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Q WHo Created the World, and the Creatures therein?
A. God.
Q. In what time were they Created?
A. In six days, for on the seventh God rested from his Labour.
Q. Of what was Man made?
A. Of the Dust of the Earth.
Q. How came he by a Rational Soul?
A. God breathed into him the breath of Life.
Q. Of what was Woman made?
A. Of the substance of the Man.
Q. How doth that appear?
A. God cast Adam into a deep sleep, and took from his side a Rib, of which he made Woman, and gave her him as a help meet.
Q. Was Man made in a state of Innocence?
A. Yes, and placed in Paradice the Garden of God, and all Creatures subjected to him.
Q. How came he to fall from that blessed∣ness?
A. By disobeying the Command of his Ma∣ker, and defacing by Sin his lively Image stamp∣ed on him.
Q. In what did he disobey?
A. In earing the forbidden Fruit, which di∣stinguished Good and Evil.
Q. How came he to eat?
A. By the suggestion of the Woman, whom the Serpent (or rather the Devil) begu••led, with guilded allurements.
Q. What was their Punishment?
A. Death, and the loss of Paradice.
Q. Was there no hopes left?
A. Yes; The Great Creators promises in the Seed of the Woman.
Q. As how?
A. That her Seed should break the Serpents Head.
Q. And is that promise fulfilled?
A. Yes, in the Birth of our blessed Saviour, that Lyon of the Tribe of Judah, that Star of Jacob.
Q. And was he the promised Seed that should redeem us from the Bondage of Satan?
A. Yes, for laying aside his glory and bright∣ness, in the fulness of time he suffered himself to be born of a spotless Virgin, and so became perfect God and perfect Man.
Q. Why was he God?
A. That he might satisfie his Fathers Iustice for the Sins of Mankind, by sustaining the weight of his Wrath, which as Man he could not not do.
Q. Why was he Man?
A. That he might be capable of laying down his Life to redeem us from Death.
Q. What was the Office of Christ?
A. To become a Mediator for us, and recon∣cile us to his offended Father, and is stiled a Priest, a Prophet, and a King.
Q. What benefit do we receive by his Death?
A. We are restored to a state of Grace and a possibility of Salvation.
Q. On what terms?
A. If through Faith we lay hold of him as of∣fered in the Gospel, and receive him upon his own terms of Salvation.
Q. What are they?
A. Repentance and obedience, a hearty sorrow for sin, and a resolution to struggle with Temp∣tation to the utmost.
Q. How is the Faith wrought in us, by which we receive Christ?
A. By the outward hearing the Word, and the inward motion of the Spirit.
Q. How is it increased?
A. By often hearing and meditating on the Sacred Promises in the Gospel, and by Prayer and the like.
Q. How must we pray?
A. In Faith with Reverence, Fervency and Charity.
Q. What must we do after Prayer?
A. We must observe what answer we re∣ceive.
Q. Who can or may pray with hope to be heard?
A. Those that are unwilling to Sin and re∣solve not to offend, but are, as far as human•• frailty will admit, conformable to the Will of God, revealed in the Gospel.
Q. What else?
A. Above all, to observe those Vows pledged for us in the Sacrament of Baptism, and the worthy receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, which he hath enjoyned us as a re∣membrance of him, till his coming at the last day.
Q. How shall his coming be?
A. With Glory and Power, as a Iudge to Iudge the World.
Q. Is the time of his coming known?
A. No, but we ought and are commanded to Watch and be prepared, least it seize us at una∣wares, by coming like a Thief in the night.
Q. What shall be the state of Man after this Life?
A. Happiness or Misery, according as their deeds have been good or evil.
Q. When shall the happiness of the Elect be compleated?
A. At the beginning of Eternity, when time shall be no more.
Thus far you have answered well, now let me hear you repeat the ten Command∣ments.
Q. How many be there?
A. Ten.
Q. Which be they?
A. The same which God spake in the twen∣tieth Chapter of Exodus, saying, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.
Q. Which is the first?
A. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me.
Q. Which is the second?
A. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in the Heaven above, or in the Earth beneath, or in the waters under the Earth, thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them; for I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the Fathers up∣on the Children, unto the third and fourth Ge∣neration of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments.
Q Which is the third?
A. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Q. Which is the fourth?
A. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day, six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do, but the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt do no manner of work; thou, and thy Son, and thy Daughter, thy Man-Servant, and thy Maid-Servant, thy Cattel, and the Stranger that is within thy Gates, for in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, where∣fore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hal∣lowed it.
Q. Which is the fifth?
A. Honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Q. Which is the sixth?
A. Thou shalt do no Murther.
Q. Which is the seventh?
A. Thou shalt not commit Adultery:
Q. Which is the eighth?
A. Thou shalt not steal.
Q. Which is the ninth?
A. Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour.
Q. Which is the tenth?
A. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours House, thou shalt not covet thy neighbours Wife, nor his Servant, nor his Maid, nor his Ox, nor his Ass, nor any thing that is his.
Very well answered, now let me hear thee rehearse the Lords Prayer and Belief.