CHAP. III. Catechising in times of the Apostles. Evi∣dences thereof in St. Pauls Epistles. The Contents of their Catechism.
BUt how dim soever the traces of this kind of instruction be in the Jewish Dispensation, yet the Foot-steps thereof are more traceable in the Gospel. Where Catechism is not obscurely inti∣mated, if we may rely any thing on the Words and Sentences which therein occur to this purpose.
And in the First place, it cannot be denied, but that in the inspired Epistles we plainly read of two sorts of Christi∣ans, namely, such as were newly ad∣mitted into the Church, compared by St. Peter to New-born Babes, 1 Pet. 2.2.