Q. What is the forgiveness of fin? A. It is God's not exacting the punishment due to fin from those that have committed it.

Q. On what terms is fin forgiven? A. On condition of our faith and repentance.

Q. How is this proved from scriptute? A. From Acts xxvi. 18. That they may receive forgiveness of fins, by faith that is in me.'

Luke xxiv. 47. That repentance and remiffion of fins fhould be preached in his name among all nations.'

QBy what means is God thus reconciled to finful man, as to forgive him his fios?

A. It is through Jefus Chrift, who has fuffered in our ftead, and thereby merited this benefit of pardon and forgiveness.

Q. How do you prove this from fcrip

Q. What do you mean by the life everlafting?

A. A ftate of moft perfect happiness confifting in the perfection of our natures, and the enjoyment of God to all eternity.

Q. How do you prove from fcripture that the righteous fhall be placed in fuch a state?

A. From John vi. 47. He that believeth on me, hath everlasting life.'

Matt. xxii. 30. In the refurrection, they are as the angels of God in heaven.'

i Pet. v. 4. When the chief fhepherd fhall appear, ye fhall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.'

Q. How are the wicked to be difpofed of hereafter?

A. They are to be banished from the prefence of God, and tormented eternally in hell, with the devil and his angels.

Q. How is this proved from fcripture? A. From Matt. xxv. 41. Depart from me, ye curfed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.'

1 Cor. vi. 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous fhall not inherit the kingdom of God.'

2 Theff. i. 7, 8, 9. The Lord Jefus fhall be revealed from heaven, with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them, that know not God, and that obey not the gofpel of our Lord Jefus Chrift; who fhall be punished with everlafting deftruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.

Q. Why do you fay Amen at your concluding the Creed?

A. To fhew my ftedfaft belief of it, and my defire to live as one that heartily believes it.

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PART III. The Chriflian Obedience.

SECT. VIII. Of the Ten Commandments; particularly of our duty towards God, contained in the four first commandments. Q. What is the third thing that was promifed in your name at your baptifm? A. That I fhould keep God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the fame all the days of my life.

Q. What are thefe commandments? A. The fame which God fpake in the twentieth chapter of Exodus, faying, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the houfe of bondage.

Q. What proof have you that Christ has confirmed thefe commandments?

A. From Matt. xix. 17. If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.' Rom. vii. 12. The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and juft, and good.'

Q. How is it that you are to keep these commandments?

A. I muft obferve all of them, make them my daily practice, and that as long as I live.

Q. Which is the first commandment? A. Thou fhalt have none other Gods but me.

Q. What is forbidden in this commandment?

A. I am forbidden to have or own any more than one God, and to give the honour due to God to any other.

Q. How do you prove that you must worthip none but God?

A. From Matt. iv. 10. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only

thalt thou ferve."

Q. What is required of you in this first commandment?

A. I am required to believe in God, to fear him, and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my foul, and with all my strength.

Q. How do you prove it to be your duty to believe in God?

A. From Heb. xi. 6. Without faith it is impoffible to pleafe him; for he that cometh to God, muft believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently feek him.'

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Rom. iv. 20. He staggered not at the promife of God through unbelief; but was Brong in faith, giving glory to God.'

Q. How do you prove it your duty to fear God?

A. From Luke xii. 5. I will forewarn you whom you fhall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to caft into hell; yea, I fay unto you, fear him.

1 Pet. ii. 17. Fear God.'

Q. How do you prove it your duty to love God?

A. From Mark xii. 30. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy ftrength.'

Eph. vi. 24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jefus Chrift in fincerity.'

Q. What is the fecond commandment ?

A. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in neaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and vifit the fins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and fhew mercy unto thousands, in them that love me, and keep my command

Q. What proof have you for bodily worthip?

A. From Luke xxii. 41. He [Chrift] kneeled down, and prayed.' Acts xx. 36. He [Paul] kneeled down, and prayed with them all.' Q. How do you prove it your duty to give thanks unto God?

A. From Eph. v. 20. • Giving thanks always for all things unto God, and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jefus Chrift.'

Heb. xiii. 15. Let us offer the facrifice of praife to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.' Q. How do you prove it your duty to put your whole trust in him?

A. From 1 Tim. iv. 10. We trust in the living God.'

1Pet. v. 7. Cafting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.' Q. How do you prove it your duty to call upon God?

A. From Matt. vii. 7. Afk, and it fhall be given you; feek, and ye shall find; knock, and it fhall be opened unto you.'

Eph. vi. 18. Praying always with all prayer and fupplication in the fpirit; and watching thereunto with all perfeverance. Col. iv. 2. Continue in prayer; and watch in the fame with thankfgiving.'

Q. What is the third commandment? A. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltlefs, that taketh his name

in vain.

Q. What is required in this commandment?

A. To honour God's holy name and his word.

Q. What is it to honour God's name?
A. It is to ufe it with reverence in our

oaths, vows, promifes, difcourfe, and worship.

Q. How do you prove it your duty thus to honour God's name?

A. From Pfalm xcix. 3. • Let them praife thy great and terrible name, for it is holy.'

1 Tim. vi. 1. That the name of God be not blafphemed.'

I Cor. x. 31. • Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.'

Q. What is it to honour God's word?

A. It is reverently to read and hear the holy fcriptures; and to ufe with refpect

whatever has a more immediate relation to God and his fervice.

Q. How do you prove it your duty thus to honour God's word?

A. From Col. iii. 16. Let the word of Chrift dwell in you richly, in all wisdom.'

Jam. i. 21, 22. Receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to fave your fouls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own felves." Lev. x. 3. I will be fanctified in them

that come nigh me.'

Q. What is the fourth commandment? A. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day: Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all that thou haft to do; but the feventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy God: In it thou fhalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, thy man-fervant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day;

wherefore the Lord bleffed the feventh day, and hallowed it.

Q. What doth the word Sabbath fignify?
A. It fignifies reft.

Q. What is meant by God's hallowing the seventh day?

A. 'Tis his fetting it apart for holy uses. Q. What are thofe holy ufes which the Sabbath was fet apart for?

A. It was fet apart for the public and private worship of God.

Q. In what does the public worship of God confift?

A. It confifts in prayer, hearing the word of God read and preached, and fetting

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forth his praife, and in receiving the facra

ment.

Q. Wherein does the private worship of God confift?

A. It confifts in prayer, reading, and meditation on the word and works of God. Q. What is required farther in this commandment?

A. It requires that we reft from all fervile and ordinary employments.

Q. Why do Chriftians obferve the first day of the week as a sabbath, and not the feventh ?

A. Because on the first day of the week Chrift arofe from the dead.

Q. What proof have you of this practice of obferving the first day of the week as

the fabbath?

A. From John xx. 19. The fame day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were fhut, where the difciples were affembled for fear of the Jews, came Jefus and ftood in the midft, and faith unto them, Peace be unto you.'

Acts xx. 7. Upon the first day of the week, when the difciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them.'

Q. What is the fum of what is required in these first four commandments ?

A. To ferve God truly all the days of my life.

SECT. IX. Of our Duty towards our Neighbour, contained in the fix laft Com

mandments.

Q. What is the fifth commandment? A. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Q. What is required in this command

ment?

A. I am required in it to love, honour, and fuccour my father and mother; to honour and obey the king, and all that are put in authority under him: to submit myfelf to all my governors, teachers, fpiritual paftors, and mafters; to order myself lowby and reverently to all my betters.

Q. How do you prove it your duty to love, honour, and fuccour your father and

mother?

A. From Matt. xv. 4. God command. ed, faying, Honour thy father and mother.' Eph vi. 1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.'

1 Tim. v. 4. If any widow have children or nephews [grandchildren] let them learn first to fhew piety [kindness] at

Heb. xii. 7. What fon is he whom the father chafteneth not?'

Q. How do you prove it your duty to honour and obey the king, and all that are put in authority under him?

A. From Rom. xiii. 1. Let every foul be fubject unto the higher powers.'

Titus iii. 1. Put them in mind to be fubject to principalities and powers; to obey magiftrates, to be ready to do every good work.'

1 Pet. ii. 13. 14. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's fake; whether it be to the king as fupreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are fent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.'

Q. How do you prove it your duty to fubmit yourself to your fpiritual governors, teachers, and pastors?

A. From Heb. xiii. 17. Obey them that have the rule over you, and fubmit yourfelves, for they watch for your fouls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.'

1 Tim. v. 17. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour; especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.'

Q. How do you prove it the duty of fer"vants to fubmit to their masters ?

A. From Eph. vi. 5, 6. Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in fingleness of your heart, as unto Chrift: not with eye- fervice, as pleafers, but as the fervants of Chrift, doing the will of God from the heart.

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Tit. ii. 9, 10. Exhort fervants to be obedient unto their own mafters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again, not purloining, but fhewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.'

1 Pet. ii. 18. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.'

Q. How do you prove the duty of masters towards their servants ?

A. From

A. From Col. iv. 1. < Masters, give unto your fervants that which is juft and equal, knowing that ye alfo have a mafter

in heaven.' Eph. vi. 9. Ye mafters, do the fame things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your mafter alfo is in heaven, neither is there refpect of perfons with him.' Q. How do you prove it your duty to order yourself lowly and reverently to all your betters.

A. From 1 Pet. v. 5. Ye younger, fubmit yourfelves unto the elder' Eph. v. 21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.'

Q. What is the fixth commandment?
A. Thou shalt do no murder.

QWhat is the fin forbidden in this commandment?

A. The fin of murder, or the wilful killing of our neighbour.

Q. What is required in this command

ment?

John xiii. 34. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye alfo love one another.'

Q. How do you prove it your duty to do to all men as you would they should do unto you?

A. From Matt. vii. 12. All things whatfoever ye would that men fhould do to you, do ye even fo to them.'

Luke vi. 31. As ye would that men fhould do to you, do ye alfo to them likewife.' Q: How do you prove it your duty to hurt no body by word or deed?

A. From Rom. xii. 17, 18. • Recompenfe to no man evil for evil. If it be poffible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.'

Eph. iv. 31. Let all bitternefs, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evilfpeaking, be put away from you.'

Q. How do you prove it your duty to bear no malice or hatred in your heart? A. From Col. iii. 8. Put off all thefe; anger, wrath, malice.'

1 Cor. vi. 18. Flee fornication: he

that committeth fornication, finneth against his own body.'

Eph. v. 5. This ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean perfon, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Chrift, and of God.'

Heb. xiii. 4. Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.' Col. iii. 8.

Put-filthy communication out of your mouth.'

Q. What is the eighth commandment !
A. Thou shalt not steal.

Q. What is forbidden in this command. ment?

A. The taking away, or detaining from another by force or deceit, that which is his right.

Q. What is required of you in this commandment ?

A. I am required to be true and just in all my dealings; to keep my hands from picking and flealing; to learn and labour tryly to get my own living, and to do my duty in that flate of life, unto which it shall pleafe God to call me. Q. How

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