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A SHORT CATECHISM Composed By Mr. JAMES NOYES Late Teacher of the Church of Christ IN NEWBURY For the use of the Children there.
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Quest. HOw do the Scriptures prove themselves to be true?
Answ. By the holiness of the mat
Quest. What is the sum of the Scriptures?
Ans. A Doctrine of a godly life.
Qu. Whe
A. In the obedience of Faith.
Q. What is Faith?
A. Faith is an effectual assent to the Doctrine of the Scriptures, especial
Q. What doth the Scripture reveal concerning God?
A. His Nature and his Acts.
Q. What is revealed concerning his Nature?
A. His Essence and his Persons.
Q. How is the Essence of God made manifest?
A. By his Names and Attributes.
Q. What are his Attributes?
A. His Independency, Unity, Im
Q. How many Persons are there in the Godhead?
Qu. How many fold are the Acts of God?
Ans. Twofold: Eternal and Tem
Quest. What are the Eternal acts of God?
A. His Decrees.
Quest. How many fold are his Decrees?
Ans. Twofold: General and parti
Quest. What is the general Decree of God?
Ans. An Eternal act of God, whereby he did determine to make the World, and dispose of all things there
Qu. What are the particular Decrees of God?
A Election and Reprobation.
Q. Wha
A. An Eternal act of God where
Q. What is Reprobation?
A. An Eternal act of God,
What are the temporal acts of God?
A. Creation, Preservation, and Go
Q. How many fold is his Government?
A. Twofold: general and special.
Q. What is the general Government?
A. A temporal act of God, whereby he doth dispose of all Creatures accor
Q. What is the special Government of God?
A. A temporal act of God, where
Q. How many Covenants hath God made with man?
A. Two: the Covenant of the Law, and the Covenant of the Gospel.
Q. What is the Covenant of the Law?
A. A promise of life on perfect and personal obedience.
Q. What is the Covenant of the Gospel?
A. A promise of life upon Faith in Christ.
What is the occasion of the Covenant of the Gospel?
A. Adams sin.
Q. What is sin?
A. A breach of Gods Law.
Q. How many kinds of sin are there?
A. Two: Original and Actual.
Q. What is Original sin?
A A being contrary to Gods Law.
Q What is actual sin?
A. A doing contrary to Gods Law.
Q. What are the effects of sin?
A. Guilt and Punishment.
Q. What is guilt?
A. A liableness to punishment.
Q. What is punishment?
A. An infliction of evil for sin;
Q How may we escape Eternal death?
A. By the Covenant of the Gospel onely.
Q. Can we not escape death by the Covenant of the Law?
A. NoAdam we cannot do any good thing.
Can we perform the condition of the Covenant of the Gospel?
A. Yes: because God hath shewed us in his Scriptures, that he will help us through Faith in Christ to perform the condition of it.
Q. What is Christ?
A. The Eternal Son of God, and both God and Man.
Q. What are we to consider in Jesus Christ?
A. His Natures, his personal Union, and his Offices.
Q How many Natures hath Christ?
A. Two: the Nature of God, and Nature of Man; otherwise called the Divine Nature, and Humane.
Q. What is the Personal Vnion of Christ?
A. The Subsistence of the Humane nature in the second Person of the Deity.
Q. What are the Offices of Christ?
A. His Mediatorship, Kingship, Priesthood, and Prophetship.
Q. What is the work of Christs Office?
A. Redemption.
Q. What is Redemption?
A. A deliverance of the Elect from
Q. How many fold is Christs obedience?
A. Twofold: active and Passive.
Q. What is his active Obedience?
A. A doing the Will of God.
Q. What is his passive Obedience?
A. His suffering the Will of God,
Q. What is the application of Redemption?
A. A giving of the Spirit,
Q. What are the graces of the Spirit?
A. Vocation, Justification, Adopti
Q. What is Vocation?
A. A grace of the Spirit,
Q. What is Faith?
A. A sight of the grace of the Gospel,
Or else a belief that God will pardon our sins in the way of Repentance for Christs sake.
Q. What is repentance?
A. An overcoming purpose to for
Q. What is Justification?
A. A grace of the Spirit, whereby God doth accept and pronounce all those that are called,
Q. What is adoption?
A A grace of the Spirit, whereby God doth accept and pronounce all those that are called, to be his children, and heirs unto eternal life.
Q. What is Glorification?
A. A grace of the Spirit, whereby God doth translate a man out of the misery of sin into blessedness.
Q. How is the application of Redemption made known?
A. By the experiencing of the graces of the Spirit, and by the witness of the Spirit helping us to discern the truth of them.
Q. What is the subject of Redemption?
A. The Church.
Q. What are the means of applying Redemption?
A. They are especially publick Mi
What are the Ministerial acts?
A. Preaching of the Word, Prayer,
Qu. What is a Sacrament?
A. A visible sign instituted by God for the confirmation of the Covenant.
Qu. How many Sacraments are there?
A. Two: Baptism, and the Lords Supper.
Qu. What is the thing signifying in Baptism?
A Water, & the washing with water.
Qu. What is the thing signified.
A. The blood of Christ washing a
Qu. What is the thing signifying in the Lords Supper?
A. The Bread and Wine: the Bread broken, the Wine poured out, the giving and receiving of it.
Qu. What is the thing signified in the Lords Supper?
A. The Body of Christ broken on the Cross, his Blood shed for our sins,
What is Discipline?
A ▪
A Correction of scandalous pro
Q What is the season of attending the publick Ministry?
A. Especially on the first day of the week, or Lords-day.
Q. When is R
A. In the Resurrection at the last Judgement, at the second Coming of Christ.
Q. How many Commandments are there?
A. Ten.
Q. Into how many Tables are the Commandments divided?
A. Into two Tables.
Q. What doth the first Table contain?
A. Our Duties towards God, or Duties of Religious Worship, in the four first Commandments.
Q. What doth the second Table contain?
A. Our Duties towards the Crea
Q. What is contained in the first Commandment?
Qu. What is Hope?
A. A cleaving to God as our chiefest good for blessedness.
Qu. What is love?
A. A cleaving to God as the chiefest good
Qu. What is Fear?
A. An admiring and adoring of Gods Holiness, and all his Perfections.
Qu. What is contained in the second Commandment?
A. Instituted Worship in Ministry,
Qu. What is contained in the third Commandment?
A. A due manner of Worship,
Qu. What is contained in the fourth Commandment?
A. The due time of Worship,
Qu. What is contained in the fifth Commandment?
A. A due respect to the good name
Qu. What is humility?
Qu. What is gratitude?
Qu. What is obedience?
Qu. What is contained in the sixth Commandment?
A. A due respect to the life of our Neighbour, in goodness, mercy, meek
Qu. What is goodness?
Qu. What is mercy?
A. A grace which disposeth us to re
Qu. What is meekness?
Qu. What is patience?
What is contained in the seventh Commandment?
A. A due respect to the purity of our Neighbour, in temperance, chastity, modesty, gravity.
Qu. What is temperance?
A. A grace which moderateth affe
Qu. What is chastity?
A. A grace which regulateth the lusts of the flesh.
Qu. What is modesty?
A. A grace which restraineth us from wantonness.
Qu. What is gravity?
A. A grace which inclineth us to pu
Qu. What is contained in the eighth Commandment?
A. A due respect to the goods
Qu. What is righteousness?
A. A grace which inclineth us to give all men their due.
Qu. What is liberality?
A. A grace which inclineth us to com
What is frugality?
Qu. What is contained in the ninth Commandment?
A. A due respect to the innocency of our Neighbour, in verity and fidelity.
Qu. What is verity?
Qu. What is fidelity?
Qu. What is contained in the tenth Commandment?
Qu. What is Contentation?