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<P>A &s;hort CATECHISME FOR The In&s;truction of the Inhabitants of
<HI>S. M.</HI> For the better Preparation of the Sacrament of the LORDS-SUPPER.</P>
<P><HI>The fir&s;t Part.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON: Printed by <HI>I. F.</HI> for <HI>Ralph Smith,</HI> and are to be &s;old at the &s;igne of the Bible in Cornhill, near the Royall-Exchange. 1645.</P>
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<HEAD>A &s;hort Catechi&s;me.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>HOw did God make man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> After his own Image, <HI>Gen.</HI> 1.27.</P>
<P>Q <HI>What is the Image of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Image of God is a re&s;emblance of his holine&s;&s;e and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and his other attributes created in man, <HI>Gen.</HI> 1.27. compared with <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 145.7. <HI>Exod.</HI>
34.6. <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 7.29. <HI>Eph.</HI> 4.24. <HI>Col.</HI> 3.10.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Did man continue in this Image?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A,</HI> No: <HI>Adam</HI> lo&s;t it for him&s;elf, and all us, in eating the forbidden fruit.</P>
<P>Q <HI>How came we to lo&s;e this image by his &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, becau&s;e <HI>Adam</HI> was a publike per|&s;on, and we being in his loynes, his &s;in was im|puted to us,
<HI>Rom.</HI> 5 12.19. and &s;o we were all accounted &s;inners in his offence.</P>
<P>Secondly, the &s;eparation of the image of God, being the &s;pirituall death, happened un|to all men by him; becau&s;e all men were ac|counted &s;inners in him, <HI>Rom.</HI> 5 12.14.16,17,18.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What followed up on the lo&s;&s;e of this Image?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, we are all born without this image.</P>
<P>Secondly, we are therefore born in &s;in, and conceived in iniquity, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 51.5.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e being born with power to think, &s;peak, and do; and wanting this image, which &s;hould teach, or guide us to think, &s;peak, and do aright, we mu&s;t needs &s;in in all the&s;e.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How many kindes of &s;in is there?</HI></P>
<P><PB REF="3"><HI>A.</HI> Two, Originall, and Actuall.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is Originall &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Originall &s;in is an inclination of the whole man to all evill, and that continually, <HI>Gen.</HI> 6.5.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is Actuall &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Actuall, is a breach of the Law of God, in thought, word or deed, 1 Io. 3.4. <HI>Pr.</HI> 24 9. <HI>Mat.</HI> 12</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How do we break the Law of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We break the Law of God, when we do tho&s;e things which God hath forbidden, and leave undone tho&s;e things which God hath commanded, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.19.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What are the wages of &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The wages of &s;in is eternal death, <HI>Ro.</HI>
6.23.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is there no way to avoid this death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> There is no way for a &s;inner to e&s;cape e|ternall death, but only by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Act.</HI> 4.12.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What hath Chri&s;t &s;uffered for us?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t hath born our &s;ins, 1
<HI>Pet.</HI> 2.24. <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.28. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.21. Secondly, he hath &s;uffered the wrath of God due to us for &s;in, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.18. 1
<HI>Cor.</HI> 15.3.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What hath Chri&s;t done for us.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, he hath fulfilled the Law, which we ought to have kept, <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.17,18. <HI>Rom.</HI> 10.5. Secondly, he hath merited a Crown of righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e by fulfilling that Law, <HI>Phil.</HI> 2.9.
<HI>Heb.</HI> 2.9. <HI>Heb.</HI> 12.2.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What benefit have we by his &s;ufferings!</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He will not impute tho&s;e fins to us which<PB REF="3">he hath born, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.19. Nor lay that wrath upon us, which he hath &s;uffered, <HI>Rom.</HI> 5.9. 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 1.10.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What benefit have we by his doings?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, God will impute his righteou&s;ene&s;&s;e to us in fulfilling the Law, <HI>Rom.</HI> 5.10. <HI>Rom.</HI> 10.5. Secondly, he will give us his Crown of glory, which his Son hath merited by his righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, <HI>Joh.</HI> 17.22. <HI>Col.</HI> 3.4. <HI>Heb.</HI>
9.24. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1.32.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What be the main priviledges we have by Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, we are ju&s;tified freely by his grace,
<HI>Act.</HI> 13.39. <HI>Rom.</HI> 3.24. Secondly, we are &s;ancti|fied by his &s;pirit, 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 5.23. And the image we lo&s;t in <HI>Adam,</HI> is re&s;tored in Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.28. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.49. Thirdly, we are adop|ted and made the &s;ons of God, 1 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1.12.
<HI>Gal.</HI> 3.26. Fourthly, all the promi&s;es be made, Yea, and Amen, to us in Chri&s;t, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.20. <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.15.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Can any man live without &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No: For the mo&s;t righteous man that is, &s;ins in many things, <HI>Iam.</HI> 3.2. <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 7.20. 1 <HI>King.</HI>
8.46.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What mu&s;t we do to avoid the danger of &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, when we have committed any &s;ins, we mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e them to God, <HI>Ier.</HI> 3.13. Se|condly, we mu&s;t judge our &s;elves for them. Thirdly, we mu&s;t mourn and repent of them, <HI>Iam.</HI>
4.9. <HI>Mat.</HI> 3.2. Fourthly, we mu&s;t humble our &s;elves before God for them, <HI>Iames</HI> 4.10<PB REF="4">Fiftly, we mu&s;t re&s;olve and endeavour to leave them, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 1.16. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.11. Sixthly, We mu&s;t fight again&s;t them, and labour to mor|tifie them, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 6.12.
<HI>Col.</HI> 3.5. Seventhly, we mu&s;t pray to God to forgive them, and give us power again&s;t them, for Ie&s;us Chri&s;t his &s;ake, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 14.2.
<HI>Rom.</HI> 6.14. La&s;tly, we mu&s;t labour to hate and abhorre them,
<HI>Pro.</HI> 8.13. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 97.10. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.104.
<HI>Pro.</HI> 13.5.</P>
<P>Q <HI>What will the Lord do for a &s;inner that takes this cour&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, if we confe&s;&s;e our &s;ins, he hath pro|mi&s;ed to &s;hew mercy, and to forgive them, <HI>Pro.</HI> 28.13. 1
<HI>Ioh.</HI> 1.9. Secondly, if we judge our &s;elves for our &s;ins, he hath &s;aid, we &s;hal not be judged, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.31. Thirdly, if we mourn, we &s;hall be comforted, <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.4. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 61.3.
<HI>Ezech.</HI> 9.4. If we repent, iniquity &s;hall not be our ruine,
<HI>Ezech.</HI> 18.30. Fourthly, if we humble our &s;elves before God, he will &s;ave us, <HI>Iob</HI> 22.29. He will uphold us, <HI>Pro.</HI> 29.23. He will give us more grace, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 5.5. <HI>Iam.</HI> 4.6. <HI>Pro.</HI> 3.34. And he will dwell with us, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 57 15. Fiftly, if we for&s;ake, and turn from our &s;ins, they &s;hall not be our ruine, <HI>Ezech.</HI> 18.30. The Lord will pardon them, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 55.7. a|bundantly, &s;o as they &s;hall not be mentioned, and we &s;hall &s;ave our &s;oules alive, <HI>Ezech.</HI>
18.21,22.27,28. Sixtly, if we fight the good fight, we &s;hall have a crown of righteou&s;nes, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.7,8. Seventhly, if we humbly pray for pardon, and<PB REF="4">power again&s;t &s;in, he will forgive our &s;ins, and heal our &s;ouls, 2 <HI>Chro.</HI> 7.14. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10.17.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What el&s;e doth the Lord require?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Faith, <HI>Joh.</HI> 14.1. 1 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 3.23.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How many &s;orts of faith be there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Three: Hi&s;toricall faith, ju&s;tifying faith, and faith of A&s;&s;urance.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is hi&s;toricall faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Hi&s;toricall faith is a grace of God, wher|by we beleeve what ever is written in the Book of God to be true, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI>
12.3. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 3.33. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 5.46.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is ju&s;tifying faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Iu&s;tifying faith is a grace of God, where|by I re&s;t upon God in Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, to make good all his promi&s;es unto me,
<HI>I&s;a.</HI> 26.3. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1.12. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 50.10. <HI>Iob</HI>
13.15.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Explaine this by an Example?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> God &s;aith, if we confe&s;&s;e our &s;ins, he will forgive, I have confe&s;&s;ed my &s;in to God (&s;aith the beleever) and now I will re&s;t upon God to forgive and pardon.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is faith of a&s;&s;urance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Faith of a&s;&s;urance is a grace of God, whereby I am fully per&s;waded, that God in Chri&s;t wil make good all his promi&s;es unto me, 1 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 5.10. <HI>Eph.</HI> 1.13. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.12.
<HI>Ro.</HI> 8.38. <HI>Ro.</HI> 4.21.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What will the Lord do for a true Beleever?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He that hath true faith &s;hall not peri&s;h, but have everla&s;ting life, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 3.16. <HI>Hab.</HI> 2.1. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 11.26.
1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.9.</P>
<P><PB REF="5">Q. <HI>What el&s;e doth the Lord require?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Lord requires that we &s;hould obey all his commands, with all our whole might, and that continually, <HI>Deut.</HI> 10.12.
<HI>Deut.</HI> 11.13. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.30. <HI>Luke</HI> 1.6. <HI>Ioh.</HI>
8.29. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.6.112. <HI>Mat.</HI> 28.20. <HI>Deut.</HI>
12.32.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What if we come &s;hort in this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> If there be fir&s;t a willing minde, God will accept according to that a man hath, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 8.12. To him that hath &s;hall be given: God will give more grace, <HI>Mar.</HI> 4.24. <HI>Mat.</HI> 13.12.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How &s;hall we know true faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, by cleaving unto God when he hides his face from us, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 8.17. <HI>Iob</HI> 13.15. <HI>Hab.</HI> 3.17,18.
<HI>Rom.</HI> 4.18.</P>
<P>Secondly, by readine&s;&s;e to yeeld obedience to the Law of faith, <HI>Iam.</HI> 2.17.18.26.</P>
<P>Thirdly, by purifying the heart, <HI>Act.</HI> 15.9. 1
<HI>Ioh.</HI> 3.3.</P>
<P>Fourthly, by love to God and his Saints, <HI>Gal.</HI> 5.6.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How many Commandements be there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Ten: which were at the fir&s;t delivered by God,
<HI>Exod.</HI> 20.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I am the Lord, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Is there any other commands?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> There be many other commands, where|by God forbiddeth us &s;ome things, and com|mands us to do other things, according to his
<PB REF="5">own good plea&s;ure, <HI>Mar.</HI> 28.20.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is a Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> An outward vi&s;ible &s;ign, and &s;eal appoin|ted by God to repre&s;ent, and confirme a &s;piri|tuall Grace.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How many Sacraments be there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Two, Bapti&s;me and the Supper of the Lord.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the outward &s;ign in Bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Water, wherewith, or wherein the party baptized is to be &s;prinkled or dipped in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t.
<HI>Mat.</HI> 28,19. <HI>Mar.</HI> 16.16.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the inward grace &s;ignified, and &s;ea|led to us by Bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, by this we are made vi&s;ible Mem|bers of the vi&s;ible Church of Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.13. <HI>Act.</HI> 2.41.</P>
<P>Secondly, To them that beleeve it &s;ignifies, and &s;eals their reall and firme union to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6.3. <HI>Gal.</HI>
3.27. <HI>Eph.</HI> 4.5.</P>
<P>Thirdly, It &s;ignifies, and &s;eals the Spirituall wa&s;hing of our &s;ouls from the guilt of &s;in. <HI>Act.</HI> 2.38. <HI>Rom.</HI> 4.11. and the imputation of Chri&s;ts righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Fourthly, it &s;ignifies and &s;eals the wa&s;hing of Regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Gho&s;t, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.21.
<HI>Tit.</HI> 3.5. <HI>Acts</HI> 13.24. <HI>Mat.</HI> 3.11. <HI>Mar.</HI> 1.8.
<HI>Luk.</HI> 3.16.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Are all that are Baptized thus wa&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No: The grace of God is not tied alwaies<PB REF="6">to the outward &s;igne: Tho&s;e that are not e|lected have nothing &s;ealed to them, <HI>Simon Ma|gus</HI> had the outward Signe, but was not wa&s;hed with the inward grace, <HI>Act.</HI> 8.13.23.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who be &s;o wa&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Tho&s;e that believe and repent, <HI>Mar.</HI> 16.16.
<HI>Acts</HI> 2.38.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What &s;hall we think of tho&s;e that are bap|tized?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> As all that believe are inwardly wa&s;hed by the Spirit, &s;o tho&s;e that are elected have right to be wa&s;hed in time. But becau&s;e we can|not infallibly judge who be elected, and do be|lieve, we cannot certainly know, who be wa|&s;hed in Bapti&s;me by the Spirit, 1
<HI>Cor.</HI> 2.11.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Who is then to be admitted to the Sacra|ment of Bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Tho&s;e are to be Baptized that profe&s;&s;e their Faith, repentance and obedience to the Go&s;pel of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and their children, <HI>Mat.</HI> 3.6. <HI>Act.</HI> 8.13.38. <HI>Act.</HI> 2.41.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How do you prove that the Infants of Be|leevers are to be Baptized?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, becau&s;e all Saints have right to Bapti&s;me, and children of believing Parents are e&s;teemed Saints, 2
<HI>Cor.</HI> 7.14.</P>
<P>Secondly, becau&s;e children are capable of the inward grace, el&s;e they cannot be &s;aved, 3 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 3 36. <HI>Heb.</HI> 12.14.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How prove you by the Word of God that<PB REF="6">they may have the inward Grace?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> God promi&s;es to circumci&s;e their heart,
<HI>Deu.</HI> 30.6. Our Saviour &s;aith, that of &s;uch is the Kingdom of Heaven, <HI>Mat.</HI> 10 14. And <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aith, that the Promi&s;e belongeth to them, <HI>Act.</HI> 2.39.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What Promi&s;e is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In the ver&s;e before, the promi&s;e made to tho&s;e that are baptized, is the remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins, and the gift of the holy Gho&s;t, <HI>Act.</HI> 2.38.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the third Rea&s;on, why children are to be baptized?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> God appointed children to be circumci|&s;ed,
<HI>Gen.</HI> 17.12. And Bapti&s;me is a &s;eale of the &s;ame Covenant of Grace, <HI>Rom.</HI> 4.11. <HI>Act.</HI> 2.38.17. <HI>Gen.</HI> 11.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the fourth rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> If children may not be baptized, the Law was more glorious, and full of Grace then the Go&s;pel; and the children of the
<HI>Jews</HI> more happy before Chri&s;t, then the children of Chri|&s;tians under Chri&s;t; but the Scripture teaches the contrary, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.8
9.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the fifth rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All were baptized in the Red Sea, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI>
10.2. And we read that whole hou&s;es and fa|milies were baptized in the Apo&s;tles time, <HI>Act.</HI> 16.15.33. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.16.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What do you gather from that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e no man can &s;ay, there were no<PB REF="7">children in tho&s;e families, or that the children were not baptized; therefore we conceive there was &s;ome children baptized, and we ought not to deny Bapti&s;me to children.</P>
<P>Q <HI>What other rea&s;on have you?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Mat.</HI> 28.19 Chri&s;t commanded his A|po&s;tles to Baptize all Nations. As God had for|merly commanded to circumci&s;e all Iews, and if children had not been to have been baptized our Saviour would have excepted them in that command.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How many &s;ignes and &s;ignificant actions are there in the Lords Supper, and what do they &s;ignifie,</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> There be &s;ix: Fir&s;t, the Materials, bread and wine, which &s;ignifie the body and blood of Chri&s;t, <HI>Mat.</HI>
26.26.28.</P>
<P>Secondly, the &s;etting the&s;e &s;ignes apart for this holy u&s;e, which &s;ignifie how Chri&s;t was &s;et apart from eternity for the work of our re|demption, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.8. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 10.36.</P>
<P>Thirdly, the Ble&s;&s;ing, the &s;ignes, which puts us in minde how Chri&s;t Ie&s;us ble&s;&s;ed the bread and the wine, in the fir&s;t in&s;titution for this ho|ly Sacrament; <HI>Mat.</HI> 26.26. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI>
11.24.</P>
<P>And how the Father ble&s;&s;ed Chri&s;t in his do|ings, Offices, and &s;ufferings to fini&s;h the work of our Redemption, <HI>Mat,</HI> 1.20.
<HI>Rom.</HI> 3.29.</P>
<P>Fourthly, the breaking of the Bread, and powring forth of the Wine, &s;hew how his bo|dy<PB REF="7">was broken, his blood &s;hed, and his &s;oule made an offering for our &s;ins.</P>
<P>Fifthly, the giving of the bread and wine, is a token that God offers to the faithfull; re|ceive Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, and the benefit of all that he did and &s;uffered, of all his offices, merits and promi&s;es, of which gift the&s;e &s;ignes are a pledge, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.16.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, as we take and eat the bread and drink the wine for the nouri&s;hment of our bo|dies, &s;o ought we to take, and eat the body and blood of Chri&s;t by Faith, for the nouri&s;hment of our &s;ouls, <HI>Ioh.</HI>
53,54,55,56.63. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.17.8.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is it to take Chri&s;t by Faith in the Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To re&s;t upon God in Chri&s;t, to make good unto us, or give us the benefit of the doings, &s;ufferings, offices, merits, and promi&s;es of Chri&s;t, and to receive this Sacrament as a pledge, &s;igne and &s;eale of the Lords engagement, and inten|tion to do the &s;ame,
<HI>I&s;a.</HI> 26.3. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 50.10.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Do all receive Chri&s;t in this Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No: Only &s;uch as come rightly prepared.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How mu&s;t we prepare our &s;elves?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, with knowledge of the doings, &s;uf|ferings, offices, and merits, Laws, promi&s;es and Sacraments of Chri&s;t, which is called di&s;cer|ning the Lords body, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.29.</P>
<P>Secondly, by due examination of our thoughts, words and actions according to his Laws, and<PB REF="8">taking that cour&s;e which hath been taught to avoid the danger of &s;in, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.28.</P>
<P>Thirdly, with true Faith: Fir&s;t, in God the Father, to commit our &s;ouls to him in his &s;on, in his promi&s;es, co~mands &amp; Sacraments, as a &s;aith|full Creator, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4.19 <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 58.9 1
<HI>The&s;.</HI> 24.26. Secondly, with Faith in Chri&s;t, relie upon his doings, &s;ufferings, offices, and merits, to blot our &s;ins, and free us from wrath, to make us righteous, and give us a Crown of glory, <HI>Heb.</HI> 8.12.
1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 1.10. <HI>Rom.</HI> 3.20,21. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.30.
<HI>Phil.</HI> 3.9. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 17.22. <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.48.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the act of Faith, required in the offices of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t, we mu&s;t re&s;t upon him as our King,
<HI>I&s;a.</HI> 62.11. <HI>Zach.</HI> 9.9. <HI>Mat.</HI> 2.5. <HI>Mat.</HI>
25.34.</P>
<P>To rule us by the Law of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, <HI>Heb.</HI>
1.8.</P>
<P>To confirme the charter of the promi&s;es, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.20.
<HI>Heb.</HI> 9.15. <HI>Rom.</HI> 15.8.</P>
<P>To &s;ubdue all our enemies, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.25.26.</P>
<P>To protect us in all our adver&s;ities, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.57. 1
<HI>Pet.</HI> 1.5. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.13. <HI>Heb.</HI> 13.5 6. <HI>I&s;a.</HI>
46.4.</P>
<P>Secondly, we mu&s;t re&s;t upon him as a Prie&s;t,
<HI>Hebrews</HI> 6.20. To have offered a &s;ufficient Sacrifice to &s;atisfie for our &s;ins, 1 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 2.2. To be our Advocate, 1 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 2.1. And to plead for the Pardon of tho&s;e &s;ins we confe&s;&s;e, judge, and humble our &s;elves for, by mouring, repentance, and turning from them.
<PB REF="8">And to intercede for us, <HI>Heb.</HI> 7.25. <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.34.
<HI>Rev.</HI> 8.3. And offer up our prayers to his father: La&s;tly, we mu&s;t re&s;t upon him as a Prophet, <HI>Deut.</HI> 18.18. <HI>Act.</HI> 3.22. Not only to it &s;truct us by his Word, and Mini&s;ters, <HI>Act.</HI> 26.18.4.
<HI>Eph.</HI> 11. But al&s;o by the unutrerable working of his Spirit in heavenly motions, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 16.13. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 44.3 <HI>Joh.</HI> 5.20.
<HI>Act.</HI> 3.26. <HI>Eph.</HI> 1.17,18.</P>
<P>And by giving us new under&s;tandings, wills rectified, affections to receive tho&s;e motions; And to create in our &s;oules the image of his heavenly graces, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1.16. <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.29. <HI>Luk.</HI>
24.45</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What el&s;e is de&s;ire to come prepared?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To come with reverence to that glorious Maje&s;tly there pre&s;ent, of that holy Ordinance there celebrated &amp; that invaluable grace there offered, <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 89.7. <HI>Mat.</HI> 21.37. <HI>Lev.</HI>
19.30. <HI>Lev.</HI> 26.2. <HI>Heb.</HI> 12.28.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What el&s;e is required to come prepared?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> If in this Sacrament God &s;cale the Par|don of our &s;ins, deliverance from wrath, and the firme union of his love: It is fitting we &s;hould forgive others, lay down thoughts of wrath and revenge, and come together with bowels of compa&s;&s;ion and love.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How prove you that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> God requires the&s;e things at all times; how much more will he require, we &s;hould come cloathed with the&s;e graces to his table, <HI>Mat.</HI> 6.14,15. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.7,8. <HI>Ia.</HI> 2.8.
<HI>Rom.</HI> 12.9,10.<PB REF="9">14.18 20. <HI>Rom.</HI> 13 8. <HI>Coll.</HI>
3.12. 1 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 3.23.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is the danger for a man to come un|prepared?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He may eat and drink unworthily, and &s;o eat and drinke his own damnation, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.29. After unprepared
<HI>Iudas</HI> eat the &s;op, <HI>Satan</HI> entred into him, <HI>Ioh.</HI>
13.27. He that came to the Lords Table wanting a Wedding Garment, was bound hand and foot, and ca&s;t into utter dark|ne&s;&s;e, <HI>Mat.</HI> 22.12.</P>
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