The first pinciples [sic] of the doctrine of Christ together with stronger meat for them that are skil'd in the word of righteousness, or, the doctrine of living unto God, wherein the body of divinity is briefly and methodically handled by way of question and answer / published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ in Norwich in New-England by James Fitch.
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- The first pinciples [sic] of the doctrine of Christ together with stronger meat for them that are skil'd in the word of righteousness, or, the doctrine of living unto God, wherein the body of divinity is briefly and methodically handled by way of question and answer / published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ in Norwich in New-England by James Fitch.
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- Fitch, James, 1622-1702.
- Publication
- Boston :: Printed by John Foster,
- 1679.
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- Catechisms.
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"The first pinciples [sic] of the doctrine of Christ together with stronger meat for them that are skil'd in the word of righteousness, or, the doctrine of living unto God, wherein the body of divinity is briefly and methodically handled by way of question and answer / published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ in Norwich in New-England by James Fitch." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39582.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- To the Reader.
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Q. WHat is Religion? - Definition it self.
- Q. What is Faith?
- Quest. What is the sufficiency of God?
- Quest. What is the Essence of God?
- Quest. What are the divine Attributes?
- Quest. How is God made known to us by his divine At∣tributes?
- Quest. What is the Subsistence of God?
- Quest. How may this be more plainly understood?
- Quest. How may the Subsistences be distinguisht from the Essence, and one from another?
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Quest. Who is the Father? -
Quest. Who is the Son? - Quest. Who is the Spirit?
- Quest. What is the Efficiency of God?
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Quest. What is Creation? - Quest. How did God make man?
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Quest. What is Providence? - Quest. What is the Government of God respecting Man?
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Quest. What is the Apostacy of Man? -
Quest. What is the punishment of sin? -
Quest. What is the death of the Soul? -
Quest. What is the death of the soul in the second place? -
Quest. What is the propagation of Adams sin unto his Posterity? -
Qu. What Attributes shine forth in the Apostacy of man? -
Quest. What is the Anastacy of Man? -
Quest. What in the first place ought to be considered con∣cerning this work? -
Quest. Why must Christ be God and Man? -
Quest. What are the parts of Redemption? -
Quest. What was the Humiliation of Christ in his life? -
Quest. What was the Humiliation of Christ in his publick life. -
Quest. What was the Death of Christ? -
Quest. What was Christs Crucifixion? -
Quest. What is Christs Exaltation? -
Quest. What is Application of Christs Redemption? -
Quest. What are the parts of Application and the manner of applying those parts? -
Quest. What is that internal and mystical union to Christ? -
Quest. In what manner doth the Spirit work Faith? -
Quest. What is Contrition? -
Quest, What is Humiliation? -
Quest. What is the infusion of Faith? -
Qu. What is Communion with Christ mystically considered? -
Quest. What is Justification? -
Quest. What is Adoption? -
Quest. What is Sanctification? -
Quest. What is glorification? -
Quest. What is visible union to and communion with Christ? -
Quest. What is a visible Church? -
Quest. How may a visible Church be considered? -
Quest. How was it with the Church in Moses time? -
Quest. How is it with the Church since Christs com∣ing? -
Quest. How doe you prove the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God? -
Quest. What is Observance? -
Quest. How is obedience distributed? -
Quest. What is that worship in the first Command requi∣red? -
Quest. What is that worship required in the second Com∣mand? -
Quest, What doth the third Command require? -
Quest. What doth the fourth Command require? -
Quest. How ought we to sanctifie the Sabbath? -
Quest. How doe you prove that we ought in these Gospel dayes to keep a weekly Sabbath? -
Quest. How doe you prove this in the second place, that in Gospel dayes we ought to keep a Sabbath? -
Quest. How do you prove that we ought not to keep the seventh day of the week a Christian Sabbath? -
Quest. How do you prove this in the second place that the seventh day since Christs Resurrection ought not to be kept for a Sabbath? -
Quest. How doth it appear by the doctrine and practice of the Apostles that we ought to keep the first day of the week a Christian Sabbath. -
Quest. How do you prove this in the second place? -
Quest. How do you prove this in the third place? -
Quest. Doth not the change of the Sabbath from the se∣venth day to the first day abolish the fourth Command? -
Quest. What is that love to man the Law requireth? -
Quest. What doth the fifth Command require? -
Quest. What doth the sixth Command require? -
Quest. What doth the seventh Command require? -
Quest. What doth the eighth Command require? -
Quest. What doth the ninth Command require? -
Quest. What doth the tenth Command require? -
Quest. What are special helps to Obedience -
Quest. What is Prayer? -
Quest. What are the Sacraments of the New-Testament? -
Quest. What followeth hence, that Baptisme is a signe andSeal of entrance into Covenant with Christ, and his Church? -
Quest. What followeth hence in the second place? -
Quest. What followeth hence, that the Lords Supper is a Sacrament of continuance in covenant and communion with Christ?
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- prayer
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