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<P>A CANDLE LIGH|TED AT THE LAMPE OF SACRED SCRIP|TVRES. Or A Catechi&s;me conteining all truths fundamentall, and none but fundamentalls.</P>
<P>By <HI>Richard Bifield,</HI> Mini&s;ter of Gods word, and Pa&s;tor in <HI>Long Ditton.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL>2 Tim 3. 15.</BIBL>
<P><HI>From a Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ld thou ha&s;t knowen the Holy Scripture<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, which a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e able to m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e to &s;al|ua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> is i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</HI></P></Q>
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<Q><BIBL>Ambro&s;e de Spir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">u &s;ancto. l. 3. c. 11.</BIBL>
<P><HI>I leaue to the &s;implicity of Scripture, not the &s;ub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">y of argument</HI></P></Q>
<P>Imprinted at LONDON 1627.</P>
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<HEAD>A Precept to Parents.</HEAD>
<P>The&s;e words which I com|mande thee this day &s;hall be in thine heart: and thou &s;halt teach them diligently vnto thy childre~, and &s;halt talke of them when thou &s;itte&s;t in thine hou&s;e, and when thou walke&s;t by the way, and whe~ thou lye&s;t downe, and when thou ri&s;e&s;t vp. <HI>Deut.</HI> 6. 6. 7.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<HEAD>To children and &s;eruants.</HEAD>
<P>Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts, and bee readie alwayes to giue an an&s;wer to every man that asketh you a rea&s;on of the hope that is in you, with meekne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e and feare. 1 <HI>peter.</HI> 3. 15.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD><HI>TO THE CHILDREN AND youth of</HI> Long-Ditton, King&s;ton <HI>vp|on</HI> Thames, <HI>and Ea&s;t</HI> Mol&s;ey: <HI>Grace</HI> be vnto you and peace, from him which was, and which is, &amp; which is to come.</HEAD>
<P>LIttle children and youth, I am debter to you al&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and am taught by <HI>Iohn,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Ioh,</HI> 2 12, 13.</NOTE> the Di&s;ciple whom our Saviour loved: to pay this debt by writing. I Dedicate there|fore this little booke to you ioyntly: where in&punc; you my little babes, may &s;ee the mer|cies of God in forgiuing your &s;innes for Chri&s;ts name &s;ake; and may learne euen in the milke to know, and knowing to call God Father. Wherein likewi&s;e you young men, may, as out of the Lords armory, haue weapons ready fitted to your hand &amp; v&s;e, wherewith ye &s;hall overcome that wic|ked one. And if ye receiue by faith this doctrine, and let it abide in you, to loue it to obey it, you &s;hall encrea&s;e your &s;trength; and the better with &s;tand future a&s;&s;aults, in all of them, being more then Conque|rours.</P>
<P>For, in the first part, yee haue orderly framed in words of Stripture, the whole body of divinitie, which we are to beleeue
<PB REF="3"> concern<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g the Go&s;pell of our Lord and Sa|viour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, after a familiar way of Cat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">chi&s;ing: no one matter of opinion mix|ed therewith, but onely fundamentall truthes; layd downe &s;o that all Here&s;ies-now being, or formerly rooted, or that may hereafter &s;pring vp, as tares among&s;t the wheate, are cut off; not by humaine wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t and Schoole di&s;tincti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns: but by divine word &amp; holy writ. here you haue much, yea all in a little, yet without ob&s;curity. Here ye have that faith which ever was held &amp; profe&s;&s;ed vniver&s;ally in the Church: as will be manife&s;t to the iudicious that are acquaint<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d with Scripture, with Councels with the authen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Creeds, with the pub+like confe&s;&s;ions of chri&s;tian m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n &amp; Chur|ches. The truth I dare boldly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ay, the ene|mies them&s;elues being iudges. In a word: yee haue here the heads of Doctrine, which in euery particular in the audience of the Congregation of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> vpon <HI>Thames,</HI> was with feare and trembling <HI>(being</HI> part of full three years laboures their) di&s;cour&s;ed off at larg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; &s;hewing in all and every point, the Harmony of both Te&s;taments, the vn|tiyng of difficulties and knots in them, by way of explication, the wiles of Satha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and the fle&s;h, begui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing vs of the fruite of &s;uch
<PB REF="3"> knowledge and beleife in deeds, while our mouthes profe&s;&s;ed the &s;ame in words, the conclu&s;ions profitable and famous which depend upon &s;uch prime truthes. And la&s;t|ly, the In&s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ctions, con&s;olations and re|proofes which the&s;e doctrines afford us, for the reformation of heart and life.</P>
<P>In the &s;econd part, I pre&s;ent you with the rules of holy life, whereby you are taught as the truth is in Ie&s;us, <HI>to put off con|cerning the the former conver&s;ation, the old man which is corrupt accor|ding to the deceitfull lu&s;ts, and being renewed in the &s;pirit of your minde, to put on the new man, which after God is created in righteov&s;nes and true ho|line&s;&s;e.</HI> Here I haue diuided the precepts of the Go&s;pell: from tho&s;e of the Law, to avoyd confu&s;ion: that they are di&s;tinct is a thing not hitherto heeded, yet (as to them will appeare that con&s;ider it without pre|iudice) mo&s;t certaine. The words of Chri&s;t haue as much force to bind, as the words of the Decalogue or ten commandements.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e the voyce of Repentance, is no voyce of the Law; and &s;o of the re&s;t. That I haue ca&s;t them into ten, is not out of any &s;uper&s;tition of the number: nor any conceit of mine that there are iu&s;t ten, but onely to
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<PB REF="5"> help memory; they al&s;o fitly ari&s;ing to that number, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or ought I &s;ee, the whole comprehended. I haue in the margent &s;et two different marks upon certaine an&s;wers or phra&s;es in tho&s;e an&s;wers, by which I would haue you to take notice of your e&s;tate before God. If tho&s;e or any one of tho&s;e graces or priviledges bee manife&s;t vpon your hearts wrought by the word, which are &s;igned with this &s;igne <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>being that Ange|licall mark, Ezek.</HI> 9. 4.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="foreign"> they proue you actually the children of God. If the &s;innes or kind of offending be yet found in you which is marked with that marke <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>the fir&s;t letter in the word</HI> Let|zim <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">l.</HI> 1. 1. <HI>&s;ignify|ing &s;corn+ers.</HI></NOTE> <GAP DESC="foreign"> you are unregenerated and wicked &s;inners, and remaine &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch till you wa&s;h them a|way by true repentance, and Faith in the Lord Ie&s;us.</P>
<P>Take the&s;e &amp; dige&s;t them thorough|ly, yea eate them up; as reached forth to you from God, tho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gh by the unworthy hands of a meane Labourer in Gods V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n|yard: who&s;e pray<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r is, that you may increa&s;e in wi&s;dome and &s;tature, and in favour with God and man.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Richard Bifield.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A CANDLE LIGHT|ed, at the Lampe of Sacred <HI>Scriptures.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t part conteining the grounds of Faith.</HEAD>
<P>WHere may wee learne that knowledge which will make a man wi&s;e to his &s;alvation.</P>
<P>An&s;wer. <HI>In the holy &s;cripture.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 15, 16. 17. <HI>Iohn</HI> 5. 37.</NOTE></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> How was all Scripture of the old and new Te&s;tament given?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By in&s;piration of God: for the <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 tim. 3. 16 2 Pet. 1, 20 21.</NOTE> holy men of God &s;pake as they were moved by the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Hath God revealed all things there|in nece&s;&s;ary to &s;alvation?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes: no man may adde there|to, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 12 32. Prou. 30. 6.</NOTE> or take there from.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> May a &s;imple man learne &s;o much by them? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119, 130. 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 4. 4.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The entrance into Gods word giueth light, it giueth vnder&s;tanding vnto the &s;imple.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Seeing they are &s;o plaine in all ne|ce&s;&s;ary truthes, tell me what they teach you concerning God?</HEAD>
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<P> <HI>A.</HI> That there is but one God: an Idol is nothing in the world. <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 8. 4.</NOTE></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What el&s;e?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That their are three that beare record in heaven, the Father, the word <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Ioh. 5. 7.</NOTE> and the Holy Gho&s;t, and the&s;e three are one.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> What is this one God who is three in per&s;ons?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He is a Spirit, who&s;e name is, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 4. 24. Exod. 3. 14 1 Tim. 1 17 Gen. 17. 1 Mat. 19. 17</NOTE> <HI>I AM,</HI> the eternall, the Almighty, the only wi&s;e and good.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Wherein did God manife&s;t his wi&s;|dome power &amp; goodnes?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In that he made the world and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 1 Heb. 11. 3. Rom. 1. 20.</NOTE> all things therein in the beginning, of nothing, and all very good.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How did he make man?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Male &amp; Female, after his owne <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 1. 27.</NOTE> image.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What was this image chiefly?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Knowledge, righteou&s;nes and true holines. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 4. 24 Col. 3. 10.</NOTE></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> Did man remaine thus righteous?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No: they &s;ought out many in|ventions. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle. 7. 29</NOTE></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q&punc;</HI> How did they fall?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A. Adam</HI> and <HI>Eue</HI> did eate of that <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3. 1. 6&punc;</NOTE> fruite of which God had &s;aid <HI>yee &s;hall</HI>
<PB REF="6"> not eate of it, <HI>Eve</HI> fir&s;t was beguiled by the Serpen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, then gaue to her hus|band, <HI>and</HI> he did eate.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> But that they &s;inned and fell, what is that to vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By one man &s;inne entred into <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 5. 12</NOTE> the world, and death by &s;inne, and &s;o death pa&s;&s;ed on all men, in whom all haue &s;inned.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is our estate then by nature?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All men are borne in &s;inne &amp; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 3. 23 P&s;a. 51, 5, Iob, 11. 12 &amp;, 15. 14. Gen. 8. 21, 1, Ioh. 3. 4</NOTE> liue therein from their youth vp.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is &s;inne?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of Gods Law.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> What is the wages of &s;inn?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Death.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> When God had made the world. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 32</NOTE> doth he leaue it without regard?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not &s;o: he &s;eeth and vpholdth <NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 3, Heb, 1, 3</NOTE> all by the word of his power.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Doth this his prouidence reach to all?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yea to the <HI>Sparrowe</HI> lightning <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 10, 29 30,</NOTE> on the ground, and the numbring of the haires of our head.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> He &s;aueth then both man &amp; bea&s;t? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a,</HI> 39, 6 1 <HI>Cor,</HI> 9. 9&punc; 10, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4, 10,</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> True, but his care is generall over all; but more e&s;pecially towards them that beleeue</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Yet many mi&s;eries befall men?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Lord doth it. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Amos 3. 6.</NOTE></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> But if the Lord guide all, how com|eth &s;inne into the world, is he the author of &s;inne?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No; yet he hath made all things for him&s;elfe even the wicked for the <NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al 5. 4, 5. Pro. 16. 4.</NOTE> day of evill.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> God is holy then, when we are wick|ed: what &s;hall be come of man?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He mu&s;t peri&s;h for euer but for the Chri&s;t of God. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s; 13. 9. Mat. 16. 26</NOTE></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Who is the Chri&s;t, the Sonne of God that was promi&s;ed &s;hould come into the world?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Ie&s;us of Nazareth. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh 11. 27. &amp; 8. 24,</NOTE></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What was his office?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To &s;aue his people from their <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 1. 21.</NOTE> &s;innes, and therefore called Ie&s;us the Sauiour.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Did any helpe in this worke?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not any; there is but one medi|ator <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 2. 5.</NOTE> betweene God and man.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Were our workes or ought in vs, the cau&s;e of this &s;alvation?</HEAD>
<P>A. Wee are &s;aued according to Gods grace i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, and not ac|cording to our workes or ought in vs. <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 1. 9.</NOTE></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How then are we &s;aued by Christ?</HEAD>
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<P> <HI>A.</HI> A new couenant or agreement <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 31. 31&punc; 32. 33. 34. Ioh. 3. 16 1. Ioh. 2. 25</NOTE> is giuen to vs in him, wherein God promi&s;eth to bee our God and to giue forgiuene&s;&s;e of &s;ins and life euerla&s;t|ing to euery one that beleiueth in Chri&s;t.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How came we to vnder&s;tand this? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 3. 22. 23. <HI>Iohn</HI> 118. <HI>&amp;</HI> 17. 26.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Chri&s;t Ie&s;us is the great Pro|phet, and hath revealed the whole councell of his father.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> When?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By the Prophets and Apo&s;tles, and in the&s;e la&s;t dayes by him&s;elfe here <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 1. 1.</NOTE> on earth.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> But our &s;ins &s;eparat God &amp; vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He is a Prie&s;t for euer after the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 6. 20. &amp; 2. 17. p&s;al. 110. 4</NOTE> order of <HI>Melchi&s;edech</HI> to make reconci|liation for our &s;ins.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> But the enemies of our &s;aluation, he fle&s;h the world &amp; the diuel are mighty?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He is our King and Lawgiuer. <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 33. 22. 24.</NOTE></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What kind of Kingdome is his?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> His kingdome is not of this <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh 18. 36. Rom. 14. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orld, neither con&s;i&s;teth in meate and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rinke, but in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, peace, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd ioy in the Holy Gho&s;t&punc;</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Who may be &s;ubiects <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> this king|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ome?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Any of all Nations. <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 2. 8.</NOTE></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How long la&s;teth it?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> For euer. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke, 1. 33 Dan, 2, 44.</NOTE></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> When was he ordained of God to this great worke?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> From before the foundation of <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet, 1, 20</NOTE> the world.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> When was he manife&s;ted?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In the&s;e la&s;t times, the fulnes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal, 4, 4</NOTE> of time.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The &s;onne of God tooke on him the &s;eed of <HI>Abraham,</HI> and was in <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb, 2, 16, &amp; 4, 15</NOTE> all things like vs, &s;in only excepted.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How did he become fle&s;h?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He was conceiued by the Holy <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke, 1, 35 Mat, 1, 18. 23,</NOTE> Gho&s;t and borne of the virgine Mary.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> He was not then &s;infull as we are?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He did not &s;inne, neither was guile found in his mouth. <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet, 2. 22</NOTE></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> That he is righteous, what is that to vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Hee is the end of the Law for <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom, 10, 4 5. 6, 7, 8, 9,</NOTE> righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, to evety one that be|leeveth.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What el&s;e did he for vs and for our &s;aluation?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He humbled him&s;elfe and be|came obedient to the death, even the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil, 2, 6. 7. 8,</NOTE> death of the cro&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> That was an accur&s;&s;ed death?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He was made a cur&s;e for vs. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal, 3, 13,</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q,</HI> Did he &s;uffer any thing el&s;e?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He was buryed and layd three <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor, 5, 4</NOTE> dayes and three nights in the heart of the earth. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 12, 40</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q:</HI> Was n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">thing here to be con&s;idered but the mallice of the Iewes&punc;</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes chiefly we mu&s;t note he was <NOTE PLACE="marg">Act, 4, 27&punc; 28</NOTE> delivered therevnto, by the determi|ned coun&s;ell of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> Why was the Lord plea&s;ed thus to bru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He was our &s;uretie &amp; was wou~|ded <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb, 7. 22, E&s;a, 53, 5, 6</NOTE> for our tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, and on him was the cha&s;ti&s;ement of our peace; for the Lord layd on him the iniquities of us all.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What benefite reape we thereby? <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Pet,</HI> 2, 24 <HI>Eph,</HI> 2, 14, 16 <HI>Col,</HI> 1, 20, 21 <HI>Act,</HI> 2, 24, 1 <HI>Cor,</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 4,</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Our peace is made with God &amp; with his &s;tripes we are healed.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Was he holden downe of death?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It was impo&s;&s;ible he &s;hould, he ro&s;e againe the third day, according to the &s;criptures.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What followed after his re&s;urrecti|on&punc;</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Hee a&s;cended vp on high and <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a, 68. 18, Ephe, 4, 8&punc;</NOTE> led captivity captine: and gaue gifts
<PB REF="9"> to men, euen to the religious that the Lord might dwell among them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is that glory the father hath be&s;towed on him? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al</HI> 110. 1. <HI>Heb,</HI> 8. 1.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Hee &s;itteth on the right hand of the Throne of Maie&s;tie in Heauen.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How long mu&s;t he thus &s;it?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A,</HI> He mu&s;t raigne till the Father <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 15. 15.</NOTE> hath put all his enemies vnder his feet.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is his &s;peciall worke now at the right hand of his Father?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He euer liueth there to make <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 7. 25. 26.</NOTE> reque&s;t for us.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> For whom maketh he reque&s;t?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not for the world, but the elect <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh, 17, 9.</NOTE> only.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Doe not Angels and Saints make interce&s;&s;ion for vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A. Abraham</HI> is ignorant of vs and <HI>I&s;raell</HI> knoweth vs not. <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a, 63, 16,</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How long mu&s;t the heauens re|ceiue our Sauiour?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Vntill the time of the re&s;tituti|on of all things. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Act, 3, 21.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> When &s;hall that be?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> At the day of iudgment?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Shall their be &s;uch a day?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yea: God hath appointed a day in the which hee will judge the world <NOTE PLACE="marg">Act, 17, 31</NOTE>
<PB REF="9"> in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e:</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. When &s;hall this be?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Of that day and houre know|eth no man, but it &s;hall be in the end <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mar, 13&punc; 32 Mat, 13, 40 Ioh, 6, 44. Rev. 10, 6.</NOTE> of the world, at the la&s;t day, in the la&s;t time; when time &s;hall be no more.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Who &s;hall be iudge?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Ie&s;us Chri&s;t as he is the &s;onne of man, who~ we &s;hall &s;ee come in like <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh, 5, 22. 27. Act, 1, 11.</NOTE> manner as the di&s;ciples &s;aw him goe vp into Heauen.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Who &s;hall be iudged?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All both iu&s;t and vniu&s;t, &s;mall <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim, 4, 1, Reu, 20. 12, 13. Rome 14 12.</NOTE> and great, quicke and dead, euery one &s;hall giue account of him&s;elfe to God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Of what &s;hall they be iudged?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Of all they haue done in their bodyes, that is while they liued in <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor 5. 10. Eccle&s;. 12, 14, Mat, 10. 36,</NOTE> their bodies, euen euery &s;ecret thing, euery idle word, the hid things of darkene&s;&s;e and the coun&s;ell of their harts.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How &s;hall men receiue their iudg|ment?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> According to that they haue done, whether good or bad. <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 5, 10.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Well is it with them that are in Christ, for to them is no condemnation: who are in him?</HEAD>
<PB REF="10">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> They that haue the Spirit of <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 81. 9.</NOTE> Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is this Spirit?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Holy Gho&s;t, who proceed|eth <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 15. 26. Act. 5. 3&punc; 4. Mar. 3. 19.</NOTE> from the Father &amp; the Sonne and is God equall with the father and the Sonne.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Where might wee pertake of this &s;pirit?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In the word whereby he work|eth &s;till, as once he &s;pake by the Pro|phets <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 59. 21.</NOTE> and Apo&s;tles.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is his &s;peciall and peculiar worke in them that &s;hall be &s;aued?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The new birth, for hee is the &s;anctifier of the Church. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 3. 5.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What el&s;e doth he?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A,</HI> Hee pre&s;erueth vs in the e&s;tate of ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ines for euer.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By leading vs into all trueth, by <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 14. 26. 1 Ioh. 2. 27 Rom 8. 14&punc; Z<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> 12. 10. Ephe. 4. 30.</NOTE> bringing all things to our remem|b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ance, by being in vs a &s;pirit of adop|tion, of prayer, of coun&s;ell, of truth, &amp; &s;ealing vs&punc; vp to the day of redemp|tion.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is &s;anct<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fication?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To die to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in and to ri&s;e againe <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom&punc; 6. 4. &amp; 8. 10 1 per 2. 24.</NOTE> to newn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e of life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="10">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Is this of ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> El&s;e we &s;hall neuer &s;ee God. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb 12, 14 Math. 5. 8.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Are any perfectly holy in this life?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Noe: we know in part, and be|leeue <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor, 13. 9. 10.</NOTE> in part.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> May one then haue a good hart to God who is of an euill life?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Tho&s;e that are &s;anctified, are <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 23.</NOTE> &s;anctified throughout both in &s;oule and body and &s;pirit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Can &s;uch &s;inne to death?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He that is borne of God can|not <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Ioh. 3. 9. &amp; 5. 16. 17. 18.</NOTE> &s;inne, becau&s;e his &s;eed abideth in him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q:</HI> What is the chiefe grace of the &s;pi|rit in our new birth?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Faith which purifieth the heart, <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 13. Act 15. 9. Gal 5. 6.</NOTE> and worketh by loue.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is faith?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The beleife of the truth, or the <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The 2. 13 Iohn 1. 12.</NOTE> receiuing of Chri&s;t as he is offered in the promi&s;es of the go&s;pell.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How doth the Holy Gho&s;t work this faith in vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By hearing the word preached. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom 10. 14</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> In whom is this &s;anctification of the &s;pirit and beleife of the truth wrought?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In tho&s;e only whom God hath from the beginning cho&s;en to &s;aluati|on. <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The 2. 13 Act 13. 48.</NOTE>
<PB REF="11"> And praede&s;tinated to the adop|tion of children by Ie&s;us chri&s;t to him|&s;elfe. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 1. 4, 5.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Is faith a common guift?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No; all men hath not faith ther|fore it is called the faith of Gods elect. <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 2. Tit. 1. 1.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What moued God to chu&s;e &s;ome &amp; pa&s;&s;e by others?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The good plea&s;ure of his owne <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 1. 5. 6.</NOTE> will, to the prai&s;e of the glorie of his grace.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How doth he bring his cho&s;en to &s;aluation?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Whome he foreknew, them he prede&s;tinated to be conformed to the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 29 30.</NOTE> image of his &s;onne, whom he prede&s;ti|nated, them he calleth, whom he cal|leth them he iu&s;tifieth, and whom he iu&s;tifieth, them he glorifieth.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What are tho&s;e his cho&s;en called?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Church, becau&s;e they are <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 17. 14.</NOTE> a company called out of the world by the voyce of Gods cryers, his mini&s;|ters.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Was there euer a church of God vp|on earth, and &s;hall there bee &s;o to the end?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes, the foundation of Gods election remaineth &s;ure, and Chri&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2. 19.</NOTE> is the rocke on which it is builded &s;o
<PB REF="11"> that the gates of hell &s;hall not preuaile <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 16. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> again&s;t it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How is this Church noted out?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Shee is holy. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 5. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 27.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How el&s;e?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Shee is catholique for in euerie <NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 10. 34. 35.</NOTE> nation he that feareth God and work|eth righteou&s;nes is accepted of him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Who is the head of this Church?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Ie&s;us Chri&s;t alone. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 1. 22. 23. Col. 1. 18.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the condition of the Church in this life?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Shee is militant, &s;ubiect to cro&s;|&s;es, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 16. 24. 25. Ephe. 6. 12.</NOTE> afflictions, temptations and per&s;e|cutions of all &s;orts.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Doth the benefit of Chri&s;t death &amp; re&s;urrection belong to all?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No, they belong onely to the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 5. 25.</NOTE> Church.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Where is this Church to be found?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Where the word of God is &s;en|cerely preached, and embraced, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 5. 26. Mat. 28. 19, 20.</NOTE> the Sacraments according to Chri&s;ts in&s;titution admini&s;tred, there the Lord hath his Church.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the &s;igne of a true vi&s;ible Church?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That &s;hee bee Apo&s;tolique, that is built on the foundation of the Pro|phets <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 2. 19, 20, 22.</NOTE>
<PB REF="12"> and Apo&s;tles doctrine.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Is there not vnity in the Church?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> There is but one body, one &s;pi|rit, one hope of your calling, one <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe 4. 4. 5. 6.</NOTE> Lord, one faith, one Bapti&s;me, one God and Father of all, who is aboue all, through all, and in them all.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What ari&s;eth hence?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The communion and fellow|&s;hip of all the Saints who are copart|ners <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 12. 14. 25. 26. 27.</NOTE> in all good things.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What &s;peciall benefit is purcha&s;ed by Chri&s;t, and conferred on his Church in this life.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Forgiuenes of &s;innes. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 1. 7.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> But the Church is holy?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> True, but by vertue of forgiu|ne&s;&s;e of &s;innes, for &s;eeing in this life none is without &s;inne, therefore the <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 32. 1.</NOTE> Church cannot con&s;i&s;t here, without forgiuenes, every day.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Mu&s;t every member of the Church know that he is a &s;inner?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Every one mu&s;t feelingly know what neede he hath of forgiuenes, in <NOTE PLACE="marg">1, Iohn 1. 8 10. P&s;al, 32. 3. 4. 5. P&s;al. 18. 23.</NOTE> re&s;pect both of his corruption of na|ture, tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions of heart and life, and the per&s;onall &s;innes to which he is more inclined.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="12">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is this forgiuenes?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is, when the Lord e&s;teemeth <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 32. 1 Mic. 7. 18. 19.</NOTE> our &s;innes as if they had never beene comitted, &s;o that he will neither pu|ni&s;h vs for them in this world, nor the world to come.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> May the&s;e that haue their &s;innes forgiuen, liue as they li&s;t?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No indeed, forgiuenes is gran|ted <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 13. 3</NOTE> only to them that truely repent &amp; bring forth fruits worthy amendment of life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is in man to moue God to forgiue?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is only Gods free grace, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 3. 24.</NOTE> nothing in man.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Can this &s;tand with his iu&s;tice, to account a &s;inner righteous he being yet a &s;inner?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Chri&s;ts righteou&s;nes is given of <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 1. 30&punc; 2 Cor. 5. 21.</NOTE> God to be ours, and our &s;innes are for|given through the death and bloud &s;hedding of Chri&s;t, wherby the iu&s;tice of God is fully &s;atisfied.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How are we made partakers of this righteou&s;nes of Chri&s;t?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By faith only. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 3. 25 28.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Doth not God iu&s;tifie vs for our works?</HEAD>
<PB REF="13">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> By the works of the Law, no fle&s;h can be iu&s;tified in the &s;ight of God. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 3. 20.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the fruite of this iu&s;tifica|tion by faith?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Being iu&s;tified by faith we haue <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 5. 1.</NOTE> peace with God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> Who are appoynted of God to di&s;pen&s;e this grace?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Mini&s;ters of the go&s;pell: &s;o that who&s;e &s;innes &s;oever they remitt <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 20. 23. Mat. 16. 18.</NOTE> according to this word, they are re|mitted, and who&s;e &s;innes they retaine according to the &s;ame go&s;pell, they are retayned.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What benefite do we beleeue we &s;hall receiue from Chri&s;t in another world?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The re&s;urrection of our bodies now layd in the du&s;t: in which re&s;ur|rection <NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. 19. 25, 26, 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Act. 24. 15. Ioh. 5. 28, 29.</NOTE> both iu&s;t &amp; vniu&s;t &s;hall be rai|&s;ed, tho&s;e that haue done evill to the Re&s;urrection of condemnation, and tho&s;e that haue done well, to the Re|&s;urrection of life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Is life eternall the wages of righte|ou&s;nes: as death is the wages of &s;inne?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Noe, it is the end of an holy life, but altogether the guift of God <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 6. 22. 23.</NOTE> through Ie&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How hath God confirmed to vs this
<PB REF="13"> mercy and redemption wrought by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, for the &s;trengthning of our faith?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By word, by oath, and by his <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 6. 17, 18.</NOTE> &s;eales.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What are tho&s;e Seales?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> His two Sacraments, Bapti&s;me, and the Lords &s;upper.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is a Sacrament?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> A &s;igne giuen of God to bee a <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 4. 11.</NOTE> Seale of rhe righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of faith.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is this righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of faith?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, brought in by his obedience to the death, which is made ours by faith onely.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How are the Sacraments to be v|&s;ed by vs.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> As bonds and vowes, and &s;o|lemne profe&s;&s;ions of our de&s;ires and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 6. 3.</NOTE> indeauors after the beginning and fi|ni&s;hing of our faith and repentance.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the outward &s;igne in Bap|ti&s;me?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The mini&s;ters wa&s;hing or &s;prin|kling <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 28. 19.</NOTE> the beleeuer with wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er in the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is &s;ignifyed and &s;ealed hereby to the beleeuing penitent?</HEAD>
<PB REF="14">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> The wa&s;hing of the new birth <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tit&punc; 3. 5. Heb. 9. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 2.</NOTE> by the &s;pirit of Chri&s;t, and the purging of the con&s;cience from dead workes, by the &s;prinkling of Chri&s;ts blood thereupon by the &s;ame &s;pirit of faith.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What el&s;e doth bapti&s;me a&s;&s;ure vs of?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Of our adoption, our ingrafting <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 3. 27. Col. 2. 11. 12. Rom. 6. 5. Math. 3. 7. 1 Pet. 3. 17 18. Gal. 3 27. 1 Cor. 12. 13. &amp; 15. 29. Rom. 6. 8.</NOTE> into Chri&s;t, our deliuer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nce from Gods wrath, the forgiuene&s;&s;e of our &s;ins, the communion with the &s;aints, and the re&s;urrection of our bodies to life eter|nall.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the outward &s;igne in the Lordes &s;upper?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Bread and wine, ble&s;&s;ed, bro|ken, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 26. 26, 27.</NOTE> powred out, and giuen by the mi|ni&s;ter, and receiued, eaten and drunke by the faithfull.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is &s;ignifyed &amp; &s;ealed hereby?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The body and blood of Chri&s;t crucifyed and &s;hed on the Cro&s;&s;e for <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 11. 24, 25.</NOTE> the remi&s;&s;ion of our &s;innes: which is offered by Chri&s;t in the word of pro|mi&s;e, and verely and indeed, receiued by the beleeuer in this &s;acrament.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Is it enough to receiue the bread and wine?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No, for we may eate and drinke <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 11. 27. 29.</NOTE>
<PB REF="14"> our owne damnation, if wee di&s;cerne not the Lords body.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is then to be done before we come?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We mu&s;t examine our &s;elues, and iudge our &s;elues for our &s;ins, and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> 1 Cor. 11. 28. 31. 1. Cor. 5. 7.</NOTE> mu&s;t purge out the old leauen of hy|pocri&s;y, fal&s;e doctrine, malice, and wickedne&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> And what are you to do in receiuing?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To keepe a &s;olemne remembe|rance of Chri&s;ts death for my &s;innes, and to eate this Lambe with the &s;ower <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 11. 25. 26. Exod 12. 8.</NOTE> hearbs of godly &s;orrow.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How ought you to bee affected to|wards the godly?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> With the affections of brother|ly loue, as being one bread and one body, cleauing to their fellow&s;hip and for&s;aking all idolatrous and wicked &s;o|cietie. <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 16. 17. 21. P&s;al. 26. 4. 5 6.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is to be done after you haue receiued?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To liue all our dayes in holy ioy, keeping the fea&s;t in vnleauened bread of &s;incerity and truth, and neuer to entertaine the leauen of our for|mer <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> &s;innes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How mu&s;t our thir&s;t after this Sa|crament bee rai&s;ed in vs?</HEAD>
<PB REF="15" MS="y">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> By weighing the multitude of our &s;innes, and the nece&s;&s;ity of being <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 1. 15. Ioh, 6. 53.</NOTE> made partakers of Chri&s;ts death, that they might be forgiuen vs, together with the force of this ordinance to make vs partakers thereof.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the force of it?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In the right v&s;e of it, it is the communion of Chri&s;ts body &amp; blood, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 16. Mat. 26. 26. 28.</NOTE> it is his body and blood crucified on the Cro&s;&s;e for vs.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What els might excite this thirstin vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The command of Chri&s;t who &s;aith, do this in remembrance of me: &amp; <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 11. 24, 25.</NOTE> the weakenes of Gods graces in vs.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The &s;econd part conteining the rules of life.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What doth the grace of God which bringeth &s;aluation teach vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To deny vngodline&s;&s;e and world|ly <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 11, 12, 13.</NOTE> lu&s;ts, and to liue godly, righteou&s;ly and &s;oberly in this pre&s;ent world, loo|king for the ble&s;&s;ed hope of the life to come.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How may I know godline&s;&s;e from vngodline&s;&s;e, and worldly lu&s;ts from righ|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e and &s;obriety?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By the law of God conteined in <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 7. 7. 9 10. Heb. 4. 12. with Ier 17. 10.</NOTE> ten Commandements, and by the pre|cepts of the Go&s;pell.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="15">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> But we are not vnder the law, but under grace?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We are not vnder the cur&s;e of it, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal 3, 13. Rom 10. 5. 6. Iam 1, 25&punc; P&s;a, 119, 1. Mat. 5, 17 18, 19.</NOTE> nor vnder it as it is the couenant of workes which &s;aith, doe this and liue: but as it as a gla&s;&s;e to &s;hew vs our &s;pots and the rule of holy life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Giue me the &s;umme of the ten Com|mandements?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Thou &s;halt loue the Lord thy <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 22, 37&punc; 38. 39.</NOTE> God with all thy heart, with all thy &s;oule, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbour as thy &s;elfe.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> Rehear&s;e the fir&s;t Commandement?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I am the Lord thy God: Thou &s;halt haue no other Gods but mee. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 20. 1. 2.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is here required?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Fir&s;t to haue the Lord Iehouah for our God. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ierm 24. 7. &amp; 9, 23, 24 Rom 1. 19, 20. Pro. 2. 1 5, 6. Ier. 8. 9 2 Chro. 20. 20. Deut. 6. 4, 5. p&s;a. 37. 4. Mal. 1. 6. Deut. 10. 20. P&s;al. 37. 7. and 142. 6. and 628. Deut. 10. 12, 13. and 11. 26, 27, 28. Mic. 6. 6. 8.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is it to haue God for our God</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is to haue him in our mindes, to know him as he hath reuealed him|&s;elfe in his word and works; and in our hearts and affections to beleiue in him; loue him, delight in him, and feare him, to poure out our &s;oules to him, &amp; to obey him as God, humbling our &s;elues to walke with him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="16">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What hath the knowledge of God in the nature of it.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The acknowledgement of God <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Titus. 1. 1. Ho&s;e. 6. 3. Amos. 5. 6. Iob. 22. 21. E&s;ay 64. 5. P&s;al. 16. 8.</NOTE> and his truth, el&s;e we may know an I|doll: the &s;eeking after God, becau&s;e we know but in part, the acquainting our &s;elues with him, and the remem|brance of him &s;etting him alwayes be|fore vs.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What hath faith in it?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The per&s;ua&s;ion of the truth of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Act. 11. 23. Lam 3. 24. P&s;al. 119. 111.</NOTE> his word, and the cleauing to God as our portion, and to his promi&s;es as our heritage.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the nature of loue?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To vnite our hearts vnto God <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> P&s;al. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">3. 8. &amp; 73. 25.</NOTE> alone, and to cau&s;e vs to re&s;t in the fruition of him, v&s;ing all things be&s;ides to this end.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> That m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t needes breede delight: what is found in the nature thereof?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Spirituall &s;atisfaction, a ioyfull <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> P&s;al. 63. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nt. 1. 2. P&s;a 111. 2. &amp; 71. 15, 16. &amp; 34. 2.</NOTE> enterteinment of all the pa&s;&s;ages of his loue, a delightfull contemplation of his mercies, an extolling of his pray&s;es &amp; the &s;oules boa&s;ting her &s;elfe in him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is in the feare you &s;pake of?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The reuerence of Gods maie|&s;tie <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Deut. 28. 58. E&s;a. 66. 2&punc; P&s;al. 5. 8.</NOTE> in his names, wor&s;hip, word and
<PB REF="16"> workes, the dreading of his holy Iu|&s;tice, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 5. 22. Reu. 15. 3, 4 P&s;al. 90. 11. Ho&s;e. 3. 5.</NOTE> and the feare to offend him that is &s;o gracious.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the nature of hope? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 24, 25. <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 37. 7. <HI>&amp;</HI> 39. 9. <HI>&amp;</HI> 4, 5. 1 <HI>Sa.</HI> 3. 18. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 37. 4.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To waite on God with patience, with &s;ilence in our &s;oules from re&s;tle&s;&s;e thoughts, and re&s;ignation of our &s;elues and our wayes to his di&s;po&s;ing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How are the&s;e graces exerci&s;ed?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In pouring out our &s;oules before the Lord in prayer and pray&s;es. <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a. 62. 8. al the p&s;almes and prayers of Gods Saints.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How is the truth of them tried?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By obedience to God in all <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> 1 Ioh. 2. 3. Rom. 16. Iohn 14. 15. P&s;al. 119. 6. &amp; 18. 22. &amp; 106. 3. &amp; 101. 2.</NOTE> things, at all times, and in all places.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How are they pre&s;erued?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By humbling our &s;oules in the thought of our owne vnworthine&s;&s;e, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Gen. 32. 10 Gal. 1. 16. Mat. 6. 10.</NOTE> giuing vp our rea&s;on as not worth the obeying, and our wills as not worth the following.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q&punc;</HI> What is the due proportion they ought to haue?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The vtmo&s;t and highe&s;t pitch <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 12. 11. Reu. 3. 19.</NOTE> of feruency in &s;pirit, which is called Zeale.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the &s;econd thing required in the first Commendement?</HEAD>
<PB REF="17">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> That we haue the Lord only for <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 44. 8. Exod. 20. 23.</NOTE> our God, and no other be&s;ides or with him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is then charged on vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Sincerity, giuing the Lord the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> 1 Kin. 18. 21 Ho&s;e. 10. 2. P&s;al. 12. 2. Ephe. 4. 24.</NOTE> truth of our hearts, and the whole part of them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is the third thing required?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we haue the Lord alwayes for our God. <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 19&punc; 20, 21.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What then is charged on vs:</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Per&s;euerance and con&s;tancy a|gain&s;t through &amp; aboue all letts with|out <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Reu. 1. 10. Mat. 24. 13. Rom. 2. 7. Gal. 6. 9. Hebr. 12, 12, 13. Iob. 23. 11, 12.</NOTE> wearine&s;&s;e, di&s;couragement, wa|uering or declining.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Tell me generally what is condemned herein.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Athei&s;me, ignorance, the want or <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 14. E|phe. 4. 18. E&s;ai. 51. 7. Ier. 17. 5. 1 Ioh. 2. 15. Phil. 3. 19. Col. 3. 5.</NOTE> weaknes of the&s;e gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ces, &amp; the mi&s;pla|cing of our affections, whereby our hearts are e&s;tranged from God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Rehear&s;e the &s;econd Commandement?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Thou &s;halt not make to thy &s;elfe a|ny grauen Image: or &s;ay the whole <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 20. 4, 5.</NOTE> commandement.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is forbidden in this precept?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All feigned wor&s;hip though of the true God?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="17">
<HEAD>Q. When is a man &s;aid to make to him|&s;elfe any thing?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> When he deui&s;eth ought of his owne head to wor&s;hip God thereby <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 19. 6.</NOTE> without warrant from Gods word.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is meant by Grauen Image?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Either any image to re&s;emble God <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 4. 12, 14.</NOTE> therby, whether in our heads or in the Church, or whateuer means, whereby <NOTE PLACE="marg">Leu. 26. 1.</NOTE> we thinke to wor&s;hip God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is condemned in tho&s;e wordes, thou &s;halt not bow to them, nor &s;erue them.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By bowing downe is forbidden all <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 13. 2.</NOTE> reuerence &amp; ge&s;tures that are te&s;timo|nies of &s;ubjection, as ki&s;&s;ing, creeping, putting off the hat, and the like: &amp; by &s;eruing, all parts of outward wor&s;hip, as gilding, en&s;hriuing, &amp; &s;etting on high their images and reliques, the building of altars &amp; temples to them, pilgrima|ges, vowes, &s;acrifices, prie&s;ts, incen&s;e, waxe candles, fa&s;ts and fe&s;tiuall dayes ordeined to their honor: all which the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 12, 2 3, 4. Iudg. 17. 4, 5.</NOTE> heathen gaue to their Idolls.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Tell me then what is here required?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Lord requireth that &s;eeing <NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 4. 24. Ho&s;e. 4. 12. with Ho&s;e. 8. 2.</NOTE> he is a &s;pirit we wor&s;hip him in &s;pirit, and not in an image.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What el&s;e?</HEAD>
<PB REF="18">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> That we bow before him and <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 95. 6. Mat. 4. 9. 10 1 Cor. 6. 20. Prou. 3. 9.</NOTE> &s;erue him only, both with our per&s;ons and with our goods.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> And what el&s;e?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That wee re&s;t in that forme of wor&s;hip and &s;eruice which hee com|mandeth <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 8. 5. Deut. 12. 32.</NOTE> in his word, without adding thereto, or taking ought therefrom.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Rehear&s;e the third Commandement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Thou &s;halt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine; for the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 20. 7.</NOTE> Lord will not hold him guiltle&s;&s;e that taketh his name in vaine.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What doth this Commandement di|rect vs vnto?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The holy v&s;e of all religion in heart, profe&s;&s;ion, and action.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is meant by the name of God?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> God him&s;elfe, his titles and at|tributes, <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 20. 1. Deut. 28. 58. &amp; 32. 3. Act. 9. 15. Mic. 4. 5. Deut. 12. 5. Rom. 1. 19, 20. mat. 5. 34, 35.</NOTE> his word, his religion, his or|dinances and his workes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> When are wee &s;aid to take vp his name.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> When in heart, pen, word, or deed, either in the &s;eruice of God, or in our ordinary conuer&s;ing we meddle therewith.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> And what is it to take it vp in vaine.</HEAD>
<PB REF="18" MS="y">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> It is to v&s;e it irreuerently, ra&s;h|ly and vnfruitfully, but much more to v&s;e it to confirme a lye, to maintaine here&s;ie, and to defend &s;inne.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Tell me then what is here charged vpon vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we conceiue of God as <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a 24. 7 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Deu. 28, 58 P&s;a, 66, 16. Mat, 5. 26. Lev. 22, 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 33. Eccle. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 3, 4. p&s;a. 5<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 14 deu. 10. 20. Ier. 5, 7. Heb. 6, 16. 1, Cor. 10, 31.</NOTE> King of glory, and &s;peake of him, his word and religion with all reuerence: that we adorne our religion with a life an&s;werable to our high calling, that we pay our vowes, and &s;weare by him alone in truth, in judgement and in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, that we make his glory and the aduancement of his kingdome the end of all our actions?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is condemned?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All vnreuerent and vaine v&s;e of Gods name and word, all cur&s;ing, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a 139. 20</NOTE> prophane &s;wearing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> When is &s;wearing prophane?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> When we &s;weare by that which <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Ierm. 5, 7. Math. 5. 34 35. Eccle. 9 2. Iam 5. 12. Zac. 5. 2. 4. 1 Sa, 25. 22 P&s;al, 24. 4.</NOTE> is not God, or &s;weare in our common talke, and feare not an oath, * or &s;weare outrageou&s;ly, fal&s;ely and deceitfully.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> May we be guilty herein any other way?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes, if we heare another &s;weare and vtter it not, or reprooue him not, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Lev. 5, 1. &amp; 19. 17.</NOTE>
<PB REF="19"> if we cau&s;e others to &s;weare by fal&s;e <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Ioh. 3 7. M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">7. Iam. 5. 12.</NOTE> gods: yea what in our ordinary talke is aboue yea and nay, as vaine and idle prote&s;tations.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What el&s;e is condemned?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To di&s;honour our religion by e|uill <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sa. 2. 30. 2 Sa. 12. 14 mat. 4&punc; Deu&punc; 18. 10. Mic. 6. 9.</NOTE> life, to abu&s;e Gods word in charms je&s;ts, and defence of &s;in and here&s;ie: To call on Gods name in coniuring, witchcraft and &s;orcery; to &s;et it be|fore any wicked writing: to contemne his judgements, and to &s;leight his mer|cies.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Rehear&s;e the fourth Commande|ment?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Remember that thou keepe <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 20. 8, 9, 10, 11.</NOTE> holy the Sabbath day &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the intent of this Comman|dement?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To direct vs to &s;et apart the &s;euenth partt of our time wholly to the wor|&s;hip of God, as the former commande|ments taught vs our euery dayes duty.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> To whom is it chiefly giuen?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To the magi&s;trates and ma&s;ters <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 10.</NOTE> of families.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is inioyned therein?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To remember the Sabbath be|fore it come, and to fini&s;h our workes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2. 2.</NOTE>
<PB REF="19"> on the &s;ixe dayes, &s;o that neither our he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ds be troubled with cares, nor our hands tempted to labour, nor a nece&s;&s;i|ty brought on vs by our negligence, which might haue beene preuented.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How is the day to be kept?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By re&s;ting from our workes of labour, plea&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, or &s;in; yea, our car|tell mu&s;t re&s;t, that &s;o all occa&s;ions of <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 56. 2. &amp; 58. 13.</NOTE> mans labor may be cut off for that day: and by keeping the re&s;t that we might doe the workes of holine&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What are the workes of holine&s;&s;e?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The duties of Gods &s;eruice pub|lique &amp; priu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, &amp; the works of mercy.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> When are they done in a Sabbath-like manner?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> If wee performe them with de|light, <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 56. 6. &amp; 58. 13. Deu. 5. 12&punc; Exod. 31. 16. Leu. 23. 3. P&s;. 9<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 2. Exo. 20. 11. Eze. 46. 2. 5.</NOTE> with ob&s;eruance that no duety be omitted, with intirene&s;&s;e &s;anctify|ing the whole day, and with beleife that God will ble&s;&s;e that day and the duties thereof to our increa&s;e in grace.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What are required as meanes to &s;anctifie this day?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> A place of a&s;&s;emblies, and per|&s;ons <NOTE PLACE="marg">Leu&punc; 19. 30. &amp; 21. 6. 2 Chr. 15. 3. Hagg. 1. 1. 1 Cor. 9, 9&punc;</NOTE> to doe the dueties of the publike wor&s;hip, and maintenance of both.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q&punc;</HI> What are the open breaches of the Sabbath?</HEAD>
<PB REF="20">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> Buying and &s;elling, carrying of <NOTE PLACE="marg">Neh. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 16 20. Ier. 17. 22. Exo. 16 29 ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 15. Exod, 32, 6.</NOTE> burdens, taking of journeyes, vnle&s;&s;e it be to the hou&s;e of prayer; the find|ing our plea&s;ure in &s;ports and pa&s;time, idlene&s;&s;e, and &s;infull workes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> What are the &s;ecret breaches which are no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> regar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To omit the dueties of the day, not to remember before it come, to <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 46, 10. Lev. 13. 3. Amos 8, 5. p&s;a. 92. ti|tle with 13 14 Ezech. 22, 26 E&s;a, 58, 13. <GAP DESC="foreign"> Neh 13. 15 19. Ier. 17 19. 25.</NOTE> de&s;ire it were pa&s;t, not calling it a de|light, to * hide our eyes f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om &s;eeing the authoritie and dueties of this day, to &s;peake our owne words, not to flou|ri&s;h according to the meanes God gi|ueth vs, and hauing power not to re|forme in others the abu&s;es of the Sab|bath.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q&punc;</HI> The&s;e foure Commandeme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts teach our duty to God, what is taught in the &s;ixe following?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Our duety to our neighbour, which is fulfilled in one word, to loue him as our &s;elues. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom, 13, 9.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> And who is our neighbour?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Euery man whether friend or <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 10. 29. 30, 37.</NOTE> fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; &s;tranger of our owne hou&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How is this loue &s;hewed?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In pre&s;eruing his dignity, per|&s;on, cha&s;tity, goods and good name, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt, 7, 12.</NOTE>
<PB REF="20"> as my owne, and as I would he &s;hould doe mine, not wronging him in any of them, no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ot in the fir&s;t ri&s;ings of my thoughts &amp; affections again&s;t him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Rehear&s;e the fift Commandement?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Honour thy father and thy mo|ther, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. 20, 12 Deu, 5, 16.</NOTE> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Is any thing meant by father and mother more then our naturall parents? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pro.</HI> 23. 22. <HI>Exodus</HI> 18. 18, 24. <HI>he&s;t.</HI> 2, 7, 20. <HI>E&s;a</HI> 22, 21. 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 2. 12. 2 <HI>Kin.</HI> 5 13. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Tim.</HI> 5. 1, 2. <HI>Iob.</HI> 29, 16. <HI>Gen</HI> 4. 20. 22. <HI>&amp;</HI> 45. 8.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes, parents by law, parents that adopt children, parents of the Country, as Kings and all magi&s;trates, parents of the Church, as mini&s;ters &amp; all Church gouernours, parents of the family, as the Husband, the Ma&s;ter &amp; Dame, parents in age and gifts, as our ancients, patrons, tutors, in&s;tructors and protectors.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is meant by honour?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It implieth a dignity and excel|lency in our neighbour, and &s;ignifieth <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet, 2. 10.</NOTE> all that duty and re&s;pect, in heart, words and behauiour, whereby his dignity may be pre&s;erued.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> By this me thinks the beames of fa|therhood are light, though diuer&s;ely, vp|on all?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is &s;o: therefore we are char|ged <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2. 17.</NOTE> to honour all men, according to
<PB REF="21"> the degree of dignity God hath be&s;to|wed on them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Why then is the Commandement giuen to children and parents chiefely&punc;</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e the bonds of affections are herein mo&s;t &s;trong, ju&s;t and &s;weet, and being the fir&s;t and that which all pa&s;&s;e through, is the be&s;t rule to guide the carriage of &s;uperiour and interiour in all degrees.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q</HI> Tell me then what owe par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nts to their children?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To bring them vp in the f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">are <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 6. 4. Pro. 20. 11. &amp; 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 6. 2 Cor. 12. 14. Pro. 19. 14. 1 Cor. 7. 36. Pro. 13. 24. Col. 3. 21. Ho&s;. 9. 14.</NOTE> of God, and &s;ome ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t trade of life, to prouide for their e&s;tates and marri|age, and to giue them due correction, and all this guided by loue: and in &s;peciall the mother ought to nur&s;e her child if &s;he be able.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> And what is the honour children owe to their parents?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Reuerence in heart and behaui|our, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. 20. 12 Col. 3. 20, Ephe&s;. 6. 1. Gen. 24. Leu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 19. 3. G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n. 9. 21. 22. 1 Tim 5. 4.</NOTE> obedience in all things, but e&s;pe|cially in the choi&s;e of their calling and marriage, feare to di&s;plea&s;e, a couering of their in firmities, and thankefull re|compence, by releife if they be in need &amp; by pre&s;eruing their honour in life and death.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="21">
<HEAD>Q. Seeing all gouernours are called pa|rents, and the gouerned are children, doe they owe in &s;ome mea&s;ure the like dueties each to other?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes: The gouernours owe the loue, proui&s;ion, protection and nur|ture <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom, 13, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 7.</NOTE> of a father, and the gouerned owe the reuerence, obedience, feare, coue|ring of infirmities, and the thankfull recompence of a child.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Rehear&s;e the &s;ix<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Commandement?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Thou &s;halt not kill. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo, 20, 13. Numb, 35, 33.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Is any thing condemned here be|&s;ides the embruing of the hands in blood?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes, all hurt to our owne or any other mans per&s;on, and all cruelty to the Dumbe creatures.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Which way are we &s;elfe-murtherers be&s;ides by laying violent hands upon our &s;elues?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By committing &s;uch crimes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Nu, 16, 38.</NOTE> which de&s;erue to bee puni&s;hed by the magi&s;trate, by euill wi&s;hes, by ra&s;h at|tempts <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 4, 6. 1 Cor, 7, 10.</NOTE> without a calling, by worldly &s;orrow, enuy, and di&s;tempers of the mind, by neglecting our health in <NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, 22 &amp; 15, 13. E&s;a, 38, 21,</NOTE> want of conuenient dyet, &s;leepe, labor and recreation, and by refu&s;ing the helpe or di&s;obeying the directions of
<PB REF="22"> the phy&s;ician when need is: and la&s;t|ly <NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 23, 1, 2, 3. 29. 30, 31, 32.</NOTE> by intemperance in meate &amp; drinke as gluttony and drunkenne&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. All this is again&s;t our bodily life: How doe we kill our &s;oules?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By hating wi&s;dome, * and brea|king the commandements, and by de|&s;pi&s;ing <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Pro. 8, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">9. Pro 19. 16 <GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE> our owne way. *</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Wherein may wee be murtherers of our neighbour?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In our hart, ge&s;tures, words &amp; deeds. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 15. 19</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is the murther of the heart?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Vnadui&s;ed anger, hatred, * hard|hartedne&s;&s;&egrave;, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 5, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">2. <GAP DESC="foreign"> 1. Ioh. 3 15. pro, 21 13. Gen 26 14. &amp; 37. 11.</NOTE> * and enuy.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is the murher in the ge&s;tures?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The interjections of anger, as <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 5, 22. Gen 4, 5. Mat. 27. 39 20, 15. p&s;al, 31. 15, 19. Act. 7, 54. Ez<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">. 25. 6. E&s;a&punc; 58. 9. 2 Sa, 16. 13</NOTE> tu&s;h, aha, fye; the falling of the coun|tenance, nodding of the head, making of mowes, &s;harpening of the eyes, win|king with the eye, gna&s;hing of the teeth, &s;tamping with the feet, clapping of the hands, the putting forth of the finger, ca&s;ting du&s;t into the ayre, cla|mour, &amp; all expre&s;&s;ions of the inward <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 4. 31 Tit. 3, 2. Pro. 12. 18 Rom 14. 10 Gal. 5. 15, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">0 Pro. 29, 20. mat, 5. 22. gal 4. 29. Ephe. 5. 4. 1, Pet, 3, 9.</NOTE> hatred of the heart.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What words are murtherous.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All bitter, cen&s;orious, brawling, ha&s;ty, threatning, reuiling, and ie&s;ting words.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="22">
<HEAD>Q. And who murthers him in his deeds? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lue,</HI> 10. 31. 32. <HI>exo.</HI> 21. 28, 29. <HI>p&s;al.</HI> 37. 12. <HI>Lev.</HI> 19, 33. <HI>Rom</HI> 13, 13. <HI>pro.</HI> 20. 3. <HI>&amp;</HI> 6. 16, 19. <GAP DESC="foreign"></NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> He that releiues him not in mi&s;e|ry if he be able, that keepeth harmfull cattell whereby he is hurt, he that plot|teth again&s;t him by fraud, or vexeth him by violence, &amp; he that is conten|tious and &s;owet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;cord. *</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Are there not &s;ome degrees of mur|ther more directly again&s;t the bodies of our neighbours.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes: all fightings, though but by making an a&s;&s;ault, much more if it <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. 21, 24 mat. 26. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 1, Kin. 22. 24. exod. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">1 22.</NOTE> be a wound or blemi&s;h giuen, whether in &s;corne or fury: or any hurt to a wo|man with child.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Who more e&s;pecially mu&s;t beware of killing?</HEAD>
<P>A. The phy&s;ician, the chirurgeon, and the midwiues. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 1. 17.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. How are we guilty of murthering the &s;oule of our neighbour?</HEAD>
<P>A. By euill example, by omi&s;&s;ion of <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 5, 16. 19. Lev. 19, 17. mat. 18. 6. Rom. 14. 13. 1. Cor, 8, 11. 13.</NOTE> in&s;truction &amp; reproofe when wee may and ought, &amp; by giuing offence to the weake.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Who in &s;peciall mu&s;t take heede of &s;oule-murther?</HEAD>
<P>A. The mini&s;ters, who murther <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a 56, 10. Tim. 4. 14</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oules when they teach no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, or teach
<PB REF="23"> fal&s;e doctrine, or true doctrine in &s;uch <NOTE PLACE="marg">1, Tim, 4, 14. Iet, 23, 13. Eze, 13, 18. Ier, 23, 11, 14,</NOTE> manner that the godly are di&s;coura|ged, and the wicked &s;trengthened: or when they are prophane in life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Is it vnlawfull to wrong a priuate man, and may we wrong &s;ocieties?</HEAD>
<P>A. God forbid.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. How are they wronged chi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&punc;</HEAD>
<P>A. By trea&s;ons again&s;t King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;tate.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. How el&s;e? <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Tim,</HI> 3, 4.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>A. In peace, by &s;etting vp or tole|rating a fal&s;e god, or fal&s;e wor&s;hip, by <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut, 7. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">6. Iudg, 17, 6. 2 Kin, 18, 4. 1 Kin, 20, 33, 42.</NOTE> making vnwhole&s;ome lawes, and by letting incurable and infectious mem|bers e&s;cape; or any ot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er way of &s;e|cret or open practi&s;e that weakeneth e&s;tates.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. How in warre?</HEAD>
<P>A. By vniu&s;t warre, by not offering fir&s;t conditions of peace, by de&s;troying <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sa, 20, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">8. Dent, 20, 19, 20.</NOTE> fruite trees, and graine, by in&s;ulting cruelty in victory, and ra&s;hne&s;&s;e in at|tempts.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. May any wrong bee offered to our neighbours dead;</HEAD>
<P>A. Yea: Inhumanity, in not bury|ing their corp&s;es, or the like, are mur|thers. <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a, 79, 2, 3</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. You &s;aid that cruelty towards the bea&s;ts is condemned?</HEAD>
<PB REF="23">
<P> A. Very right; for &s;aith <HI>Solomon,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 12. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> the righteous regardeth the life of his bea&s;t: wherefore the ouer-labouring of cattell, the &s;ports or Beare-baiting, Bul-baiting and Cock-pits are vnlaw|full.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Rehear&s;e the &s;eauenth Commande|ment.</HEAD>
<P>A. Thou &s;halt not commit adultery? <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. 20. 14</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is condemned vnder adultery? <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 9. 18. <HI>Mat.</HI> 15. 19. <HI>Col.</HI> 3. 5 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7. 2. <HI>Mat.</HI> 5. 27. <HI>Gen</HI> 39. 7. <HI>Ro</HI> 13, 13. <HI>E&s;ai.</HI> 3. 16. <HI>Col,</HI> 3, 8. <HI>E|phe.</HI> 5. 4.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>Not the vncleanene&s;&s;e of marryed per&s;ons alone, but al&s;o fornication, vn|cleane thoughts, inordinate affections, burning lu&s;ts, a wanton eye or vncha&s;t lookes, chambering and wantonne&s;&s;e in our ge&s;tures, and filthy &s;peaking.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What el&s;e?</HEAD>
<P>The painting of the face, the attire or dre&s;&s;e that is whori&s;h, as the gar|ments <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Kin, 9, 30. 22. Deu, 22 9 Ho&s;, 2, 2. 1 Cor, 11. 1 Tim, 2, 9. 1 Pet, 3, 3. E&s;a. 3. 16. 18, 24, Zep 1, 8. E&s;a, 3, 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 23. Prou. 7. 10.</NOTE> of another &s;exe, naked brea&s;ts, the vncouered haire in women, all art in the haire to moue others, the intice|ments of perfumes, &s;trange apparrell, the fa&s;hions of infamous per&s;ons, and all dre&s;&s;e that is again&s;t &s;hamefa&s;tne&s;&s;e and mode&s;ty, with all the in&s;truments that belong to this vanity of apparrell.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What el&s;e is condemned?</HEAD>
<P>A. The occa&s;ions of vncleanene&s;&s;e
<PB REF="24"> as idlenes, pride and fulne&s;&s;e of bread, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Ez<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 16, 49. pro, 7, 11. 1 Tim <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 13. Zeph 1, 9. mar, 6, 22. 1 The. 5 23. 1 Cor, 5 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 1 Cor. 7, 2, 8.</NOTE> pratling and gadding from hou&s;e to hou&s;e, la&s;ciuious dancings, bookes, &s;ongs, pictures, and &s;tage playes, the companying with fornicators, the re|&s;orting to lewd hou&s;es, the maintai|ning of &s;tewes, the making light of o|thers fornication, and the not marrying when we haue not the gift of conti|nency.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Are there not &s;ome mon&s;trous tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ions condemned here?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes, buggery, Sodomity, ince&s;t, po|lygamy, &s;elfe pollution, the vnnaturall <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen, 38, 9. Mal, 2, 11.</NOTE> filthines of women with women, the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of <HI>Onan,</HI> the marrying of the daughter of a &s;trange god, the put|ting <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat, 19. 9.</NOTE> away ones wife &amp; not for fornica|tion, &amp; the marrying of the betrothed, or vniu&s;tly diuorced.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> To auoide the&s;e euills more to keepe cha&s;tity in body and &s;pirit, and to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e our ve&s;&s;ells in holine&s;&s;e and honour. R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|hear&s;e the eight Commandement?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> Thou &s;halt not &s;teale.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is here charged vpon vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we &s;tudy no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> our owne &s;o much as euery man anothers wealth. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cor 10. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is &s;tealing?</HEAD>
<PB REF="24">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> The vniu&s;t taking away or kee|ping backe of per&s;ons or things per|teining to God or man.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How doe men &s;teale from God?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By deuouring that which is ho|ly, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 20. 25 Mal. 3. 8. 9&punc; 10. Act. 8, 18 19. &amp; 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; 24. 25.</NOTE> that is, which is con&s;ecrated to the maintenance of Gods wor&s;hip, and of &s;chooles and vniuer&s;ities, and to the releife of the poore; by &s;etting to &s;ale the gifts of Gods &s;pirit, and faculties to di&s;pen&s;e tho&s;e gifts, and by making gaine of things hindering piety &amp; fur|thering &s;uper&s;tition.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How do men &s;teale from them&s;elues? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> 2 <HI>The.</HI> 3, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Eph,</HI> 4, 28. <HI>prov,</HI> 18, 9. 19, 15 <HI>&amp;</HI> 21 25. 23, 21. <HI>Ioh</HI> 6, 12. <HI>Pro.</HI> 11. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Eccle</HI> 5. 19.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By liuing without a calling, * by idlenes in their calling, by prodigality in dyet, apparrell or otherwi&s;e, by vn|thriftines, not &s;auing that wee haue, that nothing be lo&s;t, and by ra&s;h &s;ure|ti&s;hip and by niggardline&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How &s;teale we from our neighbors by withholding more then is meete?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> When we imploy not our owne <NOTE PLACE="marg">Iam, 5. 2, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pro. 11, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> 26. Iam, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> P&s;a. 37. 21. Prov 3, 27. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. mat, 21. 41. Lev. 6. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Luc. 19. 8.</NOTE> goods, when wee withhold corne or wages, or debt, or releife from the poore, or things left in tru&s;t, or things found if we know the owner, or things vniu&s;tly gotten without making re&s;ti|tution, with the better if we be able.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="25">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How &s;teale we by taking away?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By force as robbery and piracy, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro, 28, 28. Pro, 20, 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Deut, 15, 9, 10, &amp; 18 9, 10, 11. Pro. 22. 6. Gal. 3. 19. 1 The. 4. 6. Pro. 29. 24, 34.</NOTE> or fraud in bargaining or out of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ar|gaining; as is v&s;ury, oppre&s;&s;ion, fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e weights, the practi&s;e of vnlawfull arts, gaming, the fal&s;ifying o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l of the dead, with all deceit, or p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rtake|ing with o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> concealing of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. By the&s;e &s;innes we may ea&s;ily know the contrary dueties enioyned. Reh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">e the ninth Commandement?</HEAD>
<P>A. Thou &s;halt not beare fal&s;e witnes again&s;t thy neighbour.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What wayes may this be done?</HEAD>
<P>A. In iudgement and out of iudge|ment.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Out of iudgement how?</HEAD>
<P>A. By tales, by backbiting, whi&s;|pering, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Leu. 19. 16. Pro. 16. 28. Ier. 20. 10. Rom, 1, 29. 30. Ephe&s;. 4. 25. Prov. 27. 24. and 15. 15. 24. 24.</NOTE> lying, and &s;landering, by flat|tery and vaine glory, by cen&s;uring and euill &s;u&s;picious, and by ju&s;tifying the wicked.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. In iudgement how.</HEAD>
<P>A. When the witne&s;&s;e is wholly <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Kin. 21. 13. Mat. 26. 61 Iohn. 2. 29. 1 Sa. 22. 9. Zep. 3. 4. Exod&punc; 23. 1. P&s;a, 15. 5.</NOTE> fal&s;e, or in part, or if true, yet it is of enuy, and when the Iudge wre&s;ts the law, or furthers euill cau&s;es, or taketh Bribes though for the innocent.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="25">
<HEAD>Q. Who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l&s;e b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">areth fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e&punc;</HEAD>
<P>A. He that con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">emne <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> with|out <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deu. 19. 15. Reu. 21. 8. Leu. 5. 1.</NOTE> witne&s;&s;e, he t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t is feareful to beare witne&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the truth, he that co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cea|leth the tru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h and he that betrayeth cau&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> collu&s;ion.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Rehear&s;e the tenth Commandement</HEAD>
<P>A. Thou &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t not couet &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is meant by coueting?</HEAD>
<P>A. The fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t inclinations &amp; ri&s;ings <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 7, 7. Iam. 1. 14.</NOTE> of the thoughts and affections inordi|nately, which tickle the heart with &s;ome ioy and delight, and enti&s;e it, cal|led <NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 5.</NOTE> euill concupi&s;cence.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. Why is there added, thy neighbors wife, his &s;eruant, his maid, his oxe or a&s;&s;e, or any thing that is his&punc;</HEAD>
<P>A. To &s;hew, that the fir&s;t motions of the &s;oule in lu&s;ting again&s;t our neighbonrs dignity, life, wife, po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ions, and good name are euill, though I neuer giue full con&s;ent to them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. What is here required&punc;</HEAD>
<P>A. The purity of the heart, and the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 14. Gal. 5. 17.</NOTE> holy concupi&s;cence and the lu&s;ting of the &s;pirit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD>Q. You haue vnfolded the precepts of the Law: Giue me now the precepts of the Go&s;|pell</HEAD>
<PB REF="26">
<P> A. Fir&s;t it chargeth all men euery <NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 17. 30. 31. Mat. 9 13. Luc 17. 3.</NOTE> where to repent, for Chri&s;t came to call &s;inners, but to repentance, &amp; therefore a&s;&s;ureth vs that except we repent, wee &s;hall all peri&s;h.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How is this worke to be done? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>P&s;al</HI> 4, 4. <HI>Lam.</HI> 2. 40, 1 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1. 9. <HI>P&s;al</HI> 38. 18. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 31. <HI>p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">al</HI> 51 17. <HI>Zac.</HI> 12. 10. 11. <HI>pro.</HI> 28. 13. <HI>ho&s;.</HI> 14. 2. <HI>In this worke the Lord requyreth a &s;pirit with|out gui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e. Rom.</HI> 10. 9. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 8. 24.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Wee mu&s;t commune with our owne hearts in &s;ecret, &amp; try our wayes by the law to find out our &s;innes, and then we mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e them to God, and judge our &s;elues for them, till the Lord giue vs a broken and a contrite &s;pirit, &s;o that we can mourne for our &s;ins as much as for the lo&s;&s;e of an only &s;onne: and then we mu&s;t for&s;ake them for time to come.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the &s;econd precept?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we beleiue the glad tidings of our &s;aluation by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and the forgiuenes of our &s;innes through his mo&s;t precious death.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is here to be done? <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13. 5. <HI>Iude</HI> 20. 21 <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. 14</NOTE></HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To examine our &s;elues whether we be in the faith or no, &amp; to build vp our &s;elues in our mo&s;t holy faith daily.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How may this faith and repentance be wrought in vs?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By the word preached?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How may they be encrea&s;ed? <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 21</NOTE></HEAD>
<PB REF="26">
<P> <HI>A.</HI> By the con&s;cionable v&s;e of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 8. 15. 1 Cor 11. 25 Col. 2. 12. Iude 20. 1. Cor. 14. 24. 26.</NOTE> meanes of his wor&s;hip which he hath pre&s;cribed to vs, as the hearing of the word with an hone&s;t and good heart, the receiuing of the Sacraments and prayer in the holy Gho&s;t: * which is a third precept of the Go&s;pell.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How may wee know our encrea&s;e of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>E&s;a.</HI> 55. 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 2. <HI>Iob.</HI> 23. 12. <HI>&amp;</HI> 27. 10. 1 <HI>The</HI> 2, 13</NOTE> faith and repentance?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By our holy thir&s;t after, and loue vnto the&s;e ordinances of Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Through whom mu&s;t out prayers be offered vp to G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In the name of Chri&s;t onely. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Col 3. 17.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the rule of prayer?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That prayer which our Sauiour <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat 6. 9. Luc. 11, 2.</NOTE> taught vs to &s;ay and to pray after this manner.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Rehea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e it?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Our father which art in heauen</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> When mu&s;t we pray?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Continually watching in the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 4. 2. Luc. 18. 12.</NOTE> &s;ame with thank&s;giuing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> Where?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Euery where &s;o that wee lift vp pure hand without wrath &amp; doubting <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 2. 8.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is a fourth precept of the Go&s;pell?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we loue the Brotherhood, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2. 17 Ephe&s;. 3. 6.</NOTE>
<PB REF="27"> euen tho&s;e who are partakers with vs of the &s;ame promi&s;e of the Go&s;pell.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How mu&s;t this loue be manife&s;ted?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By choo&s;ing their fellow&s;hip as <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al, 119. 63. &amp; 16. 3 1 Cor. 12. 7. Rom. 12. Phil. 1. 27. Heb. 13, 2. 1 Pet. 4. 9. Gal. 6. 1, 2.</NOTE> the onely excellent ones, by employ|ing our gifts for their good, by being of like affection, by being of one heart and one mind, &s;triuing together for the faith of the Go&s;pell, by being har|berous, and bearing one anothers bur|thens.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What mu&s;t be auoided that we may keepe and expre&s;&s;e this loue?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> All &s;chi&s;me and diui&s;ions, judg|ing <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 1, 10 &amp; 12. Rom. 14. Phil. 2. 4. Iam. 2. 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ioh. 3. 18. 3 Ioh, 5.</NOTE> one another about things indiffe|rent, vaine glory, re&s;pect of per&s;ons, di&s;&s;imulation, vntru&s;tine&s;&s;e, incon&s;tan|cy, and &s;uites in law.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is a Saint?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we walke wi&s;ely towards <NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 4, 5. Phil. 2. 15. P&s;al, 112. Mat. 11. 29 Phil. 4. mat. 5. 16. prov. 24. 25. &amp; 28. 4. gal, 4. 18. 1, Pet. 2. 13. 15. Dan. 6. 5.</NOTE> them that are without, in harmele&s;nes, di&s;cretion, meekenes and lowlines, pa|tience vnder wrongs, fruitfulnes in the workes of mercy, zeale &amp; vndaunted|nes in a good cau&s;e, and &s;ubjection to authority.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the &s;ixt precept?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That the fir&s;t day of the weeke <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor 16. 1. 2</NOTE> is the Lords day.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<PB REF="27">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is a &s;euenth?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we quench not, nor griue, nor re&s;i&s;t, much le&s;&s;e that we de&s;pight <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The. 5. 19 Ephe. 4, 30. Act. 7. 51. Heb. 10. 26. 29.</NOTE> not the Spirit of grace and the worke thereof in our owne harts or the liues of others, which is the &s;inne again&s;t the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the eight you may giue;</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That being watchfull again&s;t temptations to &s;inne, we put on the whole armor of God euery day: buil|ding <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 16. 13. Ephe. 6. 10. <GAP DESC="foreign">. Luc. 14. 26.</NOTE> all our de&s;ires vpon the foundati|on o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;elfe-deniall * and ready to &s;uffer for his &s;ake.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the ninth?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we prepare for death. <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 39. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. &amp; 90. 12.</NOTE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> How?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A:</HI> By learning that skill to dy dai|ly; <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> 1 Cor. 15. 31 Heb. 11. 13. 1 Cor. 7. 31.</NOTE> and by liuing as pilgrimes and &s;trangers here, v&s;ing the world as if we v&s;ed it not.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What is the tenth?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The liuely hope of heauen and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">. 1 Pet. 1. 3. 1 The. 1. 10 2 Pet. 3. 12.</NOTE> daily waiting for the comming of Chri&s;t to judgment.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What direction is giuen to di&s;|charge this &s;incerely?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That we come euery day to the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Ioh. 3. 22.</NOTE> light of Gods word, to &s;ee whether
<PB REF="28"> our deeds be wrought in God or noe.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="question">
<HEAD><HI>Q.</HI> What comfort haue we in this worke?</HEAD>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We haue the loue of God as a <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 14. 4. a. Cor. 6. 18. Rom. 8. 32. 1 Cor. 6. 19 1. Pet. 1. 8. p&s;a. 65. 4. E&s;a. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 8. Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 11. 24 Heb, 1. 19. P&s;a. 34. Ephe. 2. 19. Rom. 8. 28. Ioh. 10&punc; 28. 29. &amp; 6. 39. Rom. 4. 13. 1 Tim. 4. 8. 9. P&s;a. 73. 24. <HI>Praroga|tives of the Saints.</HI></NOTE> father, Chri&s;t with all his benefits is ours, we are the temples of the Holy Gho&s;t, who often comforteth vs with joyes vn&s;peakeable and full of glory, we haue freedome to Gods Hou&s;e, au|dience of our prayers, the guard of An|gells, the communion with all Saints, the &s;anctification of our afflicti|ons, pre&s;eruation from finall and totall Apo&s;tacie, the inhe|ritance of the earth while w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> liue, and heauen when we die.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER>Soli Deo trin vni Glo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ia,</CLOSER>
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