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<P>THE DOCTRINE of the Bible: <HI>Or,</HI> RVLES <HI>of Di&s;cipline.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Briefelie gathered through the whole cour&s;e of the Scripture, by waie of Que&s;tions and An&s;wers.</HI></P>
<P>The knowledge of holy things is vnder&s;tan|ding by it Kings raigne, and Princes e&s;ta|bli&s;h Iu&s;tice.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>Richard Bradocke,</HI> for <HI>Thomas Pauier,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his &s;hop at the entring in of the Exchange. 1608.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>Iudgements are prepared for Scorners, Prouerbs <HI>19:29.</HI></P>
<P>If any man long after life, and to &s;ee good dayes, let him refrain his tongue from euill, <HI>1:</HI> Pet: <HI>3:10:</HI></P>
<P>As you would that men &s;hould doe to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">u, &s;o doe you to them. Luke <HI>:31.</HI></P>
<P>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e couereth the multitude of f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">alts. <HI>1.</HI> Pet. <HI>4:8.</HI></P>
<P>Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God, for God is loue: <HI>1:</HI> Iohn <HI>4:8.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="catechism">
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<HEAD>The Doctrine of the <HI>Olde and New</HI> Te&s;tament.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="Old Testament" TYPE="part">
<P>Que&s;tion.</P>
<P><HI>_WHat is Doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Precepts for the finding and racing out of &s;inne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the effect of doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith and vertuous liuing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How manifold is doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two fold, either diuine or mo|rall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Diuine, as how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In our duty towards God.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Morall as how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In our duety toward our &s;elues and our brethren.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many &s;orts of men may we call brethren?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as are of one parentage, one country, one religion, or of one mind by friend&s;hip.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is morall doctrine deuided?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into rules of duetye toward our &s;uperiors, parents, kinred, of-&s;pring, fa|mily and inferiors.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How may this duty be infringed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the corruption of the fle&s;h, and all other actuall &s;innes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many waies doth God teach?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Four manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By his word, by his workes, by his puni&s;hments, and by his ble&s;&s;ings.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are the&s;e performed alway in his owne per&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but more often by h. cho|&s;en Mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>How are they intituled?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By the names of Patria<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">kes, Captaines, Iudges, Kings, Prophet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. E|uangeli&s;ts, and Apo&s;tles.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which call you Patriarches?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The fir&s;t fathers of the church, as <HI>Adam, Enoch, Abraham, I&s;aac, Iacob,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which call you Captaines?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Such as had the leading of the I&s;raelites from Aegypt to the land of <HI>Canaan:</HI> and gaue directions in time of battle, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Io&s;hua.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which call you Iudges?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Such as executed Gods iudge|ments vpon the enemies of the church, and did admini&s;ter Iu&s;tice among&s;t his people, at <HI>Ehud, Shamgar, Sam&s;on, Gede|on, Iphtah, Samuel, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which call you Kings?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The annoynted of God, and &s;o|ueraigne rulers of his people, as <HI>Saule, Dauid, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which call you Prophets?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as by in&s;piration of the ho|ly gho&s;t did foretell the ruine of &s;in, and the reward of vertue, and were inter|preters between God and man.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Which call you Euangeli&s;ts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Au.</HI> The writers of the Go&s;pell of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Why are they called Euangeli&s;ts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e their workes containe the glad tidings of &s;aluation, to all that beleeue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which call you Apo&s;tles.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The cho&s;en De&s;ciples of Chri&s;t, as <HI>Simon, Andrew, Peter, Iohn, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<DIV3 N="Genesis" TYPE="book">
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<DIV4 N="1-15" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chap. 1. to. 15.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat doe we learne by the creation of the world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As touching the Creator three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His omnipotencie in creating all things of nothing: His bounty in furni|&s;hing the world with all nece&s;&s;arie or|naments: And his loue in giuing man dominion ouer all, chap. 1.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne as touching our &s;elves?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The ob&s;eruation of the Sabaoth, chap, 22. Humility of minde in being made of the du&s;t of the earth, chap 2, 7 And the reuerence which wee owe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o mariage.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why ought wee to reuerence mari|age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e it was in&s;tituted of God him&s;elfe, and in Paradice, cha. 2.23.</P>
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<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How ought a man to loue his wife?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As him&s;elfe, being fle&s;h of his fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where was man placed after his creation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In Paradice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did he continue there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, he fell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the malice of the Diuell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was his &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Di&s;obedience.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How did God puni&s;h him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He cur&s;ed him and his po&s;terity, wherein hee &s;hewed his iu&s;tice, chapter 3.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he comfort him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By promi&s;ing forgiuenes by the &s;eede o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the woman, Chri&s;t Ie&s;us. chap, 3.14.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>What did that &s;hew?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His mercy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many waies did the cur&s;e of God extend vpon</HI> Adam?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Foure manner of waies.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t the earth was made bar|ren for his &s;ake. Secondly his po&s;terity a&s;well as him&s;elfe, became bondmen to
<PB REF="8" MS="y">hell. Thirdly, all the dayes of his life he was to eate his bread in the &s;weat of his browes: And fourthly, he was thru&s;t out of Paradice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvas</HI> Eue <HI>puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two manner of waies.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, to bring foorth her chil|dren in &s;orrow: And &s;econdly, to liue in &s;ubiection to her hu&s;band.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How was the &s;erpent puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three manner of wayes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, he was made the mo&s;t cur|&s;ed of all creatures; Secondly, he was to goe vpon his brea&s;t. And thirdly to de|uoure the du&s;t of the earth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which was the &s;econd &s;inne of the world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Murder.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who committed it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Caine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;pon whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon his brother <HI>Abel,</HI> chapt. 4.11, 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvas their quarrell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> About their &s;acrifices.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e <HI>Abels</HI> was accepted; and <HI>Cains</HI> was not. chap 4, 4.5.</P>
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<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Why did not God accept</HI> Caines <HI>Sacrifice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Becau&s;e he did it more vpon cu&s;tome then con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who taught them to &s;acrifice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Their Father Adam.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How could he do that, and the Law not giuen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The law of God is two foulde, naturall: imprinted in mens heart: and traditionall, pronounced from God, &amp; written in the Bible.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich of the&s;e two had</HI> Adam?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The fir&s;t.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What was the puni&s;hment of</HI> Cain <HI>for killing his brother</HI> Abel?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He was cur&s;ed of God, and con|demned for a runnagate.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whome did God rai&s;e, after the death o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Abel, <HI>to build his Church vpon?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An</HI> His brother <HI>Sheth,</HI> chap. 4. ver&s;e, 25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the example of</HI> Caines <HI>pu|ni&s;hment admoni&s;h the &s;ucceeding age to beware of &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as the world grew in yeeres, &s;o it grew in iniquity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Jn vvhat manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It was wholy corrupt, and full of cruelty, chap. 6.11.</P>
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<P>Qu. <HI>By whom did God reprooue them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By <HI>Noah.</HI></P>
<P>Q. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In making it knowne hee would drowne the world, by his preparing of the Arke.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were the people reformed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they laughed at it, and remai|ned &s;ecure till the waters came vppon them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were all de&s;troyed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All but <HI>Noah</HI> and his family, and &s;ome other for the pre&s;eruation of their kinne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mooued God that hee would not &s;pare &s;o much as the bruite bea&s;tes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His dete&s;tation to &s;inne, chapter 6.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was the fir&s;t figure of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Enoch.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he a figure of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In being taken body and &s;oule vp into Heauen, as Chri&s;t was. chap. 5, 24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was the fir&s;t figure of the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Abel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Noah</HI> pre&s;erued in the Arke.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What did his pre&s;eruation te&s;tifie?</HI></P>
<PB N="5" REF="9" MS="y">
<P>An. The loue of God towards his Church.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What did the to&s;&s;ing of the Arke by the waues &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The per&s;ecution that the church &s;hould &s;uffer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein did the mercie of God ap|peare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In cau&s;ing the waters to fall?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein did the zeale of</HI> Noah <HI>appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In giuing God thankes for his deliuerance, as &s;oone as hee &s;et foot V|pon dry ground. chap. 8.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Noah <HI>afterward offend?</HI></P>
<P>An. By drunkenne&s;&s;e chap. 9, 21.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>VVho couered their fathers &s;hame?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Shem,</HI> and <HI>Iapheth.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat receiued they for it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their fathers ble&s;&s;ing. cha, 9, 26</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho made a mock of his fathers infirmi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, and did not &s;eeke to couer it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">am?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was his reward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His fathers cur&s;e. chap. 9.25.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How did God plague ambition?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By confu&s;ion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At the building of the Tower of <HI>Babel,</HI> where all people purcha&s;ed the
<PB REF="10" MS="y">di&s;plea&s;ure of almighty God.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>By whome did they recouer theire di&s;plea&s;ure?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the faith of <HI>Abraham,</HI> cha. 12 ver&s;e. 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> In his &s;eed all Nations were ble&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was</HI> Abrahams <HI>brother?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Lot?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they agree together like bro|thers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes till they grew rich.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was the cau&s;e they fell out?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Their heard&s;men.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After the quarrell was knowne, did their Ma&s;ters (as men of our age) &s;eek to be reuenged one of another?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they gaue gentle words, and fought meanes how to preuent the like inconuenience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They departed and dwelt a&s;un|der, chap. 13.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But with that &s;eparation did their loues decay?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, it was &s;till con&s;tant, and bro|ther-like.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that (afterward) when <HI>Lot</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="10">was taken pri&s;oner in the companie of the kings of <HI>Sodome</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah; Abraham</HI> with a band of men re&s;cued &amp; &s;et him free: chap. 14.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did</HI> Lot <HI>then dwell in Sodome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He did.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Why that was a dangerous place though plea&s;ant?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> True: &s;o are all places where wic|kedne&s;&s;e abounds.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Yet</HI> Lot <HI>was a righteous man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He was, but he &s;uffered as the wicked did, for being in company with them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was taken pri&s;oner (as I &s;ayde before) with the irreligious kings, go|ing in ayde with them again&s;t their e|nemies.</P>
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<DIV4 N="15-20" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chap. 15, to 20.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHo was</HI> Abrahams <HI>wife?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Sarch.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did &s;he offend when &s;he per|ceiued her &s;elfe barren?</HI> chap: 16.3.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By v&s;ing vnlawfull meanes to rai&s;e &s;eed to her husband.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<PB REF="11" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;ending <HI>Hagar</HI> her mayde to his bed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God plague her for it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Her maide de&s;pi&s;ed her, and tri|umphed ouer her in her owne hou&s;e, chap. 16.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What other &s;inne followed in the necke of her fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Wrath.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> She obtained licen&s;e of her hu&s;|band to be reuenged vpon <HI>Hagar.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner was &s;he reuenged?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> She thru&s;t <HI>Hagar</HI> and her childe out of the dores.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhither went Hagar?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into the wilderne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Had &s;he no friend to goe vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> None at all, &s;he was a poore &s;er|uant, and a &s;tranger.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whome did &s;he appeale?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did he releeue her?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat learne we by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That God rejecteth no e&s;tate of per&s;ons in their mi&s;ery, if they call vpon him, chap. 16.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;as</HI> Sarah <HI>barren &s;till?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, God gaue her a Sonne in
<PB N="7" REF="11" MS="y">her old yeeres.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was his name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. I&s;aac,</HI> and this was he in whome the couenant was made.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What was the &s;igne of the couenant?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Circumci&s;ion, or the cutting off of the foreskinne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is &s;ignified by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The ca&s;ting away of the lewde affections of our hearts if wee meane to be made partakers of Gods mercy, cha. 17. 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were none partakers of the coue|nant but &s;uch as might be circumci&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, women, becau&s;e vnder the name of man both &s;exes are compre. hended.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>What was</HI> Hagars <HI>&s;ons name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. I&s;hmael.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did not the couenant belong to him a&s;well as to</HI> I&s;aack? <HI>hee was the &s;eede of</HI> Abraham.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was there two couenants then, that God ble&s;t him &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, there were two couenants made.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The one eternall, made to the children of the &s;pirit, the other tempo|rall,
<PB REF="12">made to the children of the fle&s;h:</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the eternall Couenant?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That from <HI>I&s;aac</HI> &s;hould come the Me&s;&s;iah.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What was the temporall coue|nant?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That from <HI>I&s;hmael</HI> &s;hould &s;pring a mighty nation, euen twelue Princes, chap. 17.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where was</HI> Abraham <HI>now &s;eated?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In Canaan.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What temporall ble&s;&s;ings did God bestow vpon him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was exceeding rich.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he imploy his riches?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In ho&s;pitality, and other good deedes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein appeared his ho&s;pitality?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In v&s;ing &s;trangers and trauellers kindly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat &s;trangers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The three Angells in the &s;hape of men.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he entertaine them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, he ranne out to intertayne them: then hee intreated them to re&s;t in his Tent: and la&s;t of all, hee fea&s;ted them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doe rich men in the&s;e daies, follow the example of</HI> Abraham, <HI>in v&s;ing friend|lie
<PB N="8" REF="12" MS="y">ho&s;pitality toward trauellers and poore men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, the mo&s;t part of them, in running out to meete the poore (when they &s;ee them comming) rather turne their backs vpon them, and run from them: and for entreating them to &s;tay, with churli&s;h and crabbed wordes rate them from their doores, and in &s;tead of fea&s;ting &amp; refre&s;hing them, let them de|part weary, &amp; with empty &s;tomackes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Angels requite</HI> Abra|hams <HI>ho&s;pitality?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Tould him ioyfull newes concer|ning the birth of his &s;onne <HI>I&s;aac,</HI> and what the purpo&s;e of God was, toward <HI>Sodome</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the purpo&s;e of God to|ward</HI> Sodome?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vtterly to de&s;troy it for &s;inne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did</HI> Abraham <HI>pray for it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, in &s;uch zealous manner, as had there bin found ten godly per&s;ons in it, the City had bin &s;aued, cha. 18. 32.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did</HI> Abraham <HI>pray for them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t, in regard of his brother <HI>Lot</HI> that dwelte there, &amp; then in regard of humanity, for that it grieued him, &s;o many people &s;hould be de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<PB REF="13">
<P><HI>An.</HI> That <HI>Abraham</HI> (as all Gods peo|ple ought to be) was of a pittifull mind, euen towards infidels.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat &s;olicited Gods vengeance against the praier of</HI> Abraham?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The continuall cry of &s;in, a&s;cen|ding out of <HI>Sodome</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah,</HI> into the eares of God: whereby wee learne that &s;inne is a continuall crier again&s;t vs, &s;o long as we let it dwell among&s;t vs. chap. 19.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was all in the City then de&s;troyed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All, but <HI>Lot,</HI> his wife, and two daughters.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was the commaundement that God gaue him at their departure from the City?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to looke backe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was this commandement kept?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, <HI>Lots</HI> wife brake it.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was her puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> She was turned into a pillar of &s;alt, chap. 19.26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat moued her to looke backe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Her fond defire, to thinke &s;hee &s;hould forgoe her wealth, and &s;o plea|&s;ant a place.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That no care of earthly things (be they neuer &s;o glorious) mu&s;t hin|der
<PB N="9" REF="13" MS="y">vs from obeying Gods commaun|dements,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was the City de&s;troied?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> With fire and brim&s;tone from heauen, chap. 19.24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where did</HI> Lot <HI>remain afterward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the mountayns.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat &s;in did he fall into, whilest he liued there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Drunkenne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat next?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into Ince&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat doth that proue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That one &s;inne begets another.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was Lot ince&s;tuous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his owne daughters.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who tempted him thereunto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They, when they had made him drunke.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was Gods puni&s;hment for that &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The nation that came by that conception was a cur&s;ed generation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat generation was it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Moabites and the Ammo|nites, chap. 19.37.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="20-34" TYPE="chapters">
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>Chap. 20. to 34.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion <HI>VVHo had like to haue vvronged</HI> Abraham <HI>by taking his vvife.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> King <HI>Abimelech.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvas be preuented?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God threatned him with death. chap. 20.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did he vpon that deliuer her backe to her husband?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learnevve by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, that God will puni&s;h adul|tery: and next the very heathen abhor the breach of wedlock, cha. 20.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God try</HI> Abrahams <HI>faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By bid ding him &s;acrifice his on|ly&s;on <HI>I&s;aac</HI> chap. 22, 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVould be haue done it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, but that an <HI>Angell</HI> &s;tayed his hand.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was his faith rewarded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> God renewed his couenant once againe, and told him, for that dcede hee would multiplie his &s;eede on earth, like the &s;and of the &s;hore.</P>
<PB N="10" REF="14" MS="y">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What vertue did God further prooue in</HI> Abraham?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> His patience.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In taking his wife <HI>Sarah</HI> from him.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Yet hee did mourne for her death.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That was the wickednes of the fle&s;h, but his &s;oule was glad, in that hee knew &s;he liued eternally, Chap. 23.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What other vertue had</HI> Abraham?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Vprightne&s;&s;e of minde.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Wherein did that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> When <HI>Ephron</HI> the Hittite offe|red him a peece of ground to bruie his dead, he would not take it before he had paid the price of it, chap. 23.13.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Is that mode&s;tie ob&s;erued now|adaies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, many will be &s;o farre from giuing their neighbours the woorth of their goods, as they will &s;eeke by de|ceipt, coo&s;onage and violence, to pull them from them wrongfully, and for nothing.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>&V;&V;hat was</HI> Abrahams <HI>care for</HI> I&s;aack <HI>when he came to age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To prouide him a vertuous wife. chap. 24.4.</P>
<PB REF="15">
<P>Qu. <HI>Was he ruled by his Fathers ap|pointment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat did he &s;hew in that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A godly pre&s;ident of obedience to all &s;onnes, to follow the coun&s;ayle of their parents, in choo&s;ing them wiues, and not their owne inordinate de&s;ire.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom did</HI> Abraham <HI>&s;end about his bu&s;ines?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His chiefe &s;cruant, chap. 24.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he proceed in it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With prayer that hee might &s;peed well, and thank&s;giuing afterward for his &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat other good property was in that &s;eruant?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He would not eat when he came to his iournies end, before he had done his ma&s;ters me&s;&s;age.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat may &s;eruants learn by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To regard more their ma&s;ters bu&s;ines, than their owne plea&s;ure, cha. 24.33.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho&s;e daughter did hee choo&s;e for his ma&s;ters &s;onne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Rebecca</HI> the daughter of <HI>Be|thuel?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When her parents heard the reque&s;t
<PB N="11" REF="15" MS="y">of</HI> Abraham, <HI>did they pre&s;ently giue their daughter to</HI> I&s;aack?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they a&s;ked coun&s;aile of God fir&s;t, and then the maids con&s;ent.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is to be learned by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As children ought not to match without their parents con&s;ent, &s;o pa|rents ought not to match their chil|dren without their con&s;ent, chap. 24.58.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After</HI> I&s;aack <HI>and</HI> Rebecca <HI>were married, what i&s;&s;ue did GOD giue them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two &s;onnes, <HI>E&s;au</HI> and <HI>Iacob.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was</HI> E&s;aus <HI>vndoing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Iu&s;t of the fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He &s;old his birth-right for pot|tage.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What ouer &s;ight was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An ouer&s;ight that many worldly men runne into.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Preferring of tra&s;h, before the rich graces of God, chap. 25.33.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat did that negligence loo&s;e him el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His fathers ble&s;&s;ing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Becau&s;e not regarding his
<PB REF="16">earthly patrimony, God likewi&s;e &s;uffe|red him to loo&s;e the benefit of his hea|uenly inheritance, which was &s;pirituall benediction.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Did</HI> E&s;au <HI>at the la&s;t &s;ee his owne error?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, but ran rather into error.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By hating his brother <HI>Iacob,</HI> chap. 27.41.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What was the vertue of</HI> Iacob?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Patience in giuing place to his brothers rage, and going to &s;eeke his fortune in an other countrey.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Whither went he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To <HI>Haran</HI> to his vncle <HI>Laban.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What were his vertues there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Diligence in doing his vncle &s;eruice, and fidelitie in not deceiuing him.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did God deale with</HI> La|ban?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He pro&s;pered him for <HI>iacobs</HI> &s;ake</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhat were</HI> Labans <HI>vices?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Ingratitude and oppre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How was he ingratefull?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In vpbraiding <HI>Iacob</HI> for his good &s;eruice.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did he oppre&s;&s;e him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> In trebling his &s;eruitude by
<PB N="12" REF="16">fraudulent and craftie meanes.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Did God deliuer</HI> Iacob <HI>at la&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, as he will all others that tru&s;t in him, though a while he &s;eeme to be farre from them.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>&V;&V;hat was the reward of</HI> Ia|cobs <HI>patience, and true &s;eruice, in the end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Whereas, when he came from his fathers hou&s;e, and had but one coate on his backe, and a &s;taffe in his hand, at his returne hee was the hu&s;|band of two wiues, the ma&s;ter of many &s;eruants, and the owner of much trea&s;ures, and diuers heards of cattle, chap. 30.43.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Did not</HI> Iacob <HI>feare to returne into his owne countrey, knowing that his brother</HI> E&s;au <HI>was his enemie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e hee knew God, that had commaunded him to goe, would defend him.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did his brother</HI> E&s;au <HI>re|ceiue him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Louingly, and like a brother.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the vertue of</HI> E&s;au <HI>in that</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He thought it a ba&s;e and vnna|turall thing, to keepe enuie alwaies
<PB REF="17">in his &s;tomacke, toward any one, much le&s;&s;e toward his owne brother, chap. 33.4.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="34-50" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chap. 34. to 50.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw many &s;ons had</HI> Iacob?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Twelue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vhich of tho&s;e twelue was a figure of Christ?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Io&s;eph.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In being &s;olde by his owne bre|thren.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That in all ages, after God had promi&s;ed the <HI>Me&s;siah</HI> to <HI>Adam,</HI> he ne|uer cea&s;ed by word and deed to &s;ignifie his comming.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy did</HI> Iacobs <HI>&s;on &s;ell their brother</HI> Io&s;eph?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For malice, in the <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> prophe|cied by dreames, his brothers &s;hould be his &s;eruants, and bow to him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat other &s;ins did they run into be&s;ides?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Murder, and di&s;&s;imulation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<PB N="13" REF="17" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> They entended to haue &s;laine their brother, but that <HI>Iuda</HI> di&s;&s;waded them. chap. 37.26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they di&s;&s;emble?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In telling their father, that their brother was &s;taine by wilde bea&s;tes, chap. 37.32.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the fruit of the&s;e &s;ins?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They procured di&s;quiet of con|&s;cience in theme&s;elues, &amp; teares to their olde father, whom they ought rather to haue comforted. 37.34.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did this policy of theirs ere the more preuent the &s;ubiection which they feared?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, God pro&s;pered <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> and gaue him fauour in the Court of Egypt.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVith <HI>Potiphars Pharaobs</HI> chiefe Steward.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Io&s;eph <HI>&s;hew him&s;elfe there to be the &s;eruant of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In re&s;i&s;ting the lu&s;t of <HI>Poptiphars</HI> wife.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the nature of lu&s;t, being e&s;i&s;ted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It growes impudent and outra|gious, chap. 39.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Shew an in&s;tance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Potiphars</HI> wife, when &s;he &s;awe
<PB REF="18" MS="y"><HI>Io&s;eph</HI> would not yeeld to her, accu&s;ed him that he would haue raui&s;hed her.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Did God &s;uffer her accu&s;ation to take effect?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> was impri&s;oned.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>He being guiltles, why would God &s;uffer that wrong to be laid vpon him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For two cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, that by his &s;trange de liue|rance, he might haue greater cau&s;e to glorifie his name: and &s;econdly to make his lewde di&s;grace, a cau&s;e of higher promotion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was Io&s;eph deliuered?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By interpreting the Kinges dreame.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he aduanced?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee was made Ruler ouer all Egypt.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the plague, God laide vpon his brethren for &s;elling him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They were oppre&s;&s;ed with a mightie famine, chap. 41.54.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whither came they for &s;uccour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To their brother vnknowne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What reuerence did they &s;hewe vnto him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They kneeled vnto him, and cal|led him Lord, chap. 44.16.</P>
<PB N="14" REF="18" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertue doe we learne by the example of</HI> Io&s;eph <HI>in this his high autho|ritie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Charity, clemency, and humility</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he charitable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He relieued his father and bro|hers with corne, freely, and without re|mpence, chap. 42.25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he gentle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In pardoning the wrongs that his broughers had done him. chap. 45.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein was he humble?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In not de&s;pi&s;ing his father and brothers, (poore Sheepheerds of Ca|naan) though him&s;elfe were the &s;econd per&s;on in Aegypt, and in &s;ending for his father to bee partaker of his happi|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did</HI> Iqacob <HI>come thither?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and died there.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by his death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> To de&s;ire of God to die as he did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Praying, ble&s;&s;ing and rehear&s;ing the gracious benefits of God, chap. 48 3.4.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What zeale had</HI> Pharaoh <HI>(being
<PB REF="19">an Infidel) towards his Idolatrous prie&s;ts, more then many Chri&s;tians now-adaies, haue toward the true Mini&s;ters of the e|ternall God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee did not dimini&s;h their Church-liuings, chap. 47.22.</P>
</DIV4>
<TRAILER>The end of Gene&s;is.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Exodus" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Exodus.</HEAD>
<DIV4 N="1-14" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chap. 1. to 14.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHy did God bring the hou&s;e of I&s;|rael into</HI> Aegypt?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For two cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, to &s;hew the trueth of his word, for hee had &s;aid to <HI>Abraham,</HI> they &s;hould be &s;traungers from the land of <HI>Canaan,</HI> the &s;peace of foure hundred yeeres, and &s;uffer much oppre&s;&s;ion. Gen. 14.15. Secondly, to haue fit occa|&s;ion to &s;hew his loue toward them, and the better to traine them vp in the knowledge and feare of him.</P>
<PB N="15" REF="19" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How came it to pa&s;&s;e, they were oppre&s;t here in Aegypt, con&s;idering the good entertainement which they had at the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The continuance of time had worne out the fame and remembrance of <HI>Io&s;eph,</HI> by rea&s;on that many Kings had raigned &s;ince the fir&s;t <HI>Pharaoh;</HI> and now the children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> were mightily encrea&s;ed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they encrea&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From &s;euenty per&s;ons (for that was the whole number of them at their fir&s;t comming) to many hundred thou|&s;ands.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did that make the king repine a|gain&s;t them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For two cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, in regard of their religion; and next, fearing lea&s;t their multitudes &s;hould indanger his gouernment, chap. 1. 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did hee &s;eeke to &s;uppre&s;&s;e them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Fir&s;t, in making &s;laues of
<PB REF="20">them: and next, in going about to mur|der their men children.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;ted their &s;eruitudes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In making of bricke, carrying of burdens, and all other &s;lauerie, cha. 1.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Pharaoh <HI>goe about to murder their men children?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, &s;ecretly, in commanding the Midwiues (at their hower of birth) to de&s;troy them: but they not obeying his commaund, he fell &s;econdly into a more open and violent practi&s;e,</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He commanded his own people, that when&s;oeuer they heard of the birth of and Hebrew man childe, they &s;hould take it from the mother, and ca&s;t it into the riuer, chap. 1.22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How dur&s;t the Midwiues di&s;obey the kings Edict?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e (as all Gods &s;eruants ought to do they feared him more tha~ any earthly per&s;on.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were the number of the people (by the&s;e cruel proceeding) le&s;&s;ened and dimi|ni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, the more they vext them
<PB N="16" REF="20" MS="y">the more they multiplied. chapt. 1. ver&s;. 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doe we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That no tyranny can extingui&s;h the Church of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God diuide the malice of</HI> Pharaoh?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In cau&s;ing him to cheri&s;h and bring vp, euen in his owne court, that Hebtew child, which afterward proued to be his de&s;truction, and the deliue|rance of the children of I&s;rael.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Mo&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he pre&s;erued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When his mother had hid him three moneths from the tyrannie of the King, and could hide him no longer, &s;he put him into a basket made of reedes and &s;et it by the riuer &s;ide.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What became of him there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> King <HI>Pharaohs</HI> daughter walke|ing that way, found him &amp; put him to be nur&s;ed of his owne mother. cha. 2.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat appeareth in this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The prouidence of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that no humane pollicie can hinder that which he hath once deter. mined.</P>
<PB REF="21" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the first cro&s;&s;e that God laid vpon</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>when he came to age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The killing of an Aegyptian, for which fact he was forced to flye.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whither?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into the land of <HI>Midian.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;uccoured him there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Iethro,</HI> and gaue him his daugh|ter in mariage.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What trade of life did</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>v&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Keeping of &s;heepe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God appeare to</HI> Mo&s;es?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In a fiery bu&s;h, chap. 3.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the bu&s;h burne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, but did not con&s;ume.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In that &s;en&s;e what doth it repre|&s;ent vnto vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Church of God, which &s;hould &s;uffer per&s;ecution, but neuer &s;ubuer&s;ion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherefore did God appeare vnto</HI> Mo&s;es?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;end him forth for the deliue|rance of his people.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mooued him thereunto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The remembrance of his coue|nant made to <HI>Abraham,</HI> and the &s;ighes and cries of the poore <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> that
<PB N="17" REF="21">daily pearced the gates of heauen, ch. 2.23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What comfort do we receiue from thence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An a&s;&s;urance that GOD will heare our prayers in time of our afflic|tion, if we call to him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>obey the commaunde|ment of God, about his returne to</HI> Ae|gypt?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At the fir&s;t he was doubtfull.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of his owne &s;ufficiency, and in|credulity of the people.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God &s;trengthen him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By ioyning <HI>Aoron</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t him, and giuing them power to confirme their me&s;&s;age by working of miracles.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the people receiue their me&s;&s;age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With attentiue eares.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues doe we learne of the people, after they had heard the wordes of</HI> Mo&s;es?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith, in that they beleeued him what he &s;aid, and thank&s;giuing in pray|&s;ing God, &s;ince it plea&s;ed him to looke vpon their tribulation, chap. 4.31.</P>
<PB REF="22" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What vices are we admoni&s;hed to beware of by the example of</HI> Pharaoh?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ob&s;tinacy of heart, in contem|ning the preaching of <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In how many re&s;pects was</HI> Pha|raoh <HI>ob&s;tinate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In foure re&s;pects.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t in not granting <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> re|que&s;t: Secondly, in comparing the po|wer of his South&s;ayers and Coniurers, with the power of God. ch. 7.11. Third|ly, by imputing the de&s;ire which Gods people had to &s;erue him (as the wicked alwaies will) to be nothing el&s;e but a di&s;po&s;ition in them to be idle, cha. 5.8. Fourthly, not onely in retaining them &s;till in his countrey, but doubting their &s;eruitude, chap. 5.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was his ob&s;tinacy plagued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With tenne &s;euerall kindes of plagues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, the turning of water into bloud: &s;econd, multitude of frogs: third turning of du&s;t into lice. fourth, &s;warms of flies: fift, death of catell: &s;ixt, &s;cabs &amp; bli&s;ters: &s;euen, thunder, lightening and haile: eight, gra&s;hoppers, &amp; caterpillers: ninth, darknes: tenth, the death of the
<PB N="18" REF="22">fir&s;t borne.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>For all tho&s;e plagues did</HI> Pha|raoh <HI>neuer repent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, fainedly.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> So &s;oone as Gods hand was re|moued by the prayer of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> he pre|&s;ently returned to his former ob&s;tinacy.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>In the pro&s;ecution of the&s;e plagues, what do we learne touching the per&s;on of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His iu&s;tice vpon his enemies, and his mercie and louing fauour toward his people.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Wherein appeared his mercie toward his people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In &s;auing them, their cattel, and that part of Egypt where they inhabi|ted, free from the touch of any of tho&s;e former plagues, chap 8.22.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Why did not</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>&s;ubmitunto</HI> Pharaoh, <HI>when he was content to let the people go, but &s;tayed their cattell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e (like a faithfull mini|&s;ter of the Lord) he wold remit no part or parcell of his charge.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is part of his charge, totake the cattle with him?</HI></P>
<PB REF="23" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;herein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that they could not &s;acrifice without them, chap. 10.26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In the night before their departure what did the Lord in&s;titute?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Sacrament of the pa&s;&s;eouer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A Lambe without blemi&s;h.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>The Lambe was the &s;igne, but what was the thing &s;ignified?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Angell of the Lord, that pa&s;&s;ed ouer the hou&s;es of the I&s;raelites, and &s;troke the fir&s;t borne of the Aegyp|tians with &s;odaine death, chap. 12.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth this figure vnto vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;acrifice of the true Pa&s;chal Lambe Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, by whom all the faithfull are deliuered from the bon|dage of hell, as the I&s;raelites were (vp|on the in&s;titution of the Pa&s;&s;eouer) from the bondage of Aegypt.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many things do we learne as touching the per&s;on of God, in the in&s;tance of the children of</HI> I&s;raels <HI>departure?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> His mercifulnes in &s;paring the I&s;raelites, and &s;miting the Egyptians, 2. His iu&s;tice, in forcing the Egyptians
<PB N="19" REF="23" MS="y">to giue the I&s;raelites trea&s;ure and appa|rel, as a &s;atisfactio~ for their former &s;er|uitude, which hitherto they had exacted of them for little or nothing. 3. And the continuance of his fauour toward them, that doth not onely deliuer his people out of danger, and then leaue them, but protect them &s;till.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In guiding them by night with a piller of fire, and couering them by day with a cloud, chap. 13.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many things do we learne, as touching the per&s;on of the I&s;raelites?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The charge which God gaue vnto them, and their watchfulnes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was their charge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> to teach the benefits of God to their po&s;teritie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;ted their watchful|ne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that they attended all night for the houre of their departure, chap. 12.30.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat do they giue vs to vnder|&s;tand by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> This, that as they minutely waited vpon the Lord for their deliue|rance
<PB REF="24" MS="y">out of bo~dage, to go to the earth|ly <HI>Canaan,</HI> &s;o ought we continually at|tend and make our &s;elues readie for our pa&s;&s;age out of this mi&s;erable world, to the heauenly <HI>Canaan</HI> of perpetuall ioy and happines.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="14-40" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chap. 14.10.40.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>AFter I&s;raels departure, what vice do we note &s;uruiued in</HI> Pharaoh?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Inueterate malice, which &s;eldom dies, but with the ruine of him in whom it abides.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did it breake forth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By preparing a mighty hoa&s;t to follow the liraelites, chap. 14.6.7.8.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>For what intent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To be auenged vpon them, and quite de&s;troy them.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did he pro&s;per?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> As all malicious per&s;ons com|monly doe.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He and his malice peri&s;hed in the place, where hee thought to haue beene their ouerthrow.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Where was that?</HI></P>
<PB N="20" REF="24" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In the redde Sea.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What was the &s;inne of the people in this place?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Weakne&s;&s;e of faith.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Notwith&s;tanding their &s;trange deliuerance of late, yet when they &s;aw the red Sea before them, and the Egyp|tians vpon their backes, they began to di&s;tru&s;t the power of God, and to raile vpon <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How were they deliuered?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. Mo&s;es</HI> deuided the waters, and they pa&s;&s;ed through, chap. 14.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was god honored by</HI> Pharaoh?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> An he will be by his enemies; in their de&s;truction.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How many times did the I&s;rae|lites murmure again&s;t God, before be pu|ni&s;hed them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Foure times.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t at the red Sea: chap. 14.21 &s;econd, at the waters of <HI>Marah.</HI> ch. 15.24. third, when they wanted fle&s;h. chap. 16.13.14. fourth: when they wanted water, chap. 17.6.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What doe wee learne by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The long &s;ufferance of God to|ward &s;inners.</P>
<PB REF="25" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God deliuer them at all the&s;e times?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVith great admiration.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At the fir&s;t time he deuided the red Sea: at the &s;econd, hee made the bitter water &s;weete: at the third, hee gaue them Quailes and Manna from heauen: at the fourth, hee made a fountaine of water gu&s;h from out the hard Rocke.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they offend the fifttime?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> More grieuou&s;ly than before.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They made a golden calfe, and wor&s;hipped it for God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat moued them to make the likene&s;se of a Calfe, rather than any other creature?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The corruption which they had learned among the Egyptians, who did wor&s;hip oxen and kine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did God now puni&s;h them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, (and time I thinke) when they did vtterly for&s;ake him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was their puni&s;hment.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three thou&s;and of them were &s;laine with the &s;words of their owne brethren, chap. 32.28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;ould not God vtterly haue de|&s;troyed
<PB N="21" REF="25">them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, but for the prayer of <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was his prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee de&s;ired his name might be rather blotted out of the booke of life, then God &s;hould quite roote out that Nation, chap. 32.32.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doe we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The loue and care which all good Magi&s;trates ought to haue ouer their people.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhere was</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>when this offence was committed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon mount Sinay.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was not his ab&s;ence, in &s;ome part, cau&s;e of their idolatrie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat gather you by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That the want of good guides makes men to runne into error.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhat did</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>vpon mount Sinay?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He went to receiue the Law.</P>
<P>Qu.<HI>How was the law giuen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In thunder and lightening, cha. 19.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why was is giuen with &s;uch terror?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That the people might the more reuerence him that gaue it.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is required of the people be|fore
<PB REF="26" MS="y">they come to receiue the law?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Two things, chap. 19.10.12.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To &s;anctifie them&s;elues for iij daies &s;pace, and not to touch the &s;kirts of the mountaine.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What do we learne by tho&s;e two things?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Not to come to heare the word of God with corrupt hearts, nor to pry further into the &s;ecrets, than we are li|mited.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is generally commanded by the law?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That we &s;hould loue God with all our &s;oules, and our neighbour as our &s;elfe.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is particularly forbidden by the Law?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Murder, cur&s;ing, e&s;pecially our parents, chap. 21.17. Cruelty towards &s;eruants, cha. 21.27. Not to do hurt but to make &s;atis faction. ch. 22.1.16. Forni|cation, cha. 22.16. Witchcraft, bugga|ry, or carnall copulation with bea&s;tes, chap, 22.29. Idolatrie, chap. 22.20. Op|pre&s;&s;ion again&s;t widdow or &s;tranger; ver&s;. 21.22. All kinde of v&s;ury, ch. 22.25. All rayling and euill &s;peaking, e&s;pecial|ly again&s;t magi&s;trates, becau&s;e to &s;peak
<PB N="22" REF="26" MS="y">again&s;t them is to &s;peak again&s;t god. ch. 22.28. All fal&s;hood, chapter, 23.2. All vnlawfull detaining of our neighbours goods, chap, 23.3. All taking of bribes, chap. 23.8. All periury, and what&s;oe|uer el&s;e may infect the &s;oule, or offend God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the rewarde of the&s;e &s;innes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Such as were pardonable, how were they plagued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By offering &s;acrifice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doctrine doe we learne by the &s;acrifices of the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure points of doctrine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t their thankfulne&s;&s;e, to &s;hew all they had, came from God: Se|condly, their obedience; to &s;hew they were willing to obey God, Thirdlye, their humility, to &s;ignifie, that what was done to the thing offered, the of|ferer had de&s;erued; Forthly, their hope to &s;hewe theire &s;acrifices did figure the death of Chri&s;t whereby their pa&s;|&s;age into Paradice, from whence they were expul&s;t, might be opened to them againe.</P>
<PB REF="27" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Are &s;uch &s;acrifices to bee v&s;ed of Chri&s;tians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they are aboli&s;hed by the death of Chri&s;t, an all-&s;ufficient &s;a|crifice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e doe wee learne in this booke of Exodus?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The election of Magi&s;trates, and the order God &s;et in his church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat kind of men ought Magi&s;|trates to bee?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They ought to bee adorned with fowre &s;peciall graces.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Courage, feare of God, iu&s;tice, and a minde free from couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, chap. 18.21,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv mu&s;t they admini&s;ter Iu&s;|tice?</HI></P>
<P>An. To all per&s;ons, and at all times.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhom did God choo&s;e for his &s;er|uice in the Temple?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Leuites.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What kind of men mu&s;t tho&s;e bee?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as haue imprinted vppon their brea&s;ts knowledge and holine&s;&s;e,
<PB N="23" REF="27" MS="y">chap. 28. vers. 30.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who&s;e guift is the knowledge of handy crafts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The gift of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he fir&s;t taught them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To <HI>Bezaleel</HI> and <HI>Aholiab.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end did he teach them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> For the furni&s;hing of the temple.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who prouided them &s;tuffe for to worke vpon?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The people.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In &s;uch abundance, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> commanded them to leaue off.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A willingne&s;&s;e to &s;erue God with our temporall goods. chap. 36.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With whom did I&s;raell fight their fir&s;t hattell, after they came into the wil|derne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With the <HI>Amalekites.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long did they preuaile?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> So long as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> held vppe his hands and prayed, but when hee let them fall, the <HI>Amalekites</HI> preuayled. ch. 17.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that teach vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<PB REF="28" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The effect of Prayer, and that wee ought not to faint in prayer, lea&s;t with the falling of our hands, we faile in our reque&s;t.</P>
</DIV4>
<TRAILER>The end of Exodus.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Leviticus" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Leuiticus.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Chap. 1. to. the la&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is &s;et downe in this Booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The duty of the <HI>Leuites:</HI> and therfore it is called <HI>Leuiticus.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their chiefe&s;t dutie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;acrifice.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How many circum&s;tances were they to ob&s;erue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The manner how, the matter what, the per&s;on whome, and the place where.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the I&s;raelites &s;acrifice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Either things hauing life, as bul|lockes, lambes, &s;heepe, &amp;c, or thinges
<PB N="24" REF="28" MS="y">without life, as oyle, fine flower, wafers &amp;c.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For whome did they &s;acrifice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For them&s;elues and others.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In the Temple.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As God hath &s;et down from the 1. of <HI>Leuiticus</HI> to the 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the Chri&s;tians Sacrifice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Prayer and thank&s;giuing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In how many points doth the I&s;ra|elites and the Chri&s;tians &s;acrifice agree?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In &s;ixe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which is the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As theirs was &s;ea&s;oned with &s;alt, &s;o ours mu&s;t bee &s;ea&s;oned with the truth of a good con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As theirs was brought to the Prie&s;ts, &s;o ours mu&s;t be pre&s;ented to God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the third?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As theirs was &s;laine, &s;o when we &s;acrifice, we mu&s;t kill our lewd affecti|ons.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fourth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As theirs was wa&s;ht with water, &s;o ours mu&s;t be wa&s;ht with the teares of repentance.</P>
<PB REF="29" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fift?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As theirs was without blemi&s;h, &s;o ours mu&s;t be without hypocri&s;ie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the &s;ixt?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As theirs was inkindled with fire &s;o mu&s;t ours be with zeale.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whence had they all the&s;e in&s;tructi|ons?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From the mouth of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was Gods meaning therein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To &s;hew that he would be &s;erued as he him&s;elfe appointed, and not after the inuention of men.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did none breake that ordinance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Nadab</HI> and <HI>Abihu.</HI> ch. 10.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they breake it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By offering with &s;trange fire.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fire from heauen con&s;umed the~.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of how many &s;orts were the lawes which God pre&s;cribed the hou&s;e of I&s;raell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of two &s;orts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Ceremoniall and Morall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich call you the Ceremoniall lawes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as were ob&s;erued in offe|ring &s;acrifices, and di&s;cerning things
<PB N="25" REF="29" MS="y">clean from vnclean, &amp; the cau&s;es ther|of, &s;et down from the chap, 2:to 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which call you morall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as concerne integritie of maners.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv many are they as they are &s;et dovvn in chap. 19?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Seauenteen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To honour our parents, ver&s;e, 3. To &s;erue God freely, and not by com|pul&s;ion, ver. 5. In time of plenty to re|member the poore, as in harue&s;t not to reap euery corn of the field, nor gather the gleanings, not all the grapes of the vineyarde, but to leaue &s;ome for the poore. v. 9.13. Not to detain the work|mans hire till morning. v. 13. Toe&s;chue all theft. fal&s;hood and lying. ve. 11. All &s;wearing and bla&s;pheming. v. 12. Al mi&s;|chieuous practi&s;es, which wee pre&s;ume wee may do vndi&s;couered, as to cur&s;e the deafe, lay a &s;tumbling blocke be|fore the blind, ver&s;e 14.. Not to fauoure the poore, nor honour the per&s;on of the mighty, ver&s;e 15, All iniu&s;tice, ver&s;e. 15. All carrying of tales and con&s;pira|cie again&s;t our neighbours. ver. 16. All hypocri&s;ie, as wee mu&s;t not hate our brother in hearte, and &s;ooth him to his
<PB REF="30" MS="y">face, v. 17. All revenge, v, 18. All &s;eeking after Witches and Coniurers. All ob|&s;ervation of daies and times, ver&s;e. 26. Al fal&s;e weights and mea&s;ures, ver&s;e. 35 All ince&s;t, ver. 6, Not to offer our chil|dren to <HI>Moloch.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is that Moloch?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> An idoll of the Ammonites.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>De&s;cribe him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was greate of &s;tature, and hol|low within, hauing &s;cuen places of re|ceipt: the fir&s;t was for meale that was of|fered, the &s;econd for doues, the third for a &s;heep, the fourth for a ram, the fift for a calfe, the &s;ixte for an oxe, the &s;e|uenth for a child.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may be vnder&s;tood by tho&s;e &s;eauen bellies of the Idoll.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The &s;eauen deadly &s;innes, and as the I&s;raelites were forbidden to &s;uf|fer their childre~ to be deuoured of this mon&s;ter: &s;o all parentes mu&s;t beware le&s;t through their neglige~ce, their chil|dren be made a &s;acrifice, for the &s;eauen deadly &s;ins.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They mu&s;t not winke at theire follies, but giue them correction for their faults.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>conclude this
<PB N="26" REF="30" MS="y">booke of</HI> Leuiticus.</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With a ble&s;&s;ing and a cur&s;e: with a ble&s;&s;ing, if they keep the&s;e comman|dements, and with a cur&s;e, if they doe breake them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fruite of the ble&s;&s;ing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Peace, plentie, victorie. chap, 26.4 5, 6.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fruit of the cur&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Scarcity, famine, &s;ickne&s;&s;e, &s;erui|tude, war. chap. 26.16. to the 26. ver&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many fea&s;ts did the Ifraelites ob&s;erue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Seauen.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, the Sabaoth: &s;econdly, the Pa&s;&s;eouer, third, the fea&s;t of vnleauend bread: fourth, of the fir&s;t fruites: fift, of Whit&s;ontide, &s;ixt, of trumpets, &s;euenth, of Tabernacles.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why were the&s;e fea&s;ts ordained?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to gluttonize, cheri&s;h, floth, or immode&s;t mirth, but to glorifie God for his &s;euerall ble&s;&s;ings.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Leuiticus.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Numbers" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="31" MS="y">
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is done in this Booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The children of I&s;rael are numbred.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For three cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, for a collection toward the building of the Temple, Secondly for appointing Captaines and Leaders o|uer euery family. chap. 2. Thirdly for a diui&s;ion of the land of <HI>Canaan</HI> among&s;t the tribes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is there any thing to be learnt heerby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Order and Gouernment that ought to be in euery common wealth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom did they appoint their chiefe guide?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where doth that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the Chapter.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that they neuer iourneyed, but when they fawe the cloude ri&s;e from the Tabernacle, nor euer pitch theire tents, but where it &s;tayed, chap. 9, 17, 19</P>
<PB N="27" REF="31" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>And wherfore was this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For two cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t that they might (as al Gods people ought to do) continually waite vpon the Lord, and haue their eies lif|ted vp toward heauen: Secondly, to be alwaies in readines, becau&s;e they knew not at what houre the Lorde woulde ri&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What doth that teach vs to doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At euery minute to bee in readi|nes for death, becau&s;e the houre there|of is vncertaine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Alwaies when they did &s;et forward on their iourney, what was Mo&s;es cu&s;|tome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Topray. chap. 10, 35.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Lord ri&s;e vp, and let thine ene|mies be &s;cattered.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And when theyre&s;ted, what did he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Prayed likewi&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In vvhat manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> O Lord returne to the many thou&s;ands of I&s;raell, chap. 10.36.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Woat doctrine haue vve by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Euer when wee &s;et forward vpon any iourney, or beginne any worke, to
<PB REF="32" MS="y">pray; and when we re&s;t or make an end to do the like, that our &s;peede may bee the better.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many waies did God &s;hew him&s;elfe gracious to the I&s;raclites in this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Four manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, in being &s;till their guide, Secondly, in feeding them with Man|na, as he had begun. Thirdly in being mercifull toward them, when they re|pented: Fourth, in giuing them victory ouer nine &s;euerall Princes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Aaror</HI> king of the South Canaa|nites, Og, king of Ba&s;han, <HI>Sehon,</HI> king of Amorites: <HI>Balac</HI> king of Moab: <HI>Eui, Bookem, Zur, Hur,</HI> and <HI>Reba</HI> king of Mi|dian.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their &s;poyle they took in the ouerthrow of the king of Midian?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Six hundred &s;eauenty and fiue thou&s;and &s;heep, &s;eauenty two thou&s;and beeues, &s;ixty one thou&s;and a&s;&s;es, thirty two thou&s;and virgins pri&s;oners, be&s;ides &s;iluer, gold, tinne, bra&s;&s;e and lead, chap. 31.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What was the &s;laughter they made?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They put both man, woman and
<PB N="28" REF="32" MS="y">child to the &s;word, except tho&s;e virgins aboue named.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was the cau&s;e they did &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The commandement of God.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>VVhy was God &s;o &s;euere again&s;te them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By rea&s;on king <HI>Balac,</HI> when hee &s;awe his owne force too weake to di&s;|gorge his malice vpon the I&s;raclites, &amp; that the Prophet <HI>Balaam</HI> (contrarie to his expectation) in &s;teed of cur&s;ing did ble&s;&s;e them, hee fell to an other prac|ti&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the coun&s;aile of <HI>Balaam,</HI> hee &s;ouhgt to bring, the~ in di&s;plea&s;ure with their God, and &s;o to haue them cut off.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did hee compa&s;&s;e that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By flattery.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P>An. He &s;ent <HI>Midiani&s;h</HI> women vnto them, who by theire allorementes inti|ced them to fornication and idolatrie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by this?</HI></P>
<P>An. That the wicked will leaue no meanes vnpracti&s;ed for the de&s;truction of the godly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was God wrath with the I&s;raelites then for the&s;e &s;ins?</HI></P>
<PB REF="33" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> So grieuou&s;lie, that God com|manded the offendors to be hanged, &amp; &s;mote with the plague twenty foure thou&s;and, chap. 25, 9.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who redeemed this plague?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The zeale of <HI>Phinehas,</HI> that &s;lue <HI>Zimri,</HI> and <HI>Cozbi,</HI> in the act of fornicati|on, chap, 25.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learn by the whole cir|cum&s;tance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That God though hee plague his people when they &s;inne, yet hee will ten times more plague them that were the cau&s;e of their &s;inne, as may appeare by his wrath extended vpon the Midi|anites.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were the I&s;raelites thankfull for the gracious care which GOD had oner them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, they were rebellious &amp; vn|thankfull.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many &s;ins (by their example) do we learne to beware of, in this booke; be&s;ide tho&s;e two &s;ins afore &s;poken of, For; nication and Idolatry?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure other.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Murmuring again&s;t God, di&s;|tru&s;t in his promi&s;es, breach of his Sab|both: &amp; rebellio~ again&s;t his magi&s;trates</P>
<PB N="29" REF="33" MS="y">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How many times did they mur|mure?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure times.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three daies after they departed from <HI>Sinai.</HI></P>
<P>Que. <HI>How were they puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Lord con&s;umed with fire the vtmo&s;t part of the ho&s;t. chap. 11. 1.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How the &s;econd time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> They were weary of <HI>Manna,</HI> &amp; lu&s;ted after fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How were they puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> They had fle&s;h while they &s;urfe|ted, &amp; their &s;urfet brought a greeuous plague vpon them, in&s;omuch as they dyed with meate in their mouthes. chap 11.20, 33.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How the third time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For water.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> At <HI>Kade&s;h</HI> in the de&s;ert of <HI>Zin,</HI> chap. 20.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How the fourth time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For bread and water.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How were they puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> God &s;entfiery &s;erpents that &s;tung them to death, chap, 21.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What cau&s;ed the mercy of God at al times to put an end to their puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<PB REF="34" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their owne repentance fir&s;t, &amp; then the prayer of <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was this plague of fiery &s;er|pents remedied?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God commanded <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to make a bra&s;en Serpent, and hand it vpon a cto&s;&s;e, and who&s;oeuer (beeing &s;tung) lookt vp to it, was cured.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was this a figure of?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The vertue of Chri&s;t, who&s;e han|ging on the cro&s;&s;e, is a &s;oueraigne me|dicine for the &s;icknes of our &s;oules, if wee looke vp to him with the eies of faith.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they di&s;trust Gods pro|mi&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In being come to the land of <HI>Canaan,</HI> and de&s;iring to goe backe to Aegypt, or to bee buried in the wilder|ne&s;le.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was the ground of that de|&s;ire?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their faintne&s;&s;e of heart.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>&V;&V;herein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that, though god had di|uers times before &s;worne, to giue them the land of <HI>Canaan</HI> for an euerla&s;ting Inheritauce, yet they feared to goe for|ward,
<PB N="30" REF="34" MS="y">when they heard the land was in|habited with Giants.</P>
<P>Que&s;t, <HI>O&s; wheme did they heare that newes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Of the &s;pies that were &s;ent to &s;earch the land and bring of the fruite. chap. 13, 34.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who incouraged the people again&s;t this feare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. Caleb,</HI> and <HI>Io&s;hua.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What would the people haue done to them for cro&s;&s;ing their humour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Haue &s;toned them to death.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did God puni&s;h this di&s;|tru&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Hee would haue quite de&s;troy|ed them, but for the prayer of Mo|&s;es.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did hee then pacifie his wrath?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Even with the iudgemente of their owne mouthes,</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> As they de&s;ired rather to bee bu|ried in the wildernes, then to enter in|to the land of Promi&s;e, euen &s;o it came to pa&s;&s;e, for all that then liued from 20 yeares old and vpward, died, and were buried in the wildernes, excepting <HI>Ca|leb</HI> and <HI>Io&s;hua.</HI></P>
<PB REF="35" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the rea&s;on that the like puni&s;hment fell vpon Mo&s;es?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For his di&s;tru&s;t too, as appeares chap. 11.13. and chap. 20.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That no man is &s;o righteous but hee may fall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By vvhome was the Saboth broke?</HI></P>
<P>An. <HI>By</HI> an old man.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In gathering &s;tickes to make him fire. chap. 15 32.36.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How was he puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was &s;toned to death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may vve learne by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> If God were &s;o &s;euere for gathe|ring a few &s;tickes on the Sabaoth, hee will be farre more &s;euere to &s;uch as pro|phane his Sabbaoth by &s;wearing, drin|king, gaming, whooring, &amp; other lewd excrci&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many times did I&s;raell mur|mure and rebell onely again&s;t Gods Magi|&s;trates?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Twice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who were the first that rebelled?</HI></P>
<P>An. <HI>Myriam</HI> and <HI>Aaron.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t vvhom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Again&s;t Mo&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<PB N="31" REF="35" MS="y">
<P><HI>An. Miriam</HI> was &s;trucken with a le|pro&s;ie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was &s;he cured?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the praier of <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat learne vve by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The vertue of meekne&s;&s;e, to pray for our enemies, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> did. chap. 12.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhe rebelled the &s;econd time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Korah, Dathan, Abiram,</HI> and their accomplices.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat vvas their rebellion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They v&s;urped vpon the Prie&s;tes office, and compared for worthine&s;&s;e with <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat became of them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The earth opened, and &s;wallow|ed them vp aliue. ch. 16.31.32.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God puni&s;h the people that tooke their parts after their death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fourteen thou&s;and and &s;eauen hundred died of the pe&s;tilence.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he yet further conuict their yebellion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By prouing the hou&s;e of <HI>Leui,</HI> on|ly cho&s;en for the prie&s;thood.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By a miracle.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>In vvhat manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. Aarons</HI> rod, among&s;t the twelue
<PB REF="36" MS="y">that were put into the Tabernacle, for the twelue Tribes of I&s;rael, did blo&s;&s;om and beare ripe Amonds.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the inference of this ex|ample?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> How odious a thing it is in the &s;ight of God, to grudge again&s;t Magi|&s;trates and Rulers.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How manie waies is a man &s;ub|iect to &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Two manner of waies.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Of ignorance, or pre&s;umption.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What de&s;erueth the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fauour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Death, chap. 15, 27.30.</P>
<P>Que&s;t, <HI>By how many witne&s;&s;es ought a man (by the law of God) be conuicted, in a ca&s;e touching a mans life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By two, and not vnder. chap. 35.30.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long did God lead the I&s;rae|lites to and fro in the wilderne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Forty yeares.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Why did he detaine them &s;o long from their promi&s;ed happine&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To try their faith, and by conti|nuall exerci&s;ing of them, &s;ometime with cro&s;&s;es, &s;ometime with ble&s;&s;inges
<PB N="32" REF="36">to make them learne onely to tru&s;t in him, and &s;o in the end to appeare wor|thy heires of &s;o ble&s;&s;ed an inheritance.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Numeri.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Deuteronomy" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Deuteronomy.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat is contained in this booke of Deuteronomie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An other repetition of the law.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they were dead to whom the law was fir&s;t giuen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many things were they to ob|&s;erue in reading the law?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, neither to adde to it, nor take from it, chap, 4, 2. Secondly, not only to learn it them&s;elues, but to teach it al&s;o to their po&s;teritie, chap. 4.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner did God admo|ni&s;h this new generation to be carefull of his law?</HI></P>
<PB REF="37" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the remembrance of two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The ingratitude of their Fathers, who had prouoked his wrath, and were dead: and the wonderfull miracles and victories which he had brought to pa&s;&s;e among&s;t them, to a&s;&s;ure them of his loue and protection.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Among&s;t the re&s;t, which is one of the &s;peciall fauours God be&s;towed vpon them, mentioned in this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That in forty yeares &s;pace, the garmentes of their forefathers neuer waxed old. chap. 8.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he encourage them not to be afraid to enter into the land of</HI> Ca|naan?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t, in that he was God, and would be true of his promi&s;e: for hee had &s;worne they &s;hould po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e it: Se|condly, by telling them it was a mo&s;t plea&s;ant, rich, and fruitfull country. ch. 8.7.8.9. Thirdly, by a&s;&s;uring them of all a&s;&s;i&s;tance, yea, the very hornets and flies of the ayre &s;hould fight for them, chap. 7.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of how many thing doth God
<PB N="33" REF="37" MS="y">coun&s;aile them to beware, vvhen they are once &s;etled in Canaan?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vnthankfulnes, pre&s;umption, &amp; lack of charity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did hee &s;hevv they might bee vn bankfull?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> By enioying the fruites of the land, &amp; not pray&s;ing his name for them chap. 8, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv pre&s;umptuous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By attributing the glory there|of, to theyr own &s;trength, and not to the free mercy of God. chap. 8.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vncharitable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In hauing aboundance, and &s;hut|ting vp their hands again&s;t the pouerty of their brother. chap. 15.7.8. A &s;inne too common in the&s;e dayes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat other vices doth he forbid?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For&s;aking of Gods &s;eruice for the loue of any friend, bee hee neuer &s;o deare, chap. 13.6. The impoueri&s;hing of Gods Mini&s;ters, chap. 12.19. Confu|&s;ion of Sexe, as a man to weare wo|mans apparrell, or a woman, mans. chapter. 22.5. Detayning any thing of anothers which wee find, chap. 22.12.13. All manner of crueltie, euen to|ward
<PB REF="38" MS="y">bruite bea&s;ts, chap. 22. vers 6. All doublene&s;&s;e of heart, hanging be|tweene two Religions, figured vnto vs by the garment of lin&s;ie wol&s;ie, chapter. 21. 10. 11. All violating of virginitie, chap. 22.25. All bearing of fal&s;e wit|ne&s;&s;e, chap. 19.16. All employing of euill gotten goods in the &s;eruice of God, as &s;uch as think they may be charita|ble with money gotten by theft, v&s;ury, or whooredome, chap. 23.18. The take|ing of any thing to gage, whereby our neighbour gets his liuing, chapt. 24.6. All partiality, as not to puni&s;h one for the &s;inne of another, chap. 24.16. All &s;ecurity and flattering of a mans &s;elfe in his owne &s;inne. chap. 29. ver&s;e. 19.20.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If they did, or if we doe offend in any of the2e &s;innes, how will God exe|cute his iudgement vpon vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Without re&s;pect of per&s;ons, ch. 10.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat may we pretend for an excu&s;e, if we be found guiltie of any of the&s;e &s;innes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Nothing</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Not ignorance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<PB N="34" REF="38" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e we are (as the I&s;rae|lites were) daylie admoni&s;hed of them by the Mini&s;ters of Gods word, chapt. 30.11.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Did Mo&s;es neuer enter into the land of Canaan?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, only he had a &s;ight of it, and then died.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhat was the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His &s;inne of di&s;tru&s;t in Gods power, committed at the waters of Me|ribah.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat may we learne generally by his whole life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Six vertues, for that one vice be|fore remembred.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, boldnes in his calling, that feared not to &s;peake to <HI>Pharaoh:</HI> Se|condly, meekne&s;&s;e again&s;t wrong, that was not moued at any de&s;pightfull words giuen by the I&s;raelites: Third|ly, patience again&s;t trauaile, that did not onely guide the I&s;raelites in their iourneyes, but at all times decided their cau&s;es: Fourthly, zeale in Gods glory, for the aduancement of vertue, and repre&s;&s;ing of vice. Fiftly, loue to his brethren, to &s;pend his life for them, rather then they &s;hould mi&s;carrie:
<PB REF="39" MS="y">&s;ixtly, faith in his end, not enuying that hee might not enter into the Land of Promi&s;e: con&s;idering by death hee was inue&s;ted with a greater patrimonie, the king dome of heauen.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Deuteronomy.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Joshua" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Io&s;hua.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHho &s;ucceeded</HI> Mo&s;es?</P>
<P><HI>An. Io&s;hua.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By who&s;e appointment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By Gods.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was his charge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two-fold, to keepe the lawe of God, and to bring I&s;rael out of the wil|derne&s;&s;e into Canaan.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat e&s;peciall vertues had he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith, wi&s;edom, Courage, &s;uch as all good gouernors ought to haue.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>How did he &s;hew his faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By beleeuing Gods promi&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How his vvi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In gouerning di&s;creetly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How his courage?</HI></P>
<PB N="35" REF="39" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> In leading on the people with|out dread of their enemies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth Godhere encourage the people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Three manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, in renewing his former promi&s;e, and telling them they &s;hould diuide the land for an inheritance. ch. 1.6. Secondly, in giuing them a captain endued with the &s;pirite of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and able to be their conductor, cha. 1. 5. and thirdly by a&s;&s;uring them hee would ca&s;t a faintnes of heart vpon their enemies chap. 2.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were the people confirmed, that</HI> Io&s;hua <HI>had the &s;pirit of</HI> Mo&s;es?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By two miracles that hee did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which is the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His diuiding the watets of <HI>Iordan</HI> and his, and the whole ho&s;tes pa&s;&s;ing o|uer dry-&s;hod. chap, 3.19.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which is the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He cau&s;ed the &s;unne and moone to &s;tand &s;till in the firmament, chap, 10.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By Prayer.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What do we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<PB REF="40" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The effect of prayer and the o|bedience of all creatures for the glori|fying of God.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How was God glorifyed by that miracle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Jo&s;hua</HI> by that meanes had a lo~|ger time of day-light, for the vanqui|&s;hing of Gods enemies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were none of the Tribes placed on this &s;ide Iordan?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two and a halfe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Reuben, God,</HI> and the halfe tribe of <HI>Mana&s;&s;eh.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they &s;it downe in peace, and &s;uffer their brethren to go to warre?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they &s;hewed more brotherly loue:</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They left their wiues, children &amp; cattell in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions which were allotted them, and them&s;elues armed went formo&s;t, and would take no re&s;t, till their brethren of the other Tribes, were likewi&s;e planted a&s;well as they chap. 1.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When they had pa&s;&s;ed</HI> Iordan, <HI>how
<PB N="36" REF="40" MS="y">did</HI> Io&s;hua <HI>&s;hew him&s;elf thankful to God for &s;o great a miracle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By &s;etting vp a memoriall of his power.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Twelue &s;tones, for the twelue Tribes of I&s;rael.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what purpo&s;e did he &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For two cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t that &s;uch a remembrance of Gods mightie power might &s;erue for a further condemnation to his eni|mies: and &s;econdly, that his &s;eruantes, might the more reuerence him, chapt. 43.20.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Which was the fir&s;t citty they meant to conquer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Iericho.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they ra&s;hly go and be&s;iege it, as prowdly pre&s;uming, that how &s;oeuer, or what&s;oeuer they did, God wauld bee with them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, like di&s;creet Souldiers, they v&s;ed three things.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Deliberation, con&s;ultation, and &s;anctification.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How deliberation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They took time.</P>
<PB REF="41">
<P>Q. <HI>Hovv con&s;ultation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Two manner of waies, they &s;ate in coun&s;ell among&s;t them&s;elues, and &s;ubmitted their coun&s;ell to the direct|tion of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;anctification?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Tvvo manner of waies, by prayer and fa&s;ting.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When they had taken coun&s;aile what did they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sent &s;pies to know the fate of their enemies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What danger vvere they in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Of death.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>By vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the King.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;aued their liues?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A <HI>vvoman harlot?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By hiding them in the toppe of her hou&s;e, when the King made &s;earch for them. chap. 2.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mooued her to doe &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The fame which &s;he heard of the workes of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the I&s;raelites requite this kindne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;aued her, her father, mo|ther, children, and all they had.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they &s;hevv this mercy of their
<PB N="37" REF="41" MS="y">ovvne accord?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but by the in&s;tinct of Gods &s;pirite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do vve learne thereby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That God will not the death of &s;inners; if they repent.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvas the City vvonne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The walles fell downe by the po|wer of God, and then <HI>Io&s;hua</HI> entered. chap. 6.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvere the I&s;raelites com|manded to e&s;teeme of the Citiy, &amp; all that vvas in it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As a thing execrable and accur|&s;ed, chap:6:17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was nothing re&s;erued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, &s;iluer, gold, ve&s;&s;els of bra&s;&s;e, and yron.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhat vvas to be done vvith them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They were to be con&s;ecrated to the Lords v&s;e, chap. 6.19.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>Hovv vvere they to be con&s;ecrated?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By being molten, and the proper|ty of them altered.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;inne vvas here committed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Theft.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who committed it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Achan?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<PB REF="42" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> He kept a Babyloni&s;h garment, two hundred &s;hekels of &s;iluer, and a wedge of golde of fifty &s;hekels weight, which he had in his Tent, to &s;erue for his owne priuate v&s;e, chap. 7.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their fortune after the committing of this &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their good &s;ucce&s;&s;e was turned into badde, &s;uch is alwaies the fruit of wickednes.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When three thou&s;and I&s;raelites were &s;ent again&s;t <HI>Ay,</HI> the inhabitantes thereof put them to flight, and &s;lew 36. of them ch. 7.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvere they cleared of this &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By de&s;troying <HI>Achan,</HI> his family, and all he had, ch. 7.24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Gibeonites purcha&s;e a league of friend&s;hip with</HI> Io&s;hua?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By di&s;&s;imulation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Comming vnto him in ragged clothes and old &s;hooes, as though they had worne out their apparell, by iour|neying from &s;ome far country.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Io&s;hua <HI>reward their di&s;|&s;imulation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee &s;uffered them to liue, be|cau&s;e
<PB N="38" REF="42" MS="y">of his promi&s;e, but he condemned them for euer to be drudges to the con|gregation, to hew wood, and drawe wa|ter chap. 9.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many kingdomes did</HI> Io&s;hua <HI>&s;ubdue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Thirty and one.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mercy did hee &s;hew in all his victories?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> None at all, he de&s;troyed euery &s;uole. chap. 10.40.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What moued him thereunto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The commandement of God.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is &s;ignified by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That wickedne&s;&s;e mu&s;t bee quite rooted out, where God meanes to bee &s;erued.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were the I&s;raelites novv in quiet po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of</HI> Canaan?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They were: chap. 21.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;hew?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The full performance of Gods promi&s;e,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertue do we learne from the I&s;raelites after their victories?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Thank&s;giuing and brotherly v|nity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they thankfull?</HI></P>
<PB REF="43">
<P><HI>An.</HI> In prote&s;ting to &s;erue and obey God for his benefites be&s;towed vpon them. chap. 24.24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they &s;hew brotherly v|nity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In equall diui&s;ion of their por|tions, with out &s;trife or contention.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Io&s;hua <HI>die?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Like a vertuous man.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Rehear&s;ing the mercies of God, and exhorting the people to feare him chap. 24.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Io&s;hua.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Judges" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Iudges</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat gouernors had the people af|ter</HI> Io&s;hua?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Iudges.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why were they called Iudges?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they did execute Gods iudgements vpon their enemies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Had they manie enemies after the death of</HI> Io&s;hua?</P>
<P><HI>An,</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What was the cau&s;e?</HI></P>
<PB N="39" REF="43" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Their &s;ins.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their generall &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Di&s;obedience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did that &s;pread?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into three branches.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vaine pitty, Idolatry, and ingra|titude.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvere they vainly pittifull?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In making league with the Ca|naanites, who~ they ought to haue ca&s;t out, chap. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvere they Idolaters?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In wor&s;hipping Idols, chap. 2.11.</P>
<P>Que&s;. <HI>Hovv vngratefull?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In being made owners of Cities which they built not, and vineyardes that they planted not, they forgot to glorifie their giuer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvere their generall puni&s;h|ments fortheir &s;ins?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As the Lord had &s;aide before, tho&s;e people who me they &s;aued, be|came goades to their &s;ides, and thornes in their eies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the meaning of that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They continually vexed them with warre.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;herefore did the Lord &s;uffer that?</HI></P>
<PB REF="44" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;ift and proue them, as hee alwaies will do &s;uch as he loueth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the Lord then &s;till loue them, con&s;idering how they had prouoked him by their &s;ormer wickedne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;hew?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The vn&s;peakable mercy of God toward his Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the generall vertne that purcha&s;ed his mercy toward them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Repentance, they cried, and hee heard their groanings, ch. 3.28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein was his mercy expre&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In &s;ending them deliuerers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hew many were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sixteene.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Rehear&s;e their names?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Debo|rah, Barak; Gedeon, Abimelech, Tola, Iaer, Iphtaph, Ib&s;an, Eton, Abdon, Sam &s;on, Eli, Samuel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were the particular &s;innes of the I&s;raelites?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In <HI>Abimelech</HI> three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ambition, tyrannie, de&s;paire</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How was he ambitious?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee v&s;urped the kingdome after his father <HI>Gedeons</HI> death, chap. 9.1.</P>
<PB N="40" REF="44" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Iotham <HI>his yonge&s;t bro|thers reproue him for his ambition?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the example of trees, where. in he &s;hewes, that tho&s;e of lea&s;t de&s;eit, are alwaies mo&s;t a&s;piring, chapter 9. ver&s;e 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was</HI> Abimelech <HI>tyrannous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In murdering &s;euenty of his own brothers, for the &s;ecuring to his owne e&s;tate, chap, 9.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein was he de&s;perate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In cau&s;ing his Page to kill him in his extremity, chap. 9, 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the puni&s;hment of God fir&s;t laid vpon him before this happened?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That as he had liued a &s;traunge life, &s;o God gaue him his deaths woud as &s;trangely.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvas that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A woman with a peece of a mil|&s;tone, almo&s;t knockt out his braine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At the tower in Tebez, chap. 9.53.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;in el&s;e raigned particularly in the people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In <HI>Samp&s;on,</HI> lu&s;t: in <HI>Iphtaph,</HI> te|merity or ra&s;hne&s;&s;e in a <HI>Leuite,</HI> loue of vanitie: In the men of <HI>Beniamin,</HI> the rape of a woman: in the <HI>Ephraimites</HI> enuie.</P>
<PB REF="45">
<P>Qu. <HI>Toward vvhom vvas Sam&s;on lu&s;t|full?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Toward <HI>Dalilah,</HI> a wicked woman chap 16:4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvas he puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He lo&s;t Gods excellent gifts, and became &s;laue to his enemies, chapter 16:19:21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hew was Iphtaph guilty?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In making a ra&s;h vow, and per|forming it.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Through his wone folly, hee be|came childle&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was the Leuite guilty?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In for&s;aking the &s;eruice of God to &s;upply the wants of his body.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee was content to &s;erue in the Temple of Idols, for meate, drinke, and apparell, chap. 17.10 11.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What vvas his puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was taken pri&s;oner by the men of <HI>Dan,</HI> chap. 18.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvas the Tribe of Beniamin|guilty?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For the raui&s;hing of a Leuites wife.</P>
<P>Que&s;t <HI>What was their puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> All the other Tribes ro&s;e vp a|gain&s;t
<PB N="41" REF="45">them, raced their city: and &s;lew all their men, but &s;ix hundred that fled into the wilderne&s;&s;e. chapter. 20.49. 47.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were the Ephramites enui|ous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They repined at the greate victo|ry which <HI>Iphtaph</HI> had obtained again&s;t the Ammonites.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How were they puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Iphtaph</HI> &s;lew of them two &amp; for|ty thou&s;and. chap. 12.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What particular vices were therein the people of other nations?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In <HI>Adonibezeek</HI> a <HI>Cananite,</HI> inhu|mane cruelty chap. 1.7. In the men of <HI>Succoth</HI> and <HI>Penuel,</HI> churli&s;h behauiour towards &s;ouldiers, chapte 8.6. 8. Deri&s;i|on in the Phili&s;tines again&s;t <HI>Samp|&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was</HI> Adonibezek <HI>cruell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. He</HI> did cut off the thumbs of the hands and feet of &s;eauenty kings, and made them gather crums vnderneath his table.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What was his puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That me a&s;ure which he had of|fered others, was laid vpon him&s;elfe: the I&s;raelites, when they took him, v|&s;ed him in the &s;ame manner, chap. 1.7.</P>
<PB REF="46" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How were the men of</HI> Succoth, <HI>&amp;</HI> Penuel <HI>churli&s;h to &s;ouldiers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In denying them victual in their extremity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What Souldiers were they thus vn|friendly vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To <HI>Gedeon</HI> and his &s;ouldiers.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How did</HI> Gedeon <HI>reuenge him&s;elf vpon them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee tore their Elders in peeces with thornes, ouerthrew the tower of <HI>Penuell,</HI> and &s;lew the men of the Citie, chap. 8.16. 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Phili&s;tines deride</HI> Samp&s;on?</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> They v&s;ed him as a foole at their fea&s;t to make them laugh.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat did this their deri&s;ion more ouer include?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Bla&s;phemy again&s;t God.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How was</HI> Samp&s;on <HI>reuenged vp|on them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He puld the banqueting hou&s;e vpon their heads, chap, 19, 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doe we learne in this booke, as touching the per&s;on of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Mercie and omnipotencie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein &s;hewed he his mercy?</HI></P>
<PB N="42" REF="46" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In pardoning their offences, thoughthey did daily offend him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein his omniporency?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> In bringing great matters to pa&s;&s;e by weake meanes</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Ehud</HI> being lame of his right had, &s;lew King <HI>Eglon</HI> with a dagger of a cu|bite long: <HI>Shamgar</HI> &s;lew &s;ixe hundred Phili&s;tins with an oxe goade <HI>Iael</HI> a wo|man, killed <HI>si&s;era</HI> the chiefe captayne of King <HI>Iabins</HI> hoa&s;t, with a hammer and a naile: <HI>Gedcon</HI> a poore thre&s;her, ouer|came an hoa&s;t of men with broken pot|&s;heards, and rammes hornes: <HI>Sampion</HI> &s;lewe foure thou&s;and men with the iaw bone of an A&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were the acts of</HI> Eli <HI>and</HI> Sa|muel?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They are &s;et downe in the booke of <HI>Samuel.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>The end of the Iudges.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Ruth" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Ruth.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>OF whence was</HI> Ruth?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> O&s; the land of Moab.</P>
<PB REF="47" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> She was but ba&s;ely borne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues do vve learne by her example?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Con&s;tant loue of a daughter in law to her hu&s;bands mother.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho was her hu&s;band?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Chilion</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Elimelech,</HI> a man of Iuda.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where in con&s;i&s;ted the loue of Ruth to her mother in lavv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In not for&s;aking her companie, and in relieuing her with her painefull labour, chap: 2:18. and chap. 1.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat vvas her mother in lavv called?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver. Naomi</HI> the wife of <HI>Elime|lech.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>Hovv came it to pa&s;&s;e, that</HI> Chilion <HI>the &s;onne of</HI> Elimelech, <HI>being an Hebrevv, married vvith</HI> Ruth <HI>a</HI> Moa|bite?</P>
<P><HI>An. Elimelech</HI> his wife and Sonnes, by rea&s;on of a famine that was in <HI>Iu|da,</HI> went to dwell among&s;t the Moa|bites, and &s;o grewe the acquaintance, chap: 1:1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv many hu&s;bands had</HI> Ruth?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<PB N="43" REF="47">
<P>Qu. <HI>Which was the la&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Boaz</HI> an I&s;raelite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doctrine learn we by the ma|riage of the&s;e two, con&s;idering the one was an I&s;raelite, and the other a &s;tranger to the children of God.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That by the comming of Chri&s;t who vouch&s;afed in the fle&s;h to proceed from her line, the <HI>Gentiles</HI> &s;hould bee likewi&s;e called to &s;aluation, a&s;wel as the Iewes.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Ruth.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="1 Samuel" TYPE="book">
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> Samuel.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>How manie of the Iudges remaine vn|&s;poken of?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. Eli</HI> and <HI>Samuel.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many &s;ons had</HI> Eli?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Hephni</HI> and <HI>Phinehas?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;in do vve learne to bevvare of, by the example of</HI> Eli?</P>
<PB REF="48" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Too much lenity towards our children.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein did</HI> Eli <HI>&s;hew too much le|nity towards his Sons?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In not giuing them correction for their fauits.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were his &s;ons faults?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Profanation and adultery.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they prophane?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In &s;eruing their owne appetites of the &s;acrifices before god was &s;erued chap. 2.15.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How were they adulterous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In v&s;ing the company of &s;uch women, as after their trauaile came to the Temple to bee purified. chapter. 2.22.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Did not their father</HI> Eli <HI>rebuke them for the&s;e faults.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, as many negligent parents do now a daies, told them it was not wel done, and bade them do no more &s;o, &amp; &s;o let them pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did God puni&s;h the father?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Too manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t he took his office of prie&s;t|hood from him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By &s;uffering the Arke to be ta|ken
<PB N="44" REF="48" MS="y">away by the Phili&s;tines, and then vpon the newes thereof <HI>Eli</HI> broke his necke. chap. 4.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were his &s;ons puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With &s;odaine death, both in one day. chap 4.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the</HI> Phili&s;tines <HI>with the Arke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> They brought it to <HI>A&s;hdod</HI> a chiefe citie of theirs, and placed it in the Temple clo&s;e by the Idoll Da|gon.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What agreement was betweene the Idoll and it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As betweene God and the De|uil, light and darkne&s;&s;e: &s;o that in the end the Idoll fell downe, and was bro|ken in peeces, chap. 5.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That when true holine&s;&s;e comes in place, &s;uper&s;tition cannot &s;tand.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;in was it in the</HI> Phili&s;tines <HI>to take away the Arke of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sacriledge.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv were they plagued for it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With mortality and death of the people, and with a grieuous &s;ickne&s;&s;e called the Emerods, chap. 5.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat did they with it then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;ent it backe to I&s;rael,
<PB REF="49" MS="y">with gifts of gold and &s;iluer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were the gifts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fiue golden mice, and fiue gol|den Emerods.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who receiued it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The men of <HI>Beth&s;hemi&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their &s;inne in the receipte thereof.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Curio&s;itie?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They would needes open and looke into the Arke (which was law|full for none to doe but <HI>Aaron</HI> and his &s;onnes) to &s;ee if the Phili&s;tines had &s;tolne away any of the reliques.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did God puni&s;h them for this pre&s;umption?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee &s;mote of tho&s;e men fifty thou&s;and three&s;core and tenne. chapter 6, 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to pry into the &s;ecrets of God further then we haue commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> J&s;rael <HI>recouer the fauor of God againe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By repentance.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By who&s;e coun&s;ell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By <HI>Samuels.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Wherein did hee &s;how repen|tance?</HI></P>
<PB N="45" REF="49">
<P><HI>An.</HI> In acknowledging their &s;inne, in fa&s;ting and lamenting, cha. 7. 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvas their &s;peed afterward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pro&s;perous.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;lew the Phili&s;tines, reco|uered their lo&s;t Cities, and e&s;tabli&s;hed peace, chap. 7.10.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues doe vve note in</HI> Sa|muel?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A diligence in his calling toward men, and &s;incerity of faith towardes God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did be &s;hevv his diligence to|vvard men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In gouerning iu&s;tly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv his &s;incerity of faith tovvard God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In truely performing the duety of a Prie&s;t and a Prophet.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What rea&s;on then had the people to mi&s;like the gouernment of Iudges, &amp; craue a King?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, becau&s;e when <HI>Samuel</HI> wax|ed old, he re&s;igned his authority to his &s;onnes, &amp; they were extortioners, and tooke bribes: and &s;econdly, by rea&s;on of the mutability of mans nature, that for the mo&s;t part affects alteration and change.</P>
<PB REF="50" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Was God plea&s;ed with their de&s;ire?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e they thir&s;ted for ano|ther kind of gouernment, then he had appointed them, and &s;o &s;eemed to pre|ferre their owne opinion before his wi&s;edome.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did Samuel &s;hew they had of|fended?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By cau&s;ing it to thunder &amp; raine in wheate harue&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Au&s;.</HI> By his praier and inuocation. chap. 12.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat did the people then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Repented.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;as God mercifull?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and promi&s;ed to be a grati|ous GOD both to them, and their King, vppon condition they woulde &s;erue him: &s;o ready is God alwaies to pardon &s;inners, if they will turne vnto him: chap. 12.19.22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat is to be noted i~n the life of</HI> Saul?</P>
<P><HI>An</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His vertues and his vices.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were his vertues?</HI></P>
<PB N="46" REF="50" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> He fought the battailes of the Lord, and ouerthrew his enemies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why was his kingdome taken from him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e of his vices.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many were his particular vi|ces?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Eleuen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which was the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His v&s;urping vpon the prie&s;tes office. chap. 13.6.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He &s;lew not <HI>Agag</HI> the king of the Amalekites, as God had commaunded him. chap. 15.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When</HI> Samuel <HI>reprooued him for this fault what was the third &s;inne he ran into?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ob&s;tinacie.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee &s;toode to it, to the Prophers face, that he had not offended, chapter. 15.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which was the fourth offence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Enuy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee grudged at the vertues, and good &s;uce&s;&s;e of <HI>Dauid.</HI> chap. 18.9.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Which vvas the fift offence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ingratitude.</P>
<PB REF="51">
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He would haue &s;laine <HI>Dauid</HI> the very time that he deliuered him (by his mu&s;ick (from the torment of the wicked &s;pirit, chap. 18.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which was his &s;ixt offence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Incon&s;tancy in his word.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He promi&s;ed <HI>Dauid</HI> his daugh|ter <HI>Merab</HI> in mariage, and after gaue her awaie to another. chap. 18.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was his &s;eauenth offence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Treachery of minde.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee would haue betrayed <HI>Dauid</HI> to the Phili&s;tines, chap. 18.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which was his eight offence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Murder.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee would haue killed <HI>Dauid</HI> in his bed, chap. 19.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who pre&s;erued him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Michol</HI> his wife and the daugh|ter of Saul. chap. 19.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After what mnner did &s;he pre&s;erue him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In letting him downe through a window when the hou&s;e was &s;ear|ched.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doe we learne by that?</HI></P>
<PB N="47" REF="51" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> The dutie of a faithfull wife, to|ward a vertuous hu&s;band, rather then to a wicked father.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Whatvvas his ninth offence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He would haue killed his owne &s;onne <HI>Jonathan,</HI> for excu&s;ing <HI>Dauid,</HI> ch. 20.23,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was his tenth offence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He flew the Lords Prie&s;ts, chap. 22.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was his eleuenth offence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> He con&s;ulted with witches, ch. 28.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God puni&s;h him for the&s;e offences?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An</HI> Fiue manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, he tooke his Kingdome from him, &amp; gaue it to <HI>Dauid,</HI> chap. 15.28. Secondly, he depriued him of his holy &s;pirit, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him with a fiend, chap. 16.14. Thirdly, he gaue his enemies victory ouer him, chapt. 30. Fourthly, his owne &s;onnes were &s;laine, Fiftly, he de&s;paired, and &s;lew him&s;elfe, chap. 31.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was the rea&s;on that he per|&s;ecuted</HI> Dauid <HI>as he did?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His iealou&s;ie ouer him, for that hee knew hee &s;hould &s;ucceede him in
<PB REF="52" MS="y">his Kingdome.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat did they &s;hew in that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Contemptagain&s;t the ordinance of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was</HI> Dauid <HI>then cho&s;en before the death of</HI> Saul?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Long before.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In his election what doe you ob|&s;erue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That God, in choo&s;ing his Mi|ni&s;ters, hath not re&s;pect to the outward gifts of body, but to the inward graces of the mind.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In choo&s;ing <HI>Dauid</HI> the younge&s;t and weake&s;t of his brothers, and refu|fing the re&s;t of more likely a&s;pect, and countenance, chap. 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After</HI> Dauid <HI>was cho&s;en King, what were his acts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He &s;lew a Lyon, a Beare, &amp; van|qui&s;hed great <HI>Goliah.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may we vnder&s;tand by his pro&s;pering in &s;trength and power?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That to a vertuous minde, God will al&s;o giue vigor of body.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did he figure by this victorie ouer</HI> Goliah?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The victorie of Chri&s;t ouer the Diuell.</P>
<PB N="48" REF="52" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues doe we learne from</HI> Dauid <HI>in the fir&s;t booke of</HI> Samuel?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Patience, clemency and loyal|tie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein did he &s;hew his patience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In quiet bearing of per&s;ecuti|on.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How manifould was his per&s;ecu|tion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two fold: fir&s;t by <HI>Saul,</HI> and then by the Amalekites.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many waies did Saule per&s;e|cute him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Three manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, by bringing him in danger of death: Secondly of famine: Thirdly, by driuing him into exile</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many times was he in danger of death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Six times.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, in the pre&s;ence of <HI>Saule,</HI> when <HI>Saul</HI> threw his &s;peare at him: Se|condly, in being &s;ent by <HI>Saul</HI> to fetch a hundred fore&s;kins of the Phili&s;tines: Thirdly, in his chamber, when his wife <HI>Michol</HI> deliuered him: Fourthlie, in
<PB REF="53" MS="y"><HI>Gath,</HI> when he e&s;caped ftom king <HI>Achi&s;h</HI> by counterfaiting madnes: Fiftly, when he was in the &s;ame caue with <HI>Saul:</HI> &s;ixt|ly, when the men of <HI>Ziglag</HI> would haue &s;toned him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many times was he in danger of famine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Twice: fir&s;t, when he did eate the &s;hew bread, chap. 21.6. Secondly, when he &s;ent to <HI>Nabal</HI> for proui&s;ion, chapt. 25.8.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVherein liued he an exile?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t in the wilderne&s;&s;e, and then among&s;t the Phili&s;tines.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein did he &s;hew his clemen|cie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In pardoning, <HI>Nabals</HI> churli&s;h an&s;wer, when he had vowed his ruine, chap. 25.23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>At who&s;e entaty did he pardon him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At Abigails, Nabals wife.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat do we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That many times the follies of men are excu&s;ed by the wi&s;edome of their wiues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he per&s;ecuted by the</HI> A|malekites?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They tooke his wiues, Ahynoam and Abigail pri&s;oners.</P>
<PB N="49" REF="53" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Who re&s;cued them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Dauid.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein &s;hewed he his loyalty?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not onely in refrayning to lay vi|olent hands vpon <HI>Saule</HI> his annointed &s;oueraign, though twice he were in his power, and might haue &s;laine him, but al&s;o in praying for his welfare.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How oft was Saul in his power?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Twice.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>VVhere?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Once in the caue of the rocks of <HI>Engedy,</HI> &amp; another time in the wilder|nes of Ziph, neare the mountain Hachi|lah, chap. 14.4, and chap. 16.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat do we learne by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That no &s;ubiect ought to lay violent hands vpon his Prince bee hee neuer &s;o wicked.</P>
<TRAILER><HI>The end of</HI> 1. <HI>Samuel.</HI></TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2 Samuel" TYPE="book">
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Samuel.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHo was the fir&s;t offe~der Dauld pu ni&s;hed after he came to the crown</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> A pickthank and a counter|fet.</P>
<PB REF="54">
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An Amalekite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he counterfait?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He told <HI>Dauid</HI> he had &s;laine Saule, chap. 1.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he in&s;inuate and picke a thanke of Dauid?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He brought him the crown that <HI>Saul</HI> wore vpon his head, &amp; the brace|let that he had vpon his arme, chap. 1.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did the King accepte his nevves?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He rent his clothes, wept and fa&s;|ted till night.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The tender compa&s;&s;ion of <HI>Da|uid,</HI> and &s;o con&s;equently, that oughte to be in all chri&s;tians, for the hard mi&s;|fortune euen of our enemies, chapte. 1.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did bee reward the counter|fet?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As I wi&s;h all counterfet picke|thanks may be; in &s;teed of a rich reward which hee hoped for, he frowned vpon qim, askt him how hee dur&s;t &s;hed the bloud of the lords annointed, &amp; com|maunded one of his followers to kill him, chap, 1.15.</P>
<PB N="50" REF="54" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How was the &s;tate of the kingdom when</HI> Dauid <HI>entred vpon it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like a tempe&s;tuous &s;ea.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ciuill di&s;&s;ention.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhorai&s;ed it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. I&s;hbo&s;heth</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Saule,</HI> whom <HI>Abner</HI> made King of I&s;raell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they make warre vpon</HI> Da|uid?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that warre ended?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God gaue <HI>Dauid</HI> victory.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what meanes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, by force of armes, chapt. 2.17. Secondly, by rea&s;on of a priuate quarrell between <HI>I&s;hbo&s;heth</HI> and <HI>Abner</HI> his chiefe captaine, chap. 3.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhither vvent</HI> Abner?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He fled to <HI>Dauid.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvas his welcome thither?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Ioab, Dauids</HI> chiefe captaine, &s;lue him trecherou&s;ly, becau&s;e <HI>Abner</HI> before had &s;laine <HI>A&s;abel Ioabs</HI> brother, chapt. 3, 27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVas</HI> Dauid <HI>priuy to this act?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but greatly lamented it, and praied to God to reward <HI>Ioab</HI> accor|ding to his de&s;ert, chap. 3.39.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What became of</HI> I&s;hbo&s;heth?</P>
<PB REF="55" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> After <HI>Abner</HI> left him, two of his own &s;eruants (<HI>Baanah</HI> &amp; <HI>Rachah</HI>) traite|rou&s;ly &s;lew him, and brought his head to <HI>Dauid,</HI> chap. 4.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Dauid <HI>reward them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As villaines &s;hould be: cau&s;ed them to be &s;laine, had their hands and feete cut off, and after hanged them vp for an example, ouer the poole in <HI>He|bron,</HI> chap. 4.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by the&s;e circum|&s;tances?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The good hope of <HI>Dauids</HI> vertu|ous gouernment.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the next argument of his vertuous gouernment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee did that which euery good Prince ought to doe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Studied to aduance Religion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In bringing the Arke of God into the Cittie, dauncing before it to &s;hew his zeale and gladne&s;&s;e, and pur|po&s;ing to build a Temple for the Lord, where his name might be called vpon: chap. 6, 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God accept of his zeale, and good intent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> So well, as he gaue him domini|on
<PB N="51" REF="55" MS="y">on ouer many nations, and promi&s;ed to e&s;tabli&s;h the kingdome to his po&s;terity for euer chap. 8. and chap. 7.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did</HI> Michol <HI>when &s;he &s;awe</HI> Dauid <HI>her hu&s;band daunce before the Arke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> As the wicked of our time, laughed his godly zeale to &s;corne, cha. 6.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After this, howe many times did</HI> Dauid <HI>fall from God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Thrice.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>in what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t through lu&s;t: Secondly, through murder, la&s;t of all through pre|&s;umption. pa Que&s;tion. <HI>Hovv did he offend through lu&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He knew the wife of <HI>Vriah,</HI> chap, 11.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How through murder?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He cau&s;ed her hu&s;ba~d to be &s;lain chap. 11.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv through pre&s;umption?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He numbred his people as de|pending vpon victory by the multitude of men and not by the power of God. chap. 24, 1.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Hovv did God plague him for his fir&s;t twwo &s;innes.</HI></P>
<PB REF="56" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> He kindled di&s;&s;en&s;ion again&s;te him, both within his hou&s;e, and with|out.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>How within his hou&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>An. Two manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, by the meanes of a deadly hate, that &s;prang vp betweene his &s;onnes.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which &s;onnes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Ab&s;alon</HI> and <HI>Ammon,</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Ammon</HI> defloured <HI>Tamar Ab&s;o|lons</HI> &s;i&s;ter, for which <HI>Ab&s;olon</HI> &s;lew <HI>Am|mon.</HI> chap. 13.29.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the &s;econd cau&s;e of di&s;|&s;ention?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Ab&s;olon</HI> con&s;pired again&s;t his fa|thers crowne and dignity, chap 15.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did be practi&s;e to a&s;pire?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;tealing the hearts of the peo|ple from his father, by curte&s;ie and flat|tering &s;peeches.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhovvas his chiefe coun&s;eller?</HI></P>
<P>An. <HI>Achitophel?</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What became of</HI> Achitophel?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He hung him&s;elfe: chap. 17.23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What became of</HI> Ab&s;olon?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee likewi&s;e had an vntimely death.</P>
<PB N="52" REF="56" MS="y">
<P>Que. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> As he fled before his fathers ar|my, riding vnder an oake, hee was han|ged by the haire of the head, and after|warde thru&s;t through the bodye with darts by <HI>Ioab,</HI> chap, 18.9.14.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What may we learne by the&s;e mens ouerthrow?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That trea&s;on will alwaies haue a &s;hamefull end.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was di&s;&s;ention stirred vp a|gain&s;t</HI> Dauid <HI>without his hou&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Two manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, by the reproach of a ba&s;e &s;ubiect of his vomited out again&s;t him: and then by the forraine malice of the Phili&s;tines, chap. 21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the &s;uhiect called that reuiled him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Shemei</HI> of the hou&s;e of <HI>Saul.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did he reuile him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He called him murderer, &amp; ca&s;t &s;tones and du&s;t in his face, chapter. 16.7.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did Dauid endure it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, (as hee did all his former troubles) with patience, commaund|ing his men of warre, not to touche <HI>Shemei,</HI> for &s;aide hee, my &s;ome which
<PB REF="57" MS="y">came out of mine owne bowels, &s;oughte my life: than how much more may this &s;on of <HI>Iemmini?</HI> &s;uffer him to cur&s;e for the Lord hath bidden him, chapter 16.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues &s;hone id</HI> Dauid <HI>be|&s;ide his patience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Gratitude and continencie. pa Qu. <HI>Wherein did hee &s;hew him&s;elfe gratefull?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In giuing all the Ilands of <HI>Saule</HI> to <HI>Mephibo&s;heth</HI> his friend <HI>Ionathans</HI> &s;on chap. 9.9.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Wherein was hee continent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In refu&s;ing (beeing very fainte through thir&s;t) to drinke of the water which me~ had hazarded their liues to fetch him, chap. 23, 17:</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvas</HI> Dauid <HI>plagued for his pre&s;umption?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God offered him the choi&s;e of three plagues.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Either to haue &s;eauen yeares fa|mine, or to flie three mo~ths before his enemies, or to haue three daies pe&s;ti|lence in the land, chap. 24.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which did</HI> Dauid <HI>choo&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three daies pe&s;tilence.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was his rea&s;on.</HI></P>
<PB N="53" REF="57" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he had rather fall into the hands of God then man, for God will be mercifull, when men are pitti|le&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many of his people dyed of the pe&s;tilence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three&s;core and ten thou&s;and, ch. 24.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In all the troubles of</HI> Dauid, <HI>did God &s;end him no friends to comfort him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, God is a God of mercie, and as he doth promi&s;e, euen &s;o hee will performe: at all times of his di|&s;tre&s;&s;e, he rai&s;ed him &s;ome friend or o|er.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Before <HI>Saul</HI> died, <HI>Ionathan, Mi|col, Abimelech</HI> the prie&s;T, foure hundred men that came to his ayde in the wil|derne&s;&s;e. <HI>Abigail</HI> rich <HI>Nabals</HI> wife, that brought him proui&s;ion, and <HI>Achi&s;h</HI> King of <HI>Gath,</HI> that gaue him a City called <HI>Ziglag</HI> to dwell in.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After</HI> Sauls <HI>death in the time of his per&s;ecution, who were his friends?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Be&s;ide many other of his &s;ubiects that &s;tucke vnto him, <HI>Hu&s;hai</HI> &s;hewed him&s;elfe a &s;peciall friend, in o|uerthrowing the coun&s;aile of <HI>Achito|phel,</HI> whereby the rebellion of his &s;onne
<PB REF="58"><HI>Ah&s;olon</HI> was cut off. chap. 16. and olde <HI>Barzillai</HI> that &s;uccoured him, when hee &s;led from his &s;onne, chap. 19.32.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Notwith&s;tanding the manifoulde troubles</HI> Dauid <HI>had, did he at la&s;t finde re&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and died in peace.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth his trouble&s;ome life and quiet end figure vnto vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The race of the chiefe King of heauen and earth Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, who ac|cording to the fle&s;h, was per&s;ecuted on euery &s;ide (as <HI>Dauid</HI> was) with cutward and inward enemies, as well in his own per&s;on, as in his members, but at la&s;t ouercame al, and gaue his Church per|petuall victory: His name be prai&s;ed.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Samuell.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Kings, Chronicles" TYPE="books">
<HEAD>Kings and Chronicles.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHo &s;ucceeded</HI> Dauid?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His Son <HI>Salomon.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the fir&s;t thing he a&s;ked of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Wi&s;edom and God gaue it him, chap. 3.12.</P>
<PB N="54" REF="58" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat did he &s;hew therein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That wi&s;edome: beautifieth a Prince or ruler, more then either wealth or honour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was the fir&s;t &s;inne he puni|&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Rebellion in <HI>Adoniah?</HI> chapter 2.25.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What was the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Murder.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In <HI>Ioab,</HI> for the death of <HI>Abner</HI> and <HI>Ama&s;a,</HI> although hee fled to the al|tar for refuge.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That no place ought to &s;helter an homicide, chap. 2.34.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was Salomons e&s;tate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Peacefull, and full of Pompe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How came that to pa&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the, gift of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherefore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e he a&s;ked wi&s;edome fir&s;t and aboue all things (when GOD put him to his choi&s;e) therfore hee had not only wi&s;edom giuen him, but all things el&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How did he &s;hew him&s;elfe thank|full?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In employing his wealth and
<PB REF="59">Wi&s;edom to th glory of God</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee iudged iu&s;tly, and builte a mo&s;t &s;umptuous Temple to the name of the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;ted the magnificence of</HI> Salomon?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the&s;e things: he ruled ouer all kingdomes, fro~ the riuer of Euphrates, vnto tha la~d of the Phili&s;tines, and the bordor of Aegypt, chap. 4, 21. His vic|tuals for one day were thirty mea&s;ures of fine flower, and three&s;core mea&s;ures of meale. chapt. 4.22. Tenne fatte ox|n, and twenty oxen of the pa&s;ture: a hundred &s;heepe. be&s;ide Hartes, buckes, bugles, and farte foule, chap. 4.23. He ad forty thou&s;and &s;talles of hor&s;es for his chariots, &amp; twelue thou&s;and hor&s;. men, chap. 4.26. Gold and &s;iluer was as plentifull as &s;tones, chap. 10.27. He had &s;eauen hundred wiues, and three hun|dred concubines, chap. 11.3. Be&s;ide all this hee had wi&s;edome more then any creature liuing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Yet in the end, notwithstanding he had his heartes de&s;ire, in the&s;e and all things el&s;e, what was his opinion of this worlds felicity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That all was vanity and vexati
<PB N="55" REF="59" MS="y">on of &s;pirit.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did this Prince (thus ble&s;&s;ed of God both outwardly and inwardly) fall af|terward from God.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By adultery and Idolatry, chap. 11, 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat do we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That how ab&s;olute &s;oeuer wee are for honour, wi&s;edome or riches, yet we may fall as Salomon did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was Salomon puni&s;hed for his &s;ins?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God rai&s;ed vp enemies again&s;t him, and after his death, deuided his kingdome, leauing the lea&s;t part to his Sonne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did not God quite extingui&s;h his race, con&s;idering his &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e of the promi&s;e which he made to his &s;eruant <HI>Dauid,</HI> chap. 1.34.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho &s;ucceeded</HI> Salomon?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His Son <HI>Rehoboam.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many tribes had hee vnder his dominion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Two, <HI>Iuda</HI> and <HI>Beniamin.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who ruled ouer I&s;rael?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Ieroboam,</HI> a &s;eruant to King Salo|mon.</P>
<PB REF="60">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How many Tribes were vnder him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ten. chap. 11.31.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vices de we learne to &s;hunne by the liues of the Kings of I&s;raell and Iuda?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to corrupt religion to &s;erue our owne turnes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By who&s;e example?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the example of <HI>Ieroboam</HI> king of I&s;raell. chap. 12.28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>An. Not to lay violent hands vppon Gods Mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of Ieroboam, chap. 13.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God puni&s;h him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As hee thru&s;t out his hand to &s;trike the Prophet of the Lord, his ha~d withered, and he could not plucke it back againe, chap. 13.4.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to co~&s;pire again&s;t the King.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whom?</HI> pa <HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Zimri</HI> that &s;lew <HI>Elah</HI> King of I&s;raell, being drunke in <HI>Tirzah,</HI> and af|terward &s;ate vpon his Throne, chap. 6.9.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the end of Zimri?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He raigned but &s;eauen daies, and
<PB N="56" REF="60">being be&s;ieged in Tirzah, and finding no way to e&s;cape, burnt the kings pal|lace, and him&s;elfe in it, chapdd. 16.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not wrongfully to de&s;ire our neighbors goods.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Of <HI>Ahab</HI> king of I&s;raell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to &s;hed his neighbors bloud to be mede owner of his good.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of Ahab and Ie&s;abell, who by the practi&s;e of fal&s;e witnes, put <HI>Naboth</HI> to death, and tooke his vineyard, chapt, 21.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Ahab was &s;laine at Ramoth Gi|lead, and Ie&s;abell was throwne out at her chamber windowe, and da&s;hed in peeces, chap 22.34, and 2. Kings. chapt. 9.33.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to hate the preachers of God becau&s;e they grate vppon our galled con&s;ciences.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of Ahab, chap. 22.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to be couetous.</P>
<PB REF="61" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Of <HI>Gehezi,</HI> that tooke money, garments, &s;heep, oxen and other things where he &s;hould not.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was his puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was plagued with the lepro&s;y, 2. Kings chap 5.27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Not to take coun&s;aile of &s;pirits in time of &s;ickne&s;&s;e, or any other extre|mity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Ahaziah,</HI> who hauing taken a fall through the lattice of a windowe, &s;ent his &s;eruents to <HI>Baalzehub,</HI> to know if he &s;hould recouer or no, 2. Kings, cha. 1.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God puni&s;h him for that &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He &s;uffered him to pine vpon his bed for want of help, 2. Kings chap. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to bla&s;pheme the name of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Of <HI>Senacherib</HI> the A&s;&s;yrian.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God &s;lew of his &s;ouldiers a hun|dred four&s;core and fiue thou&s;and men, &amp; when he returned into his country,
<PB N="57" REF="61" MS="y">his own &s;onnes murdered him in his Temple of his idol gods, 2 King chapt. 19, 35.37.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to deride Gods mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of the children of Bethel, that called <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> bald-pate, 2. King. chap. 2.24,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two beares came out of the for|re&s;t and tore them in peeces.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to be vaine glorious.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whom?</HI></P>
<P>An. Of <HI>Hezekiah,</HI> that in pride &s;hew|ed all his wealth to the Emba&s;&s;adours of Babel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God gaue all that wealth after|ward, into the hands of the King of Ba|bel for a pray. 2. Kings chapter 20 ver. 17.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to mocke or iea&s;te at the preching of the word of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Zedekiah</HI> and his &s;ubiectes, that mocked and de&s;pi&s;ed the Prophets that were &s;ent to forewarne them of
<PB REF="62" MS="y">their de&s;truction. 2. Chron. chap. 36.19</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Zedekiah</HI> him&s;elfe, for de&s;pi&s;ing the light of the &s;oule, lo&s;t the lighte of his body, his eies were pulled out, his &s;onnes were &s;laine before him, and hee and the people carried into captiuitie to Babylon.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues do we learne by the liues of the kings of I&s;rael and Iuda?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To haue a &s;ure confidence in the prouidence of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Eliah</HI> the prophet, to whome in time of famin God &s;ent meat by Ra|uens, 1. Kings chap, 17.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To be charitable to the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P>An. Of the widdow of <HI>Sarepta,</HI> who&s;e oyle and meale, the more &s;he &s;pent, the more &s;hee had, for her kindnes &s;hewed to <HI>Eliah.</HI> 1. Kings chap. 17.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be zealous in prayer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Eliah,</HI> who in time of greate drouth called faithfully vpon the lord, and he powred downe raigne vpon the earth. 1. Kings chap. 18, 4.5.</P>
<PB N="58" REF="62" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How many be the degrees by vvhich prayer a&s;cends into heauen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Six.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t humility, in &s;hewing reue|rence with the members of the bodie, as kneeling, &amp;c. Secondly deuotion, in hauing mind on nothing el&s;e when we pray. Thirdly faith, in beleeuing to ob|teine that wee pray for: Fourthly inte|grity of heart, not to a&s;ke any thing but that is iu&s;t: Fiftly con&s;eruation of life, that our maners an&s;were our deuotio~. Sixtly per&s;euerance, that is neuer to be faint or weary of &s;o good an exerci&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues learne we el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to doubt of our re&s;urrecti|on.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Eliah,</HI> that was taken bodye and &s;oule vp into heauen. 2. Kings, chap 2.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> To be faithfull.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> Becau&s;e where faith is, nothing &s;eemes impo&s;&s;ible.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Eli&s;ha,</HI> that rai&s;ed-the dead to life, eured <HI>Naaman,</HI> the Leaper, and
<PB REF="63" MS="y">made yron to &s;wimme. vpon the waters 2. King chapter. 4.35. chap. 14, and chapter. 6.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to di&s;tru&s;t the omnipoten|cy of God?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of the de&s;truction that fell vp|on the <HI>Aramites,</HI> that lay before <HI>Sama|ria,</HI> without any &s;troke of mans hand, 2. Kings. chap. 7.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues of Gods help, how&s;oeuer we are for&s;aken of me~.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e millions of Angells in|campe about the faithfull. 2. Kings. cha, 6.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To aduance true religion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Io&s;iah</HI> King of Iuda, that put downe Idolatry, and commanded the Law of God, to be read in the Temple 2. Kings chap. 23.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to &s;pare our owne parentes, in ca&s;e of religion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>A&s;a</HI> King of Iuda, that de|po&s;ed
<PB N="59" REF="63" MS="y">his owne mother for Idolatry: 2. Chro. chap. 15.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To prouide liuing for the Mini|&s;ters of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Of <HI>Ezechiah</HI> King of Iuda, that commanded the tithes of corne, wine, oyle, and honey, to be brought to the Prie&s;ts. 2. Chr. chap. 3.1.4.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to doubt of forgiuene&s;&s;e, if we repent.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Mana&s;&s;eh</HI> King of Iuda, whom vpon his hearty repentance, God deli|uered out of captiuity, 2 Chron. chapt. 33.13.</P>
<TRAILER>Finis Kings and Chronicles.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Ezra" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Ezra.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHo writ this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Ezra.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what Nation was he?</HI></P>
<PB REF="64" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> A Iew of the family of <HI>Aaron.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many things doe we generally learne out of this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich is the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The truth of Gods mercy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that according to his promi&s;e, after &s;eauenty yeares were expired, he deliuered his people out of capti|uity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the fauour of whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Cyrus</HI> King of Per&s;ia, chap|ter 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who brought them home?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An: Zerubabel</HI> and <HI>Ezra,</HI> chap: 1, and chap. 7</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which it the &s;econd thing we doe learne out of this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The thankfulne&s;&s;e which ought to be in vs for Gods benefits, as was in the I&s;raelites after their returne, chap. 7.27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the third?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The care that we ought to haue to e&s;tabli&s;h true religion, by the exam|ple of the I&s;raelites, that neuer cea&s;ed till they had built the Temple of the Lord, and publi&s;hed his lawes, chap. 6: 15.</P>
<PB N="60" REF="64">
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the fourth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When we are once planted in peace, and haue the v&s;e of true religi|on, to labour as the I&s;raelites did, for the pre&s;eruation of humane &s;ocietie, by &s;eeing good Lawes executed, chap|ter 10.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Ezra.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Nehemiah" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Nehemiah.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was</HI> Nehemiah?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A Iew, and in greate fa|uour with <HI>Darius.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was his di&s;po&s;ition?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He feared God, and de&s;ired the good of his country.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, by his daily prayer: next, by the lamentation hee made for the mi&s;ery of his country-men, chapt. 1.4. and la&s;tly, by obtaining meanes to help them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>He did not then (as many will in the&s;e daies) &s;ay God helpe onely, and &s;o forget the mi&s;ery of threir brothren, but he
<PB REF="65" MS="y">laboured to giue them &s;uccour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Hee procured a licence of the King, to get proui&s;ion for the repayring of Ieru&s;alem, chap. 2.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho hindred him in his worke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Sanballet</HI> the Horonite, and <HI>To|bith</HI> the Ammonite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what cau&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Vpon malice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat do we learne thereby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That the diuell and his in&s;tru|ments &s;till lie in waite to hinder vertu|ous exerci&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they binder the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By rai&s;ing war vpon them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the Iewes then leaue off their enterpri&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they laboured with one hand, and held the &s;word in the other, chap. 4 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth their diligence teach vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In repairing the new Ieru&s;alem of our &s;oules, as they did their old Ie|ru&s;alem of their earthly habitation: to practi&s;e the deedes of charity with one hand, &amp; in the other to hold the &s;hield of faith, to keepe off the a&s;&s;aults of the diuell, and his in&s;truments.</P>
<PB N="61" REF="65">
<P>Qu. <HI>What did</HI> Nehemiah <HI>repayre in Ieru&s;alem?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The walls of the broken buil|dings.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Decayed religion and corrupti|on of manners, chap. 13.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Nehemiah.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Esther" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>E&s;ter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was</HI> E&s;ter?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A poore maide?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv was &s;he aduanced?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be the wife of a King.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By vvhat meanes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By the prouidence of God and her owne vertue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To protect the Iewes her coun|trimen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vices do we learne to &s;hun by the contents of this Booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to fea&s;t in oftentation of our riches.</P>
<PB REF="66" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Aha&s;huero&s;h</HI> King of Per&s;ia, and Media, that made a fea&s;t of a hun|dred and foure&s;core daies, chapter 1, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The di&s;obedience of wiues to their husbands.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Va&s;hti Aha&s;huero&s;hes</HI> queen that refu&s;ed to come to him when he &s;ent for her.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvas her puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> She was bani&s;hed the Kings com|pany for euer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to buy &s;in with the price of money.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>Haman</HI> that would giue the King tenne thou&s;and talents of &s;iluer to haue the Iewes de&s;troyed, chapter, 3 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to harbour pride and con|tempt in our harts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An</HI> Of proude <HI>Haman</HI> that wi&s;hed the death of euery one that did not &s;a|lute him.</P>
<PB N="62" REF="66" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was his puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was hanged him&s;elfe vpon the gallowes which he made for ano|ther man, chap. 7.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues doe we learne out of this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To ob&s;erue temperance in our fea&s;ting.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of King <HI>Aha&s;huero&s;h,</HI> that com|manded (during his fea&s;t) no ma~ &s;hould be compelled to drink more then what he plea&s;ed, chap. 1.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May not Chri&s;tians be a &s;hamed of this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Shew me your rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he that was a Heathen, thought it a &s;inne to carow&s;e, but wee that know God, make it no con&s;cience to be drunke.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vertues learne we el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The loue of a woman vnto her countrymen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By the example of whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of <HI>E&s;ter,</HI> that made void a decree purcha&s;ed by <HI>Haman,</HI> for the de&s;tructi|on of all the Iewes in Per&s;ia, chap. 8.11.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of E&s;ter.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Job" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="67" MS="y">
<HEAD>Iob.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat learne vve in generall out of the booke of</HI> Iob.</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fiue things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, vprightne&s;&s;e of life, in the&s;e words: and <HI>Iob</HI> was an vpright and iu&s;t man, chap. 1.1. Secondly, patience in affliction: Shall wee receiue good at the hand of the Lorde, and not euill: chap. 2.10. Thirdlie, mutability of the world: in the&s;e words. Such thinges as my &s;oule refu&s;ed to touche (as are &s;or|rowes) are my meate, cha. 6.7. Fourth|ly, the enuy of the diuel, in the&s;e words: Touch that he hath, and &s;ee if he will not bla&s;pheme thee to thy face, chap, 1.11. Fiftly, the mercy of God in the&s;e words: He maketh the wound, and bin|deth it vp, chap. 5.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein con&s;isted his vpright|ne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hich be they?</HI></P>
<PB N="63" REF="67" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In holines toward God: In vp|rightnes toward the world: and in &s;o|briety toward him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In holines, as how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He did offer burnt offrings for him&s;elfe, and for his children, chapter, 1, 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, as how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was the eyes to the blind, ch. 29:15. The feet to the lame, chapt. 29, 15. He fed the hungry, chap, 31, 17. Hee clothed the naked. ch. 31.19. Hee &s;tood with the widow and fatherles. chap. 31 16, 21. He harboured the &s;tranger, chap 31.32. He iudged iu&s;tly, chap, 29, 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In &s;obriety, how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> His hart was not infected with lu&s;t, chapter, 31.7. Nor did his feete walke in deceipte, chapter, 31, 5. Nor made hee golde his hope, chapter. 31.24. Nor did his mouth ki&s;&s;e his hand, (that is) he was not vaineglorious, cha. 31, 27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein con&s;i&s;ted his patience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In bearing with the mutabilitye and change of his e&s;tate.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;ted the change of his e&s;tate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In fiue things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<PB REF="68" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t, he lo&s;t his children and his wealth. chap. 1. Secondly, his body be|came leaprous, chapt. 2 7. Thirdly, his friends vpbrayded him. ch. 4.5. Fourth|ly, his wife for &s;ooke him, chapter. 19.17. Fiftly, his owne &s;eruants de&s;pi&s;ed him, chap. 19.15, 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;ted the envy of the diuell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In tempting him many waies, before he would be &s;ati&s;fied of his con|&s;tancie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein the mercie of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In this as he did &s;mite, &s;o he did heale: as he did puni&s;h, &s;o hee did pre|&s;erue: as he did take away, &s;o hee did re&s;tore.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was Iob re&s;tored?</HI></P>
<P>An. Double the wealth hee had be|fore, chap, 42, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doe vve learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That Gods mercy is greater then his iudgement.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What haue vvee vvhen vve come into this vvorld?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Nothing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hall we haue vvhen vve de|part?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As much. chap, 1, 11.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion, <HI>What &s;hall hee reape that
<PB N="64" REF="68" MS="y">ploweth iniquity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The &s;ame, chap. 4 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Can any man &s;ay to him&s;elfe, I am righteous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, not the Angells in heauen, chap. 4.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is man borne to by nature?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To trauell as naturally, as it is for the &s;parke to flie vpwarde, chapter. 5.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what may we compare faigned friends?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To a riuer that in Summer is drie, and in winter is frozen, chapter 6.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To how many things may we liken the vani&s;hing frailty of mans age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;ixe things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, to the vani&s;hing of a cloude, chap. 6: 9: &s;econdly, to the &s;wi&s;t|nes of a weauers &s;hurtle, cha. 7.6: third|ly, to a &s;hadowe. chap. 8, 9. fourthlie, to the ha&s;ty &s;peede of a poa&s;t, chap. 9, 25 fiftly, to the &s;ayling of a &s;hippe, and the flight of an Eagle, chap. 9, 26, &s;ixly, to a flower that &s;hooteth foorth in the morning, and is withered by night, cha. 14, 2.</P>
<P>Que&s;t, <HI>What &s;hal? deuour the hou&s;e of bribes?</HI></P>
<PB REF="69" MS="y">
<P><HI>An:</HI> Fire.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May a man boa&s;t of the greatne&s;&s;e of his birth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e corruption is our mo|ther, and the wormes our &s;i&s;ters &amp; bro|thers, chap. 17.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Though wee die, what hope doth</HI> Iob <HI>giue vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That wee &s;hall ri&s;e againe, and &s;ee God in our fle&s;h, chap. 19.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what continuance is the ioye of the wicked?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. For a moment, chap, 10, 5.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What may we think when we &s;e the wicked flouri&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they are kept to the day of de&s;truction, chap, 21.30.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How comes wi&s;edome to men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Neither by age, nor authoritie, chap, 32.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the gift of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Incomprehen&s;ible for power, iu&s;tice and prouidence, chap, 38.39.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of Iob.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Psalms" TYPE="book">
<PB N="65" REF="69" MS="y">
<HEAD>P&s;almes.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is the generall doctrine of the P&s;almes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Praier and thank&s;giuing: pray|er that God will continue his fauoure towards vs: thank&s;giuing for his bene|fits receiued.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat man is ble&s;&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that contemneth not Gods word, but meditateth vpon his lawe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is he like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A Tree planted by the waters &s;ide.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What man is cur&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that fitteth in the &s;eate with the &s;corners of Gods word.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is he like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Chaffe &s;cattered before the winde.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Who con&s;pires again&s;t God and his annointed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Heathen, and wicked do|ers.</P>
<PB REF="70">
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat is the end of their con&s;pi|racie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Deri&s;ion before God; P&s;al. 2.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In time of trouble, in whome mu&s;t we tru&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he will deliuer vs, P&s;al. 3.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who turnes the glory of God into &s;hame?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Louers of vanitie and lies, P&s;al. 4.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a per&s;ecuter of Gods peo|ple compared vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A Lyon.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e like a lyon he will teare in peeces and deuour, P&s;al. 7.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If the wicked &s;eeke to ob&s;cure the glo|ry of God, how will he reueale his prai&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Euen by the mouthes of babes and &s;ucklings, P&s;al. 8.2.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How vvill the Lord Iudge this world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In rigthteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, P&s;al. 9.8.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Are the poore de&s;pi&s;ed in Gods &s;ight?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, he is their refuge, P&s;alme 9: 9.</P>
<PB N="66" REF="70" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the Practi&s;e of the vvorld|ly man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fraud, rapine, tyranny, p&s;a. 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is his revvard?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fire, brim&s;tone, &s;tormy tem|pe&s;ts?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many are the righteous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In earth none: there is not one that doth good, no not one, P&s;al. 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;hall dvvel vpon Gods holie hill?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that &s;peakes trueth, &s;landers not his neighbour, and giues not his money to v&s;ury, P&s;al. 15, 3.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of vvhat did Dauid Prophecie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;herein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In the&s;e wordes, Thou wilt not leaue my &s;oule in the graue, nor &s;uffer thy holy one to &s;ee corruption, P&s;alme 16, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is true felicity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The fruition of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us face to face, in righteou&s;nes, p&s;al, 17, 10.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Who will the Lord teach in his way?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The humble heart, P&s;alm. 25 9,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv doth the Lord loue vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> More then father or mother: for when they for&s;ake vs, he will take vs vp P&s;al, 27, 10.</P>
<PB REF="71" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>He will not then bee angry for e|uer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, his anger endureth but a while, and though &s;orow be this night, we &s;hall haue ioy to morrow. P&s;al. 30.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mu&s;t we doe when we haue &s;inned?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Confe&s;&s;e our wickednes, though it be again&s;t our &s;elues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What followes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Forgiuenes, P&s;al. 32.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is it not enough for vs to e&s;chew e|uill?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVe mu&s;t like wi&s;e do good, p&s;a. 34, 14.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>May the wicked pro&s;per?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Like a green Bay tree, but they &s;hall quickly wither. P&s;al. 37. ver&s;. 35. 36.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May the righteous be mi&s;erable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, but their inheritance &s;hall be perpetuall, P&s;al. 37, 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the vanity of ritch men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They heape vp wealth, &amp; knowe not who &s;hall enioy it, P&s;al. 39, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When the oppre&s;&s;ed mourne, what doth God?</HI></P>
<P>An. He gathers his teares into a
<PB N="67" REF="71" MS="y">bottle, and keepes a regi&s;ter of their wrong, P&s;al. 56.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To powre &s;o much vengeance vpon their oppre&s;&s;ors heads.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whom mu&s;t all fle&s;h appeale?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e, though worldly Ma|gi&s;trates grow &s;lacke and remi&s;&s;e, yet hee will heare their complaints, P&s;alm. 65.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth God find the true di&s;po|&s;ition of his people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By triall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he try them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As &s;iluer is tryed, in the fire of affliction, P&s;alme 66.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In the Sea of this life, vvhat hope haue we to &s;aue vs from drowning?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A Rocke.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is that Rocke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, P&s;alme 71.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why are Magi&s;trates called Gods?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e they &s;upply the place of God, for the admini&s;tration of Iu&s;tice.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How doe they proue to be no Gods?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In that they die like men, P&s;alm. 82.6.7.</P>
<PB REF="72" MS="y">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Hath God made an election of tho&s;e that &s;hall be &s;aued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Before the foundations of the earth were laid, P&s;al. 90.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why were the rigteous compared to a Palme tree?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e, as the wood of that is &s;weet, &s;o ought they to be &s;weet wood for the building of Gods Church: As the leaues of it are greene, &s;o ought their words alwaies to bee vertuous: As the fruite of it is la&s;ting, &s;o their good deedes ought to be without cea|&s;ing.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How is God made vi&s;ible to our mortall eies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his creatures, the light is his cloathing, he mooues vpon the wings of the wind, his me&s;&s;engers are flames of fire: his throne is heauen, and his foot&s;toole is the earth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why doth not the Sea ouerflow the earth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e God hath &s;et it bounds, which it &s;hall not ouerpa&s;&s;e, P&s;al. 104.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat is the be&s;t &s;eruice of flatte|rers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> They reward euill for good, and
<PB N="68" REF="72" MS="y">hatred for friend&s;hip, P&s;al 109: 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the inconuenience of an euill tongue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It woundeth like the &s;harpe ar|rowes of a mightie man, and burneth like coales of Iuniper: P&s;al: 120: 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is God to be prai&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVith the whole heart, P&s;alme 9.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is be to praied vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not with fained lips.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho is our be&s;t guide?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;pirit of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whither doth it lead vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the land of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, P&s;al. 143.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the Lord to them that tru&s;t in him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A fortre&s;&s;e, a bulwarke, and a &s;hield, 144.2.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of the P&s;almes.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Proverbs" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>The Prouerbes of Salomon.</HEAD>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is a Prouerbe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A &s;hort &s;aying, including much matter.</P>
<PB REF="73">
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth it teach?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Wi&s;edome and vnder&s;tand|ing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the beginning of wi&s;e|dome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The feare of the Lord, ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who imbraceth in&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The wi&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who refu&s;eth it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The foole, ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth wi&s;edome adorne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Like a chaine of gold about the necke, ver&s;e 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhen &s;inners entice vs, what mu&s;t we doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not giue con&s;ent, ver&s;e 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are &s;inners di&s;po&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their feete are &s;wift to euill. ver&s;e 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If we &s;eeke after wi&s;edome, vvhat will &s;he doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Poure out her mind vnto vs, and giue vs vnder&s;tanding, ver&s;e 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If we de&s;pi&s;e vvi&s;edome, what vvil &s;he doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Laugh at our de&s;truction, ver&s;e 26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv commeth de&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sodainly, like a whirle-winde, ver&s;e 27.</P>
<PB N="69" REF="73">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is the bindrance to the ob|taining of wi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;,</HI> Slouth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth &s;louth reward tho&s;e, that loue it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With death and confu&s;ion, chap. 1, 32.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>2.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>IN what &s;ort mu&s;t wee &s;eeke after wi&s;e|dome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As after gold and &s;iluer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whence commeth wi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From the mouth of God, ver&s;e 6.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What is the effect of wi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It will pre&s;erue vs from all vi|ces.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is the property of a har|lot?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To flatter with her lippes, ver&s;e 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whether leades her acquaintance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An,</HI> To hell. ver&s;e 18.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="74">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the third Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>TO keepe the commandements of God, what profit bringeth it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pro&s;perity and length of life. ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What Iewels mu&s;t we hang about our necks?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Mercy and trueth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where mu&s;t they be &s;et?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> In the Table of our hearte: ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why dooth God giue riches vnto men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> By them to honour him: ver&s;e 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the rewarde of that ho|nour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Our barnes &s;hall be filled with aboundance, and our pre&s;&s;es bur&s;t with new wine, ver&s;e 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what &s;ort mu&s;t men be wi&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not in their owne conceipte ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom doth God correct?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as he loueth, ver&s;e 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>At what rate is vvi&s;edome valued?</HI></P>
<PB N="70" REF="74" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be more worth then gold or pearle, ver&s;e 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What be the handmaides of wi&s;e|dome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Long life, vers 16. plea&s;ant daies, ver&s;e 17. &s;ecurity of &s;oule and body, ver&s;e 23.24.25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vices are el&s;e &s;orbidden in this chapter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All malice or de&s;ire to hurt, ver&s;. 29. All cau&s;eles contention, ver&s;e 30. And all &s;corning and &s;coffing, ver&s;e 34.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy are the&s;e vices forbidden?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they are abhomination before the Lord. ver&s;e 32.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the fourth Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw are the wicked fed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With the bread of extortion, and the wine of violence, ver&s;e 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What infecteth the whole cour&s;e of life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A corrupt heart, fal&s;e lippes, and wanton eies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat purifieth the whole cour&s;e of life?</HI></P>
<PB REF="75" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A cleane heart, a true tongue, and a cha&s;t eie, 23.24.25.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the fift Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw &s;eemeth lu&s;t at the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As &s;weet as hony, ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How in the end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As bitter as worme-wood, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVhat hurt bringeth it to the bo|die?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> It con&s;umeth the fle&s;h, ver&s;e 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat to the pur&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It leaues our goods in the hands of &s;trangers, ver&s;e 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is there any thing el&s;e to be learned out of this Chapter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To liue vpon our owne labours, ver&s;e 15. To be charitable to others, ver&s;e 16. TO keepe wedlock vnuiolated, ver&s;e 18.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why ought we to be carefull of the&s;e things?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e we alwaies walke in the fight of the Lord, ver&s;e 12.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="71" REF="75" MS="y">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>6</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>IN what ca&s;e is he that is &s;urety for ano|ther man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> Snared with the words of his own mouth.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>What learne we by the Pi&s;mires?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Diligence.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To labour in Summer, to preuent the wants of winter.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How commeth pouerty vpon the &s;louthfull?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like an armod man?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which bee the &s;ix things that God bateth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, hauty eies: &s;econdly a lying tongue: third, a heart imagining euill: fourth, feet &s;wift to &s;hed bloud: fifte, a falfe witne&s;&s;e: fixt, and &s;owers of con|tention, ver&s;e, 17.18, 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is our &s;peciall duely to our parents?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Obedience to follow theire in|&s;truction.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many waies doth a wicked woman tempt?</HI></P>
<PB REF="76" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> With the beauty of her face, the flattery of her tongue, &amp; the wanton|ne&s;&s;e of her lookes. ver&s;e, 24.25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is adultery wor&s;e then theft?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;:</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e theft may be redeemed: but adultery de&s;troyeth the &s;oule, and the reproach there of can neuer be put away, ver&s;e 31.32, 33.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>7</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHy is lu&s;t called a deed of darkne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e commonly it prac|ti&s;eth in the nighte when the ayre is dark and black, ver&s;e. 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>The rea&s;on of that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such is the guilt of con&s;cience, as it couets darkne&s;&s;e to &s;hadowe the filthines thereof.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the marks of an harlot?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A wandering foote, ver&s;e 12. An impudent face, ver&s;e. 13. And an inti|cing tongue, ver&s;e. 15.16.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is he like that yeelds to the inticement of lu&s;t?</HI></P>
<PB N="72" REF="76" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> An oxe led to the &s;laughter, a foole that goeth to the &s;tockes: or a bird that ha&s;teth to the &s;nare, ver&s;e. 22.23.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>8.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>IS wi&s;edome any niggard of her good gra+ces?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, &s;hee crieth out vnto men in the gate, and in the entry of their hou|&s;es in the toppe of high places, and by the high waie &s;ide, ver&s;e 2, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat doth &s;he promi&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The knowledge of Excellent things. ver. 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth &s;he induce the minds of men to followher?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By promi&s;ing vnto them that her doctrine &s;hall bee ea&s;ie and plaine, ver&s;e. 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat in this booke is vnder&s;tood by the name of vvi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The word of God and the doc|trine of his Preachers, which is ea&s;ie to all them that haue a de&s;ire to learne?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what countenance is wi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<PB REF="77" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Euen from eternity, before the earth was made, the depths begotten or the mountaines &s;etled, ver&s;e, 23, 24 25.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>9.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>IN this chapter, how doth wi&s;edome al|lure her followers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By calling them to a &s;umptuous banquet.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is meant by that banquet?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The word of God and the mi|ni&s;tration of his &s;acraments.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In the thirteenth ver&s;e it is &s;aid, A fooli&s;h woman is trouble&s;ome, what vn|derstand you by the fooli&s;h woman?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ignorant preachers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is their doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Like &s;tolne waters, &s;weete to the fle&s;h, but vnplea&s;ant to the &s;pirite ver&s;e, 17, 18.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="73" REF="77">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>10.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat are the vertues and vices deci|phered in this chapter for our in&s;tru|ction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The fir&s;t are wi&s;edome and Fol|lie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the good that commeth by wi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A wi&s;e Sonne maketh a glad fa|ther.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the hurt that commeth by folly?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A fooli&s;h Sonne is a heauines to his mother.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sloth and diligence.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhat is the inconuenience of &s;loth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A &s;louthfull hand makes poore, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat profit comes by diligence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The hand of the diligent maketh rich, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the third?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Righteou&s;nes and impiety.</P>
<PB REF="78">
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the good that commeth by righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The memoriall of the iu&s;t &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the hurt that commeth by impiety?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The name of the wicked &s;hall rot, ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the fourth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Innocency, and guilt of con&s;ci|ence.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the good that commeth of innocency?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that walketh vprightly, walk|eth boldly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the hurt that commeth by guilt of con&s;cience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Feare and &s;hame, for he peruer|teth his waies, and he &s;hall be made knowne, ver&s;e 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the fift?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Loue and hatred.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the good that commeth by loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> It couereth offences, ver&s;e 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the hurt that commeth by hatred?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It &s;tirreth vp contentions.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the &s;ixt?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Silence and much babling.</P>
<PB N="74" REF="78">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the hurt of much babling?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In many wordes there can not want iniquity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the good that commeth by &s;ilence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He that refraineth his lips, is wi&s;e, ver&s;e, 16.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>11.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat are fal&s;e ballances?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Abhomination before the Lord.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What doth a true weight?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Plea&s;e him, ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When pride goes before, what fol|lowes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Shame. ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is lowlines rewarded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With wi&s;dome and Honour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Can riches deliuer in the day of wrath?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is our refuge then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> True righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is the way of the righteous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Direct and &s;traight.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How is the vvaie of the wicked?</HI></P>
<PB REF="79" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Crooked and &s;tumbling, ver&s;e. 5</P>
<P>Que&s;ti, <HI>Whither leades the path of the one?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whether leades the path of the o|ther?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To death. ver&s;. 19.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Can friend&s;hippe defende euill deedes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but in the end they &s;hall bee puni&s;hed, ver&s;e. 21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv &s;hall he be revvarded that is vertuou&s;ly liberall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With increa&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How he that &s;pareth more then is conuenient?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With pouerty and indignation. ver&s;e. 24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;eemes a woman without di&s;|cretion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like a iewel of gold in a &s;wines &s;nout, ver&s;e, 22.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>Whom doth the people cur&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Hoorders vp of co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And whome will they ble&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as bring it fourth to &s;ell, ver&s;e, 26.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="70" REF="79" MS="y">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>12.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is a vertuous woman to her hu&s;band?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A Crowne of Golde vpon his head.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And what is &s;he that maketh her husband a&s;hamed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Corruption in his bones; ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How doe the godly and vvicked differ?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t in their thoughtes: The thoughts of the iu&s;t are right, but the cou~&s;ails of the wicked are de&s;pightfull. Secondly in their wordes: The talke of the wicked, is to lie in wayte for bloud, but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer them: ver&s;e 6. Thirdly, in their workes: The wicked worketh a deceiptfull worke, but hee that &s;oweth righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, &s;hall receiue a &s;ure re|ward, ch. 11.18. Fourthly, in their end: the wicked peri&s;h, but the hou&s;e of the righteous &s;hall &s;tand fa&s;t, ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are not many men de&s;pi&s;ed for po|uerty?</HI></P>
<PB REF="80" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But what is he that is poore, and li|ueth of his owne labour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Better then he that boa&s;teth, &amp; lacketh bread, ver&s;e 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the words of a peruer&s;e Tongue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Like the prickings of a &s;word.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they prouoke others to anger, ver&s;e 18.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>13.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat is the chie&s;e v&s;e of the tongue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To glorifie God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&s;ing it &s;o, what followes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That a man &s;hall receiue much good by the fruit thereof, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat is one property of a &s;lag|gard?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To de&s;ire much, but to take paines for nothing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is he rewarded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His &s;oule is &s;till empty, and he finds no relie&s;e, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. There are two &s;orts of men, which
<PB N="76" REF="80" MS="y">vnder the name of riches &s;hew them&s;elues both di&s;&s;emblers, which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that maketh him&s;elfe riche, and hath nothing: and he that maketh himfelfe poore, hauing much wealth: ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But the&s;e qualities beeing referred to the goods of the mind, what is the fault of the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vaineglory to be proude of that he hath not.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fault of the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Not any at all, but rather a com|menable mode&s;tie, that although he be vertuous, yet hee had rather other men &s;hould &s;peake of it then him&s;elfe, ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hall become of euill gotten goods?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;hall wa&s;te.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What of tho&s;e which are true gote~?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;hall encrea&s;e, ver&s;e 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When hope is deferred, what doth is bring?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faintnes of heart.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But once accompli&s;hed, vvhat is it then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A tree of life, ver&s;e 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to be obedient?</HI></P>
<PB REF="81" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> It maketh a man grae</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is it to be di&s;obedient?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> It maketh a man hated, ver&s;e 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When we &s;end forth a me&s;&s;enger, what mu&s;t our care be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That he be vertuous and wi&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And vvhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e a wicked me&s;&s;enger procureth much hurt to him&s;elfe and others, but a faithfull Emba&s;&s;adour is a pre&s;eruation to both, ver&s;e 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall he be rewarded that re|fu&s;eth in&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With pouerty and &s;hame.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How he that imbraceth di&s;cipline?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He &s;hall be honored, ver&s;e 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What company ought we to keepe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The wi&s;e, for &s;o we &s;hall be wi&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat company ought we to &s;hun?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The company of fooles, becau&s;e with them wee &s;hall be afflicted, ver&s;e 20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To &s;pare the rodde of correction to|ward our children when they offend, is it loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but rather hate.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Who loueth his children then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that cha&s;ticeth them, ver&s;e 24.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="77" REF="81">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>14.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is a wi&s;e vvoman in a hou&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A ble&s;&s;ing to encrea&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But vvhat is a fooli&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A cur&s;e, to decay and ruine, ver&s;e. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>what is the way that &s;eemeth right, but the i&s;&s;ues thereof are death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The allurements to plea&s;ure ver. 12.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do vve decline from God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In following the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hall our &s;ucce&s;&s;e be in the end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> We &s;hall bee made weary of our waies, ver&s;e. 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When a tale is told, mu&s;t wee giue credit &s;trait?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but con&s;ider the circum|&s;tances, ver&s;e. 15. pa Qu. <HI>Who runnes into &s;in without care or con&s;ideration?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A foole.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Who &s;eareth and departeth from &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. The wi&s;e man; ver&s;e 16.</P>
<PB REF="82" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;teth the honour of a king?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the multitude of good &s;ub|iectes, ver&s;e 28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who exalteth wi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that is &s;low to wrath.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Who exalteth folly?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee that is of a ha&s;ty minde, ver 29.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he that oppre&s;&s;eth the poore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Reprooueth God that made him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he that &s;heweth mercie on the poore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee honoureth him that made him: ver&s;e. 31.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein hath a mai&s;ter plea&s;ure?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In a vertuous and wi&s;e &s;eruant.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein is he di&s;plca&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Toward him that is vicious and lewd. ver&s;e 35.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="15" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>15.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat pacifieth wrath?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A &s;oft aun&s;were.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;tirreth vp anger?</HI></P>
<PB N="78" REF="82" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Froward words, ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;peaketh right, and according to knowledge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The tongue of the wi&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho babbleth and v&s;eth vaine words?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The mouth of the fooli&s;h, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>From whom is nothing hid?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From the eies of the Lord, for hee beholdeth both the euill and the good, ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth his &s;ight pierce into the depth of hell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne you by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That he much more &s;eeth into the hearts of men, ver&s;e 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When the heart is ioyfull, what fol|lowes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A cheerfull countenance.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When the hart is &s;ad what en&s;ues?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Heauine&s;&s;e of looke, ver&s;e 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How liue the wicked?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In continuall horror.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How the vpright in con&s;cience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As a continuall fea&s;t, ver&s;e 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are the riche&s;t men mo&s;t happy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, better is a little with the feare of the Lord, than greate trea&s;ure with trouble, ver&s;e 16.</P>
<PB REF="83" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How is homely fare made &s;vveete and delicate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By loue, for better is a dinner of green hearbs with loue, then a &s;tall-fed oxe with hatred, ver&s;e 17.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>VVhat followes the angry man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Woe and &s;trife.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>What followes the gentle and meeke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Peace and quietnes, ver&s;e 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv &s;eemeth the way of the &s;loth|full?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> As a hedge of thornes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he alwaies findeth &s;ome &s;tay, and dare not go forward.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;eemeth the vvay of the dili|gent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Plaine and &s;mooth, though neuer &s;o rugged.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e hee is di&s;mayed at no|thing ver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;here do mens thoughts come to naught?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Where coun&s;ell is wanting.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;here do they pro&s;per?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Where much councell is v&s;ed. ver&s;e 22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If we will liue, what way mu&s;t we tread?</HI></P>
<PB N="79" REF="83" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> On high, that is our couuer&s;ati|tion mu&s;t bee in heauen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where lies the way to death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Below, that is, in liuing after the fa&s;hion of the world, ver&s;e, 24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When are words mo&s;t acceptable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVhen they are &s;poken in due &s;ea&s;on, ver&s;e, 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whome is the Lord neere when they pray?</HI></P>
<P>An. To the godly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhome is hee farre off?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the wicked. ver&s;. 29.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="16" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctri~ne of the <HI>16.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHo is the guide of the tongue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Lord, for without him we are not able to &s;peake a good worde, ver&s;. 1.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is the mo&s;t abu&s;e amonge&s;t men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Selfe conceipte.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that euery mans waies are cleane in his &s;ight.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But who di&s;proueth them.</HI></P>
<PB REF="84" MS="y">
<P>An. The wi&s;edome of the Lord that tryeth the &s;pirit, ver&s;. 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are all things created for the glory of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All things.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What, the wicked?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yea the wicked, that in their de&s;truction he may be glorified, ver&s;e. 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a &s;igne our &s;innes are forgi|uen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An vpright life after repentance ver&s;e. 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How ought a king to &s;peake?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With diuine lippes.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee mu&s;t neither prophane, nor tran&s;gre&s;&s;e in iudgement, ver&s;e, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat followes of that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His throne &s;hall bee e&s;tabli&s;hed. ver &s;e. 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the wrath of a king?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The me&s;&s;enger of death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is his fauour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Life or el&s;e a cloud of the latter raine, ver&s;e. 14.15.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Who is the gentleman v&s;her to de|&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pride, ver&s;e 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what is vnder&s;tanding compared?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To a wel-&s;pring of life,</P>
<PB N="80" REF="84" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e it ouerflowes withall &s;weetnes of di&s;cipline, ver, 22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what are the lippes of an euill man compared?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To con&s;uming fire.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he de&s;troyes him&s;elfe &amp; others. ver&s;e, 27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;etteth diui&s;ion among&s;t men?</HI></P>
<P>An. A Taleteller, ver&s;e. 28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is vertuous old age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A crown of glory, ver&s;e, 31.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who is the most valiant?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not he that vanqui&s;heth a cittie, but he that bridles his owne furie, ver&s;e 32.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="17" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctri~ne of the <HI>17.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>DOth not high words be&s;eeme a foole?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth much le&s;&s;e be&s;eeme a Prince?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A lying tongue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the vertue of bounty?</HI></P>
<PB REF="85" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like the vertue of a precious &s;tone.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As the one draweth the eyes of the beholder, (which waye &s;oeuer it is turned) &s;o doth the other the harts of people. ver&s;e. 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the nature of mo&s;t Prin|ces?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They will not be reproued.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But what if they be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> They will be offended with him that doth it, ver&s;e. 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a &s;harp word to a good na|ture?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> More then a hundred &s;tripes to a peruer&s;e foole, ver&s;e. 10.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Is a foole in his folly to be &s;hunned?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yea, as much as a beare robd of her whelps ver&s;. 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>From whom &s;hall euill neuer de|part?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> From him that rewardeth euill for good, ver&s;, 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May we iustifie the wicked?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;were.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>May we condemne the iu&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Neyther.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And why &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e to doe eyther is abhomi|nation
<PB N="81" REF="85" MS="y">before the Lord, ver&s;e 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat good doth a foole get by his wealth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Nothing, if he &s;eek not wi&s;edom, ver&s;e 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is a friend knowne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By his good will at all times, ver&s;e 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When is a foole counted wi&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When he holdes his peace, ver&s;e 28.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="18" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>18.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>IS there any defect in wi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, it is like deepe waters or the well &s;pring of a flowing riuer, that is neuer empty, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is the foole in&s;nared?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> By his owne lips, ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who is the &s;lothfull, kin vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To him that is a greate wa&s;ter, ver&s;e 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As the one gets nothing, &s;o the other &s;pends all, and both their liues end in pouerty.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the meanes to ri&s;e to honor?</HI></P>
<PB REF="86" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Humility, ver&s;e 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What procureth audience before high per&s;ons?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Gifts, ver&s;e 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do the words of the rich and poore differ?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The one &s;peaketh roughly, as de|pending on his wealth: the other meek|ly, as fearing his pouerty, ver&s;e 23. and in chap. 10: 15.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="19" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>19.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHo gathers many friends?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that is rich.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho is de&s;titute of comfort?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He that is poore, ver&s;e 4.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;hall not e&s;cape vnpuni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who is he that &s;hall peri&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A teller of lies, ver&s;e 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to defer anger, and to pa&s;&s;e ouer offences with a charitable mind</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Di&s;cretion in the &s;oule, and glory to God, ver&s;e 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the kings wrath compared vnto?</HI></P>
<PB N="82" REF="86" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> The roaring of a Lyon.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what his fauour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The morning dew, ver&s;e 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of whence haue we riches?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By inheritance from the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But of whence a vertuous wife?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From the hands of the Lorde, ver&s;e 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho lendeth to the Lord?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that hath mercy vppon the poore, and he will be his recompence, ver&s;e 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho is better then a rich lyer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A poore man that is true, ver&s;e 22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are the &s;imple and ignorant ad|moni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the puni&s;hment of the &s;corn|full, ver&s;e 25.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="20" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>20.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. WHy <HI>must we beware of much wine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e wine bibbers are &s;coffers, and apt to quarrell, ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Js it a di&s;grace to cea&s;e from &s;trife?</HI></P>
<PB REF="87">
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but an honour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e euery foole will be med|ling, ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why vvill not the &s;lothfull plovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e it is winter.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hall he therfore do in Sum|mer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Begge, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth drovv&s;ine&s;&s;e cau&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pouerty.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth vvachfulne&s;&s;e bring?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Plenty of bread, ver&s;e 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv &s;eemes the bread of deceipt?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sweet at the fir&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv aftervvard?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like grauell in the mouth, ver&s;e 5.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="21" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>21.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHo is highe&s;t in authority vnder God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The King.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Can he doe all things then, as plea|&s;eth him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, no otherwi&s;e than God hath appointed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why &s;o?</HI></P>
<PB N="83" REF="87" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e the hearts of Princes are in the hands of the Lord, to di&s;po&s;e as he &s;eeth good.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is not the company of a contentious vvoman irk &s;ome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes and it is better to dwell in a corner of the hou&s;e top, then with &s;uch a one in a wide pallace, ver&s;e, 9, and 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;hall crie and not be heard?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee that &s;toppeth his eare at the crying of the poore, ver&s;e, 13,</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>What is it towander out of the way of knowledge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All one as to remaine amonge&s;t the dead, ver&s;. 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which is the better, wi&s;dome or &s;trength?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Wi&s;edome.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How proue you that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e wi&s;dome ouerthroweth the con&s;idence of the mighty, ver&s;e, 22:</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May any thing preuaile against the decree of the Lord?</HI></P>
<P>An. No, neyther wi&s;dome, vnder&s;ta~|ding, nor coun&s;ell, ver&s;e. 30.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="22" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="88">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>22.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat is the e&s;timation of a good name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> More worth then riches. ver&s;e. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why mu&s;t we fly the path of the fro|ward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e their waie is full of thorns and &s;nares, ver&s;e, 5,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When wee &s;ee a plauge hang ouer vs for our offences, what mu&s;t we do?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hide our &s;elues vnder the &s;ha|dow of Gods mercie, by calling vpon his name.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But what do the fooli&s;h at &s;uch a time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Goe on &s;till without repentance, and are puni&s;hed, ver&s;e. 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To make children prooue vertuous old men, what &s;hall we doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In&s;truct them therein, in theyr youth, ver&s;e 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why is borrowing grieuous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e the borrower is &s;eruant to the lender, ver&s;. 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who kindles strife?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> The &s;corner,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t we quench it?</HI></P>
<PB N="84" REF="88" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> By ca&s;ting out the &s;corner, ver&s;e. 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who&s;e familiarity ought Princes to v&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Such as are pure of heart ver&s;e 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat will the Lord doe to them that rob the poore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Spoyl the &s;oules of them, as they &s;poyle theirs, ver&s;e, 22.23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With vvhome is it dangerous, to conuer&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>An. With the angry and furious man ver&s;e. 24.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="23" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>23.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>AT the table of a ruler: what mu&s;t wee remember?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sobriety, ver&s;e, 1, 2, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is correction to a child?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Deliuerance from de&s;truction, ver&s;e. 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is enury forbidden;</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yea euen again&s;t &s;inners.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to vexe our &s;elues, at theire pro&s;perity, nor grieue in that wee are not like them. ver&s;e, 17.</P>
<PB REF="89" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they &s;hall be cut downe like gra&s;&s;en, and wither but our hope &s;hall continue, P&s;al. 37.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why mu&s;t wee not keepe company with drunkards and gluttons?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e their life is odious, and their end pouerty, ver&s;e. 21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What part of our bodies mu&s;t wee dedicate to wi&s;dedome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Our heart. ver&s;: 26.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Why is a whore compar&egrave;d to a deep ditch?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e &s;hee deuoureth the &s;oules of many, ver&s;e. 27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhome is woe &s;orrow, wounds and redne&s;&s;e of eyes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To them that tarry long at the wine, and &s;eeke out mixt wine, ver&s;e. 30.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What other i~nconueniences followes drunkenne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Though it be plea&s;ant at the fir&s;t, it biteth like a &s;erpent in the end, it in|kindleth lu&s;t, and makes a man &s;ence|le&s;&s;e of wrong, ver&s;e, 22, 23, 25.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="24" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="85" REF="89" MS="y">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>24.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw is war to be enterpri&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Adui&s;edly and with coun&s;ell, ver&s;e 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When is mans courage tried?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the day of aduei&s;ity, ver&s;e 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mu&s;t we do, when wee &s;ee the innocent oppre&s;sed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Deliuer them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But if we doe not, are we excu&s;ed to &s;ay we knew it not?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, for God which &s;earcheth the heart, &s;ees the contrary, ver&s;er 1 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What danger is he in, that reioiceth t another mans fall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> to turne the wrath of God from the other vpon him&s;elfe, ver&s;e 17: 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who is to he abhorred of the vvhole world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that &s;aies to the wicked, thou art righteous, ver&s;e 24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who is to be reuerenced of the whole world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee that boldly rebuketh the wicked, ver&s;e 25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what &s;tate is the fielde of the &s;lothfull?</HI></P>
<PB REF="90" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ouergrowne with thornes and nettles, ver&s;e 21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What in&s;truction receiue we ther|by?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To beware of the like &s;in.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the words of the &s;loth|full?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yet a little &s;leepe, a little folding of the armes: or, there is a Lyon with|out, &amp;c. that &s;o he may &s;till cheri&s;h his lazy humour, ver&s;e 33.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="25" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>25.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHen is a Prince a meet ve&s;sell for the Lords v&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When he is purged from vice, &amp; the corruption of lewde councellors, ver&s;e 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are words &s;poken in fit place compared vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Apples of gold, &s;et in pictures of &s;iluer, ver&s;e 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is a faithfull me&s;&s;enger, to him that &s;ends him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As colde in extremity of heate, ver&s;e 13.</P>
<PB N="86" REF="90" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>To what may wee liken him that boa&s;teth of fal&s;e liberality?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To clouds and winde without rayne, making a great &s;hew without a|ny performance. ver&s;e, 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t we ta&s;te the plea&s;ures of this vvorld?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> As we would honny: moderate|ly, lea&s;t we &s;urfer, ver&s;e 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is bee like vnto that beareth fal&s;e vvitne&s;&s;e again&s;t his neighbour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A hammer, a &s;word, or the &s;harp rrow.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e his words brui&s;e and wound, ver&s;e. 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhatis the vnfaithful like to in the time of trouble?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A broken tooth, or a &s;liding foot ver&s;e, 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To take a mans garment from him in winter, what is it like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vineger powred vpon Allome, becau&s;e as the Vineger di&s;&s;olueth the Allom, &s;o doth &s;uch cruelty vndoe the needie, ver&s;e. 20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Mu&s;t vve hate him that hateth vs.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but giue him breade if hee be hungry, and drinke if hee bee thir|&s;tie
<PB REF="91" MS="y">and &s;o by noting our curte&s;ie, his own con&s;cience &s;hall reclaim him, ver. 21.22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is hee like that cannot bridle his owne nature?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A city without walles, &s;ubiect to any danger: ver&s;. 28.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="26" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>18.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>IS honor vnmeet for a foole?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yea as inconuenient as &s;now in harue&s;t, ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Neede wee to feare a cur&s;e that is caufle&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No more then the &s;parrow doth the Fowler, when &s;hee is in her flight, ver&s;. 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhome belongs a &s;purre or a whippe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To the hor&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whom the rod?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the foole ver&s; 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to giue honour to a foole?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Euen the &s;ame, as to hide a Pearle among&s;t a heape of &s;tones, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<PB N="87" REF="91" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Of whom is there le&s;&s;e hope then of a foole?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of him that is wi&s;e in his owne conceipt, ver&s;e 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to meddle in a braule?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As much as to take a cur&s;t dog by the eares, ver&s;e 17.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVhat doth the deceitfull man in his rage?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Mi&s;chiefe, and &s;aies it is a iea&s;t; like him that is madde, throwing fire|brands abroade, and mu&s;t bee borne withall, becau&s;e he is mad, ver&s;e 18.19</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="27" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>27.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>OF whom mu&s;t we be prai&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not of our &s;elues, but of o|thers, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is anger?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Cruell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is enuie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to be &s;tood again&s;t, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy may we not boa&s;te of to mor|row?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e we know not what the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of the day will be, ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the wounds of a louer?</HI></P>
<PB REF="92" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faithfull.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the ki&s;&s;es of an enemie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Dangerous, ver&s;e 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho de&s;piceth delicate meates?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that is full.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who thinketh bitter things &s;weete?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The hungry &s;oule, ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is the hearty coun&s;aile of a friend plea&s;ants?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, as an oyntment of perfume, &s;o doth it reioyce the heart, ver&s;e 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In time of extremity what mu&s;t we cleaue to?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Rather a neighbour neer hand, then a brother farre off, ver&s;e 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Can a contentious woman be con|cealed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No more then the winde, ver&s;e 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Ought not he that attendeth be re|compenced?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, as hee that keepeth the Figgerree &s;hall eate the fruite thereof, ver&s;e 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May the eies of a man be &s;ali&s;|fied?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No more then the graue, which is neuer full, ver&s;e 20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May a foole be &s;eperated from his folly?</HI></P>
<PB N="88" REF="92" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, not if you bray him in a mor|ter with a pe&s;tell. ver&s;e 22.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is the duty of a Pastor?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To know the &s;tate of their flock, and to be watchfull ouer them, vers. 23.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="28" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>28.</HI> Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat is the terror of a guilty con&s;ci|ence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To flie though no man pur&s;ue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the &s;ecurity of innocency?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> To be confident as a Lyon, ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What cau&s;eth the change of many Princes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of the Land, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For whom doth the v&s;urer gather his wealth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not for him&s;elfe, but for &s;ome o|ther that will v&s;e it better, ver&s;e 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;hall obtaine mercy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that confe&s;&s;eth his &s;innes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;ho not?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee that hideth his offences, ver&s;e 13.</P>
<PB REF="93" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Is it good to &s;et a wicked ruler ouer the people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, for hee will behaue him&s;elfe like a roaring Lyon, or hungry Beare. ver&s;e 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Shall goods euill gotten pro&s;per?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they &s;hall vani&s;h, ver&s;. 20. and Chap. 20.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Shall a man that rebuketh, find fa|uour with the rebuked?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes in the end, more then hee that flattes him, ver&s;e 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is he that robbeth Father or mother?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Be&s;ide a theefe, a de&s;troyer. ver&s;e 24.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="29" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The Doctrine of the <HI>29.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat is it to stand again&s;t correction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ob&s;tinacie, a di&s;ea&s;e vncu|rable, ver&s;e 1,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What comes by the authority of the righteous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ioy and comfort.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat when the wicked rule?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sorow and &s;ighing, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is a kingdom pre&s;erued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When the magi&s;trates are iu&s;t.</P>
<PB N="89" REF="93" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How is it brought to ruine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When the Magi&s;trates take bribes, ver&s;e, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the end of flattery?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Deceipt ver&s;e. 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is the foole knowne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his laui&s;h &s;peech, hee pow|reth fourth his mind at once.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv is a wi&s;eman knowne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his taciturnity: hee will not &s;peake but vpon occa&s;ion, ver&s;e. 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth wickednes increa&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With the number of them that commit wickedne&s;&s;e, ver&s;e 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth to o much lenity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Make a &s;eruant pre&s;ume to be as a &s;onne ver&s;e 21.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="30" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>30.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is the danger pouerty may fal into?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Theft.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the danger wealth may fall into?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Forgetfulne&s;&s;e of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat kind of life mu&s;t wee then pray for?</HI></P>
<PB REF="94" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> A competent, neyther too much nor too little, ver&s;e. 8.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What kind of people are tho&s;e, who&s;e teeth are as &s;vvordes, and who&s;e iawes are kniues to eat vp the poore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> V&s;urers and extortioners, ver. 14</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be the foure things that are neuer &s;ati&s;fied?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The graue, the barren wombe, the earth for water, and the fire for fe|well, ver&s;e, 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the three thinges that are hid, &amp; the fourth that ca~not be knowe</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The way of an Eagle in the ayre the path of a &s;erpent ouer a rock, the cour&s;e of a &s;hip in the Sea, and the haunt of a man with a maid, ver&s;e. 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which are the four things that co~|monly abu&s;e the &s;tate whereunto they are called?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A &s;eruant put in authority, a foole at a banquet, a hatefull woman married, and a handmaid the heyre to her mi&s;tre&s;&s;e, ver&s;e. 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which are the four &s;mall creatures that giue check to men for vvi&s;dome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The pi&s;mire that prepareth meate in &s;ummer again&s;t winter, the Cony that builds his hou&s;e in the rock the Gra&s;hopper that ob&s;erues order,
<PB N="90" REF="94" MS="y">hath no ruler, &amp; the Spider that takes holde in Kings places, ver&s;e 25.26.27.28.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="31" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the <HI>31.</HI> chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat learne you in this Chapter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be cha&s;t and temperate, ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Cha&s;t as hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the&s;e words: Giue not thy &s;trength to women.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Temperate as how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To refrain from drinking of wine, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne you el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> How to know a vertuous wo|man.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is a vertuous woman known?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By her painfulne&s;&s;e: &s;hee &s;eeketh wooll, and flaxe, and laboureth cheere|fully, ver&s;e 13. By her watchfulnes: &s;hee will ri&s;e while it is yet night, ver&s;e 15. By her prouidence, with the fruite of her hand &s;he planteth a vineyard, ver&s;e 16. By her charity: &s;hee &s;tretcheth out her hand to the poore, ver&s;e 20. And by
<PB REF="95">her faith: in the later day &s;he &s;hall re|ioyce, ver&s;e 25.</P>
</DIV4>
<TRAILER>Finis Prouerbs.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Ecclesiastes" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Eccle&s;ia&s;tes, or the <HI>Preacher.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHo writ this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Salomon.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy is it called by the name of the Preacher?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e <HI>Salomon</HI> by waye of exhortation, labors to in&s;truct all men, how to hate the vanities of this world, and to affect nothing but heauenly ble&s;|&s;edne&s;&s;e.</P>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat are the plea&s;ures of this life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vanity of vanities, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is there any thing vnder heauen, a man may &s;ay, this hath not been before?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Nothing, ver&s;e 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is wi&s;edome likewi&s;e vaine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, and vexation of &s;pirit, v. 17.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="91" REF="95" MS="y">
<HEAD>Chapter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHerein then con&s;isteth happines in mirth and ioy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, ver&s;e, 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In banqueting?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, vers, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In pre&s;umptious building?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In gold and &s;iluer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In multitude of &s;eruants?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, ver&s;. 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In authority?</HI></P>
<P>An. No, ver&s;e. 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they are all tran&s;itorie, and leaue behind them vexation of &s;pi|rit ver&s;. 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein is the &s;oole and wi&s;e man alike?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In death, ver&s;, 16.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What are the dayes of man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Trauaile and &s;orrow: ver&s;e 23.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="96" MS="y">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is here &s;et downe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The mutability of time.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learn we by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, that nothing in this world is petmanent: Secondly, not to bee grieued if wee haue not all thinges at once nor enioy them &s;o long as wee would, from the 1. to the 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy can we haue nothing but by painfull trauell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e thereby the Lord will humble vs. ver&s;e. 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are the conditions of men and bea&s;tes alike?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes touching the death of theyr bodies ver&s;. 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do they differ?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The one is partaker of rea&s;on, the other is gouerned by &s;ence, the one peri&s;heth body and &s;oule, the other li|ueth eternally.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How both in body and &s;oule?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, after the re&s;urrection of the fle&s;h.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="92" REF="96" MS="y">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>4.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw doth he further proue vexation of &s;pirite</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that the innocents are &s;till op|pre&s;&s;ed, and no man comforteth them, ver&s;e. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is the poore man preferred before a king?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By wi&s;edome ver&s;e. 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the bond of friend&s;hip?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Society.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the benefit of &s;ociety?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Mutuall comfort and helpe, one man to another, ver&s;e. 10.11.12.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>5.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. IN <HI>&s;peaking to God what mu&s;t we auoid?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Temerity, and multitude of words, ver&s;e, ver&s;. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;eeth the oppre&s;&s;ion of the poore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Lord?</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Who &s;hall redre&s;&s;e them?</HI></P>
<PB REF="97">
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that &s;ees them, ver&s;e, 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to be a&s;tonyed at the ma|lice of the world, &s;ince our reuenger liues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is the de&s;ire of the couetous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In&s;atiable, vers, 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For vvhat is the night appointed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For re&s;t vnto all creatures.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv re&s;ts the couetous man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> Vnquietlie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv re&s;ts the poore labourer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His &s;leep is &s;weet vnto him, ver: 11.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>6.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOvv is the rich man mi&s;erable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that God hath giuen him much trea&s;ure &amp; wealth, &amp; he wanteth the power to enioy it. ver&s;. 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How commeth that to pa&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Eyther by par&s;imony, lo&s;&s;e, or &s;o|dayne death.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="93" REF="97" MS="y">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>7.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHy is the day of death better then the day of birth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e our birth is the entra~ce to &s;orrow and affliction: and our death the gate to ioy and happine&s;&s;e, ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why is it better to goe to the hou&s;e of mourning, then to the hou&s;e of laughter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e in the hou&s;e of mour|ning, we &s;hall behold the iudgement of God, and thereby learne to amend our liues, ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why is it beter to heare the rebuke of a wi&s;e man, than the &s;ong of a foole?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e the one is in&s;truction, the other lo&s;&s;e of time.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the peruer&s;ene&s;&s;e of the world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That the iu&s;t &s;ometime peri&s;h, and the wicked man continueth long in his malice, ver&s;e 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When wee are admoni&s;hed to leaue vvickedne&s;&s;e, what must vve do?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Come at the fir&s;t call, vers: 19.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="98" MS="y">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>8.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHom doth a tyrant hurt?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Him&s;elfe as wel as others ver&s;e 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth God puni&s;h &s;inners?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherefore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To their greater iudgement.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth God afflict the righteous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherefore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For their trial, and to their grea|ter comfort, ver&s;e 12.13.14.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>9.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>DOe Pro&s;perity and aduer&s;ity teache vs whom God loueth, &amp; whom he hateth</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e they happen indiffe|rently both to the righteous and vn|righteous, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the difference then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The righteous are a&s;&s;ured of
<PB N="94" REF="98" MS="y">Gods fauour by faith, &s;o are not the o|ther; ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the opinion of Epicures?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They had rather bee abiect and liue, then honorable and die, which is meant by the liue dog, and dead Lyon ver&s;e. 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why vvere they of that opinion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> Becau&s;e after this life, they thought there was no other beeing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth the world deceiue her favorites?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By making them think they are ble&s;&s;ed of God, when they haue wealth and good &s;ucce&s;&s;e in this life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are not tho&s;e then the ble&s;&s;ings of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes: to them that v&s;e them to his glory, and the benefite of the poore, otherwi&s;e not.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>10.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw are the deedes of the wi&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Di&s;crete.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv are the deedes of the foole?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ra&s;h and ab&s;urd, ver&s;e, 4.</P>
<PB REF="99" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What vanity doth Salomon el&s;e note in this Chapter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That the worthy are di&s;placed, &amp; the vnworthy a duanced, ver&s;. 6.7.</P>
<P>That the land is mi&s;erable, who&s;e Prince wanteth wi&s;edome and who&s;e Nobles are giuen to their owne lu&s;tes and plea&s;ures, ver&s;e 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What trea&s;on doth God condemne, in a &s;ubiect again&s;t his Prince?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not only trea&s;on in act, but trea|&s;on in thought, ver&s;e 20.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>11.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>TO whom mu&s;t the rich be liberall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the poore.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In this life, becau&s;e after death there is no further power.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv mu&s;t they be liberall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In di&s;per&s;ing their alms to many</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what example are we taught to be charitable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the cloude that powreth raine: By the Sea that ca&s;teth vppe her increa&s;e: By the earth, that yee Ideth variety of fruites: by the Sunne, that
<PB N="95" REF="99" MS="y">ca&s;teth out his beames, from Ea&s;t to We&s;t; all which are not thus &s;eruice|able and gracious for them&s;elues, but for the benefit of others.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall the charitable man be rewarded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With plenty on earth, and trea|&s;ure in heauen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If vanity be forbidden, why doth</HI> Sa|lomon <HI>in the 9. vers of this chap. coun&s;aile vs to follow the lu&s;ts of our owne harts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He doth it in deri&s;ion (as if hee &s;hould &s;ay) goe to yee worldlings, glut your &s;elues with all manner of vanitie: but remember, that one day you &s;hall come to iudgement for all, ver&s;e 9.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>12.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>TO whom mu&s;t wee dedicate our youth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e in age we &s;hall be more vnapt. ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall we be more vnapt?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By rea&s;on of the weakene&s;&s;e of the body, which is &s;et downe in the 3.4.5.6. &amp; 7. ver&s;es.</P>
<PB REF="100">
<P>Qu. <HI>Whither returnes the body in death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To him that gaue it, ver&s;e 7.</P>
</DIV4>
<TRAILER>Finis Preachers.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Song of Solomon" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>The &s;ong of Salomon.</HEAD>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Quetion. <HI>VVHat is contained in the &s;ong of</HI> Salomon?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A liuely de&s;cription of the mutu|all loue between Chri&s;t and his Church vnder the names of Bride and Bride|groome.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is vnder&s;tood by the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Euery faithfull &s;oule.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what doth the faithfull &s;oule compare her Bride-groome Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, in this fir&s;t chapter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the &s;auour of a &s;weere oynt|ment, becau&s;e of his gratious benefites toward her, ver&s;e. 2. To the Chariots of <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> becau&s;e of his power and &s;trength, vers. 8. To a bundle of myrrh, becau&s;e of his holine&s;&s;e, ver&s;e 12. To the grapes of <HI>Engedie,</HI> for his &s;auing health, ver&s;e 13.</P>
<PB N="96" REF="100">
<P>Qu. <HI>Can the &s;oule aproache neere vnto Chri&s;t vpon her owne accord?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, not except &s;he be drawne: that is, incited by his holy &s;pirit, vers. 3.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>2.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHere doeth the Church de&s;ire to re&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vnder the &s;hadow of Chri&s;t, com|paring him to a tree, ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With what will &s;he be fed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With the fruite of his doctrine, ver&s;e 3.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what doth Chri&s;t compare his Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To a Ro&s;e and Lillie among&s;t thornes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, for her beauty and plea|&s;ure: Secondly, for her excellencie a|boue all other things, in that all other things, in re&s;pect of her, are but as thornes, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth &s;he figure the comming of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vnder the name of a Roe, or
<PB REF="101" MS="y">young hart, looking through the grates of a window.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is vnder&s;tood by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The diuinity of Chri&s;t, &s;hining through his humanity, ver&s;e 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Cannot he then be perfectly knowne in this li&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, no more then one that &s;tands behind a grate, can be wholly or per|fectly &s;eene to our bodily eies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did Chri&s;t after he came?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Called to his beloued the Church, ver&s;e 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did &s;he appeare at his calling?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, &s;he hid her &s;elfe in holes of the rocks, ver&s;e 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy did &s;he &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e of her &s;innes.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did he comfort her?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By telling her the winter was pa&s;t that is, &s;inne was killed, and the cheere|full &s;pring appeared: that is, grace and &s;aluation was come, ver&s;e 11.12.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhat is the Church compared vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A Doue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e of her meekne&s;&s;e, v. 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the enemies of the Church compared to?</HI></P>
<PB N="91" REF="101" MS="y">
<P>A. To Foxes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Beau&s;e of their malice and craft ver 15.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>3.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is the de&s;ire of the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An,</HI> To be ioyned in&s;eparably with Chri&s;t ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth &s;he thinke to &s;ati&s;&s;ieber de&s;ire?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;eeking after him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At all times and in all places: but e&s;pecially, in the time of trouble and per&s;ecution, ver&s;e 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Will he heare her?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and deliuer her, making her ri&s;e out of the wildernes of affliction, like a pillar of &s;moak petfumed with Myrth and incen&s;e,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Triumphantly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What will he then doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Shew her his place of re&s;t, the guard &s;et to atttend it, and his crowne of glory, ver&s;e, 7, 11.</P>
<PB REF="102" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What be tho&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, quiet of con&s;cience, Seco~d ly, protection of Angels: Thirdly eter|nall happine&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter, <HI>4.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat doth Chri&s;t in this chapter?</HI></P>
<P>An. Set forth the beauty of his &s;pou&s;e,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By comparing her to diuers pre|tious and plea&s;ant things.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>To vvhat doth he compare her eies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To a payre of Doues. ver&s;e. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat her hayre?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To a flock of Goates looking downe Gilead, ver&s;e. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat her teeth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the wooll of &s;heep new wa&s;ht vers 2,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat her lips?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To a threede of &s;carlet, or the dropping of the hony combe. ver. 3.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what her neck?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the Tower of Dauid, ver&s;. 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat her bre&s;ts?</HI></P>
<PB N="98" REF="102">
<P><HI>An.</HI> To two young Roes feeding a|mong&s;t Lillies, ver&s;e 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what her loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the plea&s;ure of wine, or the &s;auour of &s;weet &s;pices, ver&s;e 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what her whole body?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To a Garden planted with Pomegranates, Spikenard, Calamus, Cynnamon, Myrrh, Aloes, and all other chiefe Spices, ver&s;e 12.13.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>The Church or the &s;oule of the faithfull, being compared to a garden, what doth &s;he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Call vppon her Bride-groome (Chri&s;t Ie&s;us) to be vnto her a foun|taine of liuing water, and to breath vp|on her with the breath of his holy &s;pi|rit, that &s;he may fructifie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In loue and true obedience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why is the Church of Chri&s;t com|pared vnto the&s;e earthly perfections?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> Becau&s;e of our weake ca|pacity, that by the&s;e vi&s;ible beauties, wee may in &s;ome mea&s;ure apprehend the inui&s;ible glory of Chri&s;t and his E|lect.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="103" MS="y">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>5.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat doth Chri&s;t in this fift chapter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Call the faithfull to a ban|quet of Spices, hony, milke, and wine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is &s;ignified thereby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His bounty, in heaping his graces vpon the faithfull, ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are we ready to come when he calls?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No: &s;leepe, that is, the cares of this world detaine vs, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth he then &s;traight for&s;ake vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, he &s;tands without, calling &s;till till his lockes be wet with the dewe of the night.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVhat vnder&s;tand you by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The long patience of the Lord toward &s;inners, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. But if we abu&s;e that patience, what &s;hall be fall vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> We &s;hall &s;eeke the Lord, and hee will not be found, ver&s;e 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In his ab&s;ence, what &s;ucce&s;&s;e haue we?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> We fall into the hands of cruell watchmen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who be they?</HI></P>
<PB N="99" REF="103">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fal&s;e teachers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do they handle vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Wound our con&s;ciences with their traditions, ver&s;, 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What marks doth the Church dili|uer of Chri&s;t, to find him out?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> She &s;aies his head is of goulde; ver, 11, His eies are like Doues, ver&s;e 12. His cheekes are as beds of &s;pices, and &s;weete flowers, ver&s;e, 13. His lips like Lyllyes, dropping with Myrrh, ver&s;e, 13 His hands as ringes of golde, &s;et with the Chry&s;ollte, ver, 14, His belly Iuorie couered with Saphites, ver, 14. His legs as pillars of marble, &s;et vpon &s;ockets of gold, ver&s;, 15. His countenance as Li|banon, ver. 15. His mouth as &s;weete things, ver&s;e. 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is &s;ignified by the&s;e compari|&s;ons?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The infinite giftes and graces, which the pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t brings to the faithfull.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter, <HI>6.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw is the church a&s;&s;ured of the loug of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<PB REF="104" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his words.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> I am my beloueds, and my belo|ued is mine, ver&s;e 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many churches are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> But one true Church, as there is but one Chri&s;t, the head therof.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How ought that Church to bee af|fected?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Cha&s;tly and without pollution.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How her a&s;pect?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fre&s;h as the morning: fayre, as the Moone. Cleare, as the Sunne, And terrible as an armie with banner, ver&s;e 9.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>7.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOvv many are the &s;peciall vertues of the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith and good workes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are they exprest vnto vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the Similitude of the Palme tree, ver&s;e 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the Properties of the Palm tree?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The leaues are alwaies greene,
<PB N="100" REF="104" MS="y">and the fruit continuall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Apply?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As the tree is alwayes greene, and full of fruit &s;o ought our faith bee flouri&s;hing, and our good deedes with out cea&s;ing.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>8.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>OF whom will the Church be taught?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of Chri&s;t alone. ver&s;. 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whome is &s;he vpheld?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the &s;trength of his handes, vers. 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In vvhat &s;ort doth &s;hee de&s;ire Chri&s;t to manife&s;t his loue tovvard her?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;etting her as a &s;eale vppon his heart, and a &s;ignet vpon his arme ver&s;e. 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is his loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A burning zeal not to be que~cht ver&s;e. 7.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Hovv is his iealou&s;y?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Cruell like the graue, ver&s;e 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where is the dvvelling of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In his Church?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hvv mu&s;t it be fortified for his pre&s;ence?</HI></P>
<PB REF="105" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVith a wall and a doore.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What is vnder&s;tood by the&s;e tvve things?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fidelity and Con&s;tancie:</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Isaiah" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>The Prophet E&s;aiah.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw was Ejaiah de&s;cended?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> From the linage of kings.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was his father?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Amoz</HI> brother to <HI>Azariah,</HI> King of Iuda.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv long did he prophecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Three&s;core and foure yeares, from the time of Vzziah, to the raign of Mana&s;&s;eh.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who put him to death?</HI></P>
<P>An. <HI>Mana&s;&s;eh.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vpon how many pointes dooth the doctrine of the prophets con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon three.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Which bee they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In&s;truction, reprehen&s;ion, and co&s;olation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In&s;truction, how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To teach them to knowe theyr &s;innes.</P>
<PB N="101" REF="105" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Reprehen&s;ion, how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> To rebuke them for &s;in.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Con&s;olation, how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To comfort them vpon their re|pentance.</P>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>1.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was the fir&s;t &s;in</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>re|proued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The ingratitude of the I&s;raelites.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein &s;tood their ingratitude?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In for&s;aking their God, that had nur&s;ed and brought them vp.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he &s;hew them their in|gratitude?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the example of bruit bea&s;tes: the Oxe and the A&s;&s;e knowe their Ma|&s;ters cribbe, but I&s;rael forgets his God, ver&s;e 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the &s;econd Sinne</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>reproued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Ob&s;tinacie, or &s;tubbornne&s;&s;e of heart.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were the I&s;raelites ob&s;tinate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In that beeing plagued, they continued &s;till in their wickedne&s;&s;e, ver&s;e 5.</P>
<PB REF="106" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>vvhat is threatned to &s;uch kinde of people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> De&s;olation to their land, &amp; de|&s;tructio to them&s;elues, ver&s;e 7.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the third &s;inne E&s;aiah reproued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hypocri&s;ie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein were they hypocrites?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In thinking to plea&s;e God with their multitude of &s;acrifices: notwith|&s;ta~ding that they neither had faith nor repentance.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To pray then, or doe any other &s;er|nice to God, without &s;aith and repentance, how is it accepted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Lord turned away his face, hates it, and thinkes it abhominable, ver&s;e 13.14.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But if we come with a pure heart, how will he deale with vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Though our &s;innes be as redde as crim&s;on, he will make them as white as &s;now, ver&s;e 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the fourth &s;inne</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>reproued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Extortion: their hands were full of bloud: their Princes maintained theeues, and delighted in bribes: nor was the widdowe or fatherle&s;&s;e regar|ded.</P>
<PB N="102" REF="106" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did god account of them for tho&s;e offences?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> As his enemies. ver&s;e. 24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did hee threaten to puni&s;h them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By powring out his vengeaunce vpon them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After vvhat manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In burning out the dro&s;&s;e of their wickednes, by the fire of affection, ver&s;. 25.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2-4" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter.</HI> 2.3.4.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>IN all the threatnings which God pronou~|ceth again&s;t the vvorld for &s;in, vvhat is &s;till remembred?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The mercy of his couenant, that his Church &s;hould &s;till be pre&s;erued &amp; planted.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In Iern&s;alem fir&s;t &amp; after through the whole world, ver&s;. 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne you by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That the gentile as wel as the Iew &s;hall be made pertaker of the re|conciliation betweene God and man, by the comming of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</P>
<PB REF="107" MS="y">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is the fift &s;inne</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>re|prooued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Haughtines of mind.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvas it puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By beeing brought low, Chapt. 2.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the &s;ixt &s;inne</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>reprooued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Mens confidence in their ritches</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They were made poore, chapter. 2.19,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where re&s;ts the &s;poyle of the poore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the hou&s;es of the couetous. chap. 3.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the &s;eauenth &s;in</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>reprooued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The pride of women.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein did their pride con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> In their lookes, in theyr gate, and in their cioathing,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvere their lookes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Haughty.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was their gate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Min&s;ing, and they made a tinck|ling with their feet, Chap, 3.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was their attire?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Too co&s;tly and effeminate, v|&s;ing perfumes, bracelets, earings, cur|lings
<PB N="103" REF="107" MS="y">and &s;uch like, more than was needfull.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God puni&s;h them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He turned their &s;weete &s;auours in to &s;tinks, their neate array into &s;ack|cloath and ragges: their pride of hayre into baldne&s;&s;e, and their beautie into burning, chap. 3.24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth God hold the hu&s;bands of &s;uch women excu&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, he lets them fall by the &s;word takes awaye the wi&s;e and the &s;trong from among&s;t them, and &s;ets fooles and effeminate per&s;ons to rule the Land, chap. 3.2.4.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="5-7" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter 5. to 7.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat doth</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>compare the hou&s;e of I&s;rael to?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To a vineyard,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho planted it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVith what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With the be&s;t plants.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What fruit brought it forth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Wilde grapes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the Lord to it then?</HI></P>
<PB REF="108" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> He puld downe the hedge, and laid it wa&s;te, Ch. 5. 1. 2. 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Apply this to the pre&s;ent time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. England</HI> may bee &s;aid to be the Vineyard of the Lord: the Inhabitants his Vine, which he hath a long time cheri&s;ht and defended: but if he finde we bring foorth wilde grapes for good grapes, deeds of corruption, for deeds of &s;anctity: he will &s;uffer vs to be troden downe, and de&s;troied.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t how many &s;orts of men doth</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>pronounce a vvoe, in this Chap|ter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Again&s;t foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which are the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Extortioners: woe vnto them that ioyne hou&s;e to hou&s;e, and land to land, Chap. 5.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which are the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Drunkards: woe vnto them that ri&s;e early to drinke wine, and to them that continue vntill night, Chap. 5.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which are the third?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Inticers to vanitie: woe vnto them that draw iniquitie with cords of vanity and &s;inne, as with Cart-ropes, Chap. 5.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which are the fourth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Peruerters of trueth: woe be
<PB N="104" REF="108" MS="y">vnto them that &s;peake good for euill, and euill for good, which put darkne&s;&s;e for light, and light for darknes, ch. 5.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which are the fift?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Contemners of di&s;cipline: woe vnto them that are wi&s;e in their owne conceipt, chap. 5.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall it be with tho&s;e men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their roote &s;hall be as rotten|ne&s;&s;e, and their bud as du&s;t, ch. 5.24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Lord will make a &s;igne to a &s;trange nation, that &s;hall come &s;udden|ly vppon them, and de&s;troy them, chap. 5.26.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="7-31" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter</HI> 7. to 31.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>DId</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>prophecie of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> That hee &s;hould be borne of a Virgin, and to be a &s;tumbling blocke to many of the Iewes, chapter 7. 14. and chap. 8.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hould his name be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Immanuel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<PB REF="109" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> God with vs, which name can agree with none but Chri&s;t, becau&s;e he was both God and man, chap. 7.14.</P>
<P>Qu: <HI>VVhy did God &s;end Chri&s;t the Me&s;&s;ias?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t in regard of his promi&s;e, <HI>Gen.</HI> 3.15. Secondly, in regard of his zeale, chap. 9.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom did God make his in&s;truments for the puni&s;hing of the I&s;raelites?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The A&s;&s;yrians and Aegiptians.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did they v&s;e their autho|ritie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To their owne glory.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was their reward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was to them a fire, and con|&s;umed them: and to his repentaunte people, a light to comfort them, chap. 10.13.17.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVho was that light?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Chri&s;t, the perpetuall peacema|ker, chap. 11.6.7.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho was the fire that de&s;troyed the A&s;&s;yrians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Medes and Per&s;ians, chap. 13.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God puni&s;h the I&s;rae|lites?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As his children, to cha&s;ti&s;e them, chap. 14.1.</P>
<PB N="105" REF="109" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How the A&s;&s;irians and others?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As his enemies quite to de&s;troy them, chapter, 13, 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t how many kingdomes did</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>Prophecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Again&s;t eight.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The kingdome of the Aegyptians chap, 19. The kingdome of the Caldae|ans, chap, 21, The kingdomes of Tyre and Sidon, The kingdome of the A&s;&s;y|rians, chapt. 10, 16. The kingdome of the I&s;raelites, Chap, 22. The kingdome of the Arabians, Chapter, 21. And the kingdome of the Deuill, chap. 27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In which of the&s;e kingdomes did God still re&s;erue a &s;mall number to him|&s;elfe.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> In the kingdome of the He|brewes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were the people &s;oone in&s;tructed in the word of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but with much a doe, and of|ten repeating precept vpon precept, &amp; line vpon line, Chap. 28.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Their corruption of life, &amp; &s;lack|nes to all goodne&s;&s;e, Chap. 28.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvere they corrupt in life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By profe&s;&s;ing God with theyr
<PB REF="110" MS="y">lippes, and denying him in their heart, Chap. 22.13.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the puni&s;hment a&s;&s;igned vnto them for that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their prophets were blind, and could not direct, and they had theyr eies &s;hutte vp that they could not &s;ee what was good for them&s;elues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the doctrine wee learne thereby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That the Preacher can neyther teach nor the hearer vnder&s;tand ex|cept God open the mouth of the one, and prepare the heart of the other.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>How doth God puni&s;h &s;inners in this life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> With the bread of aduer&s;ity, and the water of affliction, Chap. 30, 20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But if they repent how are they re|warded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With great plenty.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the puni&s;hment of the vvic|ked after this life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The torments of hell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is there any mention made of hell in this booke of</HI> E&s;aiah?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the 30. Chap. and 33. ver&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Repeate the de&s;cription?</HI></P>
<PB N="160" REF="110" MS="y">
<P><HI>An: Tophet</HI> is prepared of ould, euen for the King, it is deepe and large, the burning thereof is fire &amp; much wood, the breath of the Lord, like a riuer of brim&s;tone doth inkindle it.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="31-45" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>31,</HI> to <HI>45.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHen wee tru&s;t in the Lorde, howe doth he defend vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As the Lion doth his pray, cha. 31:4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But if wee for&s;ake him, and &s;eeke helpe of others, what &s;hall become of vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Both the helper and the helped &s;hall peri&s;h, Chap, 31, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hall their habitation be made?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A hold for Dragons, and a court for O&s;triches. chap, 34, 13.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>What fruit &s;hall it yeeld?</HI></P>
<P>An. Thornes, nettles and thi&s;tles.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But vvhat &s;hall be the habitation of &s;uch as depend vpon chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Flori&s;hing, and full of ioy: there &s;hal neither Lyon, nor noy&s;ome bea&s;t come nere it, chap. 32, 2, 8, The weake &s;hall bee made &s;trong, chapt, 35, 4: The blind &s;hall &s;ee: The deafe &s;hall heare,
<PB REF="111" MS="y">chap. 35, 5. The lame &s;hall leape. The dumbe &s;hall &s;peake. chapter, 35.9:</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who doth</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>prophecy &s;hould prepare the waie of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Iohn Bapti&s;t, chap. 40, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where &s;hould bee proclaime his me&s;&s;age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the wilderne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hould his direction be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To haue all lets remooued. chap: 40, 4.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>May the e&s;&s;ence of God bee compre|hended vnder any forme?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, no more then the waters can be held in a mans fi&s;t: heauen mea|&s;ured with a &s;pan: the du&s;t of the earth numbred: or the mountaines weighed chap. 40, 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the earth in his &s;ight?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As a little du&s;t.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion, <HI>What the nations of the earth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As a drop of water, or as gra&s;&s;e|hoppers, chap. 40, 15.22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But what are they whom the Lord exhalteth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As a thre&s;hing in&s;trument, able to brui&s;e mountaines to powder, or as a whirlewind, to &s;catter hills like chaffe chap. 41, 15, 16:</P>
<PB N="107" REF="111" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>teach the people to abborre idolatry?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By de&s;cribing vnto them the Power of God, and the weakne&s;&s;e of Idolls, chapter. 41, 22, 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Declare the difference?</HI></P>
<L><HI>An.</HI> God is a liuing e&s;&s;ence.</L>
<L>Idols, dead mettall.</L>
<L>God is without beginning.</L>
<L>Idols are made by mens hands.</L>
<L>God can doe all things.</L>
<L>Idols nothing.</L>
<L>God knoweth all things.</L>
<L>Idols nothing.</L>
<P>Qu. <HI>What confort haue the faithfull is di&s;tre&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To think they haue a God that is able, willing, and hath promi&s;ed to deliuer them, chap. 43.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="45-55" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>45.</HI> to <HI>55.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>BY whome did God promi&s;e deliuera~ce to his people fro~ the captiuity of</HI> Babilo~</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By <HI>Cyrus</HI> king of <HI>Per&s;ia.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat vvas</HI> Cyrus?</P>
<P><HI>An. A</HI> heathen prince.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Did he not know God?</HI></P>
<PB REF="112" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, by a certaine particular knowledge of his power, but not to wor&s;hip him aright, chap, 45, 1.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many yeeres did</HI> E&s;aiah <HI>pro|phecie of his deliuerance before it came to pa&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A hundred yeares.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did God choo&s;e a heathen Prince to deliuer his people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The more to expre&s;&s;e his loue &amp; power, for the vnlikelier the meanes was the greater cau&s;e had the I&s;raelites to glorifie him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were not the</HI> Babilonians <HI>Gos in|&s;truments for the puni&s;hing of his peo|ple?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why then is hee &s;o much offended with them for doing it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e in executing his iudge|ments, they &s;hewed no mercie: and waxed prowde by their victory, chapt, 47:6:7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the cau&s;e of I&s;raels capti|uity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the cau&s;e of their deli|uerance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The couenant of Gods mercie. chap. 50, 1.</P>
<PB N="108" REF="112">
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what continuance is Gods mer|cie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For euer: the heauens &s;hall va|ni&s;h like a &s;moake, and the earth waxe old like a garment, but the &s;aluation, of the Lorde &s;hall not be aboli&s;hed, chap. 51.6.</P>
<P>Que&s;ti. <HI>Of what continuance are his iudgements?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> But for a time: Can a woman forget the child of her wombe? if &s;hee could, yet the Lord will not forget his Chap. 49.15, and Chap, 51, 22. chapter, 54, 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhome then mu&s;t the afflic|ted flye?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvill hee e&s;tabli&s;h them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In glorie: their foundation &s;hall be of precious &s;tones, chapter. 54.11. In peace: they &s;hall be farre from oppre&s;&s;i|on, chapter, 54.14. In &s;trength who&s;oe|uer &s;hall gather him&s;elfe again&s;t them &s;hall fall, chap 54, 15.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="55-61" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter</HI> 55. to 61.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>FOr what doth God offer the&s;e ble&s;sings vnto vs?</HI></P>
<PB REF="113" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Neyther for gold nor &s;iluer, but freely as the Prophet &s;ayth: Come, buy water, wine, and milke without &s;iluer, &amp; without money, chap. 55, 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is meant by water, vvine, &amp; milke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All things nece&s;&s;ary to a &s;piritu|all life, as they are nece&s;&s;ary to this cor|porall life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the recompence God re|quireth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Obedience to execute iu&s;tice, the benefit whereof returnes vnto ma~, chap. 56, 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv are our vertnes acceptable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> If they be without hypocri|&s;ie?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do hypocrites fast?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In puni&s;hing the body, and put|ting on &s;ack-cloth, notwith&s;tanding that their hearts are full of malice. cha. 58, 4:5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do the faithfull fast?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In breaking the bonds of wic|kednes; in feeding the hungry, vi&s;iting the captiue, and clothing the naked, chap. 58, 6, 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What brings vs to the knowledge of the&s;e things?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The preaching of the worde,</P>
<PB N="109" REF="113" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What kind of men mu&s;t preachers be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In voice, tru~pets: in care, watch|men, to cry alowd and continually, ch. 58, 1. chap. 62.6.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="65" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>65.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>BEcau&s;e the Iewes had &s;uch Preachers among&s;t them continually, and yet fell from the lord, what was theyr puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They were reiected, Chapter 65.12.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Who were cho&s;en in theyr &s;tead?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The gentiles, chapter. 65.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All nations but the Iewes:</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By this his mercy extends to all?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yea and his maie&s;ty beyond all.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How proue you that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e, when the Iewes would haue built him a hou&s;e, he for bad them chap. 66.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He filled heauen and earth with his glory, and therefore cannot bee in|cluded in a Temple of &s;tone.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Jeremiah" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="114" MS="y">
<HEAD>Ieremie.</HEAD>
<DIV4 N="1-10" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter.</HI> 1 to 10.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHere was</HI> Ieremie <HI>borne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. In Anathoth</HI> a Citie within three miles of Ieru&s;a|lem.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>&V;&V;ho&s;e &s;on was hee?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;onne of <HI>Hilkiah.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When began he to Prophecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the thirteenth yeere of <HI>Io&s;iah</HI> King of Iudah.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long did he Prophecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Til the captiuity in Babylon, and &s;omwhat after.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv many yeares vvas that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> About forty yeares.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvas he &s;anctified to this of|fice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Euen from his mothers wombe, chap, 1, 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did he after hee was called?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Proclaime the will of him that &s;ent him, without feare cha, 1, 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vve.</HI> Mini&s;ters mu&s;t not intrude
<PB N="109" REF="114" MS="y">them&s;elues into the church, before they are called: and when they are called, they mu&s;t fore&s;low no time, nor bee di&s;|mayed for any danger.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fir&s;t &s;inne</HI> Ieremie <HI>re|prooueth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> I do latry.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>In what vvords?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> My people haue for&s;aken mee, the fountaine of liuing waters, to digge them pits, yea, broken pittes, that can hold no water, chap, 2, 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After this &s;inne, vvhat is required of them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Repentance.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Vpon repentance what is promi&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Mercy chap. 3, 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In their repentance what did they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Turne vnto the Lord.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How ought we trune vnto the Lord?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With our whole heart.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If we doe not &s;o, what doe we in|curve?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His wrath for counterfetting.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is Gods wrath like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A con&s;uming fire, chap. 4, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is his mercy like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The wat ers of Siloah.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein did God &s;hew his in&s;tice vpon I&s;rael?</HI></P>
<PB REF="115" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> In deliuering them into the ha~ds of their enemies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein his mercy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In &s;auing &s;ome, (for, &s;aith hee, I will not make a full end of you) to co~|tinne his Church, chap. 5.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were the people &s;o full of wicked|ne&s;&s;e, that the Lord was &s;o much incen&s;t a|gain&s;t them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, they did ca&s;t out malice and cruelty, as the fountaine doth her wa|ters, chap. 6, 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was there no e&s;t ate cleare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, neyther prince, Prie&s;t, nor people.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their generall &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e Chap 6, 13.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>What were their particular &s;innes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Prince did not execute iu|&s;tice, chap. 5.28. The Prie&s;tes did &s;lat|ter the people in their &s;innes, crying, peace, peace, when there was no peace, Chapte. 6.14. The people were of vn|circumci&s;ed eares, and took delight ra|ther in vaine thinges, then profitable Doctrine, chap. 6, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>All this con&s;idered, they could not but &s;ee their owne de&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> They did.</P>
<PB N="111" REF="115">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>And how did they thinke to e&s;|cape?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By flying to the temple, where God had promi&s;ed for euer to be pre|&s;ent.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But how did god an&s;were them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the&s;e wordes: Will you &s;teale, murder, and committe adulterie, and &s;weare fal&s;ely, and burne incen&s;e to <HI>Baal:</HI> and think to bee deliuered by &s;tanding before mee in the temple? no I haue required obedience and not &s;a|cri&s;ice, chap. 7, 10, 22.23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner did</HI> Ieremy <HI>pro|phecy their de&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the entring of the <HI>A&s;&s;irians</HI> (a mighty nation) into their land.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Rebear&s;e the prophets wordes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Loe, hou&s;e of I&s;raell, I will bring a Nation vpon thee from farre, who&s;e quiuer is a Sepulcher, and they &s;hall eate thine harue&s;t and thy breade: they &s;hall deuoure thy &s;onnes &amp; daugh|ters: they &s;hall eate vp thy &s;heepe and thy bullocks, they &s;hall &s;poyle thy vines and thy figtrees, and they &s;hall de&s;troy with the &s;word the fenced Citties, cha. 5, 15, 16.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they not repent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> No, but prouoked Gods
<PB REF="116" MS="y">wrath by other finnes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Lying, chap. 9.3. Deceipt, chapt. 9, 4. and di&s;&s;imulation. chap. 9.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>J am &s;ure, though they could not &s;ee their owne danger, yet</HI> Ieremie <HI>did (as all true ministers &s;hould) relent at their hard|ne&s;&s;e of heart?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and wi&s;ht, his eies were a fountaine of teares, chap. 9.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How came that hardne&s;&s;e of heart in them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They did glory in theyre mi&s;|deedes.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What ought a man to glory in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Neither in wi&s;dom, &s;trength, nor riches, chap. 9, 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Let lum that glorieth glorie in this that hee knoweth the will of the Lord, for hee it is that &s;heweth mercie, iudgement, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e on the earth, chap. 9.24.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="10-21" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>10,</HI> to <HI>21.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>TO whome onely belongeth dominion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the Lorde mighty in
<PB REF="116" MS="y">power, and king of nations, chap. 10.7</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were the I&s;raelites then, in leauing him to cleaue to Idols?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sots and fooles, chap. 10, 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they left the trueth, to imbrace the works of errors.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the work of Error?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Making of Images, Chapter, 10.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhence were they infected with this infection?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> From the heathen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat other errors had the hea|then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Diuinations by &s;tarres, &amp; Sooth|&s;aying.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is it not lavvfull to feare the con|iunctions of Stars and Planets?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Your rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Becau&s;e the Lord in the&s;e words hath forbidden it: Be not afrayd of the &s;ignes of heauen: though the heathen bee afraide of &s;uch. Chapter 10.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>As long as wee ahide in &s;inne, will the Lord heare our prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, nor any that pray for vs, cha. 11.14.</P>
<PB REF="117" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How odious is &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> So odious that the land where|in &s;inners liue &s;hall mourne, the hearbs of the field wither: and the bea&s;ts, and foules of the ayre be con&s;umed, chapt. 12, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what parable did Ieremie pre|figure the de&s;truction of the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the parable of the Linnen girdle, which he had in a rock, and af|ter certaine dayes comming to take it vp, hee found it was rotten, and fit for no v&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Rehear&s;e the meaning?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That is the girdle cleaueth to the loynes, &s;o had the Lorde tyed the hou&s;e of I&s;rael vnto him, but &s;ince they had for&s;aken him (like the girdle) they &s;hould rot and be ca&s;t off, as fit for no v&s;e cha. 13.10.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How hard is it for an suill man to do well?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As hard as to change the black. moores skin, or the Leopards &s;pots. ch. 13.23.</P>
<P>Que, <HI>Which are the foure plagues God v&s;ually puni&s;hed &s;in withall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pe&s;tilence. famine, &s;worde and fire,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doe vvicked people rewarde
<PB N="113" REF="117" MS="y">him that tels them of their &s;ins?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> With cur&s;es, as the Iewes did <HI>Ieremie,</HI> chapt. 15.10.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>But what doth the Lord for them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> In time of his vengeance fa|uours them, and &s;uffers the other to peri&s;h.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Fell it out &s;o with Ieremie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, for when the Iewes were led away captiue, the enemie gaue <HI>Ie|remy</HI> choy&s;e, to liue in his country, or goe whither hee would, Chapter, 39.11.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With what penne doth the Diuil vvrite iniquity in the hearts of the ob&s;ti|nate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With an iron pen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is &s;ignified thereby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That men accu&s;tomed to &s;inne, can hardlye bee reclaymed, Chapter, 17, 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVill the Lorde onely bee tru&s;ted in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is prononnced again&s;t them that make fle&s;h their arme, that is depend vpon men and forget God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A heauy cur&s;e, chap, 17.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many waies did</HI> Ieremy <HI>&s;uf|fer vnder the hands of the Jewes?</HI></P>
<PB REF="118" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Three manner of waies: Fir&s;t, they cur&s;t and &s;pake euill of him; then they tooke coun&s;ell again&s;t his life. at la&s;t they &s;mote him and ca&s;t him into pro&s;on, Chap. 15.10. Chap. 18.18. Chap. 20.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may we learn by the&s;e his af|flictions?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That the true Mini&s;ters of God, &s;hall alwaies be &s;ubiect to the like.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2-30" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>2.</HI> to <HI>30.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat were the workes commanded the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To execute ju&s;tice. chap. 22.3. To deliuer the oppre&s;&s;ed. To fauoure the &s;tranger. To helpe the fatherle&s;&s;e &amp; widowe. To do no violence, nor &s;hedde bloud.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat were the workes they fol|lowed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They builded hou&s;es with bribes: and chambers with exhortation. They v&s;ed their neighbours helpe and paide him not his hire, chap. 22.13:</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What followed?</HI></P>
<PB N="114" REF="118" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> De&s;truction without pitty, chap. 22, 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In vvhat manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They were led into captiuitie, theyr King &s;laine and left vnburied, cha. 22, 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who mi&s;led the King?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The falle Prophets.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their revvard?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVoe bee vnto you, that &s;catter the &s;heep of my pa&s;ture, &s;aith the Lord chapt. 23, 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Ieremy <HI>prophecy a re|dre&s;&s;e to this inconuenience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the comming of Chri&s;te, the true pa&s;tor.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>In what word?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Behould (&s;aith the Lord) I will rai&s;e vnto Dauid a righteous branche, &amp;c. In his dayes <HI>Iuda</HI> &s;hall bee &s;aued, &amp; <HI>I&s;rael</HI> dwell &s;afely, chap, 23:5, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Here vvas a threatning and a pro|mi&s;e, what is &s;ignifyed thereby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That as <HI>Ieremy</HI> did, &s;o the Mini|&s;ters of God mu&s;t allwaies mix comfort with their bgitter doctrine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When they threat, vvhat is theyre doctrine like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A fire, or a hammer that breketh &s;tone, chap, 23-29.</P>
<PB REF="119">
<P>Qu. <HI>But when they promi&s;e, what is it like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Comfortable waters, or precious balme.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long liued the I&s;raelites in bondage vnder the king of Babell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Seuenty yeares. chap. 29, 10.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="30-41" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>30.</HI> to <HI>41.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>AFter their denounced &s;eruitude, how doth</HI> leremie <HI>comfort the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, with their returne againe to their country, chap. 30, 1, Secondlie with the de&s;truction of theire enemies chapter, 30.16. Thirdly with joy, ple~ty, and peace, ch. 31, 12, 28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What a&s;&s;urance doth Ieremie giue of Gods promi&s;es?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As &s;ure as hee is God of heauen and earth, and giueth the &s;unne to rule the day, and the Moone the night, chap. 33.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth God oftentimes checke the lewd life of Chri&s;tians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By their better life, which are no chri&s;tians.</P>
<P><HI>Your proofe?</HI></P>
<PB N="115" REF="119" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> It may appeare by the ex|ample of the &s;onnes of <HI>Ionadab.</HI> Chapt. 35, 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Theyr Father gaue them a com|mandement, and it was kept the &s;pace of 300 yeares.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the commandement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That none of that &s;tock or fami|ly &s;hould drink wine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what de&s;cent were the&s;e &s;onnes of</HI> Ionadab?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No I&s;raelites, though more zea|lous in the &s;eruice of God, then they.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat inferres this example?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That if they thought it a di&s;pa|ragement to breake the vowe made vnto a earthly Father, how much more &s;hamefull &s;hould it bee for Chri&s;tians to forgette theire promi&s;e made to the Father of heauen? They kepte their vowe three hundred yeares, but Chri&s;tians (I feare) break theirs euery houre.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>You &s;aid before that Ieremy was in pri&s;on?</HI></P>
<P>An. <HI>I</HI> did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who did impri&s;on him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> King <HI>Iehoiakim</HI> fir&s;t, and then <HI>Zedekiah.</HI></P>
<PB REF="120">
<P>Qu. <HI>But when they promi&s;e, what is it like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Comfortable waters, or precious balme.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long liued the I&s;raelites in bondage vnder the king of Babell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Seuenty yeares, chap. 29, 10.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="30-41" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>30</HI> to <HI>41.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>AFter their denounced &s;eruitude, how dath</HI> Ieremie <HI>comfort the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, with their returne againe to their country, chap. 30, 1, Secondlie with the de&s;truction of theire enemies chapter, 30.16. Thirdly with ioy, ple~ty, and peace, ch. 31, 12, 28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What a&s;&s;urance doth Ieremie giue of Gods promi&s;es?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As &s;ure as hee is God of heauen and earth, and giueth the &s;unne to rule the day, and the Moone the night, chap. 33.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth God oftentimes checke the lewd life of Chri&s;tians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By their better life, which are not chri&s;tians.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Your proofe?</HI></P>
<PB N="115" REF="120" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> It may appeare by the ex|ample of the &s;onnes of <HI>Ionadab.</HI> Chapt. 35, 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Theyr Father gaue them a com|mandement, and it was kept the &s;pace of 300 yeares.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the commandement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That none of that &s;tock or fami|ly &s;hould drink wine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what de&s;cent were the&s;e &s;onnes of</HI> Ionadab?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No I&s;raelites, though more zea|lous in the &s;eruice of God, then they.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat inferres this example?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That if they thought it a di&s;pa|ragement to breake the vowe made vnto a earthly Father, how much more &s;hamefull &s;hould it bee for Chri&s;tians to forgette therie promi&s;e made to the Father of heauen? They kepte their vowe three hundred yeares, but Chri&s;tians (I feare) break theirs euery houre.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>You &s;aid before that Ieremy was in pri&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. I</HI> did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who did impri&s;on him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> King <HI>Iehoiakim</HI> fir&s;t, and then <HI>Zedekiah.</HI></P>
<PB REF="121" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>When he was in pri&s;on, did hee neg|lect his office?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, for now he could not &s;peak to the Iewes, he &s;ent to them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Baruch.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVith a booke containing al the cur&s;es of God again&s;t the <HI>Iewes.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;ho writ it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Baruch</HI> from the mouth of <HI>Iere|mie,</HI> chapt. 36.4.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>To vvhom did</HI> Baruch <HI>read it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the Prince who told the King of it.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which King?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Iehoiakim?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did hee accept it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He burnt it. chap. 36, 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did</HI> Ieremy <HI>then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He wrote another booke, chapt. 36.32.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Though the wicked would quite deface the word, yet God will haue it &s;till pre&s;erued.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the me&s;&s;age of the Lord that</HI> Ieremy <HI>declared to</HI> Zedekiah <HI>after|ward king?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That hee &s;hould yeeld him&s;elfe
<PB N="116" REF="121" MS="y">to <HI>Nebuchadnezer,</HI> &amp; the city &s;hould be &s;aued.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did</HI> Zedekiah <HI>regard his coun|&s;aile?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He heard it, but did not perform it.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was the hindrance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His princes that per&s;waded him to the contrary.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the princes to</HI> Ieremy?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Put him in a dungeon.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho vvrought his deliuerance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. Ebedmelech</HI> a Moore and one of the kings Eunuches, chap, 38, 11,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne you by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That more faith &s;ometime is found in a &s;tranger, then in a mans own countriman.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>&V;&V;hat became of</HI> Zedekiah, <HI>for di&s;|obeying</HI> Ieremie?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His eies were put out, and his &s;onnes &s;laine before his face, chapter, 36, 7,</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How went it vvith Ieremy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He found fauour (as the Lord before had promi&s;ed) with <HI>Nebuzara|dan</HI> the chiefe captaine, who gaue him liberty, and reward, chap, 40.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="41-52" TYPE="chapters">
<PB REF="122" MS="y">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>41.</HI> to the end.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHome did</HI> Nabuchadnezzar <HI>make his &s;ub&s;titute ouer the</HI> Oewes <HI>in</HI> Pale&s;tine?</P>
<P><HI>An. Gedali&s;h</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Abikam?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;lew</HI> Gedaliah?</P>
<P>An. <HI>I&s;hmael</HI> &s;onne of <HI>Nethania.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In enuy of his gouernment.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the people afterward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Went vnder <HI>Iohanan</HI> into Ae|gypt.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Had not</HI> Ieremie <HI>forbidden them &s;o to do?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes but they obeyed not.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherefore did they not obey?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They feared warre and famine. chap. 42.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What followed their di&s;obedience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They were de&s;troyed from the lea&s;t to the mo&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By king <HI>Nabuchadnezzar,</HI> that came again&s;t Aegypt, &s;o that what they feared in their owne country (fa|mine and warre) fell vnto them in an other.</P>
<PB N="117" REF="122">
<P>Qu. <HI>Who de&s;troyed the kingdome of Babel?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. Cyrus.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who mooued him thereunto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;pirit of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what cau&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vve..</HI> Becau&s;e they gloried in the &s;poyle of I&s;rael, and &s;aid we offend not becau&s;e they haue &s;inned again&s;t the Lord, the hope of their fathers, Chapter 50, 7, 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was</HI> Nabuchadnezar <HI>called</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The hammer of the world.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e hee had &s;mitten downe all the Princes, and people of the world Chap, 51, 23.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Lamentations" TYPE="book">
<HEAD><HI>The Lamentations</HI> of Ieremy.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>OF whome may wee learne true and Criftian-like compa&s;sion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of the prophet <HI>Ieremie.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein?</HI></P>
<PB REF="123" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> In lamenting for his country|men the <HI>Ievves,</HI> notwith&s;tanding, they had revyled him, beaten him, impri&s;o|ned him, and &s;ought his death, and all for his loue and good will toward them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;ted his loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In daylie admoni&s;hing them of theyr &s;inne, that they might repent, &amp; &s;hewing them aforehand, what plagues would follow if they repented not.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was it he did lament them for?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their &s;ubuer&s;ion and ouer|throw.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whome was their ouerthrow contriued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;,</HI> By the <HI>Babilonians</HI> theyr ctuell enemies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In vvhat manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t they were be&s;iedged: then &s;uffered famine, in &s;o much as they dyed in the &s;treetes, and the mothers deuou|red their owne children. Chapter 1, 11. Chapte. 2, 12. Of Princes, they became tributaries, Chap, 1.1, Theyr ioy was turned to teares. Chap, 1.2, Their gor|geous buildings, to a deformed heape ver&s;, 6. Their friendes for&s;ooke them,
<PB N="120" REF="123" MS="y">ver&s;e. 2. Their enemies laught at them, ver&s;e. 7. Their valiant men were trodde~ downe. Their yong men &s;laine. Their virgins deflowred, ver&s;. 15. And which was the griefe of all griefes their GOD had for&s;aken them, for when they &s;tretched out theyr handes, there was none to comfort them, Chapter. 1.16.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may the example &s;erue for?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To admoni&s;h all Cities of the world be they neuer &s;o famous, neuer &s;o ritche, neuer &s;o mightie, to beware how they prouoke Gods wrath again&s;t them through theyr intollerable impi|etie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were theyr most intollerable &s;ins?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Theyr de&s;pi&s;ing the coun&s;ell of the Prophers, their reuolting from the truth, to imbrace fal&s;hood and vanitie, and their abu&s;ing the long &s;ufferance of the Lord.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Did the Lord forewarne them of this de&s;olation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes many hundred yeares be|fore it came, euen from the time of <HI>Moy&s;es,</HI> and &s;o from age to age, vntill the very houre of their captiuitie: as appeares, Deut. 28.64.65, 66.</P>
<PB REF="124" MS="y">
<P><HI>Qu. In this extremity what refuge doth the Prophet &s;hew them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The holy Mount of the God of mercy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv mu&s;t they reache vnto that mount?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> VVith the armes of repentance and patience: with repentance, in con|fe&s;&s;ing their &s;innes, andbeeing &s;ory for the &s;ame: and with patience, in humbly attending the houre of theyr deliue|rance.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVas this all the Prophet did for them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, like a holie and vertuous Pa&s;tor, he ioyned in &s;eruente prayer with them, that it woulde, plea&s;e the Lord to &s;horten their dayes of wret|chednes, chap, 5.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Ezekiel" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Ezechiel,</HEAD>
<DIV4 N="1-10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>1.</HI> to <HI>10.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. BY <HI>whome vvas</HI> Ezechiel <HI>called to pro|phecie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In Caldea.</P>
<PB N="121" REF="124">
<P>Qu. <HI>At what time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVhen <HI>Ieheiakin</HI> king of Iuda, his mother, and many other liued in captiuity vnder <HI>Nabuchadnezer,</HI> chapt. 1, 2, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To a&s;&s;ure them though they had yeelded them&s;elues pri&s;oners to the King of <HI>Babilon,</HI> and had liued in &s;erui|tude to him fiue yeares, yet the Lorde would remember his promi&s;e, &amp; bring them home againe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they di&s;tru&s;t in them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and began to murmure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And the Lord in&s;pired</HI> Ezechiel <HI>to &s;peake vnto them for their comfort?</HI> ch. 22.</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> True.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What gather wee from thence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Gods great mercy, and theire we akne&s;&s;e of faith.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did not</HI> Ezechiel <HI>prophecie be|fore?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and by the coun&s;aile of him and <HI>Ieremy, Iehoiakin</HI> did volun|tarily &s;ubmit to the King of Babel: and therfore to excu&s;e the prophet, God giues him a nevv gift of Prophe|cie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After what &s;ort?</HI></P>
<PB REF="125" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> A hand appeares and deliuers him a booke.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was written in this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Wo and lamentation, chapter 2, 10.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>What was hee bid to doe with the booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Eate it: that is, imprint the wordes thereof in his heart.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are none fit to be Gods me&s;&s;engers but &s;uch as receiue his worde into theyre hearts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, and meditate thereon, which is called an eating.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was the ta&s;t of it in</HI> Ezekiels <HI>mouth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As &s;weet as honey, Chapter. 3.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the people regard their me&s;|&s;age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As they doe now adaies Gods Preachers, very &s;lightly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVas he di&s;comforted thereby?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, God imboldned him, and gaue him a forehead as hard as Ada|mant to outface their rebellion, chapt, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat if he had been di&s;couraged and giuen waie to theyr &s;in?</HI></P>
<P>An. Then the people dying in theyr
<PB N="122" REF="125" MS="y">&s;innes, their bloud &s;hould haue bin re|quired at his hands, chap. 4.18.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Who may take heede by this le&s;|&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All dumbe, idle, and illiterate Mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But hee teaching them and they not repenting, how then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Theyr bloud &s;hould bee vpon their owne heads, chap. 3.18.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Ezechiel <HI>prophecie the de&s;truction of</HI> Ieru&s;alem?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the parable of his hair, the one part wherof he &s;hould burne, the other cut with a &s;word, and &s;catter the third in the wind. chap. 5.2.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What did this &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That one part of the people &s;hould dye through famine: the &s;econd be &s;laine: and the third led into captiui|ty. chap. 5.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>This all this while is threatning: how doth the Prophet comfort them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing that a remnant &s;hould bee &s;aued, and they &s;hould bee di&s;plea|&s;ed for their &s;innes, and finde mercie chap. 6.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God deliuer that remnant in time of vengeance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;etting a marke vpon them
<PB REF="126" MS="y">whereby they were knowne, as he doth vpon all his elect, chap. 9.6.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Rehear&s;e the Prephets wordes of their deliuerance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As &s;ure as I liue (&s;aith the Lord) I will bring you from the people, and will gather you out of the countreyes, wherein you are &s;cattered with a migh|ty hand, &amp; with a &s;tretched-ourarme, and in my wrath powred out. Chapter. 20, 33.34.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="10-20" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter.</HI> 10 to 20.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>AFter</HI> Iehoiakin <HI>and the re&s;t were led into captiuity, tho&s;e that remained still in</HI> Iuden, <HI>how did they liue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Like Murderers and idolaters. chap. 11.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vvho mi&s;ted them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Iazaniah</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Zur,</HI> and <HI>Pe|latiah</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Benaiah.</HI></P>
<P>Qu <HI>VVhat did they boa&s;t of?</HI></P>
<P>An, That God had vtterly for&s;aken tho&s;e that were in captiuity, and giuen the land vnto them in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, chap. 11.15.</P>
<PB N="123" REF="126" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that reproach puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. Pelatiah</HI> one of their cheefe Princes was &s;trucke with &s;odain death Chap. 11.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may we learne by that ex|ample?</HI></P>
<P>A. That it is dangerous to mi&s;-iudge of Gods &s;ecret iudgements.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth</HI> Ezekiel <HI>&s;ay again&s;te fal&s;e prophets?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they &s;hould bee con&s;umed in the midde&s;t of their vanities: chapt. 13, 14.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How did the fal&s;e prophets &s;educe the people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;owing pillowes vnder their elbows, and couering their heads with vailes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the meaningof that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They flattered them with &s;ecu|ritie, and blinded theyr eies with fal&s;e delu&s;ions, chap. 13, 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;by doth GOD &s;end fal&s;e Pro|phets, and vnlearned Preachers among&s;t his people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For their ingratitude, becau&s;e they doe not hearken to the true Pro|phets and Preachers, when they haue them: a faulte to bee much feared in England this time.</P>
<PB REF="127" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>In the time of Gods vvrath, may the wicked pre&s;ume of &s;afety, for being in company with the godly?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Your proo&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> If, &s;aith the Lord (by Iudea] I &s;end my &s;word through this land, and &s;ay vnto it, de&s;troy both man and bea&s;t in it: though <HI>Noah, Daniel,</HI> and <HI>Iob</HI> were in the midde&s;t of it, they &s;hould deliuer neyther &s;onne nor daughter, but theyr own &s;oules, by their righteou&s;nes. chap 14, 17, 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth God (oftentimes) puni&s;h vs for &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Euen by the &s;ame meanes, by which we made our &s;elues to &s;inne: as violence with violence: lu&s;t with lu&s;t, and as he did with the I&s;raelites, which cauled the Aegyptians, a&s;&s;irians &amp; Cal|deans to puni&s;h them for Idolatrye, a|mong&s;t whom they had learned Idola|try, chap. 16, 37.39.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Will God puni&s;h one for the &s;inne of another?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, euery &s;oule that &s;inneth &s;hall &s;uffer, the &s;on &s;hall not beare the iniquity of the father, neyther &s;hal the father beare the iniquity of the &s;onne: but the righteou&s;nes of the righteous
<PB N="124" REF="127" MS="y">&s;hall be vpon him, and the wickednes of the wicked &s;hall bee vpon him&s;elfe cha. 18.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is it &s;aid then that God vvill puni&s;h the &s;innes of the fathers vppon the children to the third &amp; fourth generation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That is meant, if the children continue in the &s;innes of their fathers, but otherwi&s;e not.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If the righteous man become wic|ked what is his reward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Condemnation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If the wicked man for&s;ake his wic|kedne&s;&s;e, and liue vprightly what is his re|ward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Forgiuene&s;&s;e, chapte. 18.26.27.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="20-37" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chap. 20, to 37.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat &s;ins be &s;ide Idolatry, ha&s;tened the de&s;truction of</HI> Ierul&s;alem?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Murdring of the Prophets: Op|pre&s;&s;ing the &s;tranger: Neglecting the fatherle&s;&s;e and widdow: Profaning the Sabbaoth: &s;owing of di&s;&s;ention. Comit|ting of ince&s;t: Taking of bribes, V&s;ury and extortion, chapt. 22, 4, 7 8 9 10.11.12.</P>
<PB REF="128" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Do the&s;e &s;ins liue at this day?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yea, in as rancke manner as they did then.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is then to be feared?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Lea&s;t we &s;hould bee puni&s;hed as they were.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>You &s;pake before of the parable of the hayre, whereby</HI> Ezekiel <HI>&s;hewed the maner of</HI> Ieru&s;alems <HI>ouerthrow, &s;hew me by howe many &s;ignes and parables hee taught?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By fifteene whereof one beeing pa&s;t before, there remaine fourteen vn|&s;poken of.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Rehear&s;e them in order what is the fyr&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The parable of the &s;ixe men that came with &s;words, and one in white cloathing with penne and inke in his hand. chap. 6,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The fierce &s;ouldiers that &s;hould enter <HI>Ieru&s;alem:</HI> and by him in white, the mercy of the Lord, to marke &s;uch as &s;hould be &s;aued.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The vi&s;ion of the man in white, that tooke burning coales from the Al|ter and &s;cattered them abroad. chapter 10.</P>
<PB N="125" REF="128" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The burning of the citie of Ieru|&s;alem.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the third?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The parable of <HI>Ezechiels</HI> carying foorth of his &s;tuffe out of the citie by night, chap. 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> That euen &s;o the I&s;raelites &s;hould be led with their burdens into captiuity.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>What is the fourth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of eating bread with trembling and drinking water with trouble, chap 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is &s;ignified by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The torment of mind and af|fliction of body, that &s;hould accompany the I&s;raelites.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the &s;ift?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Setting vp a vvall, and dawbing it with vntempered morter, chap, 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The fal&s;e doctrine of the Pro|phets when one did tell a lye, another would maintame it.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>What is the &s;ixt?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The parable of the vine without fruit, chap, 15.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<PB REF="129" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> That if Ieru&s;alem which was the congregation that god had taught did not bring forth fruite of good li|uing according to his doctrine: like the barren vine, it &s;hould be throwne into the fire.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the &s;eaueth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The two Eagles, chap, 17.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The two kinges of Aegypt and Babilon ordayned for the &s;courges of Ieru&s;alem.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which is the eight?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The parable of the Lyon and Lyons whelps, that were giuen to ra|uen and deuoure, &amp; at la&s;t were taken in trayles, Chap. 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the Lyon is &s;ignified <HI>Iehoachaz</HI> and by the whelpes his two Sonnes, <HI>Iehoiakim,</HI> and <HI>Iehoiakin,:</HI> which deuou|red the blood of the Prophets, and at the la&s;t were all three taken in the &s;nares of the kings of Aegypt and Babi|lon.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the ninth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The parable of the fore&s;t con&s;u|med with fire.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Ieru&s;alem</HI> compared to a fore&s;t
<PB N="126" REF="129" MS="y">&s;hould be con&s;umed with fire. Chap. 20</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the tenth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The parable of the two &s;i&s;ters, <HI>A holah,</HI> &amp; <HI>Aholihah:</HI> which were proude, la&s;ciuious, and incontinent,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The two kingdomes of Iuda and I&s;rael, which became Idolaters both, and therfore are compared to vncha&s;t women that for&s;ake their hu&s;bands, to follow &s;trangers, Chap, 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the Eleuenth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The parable of the bad &s;heep|heards that &s;edde and cloathed them|&s;elues of their flockes, yet neglected the care of them, &s;uffering them to be &s;cattered and deuoured.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Careles Magi&s;trates that beeing &s;et to rule, and gouerne the people (&s;o they may liue at ea&s;e) care not what becomes of their charge, but v&s;e them with all tyranny and crueltie. chap. 34.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What is pronounced against &s;uch Magi&s;trates?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Lord will ri&s;e vp again&s;t them, &amp; require the blood of the peo|ple at their hands.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the twelfth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> That of the fielde of deade
<PB REF="130" MS="y">bones, whereunto <HI>Ezekiel</HI> was brought by the &s;pirit of God. chap. 37,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That as God (in the &s;ighte of <HI>Ezekiel</HI>) did gather the dead bones to|gether, cloathed them with &s;inewes &amp; fle&s;h, and Breathed life into them, ray|&s;ing them in the perfect &s;hape of me~ as they had liued before: &s;o &s;ure it was, &amp; much more certaine, that he was able to bring backe his children from capti|uity.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Of vvhat is that a &s;igne vnto vs el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of the re&s;urrection of our bodies after death.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What is the thirteenth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The parable of the &s;eething pot wherein were diuers ioynts which were taken out peecemeale, and the pot left empty to melt vpon the coales.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> The hote vengeaunce of God again&s;t Ieru&s;alem: the de&s;troying of the people by little and little, &amp; the trying of the remna~t like mettall in the fire.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fourteenth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The parable of the death of <HI>Eze+chiels</HI> vvife.</P>
<PB N="127" REF="130" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth that &s;ignifie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That, as God took from him, her that was the plea&s;ure of his eies: &s;o would he pollute his Sanctuarie, that was the pride and plea&s;ure of the <HI>I&s;rae|elites.</HI> chap. 24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t what &s;trange nations did</HI> Ezekiel <HI>prophecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Again&s;t the <HI>Ammonites, Moa|bites, Idumeans, Phili&s;tines, Tyre, Zidon, Aegyptians A&s;&s;yrians, Gog,</HI> and <HI>Magog,</HI> and in them again&s;t all the enemies of Gods Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did</HI> Ezekiel <HI>prophecy against the&s;e people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> De&s;truction.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they reioyced at the mi|&s;ery of his people, and were as pricking thornes in the hou&s;e of I&s;rael.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hould they be de&s;troyed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the &s;ame manner that they had de&s;troyed the Iewes, &amp; with more cruelty.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the <HI>Babilonians.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what comfort did</HI> Ezekiel <HI>pro|phecie be&s;ide the returne of the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of the comming of Chri&s;t the true &s;hepheard, that &s;hould giue his
<PB REF="131">life for his &s;heepe, Chap. 34.23,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>That and all other ble&s;sings of God, why are they be&s;towed vpon vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not for our de&s;erts, but through the mercy of God, chap. 36.22.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="37-46" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter</HI> 37. to 46.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat doth</HI> Ezekiel <HI>prophecy of, in the&s;e la&s;t Chapterse&punc;</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Of the re-edifying of the citie and temple of God: of the &s;eruice, and orderly gouernment that &s;hould be a|mong&s;t them, as had been before.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is meant by the waters that</HI> Ezekiel <HI>&s;aw i&s;&s;ue from temple?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The graces that &s;hould be be|&s;towed vpon the Church vnder the kingdome of Chri&s;t. 47.1.</P>
<P>Qu.<HI>What is meant by the ri&s;ing of the waters?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That gods graces &s;hould increa&s;e not decrea&s;e chap, 47.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the multitude of trees that &s;tood on the one &s;ide, and on the other of the waters? Chap.</HI> 47.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> The multitude of tho&s;e that &s;hould be refre&s;hed by the doctrine of Chri&s;t.</P>
<PB N="128" REF="131">
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the meeting of the&s;e &s;e|uerall waters in one Sea?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That all the world &s;hould bee refre&s;hed with the Go&s;pel: and be as it were, one Temple to the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is meant by the whol&s;omne&s;se of the waters?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The purity and whole&s;omne&s;&s;e of the doctrine of the true Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat by the fi&s;hers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Gods preachers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the multitude of fi&s;hes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The great number of hearers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the mar&s;hes and miery places?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The wicked and reprobate?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat by the fruitfulnes of trees that grew on each &s;ide?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The pro&s;perity of the faithful.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Daniel" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Daniel.</HEAD>
<DIV4 N="1-4" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter</HI> 1 <HI>to</HI> 4.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHen was</HI> Daniel <HI>called?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> In the time that E|zechiel liued, and when the
<PB REF="132" MS="y">Iewes were captiues in Babylon.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was king of Babylon?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Nebuchadnezzar.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Be&s;ide the people, what did</HI> Nabu|chadnezzar <HI>bring with him from Ieru&s;a|lem?</HI> chap. 1.2.</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The ve&s;&s;els of the Temple of the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did he with them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Placed them in the temple of his God. chap. 1, 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did</HI> Nabuchadnezzar <HI>di&s;|po&s;e of the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee commanded <HI>A&s;hpenaz</HI> the ma&s;ter of his Eunuches to cull out of the Hebrew &s;ons, certaine that might be trained vp to &s;erue him, chap, 1.3.</P>
<P>Qu: <HI>What kind of per&s;ons &s;hould tho&s;e &s;onnes be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as were Noble, witty, &amp; of comely &s;tature.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hould bee done vnto the&s;e yong Gentlemen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;hould bee in&s;tructed in the language and cu&s;tomes of the Cal|deans. chap. 1, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what purpo&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they might &s;o forget theyr owne country and their countries reli|gion.</P>
<PB N="129" REF="132" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How long &s;hould they be trained on this fa&s;hion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three yeeres. chap. 15.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>What allowance &s;hould they haue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Meat and drink from the Kings table. chap. 1.5.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Who were the chiefe amonge&s;t them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Daniel, Sidrach, Mi&s;ach,</HI> and <HI>A|bednago.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the&s;e like of the kings al|lowance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They would not eat of it.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. Becau&s;e they would not bee de|filed with the portion of the kings meat which was giuen them to make them forget their accu&s;tomed &s;obriety. chap. 1, 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat did the chie&s;e of th Eu|nuches then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Was afraid, that they would not looke &s;o well as the re&s;t of their bre|thren, and &s;o the King would be incen|&s;ed. chap, 1.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But what did</HI> Daniel?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Intreated theyr gouernour to try them tenne dayes with Pul&s;e and water: and if at the tenne dayes end they looked not &s;o well as theyr other
<PB REF="133" MS="y">fellowes, he &s;hould deale with them as he thought good. chap. 1.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did their gouernor giue con&s;ent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And how were they at tenne dayes end.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> They were in better liking than all the re&s;t that did cate of the portion of the kings meate. chap. 1.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may we learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That, with the ble&s;&s;ing of God. the poore mans di&s;h is as cheri&s;hing as the rich gluttons delicates.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What gifts did God be&s;towe vppon the&s;e foure children?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The gifts of knowledge and vn|der&s;tanding?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Be&s;ides the&s;e, what gaue hee to</HI> Da|niel?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The gift of Prophecy and to in|terprete dreames and vi&s;ions, chapter. 1. 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhen they were brought before the king how did he like of them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He found them wi&s;er then all his Enchanters and A&s;trologers. chap. 1, 20</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the king then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Dreamed a Dreame, which hee could not remember. chap, 2. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of whome did he a&s;ke coun&s;ell?</HI></P>
<PB N="130" REF="133" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of his inchanters. chap. 2, 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they tell him what was his dreame?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they could not, chap. 2.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the king take it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He commanded, not onely they but all the wi&s;e men of Babell, &s;hould be put to death, of which number was <HI>Daniel, Sidrach, Mi&s;ach</HI> and <HI>Abednage,</HI> chap. 2.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they e&s;cape?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Daniel</HI> intreated re&s;pite of the king, and would tell him his dream, and the interpretation thereof.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the king giue him re&s;pite?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He did. chap. 2, 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whither went</HI> Daniel <HI>then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To his other brothers, chap. 2, 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat to doe?</HI></P>
<P>An. To haue them ioyne in prayer with him to their God, that it would plea&s;e him to reueale this my&s;tery vnto him. chap, 2, 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat &s;ucce&s;&s;e had they in their prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God &s;hewed Daniel the dreame and the interpretation therof. ch. 2.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVent he pre&s;ently to the king?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, he gaue God thanks fir&s;t, and pray&s;ed his holy name, ch. 2, 19.</P>
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<P> Qu. <HI>What was the dreame?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An image, the head whereof was golde, the brea&s;t and armes &s;iluer the belly and thighes bra&s;&s;e, the legges yron, the feet, part yron, part clay.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long did it &s;eeme to stand be|fore the pre&s;ence of the king?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Till a &s;tone cut without hands &s;mote it in peeces, and &s;catered it like the chaffe of &s;ummer flowers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What became of the &s;tone?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It turned to a great mountaine and filled the whole earth cha, 2, 31 to 35.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was</HI> Daniels <HI>interpretation of the dreame?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By Gold, &s;iluer, bra&s;&s;e and yron, were meant the foure Monarchies of the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which was likened to gold?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Babylonians,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which to &s;iluer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Per&s;ians.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hich to bra&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Macedonians,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which to yron and clay?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Romanes. And as the&s;e metals did excell one another in good|ne&s;&s;e &s;o &s;hould al&s;o the foure Ages: growing &s;till wor&s;e and vvor&s;e, till
<PB N="131" REF="135" MS="y">the comming of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is meant by the stone?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The kingdome of Chri&s;t, that &s;hould come at the end of the&s;e: which &s;hould ouerthrow the la&s;t, &amp; remayne, when all the re&s;t were extinct.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the king reward</HI> Daniel <HI>for the interpreting his dreame?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Made him a great man, a chiefe ruler ouer the Prouince of Babel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In this pro&s;perity did Daniel for|get his brethren?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, he made reque&s;t to the King for them, and he aduanced them like|wi&s;e to great offices.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what place?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the Prouince of Babel, but <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;ate as chiefe Iudge in the kings gate. Chap. 2.49.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What befell afterward?</HI></P>
<P>An. The King &s;et vp an Image, and commanded it to be wor&s;hipped.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where did he &s;et it vp?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the plaine of Dura.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was the penalty of them that did not how to this Image?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be burnt in a fiery furnace.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end did the king ordaine this ceremony?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he feared, the Iewes (by
<PB REF="136" MS="y">their religion) would haue altered the &s;tate of his common wealth, and there|fore he meant to bring all to one kind of religion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who did refu&s;e to wor&s;hip this I|mage?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Sydrach, Mi&s;ach</HI> and <HI>Abednage.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they dealt withall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Accu&s;ed and brought before the King.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why brought they not</HI> Daniel <HI>as well as them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> It &s;eemed they were afraid to accu&s;e him, by rea&s;o~ of his great fauour and authority with the King.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the king to Sidrach, Mi|&s;ach, and Abednago?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Threatned them fir&s;t, but when they would not yeeld hee commanded them to be bound, and ca&s;t into the bur|ning furnace.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were they de&s;treyed by the fire?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, their God in whome they tru&s;ted &s;ent an angell vnto them, that pre&s;erued them, and burnt the Kings officers, chap. 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did this to the king?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A&s;toni&s;ht him, &s;o that hee badde them come foorth.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhen they came foorth, was
<PB N="132" REF="136" MS="y">any thing about them peri&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not &s;o much as an hayre of their heads, nay, their garments retained not &s;o much as any &s;ent of the fire, ch. 3, 27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why vvas this miracle done?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As well to confirme the faith of his &s;eruantes, as to make the King con|fe&s;&s;e the God of heauen, to be of power aboue his Idols.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the king make any &s;uch con|fe&s;&s;ion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and ordained a lawe, that who&s;oeuer Bla&s;phemed the God of <HI>Sy|drach, Mi&s;ach and Abednago,</HI> &s;hould be torne in peeces. chap. 3, 29.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="4-8" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter. <HI>4.</HI> to <HI>8.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOvv oft did the King dreame?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. Twi&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which was his latter dreame?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A tree in the midde&s;t of the earth tall and &s;preading, &s;o that the fowles of the ayre did build in it: the bea&s;tes of the fielde were couered with the &s;ha|dow, and al fle&s;h fed of the fruite there|of. Then hee beheld a watchman, and an Angell de&s;cending from heauen.
<PB REF="137" MS="y">that &s;aid, cut downe the tree, breake his branches, &s;hake off his leaues, and &s;cat|ter his fruite, that the bea&s;tes may flee from vnder it, and the birdes from off the branches: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, leaue the &s;tumpe of his roote in the earth, &amp; binde it with a bond of yron amonge&s;t the gra&s;&s;e, and let it bee wette with the dewe of heauen and let his heart bee changed from man to bea&s;te, &amp; let his portion be amonge&s;t the bea&s;te of the field, till &s;eauen times be pa&s;t ouer him, Chap. 4.8, to 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was</HI> Daniels <HI>interpretation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That the tree did repre&s;ent the Kings per&s;on; the heighth, breadth, and fruitfulnes thereof, his magnificence and pompe: the cutting of it downe, his di&s;po&s;ition to liue among&s;t the bea&s;ts of the field for &s;eauen yeares, till he did confe&s;&s;e the mo&s;t High to beare rule ouer the kingdomes of men, and to di&s;po&s;e of them according as hee plea&s;eth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did God &s;end this vi&s;ion to the King?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To admoni&s;h his of his intolle|rable pride and bla&s;phemie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was he conuerted at the interpre|tation therof?</HI></P>
<PB N="133" REF="137" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but continued &s;till in his pride, till god draue him from his king|dome.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When was hee re&s;tored?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> At the end of &s;eauen yeares, when hee confe&s;&s;ed his &s;inne, and glorified God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What became of him afterward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> His kingdome was augmented, and hee dyed in peace. chap. 4.33.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;ho &s;ucceeded him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Euilmerodach,</HI> &amp; then <HI>Bal&s;hazar?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did</HI> Bal&s;hazar?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Made a fea&s;t to a thou&s;and Prin|ces, and drank wine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>At what time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Euen when <HI>Darius</HI> had be&s;ieged the citty.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What plate had he to drinke in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The holy ve&s;&s;els of the Lord, which <HI>Nabuchadnezer</HI> brought from <HI>Ieru&s;alem.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;ho drunk in them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He, his Princes, wiues and con|cubines.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was God di&s;plea&s;ed therevvith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Yes.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did he &s;hevv his di&s;plea&s;ure?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By a hand writing vpon the wal.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvas the vvriting?</HI></P>
<PB REF="138" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> God hath numbred thy kingdome, and hath fini&s;hed it. <HI>Mene</HI></P>
<P>Thou art weighed in the ballance, and founde too light. <HI>Tekell</HI></P>
<P>Thy kingdome is diui|ded to the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per|&s;ians. Peres.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who read it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Daniel.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was his reward?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A purple roabe, a chaine of gold and to be made the third ruler in the kingdome, chap. 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv long liued</HI> Bal&s;hazzer <HI>after this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He was &s;laine that night.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;ucceeded him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Darius.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How old was he, when he took the kingdome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three&s;core and two yeeres old. chap. 5.31.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat fauour found</HI> Daniel <HI>with</HI> Darius?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He made him one of Three, that commanded a hundred &amp; twenty go|uernors, which were &s;et ouer the whole kingdom of <HI>Babylon,</HI> chap. 6.2.</P>
<PB N="134" REF="138" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How did his fellow Officers take it, that he being a &s;tranger, &s;hould be equal with them in authority?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Enuied him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was that all?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No they laid a &s;nare to intrap his life.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They cau&s;ed the king to make a decree and &s;eale it, that who&s;oeuer did prefer any petition, eyther to God, or man, for thirty daies, (but to the king) &s;hould be ca&s;t into the Lions den.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they know this would in|trap</HI> Daniel?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they knew that hee was religious, and thrice euery day v&s;ed to pray vnto his God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did</HI> Daniel <HI>(for this decree) re|frain e from prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he knew it was better to di&s;obey man then God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where did his enemies e&s;poe him at prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the window of his hou&s;e, which opened toward Ieru&s;alem.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did they &s;traight way attach him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they told the king fir&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>How did be take him?</HI></P>
<PB REF="139">
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was much grieued for <HI>Daniel</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>He might then haue pardoned him?</HI></P>
<P>An. He could not becau&s;e of the law.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Daniel</HI> was attached, &amp; throwne into the Lyons den, &amp; a &s;tone put vpon the mouth of the caue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where was the King at that time?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In pre&s;ence, and &s;ealed the &s;tone with his &s;ignet, that the law might bee throughly executed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;aid the king to</HI> Daniel <HI>when he was let downe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee conforted him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the&s;e wordes: Thy God whom thou alwaies &s;erue&s;t, euen he will deli|uer thee.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whether went the king then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To his Palace.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did be re&s;t all night?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He could not &s;leepe. chap. 6.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did he in the morning?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ro&s;e early &amp; came to the caue.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What &s;aid he when he came thither?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Cryed alowde, &amp; a&s;ked <HI>Daniel,</HI> if his God had deliuered him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What an&s;wered</HI> Daniel?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That God had &s;ent an Angell and &s;topt the mouthes of the Lyons,
<PB N="135" REF="139" MS="y">Chapter. 6.22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was Daniel then taken up?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pre&s;ently, and his accu&s;ers, theyr wiues and Children ca&s;t downe in his &s;tead.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Lyons v&s;e them?</HI></P>
<P>An. Tore then in peeces.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat did this miracle worke in</HI> Darius?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things: great ioy, and a pub|lication of a decree.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was the decree?</HI></P>
<P>An. That all nations &s;hould tremble and feare before the God of <HI>Daniel.</HI></P>
<P>Que. <HI>VVhich was the first vi&s;ion that</HI> Daniel <HI>had?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The vi&s;ion of the foure bea&s;tes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is vnder&s;tood by that?</HI></P>
<P>Au. The foure Monarchies before &s;poken of.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>Of the foure, which vvas the vvor&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Romane Monarchie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e in it &s;prang vp the mo&s;te per&s;ecuter of the Church of GOD, Chap. 7.25.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="8-12" TYPE="chapters">
<PB REF="140" MS="y">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter</HI> 8. to 12.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was Daniels &s;econd vi&s;ion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The ramme with two hornes, and the goate with one.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is vnder&s;tood by the ramme with two hornes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Darius and his two kingdomes of the Medes and Per&s;ians.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vnder&s;tand you by the goate with one horne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Alexander,</HI> &s;ole king of Macedo|nia, that &s;lew Darius, and became Mo|narch of the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;ucceeded</HI> Alexander?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;vve.</HI> The empire was diuided in|to foure parts, by fowre of his Princes: whereof <HI>Ca&s;&s;ander</HI> had Macedonia: <HI>Se|leucus</HI> Siria: <HI>Antigonus</HI> A&s;ia the le&s;&s;e: and <HI>Ptolomaeus</HI> Aegypt.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;ho &s;ucceeded Seleucus?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His &s;onne <HI>Antiochus.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was hee?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A great per&s;ecutor of the church. Chap. 8.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was he put downe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the hand of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did</HI> Daniel <HI>&s;ee the end of their captiuity?</HI></P>
<PB N="136" REF="140" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and was told in a vi&s;ion, how many yeares it &s;hould bee from the building of the Temple, to the co~ming of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many yeares &s;hould that bee?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Four hundreth thirty and foure yeares,</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Hosea" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Ho&s;ea,</HEAD>
<DIV4 N="1-6" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD><HI>Chapter.</HI> 1 to 6.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. VVhen <HI>did</HI> Ho&s;ea <HI>prophecie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the daies of <HI>Vzziah, Iotham, Ahaz,</HI> and <HI>Ezekiah,</HI> kings of <HI>Iu|da:</HI> and in the daies of <HI>Ieroboam,</HI> king of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> chap. 1, 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long did he prophecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Seuenteene yeeres.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein &s;tood his doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In alluring and deterring.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he allure the people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the &s;weetne&s;&s;e of Gods pro|mi&s;es.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What to doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To obey and loue him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he deterre them?</HI></P>
<PB REF="141" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By threatning Gods plague to fall vpon them.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>For what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> For their vicious and wicked li|uing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was idolatry v&s;ed in tho&s;e dayes</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Very much.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the Synagogue and other pla|ces.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth the Prophets call the Synagogue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Diblaim:</HI> that is rottenne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he call the people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An: Gomer:</HI> that is, corruption, the daughter of rottenne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why doth be v&s;e the&s;e tearmes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;hew the filthine&s;&s;e of theyr I|dolatry. chap. 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fruit of corruption?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Lozammi:</HI> that not myt people.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is vnderstood by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That &s;o long as we delight in &s;in, we are not Gods people,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fruit of &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> De&s;truction.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What cau&s;eth de&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Want of knowledge. chap. 4.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How commeth want of knowledge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By neglecting Gods word.</P>
<PB N="137" REF="141" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What doe wee fall into by want of knowledge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into all manuer of &s;innes as &s;wearing, lying, killing, &s;tealing, and whoring, chap. 4, 2, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is requi&s;ite for the preuenting of the&s;e euils?</HI></P>
<P>An. In&s;truction.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>From whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From the learned.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What will the Lord doe to the Mi|nister, that is not able to instruct?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ca&s;t him off.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What to the people, that being instructed, do not follow it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;ame. chap. 4.6.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="6-14" TYPE="chapters">
<HEAD>Chapter <HI>6.</HI> to <HI>14.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is the fruit of affliction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It cau&s;eth vs to &s;eeke to God, as the wounded to the Phi&s;itian.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Will God be ready to receiue vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and to heale vs, as hee did hurt vs.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t we come to the Lord?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;were.</HI> VVith obedience in heart towardes him, and loue towarde
<PB REF="142" MS="y">our neighbours, chap. 6, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvill he entertaine vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee wil bee our God, and we &s;hall be his people, Chapt. 2, 23. He will be ioyned vnto vs, as the Bridegroome to his Bride, neuer to be &s;eperated, cha. 2.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But if wee keepe aloofe, and come not at him, what will hee do?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He will for&s;ake vs, as we for&s;ake him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what doth the Prophet com|plaine again&s;t the King?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For &s;urfeting and exce&s;&s;e, ch. 7, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what again&s;t the people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For flattering their King in his wickedne&s;&s;e, chap. 7, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When they cried they did not crie to him, Chapter. 7.4. When they &s;ought helpe, it was at the handes of men. Chap. 7.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God deal vvith vs, when vve fly from him to the help of men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Spreads a net before our feete, and intangles vs in our owne deui&s;es chap. 7, 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whither did I&s;rael flye for helpe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To Aegypt.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What found they there?</HI></P>
<PB N="138" REF="142" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Nettles in their plea&s;aunt pla|ces, and thornes in their Tabernacles, chap. 9, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they plagued at home?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> with famine and &s;laughter.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With famine how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The floure and the wine pre&s;&s;e did not feed them, and the new wine failed them, chap. 9.2.</P>
<P><HI>An. With &s;laughter how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;. Ephraim</HI> (&s;aith the Lorde) &s;hall bring forth his children to the murde|rer, chap. 9.3, chap. 14, 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was this the last of their puni&s;h|ment?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, Samaria the chiefe citie of I&s;rael was de&s;troyed, as the fome vpon the waters, cha. 10.7. And the re&s;t of the cities, the &s;word fell vpon, and deuou|red them, chap. 11.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What became of the people that &s;uruiued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They wereled captiue into A&s;|&s;yria, chap. 11.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth god expre&s;&s;e the terror of his iudgement again&s;t the wicked?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In comparing him&s;elfe to a whirle-wind, them to chaffe: him&s;elfe to a lyon, and them to his pray, whome he will &s;catter and deuoure, chapter 13
<PB REF="143" MS="y">3, 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he expre&s;&s;e his fauour to the godly?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He will &s;ay to death, I will bee thy death: and to the graue, I will bee thy de&s;truction, for their deliuerance chap. 13, 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do the wicked, mea&s;ure the fa|uour of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By outward pro&s;perity, chapter, 12, 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do the godly mea&s;ure his fa|uour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By inward graces.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv might</HI> Samaria, <HI>and the whole kingdome of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>haue auoyded their ruine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By harkening to the Prophet, that told them of it long before.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are not we admoni&s;hed in the like manner in the&s;e dayes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By Gods preachers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What must we learne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the harmes that fell to I&s;rael, to auoid the like threatned to vs, if wee for&s;ake not our wickednes.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Joel" TYPE="book">
<PB N="139" REF="143" MS="y">
<HEAD>Ioel.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat doth</HI> Ioel <HI>teach?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Repentance.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By telling <HI>Iuda</HI> of the greate plague that was falne vpon them, for their &s;ins.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat vvas the plague?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Famine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In vvhat manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their corne and fruit trees were de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>Qu: <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By caterpillers, &amp; other cankrous wormes. chap. 1.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the efficient cau&s;e of this plague?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Drunkenne&s;&s;e and &s;urfetting. ch. 1.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the effect?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Men howled, and cattle pined. chap, 1. 10. 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the meanes to auoide &s;uch and the like plagues?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Repentance &amp; prayer chap. 1.14.</P>
<PB REF="144" MS="y">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>But</HI> Iuda <HI>not reformed by this plague, what other dooth</HI> Ioel <HI>prophecie, &s;hall fall vpon them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The &s;word.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By who&s;e practi&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The king of A&s;&s;yrians.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What kinde of fellow doth he, de|&s;cribe him to be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> One, before who&s;e face &s;hould &s;tand terrour, and behinde his backe de&s;truction, chap. 2, 3, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth hee teach vs to auoyde this plague?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By repentance likewi&s;e and prayer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth the Lord promi&s;e if we doe repent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For &s;carcitie aboundance: I will &s;end you corne, and wine, and oyle (&s;aith the Lord) and you &s;hall bee &s;ati&s;|fied, chap. 2, 19. And for warre, peace: <HI>I</HI> will remooue farre from you your e|nemies, chap. 2, 20,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he promi&s;e be&s;ide?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Increa&s;e of &s;pirituall graces, &amp; the confu&s;ion of them that were theyr enemies, chap 3, 7, 18.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Amos" TYPE="book">
<PB N="140" REF="144" MS="y">
<HEAD>Amos.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>OF what birth was</HI> Amos.</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A poore herd&s;mans &s;on.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where was he borne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At Tecoa a poore towne &s;ix miles from Ieru&s;alem.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>In who&s;e dayes did he prophecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the daies of <HI>Vzziah</HI> King of Iuda, and <HI>Ieroboam</HI> king, of I&s;rael.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How dooth hee procure authority to his doctrine, con&s;idering he was of &s;o ba&s;e a parentage?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;aying that his words are the words of God, cha. 3, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t whome doth hee fir&s;t pro|phecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Again&s;t <HI>Dama&s;cus,</HI> the Phili&s;tins, <HI>Tyre,</HI> the <HI>Idumeans, Ammonites,</HI> and <HI>Mo|abites?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was his purpo&s;e in that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To &s;hew, if God puni&s;hed the finnes of &s;uch as &s;car&s;e had any know|ledge of him: much more woulde hee afflict the Iewes, whome hee hadde
<PB REF="145" MS="y">from age to age nur&s;ed vp in his di&s;ci|pline.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t vvhom doth hee next pro|phecie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Again&s;t the kingdome of I&s;rael and Iuda.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat &s;ins of theirs doth hee &s;inde out?</HI></P>
<P>An. Cruelty, pre&s;umption, &s;eeuritie, &amp; lack of pitty, hoording vp of Coine and couetou&s;nes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they cruell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> They turned iudgement to wormwood: that is, in &s;teade of equi|ty they executed oppre&s;&s;ion, chapter. 5.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was their puni&s;hment for that &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> They &s;hould build hou&s;es and not dwel in them, and plant vineyardes &amp; not eate the grapes thereof, ch. 5, 11,</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e the foundation was laid by the ruine of the poore.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv vvere they pre&s;umptuous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Notwith&s;tanding Gods threat|nings they &s;till thought them&s;elues in|nocent.</P>
<P>Qo. <HI>Hovv doth he reprooue that &s;in?</HI></P>
<P>An, By a&s;king a que&s;tion.</P>
<PB N="141" REF="145" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the que&s;tion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Can a trumpet bee blowne in the citie, and the people not bee afraid that is, can God by his Prophets cry our again&s;t &s;inne, and the people think there is no &s;in? chap. 3, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv were they &s;ecure?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;tretcht them&s;elues vpon beddes of Iuory, eate the lambs of the flock, had mu&s;ick, drunke wine in bolles, but no man pittied the poore. chap, 6, 4, 5.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the puni&s;hment for &s;uch people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their fea&s;ts &s;hall bee turned to mourning: their longs to lamentation, and their ea&s;e into vnre&s;t, chap. 8.10.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvere they couetous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;wallowed vp the poore. chap, 4.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>How vvas that;</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By hoording vp thinges nece&s;&s;ary for foode and clothing, and &s;o procu|ring a dearth, that they might &s;ell deer euen the very refu&s;e of theire mer|chandi&s;e, and make their greate mea|&s;ure &s;mall, and their weight little, chap, 8.5, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What hath the Lord &s;vvorne hee
<PB REF="146" MS="y">vvill do to &s;uch people?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. Hee hath &s;worne by the excel|lency of <HI>Iacob,</HI> that he will neuer forget any of their workes. chap. 8.7. Though they digge into hell, thence hee will fetch them: though they clime vp to heauen, from thence he wil bring them, though they &s;inke into the bottome of the &s;ea, there will he command the &s;er|pent to bite them: and though they goe into captiuitie he will follow them with the &s;word and &s;et his face again&s;t them there &s;hal be no waie for the~ to e&s;cape. chap, 9, 2.3.4.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Obadiah" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Obadiah,</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat &s;inne doth</HI> Obadiah <HI>complain of?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The lack of charitie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In brother toward brother.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The <HI>Edomites</HI> again&s;t the <HI>I&s;rae|lites?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv were they brothers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The <HI>Edomites</HI> came of <HI>E&s;au,</HI> and
<PB N="142" REF="146" MS="y">the <HI>J&s;raelites</HI> of <HI>Iacob.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What wrong did the</HI> Edomites <HI>to the</HI> I&s;raelites?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ioyned with their enemies, re|ioyced at their de&s;truction, and holpe to beare away the &s;poyle, chap, 1, 11, 12 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God puni&s;h them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He made the hou&s;e of <HI>Iacob</HI> a fire and the hou&s;e of <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> a flame, and &s;et the <HI>Edomites</HI> betvveen them as &s;tubble to be deuoured. chap. 1, 18.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Jonah" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Ionah,</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHither was</HI> Ionah <HI>&s;ent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To <HI>Niniueh,</HI> the chiefe cit|tie of the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What to doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To preach.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did he obey the commandement of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, he broke it.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He vvent another way.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhither?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To <HI>Tar&s;hi&s;h?</HI></P>
<PB REF="147">
<P>Qu. <HI>What mooued him to &s;ay &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> His owne rea&s;on.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he thought, if the <HI>Iewes</HI> repented not by his doctrine, much le&s;&s;e would the heathen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he for pa&s;&s;age?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hyred a &s;hippe and paid his fare.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When he was at Sea, what happe|ned?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A tempe&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who cau&s;ed that tempest?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To check the di&s;obedience of <HI>Ionah?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did</HI> Ionah <HI>during the tem|pe&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sleepe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the Marriners?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Studied to find the cau&s;e of this di&s;turbance.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By ca&s;ting of lots.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whom &s;ell the Lott?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To <HI>Ionah.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the Mariners with</HI> Io|nah?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Threw him into the &s;ea.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVas hee drowned?</HI></P>
<PB N="143" REF="147">
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, though his &s;inne de&s;erued it yet God pre&s;erued him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He &s;ent a whale that &s;wallowed him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What followed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The tempe&s;t cea&s;ed and the Ma|riners glorified God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But what did</HI> Ionah <HI>being in the fi&s;hes bellie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Thought vpon his &s;inne, &amp; cryed to the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Lord deliuer him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Cau&s;ed the fi&s;h to ca&s;t him vp vp|on dry land.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long had hee been in the fi&s;h|es bellie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Three daies and three nights.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And what followed then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Lord &s;pake to <HI>Ionah</HI> the &s;e|cond time, and bade him ari&s;e and goe to Niniuch, and preach repentance.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did he now obey?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, and cried in the &s;treets: Yet forty dayes, &amp; Niniueh &s;hall bee ouer|throwne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the people entertaine his doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> With feare and trembling.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did they?</HI></P>
<PB REF="148">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Proclaimed a fa&s;t from the grea|te&s;t to the &s;malle&s;t: the King him&s;elfe ro&s;e from his throne, ca&s;t off his robe, and put on &s;ack-cloath commaunding all his &s;ubiects to do the like, and that neither man nor bea&s;te &s;houlde ta&s;te foode, till they had cried to the Lorde for mercy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When the Lord &s;awe their repen|tance vvhat did he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Turned avvay his wrath, and &s;a|ued their citty?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did Ionah take their deliue|rance?</HI></P>
<P>An. He vvas angry?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e being a prophet, hee &s;hould be found fal&s;e of his worde, and therfore began to vpbrayd God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> O Lord (&s;aid he) was not this my &s;aying vvhen <HI>I</HI> vvas yet in my countrey that thou vva&s;t a gracious GOD, mer|cifull and &s;lovv to anger, and repente&s;t thee of euill for which cau&s;e I fledde to <HI>Tar&s;hi&s;h?</HI> Therfore <HI>I</HI> be&s;eeche thee take my life, rather then let mee liue in in|famy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhither went he then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Out of the cittie, to &s;ee if after
<PB N="144" REF="148" MS="y">fourty daies, the Lord would de&s;troye the city.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>On which &s;ide of the citty &s;ate he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> On the ea&s;t &s;ide.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was hee couered?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He built him a booth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did God cau&s;e to grow ouer him to &s;hadow him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A gourd.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat became of the gourd?</HI></P>
<P>A. The next morning a worm &s;truck it, and it withered.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Did</HI> Ionah <HI>&s;uffer any inconuenience by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Ea&s;terne winde and Sunne beames beate vpon Ionahs head, and made him faint, &s;o that he was grieued for the lo&s;&s;e of the gourd.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;aid the Lord to him then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Ha&s;t thou pitty (&s;aid he) of the gourd, for which thou ha&s;t not labou|red, nor made&s;t it grow, which came vp in a night, and peri&s;hed in a nighte? and woulde&s;t thou not haue mee pittie Niniuch, wherein there are &s;ixe &s;core thou&s;and per&s;ons that cannot di&s;cerne the right hand from the left, and al&s;o much cattle?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That we mu&s;t not mea&s;ure the
<PB REF="149">prouidence and mercy of God, after the &s;quare of our humane affections.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the finall cau&s;e of &s;end|ing</HI> Ionah <HI>to Niniueh?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the &s;uddayne repentance of the&s;e heathen people, to reprooue the obduracie and hardnes of heart in his owne children, that many yeares were called vpon, and the&s;e but fewe daies.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Micah" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Micah.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat &s;ins doth</HI> Micah <HI>reprooue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The conte~pt of gods word.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Iewes contemne the word?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In forbidding the Prophets to prophecie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What per&s;ons did he reprooue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Princes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what did he reprooue them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For &s;elling iu&s;tice for mony, and eating the fle&s;h of the people, flaying off their skinnes, breaking their bones, and chopping their fle&s;h to peeces, ch. 3, 1, 3.</P>
<PB N="145" REF="149" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is vnder&s;tood by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their pilling and polling of the common wealth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom el&s;e doth he reprooue?</HI></P>
<P>An. The prelates for their couetou&s;|ne&s;&s;e and &s;ymony, chap. 3, 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And whom el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The rich merchant?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he is full of lyes and de|ceipt, chap. 6, 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the vertues be commen|ded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Silence and patience. chap. 7, 5, 9</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Nahum" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Nahum.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat doth</HI> Nahum <HI>teach?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That it is dangerous to re|&s;olue to liue in the feare of God: and fall from it againe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what example?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By example of the <HI>Niniuites.</HI></P>
<P>Qu: <HI>Did they &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes they quickly forgotte the preaching of <HI>Ionas,</HI> and the mercy that
<PB REF="150">God &s;hewed them: at that time and turned againe to their former iniquity, for which <HI>Nahum</HI> prophecies their de|&s;truction.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And were they then de&s;troyed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By vvhome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the Caldeans.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Habakkuk" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Habacuc,</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat did</HI> Habacuc <HI>preach again&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The ptide and tyrannie of the <HI>Caldeans,</HI> that were puft vp with theyr &s;poyles and victories.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat doth be compare the men of this world to?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To fi&s;hes.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What is his rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e as among&s;t fi&s;hes, the great deuoure the &s;mall, &s;o is it among&s;t men. chap. 1.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How loath&s;ome is tyranny &amp; pride?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> So loath&s;ome, that the very &s;tones of the wall &s;hall cry out again&s;t it. chap, 2.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did hee prophecy, &s;hould bee
<PB N="146" REF="150" MS="y">the end of the Caldeans?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ruine and de&s;truction.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians.</HI> chap. 2, 8.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Zephaniah" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Zephaniah.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHen prophecied</HI> Zephaniah?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In the daies of <HI>Io&s;iah</HI> king of <HI>Iuda?</HI></P>
<P>Que. <HI>How did he terrifie the wicked?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By foretelling them of their vt+ter de&s;truction, and carrying into cap|tiuity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did be comfort the Godly?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By prophecying their returne, and happine&s;&s;e, and the reuenge God would take vpon theyr enemies.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Haggai" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Haggai,</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHich are the three la&s;t Prophets?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Haggai, Zachary, Malachy.</HI></P>
<PB REF="151" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>When were the&s;e three &s;ent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> After the &s;eauenty yeares of the captiuity were expired.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what cau&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To comfort the people and to incourage them to ha&s;te the building of the temple.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were they &s;lack in that bu&s;ene&s;&s;e then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, preferring theyr owne pri|uate gaine in toyling for wealth, and building them&s;elues fayre hou&s;es, be|fore the glory of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They had no rea&s;on at all, yet as corrupt men that neuer want policie to excule their vile di&s;po&s;ition, preten|ded the time was not yet come. chapt. 1.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whore prooued them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God fir&s;t, and <HI>Haggai</HI> after|ward.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God reprooue them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;ending a famine among&s;t them.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did the Prophet reprooue them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> By rebuking them in the&s;e wordes, Is it time for your &s;elues to dwell in the &s;eeled hou&s;es, and not to
<PB N="147" REF="151" MS="y">build the hou&s;e of the Lord?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were they vpon this conuerted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was the &s;igne of theire re|pentance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Feare before the Lord, chapter. 1.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Lord comfort them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sent his &s;pirite vpon them: &s;ay|ing, bring wood and build this hou&s;e, and I will be fauourable vnto it, chapt, 1.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who were the chiefe of the people in this worke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Zerubbabel the Sonne of Sheal|tiel, and Ieho&s;hua the Son of Ieho&s;adak the high Prie&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the promi&s;e of God vnto them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That although his hou&s;e &s;eemed nothing liek &s;o &s;umptuous and beautiful as that with <HI>Salomon</HI> built: yet if they woulde haue patience, the time &s;hould come, that the would make it far more glorious.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that to be vnder&s;tood?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not of the materiall Temple, built with wood and &s;tone: but of the &s;pirituall, which &s;hould bee erected by the comming of Chri&s;t, chap. 2.10.</P>
<PB REF="152" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;aith the Lord here of their &s;acrifices?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they were vncleane.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not in the thinges them&s;elues, but becau&s;e the per&s;ons that offered them, were vncleane.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Neyther to offer prayer, nor thank&s;giuing to the Lord, but with a pure heart: for the intent of the heart, and not the word of the mouth iu&s;tifi|eth.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Zechariah" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Zachariah:</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>Who&s;e &s;on was Zachariah?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;on of <HI>Barachia?</HI></P>
<P>Qu <HI>Why was hee &s;ent?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To in&s;tructe and comfort the people.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did he in&s;truct them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they &s;houlde auoyde the wickednes of their fathers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he comfort them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By telling that God would bee mercifull vnto them: a&s;&s;i&s;te them in
<PB N="140" REF="152" MS="y">their worke, chap. 1, 16. Put backe their enemies, chapt, 1, 15. Fill them with all plenty of graces, chap. 1.17. Bee a wall of fire about his Church, and a conti|nuall light in the mid&s;t there of, chap, 2 5. And that <HI>Zerubbabel</HI> as hee had be|gunne, &s;o &s;hould he fim&s;h the Temple again&s;t all hinderances, what&s;oeuer, Chap. 4.9,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If they did &s;erue the Lord, vppon whom would he ca&s;t their affliction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon theyr enemyes,</P>
<P>Que&s;t: <HI>How &s;hould their zeale to Gods &s;eruice be manifested?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By theyr workes, chap, 1.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hould be their be&s;t cloa|thing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not &s;ilkes, nor pretious &s;tones. but lighteou&s;nes through Chri&s;t, chap. 3 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he prophecy of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That he &s;hould be both king &amp; Pr&icirc;e&s;t, by the crownes that were &s;et v|pon the head of <HI>Ieho&s;hua,</HI> chap, 6.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why &s;hould tho&s;e titles bee attri|buted vnto him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;ignifie all power was giuen vnto him &s;oirituall and temporall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what &s;ort was Chri&s;t promi&s;ed to come?</HI></P>
<PB REF="153" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Humbly and in great pouerty, ri|ding vpon an A&s;&s;e. chapt. 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e the Prophets had &s;et fourth his kingdome without maie&s;tie, &amp; pomp: yet that his dominion &s;hould &s;tretch from Sea to &s;ea, chap. 9.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But wherein was the error?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In their gro&s;&s;e and earthly ima|ginatio~s hauing the eies of their minds fixt vpon the tran&s;itorie pompe of this world and not vpon the true and &s;piri|tuall glorie of authority.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After the Iewes returne, and re|edi&s;ying of the Temple, were they at peace?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, they had many afflictions and temptations, for the triall of their patience, &amp; approouing of their faith onely &s;uch as beleeued had the peace of con&s;cience.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Malachi" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Malachie.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. VVhat <HI>is the fir&s;t &s;in</HI> Malachie <HI>re|prooueth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ob&s;tinate hypocri&s;ie.</P>
<PB N="141" REF="153" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that the Iewes, were manife&s;t offenders, and yet &s;eemed to iu&s;tifie them&s;elues, chap. 1.6,</P>
<P>Qu <HI>If we make God our Father, what doth he require of vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Honour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If we make him our Lord, what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Feare. chap. 1, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the &s;econd &s;inne</HI> Malachie <HI>reprooueth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Carele&s;nes in the Prie&s;ts, that thought any &s;actifice was &s;ufficient, &amp; did not examine whither it were accor|ding to the law, or no: chap. 1.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was required in the Prie&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A care in his heart to &s;erue God aright, and his lippes to be a trea&s;ure of knowledge, to in&s;truct the people, chap. 2, 1, 7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the third &s;inne the Prophet reprooueth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> Their marying wiues of a &s;trange religion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the puni&s;hment of that &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Lord will cut him off that doth &s;o. chap, 2, 11, 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fourth &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P>An. Breache of wedlocke, chap. 2.14.</P>
<PB REF="154" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fift?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their di&s;tru&s;t &s;aying it was in vaine of &s;erue God: &s;eeing the proud pro&s;pered, and they were cro&s;t, chap. 3.14.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>From whence procceded that &s;in?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> From want of patience and &s;ub|mitting to Gods plea&s;ure: for if they &s;awe not Gods helpe euer pre&s;ent to defend them, they woulde &s;trayte waie murmur, which was a &s;igne al&s;o of in|gratitude</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In that they forgot their former deliuerance.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;hould be the next Prophet to &s;ucceed them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Iohn Bapti&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein &s;hold his office con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In joyning the people together in one vnity of faith, and pronouncing gods iudgements, again&s;t &s;uch as &s;hold refu&s;e to receiue Chri&s;t: chap, 4: 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why &s;hould be the la&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t Ie&s;us the true Sunne of righteou&s;nes, who&s;e co~fortable beames of mercy &s;hine vpon our &s;oules to eternall happines. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="New Testament" TYPE="part">
<PB N="150" REF="154">
<HEAD>The doctrine of the new <HI>Te&s;tament.</HI></HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q>Except we abide in Chri&s;t, wee can do no good thing.</Q>
<BIBL>Iohn. <HI>15.16.</HI></BIBL>
</EPIGRAPH>
<DIV3 TYPE="induction">
<HEAD>The Induction.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVhat doth the new Te&s;tament in|clude?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Go&s;pell.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What is the Go&s;pell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A me&s;&s;age of glad tidings.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth it principally containe?</HI></P>
<PB REF="155" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> The hi&s;tory of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vpon how many poyntes &s;tands the hi&s;tory of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon fiue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Vpon his birth, his life, his death, his re&s;urrection, and a&s;cen&s;ion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth his birth teach vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> That he is the daie &s;tarre of mercie ri&s;en to conduct vs out of the darkne&s;&s;e of death, and to guide our feete into the waie of peace, Luke 1. ver 7.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth his life teach us?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> All vertues requi&s;ite for a true Chri&s;tian, he being the way, the trueth and the life, Iohn. 14.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth his death teach vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That as our debte is payed, and the rigour of the law &s;atiified, due to vs for our &s;inne, wherein con&s;i&s;teth our full redemption, Math. 20, 28. Gal. 4, 5. Heb. 6, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth his re&s;urrection teache vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The conque&s;t ouer death, &s;inne, and hell, wherein &s;tandeth our iu&s;tifica|tion, Rom, 4, 25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth his a&s;cention teach vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That our pa&s;&s;age into Paradice
<PB N="151" REF="155" MS="y">is by him made open, which before (through &s;in) was &s;hut vp again&s;t vs, to the inte~t, that where he is, we al&s;o may be. Ioh. 14.2 3. &amp; 12.26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth Chri&s;t require of vs for all the&s;e benefits?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be tho&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith and obedience?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is fayth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> An a&s;&s;ured beliefe of all his words and deedes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is obedience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A con&s;tant indeauour to per|forme all that he hath commaunded. Math. 28.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doe the Old and New Te&s;ta|ment agree?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> In this that they both teach to know one God, imbrace one faith, and erect one Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do they differ?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Foure manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, touching the publication. Secondly their effect and fruit: Third|ly their ceremonies, and fourthly, their teachers.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>How do they differ touching their publication?</HI></P>
<PB REF="156" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> The law was publi&s;ht with ter|tor, the Go&s;pel with ioy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do they differ touching their fruite?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The fruite of the lawe is death. Deut. 27.26. The fruite of the Go&s;pell life. Iohn. 17.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How touching their ceremonies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the law their altar was made of &s;tone: in the Go&s;pell, our Altar is Chri&s;t Ie&s;us. Heb. 13.10. In the law they did &s;acrifice Calues, in the Go&s;|pel, our &s;acrifice mu&s;t be the calues of our lippes, prayer and thanke&s;giuing, Hebr. 13, 15. In the law they did circu~|ci&s;e the foreskin, in the Go&s;pel, we mu&s;t circumci&s;e, and cut off the lewd affec|tions of our hearts. Rom, 2, 29. In the lawe, their Pa&s;&s;eouer was alambe of the flocke. Exodus. 124. In the Go&s;pell our Pa&s;&s;eouer is the lambe Chri&s;t Ie&s;us 1. Cor, 5, 7. in the law the Pa&s;&s;eouer was but the &s;hadowe of the thing: in the Go&s;pell the Pa&s;&s;eouer is the thing it &s;elfe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do they differ touching theyr teachers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The publi&s;her of the law was man, <HI>Mo&s;es:</HI> the publi&s;her of the Go&s;|pell God and man, Chri&s;t, The tea|chers
<PB REF="156" MS="y">of the law foretold the comming of Chri&s;t in the fle&s;h, E&s;ay. 7.14. The teachers of the Go&s;pell foretell his comming in glory, Mathew, 24.30.31. and 25.31. The teachers of the lawe ledde forth the children of God to Ca|naan, Io&s;. 12.6. The teachers of the Go&s;|pel, direct them to heauen, Mat. 5.3.8.10 They deliuered them from the handes of humane tyrants. Exo. 12.31. Iudges 16.30. Chri&s;t in the Go&s;pell &s;ets vs free from the hands of the &s;pirituall tyrant the diuell. 1. Cor. 15.54.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many are the writers of the Go&s;pel?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Matthew, Marke, Luke,</HI> and <HI>Iohn.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is the &s;ubiect of tho&s;e holy writers all one?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It is.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What method &s;hall we then v&s;e to draw particular points of doctrine from each of them, and not itterate any thing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Deuide the whole hi&s;torie of Chri&s;t into foure parts and euery parte into foure branches.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Content: what are the foure branches I &s;hall de&s;pure with you vpon, in
<PB REF="157">the Go&s;pell after Matthew?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> The&s;e: Chri&s;t his birth, his per&s;ecution, bapti&s;me, and election of his Apo&s;tles.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Matthew" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Doctrine out of the Go&s;pell <HI>after Mathew.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was</HI> Matthew <HI>by profe&s;&s;i|on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A publicane.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were the Publicanes?</HI></P>
<P>Qu Tho&s;e kind of Iewes which in the name of the Romanes, did gather vp the taxes and tallages impo&s;ed vpon the people.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How came he to be an Apo&s;tle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t called him, as hee was fit|ting at the receipt of cu&s;tome, who pre|&s;ently, notwith&s;tanding the &s;candales and bad reports which the Iewes had giuen out of Chri&s;t, and that hee him|&s;elfe was exceeding ritche, left all, and followed him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth</HI> Mathew <HI>fir&s;t &s;et down?</HI></P>
<PB N="153" REF="157" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> The comming of Chri&s;t vnto the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Two manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Once in the fle&s;h: many times in the &s;pirite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How comes he in &s;pirite?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two manner of waies, by grace to in&s;pire vs, as when the &s;pirit of God fell vpon the 70 Elders. Num. 11.25.26 And vpon the Apo&s;tles Actes. 2.3.4 Or by faith to a&s;&s;ure, as Saint <HI>Paule</HI> faith, the &s;ame &s;pirit beareth witnes with our &s;pirit that we are the children of God, Rom. 8, 25, 26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what example doe wee learne, Chri&s;ts comming in the &s;pirit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the example of Gods appea|rance to <HI>Eliah.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t came a mighty winde, and tore the rocks, but God was not there: then ro&s;e an earthquake, but God was not there, then came a fire, but god was not there: at la&s;t came a &s;oft and &s;till winde, and God was not there. 1. Kings 19, 15.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth Chri&s;ts &s;pirite after the &s;ame manner de&s;cend into vs?</HI></P>
<PB REF="158" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, there comes the breadth of his threatning voice, to breake our &s;to|ny hearts, then an earth quake; that is, a trembling at his iudgementes, Thirdly, a fire to try if wee repent a|right, La&s;t of all, a &s;oft voice of happie tydings, which is the Lambe Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Hovv was his comming in the fle&s;h?</HI></P>
<P>An. He was conceiued by the Ho|ly Gho&s;t and borne of the Virgine <HI>Ma|ry,</HI> Matth. 1.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is this all the times he &s;hall come in the fle&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, hee &s;hall come at the latter day.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With power and great glorie. Math. 24.30.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What to doe?</HI></P>
<P>An. To iudge the world with righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and the people with equitye: that is, to giue to euery one according to their deeds. Math, 16.27.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>&V;&V;hy did Chri&s;t take vpon him our fle&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;ati&s;fie for our &s;innes.</P>
<PB N="154" REF="158" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P>An. In &s;uffering vnderneath the iu|&s;tice of God, what wee had de&s;er|ned.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the fir&s;t euill that Chri&s;t &s;uffered?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Per&s;ecution.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As &s;oone as hee was borne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By <HI>Herod</HI> king of the Iewes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That a chri&s;tian life in this world from the day of our birth, to the houre of our death, is nothing but cro&s;&s;es and afflictions.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How came</HI> Herod <HI>to be king?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He bought it of <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> for a great &s;umme of money.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he behaue him&s;elfe in the kingdome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like a bloodie. Tyrant, hee &s;lew all that were of the linage of king <HI>Dauid,</HI> and burnt their Pedigrees, be|cau&s;e he feared to bee driuen from his &s;eate and authoritie by one which hee heard &s;hould &s;pring of that familie, and therfore likewi&s;e, he flew his &s;i&s;ter, and her hu&s;band that was a Iewe, and put to death his owne &s;onne which he had
<PB REF="159">begot vpon a Iewi&s;h woman.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long was it ere he could &s;eate him&s;elfe in the kingdome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Thirty yeeres, continually ma|king warre vpon the Iewes: &s;o hard|ly did they endure the gouernment o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a &s;tranger.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why was</HI> Ieru&s;alem <HI>troubled, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> newes was brought of the birth of a new<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> king, which was Christ, knowing they were weary of the gouernment of</HI> Herod?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, to flatter him, becau&s;e they would &s;eeme to be affected as hee was for he was greatly troubled. Matth, 2.3. And &s;econdly, becau&s;e they feared there would ari&s;e a newe occa&s;ion of bloud&s;hed, by the contention of the&s;e two kings.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the end of</HI> Herods <HI>malice towards Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>A. As it is of all per&s;ecutors of Gods people, his owne ruine: for Chri&s;t was deliuered from his rage. Mat. 2.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did his rage &s;o end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, when hee &s;aw him&s;elfe moc|ked of the Wi&s;e men that promi&s;ed to bring him word where Chri&s;t was, hee mo&s;t cruelly &s;laughtered all the young children of <HI>Bethlehem,</HI> and the coa&s;tes thereaboutes, thinking &s;o to
<PB N="155" REF="159" MS="y">be &s;ure of his de&s;truction. Math. 2.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by the ma&s;&s;acre of &s;o many innocents, Chri&s;t onely re&s;erued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That tyranny may de&s;troy the body of Religion, but not the &s;oule.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was that no fault in the wi&s;emen to breake promi&s;e with</HI> Herod?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, it is lawfull to break promi&s;e in any thing, wherein the honour and &s;eruice of God may be hindred.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was Christ pre&s;erued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By flight into Aegypt.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did Chri&s;t beeing God, giue place to the fury of Herod?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To &s;hew that it is lawfull for vs to flee from per&s;ecution, and &s;aue our liues: &s;o it may be done without &s;can|dall to the Go&s;pell. Mat: 10, 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did he flee into Egypt, rather then into any other country?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For 2. cau&s;es: fir&s;t that the &s;crip|ture might bee fulfilled, according to the prophet <HI>O&s;e, Out of Egypt haue I cal|led my Sonne:</HI> And &s;econdly to &s;hewe that hee woulde for&s;ake the Iewes for their ingratitude, and receiue the gen|tiles.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;ted their ingratitude?</HI></P>
<P>An. In &s;toning the Prophets and men of GOD, which were &s;ent vnto
<PB REF="160" MS="y">them for their &s;oules helth, <HI>Mat.</HI> 23.37.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth Chri&s;t prophecy their in|gratitude &s;hould be puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P>An. By threatning vnto them a &s;piri|tuall and a corporall plague.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their &s;pirituall plague?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Famine of the word and &s;carcity of teachers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their corporall plague?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ruine of their citie, de&s;olation of their Temple, and a generall di&s;&s;i|pation and &s;cattering of their whole nation: at who&s;e hands &s;hal be required the bloud of all the Saintes, from <HI>Abel</HI> to <HI>Zachary</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Barachia,</HI> whome they &s;lew between the Temple and the Altar.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many were the henefites of God be&s;towed vpon the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Innumerable: but the&s;e e&s;peci|ally, he &s;aued <HI>Noah</HI> from the flood: <HI>A|braham</HI> from the Caldea~s: hee brought the~ afterward out of Aegypte through the red Sea, he fedde them in the wil|derne&s;&s;e, with meate from heauen, and water from the rocke, fortie yeares &s;pace their garments neuer waxed old: heeled them dry &s;hod ouer Iordan, hee gaue them po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of one and thirtie kingdomes, he in&s;tructed them
<PB N="156" REF="160" MS="y">in his true &s;eruice: he built them a tem|ple: he &s;upplyed them daily with pro|phets to be their guides: and finallie &s;ent his only begotten Sonne among&s;t them, to be a phy&s;itian both of theyr bodies and &s;oules, whome they mo&s;t cruelly put to death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did fir&s;t make knowne the birth of Christ?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A &s;tarre, Mat. 2.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did that &s;tarre differ from o|ther &s;tarres?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In three re&s;pects: fir&s;t, as tou|ching the place, being lower fixed then other &s;tarres: Secondly, as touching the motion, moouing directly forward, and not circularly: and thirdly, as tou|ching the time, it &s;hone as well by day as by night.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whom did the &s;tar appeare?</HI></P>
<P>An. To the wi&s;e men of the Ea&s;t, to conduct them where Chri&s;t was borne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is &s;ignified by that &s;tar?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;pirit of God, which mu&s;t illuminate our harts: or we &s;hall neuer find the way vnto Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When the wi&s;e men found Chri&s;t, what did they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As all men mu&s;t doe, when they haue once got the knowledge of him.</P>
<PB REF="161" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Acknowledge our loue &amp; &s;eruice to him by our externall oblations.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was their oblations?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Gold, frankin&s;ence and myrth: gold, as he was a King; frankin&s;ence as he was a Prie&s;t; and myrrh, as he was a Prophet, Mat. 2.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But in &s;tead of the&s;e three things, what do we Chri&s;tians learn to offer vnto him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For gold, purity of life; for fran|kin&s;ence, praier and thank&s;giuing; and for myrrh, patience in aduer&s;ity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In the eleuenth chap. of this go&s;pel, Chri&s;t &s;aith,</HI> I <HI>thank thee Father that thou ha&s;t hidde the knowledge of thy will from the wi&s;e and prudent, and hast &s;hewed it vnto babes: yet bere he &s;aith, the wi&s;e men came to wor&s;hip him. What difference is there betwixt the wi&s;e men he &s;peaketh of there, and tho&s;e mentioned here?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By the wi&s;emen there, he vn|der&s;tandeth &s;uch as arrogantly depend vpon their own knowledge, and mea|&s;ure all things by humane rea&s;on: By wi&s;emen in this place, he vnder&s;tands &s;uch wi&s;e men, as in things that belong to the honour of God and our iu&s;tifi|cation, reiect the power and wi&s;edome
<PB N="157" REF="161" MS="y">of man, and cleaue onely to the grace of God through Chri&s;t, and the &s;inceri|ty of his word. In which &s;ence they are al&s;o called babes, Matth. 11, ver&s;e, 25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In profe&s;&s;ing of Chri&s;t: what com|fort haue we?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A threefould comfort: fir&s;t wee knowe he is our Lord, and can and will defend vs from all our enemies. Matth. 28, 18.20. Secondly he is our teacher, and wil in&s;truct vs in all things nece&s;&s;a|ry to &s;aluation. And thirdly, our &s;piritu|all phi&s;itian that calls vs vnto him, to comfort and heale our afflicted con|&s;ciences, Math, 11.28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where is the end of the Old Te&s;ta|ment, and beginning of the new?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the Bapti&s;me of Chri&s;t; for by that god doth, as it were, point vnto vs, and &s;hevv that hee is the true Me&s;&s;ias, and Sauiour of the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what &s;igne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the vi&s;ible appearing of the holy gho&s;t, &amp; the voice that was heard: This is my dearely beloued Sonne, in whom I am well plea&s;ed. Matthew. 3.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many things are required in Bapti&s;me?</HI></P>
<PB REF="162">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three: the vi&s;ible element (which is water), the worde, and a promi&s;e of grace.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>What was the difference between the bapti&s;me of</HI> Iohn <HI>and the bapti&s;me of Christ.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Iohn</HI> did bapti&s;e with water to repentance, but Chri&s;t did bapti&s;e with fire: that is, by his holie Spirite wor. king in our hearts to the remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why is</HI> Iohn <HI>&s;aide to prepare the way of the Lord?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e his doctrine was repen|tance, &amp; no man can come vnto Chri&s;t except hee fir&s;t confe&s;&s;e the damnable &s;tate he is in through &s;inne, &amp; be hartily &s;orie for the &s;ame, faithfully beleeuing onelie by the merits of Chri&s;t to be de|liuered from thence.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom did Chri&s;t fir&s;t call to his &s;er|uice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Poore fi&s;hermen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat doe we learne by their cal|ling?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whch be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, an example of charity in Chri&s;t, that of his meer mercy &amp; grace cho&s;e &s;uch poore &amp; &s;imple men to bee
<PB N="158" REF="162" MS="y">the chiefe Pa&s;tors and pillars of his Church. Secondly, and example of faith and obedience in them, who no &s;ooner were called, but &s;traightway left al they had, and followed Chri&s;t. Matthew. 4.22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they follow him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not as many Chri&s;tians nowe adaies doe, in outward &s;hew and &s;eem|ing holines but with that re&s;olutio~, that they willingly vnderwent pouerty, &s;corn, &s;lander, and death it&s;elfe, to &s;hew them&s;elues worthy &s;chollers of &s;o wor|thy a mai&s;ter. Be&s;ides they were but once called vpon, and they came: but we are many times exclaimed vpon, &amp; yet we come not.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How led Christ his de&s;ciples?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two manner of waies, bodily, &amp; &s;piritually.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he lead them bodily?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By iniuring his body to trauell by &s;ea, by land, in citie, field, mountaine &amp; valley, for the publi&s;hing of the go&s;|pell, and worke of their &s;aluation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did helead them &s;piritually?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By manife&s;ting vnto them great &s;ignes and arguments of humility pa|tience, loue, fortitude, and all other vertues of the minde: &s;o that what hee
<PB REF="163" MS="y">was, &s;uch he would haue them, &amp; al that in&s;i&s;t vpon his holy name to bee.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did not Christ choo&s;e his di&s;ci|ples among&s;t the mighty, learned, &amp; rich men of the world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e the mighty &s;tand vpon their reputation, the learned are ob&s;ti|nate in their opinions: and the rich en|thrald with couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was there none of this &s;orte came, when Chri&s;t cald them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes. but they were very few: as of rich men <HI>Zacheus,</HI> &amp; <HI>Mathew:</HI> of gen|tlemen the Centurion &amp; <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> of <HI>Ari|mathea,</HI> and of the learned, <HI>Nichodemus Gamaliel, Saul.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the&s;e men leaue all, and follow Christ.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How then had</HI> Mathew <HI>a hou&s;e to banquet Chri&s;t in after ward?</HI> Mat. 9.10</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To for&s;ake all, is vnder&s;toode, not cleane to depart from all which they had, but to make no reckoning of their goods, otherwi&s;e then they might &s;erue to the glory of God, and the re|liefe of his poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed members.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy doth Chri&s;t call his Apo&s;tles and Mini&s;ters the &s;alt of the earth?</HI> Mat. 5.15.</P>
<PB N="156" REF="163" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e as the property of &s;alte is to bite, purge, and pre&s;erue: &s;o their doctrin ought to te&s;tifie, reprooue, and in&s;truct.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Why are they called the light of the world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e, in doctrine and conuer|&s;ation, they mu&s;t be as &s;hining and glo|rious guides to the darke minds of the ignorant.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the end thereof?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The glory of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is it not then inough for them to preach the Go&s;pel openly, and with boldnes of heart?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, they mu&s;t likewi&s;e bring forth fruits of good life hy their deedes of charity, Mat. 5.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In how many things con&s;i&s;teth the te&s;timony of a good life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In holine&s;&s;e which belongeth to God: in righteou&s;nes which belongeth to our neighbour: and in &s;obernes that belongeth to our &s;elues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For how many cau&s;es are we bou~d to &s;erue God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For three cau&s;es: <HI>Iure creatio|nis,</HI> becau&s;e he created vs: <HI>Iure redemptionis,</HI>
<PB REF="164">becau&s;e he redeemed vs: and <HI>iure amoris,</HI> becau&s;e he loued vs.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Mark" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Doctrine out of the Go&s;pell <HI>after Marke.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was Marke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A di&s;ciple of <HI>Peters,</HI> of whom be had learned the Acts of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the branches to be hand|led in this Go&s;pell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The tempting of Chri&s;t, his fa|&s;ting, praier, and miracles.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When was Chri&s;t tempted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As &s;oon as he had receiued bap|ti&s;me. Whereby we learne that the &s;pi|rit of God begins no &s;ooner to worke, but it is as &s;oon cro&s;t and ouer th warted by the &s;pirit of the diuell, chap. 1.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the difference bet weene the&s;e two &s;pirits?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> The &s;pirit of God is louing, gentle, meeke, not forcing. nor threat|ning: the &s;pirit of the diuel is &s;ubtile, cruel, fal&s;e, and full of terror. Betweene the&s;e two &s;pirits, the &s;pirite of man is
<PB N="160" REF="164">continually to&s;&s;ed, the one working to our &s;aluation, the other to our damnati|on.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who did tempt Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An</HI> Two &s;orts of creatures.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The diuell and the Iewes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>From whence fetcheth the diuell his argument wherewith he tempreth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> From three things, eyther from the wit &amp; rea&s;on of man, the cu&s;tomes of the world, or from the corruption &amp; wre&s;ting of the Scriptures, as in this place it appeares.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth the Deuill tempt vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> Sinne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the nature of &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To de&s;troy.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>VVhat followes &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A twofold iudgement: the one inward as torment of con&s;cience, and decay of gifts: the other outward as co~|tempt and reproach of the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many kindes of temptations are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which bee they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Bad, which proceed from the De|uill and his in&s;truments, &amp; good which proceede from God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth God v&s;e to tempt?</HI></P>
<PB REF="165">
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Two manner of waies: by trials on the right hand, and by trials on the left.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he tempt vs by trials, on the right hand?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By offering vs temporall ble&s;|&s;ings, as wealth, promotion, and &s;uch like: to if we will take hold on them iu&s;tly, or after an indirect and &s;innefull manner. Or; by be&s;towing vpon vs te|porall ble&s;&s;ings, to try if wee will di&s;|po&s;e of them according as hee hath commanded, and as his vpright almo|ners.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he tempt vs by trialls on the left?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;uffering here&s;ies to ri&s;e vp a|mong&s;t vs to &s;ee if they can &s;educe vs or by common corruption of manners, when many &s;landers, &s;candales, and in|iuries are offered to prooue our con|&s;tancie patience and loue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did the Iewes tempt Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By friuolous que&s;tions to intrap his life: as whither it were lawful to giue tribute to <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> or not. ch. 12.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is our comfort in temptati|on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That if wee abide faithfull and con&s;tant, God at the la&s;t, will &s;end his
<PB N="162" REF="165" MS="y">Angels to deliuer vs, as he did vnto our Sauiour, chap. 1.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why doth God &s;uffer vs to he tem|ted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For fiue &s;peciall rea&s;ons.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t to try whether we be faith|full. Secondly to make vs &s;eeke vnto him for helpe. Thirdly, the better to manife&s;t his power and loue in deliue|ring vs. Fourthly to create in our harts a thankfulne&s;&s;e for our deliuerance.</P>
<P>And fiftly that we may be made like vnto our Sauiour Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Is it in the diuels power, to tempte vs when be plea&s;eth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, hee cannot doe it; by the example where the vncleane &s;pirite which Chri&s;t had ca&s;t out of the man in the country of the <HI>Gadarens,</HI> coulde not enter &s;o much, as into the heard of &s;wine, before hee had a&s;ked leaue of Chri&s;t, chap. 5.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat doth this infer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That we ought alwaies to pray, that wee be not led into euill tempta|tion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After Chri&s;t was deliuered from the temptation of diuell, what did he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As we ought to doe in the like
<PB REF="166">ca&s;e mo&s;t cheerefully endeauoured to perfor me the will of his Father.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may wee therefore liken the temptation of the diuell vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A blow, or w wound, which di&s;|maies not the good chri&s;tian, but ra|ther &s;tirres him vppe mere forcibly to with&s;tand the a&s;&s;ault of his enemie.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What opportunity did the Diuell watch to attempt Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>An. When hee was alone in the wil|dernes, and oppre&s;t with long fa&s;ting.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long had he fa&s;ted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Forty daies and forty nights.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What company had he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> None but the wild bea&s;ts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat may we vnder&s;tand by the wilderne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>An. The world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the wild bea&s;ts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Inward and outwarde daungers thereof.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Inward dangers of what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of ones owne rude and vntamed affections.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Outward dangers of what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of the vanities wherby we con|tinually fall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a good remedy again&s;t the&s;e dangers?</HI></P>
<PB N="162" REF="166" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fa&s;ting; and not as &s;ome &s;uppo&s;e forty daies, but &s;o long as we liue in the wilderne&s;&s;e of this wicked world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is fasting?</HI></P>
<P>An Sobriety of life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many kindes of fa&s;ting are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Corporall, which is a refraining from meate: and &s;pirituall, which is an ab&s;taining from &s;inne.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>When are we &s;aid truely to fa&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When wee keepe our eies from looking after vanities: our to~gues from cur&s;ing, &s;wearing, and euill &s;peaking, our hearts from meditating mi&s;chiefe: our hands from practi&s;ing vnlawfull a|ctions, and our feete from treading in the way of &s;corners.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the propertie of true fa|&s;ting?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> It mu&s;t not bee done for vaine|glory, but to mortifie the bodie: that it may be in &s;ubiection to the &s;pirit: and to the intent wee may haue the more proui&s;ion, for the relieuing of the poor.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the effects that followe fa&s;ting?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Health, perfection of memorie,
<PB REF="167">&s;harpne&s;&s;e of wit, long life, and happi|ne&s;&s;e of &s;oule.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the oppo&s;ite to fa&s;ting?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Intemperance.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is Intemperance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An ouerflowing of voluptuou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, again&s;t rea&s;on and the health of the &s;oule, &s;eeking no other contentati|on but the delight of the &s;en&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the effects that follow it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Di&s;order, impudency, vn&s;eemli|nes, negligence, imbecility of body, and de&s;truction of &s;oule.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where in con&s;i&s;ts intemperance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In &s;umptuous fea&s;ting.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is it not tollerable for Chri&s;tians to fea&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yes, if it be done with moderati|on and thank&s;giuing, as it appeares by the exa~ple of <HI>Matthew,</HI> who fea&s;ted our Sauiour Chri&s;t, chap. 2.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhom mu&s;t we feast?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not our ritche neighbours, lea&s;t they bid vs againe, and &s;o recompence be made: but the poore, maimed, lame, and blind, and God &s;hall reward vs at the re&s;urrection of the iu&s;t, Luke 14.12.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May not man both feast and fa&s;t at one in&s;tant?</HI></P>
<PB N="163" REF="167" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, &s;o in the midde&s;t of his de|licates he be able to temper his affec|tions.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mu&s;t be ioyned with fa&s;ting to make it acceptable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Repentance and prayer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is repentance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A hearty &s;orrow for &s;inne, with a firme re&s;olution neuer to offend again, &s;o that it is not enough to bee grieued for our &s;inne, except we likewi&s;e a me~d.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Giue me an in&s;tance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It is our Sauiours words, Repent, and amend, for the kingdome of God is at hand.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What goes before Repentance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Admonition,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What followeth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Forgiuene&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who hath the power to fergiue &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t the &s;onne of God, ch. 2.10</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When hath he power to forgiue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When&s;oeuer wee call vpon him by faith, as by the example of the blind man. chap. 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth this readine&s;&s;e to for|giue, inferre?</HI></P>
<P>An. Imitation in vs to doe the like one toward another.</P>
<PB REF="168" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e except wee forgiue one another, we &s;hal not be forgiuen of our Father which is in heauen, chapter, 11.26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many circum&s;tances, as tou|ching our &s;elues, are to bee con&s;idered in pardouing offences?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sixe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, who it is that mu&s;t forgiue euery one, as well the King as the &s;ub|iect. Secondly, what it is to be forgiuen: not onely &s;light offences, but all capi|tall wrongs, whether &s;uddaine or pre|meditate. Thirdly, whome they be vve mu&s;t forgiue namely our Chri&s;tian brother. Fourthly hovv often, not &s;euen times onely, but &s;euenty times &s;euen. Fiftly in what &s;ort, not fainedly, but from the heart. Sixtly when, not at the Altar onely, and when we pray, but at all times when our brother &s;hall &s;eeme to offend.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In how many points con&s;i&s;teth for|giuene&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An,</HI> In foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Couniuere,</HI> to winke at our bro|thers offence, <HI>condonare</HI> to pardon the
<PB N="164" REF="168" MS="y">quality of the offence: <HI>remittere,</HI> to with-hold the puni&s;hement: and <HI>indulge|re,</HI> to take into fauour againe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But if the offence be &s;uch, as wee mu&s;t needs reproue our brother, how mu&s;t it be done?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Mildly, louingly, &s;ecretly, and guiltle&s;&s;e our &s;elues of what we reproue him for: freely, and without feare, vpon a true and iu&s;t occa&s;ion, and at a fitte time.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what may we compare him that is a great reprehender of others, and neuer lookes vnto his owne infirmities?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To fiue things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the lampe in the Temple, which giueth light to the Prie&s;te, and con&s;umes it &s;elfe: Secondly to the eye, that &s;ees all things but &s;ees not it &s;elfe: Thirdly, to <HI>Noahs</HI> workemen, that built an Arke to &s;aue <HI>Noah,</HI> and were drow|ned them&s;elues: Fourthly, to &s;uch a one as cloathes euery one, and goes naked him&s;elfe: Firftly to <HI>E&s;au</HI> that was a for|re&s;ter, and liued alwayes abroade, and therefore did loo&s;e the ble&s;&s;ing at home.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the gate that opens to for|giuene&s;&s;e before God?</HI></P>
<PB REF="169" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Prayer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Calling vpon God in the time of trouble.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How many &s;orts of prayer are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two: Menrall, con&s;i&s;ting in the hearte, without vtterance from the tongue: and Vocall, conceiued in the heart, and pronounced by the tougue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many are the &s;pecial proper|ties of prayer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> It mu&s;t be &s;ecrete, without o|&s;tentation: zealous without doubting to obtaine: briefe without much bab|ling, &amp; con&s;tant without intermi&s;&s;ion, chap. 11.24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many rea&s;ons are there to proue the goodne&s;&s;e of prayer?</HI></P>
<P>An. Sixe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, it is full of ioy, for in the company of God there is nothing but ioy, Secondly, God hath built a hou&s;e, and appointed a day for it. Thirdly, it maketh vs like the Angels in heauen: Fourthly, it is as incen&s;e in the no&s;t|rills of God. Fiftly, it doth more good
<PB N="165" REF="169">then alme&s;deeds, for by our almes wee helpe but few, but by prayer wee maie profit thou&s;ands. Sixtly it is a victorious thing, for it ouercommeth God which ouercommeth all things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When mu&s;t we pray?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At all times.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Becau&s;e we knowe not when the Lord will call vs to iudgement. ch. 13, 33.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What is an enemy to prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Drow&s;ine&s;&s;e; and therefore our Sauiour hath &s;aid: Watch and pray.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How must our mindes bee di&s;po&s;ed when we pray?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To be in charity withall?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What may in courage vs to pray?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> The faithfull promi&s;e of the lord that hee will heare vs: A&s;ke and ye &s;hall haue, knock and it &s;hall be opened vnto you.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How was prayer effectual in Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>An. By prayer hee wrought &s;ome of his miracles, as appeareth chapter, 9.29.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a miracle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An act exceeding the conr&s;e of nature.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Why was it requi&s;ite that God
<PB REF="170">&s;hould work miracles.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To prooue him&s;elfe both God and man, and con&s;equently the true Me&s;&s;ias and Sauiour of the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To &s;aue how many waies may it be vnder&s;tood?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two manner of waies: fir&s;t in pre|&s;eruing and giuing temporall ble&s;&s;ings to all, and &s;econdly in redeeming of &s;ome, by giuing eternall happine&s;&s;e to the elect.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the miracles of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Giuing &s;ight to the blind, &s;tr&eacute;gth to the lame, health to the &s;icke, walking vpon the waters, and rai&s;ing of the dead &amp;c.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In this re&s;pect what is Chri&s;t cal|led?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A Phi&s;ition.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he differ from other phy|&s;itians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. He</HI> wrought by his owne power he looked not for reward, and he &s;cor|ned not to handle and touch his &s;icke patients, notwith&s;tanding the contagi|on of their di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Luke" TYPE="book">
<PB N="166" REF="170">
<HEAD>Doctrine out of the Go&s;pell <HI>after Luke.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. VVHo <HI>vvas</HI> Luke?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A Phi&s;ition of <HI>Antioch,</HI> and a companion with <HI>Paule</HI> in his tra|uels.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did he write the Go&s;pell as an eye|witne&s;&s;e of the &s;ame?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but as hee had heard from <HI>Paule</HI> and others.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the pointes from whence we mu&s;t deriue our argumentation in this Go&s;pell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The preaching of Chri&s;t, the &s;la~ders which he &s;uffered for the &s;ame, his apprehen&s;ion, and examination.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vhen began Chri&s;t to preach?</HI></P>
<P>An. At twelue yeeres old, when his Parents found him di&s;puting with the doctors in the Temple. chap. 2, 46.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall we know a Preacher?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An</HI> By his fruites.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His doctrine, if it bee of God: and his conuer&s;ation, if it be according to his doctrine.</P>
<PB REF="171" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How manie things are required in a Preacher?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Six things, to teach, to exhort, to pray, to prai&s;e, to reprooue, and to en|courage.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to teach?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To declare the true meaning of the Scripture.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to exhort?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To remember the hearers of the word, what they haue heard: and to be &s;erious with them, not to forgette that which they haue learned, but to bring forth fruites of good life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the fruites of a good life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Deedes of charitie done to the honor of God, &amp; good of our neighour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end are they auaileable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To &s;hew how neere or how far off we are from Chri&s;t: for hee that find<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by the di&s;pofition of his heart: that hee wi&s;heth well to all men, not onely his friends, but his enemies hath a &s;ure te|&s;timonie, that God doth dwell in him, Where as contrariwi&s;e, hee that feeleth not the heat of charity in his hart, may think a&s;&s;uredly god is farre from him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are we iu&s;tified then by workes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes before men, but by faith be|fore God.</P>
<PB N="167" REF="171" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to pray?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To de&s;ire of God to open the hearts of the hearers, that they may be edified by their hearing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is it to pray&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To giue God thankes for them, when they are &s;eene to profit.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is it to reprooue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To inuey again&s;t their &s;ins: laying before them the iudgement of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is it to incourage?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To giue boldnes to the penite~t, a&s;&s;uring them of mercy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is required in the hearers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fiue things: fir&s;t diligent inten|tion, not to haue their minds caried a|way in the time of preaching through vanities: &s;econdly, meditation to rumi|nate vpon &s;uch good le&s;&s;ons, as they haue heard: thirdly, application, to ex|pre&s;&s;e it in the manner of their life: fourthly, praier for the continuance of Gods &s;pirit vpon their teachers: and fiftly, thank&s;giuing for the light of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After what method doth Chri&s;t teache?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Somtime by parables and &s;imi|litudes: and &s;ometime more plainly and familiarly.</P>
<PB REF="172">
<P><HI>Qu. Why did he teach by parables?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e the vnbeleeuing Iewes might heare and not vnder&s;tand, chap. 8.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a parable?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A di&s;cour&s;e containing one thing in words, and another in &s;en&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vices doth Chri&s;t reproue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he reproue ambition?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By &s;aying to his Apo&s;tles, Hee that &s;eemeth lea&s;t among you, the &s;ame &s;hall be great, chap. 9.48.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How pride?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that exalteth him&s;elfe, &s;hall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth him&s;elfe &s;hall be exalted, chap. 18.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How reuenge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> When <HI>Iames</HI> and <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;awe the Samaritanes woulde not receiue Chri&s;t, they wild him to call for fire fro~ heauen to con&s;ume them: but Chri&s;t re+buked them &s;aying: Ye wot not of what &s;pirit ye are: <HI>I</HI> come not to de&s;troy, but to &s;aue, chap. 9.55.56.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How incon&s;tancy or falling from the trueth?</HI></P>
<P>An. No man hauing put his hand to the plow and looking backe, is apt for the Kingdome of God, chap. 9.62.</P>
<PB N="168" REF="172">
<P>Q. <HI>How neglecting of the word, when it is preached, and not bringing forth fruites of repentance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It &s;hall be ea&s;ier for <HI>Tyre</HI> &amp; <HI>Sy|don</HI> in the day of iudgement, then for &s;uch men, chap. 10.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How worldly carefulne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the parable of the ritch man, that built his Barnes wide, and layd vp goods for many yeers, and &s;ayde to his &s;oule; Now take thy re&s;t: when pre&s;ent|ly God pronounced vppon him: Thou foole, this night thy &s;oule is taken from thee, chap. 12.19.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How el&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By the example of the Rauens, and Lillies of the field; which neither &s;owe nor reape, yet God feedes them: &amp; the Lillies are cloathed with greater royalty then <HI>Salomon,</HI> chap. 12. ver&s;. 24.27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what rea&s;on did Chri&s;t confute the folly of worldly minded men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By an argument, <HI>a minore ad ma|ius:</HI> by &s;aying, which of you by taking thought can adde to his &s;tature one cu+bite? If then ye bee not able to doe the le&s;&s;e, how wil ye performe the greater? chap. 12. 25. 26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat mu&s;t then be our care?</HI></P>
<PB REF="173">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not for tra&s;h of this world, but to lay vp trea&s;ure in heauen, where neither thee&s;e aproacheth, nor ru&s;t can corrupt, chap. 12.33.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How reproueth Chro&s;t ra&s;h iudge|ment, as when we doe condemne &s;uch vp|on whom God executeth his iudgements to bee greater &s;inners then wee our &s;elues are?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By telling vs, that except wee repent we &s;hall all likewi&s;e peri&s;h, chap. 13.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e who&s;oeuer hath de&s;er|ued wor&s;t, we (if God &s;hould enter into iudgement with vs) haue de&s;erued as bad as they.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he reprooue the tru&s;t in our owne merits?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;aying when we haue done all that we can, we are &s;till vnprofitable &s;eruants, becau&s;e we can doe nothing but that which is our duty to do, chap. 17.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom doth Chri&s;t pronounce ble&s;|&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The peacemaker, the poore in &s;pirit, the &s;orowfull; for they &s;hall re|ioyce: the per&s;ecuted, for great &s;hall be their reward in beauen, chap. Mat. 5.</P>
<PB N="169" REF="173" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein doth ble&s;&s;ednes con&s;ist?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An</HI> Not in honour, for then! <HI>Pharaoh</HI> had beene ble&s;&s;ed: nor in witte, for then <HI>Achitophell</HI> had beene ble&s;&s;ed: nor in wealth, for then <HI>Achab</HI> had been ble&s;&s;ed, but in the feare of the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is this feare pre&s;erued?</HI></P>
<P>An. By hauing a care to the com|mandementes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;teth his performance of the commaundements?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not onely in brideling the hands but in re&s;trayning the affections of the heart, as it is not enough to refraine from the &s;hedding of bloud, but from the thought thereof.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How doth Chri&s;t threaten the truell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee that in anger cals his bro|ther fool, &s;hall be in danger of Hel fire. Mat. 5. 22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what &s;trickt reckoning will he call the la&s;ciuious?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVho&s;oeuer looketh on a wo|man, to lu&s;t after her: hath, (&s;aith hee) committed adultery already with her in his heart Mat. 5. 28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is it lawfull for a man to put a|way his wife?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, except it be for fornication.
<PB REF="174">Math. 5, 32.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What oathes mu&s;t we v&s;e in our pri|uate conver&s;ation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An,</HI> Yea, yea, and nay, nay: for what &s;oeuer is more then that, commeth of euill.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what may we &s;weare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Neither by heauen, for it is the throne of God, nor by earth becau&s;e it is his foote&s;toole,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May we not &s;weare at all?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, before a magi&s;trate, for the confirmatio~ of a trueth, but not other|wi&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is an oath?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A calling of God to witnes, that what we &s;weare is true, or to be reuen|ged on vs, if we lie.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>May we that are humane creatures be reuenged one vpon another?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e Chri&s;t hath &s;aid, Ble&s;&s;e them that cur&s;e you, doe good to them that hate you. chap. 6, 28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what rea&s;on doth Chri&s;t binde vs hereunto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By an argument taken from the nature of God, who is &s;o gratious and louing vnto mankind, as hee maketh
<PB N="170" REF="174" MS="y">the Sunne to ri&s;e: and the raine to fall vpon the iu&s;t and vniu&s;t, Math. chapt. 5 ver&s;e 45.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who is iu&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not any man: for he that &s;aieth he hath no &s;inne, is a lyar, and there is no truth in him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many &s;orts of &s;inners are there</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The fir&s;t are &s;uch as are of a re|probate &s;ence, neither fearing God, nor man, as <HI>Pharaoh, Iudas,</HI> &amp;c. The &s;econd are &s;uch as before God are ve|ry impious, yet to them&s;elues and the world would &s;eeme righteous, and of this &s;ort are the Phari&s;es, &amp; hypocrites the third is of tho&s;e, that in the &s;ight of God and the world are &s;inners, but be|cau&s;e they acknowledge their &s;innes, and are di&s;plea&s;ed with them&s;elues for the &s;ame, praying vnto God for his grace, therefore are of him reputed righteous, as <HI>Mary Magdalen, Zachaeus,</HI> and the theefe vpon the Cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a &s;peciall note to knowe a repentant &s;inner by?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vigilancie, that when the Lord commeth, he be not found an vnpro|fitable &s;eruant.</P>
<PB REF="175">
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are called profitable &s;eruants</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as with care performe the will of their Mai&s;ter.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are called vnprofitable &s;er|uants?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, &s;uch as are magi&s;trates, &amp; abu&s;e their authority to the hurt of &s;uch as are vnder them: Secondly, &s;uch as are vnder the degree of &s;ubiectes, &amp; neglect their calling, or depraue it by their wicked practi&s;es; Thirdly, ritch men that helpe not the nece&s;&s;ities of the poore, Fourthly, the wi&s;e &amp; learned that &s;uffer the ignorant to goe a&s;tray for want of their good coun&s;ell, and in|&s;truction.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>For all the&s;e good in&s;tructions which Chri&s;t goue vnto the Iewes, how did they reward him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With &s;lander and reproach, &s;ay|ing that he did bla&s;pheme, &amp; ca&s;t forth Diuels by the name of <HI>Belzebub,</HI> the Prince of Diucls, chapter, 5, 21. and 11, 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is bla&s;phemy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To detract from the power of the holy gho&s;t.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>VVhat is &s;ufficient to allay the ma|lice of the Iewes, to &s;ay Chri&s;t was a bla&s;|phemer?</HI></P>
<PB N="171" REF="175">
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, the condition of enuious men is &s;uch, as when they haue done what di&s;grace they can in words, they practi&s;e deedes for the ouerthrowe of them they hate,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they practi&s;e Chri&s;t his o|uerthrow?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By hyring <HI>Iudas</HI> to betraye him vnto them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne by this, that a|mong&s;t the twelue, one was a traytor?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That euen among&s;t the &s;malle&s;t number of Gods elect, there the Diuell hath his in&s;truments.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what did</HI> Iudas <HI>betray his Ma|&s;ter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For money, as many doe their &s;oules, chap. 22.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the la&s;t memorable thing that Chri&s;t did before his betraying?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The in&s;titution of the &s;acrament of his body and bloud.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of how many things doth his Sa|crament con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of two.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The vi&s;ible &s;ub&s;tance, which is bread and wine: and the inui&s;ible grace which is redemption by his death, to all that receiue this &s;acrame~t worthily.</P>
<PB REF="176" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How many things are required for the worthy receiuing thereof?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Knowledge to di&s;cerne a diffe|rence betwixt this holy ordinance, and other ceremonies: Faith, to beleeue that Chri&s;t died for vs: Repentance to be &s;ory for our &s;innes: and charitie to forgiue our brethren.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is it not enough then to remember Chri&s;t by meditatio~, reading and hearing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No: except we doe likewi&s;e ac|tully receiue his bodie and bloud in the Sacrament of the altar.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat two things did Chri&s;t v&s;e in offering his body vpon the cro&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Breaking of his body, and a draw|ing forth of his bloud.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat mu&s;t our breaking he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A contrition of heart for our &s;innes, &amp; breaking of bread in the way of charity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mu&s;t our powring forth be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Teares of repentance, and teares of compa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doe we receiue Chri&s;t in the Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Spiritually.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What place mu&s;t we prepare for him?</HI></P>
<PB N="172" REF="176" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> An vpper roome in the bo&s;ome, and inward roome in the heart, a large roome to receiue his retinue, a &s;ayre roome hung with the tapi&s;try of righ|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e, a &s;vveet roome, decked with the flowers of loue, a conuenient room with a chimney &amp; a bed, that is the fire of zeale and the bed of peace.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mu&s;t be his diet?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Prayer and thank&s;giuing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who his attendants?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith, hope, and charity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall a man know whether he haue receiued Chri&s;t, or not?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> If he finde that he doth not one|ly heare his word, but brings foorth the fruites of good doctrine, and therfore a good Chri&s;tian is compared vnto a tree.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e hee hath a roote which is hope, a heart which is faith, a barke which is charitie, braunches which are &s;pirituall vertues, greene leaues waich are good words, &amp; fruite which is good workes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was Chri&s;t apprehended?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With bils and &s;taues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they v&s;e him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Buffeted, and &s;et a crowne of
<PB REF="177" MS="y">thornes vpon his head.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whither did they bring him to bee examined?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An,</HI> To the high Prie&s;t fir&s;t: then to <HI>Pilate,</HI> and afterward to <HI>Herod.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were the&s;e men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chiefe Magi&s;trates, but very wic|ked.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are godly Magi&s;trates called</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Gods.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they execute the iudge|ment of God vpon offenders.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was one bad note of a Ma|gi&s;trate in</HI> Pilate?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> This, that although he knewe Chri&s;t to be innocent, yet becau&s;e of the opinion of the people, rather then he would purcha&s;e their di&s;plea&s;ure he deliuered him ouer to their will. chap. chap. 23.25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vpon what occa&s;ion is the friend|&s;hip of the wicked oftentimes renevved?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon the di&s;grace and downefal of the godly: as appeares by <HI>Herod,</HI> and <HI>Pilate,</HI> who hauing beene long enemies were nowe reconciled together vppon the apprehen&s;ion of Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="John" TYPE="book">
<PB N="173" REF="177" MS="y">
<HEAD>Doctrine out of the Go&s;pell <HI>after S. John.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was</HI> Iohn?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> An Apo&s;tle, and the en|tirely beloued of Chri&s;t, chap. 13.23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he write the Go&s;pell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> As both an eie witne&s;&s;e, and an eare witne&s;&s;e of that which Chri&s;t had &s;aide and done.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What followes in this place to bee handled?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The&s;e fower branches: the conui|ction of Chri&s;t, his execution, re&s;urrec|tion, and a&s;cen&s;ion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were not the Iewes &s;atisfied vvith the impri&s;onment of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No: they &s;ought likewi&s;e to put him to death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did they pur&s;ue him with &s;uch hatred, hauing done &s;o many good deedes among them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon the &s;ame rea&s;on, that vice pur&s;ues vertue; iniquity godlines; fal&s;e|hood trueth; and darkne&s;&s;e light.</P>
<PB REF="178" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they blinded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By rage and their owne affecti|ons.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the affections?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like whirle-winds, when they haue once got the vper hand ouer rea|&s;on, as appeareth by the Iewes, that would heare nothing, but cried; Cruci|fie him, crucifie him, chap. 19.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did they obiect again&s;t him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That he did &s;educe the people, bla&s;pheme, was not <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> friend, and wor&s;e then <HI>Barrabas</HI> a theefe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they &s;ay he &s;educed the people?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By fal&s;e doctrine, in not attri|buting righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e by the Law, cha. 5.24.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How bla&s;pheme?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In calling him&s;elfe the Sonne of God, chap. 10.33.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How not to be Coe&s;ars friend?</HI></P>
<P>An. In making him&s;elfe a King, chap. 19.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How wor&s;e then Barrabas?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that they thought a bla&s;phe|mer wor&s;e then a theefe.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What kind of theefe was Barra|bas?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> One that by in&s;urrection &s;ought
<PB N="174" REF="178" MS="y">to rob the peoples hearts of obedience which is a kind of &s;pirituall theft</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many &s;orts of theeues are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, &s;uch as corrupt the mindes of others by their lewd examples, hy|pocrites, &s;landerers, and detractors of good mens verues, Secondly, &s;uch as teache lyes, whereby the &s;oules of the hearers are robbed of eternall bli&s;&s;e, Thirdly, &s;uch as attribute vnto them|&s;elues, the benefite of health, wealth, or liberty, and &s;o depriue GOD of his glory.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many kinds of corporal theeues are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Dome&s;ticall and foraine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom callye dome&s;ticall theeues?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All &s;uch as purloyne from their ma&s;ters, parents, husbands, wiues, or friends: or negligently &s;u&s;&s;er them to incurre any lo&s;&s;e or detriment, which they might preuent.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom call ye &s;oraine theeues?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All &s;uch as rob their neighbours, eyther by fal&s;e weights and mea&s;ures,
<PB REF="179" MS="y">bad wares or &s;ubtill practi&s;es: all Law|yers that make good cau&s;es bad, or bad good: all debters that neuer thinke to pay, and all creditors that triumphe o|uer the bodies of their poore debters, by impri&s;onment, or nay other kind of oppre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did Chri&s;t confute the obiecti|ons of the Iewes?</HI></P>
<P>An Fir&s;t, by &s;aying he was the way, the trueth, and the faithfull &s;hepheard, and therefore did not &s;educe the peo|ple, chap. 14.6. and 10.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;econdly?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;aying what he did, he did by the in&s;piration of the Holy gho&s;t, and power of God the Father: and therfore did not bla&s;pheme, chap. 1.32. and 10.30</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How thirdly?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By prote&s;ting openly, that what was due to <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> ought to bee giuen vnto <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> and therefore was not ene|mie to <HI>Cae&s;ar.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How fourthly?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing he came to enritche them with all the trea&s;ure of happy life, and therefore was no theefe like <HI>Barrabas,</HI> ch. 6.48. and 7.38.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were they not &s;atisfied with this?</HI></P>
<PB N="175" REF="179" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, not though <HI>Pilate</HI> the chiefe Magi&s;trate, before whome hee was indi|ted did certifie them from the iudge|ment &s;eat that hee found no fault in him. chap. 18.38.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhy did not</HI> Pilate <HI>&s;et him free?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e hee re&s;pected more the di&s;plea&s;ure of the people, then the di&s;|charge of his owne con&s;cience, wherein he &s;hewed him&s;elfe a bad magi&s;trate.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the true marks of a good Magistrate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVi&s;edome, Valour, Impartiality not to bee humerous, not to bee coue|tous, nor cruell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When is he wi&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVhen he di&s;cerneth rightly be|tweene fal&s;hood and trueth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhen valiant?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> VVhen he feares not to execute the tenoure of the Law.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhen impartiall.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> VVhen he neyther re&s;pecteth the rich for their authority, nor di&s;daines the poore for their ba&s;ene&s;&s;e, and infe|riority.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is he without humour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> VVhen hee executeth in&s;tice for the loue of vertue, &amp; not for hate, en|uy,
<PB REF="180" MS="y">or a malicious &s;tomacke again&s;t the party called in que&s;tion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is he not couetous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When hee doth not buy or &s;ell iu&s;tice for reward or bribes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is iu&s;tice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;quare of life, attributing to euery man that which is due.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is iniu&s;tice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The di&s;order of life, withholding from men the iu&s;t mea&s;ure of their de|&s;erts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When is a Magi&s;trate cruell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When he is wholly &s;et vpon &s;e|uerity, without any thought of pittie or compa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Was</HI> Pilate <HI>altogether without compa&s;&s;ion when hee gaue iudgment vppon Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No: he had a kind of compa&s;&s;ion but it was counterfait, and therefore though he would wa&s;h his hands neuer &s;o often, he cannot cleare him&s;elfe from the guilt of innocent bloud.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many &s;ortes of crueltie are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which bee they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The fir&s;t is of &s;uch as procure it, who neuerthele&s;&s;e will not execute
<PB N="179" REF="180" MS="y">it them&s;elues, and this was the cruelty of the Iewes: the &s;econd is &s;uch as de|ui&s;e not them&s;elues to be cruell, but when the &s;word is put into their hands, or the meanes giuen vnto them, do not &s;pare forth-with to execute it with all immanity and bruti&s;hnes of heart; and this is the cruelty of tyrantes and wic|ked men put in authority. The third is of &s;uch as neglect their duety towards them that are in danger, nece&s;&s;itie or tribulation; whome they both ought and might &s;aue, and help if they would: and &s;uch was the cruelty of <HI>Pilate,</HI> and is the cruelty of all &s;uch as &s;ee the inno|cent and guiltle&s;&s;e wronged, and will not helpe and &s;uccour them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many waies may we help the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fiue manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P>An. Either in per&s;on, when we tra|uell and labor for their deliuerance: or with our goods, in releeuing their wa~ts, or with our good words, to comforte them, or with our coun&s;aile to direct them, or with our power quite to deli|uer them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Had Chri&s;t any &s;uch friends?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No: nor did he neede them, be|cau&s;e
<PB REF="181" MS="y">he wold haue deliuered him&s;elfe if it had plea&s;ed him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhere were his Apo&s;tles?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fled from him.</P>
<P>Qu. Peter <HI>boa&s;ted he would dye for him, and did he now for&s;ake him in this extremity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He did not only for&s;ake him, but he flatly for&s;wore he knew him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How often?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three times the &s;ame night that Chri&s;t was apprehended, chap. 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The incon&s;ta~cy of fle&s;h &amp; bloud, and the ficklenes of worldly friends.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat became of</HI> Iudas <HI>that be|trayed him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As of a pernitious con&s;pirator.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He hanged him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who gaue him that iudgement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His owne guilty con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many offices of torment doth a guilty con&s;cience include?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of an accu&s;er, a juror, a judge, and an executioner.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How of an accu&s;er?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In laying our &s;innes to our
<PB N="177" REF="181" MS="y">charge. Rom, 2.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How of a iuror?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By giuing in euidence again&s;te vs.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How of a Iudge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In condemning vs.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How of an Executioner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By inflicting de&s;erued puni&s;h|ment.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to haue a guilty con&s;ci|ence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To liue in continuall torments and hell of minde.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the manner of Chri&s;t his execution?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The death of the Cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What extremity did hee &s;uffer be|fore he was nailed vpon the cro&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He &s;weat water and bloud, was fal&s;ly accu&s;ed, buffeted: &s;pit vpo~, &s;cour|ged, reuiled, crowned with thorns, and his garments parted before his face.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What extremitie did he indure v|pon the cro&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His hands and feete were nayled his &s;ide pearced with a &s;peare, he drank vinegar and gall, was for &s;aken of God, and reiected of the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For whome did he &s;uffer all the&s;e torments?</HI></P>
<PB REF="182" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not for any offence of his, for he was immaculate, but for our &s;ins which were infinite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end did he &s;uffer them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the &s;ati&s;faction of the iu&s;tice of God, and the redemption of our &s;oules.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> His obedience to God the Fa|ther, and his loue towards vs.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein appeared his obedience to|wards God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In performing all God had com|maunded, which is called actiue obe|dience: and in patient bearing all that was impo&s;ed vpon him: which is called pa&s;&s;iue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein appeared his loue towards vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In giuing his life for vs when we were yet his enemies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The power and vigor of the &s;oul expre&s;&s;ed by the in&s;trument of the body.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the opinions of Athei&s;ts touching life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Some thinke, becau&s;e a man li|ueth
<PB N="178" REF="182" MS="y">no longer then he breatheth, that the life of man is nothing but a puffe of winde. Some againe, Becau&s;e the lo&s;&s;e of much bloud bringeth the lo&s;&s;e of life therfore they e&s;teeme the life to be no|thing el&s;e but bloud: And other &s;ome, becau&s;e in death they perceiue no dif|ference between men and bea&s;ts, ther|fore they hold our life to be as the liues of bruite bea&s;tes, vani&s;hing without im|mortality of &s;oule: but all the&s;e opinions are cotrupt and lewde.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy &s;o?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they are grounded onlie vpon the corporall &s;en&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doe you prooue the &s;oule im|mortall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e it is the image of God, which is a &s;pirit and eternall: for there mu&s;t alwaies bean agreement betwixt the image and the thing wherof it is an image.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat part of Chri&s;t then did &s;uf|fer death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> His humanity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of vvhat doth his humanity con|&s;i&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of body and &s;oul like vnto ours &s;in onely excepted.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did his &s;oule &s;uffer death?</HI></P>
<PB REF="183" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> It did.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>Why then the &s;oule is not immor|tall?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> There be two kinds of death, one corporall, which is a di&s;&s;olution of the &s;oule from the body: another &s;pirituall, which is a &s;eparation of the &s;oule from the pre&s;ence of God. And in this &s;ence it is &s;aid, that Chri&s;t his &s;oule did die: in|&s;omuch as for a while it was excluded from the pre&s;ence of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What part of Chri&s;t did not &s;uffer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His Deity, by which he did ouer|come death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did his victory ouer death ap|peare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his re&s;urrection.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon the third day.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What benefit haue we by his re|&s;urrection?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The a&s;&s;urance of the immortali|ty both of &s;oule and body, and that &s;in, death nor hell &s;hall haue any power o|uer vs, &s;o long as we beleeue in him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How prooue you that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his owne wordes, <HI>I</HI> am the re&s;urrection and the life; hee that be|lieueth in me, though he were dead, yet he &s;hall liue. chap. 11.25. And againe,
<PB N="179" REF="183" MS="y">hee that beleeueth in the Sonne, hath life euerla&s;ting, and he that beleeueth not in the Sonne, &s;hall not &s;ee life, but the wrath of God abideth in him, chap. 3.36.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What kind of people held opinion, that there is no re&s;urrection?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> The Saduces, and therefore they tempted Chri&s;t with the que&s;tion of the woman that had &s;euen husba~ds, who&s;e wife &s;he &s;hould be at the day of the re&s;urrection.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth Chri&s;t an&s;wer this que|&s;tion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> By &s;aying, that in the king|dom of heauen they neither mary, nor are maried, but are as the Angells of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are they called that among&s;t vs deny the re&s;urrection?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Athei&s;ts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many &s;ortes of Athei&s;tes are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The one, that per&s;wade the~&s;elues the &s;oule is mortall a&s;well as the body: the other that albeit they haue &s;ome opinion of the immortality of the &s;oule yet they thinke there is no hell nor pu|ni&s;hment for &s;inne after this life.</P>
<PB REF="184" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth the &s;cripture di&s;prooue the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;aying, that who&s;oeuer be|leeueth in Chri&s;t &s;hall not peri&s;h, but haue eternall life, chap. 3.5.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How the &s;econd?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By the words that God &s;hall &s;ay to the wicked at the day of iudgement: depart from me ye cur&s;ed, into euerla|&s;ting fire, which is prepared for the di|uel and his Angels, Mat. 25.41.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many &s;orts of Angels bee there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two: good and bad.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what &s;ub&s;tance are good An|gels?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not of the nature and e&s;&s;ence of God, nor immortall of them&s;elues: but haue their immortalitie of GOD, who both giues it vnto them, and pre|&s;erues them in it, &amp; could take it from them if he would.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What difference is there betwixt the &s;pirits of men and Angels?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The &s;pirits of men are ioyned vnto bodies, the &s;pirits of Angels are not.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are not the &s;pirits of men cele&s;ti|all?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Yes, not in re&s;pect they are
<PB N="180" REF="184" MS="y">drawne from the nature of God, but in re&s;pect of the agreemente that is be|twixt them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What difference is there betwixt &s;oule and &s;pirit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A &s;oule is common to all men li|uing, as well Infidells as others, but &s;pi|rit is properly in tho&s;e that are rege|nerate and borne anew by faith and the holy gho&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whome did Chri&s;t fir&s;t appeare after his re&s;urrection?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To <HI>Mary Magdalen,</HI> and after|ward three &s;euerall times to his Apo|&s;tles.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>How long was he vpon the earth af|ter his re&s;urrection?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Forty daies and then hee was ta|ken vp on high and a cloude receiued him. Acts, 1, 3.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where vvas Christ when hee was taken vp?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon mount Oliuet.</P>
<TRAILER>The end of the Go&s;pell.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Acts" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="185">
<HEAD>The Actes.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>AFter that Chri&s;t a&s;cended into heaue~, whome did hee leaue on earth for the building vp of his Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His eleuen Apo&s;tles.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did he &s;trengthen them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;ending the holy gho&s;t vnto them, chap. 2.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In vvhat likene&s;&s;e did the Holie gho&s;t appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the likene&s;&s;e of fiery tongues, chap, 2.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With vvhat did it indue them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With the knowledge of langua|ges.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they might preach to all na|tions.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was that their office?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who enioyned them thereunto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t. chap, 1.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vpon hovv many poynts did theire of fice con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<PB N="181" REF="185" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Of two.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> To baptize and to in&s;truct.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How did they bapti&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy gho&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did they in&s;truct?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By te&s;tifying the death, re&s;urre|ction, and a&s;cen&s;ion of Chri&s;t: &amp; teach|ing of faith, repenta~ce, &amp; good works, chap. 2.23.24.25.28.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What power had they giuen them to confirme their doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The power of working myra|cles: as making the &s;ame to goe, healing the &s;ick, and rai&s;ing the dead, chap. 3.6. and 9.34.40.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who &s;tood again&s;t them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The practi&s;e of the Diuell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who defended them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The prouidence of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Diue practi&s;e again&s;t them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By ray&s;ing vp con&s;piracies, tu|mults, commotions, per&s;e cutions, &s;lan|ders, and by bringing them to impri|&s;onment, &s;tripes, and death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat purpo&s;e and end did
<PB REF="186" MS="y">the diuel do this?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To ouerthrow, or at the lea&s;t, to &s;top the cour&s;e of their preaching, if it had bin po&s;&s;ible.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God defend and pre&s;erue them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> He reuealed the con&s;piracies a|gain&s;t them, chap. 9.24. He pacified the tumults &amp; commotions, chap. 19.35. to 41. He &s;ent them refuge in time of per|&s;ecution, chap. 14.6. Hee conuerted the hearts of their &s;launderers, chapter 2.37. He deliuered them out of pri&s;on, chap. 5.19. He comforted them when they were beaten, chap. 5.41. and 23.11 and in death hee gaue them life, chap. 14.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who con&s;pired again&s;t them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Iewes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When <HI>Paule</HI> was impri&s;oned by them, &s;ome fortie of them and more, tooke an oath that they would not eat nor drinke, vntill they had &s;lain <HI>Paul:</HI> Acts. 23.12.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vnder what colour would they ex|ecute their malice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Vnder colour to haue him brought forth to be examined, &amp; they by the way would murder him.</P>
<PB N="182" REF="186">
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God reueale this con&s;pi|racie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Pauls</HI> &s;i&s;ters &s;onne ouer-heard it, and was &s;ent to tell the Captaine of the ca&s;tle of it, chap. 23.20.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did the captaine, when he heard it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sent <HI>Paule</HI> with a power of men for his guard to <HI>Cae&s;area,</HI> to <HI>Faelix</HI> the chiefe gouernour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who rai&s;ed tumult again&s;t them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Iewes, and one <HI>Demetrius</HI> a &s;iluer-&s;mith at Ephe&s;us.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t which of the Apo&s;tles did</HI> Demetrius <HI>rai&s;e a tumult?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Again&s;t <HI>Paul, Gaius,</HI> and <HI>Ari&s;tar|chus, Pauls</HI> companions.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they &s;poke again&s;t Ima|ges, by making of which hee got his li|uing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was</HI> Demetrius <HI>intent, by this commotion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To haue <HI>Paul</HI> and his di&s;ciples &s;uppre&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God preuent their pur|po&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Towne Clarke pacified the people, and the men were let goe, cha. 19.35.</P>
<PB REF="187">
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was the Diuels in&s;trument to per&s;ecute the Apo&s;tles?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Herod</HI> in <HI>Iudea,</HI> and the vnbelee|uing Iewes in <HI>Iconium, The&s;&s;alonica,</HI> and other places.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom did Herod per&s;ecute?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He killed <HI>Iames,</HI> and put <HI>Peter</HI> in pri&s;on, chap. 12.2.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was Gods in&s;trument to de|liuer Peter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> An Angell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was</HI> Herod <HI>puni&s;hed for his cruelty?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> he was eaten to death with worms chap. 12.13.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Whom did the vnbeleeuing Iewes per&s;ecute at Iconium?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Paul and Barnabas.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they deliuered?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God gaue them knowledge of their dangers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whither went they for refuge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To <HI>Li&s;tra</HI> and <HI>Derbe,</HI> Citties of Licaonia, chap. 14.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who were per&s;ecuted in The&s;&s;alo|nica?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Paul and Sylas.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How e&s;caped they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their friends &s;ent them away by night to <HI>Baerea,</HI> chap. 17.10.</P>
<PB N="183" REF="187" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are the Diuels instruments to &s;lander the Apo&s;tles?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> The Iewes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> At Ieru&s;alem.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;aying (when they &s;poke all manner of languages) that they were drunk with new wine, chap. 2, 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God make them repent their &s;launder.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By touching them with remor&s;e of con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who vvere the Diuels in&s;trume~ts to impri&s;on the Apo&s;tles?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> King <HI>Herede,</HI> the Iewes, and the Romane &s;ub&s;titute.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who vvas Gods in&s;trument to deli|uer them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An angell, and &s;uch men as hee rai&s;ed to be their friends, chap, 5.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did God comfort the Apo&s;tles when they were beaten?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;peaking to them in vi&s;ions chap, 23.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To which of them did he giue life in death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To <HI>Paule.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In vvhat manner?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. When <HI>Paul</HI> was &s;toned by the
<PB REF="188" MS="y">men of <HI>Listra,</HI> and caryed out of the citie for deade, God rai&s;ed him vp a|gain cue~ in the midde&s;t of the de&s;ciples that &s;toode about him, chap. 14. ver&s;. 19.20.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What learne we by the &s;equele of this di&s;cour&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That God by &s;imple men in &s;pite of all tyranny, repleni&s;hed the whole world with the &s;ound of his go&s;pell.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But</HI> Paul, <HI>as we reade in the eight chap. per&s;ecuted the church, &amp; con&s;ented to the death of</HI> Steaue~, <HI>how came he then to be an Apo&s;tle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;pirit of God (in who&s;e handes are the hartes of all men) con|verted him fro~ a per&s;ecuter to a prea|cher, &s;o that among&s;t all the Apo&s;tles, none was more zealous, nor added more Soules to the Church, then hee did.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth that appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his painefull trauell through many countries, his &s;tripes, impri&s;on|ment, &s;toning, danger by land and Sea, which he ioyfully &s;uffered for the loue of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</P>
<P>Que&s;ti. <HI>Why did God &s;uffer his cho&s;en &s;eruant to be &s;o iniuriou&s;ly handled of the world?</HI></P>
<PB N="184" REF="188" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For three rea&s;ons.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That he him&s;elfe might bee the more glorified by their deliuerance, their enemies more iu&s;tly condemned, and his &s;eruants more worthy of their reward in heauen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>As they were painfull to teache, were the people as ready to followe their doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Many were, of tho&s;e who&s;e harts were prepared for that calling: but o|therwi&s;e, they that were not refu&s;ed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>It appeareth then that faith is the only gift of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> It is: and increa&s;eth in vs by hearing of his word: as appeareth by <HI>Lydia,</HI> the woman of the Thyatirians, who&s;e heart the Lord opened, that &s;he attended to the doctrine of <HI>Paul,</HI> chap. 16.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;trange conuer&s;ions were there made by the Apo&s;tles?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The conuer&s;ion of the Aethiopi|an Eunuch, of <HI>Cornelius,</HI> of <HI>Eneas,</HI> and <HI>Pauls</HI> Iaylor.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why did the conuer&s;ion of the&s;e men &s;eeme more &s;trange then the re&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e in the eye of the world, both for their Calling and quality they
<PB REF="189" MS="y">&s;eemed more vnlikely to be conuerted then any other.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Eunuch was of the heathen that wor&s;hipped &s;trange Gods, ch. 8.37. <HI>Cornelius</HI> a &s;ouldier, who&s;e &s;tearne pro|fe&s;&s;ion might &s;eeme to harden his heart again&s;t the fir&s;t impre&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;tian faith, chap. 10.5. <HI>Elymas</HI> a coniurer, and one that practi&s;ed with the diuell: and the laylor, a forward mini&s;ter to exe|cute the cruelty of &s;uch as per&s;ecuted Chri&s;t and his Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the conuerted &s;hew them|&s;elues afterward to be Chri&s;tians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By their good works.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Eunuch planted the Go&s;pel in <HI>Ethiopia: Cornelius</HI> v&s;ed much praier and alme&s;-deeds: and the Iaylor dre&s;t the wounds of <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Sylas,</HI> and re|fre&s;hed them with meat.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>It is not then inough for vs to be Chri&s;tians in name, but we mu&s;t al&s;o be &s;o in nature?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> True, for otherwi&s;e, we &s;hall be &s;ure to vndergoe the wrath of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what example?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the example of <HI>Ananias</HI> and <HI>Saphyra,</HI> and of <HI>Eutichus.</HI></P>
<PB N="158" REF="189" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What were theyr faults?</HI></P>
<P>An. <HI>Ananias,</HI> and <HI>Saphira,</HI> after they were receiued into the Church, did not with their whole hart addict them&s;elues to the &s;eruice of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein did they fayle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that whereas it was accu&s;to|med amonge&s;t them to imploy all their goods to the benefyt of theyr brethren they kept backe a parte to theyr owne priuate v&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they puni&s;hed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> VVith &s;odaine death, chap. 5, 5 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If God &s;hewed &s;uch &s;euerity vppon them in that they di&s;tributed not theyre whole &s;ub&s;tance to the maintenance of chri&s;tian charity: what ought they to feare that will bestow nothing, not &s;o much as the &s;uperfluity of thyer riches to the relee|uing of theyr di&s;tre&s;&s;ed brethren?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not onelie death of body in this world, but de&s;truction of &s;oule and bo|dy in the world to come, vnle&s;&s;e they amend.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein did</HI> Eutichus <HI>offend?</HI></P>
<P>A. Being of the congregation of the faithfull, as he &s;ate with others to heare <HI>Paule</HI> preache, neglected his doctrine, [as at many Sermons with vs wee may
<PB REF="190" MS="y">&s;ee the like) and fell into a &s;leep.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did God puni&s;h him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He made him an example to the whole a&s;&s;embly, by &s;uffering him to fall from the third loft; &s;o that hee lay for dead, till <HI>Paul</HI> reuiued him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But our Chri&s;tians &s;it low, and in their Pewes, and therefore need feare no &s;uch danger?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> True, they need not feare falling to the ground: but they may fit in dread of a greater fall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From the top of heauen to the bottome of hell, if when they &s;houlde heare the word of God they &s;uffer &s;leep to &s;top their eares.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Romans" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Saint Paules Epistle to the Romanes.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was the cau&s;e the Apo&s;tles writ Epi&s;tles?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The variety of nati|ons whom they had converted, with
<PB N="186" REF="190">whom they could not alwaies in per&s;on be conuer&s;ant, and therefore they &s;ent their minds vnto them in writing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> To cheri&s;h their yong faith, which otherwi&s;e (like a greene tree that hath not taken deep roote,) might bee &s;haken with contention and er|rour.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVas there any &s;uch thing in Rome, at &s;uch time as he &s;ent this Epi&s;tle thither?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Iewes began to de&s;pi&s;e the Gentiles, and the Gentiles the Iewes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherfore did the Iewes de&s;pi&s;e the Gentiles?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They thought them vnworthy to be partakers of grace through Chri&s;t, becau&s;e they were not vnder the Law alwell as they.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Gentiles de&s;pi&s;e the Ievves?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They thought them more vn|worthy of Gods fauor through Chri&s;t, becau&s;e they had refu&s;ed him for their Me&s;&s;ias, to whom only he was &s;ent.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth</HI> Paul <HI>take vp this con|trouer&s;ie</HI></P>
<PB REF="191" MS="y">
<P>An. By proouing them both guilty of mon&s;trous &s;innes, and therefore vnfitte either to reprooue other.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what doth he prooue the gentils guilty?</HI></P>
<P>An. Of Idolatry: for though they had not the Law written, yet by the frame of heauen and earth, they could not but know there was an omnipote~t God; &amp; therfore they ought not to haue wor|&s;hipped Idols, chap. 10.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he hold the Iews guilty of?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of pre&s;umption in thinking they could bee iu&s;tified by the Law: &s;o that neither in the Law, nor out of the Law (that is before the Law was giuen) can there be any righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What then mu&s;t they depend vpon for their iustification.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Onely faith in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, who had performed the Lawe for them: for to heare the Law, vvas no cau&s;e of iu&s;tifi|cation, but to performe the Law, which none was able to do, but onely the &s;on of God, cha. 2, 13, and 3.20, 25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv dooth</HI> Paule <HI>di&s;tingui&s;h the Law.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into the Law of the Letter, and the Law of faith.</P>
<PB N="187" REF="191" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth the Law of the Letter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Shew vs what &s;inne is, but not purge vs from &s;inne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat is the Law of faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e obtained with|out the Law.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How proueth he that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the example of <HI>Abraham,</HI> who was iu&s;tified by faith before hee was circumci&s;ed; that hee might not thinke circumci&s;ion cau&s;e of his iu&s;tifi|cation, chap. 4.10,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How then doth he draw the Iewe and the Gentile to agreement?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing them, that both the circumci&s;ed, and the vncircumci&s;ed, &s;hall be &s;aued if they beleeue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat doth beliefe bring?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Peace of con&s;cience towardes God, through our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. chap. 5.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat doth peace of con&s;cience bring?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ioy in tribulation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What tribulation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Patience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What patience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Experience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat experience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Hope that will not deceiue vs.</P>
<PB REF="192" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How is our hope made vndeceiue|able?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By the loue of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that, when wee were yet his enemies, he gaue his onely begotten Son to death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How became we Gods enemies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the &s;in of <HI>Adam.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whether was greater, the condem|nation that came through the &s;in of</HI> Adam <HI>or the iu&s;tification that came through the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The iu&s;tification that came by the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e by one &s;in onely, came damnation: but Chri&s;t by righteou&s;|nes hath forgiuen many &s;innes; that is, not onely the &s;inne of <HI>Adam,</HI> whereto we are guilty, but many other &s;innes of our owne, which we haue &s;ince com|mitted.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What bringeth vs to the knowledge of &s;in?</HI></P>
<P>An. The Lawe, for if wee had not known lu&s;t, then the Lawe had not &s;aid Thou &s;halt not lu&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Then the more &s;inne is manife&s;ted the more grace abounds?</HI></P>
<PB N="188" REF="192" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> It doth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>May we therefore &s;inne that grace may abound?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God forbid.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why not?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e when in bapti&s;me wee are made partakers of grace, we die to &s;inne, and ri&s;e againe to newnes of life. chap. 6.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to die to &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To aboli&s;h the workes of the fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Que&s;tion, <HI>What is it to ri&s;e to newnes of life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To follow the workes of the &s;pi|rite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What call you the works of the &s;pi|rit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith, charity, peace, concord, mercy, loue, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What call you the workes of the fle&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pride, enuy, &s;louth, gluttony, vn|charitablenes, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are they rewarded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With death: for the reward of &s;in is death, chap. 6, 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are the vvorks of the &s;pirit re|warded?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With eternall life, ch. 6, 1.3.</P>
<PB REF="193" MS="y">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Are we all &s;ubiect to death by the Lavv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> We are.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How then can the Law bee good which is cau&s;e of much ill.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Yet the Law is holy and good, and ordained to giue vs vs life, but that &s;inne working in vs, alters the property of the Law, &s;o that in &s;tead of life, wee find death, chap. 7, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall we auoide this danger?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By liuing after the &s;pirit.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho are they that liue after the &s;pirit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as God in his foreknow|ledge hath prede&s;tinated thereunto, chap. 8.30.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are all men predestinate to be &s;a|ued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No, &s;ome are made ve&s;&s;elles of wrath to de&s;truction, as other&s;ome are made ve&s;&s;els of mercy prepared for glo|ry, chap. 9.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is God then the cau&s;e of any mans condemnation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> No, but &s;in which raigneth in man.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are they called which are ordained to be &s;aued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The children of God.</P>
<PB N="189" REF="193" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>How are we made the children of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By election, creation, and adop|tion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why are the&s;e ble&s;&s;ings bestowed vpon vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not for any de&s;ert of ours, but through the meere loue and mercie of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What recompence doth he require of vs for them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Nothing but loue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is our loue &s;howen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> If we &s;uffer neither tribulation, per&s;ecution, famine, nakedne&s;&s;e, perill, nor &s;word to &s;eparate vs from Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhen are we &s;eparated from Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When we doe, or con&s;ent to doe any thing contrary to his will.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why mu&s;t we endure any extremity rather then reuolt from God?</HI></P>
<P>An. Becau&s;e the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory which &s;hall be &s;howne vnto vs in the life to come, chap 8.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doe we obtaine that glory then by workes?</HI></P>
<PB REF="194">
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but by the mercie of GOD onely, yet works and the good motions of the &s;pirite te&s;tifie to our con&s;ciences in the meane &s;pace, that &s;uch a reward is laide vp for vs.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are we put from that glory?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Only by our &s;ins.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whom was the couenant of this glory made?</HI></P>
<P>An. To the Iewes fir&s;t, and then to the Gentiles.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Iewes lo&s;e it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By thinking to become righteous by the Law.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Gentiles obtaine it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By beleeuing in Chri&s;t, &s;o &s;oone as they heard of his name, chapt. 9.30.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why could not the Iewes be righte|ous by the Law?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they could not fulfill the Law.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are the Gentiles then righteous by fulfilling the Law?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They are.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do they fulfill the Law?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not in them&s;elues, but in the work of Chri&s;t, who hath fulfilled it for them, and for all others that beleeue in him, &s;o that his righteou&s;nes is become theirs, chap. 10.4.9.</P>
<PB N="190" REF="194" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Are all the Iewes reiected?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, God hath re&s;erued a remna~t to be &s;aued, chap. 9.27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are the Gentiles all accepted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but onely &s;uch as heare the word and beleeue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But &s;ome haue not heard the word, therefore they &s;hall be excu&s;ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not &s;o, the &s;ound therof is gone through the earth, therefore none can pleade ignorance, chap. 10.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Becau&s;e we are Gentiles, and ac|cepted by our belief in the place of the vn|belieuing Iewes, ought we to de&s;pi&s;e them in re&s;pect of our &s;elues.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e wee are not &s;o accep|ted, but we may be reiected; nor they &s;o reiected, but they may be receiued: for if God grafted vs into the true vine which were but wilde branches: much more may he grafft the Iewes, which were the true branches, into the true &s;tock againe; chap. 11.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why doth Saint</HI> Paul <HI>vrge this &s;i|militude?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;hut vp the contention be|tweene the Iewes and the Gentiles, that neither &s;hould de&s;pi&s;e other: be|cau&s;e
<PB REF="195" MS="y">they were alike in beleefe, and vnbeleefe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>After the deciding of this contro|uer&s;ie, and certaine principall points of re|ligion (as faith and iu&s;tification) declared, wherein doth</HI> Paul <HI>&s;hew we ought to &s;triue one to excell another?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In vnity, and vprightne&s;&s;e of life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that to be performed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By offering vp our &s;elues a liuely &s;acrifice vnto God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a liuely &s;acrifice?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To cut off the works of darknes and put on the armor of light.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t we ca&s;t off the works of darkne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By conforming our &s;elues after the will of God, and not after the fa&s;hi|on of the world. chap. 12.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the workes of darkne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To imbrace pride, rather then humanity; lu&s;t rather the~ cha&s;tity; hate rather then loue; rebellion rather then obedience, gluttony rather then ab&s;ti|nence, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the armor of light?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To di&s;po&s;e our minds after the contrary.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>It &s;eemes then by being comman|ded
<PB N="191" REF="195" MS="y">to &s;acrifice our bodies, that euery chri|&s;tian is a Prie&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> True, we are.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are we con&s;ecrated?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not by the infu&s;ion of oyle, but by the in&s;piration of the holy &s;pirit.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At our Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Do al Chri&s;tians &s;erue the office of Prie&s;thood?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e their &s;acrifice is not &s;uch as it &s;hould be.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How comes that to pa&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By rea&s;on they prefer not &s;orrow before ioy, death before life, rebuke be|fore honor, enemies before friends, for the loue of Chri&s;t, and as hee in his life did for our example.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhome is it giuen to do tho&s;e things?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To all; but not after a like mea|&s;ure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat mu&s;t they do that haue pri|uiledge of grace aboue others?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not boa&s;t of it but help to fur|ni&s;h them that want. chap. 11, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what example are wee taught &s;o to doe?</HI></P>
<PB REF="196" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the example of the members of a mans bodie: for as when the foote is offended, the re&s;t of the members, as the eie, hand, &amp; tongue &s;traite mini&s;ter to it &s;o ought it to bee in the members of Chri&s;t his body: when one faints, the re&s;t mu&s;t relieue it.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Who is the head of the mi&s;ticall body?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are the eies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His Preachers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are the eares?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hearers of his word.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are the hands?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Magi&s;trates.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are the feete?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;ubiects.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duety of a Preacher?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To reach with &s;incerity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duety of the hearer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To attend with reuerence.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the duetie of the Magi&s;|trate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To rule with Iu&s;tice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duety of the &s;ubiect?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To obey with loue?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the fine wes that binde the&s;e ioyntes, of the mi&s;ticall bodie toge|ther?</HI></P>
<PB N="192" REF="196" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;vver,</HI> Compa&s;&s;ion and brotherlie loue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is compa&s;sion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A &s;uffering with our Chri&s;tian brethren, or a like feeling of the hearte that hee &s;hewes to them, as if it were happened to our &s;elues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth it produce?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A di&s;tributing to their nece&s;&s;i|tie, as councell to them that erre, com|fort to all them that mourne, and food to them that hunger, clothing to them that are naked, and harbour to them that are harbourle&s;&s;e, chap. 12. ver&s;e, 15 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv are the&s;e vertues performed in vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By continuance in prayer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vices are contrary to com|pa&s;sion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hate, reuenge, arrogancy, and &s;elfe loue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why mu&s;t we not hate?</HI></P>
<P>An. Becau&s;e God hath commanded loue. chap. 12.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why mu&s;t we not reuenge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e reuenge is the Lordes, chap. 12, 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why mu&s;t we not bee arrogant, and high minded?</HI></P>
<PB REF="197" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e wee are all of one li|nage, and no man hath anie thing of him&s;elfe, but what is giuen him of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is &s;elf loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> To bee wi&s;e in our owne con|ceites.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth our duty onely extend to the body of our chri&s;tian brothey?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but to his mind al&s;o.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> We mu&s;t take heede that wee offend not his con&s;cience, by cating of meates, or ob&s;eruation of dayes chapr. 14, 21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When are the&s;e precepts to bee put in execution?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Our of hand.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e the time of our &s;aluation draweth neere, chap, 13, 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When to be left off?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not in death</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e, whether we liue or die we liue and die to the Lord, chapter, 14.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth Saint</HI> Paul <HI>conclude this Epi&s;tle to the Romanes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With two things.</P>
<PB N="193" REF="197" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVith exhortation and prayer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth be exhort vs vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The reading of the Scriptures, thanke&s;giuing and to bevvare of fal&s;e prophets.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why doth he exhort them to reade the Scripture?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e what&s;oeuer is written, is vvritten for their and our in&s;truction chap, 15.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy to thank&s;giuing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Becau&s;e of the mercie of God &s;hevven vnto all.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why to beware of fal&s;e prophets?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they rai&s;ed diui&s;ions and opinions in the Church, contrary to the doctrine of Chri&s;t. chap. 16, 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is his prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they mighte bee filled with all ioy and peace that come by fayth, and with all aboundance of hope.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is hope?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> An a&s;&s;ured expectation of ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e to come; to which Chri&s;t Ie&s;us bring vs, Amen.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>From whence did</HI> Paule <HI>write this Epistle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From <HI>Corinth?</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="1 Corinthians" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="198">
<HEAD><HI>1</HI> Corinthians.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHere was</HI> Paule <HI>when he writte this Epistle to the</HI> Corinthi|ans?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In <HI>Syria.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was the cau&s;e that mooud him to write?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;ects and diui&s;ions that in his ab&s;ence, tooke roote in the Church of <HI>Corinth.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What were they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Some held of <HI>Paule,</HI> &s;ome of <HI>Apol|lo,</HI> and &s;ome of <HI>Cephas.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he reprooue that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing them that Chri&s;t is one, and his religion one, and therefore ought not to bee diuided: and how&s;oe|uer <HI>Paul, Apollo, or Cephas</HI> plant, it is no|thing, except God giue the increa&s;e. chap. 3.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whence then proceedes the knovv|ledge of the Scripture?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From the &s;pirite of God. chap. 2.12.</P>
<PB N="19" REF="198" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Who is the meanes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The preacher. chap. 3, 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How ought he to deliuer the words?</HI></P>
<P>An. Not in the inticing &s;peech of mans wi&s;dome, but in the plaine eui|dence of the &s;pirite, chap. 2, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e the wi&s;dome of the world before God is fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e, and that which the world accounts fooli&s;h|nes, is wi&s;dome before God, chap. 3, 19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is their offence then that per|&s;wade them&s;elues, the Go&s;pell is not vvell taught except it hee &s;et foorth vvith elo|quence of &s;peech?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They make the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t of none effect, attributing that vnto men, which belonges to the power of God. Chap. 1, 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the inconveniences which come by controuer&s;ie in religion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vice pa&s;&s;eth avvay vnpuni&s;hed, and the congregation is &s;candalized. Chap. 5, 2, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What be the vices Saint</HI> Paul <HI>no|te&s;h in the</HI> Corinthians?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Arrogancy, ince&s;t, going to law one with another, and fornication.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How would he haue arrogancy re+claimed?</HI></P>
<PB REF="199" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> By humiltie; if any man among you &s;eeme to be wi&s;e in this world, let him be a foole, that he may hee wi&s;e. chap. 3, 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How ince&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By excommunicating the party chap. 5, 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How going to law?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> By choo&s;ing &s;ome one or o|ther of theyr brethren, to &s;et concorde betweene them, without expence of time and further charge, chap. 6, 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How fornication?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By matriage, to auoyde fornica|tion, let euery man haue his wife, chap, 7, 2.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which doth hee mo&s;t commend marriage or a &s;ingle life?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Single life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e it is mo&s;t apt for the &s;er|uice of God, by rea&s;on it is freed from cares the other is intangled. chapter. 7 32, 33.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth he not likewi&s;e taxe them of Idolatry?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, and of thinking the mini&s;ter a burden to the congregation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he reprooue the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing that although they
<PB REF="199" MS="y">feare God in heart, yet it is not lawfull for them to eate with idolaters.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e in &s;o doing, they may wound the weak con&s;ciences of others chap. 8.11: 12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv doth be reprooue the &s;e|cond?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing, that he which fee|deth the flocke, is worthy to eate of the milke of the flock chap. 9.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By who&s;e example doth he teache them to auoide the&s;e enormities?</HI></P>
<P>A. By the examle of the Iewes, who were ambitious, full of &s;trifes, de&s;pi&s;ers of Prophets, and prophaners of holie things, chap. 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why are they taught to auoyde the&s;e things?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e their bodyes are the Temples of God, and therefore they ought not to make them the temples of the diuell, by &s;uffering them&s;elues to be polluted with &s;uch vncleannes, cha. 3:1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When do they auoide them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> When they doe all thinges in putitie of &s;pirit, and to edification, ch. 14.5.</P>
<PB REF="200" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the be&s;t ground of Edifica|tion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Loue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do you proue that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e hee that teacheth, al|though he &s;peake with the tongue of an Angel, and haue not loue is like a tink|ling cimbal, ch. 13, 1. He that hath faith able to remoue mountaines, and wants loue, it is nothing, ver&s;e. 2. And he that giueth all he hath to the poore, and is without loue, profireth nothing, ver&s;e. 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Loue then is nece&s;&s;arie in all the points of religion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It is, for hee that comes to the Lordes Table without loue, is an vn|woorthy gue&s;t: And hee that prayeth and is not in loue calleth for vengea~ce on him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVherin did the Corinthians abu&s;e prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In not ob&s;eruing the eu&s;tome of time.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was that?</HI></P>
<P>An. To pray bareheaded, chap. 11. ver&s;e 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein did they abu&s;e the Lords &s;upper?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In that &s;ome came with a car|nall
<PB N="196" REF="200" MS="y">de&s;ire to eate, and &s;ome had filled them&s;elues before, chap, 11, 21.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>VVhat was the pre&s;umption of they<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vvomen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vver.</HI> They tooke vpon them to teach, which is not allowable. chap. 14, 34.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What Principall thing was to bee ob&s;erued among&s;t the teachers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Not to teach or pray in a &s;tra~ge tongue, by which the people could not be edified, nor whereunto they could not &s;ay Amen, chap, 14, 2, 16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is thela&s;t error that Paul con|futed in them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Their doubting of the re&s;urrec|tion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth hee confute it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing that Chti&s;t is ri&s;en, which is the fir&s;t fruit of them that &s;hal ri&s;e, chap. 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he prooue that Chri&s;t is rifen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the te&s;timony of the Apo|&s;tles, &amp; of others that &s;aw him: but lea&s;t this might not be &s;ufficient, he co~firms it al&s;o by rea&s;on.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That vnle&s;&s;e there be a re&s;urrec|tion, faith and preaching are both in
<PB REF="201">vaine, chap, 15. ver&s;e. 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth Paule conclude this E|pi&s;tle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With an exhortation for the re|liefe of the poore.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2 Corinthians" TYPE="book">
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Corinthians.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion <HI>FRom whence was this &s;econd Epi&s;tle to the</HI> Corinthians <HI>vvritten?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From <HI>Philppi,</HI> a crtie in <HI>Macedo|nia?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the principal circum&s;tan|ces to be con&s;idered?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The cau&s;e why hee writte, the per&s;ons whom hee toucheth, and the matter whereof he treateth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat was the cau&s;e of his wri|ting?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The inflexible nature of &s;ome, that notwith&s;tanding his former per|&s;wa&s;ions &s;till de&s;pi&s;ed his authority.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are the per&s;ons?</HI></P>
<PB N="197" REF="201" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> The fal&s;e teachers, him&s;elfe, and the Corinthians.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the matter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A confutation of his detractors, &amp; a confirmation of his owne doctrine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How confutes he his detractors?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By proouing them teachers, not for loue but to fill their owne bellies, and that they were boa&s;ters of other mens labors, chap. 10, 15, and 11, 20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth hee confirme his owne doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t in re&s;pect of the grounde thereof, which is Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, chap, 4.5. Secondly in re&s;pect of the fruite which it had brought foorth in them, which was faith, patience and loue, chap. 8.7 and 9.2. Thirdly in re&s;pect of his owne con&s;tancy, whome the per&s;ecutions of the world had &s;ealed the true mini&s;ter of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that neyther impri&s;onment, &s;tripes, watching, fa&s;ting, &s;toning, da~ger by &s;ea, nor danger by land, could terrifie him from proceeding in his calling, ch. 6, 4, and 11, 24, to 30,</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Galathians" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="202">
<HEAD>To the Galathians.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was the cau&s;e</HI> Paul <HI>writte to the Galathians?</HI></P>
<P>An. Their declining from that which he had taught them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was that?</HI></P>
<P>An. Faith in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How declined they from faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In thinking to be iu&s;tified by the workes of the Law.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth hee rebuke them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing that as many as are of the works of the Law, are vnder the cur&s;e, chap. 3, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How were they deliuered from this tur&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t hath redeemed vs by be|ing made a cur&s;e for vs. chap. 3:13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he then coun&s;ell them to doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To for&s;ake the beggarly traditi|ons of the Lawe, as circumci&s;ion and the ob&s;eruations of dayes and times, chap. 4.9.10.</P>
<PB N="198" REF="202" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvas the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e neyther circumci&s;ion. not vncircumci&s;ion auayle any thing, but a new creature, chap. 6.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is vnder&s;tood by a new crea|ture?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> One regenerated by faith, as being dead to finne, and ri&s;en againe through Chri&s;t to newnes of life, chapt. 2, 19, 20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv are we knowne to beregene|rate?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> If we bring forth the fruits of the &s;pirite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat are the fruites of the &s;pirit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> All kindes of vertuous liuing, ch. 5, 22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where was Paul vvhen he vvritte this Epi&s;tle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At Roome.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Ephesians" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Paul to the Ephe&s;ians:</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat was the e&s;tate of the</HI> Ephe&s;ians <HI>when Paule wrot vnto them?</HI></P>
<PB REF="203" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> As it is of all tho&s;e, amonge&s;t whom Gods word had been &s;owen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The good &s;eed of <HI>Pauls</HI> doctrine was mingled with the cockle &amp; weedes of fal&s;e teachers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In &s;uch a needfull bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, how cha~ce he did not rather go vnto them then write?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A:</HI> Becau&s;e he was pri&s;oner in Rome</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What method doth he v&s;e in Con|firming the</HI> Ephe&s;ians, <HI>in the faith which he bad before taught them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t hee v&s;eth an admonition, then a prayer, and la&s;t of al an exhorta|tion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of what doth he admoni&s;h them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of foure things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t hee &s;he wes that they were prede&s;tinated to the calling of Chri&s;|tians before the foundation of the worlde, and therefore it was nothing that had happened vnto th~e by chance chap. 1, 4. 11. Secondly he puts them in mind that the ground of theyr fayth is Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, to whome all power both in heauen and earth was giuen, &amp; therfore they needed not to &s;tand doubtfull of their reward, chap, 2, 20, to
<PB N="199" REF="203" MS="y">23. Thirdly, he recordes in what e&s;tate they were before they were called.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they were vnder the power of Satan, and dead through &s;inne, and therfore being now quickned by the &s;prite of Chri&s;t, the farther they were off from grace, the greater debters they are now for the &s;ame. chap. 2, ver. 2.4.5 Fourthly hee bids them not faint, be|cau&s;e of the perfecution which they &s;aw was laid vpon him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What rea&s;on &s;hewes he for that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e it was to their glory. ch. 3.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what re&s;pect could his per&s;ecu|tion be to their glorie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In this: that &s;eeing him con&s;tant|ly indure impri&s;onment and death, for the truth of the go&s;pell which hee had preached vnto them, they might a&s;&s;ure them&s;elues his doctrine was the worde of God, and no tradition of man.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For vvhat doth he pray to God for them?</HI></P>
<P>An. For three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t for the &s;trength of his holy &s;pirit. chap, 3, 19. Secondly, that he would giue the~ a faithful heart. <HI>Exo.</HI> 17.
<PB REF="204" MS="y">And thirdly, to endue them with vn|fained charity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv manifold are the&s;e exhorta|tions?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Twofold.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>As how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Generall and particular.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is his generall exhortation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Certayne ob&s;eruations common to all men as to walke worthy of their calling chap. 4, 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is their calling?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;tianity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the end thereof?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Eternall life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who hath called vs therunto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God the Father, by his Sonne Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, chap. 3.11,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what meanes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By two kind of meanes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t by our outward meanes, as by afflictions and per&s;ecutions, and &s;e|condly by inward meanes, as by the working of Gods word in our hartes, &amp; the whole&s;ome admonition of his holy &s;pirite. chap. 4, 30.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How may we walk vvorthy of our vocation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> If we auoyd lying, anger, theft
<PB N="200" REF="204" MS="y">filthy &s;peaking, and imbrace humilitie, meekenes, patience, charity, and vni|ty of &s;pirit, chap. 4:2.3, and v. 25, to, 31.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is humility?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not to prefer our &s;elues before others, not to de&s;pi&s;e others in re&s;pect of our &s;elues.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is meekne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Nor to be ea&s;ily moued to anger.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is it not lawfull them to bee angry with &s;uch as offend?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes &s;o that we bee not angry vnto &s;inne, nor let the Sun go downe vpon our wrath, chap. 4, 26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How may we be angry and not &s;in?</HI></P>
<P>An. If we &s;o bridle our fury, as that we break not foorth into any wicked or vnlawfull act.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is patience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A quiet dige&s;ting of wrong, and leauing the reuenge to God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is charity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A compunction of heart, wherby one Chri&s;tian is incited to helpe and &s;uccour another.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>VVhat call ye the vnity of the &s;pirit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An agreement together of Gods people in true faith and doctrine with|out &s;ector di&s;&s;ention.</P>
<PB REF="205" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Why ought we to walke in vnity of &s;pirit.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e God which hath crea|ted vs, Chri&s;t which hath redeemed vs, and the holy gho&s;t which hath &s;anctifi|ed vs, is but one, and the meanes vvher|by wee are &s;aued onely, that is to &s;ay, faith: and therefore we ought to agree together in mind, as childre~ of one fa|ther or as heires ordained all for one happy inheritance. chapt. 4. ver&s;e, 4, 5, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hauing declared what the vertues he, which Saint</HI> Paul <HI>would haue vs folow rehear&s;e the vices which he would haue vs auoyde.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Lying (as I &s;aide before) theft anger and filthy talking, and out of the 5. chapter, couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, fornication, drunkennes, fal&s;e doctrine, fooli&s;h and idle iea&s;ting.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a lye?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A counterfette and fal&s;e decla|ration of the thought and minde, as when we &s;peak one thing, and thinke a|nother.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is theft?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not only to &s;teale with the hand but all manner of deceipt, and vnlaw|full gaine.</P>
<PB N="201" REF="205" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is anger?</HI></P>
<P>An. A de&s;ire of reuenge for &s;ome vvrong done vnto vs, or vnto them who~ we loue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of how many &s;orts is it?</HI></P>
<P>Qu Of two.</P>
<P>An. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Naturall or diabelicall.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What call you the naturall an|ger?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The anger that is in a Magi|&s;trate towards the &s;ubiect, a father to|ward his childe, or a mai&s;ter towarde his &s;eruant or &s;choller, for the due cor|rection of &s;uch vices, as they perceiue in them to the di&s;honour of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is diabolicall anger?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> So to bee incen&s;t, as to wi&s;h the de&s;truction of anie one.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;ts fylthy communi|cation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In &s;wearing, cur&s;ing, bla&s;phe|ming, immode&s;t vvords, and idle iea|&s;ting.</P>
<P>Que <HI>How mu&s;t Chri&s;tians then frame their dayly conference?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In &s;uch &s;ort as it may bee to the edification one of another, &s;peaking vnto them&s;elues, in P&s;almes and Hymnes, and &s;pirituall Songs, and gi|uing
<PB REF="206" MS="y">thanks to God for all things ch. 5, 19. 20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is couetou&s;nes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A greedines to gaine, without regard of their owne nece&s;&s;ities or the nece&s;&s;itie of others.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is fornication?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A polluting of the &s;oule with lu&s;t of body.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat is drunkenne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A confounding of rea&s;on and the &s;ences by immoderate drinking.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is fal&s;e doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Any thing that is taught contra|ry to the truth of Gods word.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are they &s;aide to leade theyr liues that delight in any of the&s;e abu&s;es?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Improuidently.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Becau&s;e they neglect the will of GOD to followe their owne waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How are they &s;aid to leade their liues, that abhore them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Circum&s;pectly.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Why?</HI></P>
<P>An. Becau&s;e they preferre the will of God before their owne imaginations. chap. 5, 15.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is</HI> Paules <HI>particular exhorta|tion
<PB N="202" REF="206" MS="y">in this Epi&s;tle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The duty of husbands &amp; wiues parents and Children, mai&s;ters &amp; &s;er|uants.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duty of hu&s;bands to|wards their wiues?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To loue them as Chri&s;t loued his Church, who gaue his life for it. chapt. 5.25.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duty of wiues towardes theyr hu&s;bands?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;ubmit them&s;elues vnto their hu&s;bands as vnto the Lord. chapter, 5.22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duty of parents towards their children?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Not onely to feede and cloath them, but to bring them vp in the feare of the Lord, chap. 6, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duty of the children to their parents?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To honour and obey them with bodily reuerence, and with the infained loue of the heart. chap. 6.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duety of Maisters to their &s;eruants?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Not to defraud them of their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ue, nor to v&s;e cruelty towardes them, remembring that they them&s;elues haue al&s;o amai&s;ter in heauen-chap. 6.11.</P>
<PB REF="207" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the duty of &s;eruants to their ma&s;ters?</HI></P>
<P>An. To obey and labour for them in &s;inglene&s;&s;e of hart, and not with eye &s;er|uice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To do all things (whether theyr ma&s;ter be ab&s;ent or pre&s;ent) as if God beheld them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth</HI> S. Paul, <HI>wi&s;h the</HI> Ephe|&s;ians, <HI>(and in them vs) to arme our &s;elues for the accompli&s;hing of the&s;e and al other dueties?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Fir&s;t, to gird vs with the girdle of trueth: &s;econdly to put on the bre&s;t|plate of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e. Thirdly, to bee &s;hod with the &s;hoes of the preparation to the go&s;pell of peace. Forthly, to take the &s;hield of faith. Fiftly, the helmeto &s;aluation, Sixtly the &s;word of the &s;pirit chap. 6, 14.10 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What it vnder&s;tood by the girdle o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> truth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A binding of our felues to the ob&s;eruation of the word of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the bre&s;t plate of righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A good con&s;cience, or innocen|cie of life.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What by the &s;hooes of peace?</HI></P>
<PB N="203" REF="207">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Friendly &amp; quiet conuer&s;ation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the &s;hield of &s;ayth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The righteou&s;nes of Chri&s;t, able like a bra&s;en &s;hield, to protect &amp; couer vs from the darts of the world, the fle&s;h and the diuill.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the helmet of &s;aluation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> I he &s;trength and the power of Chri&s;t, being for our &s;ake vanqui&s;her of hell, death and &s;in.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the &s;word of the &s;pirit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The word of the euerliuing god, which as a &s;worde we mu&s;t draw foorth to defend our &s;elues, &amp; offend our &s;pi|rituall enemies.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What is the &s;peciall quality re|quired in him that is thus armed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Prayer and continuall watchful|ne&s;&s;e, chap. 6.11.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Philippians" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>To the Philippians.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>WHat were the Philippians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Exiles of <HI>Philippi,</HI> a cittye
<PB REF="208" MS="y">in <HI>Macedonia,</HI> where Saint <HI>Paul</HI> hadde planted the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVhat mooued him to write vnto them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t, the generall care hee had for al the people of God, &s;econdly, that he might &s;hew his thankfulnes toward the <HI>Philippians?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For vvhat?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For &s;ending him relief after they knew he was pri&s;oner in <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>By whom did they &s;end him re|liefe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By <HI>Ephroditus</HI> a profe&s;&s;our of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he &s;hew his thankfulne&s;&s;e toward them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, in pray&s;ing God for them. &amp; then in praying vnto God for them.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How doth hee pray&s;e God for them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In that it had plea&s;ed him to receiue them into the felow&s;hip of the Go&s;pel. chap. 1.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How, and in what &s;ort doth he pray for them?</HI></P>
<PB N="204" REF="208" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Three manner of waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, that God which had begun this good worke in them, would conti|nue it vntill the day of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, chap. 1.8.</P>
<P>Secondly, that they might bee able, through his grace, to di&s;cerne true do|ctrine from fal&s;e, chap. 1.10.</P>
<P>Thirdly, that they might abound in loue: and the workes of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, chap. 1.11.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How doth hee encourage them, lea&s;t his impri&s;onment &s;hould make them faint?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three waies.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, in re&s;pect of others: Se|condly, of him&s;elfe: Thirdly, by the ex|ample of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How in re&s;pect of others?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That as others in behoulding his con&s;tancy, were boldened, and did more frankelie profe&s;&s;e Chri&s;t, &s;o hee hoped they would doe, chapter 1. ver&s;e 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he encourage them in re&s;pect of him&s;elfe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That as he knew Chri&s;t &s;hould be magnified in his body, whether he
<PB REF="209" MS="y">liued or died, &s;o he doubted not, but that they would be of the &s;ame minde, chap. 1.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How by the example of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That as Chri&s;t beeing God, be|came man; being free, be came bound; being Lord and Mai&s;ter ouer all, be|came a &s;eruant to all; and for our &s;akes was content to &s;uffer all reproche and tyranny; yea death it &s;elfe: &s;o we for his &s;ake &s;hould not refu&s;e to doe the like, chap. 2.5. to 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What rea&s;on doth he alledge, the better to per&s;wade vs thereunto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A two fold rea&s;on.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t, as touching the reward of our per&s;ecuters: &s;econdly, as touch|ing the rewarde of vs that are per&s;ecu|ted.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he &s;ay &s;hall be the re|ward of our per&s;ecuters?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Perdition.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What of vs that are per&s;ecuted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Saluation, chap. 1.28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he conclude the&s;e cir|cum&s;tances?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> VVith a nece&s;&s;ity to &s;uffer with Chri&s;t, if we will be thought to beleeue in Chri&s;t, chap. 1.29.</P>
<PB N="205" REF="209" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth</HI> Paule <HI>exhort vs vnto in this Epi&s;tle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Concord, meekene&s;&s;e of minde, and godly conuer&s;ation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How to concord?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That we be of one iudgement in religion, chap. 22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How to meekne&s;&s;e of mind?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That nothing bee done through vaineglory, but euery man to e&s;teeme other better then him&s;elfe. chap. 2.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv to godly conuer&s;ation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That who&s;oeuer is true, iu&s;t, and of good report, him to follow. chap. 4:8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he bid vs to beware of?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fal&s;e teachers,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What names doth hee attribute vn|to fal&s;e teachers, whereby to know them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee calleth them dogges, euill workers, coo&s;eners, belly-gods, enemies to the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, and minders of earthlie things, chap. 3, 2. 18.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And wherfore doth he cal them dogs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e, like dogs, they barke a|gain&s;t the doctrine of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And why euill &s;peakers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e, in the harue&s;t of the lord, they &s;eek not his glorie, but their owne commoditie.</P>
<PB REF="210" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Why cou&s;eners?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they teach, that circum|ci&s;ion and the workes of the Law, are nece&s;&s;arie to &s;aluation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why belli-gods?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An:</HI> Becau&s;e to &s;ait&s;fie the lu&s;t of their fle&s;h, they care not with what ceremo|nies they &s;educe Gods people.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhy enemies to the cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e they are Chri&s;tians in name onely, and not indeed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why minders of earthly things?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e theyr chiefe&s;t care is to be rich and to ri&s;e to promotion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth</HI> Paul <HI>make knowne the true mini&s;ters of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By fiue &s;peciall notes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which bee they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, he &s;aith, they hold it a glo|ry to die for the confirmation of theyr di&s;ciples faith. chapter, 2.17. Secondly, they put no confidence in earthlie things. chapter. 3. Thirdly they doe e|&s;teeme all thinges lo&s;&s;e, and as very dung, for the excellent knowledge of Chri&s;t: chap, 3.8. Fourthly they preach the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, and not mens workes. ver&s;e. 9. Fiftly, their con|uer&s;ation is in heauen, from whence
<PB N="206" REF="210" MS="y">they expect Chri&s;t, by who&s;e comming they hope to be made immortall. chap. 3, 20.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to haue our conuer&s;ati|on in heauen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To liue like a Saint on earth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>That we may be able to do &s;o, what is required of vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith toward God, loue towards our neighbour, and &s;obriety towardes our &s;elues.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Colossians" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>To the Colo&s;&s;ians.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat are the Colo&s;sians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A people dwelling in <HI>Colo&s;&s;e,</HI> a citie of <HI>Phrygia;</HI> whome <HI>Faule</HI> &s;aluteth in the name of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>After his &s;alutation what did hee?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Gaue God thanks for them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<PB REF="211" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e of their faith in Chri&s;te Ie&s;us.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv doth he &s;trengthen that faith</HI></P>
<P><HI>An</HI> Fir&s;t, by prayer, and then by ex|hortation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhome doth he pray?</HI></P>
<P>An. To God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For vvhat?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For &s;ixe things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, that they may be filled with the knowledge of the will of God, in all wi&s;dome and &s;pirituall vnder&s;tanding chap, 1, 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is vvi&s;edome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The knowledge of heauenly things.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Proceede, vvhat is the &s;econd thing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Secondly, he prayeth that they may walke worthy of the Lord, chapt, 1 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the honour of God, and the profit of others.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the third thing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they may hee fruitfull in all good works, chap. 1:10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What call you good vvorkes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The te&s;timony of a liuely faith,
<PB N="207" REF="211" MS="y">&s;et foorth by the deeds of mercy.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What is the fourth thing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they may increa&s;e in the knowledge of God, chap. 1.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall they increa&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the deaw of Gods mercy, and the &s;un &s;hine of his righteou&s;nes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which is the fift thing?</HI></P>
<P>An. That they may be &s;trengthned.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVith what?</HI></P>
<P>A. With the glorious power of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To endure with patienc e&amp;ioy the afflictions of this life, chap. 1.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the &s;ixt thing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they may be alwaies thank|full vnto God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Doth he &s;hew any rea&s;on why they ought to be thankfull?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes: fir&s;t, in that God had made them meet to be partakers of the inhe|ritance of Saints: And &s;econdly, in that hee had deliuered them from the power of darkne&s;&s;e, and brought them into the kingdome of light, chapt. 1.12 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By who&s;e meanes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By Chri&s;t their redeemer, the Image of the inui&s;ible God, the head of the Church, the fir&s;t borne of the
<PB REF="212" MS="y">dead, and the peace-maker betweene God and men.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he exhort them vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To cleaue vnto none, but vnto this Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e in him onely they &s;hall be complete and perfit, chap. 2.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Where mu&s;t we &s;eeke him?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In heauen.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> By &s;etting our affections on things that are aboue, &amp; not on things that are on earth, chap. 3, 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When are our affections &s;et vppon things that are aboue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When wee liue after the good motions of the &s;pirit.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When vpon things that are vpon the earth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> When we liue after the defires of the fle&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Shew me a difference between the &s;pirit and the fle&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The fle&s;h &s;aith, rather &s;teale then &s;uffer want: the &s;pirite &s;aith, thou &s;halt not couet an other mans goods; The fle&s;h &s;ayth, reuenge where thou ha&s;t ta|ken wrong; the &s;pirit &s;aith, forgiue, as Chri&s;t hath forgiuen thee, chap. 3.13.</P>
<PB N="208" REF="212" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>When doth this &s;pirit fall vpon vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How may we grieue this &s;pirit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By abu&s;ing the good graces of God, which it bringeth with it: as by turning mercy into cruelty, humilitie into pride: and by applying the time appointed to Gods &s;eruice, to the &s;er|uice of the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is time lo&s;t to be redeemed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;pending it more vertuou&s;ly then heeretofore wee haue done: as if wee haue beene carele&s;&s;e: now to bee watchfull; if wee haue forgot God and his benefites, now to pray vnto him, &amp; bee thankefull. If wee haue beene idle talkers, now to &s;ea&s;on our wordes with the &s;alt of wi&s;dome, and edification. ch. 4, 2.6.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="1 Thessalonians" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>To the The&s;&s;alonians.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOvv is this Epi&s;tle diuided?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into two parts.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Which be they?</HI></P>
<PB REF="213" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Into a commendation, and an exhortation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom doth</HI> Paul <HI>commend?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, the <HI>The&s;&s;alonians,</HI> then him|&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what doth hee commend the</HI> The&s;&s;alonians?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv:</HI> Fir&s;t for theire readine&s;&s;e to heare: and &s;econdly for their profiting by hearing.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did he know that they profi|ted by hearing?</HI></P>
<P>An. By three things which hee &s;awe begin to flori&s;h among&s;t them.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And what are tho&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Effectuall faith, diligent loue, &amp; patient hope. chap. 1, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is effectuall fayth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That faith which brings foorth good workes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Diligent loue, what is it?</HI></P>
<P>An. That loue which hath a care to benefite vvhome it loueth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Patient hope, what is it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Hope that giueth the man cou|rage, to indure all the afflictions of this life without repining, becau&s;e hee de|pends vpon the reward promifed in Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And what is that?</HI></P>
<PB N="209" REF="213" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Eternall life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many kinds of loue are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Three.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, loue in the Magi&s;trate to labour for the glory of God, and bene|fite of the common wealth. Secondly, loue in the Mini&s;ter to feede his flocke. Thirdly, loue in the priuate man, to maintaine the welfare of his friend &amp; neighbour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doe they receiue the Go&s;pell, that receiue it with &s;uch profit?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They receiue it not in word on|ly, but in power al&s;o, chap. 1.5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What a&s;&s;urance doth it bring vnto them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they are the elect children of God, chap. 1.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But what are &s;uch men vnto God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> A glory.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vnto the world?</HI></P>
<P>An. A good example, chap. 1.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth</HI> Paul <HI>commend him|&s;elfe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t for his loue toward them: &s;econdly for his diligence in teaching: thirdly for his purity of doctrine.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Wherein did he &s;hew his loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In fower re&s;pects</P>
<PB REF="214" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t in prote&s;ting, that hee was not only willing to haue dealt the go&s;|pel vnto them, but al&s;o his own life, ch. 2.8. Secondly, in &s;ending <HI>Timotheus</HI> vnto them for their comfort, when hee could not come him&s;elfe, chapter. 3.5. Thirdly in c&s;teeming their con&s;tancy in the faith, his life; and their fainting his death. chap. 3.8. Fourthly in conti|nual praying for them, that their harts might bee &s;table and vnblameable in holine&s;&s;e, before God and the world, chap. 3.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein did hee &s;hew his diligence in teaching?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that he laboured night and day for their in&s;truction, chap. 2.9.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVherein the purity of his do|ctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that it was without deceipt, flattery, couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, vaine-glory, &amp; not to peal&s;e men, but God, chap. 1.13. to 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Was not</HI> Paul <HI>vaine glorious then, when he hid thus prai&s;e him&s;elfe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For two cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<PB N="210" REF="214" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t in that he did it not to win prai&s;e to him&s;elfe, but to allure them to imbrace the go&s;pell which hee taught: And &s;econdly to &s;hew what difference there was betweene him and his doc|trine, and the fal&s;e teachers and their doctrine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he exhort the The&s;&s;alo|nians vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To keep their bodies as ve&s;&s;els of holine&s;&s;e?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e God had called them not to vncleannes, but to purity of life, chap. 4.7.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What mu&s;t they do to keepe their bodies holy to the Lord?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fly from lu&s;t, oppre&s;&s;ion, fraude, contention, idlene&s;&s;e, &amp; all apparance of euil, chap. 4.3. to 12 and chap. 5.22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he annex to his exhor|tation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A reprehen&s;ion.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what doth he reprehend them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> For two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For mourning for the dead, and curious &s;earching to know when &s;hold be the time of Chri&s;t his &s;econd com|ming.</P>
<PB REF="215" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Ought we then to mourne for the dead?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, not in that manner as In&s;i|dells do, which thinke their dead &s;hall neuer ri&s;e againe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> As good Chri&s;tians &s;hould, who account of death but as a &s;leepe, out of the which the faithfull &s;hall one day a|wake to their eternal ioy, chap. 4.14,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why doth he forbid them to &s;earche for the time of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For two cau&s;es.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, becau&s;e they can neuer certainly know it, being a thing hidden from the Angels in heauen, much more from men on earth: and &s;econdly, be|cau&s;e he wold rather haue them make them&s;elues ready thereunto, knowing it will come &s;odainly, and as a theefe in the night, then for to enquire after the houre.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t they make them&s;elues ready for it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In walking like the children of light, and not like the children of dark|ne&s;&s;e, chap. 5.5.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In peace and loue one toward
<PB N="211" REF="215" MS="y">another, in watching, praying, continu|all thank&s;giuing, hearing the worde preached and reuerencing the Mini&s;|ters, chap, 5.6. and 13. to 20.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2 Thessalonians" TYPE="book">
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> The&s;&s;alonians.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. VVHat <HI>is to bee gathered out of this &s;econd Epi&s;tle to the</HI> The&s;&s;aloni|ans.</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The triall of faith.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv is faith tried?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By affliction.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fruit of affliction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Patience, chap. 1.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>And what proceedes of patience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The righteous iudgement of God. chap, 1.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who will God iudge?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The afflicter, and the afflicted.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How will he iudge the afflicter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In flaming fire, rendring venge|ance, chap, 1, 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv the afflicted?</HI></P>
<PB REF="216">
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> In mercy giuing them re&s;t. ch 1.7:</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When &s;hall this iudgement be?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> At the latter day when the Lord Ie&s;us &s;hall &s;hew him&s;elfe from heauen with his mighty Angels. chapt. 1.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;hall bee a &s;igne of that day?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The falling awaie of many from the fayth. chap. 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By who&s;e meanes &s;hall they fall a|way?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the meanes of Antichri&s;t?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is Antichri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>An. The man of &s;inne, that oppo&s;eth him&s;elfe again&s;t all that is God. chapt. 2.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whom vvill he vvorke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By Satan.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With great power, but in all de|ceiueablene&s;&s;e chap. 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Amonge&s;t whome?</HI></P>
<P>An. Not among&s;t the elect, but them that &s;hall peri&s;h, chap. 2, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why not among&s;t the elect?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e from the beginning they are cho&s;en to &s;aluation, chap, 2.13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Therfore what ought to be the care of the elect?</HI></P>
<PB N="212" REF="216" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To &s;tand fa&s;t to the doctrine which they haue receiued, chap. 2.15.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>VVhat is the meanes whereby they may be able to &s;tand fa&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Prayer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mu&s;t they pray for?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That the word of GOD may haue free pa&s;&s;age, &amp; that they may bee deliuered from the companie of the wiched, chap. 3.1.26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho&s;e &s;teps doth</HI> S. Paul <HI>coun&s;ell them to follow?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His owne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Fir&s;t in vprightne&s;&s;e of mind, &amp; then in labouring before they eate, ch. 3.7.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t they be v&s;ed that folow not his in&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An</HI> Excommunicated, chap. 3.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Tell me what excommunication is?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be bani&s;hed the congregati|on of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How, as an enemy vtterly to be cast off?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but as a friend to be won to amendment of life, chap. 3.15.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="1 Timothy" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="217">
<HEAD>To Timothie.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat was</HI> Timothy?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A di&s;ciple of <HI>Pauls,</HI> &amp; a profe&s;&s;or of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where did he profe&s;&s;e it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In Ephe&s;us.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth Paul admoni&s;h him of?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His duety.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what con&s;i&s;ted his duty?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In reading the word, and rebu|king of &s;inne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t he rehuke &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Openly.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e others may take heede, chap. 5.20.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is there no difference to be made?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The elder &s;ort mu&s;t be rebuked as fathers: the yonger as brethren, cha. 5.1.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How mu&s;t we teach all men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To pray.</P>
<PB N="213" REF="217" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>In vvhat &s;ort?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By lifting vp of pure hands. chap. 2.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For vvhom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> For all people, but &s;pecially for Princes and rulers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhat end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That vnder theyr authority, wee maie leade a quiet and peaceable life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv all vvomen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To arraie them&s;elues with &s;ham|fa&s;tne&s;&s;e &amp; mode&s;ty, and not with gold, peale, or broy dred hayre, chap, 1, ver&s;. 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv Mini&s;ters?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be blamele&s;&s;e, the hu&s;band of one wife, watchfull, &s;ober, harbarous, apt to teach, no drunkard, quarreller, or couetous, chap. 3, 2.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vviddowes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fo exerci&s;e deedes of charitie, to bring vp their children vertuou&s;ly: not to beidle pratlers, gadding from hou&s;e to hou&s;e, chap, 5, 10, 13.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How rich men?</HI></P>
<P>An. Not to bee high minded, nor put confidence in vncertaine thinges: but bee readie to de&s;tribute to them that want, chap. 6.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the be&s;t gaine?</HI></P>
<PB REF="218" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Godline&s;&s;e, chap. 6.6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Becau&s;e, they that would be rich, fall into any temptations and &s;nares, that may drown them in perdition and de&s;truction. chap. 6.9.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2 Timothy" TYPE="book">
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Timothie.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>HOw is this Epi&s;tle diuided?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into two parts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Tell me, vvhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into an exhortation, and a pro|phecy.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But vvhat doth</HI> Paul <HI>exhort vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Stedfa&s;tne&s;&s;e in faith, and Pati|ence in &s;uffering for the &s;ame. ch. 1, 14.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e tho&s;e that will raigne with Chri&s;t, mu&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uffer with Chri&s;t, ch. 2.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what example?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> By the example of the &s;ouldi|er, hu&s;bandman, and of him that con|tendeth for a ma&s;try, neyther of which
<PB N="214" REF="218" MS="y">receiue recompence, except they fir&s;t labour, chap. 2, 4.5, 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What hindreth our &s;aluation in this behal&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Contending about friuolous and vaine que&s;tions.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that they ingender &s;trife. cha. 2, 14.23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of vvhat doth he prophecy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The perillous time to come. cha. 3.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv &s;hould the times to come bee perillous?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By rea&s;on of wicked men.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What wicked men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Louers of them&s;elues, couetous, boa&s;ters, prowde, and cur&s;ed &s;peakets, di&s;obedient to parents, with out natu|ral affection, &amp;c. chap. 3.2, 3.4, 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By vvhat meanes therefore doth he teach Gods Mini&s;ters to repre&s;se the ma|lice of &s;uch men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By preaching the worde in &s;ea|&s;on and out of &s;ea&s;on: by improouing, rebuking, and exhorring with all long &s;uffering and doctrine. ch. 4 2.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Titus" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="219" MS="y">
<HEAD>Paul to Titus.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHere was</HI> Titus <HI>when</HI> Paul <HI>writ vnto hi~m?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In <HI>Creete?</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end was he there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To fini&s;t the doctrine which <HI>Paul</HI> had begunne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t hee be armed thereun|to?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With boldne&s;&s;e, as Gods Em|ba&s;&s;adour, and by &s;hewing him&s;elfe an example of good works, and integritie of life. chap, 2, 7, 15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To all whome he taught.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who vvere tho&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Both yong and old.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he teach the old?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The men, to bee &s;ober, hone&s;t, di&s;creete, &s;ound in faith, loue &amp; pati|ence. chap, 2, 2. The women to be holie, and not giuen to wine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he teach the young.</HI></P>
<PB N="215" REF="219">
<P><HI>An.</HI> The men to bee &s;ober minded, women to be cha&s;t, obedient to their husbands, and no gadders abroade, chap. 2.5.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Philemon" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Paul to Philemon.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>FRom whence was this Epi&s;tle written?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From Rome.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vpon what occa&s;ion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. One&s;imus</HI> a &s;eruant to <HI>Philemon,</HI> being fled from his Mai&s;ter, <HI>Paule</HI> win|neth to Chri&s;t, and &s;ends him backe a, gaine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what entreaty?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That <HI>Philemon</HI> wold receiue him</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> As if <HI>Paul</HI> him&s;elfe were pre&s;ent, ver&s;e 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>For what rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e he was now, not one|lie his &s;eruant, but his brother in the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In that he profe&s;&s;ed the go&s;pell.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Hebrews" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="220">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle to the Hebrewes.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHo writ this Epi&s;tle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It is not knowne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is handled in it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> The difference betweene the prie&s;thood of Chri&s;t, and the Leuiticall Prie&s;thood.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do they differ?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In fiue points.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> As touching the office, the tem|ple, the &s;acrifice, the ceremonies, and the effect.</P>
<P>&s;u. <HI>How do they differ as touching the office?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Prie&s;thood of the Leuites was externall, and after the order of <HI>Aaron:</HI> the Prie&s;thood of Chri&s;t is &s;pi|rituall, and after the order of <HI>Melchi|&s;edec.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to be a Prie&s;t after the order of Melchi&s;edec?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To be a Prie&s;t, a Prophet, and a
<PB N="216" REF="220" MS="y">King, not for a moneth, a yeere, or an age, but for euer, chap. 7.3. and 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why are all tho&s;e three titles attri|buted?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e he &s;anctifies vs from &s;inne, teacheth vs by his wi&s;edome, and gouerns vs by his power.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do they differ as touching the Temple?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Temple of the Leuites was built with handes, and not to endure but a tiem: The Temple of Chri&s;t is built by the holy gho&s;t in eternity, cha. 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doe they differ as touching their &s;acrifices?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The Leuites did offer the bloud of Goates and Bulles, But Chri&s;t his owne precious bloud.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How touching their ceremonies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The ceremonies of the Leuites were corporall, as the attyring of the body, and other externall ob&s;eruati|ons: but the ceremonies in the Go&s;pell are &s;pirituall, as the vertuous di&s;po&s;iti|on of the &s;oule.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How thouching their effects?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;acrifices of the Leuites, though many times offered, did &s;carce &s;anctifie the bodie: the &s;acrifice of
<PB REF="221" MS="y">Chri&s;t, but once offered, &s;anctifies both body and &s;oule, chap. 9.14. and 28.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In whome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In all that haue faith.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>What is faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The grounde of things which are hoped for, and the euidence of things which are not &s;eene, chapt. 11. ver&s;e 1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How do the temples of Mo&s;es and Chri&s;t agree?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Temple of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> had three &s;eparations, as the holie&s;t of all, where|into the high Prie&s;t onelye entred, and that but once euery yeere: the Taber|nacle of the Congregation, where the Leuites remained: and the open courte where the people had re&s;ort. So in the temple of Chri&s;t, there is the &s;pirit, the &s;oule, and the body.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What difference is between the &s;pirit and the &s;oule?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;pirite, is vnder&s;tod regene|ration, through faith in Chri&s;t, and by &s;oule is vnder&s;tood, man in his fir&s;t cor|ruption, liuing according to the rule of rea&s;on, without the knowledge of gods word or faith.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Being once grafted in faith, what is it to fall from it?</HI></P>
<PB N="217" REF="221" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Sinne again&s;t the holy Gho&s;t which is vnpardon able, chap. 6.4, and chap. 10, 26.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv may we fall from faith?</HI></P>
<P>An. If when we haue once receiued the knowledge of Chri&s;t, we afterward deny him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat therefore are the Hebrewe coun&s;elled to doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To keepe the profe&s;&s;ion of their hope without wauering. chap. 10, 23.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t that be?</HI></P>
<P>An. Through patience.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In e&s;teeming light the troubles of this life, by &s;etting before our eyes the ioy ofthe life to come,</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What haue we to encourage vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The words of our Sauiour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> My &s;onne, faint not when thou are rebuked, for whom the Lord loueth, hee cha&s;teneth: and &s;courgeth euery &s;on that he receiueth, chap, 12, 5:6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Is there nothing, el&s;e required, but patience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes, the &s;acrifice of a Chri&s;tian.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To prai&s;e God alwaies, and di&s;|tribute to the poore. chap. 13.15.16.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="James" TYPE="book">
<PB REF="222" MS="y">
<HEAD>The general Epi&s;tle of <HI>Iames.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHy is this called the general E|pi&s;tle of</HI> Iames?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e it is not writ to any one man nor country, but generally to all the Iewes di&s;per&s;ed through many countries.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth it containe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The effects of our iu&s;tification, as <HI>Paule</HI> to the <HI>Romanes</HI> declared the cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the cau&s;e of iu&s;tification?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the effects?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Good workes. chap, 2, 24.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>How is faith diuided?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In to tvvo parts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A liuely faith, and a dead faith.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is a liuely faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Faith made knowne by good workes.</P>
<P>Qu, <HI>What is a dead fayth?</HI></P>
<PB N="218" REF="222" MS="y">
<P>An. Faith without good workes; and &s;o the diuell is &s;aid to haue faith. chap. 2.17.19.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What be the good works</HI> S. Iames <HI>exhorteth vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Patience, prayer, loue, to beware of ambition, &s;wearing, and contenti|on, to bridle the tongue, and rule the affections, not to &s;peake euill one of an|other, not to be friends of this worlde, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>From vvhence proceed good woorks</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From God, chap, 1, 17.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>From whence euill?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> From our owne concupi&s;cence. chap. 1, 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;aith S.</HI> Iames <HI>of patience?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Ble&s;&s;ed is the man that endures temptation, for when hee is tryed, hee &s;hall receiue the crowne of life, chapt. 1.12.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;aith he of prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Let him that a&s;keth, a&s;ke with faith, &amp; wauer not, ch. 1, 6,</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Of loue vvhat &s;aieth he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He that loueth his neighbour as him&s;elfe, fulfilleth the Law, chap, 2, 8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Of ambition, what?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> God reiecteth the prowd, &amp; giues graces to the humble, chap, 4, 6.</P>
<PB REF="223" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What of &s;wearing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Before all things [my brethren) &s;weare not, ney ther by heauen, earth, nor any other oathe: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, lea&s;t ye fall into condemnation: chap. 5, 12.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What of contention?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Where enuying and &s;trife is there is all manner of euill works. cha. 3.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What of the tongue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That it is a fire, and a worlde of wickedne&s;&s;e: defiling the whole body, if it be vngouerned, chap. 3 6.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What of euill &s;peaking?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> If a man &s;peake euill of his bro|ther, he &s;peaketh euill of the law. chap. 4.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVho are the friends of the world</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as e&s;teeme more of riches, honors, and &s;uch like, then of the word of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;aith Iames of &s;uch men?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An,</HI> He bids them weepe and howle, for the mi&s;eries that &s;hall come vpon them: their riches are corrupte &amp; their garments are month-eaten, theyr golde and &s;iluer is cankered, and the ru&s;t ther|of &s;hall be a vvitne&s;&s;e again&s;t them. cha 5, 1, 2, 3.</P>
<PB N="219" REF="223" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the be&s;t v&s;e of riches?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To employ them in dooing of good, as in relieuing the poore, the fa|therle&s;&s;e and widdowes, and that is cal|led pure religion, and vnderfiled before God, chap. 1.27.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Euery one therefore that heareth the word of God, is not religious?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, but &s;uch onely as are dooers thereof, chap. 1.22.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="1 Peter" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>The first Epi&s;tle enerall of Peter the Apo&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is contained in this fir&s;t Epi|&s;tle of Peter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The calling of Chri&s;tians, their dignity, and fruits of their calling.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Woo hath called them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Through obedience and &s;prink|ling of his bloud, chap. 1.2.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. To what?</HI></P>
<PB REF="224" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To an inheritance immortall, &amp; vndefiled, that fadeth not away, but is re&s;erued in heauen for vs, chap. 1.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t we apprehend it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By faith, chap. 1.5.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What is the dignity of Chri&s;tians?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They are &s;ayde to bee a royall Prie&s;thood, a holy nation, apeculiar people, chap. 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the fruit of their calling?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;hew the vertue of him that called them, chap. 2.9.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How is that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Beeing holy as he is holy, and &s;ince he hath called vs out of darkne&s;&s;e into light, to walke as in the day time, by laying a&s;ide all maliciou&s;ne&s;&s;e, all guile and di&s;&s;imulation; all enuie and euil &s;peaking, chap. 2.1. and 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hall we doe the&s;e things, the world euery hower proucking vs to the con+trary?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;etting before vs the exam|ple of Chri&s;t, which gaue his life for his enemies: and when he was reuiled, reuiled not againe, and when he &s;uf|fered, threatned not, but committed it to him that iudgeth righteou&s;ly, chap. 2.21 22.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What brings vs to this obedience?</HI></P>
<PB N="220" REF="224" MS="y">
<P>An. The loue we owe to Chri&s;t, that hath begotten vs a newe to righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e: and the feare, not to be partakers of his mercies, becau&s;e of the &s;mall number of them that &s;hall be &s;aued.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Who is the efficient cau&s;e of our &s;aluation?</HI></P>
<P>An. God the Father.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Who is the materiall cau&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The obedience of Chri&s;t to the death of the Cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the formall cau&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>An. Our effectuall calling?</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the finall cau&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>An. Our &s;anctification.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Wherein &s;tandeth our &s;anctification?</HI></P>
<P>An. In two things.</P>
<P><HI>Qu-Shew me which bee they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In dying to &s;inne, and liuing to God, chap. 4, 2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When do we liue to God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> VVhen wee mortifie the lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h. chap, 4.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;teth this mortification?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In particular dueties.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat be tho&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The dueties of rules, &s;ubiectes, husbands, wiues ma&s;ters, &s;eruants, and Pa&s;tors of the Church. &amp;c.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he coun&s;ell as touching
<PB REF="225" MS="y">euery mans prinate &s;elfe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> To be &s;ober &amp; watching in prayer.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A calling vpon the names of God in time of nece&s;&s;ity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the properties thereof?</HI></P>
<P>An. It mu&s;t be from the heart with true faith, in the name of Chri&s;t, and in few words.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the efficacie of prayer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It ouercommeth God, which o|uercommeth all things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth</HI> Peter <HI>coun&s;ell vs to doe as touching others?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> One to &s;uffer with another, to loue our brethren, to be pittiful, not to render euill for euill, but contrariwi&s;e to ble&s;&s;e. chap. 3, 8.9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why mu&s;t we loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e God hath loued vs.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why mu&s;t we &s;uffer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e therein we are ble&s;&s;ed, chap. 4, 14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t we &s;uffer?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not as murderers, the eues, or euil doers, but as louers of faith. c. 4.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why are we bound to the&s;e vertu|ous actions?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e thereby God is glorified chap. 2, 12.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2 Peter" TYPE="book">
<PB N="221" REF="225" MS="y">
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> Epi&s;tle of Peter.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat doth</HI> Peter <HI>exhort vs vnto, in this &s;econd Epi&s;tle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That hauing once receiued the knowledge of the Go&s;pell, to confirme and e&s;tabli&s;h it in vs by good works, &amp; to &s;tricke vnto it, euen till the la&s;t ga&s;pe, chap. 1.10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e, as Saint <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith, &s;o run that ye may obtaine: So Saint <HI>Peter</HI> &s;ayth, by making &s;ure your election, that is, in not being idle or vnfruitful in your calling; an entrance is made vnto you into the kingdom of our Lord and Sauiour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, chap. 1.11.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhat is the gate vntol that en|trance?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Death.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is death?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The laying downe of the Taber|nacle of this fle&s;h, chap. 1.14.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vhy doth hee call this fle&s;h of ours a Tabernacle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e wee dwell therein, as
<PB REF="226" MS="y">&s;trangers, not for euer, but for a certain time.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth Peter confirme the do|ctrine of faith?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By &s;hewing it is no deceiueable fable, but the trueth it &s;elfe de&s;cended from heauen, chap. 1.17.18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are impugners of this trueth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hypocrites and Athei&s;ts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are Hypocrites?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Welles without water, &s;uch as pretend an outwarde holine&s;&s;e, but in|wardly are corrupt and venemous, ch. 3.13.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are Athei&s;ts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Mockers and deriders of the Scripture, and &s;uch as thinke there will be no re&s;urrection, chap. 3.3.4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When &s;hall the&s;e men appeare?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the latter times, chap. 3.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How vvill they be di&s;prooued?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The heauens &s;hall melt, and the earth bee con&s;umed with fire, and the Lord appearing in glory, &s;hal giue them the wages of vnrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, chap. 3.10. and chap. 2.13.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Is there no hope of e&s;caping?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No: for hee that &s;pared not the Angels when they &s;inned, will not &s;pare them, chap. 2.4.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="1 John" TYPE="book">
<PB N="222" REF="226" MS="y">
<HEAD>The first Epi&s;tle generall of Iohn.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>VVHat is here &s;et downe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Two &s;orts of loue.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Loue of the world, and loue cal|led charity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what co~&s;i&s;ts the loue of the world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In three things.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whichbe they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Concupi&s;cence of the fle&s;h, lu&s;te of the eies, and pride of life, chap. 2.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is concupi&s;cence of the fle&s;h?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> An inclination of the hearte, to enioy the plea&s;ures of the body, as wan|tonne&s;&s;e, chambering, &s;louth, drunken|ne&s;&s;e, and &s;uch like.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the lu&s;t of the eies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Acouetous &amp; immoderate de|&s;ire of worldly wealth, and all offences which do accompany it, for the obtai|ning thereof; as lying, theft, deceit, ra|pine, v&s;ury, co&s;onage, and &s;uch like.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVhat is pride of life?</HI></P>
<PB REF="227" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In all things, as in meate, drinke, apparel, hou&s;eroome, and other things to beaze an arrogante contemptuous mind, &s;triuing to excell others.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What doth he then &s;ay touching &s;uch liuers?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That God is not in them, nor they in him, chap. 2.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is charity?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A motion of the heart, whereby we do loue God, and in him, our neigh|bour.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the loue of God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To keepe hiscommandements, chap. 5.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to loue our neighbour?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To e&s;teeme him as our &s;elfe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many kinds of loue are there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> True, and fained loue.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Which call you true loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Not onelye to helpe our brother with all we haue, but if need require, to offer our life for him, chap. 3.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich call you fained loue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To loue in word, and not in deed. chap. 3.11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What &s;aith Saint Iohn, as touching true louers?</HI></P>
<PB N="223" REF="227" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> That they dwell in God, &amp; God in them, chap. 4.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to dvvell in God?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be partakers of his grace to the mortification of the fle&s;h, and liue|ly demon&s;tration of our faith,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How &s;hal we know that god dwel|leth in vs?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> If wee &s;ee our brother want this worlds good, and doe not &s;hut vp our compa&s;&s;ion from him, but willingly re|lieue him. chap. 3.17.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>What is &s;aid of him that hateth his brother?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That hee walketh in darkne&s;&s;e, chap. 2.11. Is the child of the diuel. ch. 3, 10, abideth in death, chap, 3, 14. Is a man&s;tayer, &amp; barred from eternall life. chap. 3, 15.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2, 3 John" TYPE="books">
<HEAD><HI>2.</HI> and <HI>3.</HI> Epi&s;tle of Iohn.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. TO <HI>whom were the&s;e tvvo last Epi&s;|tle written?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The one to a certain zealous La|dy, the other to <HI>Gains</HI> a profe&s;&s;our of the Go&s;pell.</P>
<PB REF="228">
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What doth hee commend in the Ladie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The vertuous bringing vp of her children.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What in Gaius?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His te&s;timonie of faith, and ho&s;|pitality toward &s;trangers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat doth hee admoni&s;h them of</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To beware of deceiuers.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are tho&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Such as would not confe&s;&s;e that Chri&s;t was come in the fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How mu&s;t they intertaine them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An,</HI> They mu&s;t not receiue them into their hou&s;e, nor bid them: Good &s;peed.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhy?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e in &s;o doing, they &s;hould be partakers of their euill deeds.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Jude" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle of Iude.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. TO <HI>whome is this Epi&s;tle written?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To all Chri&s;tian Churches.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What doth he exhort them vn|to?</HI></P>
<P>An. To contend for the maintena~ce of their faith.</P>
<PB N="224" REF="228" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t whom?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Again&s;t Sectaries.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the condition of Sectaries?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> To murder, complaine, &amp; walke after their owne lu&s;ts.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom do they murmur again&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Gouernours.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he reproue them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> By the example of <HI>Michael</HI> the Archangel, who when hee &s;troue with the diuel, about the body of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> bla+med him not with cur&s;ed &s;peaking, but only &s;ayd; The Lord rebuke thee.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat doth he meane by this ex|ample?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> If it be not lawfull to rayle vpon the diuel, much le&s;&s;e vpon magi&s;trates, be they neuer &s;o wicked.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is it to walk after our owne lu&s;ts?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be directed by carnall iudge|ment, and not by the &s;pirit of regene|ration.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Revelation" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>Reuelation.</HEAD>
<P>Que&s;tion. <HI>FIr&s;t tell mee what you vnder&s;tand by Reuelation?</HI></P>
<PB REF="229" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> The word importeth a laying open, or an vncouering of thinges that were before hid and &s;hut vp in &s;ecrete, which no liuing &s;oule can know, but &s;o farre foorth as God &s;hall plea&s;e to di&s;|clo&s;e the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What is the authority of this Reue|lation?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> High and mighty, as proceeding from the mouth of God, by the media|tion of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whom was it giuen?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the Apo&s;tle Saint <HI>Iohn,</HI> and &s;o con&s;equently from him to the Church of God through all ages.</P>
<P>Q. <HI>Where was Iohn whe~ he receiued it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In an Iland called <HI>Pathmas,</HI> en|uironed with the Aegean &s;ea, which &s;ea diuides Europe from A&s;ia.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What did he there?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He was bani&s;hed thither by the tyrant <HI>Domitian,</HI> about the year of our Lord God 96. which tyrante &s;ought to &s;uppres the light of the Go&s;pel: but the Lorde in mercy did the more aduance it, as appeares by adding a further di&s;|couery of his will, by this booke of the Reuelation.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the fruit of this Reuela|tion?</HI></P>
<PB N="225" REF="229" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Exceeding great, as vve may ga|ther by the&s;e words, <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed be they that reade, heare, and keepe in memory, tho&s;e things which are written in this prophecie.</HI> chap. 1, 3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To vvhom was Iohn commanded to &s;end it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To the &s;eauen churches of <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> namely, of <HI>Ephe&s;us, Smirna, Pergamus, Thiatira, Sardis, Philadelphia,</HI> and <HI>Lao|dicea,</HI> where after the de&s;truction of <HI>Ie|ru&s;alem, Iohn</HI> did pro&s;ecute his holy cal|ling in the Mini&s;tery.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What methode doth hee v&s;e in the manner of his writing?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Fir&s;t, a friendly &s;alutation, and then a briefe narration.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he &s;alute them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By wi&s;hing vnto them grace, and peace.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vnder&s;tand you by grace?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The free loue &amp; affection, which God beareth towards vs for his owne &s;ake, although indeed we de&s;erue it not but are in our &s;elues the children of wrath and perdition.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What by peace?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> All kind of benefits, both &s;pi|rituall and temporall, which flow vnto vs from this fountaine of grace, which
<PB REF="230" MS="y">God the father had opened to the world by the meanes of his &s;onne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In who&s;e name &s;alutes he them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the name of the father, the 7. &s;pirits, and of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. chap, 1. 4. 5.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is meant by the</HI> 7 <HI>&s;pirits?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The holie Gho&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>The holie Gho&s;t being but one in per&s;on, why doth he de&s;cribe him by the number of</HI> 7.</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Although the holy Gho&s;t be but one in diuine e&s;&s;ence, yet according to this &s;eauen fold operation which it had in the Churches of <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> it is called by the name of &s;euen &s;pirits, not that it is in per&s;on diuer&s;e, but in power and ver|tue, according to the diuer&s;ity of tho&s;e &s;ubiects which it worketh.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But why is that placed in the &s;e|cond place, whereas the v&s;uall order tea|cheth vs to &s;ay, the Father Sonne and holy Gho&s;t: and not the Father, Holy Gho&s;ts &amp; &s;o to put the Sonne last?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Iohn</HI> v&s;eth this order, not that there is any degree or dignitie in one per&s;on more then in an other. For the Father is not greater then the Sonne, nor the Sonne greater then the Holie Gho&s;t: they are all of the &s;ame power maie&s;ty, and glory, nor is one before a|nother:
<PB N="226" REF="230" MS="y">but the rea&s;o~ that mooued <HI>Iohn</HI> to &s;et our Sauiour in the third place, was becau&s;e immediately, the narration (which is the &s;econd poynt of the wri|ting) chiefly concerneth Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>As how?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> In de&s;cribing him.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How doth</HI> Iohn <HI>de&s;cribe Christ?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two manner of waies: fir&s;t, as touching the excellencie of his glorie, as he appeared vnto him in vi&s;ion. cha. 1. from, 12. to 17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvas his office?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> It was three folde, hee had the of|fice of a Prophet, of a Prince, and of a Prie&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did he &s;hew him&s;elfe a Pro|phet?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In bearing witne&s;&s;e of the trueth, and reuealing the coun&s;els of God vn|to men.</P>
<P>Que. <HI>How a Prince?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Two manner of waies: fir&s;t, by his victorie ouer death: death is &s;wal|lowed vp into victory. 1. Cor. 15: And &s;econdly, becau&s;e he hath dominion o|uer all principalities and powers both in heauen and vpon the earth, Ephe&s;. 1.21.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How a Prie&s;t.</HI></P>
<PB REF="231" MS="y">
<P><HI>An,</HI> In that he hath wa&s;hed vs from our &s;innes in his bloud, by offering his body a &s;acrifice for vs vpon the cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did Chri&s;t heare the&s;e three offices onlie for him&s;elfe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No, for the benefit of the faithfull, that as hee was, &s;o they might bee both Prophets, Kings, and Prie&s;ts: Prophets, in that he &s;aith: I will powre my &s;pirite vpon all fle&s;h; and your &s;onnes and daughters &s;hall prophecie, Kings, in that we &s;hall raigne with him eternally, and Prie&s;ts, for that true Chri&s;tians do offer the &s;pirituall &s;acrifice of pray|er, prai&s;e, and a&s;mes deedes. Hebr. 13.15.16.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Are then all Chri&s;tian Prie&s;ts a|like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They are, as touching the &s;acri|fice aboue &s;aide, but not as touching Church-gouernment, for in this &s;en&s;e they are not called Prie&s;ts, but Elders, or mini&s;ters</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How doth he de&s;cribe Christ, ac|cording as he law him in vi&s;ion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By certaine properties fit for the capacitie of men: as that hee was in a long robe, girt with a girdle of gold, his hayre was white as &s;now, his eyes as a flame of fire, his feete like vnto fine
<PB N="227" REF="231" MS="y">bra&s;&s;e burning in a furnace, his voyce to the &s;ound of many waters, in his right hand he had &s;eauen &s;tarres, out of his mouth went a &s;harpe two-edged &s;word, and his face &s;hone as the Sunne &s;hineth in his &s;trength.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What gather we by this de&s;crip|tion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By his long robe girt vnto him, wee gather the readine&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t; in his Kingly and Princely office, to exe|cute the worke of our &s;aluation: by his white hayre, his fulne&s;&s;e of know|ledge &amp; wi&s;edome; by his fiery eies, his deepe in&s;ight into the darke&s;t corners of the earth, &amp; deepe&s;t &s;ecrets of mens hearts: by his feete of &s;hining bra&s;&s;e, the purity and brightnes of his wayes, and the power which hee hath to tread downe his enemies, and therefore are his feete, rather compared to Bra&s;&s;e then vnto gold, becau&s;e gold is a &s;ofter mettal, and not &s;o &s;it to repre&s;ent his inuincible &s;trength. By his voyce com|pared to the noy&s;e of manie waters, wee vnder&s;tand the &s;ounde of the Go&s;|pell, humbling &s;ome to their &s;aluation, others to theyr confu&s;ion: By the &s;tarres in his right hand, his faithfull Mini&s;ters, by whome hee worketh,
<PB REF="232" MS="y">which as &s;tarres &s;hould giue light vn|to men, by their doctrine and conuer|&s;ation: By the two edged &s;word is vn|der&s;tood, the powerfull word of God, cutting and clean&s;ing the hearts of his children, and thru&s;ting through the o|thers to their de&s;truction: and by his face &s;hining like the &s;unne at the high|e&s;t, the vn&s;peakeable brightne&s;&s;e of his grace, whereby the Church is com|forted and lightened in all trueth and &s;incerity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why doth he re&s;emble the Churches to golden candle&s;ticks?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e the Candle&s;ticke doeth not giue the light, but the light is put vpon it: &s;o the Church receiueth all her light put vpon her from Chri&s;t, for the doctrine of the Church (which is the light of the Church) is from GOD, and not of men.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Vnto how many points may vve draw the doctrine of this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Vnto foure.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhich be they?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Precepts, prophecies, promi&s;es, and threatnings.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein are the precepts &s;eene?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the in&s;tructions giuen to the &s;eauen Churches.</P>
<PB N="226" REF="232" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Vpon how many generall points do the&s;e in&s;tructions con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon three, a commendation, a reprehen&s;ion, and an exhortation.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>VVhat doth Chri&s;t commend in them?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their vertues, as patience, la|bor: zeale in the church of Ephe&s;us, ch. 2, 2. The workes of faith, repentance, &amp; charity, together with con&s;tancie in af|fliction &amp; true humility in the Church of <HI>Smyrna,</HI> chap, 2.9. Fortitude and va|liant per&s;euera~ce in the church of <HI>Per|gamus,</HI> that notwith&s;tanding the mar|tyrdome of <HI>Antipas,</HI> a man there put to death for Religion, yet they were not terrified, but held fa&s;t the faith of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, &amp; neuer for&s;ooke it; chap. 2, 13.</P>
<P>Loue and &s;eruice toward their bre|thren; faith and a&s;&s;urance in the pro|mi&s;es of God: and increa&s;ing in pietie, &s;o that the end was better then the be|ginning in the church of <HI>Thyatira,</HI> chap 2, 19.</P>
<P>A little increa&s;e of faith, keeping of the word of God, and a free confe&s;&s;ion of his name, in the church of <HI>Philadel|phia,</HI> chap. 3.8,</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What doth Chri&s;t reprehend in them?</HI></P>
<PB REF="233" MS="y">
<P><HI>An.</HI> Their vices, as the lacke of loue in the Church of <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> cha. 2, 4. Hy|pocri&s;ie in the Church of Smyrna, of &s;uch as &s;aid they were Iewes, but in|deede were the Synagogue of Sathans that is, they did profe&s;&s;e them&s;elues Chri&s;tians in word, but &s;hewed it not in deed, chap. 2.9.</P>
<P>The bearing with fal&s;e doctrine in the church of Pergamus, for they &s;uffe|red the Nicholaitans among&s;t the~, that as Balaam didde, taught the people of God to &s;tumble in two things, cau&s;ing them to commit fornication, both in bo+dy and &s;oule: in body, by abandoning their wiues to common v&s;e: in &s;oule, by &s;acrificing to Idolles for &s;uper&s;titions &s;ake chap. 1.14.</P>
<P>The like vice is reprehended in the Church at <HI>Thyatira,</HI> that &s;uffered <HI>Ie&s;a|hell</HI> a wicked woma~, to &s;et abroach fal&s;e and abhominable doctrine, tending to fornication and idolatry among&s;t them chap. 2.20</P>
<P>At Sardis their workes were &s;ayre in outward &s;hew, but inwardly nothing but filth and rottenne&s;&s;e, chapter, 3. ver&s;e. 1.</P>
<P>At <HI>Landicea,</HI> they were time-&s;eruers who halted betweene two opinions,
<PB N="227" REF="233" MS="y">and were neither hote nor cold, chapt. 3.15.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat doth Chri&s;t exhorte them vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Repentance and amendment of life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To their repentance, what is annex|ed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A gracious promi&s;e, to bee writ|ten in the booke of life.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To their wilfull per&s;euerance in their &s;ins, what is annexed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A heauy threatning, that hee will come &s;odainely vpon them, as a theefe, and they &s;hall not know the houre, cha. 3.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hauing learned the &s;tate of things as they &s;tood for the pre&s;ent, when this Re|uelation was giuen, what next &s;uccee|deth?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The prophecie of things to come; which is eyther generall, as touching &s;uch thinges as &s;houlde happen to the whole world: or particular, (but yet of more moment then the former) as tou|ching &s;uch things as &s;hould happen to the Church.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What is the end of the prophecie of the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That the faithfull admoni&s;hed
<PB REF="234" MS="y">before hand of the a&s;&s;aultes &amp; bloudy attempts, which the Diuell and world &s;hould make vpon the Church, might be confirmed in faith and patience, to &s;tand re&s;olute in de&s;pite of both, til the day of the comming of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is the end of the prophecie of the world?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To &s;hew the iudgements that God would execute vpon the enemies of his Church, and the &s;ealing vppe of the elect, before the execution of tho&s;e iudgements, that they might bee kept from euill, as appeareth by the 7, 8, 9 chapt.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>If the elect were kept from euill, to what end was this Reuelation giuen, to forewarne them that they &s;hould &s;uffer tro|ble and per&s;ecution?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To be kept from euill, is vn|der&s;tood, that notwith&s;tanding all the violence &amp; per&s;ecution offered them, yet they were not ouercome, or driuen from faith, or the hope they had of eternall happine&s;&s;e, but therein they did ioye and triumphe, how&s;oeuer the world thought them plunged in de&s;|paire and &s;orrow.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat is the &s;econd vi&s;ion that Iohn had?</HI></P>
<PB N="228" REF="234" MS="y">
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The vi&s;ion wherein was reuea|led vnto him the Maie&s;ty of GOD the Father, to giue the greater authoritie vnto this booke, wherein his excellen|cie is likewi&s;e &s;et foorth vnto vs (a&s;well as the Sonnes) in a de&s;cription fitte for our capacity.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is the glory of the father de&s;cri|bed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In the&s;e &s;ix things: in the figures of his office, of his nature, of his a&s;&s;i|&s;tants, of his effects, of the in&s;truments which hee imployeth to that purpo&s;e, and of the euents that follow.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is his office?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To iudge the whole earth, and therefore hee is apprehended of <HI>Iohn,</HI> &s;itting vpon a throne, chap. 4.2.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is his nature repre&s;ented?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the beauty of the Ia&s;per &s;tone and of the Sardine, chap. 4.3.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who are his a&s;&s;i&s;tants?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> The honourable company of Prophets &amp; Apo&s;tles, cloathed in white rayment, and crowned with gold, chap. 4.4.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>What are the effects of his magnifi|cence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Lightning, thunder, and voyces. &amp;c.</P>
<PB REF="235" MS="y">
<P>Qu. <HI>Who be his in&s;truments?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The company of the cele&s;tiall creatures, in number foure: that is, &s;o many as are needefull for the executi|on of the will of God, through all the corners of the world: and the whole ar|my of creatures vnder heauen, figured vnto vs by the Sea of gla&s;&s;e like vnto Chri&s;tall.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why are the cele&s;tiall creatures &s;aid to be full of eies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e of their watchfulnes in the &s;eruice of God.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Why is the fir&s;t compared vnto a Lyon?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e of his courage.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why the &s;econd to an Oxe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e of his &s;trength.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVhy hath the third the face of a man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e of his prudence.</P>
<P>Qu <HI>Why is the fourth likened to a flying Eagle?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Becau&s;e of his agility and &s;wift|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What are the euents that followe the de&s;cription of this magnificence?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The prai&s;e and glorie which the Angles giue vnto him, that &s;its vppon the Throne, and the reuerence and
<PB N="229" REF="235" MS="y">homage which the Elders &s;hewe vnto him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> By pro&s;trating them&s;elues before him, ca&s;ting their crownes at his feete, chap. 4, 10.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hauing procured &s;o great authority to the wordes of this reuelation by the de&s;|cription of the Maie&s;ty of the giuers, what followes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The pre&s;entation of the two bookes, whereof the one beeing greate, and large, written within and without and &s;ealed with &s;eauen &s;eales, contai|neth the hi&s;torie of the world, the o|ther being but litle, includeth the hi&s;to|ry of the Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who opens the &s;eales of this booke?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Were none &s;ollicited thereunto, but he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Yes; ageneral Proclamatio~ vvas made by an Angell, to &s;ee if any would open it: but none, neyther in heauen, nor earth, nor vnder the earth was found a|ble, or worthy to open, or looke vpon the booke, &s;aue the Lion of the tribe of Iuda, and the Lamb that &s;toode in the mid&s;t of the throne, and of the Elders which was Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, ch. 5, 2, to, 7.</P>
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<P> Qu. <HI>What do we learne by this, that none were able to vnclo&s;e the book but he?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That he is the onelie mediatour between God and man, that no other creature either in heauen or earth is acquainted with the &s;ecret coun&s;els of God, or can reueale them vnto vs, but he.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Why is he called a Lyon &amp; a Lamb names of contrary nature?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He is called a Lyon in re&s;pect of his power and &s;trength; and a Lamb in re&s;pect of his patient &s;ufferance,</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was contained in this booke when Chri&s;t had opened it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The eternall purpo&s;e of God for the puni&s;hing and powring foorthe of plagues vpon the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What mooued him thereunto?</HI></P>
<P>An. The incredulity and wickednes of men.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vvere the plagues?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of two &s;orts, eyther &s;uch as af|flicted other creatures, as the earth, &s;ea hearbs, plants, fountaines, &amp;c, chapt. 8. or &s;uch as were inflicted vpponmen, chapt 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat were tho&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Tho&s;e were of two &s;orts, eyther by way of torment, or cruell murther</P>
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<P><HI>Qu. What was the cau&s;e of that tyran|nie?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Smoake and &s;ulphur which i&s;&s;u|ed from the bottomle&s;&s;e pit, whereby is figured the &s;pirituall darkne&s;&s;e, with which mens con&s;ciences were tormen|ted; and from this darkene&s;&s;e of minde, at the la&s;t did i&s;&s;ue the other plague of &s;laughter and bloud &s;hedded, &s;o many years expre&s;&s;ed and publi&s;hed through Chri&s;tendome by the Popes of <HI>Rome,</HI> chap. 9.15.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What is the generall v&s;e of the pre|cedents</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> As touching the per&s;on of God, wee learne three things, Fir&s;t his lo|uing fauour in denouncing and giuing knowledge before hand, by euident tokens, what rigoure hee propo&s;ed to execute afterward, if hee &s;awe no a|mendment in the cour&s;e of mens liues, chapter 6. Secondly, his mercifull care ouer the elect, in arming them with de|fen&s;iue armour, to couer them again&s;t the floud of tho&s;e euills that were to o|uerflowe the whole world, chapter 7. Thirdly, the trueth of his iu&s;tice in ex|ecuting all tho&s;e plagues vppon the world, which he had foretolde, chapter 8.9.</P>
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<P>Qu. <HI>What do we learne as touching our &s;elues?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three things: attention to regard the threatnings of God, repentance to be&s;orie for our &s;innes, and amendment of life, to preuent the rigoure of his ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What as touching the in&s;truments of God, which hee v&s;ed in executing of his will?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vv.</HI> Three things: Fir&s;t that they were Angels: &s;econdly, that they were obedient at his becke: and thirdly, that they were expeditious in performance of their charge.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What learne we as touching the elect?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three things: Fir&s;t their place, they &s;tood before the throne, and be|fore the Lamb, wherby it is &s;hewen, that as they are vnder the protection of God, &s;o are they alwayes readie to doe him &s;eruice. Secondly, their habit, they were cloathed in white robes, wa|&s;hed in the bloud of the Lambe; where|by is &s;ignified, their pure, peaceable, and royall dignity, Thirdly, their vic|tory, they had Palmes in their hands, whereby were are put in minde of the combates which they &s;u&s;tayned for
<PB N="231" REF="238" MS="y">the name of God, and the eternall tri|umph which they haue in heauen, by the communio~ and fellow&s;hip of our &s;a|uiour Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, chap. 7 9.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What as touching a naturall man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Spirituall mi&s;ery which &s;preads it &s;elfe into three branches: ouertie of heart, for lacke of vnder&s;tanding: blindnes of mind for lack of faith, and nakedne&s;&s;e of &s;oule, for lacke of the white robe of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us. chap. 3.17.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What as touching a regenerate man?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;we.</HI> Three properties: &s;trength of faith, keeping of the word of God, and free confe&s;&s;ion of his name, chapt. 3.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Proceed vnto the vi&s;ion of the &s;e|cond book: who held the &s;econd book in his hand?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A mightly Angel. chap. 10.1.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Whom doe you vnder&s;tand by that Angell?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Our Sauiour Chri&s;t, that helde the booke open in his hand.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is he de&s;cribed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In great glory &amp; magnificence.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To what end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To procure the greater authori|ty to this prophecy following.</P>
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<P>Qu. <HI>What was contained in the booke which he held?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The propheticall hi&s;torie of the church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>To whome did he guie it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> To <HI>Iohn.</HI></P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>How did he commaunde him to v&s;e it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vvere</HI>-Hee bade him eate, that is comprehend and throughly vnder&s;ta~d it.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv is the hi&s;torie of the Church diuided?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into two parts: into the mini&s;te|ry or deedes of the Prophets, and the whole body of the Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In how many things con&s;i&s;ted the deedes of the Prophets, or mini&s;ters of the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In three things, in their fighting vnder the Cro&s;&s;e, in their murdering, and in their rai&s;ing vp againe.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When began their fight?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Pre&s;e~tly vpon the death of chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long did they continue?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> 1026. yeares.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>The text &s;aith daies, chap.</HI> 11,13.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> True, but it is to be vnder&s;tood, yeeres, after the example of <HI>Ezekiel,</HI> &amp;
<PB N="232" REF="239" MS="y"><HI>Daniel,</HI> who interpret their vi&s;ions, in like manner: dayes for yeeres.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who was prophecied that he &s;hould murther and almo&s;t quite extingui&s;h their doctrine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pope <HI>Boniface</HI> the eight, wo en|tred into the papacie at the expiration of 1260 yeares, chap. 11.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did be enter?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like a Fox, by &s;ubtilty, who in the night by a fal&s;e Oracle, per&s;waded his predece&s;&s;our <HI>Cele&s;tine</HI> to re&s;igne his authoritie vnto him.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did he rule when he had got it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like a hungry Lion, killing and deuouring the &s;aints of God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How long did he rule?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three yeeres and a halfe, during which time the church of chri&s;t &s;eemed to be dead and lie vnburied.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhere?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In the &s;treets of Rome.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>The text &s;aith of</HI> Sodome <HI>and</HI> Aegypt, <HI>how then doe you &s;aie of Rome?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By Sodome &amp; Aegypt is figura|tiuely vnder&s;tood <HI>Rome,</HI> by rea&s;on of the likene&s;&s;e it had with tho&s;e two pla|ces, for the lice~ciou&s;ne&s;&s;e and tyranny that was practi&s;ed therein, for So|dome
<PB REF="240" MS="y">was not at that time, and Aegypt was a country and not a city.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who ray&s;ed the Church againe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The &s;pirit of life comming from God, chap. 11.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Pre&s;ently vpon the death of <HI>Boniface?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Qu. How died</HI> Boniface?</P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Like a dogge in pri&s;on, by the means of <HI>Sarra Columnus,</HI> and a French knight called <HI>Naggaret.</HI></P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did the &s;pirit of God rai&s;e vptho&s;e that had been &s;laine?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> No.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>The text &s;aith, they a&s;cended into heauen in a cloude?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> We are to vnder&s;tand by the v&s;e of the &s;cripture, that the church of the wicked is commonly called the world, or the earth: &amp; the church of the faith|full and elect is called heauen: there|fore when it is &s;aide they a&s;cended vp into heauen, the meaning is, they were withdrawne from the tyrannie of this wicked worlde, and gathered into the cele&s;tiall church; that is, &s;eeing the Temple and publique places were not open vnto them, &s;ecret places were &s;anctfied vnto them, as if it were
<PB N="233" REF="240" MS="y">heauen aparte from the re&s;t of the world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What effects followe this &s;epara|tion?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Feare and terrour in their ene|mies, ioy and thank&s;giuing in the &s;aints of God, that he did vouch&s;a&s;e to chal|lenge his authoritie and &s;oueraigne power ouer the world, chapter 12, ver&s;. 11.17.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hauing touched the mini&s;terie of the Church, let vs returne to the other part of our diui&s;ion, which was the whole bodye of the Church; How doth the whole bodie of the Church diuide it &s;elfe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into two parts, into the Iewi&s;h Chri&s;tian, and into the Chri&s;tian Ca|tholike Church, which con&s;i&s;teth not only of Iewes, but of the beleeuing Gentiles al&s;o.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When began the Christian Iewi&s;h Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At the in&s;tant of the conception of our Sauiour Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When began the Chri&s;tian Catho|like Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> At that time, when by the prea|ching of the Apo&s;tles, the Gentils were conuerted, and did embrace the glad ti|dings of the Go&s;pel.</P>
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<P>Qu. <HI>What doth Saint Iohn here conti|nue for our in&s;truction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The e&s;tate both of the Iewi&s;h &amp; Chri&s;tian Catholike Church warfaring. or as it was &s;ubiect to the a&s;&s;aults of her enemies.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVhat is the Iewi&s;h Chri&s;tian Church compared vnto?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> A woman with child, chapt. 12. ver&s;. 2.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. Why?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Becau&s;e like vnto a fruitfull wo|man, it is continually to bring foorth children vnto the Lord.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How is that woman de&s;cribed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By her attire, &amp; by her &s;tanding, chap. 12.1.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. How was her attyre?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Of two &s;orts; the cloathing of her body, and the ornament of her head.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was her body cloathed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With the Sunne.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is thereby &s;ignified?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The ine&s;timable glory, giuen vnto the Church by God.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was her head adorned?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With a Crowne of twelue &s;tarres.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What is thereby &s;ignified?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>An.</HI> The kingdome of Heauen, which belongeth vnto the Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Hovv did &s;he &s;tand?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Vpon the Moone.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What do vve learne by that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> That the true Church trampleth vnder her feete all variablene&s;&s;e, vnto which all things vnder the moone are &s;ubiect.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What was her conflict?</HI></P>
<P>An. She trauailed, and was in daun|get to haue her child deuoured, chapt. 12, 4.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By whome?</HI></P>
<P>An By a fiery Dragon that had &s;euen heades, and vpon euery head a Crown, and ten hornes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat doe you vnderstand by the Dragon?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Sathan.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>&V;&V;hat by his &s;eauen heads?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> His woonderfull pollicie and wi&s;edome, able at once to di&s;turbe the &s;eauen Churches, that is, the vniuer&s;all Church.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat by his &s;euen crownes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> His magnificence and authori|tie, euery head beeing as the head of a king.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. VVhat by his ten hornes?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>An.</HI> His great power, &s;ufficiently fur|ni&s;hed to hurt the whole world.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is vnder&s;tood by the childe whome he would deuoure?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Chri&s;t my&s;ticall, that is one and entier Chri&s;t in a my&s;tery, compoun|ded of the per&s;on of Chri&s;t, as of the head: &amp; of the body of the church, and of all the members thereof, vnited to the head by his &s;pirite.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How was the child deliuered?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> God tooke it vp into heauen, and prepared a place for the mother in the wildernes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Did Sathans malice &s;o end?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;vvere.</HI> No, hee gaue two a&s;&s;aults more.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where was the fir&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In heauen, chap. 12.7.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>In what manner?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> He accu&s;ed the elect of God day and night.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>VVhat was his &s;ucce&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Hee was throwne downe from thence by the power of <HI>Michael,</HI> that is of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Where was his &s;econd a&s;&s;ault?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In earth, vpon the mother of the Child, and vpon the re&s;t of her &s;eede: that is, vpon the Church of the Iewes,
<PB N="235" REF="242">and the Church of the Gentiles, after|ward gathered together in Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did the Mother, that is, the Church of the Iewes e&s;cape in this a&s;&s;ault?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Shee was caried by the power of God, as by the wings of an Eagle, into a place of refuge.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What place was that?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An. Pella,</HI> a towne &s;eated on the o|ther &s;ide of Iordan, in a de&s;art country.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How did Sathan pur&s;ue her?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With a floud of water ca&s;t out of his mouth.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What vnder&s;tand you by the floud of water?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Romanes which de&s;troyed Ieru&s;alem, and the &s;anctuary that was therein.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Who drunke vp that floud of water that it did not hurt the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The earth, that is, the wicked &s;ort of the Iews, who&s;e bloudy ma&s;&s;acre &s;atisfied the fury of the <HI>Remanes,</HI> &s;o that the Elect had liberty to e&s;cape.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>When Sathan &s;aw him&s;elfe againe preuented, how did he take it?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Hee was wrath, and made warre vpon the re&s;t of the &s;eed of the woman, that is, vpon the Chri&s;tian Catholike Church.</P>
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<P> Qu. <HI>How many principall things are we to note in the hi&s;tory of the Chri&s;tian Catholike Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Three: her combats, her victory, and her glory.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>With whom were her combats?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> With two kinde of bea&s;tes, the one whereof had &s;eauen heades, and came out of the &s;ea: the other had two heads, and &s;prang out of the earth, chap. 13.</P>
<P><HI>Qu. What do you vnder&s;tand by the fir&s;t bea&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The tyrannye inflicted vpon the Church by the ciuil gouernment of the Romane Empire.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What by the &s;econd bea&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The per&s;ecution of the Papi&s;ti|call Hyerarchie, by the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of Popes.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Again&s;t whom doth the Church ob|taine her victory?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Again&s;t the two bea&s;tes, and the Dragon before &s;poken of, and again&s;t the whoore of the &s;pirituall Babilon, de&s;cribed in the 17, chap.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>What is under&s;tood by the whoore of Babylon?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> The great Citty of Rome, which raigneth ouer the Kings of the earth,
<PB N="236" REF="244" MS="y">chap. 17. ver&s;e 18.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>By what meanes doth the Church get victory ouer her enemies?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> By the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Chri&s;t her head and captaine.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Into how many parts doth his a&s;|&s;i&s;tance &s;pread?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> Into foure: the preaching of his word, and the workes of faith, pa|tience, obedience, &s;et downe in the 14. chapter: and into threatninges and iudgementes proceeding from his di|uine iu&s;tice, declared in the 15. and 16. chap.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>Wherein con&s;i&s;teth the glory of the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> In her perpetuall triumphe in the world to come, ioined to her bride|groome Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, in ioye that neuer &s;hall haue end: a ta&s;te of which ioye is, in &s;ome &s;ort, made manife&s;t vnto vs in chap. 21. and 22.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>But what &s;hall become of the ene|mies of the Church?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An.</HI> They &s;hall haue their portion in the lake, that burneth with fire and brim&s;tone, which is the &s;econd death, chap. 21.8.</P>
<P>Qu. <HI>How many kinds of death are there incident to man?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>An.</HI> Two, the fir&s;t which is a &s;epara|tion of the &s;oule from the body, and of this kind of death, all &s;ortes of people mu&s;t ta&s;te, as well the godly, as vn|godly: and the &s;econd, which is a &s;epa|ration of the &s;oule and bodie from the pre&s;ence of God, for euer to remayne in darkne&s;&s;e; and this is the death that the wicked onely mu&s;t die.</P>
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