The spirituall man's directorie guiding a Christian in the path that leads to true blessednesse in his III. maine duties towards God : how [brace] to believe, to obey, to pray [brace] : unfolding the [brace] Creed, X. Command., the Lords prayer / by that reverend and faithfull minister of Gods word Mr. William Fennor ...
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- The spirituall man's directorie guiding a Christian in the path that leads to true blessednesse in his III. maine duties towards God : how [brace] to believe, to obey, to pray [brace] : unfolding the [brace] Creed, X. Command., the Lords prayer / by that reverend and faithfull minister of Gods word Mr. William Fennor ...
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Contents
- title page
- TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.
- Errata.
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OF CATECHIZING.
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part
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Question 1. W Hat is Catechisme? -
Quest. 2. Who must Catechise besides the Mi∣nister? -
Qu. 3. How if Parents doe not teach their Children? -
Qu. 4. Why hast thou a Name given thee in Baptisme? -
Qu. 5. What use doest thou make of thy name given thee in Baptisme? -
Qu. 6. Why would God have thee Baptized? -
Q. 7. What is required in him that is Bap∣tized? -
Q. 8. How then can babes be Baptized? -
Q. 9. Can Babes have Faith then? -
Q. 10. Have all elect Babes then this Spirit of Faith, and this same seminall Faith, in their Bap∣tisme? -
Q. 11. What benefits hast thou by Baptisme? -
Q. 12. Have all that are Baptized these bene∣fits? -
Q. 13. Who bee they that have not these bene∣fits? -
Q. 14. What diddest thou promise and vow in thy Baptisme? - Q. 15. Art thou bound to performe thy Bap∣tisme, Vow and Oath?
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Q. 16. What is Beliefe or Faith? -
Q. 17. How many wayes is Faith taken? -
Q. 18. Do not wicked men say, they believe in Christ? -
Q. 19. Why so? -
Q. 20. What reasons be there of this? -
Q. 21. Dost thou believe the Articles of faith? -
Q. 22. Why doest thou say, I Believe? -
Q. 23. Is not this Presumption in some? - Q. 24. How canst thou say I beleeve, can a man know that hee beleeveth?
- Q. 25. What say you of them that have the Spi∣rit of bondage?
- Q. 26. How many objects of Faith are there that thou mayest beleeve?
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Q. 27. But may not men give their Expositions
to it? - Q. 28. How is this?
- Q. 29. What say you more of the Word?
- Q. 30. Why dost thou say, I beleeve in God?
- Q. 31. Why dost thou beleeve in God as a Fa∣ther Almighty?
- Q 32. Why maker of Heaven and Earth?
- Q. 33. Why dost thou beleeve in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord?
- Q. 34. Must that then which was a history in Christ, be a mistery in us?
- Q. 35. Why dost thou say, Christ was concei∣ved of the Holy Ghost, &c.
- Q. 36. Did Christ suffer in Soule too?
- Q. 37. How is hell taken in Scripture?
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Q, 38. What sayest thou of Christs diseent into Hell? - Q. 39. Is it not an Article of Faith, and hath it not its meaning?
- Q. 40. What beleevest thou of Christs rising the third day?
- Q. 41. Why did Christ rise againe?
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Q. 42. What beleeve you conceerning the o∣ther two Articles? -
Q. 43. What beleeve you of Christs judging the world? - Q. 44. What is the Office of Christ?
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Q. 45. Why did Christ take the office of a Me∣diator upon him? -
Q. 46. Which bee the particular Offices of Christ? -
Q. 47. Who is hee that in effect denyeth Christs Offices, and teacheth men so? -
Q. 48. How doth hee deny Christs Offices? -
Q. 49. Doth hee deny no more of Christ? -
Q. 50. Why doest thou beleeve in God the Holy Ghost? -
Q. 51. What doest thou believe the Holy Ghost, doth more? - Q. 48. Wherein doth the Communion of Saints consist?
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Q. 53. What believest thou concerning Remis∣sion of Sins? - Q. 54. What believest thou concerning the Re∣surrection of the Body?
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Q. 55. What believest thou more of the Re∣surrection? - Q. 56. What believest thou concerning the last Article, namely Life everlasting?
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Q. 57. The wicked say they believe all this, but doe they? -
Q. 58. How many Commandements are there? -
Q. 59. What rules are to helpe us in the right understanding of the Law? -
Q. 60. Who be under the Law, the Rigour of the law, and the Curse of the law? -
Q. 61. Wherefore serves the Preface: I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt, out of the bondage? -
Q. 62. Are the duties of the first Table, grea∣ter then the duties of the second? -
Q, 63. What art thou commanded in the first, Thou shalt have no other Gods but me? -
Qu. 64. Now because we must serve God, and feare him, and love him, and trust in him, and so forth, according to his Attributes, which be they? -
Q. 65. How doe the attributes of God concerne thine obedience to God, especially in this first Com∣mandement? -
Q. 66. What art thou commanded in the second Commandement? -
Q. 67. What else art thou commanded in the se∣cond Commandement? -
Q. 68. What art thou commanded in the third Commandement? - Q. 68. What more art thou commanded in the third Commandement?
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Q. 70. What art thou forbidden in the third Commandement? - Q. 71. What art thou forbidden more in the third Commandement?
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Q. 72. What art thou commanded in the fourth Commandement, concerning the Sabboth? -
Q. 73. What say you more of the Sabboth? -
Q. 74. May no works but onely of Gods im∣mediate Worship bee doe on the Sabboth? -
Q. 75. There bee many arguments to prove the Commandement of the Sabboth, to be morall▪ which bee the first sixe of them? -
Q. 76. Now because some object, saying the Sabboth is not engraven in mens hearts, neither is there any mention either before the flood, or after that the fathers did keep it, and so forth, there∣fore tell me what arguements have you to prove it morall? -
Q. 77. The Sabboth was the last day of the Weeke, how commeth it now to bee changed into the first day of the weeke? -
Q. 78. What art thou commanded in the fift Commandement? -
Q. 79. But what must my Parents de for me? -
Q. 80. What is the meaning of the sixt Com∣mandment; Thou shalt do no murther? -
Q. 81. Is it not lawfull to kill in any wise? -
Q. 82. What else doth this Commandement vrge? -
Q. 83. What more doth it Command? -
Q. 84. What is the meaning of the seaventh Commandement, Thou shalt not commit Adul∣tery? -
Q. 85. What say you of Mariage? -
Q. 86. What say you of Contracts, or Espou∣sals before consummaie Mariage? - Q. 87. What is the duty of man and wife?
- Q. 88. What must they doe that are to Marry? and what say you more of the seventh commandement?
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Q. 89. What is the eight Commandement? -
Q. 90. What doth this Commandement forbid more? -
Q. 91. What more does this Commandement commande? -
Q. 92. What say you of mens particular Cal∣lings, for they come here to be examined? -
Q. 93. Now because the rich are the poores purse bearers & do steal from them, if they be not mercifull & bountiful to them, what say you of alms & bounty? -
Q. 94. What is the meaning of the ninth Com∣mandement,Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thine neighbour? -
Q. 95. Which be the Speeches that seeme to be lyes, and yet are not? -
Q. 96. What lying reports goe for currant on the godly? -
Q. 97. What pretences have the Papists for their Equivocations and their mental Reservations, and how are they answered? -
Q. 98. Now for the tenth Commandement, before you speake of that; tell me what is Originall sinne? -
Q: 99. You sayd, that Originall sinne is three∣fold, and have told me the first branch; which is Second? -
Q. 100. Which is the third Branch? -
Q. 101. How is Originall sinne called in Scripture? -
Q. 102. ThePapists say, that it is not properly a sin, but after a manner; thePelagians say, there's no such sin, by progation, but only by imitation; and theAnabaptists say, that now under Christ there's none borne in sin; How doe you prove then that there is such a sinfull corruption of nature properly so called? -
Q. 103. What doth this Doctrine or Originall sinne teach us? -
Q. 104. What doth the last Commandement command and forbid?
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Of Thoughts.
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Q. 105. Now because the Thoughts are the beginnings of actions, and all sinnes begin there.For where as S t .Iohn said, Thinke not to say with∣your selves, as Matthew hath it,Math. 3. 9 Saintke hath it thus, Begin not to say within your selves, Luke. 3. 8. therefore what say you of the Thoughts? -
Q. 106. But how if a soul be haunted with evillthoughts, and the more it striveth against them, the more it is haunted, how then? -
Q. 107. Is the Law of God so perfect, that it commands whatsoever can be said to be good, and pleasing unto God, and, is there no roome for Popish supererogation or the Doctrine of distinguishing of Evangelicall counsels from Precepts? -
Q. 108. But particulars Circumstances are not in the word, here, and now, and he, and this, and that case; It should seem then where the word leaves, there counsell may goe on? - Q. 109. Why are not Believers under the Law?
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Q. 110. In what sence are not believers under the Law? - Q. 111. Now prove that beleevers in some sence are under the Law?
- Q. 112. What is that sence, wherein believers are under the Law?
- Q. 113. What it Prayer?
- Q. 114. To whom are we to Pray?
- Q. 115. Why must we Pray in the name of Christ the mediatour?
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Q. 116. What is it to Pray in the name of Christ? - Q. 117. Why is Faith necessary to prayer?
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Q. 118. What say you of the differences and divisions of Prayer? -
Q. 119. What say you of Publique pray∣er? -
Q. 120. What more of publique Prayer? - Q. 121. How do you prove, that the master of the family is to gather his family together every morning and evening, and to pray in his fami∣ly?
- Q. 122. What say you of extraordinary prayer.
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Q. 123. What motives are there to induce us to extradinary prayer and seeking of God? - Q. 124. May we not pray for the Dead?
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Q. 125. Now there be five sorts of the li
ing that we must Pray for. First, for the whole Church of Christ. Secondly, for the Ministers. Thir , for them of our owne house. Fourthly, for them , the place where we live. Fiftly, for our enemy shew me now whether and why we must pray whole Church of Christ? -
Q. 126. What and why must we pray for Gods Ministers? -
Q. 127. How doe you prove, That wee must Pray for all of our house, for our Children, and Kindred, and Servants, and for our Parents, and Wife, and Husband, and Masters? -
Q. 128. How doe you prove that we must more especially pray for the Towne and place, where we live? -
Q. 129. Why must we pray for our Ene∣mies? -
Q. 130. What say you of Cursing or impreca∣tion or praying against one; it seemes it is unlaw∣full,Rom. 12. 14. neither can we be called unto it,1 Pet, 3. 9. for it proceeds from hatred, now hatred is Man∣slaughter,1 Ioh. 3. 15. -
Q. 131. Is Thanksgiving a part of pray∣er? -
Q. 132. What say you of Thanksgiving for Gods spirituall mercies? - Q. 133. What temporall mercies must we be thankfull for, and why?
- Q. 134. Must we not be thankfull to God for his mercies upon others?
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Q. 135. Because Confession is to be joyned with prayer,Dan. 9. 20. and is putor Prayer, Nehem. 9. 3. Tell me whether is it necessary to prayer? to confesse our sinnes in it? -
Q. 136. AsManoah said to the Angell, how shall I order the ChildIudg. 13: 12. So may I say of Confession, how shall wee order our Confession, how shall we make it? -
Q. 137. Whether are wee bound to pray the Lords Prayer?ust those very words and no other, there be some suspitious people, that say, let us pray for this, and let us pray for that, and let us Pray for the estate of the whole Church; and let us pray for the King, and for all these things, let us say the Lords prayer; doe these men doe well? -
Q. 138. Why doth our Saviour teach us to call God father in our prayers? - Q. 139. Why our Father, not my Father?
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Q. 140. What is the meaning of Heaven in Prayer? - Q 141. For the first Petition, Hallowed bee thy Name; what is the meaning of name here?
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142. Why Hallowed or Sanctified, rather
Glorified; why is that word used rather the this? -
Q. 143. For the second Petition, thy Kingdome
ome, what say you of that? -
Q. 244. For the third Petition. Thy will be done, what say you of that, why is Gods will se
next to his Kingdome? -
Q. 145. Hath God such a will in him, as he calls a conditionall will? as for example, to will all mens salvation if they repent? -
Q. 146. What say you of Gods simple anposi∣tive will? -
Q. 147. What say you of Gods secret wilt? -
Q. 148. What use doe you make of Gods se∣cret will? -
Q. 149. What pray we for in this Petition, thy will be done? - Q. 150. What say you of the will of Gods word or command, is it the Lords will that men shall do it or else woe is unto them?
- Q. 151. What motives are there to perswade us to doe the Lords will?
- Q. 152. Tho fourth Petition is, Give us this day our daily bread, what is meant by bread here?
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Q. 153. What doth this teach us, that our Saviour bids us pray for Bread, and not for daynties and abundance? -
Q. 154. Why must we pray for temporall things, or for the creatures of God? -
Q. 155. The text saith our Brad, it speaketh if a title we have to the creatures, what say you of that? -
Q. 156. It seems then that the Anabaptist∣call conceipt is most false, that all things are com∣mon; and yet we cannot say this is ours, and that is yours, Give us this day our dayly bread? -
Q. 157. Why pray you not for weekly or yeare∣ly Bread, but give us this day our daily bread? -
Q. 158. If our daily Bread be ours, why doe wee begge it, and if we beg it, how is it ours? -
Q. 159. Forgive us our debts; why are sinnes called debts? -
Q. 160. What is sinne? - Q. 161. Are any sinnes so small, that they are veniall, and doe not deserve hell?
- Q. 162. How comes sinne, to be said to be ours?
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Q. 163. Forgivenesse of sinne being thereut by a Synecdoche, the part, for the whole the whole being Iustification, tell me what is Iustification? - Q. 146. Who is the Author of forgivenesse of sinne?
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Q. 165. Whoare the proper sub∣jects, of forgivenesse of sinne meane who are they that this article belongs to? - Q. 166. Who is the meritorious cause of for∣givenesse of sinne?
- Q. 167. What are the comforts of forgivenesse of sinne.?
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Q. 168. Seing God saith, it is abominable to justifie the wicked,Prov. 17. 15. What is the meaning then of the Apostle, who saith, that God justifieth the ungodly,Rom. 4. 5. will God do that which is abominable to him? - Q. 169. Seeing the Lord Iesus teacheth us to pray plurally, forgive us our sinnes, must we not pray that God would forgive other?
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Q. 170. Whereas our Saviour teacheth us to say; As wee forgive them that trespasse against us? What is it to forgive one another? -
Q. 171. Seeing a Souldier may kill his Enemy in a lawfull warre, and yet love him, as farre as the Law binds in such a case; so may a man goe to law with his Brother, without breach of Charity or of the duty of forgiving, when his ends are right: Tell me then what these ends bee, that may stand with love? - Q. 172. What is the meaning of that As; as we forgive them their trespasse against us?
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Q. 173. Why doth our Saviour teach us to pray, lead us not into temptetion immediately after praying for the forgivnesses of our sinnes? - 174. What is Temptation, and how many fold?
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Q. 175. What is a temptation to sinne? - Q. 178. What use doe you make of this, that temptations are so dangerous?
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Q. 179. Is a man naturally under the power of Temptation? - Q. 180. Is it any excuse, to say we were tempted?
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Q. 181. What doth God permit men to be tempted? -
Q. 182. How shall wee know, whether a temp∣tation flw from our selves or from Sathan? - Q. 183. Whether doe these two clauses, Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evill; make but one Petition?
- Q. 184. Because this last clause sheweth that we are naturally under the power of evill, whereof the Devill is the Captaine; show me then how that naturall men are under the Power of the Divell?
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Q. 185. Are there no more evils that wee have need to be delivered from? -
Q. 186. It appeares then God is the only de∣erer? -
Q. 187. What doe you learne from these words; For thine is the Kingdome, the Power, and the glory?
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