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<P>THE SUMME &amp; SUBSTANCE OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION, Set downe in a Ca|techi&s;ticall way, by <HI>H. J.</HI></P>
<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>W. Wil&s;on,</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>Richard Thrale</HI> at <HI>Pauls</HI> gate at the &s;igne of the <HI>Cro&s;&s;e|keyes.</HI> 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>Chri&s;tian Reader.</HEAD>
<P>THis Orthodox Catechi&s;me contai|ning the &s;umme and &s;ub&s;tance of Chri&s;tian Religion printed by the Col|lector for the u&s;e of his own famely &amp; of &s;ome private friends, and it comming to my hands, and knowing that the pub|li&s;hing of it hath beene much de&s;ired by many Learned and &s;ound Divines and others; I have made bold to committ it to the Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e for the publike good. I per|&s;wade my &s;elfe it will be u&s;efull and ac|ceptable to tho&s;e which &s;hall duly peru&s;e it. And therefore without further apo|logie, I pre&s;ent it to the world.</P>
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<HEAD>The Sum and Sub&s;tance of Chri&s;tian Religion, &s;et down in a Catechi&s;tiall way by <HI>H. J.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHat Religion doe you pr fe&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>The Chri&s;tian, which is to know and acknowledge the onely true God, and Je&s;us Chri&s;t whom he hath &s;ent.</P>
<P><HI>How come you to this Knowledge?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 22.20 Jo. 6.68. Ro. 1.19.20. Eph. 17.8.9.</NOTE></P>
<P>By Gods workes, and his Word revealed.</P>
<P N="1">1. His Worke are, the creation and pre|&s;ervation of the World, &amp; all things therein.</P>
<P N="2">2 His Word is the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Te&s;tament: containing the Law, and the Go&s;pel: being a perfect Rule for all Chri&s;tians for Doctrine and Life, to bring them to &s;alvation.</P>
<P><HI>What doe the Scriptures teach?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. That there is a God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 1.19.20.</NOTE> and this is proved by the Creation of the World, which could not bee framed of it &s;elfe, but by &s;ome ex|traordinary power.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="2" REF="3">2.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zach. 12.1 Act. 14.17</NOTE> By creating the Soule of man.</P>
<P N="3">3. By the pre&s;ervation and ordering of things created.</P>
<P><HI>What doth Chri&s;tian Religion teach concer|ning God?</HI></P>
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<ITEM>1.<NOTE PLACE="marg">God.</NOTE> His Nature.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. His Kingdome.</ITEM>
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<P>Fir&s;t, concerning his Nature, and being, that he is incomprehen&s;ible, fle&s;h and blood cannot comprehend what he is, though by his attributes we may come to &s;ome know|ledge of him.</P>
<P><HI>What are his Attributes or properties.</HI></P>
<P>Wi&s;dome, Holine&s;&s;e, Ju&s;tice, Mercy, Pow|er and the like, in all which he, and none el&s;e is ab&s;olutely perfect.</P>
<P><HI>May God be &s;eene?</HI></P>
<P>No,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu. 24.39.</NOTE> becau&s;e he is a &s;pirit, which is a li|ving &s;ub&s;tance without corruption, without body, fle&s;h, or bones, invi&s;ible, not to bee &s;eene or felt.</P>
<P><HI>How many Gods be there?</HI></P>
<P>But one in e&s;&s;ence or &s;ub&s;tance, yet di|&s;tingui&s;hed into three per&s;ons, the Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t. There's a Trinity of per&s;ons in the Unity of the God-head And they are called per&s;ons, becau&s;e they have proper things to di&s;tingui&s;h them, and that not in nature, but in relation, and or|der.</P>
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<P><HI>How are they di&s;tingui&s;hed by order and re|lation?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The Father is of him&s;elfe alone, and of no other, neither created, nor begotten, and is the fir&s;t per&s;on in Trinity, having his be|ing from none el&s;e, yet by communicating his e&s;&s;ence from Eternity, hath begotten his only Son of him&s;elfe.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Sonne is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten: and hee is the &s;econd per&s;on in order, not in time, be|ing begotten from all Eternity, before all times, by the Communication of the Fa|thers, e&s;&s;ence or being.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Holy Gho&s;t is of the Father, and the Son, neither made, nor created, nor be|gotten, but proceeding from them. And hee is the third per&s;on in order, by communica|tion of e&s;&s;ence, Eternally proceeding from the Father, and the Son.</P>
<P>And the&s;e three per&s;ons in Trinity are co-e&s;&s;entiall, of the &s;ame being, or &s;ub&s;tance: co-equall, of the &s;ame power, wi&s;edome and Maje&s;ty: coeternall, of the &s;ame time one with another, without beginning, without ending.</P>
<P><HI>What proofes have you of the Trinity in the Old Te&s;tament?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Trinity.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1. The Father is &s;aid,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 1.2.3</NOTE> by his word to have
<PB N="4" REF="4">made the World, the Holy Gho&s;t working and maintaining them.</P>
<P N="2">2.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 23.2. E&s;. 42.1.</NOTE> The Spirit of the Lord &s;pake by me, and his word by my Tongue.</P>
<P N="3">3. Behold my &s;ervant whom I uphold, mine elect in whom my &s;oule delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him.</P>
<P><HI>What out of the N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w Te&s;tament?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The Trinity appeared at Chri&s;ts Bap|ti&s;me.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.16.28.19.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2. Wee are Baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 14.16.15.26. Luk. 1.35.</NOTE> The Father and Son promi&s;e to &s;end the Holy Gho&s;t?</P>
<P N="4">4. They are all mentioned in the Angells &s;alutation of the Uirgin Mary.</P>
<P N="5">5.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 2.33.</NOTE> And in Saint <HI>Peters</HI> &s;peech to the Jewes. So in 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.14. and <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.6. and <HI>Tit.</HI> 3.4, 5, 6.</P>
<P><HI>What proofe have you of the unity?</HI></P>
<P>There are three that beare record in Hea|ven,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Vnity.</HI> 1 Jo. 5.7.</NOTE> the Father, the Word, and the Holy Gho&s;t, and the&s;e three are one.</P>
<P><HI>Why are the&s;e being three, &s;aid to bee but one?</HI></P>
<P>They are one in being, e&s;&s;ence, and &s;ub|&s;tance, but three per&s;ons di&s;tinct in &s;ub&s;i|&s;tance.</P>
<P>As you may reade, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.4.5. <HI>Deut.</HI> 6.4.
<PB N="5" REF="4"><HI>Mark.</HI> 12.32. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 8.4.5.6.</P>
<P>Of Gods Kingdome.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gods Kingdome</HI> E&s;. 9.7.40.13. Dan. 2.44. P&s;. 99.1. &amp; 115.3.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>What is meant by that?</HI></P>
<P>His dominion and rule over all his Crea|tures, whereby he governeth all things, ac|cording to his owne will, power, and wi&s;e|dome, by his owne powerfull Spirit, to his owne glory. <HI>Ro.</HI> 11.36. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 97.6. <HI>E&s;a.</HI> 48.11. <HI>Eph.</HI> 1.12.14. <HI>Ro.</HI> 11.34. &amp; <HI>Eph.</HI> 1.11.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 11.32. Eph. 1.4. P&s;. 33.6.7, &amp;c. 146.6.7. Jer. 10.12.</NOTE></P>
<P>And this he doth by decree from all Eter|nity, it being un&s;earchable and immutable.</P>
<P><HI>What are we to con&s;ider in Gods Decree?</HI></P>
<P>The Decree it &s;elfe, &amp; the executing of it.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Decree it &s;elfe?</HI></P>
<P>It is an action of God by which from all eternity hat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> determined all things to bee done nece&s;&s;arily, yet freely according to his owne will.</P>
<P><HI>How is this Decree executed?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. By creating all thing.</P>
<P N="2">2. By Providence.</P>
<P><HI>What was the fir&s;t thing that was Created?</HI></P>
<P>The world with all things in it, and they were made of nothing, by all the per&s;ons in Trinity, in &s;ixe dayes, and &s;ixe nights, the la&s;t worke of the Creation, being Man.</P>
<P><HI>What parts doth man con&s;i&s;t of?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Of a Body,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2.7. Eccl. 12.7.</NOTE> which was made of the du&s;t of the earth, which at death &s;hall returne to earth</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="6" REF="5">2. Of a Soule which was made of a Spiri|tuall &s;ub&s;tance, breathed by God into the Body, to give it life, and is immortall, as ap|peareth. <HI>Eccl.</HI> 12.7. <HI>Luc.</HI> 23.46. <HI>Act.</HI> 7.59. <HI>Luc.</HI> 23.43. <HI>Mat.</HI> 10.28. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 49.15. <HI>Mat.</HI> 22.32. <HI>Rev.</HI> 6.9. and 7.9.</P>
<P><HI>What is Gods providence?</HI></P>
<P>It is a temporary action of God, whereby he moveth and directeth all things,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Provi|dence.</NOTE> after the Coun&s;ell of his owne will to their proper ends, &s;uffering and directing them, and ef|fectually di&s;po&s;ing them to good ends, <HI>Eph.</HI> 1.11. <HI>Ro.</HI> 11.36. <HI>Zach.</HI> 4.10. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 15.3. <HI>Jer.</HI> 23.23. <HI>Col.</HI> 3.11. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 139.2. and 119.91.</P>
<P><HI>How is Gods providence &s;eene in man?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Partly by pre&s;erving his life on earth, during the time allotted by God him&s;elfe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 17.28 P&s;. 36.6. Gen. 1.28. Eccl. 1.4.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2. Partly by propagating his kinde to the Worlds end, by propagation and genera|tion.</P>
<P><HI>How was man Created?</HI></P>
<P>After the Jmage of God, in the &s;tate of innocency, without &s;in, being left to him|&s;elfe, to &s;tand or fall.</P>
<P><HI>How did he loo&s;e this?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Adams</HI> fall</NOTE></P>
<P>By <HI>Adams</HI> tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing the Covenant, which hee made with God, by eating the forbidden fruit.</P>
<P><HI>How came he to fall?</HI></P>
<P N="1"><PB N="7" REF="5">1 By Gods permi&s;&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Origi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 16.</NOTE> not by in&s;tilling any evill into him, or by taking from him any ability to good.</P>
<P N="2">2 By &s;uffering Satan to a&s;&s;aile him. <MILESTONE N="1"></P>
<P N="3">3 By leaving him to the liberty and mu+tability of his own will, <MILESTONE N="1"> and not hindering his fall by &s;upply of further grace.</P>
<P><HI>What followed upon this tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion to o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> fir&s;t Parents?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Guilt of con&s;cience, and horror for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cur&s;e. 14</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 Shame of face, upon nakedne&s;s of body.</P>
<P N="3">3 Feare, and flying from Gods pre&s;ence.</P>
<P N="4">4 The Cur&s;e of the earth.</P>
<P N="5">5 Labour, even to the &s;weat of brows.</P>
<P N="6">6 Expul&s;ion from Paradi&s;e, to live with bea&s;ts.</P>
<P><HI>Did this e&s;tate end and determine with them?</HI></P>
<P>No, their &s;in was the &s;in of all men, and we thereby became &s;inners, and guilty of e|ternall condemnation.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 5.12.5.15, 16, &amp;c.</NOTE> They not only lo&s;t for them&s;elves the Image and favour of God but deprived their po&s;terity of that ble&s;&s;ed e&s;tate.</P>
<P><HI>For what rea&s;on was this?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 <HI>Adam</HI> was not a private man in this act, but repre&s;ented the per&s;on of all mankind, and as hee had received grace and &s;trength for him&s;elfe and all his po&s;terity, &s;o he lo&s;t the &s;ame for all. As we &s;hould have partaken
<PB N="8" REF="6">in his happines, if he had &s;tood, &s;o was his tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, and mi&s;ery ours.</P>
<P N="2">2 All we that are de&s;cended from him by naturall generation, were all in his loynes, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd were a part of him when he fell, and &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nned in him, and in him de&s;erved Eternall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ndemnation. As a Lepro&s;ie in the Parent, is made the Childrens, and as the Children of a &s;lave, are &s;laves to many generations, if they be not made free; and as a Traitortaints the blood of his i&s;&s;ue, if not re&s;tored. So by their &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 51.5.</NOTE> by Gods ju&s;t judgment, we are conceived in &s;in, and born in Iniquity.</P>
<P><HI>What is &s;in?</HI></P>
<P>It is a breach and &s;werving from Gods Law and Commandement,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sinne.</HI></NOTE><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 3 4. Gen. 4.7.</NOTE> making the &s;in|ner guilty before God, and lyable to the cur&s;e of the Law.</P>
<P><HI>What &s;ort of &s;ins are there?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Sin imputed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro 5.12. 1 Cor. 15.22.</NOTE> which is without us, and this was our fir&s;t Parents &s;in, &amp; ours by im|putation, both for tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion and guilt.</P>
<P N="2">2 Sinne inherent within us, which is of two kindess.</P>
<P N="1">1 That which defiles our nature,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 3.9. Gen. 6.5. E&s;a 48.8.</NOTE> called originall &s;in.</P>
<P N="2">2 That which defiles our actions, called actuall &s;in.</P>
<PB N="9" REF="6">
<P><HI>What is originall &s;in?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Original.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>It is a &s;in, wherewith all that are natu|rally de&s;cended from <HI>Adam,</HI> are defiled, from their fir&s;t conception, and it infecteth all the power and faculties of the Soule and body, making them &s;laves to &s;in, and being the principall cau&s;e of all other &s;ins. And it con&s;i&s;ts not only in the deprivation of Ju|&s;tice, and ab&s;ence of good,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ja. 1. 14. Rom. 7.21. Rom. 7.7.</NOTE> but al&s;o in a con|tinuall pre&s;ence of an evill principle, and wicked property, whereby we are all natu|rally inclined to all evill. Its called concu|pi&s;cence.</P>
<P><HI>What is actuall &s;in.</HI></P>
<P>It is a breach of Gods Commandement,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Actuall.</HI></NOTE> a|cted by us after the manner of <HI>Adams</HI> tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ion, and it is committed either</P>
<P N="1">1 Inwardly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 5.14. Gen. 6.5. Mt. 15.19. Joh. 13.2. Acts 5.3.</NOTE> by evill thoughts of a mans own conceiving, or by the &s;ugge&s;tion of the devill, or by evill motions and lu&s;ts, &s;tri|ving in the heart again&s;t the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Law.</P>
<P N="2">2 Outwardly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a 3.8. Mt. 15.15.</NOTE> by evill words and deeds ari&s;ing from tho&s;e corrupt thoughts.</P>
<P><HI>Are actuall &s;ins of one &s;ort?</HI></P>
<P>No, for there are &s;ome &s;ins of Omi&s;&s;ion, which is a breach of the Commandement, that biddeth: &s;ome of Commi&s;&s;ion, which is a breach of the Commandement, that for|biddeth.</P>
<PB N="10" REF="7">
<P>And the&s;e are diver&s;fly con&s;idered.</P>
<P N="1">1 In regard of the object offended, &s;ome being directly again&s;t God, &s;ome again&s;t our neighbours, either publique or private, &s;ome again&s;t a mans own &s;elfe.</P>
<P N="2">2 In regard of the di&s;po&s;ition followed: either as we partake with the &s;ins of others,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 6.5. 1 Sam. 3.13. Act. 7.58. Rom. 1.32. Mr. 6.25.</NOTE> as when we wink at them, or conceal them, or when we further them, by con&s;ent, pre|&s;ence, or coun&s;ell, or when we provoke them to &s;in.</P>
<P N="2">2 Or when wee commit &s;in in our owne per&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat di&s;tinction is there of tho&s;e &s;ins?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Some are of ignorance, either out of an erring Con&s;cience,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 1.15. P&s;. 19.12. 1 Cor. 8.7.</NOTE> which a man doth not either know or ob&s;erve. Or of an affected ignorance, whith encrea&s;eth a fault.</P>
<P N="2">2 Some are done of Knowledge.</P>
<P><HI>What are the differences of &s;ins of knowledge.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Some are of infirmity or tentation, for feare of evill,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 7.19. Mt. 26.69.70. P&s;. 19.13. Eccl. 8.11 Heb. 6.4.5.6.10.29. Mr 3 29, 30.</NOTE> or hope of good.</P>
<P N="2">2 Some are of pre&s;umption, ob&s;tinacy, and &s;tubborne&s;&s;e, which (without Gods grace) may in time proceede to wilfull malice a|gain&s;t God and his truth, and the unpardo|nable &s;in again&s;t the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<PB N="11" REF="7">
<P><HI>VVhat is the &s;in again&s;t the Holy Gho&s;t.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sin again&s;t the Holy Gho&s;t.</NOTE></P>
<P>It is a malicious falling from, and re&s;i&s;ting the Go&s;pel, after enlightening, &amp; a ta&s;t felt of it, manife&s;ted in outward action by &s;ome bla&s;phemous oppugning the truth, of &s;et ha|tred, becau&s;e it is the truth. And it is &s;o cal|led, not becau&s;e it is again&s;t the third Per|&s;on in Trinity onely (for it is again&s;t all three) but becau&s;e it is committed again&s;t the light of knowledg, with which the ho|ly Gho&s;t hath enlightned the offender, and that of &s;et malice: for every one that &s;in|neth again&s;t his knowledg, may be &s;aid to &s;in again&s;t the Holy Gho&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 5.3.</NOTE> as <HI>Ananias</HI> and <HI>Saphira</HI> are &s;aid to doe. Infidels and Heathen doe not commit this &s;in, nor any that are ignorant, though maliciou&s;ly they bla&s;|pheme the truth. <HI>Peter,</HI> though he denyed Chri&s;t, and cur&s;ed him&s;elfe, did not com|mit this &s;in, becau&s;e it was to &s;ave his life:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. 12.31. Heb. 6.6.</NOTE> nor <HI>Paul,</HI> becau&s;e he did it of ignorance. But the Phari&s;ees did, becau&s;e they did it of &s;et malice, knowing it was the truth.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat puni&s;hment followeth this &s;in?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 God hath &s;aid, it &s;hal never be pardoned.</P>
<P N="2">2 It mu&s;t not be prayed for.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Jo. 5.16.</NOTE></P>
<P N="3">3 It is the ordinary &amp; fir&s;t &s;in of the De|vill, and therefore he is never to be received to mercy, nor any other that are guilty of it.</P>
<PB N="12" REF="8">
<P><HI>VVhat are the things that generally follow &s;in?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Puni&s;hme~t of &s;in.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Guilt. 2 Puni&s;hment.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the guilt of &s;in?</HI></P>
<P>It is the de&s;ert of &s;inne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 2.15.3 3.9. Gal. 3.10,</NOTE> whereby the &s;inner is lyable to puni&s;hment: and it hath this evill accompanying it, be|fort the puni&s;hment, that it maketh the minde unquiet, in re&s;pect of the fear of pu|ni&s;hment which hangeth over the head of the &s;inner.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the puni&s;hment?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 It is the wages of &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2.17. Joh 3.18. E&s;a 64.5, 6 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om 6 12. Gal. 3.10.</NOTE> even the wrath and cur&s;e of God: a bodily and &s;pirituall death, begun here, and accompli&s;hed in the life to come.</P>
<P><HI>Cannot we &s;atisfie Gods wrath for our &s;ins?</HI></P>
<P>No,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 3.5.</NOTE> for we daily runne into it, being by nature Children of wrath, and not able &s;o much as to think a good thought, therefore unable to appea&s;e Gods infinite wrath a|gain&s;t &s;in.</P>
<P><HI>How then can wee bee re&s;tored to Gods fa|vou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">?</HI></P>
<P>God him&s;elfe hath found out the means,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 3.21, 22.</NOTE> by a Covenant of grace and this, by a Me|diator, which is his meere mercy to us in Chri&s;t.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="8">
<P><HI>How is this brought to pa&s;&s;e?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Redempti|on.</NOTE></P>
<P>The Father &s;ent his Son to accompli&s;h the worke of mans redemption, and both tho&s;e per&s;ons in Trinity, &s;end the Holy Gho&s;t to worke &s;aving grace in our hearts, and to apply unto our &s;oules the holine&s;&s;e purcha|&s;ed by the obedience of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, wher|by the favour of God and eternal &s;alvation is promi&s;ed, together with the means there|of, which is Chri&s;t, and in him conver&s;ion, ju&s;tification, and &s;anctification.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is mans part in this Covenant?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chri&s;t the Meditor.</HI> Jo. 1.2, &amp;c. Act. 16.31.</NOTE></P>
<P>It being Gods free gift, nothing is requi|red on his part, but the receiving the grace offered, which is done by faith in Chri&s;t, whence followeth new obedience, whereby the faithfull walke worthy of the grace re|ceived, and this is al&s;o by Gods grace.</P>
<P><HI>Who is this Mediator between God and Man?</HI></P>
<P>Je&s;us, the Son of the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 2.11. Mar. 1.21. 1 Tim. 2.5.</NOTE> the promi&s;ed <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ias, Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>What doe the Scriptures teach concerning Chri&s;t our Mediator?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 His per&s;on. 2 His office.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 1.14.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 His per&s;on, is the &s;econd in the God|head, made Man, wherin are to be con&s;idered</P>
<P N="1">1 The di&s;tinction of the two natures.</P>
<P N="1">1 His divine, or God-head, which ma|keth the per&s;on.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="14" REF="9">2 His humane nature,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 3.16. Gal. 4.4. Ro. 1.3.4.9.5.</NOTE> or Manhood which hath its exi&s;tence in the per&s;on of the God|head, by which we believe that hee is both the Son of God, and the Son of Man.</P>
<P><HI>What believe you concerning his God-head?</HI></P>
<P>That he is the only begotten Son of God the Father,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 1.14.3.18. Heb. 7.3.</NOTE> his word, wi&s;dome, Character, and Image, begotten of his &s;ub&s;tance, be|fore all Worlds: without Father, touching his manhood; and without Mother, accor|ding to his Godhead. God of God, light of light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, God coe&s;&s;entiall, coeternall, and coequall with the Father, and the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Why is he called the onely begotten Sonne of God?</HI></P>
<P>Becau&s;e he is the alone Son of God by na|ture: for though others be the Sons of God by Creation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 1.14.3.18. Hebr. 7.3.</NOTE> as <HI>Adam,</HI> and the Angels, and others by Adoption and Regeneration, as the Saints: yet none is his Son by naturall generation, but Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and that in regard of his God-head, not his Manhood.</P>
<P><HI>How is hee &s;aid to bee conceived by the Holy Gho&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Becau&s;e the Holy Gho&s;t by his incom|prehen&s;ible power, wrought his conception &s;upernaturally: not that any &s;ub&s;tance of the
<PB N="15" REF="9">Holy Gho&s;t (which is indivi&s;ible) came to his Generation, in the Wombe of the Vir|gin formed onely of her &s;ub&s;tance, &s;he con|tinuing a pure Virgin.</P>
<P><HI>How is his Godhead proved.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. By divers places of Scripture, as <HI>E&s;a.</HI> 7.14. and 9.6. and 25.9. <HI>Ioh.</HI> 1.1. and 20.28. and <HI>Rom.</HI> 9.5. 1 <HI>Ioh.</HI> 5.20.</P>
<P N="2">2. By his Miracles,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.4.</NOTE> e&s;pecially by rai&s;ing him&s;elfe from death.</P>
<P N="3">3. By the continuance and victory of the Go&s;pel, and that,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 5.39. Zac. 4.6. Ro. 12.11</NOTE> not by carnall power or policy, but only by the power of his Spi|rit, and patient &s;uffering of his Saints.</P>
<P><HI>Why was it requi&s;ite our Saviour &s;hould be God?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chri&s;t God</HI> P&s;al. 49.7. 1 Th. 1.10</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Becau&s;e none could &s;atisfie for &s;in, nor be a &s;aviour of &s;oules but God.</P>
<P N="2">2 Becau&s;e our &s;ins procured the infinite wrath of God, the Satisfaction for them mu&s;t bee infinitely meritorious to appea&s;e that wrath, which none but God could doe.</P>
<P N="3">3 No creature was able to overcome the enemies of our Salvation, the Devill, Hell,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 1.4. Heb. 2.14.</NOTE> Death and Damnation.</P>
<P N="4">4 None but God was able by his &s;ati&s;|faction to rai&s;e us from the death of &s;in, and give us eternall life.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="16" REF="10">5 None but God could give us the holy &s;pirit, and by it &s;eale the graces of it to our &s;oules, and renew our corrupt nature.</P>
<P><HI>Being God before all worlds,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;t, man.</NOTE> <HI>how came he to be Man?</HI></P>
<P>By taking to him&s;elfe a true body, and a rea&s;onable &s;oul, by being born of the Vir|gin <HI>Mary,</HI> and conceived by the holy gho&s;t, whereby he became true man, like to us in all things, except &s;in, and this appeareth by many te&s;timonies of Scripture, <HI>Heb.</HI> 1.6. <HI>Jo.</HI> 1.14. <HI>Math.</HI> 1.18.9.27. <HI>Gen.</HI> 3.15. <HI>Heb.</HI> 2.17. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.5. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.18. <HI>Io.</HI> 4.6.7. <HI>Lu.</HI> 31. <HI>Heb.</HI> 2.9.14.15.</P>
<P><HI>Why was our Saviour to be Man?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Becau&s;e he was to &s;uffer &amp; dye for our &s;ins, which God could not doe.</P>
<P N="2">2 To performe obedience to the Law,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.3. 1 Cor. 15.21. Heb. 2.14. &amp;c.</NOTE> which in his Godhead he could not.</P>
<P N="3">3 To &s;atisfie Gods ju&s;tice in the &s;ame na|ture, by which it was offended.</P>
<P N="4">4 For our comfort, in having acce&s;&s;e to the throne of grace, in our nece&s;&s;ities, ha|ving &s;uch a high Prie&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 4.14.15, 16.</NOTE> as was tempted like us, and was acquainted with our infirmities in his own per&s;on.</P>
<P N="5">5 That as we mu&s;t be &s;aved by our owne nature, &s;o &s;anctified by one of our owne nature.</P>
<PB N="17" REF="10">
<P><HI>Are his natures &s;eparated?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">His na|ture.</NOTE></P>
<P>No, for though they be di&s;tingui&s;hed in &s;ub&s;tance, properties, and actions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 1.14. Heb. 2.16. Mar. 1.23.</NOTE> yet they were in&s;eparably joyned in the fir&s;t moment the holy Virgin conceived, by a&s;&s;uming the humane nature into the per&s;on of the &s;on of God, and in that per&s;on, uniting it to the Godhead, &s;o making one Chri&s;t, God, and Man, as we &s;ee that one tree being &s;et into another, groweth into the &s;tocke thereof, and becommeth one tree, though there be two natures, or kinde of fruit &s;till remai|ning.</P>
<P><HI>Hither to of Chri&s;ts per&s;on,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chri&s;ts of|fice.</NOTE> <HI>what is his Office?</HI></P>
<P>To be alone the Mediator, Interce&s;&s;or,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 2.5. Heb. 9.15. Jo. 14.6. Mt. 1.11.</NOTE> and Advocate betwixt God and man, to recon|cile us to God, and to work our &s;alvation. And he is called Je&s;us, a &s;aviour, becau&s;e he came to &s;ave his people from their &s;innes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 61.1. &amp;c. Act. 4.26 Luke 4.18. Heb. 1.9.</NOTE> and Chri&s;t which was anointed, becau&s;e he was anoynted of God with all gifts and graces of the holy &s;pirit to bee a Prophet, Prie&s;t, and King, for all his people, and &s;o for me.</P>
<P N="1">1 His Prie&s;thood was the fir&s;t part of his Mediation, con&s;i&s;ting of two parts.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prie&s;thood</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 His &s;atisfaction, for the &s;in of Man.</P>
<P N="1">1 By performing that obedience, which we did owe.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="18" REF="11">2 By &s;uffering that puni&s;hment, which was due to our &s;innes.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are the parts of Chri&s;ts &s;atisfaction by his obedience?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sufferings</HI></NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 His &s;ufferings.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 2.8. 1 Pet. 2.24. Iob 33.24.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 His perfect righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>By the fir&s;t he was to merit forgivenes of &s;ins to us, by the &s;econd righteou&s;nes: both which are nece&s;&s;arily required for our ju&s;ti|fication.</P>
<P><HI>How did he &s;atisfie by his &s;ufferings?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 In &s;oule,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In <HI>Soule.</HI></NOTE> by drinking the full cup of Gods wrath, by which he felt un&s;peakeable vexations, greifes, troubles, feares of mind, feeling as it were the pangs of Hell.</P>
<P N="2">2 In body,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In Body.</NOTE> by &s;courging, &s;pitting, buffe|ting (as is recorded in the &s;tory of his pa&s;|&s;ion) and la&s;tly death,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 2.8.</NOTE> and that the mo&s;t re|proachfull, and ignominious death of the Cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>VVhy would he be buried?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>His burial</HI> Mt. 27.59 Act. 2.14. 1 Cor. 15.55. <HI>De&s;cent into Hell</HI> Ro 10.7. Eph. 4.9. Act. 2.24. Rom. 6.9.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 To &s;hew the certainty of his death.</P>
<P N="2">2 To loo&s;en in the grave the &s;orrowes of death.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is meant by his di&s;cent into Hell?</HI></P>
<P>Not to the place of the damned, but that his &s;oule went into heaven, and his body for a &s;ea&s;on, under the power of death.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="19" REF="11">2 <HI>What is the other part of his &s;atisfaction?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>His righte+ou&s;nes.</HI> P&s;. 40.78. Rom. 3.19 5.19. 2 Cor. 5.21 1. 1.30. Ro. 8.14. Gal. 4.4.5.</NOTE></P>
<P>His perfect righteou&s;nes, whereby he ab&s;o|lutely fulfilled the whole law of God for us, who were not able to do it: &s;o that he tooke away our unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, &amp; freed us from the puni&s;hment due to us for &s;in, and made us ju&s;t, and Holy in Gods &s;ight, purcha&s;ing eternall happines for us.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;econd part of Chri&s;ts Prie&s;t|hood?</HI></P>
<P>His interce&s;&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Interce&s;|&s;ion.</NOTE> which con&s;i&s;ts of diver&s;e branches.</P>
<P N="1">1 In his continuall reque&s;t to God the Father for us, by vertue of his owne me|rits.</P>
<P N="2">2 In freeing us from the accu&s;ation of our adver&s;aries.</P>
<P N="3">3 In teaching us by his &s;pirit, to pray to God, and pre&s;enting and making our pray|ers acceptable to him.</P>
<P N="4">4 In covering our &s;ins by applying the vertue of his mediation.</P>
<P><HI>What is his propheticall office?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prophet. Ro. 5.15. &amp;c.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 It con&s;i&s;ts of divers particulars; of this general; That he communicates to Man that grace and Redemption which he hath purcha&s;ed from his Father.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 5.21.17.2. Luk. 4.18.19.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 By in&s;tructing his Church, and di&s;|covering the way to &s;alvation, by his word, and Mini&s;tery.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="20" REF="12">2 By declaring the whole will of his Fa|ther to us,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 61.3, 4 P&s;. 2.6, 7. Luk. 4.18. Mt. 17.5. Heb. 3.1, 2</NOTE> and expounding the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="3">3 By cau&s;ing us to under&s;tand and be|lieve it.</P>
<P N="4">4 By purging his Church from errors.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>What is his Kingly Office.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>King.</HI> P&s;. 110.1. Eze. 34.24 E&s;. 9.7. Luke 1.32, 33.</NOTE></P>
<P>It is the exerci&s;e of that power given him by God over all, for the &s;pirituall governe|ment and &s;alvation of his elect, and for the de&s;truction of his and their enemies.</P>
<P><HI>How doth he &s;hew him&s;elfe to be a King?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 By that power which he &s;hewed in van|qui&s;hing death and hell:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 10.30 Eph. 4.8.</NOTE> in quickning his dead body, and a&s;cending into heaven.</P>
<P N="2">2 In gathering his people to him, which he had formerly redeemed.</P>
<P N="3">3 In ruling and defending them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15.25. E&s;a 6.9.30 21. Mt. 25.24 31.33, 34.</NOTE> and ap|plying tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ings to them, which hee purcha&s;ed for them.</P>
<P N="4">4 In governing his Church in this world by pre&s;cribing Lawes to it, in&s;piring his &s;ervants by the power of his &s;pirit accor|ding to his word.</P>
<P N="5">5 by his la&s;t judgement in the World to come.</P>
<PB N="21" REF="12">
<P><HI>Having &s;hewed that which concerneth the Medi|ator of the New Te&s;tament, what are we to con|&s;ider in the condition of mankinde which hold by him.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The participation of the grace of Chri&s;t, and the benefits of the Go&s;pell.</P>
<P N="2">2 The meanes which God hath ordained for the offering and effecting of the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>To whom doth God reveale, and apply the Co|venant of grace?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 14.22.17.9. Mt. 11.25 1 Cor. 2.8. &amp;c. <HI>The Church.</HI> Gal. 3.26, &amp;c. Jo. 1.12.17.14. Eph. 2.10. 1 Tim. 3.15. Tit. 2.14. <HI>Catholike</HI> Eph. 5.23. Jo. 10.16. Gal. 3.28. Rev. 7.9.17.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Not to the world, but to his Church, called out of the world; not to the repro|bate, but to the elect:</P>
<P><HI>What is the Church of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>A company of men <HI>&amp;</HI> women called out of the world, to beleeve and live in Chri&s;t, and indued accordingly with &s;piritual gra|ces for the &s;ervice of God.</P>
<P>Or rather, the whole number of Gods e|lect, which are admitted into fellow&s;hip with Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</P>
<P><HI>Doe you beleeve in the Catholike Church?</HI></P>
<P>No, I beleeve there is a Catholique Church (though not alwayes to be &s;eene with mans eyes) and that God hath a cer|taine number of his cho&s;en children, which he calls and gathers to him&s;elf, that Chri&s;t hath &s;uch a flock &s;elected out of all nations, ages, and conditions of men, and that my
<PB N="22" REF="13">&s;elfe am one of that company. I beleeve there is a Catholique Church, not in the Catholique Church.</P>
<P><HI>Why is this Church called Holy:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Holy.</HI> Rev. 7.14. Eph. 5.26.27. Col. 1.21.22.</NOTE></P>
<P>Becau&s;e &s;he hath wa&s;hed her robes, in the blood of the Lamb, and being clen&s;ed and &s;anctified with the wa&s;hing of water by the word, is pre&s;ented and accepted as holy be|fore God; for though the Church on earth be in it &s;elfe finfull,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cor. 1.22.23. Eph. 4.4. &amp;c. Col. 2.9.</NOTE> yet in Chri&s;t the head, it is holy.</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by Catholike?</HI></P>
<P>The univer&s;all company of the elect, that e|ver were, are, or &s;hall be gathered together in one body, knit together in one faith, under one head Chri&s;t Je&s;us; part whereof are already in heaven, triumphant, part yet one earth, militant.</P>
<P><HI>What doe you call the Church Triumphant,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Trium|phant.</HI> Heb. 12.23 Rev. 7.14.16.</NOTE> <HI>and wherefore?</HI></P>
<P>The ble&s;&s;ed company of tho&s;e that have entred into their Ma&s;ters joy, and having ended their pilgrimage and labours here on earth, triumph over their enemies, the World, death, and damnation, continually giving prai&s;e and thanks to God.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Church Militant?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Militant.</NOTE></P>
<P>It is the &s;ociety of tho&s;e, that being &s;catte|red through all parts of the World, are by
<PB N="23" REF="13">profe&s;&s;ion of one faith in Chri&s;t conjoyne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to him,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.3. Mt. 1.18. Ro. 2.29. 1 Pet. 4.</NOTE> to fight under his banner again<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t their enemies, the World, the fle&s;h and the devill. In which re&s;pect, the true militant Church is both vi&s;ible, and invi&s;ible, the e|lect being not to be di&s;cerned from the re|probates, till the la&s;t day.</P>
<P><HI>What e&s;peciall priviledges have the true Members of the Catholique Church?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The Communion of Saints.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 12.12 23. Eph. 2.19. Ro. 8.33. 1 Cor. 15.52. Act. 24.15. Ro. 6.23. 1 Cor. 1.30</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 Forgivenes of &s;ins.</P>
<P N="3">3 The re&s;urection of the body.</P>
<P N="4">4 Life everla&s;ting.</P>
<P>And foure recorded by Saint <HI>Paul,</HI> in that golden &s;entence, Ye are of him in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who of God is made unto us Wi&s;e|dome and Righteou&s;nes, Ju&s;tification, and Redemption.</P>
<P N="1">1 The re&s;toring of &s;aving Wi&s;edome which was lo&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6.16.</NOTE> which is to be found in Gods Word, and to which we come by Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2 By this righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is meant our whole ju&s;tification, which con&s;i&s;teth in re|mi&s;&s;ion of &s;innes, and the imputation of Chri&s;ts righteou&s;nes.</P>
<P N="3">3 Sanctification is fredome from the ty|rany of &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 6.14. P&s;. 19.14.</NOTE> into the liberty of righteou&s;nes begun here and increa&s;ed daily, till
<PB N="24" REF="14">it be perfected in the life to come.</P>
<P N="4">4 Redemption is the happy &s;tate, which the Children of God &s;hall have in the la&s;t day.</P>
<P><HI>What other benefits have we by the Covenant of grace?</HI></P>
<P>Communnion with Chri&s;t, and his whole Church, which we call the Communion of Saints, the fellow&s;hip with Chri&s;t the head, and all true Chri&s;tians the members of his body.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat benefit have wee by the Communion with Chri&s;t?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ju&s;tifica|tion.</NOTE></P>
<P>Ju&s;tification, and glorification.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is Ju&s;tification?</HI></P>
<P>It is the &s;entence of God, whereby he of his grace, for the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of his Son, by God imputed to us,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 8.30.33. 1 Cor. 1.30.33. 1 Cor. 1.30. Phil. 3.9.</NOTE> and by faith appre|hended by us, doth free us from &s;inne and death, and account us righteous unto life; delivering us from the guilt and puni&s;hment of all our &s;ins, and by the &s;aid imputation of Chri&s;ts righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, wee are re&s;tored to a better righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e then wee had be|before in <HI>Adam.</HI> Yet this Ju&s;tification is not any inherent righteou&s;ne&s;s in us, or perfor|med by us, but a perfect righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e in Chri&s;t, whereby he paid our debt.</P>
<PB N="25" REF="14">
<P><HI>If Chri&s;t paid our debt, how are we freely ju|&s;tified by grace?</HI></P>
<P>It is of grace that Chri&s;t was given to us, and that by his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e apprehended by faith, is accounted ours: &s;o that Chri&s;t paying &s;o deare a price for us, it was of his free grace, and a free grace from God the Father too, to accept that &s;atisfaction from a &s;urety which hee might have challenged from us, the principalls to the utmo&s;t farthing.</P>
<P><HI>How is this ju&s;tification applyed to us,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 5.1.10.10. Jer. 23.6.</NOTE> <HI>and apprehended by us?</HI></P>
<P>It is done on our part by Faith alone, working by love, and that not as a vertue inherent in us, but onely as an in&s;trument or hand of the &s;oule, held out to lay hold upon the Lord our righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e. So that Faith ju&s;tifieth only relatively in re&s;pect of the object which it fa&s;tneth on, to wit the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of C&s;tri&s;t, by which we are ju&s;tified.</P>
<P><HI>How many wayes is the word Faith taken in Scripture?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Faith.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Sometimes for faithful dealing between men called fidelity.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 3.13. Act. 2.10. 1 Pet. 5.12 1 Tim. 5.12.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 Sometimes for the faith, or fidelity of God towards men.</P>
<P N="3">3 For mans faith towards God, which
<PB N="26" REF="15">is here meant, and this is taken two wayes</P>
<P N="1">1 For things to be beleeved, as the whole doctrine of Faith, or points of religion, as <HI>Act.</HI> 6.7. &amp; 13.8. <HI>Ro.</HI> 1.5, &amp; 3.31. &amp; 12.3.6. &amp; 16.26. <HI>Cal.</HI> 1.12. &amp;. 3.2. &amp; 5.23. 1. <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.2. &amp; 4.1 &amp;. <HI>Jude.</HI> 3.</P>
<P N="2">2 For the action apprehending or belei|ving the &s;ame,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 10.7</NOTE> <HI>viz.</HI> that worke of God in man, whereby he gives a&s;&s;ent and credit to God in his word, and applyeth that, which any way concernes him in particular, how generall &s;oever it be: and this faith is &s;et out by two names.</P>
<P N="1">1 The &s;ub&s;tance of things hoped for:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 11.1.</NOTE> things that yet are not, Faith makes them to have a being as if they were already.</P>
<P N="2">2 The evidence of things not &s;een: by which is meant, that Faith makes a cleare demon&s;tration (as through a per&s;pective gla&s;&s;e) of things a farre off, and yet not vi|&s;ible, as if they were neer at hand.</P>
<P><HI>How many kinds of Faith are there?</HI></P>
<P>In generall two.</P>
<P N="1">1 The common faith to all, which all men have, or may have.</P>
<P N="2">2. That which none hath or can have, but the Elect, it being proper only to them. 2. <HI>Th.</HI> 3.2. <HI>Rom.</HI> 11.32. <HI>Tit.</HI> 1.1. 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<PB N="27" REF="15">
<P>Of the Common Faith there are two &s;orts.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hi&s;toricall</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Hi&s;toricall, which is a knowledge and per&s;ua&s;ion of the truth of Gods Word, con|cerning the letter and &s;tory of it, as that there is one God only, and in that God a Trinity and Unity; that Je&s;us Chri&s;t is the Saviour of the World, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2 Temporary,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tempora|ry.</HI> Mt. 13.20 21. Luk. 8.13.14. <HI>Miracu|lous.</HI> 1 Cor. 13.2. Mt. 21.2.7.22. Mr. 9.3. Act. 14.9.</NOTE> which is a joyfull enter|taining of the promi&s;es of the Go&s;pell, with &s;ome &s;eeming confidence, yet (being not rooted) la&s;teth but for a time, and comes to nothing.</P>
<P><HI>What faith is it which is called extraor|dinary?</HI></P>
<P>It is the Faith of Miracles, which is a clea|ving to &s;ome &s;peciall and &s;ingular promi&s;e, either for &s;ome extraordinary act, or for receiving &s;ome outward good, in an extra|ordinary manner.</P>
<P>By this faith <HI>Iudas</HI> might worke miracles, as the other Di&s;ciples might, and by it many might be healed by our Saviour in their bodies, who were not healed in their Soules.</P>
<P><HI>What is the true &s;aveing and ju&s;tifying faith proper only to the elect?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ju&s;tifying</NOTE></P>
<P>It's &s;uch a firme a&s;&s;ent of the mind to the truth of the Word, as flowes into the heart,
<PB N="28" REF="16">and cau&s;eth the &s;oule to embrace it as good, and to build its eternall happines on it. The generall object whereof, is the whole trueth of God revealed, but the &s;peciall object of it, is, the promi&s;e of remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins, by our Lord Je&s;us.</P>
<P>And this ju&s;tifying Faith may be con&s;ide|red two wayes.</P>
<P N="1">1<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 2.8. Phll. 1.29. Eph. 1.19. Joh. 6.45. Mt. 16.13.</NOTE> Either as God workes it in mans heart, by enabling him to beleeve, Faith being Gods guift, and by his power ray&s;ing mans heart to it by enlightning the under&s;tanding to &s;ee the truth, and the rich offers of grace in our Lord Je&s;us.</P>
<P N="2">2 By enabling the will to embrace them.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezec. 36.26. Joh. 6.44.</NOTE></P>
<P N="3">3 As mans heart workes by it to God a|gain. In which re&s;pect, man is &s;aid to believe, yet this is by Gods enabling him to believe, and cau&s;ing man to come to him, &s;o that ju&s;tifying Faith con&s;i&s;ts, in having a minde to know Chri&s;t, and a will to re&s;t upon him. And this is &s;ure, that who&s;oever rely|eth upon Chri&s;t the Saviour of the World for ju&s;tification and pardon, Gods Word &s;aith, that he by &s;o doing is actually ju&s;tifi|ed and pardoned.</P>
<P><HI>What are the Concomitants of ju&s;tification?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 5.10. Eph. 2.12, 13. 1 Joh. 1.3. Heb. 12.22</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Reconciliation, whereby wee that were enemies to God, are made his friends: we
<PB N="29" REF="16">that were rebels are received into favour: and wee that were aliens from God, are brought neere through Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2 Adoption which is our priviledge to be &s;onnes of God, derived to us from Chri&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 1.12. Ephe. 1.9. Heb. 2.10.</NOTE> who by his incarnation became our brother, that by him God might bring many &s;onnes and daughters unto glory.</P>
<P><HI>What benefits have we by adoption?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Some privative freedome from grie|vances, as from the &s;lavery of &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 6.14.8 1.15.</NOTE> from con|demnation: from &s;ervile feares and terrors: from the cur&s;e and condemning power of the Law Ceremoniall &amp; Morall; freed from the rigorous exaction of the work of it, but not from the doctrine of holines in it; not from &s;ervice, but from &s;lavery.</P>
<P N="2">2 Some po&s;itive.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 4.6. Ro. 8.15. 2 Cor. 6.3. Ro. 8.28.32.</NOTE> As free acce&s;&s;e to the throne of grace by prayer. An intere&s;t in Gods particular, and &s;peciall providence. A free and &s;anctified u&s;e of Gods creatures re|&s;tored, which was forfeited in <HI>Adam.</HI></P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the other benefit which Chri&s;ti|ans receive by their Communion with Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>Glorification and &s;anctification,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Glorifica|tion.</NOTE> which is the renewing of our nature according to the Image of God, in righteou&s;nes, and true holines, which is begun in this life and cal|led
<PB N="30" REF="17">&s;anctification, and perfected in the life to come which is called glory.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sanctifi|cation.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>How farre is our nature renewed in this life by &s;anctification?</HI></P>
<P>The whole nature (though not wholly) is renewed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Th. 5.23 Ro. 12.1.</NOTE> The under&s;tanding enlightned the will rectified, the affections regulated, and the outward man reformed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 13.6. P&s;. 51.10. Eze. 36.26</NOTE> and this by the powerfull operation of the Spirit of God, who having begunne a good work in us will perfect it unto the day of the Lord.</P>
<P><HI>What are the parts of it?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 6.6.7.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1. Mortification or dying unto &s;in, and thereby freedome from the Dominion thereof, by the death of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 26. Jo. 17.17. P&s;. 119.9.</NOTE> Uivification, or quickning unto new|nes of life, by the power of the re&s;urrection of Chri&s;t. In regard whereof, it is called al&s;o, our fir&s;t re&s;urrection. The rule and &s;quare thereof, being the whole holy Word of God, as containing that will of his, which is even our &s;anctification. And this word of God is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 12.1. 1 Th. 3.3. &amp;c.</NOTE> both the Law and the Go&s;|pel, the old Te&s;tament, and the New.</P>
<P><HI>How is the Go&s;pel a rule of obedience being the rule of Faith?</HI></P>
<P>As the Law requireth obedience,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 1.9.10.11.</NOTE> &s;o the Go&s;pel directeth the faithfull to performe it, only with difference.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="31" REF="17">1 Of the manner:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. 5.23.14.1.</NOTE> the law propounding God to be wor&s;hipped by us in him&s;elfe, as our Creator: the Go&s;pell, in Chri&s;t, as our Saviour.</P>
<P N="2">2 Of the end:<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5.18.</NOTE> the law requiring all du|ties, as for the procurement of our owne &s;alvation: the Go&s;pell in way of thanke|fulne&s;s, for &s;alvation in Chri&s;t, already be|&s;towed.</P>
<P N="3">3 Of the effect:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 10.5.6 8.</NOTE> the law requiring obe|dience, but vouch&s;afing no a&s;&s;i&s;tance (&s;up|po&s;ing man in the &s;tate of Creation) the Go&s;pell both offering and conferring grace to the regenerate, in that which it requireth. Yet as the law &s;aveth notwithout the Go&s;|pell, &s;o the go&s;pell &s;aveth not without the law.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is that law which with the direction of the Go&s;pell,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The law.</HI></NOTE> <HI>is the rule of Sancti|fication.</HI></P>
<P>The Morall, or law of Nature, engraven by God him&s;elfe fir&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 2.8.</NOTE> in the heart of man in his Creation, and after, in tables of &s;tone in the dayes of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and publi&s;hed and com|mitted to the Church for al ages, as the roy|all law, for obedience to God our King.</P>
<P><HI>Did God give no other law but the Mo|rall?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ceremo|niall.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>Yes. 1 The Ceremoniall, which was a
<PB N="32" REF="18">direction in outward wor&s;hip,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 10.1, &amp;c.</NOTE> &s;hadowing the grace of the Go&s;pel, the &s;ub&s;tance whereof being now exhibited, tho&s;e &s;ha|dowes are utterly aboli&s;hed, by the death of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Judiciall, wherein God appointed a form of pilitique and civill government of the Jews Common-wealth, which is de|termined with the di&s;&s;olution of that &s;tate, except only in the generall equity and &s;ub|&s;tance.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Morall Law?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Morall.</HI> Deu. 5.32.12, 32. Gal. 10, &amp;c. Jam. 2.8.</NOTE></P>
<P>That which commandeth the perfection of godlines and righteou&s;nes, and directeth us in our duties to God and man, from the burden whereof, (which exacteth in our owne per&s;ons perfect obedience, and from the cur&s;e of that law due to di&s;obedience) we are delivered by Chri&s;t, but from the Commandement, as a rule of life, wee are not freed.</P>
<P><HI>How many Commandements are there in the Law?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The two Tables.</HI> Deu 4.13.10.14. Mt. 22.</NOTE></P>
<P>Two, and they are divided into two Ta|bles, which Chri&s;t calleth the two great Commandements.</P>
<P N="1">1 The fir&s;t containing our duty to God, in the four fir&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2 The &s;econd our duty to man in the la&s;t &s;ixe.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="33" REF="18">1 The &s;umme of the fir&s;t is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 6.5. Mr. 22.37 38. Luke 10.27. Luke 19.19. Mr. 22.39 1 Joh. 5.2. 1 Tim. 4.5</NOTE> Thou &s;halt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy &s;oule, and with all thy &s;trength, and with all thy mind.</P>
<P N="2">2 The &s;um of the &s;econd is, Thou &s;halt love thy neighbour as thy &s;elfe.</P>
<P>And the &s;umme of both, is love.</P>
<P><HI>How are the Commandements of the fir&s;t Table divided?</HI></P>
<P>They either re&s;pect the roote of Gods wor&s;hip as the fir&s;t: or the branch,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The de|calogue.</HI></NOTE> as the three following: the fir&s;t having its rea&s;on going before, the other three after.</P>
<P><HI>Why is the rea&s;on of the fir&s;t &s;et before?</HI></P>
<P>Becau&s;e it &s;erves not only for a rea&s;on of this Commandement, but as a preface to al the ten, and hath reference to them all.</P>
<P><HI>Which is the Preface?</HI></P>
<P>I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Preface.</HI></NOTE> and out of the hou&s;e of bondage.</P>
<P><HI>What ground of obedience is laid in this rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P>That this law is to be obeyed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 100.3.36.6. 1 Tim. 4.10.</NOTE> becau&s;e it proceedeth from him, who is not only the Lord our Maker, but al&s;o our God, and Saviour.</P>
<PB N="34" REF="19">
<P><HI>How doth this belong to us, which are no</HI> I&s;raelites?</P>
<P>Though we be not <HI>I&s;rael</HI> in name, or ac|cording to the fle&s;h, yet we are the true <HI>I&s;|rael</HI> of God, according to the Spirit &amp; pro|mi&s;e: and it figureth the &s;pirituall delive|rance from Satan by Chri&s;t, and therefore belongeth no le&s;&s;e, (if not more) to us, then to them.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are the words of the fir&s;t Commande|ment?</HI> <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Com|mande|ment."></P>
<P>Thou &s;halt have no other Gods before me, <HI>Exod.</HI> 20.3.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;cope of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 That this <HI>Jehovah,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 22.33</NOTE> one in &s;ub&s;tance, and three in per&s;ons, the creator and governour of all things, and the redeemer of his peo|ple, is to be received for the only true God, in all the powers of our &s;oule.</P>
<P N="2">2 That the inward and &s;pirituall wor|&s;hip of the heart (which is the ground of the outward) is to be given to him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 23.26. Deut. 5.29 Jer. 17.10.</NOTE> &amp; none other, and that without hypocri&s;ie, as to be done before him, who &s;earcheth and know|eth the heart.</P>
<P><HI>What is forbidden in this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>Originall Corruption,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.7.</NOTE> &s;o far forth as it is the fountain of all impiety again&s;t God, with all the &s;treams thereof.</P>
<PB N="35" REF="19">
<P><HI>What is required in it?</HI></P>
<P>That wee &s;et up,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 8.13. Deut. 11.22. Io&s;. 23.8. Act. 11.23</NOTE> and &s;anctifie the Lord God in our hearts, yielding to him in Chri&s;t, that inward and &s;pirituall wor&s;hip, which is due to his Maje&s;ty, which con&s;i&s;ts in knowing him in him&s;elfe, his attributes, and workes, and in adhering and cleaving to him, In per&s;wa&s;ion of Gods love to us, and in our love to him.</P>
<P><HI>What are the particulars of this Comman|dement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The having of a God,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Religion.</HI></NOTE> and therein we con&s;ider Religion.</P>
<P N="2">2 The having of one only God, and no more, and herein Unity.</P>
<P N="3">3 The having of the true God, and no o|ther for our God, and herein truth.</P>
<P><HI>What is it to have a God?</HI></P>
<P>To know him, to wor&s;hip him, to de|pend wholy upon him, and to yeild ab&s;o|lute obedience to his will.</P>
<P>To know him as he hath revealed him&s;elf in his words, works, and Attributes.</P>
<P>To have faith in believing what is writ|ten in his word of him, and to apply our &s;elves to his good Promi&s;es.</P>
<P>To &s;erve him with a perfect heart, and willing mind, in a holy conver&s;ation, and to put our whole confidence in him pati|ently
<PB N="36" REF="20">evpecting his good plea&s;ure in all things and meekly endure his correction.</P>
<P>To feare him for his power and ju&s;tice, and doe nothing but for his glory.</P>
<P>To reverence his Maje&s;ty, and &s;erve him with an humble and reverend deportment.</P>
<P>To be thankfull to him, and prai&s;e him for his benefits.</P>
<P>To joy in God, and rejoyce to &s;ee him honoured, and to have &s;pirituall grief and indignation at all offences again&s;t his ho|nour.</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>What is required in the &s;econd branch of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>Unity in Religion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;nity in Religion.</NOTE> wee mu&s;t have one God, and no more, and to attain to this u|nity, we mu&s;t have four principall gifts.</P>
<P N="1">1 An upright and &s;ingle heart, ready to imbrace true Religion, and none other.</P>
<P N="2">2 Con&s;tancy &amp; continuance in the truth.</P>
<P N="3">3 Godly courage to &s;tand to the truth a|gain&s;t the enemies of it.</P>
<P N="4">4 A holy zeale of the glory of God.</P>
<P><HI>Who are &s;aid to have other Gods?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 They that commit inward Idolatry in their heart,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 14.3 Iro. 18.11. P&s;. 62.10.</NOTE> in&s;tead of God.</P>
<P N="2">2 They that &s;infully confide in the crea|tures or them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="3">3 They that a&s;cribe the glory of any
<PB N="37" REF="20">good thing to them&s;elves, or the Creature,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 17.5. 2 Chr. 16.12.</NOTE> more then to God.</P>
<P N="4">4 They that &s;eek help from the Devil, by witches or the like.</P>
<P N="5">5 They that &s;infully feare other things, more then God.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>What is required in the la&s;t branch of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>True Religion, becau&s;e we are comman|ded to have the true God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">True re|ligion.</NOTE> and none other for our God.</P>
<P><HI>How &s;hall we come to the true Religion?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 By labouring earne&s;tly to find out the truth.</P>
<P N="2">2 We mu&s;t examine by the word, whether it be the truth which we have found.</P>
<P N="3">3 When wee by tryall have found the truth, we mu&s;t re&s;t in it.</P>
<P><HI>By what meanes &s;hall wee come to the know|ledge of God?</HI></P>
<P>1 By Prayer. 2 By a &s;imple heart de&s;irous of knowledge, without curio&s;ity to know more then God would have us know. 3. By hearing &amp; reading the word, and holy writings. 4 By meditating on the word, and conference with others. 5 By diligence and delight in hearing and remembring what we learne, and practi&s;ing it. 6 By medita|ting on Gods creatures.</P>
<PB N="38" REF="21">
<P>The &s;econd Commandement. <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Com|mande|ment."></P>
<P><HI>VVhat doe you con&s;ider in this Commande|ment?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The Injunction.</P>
<P N="2">2 The rea&s;ons to &s;trengthen the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>What are the words of the Injunction?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thou &s;halt not make to thy &s;elfe any graven I|mage, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 The words of the rea&s;on are, <HI>For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;cope of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>To bind all men to that &s;olemn form of religious wor&s;hip,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 12.32.</NOTE> which God in his word pre&s;cribeth, and to &s;erve him according to his will, and not our own fancies, or will-wor&s;hip.</P>
<P><HI>What is the main prohibition in it?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 That we make no Image for wor&s;hip.</P>
<P N="2">2 That we wor&s;hip it not when it is made.</P>
<P>In the fir&s;t are included, all private mens inventions in Gods &s;ervice, new Sacraments new Mini&s;tery, prayers, fa&s;tings, or vowes, to &s;erve him with all.</P>
<P>In the &s;econd, the u&s;e and practi&s;e of &s;uch inventions, and the abu&s;e of things lawful|ly commanded.</P>
<P><HI>What is generally required in it?</HI></P>
<P>To wor&s;hip and &s;erve God in that holy manner, which he in his word requireth.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="39" REF="21">1 By u&s;ing al holy exerci&s;es of religion, pub|lique and private, which he commandeth.</P>
<P N="2">2 By performing them with reverence &amp; diligence to Gods glory, and our owne good; and this we are to doe in body and &s;oule both, becau&s;e God made both.</P>
<P N="3">3 By preparing our&s;elves, and con&s;ide|ring what we goe about, and in di&s;po&s;ing of our mind in the action it &s;elfe.</P>
<P><HI>What are the parts of Gods wor&s;hip?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Prayer, publique and private.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prayer.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 Reading, hearing, meditating upon, and practi&s;ing his word.</P>
<P N="3">3 Due admini&s;tring and receiving the Sacraments.</P>
<P N="4">4 Meditating upon the Creatures, and prai&s;ing God for them.</P>
<P><HI>What are the parts of prayer Ordinary.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ordinary.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Confe&s;&s;ion, which is a &s;acrifice of a bro|ken heart, and wounded &s;oule, having a true &s;en&s;e of our &s;ins.</P>
<P N="2">2 Petition, for things we need, and in that to have a &s;en&s;e of our wants, and confidence in Gods promi&s;es.</P>
<P N="3">3 Thank&s;giving for benefits received, wher|in we are to con&s;ider the greatnes of them.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Extraordinary.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P><HI>VVhat le&s;&s;e ordinary?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Fa&s;ts publique and private, for pre|venting or taking away Gods judgements.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="40" REF="22">2 Solemne thank&s;givings for &s;pirituall &amp; temporall ble&s;&s;ings.</P>
<P N="3">3 Making and performing holy vows to God.</P>
<P><HI>What outward things accompany Gods wor&s;hip?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Ceremonies, for Order and Decency, and the&s;e are left to the di&s;|cretion of the Church.</P>
<P N="2">2 Comely and reverend ge&s;tures of the body, as kneeling, lifting up the eyes and hands to Heaven, &s;ilence, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>What is required in the &s;econd branch of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>That all religious wor&s;hip and reverence be given to God alone, and not imparted to any other.</P>
<P><HI>Who are guilty of the breach of this branch?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Practi&s;ers of all divelli&s;h Arts, &amp; &s;uch as &s;eeke after them, <HI>Lev.</HI> 20.6, 7. <HI>Deut.</HI> 18.10, 11. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 8.19.20. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 28.7. 1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 19.13, 14.</P>
<P N="2">2 They that wor&s;hip things that are not God, as the Sun, Moone, Angels, Saints, Reliques, Images and the like, <HI>Deut.</HI> 4.17.19. <HI>Col.</HI> 2.18. <HI>Revel.</HI> 19.10.22.8, 9. <HI>Acts</HI> 10.25, 26.</P>
<P N="3">3 Such as countenance them, or do any thing that may tend to the promoting of I|dolatry.</P>
<PB N="41" REF="22">
<P><HI>May not the Image of God be made?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 17.20. Rom. 1.23</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 No, becau&s;e he being infinite and invi|&s;ible, cannot be re&s;embled by any finite or vi&s;ible thing.</P>
<P N="2">2 Becau&s;e God appeared not in any &s;hape to the I&s;raelites at the delivery of the Law.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>What are the rea&s;ons to &s;trengthen this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Partly from his Titles.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gods Ti|tles.</HI> Jer. 3.8.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 Partly from his workes.</P>
<P N="1">1 Jehovah, which noteth his e&s;&s;ence, and the perfection of it.</P>
<P N="2">2 Thy God, whereby the Covenant of grace is &s;ignified, which on our part is vio|lated by no &s;in more, then by Idolatry, cal|led therefore &s;pirituall adultery.</P>
<P N="3">3 El, which is a mighty and &s;trong God, and therefore perfectly able to de&s;troy.</P>
<P N="4">4 Jealous, whereby the nature of God is &s;ignified, loving charity in his Spou&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2 From his workes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Workes.</NOTE> That he is a ju&s;t re|compencer of the breakers of his law, and a gracious rewarde of them that keepe it.</P>
<P N="1">1 By puni&s;hing &s;in in many generations.</P>
<P N="2">2 By extending his mercy in a far more abundant manner, to them that keepe his law.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="42" REF="23">3 And to &s;hew his delight more in mer|cy then judgment, he vi&s;its iniquity, but to the third and fourth generation, but mercy to thou&s;ands.</P>
<P><HI>The third Commandement?</HI> <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Commandement."></P>
<P>Thou &s;halt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine, <HI>&amp;c,</HI></P>
<P><HI>VVhat is contained in this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The Commandement it &s;elfe.</P>
<P N="2">2 The rea&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;umme of it?</HI></P>
<P>That we impeach not,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 29.2. Mt. 5.16.</NOTE> but advance by all meanes, the name of God in all things, whereby he maketh him&s;elfe knowne to all men.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat means, [Thou &s;halt not take the name of God in vaine.]</HI></P>
<P>Wee mu&s;t not mention the name of the Lord,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Levit. 21.32.</NOTE> (which is God him&s;elfe) his attri|butes, word, workes, Sacraments, ra&s;hly, negligently, bla&s;phemou&s;ly, or prophane|ly.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are the parts of the prohibition?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The mentioning or u&s;ing his name in word or deed, when it &s;hould not be u&s;ed, or without ju&s;t cau&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2 The u&s;ing it ami&s;&s;e, or abu&s;ing it, when duty bindes us to u&s;e it with feare and ho|line&s;&s;e.</P>
<PB N="43" REF="23">
<P><HI>VVhat are the parts of the Injunction?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 6.9. P&s;. 111.9. Ro. 2.24. Tit. 1.16. Mt. 15.7, 8 9.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 To &s;anctifie Gods name, as it is holy and reverend.</P>
<P N="2">2 To u&s;e all the duties and &s;ervice of God with reverence.</P>
<P N="1">1 By honouring God and religion, by a holy conver&s;ation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">10.33.</NOTE> and not prophanely or hypocritically.</P>
<P N="2">2 By confe&s;&s;ing of Chri&s;ts name, even to &s;ufferings.</P>
<P N="3">3 By making an honourable &amp; reverend mention of God, his Titles, Attributes, workes, words, and ordinances, <HI>P&s;a.</HI> 19.1.2.71.15. <HI>Pro.</HI> 26.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat vices are contrary to this?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The taking Gods name upon light oc|ca&s;ions. 2. By idle wi&s;hes. 3.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 16.5. 2 Sam. 16.8, 9. Jam. 5.12.</NOTE> By imprecati|ons or cur&s;es. 4. By bla&s;pheming. 5. By the abu&s;e of Oathes.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the true u&s;e of Oathes?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Oathes.</NOTE></P>
<P>To &s;weare in matters of controver&s;ie, which cannot be decided without an oath, and this mu&s;t be done in truth, in righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e, in judgment.</P>
<P N="1">1 In truth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 4.2. P&s;. 15.4.24 Deut. 6.13.</NOTE> by affirming that wee know to be true.</P>
<P N="2">2 In righteou&s;nes, in a due form; by God
<PB N="44" REF="24">and not an Idol, or Creature, and to a right end, the glory of God, the good of the Church, and peace among men.</P>
<P N="3">3 In judgement,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;. 65.16.45.23. Heb. 6.16. 2 Chr. 1.13. Ex. 22.11. 1 Sam. 20.17. 2 Cor. 1.23.</NOTE> with due con&s;ideration of the nature of an Oath, and the due war|rant of it, and in ca&s;e of importance, when the truth cannot be cleared otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>What is contained in the rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P>A dreadfull penalty, that the Lord will not hold him guiltle&s;s that taketh his name in vain. That God will not &s;uffer this &s;in to goe unpuni&s;hed, That how&s;oever mens Lawes take no hold of offending in this kind,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Reg. 2.9. P&s;al. 1.5. Zach. 5.3. Jer. 5.12.</NOTE> yet God wil not acquit them, nor &s;uf|fer them to goe unpuni&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>The fourth Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>Remember that thou keep holy the Sab|bath day. <MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Commandement."></P>
<P><HI>What doe you ob&s;erve in this Commande|ment?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The Commandement.</P>
<P N="2">2 The rea&s;ons annexed.</P>
<P><HI>What is the meaning of it?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 It challengeth one day in &s;even from every man, to keepe a holy re&s;t, from bodi|ly and ordinary workes of their callings, and to &s;eparate our &s;elves from the workes of the other fixe dayes.</P>
<P N="2">2 To exerci&s;e it in publique and private
<PB N="45" REF="24">prayer, hearing and reading the word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Neh. 13.15, 16. E&s;a. 58.13, 14.</NOTE> re|ceiving the Sacraments, and meditation, &amp; wholly attending the wor&s;hip of God.</P>
<P><HI>VVhich is the day &s;et apart for Gods wor|&s;hip?</HI></P>
<P>The fir&s;t day of the weeke,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 16.2. Rev. 1.20. Act. 20.7.</NOTE> called the Lords day: which before the re&s;urrection of Chri&s;t, was the la&s;t day, called Saturday And this was altered by divine authority in a thankfull remembrance of Chri&s;ts Re&s;ur|rection.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat particulars doe you ob&s;erve in this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The entrance, in the word <HI>Remember.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 The parts of the Commandement.</P>
<P><HI>VVhy is the word Remember in this, and no other Commandement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Becau&s;e this Commandement hath the lea&s;t light of Nature, to direct us in keeping it.</P>
<P N="2">2 Becau&s;e we are Naturally mow negli|gent in it, &s;uffering our &s;elves to be drawn away by our worldly affairse, from the Lords &s;ervice on the Lords day.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are wee put in minde of by the word Remember.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 To compa&s;&s;e our bu&s;ines in the &s;ix wor|king dayes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Neh. 13.15.</NOTE> and to thinke of this day before it comes, that we performe the workes of
<PB N="46" REF="25">the day without interruption,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. 31.13.</NOTE> and re&s;t on that day.</P>
<P N="2">2 To &s;anctifie that re&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>May we not dre&s;&s;e meate that day?</HI></P>
<P>Yes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 2.16.</NOTE> for that was only ceremonial to the Jewes, and aboli&s;hed by Chri&s;ts death.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat worldly workes may wee doe on that day?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 12.5. Act. 1.12. 2 Reg. 11.9. Mt. 12.10.11. Mar. 3.4. Luke 13.15, 16.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Such are pre&s;ently nece&s;&s;ary for com|mon hone&s;ty or comeline&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2 Works of piety, requi&s;ite for perfor|mance of Gods &s;ervice on that day.</P>
<P N="3">3 Workes of exigency, and charity, for pre&s;ervation of the Common-wealth.</P>
<P N="4">4 Actions for pre&s;erving the life of man, his health, and goods, in danger of peri|&s;hing.</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>VVhat is required to &s;anctifie this re&s;t?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 To make the Sabbath our delight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a 58.13. Amos 8.5. Mal. 1.13.</NOTE> and to con&s;ecrate it as glorious to the Lord.</P>
<P N="2">2 To doe it with joy, without wearines.</P>
<P><HI>How are the&s;e duties to be performed?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Partly in publique, in the Church.</P>
<P N="2">2 Partly in private, either &s;ecretly by our &s;elves, or joyntly with our family.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat be the rea&s;ons inforcing to this duty?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 From equality, that God having al|lowed us &s;ixe dayes for our affaires, we are not to think much to allow him a &s;eventh.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="47" REF="25">2 From Gods owne right:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 22, 3 Exo. 31.17.</NOTE> who made the Sabbath, and is Lord of it, its his day, not ours.</P>
<P N="3">3 From Gods example, who re&s;ted after the work of Creation, the &s;eventh day.</P>
<P N="4">4 From hope of ble&s;&s;ing, for God ordai|ned it not for any good it could doe him, but for ours, in &s;piritual ble&s;&s;ings and tem|poral, if we ob&s;erve it; if not, a cur&s;e in both.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Table. <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Table."></P>
<P>Wherein is contained our duties toward our neighbours, and our &s;elves.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t of it, and the fifth in order, is.</P>
<P>Honour thy Father and Mother. <MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Commandeme~t."></P>
<P><HI>What is to bee con&s;idered in this Comman|dement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The Commandement.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Rea&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the &s;cope of it?</HI></P>
<P>That men in their &s;everall conditions, &amp; qualities, whether Superiours, equalls, or inferiours, be duly acknowledged and re&s;|pected.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Duties of inferiours.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>VVhat honour is due from Inferiours to Su|periours?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Reverence in heart, word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Levit. 19.2</NOTE> and beha|viour, according to their graces &amp; gifts.</P>
<P N="2">2 Obedience to their Coun&s;els,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.1.</NOTE> and &s;ubje|ction
<PB N="48" REF="26">to their lawfull commands.</P>
<P N="3">3 Prayer to God for them.</P>
<P N="4">4 Imitation of their vertues and graces.</P>
<P><HI>What is the duty of Superiours?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Of Supe|riours.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 To carry them&s;elves worthy of honour and re&s;pect.</P>
<P N="2">2 To be humble and loving to all.</P>
<P N="3">3 To give good example to others.</P>
<P N="4">4<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 5.23.6.9. <HI>Of Equals.</HI> Ro. 12.10. 1 Pet. 2.17.5.5. Ep 3.5.21. <HI>Private.</HI></NOTE> To protect and &s;upport tho&s;e that are committed to them.</P>
<P><HI>What is the duty of equalls?</HI></P>
<P>To live equally one with another in love and re&s;pect &s;ociably, comfortably &amp; faith|fully.</P>
<P><HI>What kindes of Superiours are there, and what are the inferiours to them?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Some private.</P>
<P N="2">2 Some publique.</P>
<P><HI>What are the private?</HI></P>
<P>In private families, Husband and wife, Parents and Children; Ma&s;ters, and Ser|vants; In Schooles, Tutors and Pupils, or Schollers.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Husbands duty to the wife?</HI></P>
<P>To love her entirely,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph 5. 1 Pet. 1.7.</NOTE> to provide for her, that which is meet and comely; to defend her from injuries; to dwell with her; to honour her as the weaker ve&s;&s;ell; to go|verne and direct her, and beare with her infirmities.</P>
<PB N="49" REF="26">
<P><HI>What is the wives to the Husband?</HI></P>
<P>To be &s;ubject in a moderate way;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 5.22.33. 1 Per. 3.1.6. Pro. 31.11.12. 1 Tim. 3.11.</NOTE> to bee obedient; to be a helper to him, <HI>Gen.</HI> 2.18. to &s;ave that which he provides.</P>
<P><HI>What duties are required from Parents to Children?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 To make them members of the vi&s;ible Church by Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P N="2">2 To in&s;truct them in the feare of God, and Religion?</P>
<P N="3">3 To pray for them and ble&s;&s;e them.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 6.4. Gen. 4.2. Pro. 20.11.12.6. 1 Cor. 7.36. 2 Cor. 12.14. Pro. 19.14. Luke 5.51. Pro. 10.1.17.25.31.8 Ruth 1.16, 7, 18. 1 Tim. 5.4. Gen. 45.11. Judg. 14.6 1 Cor. 7.36.</NOTE></P>
<P N="4">4 To ob&s;erve their inclinations, &amp; place them in a calling an&s;werable to their capa|cities and inclinations.</P>
<P N="5">5 To &s;ettle them in due time in the &s;tate of marriage.</P>
<P N="6">6 To lay up for them after their death, if not while they live.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Childrens duty to Parents?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 To reverence and obey them carefully after Chri&s;ts example.</P>
<P N="2">2 To pray for them</P>
<P N="3">3 To behave them&s;elves well for their Parents credite.</P>
<P N="4">4 To bee aiding to them in body and pur&s;e if they be able, and to relieve them if they need.</P>
<P N="5">5 Not to be&s;tow them&s;elves in marriage without their con&s;ent, <HI>Gen.</HI> 24, 21, &amp; 21, 17, 46, <HI>&amp;</HI> 28, 9.</P>
<PB N="50" REF="27">
<P><HI>What is the Ma&s;ters duty to the &s;ervant?</HI></P>
<P>To deal ju&s;tly with them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 4.1. Eph. 6..</NOTE> without threat|ning: to in&s;truct them in the feare of the Lord:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 15.13, 14.24.14, 15.</NOTE> to teach them their trades: to allow them competent maintenance: to reward them at their departure: to give them good example.</P>
<P><HI>What are the &s;ervants duties?</HI></P>
<P>To reverence &amp; obey them in all things agreeable to the word:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 24.10, 11. Eph. 6.6, &amp;c. <HI>Publique.</HI></NOTE> to pray for them: to learne good things of them: to &s;erve them faithfully.</P>
<P><HI>What are publique Superiours and their duties?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Mini&s;ters of the word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4.1, 2. Act. 20.26</NOTE> who&s;e duty is 1 To be faithful di&s;pen&s;ers of the word, not of their owne fancies. 2 To comfort and &s;trengthen the weake. 3 To be examples to all in life.</P>
<P><HI>What is the peoples duty?</HI></P>
<P>To heare them gladly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 10.14.</NOTE> and to &s;ubmit to that they &s;hall teach out of Gods Word, <HI>Heb.</HI> 13.17. To make a competent provi|&s;ion for them, <HI>Gal.</HI> 6.6. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 5.17, 18. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 9.4, 5, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2 In the Common-wealth, all Civil Ma|gi&s;trates, as Emperours, Kings, or infe|riour Governours, and their duties are, In re&s;pect of Gods matters.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="51" REF="27">1 To pray for their inferiours that God would make them obedient.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chr. 14.3.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 To &s;ee God honoured,<NOTE PLACE="marg">15.12.17.6.</NOTE> and the abu&s;es in Religion reformed.</P>
<P N="3">3 To &s;ettle true Religion among&s;t them.</P>
<P><HI>In re&s;pect of civill affaires?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 To look to the peace of the Common|wealth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 2.2. P&s;. 72.24.</NOTE> and to defend his Subjects from their enemies.</P>
<P N="2">2 To &s;ee Ju&s;tice duly executed.</P>
<P N="3">3 To take care that every one enjoy his owne.</P>
<P N="4">4 To cheri&s;h the good,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 13.3.4.7.</NOTE> and di&s;counte|nance the bad.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Subjects duty?</HI></P>
<P>To pray for them; to a&s;&s;i&s;t them with their goods, <HI>Mt.</HI> 22.17.21. <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.6, 7.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 2.1, 2. 2 Sam. 21.16, 17.23.15, 16.</NOTE> to adventure their lives for them. Not to rebell when they do wrong, but endure it patiently: to be obedient to them, and their Commands, and Lawes, agreeable with con&s;cience.</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>The rea&s;on annexed to this Comman|dement?</HI></P>
<P>That thy dayes may be prolonged, <HI>Deut.</HI> 5.16.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;umme of this promi&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>The ble&s;&s;ing of long life, and pro&s;perity to &s;uch as keep this Commandement.</P>
<PB N="52" REF="28">
<P><HI>Why then are the Godly taken away in the mid&s;t of their time, and the wicked live long?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 God performeth his temporall promi|&s;es as they are good for us:<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 56.20</NOTE> therefore the godly live &s;o long as &s;erves for Gods glory, and their owne good: and the wicked to their further condemnation.</P>
<P N="2">2 It is enough that the promi&s;es of this life be performed for the mo&s;t part.</P>
<P N="3">3 Ther's no lo&s;&s;e to the good, to be taken from a wor&s;e, to a better life.</P>
<P><HI>What are the words of the &s;ixth Commande|ment?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">6 <HI>Com|mande|ment.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>Thou &s;halt not murther.</P>
<P><HI>What is the meaning of this Commande|ment?</HI></P>
<P>That the life and per&s;on of man (being the Image of God) bee by man pre&s;erved and not hurt.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 9.5. 1 Tim. 5.23. 2 Chr. 16.12. Gen. 27.43. Pro. 14.30. 1 Sam. 31.4.2.17.23. Mr. 27.5. Act. 16.27.18.</NOTE> Therefore we are neither to offer violence to our &s;elves, or our neigh|bour.</P>
<P><HI>What is required in re&s;pect of our &s;elves?</HI></P>
<P>To u&s;e &s;ober and whol&s;ome dyet, and to avoyd intemperance. Help of phy&s;ick, ha|ving fir&s;t had recour&s;e to God. Hone&s;t re|creation to maintaine health. Prevention of unnece&s;&s;ary danger. Giving place to the fury of another. Avoiding extraordinary griefe, malice and envy. To &s;hun &s;elf mur|ther.</P>
<PB N="53" REF="28">
<P><HI>What in re&s;pect of our neighbour?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 9.5.6. Ho&s;. 42.3. Numb. 35. Deut. 21.</NOTE></P>
<P>Not to take away his life.</P>
<P N="1">1 Either in a duel, upon a &s;udden heate of blood.</P>
<P N="2">2 Or wilfully upon pretence of malice, which is murther.</P>
<P><HI>May not a man kill another in his own de|fence?</HI></P>
<P>Yes, &s;o it be in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;ity, and im|minent danger of loo&s;ing his owne life, as if a thiefe, or other a&s;&s;ault me, I may kill him to &s;ave my &s;elfe.</P>
<P><HI>What things are forbidden as furtherers of this &s;inne?</HI></P>
<P>Anger, provocations to anger, jealou&s;ies, hatred, malice, envy and repining at our neighbours good, de&s;ire of revenge. Hardnes to be reconciled.</P>
<P><HI>What are the words of the &s;eventh Comman|dement?</HI> <MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="Com|mande|ment."></P>
<P>Thou &s;halt not commit adultery.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;cope of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>That all uncleanne&s;&s;e and impurity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 7.1. 1 Th. 4.3.4, 5.</NOTE> and all &s;ins tending thereto, be avoyded in body and mind of per&s;ons married, or &s;ingle, and cha&s;tity to be pre&s;erved.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are the branches of uncleanne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>De&s;ire of &s;trange fle&s;h, <HI>Col.</HI> 3.5. 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 4.5. <HI>Mr.</HI> 5.28. Inward boyling in affecti|on,
<PB N="54" REF="29"><HI>Ja.</HI> 1.15. wantonne&s;&s;e in behaviour, and dalliance to provocation of lu&s;t, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.14. <HI>Gen.</HI> 39.7. <HI>Job</HI> 31.1. Ez. 23.14. fle&s;h|ly pollution, <HI>Heb.</HI> 13.4. with Bea&s;ts, <HI>Lev.</HI> 18.23.20.15, 16. with uncleane Spirits, Sodomy or Buggery. <HI>Lev.</HI> 18.22.29. and 20.13. <HI>Deut.</HI> 23.17. <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.26, 27. Ince&s;t with kindred, <HI>Lev.</HI> 18.6. fornication be|tweene &s;ingle per&s;ons, <HI>Deut.</HI> 22.28. <HI>Eph.</HI> 5.3. Adultery between married folkes, Poly|gamy in having many wives at once, <HI>Lev.</HI> 18.18. <HI>Mal.</HI> 4.15.16. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.16.7.2.</P>
<P><HI>What puni&s;hments are for breach of this Com|mandement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Its a judgment of it &s;elfe, <HI>Pro.</HI> 22.14. <HI>Eccl.</HI> 7.26. <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.24.</P>
<P N="2">2 God judgeth it in this world, and in the world to come, <HI>Heb.</HI> 13.4. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.9.10. <HI>Num.</HI> 24.8. <HI>Gen.</HI> 12.17. <HI>Prov.</HI> 7.23.26. <HI>Job</HI> 31.9. &amp;c. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.8. 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 13.14.18.</P>
<P N="3">3 It wa&s;teth the offenders goods and bo|dy, <HI>Pro.</HI> 5.10, 11.6.26.</P>
<P N="4">4 It bereaves a man of under&s;tanding and judgement, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 4.11.</P>
<P><HI>What helpes are there to the obedience of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>Care to keep a good con&s;cience.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccl. 7.28.</NOTE> Labour in our vocation. Watchfulne&s;&s;e over our
<PB N="55" REF="29">owne &s;pirit, <HI>Mal.</HI> 2.16. A Covenant with our eyes, <HI>Job</HI> 31.1. Prayer, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.37. Holy Meditation.</P>
<P><HI>What are to be avoyded?</HI></P>
<P>Idlenes, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 16.49. 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 11.12. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 5.11.13. <HI>Gen.</HI> 34.1, &amp;c. Lewd Company, <HI>Pro.</HI> 5.20.7.25. Idle &s;ports.</P>
<P><HI>What are the words of the eighth Comman|dement?</HI></P>
<P N="8">8 Thou &s;halt not &s;teale. <MILESTONE N="The 8." UNIT="Comman|dement."></P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;cope of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 That we dimini&s;h not our neighbours goods, nor fraudulently take away that which belongs to another man, or unju&s;tly deteyn it: but promote his good,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph 4.28. Tit. 2.10</NOTE> as much as we can.</P>
<P N="2">2 That we ju&s;tly get our owne, and em|ploy them to the u&s;es God hath entru&s;ted us with them.</P>
<P><HI>What is forbidden here as furtherers to the &s;in of theft?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Theft.</NOTE></P>
<P>Covetou&s;nes, &amp; immoderate de&s;ire of ri|ches, wherein we may con&s;ider, An exce&s;|&s;ive love of riches, and &s;etting our hearts upon them.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6.9. Pro. 18.20.22.</NOTE> A re&s;olution to become rich by any meanes. Too much ha&s;te in getting ri|ches, An un&s;atiable appetite of them, <HI>Eccle.</HI> 4.8. <HI>Pro.</HI> 30.15.27.20.<NOTE PLACE="marg">20.2, 3.</NOTE> Cruelty in unmer|cifulne&s;&s;e, and oppre&s;&s;ion of the poore,
<PB N="56" REF="30"><HI>Pro.</HI> 1.18, 19. Immoderate care in getting riches.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is required as oppo&s;ite to this &s;in?</HI></P>
<P>Contentednes with the e&s;tate God hath placed us in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6.6, 7, 8.</NOTE> not to covet that which is a|nother mans.<NOTE PLACE="marg">4.8. Pro. 15.16. 1 Tim. 6.8.</NOTE> Submi&s;&s;ion to Gods provi|dence, &amp; meditation on his promi&s;es, <HI>Heb.</HI> 13.5, 6. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 5.7. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 55.22. Moderation of our appetite, in con&s;idering what is nece&s;|&s;ary for us, <HI>Poil.</HI> 4.11, 12. <HI>Pro.</HI> 30.8.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are the kinds of theft?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 In the family,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 28.24. John 12.6. Tit. 2.10. Pro. 23.10, 11. Mal. 3.8.</NOTE> As the Wife, Childe or &s;ervants purloyning the Husbands, Fathers, or Ma&s;ters goods.</P>
<P N="2">2 Out of the family. As when publique trea&s;ure is &s;tolne, when things dedicated to &s;acred u&s;es, are either withheld, or employ|ed to a contrary u&s;e.</P>
<P N="3">3 Robbery on the high way, breach of hou|&s;es, &s;tealing cattel, taking from mens per&s;o~s.</P>
<P><HI>Is there no other kind of theft?</HI></P>
<P>Yes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 21.7. Sap. 6.6. 1 Kings 21. Deut. 25. Luke 3.14.</NOTE> oppre&s;&s;ion in men of authority, whe~ a man &s;poyleth his neighbors under colour of law, Souldiers plundering their friends, a&s;well as enemies, and Piracy: and the like.</P>
<P><HI>Are none but the actors guilty of theft?</HI></P>
<P>Yes acce&s;&s;aries, &amp; they are either before or at the time, or after the theft committed.</P>
<P N="1">1 Before and at the time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 50.18.</NOTE> is he that ay|deth
<PB N="57" REF="30">and hindreth not the theft,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 1.11.13.14.29.24.</NOTE> but coun|&s;elleth it.</P>
<P N="2">2 After, is he that receiveth and concea|leth &s;toln goods, 2 that &s;hareth, 3 that buy|eth, knowing they are &s;toln.</P>
<P><HI>Is there no theft in contracts?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Contracts.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>Yes, 1 In collu&s;ion and deceit,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Th. 4.6.</NOTE> by cir|cumventing, which is an odious vice, <HI>Eze.</HI> 22.12. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 57.55. <HI>ultimo. Mich.</HI> 7.2.</P>
<P N="2">2 By lying in buying and &s;elling.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 21.6.</NOTE></P>
<P N="3">3 When the per&s;on &s;elling is not the ju&s;t owner.</P>
<P N="4">4 When the goods &s;old are not vendible,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amos 8.6.</NOTE> but bad, and when ju&s;tice is &s;old, <HI>Am.</HI> 2.6. <HI>E&s;a.</HI> 5.23.1.23.</P>
<P N="5">5 When the bargain is deceitfull, and not &s;old at a ju&s;t price.</P>
<P><HI>There's one theft more notorious?</HI></P>
<P>When men deceive a tru&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tru&s;t.</HI> Levit. 6.2.</NOTE> either in goods depo&s;ited with them, and they re&s;tore them not, Or when Executors performe not the will of the Te&s;tator, if it lie in their power.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are the words of the ninth Comman|dement?</HI> <MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="Com|mandeme~t."></P>
<P>Thou &s;halt not beare fal&s;e witnes again&s;t thy Neighbour.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;cope of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>The pre&s;ervation of truth among&s;t men, and of our own, and our Neighbours good name.</P>
<PB N="58" REF="31">
<P><HI>What is the negative part of it?</HI></P>
<P>All fal&s;e and offen&s;ive &s;peech again&s;t our Neighbour, either in Courts of Ju&s;tice, or out.</P>
<P><HI>What is the affirmative part?</HI></P>
<P>The con&s;ervation of the truth,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Trueth.</HI></NOTE> and our neighbours good, fame and name.</P>
<P><HI>What is to be con&s;idered in the truth?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 What it is. 2. Whether it be to be pro|fe&s;&s;ed. 3. After what manner.</P>
<P N="1">1 Truth is a habit of &s;peaking,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 15.2.</NOTE> that which is true from our hearts, and in it 1 That our &s;peech bee agreeable to our mindes. 2. That our minds be agreeable to the thing; for if we &s;peake that which is true, if wee thinke it fal&s;e, it is a lye: and if wee &s;peake that which is fal&s;e, yet thinke it true, wee &s;peake not truly.</P>
<P N="2">2 Truth mu&s;t be &s;poken, el&s;e it were bet|ter we were dumb,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 10.9 Mr. 10.32. Dan. 3.16. &amp;c. Act. 4.8, &amp;c. <HI>Lyes.</HI> Mt. 12.29. Ho&s;. 7.3. Pro. 23.23 Job. 13.7.8.</NOTE> con&s;idering the nece&s;&s;i|ty of &s;peaking truth.</P>
<P N="3">3 It mu&s;t be &s;poken freely, undauntedly, &s;imply, without guile.</P>
<P><HI>How many &s;orts of lyes are there?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The merry lye, to delight the hearers, which is vaine and condemned.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Officious lye, for our own, or our neighbours profit without hurt to any, con|demned al&s;o.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="59" REF="31">3 The pernicious lye, both to the detri|ment of our &s;elves and others, and this is either when it is done in publique or private.</P>
<P><HI>Who effend in publique?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The Judg, 2 the Notary, 3. the Plain|tife, 4 the witne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">1 The Judge offendeth, in giving wrong or ra&s;h judgment, <HI>Pro.</HI> 18.13. <HI>Acts</HI> 25.15.16. 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 16.4. <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.6. <HI>Prov.</HI> 17.15. <HI>Exod.</HI> 23.8. <HI>Prov</HI> 24.23.28.21. <HI>Lev.</HI> 19.15. <HI>Deut.</HI> 1.16, 17. <HI>Prov.</HI> 18.17.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Notarie, when he makes fal&s;e en|tries, or copies, or conceales the trueth in them.</P>
<P N="3">3 The Plaintiffe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 19.16. Act. 25.7</NOTE> when he contends for that which is anothers, or &s;ues for triflles.</P>
<P N="4">4 The witne&s;&s;e, when he refu&s;eth to give true evidence, being lawfully called, <HI>Prov.</HI> 24.11.14.29.</P>
<P><HI>What per&s;ons offend le&s;&s;e principall?</HI></P>
<P>The Lawyer either in entertaining,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 21.6</NOTE> or maintaining bad cau&s;es, <HI>Eccl.</HI> 5.7. 2 <HI>Chr.</HI> 29.2. Or in not defending, or betraying his clients good cau&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Who are guilty of private breach of truth?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Flatterers:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 28.4.24.24. Act. 12.22. Pro. 29.5.</NOTE> In commending tho&s;e that de&s;erve not, immoderately, or for their owne ends.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="60" REF="32">2 Detractors either again&s;t parties pre|&s;ent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr 5, 22. 1 Cor. 6, 10. Pro. 16, 28.26.20, 6, 19. Eccl. 7.2.10. <HI>Com|mande|ment. Concupi|&s;cence.</HI></NOTE> or ab&s;ent, by branding their good name.</P>
<P N="3">3 Whi&s;perers, by &s;owing di&s;cord between friends by carrying tales.</P>
<P><HI>What are the words of the tenth Commande|ment?</HI></P>
<P>Thou &s;halt not covet, <HI>&amp;c</HI></P>
<P><HI>What &s;in is here chiefly forbidden?</HI></P>
<P>Concupi&s;cence: that is, tho&s;e &s;ecret &amp; in|ternall &s;innes, which goe before con&s;ent of the will, and are the &s;eeds of all vices, of which &s;ort are wicked and corrupt inclina|tions, thoughts, and de&s;ires.</P>
<P><HI>What is the end of this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 It either re&s;pecteth God, 2 Our Neigh|bour, or 3 our &s;elves.</P>
<P N="1">1 God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 7.14.</NOTE> as that his lawes &s;urpa&s;s all hu|mane lawes, becau&s;e his law bindeth the heart, &amp; humane laws but the hand, tongue, and outward man.</P>
<P N="2">2 Our Neighbour:<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 13.5. Pro. 7.7.13.24. Pro. 4, 24.</NOTE> that wee intend nor think any thing to their hurt, but good.</P>
<P N="3">3 Our &s;elves, to di&s;cover to us our own corruption, how far we are from that per|fection which Gods law requireth.</P>
<P N="4">4 To bee to us a perfect rule of obedi|ence, and teach us how to keepe our hearts.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="61" REF="32">5 To &s;uppre&s;&s;e the fir&s;t and inward mo|tions of &s;in, and to a&s;pire to that originall purity we had at our Creation.</P>
<P><HI>What is that Concupi&s;cence here &s;poken of?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Ira&s;cible,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ira&s;cible.</NOTE> conceived again&s;t things wee &s;hun, as anger, hate, malice, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2 Concupi&s;cible,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Concupi&s;|cible.</NOTE> conceived towards things good and de&s;irable, as love, joy, de|lights, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>What concupi&s;cence is lawfull?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Naturall, which de&s;ireth things good, and nece&s;&s;ary for our being.</P>
<P N="2">2 Spirituall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 5.17. prov. 1.19, 40. Ro. 8.6, 7.</NOTE> which fighteth and lu&s;teth again&s;t the fle&s;h, and coveteth &s;pirituall things.</P>
<P><HI>What is unlawfull and evill?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Habituall, which is an evil inclination and de&s;ire to that which is evill, which is a part of originall inju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="2">2 Actuall. 1 which is fir&s;t an evill mo|tion ca&s;t into our mindes by the world, fle&s;h, or devill, corrupting the &s;en&s;e, me|mory and phanta&s;ie, whereby wee have a kinde of appetite after that which is our neighbours.</P>
<P N="2">2 A longing after it, and wi&s;hing for it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 13.14.15.</NOTE> following that motion.</P>
<P N="3">3 A tickling delight, ari&s;ing from the
<PB N="62" REF="33">plea&s;ure or profit wee might have, if wee enjoyed it.</P>
<P><HI>What is forbidden in this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>Evill Concupi&s;cence, which is either</P>
<P N="1">1 Originall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 4.22. Col. 3.9. Ro. 7.23. Gal. 5.17.24. Heb. 12.1.</NOTE> 2 Or Actuall.</P>
<P N="1">1 Originall, is a corruption and di&s;order of all the powers and faculties of Soule and body, di&s;po&s;ing them to all evill, which is an evill pronene&s;&s;e to the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of Gods laws, which by corrupt nature is bred with us, called the <HI>old man. The law of mem|bers, The law of &s;inne,</HI> whereby wee become Children of wrath.</P>
<P><HI>Doth this Commandement prohibite this &s;in?</HI></P>
<P>No, for it forbiddeth &s;innes again&s;t our Neighbour, as the re&s;t doe, of the &s;econd Table, and therefore all originall concupi|&s;ence again&s;t our neighbour are here onely forbidden.</P>
<P><HI>What are actuall concupi&s;cence?</HI></P>
<P>They are evill motions, repugnant to charity; and are either</P>
<P N="1">1 Vaine and unprofitable, &s;o farre forth as they fa&s;ten mens minds to earthly things and withdraw them from heavenly, or</P>
<P N="2">2 Hurtfull and pernicious,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 4.19. Ro. 1.24. P&s;. 81.12. 1 Pet. 2.11.</NOTE> as they are in|&s;truments to &s;in, or choake the &s;eede of the word in the hearts of carnall men: and make men un&s;atiable in pur&s;ing earthly things,
<PB N="63" REF="33">giving them over to vile lu&s;ts which fight again&s;t the &s;oule.</P>
<P><HI>How are the&s;e evill thoughts ca&s;t in?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Either by Satan him&s;elfe, or his in|&s;truments, 1 <HI>Chr.</HI> 21.1. <HI>Jo.</HI> 13.2. <HI>Luke.</HI> 9.46, 47. <HI>Iob.</HI> 2.9.</P>
<P N="2">2 Or by our naturall corruption, and habituall concupi&s;cence, <HI>Gen.</HI> 6.5. <HI>Luke.</HI> 24.38. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.5.</P>
<P><HI>What concupi&s;cence is here e&s;pecially for|bidden?</HI></P>
<P>That of the eyes, becau&s;e it is the wor&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the eyes.</NOTE> and fitte&s;t to comprehend under it all the re&s;t, and is the root of all the vices forbid|den in the other Commandements.</P>
<P><HI>What are the meanes enabling us to the du|ties of this Commandement.</HI></P>
<P>Such as tend to the con&s;erving the heart pure, to &s;hun all &s;infull concupi&s;cence, as.</P>
<P N="1">1 To walke with God, and to doe all things as in his pre&s;ence.</P>
<P N="2">2 To keep a watch over our hearts.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 14.23.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 That it admit no evil concupi&s;cence.</P>
<P N="2">2 If it be admitted not to retaine it.</P>
<P><HI>Can we keep this Commandement?</HI></P>
<P>Its impo&s;&s;ible, for who can &s;ay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">20.9.</NOTE> his heart is cleane from the fir&s;t motions of concu|pi&s;cence, that goeth before con&s;ent?</P>
<PB N="64" REF="34">
<P>Yet it &s;erves to humble us, by the &s;ight of our &s;ins, and to cau&s;e us to flee to the mer|cies of God, in the obedience of Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</P>
<P>And that we being by him freed from the cur&s;e of the law,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 5.48.</NOTE> we may &s;tudy to conforme our &s;oules and lives according to the pre|&s;cript rule of his holy and mo&s;t perfect law. So that mortifying the fle&s;h, with all the carnall concupi&s;ences &amp; lu&s;ts of it, we may be daily more and more renewed, unto the Image of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 4.1.</NOTE> in all holine&s;&s;e, and walke worthy of our high calling, as becommeth Saints,</P>
<P>Thus farre the rule of &s;anctification.</P>
<P><HI>Wherein is the effect or exerci&s;e of it &s;eene?</HI></P>
<P>In Repentance,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Repen|tance.</NOTE> and new obedi|ence, which is a true &s;orrow for &s;in, e&s;pe|cially that we have offended &s;o gracious a God, and loving Father: as al&s;o in a &s;etled purpo&s;e of heart, to leave our &s;innes, and lead a new life, according to Gods Com|mandements,<NOTE PLACE="marg">M. 3.8.</NOTE> and bring forth fruits wor|thy amendment of life, which are good workes.</P>
<PB N="65" REF="34">
<P><HI>Can we repent when we li&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>No, it is the gift of God to the regenerate.</P>
<P><HI>Doe our good workes ju&s;tifie us, or merit eternall life?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Good Workes.</NOTE></P>
<P>No, 1. Becau&s;e we are infinitely indebted to God, more then our workes can merit.</P>
<P N="2">2 The righteou&s;nes which can &s;tand in the judgement of God mu&s;t be ab&s;olutely perfect.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 14.3.2.</NOTE></P>
<P N="3">3 Our be&s;t workes are unperfect,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s; 64.6. Iob. 9.3.</NOTE> and defiled with &s;in, and therefore merit no|thing from God.</P>
<P><HI>Why then doth God promi&s;e reward to our good workes?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 It's not for the merit of our workes, but of his free grace.</P>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 per. 2.5. Exo. 28.8.36, 37, 38.</NOTE>
<P N="2">2 The pollution that cleaves to our good workes, is taken away, by the interce&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t, for who&s;e &s;ake God accepteth them, and rewardeth them as if they were perfect.</P>
<P><HI>What are the &s;peciall workes commanded?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Prayer and vowes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prayer.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 Almes.</P>
<P N="3">3 Fa&s;ting.</P>
<P><HI>What is Prayer?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Io. 1.14. p&s;. 50.15. Ier. 33.3. Sam. 2.19. phil. 4.6.</NOTE></P>
<P>It is a familiar &s;qeech with God, in the Name of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, whereby we open
<PB N="66" REF="35">our de&s;ires to him, for the enjoyment of the good things we need.</P>
<P><HI>What is required to make our prayers Holy?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 To pray with Faith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ia. 1.6.</NOTE> and full a&s;&s;urance (without wavering) that God will heare us.</P>
<P N="2">2 With feare,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 18.13. Ja. 5.16.</NOTE> Reverence, and Humility, and a lively &s;ence of our unworthines.</P>
<P N="3">3 With a true feeling of our wants, and an ardent de&s;ire and zeale to obteyne.</P>
<P N="4">4 In con&s;tancy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 18.1.</NOTE> without fainting.</P>
<P><HI>To whom mu&s;t we pray?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 To God alone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 65.2. Ro 8.27. Jer. 31.18. Ro. 10.14. 2 Chr. 7.14.16.30.9. 1 Chr. 28.9. P&s;. 44.21. To whom.</NOTE> for he is the &s;earcher of the Heart, heareth the voice, &amp; under&s;tands what we pray for.</P>
<P N="2">2 Becau&s;e he is onely able to grant what wee de&s;ire.</P>
<P><HI>To which of the per&s;ons in Trinity mu&s;t we pray?</HI></P>
<P>To the Trinity of per&s;ons, in the unity of the God-head, That is, to God in the Tri|nity.</P>
<P><HI>For who&s;e name and &s;ake mu&s;t we pray?</HI></P>
<P>In the only name, and for the only &s;ake of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, in, and for whom God giveth all good things to his Elect. <HI>Dan</HI> 9.17. <HI>Iohn.</HI> 16.23.24. 1 <HI>Iohn.</HI> 2.1.2. <HI>Ro.</HI> 8.34.</P>
<PB N="67" REF="35">
<P>1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.5. <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.19. <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.5. <HI>Ro.</HI> 8.32. <HI>For whom are we to pray?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 For our &s;elves, and others,<NOTE PLACE="marg">For whom</NOTE> For all men (unle&s;&s;e they have committed the &s;in again&s;t the holy Gho&s;t) but e&s;pecially for the hou|&s;hold of Faith, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.1. <HI>Mt.</HI> 5.44. <HI>Ja.</HI> 3.9. <HI>Act.</HI> 17.26. 1 <HI>Jo.</HI> 5.16. <HI>Eph.</HI> 6.18. <HI>Gal.</HI> 6.10.</P>
<P N="2">2 For Kings, Rulers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 6.19.</NOTE> and Magi&s;trates &amp; &s;uch as are in authority, and Mini&s;ters, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 2 <HI>Col.</HI> 4.3.</P>
<P><HI>What are the parts of Prayer?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Petition, or reque&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Petition.</NOTE> for things need|full upon the &s;ence of our mi&s;ery.</P>
<P N="2">2 Pray&s;e and thanksgiving,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 10.21.</NOTE> for things re|ceived upon the ta&s;t of Gods mercy.</P>
<P><HI>What mu&s;t we pray for, for our &s;elves?</HI></P>
<P>Only things needfull,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.6.7. Col. 1.9. 2 Th. 3.1.2.</NOTE> &s;uch as God hath promi&s;ed, whereof &s;ome concerne Gods glory, other for mans nece&s;&s;ity, this is Sup|plication. To remove or prevent evil, this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> Deprecation.</P>
<P><HI>Mu&s;t we Pray for others?</HI></P>
<P>Yes, and that is Interce&s;&s;ion, as for kin|dred and friends, for each other, yea and for enemies. As al&s;o the Soveraigne for the &s;ubject, and the &s;ubject for him, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><PB N="68" REF="36">2 <HI>Wherein doth the duty of Prayer e&s;pecially con&s;i&s;t?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 In emptying our&s;elves of all worth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 32.10. Ja. 1.17. P&s;. 40.9.10. Dent. 26.11.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 In acknowledging God to be the an|thor of every good gift.</P>
<P N="3">3 In &s;peaking good of his name to o|thers.</P>
<P N="4">4 In rejoycing before him, for all his mercyes.</P>
<P N="5">5 In re&s;olving to be&s;tow what we re|ceive, to his glory.</P>
<P><HI>What are the properties of true prai&s;e?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 It mu&s;t be faithfull and &s;incere.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 145.18.18.1.2. 1 Chr. 29.14. 2 Cor. 9.7. Exo. 15.2.3. P&s;. 144.1.2. 81.1.2. 1 Th. 5.18.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 Plentifull, according to that we receive</P>
<P N="3">3 Cheerfull. He loves duties done cheer|fully.</P>
<P N="4">4 Skilfull. In the be&s;t manner, according to the nature of his ble&s;&s;ings.</P>
<P N="5">5 Powerfull with the be&s;t member, and the be&s;t mea&s;ure.</P>
<P N="6">6 Continuall, as long as we live.</P>
<P><HI>Are we limitted to certaine words, what and how to pray?</HI></P>
<P>No, but we have a perfect patterne and pre&s;cipt rule of prayer of all kinds, left us in the Prayer which our Saviour taught his Di&s;ciples, and in them to all ages; cal|led the <HI>Lords Prayer.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>What are the words of it?</HI></P>
<P>Our Father which art in heaven, <HI>&amp;c.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lords Prayer. Mr. 6.9. Preface.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>What are the parts of it?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 A Preface.</P>
<P N="2">2 A body of Petitions.</P>
<P N="3">3 A Conclu&s;ion.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat doth the preface put us in mind of?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccl. 5.1. P&s;. 26.6. 1. Tim. 2.8. Ro. 10.14. P&s;. 73.25.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 To prepare our &s;elves before we pray, by ca&s;ting off all extravagant thoughts.</P>
<P N="2">2 To con&s;ider whom we pray to, that he is God.</P>
<P N="3">3 That we as children, come to a fa|ther: And in this.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Io. 1.12. gal. 4 6.2.20. 1 Io. 5.14.15.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 That he is our Father in Chri&s;t, and therfore we have confidence to come to him.</P>
<P N="2">2 That we remember our duty, to reve|rence and imitate him as a father.</P>
<P N="3">3 To come to him in no other,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 4.15.</NOTE> then the name of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4 That in the word <HI>Our,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ia. 5.16.</NOTE> we are to pray for others, as well as our &s;elves, which is Charity.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat meane the words</HI> [which art in Hea|ven?]</P>
<P>It directs us to a meditation of Gods Glory, Power, Wi&s;dome and Holine&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 11.4. E&s;a. 57.15. P&s;. 123.1. Col. 3.1.2.</NOTE> in dwelling in &s;o Holy a place: And that wee
<PB N="70" REF="37">are to &s;eeke him there, not that he is, inclu|ded in heaven, or excluded earth, but that he filleth all places.</P>
<P><HI>What are the parts of the Petition?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 A forme of Petition.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.6. Luke. 17.17, 18.</NOTE> 2 and of Thanks-giving, whereby we are taught not onely to pray to God for our wants, but to give him thankes, the&s;e mu&s;t not be &s;e|vered.</P>
<P><HI>How many Petitions are there in the Lords</HI> Prayer?</P>
<P>Sixe. Three concerning God, and Three concerning our &s;elves, and our neighbours.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are the words of the fir&s;t?</HI> <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Petition."></P>
<P>Hallowed be thy Name.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the &s;umme of it?</HI></P>
<P>That God, who is glorious and holy, may be glorified in all things.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is meant by</HI> Hallowed?</P>
<P>It &s;ignifies &s;anctified and reverenced, to &s;e|parate it from prophane abu&s;e, to a holy and reverend u&s;e. Not that we can attri|bute any holine&s;&s;e to him, or detract from it, but to &s;ignifie our de&s;ire, it &s;hould be &s;o.</P>
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<P><HI>What's meant by his name?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. 33.18, &amp;c. 34.5, &amp;c. P&s;. 104.19.14.138.2.</NOTE></P>
<P>God him&s;elfe, his E&s;&s;ence, and all things by which he is knowne to us, as his Titles, <HI>Jebovah, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 His Attributes, as Wi&s;edome, Pow|er, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as before.</P>
<P N="3">3 His Memorialls 1 His Workes, as the Creation, and Government of the World, Redemption, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2 The things belonging to his &s;ervice. As his Wor&s;hip, Word, Sacraments, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>What doe we aske in this Petition?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 That as God is glorious in him&s;elfe, &s;o he may be made knowne to men.</P>
<P N="2">2 That his name may be reverently u&s;ed by all men.</P>
<P N="3">3 That when his Glory comes in que&s;t|ion betweene him and us, wee may pre|ferre his, to ours.</P>
<P N="4">4 That God would give us &s;uch Graces, whereby his Name may be glo|rified.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;econd Petition?</HI> <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Petition."></P>
<P>Let thy Kingdome come.</P>
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<P><HI>VVhat is the Summe of it?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 26.18.</NOTE></P>
<P>That God, and not Sinne may reigne in our hearts.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 1.13.3.15.6.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 That the Kingdome of Chri&s;t may be daily enlarged, till his comming to judge|ment.</P>
<P N="3">3 That the Kingdome of &s;inne and Satan may be daily decrea&s;ed, and aboli&s;hed.</P>
<P N="4">4 That we may reigne with him, for ever in Glory.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2.12.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>VVhat is meant by</HI> Kingdome?</P>
<P N="1">1 His univer&s;all Soveraignty (as Crea|tor) over all his Creatures.<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 5.6. P&s;. 95.3, &amp;c. P&s;. 110.2. 1 Cor. 15.29.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 His Spirituall Rule over the Church, Saints, His Word, Angels and Mini&s;ters.</P>
<P><HI>How is it &s;aid to come?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 In regard of the meanes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2.6. Ho&s;, 3.5. Rev. 15.3. Iob. 22.2. Heb. 16. 2 Cor. 5.</NOTE> where the word of the Kingdome is publi&s;hed, <HI>Mat.</HI> 12.38. and 13.29. <HI>Mar.</HI> 4.15.</P>
<P N="2">2 In regard of efficacie, Where from the heart, obedience is yeelded. <HI>Ro.</HI> 6.17.</P>
<P N="3">3 In regard of perfection, in which it hath degrees. As</P>
<P N="1">1 Increa&s;e of grace in this life.<NOTE PLACE="marg">20. Mt. 13.18. Luke. 23.42.43. Mt. 25.34.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 The tran&s;lation of ble&s;&s;ed &s;oules into heaven in the moment of death.</P>
<P N="3">3 The full redemption and glorification of Saints, in &s;oule and body, in the life to come.</P>
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<P><HI>What doe we de&s;ire concerning the</HI> King|dome <HI>of God.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 97.1. Mt. 6.13. Io. 17.2. P&s;. 122.6. E&s;a. 62.7.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Either that which he exerci&s;eth in this world, ouer his Creatures which is the Kingdome of power.</P>
<P N="2">2 Or over his Church, to be increa&s;ed here, and accompli&s;hed hereafter, the King|dome of Grace.</P>
<P N="3">3 Or in the world to come,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 1.23</NOTE> which is the Kingdome of glory, that he would take us out of this &s;infull life, into the Kingdome of heaven 2 that the number of elect being accompli&s;hed the finall di&s;&s;olution of all things may come,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4.8. Rev. 22.20. 3 Petition.</NOTE> and that all his cho&s;en may obteyne full &s;alvation and glory, pre|pared for them from the beginning of the World.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Third Petition?</HI></P>
<P>Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the &s;umme of this Petition?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 That God would enable us willingly to &s;ubmitt to him and his providence.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2.26. 1 pet. 4.2. P&s;. 119.60. Col. 3, 23. p&s;. 103, 20.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 That we may doe his will, and re|nounce Satans will and our owne corrupt Inclinations.</P>
<P N="3">3 That obedience may be given to Chri&s;t, in ruling us, till we be as the holy Angels.</P>
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<P><HI>VVhat is meant by the word</HI> Thy?</P>
<P>That wee exclude all wills oppo&s;ite to, or diver&s;e from Gods Will.</P>
<P><HI>How manifold is the will of God?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 His &s;ecret Will, which is not to be &s;earched unto, nor meant here, but</P>
<P N="2">2 His revealed Will. 1 That wee may know it, el&s;e we cannot doe it.</P>
<P N="2">2 That we may doe it being knowne, and therefore, that he would give us the Graces of his holy &s;pirit to enable us there|to.</P>
<P N="3">3 To remove all things which may hin|der us, from knowing and doing it.</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by the word</HI> Done?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 21.30. Ja. 1.25. Phil. 2.13. Act 20.24</NOTE></P>
<P>Not only a good intent in the Heart, or a bare profe&s;&s;ion of Obedience, but an Actuall and through performance of it.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is meant by</HI> in Earth, as it is in Heaven?</P>
<P>By earth, tho&s;e that are in earth, and by heaven,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 103.20.22.</NOTE> tho&s;e that are there: and here we propound to our &s;elves the pattern of bles|&s;ed Angells, and Soules, who being free from all corruption, doe in their kind per|fectly obey God.</P>
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<P><HI>How can wee (being &s;infull) imitate them?</HI></P>
<P>In the manner,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 110.3. 119.60. Deut. 5.28.29. P&s;. 119.1.12.</NOTE> though not in the mea&s;ure and degree of obedience; we may beleeve the promi&s;es of mercy, and obey the pre|cepts of holine&s;&s;e, after their pattern, that is willingly, &s;peedily, &s;incerely, and con&s;tant|ly.</P>
<P>So much for the Petitions that concerne God.</P>
<P><HI>How are the three following divided?</HI></P>
<P>The fir&s;t concerns mans body, and the things of this life.</P>
<P>The other two, concerne the Soule.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Fourth Petition?</HI> <MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Petition."></P>
<P>Give us this day our daily Bread.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;umme of it?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 That God would provide for us,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 30.8.</NOTE> com|petent meanes, and &s;uch a portion of out|ward ble&s;&s;ings, as he &s;hall &s;ee meet for us, not onely for nece&s;&s;ity, but Chri&s;tian de|light.</P>
<P N="2">2 That he would give us grace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.11.12.</NOTE> to rely on his providence, for tho&s;e meanes, and be content with that allowance he &s;hall thinke fit for us.</P>
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<P><HI>What is meant by</HI> Bread?</P>
<P>All outward things for our nece&s;&s;ity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pr. 27.27.31.14.</NOTE> and &s;ober delight, as food, rayment, health, wealth, phy&s;ique, &s;leep, hou&s;e, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as al&s;o the helps to atteyne to them; good Magi|&s;trates, &s;ea&s;onable weather, peace <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and the removall of all things contrary; together with Gods ble&s;&s;ing upon them.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ja. 4.3. Numb. 11.4, 5, 6.</NOTE> We mu&s;t not de&s;ire dainties or &s;uperfluities, and all that we de&s;ire mu&s;t be with this condition, If God &s;hall &s;ee it good for us, and be plea|&s;ed to give it, <HI>Mt.</HI> 8.2. <HI>Ia.</HI> 4.15.2. <HI>Sam.</HI> 7.27.</P>
<P><HI>What learne you from the word.</HI> Give us?</P>
<P N="1">1 That from God come all things, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10.4.27. &amp;c. <HI>Act.</HI> 14.17.</P>
<P N="2">2 That though in regard of our labour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 17.10. Gen. 32.10.</NOTE> and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, things may be called ours, yet all our paines is nothing, except God ble&s;&s;e us.</P>
<P><HI>Why doe we &s;ay.</HI> This day, <HI>or for the day?</HI></P>
<P>Becau&s;e we are to pray for Bread,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. 16.19, &amp;c. Pro. 30.8. Mt. 6.34.</NOTE> for no longer time, to teach us to qualifie our care of the world, and to rely upon Gods providence, and not be covetous.</P>
<P><HI>Is it not lawfull to provide for children and family?</HI></P>
<P>Not onely lawfull, but nece&s;&s;ary, <HI>Gen.</HI> 41.34.35.
<PB N="77" REF="40"><HI>Act.</HI> 11.28.29. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.14. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 5.8. But here our affections are forbidden to exceed mea&s;ure and we commanded to commit our wayes unto the Lord, <HI>Mt.</HI> 6, 34. <HI>P&s;al,</HI> 37, 5. <HI>Pro,</HI> 16, 3.</P>
<P><HI>Why is it called</HI> Daily?</P>
<P N="1">1 Becau&s;e it mu&s;t be &s;uch a portion as may be&s;t &s;tand with our nature,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. 6.11. Luke. 11.3. P&s;. 104.15. Jo. 12.3. Pro. 30.8. 1 Tim. 6.8. Ro. 16.14. Ja. 4.3. 5. Petition.</NOTE> charge and cal|ling it being in the originall, called Bread fit for me: not to &s;atisfie our fle&s;hly lu&s;ts, and that we may call daily for them.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Fift Petition?</HI></P>
<P>And forgive us our debts as we for|give them that are debters unto us.</P>
<P><HI>What doe you ob&s;erve in it?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 A Petition for forgivenes of &s;innes.</P>
<P N="2">2 The rea&s;on why they are forgiven.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;umme of this Petition?</HI></P>
<P>That we may be ju&s;tified, and at peace with God, by forgiving us our &s;ins for his Sons &s;ake, <HI>Job,</HI> 33, 24, <HI>P&s;al,</HI> 53, 3, <HI>Jer,</HI> 14, 7, <HI>Col,</HI> 3, 13.</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by</HI> Debts?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 8.12. Luke. 13. Mr. 18.14. Ro. 6.23.</NOTE></P>
<P>Sinnes: for the forfeiture of our obedi|ence brought us within compa&s;&s;e either of puni&s;hment or &s;atisfaction, no part wher|of we can pay of our &s;elves, but entreate
<PB N="78" REF="41">God for the forgivene&s;&s;e of them by the only blood of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by forgivene&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P>Such remi&s;&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. 33.24 1 Jo. 2.2.</NOTE> as may &s;tand with Gods ju&s;tice, which will not &s;uffer him to be a loo&s;er, therefore this forgivene&s;&s;e comes, by taking payment of another, which is our &s;urety, Chri&s;t Je&s;us on our behalfe.</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by</HI> Us <HI>and</HI> Ours?</P>
<P>We include (with our &s;elves) in this Peti|tion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 150.7.8.</NOTE> as many as are in Chri&s;t, enabled by a true faith to lay hold on him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">51.18.</NOTE> and to plead his payment and &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P><HI>What doe we beg in this Petition?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Grace to know and confe&s;&s;e our &s;innes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a, 51.3.103.3.142.2.</NOTE> and our di&s;ability to &s;atisfie for them.</P>
<P N="2">2 That God for Chri&s;ts &s;ake, would take away the guilt and puni&s;hment due for them.</P>
<P N="3">3 The power of &s;aving faith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 17.5. E&s;a. 53.5.</NOTE> to lay hold on Chri&s;ts &s;ufficient merits and &s;atisfaction for our Ju&s;tification.</P>
<P N="4">4 The &s;pirit of Prayer,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zac. 12.10. Mar. 9.24.</NOTE> to crave pardon, with griefe and &s;orrow.</P>
<P N="5">5 An a&s;&s;urance of the forgivene&s;&s;e of our &s;ins,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 8.15.16.</NOTE> by the te&s;timony of the &s;pirit of Chri&s;t</P>
<P><HI>What is contained in the Rea&s;on?</HI></P>
<P>A note to certifie us, whether our &s;ins be
<PB N="79" REF="41">remitted or not, by our forgiving, or not forgiving offences to others, not as this rea&s;on binds God otherwi&s;e, then by Gods gracious promi&s;es: this being a con&s;equent and fruit of the other, not a cau&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>How can we forgive &s;ins, &s;ince none but God can doe it?</HI></P>
<P>We doe not forgive the &s;in, &s;o farre as it is again&s;t God, but as it is an offence to us.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;ixth and la&s;t Petition?</HI> <MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Petition"></P>
<P>And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evill.</P>
<P><HI>What is the &s;umme of it?</HI></P>
<P>In it we pray for Sanctification,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 6.1.2. Pro. 30.8. 2 Cor. 12.9.7.1. Ro. 6.11.</NOTE> and &s;trength again&s;t &s;in, that our &s;ins may not only be pardoned, but daily mortified in us and we either pre&s;erved from tentations by Gods providence, or kept by his grace from bieng hurt by them: and la&s;tly, that wee may be rai&s;ed to new obedience.</P>
<P><HI>May wee pray ab&s;olutely again&s;t tempta|tions?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 No, for the Saints,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 4.3.</NOTE> and Chri&s;t him|&s;elfe were &s;ubject to them.</P>
<P N="2">2 All temptations are not evill,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 22.2.</NOTE> &s;ome are
<PB N="80" REF="42">tryalls of our faith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ia. 1.2, 3. Deut. 8.2.13.3. 1 Cor. 10.13.</NOTE> and hope, and make oft-times for our good. Therefore we pray not utterly again&s;t them, but that God would give us a good i&s;&s;ue out of them.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is meant by</HI> Deliver us from evill?</P>
<P>As the former was,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 7.24.</NOTE> <HI>Lead us not in,</HI> &s;o this is, pull us out, by force, when we are in.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is meant by</HI> Evill?</P>
<P N="1">1 That evill one,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Io. 5.18.16. 1 Tim. 6.9.</NOTE> Satan and his in&s;tru|ments, and the provocations to &s;in.</P>
<P N="2">2 The effect of temptation, Sinne, and damnation.</P>
<P><HI>From what evils doe wee de&s;ire to be deli|vered?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The inward concupi&s;cence of our hearts.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ia. 1.14 15.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 The outward. The Divell, and the world, which worke upon us by the for|mer.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the Conclu&s;ion of the Lords Prayer?</HI></P>
<P>For thine is the Kingdome, and pow|er, <MILESTONE UNIT="Conclu&s;i|on."> and the glory for ever. Amen.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the &s;umme of it?</HI></P>
<P>That we mu&s;t ground our a&s;&s;urance of obtaining, what we pray for, in God from
<PB N="81" REF="42">whom all things come, and to whom, in that re&s;pect, all glory mu&s;t returne.</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by</HI> 1 Kingdome, 2 Power, And 3. glory.</P>
<P N="1">1 Gods ab&s;olute right, &s;overaignty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Chr. 29.11.</NOTE> and rule over all things; and therefore we are to pray to him only.</P>
<P N="2">2 His omnipotencie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 1.37.</NOTE> that be&s;ides his right to rule, he hath power to grant</P>
<P N="3">3 That which is due to him, in regard of the two former: that in re&s;pect he hath dominion and power to grant our reque&s;ts when he hath granted them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 65.1, 2.</NOTE> we mu&s;t referr all to his honour, and &s;ervice.</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by</HI> Thine?</P>
<P>That how&s;oever <HI>Kingdome, Power,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a. 82.6. Bo. 8.15. Pro. 8.25. Iob. 33.13.</NOTE> <HI>and Glory,</HI> are communicated here to his vice|gerents; yet originally, and ab&s;olutely, they belong to God.</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by</HI> for ever?</P>
<P>Eternity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 2.4.</NOTE> which makes a difference be|tween Gods kingdome, power and glory. and his vicegerents.</P>
<P><HI>What by</HI> Amen?</P>
<P>Not only &s;o be it, but &s;o it is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 22.20, 21.</NOTE> or &s;hall be as we have prayed. It being a note of con|fidence, and declaration of fath, whereby we a&s;&s;ure our &s;elves, that God will grant,
<PB N="82" REF="43">what we have prayed for.</P>
<P><HI>May we u&s;e no other forme of words, then the&s;e when we pray?</HI></P>
<P>We may, but we mu&s;t pray for the &s;ame things, &amp; with the like affection, as is here pre&s;cribed. And to refu&s;e this forme, argu|eth a proud contempt of Chri&s;ts ordinance. As to confine our &s;elves to the&s;e words a|lone, &s;avoureth of extreame idlene&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>May there not be&s;ides this, be a &s;et forme of prayer in the Church?</HI></P>
<P>Yes, at the liberty of the Church (not of private men) to alter, and it is nece&s;&s;ary to help the weake and ruder &s;ort.</P>
<P><HI>What are the kinds of Prayer?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prayer. P&s;a. 84.1.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Either publique in the Congregation for the &s;ervice of God.</P>
<P N="2">2 Or Private, either with the family and friends, 2 <HI>Sam</HI> 6.20. <HI>E&s;t.</HI> 4.16. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.7. or when one of the family prayeth privat|ly <HI>Neh.</HI> 1.4, 5, 6. <HI>Gen.</HI> 25.21. <HI>Math.</HI> 6.6.</P>
<P>And either of the&s;e are ordinary, daily upon ordinary occa&s;ins. <HI>P&s;.</HI> 55.17. <HI>Dan.</HI> 6.11. or extraordinary, upon &s;peciall occa&s;i|ons. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.62. <HI>Acts.</HI> 12.5. <HI>Joel.</HI> 2.15. <HI>Joh.</HI> 3.6.</P>
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<P><HI>What are the ordinary Circum&s;tances of prayer?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Circum|&s;tances of prayer.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 Ge&s;tures.</P>
<P N="2">2 Place,</P>
<P N="3">3 Time.</P>
<P N="1">1 We are to u&s;e &s;uch holy and comely ge&s;ture of body, as be&s;eemes the &s;ervice of God, and his Maje&s;ty, with whom we have to deale, and as may expre&s;&s;e humility,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 3.14. Lam. 3.41. Jo. 17.1.</NOTE> fer|vencie, and confidence, as bowing the knees Lifting up the eyes, and hands to heaven.</P>
<P N="2">2 Generally all places are allowed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 56.7. Mt. 6.6.</NOTE> but the Church be&s;t fitteth Common-pray|ers, and the Clo&s;et, private.</P>
<P N="3">3 Continually, we are to pray,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Th. 5.17. P&s;. 5.3. Luk. 2.37.</NOTE> particu|larly on the Sabbath, for the dayes of the weeke, <HI>P&s;.</HI> 92. and morning and evening for the houres of the day. <HI>ver.</HI> 2.</P>
<P><HI>Having &s;poken of the participation of the grace of Chri&s;t, and the benefits of the Go&s;pel, &s;hew how God doth offer, and com|municate the Covenant of Grace, to man|kind?</HI></P>
<P>By Vocation or calling, which is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vocation. Ro. 8.30. Heb. 3.1. Ho&s;. 2.14.</NOTE> when God by the means of his Word &amp; &s;pirit in|viteth men to come to him, &amp; bringeth the~ out of darkne&s;s into light, and this is either</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="84" REF="44">1 Externall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 48.12. Mt. 22.14.</NOTE> a calling common to all, with &s;ome light and fruits of the Spirit, at|tained to by &s;ome that are not heires of the promi&s;e, many being thus called, but not cho&s;en.</P>
<P N="2">2 Internall, and effectuall, peculiar only to the Elect,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a 25.14. Ioel 2.32. Act. 2.39.</NOTE> whereby unfeigned faith and true repentance is wrought in them, by the outward meanes of the Word, and inward|ly, by his Spirit. And this Covenant of grace doth not reveale nor afford &s;ufficient meanes of &s;alvation to the whole world, but onely to the Church of God</P>
<P><HI>What is meant by the Church?</HI></P>
<P>The Militant Church,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Church.</NOTE> which is vi&s;ible in the parts of it, con&s;i&s;ting of many a&s;&s;em|blies of believers, who make profe&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame common faith.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are the infallible notes of the true Church?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The truth of Doctrine which is profe&s;|&s;ed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mt. 28.19.20.</NOTE> and the &s;incere preaching of the Word, with the due admini&s;tration of the Sacra|ments, according to Chri&s;ts Commande|ment.</P>
<P N="2">2 The right order which is kept, with &s;incere and con&s;cionable obedience to the word of God.</P>
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<P><HI>What are the things proper to the vi&s;ible Church?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1<NOTE PLACE="marg">a Ro. 10.17. Io. 5.25.6.68.</NOTE> The Word.</P>
<P N="2">2<NOTE PLACE="marg">b 1 Cor. 10.1, 2, &amp;c. The word.</NOTE> The Sacraments.</P>
<P N="3">3 ^c Cen&s;ures, <HI>Mat.</HI> 18.15. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.</P>
<P><HI>What is the</HI> Word?</P>
<P>That part of Mini&s;tery which con&s;i&s;ts in the delivery of Doctrine, it being the ordi|narie in&s;trument which God u&s;eth in beget|ting of faith, <HI>Act.</HI> 2.40.41.11.20. from which wee mu&s;t not &s;eparate the inward meanes, the Spirit. <HI>E&s;.</HI> 59.21. 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 5.19.20.</P>
<P><HI>What are the Sacraments?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sacra|ments. Ro. 4.11. 1 Cor. 11.23. Gal. 3.27.</NOTE></P>
<P>The Seales of Gods promi&s;es in Chri&s;t, wherein by outward &s;ignes (commanded by God) Chri&s;t Je&s;us with all his graces is &s;ignified, conveyed, and &s;ealed unto the heart of a Chri&s;tian.</P>
<P><HI>What is the difference between a Sacrifice and a Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 In a &s;acrifice wee offer to God: In a Sacrament he offers to us.</P>
<P N="2">2 In the fir&s;t, Chri&s;t was &s;ignified as given for us: in the other as given to us.</P>
<P N="3">3 The Sacrifices are only Signes, the Sacraments &s;eales al&s;o.</P>
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<P><HI>What things are required in a Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The outward &s;ignes, and Sacramen|tall actions, concerning the &s;ame, as water, bread, and wine.</P>
<P N="2">2 The inward thing &s;ignified thereby, <HI>viz.</HI> Thri&s;t Je&s;us, with his &s;aving graces, and &s;pirituall actions concerning the &s;ame, as Chri&s;t and his merits, and the applying them in particular to us.</P>
<P N="3">3 A &s;imilitude between them both. As the water in Bapti&s;me wa&s;heth the body, &s;o doth the blood of Chri&s;t wa&s;h a way the &s;potts of the &s;oule.</P>
<P><HI>What preparation is required in them that come to the Sacrament?</HI></P>
<P>Knowlenge, Faith, and feeling, both in the Law and Go&s;pell.</P>
<P N="1">1 In the Law he mu&s;t be able to under|&s;tand and believe the common corruption of all men, in the bitter roots, &amp; poy&s;oned fruits of originall &s;in, together, with the Cur&s;e of eternall death due thereto, and be able to apply both the &s;in and wages there|of to him&s;elfe.</P>
<P N="2">2 In the Go&s;pell, in &s;ome mea&s;ure he mu&s;t under&s;tand the Covenant of Grace, which God in Chri&s;t hath made with mankind, and by faith apply the &s;ame to him&s;elfe.</P>
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<P><HI>How many Sacraments are there?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 4.1. Gen. 17.11.12. 1 Cor 10.1. &amp;c. 12, 13. Mt. 26.26 28.19. Bapti&s;me. Eph. 5.26. 1 Cor. 6.11. Heb 10.22</NOTE></P>
<P>Two. 1 Bapti&s;me, in the place of Cir|cumci&s;ion.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Supper of the Lord, an&s;wering to the Pa&s;&s;eover.</P>
<P N="1">1 Bapti&s;me is the fir&s;t Sacrament, which by the wa&s;hing of water, repre&s;enteth to us, the powerfull wa&s;hing of the bloud and Spirit of Chri&s;t, &s;ealing unto them which are within Gods Covenant, their birth in Chri&s;t, and entrance into Chri&s;tianity.</P>
<P><HI>To whom is bapti&s;me effectuall?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The Church not only baptizeth tho&s;e of riper yeares, as Pagans,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 8.37.</NOTE> which are brought within the Church, and te&s;tifie their under&s;tanding in Chri&s;tianity; pro|fe&s;&s;e their faith in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and in the pretious promi&s;es of remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins by his blood: and their earne&s;t de&s;ire to be &s;ealed with Bapti&s;me, to &s;trengthen their &s;oules in faith, and all this with &s;in|cerity.</P>
<P N="2">2 But infants al&s;o, borne of beleeving Parents, and are within the Covenant, whereby they have a right to the Seale thereof And this is effectually to tho&s;e In|fants who belong to the Election of grace.</P>
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<P><HI>How can Jnfants be capable of the grace of Bapti&s;me?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Bapti&s;me. of Infants.</NOTE></P>
<P>Though they be not capable by that way the growne are, yet it followeth not, that they are not capable another way. VVe are to di&s;tingui&s;h between the gift conveighed, and the manner of covneighing it: faith is not of ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity to all Gods elect, but to tho&s;e only, to whom he affords meanes to beleeve. It's the application of Chri&s;ts righteou&s;nes, not our apprehending it, that ju&s;tifies us. God can &s;upply the de|fect of faith, by his &s;anctifying Spirit, which can doe all things on our part in&s;tead of that which faith &s;hould doe. He that hath &s;aid of Infants <HI>to them belongs the Kingdome</HI> of God, knows how to &s;ettle it upon them. Though he tye us to meanes, yet he tyeth not him&s;elfe.</P>
<P><HI>How is baptizing of Children warrantable?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 From the u&s;e of Circumci&s;ion in the Old Te&s;tament, which an&s;wereth to Bap|ti&s;me, and was done on the eight day.</P>
<P N="2">2 To whom the Covenant belongs, to them belongs the &s;eale of it, which con|firmes the right to them. To you and your children are the promi&s;es made &s;aith the A|po&s;tle.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 2.39. 1 Cor. 7.14.</NOTE> And your children are holy. There's
<PB N="89" REF="46"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oederal holine&s;&s;e, or externall and vi&s;ible <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t lea&s;t, in children of beleeving parents.</P>
<P N="3">3 The an&s;wer to the incapability of faith of children, is in that of the la&s;t que&s;tion.</P>
<P N="4">4 The an&s;wer to the objection, that there is no rule in Scripture for Baptizing Infants, is: We read nothing in Scripture to infringe the liberty of the Church ther|in. But by con&s;equence we read, that &s;uch in one and all his hou&s;hold were baptized.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act 16.15.31.18.8. 1 Cor. 1.1.16.</NOTE> The hou&s;e of <HI>Lydia,</HI> of the Jaylor, <HI>Cri&s;pus,</HI> and <HI>Stephanus,</HI> were there no Infants there, or were they left out? By this argument the Sacrament of the Lords Supper &s;hould be denyed to women.</P>
<P><HI>What is the Sacrament of the Lords Sup|per?</HI></P>
<P>It is the &s;econd Sacrament of the Go&s;pel,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lords Supper.</NOTE> wherein by the outward Elements of bread and Wine, &s;anctified and exhibited by the Mini&s;ter, and rightly received by the Com|municant, a&s;&s;urance is given to tho&s;e that are engraffed into Chri&s;t of their con|tinuance in him, &amp; receiving nouri&s;hment by him unto eternall life.</P>
<P><HI>VVhy is it called the Lords Supper?</HI></P>
<P>Not that he appointed it a &s;upper to us, but becau&s;e he (&s;itting at his la&s;t Supper)
<PB N="90" REF="47">ordeyned it in &s;tead of the Pa&s;&s;eover,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 11.20.</NOTE> and gave charge for continuance of it, till his &s;econd comming.</P>
<P><HI>Are the bread and wine changed in the Sacrament, to the body and bloud of Chri&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>They are not changed in nature,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10.16.</NOTE> but in u&s;e. By the eating and drinking of it, wee have communion with our Saviour Chri&s;t: of whom we are as verily partakers by a lively faith, as if the bread and wine, by eating and drinking them. And thus we &s;ay they are changed in u&s;e, becau&s;e being &s;e|parate from a common u&s;e, they are con&s;e|crate to &s;igne and &s;eale to us our &s;pirituall nouri&s;hment and growth, by the body and bloud of Chri&s;t Je&s;us.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 22.19. 1 Cor. 10.3, 4.</NOTE> Therefore the bread and wine are not phy&s;ically the true body &amp; bloud of Chri&s;t, but the &s;ignes &amp; tokens of them, as in Bapti&s;me, water is only a &s;ign of Chri&s;ts blood, not his bloud.</P>
<P><HI>What are the &s;peciall ends and u&s;es for which it was ordained?</HI> <MILESTONE UNIT="The u&s;e."></P>
<P N="1">1 To call to minde the memory and ver|tue of Chri&s;ts death.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor 11.24.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 To confirme our faith, to increa&s;e our love to God, our joy in the holy Gho&s;t, peace of con&s;cience, hope of eternall life,
<PB N="91" REF="47">and other Gods graces in us.</P>
<P N="3">3 To quicken our hearts to all holy du|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ies, or thankefulne&s;&s;e to God, for his mercyes in Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</P>
<P N="4">4 To keepe us in obedience to God: and to unite us in Communion with Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>How are we to prepare our &s;elves before we receive it?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Preparati|on. 1 Cor. 10.15.11.28.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1 By due tryall of our &s;oules, whether we be fit partakers of &s;o great a my&s;tery, and fitting our hearts thereto.</P>
<P N="2">2 By examining our knowledge in it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 4.11. 1 Cor. 10.3. 2 Cor. 13.5. Heb. 10.22 1 Cor. 16.14.</NOTE> and our need of it.</P>
<P N="3">3 By examining our faith, and by true repentance, and a true love of God, <HI>Zach.</HI> 12.10.</P>
<P N="4">4 By freeing our hearts from malice.</P>
<P N="5">5 By invocation for a ble&s;&s;ing upon it.</P>
<P><HI>What is to be done in the pre&s;ent action?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 VVe mu&s;t u&s;e a reverend ge&s;ture, and attention.</P>
<P N="2">2 VVe mu&s;t receive it with hearts ele|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ated to God.</P>
<P N="3">3 VVe mu&s;t u&s;e than&s;giving,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 12.1.</NOTE> offering our hearts and &s;oules to God.</P>
<P><HI>What after the action?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 We mu&s;t pray&s;e the Lord for &s;o great a benefit.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="92" REF="48">2 And pray for his grace to keep us from new &s;ins, and that we returne not to the old.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat are Cen&s;ures?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Cen&s;ures.</NOTE></P>
<P>The judgement of the Church, ratifying the threats of the Go&s;pel for abu&s;e of the word and Sacraments.</P>
<P N="1">1 By admonition of tho&s;e that &s;in openly.</P>
<P N="2">2 By &s;u&s;pen&s;ion of them from &s;ome exer|ci&s;e of Religion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. 18.15. &amp;c.</NOTE> as Sacraments.</P>
<P N="3">3 If they amend not, to cut them off from the Church, by excommunication, and de|livering them to Satan.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is meant by the la&s;t Judgment?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The la&s;t Judg|ment.</NOTE></P>
<P>The pronouncing, and executing the ir|revocable &s;entence of ab&s;olution, or con|demnation.</P>
<P N="1">1 Partly upon every man in particular,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 9.21.</NOTE> at the houre of his death.</P>
<P N="2">2 Fully and generally upon all men,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 17.31.</NOTE> at the &s;econd comming of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>How are men judged at the houre of death?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 God at that in&s;tant,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 9.27.</NOTE> pronounceth, and the con&s;cience apprehendeth the &s;entence of ble&s;&s;ing or cur&s;ing.</P>
<P N="2">2 The &s;oule is by the power of God and mini&s;tery,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 16.22, 23, 26. Ecl. 11.3.</NOTE> of Angels, immediatly conveigh|ed into the &s;tate of happines or mi&s;ery, to
<PB N="93" REF="48">remaine till the re&s;urrection, and thence|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">orth both &s;oule and body for ever.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat is the generall and finall Judgement?</HI></P>
<P>The generall A&s;&s;i&s;e of the whole World, wherein all mens lives that ever were, are <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r &s;halbe, being duely examined, every one <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hall receive according to his workes.</P>
<P N="1">1 The wicked &s;halbe condemned for the merit of their Workes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 6.23.</NOTE></P>
<P N="2">2 The Godly &s;halbe pronounced ju&s;t, be|cau&s;e their Workes (though imperfect) doe prove their faith (by which they lay hold on Chri&s;t and his righteou&s;nes) to be a true faith, as working by love,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ja. 2.18. Gal. 5.6.</NOTE> in all parts of obedience.</P>
<P><HI>What &s;halbe the e&s;tate of the Reprobates in Hell?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Everla&s;ting torments of body, and angui&s;h of &s;oule. 2.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 2.9. Mr. 8.12.13.42. E&s;a. 66.24.</NOTE> Expul&s;ion from the fa|vourable pre&s;ence of God, and the glorious fellow&s;hip of Chri&s;t and his Saints. 3. Utter darknes in that horrible dungeon. 4. VVee|ping and gna&s;hing of teeth. 6. VVith the worme that never dieth, and the fire that never goeth out.</P>
<P><HI>VVhat &s;halbe the e&s;tate of the elect in Hea|ven?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 Everla&s;ting ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e and glory in<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 2.9.</NOTE>
<PB N="94" REF="49">&s;oule and body.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 13.12. P&s;. 16.11. Rev. 3.21. 2 Tim. 4.8 1 Th. 4.17. Heb. 12.22.</NOTE> 2. Freedome from all infir|mities and imperfections. 3. They &s;halbe endued with perfect wi&s;dome and holines. 4. and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with all plea&s;ures at the right hand of God. 5. Seated in Thrones of Maje&s;tie. 6. Crowned with Crownes of glory. 7. Filled with the glorious pre&s;ence of God, and the Lamb Chri&s;t Je&s;us. 8. In the company of innumerable Angels, and holy Saints.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15.24.28.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>What &s;hall follow?</HI></P>
<P>Chri&s;t, &s;hall deliver up that di&s;pen&s;atory kingdom (which he received for the &s;ubdu|ing of his enemies, and accompli&s;hing the &s;alvation of his Church unto God the Fa|ther, and God &s;halbe all in all for eternity.</P>
<P>Seing then all the&s;e things mu&s;t be di&s;&s;ol|ved,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 3.11.14.</NOTE> what manner of per&s;ons ought we to be? Let us give diligence, that we may be found of him in peace, without &s;pot and blamele&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Ble&s;&s;ed is the man whom the Lord &s;hall find prepared for his comming,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 12.43. Mt. 25.21.</NOTE> for he &s;hall &s;ay to him. VVell done good and faith|full &s;ervant, enter into thy Ma|&s;ters Joy.</P>
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