SECT. I. Of the Scripture.

Quest. WHat Religion are you of?

Answ. Of the Reformed Christian Religion.

Q. Why call you your Religion, the Christian Religion?

A. To distinguish it from the Religion of the Jews, Turks, and Pagans.

Q. Why call you it the Reformed Religion?

A. To distinguish it from the Religion of the Church of Rome.

Q. Why are you not of the Romish Religion?

A. Because in and by that Religion none can be Saved.

Q. Why so?

Page  2A. Because the Roman Church hath per∣verted the Doctrine of the Gospel, and esta∣blished Idolatry, and hath taken Antichrist for her head.

Q. Ʋpon what is the true Christian Religion Founded?

A. Upon the Word of God.

Q. What mean you by the Word of God?

A. The Holy Scripture contained in the Old and new Testament, written by the Prophets, Evangelists, and Apostles; which St. Paul calls Scripture divinely inspired, 2 Tim. 3.16. And St. Peter, 2d. Epist. 1.21. speaking of the Scripture says, Prophesies came not by the will of men, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Q. Why call you the Scripture the Bible, that is the Book or Writing?

A. Because it is the Book and Writing which ought to be most highly esteemed by us, and wherein we may be instructed of the Will of God for our Salvation.

Q. How divide you the Scripture?

A. Into two Parts, the Old and New Testament.

Q. What doth the Old Testament contain?

A. The five Books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms. Luke 24.44.

Q. Why take you not in Tobit, Susanna, Judith, and others which we call Apocripha?

Page  3A. Because the Jews to whom the Oracles of God were committed, Rom. 3.2. never acknowledged these Books; Jesus Christ nor his Apostles never cited them, neither were they read in the Synagogue; it is not reaso∣nable then that these Books which were not received as Sacred and Canonical by the Jewish Church (which then only was the Church of God) should be received as such by the Christian Church: Besides, in these Books are found many Fables which are not agreeable to the Spirit of God; who is Truth and Wisdom.

Q. What doth the New Testament contain?

A. The four Evangelists, the Acts, the Epistles of St. Paul, of James, of Peter, of John, of Jude, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Revelations.

Q. Why hath it pleased God that his Word should be put in Writing?

A. That men might not alter or change it, and make their own imagination and inventions pass for Divine Inspirations, and the Word of God.

Q. But why do you found your Religion on the Word of God?

A. That we may have solid and firm Comfort in Life and Death. Rom. 15.4.

Q. Wherein consists your Comfort in Life and Death?

Page  4A. In that Jesus Christ hath redeemed us from the power of the Devil, so that living and dying we are his.