A cleare forme of catechising, before the giving of the sacrament of the Lords Supper to this are subjoined two compends of the catechisme, fit for little children ... / by M. Zacharie Boyd ...

Of the dueties which man owe to GOD for his Redemption.

The twelfth Sunday.

Q. WHat owe we to God for so great a Salvation?

A. We owe to him service.

Q. How many parts are they of God's service?

A. Foure, faith, obedience, prayer, and thanks.

Q. What is faith?

A. It is an assured knowledge of Gods mercy in Christ, parti∣cularly apprehended by these whom God hath elected to sal∣vation.

Q. Is not Sathan said to beleeve?

A. He hath knowledge, but not that assurance which is the life of faith.

Q. Thou understandest that Sa∣than knoweth that God is infinite in mercy, but that he hath no assurance of any mercy for himselfe?

A. I understand so.

Q. Who worketh this true faith in our hearts?

A. The holy spirit.

Q. By what meanes worketh he the same?

A. By the preaching of the Word.

Q. Is our faith perfect?

A. As long as we are here we must pray God to increase our faith.

The thirteenth Sunday.

Q. BY what meanes is our faith strengthned?

A. By the continued hear∣ing of the word, by earnest pray∣er, by receiving of the Sacraments, and by a good life.

Q Wherefore are we said to be justified by faith?

A. Because by faith we appre∣hend Christ, and all his merites, whereby wee appeare just in Gods presence.

Q. Is not man justified by his good works?

A. Before men he may be, but not before God.

Q. Wherefore not before God?

A. Because God hath denoun∣ced a curse against him that fulfil∣leth not perfectly the whole law.

Q. Can not a man perfectly ful∣fill the law of God?

A. No, not.

Q. How provest thou that?

A. Because there is no man but he sinneth, and sin is the trans∣gression of the law.

Q. Thou beleevest that it is Christ onely, who by his works and sufferings hath made full satisfaction for all the faithfull?

A. I beleeve so.

The fourteenth Sunday.

Q. MAY not a man bee saved without Faith?

A. There is no salva∣tion without faith.

Q. Give a reason wherefore not.

A. Because without faith it is impossible to please God.

Q. Where is the summe of our faith to be found?

A. In the Creede.

Q. Into how many parts may the Creede be divided?

A. Into four parts.

Q. What doeth the first part containe?

A. Concerning God the Fa∣ther, and our Creation.

Q. What doeth the second part containe?

A. Concerning God the Son, and our Redemption.

Q. What is in the third part?

A. Concerning the holy Ghost and our sanctification.

Q What doth the fourth and last part of our Creed containe?

A. Concerning Gods Church, and his gifts bestowed upon her.

The fifeteenth Sunday.

Q. WHat have we in the Creed concerning God the Father?

A. Three things, his name, his attribute, his work.

Q. What is his name?

A. He is called Father.

Q. Whose Father is he?

A. He is Christs and ours.

Q. How is he Christs Father?

A. By generation he hath be∣gotten him from all eternitie.

Q. How is he our Father?

A. By adoption especially.

Q. What callest thou Ado∣ption?

A. That is, God of his free mer∣cy and grace hath chosen us to be his heires in Christ.

Q. What is the Fathers attri∣bute?

A. Almighty.

Q. What understandest thou by the word Almightie?

A. That he hath all power to doe what he pleaseth in Heaven, and in earth.

Q. What is his worke?

A. Hee hath created the Hea∣vens and the earth, that is, by his infinite power hath made them all of nothing.

Q. What doth he now to these things which he hath created?

A. Hee still upholdeth and governeth them by his provi∣dence.

The sixteenth Sunday.

Q. WHat have wee in the Creede concerning God the Sonne.

A. Four chief things.

Q. What bee these?

A. His titles, his incarnation, his passion, and his exaltation.

Q. What are his titles?

A. They are foure, to wit, Jesus, Christ, his Son, our Lord.

Q. What callest thou his incar∣nation?

A. He was incarnate when the word was made flesh.

Q. How many things hast thou to consider concerning his incarna∣tion?

A. Three chiefly, the personall union, the sanctification of that masse, whereof Christs body was made, and the efficient cause that wrought that work.

Q. Wherein did that personall u∣nion consist?

A. In the joining of the divine and humane nature together in one person.

The seventeenth Sunday.

Q. HOw many natures are they in Christ Iesus?

A. Two: the Divine and the humane nature, Christ God and man.

Q. Is not Christ God and man two persons?

A. No, not; but the two natures are joined into one person.

Q. How was this great worke wrought?

A. By the unspeakable power of the holy Ghost.

Q. What sayest thou of Christs birth?

A. Hee was borne of the Vir∣gine Mary.

Q. Wherefore behooved it him to be borne of a Virgine?

A. That hee might be concei∣ved without sin, and so might bee a perfect Saviour.

Q. Hast thou no other reason?

A. It was so foretold, that the

seede of the woman; and not of the man, should tread down the head of the Serpent.

The eighteene Sunday.

Q. I have heard of Christ's titles, and of his incarnation, now let me heare what befell un¦to him after his birth?

A. He was first humbled, and thereafter exalted.

Q. How many parts are they of his humiliation?

A. Foure.

Q. What was the first?

A. He suffered many sorrowes.

Q. What was the second?

A. He died on the cursed tree of the crosse.

Q. What was the third?

A. He was buried.

Q. What was the fourth?

A. He descend unto hell.

Q. What sorrowes suffered he?

A. Hunger and thirst and wea∣rynesse,

revilings, scornings, and fearfull persecution.

Q. Wherefore dyed he?

A. For our sins.

Q. Might not satisfaction be made without death?

A. No, not,

Q. What is the reason?

A. Because the wages of sinne is death.

Q. What sort of death dyed he?

A. The cursed death of the Crosse.

Q. Wherefore was the death of the Crosse more cursed then any other death?

Q. Because GOD had said, cur∣sed be that hangeth on a tree.

A. Wherefore was that hanging called cursed?

A. Not for the punishment it selfe, but for sinne the cause of that punishment.

Q. For what other reasons was that death called cursed?

A. There be two other reasons.

Q. What is the first reason?

A. It was called cursed, be∣cause of the excessive paine and shame that was in that death.

Q. What is the other reason?

A. Because by that death God in manner of a Prophesie did de∣signe Christ, who by dying on a tree should redeeme us from the curse of the law.

Q. What needed Christ to be buried?

A. For to assure the world of his death.

Q. What is that to say, that he descended into hell?

A. That is, he suffered in his soule unspeakeable torments for our sinnes.

Q. When chiefly suffered he these paines?

A. When he cryed, My God, my God, why hast thou forsa∣ken me?

The ninteene Sunday.

Q. FRom Christs humiliation let us come to his exaltati¦on: How many degrees are they of his exaltation?

A. Three; first his resurrecti∣on, Secondly his ascension; Third∣ly his sitting at the right hand of God the Father.

Q. Wherefore did Christ rise a∣gaine from the dead?

A. For to show that he had o∣vercome death.

Q. What other reason is there of his resurrection?

A. Hee being God and man in one person, could not be holden of death.

Q. For what other cause arose He?

A. As He died for our sinnes, so Hee arose for our righteous∣nesse.

Q. Wherefore was Christ said to arise for our righteousnesse?

A. Because by his resurre∣ction he did evidently declare, that he had by his death pur∣chased righteousnesse to our Soules.

Q. What comfort hast thou of Christs resurrection?

A. That my dead body and all the dead bodies of the faith∣full shall likewise arise at the last day.

Q. What ground hast thou of that comfort?

A. Because Christ who is risen is the head, and wee who are the members must follow the head.

The twentie Sunday.

Q. WEE have heard of Christs resurrection, the first degree of his exaltation; what is the second?

A. His ascension into heaven.

Q. By what power was that done?

A. By the might and power of his Godhead.

Q. Is not his body on earth any more?

A. No, not.

Q. But he hath said, that he will be with his Church unto the end of the world?

A. That is to be understood of the presence of his Spirit.

Q. But how can his manhood be seperate from his Godhead?

A. They are no more seperate then the sun and his beames.

Q. Make that more cleare?

A. The body of the sun is on¦ly in the heavens, but his beames do descend unto the Earth; So Christ man is onely in the heavens, but his Godhead filleth both hea∣ven and Earth.

Q. What comfort hast thou of Christs ascension?

A. Hee is gone up for to pre∣pare a roome for his Saints.

Q. How knowest thou that?

A. Hee hath said, I goe to pre∣pare a place for you, and I will come againe, and receive you unto my self, that where I am, there yee may bee also, Iohn 14.3.

The twentie one Sunday.

Q. WHAT is the third degree of his exalta∣tion?

A. He sitteth at the right hand of God the Father.

Q. Hath God a right hand or a left?

A. No, not; for GOD is a Spirit.

Q. What then, is that to sit at Gods right hand?

A. It is a forme of speach bor∣rowed from Princes, whose cu∣stome is to place at their right

hand these whom they honour above others.

Q. What then is the meaning of these words, that Christ sitteth at the right hand of God?

A. That hee is in unspeakable dignitie and authoritie, having absolute power over all the cre∣atures.

Q. What is the Lord now doeing for us at the right hand of his Father?

A. Hee is interceeding for us, that is, making request and intrea∣tie in our behalf.

The twentie two Sunday.

Q. WHat is the manner of CHRISTS in∣tercession, while he is now in the Heavens?

A. He ascended up into hea∣ven, to appeare in the sight of God for us, Hebr. 9.24.

Q. How is that done?

A. By presenting his person and his passion before the face of God.

Q. Hovv then doth hee request for us?

A. By willing and desiring that his Father would accept his merits in our behalfe.

Q. Shall the Lords body for ever remaine in the heavens?

A. No, not, at the last day he shall come downe to judge the quicke and the dead.

Q. Hovv shall the judge come dovvne?

A. He shall descend with a shout with the voice of the Archangel, and with the Trumpet of God in unspeakable glory.

Q. What honour shall the god∣ly have that day?

A. They shall all sit downe u∣pon Thrones at Christs right hand.

Q. What shall they doe upon these Thrones?

A. They shall judge the world, 1 Cor. 6.2.

Q. But shall not Christ himselfe that day be the onely judge?

A. Hee shall bee so, but his Saints shall sit as assessours, for to approve his judgement.

Q. Where shall the wicked then be?

A. At Christs left hand.

Q. What understand yee by his left hand?

A. As to bee at his right hand is understood to bee in dignitie, so to bee at his left, is understood to be in shame and ignominie.

Q. What shall the judge say unto the godly at his right hand?

A. Come yee blessed of my Father, and receive a kingdome.

Q. What shall he say to the wick∣ed at his left hand?

A. Depart from me to hell fire, with the Divel and his angels.

The twentie third Sunday.

Q. WEE have heard of the first two parts of the Creede to wit, of the Father and of the Sonne: what is con∣tained in the third part?

A. That which concerneth the holy Ghost, the third person of the Trinitie.

Q. Wherefore callest thou him holy?

A. Both for his nature and his office.

Q. Wherefore is he called holy for his nature?

A. Because hee is holy in him∣self, yea, holinesse it self.

Q. Wherefore is he called holy for his office?

A. Because by his operation he maketh all the faithfull holy.

Q. What be the chiefe fruits of the holy Ghost?

A. Faith, love, joy, gentlenesse, meeknesse, temperance, peace and patience &c.

The twentie foure Sunday.

Q. WHat is contained in the fourth part of the Creed?

A. That which concern∣eth the Church.

Q. What is the Churche?

A. A companie of these whom GOD by his Spirit hath sanctified.

Q. What are the qualities of the Church?

A. It is holy and catholicke.

Q. Wherefore callest thou it holy?

A. Because Gods children on earth are holy in part, and in hea∣ven are perfectly holy.

Q. Wherefore callest thou it Ca∣tholicke?

Q. Because it is universall, and reacheth unto all nations, to all times, sexe and age.

Q. How many parts hath the Catholicke Church?

A. Two, the Church trium∣phant in heaven, and the Church militant on earth.

Q. Whom callest thou the Church triumphant?

A. These who in the spirituall warfare have overcome the De∣vill, the World, and the flesh.

Q. Whom callest thou the Church militant?

A. These who are yet on earth fighting against the enemies of their salvation.

The twentie five Sunday.

Q. WHat are the chief pre∣rogatives of the kirk?

A. These four, the com∣munion of Saints, the forgivenesse of sins, the resurrection of the bo∣dy, and life everlasting.

Q. What is that communion of Saints?

A. It is that love and fellow∣ship which the children of God have with Christ, and among themselves.

Q. Who are these Saints?

A. The Faithfull on the earth and the Souls of the Faithfull now in heaven.

Q. Wherefore are they called Saints?

A. Because they have beene sanctified by the holy Spirit.

Q. What is the second benefite belonging to the Church?

A. The remission of sins.

Q. What call ye the remission of sins?

A. A free pardon, and forgive∣nesse of all our faults.

Q. Who hath procured this?

A. Christ Jesus by his death upon the crosse.

The twentie sixth Sunday.

Q. WHat is the third be∣nefite belonging to the church?

A. The resurrection of the body.

Q. What is the cause of the re∣surrection of the faithfull?

A. The resurrection of Christ.

Q. Is Christs resurrection the proper cause which effecteth the resurrection of the faithfull?

A. It is the true cause indeed.

Q. Give me the reason?

A. Christ is the head, and the godly are his members, which must follow their head.

Q. What then shall bee the cause of the resurrection of the Wicked? Shall they not rise by the vertue of CHRISTS resur∣rection?

A. No, not.

Q. By what power then shall they rise?

A. By the power of Christs justice, constraining them to come out of their graves.

Q. What is the last benefite that GOD shall bestow upon His Church?

A. Life everlasting.

Q. What a life shall that be?

A. A life perfectly happy in the heavens.

Q. What things shall wee enjoy in the heavens?

A. Fulnesse of joy, and plea∣sures for evermore.

The twentie seven Sunday.

Q. WE have heard of the first part of Gods service, which is to believe in God, Now let me hear what is the se∣cond part of Gods service.

A. It is to obey God.

Q. Where learne we what obedi∣ence we owe to God?

A. In Gods law, whereof the summe is the ten commandments.

Q. How are the ten commande∣ments divided?

A. Into two tables.

Q. How many commandements are there in the first table?

A. The first foure.

Q. How many in the second?

A. The last six.

Q. What is the summe of the first foure?

A. Our whole duetie towards our GOD.

Q. What is the summe of the last six?

A. Our whole duetie towards our neighbour.

The twentie eight Sunday.

Q. WHat is the first Com∣mandement?

A. Thou shalt have no other Gods before my face,

Q. What is there forbidden?

A. All atheisme, and giving of Gods honour to any thing be∣side God.

Q. What is there commanded?

A. The worship of the true God.

Q. What is the second comman∣dement?

A. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image, &c.

Q. What is there forbidden?

A. That we represent not God by any outward shape or figure.

Q Wherefore that?

A. Because God is invisible, and can not by any image be re∣presented truely.

Q. What difference is between the first commandement and the second?

A. In the first, the inward wor∣ship of GOD is commanded, in the second, the outward forme which is fittest for the worshipping of GOD is enjoyned.

Q. What is the third comman∣dement?

A. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy GOD in vaine.

Q. What is heere forbidden?

A. All blasphemies, all unre∣verent speakings, or thinking of God, or doing of his worship o∣therwise then he hath ordained.

Q. What is heere commanded?

A. That we both thinke and speake with all reverence of his titles, words and workes.

The twentie ninth Sunday.

Q. GOE to the fourth com¦mandement?

A. Remember thou keepe holy the Sabboth day, &c.

Q. What is heere commanded?

A. That we consecrate the se∣venth day unto his service.

Q. What is forbidden?

A. All worldly businesse, also all the words and thoughts which concerne the affaires of the earth.

Q. May we neither thinke nor speake of things concerning the earth on the Sabboth day?

A. No, not. As in that day we are forbidden to speake our own wordes; So also to thinke our owne thoughts.

Q. What signifieth the word Sabboth?

A. Sabboth day, that is a day of rest, or of ceasing, from worke.

Q. What callest thou to sancti¦fie the Sabboth?

A. It is to seperate it from com∣mon workes, such as pertaine to this naturall life, and consecrate it to God and to holy workes, such as concerne the spirituall life.

Q. What are the workes of the Sabboth day?

A. To preach the word, to heare it, to meditate, to confer, to visite the sicke, to give almes to the poore.

Q. What time must be obser∣ved in the observation of the Sabboth?

A. From evening to evening, said the Lord, you shalt celebrate your Sabboth. Levit. 23.32.

The thirtie Sunday.

Q. WHat is the fifth com∣mandement?

A. Honour thy Father and thy mother, &c.

Q. What is heere commanded?

A. That all inferiours reverence both in heart and outward gesture their Superiours, and that also Su∣periours, do their duty to their in∣feriours.

Q. What is heere forbidden?

A. All contemning of superiours, and all disdaining of inferiours, in thought, word, or worke.

Q. What is the sixt commande∣ment?

A. Thou shalt not murder.

Q. What is heere forbidden?

A. To hurt any way our neigh∣bours person.

Q. VVhat is heere commanded?

A. To do what we can for the preservation of the life of our neighbour.

Q▪ VVhat is the seventh com∣mandement?

A. Thou shalt not commit a∣dulterie.

Q. VVhat is heere forbidden?

A. All sortes of filthinesse, ei∣ther in thought, word, or work.

Q. VVhat is heere commanded?

A. That we keepe our vessels cleane in sanctification and ho∣nour.

The thirtie one Sunday.

Q. WHat is the eight com∣mandement?

A. Thou shalt not steale.

Q. VVhat is forbidden there?

A. To greedily cover, reave, seeke, or take by fraud that which is not our owne, or to spend our owne lavishly.

Q. VVhat is there commanded?

A. That we carefully keepe our neighbours goods, as though they were out owne, and also to

manage well that which GOD hath given us.

Q. What is the ninth comman¦dement?

A. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse.

Q. What is heere commanded?

A. To love the trueth, and to maintaine it.

Q. What is the tenth comman∣dement?

A. Thou shalt not cover thy neighbours house, nor his wife, &c.

Q. What is the summe thereof?

A. That we keepe our hearts from the least inclination to sinne.

Q What is heere forbidden, that was not forbidden in the other com∣mandements?

A. In the other commande∣ments, the stronger evill desires which are fostred with consent, are forbidden; but in this commande∣ment, the least evill thoughts is dis∣allowed,

though as soone as it in our heart, we abhorre it.

Q. Thou willest then that in the other commandements, these evill thoughts are forbidden which are en∣tertained and made welcome, but that in the tenth commandement, the least motion of the heart to sinne is forbidden, though it want a full con∣sent or likeing?

A. I understand so.

Q. What is the summe of the whole law?

A. That we love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soule, and with our whole strength, and that wee love our neighbour as our self.

The thirtie two Sunday.

Q. WEE have heard of faith and obedience the two first parts of Gods service: now let us heare what is the third part of Gods service?

A. To pray to God.

Q. What is prayer?

A. A putting up of our requests to God, in the name of his Sonne.

Q. For whose sake must we seeke from God, the things we stand in neede of?

A. For Christ Jesus his sake.

Q. May we not desire the Saints of heaven to pray for us?

A. There is but one Mediator Jesus Christ.

Q. Doe wee know how to pray as we should?

A. Not, but the Spirit of God who helpeth our infirmities, put∣teth good motions into our minde, and good words into our mouth.

Q. What is the best rule of prayer which we have?

A. That patterne of Christs, Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name, &c.

Q. How many parts are they in the Lords prayer?

A. Three; the preface, the pe∣titions, and the conclusion.

The thirtie three Sunday.

Q. WHat are the wordes of the preface?

A. Our Father which art in Heaven.

Q. What good learne we of these wordes?

A. To come with boldnesse to our GOD, because Hee is our Father, and also with great re∣spect, because hee is our heavenly Father.

Q. How many petitions are in the Lords prayer?

A. Six.

Q. How divide you these six pe∣titions?

A. The first three concerne GODS owne glory; the last three concerne our selves, and our neighbour.

Q. What is the first petition?

A. Hallowed bee thy Name.

Q. What is the meaning of these wordes?

A. That GOD may be knowne to be a holy GOD, and so may bee reverenced and worshipped by all his creatures.

Q. What is the second petition?

A. Thy kingdome come.

Q. What is the meaning thereof?

A. That Christ may both in∣wardly in our hearts, and out∣wardly among men rule and go∣verne, untill hee put all his ene∣mies under his feete.

Q. What is the third petition?

A. Thy will bee done in earth, as it is in Heaven.

Q. What is the meaning thereof?

A. That GOD bee obeyed as perfectly by his Saints on Earth, as by the Saints and Angels of Heaven.

The thirtie fourth Sunday.

Q. I have heard of the first three petitions which concerne God, now tell me what is the first of the three petitions which con∣cerne our selves and our neighbour?

A. The first of those three, is, Give us this day our dayly bread.

Q. What is the meaning thereof?

A. That GOD would give unto us the things of this world, as meat, drink, cloathing, honour, children, or any other worldly thing, so far as hee thinketh it ex∣pedient for his owne glory, and for our well.

Q▪ What is the second petition?

A. Forgive us our trespasses, as wee forgive them that trespasse against us.

Q. What is the meaning thereof?

A. That GOD in his mercy would most freely pardon our sins.

Q. Wherefore is this subjoyned as we forgive these that trespasse against us?

A. To teach us to be mercifull to these that offend us.

Q. What is the last petition?

A. And leade us not into tem∣ptation, but deliver us from evill.

Q. What is the meaning thereof?

A. That GOD deliver us from the snaires of the Devil, of the world, and of our owne corrupti∣ons, and from all other dangers whatsoever.

Q. What is the conclusion of that most perfect prayer?

A. For thine is the Kingdome, the Power, and the Glory, for ever.

Q. How many things are to be considered in these words?

A. Foure; first that God is a King; Secondly, that he is power∣full, Thirdly, that hee is glorious; Fourthly, that hee is eternall.

The thirtie five Sunday.

Q. WHat is the fourth and last part of GODS service?

A. To give God thanks for all his benefites.

Q. What thankes requireth God of us?

A. That we set foorth his glo∣ry with heart, tongue, and hand.

Q. How thank we GOD with our hearts?

A. When wee think honoura∣bly of him, and acknowledge his goodnesse.

Q. How thank we him with our tongues?

A. When our tongues are in∣struments of setting foorth his glory in godly words.

Q. How thank we God with our handes?

A. When the actions of our life are so holy, that these who see them, are moved to praise our hea∣venly Father.

Q. What is the summe of the whole Covenant betweene GOD and man?

A. That GOD shall bee a friend to man, and that man shall serve GOD, by believing in him, by obey∣ing him, by praying unto him, and by giving him thanks.

Q. Thou understandest heere the Covenant betweene God and man, is a mutuall promise betweene God and man, to wit, that God shall be a friend to man, and man shall be a faithfull servant unto God?

A. I understand so.

The thirtie six Sunday.

Q. WHat callest thou a Cove∣nant?

A. A league or agreement betweene two or more parties.

Q. What is the Covenant of God and man?

A. A league or agreement which God hath made with men for salvation.

Q. What other name hath this Covenant in Scriptures?

A. It is called a Testament.

Q. What is properly called a Te∣stament?

A. That which we commonly call a mans will and appointment, for the bestowing of his goods a∣mong his friends▪

Q. Wherefore is Gods Covenant called a Testament?

A. Because it was confirmed and ratified by the death of Christ who made the Covenant, and also because it containeth his last will written down.

Q. How many Covenants hath God made with man?

A. Two, the Covenant of workes, and the Covenant of grace.

Q. What callest thou the Cove∣nant of workes?

A. It was a league which God made with Adam and all his po∣steritie,

on condition of their per∣fect obedience.

Q. Did man keepe that Covenant?

A. No, not.

Q. Is he now able to keepe it?

A. No, not.

Q. Wherefore is it then delive∣red unto men in the Scriptures?

A. To convince them of sin, that they may seek mercy in Christ.

Q. What callest thou the Covenant of grace?

A. It is an agreement concer∣ning men, to bee freely saved through faith in Christ.

Q. What is the substance of this Covenant?

A. Salvation by faith in Christ.

Q. When, and where was the Covenant of grace made?

A. Incontinent after Adams fall, GOD in Paradise promised, that Christ, the feed of the woman should tread down the head of the Divel, the old Serpent.

Q. How many Covenants of grace hath GOD made with man?

A. Onely one.

Q. In Scriptures I read of an old Testament or Covenant and of a new Testament or Covenant?

A. The same Covenant of grace is either old or new, in di∣verse respects and circumstances, being one for Substance.

Q. Wherefore callest thou the Covenant of grace, the old Co∣venant?

A. In regard of the first dispen∣sation of it, by Moses towards the Jewes in diverse rites and ce∣remonies, which in time like old things vanish away.

Q. Wherefore is it called a new Testament or Covenant?

A. In regard of the dispensati∣on of it by Christ, without such rites and figures, to endure alwayes new and the same unto the end of the world.