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<P>A NEW CATECHISM Short and plain, and very nece&s;|&s;ary to be learned of the Youn|ger &s;ort, before they come to be Partakers of the Holy Communion.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed for the benefit of <HI>Shaffham</HI> School, <HI>Norfolk.</HI></P>
<P>By GEO. DOCHANT, Mini&s;ter of Gods Word, and there Teacher in a private School.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed, and are to be &s;old at the &s;ign of the Black-&s;pread Eagle at the We&s;t end of <HI>Pauls.</HI> <ADD>feb: 21</ADD> 1653.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>To the Wor&s;hipful, his much honoured and approved Friend, M^r <HI>Luke Con|&s;table</HI> of <HI>Shaffham</HI> in <HI>Norfolk;</HI> together with his virtuous and religious Con|&s;ort M^r^i^s <HI>Anne Con&s;table: G. D.</HI> wi&s;h|eth the fat of Earth, and the dew of Heaven.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe rare bl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ing (mentioned by that royall <HI>Pro|phet</HI>) is by the Father of lights, and giver of all good things; plentifully poured upon you, <HI>Children</HI>&s;aith he, <HI>and the fruit of the Wombe are an inheritance from the Lord, P&s;al.</HI> 127. 3, 4. Wherewith your quiver is well filled: And happy are you that you are &s;o ble&s;&s;ed; you &s;hall not be a&s;ha|med when you &s;it in the gates among your Enemies.</P>
<P>God make your Sonnes his &s;ervants, the <HI>Patterns</HI> of <HI>Virtue,</HI> the haters of <HI>Vice:</HI> That your Sonnes may like plea&s;ant <HI>Plants</HI> &s;tand about your Table: And your Daugh|ters like the poli&s;hed corner of a Palace.</P>
<P>This &s;mall Catechi&s;me divulged by me. I con&s;ecrate to them and you, I have no better gift to be&s;tow on you for your &s;uperabundant benefits which makes me pre&s;ume to pre&s;ent this paper pre&s;ent.
<Q><L>For though your Gentle courte&s;ies I reher&s;e,</L>
<L>at pre&s;ent I mu&s;t pay y<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u with a ver&s;e.</L></Q></P>
<P>God ble&s;&s;e your <HI>Virtuous Con&s;ort</HI> to you, and you to her, your children to you both, &s;o having no pre&s;ent opportunity whereby I could more eminently te&s;tifie by obligations, I pray accept of this. For I call both God and the World to witne&s;&s;e that this way I honour you, re&s;ting alwaies.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours really devoted, <HI>and</HI> ready <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o be c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mmanded. <HI>G. DOCHANT</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From my Studie in <HI>Swa&s;ham,</HI>
<DATE>Jan: 1. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>I Am not ignorant (Chri&s;tian Reader) that many <HI>Catechi&s;mes</HI> more pithy and profound then this, yea far tran&s;cending it both for <HI>Method</HI> and <HI>Matter</HI> have already been publi&s;hed, and this needs no more then to help the great &s;un with a little light; or to put a &s;uper|fluous patch upon a compleat Suit. Yet notwith&s;tand|ing all the books which have been or &s;hall be edited in this kind, I may thus much &s;ay, none of them that ever I &s;ee, but in &s;ome particular have what another wanted, and &s;ome one abridged, when &s;ome other dilated: all of them being chri&s;tian competitors, &s;triving who &s;hould conduce mo&s;t to &s;hew the readie&s;t way to the Kingdom of Heaven.</P>
<P>So then, if this poor peece may be any thing, but even Gotes haire towards the &s;anctuary of the Lord, nay may it but add one little grain to Gods great granarie, I &s;hall be glad and give God the glory of it. Be&s;eeching our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t that great Shepheard of his &s;heep to make this and all the labors of his beloved &s;ervants fruitfull Pa&s;tours for the comfort of his little flock. And the perpetuall prai&s;e of his Holy Name, Amen.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine in the Lord, GEO. DOCHANT.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Catechi&s;m &s;hort and plain.</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>WHo hath made thee, and all things el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> God.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What is God?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> A &s;pirit Almighty and Eternal one in e&s;&s;ence, three in per&s;on, Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Wherefore hath he made thee?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> To know him, wor&s;hip him, and &s;erve him.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How is he known?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> By his Workes, and word.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How mu&s;t he be wor&s;hipped?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> In Spitit and truth.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q</LABEL> <HI>What is that Truth?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> His holy word containing the Law &amp; Go&s;pel.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What is the Law?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> That which is comprehended in the ten Commandements.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What doth God require of us in them?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Love to God in the fir&s;t foure: and Love to our neighbours in the &s;ix la&s;t.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How is God to be loved?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> With all the heart, with all the &s;oul, and with all the minde.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How &s;halt thou know when thou doe&s;t &s;o?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>A.</HI> If I preferr his glory, and wor&s;hip before all things.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How is our neighbour loved?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> If we do to him as we &s;hould be done unto.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Doth any man herein &s;atisfie the Law?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> No, and therefore all are concluded under &s;in.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What then becometh of all men?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> They are all cur&s;ed to perpetual death which do it not, and none doe it.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How then are we delivered from the cur&s;e of death and Sin?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> By Je&s;us Chri&s;t who kept the Law and was accu&s;ed for us.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How knowe&s;t thou this?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> By the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What is the Go&s;pel?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> The power of God to &s;alvation, proclaiming forgivene&s;s of &s;in to every beleever through Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What is Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> the Son of the living God our Saviour, our Anointed, becau&s;e he is King, Prie&s;t, and Prophet.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Why a King?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> To reign and rule over us.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Why a Prophet?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> To teach us his Fathers will.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Why is he a Prie&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Becau&s;e he hath &s;acrificed for us.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What hath he &s;acrificed for us?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> That part of him&s;elf which &s;uffered.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Did Chri&s;t then &s;uffer but in part?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>A.</HI> No, for con&s;i&s;ting of God-head and Man-hood, his Man-hood only &s;uffered.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What &s;uffered he in &s;oul?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Helli&s;h torments to acquit our &s;oules.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What &s;uffered he in body?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Death temporal, to deliver us from death eter|nal.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Did he then give bodie for our bodies, and &s;oule for our &s;oules?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Yes verily.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How knowe&s;t thou this to be for thee?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> By the Certifficate of Gods &s;pirit, faith and the Sacraments.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Why, what doth Gods &s;pirit certifie the?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> That I am the Son of God.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What doth Faith?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Purifie my heart, a&s;&s;uring the &s;ame that Chri&s;t with his merits are made mine.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How can this be?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> All my &s;ins became his, and his righteou&s;|ne&s;s became mine.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Whereof cometh this faith?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> By hearing &amp; hearing by the word of God.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How is this faith &s;trengthened and increa&s;|ed in us?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> By the word preached &amp; by the Sacraments</P>
<P><LABEL>Q</LABEL> <HI>How many Sacraments be there?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Two, bapti&s;me and the &s;upper of the Lord.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What is the &s;igne in bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Water.</P>
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<P>Q. <HI>What is the thing &s;ignified?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Chri&s;t his blood clean&s;ing us from our &s;ins.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What benefit have we by bapti&s;ms?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Incorporation into the vi&s;ible Church, a&s;&s;u|rance of Gods grace and promi&s;e: and that as wa|ter doth wa&s;h away the filthyne&s;&s;e of our bodies, &s;o by Chri&s;t we are wa&s;hed away from all evill, both of body and &s;oul, teaching us our new birth.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What benefits have you by the &s;upper of the Lord?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> We are taught Chri&s;t his death, it &s;ealeth up Gods promi&s;e unto us, and teacheth us to love one another.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What be the parts of the&s;e Sacraments?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Vi&s;ible &s;ignes and invi&s;ible graces.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What are the vi&s;ible &s;ignes?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Bread and wine.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>What are the invi&s;ible graces.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Full Redemption and Ju&s;tification by Je&s;us Chri&s;t?</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Why is there u&s;ed both Bread and Wine?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> To teach us that Chri&s;t is both our meat and drink.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>The bread then is not Chri&s;ts body?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> No, for the Heavens hold his body until the day of the re&s;urrection of all things, but the bread repre&s;ents his body, as the wine doth his blood, &s;eeing that by one oblation he hath con&s;ecrated for ever tho&s;e that are &s;anctified.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Then Ma&s;&s;es are bla&s;phemous, and Ma&s;&s;|mongers,
<PB REF="5"> and &s;uch as &s;eek Salvation by works, are likewi&s;e bla&s;phemous?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> They are &s;o, for they re&s;t not only on this &s;acrifice.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Must not then works be done?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Yes, but not the works of our will, but &s;uch as God hath commanded; and then to have no tru&s;t in them, for when we have done all that we can we are unprofitable &s;ervants.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How mu&s;t we come to this Supper?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> In examination of our &s;elves, whether we have a godly &s;orrow for our &s;ins pa&s;t, and purpo&s;e of a new life. Secondly, Whether we have faith to take hold of Chri&s;t and his righteou&s;ne&s;s. Thirdly, Whether we have love, declaring us one Body. Fourthly, Whether we be thankful to God for his benefits.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>Whence cometh it if we come &s;o prepared?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Of the grace of God.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> <HI>How is that obtained?</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> By prayer made in Chri&s;t his name, that we eat not, nor drink not unworthily, 'tis good that we come together in prayer, joyning together with the Mini&s;ter in the Congregation, that we may worthily take it. God grant us &s;o to do.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
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