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RELIGION.
VVithout the knowledge whereof none may preſume to come to the Lords Table here or expect to communicate with him in glory hereafter.
Collected out of a more copious Cate
a larger Treatiſe.
HEB. 5.12.When for the time ye ought to be Teachers, yee haue need that one teach you againe, which be the firſt Principles of the O
racles of God, and are become ſuch as haue need of milk, and not of ſtrong meate.
LONDON, Printed by WILLIAM IONES, and are to be ſolde by Francis Coules dwelling in the Old Bayly, neere to Newgate, 1630.
Theſe words which I command thee this day ſhall be in thine heart: and thou ſhalt teach them diligently unto thy chil
dren, and ſhalt talke of them when thou ſitteſt in thine houſe, and when thou wal keſt by the way, and when thou lyeſt downe, and when thou riſeſt vp. Deut.6.6, 7.
Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready alwayes to giue an anſwer to every man that asketh you a reaſon of of the hope that is in you, with meeke
neſſe and feare. 1 Pet.3.15.
OF what Religion are you?
Of the Chriſtian Religion.
Q. What Religion is that?
A.
Q. Where is this Religion taught?
A. In the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Teſtament.
Q. What may wee learne out of the Scriptures?
A. Two things:
Q. What are wee taught concerning God?
A. That there are thrée Perſons,
Q. What are we taught concer
A. That Man and Woman bein
Q. What is then the eſtate of every naturall man?
A. Very miſerable, and in no wiſe to be reſted in.
Q. What maketh his eſtate ſo bad?
A. Two things: Sinne and the pu
Q. What call you Sinne?
A. Euery breach of Gods Law.
Q. How doth man breake the Law of God?
A. By doing things forbidden, lea
Q. What is the puniſhment of ſinne?
A. All miſeries in this life, death in the end, and hell euer after.
Q. Is ſinne ſuch a grieuous thing?
A. Yea, it is the moſt hainous and loathſome thing in the world.
Q. How appeareth that?
A. Both by the puniſhment, and by the perſon againſt whom it is committed.
Q. Who is that?
A. Almighty God, whoſe Holineſſe,
Q. What ſhall a man doe in that wofull eſtate?
A. Bewaile his miſery,
Q. Is he able of himſelfe to doe this?
A. No: and beſides he hath thrée ene
Q. Where ſhall a man finde help?
A. Onely in Ieſus Chriſt,
Q. What hath he done to deliuer man out of miſery?
A. He became man and in our nature fully ſatiſfied the Law & Iuſtice of God.
Q How hath he done this?
A By bearing for vs the puniſhment which the Law threatneth;
Q How did Chriſt beare the puniſhment due to ſinne by the Law?
A By enduring manifold miſeries all his life time, and in the end the wrath of God, and the curſed death of the Croſſe.
Q. How did he worke the righteouſneſſe requyred by the Law?
A. By being obedient to the will of God,
Q. What benefit haue we by Chriſt his death and ſufferings?
A. Deliuerance from ſinne, and the puniſhment thereof.
Q. And why by his righteouſneſſe and obedience?
A. The fauour of God, and everlaſt
Q. How may we obtaine theſe benefits by Chriſt?
A. Onely by true faith in him.
Q. What is a true Faith in Chriſt?
A. It is a beliefe of the Goſpell, wher
Q. Is it in our power to beleeue?
A. No: it is the gift of God, by the working of the Spirit, throgh the preach
Q. Shall all beleevers haue benefit by Chriſts death?
A. All that truely beléeue ſhall: but there is a dead faith that profiteth no thing.
Q. How is the true faith perceived?
A. By the fruits thereof,
Q. Why ſo?
A. Becauſe whereſoeuer Gods Spi
Q. What is repentance?
A. Such a change of the heart,
Q. Whence commeth this change?
A. Eſpecially from the ſight and feel
Q. From what is the heart changed?
A. From the loue of the world to the loue of God:
Q. What is the change called?
A. It is called in Scripture a new creature.
Q. How doth it appeare?
A. When in word and déed wée en
Q. Is this change of heart and minde perfect in any?
A. No: we beléeue not perfectly,
Q How muſt we ſtriue?
A By a diligent vſe of the mea
Q. What are the publike meanes?
A. They are chiefly thrée: hearing the word,
Q What are the Sacraments?
A Certaine outward ſignes and ſeale appointed of God, to aſſure vs yt Chriſt and all his benefits are giuen to vs.
Q How many Sacraments are there?
A Two, Baptiſme, and the Lords Supper.
Q What doth Baptiſme aſſure vs of?
A That being ingrafted into Chriſt; wée are waſhed from our ſinnes in his blood,
Q What doth the Lords Supper aſſure vs of?
A It doeth further warrant vs that Chriſt is giuen to vs to be our ſpirituall nouriſhment to euerlaſting life.
Q Who maketh the right vſe of the Sacraments?
A He that is thereby daily confirmed in faith and newnes of life.
Q Who obtaine this benefit by the Lords Supper?
A Such as come with knowledge,
Q. What is Prayer?
A. Acrauing of thoſe things at Gods hands which wée want,
Q. When doe men pray a right?
A When they pray onely to God,
Q. What be the private meanes?
A. Reading and praying both alone,
Q What will the right vſe of all theſe meanes work in Gods children?
A A moſt happy and comfortable change, from that which they were be
Q What becommeth of them after this life?
A The ſoule goeth immediately into the Paradiſe of God, and the body ſhall be raiſed vp at the laſt day,
Q. What is the portion of all
A. They are in a moſt curſed condi
2 Tim.2.7.Conſider what I ſay, and the Lord give thee underſtanding in all things.
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