Question, WHat Religion are you of?

Answer Christian Religion.

Question, How is that distinguish­ed from others?

Answer, I received the sign of it in ^a Baptisme, when I had clean ^b water sprinkled up­on me, wherby I was distinguished from the Heathen, and made visibly holy by the professed Faith of my Parents.

Question. What doth Baptisme teach you?

[Page] Answer, It teacheth me three things; First, That I should repent, and forsake the devill and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh. Matth. 3. 11. Mark 1. 4.

Secondly, That I should beleeve all things written in the Word of God. Mark 16. 16.

And Thirdly, that I should keep Gods holy will and Commandments, & walk in the same all the days of my life. Rom. 6. 4. Question.

Doest thou not think that thou art bound to beleeve and to do what thou art thus taught by Baptisme?

Answer, Yes Verily, and by Gods helpe so I will, and I heartily thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this state of salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour. And I pray God to give me his grace, that I may continue in the same unto my lives end. Heb. 6. 1, 2.

[Page] Question. Rehearse the Articles of thy Beleef.

Answer. I ^a beleeve in God the ^b Father ^c Al­mighty ^d maker of Heaven and Earth: And ^e in Jesus Christ ^f his onely Son our Lord, ^g which was conceived by the holy Ghost, ^h born of the Virgin Mary, ⁱ suffered under Pontius Pilate: Was crucified, dead and buried: ^k The third day he rose again from the dead: ^l Hee ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Al­mighty: from thence he shal come to judge the quicke and the dead. ^m I be­leeve in the holy Ghost: ⁿ The holy Catholick Church. ^o The communion of Saints: ^p The forgivenesse of sins: ^q the resurrection of the body: ^r and the life everlasting. Amen.

[Page] Question.

What doest thou cheifly learn in the Articles of thy Beleefe?

Answer. First, I learn to beleeve in God the Father, who hath made me and all the world.

Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind that be­leeve.

Thirdly, In God the holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, and all the Elect people of God.

Question. You said that Baptisme doth teach you that you should keep Gods Com­mandments: tel me how many there be.

Answer. Ten.

Question. Which be they?

Answer. THe same which God spake in the xx chapter of Exodus, saying; I am the Lord thy God, which hath [Page] brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me.

2. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image, nor the likenesse of any thing that is in Heaven above, or in the Earth beneath, or in the Water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow downe to them nor worship them: For I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children, unto the third and fourth ge­neration of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandements.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: For the Lord wil not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vain.

4. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Six dayes shalt thou labor, and do all that thou hast to do: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, In it thou shalt do [Page] no manner of work, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: Wherfore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.

5. Honor thy Father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt do no murther.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy Neighbour.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy Neigh­bours house, thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his oxe, nor his asse, nor any thing that is his.

Question. What doest thou cheifly learne by these Commandements?

[Page] Answer. I learn two things: my duty towards God: & my duty towards my neighbor.

Question. What is thy duty towards God?

Answer. My duty towards God is ^a to beleeve in him, ^b to fear him, and ^c to love him with all my heart, with all my minde, with all my soule, and with all my strength, to ^d worship him, to ^e give him thanks, to ^f put my whole trust in him, to ^g call upon him, to honor his holy Name and his Word, and to ^h serve him truly all the daies of my life.

Question. What is thy duty towards thy neigh­bor?

Answer. My duty to my neighbor is ^a to love him as my selfe, and ^b to doe unto all men, as I would they should doe unto me, to ^c love, honor, and succour my [Page] Father and Mother, To ^d submit my selfe to them that have authority over me, ^e To obey spirituall Pastors and Teachers, ^f To order my self lowly, and reverendly to all my betters, ^g To hurt no body by word or deed, ^h To be true and just in all my dealings, ⁱ To bear no malice, nor hatred in my heart, ^k To keep my hands from picking and steal­ing, ^l my tongue from evil speaking, ^m lying and ⁿ slandering, To keep my body in ^o temperance, ^p sobernesse, and ^q chastity, ^r not to covet nor desire other mens goods ^ſ but to learn and labor tru­ly to get my own living and ^t to do my duty in that state of life unto the which it shall please God to call me.

Question. My good friend know this, that thou [Page] art not able to doe these things of thy selfe; nor to walke in the Commande­ments of God, and to serve him without his special grace, which thou must learn at all times to cal for by diligent prayer.

Let me heare therefore if thou canst say the Lords Prayer.

Answer. Our Father which art in heaven, hal­lowed be thy Name: Thy Kingdome come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven: give us this day our daily bread: And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that tres­passe against us: And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill. Amen.

Question. What desirest thou of God in this Prayer.

Answer. I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father, who is the giver of all goodness, to send his grace unto me, and to all people: that we may worship him, serve [Page] him, and obey him, as we ought to doe. And I pray unto God, that he will send us all things that be needfull both for our souls and bodies, and that he will be merciful unto us, and forgive us our sins: and that it wil please him to save us and defend us from all dangers ghostly and bodily: and that he wil keep us from all sin and wickednesse, and from our ghostly enemy, and from everlasting death. And this I trust he wil doe of his mercy and goodnesse, through our Lord Jesus Christ: And therefore I say Amen. So be it.

Question. How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church?

Answer. Two only as generally necessary to sal­vation, that is to say, Baptisme and the Lords Supper, 1 Cor. 10. 2, 3.

Question. What meanest thou by this word Sa­crament?

Answer. I mean an outward and visible sign of an [Page] inward and spirituall grace given unto us, ordained by Christ himselfe, as a means whereby wee receive the same, and as a pledge to assure us thereof, Rom. 4.

Question. How many parts be there in a Sacra­ment?

Answer. Two the outward visible sign, and the inward spirituall grace.

Question. What is the outward visible sign or form in baptism?

Answer. ^a Water wherein the person baptized is dipped, or sprinkled with it, ^b in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghost.

Question. What is the inward and spiritual grace.

Answer. A death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousnesse, for being by nature born [Page] in sin, and the children of wrath, we are hereby made the children of grace, Ro. 6.

Question. What is required of persons to bee baptized?

Answer. ^a Repentance whereby they forsake sin, and ^b faith, whereby they stedfastly be­leeve the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament,

Question. Why then are Infants baptized, when by reason of their tender age they can­not perform them?

Answer. ^a The Parents being visible beleevers their Infant children have a right to water Baptisme, by vertue of the pro­mise to beleevers and their children un­der the Gospell, as the male children had to Circumcision under the Law.

Question. Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained?

[Page] Answer. For the continuall remembrace of the Sacrifice of the death of Christ, and the benefits which wee receive thereby, 1 Cor. 11. 26.

Question. What is the outward part or sign of the Lords Supper?

Answer. Bread and Wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received, 1 Cor. 11. 23, 24, 25.

Question. What is the inward part or thing sig­nified?

Answer. The body and blood of Christ, which are verily and indeed taken and received of the faithfull in the Lords Supper, John 6. 55.

Question, What are the benefits whereof we are partakers thereby?

Answer, The strengthening and refreshing of [Page] our soules to eternal life, by the body and blood of Christ, as our bodies are to a temporal life, by the bread & wine. John 6. 56, 57. 58.

Question, What is required of them that come to the Lords Supper?

Answer, ^a To examine themselves, whether they repent them truely of their former sins, stedfastly purposing to lead a new life, have a lively Faith in Gods mercy through Christ, with a thankfull re­membrance of his death, and be in cha­rity with all men, ^b And to have fellow­ship with the Saints in Church Com­munion.