Certain select discourses on those most important subjects, requisite to be well understood by a catechist in laying the foundation of Christian knowledge in the minds of novitiates viz., First discourses on I. The doctrine of the two covenants both legal and evangelical, II. On faith and justification / by William Allen. Secondly, Discourses on I. The covenant of grace, or baptismal covenant, being chatechetical lectures on the preliminary questions and answers of the Church-Catechism : II. Three catechetical lectures on faith and justification / by Thomas Bray, D.D.

LECT. XXVI.

• The vast Obligations lying upon us, both from the Mercies of God, and our Baptismal Vow, to perform the Covenant of Grace. The Obligations thereunto, first, as Members of Christ's Church. 282
• The Jews chose from amongst the Nations of the Earth to serve God. 283
• Christians chose both from amongst Jews and Gentiles, to a more peculiar Holiness. 284
• 2. As Children of God. Children are bound to the strictest Obedience to their Parents, as owing to 'em their Being. 285
• Children of God, as owing both Being and Well-being. 286
• 3. As Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. Kingdom of Heaven not to be expected, but by those who are faithful in their Covenant. 287
• 4. As having promised and vowed in our Baptism accordingly, to discharge our Covenant with God. The matter of a Vow sometimes not a Duty till vowed. 288
• Sometimes antecedently incumbent upon us, and such is the matter of our Baptismal Vow. 'Tis a provoking Sin to rob God of what has been once Vowed and Devoted to him, tho' of the former Nature. God's Anger observable upon such Occasions. 289
• 'Tis much more provoking to violate Vows; to perform which, we are antecedently obliged by the Law of Nature. A Vow is much of the nature of an Oath, and therefore to violate it is Perjury. 290

FINIS.