The communicants guide directing the younger sort, which have never yet received, and the elder, and ignorant sort, which have hitherto received unworthily, how they may receive the sacrament of the Lords Supper to their souls comfort together with a treatise of divine truths, collected out of ancient and moderne divines / by R. Gove ...
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- The communicants guide directing the younger sort, which have never yet received, and the elder, and ignorant sort, which have hitherto received unworthily, how they may receive the sacrament of the Lords Supper to their souls comfort together with a treatise of divine truths, collected out of ancient and moderne divines / by R. Gove ...
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A CATECHISME. Short for Memory, and plaine for Capacity, containing the Grounds, and Principles of the Christian Religion in generall. Which every one should know, that desires to receive the Sacra∣ment of the Lords Supper worthi∣ly, and to his Souls comfort.
QUESTION. OF what Religion are you? * 1.1
Ans. Of the Christian * 1.2 Religion.
Q. What Religion is that?
Ans. That which teach∣eth * 1.3 a Man to looke for salvation, only by Jesus Christ.
Q. Where is this Religion taught you?
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Ans. In the Holy Scriptures, which are * 1.4 the written Word of God, and containe all things needfull for our salvation.
Q What are the principall things, and those most necessary to salvation, which are taught us in the Scriptures?
A. They are two: the one is, what we * 1.5 are bound to know; and the other is, what we are bound to practise.
Q. What are we bound to know?
A. God and our selves. * 1.6
Q. What must wee know concerning God?
A. We must know three thngs: 1. that there is a God▪ 2. What a one this God is; * 1.7 and 3. What he hath done.
Q. How doe you assure your selfe, there is a God? * 1.8
A. 1. Gods Word reveales it; 2. Gods Workes confirme it; and 3. mine owne conscience doth assure me of it.
Q. What a one is God?
A. God is a Spirit most glorious in Nature, three in Persons, and one in Essence.
Q. What hath God done?
A. Hee hath decreed with himselfe from all eternity, how all things shall be; he made all things in the beginning; and hee hath ever since sustained them, and disposed of them.
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Q. Thus much of that, which we are to know concerning God, tell me now next, what we are to know concerning our selves?
A. We are to know three things 1. What we were; 2. What we are; and 3. What we shall be.
Q. What were we?
A. We were all in our first Creation * 1.9 perfect, and happy.
Q. What are we?
A. We are all by nature sinnefull, and miserable: but by grace in Jesus Christ, as many as God doth call, are made righte∣ous, and happy.
Q. What shall we be?
A. Those amongst us that are good * 1.10 shall be everlastingly blessed in Heaven; and those that are wicked shall be ever∣lastingly tormented in Hell.
Q. And thus far touching our knowledge: tell me now next what is required concer∣ning our practise?
A. There is required in us all a care so to lead our lives, as that thereby, God, and our Christian profession may have praise, we comfort, and others profit.
Q. How may we so leade our lives?
A. By ordering them according to the prescript rule of Gods Word, set downe partly in the Law, and partly in the Gos∣spell. * 1.11
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Q. What doth the Lord require?
A. Piety towards God; Charity to∣wards our Neighbours; Sobriety towards * 1.12 our selves; and Mercy towards all other living Creatures.
Q. What doth the Gospell require?
A. True faith, and unfeigned Repen∣tance, as our only remedy for the breach * 1.13 of the Law.
Q. How are these Graces to be begun, con∣tinued, and perfected in us? * 1.14
A. By faithfull, and fervent Prayer; by a due hearing, and reading of the word; and by worthy receiving of the Sacraments.
Q. How many Sacraments hath Christ or∣dained in his Church, thus to be received of us?
A. Two onely, Baptisme, and the Lords Supper.
Q. What is the use of Baptisme?
A. By Water washing the body, to as∣sure us that the bloud of Christ, being ap∣plied * 1.15 to the Soule of the believer, clenseth him from all his sins.
Q. What is the use of the Lords Supper?
A. To be a signe, a seale, and pledge un∣to us, that Christ Jesus is given for us, and * 1.16 to us for the nourishing, and preserving of us unto eternall life.
JOH. 13. 17.
If ye know these things, blessed are ye, if ye do them.
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* 1.1
1 Pet. 3. 15.
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* 1.2
Acts 11. 26
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* 1.3
Acts 4. 1••
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* 1.4
Joh. 5. 39 Hos. 8. 12 2 Tim. 3. 15, 16, 17. Joh. 20. 13
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* 1.5
Joh. 13. 17
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* 1.6
Joh. 17. 3 2 Cor. 13. 5
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* 1.7
Heb. 11. 6 Joh. 17. 3 Psal. 111. 2
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* 1.8
Joh. 5. 39 Rom. 1. 20 1 Joh. 3. 20 & 21. Joh. 4. 24 Ex. 33. 18. & 19. Ex. 34. 5. & 6. 1 Joh 5. 7 1 Cor. 8. 6 Acts 15. 18 Gen. 1. 1 Acts 17. 24 Heb. 1. 3 Psal. 119. 91 Psa. 103. 19.
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* 1.9
Gen. i. 27 Eccles. 7. 31 Eph. 4. 24 Psal. 51. 5 Eph. 2. 3, 4 & 5. Heb. 3. 1 1 Cor. 1. 2
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* 1.10
Mat. 25. 46 Dan. 12. 2 Joh. 5. 29 Mat. 5. 16 1 Pet. 2. 12 Tit. 2. 5 2 Pet. 1. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 1 Pet. 3. 1
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* 1.11
Psa 119. 9 Gal. 6. 16
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Tit. 2. 11. 12 Mat. 22. 36 37, 39. 1 Pet. 5. 8 Pro 12. 10
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* 1.13
Mar. 1. 15
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Mar. 9. 24 Luk 22. 23 Luke 11. 13 Jam. 5. 16 Rom 10. 17 Acts 20. 32 Rom. 4. 11 Acts 2. 38 41. Mat. 28. 19 1 Cor. 11. 23
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* 1.15
1 Pet. 3. 21 1 Cor. 6. 11 1 John 1. 7
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* 1.16
1 Cor. 11. 24 Mat. 26. 28. John 6. 50, 51, & 54.