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Q. Hauing spoken of his Person, now shew mee concerning his office: and first why call you him Iesus, that is, a Sauiour?
A. So he is called, because he saues his people from a sin, and b death, & giues vnto them c righteousnesse, and d life.
Q. Then is our whole Saluation in him, and from him?
A. Certainly, for the Scripture testi∣fies
that all fulnesse is in him; that in him we are compleat and that there is no Sal∣uation in any other.
Q Why is he called Christ: that is An∣nointed?
A. Because a by the Father he was appointed b and endowed with gifts, to be vnto vs his people, a Prophet, a Priest, and a King.
Q. Why was he made a Prophet?
A. That he might reueale vnto vs the whole counsell and will of God, concer∣ning our Saluation.
Q. Why was he made a Priest?
A. That by the Sacrifice of himselfe once offered, he might reconcile vs vnto God, and continually make intercession for vs.
Q. Why was he made a King?
A. a That he might giue vs a royall Law, whereby to beléeue, and liue; b that he might encline our hearts to the obedi∣ence of his Law, c that he might power∣fully defend, and d bountifully reward his faithfull Subiects, e and make all his enimies his footstoole.
Q. Why call you him our Lord?
A Because he hath deliuered vs from the power of darknesse, to bee a peculiar
people to himselfe.
Of the execution of his Office.
Q. How hath he accomplished this de∣liuerance?
A. By his humiliation, & axaltation.
Q. Wherein standes his Humiliation?
A. In his incarnation and suffering.
Q. What comprehends his incarnation?
A. His Conception and Birth.
Q. Vnder whom suffered Christ?
A. Vnder Pontius Pilate, the Ro∣man Gouernour.
Q. Why was he condemned by a mortall Man?
A. That we might be absolued by the immortall God.
Q. In what nature suffered he?
A: Onely a in his humane nature: for b the diuine nature is impassible, and not subiect to suffering.
Q. In what part of his humane nature suffered hee?
A. Both in his Body and Soule.
Q. What suffered he in his body?
A. He was crucified, in a token that he bore the curse of the Law for vs: b he died to frée vs from death: and was c bu∣ried for the greater certenty of his
death, & the greter glory of his resurrectiō.
Q. Why say you he hath saued vs from death, since it is a appointed for all men once to die?
A. Our death is b no satisfaction for sinne, c but the abolishing of sinne in vs; d and a passage to life euerlasting.
Q. What suffered he in his Soule?
A. Being, in a manner, a left of God for a season, he b suffered extream anguish and horror, vnder the sense of the feareful wrath and curse of God, which héere is called his descending into hell.
Q What benifit haue we by his suffering?
A. All that hee suffered in Soule and Body was for mée; to frée my soule and body from euerlasting torments, which I deserue for my sinnes.
Q. How could it stand with the Iustice of God to punish him for our sins, the righteous for the vnrighteous?
A. The Lord Iesus made our sinnes his owne, by his willing taking them on him, as our surety and pledge.
Q But how could his sufferings that were shortly ended, free vs from euerlasting pu∣nishment?
A. Albeit his sufferings were finite in tyme, yet in value they were infinite:
because they were the sufferings of the e∣ternall Sonne of God.
Q. Hauing spoken of his Humiliation, tell me which are the degrees of his exal∣tation?
A. His Resurrection from Death; his Ascention into Heauen; and his sit∣ting at the right hand of God.
Q. What benefit haue wee by his Resur∣rection from death?
A. Thereby a he hath manifested his victorie ouer death, he b makes vs parta∣kers of the righteousnesse purchased by his death, c he raises vs vp to newnes of lyfe, d and assures vs of our resurrection.
Q. Why ascended he vp to heauen?
A. That there he might a prepare a place for vs, and b make intercession for vs; and that wee might follow him, c in our affections while we are here, d in our soules at the houre of death, e and in our bodies at the day of the Resurrection.
Q. What Imports his sitting at the right hand of God?
A. By this spéech, a borrowed from the manner of men, is signified b that the Father hath set him ouer all things, to be the head of the Church; c and the Iudge of the World.
Q. What profit haue we by this glorie of Christ, our head?
A. He imployes this glory and power to our vtility, a in powring out his gifts b on vs his members c by his holy Spi∣rit; d and in protecting vs against our e∣nimies.
Q. When shall this glory of our Lord be manifested to all the world?
A. In the last day, when he shal come to iudge the quicke and the dead.
Q. What shall become of those that shall be liuing at his comming?
A. They shall all be changed, and this change shall be in place of death to them.
Luk. 2. 11.
Heb. 2. 14. 15.
1 Cor. 1. 30 Ier. 23. 6.
Ioh. 10. 18.
Col. 1. 19. Col. 2. 3. 10. Acts 4. 12.
John 6. 27. 1 Pet. 1 20.
Isa. 61. 1. Psal. 45. Iohn 3. 34. Col. 1. 19. Col. 2. 3. 9. Joh. 1. 14. 16.
Deut. 18. 18 Iohn 1. 18. Iohn 15. 15. Joh. 16. 13. 14 Jsa. 61. 1. 1 Pet 3. 19.
Heb. ••. 26. Heb. 7. 25.
Iam. 2. 8. Jam. 4. 12. Rom. 3. 27. Mat. 28. 20.
Heb. 10. 16 Heb. 12. 2. Acts 16. 14. Heb. 2. 11.
Deu. 33. 29 Psa. 119. 114
1 Cor. 15. 58. Heb. 6. 10. 2 Tim. 4 8. Iohn 10. 28
Psal. 110. 1
Col. 1. 13. Tit. 2 14.
Eph. 4 9. Rom. 4. 25. Phil. 2. 7, 8,
Phil. 2. 7. 8.
Ro. 5. 18. 19.
1 Pe. 3. 18
Jam. 1. 17,
Gal. 3. 13.
Heb. 2. 14. 1 Cor. 15. 55. 56. 57.
Rom. 1. 4.
Heb. 9. 27
Rom. 5. 1.
Rom. 6. 7. 1 Cor. 15. 26.
Phil. 1. 23.
Mat. 27. 46
Mat. 26. 37 38. 39. Gal. 3. 13.
1 Pet. 3. 18. Heb 9. 28. 2 Cor. 5. 23. 1 Cor. 6. 20. 1 Thes. 5. 23.
1 Pet. 2 24. 2 Cor. 5. 23. 1 Ioh. 3. 5, 1 Tim. 2. 6.
1 Pet. 1. 18. 19. Acts 20. 28.
Luk. 24▪ Acts 1. Heb. 1.
Hos. 13. 14. Heb. 2. 14. Rom. 1. 4.
Rom. 4. 25.
Rom. 6. 4.
Rom. 8. 11.
Joh. 14. 3.
Rom. 8. 34
Col. 3. 2
Phil. 2. 23. Luk. 23 42.
1 Thes. 4, 17
•• Kin 2. 19
Mat. 28 18 Eph. 1. 22.
Joh. 5. 22.
Eph. 4. 8. 10 11.
Eph. 4. 12.
Ioh. 14. 16. 26. 1 Cor. 6. 11.
Ioh 10. 28. Psal. 29.
1 Thes. 4. 15. 16. 17. 1 Pet. 4. 5.
1 Cor. 15. 52