment of life.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>May the</HI> &s;inne again&s;t the holy Gho&s;t <HI>be pardoned?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> This &s;inne is rai&s;ed to the full height, it is made up by finall impeni|tence. Take away finall impenitence, and the &s;inne is pardonable.
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">S. <HI>Mat.</HI> 4.17.</NOTE> <HI>Repent</HI> (&s;aith the Scripture) <HI>and the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand:</HI> but
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 13.3.5.</NOTE> <HI>unle&s;&s;e you repent, ye &s;hall all peri&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>This is comfortable doctrine: but what rea&s;on have you for it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> My faith re&s;ts upon Gods good|ne&s;&s;e, and gracious promi&s;es.
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg"><HI>De re|mi&s;&s;ione peccatoru~ &s;ufficere deberet &s;o|ta creduli|tas. Quis enim can|&s;as aut ra|tionem re quirat, ubi indulgentia principalis e&s;t?</HI> Rufin. <HI>in Symb. n.</HI> 171.</NOTE> When God hath &s;poke the word, rea&s;on mu&s;t &s;ubmit.</P>
<PB N="31" REF="17">
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the eleventh Article?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. J beleeve the Re&s;urrection of the body;</HI> namely, that this very body, in which I live, and move, &s;hall be rai&s;ed out of the du&s;t in the la&s;t day.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What, this very body?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Certainly this &s;elfe &s;ame body. For doth not <HI>Job</HI> &s;ay;
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job. 19.26, 27.</NOTE> <HI>I &s;hall &s;ee God in my fle&s;h, and not with other, but with</HI> THESE EYES <HI>&s;hall I behold him.</HI> And S. <HI>Paul,</HI> THIS CORRVPTIBLE <HI>&s;hall put on incorruption, and</HI> THIS MORTALL,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 15.53.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hall put on immortality. This</HI> and no o|ther.
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rufin. in Symb.</HI> n. 182.</NOTE> In the Church of <HI>Aquileia</HI> there|fore, at the rehear&s;all of the Creed, e|very man when he came to this Arti|cle, &s;igned his forhead with the &s;igne of the Cro&s;&s;e, and &s;aid, <HI>I beleive the Re&s;ur|rection of</HI> THIS FLESH, <HI>this</HI> very <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> that he touched with his finger.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Js not this a wonderfull thing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is &s;o, and &s;o are the re&s;t of the Articles, if &s;trictly &s;canned; all above the eye of Rea&s;on.
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 15.36. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> S. <HI>Paul</HI> gives us a &s;imily of <HI>a grain of Wheat,</HI> how it is bu|ried, and dies, and rots, and then ri&s;eth again far more fre&s;h, then it was ca&s;t
<PB N="32" REF="18">into the earth. Were this but rarely &s;een, it would &s;eem mo&s;t wonder|full.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What if the body be burned to a&s;h|es?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Clem. ep.</HI> 1. <HI>ad Cor.</HI> p. 34, 35.</NOTE> S. <HI>Clement,</HI>
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.3.</NOTE> (of whom S. <HI>Paul</HI> makes mention, <HI>Phil.</HI> 4.3.) in that E|pi&s;tle, which in the primitive times was u&s;ually read in all Churches, to prevent this que&s;tion, gives us the example of the <HI>Phenix,</HI> which every 500 yeares is burnt to A&s;hes; and out of tho&s;e A&s;nes ari&s;eth the &s;ame <HI>Phenix</HI> againe, young, fre&s;h, and vigorous.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Have we no &s;uch example in Scrip|ture?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We have <HI>Ezek.</HI> 37.1. where the dead, dry, &s;catter'd bones come toge|ther, <HI>bone to his bone,</HI> and &s;inewes and fle&s;h came upon them, and fle&s;h upon the skin, and breath enter'd into them, and they &s;tood up an exceeding great armie.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>When &s;hall this Re&s;urrection be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 15.24.</NOTE> At the la&s;t and great day of Doome.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What becomes of the Soule all this
<PB N="33" REF="18">while? does that al&s;o dye?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How prove you that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Mat. 22.32.</NOTE> God calls him&s;elf the <HI>God of A|braham, I&s;aac, and Iacob,</HI> but <HI>God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.</HI> Though then they be dead in body, in &s;oule they live.
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Luc. 16.22.</NOTE> We finde <HI>Lazaru's</HI> &s;oule alive in a place of bli&s;&s;e,
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ib v. 24.</NOTE> and <HI>Di|ve's</HI> &s;oule in a place of torment,
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 28.</NOTE> while his brethren were living here on earth. And our &s;aviour promi&s;ed the penitent Theif, that
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Luc. 23.43.</NOTE> he &s;hould be <HI>that day with him in Paradice.</HI> Which was &s;poke of his &s;oule; for
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Io 19.31, 32.</NOTE> his body was that day bu|ried in the grave. To the&s;e may be added
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Rev. 6.9.</NOTE> the &s;oules of the Martyrs, which lye under the Altar.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>By who&s;e power &s;hall they be rai&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By the power of Chri&s;t. For
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Ioh. 5.28, 29.</NOTE> all <HI>that are in their graves &s;hall heare the voyce of</HI> THE SON OF MAN: <HI>And &s;hall come forth they that have done good, unto the Re&s;urrection of life; and they that have done evill, unto the Re&s;urrection of damnation.</HI> If then we &s;hould not have the&s;e our own very bodies at the re&s;ur|rection,
<PB N="34" REF="19">God &s;hould deale unju&s;tly to torment tho&s;e bodies in hell fire, which had never done ami&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Q <HI>The last Article.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. The life everla&s;ting.</HI> For they that have done good
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Dan. 12.3.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hall &s;hine as the stars for ever and ever:</HI>
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25.41.</NOTE> and they that have done evill, <HI>&s;hall be cur&s;ed into everla&s;t|ing fire.</HI>
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Athan. Creed.</NOTE> <HI>This is the Catholique Faith, which execept a man beleive faithfully, he cannot be &s;aved.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="34-84" TYPE="pages">
<P>Q. <HI>You &s;aid that your Godfathers and Godmothers did al&s;o promi&s;e for you, that you &s;hould keep God's Commandements. Tell me, how many there be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Ten.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. The &s;ame which God &s;pake in the twentieth Chapter of</HI> Exodus, <HI>&s;aying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the Land of</HI> Egypt, <HI>out of the hou&s;e of bondage.</HI> This is the preface; wherein he &s;hews, who it is that &s;peaks unto them, and laies this obligation upon them, to harken to his words.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the fir&s;t Commandement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thou &s;halt have none other Gods
<PB N="35" REF="19">but me.</HI> None but this God, who by a &s;trong hand and &s;tretched out arme deli|vered them out of the hands of <HI>Pharao,</HI> and from all his Ho&s;t; and brought them as &s;afely as miraculou&s;ly through the red Sea.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What God is this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The &s;ame God, whom in our Creed we confe&s;&s;e to be the <HI>Father Al|mighty,</HI> maker of Heaven and earth.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>VVhy then doth he not tell them &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e they were eye-witne&s;&s;es of this his miraculous power; wherein he manife&s;ted his <HI>Omnipotencie,</HI>
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Ex. 14.21.</NOTE> in commanding the Winds, and the Sea;
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Ex. 13.21.14.20.</NOTE> in making the day as night to the <HI>E|gyptians,</HI> and the night as day to the <HI>I&s;|raelites,</HI> by the Cloud and Fiery Pillar:
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 24.25. &amp;c.</NOTE> In routing and de&s;troying the mighty, and delivering the naked from the pe|rill of the &s;word.
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Num. 20.11. P&s;. 114.8.</NOTE> In cau&s;ing the rock of flint to yeeld a &s;pring of water,
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Ex. 16.13.15.</NOTE> and the heavens to &s;howre downe <HI>Manna</HI> and <HI>Quailes</HI> for their food. This his late kindne&s;&s;e bound them to harken to him.</P>
<PB N="36" REF="20">
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the &s;econd Commande|ment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thou &s;halt not make to thy &s;elfe any Graven Image, nor the likene&s;&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is it not lawfull to make a</HI> Graven Image?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is: otherwi&s;e
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">1. Kings. 6.23.</NOTE> <HI>Solomon</HI> would not have made
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1. Kings. 6.23.</NOTE> tho&s;e two <HI>Cherubims,</HI> much le&s;&s;e have
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Heb. 9.5.</NOTE> placed them in the Holy of Holies, over the mercy &s;eat: and the&s;e are they (as I take it) which are called the <HI>Cherubims of Image-worke,</HI> 2. <HI>Chron.</HI> 3.10. Neither would he have made the
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1. Kings 6.29.</NOTE> <HI>carved Cherubims,</HI> &amp; Palm|trees upon the walls
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 32.35.</NOTE> and upon the doores both of the Temple and Oracle. nor
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2. Chron. 4.3.</NOTE> the <HI>molten Oxen,</HI> or
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1. Kings. 7.36.</NOTE> <HI>graven Lyons.</HI>
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 51.</NOTE> All which he cau&s;ed to be &s;et in the hou&s;e of the Lord.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Where's the fault then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. In making them to thy &s;elfe,</HI> to be <HI>thy God; in bowing downe to them, and wor&s;hiping them.</HI> El&s;ewhere therefore it is &s;aid,
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Lev. 26.1.</NOTE> <HI>Yee &s;hall not &s;et up any Image of &s;tone in your Land,</HI> TO BOW DOWN VNTO IT. And
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Deut. 17.15. P&s;. 97.7.</NOTE> the cur&s;e is laid upon tho&s;e that wor&s;hip carved or molten I|mages,
<PB N="37" REF="20">not upon tho&s;e that make them; unle&s;&s;e they make them for that or the like u&s;e.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>VVhy &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e this is God's honour, and he will not part with it to any other, <HI>Thou &s;halt wor&s;hip the Lord thy God, and</HI> HIM ONLY SHALT THOV SERV.
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Deut. 13.4.</NOTE> So the Law,
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 4.10.</NOTE> &s;o the Go&s;pell. As then they offend that give God's wor&s;hip to Idols; &s;o do they &s;inne again&s;t his Com|mandements, that do not <HI>bow downe to God, and wor&s;hip him.</HI> As the former are <HI>Jdolaters,</HI> the latter are little better then <HI>Athei&s;ts;</HI> for
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Tit. 1.16.</NOTE> <HI>in their workes,</HI> in their Church duties, <HI>they deny him</HI> to be their God.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Hath not God him&s;elfe given a rea|&s;on for this.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He hath in the very next words, <HI>For I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God.</HI> And the condition of <HI>jealou&s;ie</HI> is, that as it cannot endure to have that, which is our due given to another, neither can we di&s;ge&s;t to have it denied to our &s;elvs. For it is all one to me, to have that, which is mine, denied me, or given to another.</P>
<PB N="38" REF="21">
<P>Q. <HI>What followes upon this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That God is equally angry with them, that do not <HI>bow downe to him,</HI> and with tho&s;e, that <HI>bow dow down to Idols:</HI> he counts them equally <HI>haters of him|&s;efe,</HI> and will equally <HI>&V;i&s;ite the &s;innes of the Fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation,</HI> of them that &s;in again&s;t him either way.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>But how doth he e&s;teem of them, that dete&s;t</HI> Idolatry, <HI>and give him his due wor&s;hip, that</HI> bow downe to him, and wor&s;hip him?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He reckoneth them among his lovers and friends; <HI>they love me</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>and keep my Commandements.</HI> And as they <HI>love him,</HI> &s;o doth he love them; for <HI>in them he will &s;hew mercy unto thou|&s;ands</HI> of their generation. And &s;urely this is rea&s;on &s;ufficient to move every Chri&s;tian
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 95.6.</NOTE> to <HI>wor&s;hip and fall downe, and kneele before the Lord</HI> our God.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>The third Commandement.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thou &s;halt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine, for the Lord will not hold him guiltle&s;&s;e that taketh his name in vaine.</HI></P>
<PB N="39" REF="21">
<P>Q. <HI>What is the meaning of this Com|mandement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Yee &s;hall not <HI>&s;weare.</HI> by my Name <HI>fal&s;ely;</HI> nei|ther &s;halt thou <HI>pro|phane the Name of thy God.</HI> Lev. 19.12.</NOTE> That we doe not ra&s;hly, and upon &s;leight occa&s;ions take his <HI>Name</HI> or word into our mouthes; much le&s;&s;e <HI>pro|phane</HI> or bla&s;pheme it. That we <HI>&s;weare</HI> not ra&s;hly, or vainely, or fal&s;ely.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is it lawfull to &s;weare at all?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is; otherwi&s;e the P&s;almi&s;t would never have &s;aid, that
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 63.12.</NOTE> <HI>All they, that &s;weare by God, &s;hall be commended.</HI> Indeed
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Heb. 6.16. Exod. 22.11.</NOTE> &s;ome Controver&s;ies cannot well be ended without an oath. But
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Ier. 4.2.</NOTE> it mu&s;t be taken <HI>in ju&s;tice, and judgement, and truth:</HI> that is, as is confe&s;&s;ed on all hands, we may &s;weare only to doe &s;uch things, as are lawfull, and hone&s;t; and make oath of &s;uch things only, as are certainly knowne unto us.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>It is not good then to</HI> &s;weare, <HI>but upon ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is not; for our Saviours com|mand is,
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 5.34.</NOTE> <HI>Sweare not at all. But let your Communication be Yea, Yea; Nay, Nay: For what&s;oever is more then the&s;e, com|meth of evill.</HI> Either <HI>of evill</HI> in thy &s;elfe, or in others. <HI>Of evill</HI> in thy &s;elfe, when
<PB N="40" REF="22">thou ha&s;t got a naughty cu&s;tome of &s;wearing; or ha&s;t behaved thy &s;elfe &s;o ill, that no man will beleeve thee with|out an oath. <HI>Of evill</HI> in others, when they are &s;o mi&s;tru&s;tfull, that they will not beleeve any man without an oath. Or when by rea&s;on of injuries, or con|trover&s;ies between Neighbours, thou art brought upon thy oath.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who &s;inne again&s;t this Commande|ment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All common and u&s;uall &s;wearers, all bla&s;phemers and prophaners of Gods name or word; all perjured per&s;ons; all that &s;weare, before they are re&s;olved of the point in que&s;tion; all that &s;weare, what they know not, though never &s;o true: all they that enforce, or entice, or occa&s;ion any per&s;on to &s;weare that, which is contrary to Gods word, or honour, or the truth, or what is doubt|full unto him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What's the rea&s;on for this?</HI></P>
<P>A. <HI>For the Lord will not hold him guiltle&s;&s;e, that taketh his name in vaine.</HI> Though it be not &s;o great a &s;inne as <HI>Ido|latry,</HI> or as the contempt or neglect of
<PB N="41" REF="22">Gods wor&s;hip; though he threatens not to <HI>puni&s;h</HI> them in &s;o deep a mea&s;ure, yet <HI>he will not hold them guiltle&s;&s;e;</HI> he will puni&s;h them according to the mea&s;ure of their &s;inne; though not &s;o &s;everely as <HI>unto the third and fourth generation.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the fourth Commande|ment?</HI></P>
<P>A. <HI>Remember, that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Six dayes &s;halt thou labour, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>This precept begins not like the re&s;t. What conceive you to be the rea&s;on of this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It begins with a <HI>Memento,</HI> for the&s;e rea&s;ons. I. Becau&s;e it is not mo|rall and perpetuall, as the re&s;t are. II. Be|cau&s;e it was but now newly given. III. Becau&s;e the Iewes were a people much given to the world, much &s;et up|on their profit; and &s;o they might make a gaine, they &s;pared neither man nor bea&s;t.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Was not this precept ob&s;erved be|fore this time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Truly no; we read indeed, that
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Gen. 2.2.</NOTE> <HI>on the &s;eventh day God ended his worke,
<PB N="42" REF="23">and re&s;ted on the &s;eventh day from all his worke which he had made.</HI> And that
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 3.</NOTE> <HI>God ble&s;&s;ed the &s;eventh day, and &s;ancti|fied it, becau&s;e that in it he had re&s;ted from all his worke.</HI> But we find not any command given to man for keeping the <HI>&s;eventh day;</HI> or that any of tho&s;e good men before <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> kept it holy. Nei|ther is any mention at all made of the Sabbath, from <HI>Gen.</HI> 2. to <HI>Exod.</HI> 16.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What meet you with there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> There I find, that when God had delivered the Children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> out of the hand of <HI>Pharao,</HI> and all his ho&s;t, when he had brought them thorough the red Sea into the wilderne&s;&s;e, when he had fed them with Manna and Quailes from Heaven, that
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Exod. 16.27.</NOTE> he cea&s;ed to raine downe this heavenly food on the &s;eventh day,
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 25, 26.</NOTE> that the people might take notice of the <HI>Sabbath.</HI> There in|deed the Lord commanded, that
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 29.</NOTE> <HI>no man goe out of his place on the &s;eventh day.</HI> And
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 30.</NOTE> <HI>the people</HI> accordingly <HI>re&s;ted on the &s;eventh day:</HI> but it was only from gathering Manna and Quailes, for ought can be thence collected.</P>
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<P>Q. <HI>Is this all?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes. For though God intimated unto them &s;everall wayes, that he had made this a day of re&s;t, yet he com|mands it not to be <HI>kept holy,</HI> or to be &s;et apart for his &s;ervice, till <HI>Exod</HI> 20.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What rea&s;on is there for this re&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> 1. That they might have a day to meditate upon the Creation, and &s;o to be put in mind of this their Creator. 2. That they might learne to be holy as God is holy, by making <HI>the &s;eventh day an holy day</HI> to &s;erve the Lord in. 3. That they might learne of God to be mercifull, and to give their &s;ervants re&s;t, as he had given them re&s;t from their bondage. For &s;o &s;aith the Lord, <HI>Deut.</HI> 5.14. <HI>That thy man-&s;ervant and thy maid-&s;ervant may re&s;t as well as thou.</HI> Where he addes a &s;econd <HI>memen|to</HI> to this Commandement:
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Deut. 5.15.</NOTE> <HI>And</HI> REMEMBER, &s;aith he, <HI>that thou wa&s;t a &s;ervant in the Land of Aegypt. and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence, through a mighty hand, and by a &s;tretched out arme:</HI> THEREFORE <HI>the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the
<PB N="44" REF="24">Sabbath day.</HI> So the &s;ame God, that created the world, brought them out of <HI>Aegypt.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Doe we keep the &s;ame day holy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No, we keep the fir&s;t day of the week holy; that day, whereon Chri&s;t aro&s;e from the dead.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Did Chri&s;t ari&s;e from the grave on the first day of the week?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Scripture manife&s;ts it. For we read, that <HI>when Je&s;us was ri&s;en early, the fir&s;t day of the week, he appeared fir&s;t to Mary Magdalen.</HI> S^t Mark. 16.9.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is this agreeable to Gods com|mand?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Though it be not agreeable to the letter, it failes not of the meaning. Though we keep not <HI>the &s;eventh day,</HI> we keep <HI>one of the &s;even,</HI> which imitates Gods re&s;t after our &s;ixe dayes labour. And an hard matter it is to prove, that God gave over &s;ending <HI>Manna</HI> upon the <HI>&s;eventh day</HI> of the week: and yet that day the people re&s;ted.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>From that time, when God com|manded the</HI> &s;eventh day; <HI>is it lawfull for man to alter the day?</HI></P>
<PB N="45" REF="24">
<P><HI>A.</HI> A le&s;&s;e ble&s;&s;ing gives way to the greater, <HI>Creation</HI> to <HI>Redemption.</HI> Be|&s;ides, we know, that &s;hadowes and fi|gures were to vani&s;h, when <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> came. But the <HI>Sabbath</HI> was <HI>a &s;hadow, Col.</HI> 2.16, 17. it was therefore to vani&s;h, when our Saviour had actually accompli&s;hed, what was prefigured by the <HI>Sabbath.</HI> The Apo&s;tles therefore after our Savi|ours Re&s;urrection, made the fir&s;t day of the week the <HI>day of re&s;t;</HI> as appeares S. <HI>Joh.</HI> 20.26. 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 16.2. <HI>Apoc.</HI> 1.10.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Did the Apo&s;tles command us to keep this day?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No; but we
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 11.1.</NOTE> according to Saint <HI>Pauls</HI> rule imitate the <HI>Apo&s;tles;</HI> know|ing, that they were guided by the Spirit of God. The <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> began to keep this day, the fir&s;t day of the week; and the Church of God hath done &s;o ever &s;ince. The <HI>practice of the Apo&s;tles</HI> is a &s;ufficient warrant.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is it lawfull to doe no manner of worke on this day?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not the workes of our trade or vocation, to make a gaine thereby. But upon that day we may doe workes of
<PB N="46" REF="25">nece&s;&s;ity, and workes of charity.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How prove you this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By our Saviours Doctrine and practice. 1. By his doctrine; for
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 12.1. &amp; 3. &amp;c.</NOTE> he ju&s;tified by Scripture, <HI>that it was lawfull for his Di&s;ciples on the Sabbath day, to gather eares of Corne, and eate them.</HI> And that it is as
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 14.5.</NOTE> lawfull for us, <HI>to pull our oxe or a&s;&s;e out of a ditch on the Sab|bath day.</HI> This for workes of nece&s;&s;ity. And for workes of charity, or mercy, he ju&s;tifies them by his owne practice.
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 12.13.</NOTE> <HI>On the Sabbath day he healed the wi|thered hand;</HI> as al&s;o
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 14.4.</NOTE> <HI>the man &s;ick of the Pal&s;ie.</HI>
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">S. Ioh. 9.14.</NOTE> <HI>On this day he opened the eyes of the blind.</HI> And not only &s;o, but he gives us directions for the future, a&s;&s;uring us, that
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">S. Marc. 2.27.</NOTE> <HI>The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the fifth Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>A. <HI>Honour thy father and mother,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who are meant by</HI> Father and Mo|ther?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I. Our naturall Parents. II. The <HI>King and his Mini&s;ters:</HI> that is, all &s;uch as are placed in authority by the <HI>King.</HI> III. All my governours, teachers, &s;pi|rituall
<PB N="47" REF="25"><HI>Pa&s;tors and Ma&s;ters.</HI> And in the la&s;t place, <HI>all my betters.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Of naturall Parents there's no que&s;tion; but is the</HI> King <HI>my</HI> Father?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The <HI>Kings</HI> &s;tile hath ever been
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Pater Patriae.</NOTE> the <HI>Father of his Country;</HI> to put us in mind of our filiall duty, and him of the Fatherly and tender affection, he ought to bare to his Subjects. And are not
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">E&s;. 49.23.</NOTE> <HI>Kings and Queenes</HI> called, the <HI>nur&s;ing Fathers, and nur&s;ing Mothers</HI> of the Church? To &s;ignifie to us, who are the Sonnes of the Church, what they are to us, and how we ought to behave our &s;elves towards them.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How ought we to</HI> honour the King?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> As Gods &s;ub&s;titute and immedi|are Vicegerent: for
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2. Chron 9.8.</NOTE> <HI>on the Lords throne he &s;its, to be King for the Lord thy God.</HI> So then he is next to God, and le&s;&s;e then God only.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Wherein doth this</HI> honour <HI>con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Pro. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> v. 24.21.</NOTE> In fearing to di&s;plea&s;e him;
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 2.13.</NOTE> in obeying him, in reverencing and loving him;
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.6, 7.</NOTE> in giving him, what ever is due to him by the Law of nature, the Law of God, and the Law of the Land.</P>
<PB N="48" REF="26">
<P>Q. <HI>How farre forth mu&s;t we</HI> obey the King?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> So farre forth, as he commands nothing that is contrary to the Law of nature, or the Law of God.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>May the King command, what is evil?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He ought not. If he doe,
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Act. 5.29.</NOTE> <HI>we mu&s;t obey God, and not man.</HI> But though he may not command us to doe that, which in it &s;elfe is evill, or unlawfull, yet he may prohibite &s;ome things, that in them&s;elves are lawfull and hone&s;t; though they &s;eeme nece&s;&s;ary for the pre&s;ervation of a Common-wealth. And this prohibition we are bound to obey.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How prove you this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Jer. 35.6, 7.</NOTE> <HI>Jonadab</HI> commanded the <HI>Re|chabites</HI> his &s;onnes, that neither they, nor their Children &s;hould 1. <HI>drink wine</HI> for ever. And that they &s;hould neither 2. <HI>build hou&s;e,</HI> nor 3. <HI>&s;ow &s;eed,</HI> nor 4. <HI>plant Vineyard,</HI> nor 5. <HI>have any.</HI> We know, that in them&s;elves all the&s;e things are lawfull and hone&s;t; and yet
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 8.</NOTE> they obey|ed the voyce of their Father <HI>Jonadab,</HI> in forbearing the&s;e. And God com|mends them and rewards them for it:
<PB N="49" REF="26">for his promi&s;e to them is this,
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 19.20.</NOTE> <HI>Be|cau&s;e yee have obeyed the commandement of Jonadab your Father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all, that he hath commanded you, Jonadab the Sonne of Rechab &s;hall not want a man to &s;tand before me for ever.</HI> And the <HI>King</HI> hath an higher power over us, then our Parents have.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Are you &s;ure of this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> This is learned by daily experi|ence. If my Father command me one way, and the <HI>Kings</HI> Officer another, I mu&s;t obey the <HI>Kings</HI> Officer, and not my <HI>Father.</HI> The rea&s;on is, becau&s;e as I am &s;ubject to my Father, &s;o is my Fa|ther &s;ubject to the <HI>King.</HI> The <HI>King</HI> therefore may puni&s;h my Father for his countermand, and me for obeying it. Indeed my Father is but the Father of a Family, but <HI>the King is the Father of all his Country;</HI> that is, of all the Fami|lies in His Dominions: He hath there|fore Power both over me and my Fa|ther. Be&s;ides,
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Ro. 13.4.</NOTE> the King hath the Power of the Sword, of life and death: which a Father hath not. For if my Father kill
<PB N="50" REF="27">me, the <HI>King</HI> ought to que&s;tion him, and to execute Iu&s;tice upon him for this wicked Fact.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>May no man controule, or forbid, what the</HI> King <HI>commands?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Surely no: for
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 2.13.</NOTE> <HI>the King is Su|preme,</HI> the highe&s;t power under God. All other Civill powers are to be obey|ed &s;o farre forth,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 14.</NOTE> <HI>as they are &s;ent by the King,</HI> as they have Authority from him, and no further. To be otherwi&s;e taught, is but to be trained up to Rebellion. For the <HI>King</HI> is not only the Fountaine of Honour, but the Fountaine of all Ci|vill power, within his owne Domini|ons; as the Apo&s;tles ju&s;tifie, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.1. S. <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.14.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>But &s;uppo&s;e the</HI> King <HI>command that, which is utterly unlawfull, and con|trary to Gods word, may we di&s;obey?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Di&s;obey him we may, to obey God. That is; we mu&s;t preferre Gods command, before the <HI>Kings.</HI> And this cannot ju&s;tly be called di&s;obedience, but obedience; &s;ince we
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Ro. 13.1.</NOTE> <HI>obey the high|er Powers,</HI> namely God, <HI>from whom he hath this Power.</HI></P>
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<P>Q. <HI>And may we</HI> re&s;i&s;t <HI>in this, or &s;uch like ca&s;es?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We may not; &s;ince that God, who hath charged <HI>obedience</HI> upon us,
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ib. v.</HI> 2. <HI>Non re&s;i|&s;tit, quod &s;ubiectum e&s;t Aug. de ver&acirc; Relig. c.</HI> 35.</NOTE> hath forbidden <HI>re&s;i&s;tance</HI> upon paine of <HI>damnation.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is to be done in the&s;e &s;treights?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> When we may not &s;ubmit to the command injoyned, we mu&s;t &s;ubmit to the penalty inflicted. Thus did the A|po&s;tles of <HI>Christ;</HI> and thus mu&s;t we.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What if the King be a Tyrant, or Per&s;ecuter of the Orthodoxe Faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Magi&s;tra|tibus ex a|nimo defe|rendus e&s;t honor, eti|am tyran|nis.</HI> Beza <HI>in</HI> Act. 23.5.</NOTE> Yet we mu&s;t &s;ubmit, as is pre|&s;cribed. After this manner the Apo&s;tles and their Scholars, &s;ubmitted to <HI>Nero, Domitian, Julian,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is due to the</HI> King <HI>by the Law of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Ro. 13.1.</NOTE> Subjection, Reverence,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 6, 7.</NOTE> Tri|bute, Cu&s;tome,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Prov. 24.21.</NOTE> Feare and
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 2.17.</NOTE> Honour. And no humane Law can take the&s;e, or any of the&s;e from him, &s;ince <HI>the divine Law is the Supreme Law:</HI> and every Law is voyd, as &s;oon as made, that is contrary to this Law. And hence it is, that we are commanded to obey Prin|ces
<PB N="52" REF="28">
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 2.13.</NOTE> <HI>for the Lords &s;ake,</HI>
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ro. 13.5.</NOTE> <HI>for Con&s;cience &s;ake,</HI> and
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 2.</NOTE> <HI>upon paine of damnation.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why is God &s;o carefull of</HI> Kings?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> 1. Becau&s;e
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2. Chron. 9.8.</NOTE> they are his Sub&s;ti|tutes, and repre&s;ent his Maie&s;tie. 2. Be|cau&s;e
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Lamen. 4.20.</NOTE> they are <HI>Gods Anointed.</HI> 3. Be|cau&s;e
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1. S Pet. 2.14.</NOTE> in di&s;po&s;ing Favours, and di&s;|pen&s;ing Iu&s;tice, they cannot but draw much envy upon them&s;elves. 4. Becau&s;e
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2. Sam. 18.3.</NOTE> the King is <HI>worth ten thou&s;and of</HI> the be&s;t of <HI>us.</HI> And yet when the people &s;pake this of <HI>David,</HI> there were brave men among them, <HI>viz.</HI>
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 2.</NOTE> <HI>Ittai</HI> the <HI>Git|tite,</HI> and <HI>Joab,</HI> and <HI>Abi&s;hai,</HI>
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1. Chro. 2.16.</NOTE> <HI>Davids</HI> owne Si&s;tars &s;onnes; men of great birth and power, eminent for vertue, and
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2. Sam. 18.2.</NOTE> the chiefe Commanders of his ho&s;t.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How ought wee to</HI> honour our Parents?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By loving, reverencing, and &s;uc|couring them in their nece&s;&s;ities, &s;ince under God they are the Authors of our being, and breeding, and pre&s;ervation. Not becau&s;e we have need of them, but becau&s;e they are our Parents. <HI>Ho|nour</HI> THY FATHER, not becau&s;e he is great, or rich; but becau&s;e he is <HI>thine.</HI>
<PB N="53" REF="28">Thus
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1. Kings. 2.19.</NOTE> <HI>Solomon,</HI> though a mighty Mo|narch, 1. ro&s;e up to meet <HI>Bath&s;heba his mother,</HI> and 2. <HI>bowed him&s;elfe unto her.</HI> and 3. <HI>cau&s;ed a &s;eat to be &s;et for her,</HI> and 4. <HI>placed her on his right hand.</HI> S^t <HI>Pauls</HI> advice therefore is, that
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">1. Tim. 5.4.</NOTE> <HI>we learne to &s;hew piety at home, and to requite our Parents:</HI> and his charge is, that
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Col. 3.20.</NOTE> <HI>Chil|dren obey their Parents in all things.</HI> And rea&s;on good,
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Ib. &amp; 1. Tim. 5.4.</NOTE> <HI>for the&s;e duties are well plea&s;ing unto the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>How ought wee to</HI> honour our Ma&s;ters?</P>
<P>A.
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Col. 3.22.</NOTE> <HI>By obeying them in all things; not with eye-&s;ervice, as men plea&s;ers, but in &s;inglene&s;&s;e of heart, fearing God.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>The Scriptures are very mindfull of the duty of Children and Servants, but are they &s;ilent of Parents and Ma&s;ters?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> They are not. Of Parents and Ma&s;ters in generall they &s;ay thus;
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">1. Tim. 5.8.</NOTE> <HI>He that provides not for his owne, is wor&s;e then an Infidell.</HI> And in particular to each of them thus:
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Eph. 6.4.</NOTE> <HI>Yee</HI> Fathers, <HI>pro|voke not your Children to wrath; but bring them up in the nourture and admo|nition of the Lord.</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Col. 4.1.</NOTE> Yee Ma&s;ters, <HI>give
<PB N="54" REF="29">unto your Servants, that which is ju&s;t and equall, knowing that yee al&s;o have a Ma&s;ter in Heaven.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What &s;aith the Scripture concer|ning</HI> &s;pirituall Pa&s;tors and Ma&s;ters?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It calls them
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 5.13.</NOTE> <HI>the Salt of the earth,</HI>
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 14.</NOTE> <HI>the light of the world;</HI>
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Mal. 2.7.</NOTE> <HI>the An|gels of God;</HI>
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 4.1.</NOTE> <HI>the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, and Stewards of the my&s;teries of God;</HI>
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 15.</NOTE> <HI>Fa|thers in Chri&s;t;</HI> and
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 3.9.</NOTE> <HI>Labourers toge|ther with God.</HI> And
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ib.</NOTE> the People are <HI>Gods husbandry,</HI> whereon they are to &s;pend their labour.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What requitall are wee to make them for the&s;e their paines?</HI></P>
<P>A.
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Gal. 6.6.</NOTE> <HI>Let him that is taught in the word, mini&s;ter unto him that teacheth, in all good things.</HI> For
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 9.13.</NOTE> AS THEY THAT WAIT VPON THE AL|TAR, <HI>are partakers with the Altar;</HI> EVEN SO HATH THE LORD <HI>al&s;o</HI> ORDEINED, <HI>that they which preach the Gospell, &s;hould live of the Gospell.</HI> Be&s;ides, Saint <HI>Paul</HI> commands us to
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13.7.</NOTE> <HI>Remember our guides, who have &s;poken unto us the word of God, who&s;e faith</HI> he enjoynes us to <HI>follow:</HI> as al&s;o
<PB N="55" REF="29">to
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 17.</NOTE> <HI>Obey them, and &s;ubmit our &s;elves unto them, for they watch for our &s;oules.</HI> And againe;
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1. Tim. 5.17.</NOTE> <HI>Let tho&s;e Presbyters,</HI> or Elders, <HI>that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour; especially they, who labour in the word and doctrine.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What &s;aith the Scripture general|ly of</HI> our betters?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Levit. 19.32.</NOTE> We mu&s;t reverence them, and <HI>ri&s;e up to the hoarie headed.</HI>
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1. Tim. 5.1, 2.</NOTE> We mu&s;t <HI>intreat the elder men as Fathers, the el|der Women as Mothers;</HI> and
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 3.</NOTE> <HI>Honour Widdowes, that are Widdowes indeed.</HI> We have <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> for an example,
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Ex. 18.7.</NOTE> who <HI>did obey&s;ance to Jethro</HI> his wives Fa|ther.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How comes it to pa&s;&s;e, that</HI> Fa|ther <HI>and</HI> Mother <HI>are named, but not the</HI> King, <HI>nor any of the re&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e in the <HI>Father</HI> and <HI>Mo|ther</HI> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> 1. Age, 2. Place, and 3. Wi&s;|dome to in&s;truct, and 4. Power to com|mand and controule. In them God at fir&s;t &s;etled all that power, which &s;ince is derived from them to our Gover|nours, according to their &s;everall places and degrees.</P>
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<P>Q. <HI>Which is the &s;ixth Commande|ment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thou &s;halt doe no murder.</HI> Where|in not only actuall murder, but the re|&s;olution or de&s;ire to doe it, is condem|ned. Yea all cau&s;ele&s;&s;e and unbrideled anger is forbidden: for our Saviour &s;aith, that
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">S Mat. 5.22.</NOTE> <HI>Who&s;oever is angry with his bro|ther without cau&s;e, &s;hall be in danger of judgement.</HI> And S. <HI>John,</HI>
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">1. S Joh. 3, 15.</NOTE> <HI>Who&s;oever hateth his brother is a Murderer.</HI> The unju&s;t judge al&s;o is in the &s;ame predica|ment; for
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Deut. 27.25.</NOTE> <HI>Cur&s;ed is he that takes a re|ward,</HI> or bribe, <HI>to &s;lay an innocent Per|&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>The &s;eventh Commandement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thou &s;halt not commit adultery.</HI> In which words not only the act, but all inordinate affections and de&s;ires, or any thing tending thereto, is forbidden. For S. <HI>Paul</HI> forbids
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.13.</NOTE> <HI>Chambering and Wantonne&s;&s;e.</HI> And our Saviour profe&s;&s;|eth, that
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 5.28.</NOTE> <HI>who&s;oever looketh on a Woman to lust after her, hath committed adulte|ry with her already in his heart.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>The eight Commandement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thou &s;halt not &s;teale</HI> wherein not
<PB N="57" REF="30">only theft, but
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Lev. 25.39.46.</NOTE> <HI>oppre&s;&s;ion,</HI>
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 6.10.</NOTE> <HI>extortion,</HI> and
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;&s;. 4.6.</NOTE> <HI>cou&s;enage</HI> are forbidden. And to this commandement, I conceive, be|longs that cur&s;e, <HI>Deut.</HI> 27.17. <HI>Cur&s;ed is he, that removeth away the marke of his neighbours lands,</HI> either by Meere|&s;tones, Evidences, Records, or the like; for this is <HI>cou&s;enage</HI> at the lea&s;t.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>The ninth Commandement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thou &s;halt not beare fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e again&s;t thy neighbour.</HI> In judgement we may not, without que&s;tion. Indeed in our ordinary communication it is dan|gerous for any man to &s;candalize, or &s;launder his neighbour. They that doe &s;o, &s;hall have no place in the Kingdom of God. 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.10. Neither may we <HI>lye;</HI> &s;ince
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 5.6.</NOTE> the Lord will de&s;troy him, that doth &s;o. To this command belong tho&s;e two imprecations;
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Deut. 27.19.</NOTE> <HI>Cur&s;ed is he that letteth in judgement the right of the stranger, of the Fatherle&s;&s;e and Widow.</HI> And
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 24.</NOTE> <HI>Cur&s;ed is he, that &s;miteth his neighbour &s;ecretly.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who is</HI> my Neighbour?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not only tho&s;e, that are of our Kindred, or &s;uch as are neere us by ac|quaintance,
<PB N="58" REF="31">or habitation, or Country: but even tho&s;e, that are of another Na|tion, and Religion: as our Saviour ma|nife&s;ts in his Parable of the <HI>Jew</HI> and <HI>Sa|maritane.</HI> S. <HI>Luc.</HI> 10.30. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>We are now come to the la&s;t: tell me that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thou &s;halt not covet thy neigh|bours hou&s;e, &amp;c.</HI> This la&s;t takes away all eva&s;ion from tho&s;e, who conceive only actuall adultery, and actuall theft to be &s;inne. For if &s;inne be a breach of Gods Law; then is it &s;inne to <HI>covet,</HI> or lu&s;t af|ter that, which is none of mine. Thus this precept teacheth us to re&s;i&s;t all e|vill motions, and to root out all lu&s;ts and covetous de&s;ires, that &s;o they may never break forth into Rebellion again&s;t God, and bring the &s;econd death upon us.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Art thou able to keep the&s;e Cons|mandements?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Of my &s;elfe I am not, but
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.23.</NOTE> <HI>I can doe all things in God that &s;trengthneth me.</HI> We are taught therefore at the end of each Commandement, to call upon the Lord by Prayer, <HI>Lord have mercy
<PB N="59" REF="31">upon us, and encline our hearts to keep this Law.</HI> And after the la&s;t Comman|dement, <HI>Lord have mercy upon us, and write all tho&s;e thy Lawes in our hearts, we be&s;eech thee.</HI> And I am taught,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ech. in Com|mon Pray|er Book.</NOTE> <HI>at all times to call for his speciall grace by diligent Prayer,</HI> that I may walke in his Commandements.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What Prayer doe&s;t thou chiefly u&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. The Lords Prayer.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why is it called &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e our Lord <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> made it, and commanded his Di&s;ciples to make u&s;e of it, in the&s;e words,
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 11.2.</NOTE> <HI>When yee pray, &s;ay,</HI> OVR FATHER <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Our Church therefore <HI>When,</HI> as of|ten as <HI>we pray</HI> in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">blique, commands to u&s;e this prayer. And we do &s;o
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Praemi&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> legitim&acirc; &amp; ordina|ri&acirc; oratione qua&s;i fun|damento, acciderai|um i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> e&s;t de fiderio|rum Tes|tul. de D|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">al. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> in the <HI>beginning,</HI> of our fir&s;t and &s;econd Service; that &s;o <HI>laying this for a founda|tion, we may ju&s;tly proceed to our en&s;uing reque&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> 1. In obedience to our Saviours injunction. 2. Becau&s;e it is &s;o ab&s;olute a Prayer, that it comprehends breifly,
<PB N="60" REF="32">what we may or ought to pray for. 3. Becau&s;e,
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hooker. Eccle&s; Pol l</HI> 5. &sect;. 35.</NOTE> <HI>it fully perfecteth what&s;o|ever may be defective in the re&s;t.</HI> And 4. It is ob&s;erved, that
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ib.</NOTE> <HI>Tertullian</HI> and S. <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> terme it <HI>Orationem legiti|mam, the prayer, which Chri&s;t's owne Law hath tyed his Church to u&s;e in the &s;ame pre&s;cript form of words, wherewith he him&s;elfe did deliver it.</HI></P>
<P>Be&s;ides, it is called
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Tertul de Orat. c.</HI> 9.</NOTE> <HI>the ordinary,</HI> or u&s;uall <HI>prayer,</HI> becau&s;e it is u&s;ed in all the Churches of the Saints. And
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The <HI>Lords pray+er</HI> is called <HI>quotidiana oratio fide lium Aug-Enthirid. c.</HI> 71.</NOTE> <HI>our dayly prayer,</HI> becau&s;e Chri&s;t hath taught us to u&s;e it every day, by commanding us to pray for <HI>our dayly Bread this day:</HI> that &s;o praying but for <HI>this day,</HI> we might be bound to make u&s;e of this prayer <HI>every day.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Repeat the whole Prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Our Father which art in Heaven, &amp;c.</HI> This Prayer con&s;i&s;ts of a Preface,
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hooker Eccle&s;. Pol. l.</HI> 5. &sect;. 35. <HI>Septem pe|titiones continere Dominica videtur o|ratio. Aug. Enchirid. c.</HI> 115. <HI>&amp; de Ser dom. in Monte. l.</HI> 2.</NOTE> &s;even Petitions, and the rea&s;on why we begge the&s;e things at his hands.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which call you the Preface?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Our Father which art in Heaven:</HI> Herein we manife&s;t, whom we pray to; <HI>viz.</HI> to that holy, ble&s;&s;ed, and glorious
<PB N="61" REF="32">Trinity, the Father, the Son and the ho|ly Gho&s;t. As the&s;e three Per&s;ons are but <HI>one God,</HI> and <HI>one Lord,</HI> &s;o they are in re|&s;pect of us, but <HI>one Father:</HI> each per&s;on hath an equall intere&s;t in our Creation, pre&s;ervation, and Regeneration. Hence is it, that as we are created by the Fa|ther, the Son, and the Holy Gho&s;t, &s;o are we Bapti&s;ed in the Name of the Fa|ther, the Son, and the Holy Gho&s;t. As we are Bapti&s;ed, &s;o we beleeve, and as we beleeve, &s;o we pray; in whom we beleeve, to them we pray.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is not God every where, that we &s;ay,</HI> which art in Heaven?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Every where he is without que|&s;tion, by his <HI>E&s;&s;ence;</HI> &s;ince
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Act. 17.28.</NOTE> <HI>In him we live, we moove, and have our being:</HI> but in the &s;oules of the faithfull he is by his <HI>Grace,</HI> and in <HI>Heaven</HI> by his <HI>Glory.</HI> Hence is the
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">I&s;. 66.1.</NOTE> <HI>earth</HI> called his <HI>Foot&s;tool,</HI> and <HI>Heaven</HI> his <HI>Throne.</HI> We confine him not to <HI>Heaven,</HI> but we name <HI>Heaven,</HI> as the place where his Glory is mo&s;t emi|nent, where our Saviour is &s;aid to &s;it at his right hand, the Angels to attend him and the &s;oules of the Saints departed,
<PB N="62" REF="33">have the fruition of Ioy and Glo|rie.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why begin we our Prayers &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> 1. To put us in mind, that our Pedegree is from <HI>Heaven.</HI> 2. That we may take care to behave our &s;elves as the Children of &s;uch a <HI>Father,</HI> And 3. That the inheritance we hope for, is in <HI>Heaven.</HI> We are not therefore to &s;et our minds upon earthly, but heavenly things.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who may pray thus?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> None but tho&s;e that are Baptized. In the primitive Church
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><HI>Quomodo dicunt, Pa|ter no&s;ter, qui nondu~ nati &s;unt (&s;citicet per Bapti&s;|mu~?) Aug. de Symbolo ad Cate|chum. l.</HI> 1. <HI>c.</HI> 6. <HI>&amp; quinquag. homil.</HI> 42. <HI>Con&s;ule Gab. Al|vaspin Ob|&s;ervat. l.</HI> 1. <HI>c.</HI> 19.</NOTE> the <HI>Catechu|meni,</HI> &s;uch as were prepared for Bap|ti&s;me, learned it for an In&s;truction, or preparation; but they might not u&s;e it as a prayer, till they were Baptized. Immediatly after Bapti&s;me they did, and &s;o do we.</P>
<P>The Heathen cannot &s;ay <HI>Our Father;</HI> Our Creator, Our Lord they may. The <HI>Jewes,</HI> as <HI>Jewes,</HI> were never taught to &s;ay, <HI>Our Father:</HI> this prayer is peculiar to Chri&s;tians; <HI>Our Father</HI> he is by grace, and we his &s;onnes by the &s;ame grace. God make us &s;onnes in glory.</P>
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<P>Q. <HI>Which is the first Petition?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Hallowed be thy name:</HI> wherein we de&s;ire not, that his <HI>Name</HI> may be made <HI>Holy:</HI> we know
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 99.3.</NOTE> it is &s;o, and it cannot be otherwi&s;e. But our prayer is, that his <HI>Name,</HI> and his word, may be u&s;ed and mentioned by us holily; that in all our actions we may honour <HI>Our Fa|ther,</HI> and the &s;tocke we come off, and that we may ever &s;eek his honour and glory, and not our owne. That as we beare his <HI>Name,</HI> &s;o we may behave our &s;elves as be&s;eemes his <HI>Name,</HI> and good Chri&s;tians; not only by wor&s;hiping him at the Church, but by our dayly and hourely conver&s;ation in all places.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>The &s;econd Petition.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thy Kingdome come:</HI> his <HI>King|dome</HI> of grace, and his <HI>Kingdome</HI> of glo|ry. That his <HI>Kingdome of grace,</HI> which is his Church, may &s;o &s;pread over the face of the whole earth, that his word may be preached, and beleeved, and obeyed in all Nations what&s;oever. That his word may beare &s;uch &s;way in our hearts, that the Kingdome of &s;inne and <HI>Satan</HI> being vanqui&s;hed, we may be|have
<PB N="64" REF="34">our &s;elves as the &s;incere Subjects of &s;uch a King, that &s;o his <HI>Kingdome of glory</HI> may be repleni&s;hed in due &s;ea|&s;on.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>The third Petition.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven.</HI> That with our Saviour each Chri&s;tians prayer may be,
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 22.42.</NOTE> <HI>Not my will, but thy will be done;</HI> not only in Peace, plenty, and pro&s;perity, but in Warre, in wants, and per&s;ecution. His <HI>revealed will</HI> is the rule, whereby all our actions mu&s;t be guided. Our pray|er is therefore, that we his Servants may be diligent to performe this <HI>his will</HI> on earth, as the Angells are diligent to doe it in heaven. That we may li&s;ten to him, and be ob&s;equious to <HI>his will,</HI> as they are. That there may not be any di&s;&s;en&s;ion between our earthly and hea|venly parts; but that the fle&s;h being &s;ubject to the &s;pirit, both may &s;incerely &s;ubmit to <HI>his will,</HI> and doe it to the ut|mo&s;t of their power. This is the direct way to his Kingdome of glory.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>The fourth Petition.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Give us this day our dayly bread.</HI>
<PB N="65" REF="34">In this petition
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Catech. in Com|mon pray|er Book.</NOTE> we <HI>pray unto God, that he will &s;end us all things, that be needfull both for our &s;oules and bodies.</HI>
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hieron. in</HI> Mat. 6.</NOTE> This (as the learned ob&s;erve) is intimated unto us, by this word <GAP DESC="foreign">; which &s;ignifies not only <HI>dayly,</HI> but <HI>&s;uper&s;ub|&s;tantiall;</HI> that
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg"><HI>Spirita|liter poti&ugrave;s intelliga|mus. Chri|&s;tus enim panis no&s;ter e&s;t, &amp;c.</HI> Tertul. <HI>de Orat. c.</HI> 6.</NOTE> &s;o we might not only re|member our bodily food, but that we might have a &s;peciall eye upon the food of our &s;oules, that bread of life, the ble&s;|&s;ed Sacrament of <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> body &amp; bloud, which was
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg"><HI>Euchari|&s;tiam, quo|tidi&egrave; ad cibum &s;a|lutis acci|pimus. Cypr. de Orat. do|min. n.</HI> 48. <HI>Aug. de Ser. Dom. in Monte. l.</HI> 2.</NOTE> <HI>dayly received</HI> in the pri|mitive Church, by the fir&s;t Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>The fifth Petition.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. And forgive us our trespa&s;&s;es, as we forgive them that trespa&s;&s;e against us.</HI> Herein we make confe&s;&s;ion, that we have <HI>trespa&s;&s;ed</HI> again&s;t God and his word; we entreat him therefore, a|gain&s;t whom we &s;inne, to forgive us our &s;innes.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Can God only forgive &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> God only <HI>powerfully,</HI> but the Prie&s;t <HI>mini&s;terially.</HI> God hath <HI>power</HI> in him&s;elfe and of him&s;elfe to forgive &s;innes: but the Prie&s;t hath only a <HI>dele|gated power,</HI> neither in, nor of him&s;elfe,
<PB N="66" REF="35">but from God, who gave this Commi&s;|&s;ion to his Apo&s;tles, and in them to their &s;ucce&s;&s;ors;
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">S. John. 20.23.</NOTE> <HI>Receive</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>the Holy Gho&s;t; who&s;oever &s;innes ye forgive, they are forgiven,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> gave them the Holy Gho&s;t, that by his power they might remit, and retaine &s;innes.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Doe Prie&s;ts forgive &s;innes</HI> ab&s;o|lutely?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No; but conditionally, as God doth; if the per&s;on confe&s;&s;ing
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Ab&s;oluti|on in the Common Prayer-Book.</NOTE> <HI>truly repent, and unfainedly beleeve the holy Gospell.</HI> God, you &s;ee, forgives but up|on condition; we beg pardon but upon condition, that God would deale with us, as we deale with our Neighbours; that he would <HI>forgive us, as we forgive them, that trespa&s;&s;e again&s;t us.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Mu&s;t we then expect no pardon, but upon this condition?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We may not, our Saviour &s;aith &s;o;
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 18.35.</NOTE> <HI>unle&s;&s;e yee</HI> FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER FROM THE HEART, <HI>your heavenly Father will not forgive you.</HI> That is,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Aug. En|chirid. c.</HI> 73.74.</NOTE> unle&s;&s;e ye be ready to forgive your tre&s;pa&s;&s;ers, when they crave pardon of you, look for no pardon
<PB N="67" REF="35">at my Fathers hands, when ye beg for|givene&s;&s;e of him:
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">S. Luc. 6.38.</NOTE> <HI>For the &s;ame mea|&s;ure ye mere, it &s;hall be mea&s;ured to you againe.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>The &s;ixth Petition.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. And iead us not into temptation.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Can God</HI> rempt us?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He cannot; the Scripture is plain.
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">S. James. 1.13.14.</NOTE> <HI>Let no man &s;ay, when he is temp|ted, I am tempted of God: for God can|not be tempted with evill,</HI> NEITHER TEMPTETH HE ANY MAN. <HI>But every man is tempted, when he is drawne away of his owne lust, and enti&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Cannot God be the author of &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He cannot: for
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 5.4.</NOTE> <HI>He hath no plea|&s;ure in wickedne&s;&s;e:</HI> but
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 11.6. <HI>Deus mali aliquid non pote&s;t velle. Aug. Ep.</HI> 180.</NOTE> <HI>the ungodly, and him, that delighteth in wickedne&s;&s;e, doth his &s;oule abhorre.</HI> It is therefore
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Illo &s;acri|legio, quo &s;tatuitur Deum e&s;&s;e mali autho|rem, mihi dete&s;tabili|us nihil oc|currit. Aug. de Ord. l.</HI> 2. <HI>c.</HI> 7.</NOTE> accounted <HI>mo&s;t dete&s;table &s;acriledge, to make God the author of &s;inne.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What pray wee again&s;t in this Pe|tition?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Again&s;t Gods heavy wrath and cen&s;ure; namely, that he would not puni&s;h one &s;inne with another: For the
<PB N="68" REF="36">later &s;inne is oft times a puni&s;hment of the former: as <HI>Judas</HI> his murthering him&s;elfe, was a puni&s;hment of his trea|&s;on. We be&s;eech God therefore,
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Et ne nos patiaris in|duci,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Cypr. de Orat, Do|min. n.</HI> 69. <HI>Ne nos in|ducas,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>id est, Ne patiaris nos induci Ter|tul. de Orat. c.</HI> 8. <HI>Aug. de Ser. Dom. in Monre. l.</HI> 2.</NOTE> as our Forefathers had wont to &s;peake, <HI>not to &s;uffer us to be led into temptation,</HI> much le&s;&s;e to be overcome thereby. Since the withdrawing of his grace, is, as it were, a <HI>leading,</HI> or letting <HI>us into temptation:</HI> &s;o prone we are to &s;inne, if God withhold us not.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which is the la&s;t Petition?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. But deliver us from evill.</HI> In the two former Petitions we entreated for pardon for our former &s;innes, and to be pre&s;erved from future &s;innes: but here we be&s;eech God to <HI>deliver us from the evill</HI> of puni&s;hment, both in this life, and in the life to come; as al&s;o from that fierce executioner of Gods vengeance the Divell.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why doe we begge all this at Gods hands?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I. Becau&s;e he is <HI>Our Father:</HI> mo&s;t fit therefore, that we repaire to him for help and &s;uccour. II. Becau&s;e he is all-&s;ufficient, <HI>Almighty:</HI> or, as it is added
<PB N="69" REF="36">in S^t <HI>Matthew,</HI>
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 6.13.</NOTE> <HI>for thine is the King|dome, power, and glory, for ever and ever.</HI> His <HI>Kingdome</HI> is unlimited, his <HI>power</HI> ab&s;olute; God give us grace to &s;eek his <HI>glory;</HI> For he will be <HI>glorified</HI> either by us, or upon us; either by us, in the per|formance of his Commandements; or upon us, in the demon&s;tration of his ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why adde we,</HI> Amen?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e we de&s;ire, all this may be done; for &s;o this word &s;ignifies.
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Sciendum e&s;t, Amen &amp; Halle|luja, quae nec Latino, nec Barba|ro licet in &s;uam lin|gua~ tran&s;|&s;erre, He|braeo cun|ctas gentes vocabulo decantare. Aug. Ep.</HI> 178.</NOTE> It is an Hebrew word, which we tran&s;late not into any language, but pre&s;erve it, as our Saviour gave it. Wee end our Prayers and Creed with it, to manife&s;t the a&s;&s;ent and con&s;ent of all Chri&s;tians in matters of the highe&s;t moment.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How ought we to behave our &s;elves in Prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> With all devotion and reverence inward and outward, <HI>meekly kneeling upon our knees.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why mu&s;t we</HI> kneele <HI>at our Pray|ers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I. Becau&s;e it is a ge&s;ture be&s;t be&s;eeming humble Petitioners. II. It
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<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg"><HI>Proprium e&s;t &oacute;rationis officiu~, Dei veneratio. Tertul. de Orat c.</HI> 1.</NOTE> is a duty proper to Prayer. III. The Church our Mother commands us to kneele at Prayers. IV.
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>In oratio ne ex more ge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ua flex|imus, ar&abque; incubuimus terrae. Aug. de Civit. Dei. l.</HI> 22. <HI>c.</HI> 8.</NOTE> It is agreeable to the cu&s;tome of the ancient Church. V. It is agreeable to the practice of our Saviour and his Apo&s;tles,
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 26.39. S. Luc. 22.41. Act 7.60 <HI>c.</HI> 9. 40. <HI>c.</HI> 20.36.</NOTE> who alwaies <HI>kneele,</HI> or fall flat upon the ground at their prayers. VI. It is Gods due; in the &s;econd Commandement. And our Saviour &s;aith,
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 4.10.</NOTE> <HI>Thou &s;halt</HI> WORSHIP <HI>the Lord thy God.</HI> And
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg"><HI>Vox ado|rare idem &s;ignificat. quod pro|&s;ternere &s;e, iucurvare, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">genicu|lari. Pet. Picherel. de Imag. p.</HI> 225.</NOTE> to <HI>wor&s;hip God,</HI> is to <HI>kneele downe,</HI> or <HI>fall downe</HI> before him. The&s;e rea&s;ons, I hope, will bring us all upon our knees.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>I pray God, they may. Thou ha&s;t given me good &s;atisfaction in the</HI> Creed, <HI>the</HI> ten Commandements, <HI>and the</HI> Lords Prayer: <HI>now tell me, how many</HI> Sacra|ments <HI>there be.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Two only; in&s;tituted by our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour as nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;al|vation of all men; to wit, 1. <HI>Bapti&s;me,</HI> and 2. the <HI>Lords Supper.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What meane&s;t thou by this word</HI> Sacrament?</P>
<P><HI>A. I mean an outward and vi&s;ible &s;igne of an inward and &s;pirituall grace gi|ven
<PB N="71" REF="37">unto us, ordained by Chri&s;t him&s;elfe as a meanes, whereby we receive the &s;ame, and a pledge to a&s;&s;ure us thereof.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>A little plainer if you can.</HI></P>
<P>Q. A <HI>Sacrament is an outward and vi&s;ible</HI> &s;igne, or element, <HI>ordained by Chri&s;t</HI> to be <HI>given</HI> or be&s;towed upon <HI>us, as a meanes,</HI> whereby we may <HI>receive an inward and spirituall grace.</HI> This he gives us as a <HI>pledge,</HI> to <HI>a&s;&s;ure us,</HI> that as oft as we <HI>receive</HI> this Sacrament, or ele|ment, according to <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> ordinance, &s;o oft <HI>we receive this grace,</HI> which is al|waies conveyed unto us by this <HI>Sacra|ment.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>How many parts are there in a Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Two, the outward and the in|ward.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the outward part?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The <HI>matter</HI> and <HI>forme</HI> appointed and determined by <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What meane&s;t thou by the</HI> matter?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The element or creature, de|&s;igned by <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> for this or that <HI>Sacra|ment.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What meane&s;t thou by the</HI> forme?</P>
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<P><HI>A.</HI> The words appropriated by <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> to this or that Sacrament.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the element, or</HI> matter <HI>ap|propriated to</HI> Bapti&s;me?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">S. John. 3.5.</NOTE> <HI>Water,</HI> the pure element of water, without art or mixture.</P>
<P>Q. What the <HI>forme,</HI> or words?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 28 19.</NOTE> <HI>I Baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the Ho|ly Gho&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>May no Per&s;on be bapti&s;ed with other</HI> matter <HI>or</HI> words?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No: for Chri&s;t, who is the au|thor of grace, di&s;po&s;eth of his graces, and the meanes, whereby he convey|eth them unto us. And it is in the pow|er of no Per&s;on or Per&s;ons, to alter the&s;e meanes, unle&s;&s;e it be al&s;o in his, or their power, to give grace at plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>The&s;e two then make this a per|fect Sacrament.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> They doe &s;o, namely
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Acceldat verbum ad elementum, &amp; fiet Sa|cramentum. Aug.</NOTE> the&s;e words of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> added to this element, or matter pre&s;cribed by <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the inward and spirituall grace in Bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. A death unto &s;inne, and a new
<PB N="73" REF="38">birth unto righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</HI>
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg"><HI>Qui bap|tizatur, a&s;|cendit libe|ratus &agrave; &s;er|vitute cor|ruptionis &amp; peccato, factus filius Dei, &amp; haeres ejus gratie, co|h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">res au|tem Chri&s;ti, indutus ip|&s;um Chri|&s;tum. Con|cil. Nic. Diatyp.</HI> 5.</NOTE> <HI>For being by nature borne in &s;inne; and the children of wrath, we are hereby made the chil|dren of grace.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Thou conceive&s;t then, that all &s;innes are forgiven us in</HI> Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I doe &s;o; &s;o that we hinder not this grace by infidelity or impenitence.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why are you of this mind?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> 1. Becau&s;e I am taught by the <HI>Ni|cene Creed,</HI> to <HI>beleeve one Bapti&s;me for the remi&s;&s;ion of &s;innes.</HI> 2. This Church hath re&s;olved it for
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Rubricke immediatly before the Catechi&s;m</NOTE> a <HI>knowne truth, that it is certain by Gods word, that Chil|dren being bapti&s;ed, have all things nece&s;|&s;ary for their &s;alvation, and be undoub|tedly &s;aved.</HI> 3. The Scripture a&s;&s;ures us, that
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 3.21.</NOTE> <HI>Bapti&s;me doth now &s;ave us, by the Re&s;urrection of Je&s;us Chri&s;t;</HI> &amp; that
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5.26.</NOTE> <HI>we are &s;aved with the wa&s;hing of water by the Word.</HI> 4. <HI>That</HI>
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Gal. 3.27</NOTE> <HI>as many of us, as have been bapti&s;ed into Chri&s;t, have put on Chri&s;t:</HI> that is, as the <HI>Councell of Nice</HI> expounds it,
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg"><HI>Concil. Nic. Dia|typ.</HI> 5.</NOTE> <HI>we de&s;cend foule and un|clean into the Laver of Regeneration; but we come forth un&s;potted, and without &s;inne.</HI></P>
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<P>Q. <HI>What is required of per&s;ons to be Bapti&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> 1. <HI>Repentance, whereby they for&s;ake &s;inne, and</HI> 2. <HI>Faith, whereby they &s;tedfa&s;tly beleeve the promi&s;es of God made to them in that Sacrament.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why then are Infants bapti&s;ed, when by rea&s;on of their tender age they cannot perform them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Yes they doe perform them by their &s;ureties, who promi&s;e and vow them both in their names, which when they come to age, them&s;elves are bound to perform.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is this agreeable to rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is &s;o. It is no more then guar|dians do for their wards. When Wards are under age, their guardians under|take for them, what tho&s;e wards when they come to age, are bound to per|forme. Be&s;ides, we &s;inned in others words and actions; it may well there|fore &s;tand with rea&s;on, that we be clen|&s;ed from this &s;in, by other mens words and actions.</P>
<P>Q. Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained?</P>
<P><HI>A. For the continuall remembrance of
<PB N="75" REF="39">the &s;acrifice of the death of Chri&s;t, and the benefits which we receive there|by.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the outward part, or &s;igne of the Lords &s;upper?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Bread and Wine, which the Lord hath commanded to be received.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>This the</HI> matter, <HI>which the forme?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 26.26. 1. Cor. 11.23. &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>The Lord Ie&s;us in the &s;ame night, that he was betrayed, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Q. What is the inward part or thing &s;ignified?</P>
<P><HI>A. The Body and blood of Chri&s;t,</HI>
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg"><HI>Concludo realiter&punc; hoc e&s;t, ver&egrave; nobis in coe|n&acirc; dari Chri&s;ti cor|pus, ut fit animis no|&s;tris in ci|bum &s;alu|tarem. Cal|vin, in</HI> 1. Cor. 11.24.</NOTE> <HI>which are veryly and indeed taken and received of the faithfull in the Lords Sup|per.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What body?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Chri&s;tus nobis offer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> corpus ip &s;um, in quo pa&s;&s;us e&s;t, ac re&s;ur|rexit. Cal|vin. Ib.</NOTE> That body which was borne of the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> and &s;uffer'd upon the Cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Do we receive it after a Corporall manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No, but after a <HI>spirituall manner.</HI> That we receive it, we believe, but <HI>the manner we know not,</HI> we enquire not af|ter; no more then we enquire after the
<PB N="76" REF="40">manner, how Chri&s;ts humanity was knit to his Deitie.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is the bread tran&s;ub&s;tantiated into the Body of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is not,
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 11.23.</NOTE> Bread it is before con|&s;ecration;
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 24.</NOTE> bread at the time of Con&s;e|cration, and
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 26, 27, 28.</NOTE> bread after Con&s;ecration: but it is
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 24, 25. 29.</NOTE> the body and blood of Chri&s;t, only after Con&s;ecration.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>After what manner doe wee re|ceive the Body of Chri&s;t in this Sacra|ment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By faith: as the food is Spirituall, &s;o is the manner &s;pirituall.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What are the benefits, whereof we are partakers thereby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI>
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><HI>Intelligo &s;ub&s;tanti&acirc; corporis pa&s;ci ani|mas no|&s;tras, ut ver&egrave; unum efficiamur cum eo. Calvin. in</HI> 1. Cor. 11.24.</NOTE> <HI>The &s;trengthning and refre&s;hing of our Soules, by the body and blood of Chri&s;t, as our bodies are by the Bread &amp; Wine.</HI> We are &s;en&s;ible of the one, let us beleeve the other. For as veryly as our faint and hungry Bodies are &s;trengthen|ed, and refre&s;hed, and comforted with bread and wine, &s;o verily is every peni|tent and faithfull Soule &s;trengthened, and refre&s;hed, and comforted with the body and blood of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
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<P>Q. <HI>What is required of them, which come to the</HI> Lords Supper?</P>
<P>A. <HI>To examine them&s;elves, whether they repent them truly of their former &s;innes, &s;tedfa&s;tly purpo&s;ing to lead a new life: to have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Chri&s;t, with a thankfull remem|brance of his death, and be in charity with all men.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>This for the inward preparation; what for the outward reverence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All outward and inward reve|rence is little enough, when we come to receive the price of Heaven and Earth. By &s;ome therefore it is called a <HI>dreadfull my&s;tery;</HI> becau&s;e he that right|ly con&s;iders of it, will not approch to this Table without dread and tremb|ling.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e there we receive this holy Sacrament either to our &s;alvation, or damnation.
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 11.29.</NOTE> <HI>If unworthily, we eate and drinke damnation to our &s;elves.</HI> Whereas
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ib. v. 32.</NOTE> <HI>if we would judge our &s;elves,</HI> we could not but &s;ee our owne unwor|thine&s;&s;e; and then we would certainly
<PB N="78" REF="41">endeavour to humble our &s;elves, as we ought, both before and at our approch. Thus if we doe, <HI>we &s;hall not be judged</HI> unworthy <HI>of the Lord;</HI> but receive it to the comfort and &s;alvation of our &s;oules.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is not inward reverence &s;uffi|cient?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He that hath commanded us at all times to
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 6.20.</NOTE> <HI>glorifie God in our bodies, and in our &s;pirits,</HI> will have us more ef|pecially at this time to <HI>glorifie</HI> him in both. Where both may be had, he will have both. The Church our Mother conceives <HI>kneeling,</HI> not only decent, but nece&s;&s;ary at this time: &s;hee therefore hath made this Injunction, that
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Rubricke immediatly before the delivering.</NOTE> <HI>The Minister &s;hall deliver the Communion in both kinds to the</HI> PEOPLE KNEE|LING. The people therefore are to <HI>kneele.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is this agreeable to the u&s;age of the ancient Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is &s;o: for S. <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> tells us, that
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nemo il|lam carnem manducat, ni&s;i prius adoraverit. Aug. in</HI> P&s;. 98.</NOTE> in his <HI>time no man received, but fir&s;t he kneeled.</HI> And <HI>Chemnicius</HI> a learned Pro|te&s;tant &s;peaking of due reverence to be
<PB N="79" REF="41">u&s;ed at this time, profe&s;&s;eth, that
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg"><HI>Chemnic. Exam. Con|cii. Trid. part.</HI> 2. <HI>c.</HI> 5.</NOTE> we ought to kneele; adding, that <HI>externall irreverence</HI> in this action <HI>is the token of a prophane mind.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Some ab&s;tain for feare of Idolatry:</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I &s;ee not, how there can be any &s;uch danger. We wor&s;hip not bread, but the God of Heaven: neither wor&s;hip we God by the Bread; but by or with that ble&s;&s;ed Bread and Wine we re|ceive the body and bloud of Chri&s;t,
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">The vvords at the delive|ring.</NOTE> which <HI>pre&s;erve us body and &s;oul to eter|nall life.</HI> And can any man be too good to receive &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ing upon his knees?</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, we acknowledge that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is pre&s;ent at this his &s;upper, after a more &s;peciall and peculiar manner then at o|ther times.
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg"><HI>Si haec ver&egrave; &amp; ex animo cre|dimus, fieri nec potest, nec debet, quin fider Chri&s;tum in illa actione prae&s;entem veneretur &amp; adoret.</HI> Chemnic. Ib.</NOTE> If this we beleeve truly and &s;incerely, it cannot, it may not be, but <HI>faith will reverence and adore our Saviour</HI> pre&s;ent in this action.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is there then no danger in</HI> knee|ling?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Certainly none. The <HI>danger</HI> is <HI>in not kneeling;</HI> for I have learned of <HI>Chemnicius,</HI> that there is <HI>no true faith</HI>
<PB N="80" REF="42">in that Communicant
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><HI>Non ve|ra &s;ui&s;&s;et fides, &s;i non &s;ecuta fui&s; &s;et invoca|tio, &s;cu ado|ratio.</HI> lb.</NOTE> <HI>where adoration is wanting.</HI> And Saint <HI>Ambro&s;e,</HI> and Saint <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> are re&s;olute, that
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ambro&s;. &amp; Aug. in</HI> P&s;al. 98.</NOTE> <HI>it is &s;o farre from being a &s;inne to kneele</HI> at receiving this Sacrament, <HI>that it is a &s;inne not to kneele.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>We have done with the ordinary cour&s;e of Cathechi&s;ing; and yet there re|maine two points of</HI>
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Heb. 6.1. <HI>Hicre&s;pex|it ad u&s;ita|tam Cate|chi&s;mi for|mulam.</HI> Calvin. <HI>in</HI> Heb. 6.1.</NOTE> <HI>Saint</HI> Pauls Care. chi&s;me, <HI>namely</HI> 1. Repentance from dead workes, <HI>and</HI> 2. Impo&s;ition, <HI>or</HI> lay|ing on of hands. <HI>That we may orderly proceede in the&s;e, tell me first, what the&s;e</HI> dead workes <HI>are.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Dead workes</HI> are &s;uch, as by the <HI>Catechi&s;ts</HI> of tho&s;e times were done, before they beleeved in <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> Which being done without faith, and the lea&s;t relation to Gods glory, tended to death. Since
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11.6.</NOTE> <HI>without faith it is impo&s;&s;ible to plea&s;e God;</HI> and without <HI>plea&s;ing God</HI> no life.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Aug. de Fide &amp; Oper. c.</HI> 20.</NOTE> The&s;e workes then are to be repented of by the Elder &s;ort, before they repaire to <HI>Bapti&s;me.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is</HI> Repentance?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is an hearty &s;orrow for our &s;innes pa&s;t, accompanied with a change
<PB N="81" REF="42">of mind from evill to good, with a re|&s;olution by Gods grace to continue in good cour&s;es. If thus we
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 4 17.</NOTE> <HI>repent, the Kingdome of heaven is at hand.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What meane you by</HI> Impo&s;ition of hands?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is a &s;igne, or Ceremony, by which and Prayer, God conveyes his holy Spirit upon tho&s;e, that heretofore were baptized.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Have not Per&s;ons baptized the Holy Gho&s;t before</HI> Confirmation?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes; but not in that mea&s;ure, nor for the &s;ame end.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>In what mea&s;ure, and for what end is the Holy Gho&s;t bestowed upon us in</HI> Bapti&s;me?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To wa&s;h and clean&s;e us from &s;inne, from all &s;inne, that is in us; that &s;o we may be cleane, and pure as <HI>Adam</HI> was, when he came fir&s;t out of Gods fingers; and that we may be the mem|bers of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why is he given us in</HI> Confirma|tion?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Rubrick<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> before the Catechi&s;m.</NOTE> <HI>we may receive &s;trength and defence against all temptations to
<PB N="82" REF="43">&s;inne, and again&s;t the a&s;&s;aults of the world and the Divell.</HI> At <HI>Bapti&s;me</HI> we promi&s;ed, not to follow any of the&s;e, nor to be led by them; and in <HI>Con|firmation,</HI> God &s;trengthens us by his Spirit, that we may make good this promi&s;e.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is it not enough to receive the Holy Gho&s;t once?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No;
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">S. Joh. 3.34. Eph 4.7.1. Cor. 12.11.</NOTE> for <HI>God gives his Spirit, and his graces according to mea&s;ure;</HI> &s;ome at one time, and &s;ome at another; &s;ome by one meanes, and &s;ome by ano|ther: as is to be &s;een in Bapti&s;me, Con|firmation, the Lords Supper, and Or|ders.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Did the Apo&s;tles receive the Ho|ly Gho&s;t more then once?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is evident they did. That the <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> were <HI>baptized,</HI> no man, I hope, que&s;tions. And that they received the Holy Gho&s;t in <HI>Orders</HI> and <HI>Confirmati|on,</HI> is manife&s;t in Scripture. In <HI>Orders,</HI> S. <HI>Joh.</HI> 20.22, 23. In <HI>Confirmation, Act.</HI> 2.4. And at each time they received a &s;everall mea&s;ure, or grace of the Holy Gho&s;t, and for a &s;everall end.</P>
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<P>Q. <HI>Did the Apo&s;tles make u&s;e of this Rite or Ceremony?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> They did; as is to be &s;een, <HI>Act.</HI> 8. and <HI>Act.</HI> 19. In the one place
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Act. 8.17.</NOTE> S. <HI>Peter</HI> and S. <HI>John, laid their hands on the bap|tized Samaritans, and they received the Holy Gho&s;t.</HI> In the other
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Act. 19.6.</NOTE> S. <HI>Paul laid his hands upon</HI> the baptized <HI>Ephe&s;ians, and the Holy Gho&s;t came on them.</HI>
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Prayer in Confirma|tion.</NOTE> This then is done by our <HI>Bi&s;hops, after the ex|ample of the holy Apo&s;tles:</HI> and
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hic unus locus abun|de te&s;tatur huius Cere|moniae ori|ginem flux|t&s;&s;e ab A|po&s;tolis.</HI> Calvin. <HI>in</HI> Heb 6.2.</NOTE> is the &s;ame with that <HI>Heb.</HI> 6.2.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is this Rite nece&s;&s;arily to be con|tinued in the Church of</HI> Chri&s;t?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not of nece&s;&s;ity to &s;alvation, but of nece&s;&s;ity for the obtaining of cer|taine gifts of the Spirit,
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Act. 19.2.6.</NOTE> which can|not ordinarily be acquired but by this meanes.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Why is not more care taken, that it be continued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Our Church hath taken order, that
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Rubricke in publique Bapti&s;me, and after the Cate|chi&s;me.</NOTE> <HI>Children, &s;o &s;oon as they can &s;ay the Articles of the Faith, the Lords Prayer, and the ten Commandements, and be further in&s;tructed in the Cate|chi&s;me &s;et forth for that purpo&s;e, be
<PB N="84" REF="44">brought to the Bi&s;hop to be confirmed of him.</HI>
<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Ib.</NOTE> <HI>And the Bi&s;hop &s;hall confirme them.</HI></P>
<P>Be&s;ides, it is ordered, that
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rubricke after Con|firmation.</NOTE> <HI>None</HI> SHALL <HI>be admitted to the holy Com|munion, untill &s;uch time as he be confir|med.</HI> Our Church conceives it to be nece&s;&s;ary, at lea&s;t by way of <HI>prepara|tion,</HI> for all &s;uch as repaire to the Lords Table.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who are the Ministers of this ble&s;&s;ing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Bi&s;hops,</HI> and only <HI>Bi&s;hops.</HI> The rea&s;on is, becau&s;e the <HI>Apo&s;tles only</HI> did it in their time; and <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> are the on|ly &s;ucce&s;&s;ors of the <HI>Apo&s;tles.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Was it not an extraordinary act?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No; but &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ing as is to be retained in the Church of God for the good of his people; that &s;o we may in|crea&s;e in his holy Spirit more and more, untill we come to his everla&s;ting King|dome,</P>
<CLOSER>AMEN.</CLOSER>
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<Q>Haec non praecipiendi authoritate, &s;ed proficiendi exercitatione &s;cribuntur &agrave; nobis. <BIBL>Aug. Cont. Fau&s;t. l. 11. c. 5.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q>A prae&s;enti &s;aeculo maligno &s;alvi fieri non po&s;&s;umus, ni&s;i &amp; nos ad &s;alutem proximorum nitentes, etiam ore profitea|mur fidem, quam corde ge&s;tamus: quae fides ne fraudulentis calliditatibus haere|ticorum po&s;&s;it in nobis aliqua ex parte violari, pi&acirc; cauta&abque; vigilanti&acirc; providen|dum e&s;t. <BIBL>Aug. de fide &amp; Symbolo. c. 1.</BIBL></Q>
<Q>Tractatio fidei ad muniendum Sym|bolum valet: non ut ip&s;a pro Symbolo gratiam Dei con&s;equentibus memoriae mandanda &amp; reddenda tradatur; &s;ed ut illa, quae in Symbolo retinentur, contra haereticorum in&s;idias authoritate Catho|lic&acirc; &amp; munitiore defen&s;ione cu&s;todiat. <BIBL>Ibid.</BIBL></Q>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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