The compleat Christian, and compleat armour and armoury of a Christian, fitting him with all necessary furniture for that his holy profession, or, The doctrine of salvation delivered in a plain and familiar explication of the common catechisme, for the benefit of the younger sort, and others : wherein summarily comprehended is generally represented the truly orthodox and constant doctrine of the Church of England, especially in all points necessary to salvation / by W.S., D.D.

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This Treatise is divided into five Parts, according to the five Parts of the Catechisme.

To the thrice Excellent and Il∣lustrious Charles, Prince of Wales, his Highnesse.

The Table, or the Contents of the whole booke, divided in five parts.

The Preface to the Reader.

Another briefe Table or Synopsis of this present Treatise on the Catechisme.

PART I.

SECT I.

Question 1. WHat call you the Booke of the grounds of Religion?

2. How is that?

3. What meaneth that?

4. How usually?

5. Whose benefit named?

6. When?

7. To what end?

8. What then note you here principally in the title

9. What note you in the use?

10. Who are accounted children?

11. How are children in yeares to be instructed?

12. How others?

13. Is it necessary that all others should be present, as well as children?

14. Why should they learne it?

15. But why this Catechisme above all others?

How of necessity?

16. How else of inconvenience?

17. How in respect of the Booke it selfe?

18. How in respect of the persons?

19. What benefit thereby?

20. How is it then to be taught to the best profit of the people?

21. How is the time prescribed?

22. How else to be understood?

23. This Catechisme then generally pertaines to all?

24. How is it then to be taken notice of, so to be or∣dered and exercised?

25. Is Confirmation then necessary?

26. Why is it then expunged in our Church?

27. Is it then a Sacrament?

28. But how then in the Rubrique is it said, it is no detriment if it be not used?

29. But doe not some hence utterly neglect it?

30. How is it then necessary?

31 But he that said, Goe baptize, said also to Pe∣ter, confirme thy brethren?

32. Jf it be usefull, why is it neglected?

33. Where or when is it executed?

34. What benefit is thereby?

35. After the name and title, what is next to be con∣sidered at the entrance into the Catechisme?

36. What is the matter or subject of it?

37. What is Religion?

38. What is that Covenant?

39. What is then required of us?

40. But these are graoes of his Spirit?

41. What is the substance then of Religion?

42. What then is the summe and substance of the Catechisme?

43. How many parts are there of the Catechisme?

44. Which then are the foure parts?

45. How else are these five parts set downe?

46. Are all Catechismes concerning these things?

47. Wherein doe they usually or chiefly differ from this, or one from another?

48. How differ they in introduction?

49. How differ they in their order?

50. What thinke you of the order and method of this Catechisme?

51. How in respect of the things?

52. How then is the Introduction fitted to this?

53. How many points in particular in these foure parts?

54. How are they else divided?

55. Which call you the Introduction?

SECT. 2. Of the Introduction; and first of the Question, What is your Name.

Quest. 1. THis seemes a poore Question indeed, what is your Name?

2. Yet it is a small question?

3. Tis a question though, that every child can tell?

4. But it is the least question that can be?

5. It seemes a triviall question?

6. It seemes though too meane a one?

7. But is it not a simple and contemptible one?

8. What question was that?

9. How was that the greatest?

10. How so?

11. Who were they?

12. How answered?

13. What then is a Name?

14 What name is here meant?

15. How many sorts of names have we?

16. What use of the surname?

17. What use of our Christian name?

18. How meane you that?

19. Why should we remember these things?

20. But who can forget these things?

21. Can any forget their names?

22. How meane you that?

23. But were names imposed for any such memoriall of holy things?

24. Is it lawfull then to alter names?

25. How meane you that?

26. It is then usuall?

27. As how?

28. How if for any evill intention?

29. Who have power to change names?

30. Who are they?

31. How for alteration of them?

32. Is it not a falshood or lye to change ones name?

33. How in doing ill or mischiefe?

34. How the concealing of ones name?

35. The occasion then ought to be good of the chan∣ging and concealing of ones name?

36. Names are also imposed for some good reasons and occasions, as well as distinction?

37. What then doest thou particularly minde by thy Christian name?

38. As how?

SECT. 3. Quest. 2.

1. VVHo gave you this name?

2. When was it?

3. What benefit thereby?

4. Why doe you call the Sureties Godfathers and Godmothers?

5. What authority had they for it?

6. Js it an ancient use or custome?

7. But how have Godfathers authority to name the childe?

8. Are the parents hereby barred?

9. How then is it said the Godfathers doe it, or are required to name it?

10. But have not some kept their old names, as those of yeares baptized?

11. How are names then said received in Baptism?

12. But we finde many received names before bap∣tisme.

13. Jt is then most convenient to give names in Baptisme?

14. But divers instances may bee given to the con∣trary for Circumcision?

15. For Gersom, he was named ere circumcised.

16. All the children of Israel in the wildernesse notcircumcised, yet had names assuredly?

16. Benoni was named by Rachel before circum∣cision.

17. But Saint John Baptist, and Christ also by the Angels before circumcision.

18. It standeth then with best reason or conveniency to have the name imposed in baptisme.

19. Is that most convenient?

20. But why are children baptized, being in∣fants, and not rather when they come to yeares, and discretion?

21. How in imitation of circumcision?

22. How from the example of Christ?

23. How pertaines the covenant to them?

24. Why also presented so in the Church?

25. Then it is good children should be soon baptised?

26. Is baptisme then a meanes thereof?

27. Then it is faith, and not baptisme that saveth?

28. Both faith and baptisme then are required?

29 How doth this then pertain to Infants?

30. But is this enough?

31. Many then are baptized, that are not saved?

32. Is it then easily to be discerned who shall be saved?

33. Then are we to account all members of Christ that are baptized?

34. What use of Baptisme?

35. What profit in the remembrance thereof?

36. How may that be effected?

37. How is this benefit here described?

38. How a member of Christ?

39. How understand you the body of Christ?

40. Which of these here understood?

41. How is he seene to be head?

42. How is any of us known so to be a member of him?

43. Is there any difference in the members of this mysticall body?

44. In what manner?

45. How have these the names of members?

46. How is that showne?

47. What commeth of being members of Christ?

48. But were not we children of Godelse?

49. Who are then the children of God?

50. How is Christ the Son of God?

51. How are Angels sonnes of God?

52. How are men the sons of God?

53. How are the elect the sons of God?

54. Why are not the falling Angels in like hope?

55. How then should men lesse excellent be saved?

56. How is that?

57. There is then onely that meanes left of mans salvation?

58. This is then a great priviledge?

59. What benefit by this priviledge or prerogative?

60. How is the inheritance of heaven then due to us?

61. Why did the Lawyer then say, Master, what shall I doe to inherit eternall life?

62. The question was not then well proposed.

63. How is heaven then an inheritance?

64. Are they inheritors then onely so?

65. How is it said a kingdome?

66. How a kingdome of heaven?

67. Is this the benefit of Baptisme?

SECT. 4. The third Question.

1. VVHat did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you?

2. What is meant by promise and vow?

3. Wherefore is this question here put?

4. What is that?

5. How our Christian duties here described?

6. Whence is this question and answer taken?

7. Recite these three things briefly?

8. How Repentance?

9. How faith?

10. How obedience?

11. How is repentance described here?

12. What is the Divell?

13. How fell he from God?

14. Whence his enmity to God?

15. Whence his enmity to man?

15. How is he here, and usually deciphered?

16. How the author of all evill?

17. How in heaven?

18. How in Paradise?

19. In what manner?

20. How the offence?

21. How is it our ruine?

22. How author of sinne now on earth?

23. How so?

24. How his motions within us?

25. What are his suggestions?

26. What agents and instruments?

27. How soweth he tares in Gods field?

28. How seduccth he mankind?

30. What are his workes?

31. How are they his workes?

32. In what manner are they his workes?

33. What are the qualities of his workes?

34 As how?

35. What are sins of omission?

36. What are the sins of commission?

37. What are sins of ignorance?

37. What are sins of malice?

38. VVhat sins of weaknesse and infirmity?

39. And what are sins of presumption?

40 Are these the workes of the Divell?

41. In the second place, what meane you by the wicked world?

42. But are not these the workes of the Divell?

43. VVhat is meant by pompes?

44. Are all pompous showes, pageants, and solemnities then unlawfull?

45. How meane you that?

46. VVhat doe these profit?

47. How may it be?

48. Doe any envy them this?

49. What is then here renounced?

50. VVhat are the vanities of the world?

51. How is sin vaine?

52. How saith the wise man, all is vanity?

53. VVhat are the sinfull lusts of the flesh?

53. VVhat meane you by the flesh?

54 VVhat the lusts?

55. How sinfull lusts?

56. How are we to resist them?

57. In the second place, how is faith here described?

58. VVhich are they?

59. VVhom doe they concerne?

60. VVhy doe we professe or learne them?

61. VVhat of God?

60. VVhat of our selves?

61. To what end are we taught this?

62. How so?

63. In the third place, then how is obedience here decyphered?

64. How followeth it in this place?

65. How is this duty commended?

66. VVhy so preferred?

67. How is our diligence in this duty described?

68. VVhat meant by keeping?

69. How to walke and observe them?

70. VVhat the object or matter here named?

71. VVhat is the will of God?

72. How is Gods will knowne?

73. VVhere is that word conteined?

74. VVhat are the Commandements of God?

75. How long obliged to this duty and diligence?

76. VVhy so?

77. How all our dayes?

78. How life?

79. Is this the summe of the sureties promise?

SECT. 5. The fourth Question.

1. DOst thou thinke thou art bound to beleeve, and doe as they have promised for thee?

2. What is conteined in this answer?

3. Is then the party bound by anothers act?

4. Without any deputation?

5. How so?

6. But can Infants be bound, or those under age, by their owne, or which is lesse, others acts?

7. Why so?

8. How appearoth it that they are so bound?

9. What is the reason for it?

10. But how is this for his good?

11. How followeth it that he saith, By Gods grace so I will?

11. Have we then no ability of our selves?

12. What is our duty then to doe?

13. Can we doe this then?

14. What shall we doe then?

15. How shall we finde or know this?

16. Why should we praise him?

17. VVhat doe you praise him for here?

18. VVhat is this state of salvation?

19. How are we else?

20. In, or by whom, or what meanes?

21. How are we brought to this estate?

22. What are we then to doe?

23. Can we fall from this estate?

24. Why then should we pray for it?

25. What pray you for here?

Can we not continue else in this estate?

26. Then we assume to our selves no power at all?

27. If we or they have no excellency, or sufficiency of our selves, why then so honoured?

28. How long pray we so to continue?

What may this teach us?

29. This then is the summe of this answer?

30. What followeth?

31. Why is not the first part of the threefold promise here likewise as distinctly handled?

32. But good instruction to repentance ariseth from the first well considered?

33. But might it not well have beene more insisted on here?

34. And this is a necessary consideration?

The second part of the Catechism. Wherein of the Creed in generall.

SECT. 1. Quest. 5.

1. REcite the Articles of thy Beleefe.

2. What is here contained?

3. How are these Articles usually called?

4. Why so called?

5. Is there any other reason rendered?

6. To what end?

7. Js it then thought composed by the Apostles themselves?

8. Why called a Symboll?

9. In what manner?

10. Of what authority is this Creed?

11. Are there any other Creeds then?

12. Who were those compilers of them?

13. Which are they?

14. How should I then know and rightly under∣stand which to receive and embrace?

15. What use of this, and those others?

16. In what forme was the Creed first propounded?

17. Why say we not, Wee beleeve, in the Creed, as well as Our Father, in the Lords Prayer?

18. What is faith?

19. Of how many sorts is saith?

20. What call you common faith?

21. How manifold is this?

22. What is historicall faith?

23. Which are they?

24. What is temporary faith?

25. Which are they?

26. What other kinde of this faith?

27. What is the faith of miracles?

28. What is that saving faith, or the faith of the Elect?

29. How differs this faith from the others?

30. How that?

31. VVhat is the fruit thereof?

32. How is that?

33. VVhere is the substance of this faith expressed?

34. Are there any differences or degrees in this true faith?

35. How is it then knowne, being weake, from the former sorts of faith that sade or faile?

36. But is not the hypocrites or reprobates faith of∣ten hardly by men distinguished from true faith?

37. How may wee know the true, though weake faith?

38. Is this a true signe of true faith?

39. How many wayes may faith be weake?

40. How is it to be strengthened?

41. What is a strong faith?

42. Js there any faith perfect?

43. Have not all sorts of saving faith their fruit following?

44. Why must we confesse it?

45. Js there any other acceptation of this word faith?

46. What is else necessary to be knowne concerning faith?

47. What causes?

48. What efficient cause?

49. What the instrumentall cause?

50. What is the forme of faith?

51. What the end of faith?

52. What is justifying, or our justification?

53. Doth faith doe this?

54. But Saint James saith, we are justified by workes.

55. What of the distinction of generall, and speciall, explicite and implicite faith?

56. What are the effects of faith?

57. How else called or described?

58. But if these workes doe not justifie us, what need we doe them, and why?

59. Can none be saved without good works?

60. What followeth of these fruits, & effects of faith?

61. Can any then be assured of true faith?

62. But many feares and doubts will arise?

63. Is it not arrogancy, or presumption to assure ones selfe he shall be saved?

64. By what means is faith preserved and increased?

65. In a word then, what is faith?

66. Is this expressed in the Creed?

67. Of how many parts consisteth the Creed?

SECT. 2. The particular Explication of the Creed, I believe in God the Father. &c.

1. WHat is here comprehended in these Articles?

2. What and how many things?

3. What concerning God is to be learned?

4. What learne you first concerning God and his es∣sence?

5. How know you there is a God?

6. How by the Booke of Nature?

7. How doth reason confirme this?

8. Explaine this more fully.

9. How by the Booke of Gods judgements?

10. How seene by revelations or prophesies?

11. What say you then to their Oracles?

12. But did not these Oracles prejudice the know∣ledge of God, or of his truth?

13. How by consent of Nations?

14. How by the Scripture?

15. How by the booke or light of Conscience?

16. How know we that there is but one onely true God?

17. How by reason?

18. How by authorities?

What then is God?

19. What note you herein chiefly?

20. How in particular?

21. What note you of the Essence and nature of God?

22. VVhat know or learne we concerning the exi∣stence of God?

23. How call you them persons?

24. How many persons?

25. VVhy three persons?

26. How shew you this?

27. How in Scriptures?

28. How else demonstrated?

29. How by other reasons and similitudes?

30. How are all three persons called God?

31. Are there not rather, as three persons, three Gods?

32. Is it onely then in relation to the creature?

33. Js this the foundation of that relation to the creatures?

34. How is the unity of the Godhead further mani∣fested?

35. How the Trinitie of the persons therein distin∣guished?

36. How are the proprieties?

37. How the joint actions determined?

38. How is this to be understood?

39. How to reason further manifested?

40. How this mystery?

41. How else illustrated?

42. Are not then comparisons to be made hereof?

43. How meane you this?

44. Explaine it further.

45. How can reason comprehend this?

46. How shall reason with reason be humbled?

47. What use hereof?

48. Where is the substance of this faith professed?

49. In which words?

SECT. 3. A more particular Explication of the words of the Creed, I beleeve in God the Father, &c.

1. VVHat note you generally in the words?

2. What is the action?

3. How diversified?

4. What is the difference?

5. In what are we to beleeve?

6. What are we to beleeve?

7. What professe we when we say we beleeve in?

8. What when we beleeve?

9. Doe we professe this faith to every Article?

10. How manifold is this profession?

11. What is the object of faith?

12. How manifold is it?

13. How set forth there?

14. VVhat confesse you concerning God?

15. How manifold is your confession and considera∣tion of him?

16. How understood?

17. How many Gods are there?

18. But doth not Scripture name many gods?

19. VVhat note you then in the Godhead chiefly?

20. VVhat call you the unity?

21. What call you the Trinity?

22. What is their union?

23. What is their distinction?

24. VVhich are those proprieties?

25. How are these Attributes knowne from others?

26. Is there any precedency, or priority in the Trinity?

27. VVhy is the Father first mentioned?

28. But is not the Son, said under and inferiour to the Father?

29. But were not the Son and the holy Ghost, sent after a certaine time?

30. How explaine you further your beleefe in God?

31. How expresse you what you conceive in this word, I beleeve?

32. How apply you this faith?

33. How to God referred?

34. How is this generall Confession first applyed here?

35. How is the Father here described?

36. How is the title of Father attributed to God?

37. How many wayes is he Father?

38. How is Father understood here?

39. What note you in that especially?

40. What profit to us in this?

41. What speciall comfort therein?

42. What duty are we hereby obliged unto?

43. What image of him?

44. How shall we resemble him?

44. Why or how should we cast our care on him?

45. Js all care to be abandoned?

46. How may this be further illustrated?

47. What of the attribute, Almighty?

48. Is the Father onely omnipotent?

49. Why is it here particularly so applyed?

50. How so?

51. Are not all other divine attributes so too?

52. How is the Omnipotency chiefly seene?

53. Jt is then also attributed to the other persons?

54. What then is principally attributed to the Fa∣ther?

55. What to the Sonne?

56. What to the Holy Ghost?

57. How is Gods omnipotency seene in the creation?

58. In what order is the Creation considered?

59. What are the principall points considerable in the Creation?

60. What in their production?

61. What else observable therein?

62. How is the prescrvation herewith considered?

63. What learne we hence?

64. What meane you by heaven and earth?

65. In what sense?

66. And were all those so excellent creatures created out of nothing?

67. What, are Angels and all Saints so likewise?

What learne we hence?

68. What followeth in the Creed?

SECT. 4. The second part of the Creed, concerning Christ.

I. VVHat learne you in this second part of the Creed?

2. What concerning him?

3. Where the first, is his nature described?

4. VVhere his office of meditatorship?

5. VVhat then of him is declared in the second Article?

6. VVhat is your confession concerning his Essence and office in generall?

7. VVhat of his Essence in particular?

8. VVhat of his person?

9. How can that be?

10. Are the two natures then consounded?

11. But it was said in Scripture, God was made Man?

12. VVas there not such a union spoken of before in the persons of the Godhead?

13. VVhat need was it that the Mediator, or Christ, should be God and Man?

14 Why was it thus?

15. How appeareth that?

16. But doth God so hate sin?

17. Are there not yet degrees in sin?

18. But Adams sin was not so?

19. How was Adams sin so great?

20. Jt seemes a small offence, the taste onely of an Apple forbidden.

21. How appeareth this greatnesse of his sin?

22. Was it indeed so hainous?

23. How can that be?

24. What is the effect in us?

25. Wherein is it seene?

26. But is that originall sin punishable in us?

27. But could no ransome serve, but the Sonne of God?

28. Doth sin deserve so ill?

29. Was hence then the need of the Mediator Christ so powerfull, God and man?

30. How proposed to be considered?

31. How their glory?

32. How promised by God?

33. How expected by holy men?

34. How by the Prophets?

55. How so?

36. How called by them?

37. How here styled in this place?

38. Why called Christ?

39 With what oyle anointed?

40. Why should he be so anointed?

41. What then contained in the office of Christ, or Mediator?

42. Wherein consisteth his Kingly office?

43. Wherein is his Priestly office seene?

44. But are all the sins in the world thereby for∣given?

45. How explaine you this?

46. Wherein is his prophetique office?

47. How is he said Gods onely Son?

48. How is he our Lord?

49. What followeth?

SECT. 5. The third Article; Which was conceived, &c. Concerning Christs Incarnation.

1. VVHat is set forth in the execution of his office of Mediation?

2. How is his Incarnation here set forth?

3. What meane you by Jncarnation?

4. Expresse this more fully.

5. Was God then conceived or borne?

6. How in Scripture used?

7. How his conception?

8. How his nativitie?

9. But this is hard to bee understood, much more to be beleeved?

10. How is it proved?

11. How to them both?

12. How for the Iew?

13. It is then wonderfull?

14. Wherein the most admirablenesse of this wonder?

15. Why so borne of a Virgin?

16. Why yet in mariage?

17. What other observations noted, or reasons ur∣ged?

18. Which are they?

19. How of the woman?

20. How in respect of the man?

21. How in respect of the manner of fall and rising?

22. As how?

23. In what manner?

24. Are we so then pardoned in his person & justice?

25. But how is the law satisfied?

26. But the soule that sinneth must dye?

27. But is this exact and true justice?

28. Why is the humanity and genealogie of Christ so particularly set downe and recorded?

29. How appeareth it?

30. But doe not these genealogies differ?

31. But divers fathers are named there of Joseph?

32. But the Genealogy is of Joseph, not Mary, whose Son Christ was in the flesh?

33. Yet was not Mary said of the Tribe of Levi?

34. How can you shew that?

35. Why then was Christ especially named of the li∣nage of David?

36. He is then also acknowledged of Levi?

37. How were his Disciples called his brethren?

38. How or which Disciples were his neerest kins∣men?

39. How was this James more especially called the brother of the Lord?

40. What learne we hence?

41. What followeth in the Creed?

SECT. 6. The second degree of Christs humiliation, in the fourth Article.

1. VVHat is the fourth Article?

2. What is hereby expressed?

3. What is therein briefly then to be observed?

4. VVhat obedience?

5. How is this part of his humiliation for us?

6. How did he fulfill the Law?

7. How in the Law?

8. How in the Prophets?

9. Were we bound to the performance?

10. But are we now freed?

11. But hath not Christ performed it for us?

12. How of them that strive not to keepe it?

13. The doctrine then of faith destroyeth not good workes?

14. We are then bound to doe them?

15. What comfort herein?

16. How is that?

17. What were his sufferings?

18. Which of the former sort?

19. What else especially?

20. How his want and poverty?

21. How in his fastings and temptations?

22. How in his labours and paines?

23. How by practices and counsels against him and his Doctrine?

24. In what manner?

25. What open violence?

26. VVhich were those?

27. VVhat considerable in his crucifying?

How the unjust execution and manner of it?

28. What meanes here seene?

29. This was the greatest of his sufferings?

30. Wherein shewne?

31. How meane you that?

Did God forsake him?

32. But how could hee in that excellency of soule feele such torment, or not feele the comfort?

33. What were the consequents?

34. How did his death destroy death?

35. What memorable occurrents at his death?

36. Why is his buriall also remembred?

37 What then learne we hence?

38. What followeth?

SECT. 7. The 5. Article, He descended into Hell.

1. VVHat is the last degree of Christs humili∣ation?

2. How is it then interpreted?

3. Whence growes this difference?

4. What is the Hebrew

5. What is the Greeke?

6. How many severall interpretations are there then?

7. Which are they?

8. Which the second?

9. Which the third?

10. Which the fourth?

11. Which is the fifth?

12. Which the sixth?

13. Which is the most approved interpretation?

14. How the first approved?

15. Which be they?

16. But what is the end thereof?

17. This interpretation then of his descent into hell, is approved of?

18. How the second interpretation?

19. How of the third?

20. How the fourth?

21. How the fifth?

22. How the sixth?

23. What then Catholiquely understood by his de∣scent?

24. But as is said in the story of Dives, there is a great space set, that none can goe from heaven to hell, or returne thence to heaven, Luke 16.

25. But this phrase was left out in some Creeds?

26. But there are many and maine objections used against this his descent into hell?

27. They may be easily solved then?

28. But many have infisted on them?

29. It may be profitable to heare them?

30. May we heare some of the principall objections then?

31. How secondly?

32. How else thirdly?

33. How else opposed?

34. What else opposed?

35. Which are those?

36. How else proved?

37. Be there any further proofes?

38. How else proved?

39. Is it any farther demonstrated?

40. Is not this passage otherwise interpreted?

41. Yet if said, to what end did he descend, or what needed his descent, how is it to be answered?

42. How shew you this?

43. Are those the reasons then?

44. What to be learned hence?

45. What followeth?

SECT. 8. The exaltation of Christ in the five, sixe, and seventh Articles.

1. VVHat is the exaltation of Christ?

2. What herein considerable?

3. In what degrees seene?

4. What to be considered in the Resurrection?

Why the third day?

5. How conveniency of the time?

6. How the Prophesies?

7. How the type of Jonah?

8. What more considerable in the time?

What note you in that action, his Resurrection?

9. What was the efficiency?

10. How the effect?

11. What Types thereof?

12. What other Types were there?

13. How was Adam?

14. How was Enoch?

15. How Eliah?

16. How any others?

17. What learne we hence?

18. Which are they?

19. What fruit hereof?

20. What followeth?

21. What herein to be considered?

22. What analogies herein?

23. What the ascension, or action?

24. How foretold?

25. Why in sight and presence of many witnesses?

26. Whence ascended he?

27. To what end?

28. In what manner ascended he?

29. When was that?

30 Why were those forty dayes interim?

29. Did he not also appeare at other times, and to others?

30. Who were types of this his ascension?

31. What analogy of their ascension to this?

32. How Moses?

3. How Eliah?

34. Was this so manifested?

35. What was the event of it?

36. What gifts?

37. What learne we hence?

38. What fruit hereby?

39. What followeth?

40. What is meant thereby?

41. What in the words to be considered?

42. What the manner, or figure?

43. Is this frequent?

44. How to be conceived then?

45. What is the full meaning of the phrase?

46. Was not this meant by ascending to heaven?

47. How understand you this?

48. But was not Christ in that glory, and at the right hand of the Father set from all eternity?

49. How is this elsewhere expressed in Scriptures?

50. What analogy in this to his humiliation?

51. What learne we hence?

52. In what respect?

53. What followeth?

SECT. 9. The 7. Article, Christs comming to judgement.

1. VVHat is comprised in this seventh Article?

2. How is this part of his exaltation?

3. Jn what respect?

4. What herein to be considered?

5. How the end of the world?

6. Why the end of the world?

7. How shall Christ be Iudge?

8. But hee professeth he commeth not to judge the world?

9. Doth not the Father then?

10. Why so?

11. Whence shall he come?

12. How shall he come?

13. What shall he doe?

14. What herein considered?

15. What the antecedents?

16. What signes?

17. How the gathering of all flesh?

18. How shall that be?

What will the event be?

19. In what manner?

20. In what forme?

21. What is the summe of it?

22. What the consequents?

23. How the distinction?

24. How the conducting to glory?

25. How of the wicked?

26. Js this the end?

26. Are then the workes considered?

27. Is life then for the workes given?

28. How is his mercy then seene?

29. The wicked are then judged and condemned for their workes?

30. Is there no other judgement?

31. What learne we hence?

32. What profit hence?

33. It is then good to remember judgement?

34. VVhat followeth?

SECT. 10. The eighth Article, and third part of the Creed: Concerning the Holy Ghost.

1. VVHat is the third person in Trinity?

2. How prosesse you your beleefe in him?

3. What therein to be considered?

4. VVhat concerning his essence?

5. VVhat considerable in his person?

6. VVhence the name of spirit?

7. How many sorts of spirits?

8. VVhat else spirits?

9. VVhat then meant by the name Spirit?

10. How is the Spirit of God so called?

How in particular?

11. How called Gods Spirit?

12. How called holy Spirit?

13. How is his manner of existence in the Trinity?

14. VVhat is his order in the Trinity?

15. VVhat is his personall propriety?

16. VVhat are the actions of the Spirit?

17. How there showne?

18. How is comfort attributed?

19. But are not these things from the Father also?

20. What is the holy Ghost then in briefe?

21. What his office?

22. What are those gifts?

23. How in regard of the persons?

24. How in regard of the times, or other circum∣stances?

25. How is the Spirit given?

26. How is the name of the Spirit of God taken?

27. Is it necessary to have the holy Ghost?

28. By what meanes is the holy Ghost attained?

29. How is that holy Spirit retained?

30. Can the Spirit of God be taken away?

31. How may we be assured of the presence of Gods Spirit dwelling in us?

32. How is Gods Spirit said to be quenched in us?

33. What is the sin against the holy Ghost?

34. How said to be unpardonable?

35. What learne we hence?

36. What profit hereof?

36. What followeth?

SECT. 11. The 9. Article, concerning the Catholique Church.

1. VVHat doth the last part of the Creed con∣cerne?

2. What herein to be then considered?

3. What of the action?

4. What difference to be noted herein?

5. What of the object the Church?

6. How shew you that there is a Church?

7. How doth faith see it so cleerly?

8. What Church or Churches?

9. What signifies, or whence this name Church, Ec∣clesia?

10. What is the Church then?

11. Js there but one Church?

12. How heare we then of many Churches, even in the Scriptures, and Apostles writings?

13. In what respects?

14. How could the Iewes Church and the Christians be one?

15. How could Christ be the head, or his faith in the Church of the Jewes?

16. Is our faith then the same with Abrahams?

17. But faith is of things not seene?

18. What are the particular Churches?

19. How expresse you the Church visible or invi∣sible?

20. Is the visible Church perfect?

21. How those other distinctions of the Church?

22. How said Catholique?

23. How holy?

24. What are notes of the true Church?

25. How is this proved?

26. How the word and preaching of it?

27. How shew you this?

28. How appeares that?

29. How testified in them?

30. How the Sacraments?

31. What say you by those markes, of universality, antiquity, visibility, succession, consent, and the like?

32. What use of these?

33. How demonstrated?

34. How make you that to appeare?

35. How found in the false Synagogues?

36. How more particularly?

37. What shall we say then of these Notes?

38. What say you of the Church of Rome?

39. But is not there holinesse without antiquity?

40. But the faith and holinesse of that Church is commended in Scriptures, and said to be famous, throughout the world?

41. Where is the true Church then?

42. Have not some in pretence of this been too vio∣lent, to purge or expunge things necessary?

43. Can the Church of Rome then, or any parti∣cular Church fall from God?

44. How then did God promise his Spirit to his Church, to be with it to the end of the world?

45 What learne you else concerning this Church?

46. What in this communion of Saints considered?

47. What is that communion then?

48. Between whom is this communion considered?

49. How with Christ, and God?

50. What fruit and profit of this?

51. How exemplified?

52. How of the Saints among themselves?

53. How between us and Saints in heaven?

54. How among the Saints on earth?

55. Why called Saints?

What comfort in this faith?

56. What learne we hence?

57. What followeth?

SECT. 12. The 10. 11. and 12. Articles of the Creed, con∣cerning the Priviledges of the Church.

1. VVHat is contained in these three last Articles?

2. What is forgivenesse of sins?

3. Wherein consisteth it?

4. How is the covering or discharging of sin?

5. How is it done?

6. How the imputation of Christs justice, and his merits?

7. To whom is then forgivenesse of sins?

8. Can we not satisfie for our owne sins?

9. Who forgiveth sin?

10. How is the Church said, or men, to forgive sinnes?

11. How the keyes? or power of them exercised?

12. How men? how doe they forgive?

13. How stands this with Gods justice?

14. What is then required to forgivenesse of sins?

15. What certainty of it?

16. What learne we hence?

17. What followeth of this?

18. But how, and when shall it be?

19. How can this be?

20. How is this further confirmed?

21. How in reason?

22. How in the justice of God?

23. How in equity?

24. How his mercies in Christ?

25. How farther illustrated?

26. What examples?

27. What other similitudes?

28. What hence gathered?

29. With what bodies then shall we rise?

30. How glorified?

31. How incorruptible?

32. How said a spirituall body?

33. How the Resurrection effected?

34. Of whom this resurrection meant?

35. What learne we hence?

36. What comforts to be hence raised?

37. What followeth hence?

38. What is your hope then?

39. What herein to be considered?

40. What is life?

41. How mean you that?

42. How doth the soule live?

43. How doth the body live?

44. What is eternity?

45. How explaine you this?

46. In what manner?

47. What is eternall life then?

48. How more largely?

49. How is this else called?

50. Js this also the life of Angels?

51. How so?

52. How is eternall life else taken?

53. How is this eternall life?

54. How manifold is eternall life then?

55. Which are they?

56. What the parts of this life, and blessednesse?

57. And how this estate expressed else in holy Scri∣pture?

57. But is not life everlasting to the wicked?

58. Why is not this their estate expressed also in the Creed?

59. What learne we hence?

60. Why is Amen added?

61. VVhat signifieth it?

62. What meane you then by it?

63. But how should Amen bee added, since it is no prayer?

64. For what things?

65. But doe not they abuse it that make a prayer of it?

66. Why the gesture of standing, used by all, at this confession?

67. What learne we hence?

SECT. 13. Quest. 6. Concerning the summe of the Creed.

1. VVHat learne you chiefly in these Articles?

2. What the first?

3. What note you in it?

4. Which the second?

5. What note you in this?

What more chiefly observed in the Mediator Christ?

6. How more especially his office of mediation seen?

7. Which the third part?

8. What note you in this?

9. But what is that which followeth in the Creed concerning the Church of God?

10. How are they called then?

11. Which are they?

12. Why is all this attributed to the Holy Ghost?

13. Is it not then to Christ?

14. How then attributed to the Father?

15. How to the Son?

16. How to the Holy Ghost?

17. This then is the sum of our faith?

18. What followeth?

The third part of the Catechism, concerning the Commandements.

SECT. 1. QUEST. 7. Wherein the transition.

1. YOu said that your Godfathers and God∣mothers did promise that you should keepe Gods Commandements?

2. Tell me how many there be?

3. How appeareth that?

4. What doe they containe?

5. What Law?

6. What other differences of Lawes are there?

Which are they?

7. How was the first Law of works promulgated?

8. What was the event?

9. How was that shewed?

10. What division?

11. Why are we to take notice of the Jews, or their Lawes?

12. Was the whole Church straitned in so narrow limits, as one little people?

13. What were those Laws then of that Church of God, among the Jews?

14. How long were these Laws to continue?

15. How then was it said a Law of the Jews?

16. What the difference between the judiciall, and morall Law?

17. Why should the judiciall so soone end?

18. But are we no more then tyed to obey, or respect it, then any other strange Law whatsoever?

19. What the difference betweene the Ceremoniall and Morall Law?

20. Why was the ceremoniall to end?

21. How learne we that ceremonies should end?

22. And are all ceremonies then ended?

23. How doe Christians use ceremonies then?

24. How is the morall law perpetuall?

25. How was the law in effect before?

26. How in particular the Commandements?

27. How the first Commandement?

28 How the second Commandement?

29. How the third Commandement?

30. How the fourth Commandement?

31. How the fifth Commandement?

32. How the sixth Commandement?

33. How the seventh Commandement?

34. How the eight Commandement?

35. How the ninth Commandement?

36. How the tenth Commandement?

37. How is this Law in effect with us?

38. How is it then said, we are not under the Law, but under Grace?

39. To what use doth the Law then remaine?

40. What the difference between the Law of workes, and of Grace, or the Law and the Gospell?

41. How doe the Law and Gospell agree?

42. How was the Law written or delivered?

43. Wherein written?

44. How twice written?

45. Why written in two Tables?

SECT. 2. Quest. 8. Concerning the Commandements, and first of the Preface, &c.

1. YOu signified ten Commandements, which are they?

2. What observe you here?

3. What threefold preface?

4. What is in that first preface?

5. How collect you this?

6. How is it said, the same?

7. How did God speake it?

8. How is the 20. Chapter of Exodus urged?

9. What circumstances?

10. How is it called the law of Moses?

11. Why are the words double so of speaking and saying?

12. Which is Moses preface?

13. What to be observed?

14. Which is the third preface?

15. Is it then a reason, or preface?

16. Is it a preface to the first onely, or all the Commandements?

17. VVhat observe you in that preface?

18. VVhat is his name?

19. VVhat noted you in it?

20. VVhat learne we hence?

21. VVhat Attributes?

22. But is not God also his name?

23. How are his attributes else showne?

24. What learne we hence?

25. But how doth this concern us?

26. What the actions here?

27. How is this understood?

28. Who are the true Israelites in spirit?

29. What hence enforced?

30. What else learne we from hence?

32. How his so especiall mercy?

33. What our duty hence?

34. For what profit, or to what end should wee doe this?

35 How should we best understand his Law?

36. VVhat rules or instructions have you for the better understanding of it?

37. Explaine this farther.

38. VVhat rules are those?

VVhich are those five?

39. VVhy is it thus to be understood?

40. How explaine you the first rule?

41. How the second Rule?

42. What of the third Rule?

43. What the fourth Rule?

44. What the fifth Rule?

45. May not these five Rules be contracted to a lesse number?

And how were they five rules then before?

46. What are the other secondary rules?

47. What followeth here then next to be considered?

SECT. 3. The first Commandement.

1. VVHat is contained in the first Table?

2. How many Commandements are there in the first Table?

3. What difference then is there of opinions?

4. What reasons had they for the first?

5. What pretence for leaving out a Commandment?

6. How prove you rather foure Commandements in the first Table?

7. What the first Commandement?

8. What Commandement is it?

9. What the negative part?

10. What the affirmative part?

11. How are the positive and opposite parts seene, or opposed?

12 How is this further demonstrated?

13. What is it to have the Lord for our God?

14. What the opposite of this?

15. How many sorts of Atheisme?

16. What is it to have him alone?

17. What opposite to this?

18. What Polytheisme?

19. What Idolatry?

20. Is there no other Idolatry?

21. Who then as thus Idolatrous?

22. Who are they?

23. Who doe idolatrize to Men, Angels, or the Divels?

24. What is it to love and honour God?

25. What is opposite to this?

26. How many sorts of ignorance?

27. What the fruit thereof?

28. But may not a small measure of knowledge, bee pleasing unto God?

29. But often seene the more knowledge, the lesse grace?

30. But ignorance is the mother of devotion?

31. How is ignorance the mother of prophanenesse?

32. How prophanenesse seen?

33. Is this the greatest sin against this Commande∣ment?

34. How are we to love God?

35. How is the love of God seen?

36. How in generall is the love of God considered?

37. VVhat are wee to consider in the knowledge of God?

38. VVhat in beleeving to be considered?

39. VVhat in remembring God to be considered?

40. What is assiance or trust?

41. What hope?

42. What is his feare?

43. What is rejoycing in God?

44. What is humility and submission to God?

45. What is patience?

46. VVhat obedience?

47. VVhat gratitude or thankefulnesse?

48. How to love God with all our strength?

49. How his honour set forth?

50. What is the zeale of Gods glory?

50. What opposite to this?

51. How holy life and behaviour?

52. Doth this extend then to all the Commande∣ments?

53. What followeth?

SECT. 4. The second Commandement.

1. VVHich the second Commandement?

2. What manner of Commandement is it?

3. What the negative part?

4. What the affirmative part?

5. How are these parts positive, and other parts seene opposite, or opposed?

6. How farther explained?

7. What is to be considered in the worship of God?

8. What is the scope of this Commandement?

9. VVhat profit thereof?

10. VVhat is first here forbidden?

11. Are all images forbidden?

12. VVhat images are here named?

13. VVhat explication followeth of them?

14. VVhy are we to make no image of God?

15. Is there no Image to be made, or representation of the Trinity?

16. May there be any lawfull use of them?

17. What of Images, of Saints and Angels?

18. What of the Sun, Moon, and host of heaven?

19. Why are they so particularly here remembred?

20. Is this the reason, they were so expresly and strictly forbidden?

21. The Image may not then be worshipped?

22. But may not God be worshipped in or by the Image?

23. Why this so strictly urged?

24. What other corrupt worship is forbidden?

25. What sorts of it?

26. What meane you by humane inventions?

27. May not ceremonies then be used?

28. What think you of them that allow of no exter∣nall rites, or ceremonies in Gods worship?

29. How many sorts of erring therein?

30. To whom belongs it to determine hereof?

31. What is resting in the out ward act and service only?

32. What is it impenitently to goe about Christian duties?

33. What are then the holy duties in the true wor∣ship commanded?

34. What in prayer to be considered?

35. What parts?

36. What is confession?

37. What Petition?

38. What intercession?

39. What is thankesgiving?

40. What opposite vices?

41. What order and directions in prayer?

42. To whom?

42. In what manner?

43. For what things?

44. What circumstances?

45. What concerning the hearing and handling the word?

46. What the teacher?

47. VVhat of the hearers?

48. VVhat of the Sacraments?

49. VVhat say you of fasts and feasts?

50. To whom 〈…〉 worship do•cted?

51. How is it then to be done?

52. How is that best seene?

53. Whence are the reasons of this Commandement? Drawne from Gods

53. How this punishment set forth?

54. Shall the children beare the fathers iniquity?

55. How are they said to hate God?

56. Why is the Lord said to hate them, or jealous?

57. How are his blessings to the faithfull described?

58. Why said to thousands?

59. But we see the righteous often troubled?

60. How are they said to love him?

61. To what end these reasons?

62. What followeth?

SECT. 5. The third Commandement.

1. VVHich is the third Commandement?

2. What manner of Commandement?

3. What is the negative part?

4. What the affirmative part?

5. How the parts opposite, or opposed seen?

6. What is understood by Gods name?

7. How is his name, signifying himselfe, or his At∣tributes abused?

8. How honoured and well used?

9. How is his name, as it signifieth his glory abused?

10. How contrariwise herein to be honoured?

11. How dishonoured in his Titles?

12. How honoured by them?

13. How is his word abused?

14. How well used?

15. How in his Ordinances honoured, or dishonou∣red?

16. How in his Religion honoured, or dishonoured?

17. How honoured in his workes of Creation?

18. How dishonoured in them?

19. How honoured, or dishonoured in his workes of gubernation, his blessing or judgements?

20. What meane you then by taking Gods name in vaine?

22. What is blasphemy?

22. How is blasphemy against God?

23. How is this to be understood?

24. What opposite duty?

25. What abuse by cursing and banning?

26. May we not curse then?

27. Why should we not curse?

28. How is it that cursings and excommunications are found in the Scriptures, and in the Church?

29. What opposite duty?

How blesse we God?

30. How blesse we men?

31. What abuse by swearing?

32. How is this abuse of swearing?

33. How many sorts of oathes be there?

What false swearing?

How swearing deceitfully?

34. What is rash swearing?

35. What common swearing?

36. Whence the heynousnesse thereof?

37. What other vaine swearing?

38. How may that be?

39. What the solly or vanity of them?

40. How commeth it to bee so foolish or dam∣nable?

41. What is the odiousnesse of perjury?

42. How so?

43. What is the opposite hereof?

44. What is the right and lawfull use?

45. What the end?

46. What are vowes?

47. What required in promissory oathes?

What other conditions required in vowes?

48. Of what sorts are vowes?

49. What common errors in oathes and vowes?

50. What is the hainousnesse of the guilt and of∣sence hereby?

51. What the generall duty affirmed?

52. How especially scene?

53. VVhat is else here intimated?

54. VVhat reasons of this Commandement?

55. VVhat the implicite reason?

56. What the commination?

57. Whence this so fearfull commination?

58. But what followeth?

SECT. 6. The fourth Commandement.

1. VVHat is the fourth Commandement?

2. What contained herein?

3. What is the order of this Commandement to the rest?

4. What manner of Commandement?

5. What the affirmative part?

6. What the negative part?

7. How the parts and duties opposite, seene oppo∣sed?

8. What is the duty of sanctification of the Sab∣bath?

9. What day is so to be set apart?

11. How is it that our Sabbath differeth from the Jewes Sabbath?

11. How prove you this Commandement to be me∣rall, and perpetuall?

12. What necessity of a Sabbath?

13. But is not a Christians Sabbath every day?

14. But since the Jewes Sabbath altered, may not any Christian make or set out what day he please for Sabbath?

15. How then is our Sabbath to be shewed or pro∣ved, or established, instead of the Jewes Sabbath?

16. How by the Lords owne doings?

17. How by the Apostles doctrine and practice?

18. How farther confirmed?

19. The Sabbath then is certaine and fixed?

20. What use or end of these renewed Sabbaths?

21. How summe you up these collections?

22. But the Apostles sometimes used the Jews Sab∣bath?

23. What other arguments or reasons of convenience are brought for our Christian Sabbath, or Lords day?

24. What course then to be used and held for the due sanctification of the Sabbath, and rightly to understand or interpret the fourth Commandement?

25. This way then is spoken against?

26. Whence ariseth this Doctrine?

27. What course then particularly best to be held, or taken herein?

28. How for the morality of it?

29. How show you the ceremony?

30. Shew it more particularly.

31. But how say you by him changed, for that is still by some controverted?

32. Such as doe question this, make as little scruple to question the Churches power, and disobey it?

33. How farre then is the Churches order to bee obeyed?

34. If this be granted in the Churches power, why may they not now alter it, or then have appointed any other day then the seventh?

35. This is then your resolution?

36. It seems then as strict, if not stricter, and hea∣vier then the Jewes Sabbath?

37. How shew you this?

38. How is it ordained a Sabbath, or rest?

39. How the rest?

40. How the sanctification of this rest?

41. What duties are they?

42. Are there not other workes of necessity?

43. How are they then permitted?

44. How is that?

45. May not the poore then be suffered to worke for necessity?

46. Js the whole Sabbath to bee spent in such holy exercises?

47. But this may seeme burdensome, and make the Lords day grievous?

48. But is no relaxation of such exercises, or re∣creation allowed?

49. How is that to be understood?

50. What is the opposite part or vice hereunto op∣posed?

51. How not setting apart a day of rest?

52. How to be remedied?

53. How is the farther abuse, and prophanation?

54. How is the heynousnesse of this sinne intimated?

55. How is it then generally or commonly prophaned?

56. What is the issue generally hereof?

57. What is the second part of the duty in sanctify∣ing the Sabbath.

58. What is it to remember?

59. What impediments to be removed?

60. What helpes to be used?

61. What preparations else?

62. What private duties?

63. What publique?

64. What of the Minister?

65. What of the people?

66. What the opposite offences?

67 How more in particular?

68. What else may be said to offend thus?

69. What say you then of other holidayes appoin∣ted?

How were such Sabbaths?

70. What use of these our holy dayes?

71. But how doth this agree with the Commande∣ment, that appointeth the six dayes for labour?

72. What rules for weekly or daily devotion?

73. What further warrant have wee for holy dayes, or fasting dayes?

74. Are these to be observed as strictly as the Sab∣bath?

75. What was that farther explication of this Commandement?

76. How is the permission of the six dayes to labour?

77. Why is the Commandement then doubled?

78. Wherein the amplification chiefly?

79. Why so?

80. Why this so strictly urged?

81. What then the end of the Sabbath?

82. What reasons of this duty urged here?

83. What are the reasons intimated?

84. What reasons expressed?

What more learne you from the sanctifying the Sab∣bath day?

Which are they?

But these things are not to be found perpetuall, and at all times in the Church?

What difference between Gods sanctifying the Sab∣bath and ours?

This duty it seems of sanctifying, it is vehemently and often here pressed and urged?

What followeth?

SECT. 7. The fifth Commandement.

1. VVHat is the fifth Commandement?

2. What is the order of it?

3. What rules were they?

4. What the meaning of the first rule?

5. How the second rule explained?

6. How the third rule explained?

7. How is the fourth rule to be understood?

8. How the fifth rule explained?

9. What is the summe of the second Table?

10. What is thereby expressed?

11. Why have all the Commandements of the first Table their reason, annexed, and so not the second?

12. Why hath this onely the promise?

13. How is the image of the divine Majesty more particularly expressed in superiours?

14. What is therein contained?

What manner of Commandement is it?

15. What is the affirmative part?

16. What the negative part?

17. How are the opposite or opposed parts seene or intimated here?

18. Who are then accordingly accounted Fathers?

19. In what manner are they so Fathers?

How may these superiours be distinguished?

What the generall duties of superiours, that they may worthily be accounted so?

20. What the generall duties of inferiours?

21. What the opposite vices in generall?

22. What the duties in particular of superiours, in inward gifts of minde?

23. What of inferiours herein?

24. What the duties of the ancient?

25. What the duties of youngers?

26. What duties of those dignified by nobility, gen∣try, or other degrees of eminency?

27. What the duty there, of inferiours?

28. What the duty of the wealthy?

29. What duties of inferiours?

29. What requiredin Benefactors.

30. What duty of the receivers of a benefit?

31. What the opposite or negative part of all the former?

32. Who are those other superiours in authority?

33. How the order of these?

34. What duty of Parents?

35. What the duty of children?

36. What the duties of husbands and wives?

37. What the duty of Masters?

38. What servants duties?

39. What the duties of other governours in Schools or other societies?

40. What of the governed?

41. What duties of Ministers, and Ecclesiasticall Fathers?

42. What duty of the people towards them?

43. What duty of Kings or Soveraignes?

44. What subjects duties?

45. What duties of Magistrates?

46. What the peoples duties?

47. What is then the generall duty of governours, or superiours in authority?

48. What generall duties of inferiours, and subjects to authority?

49. What the generall duty of all?

50. What in generall forbidden to all?

51. But what if it be an evill Prince or Tyrant?

52. What if an unnaturall and evill or cruell fa∣ther?

53. What of an evill husband, or lewd wife?

54. What if an evill Minister, or other notorious wicked person?

55. But what if they command evill?

56. May here be too much submission, or obedience to Superiours?

57. What may we thinke of evill Princes or Supe∣riours?

58. What of eye-service, fraudulent and deceitfull Obedience?

59. What of cursers, or mockers of Superiours?

60. What vertues in generall or particular here commanded?

61. What is the reason of this Commandement?

62. How is this to be understood?

63. How is long life a blessing, since many dayes commonly evill and troublesome?

64. But we see disobedient and evill children, some∣times live long, and the vertuous dye in prime of their age?

65. But it seems contrary, when evill and unruly children live long?

66. Why is long life proposed the promise or bles∣sing?

67. So it might be to all the Commandements?

68. How meane you that?

69. How so?

70. Why said the land that the Lord God giveth?

71. What followeth?

SECT. 8. The sixt Commandement.

1. VVHich is the sixt Commandement, or second of the second Table?

2. What is the order of this?

3. What manner of Commandement?

4. What the negative part, and what here forbid∣den?

VVhat the affirmative part, or here commanded?

5. How the opposite parts herein seene, or opposed?

6. What things in particular then understood for∣bidden?

7. VVhat is murder in the foulest sense?

8. VVhat is the hoynousnesse of it?

9. VVhat is to be thought of the former branches thereof?

10. VVhence floweth it?

11. VVhich are the steps to actuall murder?

12. VVhy say you unjust anger?

12. How is unjust anger knowne?

13. VVhat the fruit of this anger?

14. VVhat the opposite duty required?

15. VVhat is hatred?

16. VVhat the fruits?

17. VVhat the opposite duty required or comman∣ded?

18. VVhat is malice?

19. VVhat is uncharitablenesse?

20. How against those in prosperity and adversity?

21. VVhat opposite duty required?

22. How against friends or foes?

23. What duties on the other side required?

24. How against neighbours, strangers, or under∣lings?

25. What opposite duties required?

26. What outward signes of uncharitablenesse, an∣ger, hatred, or rankor?

27. What farther degrees of murder?

28. What is the opposite duty here required?

29. How are these sinnes branded, or the heynous∣nesse noted?

30. VVhat farther degrees of murther?

31. How quarrell and contention?

32. VVhat punishment?

33. VVhat opposite duty?

34. What of offering violence and wrong?

35. What opposite duty?

36. What utmost degree of murder?

37 What of selfe murder?

38. What may be occasions of so horrible a sin so to be avoyded?

39. What speciall remedy, or preservative in such danger?

But what if Satan, and his temptations, be too busie and present?

40. But some as Lucretia have been commended for it for preservation of chastity or vertue?

41. What sorts of selfe-murder?

4. What opposite duty required?

43. What in other murder else to be considered?

44. What of the persons?

45. How the principall or accessory?

46. What the other respects?

47. How is it said to be good and just?

48. All taking away life is not then here forbidden?

49. How of Moses, Phinees, and the like?

50. What else of the matter or manner?

51. What the punishment?

52. Why so severe punishment?

53. How is soule murder understood?

54. What duties opposite required?

55. What the sum of all?

56. What followeth?

SECT. 9. The seventh Commandement.

1. VVHat is the seventh Commandement?

2. What is the order of it?

3. What manner of Commandement?

4. What the negative part?

5. What in these branches then more expresly for∣bidden?

6. VVhat the affirmative part?

7. VVhat in these branches more expresly to bee un∣derstood?

8. How are the parts here seene opposite or opposed?

9. What is chastity?

10. What is inward chastity, or that of the soule?

11. What is the opposite, or unchastity of the soule?

12. What outward chastity?

13. What the opposite unchastity?

14. How meane you that uncleannesse of the fact?

15. How is chastity usually set forth?

16. VVhat the opposite of this?

17. VVhat meanes of preserving chastity to bee ob∣served?

18. What opposite to this?

19. What signes of chastity to be noted?

20. What duty of procuring, or preserving others chastity?

21. What the opposite hereof?

22. What are the degrees in this sin?

23 How account you of the first degree?

24. What of pride in atire, dancing and gadding abroad?

25. Some speake very bitter words against dan∣cing?

26. But doe not the Fathers and Doctors say as much?

27. How is this to be understood?

28. Is no dauncing then to be allowed?

29. What in the next degrees?

30. Which are the kindes?

31. But are not Stuprum and Rape also fornica∣tion?

32. What of fornication?

33. How is the detestablenesse thereof showne?

33. What say you then of Adultery?

34. How is it adultery accounted with the maid?

35. How compared with fornication?

36. How so heynous a sin, that so severely punished?

37. How is it greater or worse then theft?

39. What punishments?

40. How many instances of the execution of such lawes?

41. How shew you that?

42. Recite some of them?

42. In this sufficiently declared the odiousnesse of this soule and crying sin?

43. How is it to be shewed?

44. But what say you then of chastity in the other side?

45. How shew you this?

46. How in Joseph?

47. How then was Polygamy being but a kinds of pollution, allowed to the Jewes?

48. What can be said then more in detestation and of the heinousnesse of those crying sins?

49. What is the best course to be taken to avoid so horrible a sin?

50. Which are they in this sin?

51. Explane it further?

52 What say you then of marriage?

53. What speciall care to be had then in marriage?

54. What to be said of incest?

55. What of sodomy, and the like?

56. What is then here in generall comman∣ded?

57. What followeth?

SECT. 10. The eight Commandement.

1. VVHich the eight Commandement?

2. What is the order of it?

3. What manner of Commandement?

4. What the negative part?

5. What the affirmative part?

6 How are the opposite parts seen or opposed?

7. How is unjust getting our own goods, accounted theft?

8. What are the principall and most noted things here forbidden?

9. What understand you by stealing?

10. What the plainest meaning of theft or robbery?

11. What is to be said of wars and such rapines?

12. What to be thought of poore that steale for necessity?

13. Why are they then so severely punished?

14. Who are usually the offenders herein?

15. Is not restitution satisfaction for this offence?

16. What other sorts of robbers?

17. What other distinction of them?

18. What say you of Incendiaries, Witches, &c.

19. What say you of oppression?

20. How say you so?

21. In what sort?

22. How is this to be seen?

23. What is deceit or fraud in buying or selling?

34. How is it found or practised?

25. What other fraud in buying and selling?

26. What other deceit, or fraud in contracts?

27. How for borrowing and lending?

28. How for alienation for a time, or for ever?

29. What in other promises or persons of trust re∣quired?

30. How of contracts of hire and recompence?

31. What say you then of unlawfull trades, or gain, or which you call so?

32. How is their unlawfulnesse shewne?

33. What is sacriledge?

34. How is it then tollerated?

35. What are the branches of this sin?

36. What other sorts before remembred?

37. How is prodigality a theft?

37. How is covetousnesse theft?

38. How unmercifulnesse theft?

39. What is on the contrary here commanded?

40. How restitution to be made?

41. How equity and justice commanded?

42. How faire dealing in buying and selling, and contracts?

43. What lawfull trades, or honest meanes of gaine commanded?

44. What sorts of honest getting of things?

45. What things required to honest gettings?

46. How are they to be preserved?

47. Is it lawfull to goe to law, to retaine or pre∣serve them, or maintaine our right?

48 How is the due use of our goods?

49. How liberally to be used?

50. How is mercy and charity to be showne?

51. What is the summe of all?

52. What followeth?

SECT. 11. The ninth Commandement.

1. VVHat is the ninth Commandement?

2. What is the order of this Commandement to the first?

3. What manner of Commandement?

4. What the negative part?

5. What the affirmative part?

6. How are the parts seene opposite or opposed?

7. What manner of vice is it forbidden?

8. What manner of duty commanded?

9. What is truth?

10. What are the parts of the vice here forbidden?

11. How false witnesse bearing?

12. How in the Judge to be found?

13. What then required of the Judge?

14. How false testimony in the Notaries?

15. How in Lawyers?

16. What their duty then?

How false dealing in the parties?

17. How the offence in the Plaintife or Defendant more in particular?

18. How the offence of witnesses?

19. What their duty then?

What other publique testimonies?

20. What other private testimonies?

21. What is slanders and backbiting?

22. What is the heynousnesse of it?

23. How is it used?

24. What tale-bearing?

25. What is the subject of it?

26. What the heinousnesse?

27. What of flatterers?

28. What is flattery?

29. How is it else seen?

30. What of lying and equivocations?

31. What sorts of lying or falshood?

32. How the officious lye?

33. What of the pernitious lye?

34. What of the varnishing lye?

35. How of the boasting lye?

36. What of equivocation?

37. How is it so ill then?

38. What are to be said of parables and similies that are not the very truth?

39. What here commanded then in generall?

40. How found in the heart?

41. How to be found in the speech and tongue?

42. What meanes to entertaine such speech?

43. How found in practice and in deed?

44. How is our neighbours good name maintained?

45. What if he be manifestly ill, may we not speak it?

46. How to preserve or procure our owne good name?

47. How is true testimony to be given of our selves?

48. What followeth?

SECT. 12. The tenth Commandement.

1. VVHat is the tenth Commandement?

2. What the order of it?

3. What manner of Commandement?

4. What the negative part?

5. What the affirmative part?

6. How the parts opposite, scene opposed?

7. What sorts of concupiscence?

8. What opposite to it?

9. Whence commeth actuall concupiscence?

10. How shall we then avoid it?

11. What are the degrees hereof?

12. How the affections of the heart else distinguished?

13. How evill concupiscence distinguished?

14. VVhence commeth the evill of them?

15. Which are they?

16. What then in generall forbidden here?

17. Why so precisely forbidden?

18. But is it not forbidden in the other Comman∣dements?

19. What is then here commanded?

20. How is this to be effected?

21. What are the parts of it?

22. But this is beyond the Law?

23. How may our willingnesse be seene?

24. What generally commanded here?

25. What are the fruits hereof?

26. What the whole duty man?

27. VVhat the sum of the Commandements?

28. VVhat followeth in the Catechisme?

SECT. 13. The ninth and next Questions.

1. VVHat doe you chiefly learne in these Com∣mandements?

2. How is love the fountaine of these duties, or sum of the Law?

3. What is thy duty towards God?

4. VVhat meane you by this?

5. In what wanner?

6. VVhat is love to these duties?

7. VVhat is thy duty to thy neighbour?

8. How is that, to love my neighbour as my selfe?

9. VVho can love his neighbour so?

10. But we see none doe love other, so much as them∣selves?

11 How meane you it then?

12. How then shall this love be?

13. What will the effect of this be?

14. How is that to doe to all men as I would, &c.

15. How towards superiours?

16. How towards others?

17. What is it to bear nomclice or hatred in my

18. What is it to keepe my body in temperance, so∣bernesse and chastity?

19. What to keepe my hands from picking and stea∣ling?

20. What by keeping the tongue from evill speaking, lying and slandering?

21. What is it not to covet or desire other mens goods?

22. Why are we to learne or labour?

23. How ought we to be content in our estate?

24. How is God said to call us to our estate?

25. How are we to shew our thankefulnesse?

26. Are we able to performe this?

27. What followeth then?

The fourth part of the Catechisme, Concerning Prayer.

SECT. 1. The twelfth Question.

2. What is therein contained?

3. How is the purity and excellency of the Law∣giver understood?

4. How the purity and holinesse of the Law seene?

5. How is then called the strength of sin, 1 Cor. 15?

6. But obedience to the Law is true justice.

7. But none may be justified by the Law?

8. Why can none fulfill it?

9. What is the use of the Law?

10. How is this use of the Law then branched?

11. What the civill use?

12. What the spirituall use?

13. Why should they be condemned since they are not able to performe it?

14. What the use to the children of God?

15. What is then further expressed in this preface?

16. How is our inability seene?

17. Was no man ever able to performe them?

18. How is the estate of man to be considered?

19. How was that perfection in Adam seene?

20. How the depraved nature of man?

21. How this more manifested?

22. How those in estate of grace?

23. Are none then perfect here?

24. What ability then may we 〈…〉?

25. Whence are we to expect it?

26. What meanes to obtaine it?

27. Is there such necessity of prayer then?

28. Is there such need for the faithfull also to pray?

29. What manner of prayer required?

30. What further intimated in the question follow∣ing this preface?

31. Why is it called the Lords Prayer?

32. Is it then meant in those very words?

33. What followeth?

SECT. 2. The Lords Prayer.

1. REcite the Lords Prayer.

2. What is here especially to be observed?

3. What is prayer?

4. What in it to be considered?

5. What the nature or essence?

6. Why say you an immediate worship of God?

7. How meane you the rest?

7. What are the parts then of prayer?

8. What order of these?

9. What sorts of prayer are there?

10. What mentall prayer?

11. What vocall prayer?

12. VVhich the more excellent?

13. What publique prayer?

14. What private prayer?

15. Which the more excellent of private or pub∣lique prayer?

16. What are ejaculatory prayers?

17. What other sorts of prayer?

18. But doe not some despise or disprove these set formes of prayer?

19. What sorts of prayer chiefly to be used?

20. But what if we use only some of these?

21. But what if we neglect any of these, or some one onely?

22. How meane you that?

23. What good meanes may be used to stir us up to these duties?

24. How, or in what respect?

25. When and where are we to pray?

26. What else to be noted for the circumstances of prayer?

27. How is that?

28. What other the rules, or order in prayer?

29. What virtues required?

30. What the conditions then of true prayer?

31. What the wings of prayer?

32. Can the wicked pray or no?

33. But doe they not seem to pray?

34. What differences between wishes & true prayer?

How appeares the excellency of it?

How shew you the necessity thereof?

How then more shown the force and efficacie of praier?

What other godly directions have you concerning prayer?

What followeth in speciall to be considered?

SECT. 3. Of the Lords Prayer in particular, and the Preface thereof.

1. IS it fit to pray in the very words of the Lords Prayer?

2. But may we not alter them?

3. May we not pray the effect of any one petition by it selfe?

4. What is therein contained?

5. What is contained in the Preface?

6. Who is here understood, called Father?

7. How is God our Father?

8. What Sons hath God?

9. What are we put in minde of by this name Fa∣ther?

10. Why call we him Father rather then by any o∣ther name?

11. How are we then comforted in the name Fa∣ther?

12. What else learne we hence?

13. Why say we our Father?

14. But why may we not as well say my Father?

15. Of what doth it then chiefly minde us?

16. What learne we farther hence?

17. Whom are we then to pray for?

18. Are there not some then we ought not to pray for?

19. Why added, which art in heaven?

20. Why to remember us of his Majesty, Power and Glory?

21. Why to clevate our minds?

22. How to minde us where we are?

23. How is he said to be in heaven?

24 How his glory seen or manifested there?

25. How else is it manifested thence?

26. How his mercies and judgements manifested thence?

27. How is he then by us conceived to be in hea∣ven?

28. Is he not then on earth?

29. Why say we then so particularly in heaven?

30. What more learne we hence?

31. How is this especiall comfort, confidence or joy?

32. But if we be his, what need we often pray?

33. What if we neglect it?

34. What farther expositions may you make here∣of?

35. What followeth?

SECT. 4. The three former Petitions of &c.

1. HOw many petitions are there, and how divided?

2. Doe not all of them concerne Gods glory?

3. What learne you from the order of them?

4. What farther reasons for this?

5. What note you else generally in petitions?

6. What for the number of the petitions?

7. How doe the three first petitions concerne his glory?

8. What desire you then in that first petition, Hal∣lowed be thy name?

9. Why this petition first placed?

10. Who erre from this?

11. What parts of this petition?

12. What is meant by the name of God?

13. What is meant by sanctifying?

4. In what manner?

5. How is that performed?

6. How especially and particularly?

7. How else to be hallowed?

8. But his name is most holy, and how can it bee more hallowed, or prophaned?

9. Is this then the summe of the third Commande∣ment onely prayed for?

10. What the sum of this petition then?

11. What is in the letter here expressed?

12. What farther intimated?

13. How summe you up all these together?

14. What the second petition?

15. What the order of it?

16. What parts of this petition?

17. What meane you by his Kingdome?

18. What meane you by the action come?

19. How make you application particularly of the action to the object?

20. What for his Kingdome of grace?

21. How for the Kingdome of glory?

22. What is the Scepter of this Kingdome of God?

23. What instruments doth God exercise in it?

24. What doe you then pray for in this respect?

25. What is opposite to this Kingdome?

26. What of these?

27. What in summe is there then expressed or inti∣mated in this Petition?

28. How sum you up this in order?

29. What the third petition?

30. What is the order of it?

31. What the parts?

32. What is the will of God?

33. What the doing or performance of it?

34. How is this that rule of direction or imitation?

35. How is it so done?

36. How are Angels so obeying?

37. What opposite to this doing of Gods will?

38. Who worketh this opposition?

39. How is our will so ill?

40. But doe we not sometimes will better things?

41. What are we to doe then or pray for here?

42. How is Gods will knowne?

43. Doe we desire that God will doe his owne will?

44. How is that obedience?

45. How active obedience?

46. How passive obedience?

47. What is in the letter here expressed?

48. What further intimated?

49. How summe you up this in order?

50. What followeth?

SECT. 5. The three latter Petitions concerning our¦selves.

1. VVHat are the three latter Petitions?

2. What the first of these Petitions?

3. What is the order?

4. What contained or to be confidered in it?

5. What understood by bread?

6. How for the first sense?

7. How is the word of God bread?

7. How is Christ the bread of life?

9. What then of other naturall or materiall bread?

10. But why is all food called bread?

11. Why say you Our bread?

12. Who offend against this?

13. Why say we daily bread?

14. What meane you in the action by Give?

15. Why say we, Give us?

16. Why say we, This day?

17. But what need rich men say this, or those that have enough for many dayes?

18. What is then generally desired hereby?

19. Who pray not aright, or offend in this?

20. What pray we against?

21. What in the letter hereof expressed?

What intimated?

22. How summe you it up together in order?

23. What the second petition for our selves?

24. What the order of it?

25. What herein contained?

26. What meant by forgivenesse?

27. What meant by sin or our debts?

28. What sorts of these debts are there?

29. Why say we our trespasses?

30. Why adde we that condition, 〈◊〉 we forgive, &c.

31. What if we doe not forgive them?

32. May we not leave this petition then?

33. Who then can forgive sins?

34. But how can men forgive sin?

35. When man hath forgiven, is the sin acquitted?

35. What if man doe not, or will not forgive?

36. What need we aske forgivenesse then of men, or give it them?

37. What forgivenesse of our brother then requi∣red?

38. How is it forgiven, if satisfaction required?

39. Who offend against this?

40. What then of David, Moses, or others, that cursed or punished offences severely?

41. How of the Magistrate that punisheth and not forgiveth?

42. But who is so faithfull and charitable, that can as we ought so truly and fully forgive?

43. How doth the Church forgive sinnes?

44. But is not this power of the Priests, and of the Church, controverted, or denyed?

45. How show you, or confirme you it?

46. What ancient Fathers else?

47. But put all out of doubt, how shew you it by Scripture?

48. Is this the tenet also of our Church?

49. But here some may say, at the time of death, indeed, in articulo mortis, it may be more convenient, though not else?

50. But how is the Minister able to discerne the spi∣rits, or to do this sufficiently, not knowing the secrets of the heart, or sins lurking there?

51. But is not private or auricular confession, how ever it seeme needfull sometimes rooted out of our Church and abolished?

52. What differs the Priests power, ministerialiter that you shewed before, and this declarative?

55. This authority then of the Church and Priests in that point is cleare enough?

54. If this were the doctrine of the ancients, how was it seconded by their practise?

55. How was that?

56. There were many degrees of their remission then?

57. What principally observable in this absolution?

68. How many sorts of forgivenesse here intimated

59. What desire we then herein?

60. What opposite to this?

61. What in the letter here expressed?

62. What intimated?

63. Summe up these together in order?

SECT. 6. Of the sixt, and last Petition.

1. VVHat the last Petition?

2. What is to be observed in the order and num∣ber of it?

3. What are the parts of it?

4. What are temptations?

5. What meant by leading into temptation?

6. What is meant by evill here?

7. What meant by preventing grace?

8. How is God to be said to lead us?

9. But we pray against some temptations, as well as the leading into them?

10. What is the subsequent grace desired?

II. What are the degrees of evill temptation?

12. How many sorts of evill temptation?

13. What meanes of helpe prescribed against sinne and temptation?

14. What is here then desired?

15. What prayed against?

16. What expressed in the letter?

17. What intimated?

18. How summe you it up together in order?

SECT. 7. The Conclusion.

1. VVHat is the conclusion added?

2. Why is it added?

3. What herein contained?

4. How a reason of our faith and assurance?

5. How a reason of our praise and thanksgiving?

6. What meant by Kingdome?

7. What his power?

8. What is that glory?

9. Wherein his glory most seen?

10. How the eternity?

11. How the certainty of it?

12. How is this ascribed?

13. What doth this teach Princes?

14. What to Magistrates?

15. What to any other of high condition?

16. What to all other the faithfull?

17. What else learne you out of this conclusion?

18. How is that observed?

19. What or whence the ground of our confidence?

20. How is Amen understood?

21. How is Amen used?

22. How here used?

23. For what may it serve us then?

24. In what may we then be assured or confirmed in this faith and confidence?

25. What followeth in the Catechisme?

SECT. 8. The thirteenth Question.

1. VVHat desirest thou of God in this Prayer?

2. What is here in these words contained?

3. How then shew you the parts, and petitions of it particularly?

4. And how doe you more particularly shew the full exposition thereof?

5. How in the Preface?

6. How in the first Petition?

7. How in the second Petition?

8. How in the third Petition?

9. How in the fourth Petition?

10. How in the fifth Petition?

9. How in the sixt Petition?

10. How in the conclusion?

11. What other exposition of this Prayer can you briefly shew?

12. In what manner?

13. How is this exposition approved?

14. Wherefore say you so?

15. How is this seen or shewne?

16. It seemes then spirituall matters are desired in every one of the Petitions?

17. And so in every of the Petitions, all virtues desired to be 〈◊〉, and sins to be removed?

18. Is the conclusion therefore added?

19. What followeth?

PART. 5. Of the SACRAMENTS.

SECT. 1. Of the SACRAMENTS in generall. Quest. 14.

2. Why say you generally ne∣cessary?

3. How is the necessity then?

4. How is the utility of them?

5. How are they to be accounted of then?

6. How come they to be so?

7. How succeed they then?

8. How doe they represent the former?

9. How in Baptisme seene?

10. How in the Lords Supper?

11. What meane you by Scales of the Cove∣nant?

12. What is a Covenant?

13. What required in such covenant?

14. How are these observed in Gods covenant?

15. Are they two covenants then or one?

16. How doe they agree?

17. How differ they?

18. How are they then called, as distinguished.

19 But had not they the Gospel?

20. What is intended then by the Covenant of God in generall?

21. What are the parts then of it, and parties?

22. How is this Covenant made knowne, or ex∣tant?

23. What Instrument or Record of it?

24. How called Instruments?

25. How called Testaments?

26. But God cannot die, how is it then his Will or Testament?

27. Who the Authour in the old Testament?

28. Who the other party?

29. Who the Penmen hereof?

30. How God himselfe?

31. Who the other publicke Notaries?

32. How were they signed?

33. How delivered?

34. How sealed?

35. What Sacraments?

36. What graces?

37. What witnesses?

38. Who was the Mediator in that?

39. Who the Authour in the new Testament?

40. Who the other party?

41. Who the Dictator of it?

42. Who the Penmen?

43. Who were they?

44. How signed?

45. How delivered?

46. What witnesses?

47. How sealed?

48. What graces in the Sacraments?

49. What is this order of this doctrine of the Sa∣craments to the rest?

50. How is the number so few as two?

51. How is it that five more have been added?

52. How say you so?

53. How appeareth this?

54. What is a Sacrament then?

55. What here to be observed?

56. How is it found in the Sacraments?

57. How shew you it particularly of them?

58. What of confirmation?

59. What of extreame unction?

60. How of pennance?

61. How of Orders, or Ordination?

62. How came these other to be so accounted Sacra∣ments?

63. And is not this sufficient?

64. What shall we then doe herein?

65. Must all of necessity then use the true Sacra∣ments?

66. How many and what are the parts of a Sacra∣ment then, set forth in the definition of them?

67. How shew you this then more fully?

SECT. 2. Of BAPTISME.

1. VVHat is the outward signe in Baptisme?

2. What herein to be noted?

4. What the inward grace?

5. Whence is it? Or what reason of this?

6. What is herein to be considered?

7. Which are the parts resembling one another?

8 How distinguished into Relata and Corelata?

9. Which the Relation?

10. How the presentation of it to the soule?

11. What the effect, or efficacie and vertue thereof?

12. What is intended herein?

13. How is this explained?

14. How is this Renewing wrought?

15. But who is so renewed?

16. But is this done in us by the very act of Bap∣tisme or of the Baptizer?

17. What is then required in persons to bee bap∣tized?

18 What is Repentance?

19. Which are they?

19. What is the fruit of Repentance?

20. What is Faith?

21. What is the seat of Faith?

22. What is the ground of faith?

23. What is the object of faith?

24. How is use to be made of it?

25. What condition required?

26. How doe we then need them?

27. Why are Infants then baptised when by reason of their tender age they cannot performe them?

28. In what manner?

29. But is that sufficient?

What is the ground of the reasons?

30. How as it succeedeth circumcision?

31. How in respect of the institution?

32. How by the doctrine of the Apostles?

33. How the practice of them?

34. What reason for it?

35. But they want actuall faith and repentance?

36. How is it added that when they come to are, they are bound to performe?

37. When is this chiefly shewne or declared?

38 Is this the generally received doctrine?

38. How in such as are of yeares converted?

39. Who may baptise?

40. How of others that doe it?

41. How many sorts of Baptisme?

43. What difference between Christs and Johns Baptisme?

44. Doth not John hereby then more distinguish them?

45. How did they differ from the legall oblations?

46. What are the ends of Baptisme?

47. Why ought not baptisme to be iterated?

48. How of those that fall out of the Church?

49. How hath this been used and practized in the Church?

50. Which are they?

51. Were there then so divers degrees in the Church?

52. In what manner?

53. Was this order so strictly then observed?

54. But some have transgressed anciently against those both Orders and Decorum in the Church.

55. Whence may we gather such order and degrees, and thence arising different respects to be, or to be warranted in the holy places, persons or things?

56. And how since the Law was it observed?

57. They intend perha•s with more freedo•e, and bo••ly to come and performe those acts of divine wor∣ship there?

58. How groweth yet this distinction of holinesse and degrees of it, in such manner in the holy places or things?

59. In what other matters?

60. How further prove you, or shew you that?

61. And how pertaines this to us?

62. Wherefore should that reverence be used?

63. And so we are commanded to pray and wor∣ship in all places, and God will be worshipped eve∣ry where.

64. Could any be so presumptuous to contemne it?

65. How then be shewen the best order and degrees in these things, from primitive and purest times deri∣ved?

66. Why were these things thus observed?

67. But is not thereby too much reverence used, or too much magnisicence brought into Churches?

68. But the word Altar hath offended s•me?

69. How shew you Altars so ancient, or in them?

70. D th our Church allow of altars then?

71. But these things are thought by some to favour too much of Gentilisme, and Pagan or Romish su∣perstition?

72. Was this if so ancient, a• universall also?

73. Was there no other, or greater difference?

74. How is the consideration of these things perti∣nent to our purpose?

In what manner?

How is that mystery or name of the Beast, and An∣tichrist meant or explained?

Declare it further in what manner.

SECT. 3. Of the LORDS SUPPER.

1. VVHy was the Sacrament of the Lords Sup∣per ordained?

2. What is hereby intimated.

3. How is it a memoriall of Christ?

4. How seene in this bread of life, Christ?

5. How in this wine of his bloud?

6. How receive we the comfort?

7. How was he the Paschall Lambe?

8. How or why minde we his death?

9. How was there in his death a sacrifice?

10. What was the use of those often sacrifices?

11. Is Christs sacrifice effectuall to this?

12. But how was he a sacrifice?

13. What the benefits we remember herein?

14. How said you the perpetuity of memoriall noted?

15. But doth not Baptisme represent this also?

16. What prescribe you then for the end of this Sa∣crament?

17. How is it then said before, the end only a me∣moriall?

18. How doth it agree with baptisme?

19. How differeth it from Baptisme?

20. How is it called?

21. Is it then a sacrifice?

22. What is the outward part or signe?

23. What note you in this?

24. What for the outward ceremony?

25. Is all this prescribed?

26. Why are these things observed?

27. What of the other circumstances?

28. Why bread and wine appointed?

29. How that fit and neare resemblance?

30. How in imitation of Melchisedec?

31. How •or the common and ordinary use?

32. What the inward part or thing signifi•d?

33. What herein observed?

4. What are the relata and correlat?

35. What the Relation and Analogie?

36. How is the taking and receiving of them then?

37. Why say we so?

38. Why cannot we comprehend them?

39. But some have devised how, in this and the like.

40. What are we to doe then?

41. Is this sufficient then, or best for us?

42. But are wee not to beleeve as the ancient Fa∣thers did?

43. How are we then to believe?

44. How expressed, or so expounded?

45. How doe we then apprehend the mystery?

46. How may we reverently call or esteeme it?

47. What figures of this Sacrament?

48. •ow is Christ generally in holy Scripture said to be received?

49. What are the benefites whereof wee are made partakers hereby?

50. What is here expressed?

In what manner?

51. How seen in the receiving and using?

52. How in the blessing and graces?

53. How in the effect and virtue?

54. How is this expressed here?

55. How is this nourishment seen in the soule?

56. Why should kneeling at receiving the blessed Sacrament, or bowing towards the holy Table be used?

57. But is not this bordering too neare on Idolatry or superstition, and tending to diminish the Creators honour?

58. Doth the Church of God so allow it?

59. Why doe we worship generally towards the East?

60. This may then serve for answer to them also, that aske why we worship towards the upper parts of the Church and Altar?

61. What followeth?

SECT. IV. Of our preparation to the Lords Supper.

1. VVHat is required of them that come to the Lords Supper?

2. What is this preparation?

3. What herein to be observed?

4. Why is this preparation and examination requi∣red?

5. What may move us to this preparation?

6. What other motives or consideration to bee used?

7. How for the types and figures of it?

8 How the Excellencie compared with other Feasts?

9. How the graces else, and effects considered?

10. What other effects and graces remembred?

11. Which are they?

12. How is that?

13. What sentences of holy Scripture concerning it?

14. What should the soule say in this respect?

15. What other comfortable sayings of the Fathers of this?

16. What is our necessity of it, or how discovered?

17. How may we be confirmed, or farther enfla∣med with the love and desire of this holy mystery?

17. How is our preparation by repentance.

18. How is a son•e of sin wrought in us?

19. How is the lo•thing of sin best wrought in us?

20. How may that godly resolution be best wrought and confirmed in us?

21. How is the preparation by faith?

22. What is faith?

23. How is repentance the fruit of it?

24. How is this excellency of faith seen?

25. How is this faith seen working by love?

26. How then in respect of God?

27. How in respect of men?

28. How if we sinde not our selves so well prepared?

29. How if we feele our selves heavy, and lumpish, even to so good desire?

30. Bus were we not better refraine in this case?

31. What may we do then?

32. But may not the Minister put any back?

33. Who can be said well or sufficiently prepared?

34. What reverence required in comming?

35. Why such preparation or reverence required?

36. What are we to doe at the receeiving?

36. What is to be done after receiving?

37. How may this holy course be continued?

38. How if we want of this so exact preparation, or the degrees of such perfection?

39. But what of carelesse, negligent, and profane contemners or presumers?

SECT. V. An Appendix concerning the summe and use of the Catechisme.

1. VVHat is the summe of all?

2. What the summe of the Catechisme?

3. What the use of it?

4. How doth it this?

5. How is that?

6. Which are they?

7. How the Creed?

8. How the rest?

9. What is the word of God?

10. Which, or how many are they?

11. How called the word of God?

12. What are the Canonicall bookes?

13. What of the Apocryphall?

14. What difference herein?

15. Who of the first sort?

16. Who of the second sort?

17. Who of the third sort?

18. How are the former bookes proved to be the word of God and Canonicall.

19. What Argument especially?

20. How the antiquity?

21. How the instruments?

22. How the miraculous preservations?

23. How by the miracles?

24. How in the Prophesies?

25. How by the matter handled?

26. What of the Heathens testimonies, or confes∣sion?

27. How by the drift of Scriptures?

28. How by the consent of Scriptures?

29. How the Conscience?

30. How are they to be used with profit, or to our comfort?

31. Is it not enough to read them, or heare them read?

32. How is it needfull?

33. Who are to preach the word?

34. What is preaching?

35. What requisite in the Preacher?

36. What required in the hearer?

37. How is the Catechisme needfull or usefull to this?

38. What else required?

An Alphaeticall Table of the Principall Matters herein contained, as they lie dispersed in this Book: P. noting Par, S. Section, Q. Question: And may serve for most common places of Divinity.

The Printer to the Reader.