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<P>THE KERNELL OF CHRISTIANITY: CONTAINING A SHORT YET FVLL Summe of our Communion with CHRIST.</P>
<P>By M FRANCIS PECK M^r of Arts, Mini&s;ter of the Word and Pa|&s;tor at <HI>Hartford.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed By <HI>G. M.</HI> for <HI>Iohn Bellamy</HI> at the &s;igne of the three Golden-Lyons near the Royall-Exchange, 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>THE KERNELL OF <HI>Christianity.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Q <HI>_WHat is every owne bound to know that lookes to be &s;aved?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Two things.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Something concerning God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Something concerning Man.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Q <HI>What ought you to know and beleeve con|cerning God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That there is owne mo&s;t glorious God. <HI>Deut.</HI> 6.4. <HI>Exod.</HI> 33.18.</P>
<P>Q <HI>How doth it appeare that God is &s;o glorious?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In foure particulars.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. In his Effence, which is incomprehen&s;ible.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. In his attributes, which are tho&s;e divine perfections wherby hee makes him&s;elfe known to us, which attributes are not qua|lities in God, but nature. Gods Iu&s;tice is God him&s;elfe, and Gods povver is God him&s;elfe &amp;c.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>3. In his per&s;ons, which are three.
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. The Father begetting.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Sonne begotten.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Holy Gho&s;t proceeding.</ITEM>
<ITEM>1 The Father is glorious in regard of Election.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Sonne is glorious in regard of Redemption.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Holy Gho&s;t is glorious in regard of Application.</ITEM>
<ITEM>1. The Father is glorious in choo&s;ing the hou&s;e. that is in the heart of a poore &s;inner.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Sonne is glorious in purcha&s;ing the hou&s;e. that is in the heart of a poore &s;inner.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Hoy Gho&s;t is glorious in dvvelling in the hou&s;e. that is in the heart of a poore &s;inner.</ITEM>
</LIST> </ITEM>
<ITEM>4. In his vvorkes.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Q <HI>What are tho&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>A.
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. His decrees of
<LIST>
<ITEM>Election.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Reprobation</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. His vvorkes of
<LIST>
<ITEM>Creation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Providence.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Q <HI>What ought you to know and beleeve con|cerning his worke of creation?</HI></P>
<P>A. That this one glorious God made all things of nothing in &s;ix dayes in excellent or|der and very good. <HI>Heb.</HI> 11.3. <HI>Exod.</HI> 20.11. <HI>Gen</HI> 1.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">1.</P>
<P>Q <HI>What ought you to know and beleeve con|cerning the work of providence?</HI></P>
<P>A. That this one glorious God vvi&s;ely orde|reth, governeth, and di&s;po&s;eth of all things, even to the lea&s;t circum&s;tance, <HI>Mat.</HI> 6.26. <HI>&amp;c. and</HI> 10, 29, 30.</P>
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<P>Q. <HI>What ought you to know and beleeve con|cerning man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The&s;e &s;ix things follovving:
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. What vvas the glorious, and happy condi+tion of man by creation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. What that mi&s;erable, and lamentable e|&s;tate is, that man is novv fallen into.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. What Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is, the only meanes of deliverance out of this e&s;tate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. What faith is, the only meanes of apply|ing Chri&s;t, and hovv it is vvrought in the &s;oule.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. What that happy e&s;tate is, that every man that is in Chri&s;t by Faith, is brought unto.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. What kind of thankfulne&s;&s;e, and life it is, that God requires of all them that be in this e&s;tate by Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What are you to know concerning the glori|ous condition of man by Creation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> God created all man-kind in his ovvne Image.</P>
<P>Q <HI>Wherein did the Image of God con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In perfect knovvledge, righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and holyne&s;&s;e. <HI>Col.</HI> 3.10. <HI>Ephe&s;</HI> 4 24.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Man being created in a mo&s;t happy conditi|on, wherein did his happine&s;&s;e con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A</HI> In two things e&s;pecially:
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. His under&s;tanding vvas full of divine knovvledge of the vvhole mind of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. His vvill and affections vvere fully confor|mable to Gods vvill.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Q <HI>Wherein did mans happine&s;&s;e further con|&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In five things:
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. He vvas in favour vvith God.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>2. He had familiar communion vvith God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. He felt un&s;peakable joy ari&s;ing from this communion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. He had dominion over all inferior crea|tures.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. He vvas immortall, and &s;hould never have ta&s;ted of death, if hee had not fallen by &s;inne.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Q. <HI>Doth this any way concerne us?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes; his e&s;tate vvas ours in him; vvee being then in his loynes.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What learne you by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Three things:</P>
<P N="1">1. To lament and bevvaile the lo&s;&s;e of this condition by &s;inne.</P>
<P N="2">2. That I ought to labour to get this jmage of God repayred in me.</P>
<P N="3">3. That I ought not to be a&s;hamed of holy|ne&s;&s;e, nor to content my &s;elfe vvith &s;ome &s;mall mea&s;ures of it, much le&s;&s;e to hate it, as pro|fane per&s;ons and di&s;&s;embling hypocrites doe.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What is that mi&s;erable and lamentable e|&s;tate that man is now fallen into?</HI></P>
<P>A. His mi&s;ery novv appeares in foure things.</P>
<P N="1">1. In his birth: he is borne dead in &s;inne and &s;o void of all good, and full of all evill, and &s;o a child of vvrath. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2.1, 2, 3, 4. <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.29.</P>
<P N="2">2. In his life, vvhat&s;oever he doth is &s;inne in Gods &s;ight. <HI>Tit.</HI> 1.15. God and all creatures are his enemies. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 5.5. <HI>Iob.</HI> 5.23. he re|maines a bond&s;lave of Satan til God convert him. <HI>Acts.</HI> 26.18. and hangs by the tvvine|thred of life every moment ready to drop into hell.</P>
<P N="3">3. In his death: then comes an end of all
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 26 -->his hopes, and plea&s;ures, and the beginning of all his vvoes and &s;orrovves.</P>
<P N="4">4. After death: Fir&s;t comes his particular judgement. <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.27. after this follovves his generall judgement, vvhen that terrible &s;en|tence, 25. <HI>and the</HI> 41. <HI>ver.</HI> &s;hall be pre&s;&s;ed upon him. After this follovves the execution, vvhere|in the vialls of Gods fierce vvrath are povvred out upon his &s;oule and body, vvhich fire &s;hall never be quenched.</P>
<P><HI>Q. Wherein doth the aggravation of this wo|full e&s;tate of man by nature appeare?</HI></P>
<P>A. In three particulars:
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. He knovves not his mi&s;ery. <HI>Rev.</HI> 3.17</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. He is not affected vvith it, though hee &s;hould knovv it. <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.5.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Hee is unable of him&s;elfe to come out of it, though he &s;hould both knovv it and be af|fected vvith it. <HI>Rom.</HI> 5.6.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>Q. What learne you from hence?</HI></P>
<P>A. I learne that Gods vvrath again&s;t &s;inne, and &s;innefull man (temaining in this condion) is very great.</P>
<P><HI>Q. How great is it?</HI></P>
<P>A. So great that nothing (vvithout Chri&s;t) but eternall death of body and &s;oule in the ever|la&s;ting torments of hell can &s;atisfie Gods ju&s;t di&s;plea&s;ure. <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.10.</P>
<P><HI>Q. Is it be&s;t now to &s;ee your mi&s;erable conditi|on by nature, and to &s;eele this wrath of God, and mourne under it while there is hope, and meanes to come out of it; or to &s;tay till the gate of grace be &s;hut; and God &s;natches the &s;oule from all hope, and meanes by death?</HI></P>
<P>A. It's farre better to &s;ee it, and to mourne under it novv.</P>
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<P><HI>Q. How, and why mu&s;t a man &s;ee and feele him|&s;elfe under this wrath and mi&s;ery?</HI></P>
<P>A. 1. Every man mu&s;t &s;ee that he is under Gods vvrath for the pre&s;ent; el&s;e he vvill ne|ver &s;eeke to Chri&s;t to beare it for him.</P>
<P N="2">2. Man mu&s;t &s;ee vvhat this fearefull vvrath of God is, that is novv piled again&s;t him; el&s;e he vvill never prize Chri&s;t to deliver him out of it.</P>
<P N="3">3. All men mu&s;t &s;ee that this vvrath is ready to light on them every moment in the full mea|&s;ure of it; el&s;e they vvill deferre their returne till hereafter.</P>
<P N="4">4 A man mu&s;t &s;ee hee is bound hand and foot in the chaines of his &s;innes, and cannot come from under them, nor lay hould of Chri&s;t to help him out of them; el&s;e he vvill pre&s;ume he hath received Chri&s;t vvhen he hath not.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What is to be knowne of every one concer|ning Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, the only meanes of deliverance out of this e&s;tate?</HI></P>
<P>A. The&s;e foure things:</P>
<P N="1">1. What his per&s;on is, namely, both God and man united into one per&s;on, which is Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. What his love is tovvards man, namely pa&s;t under&s;tanding. <HI>Ephe&s;</HI> 3.18, 19.</P>
<P N="3">3. What his offices are, vvhich are the&s;e three.</P>
<P N="1">1. His Prie&s;tly office, whereby he offered him&s;elfe for his Church <HI>Heb.</HI> 7.27.</P>
<P N="2">2. His Propheticall office, whereby he tea|cheth his Church. <HI>Acts</HI> 3.22.</P>
<P N="3">3. His Kingly office, whereby he rules his Church. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2.6.</P>
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<P N="4">4. Hovv he delivers tho&s;e, vvhom he purpo|&s;eth to &s;ave, hamely by being made &s;inne, and cur&s;e and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e for them. 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.21. <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.13. 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.30.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What learne you from hence?</HI></P>
<P>A. I learne that all my &s;innefull duties, no nor my death, cannot pacifie Gods vvrath, and deliver mee from it: It is done only by the perfect righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and death of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Q. How may we come to get this Chri&s;t to doe all for us?</HI></P>
<P>A. By receiving him by Faith. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1.12.</P>
<P><HI>Q. When may a man without pre&s;umption re|ceive Chri&s;t as his owne?</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 11.28, 29</NOTE></P>
<P>A. 1 When the poore &s;oule is &s;o vveary, and heavy laden vvith the apprehen&s;ion of &s;inne, and vvrath that it cannot live vvithout Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. When the poore &s;inner is &s;o out of love vvith him&s;elfe, that he is content to part vvith all &s;inne for Chri&s;t. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 55.7.</P>
<P N="3">3. When the poore &s;inner receives Chri&s;t to that end that God the Father offers him, namely to be his Prie&s;t, Prophet, and King.</P>
<P><HI>Q How may a man come to receive Chri&s;t? can man create Faith in him&s;elfe to receive him, or mu&s;t the Lord by an infinite almighty power worke it in him?</HI></P>
<P>A. The Lord mu&s;t create faith in him by his almighty povver. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 1.19.</P>
<P><HI>Q. What is to be knowne concerning faith, the only meanes of applying Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>A. Tvvo things
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. vvhat Faith is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Hovv it is vvrought in the &s;oule.</ITEM>
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<P>Q. <HI>What is Faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is a &s;peciall grace of God, vvhereby an humbled &s;inner feeling him&s;elfe unable to be|leeve,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 11.28.</NOTE> is dravvne, and &s;o comes by the helpe of Gods Spirit to Chri&s;t for all good, and &s;o re&s;ts upon him. <HI>Iob.</HI> 6.44, 45. <HI>Phil.</HI> 3.7, 8, 9.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How doth the Lord worke this Faith in the &s;oule by his mighty power, and how comes the &s;oule to know it is wrought?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By the&s;e nine &s;teps:</P>
<P N="1">1. The Lord gives the &s;oule a li&s;tning eare to the vvord preached, as if God him&s;elfe vvere &s;peaking to it.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Lord makes the &s;oule to under&s;tand the word. <HI>Mat.</HI> 13.23.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Lord &s;avingly vvounds the &s;oule, vvith the &s;ence and apprehen&s;ion of his lo&s;t e|&s;tate; having under&s;tood it. <HI>Acts.</HI> 2.37.</P>
<P N="4">4. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Act</HI> 5.6.9.</NOTE> Then the Lord makes the &s;oule poore in &s;pirit, ready to dye for vvant of grace, and Chri&s;t. <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.3.</P>
<P N="5">5. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn.</HI> 3.16.</NOTE> The Lord reveales unto the &s;oule the free|ne&s;&s;e of his grace and mercy in Chri&s;t, and then brings the &s;oule to ponder on this mercy, from vvhence ari&s;eth hope of helpe; hereupon hope comes and waites one Chri&s;t for it, &s;eing novv it is po&s;&s;ible that an unvvorthy &s;infull, lo&s;t crea|ture may have it. <HI>Ioel.</HI> 2.14. <HI>Ionah</HI> 3.9.</P>
<P N="6">6. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2.7.</NOTE> The Lord reveales the riches of his mer|cy in Chri&s;t, whereby the &s;oule hungers after it. <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.6. and is not quiet vvithout it, hence he de&s;ires, and longs, and beggs for it, vvith un|utterable groanes, &s;eeing and knovving (vvith the prodigall) that there is enough in his fa|thers hou&s;e.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke.</HI> 15.</NOTE> <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.26.</P>
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<P N="7">7. Then the Lord reveales the vvorth and excellency of his mercy in Chri&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 3.7</NOTE> and hereby makes the &s;oule to love it. Hence love to this mercy comes &s;ecretly, and contents it &s;elfe vvith it; hereupon the &s;oule promi&s;eth if it may but have this mercy in the Lord Ie&s;us to pitty it, and receive it; it vvill everla&s;tingly ovvne it, and admire the Lord for it. <HI>Lam.</HI> 3.24.</P>
<P N="8">8. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 63.3.</NOTE> The Lord reveales the &s;vveetne&s;&s;e of his mercy in the Lord Ie&s;us, and hereby gives the &s;oule a &s;atisfying ta&s;te of it, and hence the <HI>will</HI> comes and is per&s;vvaded vvith joy to leave it &s;elfe for ever upon it, here to live, or here to dye. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 39.7.</P>
<P N="9">9. The &s;oule being thus come up to Chri&s;t; the Lord doth at la&s;t reveale the property of mercy to him, (thus beleeving) vvhereby the &s;oule is novv a&s;&s;ured, and per&s;vvaded that nei|ther height, nor depth &s;hall &s;eperate him from Gods love in Chri&s;t. <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.38, 39.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is that happy condition that every one doth injoy, who are thus in Chri&s;t by Faith&punc;</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It con&s;i&s;t in tvvo things:
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Union with Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The benefits vvhich the &s;oule doth injoy hereby.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is &V;nion with Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is that vvhereby the Spirit makes the &s;oule one vvith Chri&s;t, and Chri&s;t all to it. 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.17. <HI>Col.</HI> 3.11.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What benefits doth the &s;oule immediatly injoy by Vnion with Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>A.</HI> The&s;e foure
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Iu&s;tification.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Reconciliation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Adoption.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Regeneration.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is Iu&s;tification?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is a gracious act of God the Father, vvhereby hee imputing the finnes of a belee|ver to Chri&s;t, and Chri&s;ts righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e to him, he accounts him guiltle&s;&s;e, and iu&s;t be|fore him. <HI>Rom.</HI> 3.26.4.3.5.5.1. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.21. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 1.7. <HI>Col.</HI> 1.14. <HI>P&s;alm.</HI> 32.1, 2.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is reconciliation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is a mo&s;t gratious act of God the Fa|ther offended, vvhereby he receives into his favour a ju&s;tified &s;inner. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.18, 19. <HI>Col.</HI> 1.21.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is Adoption?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> A gracious act of God the Father, vvhereby he accounts a reconciled &s;inner his &s;onne, and &s;o makes him coheire vvith Chri&s;t. <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.5, 6.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is Regeneration?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is a gratious act of God in the heart of his &s;onnes, vvhereby in uniting them un|to Chri&s;t, hee infu&s;eth a mo&s;t glorious life into them. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2.10. <HI>and</HI> 4.24.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What followes a beleevers &V;nion with Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Tvvo things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Coalition, or grovving up vvith Chri&s;t</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Glorification.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Q <HI>By what meanes or wherein doth a be|leeving &s;oule grow up with Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>A.</HI> By increa&s;e of Faith and &s;anctification</P>
<P>Q <HI>Wherein doth &s;anctification con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. In mortification, or dying daily to &s;inne.</P>
<P N="2">2. In vivification, or living daily to Chri&s;t. <HI>Rom.</HI> 6.3, 4, 5. <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.11.</P>
<P>Q <HI>How are Faith and &s;anctification con|firmed and increa&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By the &s;ame meanes that they are begun by, and al&s;o by receiving of the Sacraments.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How many Sacraments be there?</HI></P>
<P>A. Tvvo
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Bapti&s;me, vvhich confirmes our Regeneration, or nevv birth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Lords Supper, vvhich &s;ig|nifies and &s;eales our grovvth in Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Q <HI>What is a beleevers glorification?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> When death hath &s;vvallovved the bo|dies of Gods faithfull Servants, their ble&s;|&s;ed &s;oules are taken up to Chri&s;t, and &s;vval|lovved up in Glory vvhich never &s;hall have an end. 1. <HI>The&s;.</HI> 4.17.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What kind of thankfullne&s;se and life is that which God requires of all them that be in this e&s;tate by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Lord requires of them to an|&s;vver his infinite love vvith their love againe, to the prai&s;e of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, te&s;ti|fied by obedience to the morral lavv, ob&s;er|ving it (though not as a covenant of vvorkes, yet) as a rule of life, according to his vvill. <HI>Iohn.</HI> 14.15, 21.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is this called?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Serving of God. <HI>Luk.</HI> 1.74, 75.</P>
<P>Q <HI>How mu&s;t this be performed?</HI></P>
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