A Heavenly Conference for Zions SAINTS, To enlighten themselves, and teach their Children. Together, With the SAINTS Belief. By john Turner, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, in Gardiner's Lane, Westminster. Mal. 3. 16. 17. Then spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbour, and the Lord harkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be to me, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day that I shall do this, for a flock, and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Deut. 6. 6. 7. And these words which I command thee this day, shallbe in thine heart. And thou shalt rehearse them continually unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou tarriest in thine house, and as thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Luk. 2. 46, 47. And it came to pass three days after, that they found him in the Temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and ask them questions. And all that heard him, were astonished at his understanding and answers. Printed in the year 1645. Psal. 16. 3. Most excellent SAINTS of ZION. Our only Lord hath taught, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because Joh. 3. 19 their deeds were evil, whereby the Book of God hath been sealed with seven seals, that Rev. 5. 1, 〈◊〉, 9 none could look into the truth thereof, which hath caused people to leave the foundation of true faith (the written word) and believe as the Church and Priests believe. But the lion of the tribe of Judah, of the root of David, hath opened the same, to the terror of his enemies, and comfortable refreshing of his beloved Saints. And because they could not prevail to hid all Rev. 6. 14. truth, they rolled up as a scroll Christ's kingdom of power, and Church-Government (denying Luk. 9 1●. him to reign over them) which hath caused Christ's word to be contemned, as insufficient for prudency in performing Divine Ordinances, and 2 Tim, 3, 16, 17. thereby have caused the people to follow that government which the Priests do appoint them, changing the manner of worship, as gallants change 2 Pet. 5. 15. Prov. 24, 21. their fashions, ever now and then in a new shape. And lest their evil should be espied, they have caused 4 Angels to hold the 4 winds of Christ's Rev. 7. 1. Church, power & government, that they should not blow upon the Earth, Sea, or any Trees, by which Locusts do rise out of the smoke of the bottomless Rev. 9 3. 17. pit, and with the fire, smoke, and brimstone, which hath proceeded out of their mouths, they have darkened the third part of the Sun-light of Rev. 8. 12, & 9, 18. the Gospel, the third part of the inferior moonlight of the Law, and the third part of the truth of Christ's ministry, and thereby caused the powers of the Earth to reel to and fro like a Drunkard, and Esay 24. 20. Rev. 6. 16. 17. quake, and say, alas, alas we know not what to do; hid us from the presence of the Lamb, for his wrath (in his regal power and Church-Government is come) and we cannot stand, for he will condem●e (without respect of persons) all evils Government and Governors, Worship and Worshippers; and than you shall be so borne up on every side with earthen props, that men shall not dare speak against this Beast, neither teach Jesus Rev. 13. Christ to be the Saviour of the world (what gifts soever God indu● them with) without a licence from these evil angels, or Patentees of the Gospel. But the good Angel (notwithstanding these) hath sealed the Servants of God in the fore▪ lead, Rev. 7, 2. 3. authorising them to teach all his truths among all his people in all earthly dominions, by virtue Only Mark 16. 15. of his power, and requires them so to do, upon pain of his displeasure: by whose authority I here Act, 4. 19: employ my mean talon, (without their licence) knowing, that it is better to obey God them man, and to set forth the whole truth of God revealed unto me that I may be guiltless of the blood of Act. 20, 26, 27 all men. And having obtained this honour of the Lord once again, to be a prisoner for maintaining his truth (this being the seventh time of my imprisonment, and fifteenth year, no cause having ever being showed) cannot choose but speak by writing, I (being set of the Lord apart thereunto, and taken Act, 4, 20. 2 Thess. 1. 8. off from all other employments) that ignorance (whereof God will be revenged in flames of fire) may be expelled; Faith, steadfastness, and true worship embraced: these evil angels (by the word of Christ's mouth) prevented in their mischievous Rev. 9 6. Exod. 10. 19 Rev. 18. 21. hiding the truth; and the Locusts (that with their heads and tails make men weary of their lives) by the West-wind of God's favour blown into the Sea, apppointed for their destruction. Beloved, it is for the unfolding of God's truth, and thy good, that I have penned the same, following the example of the Lamb, who discovered the Pharisees iniquity, and unfolded the truth, by Luke 2, 46, 47. questioning with them, and answering them again, whose practice is my precedent: And though the Penman were not a Prophet, (as many call Prophets) neither the son of a Prophet; yet I Amos. 7. 14. pray thee, in the fear of God, read it carefully, try it diligenly, judge unpartially, and embrace it lovingly, and refuse not what thou seest appear to be truths herein, but yield conscionably to practise the same, and teach it unto thy children faithfully, with all diligence; remembering that God, for the good of his, will bring 〈◊〉 Cor. 4, 6. 1 Cor. 1, 27, 28 29. light out of darkness, making foolish things confound wise, and weak strong, and hath chosen base things, and things that are not, to bring to nought things that are, lest men should rejoice in their A●ery humane learning, as in these Rev. 16. 17. days too much they do. I humbly beseech you, in the fear of God, Jam 21. Heb. 1●. 6. Heb. 10. 37. 38. have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, in respect of persons, neither fear persecution for well doing; look not bacl, preferring worldly friends before Christ's truth, God will be a better Mark 10. 19 friend unto thee, than all thou canst lose for his sake, giving thee ●n hundred fold recompense in this life, and in the world to come life everlasting. AMEN. The Table of the Contents of this Book. Man's estate before his fall. Page 1. Man's estate in his fall, with the ten commandments. 4. Man's estate since his fall, and how we shall know the Scriptures to be God's word. 16. What every one ought to do, since his fall in his personal estate. 26. What in his house, among his children and servants, with the civil Magistrates duty, in matters of worship. 27. What a true Church of Christ is, how it comes to be a Church, and by what marks it is to be known. 29. What parts of Christ's Church are essential and what ornamental. 32. What Books the Church of Christ ought to read and obey. 34. What Officers belong to every Church of Christ, and who ought to make and ordain them. 35. What the people's duty is to the Minister, and what maintenance he ought to have. 36. What the Minister must do for the people, with what duty other Officers ought to perform. 36. How the poor aught to be relieved. 38. What Baptism and the Lords Supper seal unto us. 39 The necessity of being a member of a true Church, the end why, with the benefit thereof. 44. What one must do to be a member. 46. How one brother must behave himself towards another brother, being members. 49. What a false Church is, how a false Church is to be known, and what causes it so to be. 49. Who are false Ministers or Prophets. 54. Whether one may stand a member of the Church of England, pray with their Ministers, or hear any of them preach. 55. What Church all God's people were converted in. 56. Q. What is Conscience? A. Rom. 2. 15. Jer. 2. 7, 1 Tim, 1. 19 A created faculty of the soul, witnessing truth on God's part, by the thoughts accusing or excusing one another, and cannot be drawn to any partiality. Beloved the Printer having failed in this question, and these in this Errata, I pray except them here, and as you find them mend them. Pag. 1. l. 8. Ro. 4. 7 for 4. 17. p. 5. l. 29. r. terrified, for terrible p 7. l. 18. Mat. 9 10. for 4. 〈◊〉. p. 12. l. 1. Rev. 1●. 5. for 21, 5, p. 22. l 25, 1 Kin. 22 for 21: p. 23. l. 5. Deut. 5. 30. for 〈◊〉 32 p. 21 r. prophecies for promises. Isay 5. for 50. p. 26. l. 2. 1 Cor. 16. 12. for 6. 1●. p. 27. l 2●. r same for Saints. p. 30. l. 〈◊〉 Cor. 15. 3 for 5. 3. p. 13. l. 〈◊〉. Ro. 〈◊〉. 6● for 1. 7. p. 34. l 10 joel 2. 21. for 2. 2●. p. ●5. l. 28. 4●●, for 1200. p. 〈◊〉 l. 14. r. higher Powers, Father, Mother, King Master, etc. A Heavenly Conference, for Zions Saints. Question. HOw comes Man and all Creatures to have being? A. God Almighty created and made Gen. 1. 1. Col. 1. 16. Revel. 14. 7 Psal. 146. 6. them. Q. Of what did God make Man and all Creatures? Gen. 1. 1. Isa. 45. 9 Rom. 4. 7. A. Of that he had created. For to Create is to call forth of nothing, that is not. Q. By what means did God create allthings: john. 1. 3. 10. Heb. 11. 3. A. Only by his Word. Q. What is God, who is so powerful to make all things by his Word? Rev. 18. Acts 3 14. 1 Pet 1. 11. joh, 6. 68 1 joh 5. 10. joh. 4. 24 & 1. 3 Isa. 9 6 Revel. 4. 11. Isa. 4●. 8. Pro. 16. 4. Ma●. 〈◊〉. 10. Gen. 1. 26. A. He is an Almighty, Holy, Eternal Spirit, not only the Maker, but governor of all things. Q. Wherefore did God create and make man and all things? A. For his pleasure, & to serve & obey him. Q. In what likeness did God make man? A. In his own Image. Q. In what was man created the Image of God? A. In Sovereignty and perpetuity. Psal. 8. 6. Gen. 9 2, 3. Math. 25. 46. Dan. 12. 2. john 5. 29. Gen. 1. 31. Mark 7. 37. Tit. 1. 2. Gen. 〈◊〉. 31. Mar. 7. 37. Q. In what estate did God create and make man and beast? A. In an absolute perfect estate without any defect, for the perfect God could not make any thing unperfectly. Q. From whence did the Fishes, Beasts and Birds receive their souls? A. From the earth and waters, from whence Gen, 1. 20. 22. 24. Eccl. 3. 21. 12. 7. Rev. 16. 3. they received their bodies. Q. Whither shall the soul of the fishes, beasts and birds return when it dissolves? A. To the earth and waters from whence Psal. 104. 29. Eccl. 12. 7. & 3. 12. Revel. 16. 3. Psal. 104 29. they came: If it were not so, they should go to heaven as well as mens. Q. When dies the souls of the fishes, beasts and birds? A. Their souls and bodies die together. Q. From whence did man receive his body? Gen. 9 4. Levit. 17. 14. Gen. 3. 19 A. From the earth. Q. Whither shall man's body go when it dissolves? A. To the earth from whence it came. Q. Shall man's body continue in the earth job 19 25, 26, 27. 1 Cor. 15. 12 23. 1 Thes. 4. 16, 17. for ever? A. No, it shall rise again at the judgement day. Q. From whence did man receive his soul? A. From the breath of the Almighty. Genesis 2. 7. 1 Cor. 15. 43. Math. 10. 28. 1 Cor. 15. 45. Gen. 〈◊〉. 7. Ma. th'. 25. 31, 36. Q. What is man's soul? A. An everlasting spiritual substance. Q. What is the difference between the body Lu. 23. 43. 1 Cor. 15 51. Isay 40. 6, 7, 8. Mat. 25. 31, 46. and the soul of man? A. The body is mortal and subject to die, and the soul is immortal and can never die. Q. Whither shall the soul of man go when it parteth from the body? A. To heaven or hell at the departure. 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8. Lu. 33. 34. Math. 25. 46. 1 Cor. 15. Q. Doth the soul of man die? A. No, it ever liveth in pleasure or pain. Q. Whereunto was man created and made? A. To be Lord of the Earth and all therein. Gen. 9 3, 3. Psal. 8, 5, 6, 7, 8. Q. Did man fall in his created estate? A. No; he neither did nor could in his perfect Gen. 2. 19, 20, & 1. 31. Tit. 1. 2. creation, for perfection cannot fail. Q. What did the Lord for man after he created him? A. He gave him Heaven with a covenanted Gen. 2. 15, 16, 17. Heb. 8. 6, 7 Ro. 10. 5. Levi. 18. 5. Gal. 3. 1●. condition of work which he would have performed: For the man that doth the work lives in the work. Q. Did man condescend unto this Covenant which God made with him? A. He went about the covenanted work, Gen. 3. 2, 3. & 17. 10. 23. Math. 21. 28, 29, 30, 31. which proves agreement. For if one speak and the other goes about the work, it proves consent. Q. Did not the Lord force man to this Covenant? A. By no other means then setting the reward Gen. 2. 9 16. 17. Esay 2. 3. Psal. 110. 3. 2 Cor. 9 13. Gen. 2. 15, 17. before him. Q. What was the condition God made with man? A. That he should do what God required, and forbear the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Q. How know we our created duty? A. By the true understanding of nature. Rom. 2. 14, 15, Q. What was the reward, if man had kept Covenant? A. The enjoying of the heavenly Paradise Gen. 2. 8, 9, 10 17, & 3, 22, 23 given everlastingly. Q. What was the punishment of breaking the Covenant? A. A deprivation of all happiness, and Gen. 2. 17. eternal death. As a Rebel with all his goods. Q. Did man keep the Covenant which he made. A. No, Man broke his Covenant. Gen. 3. 6. 1 Tim. 2. 14. Q. How came man to break his Covenant? A. By the temptation of Satan. Gen. 3. 4. Q. How came Satan to be a Tempter? Judas 6. 2 Pet. 2. 4. Act. 12. 15. Gen. 3. 15. 16. Heb. 1. 4, 5, 6. Rom. 10. 5, 6. Hab. 2. 6. 7. 8. A. He disliked man should be above him. For Angels are servants to man in the Paradise estate. Q. How came man to be greater than Satan who was an Angel of Light? A. By the covenanted gift, wherein he had Paradise given him. For man was not created heir of Paradise, Psalm 8, 6, 7, 8. 9 Gal. 4. 23. but Lord of the Earth, and heir of heaven by promise. Q. How came the Fishes, Beasts and Birds to lose their right? A. By the fall of their Lord, and help they Gen. 3. 6. 13. Rom. 8. 16. used to betray him. As when a great man proves a Rebel, all his riches are confiscated. Q. What harm was man's having heaven given him, unto the Angels? Math. 18. 10. Psal 91. 11. 12. Luke 4: 10. 11 A. They were to be serviceable to man more than before. As he that is servant to attend a Family, when more are received, have more work. Q. Wherefore was Satan cast out of heaven? A. For disliking this estate (this Covenant Judas 6. Luke 20. 36. God made with man) brought him to. For in his creation he could not fail, unless James 1. 13 you make God his Creator to be his overthrow. Q. What estate was man in when he had broken Covenant? Genes. 4. 5. & 3, 17. 1 Cor. 15. 21. Isa. 30. 33. A. Cursed in his created happiness, and in his Covenanted worship, and subject to death of body, and eternal hellfire. Q. What did man in this his cursed condition? Gen. 3. 7, 8, 9, 10. James 2. 10. A. Cover his nakedness by his own inventions; Flee God's presence with a terrible conscience of being guilty of all the Commandments. Nehem. 9 14. Exod. 20. 1. Q. How many Commandments are there? Math. 22. 37. ●8, 39, 40. Luke 10. 25. 26. 27. A. Ten, wherein is contained the whole Law and the Prophets. Q. Who gave the ten Commandments and wrote them? A. God gave the ten Commandments Exod. 19 20. & 20. 1. & 31. 18. and wrote them with his own finger. Q. Where did God give the ten Commandments in writing first? A. On Mount-Sinah. Exo. d19. 20. & 31. 18. Q. In what did God write the ten Commandments? A. In two Tables of stone. Deut. 4. 13. & 9, 10. Q. To whom did God deliver the ten written Commandments? A. To Moses for his peculiar people to observe. Psa. 147. 29, 20 Deut. 4. 7, 8, 34 Q. Did not God require that all under the Isralites jurisdiction should be compelled by them to keep the ten Commandments? A. No: he would not have them require the Exo. 1●. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. Josh. 16. 10. Levit. ●5. 44. 2 Chr. 8. 7, 8. Jer. 15. 19 Gibbonites, Hittites, Gargashites, Hivites, unclean Isralites, or any unbelieving Gentiles that lived in the Land with them, to keep his Fasts or feasts, or any of his worship that was contained in the first Table; For that was abomination unto the Lord. Q. How many Commandments did God write in the first Table? A. Four. Mark 10. 19 Q. How many Commandments did God write in the second Table? A. Six. Ephes. 6. 2. Q. Wherefore did God write the ten Commandments in two Tables of stone, and not in one Table? A. To teach us that his Son Jesus Christ at Math. 5. 38. 2 Cor. 10. 4. Math. 22. 21. john 6. 15. Levit. 19 19 1 Cor. 5. 12. Deut. 22. 12. his coming in the Flesh, should separate his kingdom of the world, and his kingdom of worship in government & governor's one from the other, not permitting them to be joined together as linen and woollen, nor yet sown with the mingled seed of worldly power and spiritual jurisdiction. Q. What do the Commandments of the first Table teach us? A. 1. Whom we must worship, 2. With Exod. 20. 2, 3● Math. 9 10. Col. 2. 4. 1 Cor. 16. 2: what Ordinances he will be worshipped, 3. In what order he will be worshipped, 4. And what time he will be worshipped. Q. What do the Commandments of the second Table teach us? A. To love our Neighbour as ourselves, and Math. 19 19 do as we would be done unto. Q. Which is the first Commandment? A. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. Exod. 20. 3. Q. Is this Commandment negative or affirmative? A. Negative, or forbidding. Math. 4. 10. james 4. 12. Q. What is the affirmative part of this first commandment? A. Thou shalt have me only and alone for thy Deut. 6. 14, 7. say 45. 13. God, Lawgiver, Commander, and Director. Q. Which is the second Commandment? A. Thou shalt not make to thyself, etc. Exod● 20. 4. Q. Is this second Commandment negative or affirmative? A. Negative. Q. Which is the affirmative part of this second Commandment? A. Thou shalt take only what God makes 1 John 2: 4. Deut. 5. 32. Rom. 8. 26▪ john 15, 10. whereby to worship him, and help thee in his worship. Q. What is the rest of this second Commandment? A. 1. The particulars, what we must not make, 2. The end why we may make nothing, 3. And the reasons wherefore we may make nothing. Q. What are the particulars we may not make to help in worship? Deut. 4. 15. 19 Col. 2● 20, 21 Isa 24. 5. Levit. 17. 7. Rom. 8. 11. A. Graven Image, likeness, similitude, directory, or order, to help in the way of worship. Q. Wherefore may we have nothing, but that God makes only, in or about worship. A. Because God will punish those that do evil, and their Children, and will show mercy Exod: 20, 5. to them and their children that keep his truth. For if we make any thing to help in worship 2 Pet. 2. 1. we thereby deny that which God hath made to be sufficient. Q. Which is the third Commandment? A. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord Exod. 20. 7. thy God in vain, etc. Q. Is this third Commandment negative or affirmative? A. It is negative. Q. What is the affirmative part of this third Commandment? A. Thou shalt reverence the Name or Power Acts 4. 7. 〈◊〉 Ch●. 15. 13. Psalm 119. 133. Isa. 9, 7. Col. 2. 5. of God in all thy discourse and order of his Worship. Q. What is the rest in this third command? A. The reason, Because the Lord will not Exod. 2. 7. hold any guiltless, that useth his Name (or Power) in vain. Q What is the affirmative part of this reason of the third Commandment? A. They shall be guilty of sin, and liable to Isa 42. 4. 5. Gol 2 11. 12, 14. Rev. 2. 2. punishment, whosoever do use the Name (or Power) of God in any other order than he hath apppointed in his Word. Q. What condition are they in, who live in the breach of this or other commandments? A. They are out of the Law of faith, led Rom. 3. 27. Deut. 28. Tit. 1 15. jam. 2. 10. by Satan, under God's curse in all external things, both concerning this life, and that which is to come. Q. Which is the fourth Commandment? A. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Exod. 20. 8, 9 holy; In it thou shalt do no manner of work: Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do, etc. Q. Is this Commandment negative or affirmative? A. Both negative and affirmative. Exo. 20. 9 10 Qu. Which is the affirmative part of this fourth Commandment? A. Keep holy the Sabbath; six days thou Exod. 20. 9, 10 shalt work, doing that thou hast to do. Q. Which is the negative part of the fourth Commandment? A. Thou shalt do no work on the Sabbath Exod. 20. 10. day by thyself, servants, or cattles, etc. Q. Which are the works may be done on the Sabbath day? A. All works of preservation, (that are of john 5. 17. Acts 10. 35. & 20. 7. necessity) and all works of worship, required in the written word. Qu. Why is the word Remember prefixed to this fourth Commandment, and to no other? A. Because there is an Institution pointing out Sanctification in Christ, annexed more Eze. 20. 12. Col. 2. 17. specially to this Commandment then to any other. Q. What is the residue of the fourth Commandment? A. Time for God's worship: for if a God 1 Co●. 2. 4. be acknowledged and worshipped; there must be a time for it: but this or that time, or day, knoweth no man by nature. Q. What is the Antitipe (or substance) Col. 2. 16, 17. Matth. 11. 28. 1 Pet 4. 14. Exo. 16 23 & 23. 〈◊〉, 12. Leu. 23. 36. Acts 9 31. Acts 20. 7. 4-9. Heb. 4. 10. 11. Rev. 14. 13 of the shadow, that the seven days holy rest figureth out unto us? A. Rest in Christ, rest in the Gospel, Church, rest on the first day of the week, (on which Christ finished our redemption) and our everlasting rest in the glorious heavens. Q. Wherhfore was the command of keeping holy the seventh day enjoined? A. That we should rest, and all we have from Exod. 20. 10. worldly labour. 2. To be witness between God and us, that Eze. 20. 12. he the Lord sanctifies us in Christ. 3. To teach us our rest is in Christ, only, and Col. 2. 17. not in ourselves, 4. That there is a rest for us in heaven, where Heb. 4. 10, 11. Christ is entered, which yet we enjoy not. Q. Which is the seventh day the jews kept holy? A. The day before the first day of the week, Mat 28. 〈◊〉. john 30. 1. 19 which Christ's Disciples now keep holy. Q. How comes the 7. day's Sabbath altered to the first day of the week? A. Christ who made it changed it: as he Col. 3. 16. Heb. 4. 8, 9 1 Cor. 16. 3. Rev. 1. 10 changed the worship, so he did the time: and as the second Commandment is in force, though the Ordinance be changed: so is the fourth Commandment, though the time be changed. Q. Can Christ alter it? was it not Moral? A. The 7. day's Institution was a shadow R vel. 12. 5. 〈◊〉 Cor. 5. 17. ●say 43. 19 fulfilled by himself: wherefore he made all new, Ordinances, Order, and Time. Yet all the ten Commandments are of force, as of old, and every transgression is a breach of them, and every 1 Tim. 1. 9 transgressing Israelite to be punished (alike) by them. Q. Are we bound to keep any day holy, wherein we may not do worldly work? A. Yes, the first day of the week. Acts 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 2. 1. For if the 4. Commandment enjoin not a set day for Gods worship precisely, than Ro. 14. 6-13. no Church, nor person can blame any of fin, if they be absent and at work. 2. For that Action which breaks no command john 1. 47. Ro. 4, 5, 5, 6. 1 john 4. 6. is no sin; for sin is the transgression of the Law. Q. Is the first day of the week to be kept Ro. 3. 31. Acts 20 7. 1 Cor. 16 2. Heb, 4. 8 9 Rev. 1. 10. ●o●n 20. 1. 19 Mark 16. 2. Leu. 23. 36. Psa. 118. 24. holy in obedience to the fourth Commandment? A. Yes, Because Christ commands it to be kept holy; and he that obeys Christ's commands, fulfils the Law. Q. What if we work on the first day of the week worldly work? A. We break Gods command, deny our Tit. 1. 16. 〈◊〉 Pet. 〈◊〉. 1. Ro. 10. 2. Sanctification to come only from God, and our soul's rest to be only in Christ. Q. Wherhfore did Christ change the 7. day's Sabbath unto the first day of the week? A. To teach us that the vails of darkness is taken from our hearts, and the light excelling (that 2 Cor. 3. 7-18 Isa. ●5. 7. Heb. 9 8. 12 & 10. 20. & 6. ●9 Isay 30. 26. Heb. 4. 4. 9 Acts ●0. 7. 3 Cor. 16. 2. Gen. 3. 2, 3. 1 Cor. 15. 14-18. light of the Law) now shineth. Q. When did Christ begin to sanctify the first day of the week? A. When he had finished all his work of our Redemption. For as God in the Creation did not sanctify the seventh day, till he had finished all his work of Creation: So Christ did not sanctify the first day of the week, till he had-finished all his work of our Redemption. Q. When was all the work of our Redemption finished? A. When Christ was ris●n from the dead. 1 Cor. 15. 14. 18. Q. When did Christ rise from the dead? A. Early in the morning when it was yet Mat. 28. 〈◊〉. joh. 30. 1. dark. Q. Which is the 5. Commandment: or the first Commandment of the second Table? A. Honour thy father and mother etc. Q. Is this Commandment negative, or Deut. 5. 16. affirmative? A. Affirmative, or commanding. Q. What is the negative part of this fifth Commandment? A. Thou shalt not disobey Authority, of Parents, Ro. 13. 3, 3, 4, 5. Exod. 20. 12. Eph. 6. 5. Kings, Magistrates, Masters, etc. Q. What if Authority of Parents, Kings, or Magistrates, command that which God hath forbidden in his word? A. I ought in no wise to submit unto it: for Acts 4. 18, 19, 20. Dan. 3. 16. 17. that is the abuse and not the use of authority. Q. What is the rest of this fifth Commandment? A. The promise that thou mayst live long in Deut. 5. 16. the land wherein God hath given there a being. Q. Shall I not live long in the land, if I obey not authority? A. No, the wicked shall not live out half Psal. 55. 23. Deut. 31. 18, 19, 20, ●1. their days; But by disobedience, rebellion, killing, etc. thou cuttest off thine own life. Q. Which is the sixth Commandment? A. Thou shalt do no murder. Deut. 5. 1●. Q. Is this Command negative or affirmative? A. Negative. Q. What is the affirmative part of this sixth Commandment? A. Thou shalt preserve to thy utmost, not only M●t. 5 44. Rom. 13. 7. the life itself, but the very means of life of every one, even of thine enemies. Q. Which is the seventh Commandment? A. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Exod. ●0. 14. 1 Cor. 6 9 Q. Is this Commandment negative or affirmative? A. Negative. Q. Which is the affirmative part of this seventh Commandment? Mat. 5. 28. Eccl. 13. 14. Gen. 6. ●. 1 Cor 3. 20. Psal. 94. 11. A. Thou shalt live chaste in thought, word, and deed (from all uncleanness.) Q. Which is the eighth Commandment? A. Thou shalt not steal. Deut. 5. 19 Q. Is this eighth Commandment negative or affirmative? A. Negative. Q. Which is the affirmative part of this eighth Commandment? A. Thou shalt honestly and justly, (according Hab. 2. 9 10. 11, 1●. Eph. 4. 28. 1 Pet. 3. 12. to God's Word) get and keep every thing thou enjoyest. Q. Which is the ninth Commandment? A. Thou shalt not bear false witness against Deut. 5. 20. Exod. 20. any. Q. Is this ninth Commandment negative or affirmative? A. Negative. Q. Which is the affirmative part of this ninth Commandment? A. Thou shalt always speak truth in every Eph. 4. 25. Prov. 13. 17. 19 thing thou utterest. Q. Which is the tenth Commandment? Deut. 5. 21. Rom. 7. 7. A. Thou shalt not covet, etc. Q. Is this tenth Commandment negative or affirmative? A. Negative. Q. Which is the affirmative part of this tenth Commandemet? Phil. 4. 11 Col. 3. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 10 A. Thou shalt be content with thy estate and condition wherein the Lord sets thee. Gen. 3. 15. Mat. 1. 21. Psal. 40. 7. 8. Q. How comes the wrath of God (which man hath brought upon himself, by the breach of God's commands) to be satisfied? Heb. 10. 7. 9 Rom. 8. 3. Gen. 3. 15. Isay 9, 6, 7. Mat. 1. ●1. 1 Cor. 3. 5. A. By the seed of the woman, (Christ Jesus) breaking the Serpent's head. Q. How comes man to be free from this cursed estate? Answ. Only by the merits of Jesus Christ. Q. Doth Christ's merits redeem all to that estate they had before the fall. A. No: he redeems none to that estate they Gen. 3. 23, 24. Heb 4. 2. john 17. 9 Reve●. 21. 8. Luke 1. 35. had before the fall, but for those under the promise, he hath prepared a better estate for them eternal in the heavens. Q. What is jesus Christ? A. The only begotten Son of God. Hebr. 5. 5. Q. Christ jesus was made, and therefore not begotten? A. God made him in his body so far as concerneth Gal. 4, 4. Rom. 9 6. john 1. 14. 3 Tim. 3. 8. Rom. 1. 3. Luke 1. 35. Math. 1. 18. Acts 13. 33. the woman, for else he could not have had our flesh: But in his soul he was begotten of God, otherwise he had not been free from sin. For we being all in Adam, sinned both in body and soul in him. Q. How could Christ be free from sin, taking flesh of the Virgin Mary who was a sinner? A. The body cannot be sinful, the soul being Luke, 1 35. Mat. 1. 18, 19, 20. perfect, and Christ had his soul immediately from God. Q. How comes children then to be guilty of eternal death? A. By their sinful soul and body they receive Psalm 51. 5. Ephes. 2 3. from their Parents. Q. Doth man beget the soul of a child? A. He doth. Gen. 5. 3. Psalm 51. 5. judges 8. 30. Levit. 18. 11. As the strength of the ground cannot make a dead stick to grow; So the lively nourishing part of a woman cannot make that live that hath not life in itself. Q. How then can children be visibly in the state of grace? Gen. 17: 4, 7. 10. 1 Cor. 7. 14. Acts 2 39 & 3. 25. & 7, 8. Rom. 11. 16. Hebr. 7. 9 A. By the right which God in Christ is pleased to impute unto them who have Parents under the Covenant. As when a man is in Covenant with God all his little ones are in the same. Q. What hath Christ done for us? A. Laid down his life for our sins, and Rom. 5. 3. 9 19 & 14 9 1 Cor 15. 3. john 10. 17. 18, Math: 1. 21: Rom. 3● 24. 28. & 4. 2. 7● 20. & 5. 5. john 19 28. ●0. risen again to make us righteous. Q. Doth not man make or help to make his own salvation. A. No: Man's salvation is wrought only and alone in Christ's own person without his help. For otherwise Christ did not wholly purchase heaven for us. Q. What use is there then of good works? A. Good works do confirm the faith I have in Christ to be acceptable. Jam. 2. 21, 22, 23, 24. Gen. 22. 14. Math. 7. 16. 20. As a s●ale confirms the conditions in a writing. Q. What are good works? A. Actions done in obedience to God's Commandments. Jam. 2. 15, 16, 17. Isay 1. 19 Q. Do not good works bring a reward? A. Yes, of confirmation of faith, but not ●ames 2. 21. 〈◊〉 P●t 1. 5. 10. Rom 4. 2. 6, 7. Gal. 6. 14. of purchase of faith nor heaven. Q Doth Christ's merits (in this life) restore his elect again to the estate they had before the fall? A. No; In this life we have but the evidence, Hebr● 11. 1. 〈◊〉 Cor. 15. 45. 19 〈◊〉 Cor. 13. 10. 12. Revel. 21. 4. and in the life to come the Inheritance. For there can be no persecution nor imperfection when we enjoy our inheritance. Q. What have the children of God in this life by jesus Christ? A. The Spirit of a Rom. 15. 16. john 16. 13 Sanctification, b Ro. 8. 3. Col. 3. 5. Mortification, c Lu. 21. 19 2. Thes. 1. 4. Patience, d 1 Cor. 15. ●8. Col. 3. 5. Eph. 4 14 jam. 1. 6, 7 Constancy, e 1 Cor. 6. 11. Justification, f ● Cor. 1. 4. john 16. 13. Rom. 8. 14. Consolation & direction to lead us to heaven etc. Q What is Sanctification? A. g R. 7. 22. Act 38. 6. Ro. 8. 5, 6. A changing of the mind from delighting in the things of this world, to delight in heavenly things. Q What is Mortification? A. h Ro. 8. 14 Pet. 4. 1, 3, 3, 4. Col. 3. 〈◊〉 6. A suppressing of all evil actions which we have formerly practised. Q. What is the patience the Lord requires? A. i Ro. 2. 7. 1 Pet. 2. 2 & 3. 17. Lu. 1. 〈◊〉. Rom. 15. 30. 33. Mat. 5, 30, 31. A quiet and meek endeavouring for well doing. Q. What is justification? A. A having our actions which we perform warrantable to be acceptable. Q. By what must our actions be warranted acceptable? A. By the inward conscience and outward 1 joh. 3 20. Heb. 11. 6. Io●. 14. 23. jam. 1. 22, 23. Rom. 2. 15. 1 Tim. 1. 19 word. Q. What is Conscience? A. A created faculty of the soul & thoughts witnessing truth on God's part, by accusing or excusing one another without partiality. Q. When are our actions warranted by the conscience and word? 3 john 3. 5. Rom. 14. 23. Col 2. 21, 22, 23. A. When both approve the practice. Q. When is one truly constant? A. When he stodfastly practices (not fearing persecution) all that he doth to the end 1 Cor. 15. 58. Col 〈◊〉. 8. james 1. 6, 7. without any wavering. Q. When is one truly comforted? A. When he apprehends God's favour in Acts 7. 56 & 5. 41. 1 Cor. 15. 19 Christ, and the reward shall be given unto him. Q. What is it to be directed truly? A. To be led by God's Spirit, not going of Matth 16. 21. john 16. 13. ourselves. Q. When is one led by God's Spirit? A. When he walketh in the ways of God's 1 john 5. 78. Psal. 119. 100LS. & 19 7. 11. Word. Q What benefit have the Lords children more than Satan's servants, in the things of this life? A. They have them in God's favour, to preserve Deut. 28. 〈◊〉 16. Tit. 〈◊〉. Prov. 21. 4. & 16 4. them to happiness; and the ohter in his justice, to keep them till the judgement. Q. Are all that degenerated in Adam, restored in jesus Christ? 2 Tim. 3. 8, Act. 15 8. Mat 34 13. john 3. 3●. A. None are restored but the faithful with their seed. Q. What is faith in jesus Christ? A. The Foundation of our hope, and Evidence Hebr. 11. 1. of the heavenly Inheritance which we shall enjoy. Q. What is the object of Faith? A. The love and mercy of God. Math. 9 18, 21. Acts 2. 38. Q. What is the love of God unto us? A. All goodness in this life, and eternal glory in the life to come. Rom. 8. ●8. Hebr. 12. 6. Q. Upon what Object doth Faith work? A. Upon the satisfaction which Christ hath Math. 9 18. 22, 23. Acts 2. 38. made for our eternal happiness. Q. What are the motives that stir up Faith? A. The promises of Almighty God. Heb. 11. 9, 10, 11, 13. Gen. 17 4, 8. 27. 〈◊〉 Cor, 8. 10. 〈◊〉: Acts. 19 21. 2 Tim. 3. 10. 1 Thes. 5. 12, 13. Phil. 2. 30. Q. Wha are the effects that flow from faith? A. Confidence of God's love, internal holy purposes, and external godly practices. Q. What are the internal purposes that flow from faith? A. Resolving in our hearts to obey whatsoever God requires. Rom. 6. 17. & 8 6. 2 Cor. 8. 10, 11, 12. Mat. 22. 37. 39 Luke 10, 27. Mat. 4. 10. Rev. 22. 18, 19 Deut. 5 32. Q. What are the external purposes of faith? A. Good works, spiritual and temporal. Q. What are good external spiritual works? A. Worshipping of God in matter and manner according to his direction. Q. What are good works temporal? A. Helping our Brethren and others, in obedience Isay 58. 7. ●●ek. 18. 7. ●●m. 2. 17, 18, 21. Mat, 25. 35, 36. Ephes. 2. 8. to Christ's Commandments. Q. How come men to have saving faith? A. It is the free gift of God. Q. What causes God to give him faith? Rom. 9 15. 18. A. His free mercy in Christ. Q. At what time doth the Lord give his mercy. A. Before we are borne. Mal. 1. 2. Ro. 9 11, 12, 13. Ephes. 1. 4. Q. How know you God gives mercy before we are borne? A. By his Word, and the manifestation of it Ephes. 1. 4. 10, 11. in time. Q. By what means doth God manifest unto us his mercy? A. By his Word and Spirit, Extraordinary, and Ordinary. Jer. 1. 5, 6. Acts 2. 37. Q. What is the extraordinary means that God useth to call by? A. Calling us in our misery or rudeness by himself Acts 9 3, 4, 5, 6. 1 Sam. 3. 4. job 33 14. 15. in a Field alone, of a Vision in the night. Q. What is the ordinary means whereby God useth to manifest unto us that we have faith? A. a Luk. 15. 16. 24. Afflictions, b 2 King. 22. 10. 19 Reading, c Lu. 14 13, 14, 15. john 4. 27 29. Conference, d Act. ●0. 2, 3. 4 Prayer, e Acts 2. 37. and 4. 4. Preaching, f job 33. 14, 15 16, 17. Gen. 24. 63. Meditation. Q. Is not Conversion tied only to the Office of the Ministry? A. g Act. 11, 19, 20 21. & 17. 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 14 24, 25, 29, 30. jam 2●. 1 Pet. 2. 2. No, it is not at all tied to the Office of the Ministry, but to the Word and Spirit. As Corn hath not its growth from the Seedsman, but from itself and the ground; So Conversion hath not its from the Ministry, but from the Word and Spirit. Q. Have those any right to the things of this life, which are not of Christ's eternal Redemption? A. To all created things they have. Gen. 3. 14. Deut. 2. 4, 5. Because God hath given the things of this life unto them. As a Traitor hath right to the portion, allowed him till the Execution. Q. Doth not man's fall deprive him of the things of this life? A. Man's fall deprives him of all the things Gen 2. 17. 〈◊〉 Tim. 4. 10. of this life; But for Christ sake, God gives them all men again for a time. Q. Have the wicked any benefit by Christ's Redemption? Matth. 5. 45. Deut. 3. 4, 5, 〈◊〉. l. 37. 7, 8. & 79. 〈◊〉, 3. Mat. 5. 45. ●●ov. 9 7, 8. A. Yes, in all external things of this life, for God will not yet now take them from them. Q. Have the Elect no privilege (by Christ) in the external things of this life, more than the Reprobate? A. Yes, the Elect have them in God's favour Deu●. 28, Tit. 1. 5. to preserve them to happiness, and the Reprobate in his wrath to reserve them till the slaughter. Q. Doth God hear the prayers of men, not in Christ? A. God hears and grants wicked men their 1 Kings ●2. 27●●9. Mat. 5. 45. ●onah 3 5. 10 requests in the things of this life, many times for their further judgement. Q. How know you that there is a God, that 1 Cor. 2. ●1. ●●a. 19 1, 2, 3, 4. created man, and all other things? A. By the Spirit of God, and the Heavens, Firmament and orderly course every day and night they make. Rom. 1. 30 & 10. 18. Q. What doth God require of his Redeemed in his word Deut. 5. 30. Exod. 20 3. Mat. 4. 10. A. That they shall serve him only. Q. Doth the Lordrequire that wilful wicked men should serve him in his divine worship? Psal. 50. 16. Judas 12. ●6. Psal. ●8. 4. 5, Mark. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 3 12. A. No: they ought not to meddle with Christ's divine worship. Q. When is one a wilful wicked man that professeth Christ? A. When he will take away or add to any Mat. 24. 9 Mark 13 9 14 Rev. 13. 10, & 22. 18. 19 thing in God's worship: imprison or put to death for not worshipping God as he would have them. For Christ's servants must let wicked men alone Mat. 13. 29. 30 2 Tim 2 24, 35. 3 ●et. 1. 2●. Deut. 32. 46. 2 Tim. 3. 16, 17. quietly, Q. Which is the law of Christ's divine word? A. The holy Scriptures which are called the Old and New Testament, Q. How know you the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be God's word? A. Because God's glory is therein wholly john 7. 18. Ma●h. 23. 1●. Luk. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●ames 4 6 & 3. 6. ●●d. 19 Matt●. 6. 13. 1 P●t. 3. 〈◊〉. 11 maintained, man's pride wholly suppressed, corrupt nature utterly gainsayed, evil forbidden, and virtue required. Q. How know you our translated Scripture (which is called the Bible) to be the true word of God? A. 1. a 1 Cor. 2. 〈◊〉 1●, ●3. 14, 15. joh. 16. 13. Inwardly by the Spirit of God. 2. Outwardly by the power which the word ●ct● 2. 37. & 4 〈◊〉. 4. 2 Cor. 7. 〈◊〉. 11. hath, in converting men, and governing them being converted. 3. By the agreement of the Word, it being Cor. 14. 32, 3. 2 Peter 1. 1. written so many years asunder, and by so many several prophets, and no one place contradicting another, being rightly understood. For where one place (seemingly) contradicts Mie 25. 2● Math. 2. 5, 6. psalm 22. 18. Math. 27. 35. Zach. 9 9 Math. 21 5, 6. Mar. 15. 15. 19 ●ay 5. 6, etc. 〈◊〉 Dan. 11. 31. M●r. 13. 14. Math. 24. 5. 〈◊〉 T●m. 4. 3, 4. Tim. 4. 3. Rev. 18. 13. Ezek 13. 19 ●ohn 16. 1, 2. Mat. 23. 34. Rev. 18. 8. 21. 1 Cor. 15. 21, 22. 1 Thes. 4. 16, 17. Math. 25. 23. 34. 〈◊〉 Math. 12. 33. Gal. 5, 22. 〈◊〉 Psal. 19 7, 8, 9 〈◊〉 Tim. 3. 16, 17. Tit. 1, 2. Mar. 7. 37. G●n. 1. 31. another, it is not rightly understood. 4. By the Prophecies thereof, which are three fold: past, present, and to come. 1. a Promises past, which are fulfilled. 2. b Promises present, we behold with these eyes, taking away God's Ordinances, and placing men's inventions in the room thereof; forbidding sound doctrine and God's people to speak his truth: without their licence marriages, meats, selling souls for money, and persecuting the truth. 3. c Prophecies to come that shall be fulfilled: destruction of those Soule-Merchants & forbidders to speak God's truth, resurrection of the body, Christ's coming to judgement, and eternal glory. Q. How know you that yvo have the spirit of God A. d By the fruit of good works which it brings forth in my conversation. Q. How know you that the word of God is sufficient? A. e Because a perfect God cannot leave an imperfect word. Q. How can the word be sufficient, seeing many books spoken by the Prophets, are now ●anting? A. The Lord hath reserved so many as are joh. 20. 30, 31. & 21. 25. 2 Tim. 3. 16, 17. sufficient to teach all things needful to salvation and worship. Q. How must our eternal God be worshipped? A. As he hath required in that his word only, Deut. 5. 3●. 1 Cor. 11. 1, 3. Deut. 18. 20. without adding or detracting in matter or order. Q. What order must Christ's Church and children keep, in the performance of his Ordinances? A. That order only which in his word he hath required. 1 Cor. 14. 40. Col. 〈◊〉. 5. 1 Cor. 11. 1, 〈◊〉. Heb. 8, 5. 3 Cor. 1. 13. Q. How if any break the order in worship that God hath prefixed in his word? A. He will destroy them, if they repent not. 2 Chron. ●6. 16, ●0. Levit. 10. 1. Act. 6. 14. Col. 2. ●2. Rev. 2. 16. 5. H●b. 2. 1, 2, 3. As a King will destroy all those that will take money, contrary to the order he appoints. Q. What is the service that God in his written word requires of his children? A. It is temporal and spiritual. Q. What is the temporal obedience the Lord Mat. 22. 37. 38 39 Mar. 12. 31 requires. A. To obey Parents, Kings, and Magistrates, Gal. 5. 14. jam. 2. 8, 9 Rom. 13. 1. Tit. 2. 2 1 P●t. 4. 11. in earthly things, pay that we own, be merciful to all, sober in our carriage, doing as we would be done unto for conscience sake. Q. May we not obey the temporal authority of Parents, Kings and Magistrates, in God's divine worship? A. No, we may not, for Kings and Parent, 2 Co●. 7 ●3. & 16. 12. Gal. 1. 10 Dan. 3. 16, 17, 18. Psal. 105. 14, 15. & 149 8, 9 & 2. 10, 11, 12. 2 Cor. 10. 4 etc. are subject in divine things, and ought not to use temporal authority, about matters of worship. Q. What is the divine worship the Lord requires of his children? A. a Mat. 6. 6. Dan. 6. 10. It is Personal, b Deut. 4. 9, 10 Ios. 24. 15. Domestical, c Mar. 9 38, 39 Acts 18. 24, 25, 26, 27. Congregative, d Acts 2. 1 Cor. 1. 11. Deut. 6. 7. & 11. 19 and Stative or in the Church. Q. What is the personal worship the Lord requires of his children? Matth. 6. 6, & 14 23. Rev. 1. 9 19 A. That one conscionably serve him when he is alone. Q. What are the duties which one alone is to perform unto the Lord? A. a Acts 8. 28. Reading, b Luke 1. 29. meditation on God's Word, c Matth. 11. 33. Prayer, d Psal. 35. 13. john 5. 39 3 King. 22. 10, 11. 19 Neh. 13. 12, 13. Mat. 22. 31, 32, 33, & 21 16. Fasting. Q. What benefit is there by reading of God's word? A. We are informed what we should do, and either confirmed or confounded, in what we have done, that it is good or evil. Q. What benefit is there by meditation on Psal. 119. 92. Matt. 100L. Luke 1. 2●. 30 & 2. 35. & 12. 17. 18. Ex. 32. 10, 11, 14 30, 31, 32. I●m. 5. 14, 15. Act. 4. 31, 33. jonah ●1, 2. God's word? A. Keeping the knowledge and comfort we have and gaining more. Q. What benefit by fervent & faithful prayer? A. Preventing deserved punishments, and procuring undeserved favours. Q. What is tr●● prayer? A. A pouring out of the meditations of the Psal. 142 2. heart unto the Lord, by the operation of his Spirit. Q. What is reading of prayer● for prayer? jona. 2. 8. Psa. 119. 113. Zach. 12. 10. Dan. 9 3, 4. 19 27. Act 4. 24. Ro. 8. 26, 27. 1 Cor. 14, 15 john ●. 43. 47. Rev. 1 11. Psa. 50. 15. A. An humane invention of man, never heard of in God's Word, but hated of him. For when we read, God speaks to us: and praying, we speak to God. 2. If reading be prayer one may carry them in his pocket, or buy a pennyworth at a Stationer's shop. Q What is holy Fasting? A. Abstaining from food, for Conscience sake. Ne●. 1. 4. Dan. 10. 3. Q. What benefit is there by fasting and prayer, more than by prayer alone? A. Prayer and Fasting joined together, will Matth. 17. 21. Act. 10. 30, prevail, when Prayer alone will not be heard. Q. What are the spiritual duties the Lord requires of his servants in their houses? Acts 10. 1, 2. & 17. 11. 1 Pet. 4. 10. Deut 6. 7. & 11. 19 P●ov. 22 6. A. 1. Prayer, 2. Reading, 3. Conference, 4. Teaching the Word, 5. and continually convenient talk of the Saints unto them. For if the youngling be seasoned in good things, it will abide for ever. Q. How if some of his household will not pray, nor be instructed by him? A. He must patiently let them alone. 2 Tim. 2. 24, Acts 13. 46, 47 2 Cor. 1. 24. Mat 13. 29, 30 2 Tim. 2. ●4, 35 For no man hath power to command in divine things (by temporal authority) the conscience of any in worship. Q. May a father master, or any in authority, force to divine obedience, by Civil power? A. They may not: All must come to worship 2 Cor. 10. 4. Heb. 4. 1●. willingly. 2. If any practice before faith, their Sacrifice Psal. 110. 3. Hebr. 11. 6. is of God hated. Q. May a Father, Master or King, keep such in his house or kingdom? A. He may lawfully, and must, (or else he rebelleth against God) for if his wife or children 1 Cor. 7. 13, 14. Math. 10. 35, 36. 1 Pet. 3. 1. be unbelieving he must keep them. Q. What authority hath a Father, King, or Master on those who are wicked in divine things? A. Manifest God's eternal judgement against joh. 8. 44. jude 23. Acts 13. 10, 11. Mat. 12. ●5 31. them. Q. How if the threatening Gods eternal judgement will not cause them to amend? A. They must leave them as of God not ye called. Mat. 13, 28, 29, 30. 2 Tim. 〈◊〉. 24. 1 Cor. 14. 37, 38. Q. What must converted Children and Servants do in a house when their Governors are not? A. Abide faithful, doing what good they can. 1 Cor. 7. 21. Mat. 10. ●1, 22 1 Tim. 6. 1. Q. What worship must the unconverted household perform? A. None, for their best is hated. Psalm 50. 16. Q. Ought any to be let live that will not worship the Lord according to his word? A. They ought: for Christ will have none Mat. 13. 29, 30. bodily punished, for any divine worship they 2 Tim. 2. 24. perform. 2. For all bodily weapons are prohibited in 2 Cor. 10. 4. divine actions. Q. Will not wicked men if they be let alone draw many to false worship? A. Yes, such as themselves are. Q. Ought not Christ's servants to destroy such Acts 5. 37, 38, 39 wicked worshippers for his cause? A. No: for Christ will have his children Mat. 13. 29, 30. Revel. 13. 10. permit wicked worshippers quietly. 2. For they may in time be converted. Acts 9 3. Q. May not people assemble together in the name of Christ to do him worship, that are not a Church? A. Yes, they may. Luke 24. 13, 14, 15, 16. Acts 16. 14. Q. Can a Congregation, (which is not a Church) met in the name of Christ) give and receive the Ordinance of Baptism, and the Lords Supper? A. No, these belong only to a Church, or to Deut. 12. 13, 14. & 16. 2. 5, 6. Luke 3. 12. 1 Cor. 11. 26, 27. one extraordinarily called and approved of God. Q. Who are the whole Kingdom or Catholic Church of Christ? A. All the invisible, and visible Saints of God, in Heaven, on earth now, have ever been, Math. 8 11. ●uke 14. 233 24. or ever shall be. For all Saints can make but one body, to one head Christ. Ephes. 1. 22, Q. Where is this universal Church planted? A. In the glorious heavens, (where Christ the head is) whither the elect shall ascend, Heb. 12. 23. 2 Tim. 4. 8. Q. Who are officers to this Catholic Church, or universal Kingdom? A. Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists; who Heb. 2 4. Act. 19 11, 12. 1 Cor. 4. 9 are extraordinary called, and approved of by Christ our King, and no other. For these are to appoint the work to other Act. 6. 3. Officers: As the King's privy Counsel, are by the King's appointment, to declare to the inferior Officers, what the King would have them do? Q. What is an Apostle? A. A peculiar Ambassador in Office, sent with Authority to declare the unwritten mind Eph. 6, 20, joh. 20. 23. Matth. 18. 18. 1 Cor. 12. 29. Luke 6 13. Hct. 2. 42. of Christ: whose writings are the Doctrines and Laws of his Church, by which all men's fins are remitted, or retained, and by which all shall be judged at the last day. Q How can Christ's Church be ordered now the Apostles are absent and dead? A. They are spiritually present and living. Luke 16. 29. 1 Cor. 15 3. As the King's Privy Counsel are present where their commands are; though they be not there in bodily presence. Q. How is this universal Church or kingdom Col. 4 8. Rev. 1. 11. 1 Cor. 1, 2 Gal. 1. 2. Phil. 2. 19 20. P●ov. 27. 23. distinguished? A. Into divers branches, particular States, Churches, Bodies, Cities, or Corporations. Q. What is a particular Church stative body, Acts 2. 37. 39 Ro. 1. 6, 7. & 10 14, 15. 17. john 15. 19 Acts 4. 1. 4. & 5. 1●. john 17. 20. City or Corporation of Christ? A. 1. A company of people called to believe and profess obedience unto God in Jesus Christ, by the power of his word. 2. a Gen. 17. 4. 7. 9 11. 2 Cor. 8. 5. Luke 1. 27. Act. 3. 25. Neh 9 38. & 10. 29. Rom. 11. 27. Gal. 3. 17. Heb. 8. 6. 10. & 13 20. Joined together in holy Covenant, b john 15. 19 Act. Act. 19 9 Psal. 26. 4, 5. Tim. 6. 3. 4, 5, 6. 2 Cor. 6. 7. 1 Cor. 5. 12. Rev. 18. 4. Isay 52. 11 jer. 6. 1. apart from the world's worship and service of Anti-christ, c Psa. 110. 3. 2 Cor. 9 13. Isa. 44. 5. Phil. 〈◊〉. 5. Act. 2. 41. 17. 4. by voluntary profession of the faith of Christ in the fellowship of the Gospel. 3. Having his power always among themselves Math. 18. 17 20 1 Cor. 5. 4, 5. 2 Cor. 2. 6, 7, 8. 1 Tim. 5. 19, 20. (without the help or assistance of any others) to punish vice, and support virtue. Q. What is the matter whereof Christ's Church is made? A. Visible holy Saints and no other. 1 Cor. 1. 1, 2. Heb. 1. 3. Ro. 17. 2 Cor. 1. 1. Ephes. 1. 4. 1 Thes. 2. 10. Act. 9 4. 1 Pet. 1 6. 2 Cor. 13. 13. Col. 1. 2. 1 Thes 5. 27. Heb. 13. 24. Exod. 12. 43. 48. 1 Cor 5. 5. 6, 7. 1 john 2. 19 Acts 8. 21. Q. When doth one appear to be visible matter for Christ's particular Church? A. When his divine word doth powerfully Acts 2. 37. 41. Lu. 9 62. & 3. 7, 8. Mat. 3. 7, 8, 9 Acts 8. 21. provoke him to confess in word and deed, Christ to be the Son of God, and only to be obeyed in his worship. Q. What is that which makes Believers to be a particular Church of Christ? A. A holy covenanting themselves together 2 Cor. 8. 5. Nehe. 9 38. Heb. 13. 20. Mat. 1. 18. Lu. 1. 27. Isa 62. 5 to be a Church in the order of the Gospel. As a man and a maid become one body in marriage by a Covenant or Contract they make one with the other. Q. When have people made a holy Church covenant? A. When they together have vowed or agreed Nehem. 9 38. 2 Ch●ō. 15. 12, 13, 14. Ac●s 3. 25. in a bodily or Church estate to walk together obediently in all things to Christ's precepts. For a Covenant consists in words. And the Gen. 17. 2. 10. 1 Chro. 17. 23. Dan. 11. 32. performance in the practice? If it be not so, how could any break Covenant. Q. What is that keeps Christ's faithful Subjects (being thus joined) in holy Church peace together? Math. 18. 20. Eze. 37. 10. Math. 16. 19 1 Cor. 5. 4. Heb. 5. 14. 2 Tim. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 5. 4. 12. 2 Cor. 8. 9, 10 A. Christ's word and cencors according thereunto. Q. When is Christ's holy Church power among his people? A. When they in Christ's name (without help of any others) can cast out sinners from them, and receive the regenerate that are not of them. Math. 18. 20. Heb. 1. 3. 1 Pet. 1. 16. Ephes. 1. 4. Ephes. 3. 5. 23. Nehe. 9 38. 1 Cor. 5. 4, 5. Math. 18, 20. them. Q What are the essential marks of a particular Church of Christ? A. Holy people, holy ●ovenant, holy power. As to the body of a man there must be true Ezek. 37. 3, 4. 5, 6. 11. Eph. 4. 16, Col. 2. 19 bones, true flesh, and true breath, or else no man: So if any of these three be wanting, there can be no Church of Christ. Q. What power hath Christ left to each one of his particular Churches? A. All the Church authority which he in this 1 Cor. 3. 21. 22. watch. 18. 20. 1 Cor. 5. 12. & 16. 3. 2 Cor. 12. 13. life hath afforded unto the Sons of men. Q. Hath not one Church of Christ power over another? A. No: every Church of Christ hath power Revel. 1. 13. 2 Cor. 12. 13. equally and alike. Q. What is the power which Christ hath left unto his particular Churches? A. Spiritual keys which he hath given to Matth. 16. 19 H●b. 4. 12. Mat. 18. 18, 19 20. 1 Cor. 3 21, 22. open and shut Heaven, with all his Ordinances. Q. What are those keys which do open and shut Heaven? A. They a●e the Spirit of God & the word. joh. 14. 26. Act. 2. 4. Rom. 8. 9 14. 16. 1 Cor. 2. 12. 1 ●ohn 3. 24. & 2. 27. joh. 12. 48. Q. Can none but the Saints open and shut Heaven with the key of God's word? A. * Mat. 10. 4. & 7. 22, 2,. & 25. 25. Yea, Reprobates, though damned for their labours. * Lu. 10. 17. Mat. 7. 22. As one may open the door that takes the key without authority: For the key of the word will open where faith is. Q. How comes Excommunication, seeing the Spirit of God and the word are those keys? A. By turning those keys against the offenders. 1 Cor. 5. 4. Math. 18. 20. & 16. 19 For if the key of the word lock not out the 3. john 9 10. joh. 4. 35. 38. excommunicated, they are falsely dealt against, and the Church ought to repent. Q. Are these keys given only to the Church? A. Every Saint hath them in particular. john 4. 29. 30. 39 Mat 16. 19 Q. What be the Ornaments wherewith God adorns every particular Church of Christ? A. a 1 Tim. 4. 13. john 5. 39 Reading. b 1 Thes. 5. 17 1 Tim. 2 8. Prayer, c 1 Cor. 14. 26. 31. Ro. 12. 10. A●. 2. 21. 1 Pe●. 4. 10. Prophesying, d Act. 20. 28. Tit. 1. 5. R●v. 1. 20 & 2. 1. 2 Tim. 4. 2. Officers, e 1 Cor. 16. 2. Act. 4. 34, 35. ●●●. 2. 10. Contribution, f Mat. 18. 20. Mat. 16. 19 1 Cor. 5. 4, 5. 11. Censors, g Mat. 28. 19 Lu. 22. 19, 20. 1 Cor. 11. 24, 25, 26. Seals, etc. Q. What Books are the Churches of Christ to read and obey? Deut. 4. 2. 5, 6. Pr●v 30 5, 6, Ps l 19 7, 8 9 jerem. 1. 8. 2 Ti●. 3. 16 17. Gal. 3. 15. 1 Tim, 6. 3, 4, 5. 2 Pet. 1. 16. 19, 20, 21. Rev. 18. 19 A. The books of the old and new Testament only, whereby God hath appointed to make himselfefe known. Q. May not the books called Apocryfall be read and obeyed in Christ's Church? A. They may not, a 2 Mack 12. 44, 45. & 14. 41, 42. Eccl. 46. 20 Wisd. 19 11. for they have in them errors, b Esdras 14. 21, 22, 23. & 12. 15. jud. 8. 33. judeth 10. 9 12. & 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. & 14. 3, 4. 1 Mack. 9 3. 18. & 2. 1. 10. 1 Mack. 1. 6. 4. 8. 9 16, 2 Mack. 1. 13, 14, 15, 16. & 9 1. 5. 7 9 28, 29. untruths, c Tobit 12. 12. 13. 15. compared with Rom. 8. 3. 4. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Rev. 8. 3, 4. blasphemies, d Tobit 6. 6, 7, 8. & 9 2, 3. with 3. 7● 8. & 11. 10, 11, 12, 13. with 2. 9, 10. magic, and e judith 9 2, 3, 4. compared with Gen. 49. 5, 6, 7. Est Apoc. 12. 5. with Est Can. 6. 3. & Est Apoc. 15, 9, 10. with Est Can: 5. 2. Ecclus. 46. 20 with Isay 57 2. and Eccles. 12. 7. contradictions to the Canonical Scriptures. Q. What is prophesying? 1 Cor. 14. 26. 2●, 29 Rom. 8. 12, 6. ● Pet. 4. 10. 1 Th' s 5. 20. Num. 11. 26, 27, 28, 29. A. A teaching of the Word of God (in the Church) by Doctrine, Interpretation, Revelatlon, or Exhortation, by a member that is not in any office of Ministry. Q. What be the offices that belong to every particular Church of Christ? Rom. 12. 7, 8. Act. 6. 3. 1 Tim. 5. 9 A. Teaching, exhorting, distributing, ruling mercy showing. Q. Who ought to choose and ordain the Ministers Mat. 18. 20. Acts 6. 2, 3. 5. & 14. 23. & 1. 15. 23, 26. 2 Cor. 8. 5. Eze. 33. 2. Num. 8 9, 10 1 Cor. 16. 3. Heb. 5. 4. of every particular Church of Christ? A. The Members of the Church where they are to administer. As every people of a Liberty, Precinct, or Corporation ought to choose and ordain their Constable. Q. How can a Minister be made without laying on of hands by one that is a Minister? Acts 13. 3. & 1 26. & 6. 2, 3. ●. Num. 8. 10. Rev. 1. 6. A. Laying on of hands, belongs to a particular Church, (who are all Kings and Priests) and not to any other. Qu. Titus had authority to ordain Ministers? Acts 6. 3. & 4. 7 ● Cor. 16. 3. Num. 8. 10. A. No otherwise than Paul had appointed, which was by the choice of the Church, and laying on of the Church's hands or Power. Qu. Is every one that is a Minister of a particular Church an Officer all the world over? A. No, he is a Minister only to the Acts 20. 28. Church and People that Elected, and Ordained him. As a Constable and Major, are Officers only in the limit where they were chosen & ordained and being out of the same, they have no official authority, Qu. * jer. 42. 5. 6. 1 john 4. 6. Luke 10. 16. What must the people do for their Minister, when they have chosen and ordained him? A. Hear him preach, b Heb. 13. 7. 17. yield unto all truths he brings from the lord c Acts 20. 36. pray with him, d Gal. 4. 15, 16. 1 Cor 9 7. 14. and manifest their loves in furnishing him with necessaries. Qu. What maintenance must the Minister have? A. What the people will freely give him, but Heb. 7. 12. 1 Cor. 9 13, 14. Ph●l. 410. 414. Rom 15. 17. Gal. 6. 6. no Jewish and Popish Tithes nor Offerings. Qu. How if the people be not able to maintain their Minister? A. He must work and help to maintain himself. 1 Thes. 2. 9 2 T●es. 3. 8. 1 Cor 412. Acts. 18. 3. As a good Shepherd must help himself in winter, ●ll his Sheep can spare their fleece. Quest. What must the Minister do for the Members who have choosen him their Officer? A. a Heb● 13 17. Rev. 3. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 27 Watch to prevent danger, b Acts 20. 20. 27. 31. teach them the truths of the Lord, c Eze. 13. 5. joh. 10. 11, 12 stand against the enemy for them, d Acts 20. 31. 2 Thes. 3. 10. 1 Tim. 1. 3. & 4. 11: Luke 12. 5. give warning before danger cometh, e Ephes. 6. 13. 17. 1 Cor. 16. 3. arm them against it, f james 5. 14, 15. Rom. 10. 1. 2 Thes. 1. 11. g john 10. 11. Phil. 2, 30. 1 john 3. 16. go to them that are sick when they send, pray for them, and lay down his life for them if need require, etc. Qu. What must the Minister do to the sick that send for him? A. Pray over him, anointing him with oil jam. 5. 14. 19, 20. in the Name of the Lord Qu. What must the sickness of the member be that doth send? A. A troubled conscience. jam. ●. 14. 2●. Q. What must be the ointment that the Minister must anoint the sick member with? A. a 1 joh. 2. 27. Hebr. 1. 9 God's favour in Jesus Christ. Qu. What is Ministerial preaching? A. b Act. 20. 28. 35 D●ut 17 18, 19 Rom 12. 8. 1 Tim 5. 17. A declaring of God's Word unto his people by virtue of an office. Qu. What is the Ruler's office? A. c 1 Cor. 11. 34. Col. 2. 5. 1 Cor 14. 40. 1 T●es. 5. 14. He●. 1. 1. Levi● 10. 1. Act. 20. 18. 1 Chron. 13. 9, 10. Acts 114. Ti●. 1. 5. 1 Tim. 3. 15. To govern the people according to the Doctrine truly taught by the Teacher. Qu. What is Discipline? A. The order or manner the Lord hath apppointed to perform every Ordinance in his Church by. Q. May we alter the manner in any one of his Ordinances, that the Lord hath apppointed? A. If we may, his appointed Order was in vain. Heb. 2. 2. 3, etc. For the Lord is as jealous now as under the Leu. 10. 1 Numb. 16. 1 Chro. 15. 13. Law; and he that then broke Order was destroyed. 3. And we see Kings do punish men for taking money disorderly. Q. What is the Deacons Office? Rom. 12. 8. Acts 6. 1, 2, 3. 4. 35. A. To receive and distribute the Church's Contribution, providing what is necessary. Q. Who are they must lay apart? 1 Cor. 16. 2. Ro. 15. 27. A. The members of the particular Church. Q. How much must every one contribute in the Church of Christ? A. What they can spare, see needful, and 2 Cor. 9 7. 1 Pet. 4. 11. are willing to do. Q. For what end must the members of a Church lay apart? A. For the manifestation of their faith, the Mat. 25. 25, 36 Jam 2. 18. 21, 22, 23. 2 Cor. 9 7. 1 Pet. 4. 11. help of their poor brethren, and Churches necessaries. Q. Who must look to the poor and sick that are not able to help themselves? A. The Church, by their Officers, or themselves. Rom. 15. 1. & 12, 8. 1 Tim 5. 10. Q. Who must pay the charge of the poor members? A. The Church's provision. Acts 61. 3. Q. May not the Deacon administer the Seals of the Church by that Office? 2 Chro. 26. 16. 20. Rom. 12. 8. A. He may not. Q. what are the confirming Seals of every Rom. 4. 11. 1 Co. 11 G●n. 17. 7 11. 27. 2 Cor. 1. 22. jon. 6. 27. particular Church of Christ? A. Baptism, and the Lords Supper. Q. What is Baptism. A. An Ordinance of God, that seals mercy Ro. 4. 12. john 3. 33. Mat. 28. 19 1 Cor, 11. 29. Matth. 3. 11. Acts 2. 38. Gen, 22 14: Numb 16 37. 38. Leu. 10. 1. or judgement on the receiver. For God is present in mercy or judgement in each one of his Ordinances. Q. When is the Lord present in judgement in Baptism? A. * 1 Cor 11. 29. Acts 8. 13. 23. Gen. 34. 24, 25. Rev. 22. 18 When it is disorderly received, either in Church, Ministry, Addition, or unfit parties. Q. Ought we not to repent of that Baptism wherein God is present in judgement? A. No; for it is God's Ordinance, and the disorderly performance or additions of men, Act 8. 13. Tit. 1. 16. makes not a nullity of the Ordinance, but bears this badge, He is a transgressing Christian. As the disorderly setting on the King's Seal on any writing, makes it not to be no Seal of the Kings, but it remains the same, and the punishment is for the disorderly performance, the Seal is not questioned. Q. How comes Baptism, wherein God is present in judgement, to be in his favour? A. By our repentance of the disorder; in receiving Ezek. 13. 21. 1 Cor. 5. 2 Cor. 2. 8. of the same. Qu. What are the essential parts that belongs to Baptism? A. True words (in the name of the Father, Math 28. 19 & 3. 13. Son, and holy Ghost) water, and professed obedience. Q. Is professed obedience essential? A. Without professed obedience it is mockery. joh. 3. 36. jer. 15. 17. Act. 17. 32. Q. Wherefore did Christ our high Priest ordain Baptism? A. To manifest the cleansing of us from our joh. 1. 31. & 13 8. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Revel. 1. 5. sins by his sufferings, etc. Q. What do we perform to the Lord in Baptism of water? A. We signify and seal, that our sins are by Ro. 4 12. ● & ● 2. 41. joh 3 36. Christ satisfied. Q. What Seal is Baptism? A. The Seal of God's promise, made to us Gen. 17 10, 11. Gal. 4. 28 Act 2. 38. 39 and our children. Q. What benefit have God's children by Baptism? A. Confirmation of God's acceptance, and Exo. 4. 24, 25, 26. Mat. 3. 15. comfort in that they have fulfilled righteousness. Q. Doth not Baptism of water bring the holy Ghost? A. It doth not: For the holy Ghost must appear Act. 8. 13. 18, 19 21. 2 Pet. 3. 20, 21, 22. T●●. 1. 1. & 3. 7 in them before they partake of this Ordinance. Q. When doth the holy Spirit of God appear in man? A. When the grace of God (which inrighteth Gen 17. 7. Gal. 4. 28. Acts 10. 15, 44 Mark 16. 17. to all privileges in due order) is any way manifested upon them. Q. How then do children come rightly (who have no understanding) to the ordinance of Baptism? A. By the righteousness which God by his 1 C●r. 7. 14. Ro. 4. 6. jam. 2. 23. Act. 3. 25. & 2. 39 grace in Christ is pleased to impute unto them, that are borne of Parents under the holy Promise or Covenant. * Rom 9 8. Gen. 17. 7. Act. 3. 25. Eph. 2. 12, 13. For the Lords Covenant is with the faithful and their seed. 2 As by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness I am. 2. 23. Ro. 8. 1, 2, 3, 4. Tit. 2. 11. & 3. 5. unto us, we have right to all God's ordinances in due order; So by Christ's Righteousness imputed unto our children, they have right to all God's ordinances in due order. 3. For those whom Christ our Redeemer blessed Ma●. 3. 13, 14. 15. & 9 13. with a spiritual blessing, had right to baptism of water. Little children therefore (of believing parents, 1 Cor. 10. 2. 3, 4. Lu. 1●. 15, 16. held up in arms) had right to baptism of water. Because Christ our Redeemer blessed them Mar. 10. 13, 14, 15, 16. with a spiritual blessing. Q. What if any deny children of believers in a Church estate, baptism of water? A. They make void the promise of God Act. 2. 39 Gen. 17. 7. Mat. 15. 6. Rom 4. 11. Col 2. 11. 12. (made to children of Believers) by that their tradition. Q. May such as deny children baptism, be permitted members of a true Church? A. No, they ought to be cut off from all Gen. 17. 14. Christ's Congregations. For as the children of Believers have God's Mar. 10. 13, 14. ●sa● 49. 32 & 61. 8, 9 promise, so he requires every Church & servant of his to manifest they acknowledge it, by giving them baptism a token of Christ's blessing on them. Q. What is the Lords Supper? A. An Ordinance of Christ Jesus appointed Lu. 22. 18, 19, 20. for his Church, Q. What are the essential parts of the Ordinance of the Lords Supper? A. Bread, Wine, and professed obedience. Lu. 22i19. 20. 1 Cor. 11. 28, 29, 30. Q. What doth the bread signify, with the breaking thereof? A. Christ's body, and the breaking thereof for Maik 14. 22. our sins. Q. What doth the wine signify with the pouring out thereof? A. Christ's blood, and the shedding thereof. Mark 14. 24. Q. How comes professed obedience to be essential? A. Because without true obedience we eat 1 Cor● 11. 29. Mat. 26. 21, 24 47, 48, 49. our damnation. Q. What if one of the 3. (of bread, wine, or obedience) be wanting? A. It is not acceptable eating the Lords supper. 1 Cor. 11. 20. 21. 29. Q. Wherefore did the Lord appoint the Ordinance of his Supper? A. To manifest the price he paid for our redemption. 1 Cor. 6. 20. Hebr. 9 12. 14. 1 Cor. 7. 23. Q. What is the price manifested in this Ordinance? A. The death of Christ's body and shedding john 19 34. Hebr. 2. 9 of his blood. Q. What do we declare in the partaking of the Lords Supper? A. That we have Christ in us (before we Heb. 8. 11. 2 Cor 13. 5. 1 Cor. 11. 31. Math. 26. 26, 27, ●8. partake of it) and are saved only by his sufferings. Q. Why do we often receive the Lords Supper, seeing we are but once baptised? A. To seal that we continue faithful, go forward Ro. 4. 11. 1 Pet, 2. 2. Ro. 12. 5. 1 Cor. 10. 17. in Christ's service, & hold mutual Church-fellowship with our Brethren. Q. What harm have they (by it) that receive the Lords Supper, before they truly discern what it is. A. Doubtings of mind, terrors of conscience, 1 Cor. 11. 23 30. Ma● 22. 12. 13. john 13. 27 Rom. 14. 23. deadness in grace, and damnation to their souls. Q. Doth the command of the Magistrate that all shall come at Easter (or some other time to the Communion) do good or harm? A. It doth great harm, for it makes the ignorant 1 Cor. 11. 29. H●br. 11. 6. and unprepared, eat to their great damnation. Q. Is it not the temporal Magistrates duty to see all receive Christ's supper at some times? ●s. 105. 14, 15, ●ev. 13 10. 3 Cor ●. 24. Ps. 149. ●. ●eb. 11. 61 Co▪ 11. 28, 29. ●. Cor. 13. 5. A. No: for he hath nothing to do with the faith of any in divine things. 2. Neither hath God appointed any to meddle with it, but Believers that can examine themselves. 3. And the authority commanding that God Act 419. Mat. ●. 15. D●n. 3. 18. hath not appointed, controdicts the Almighty, and may not be obeyed. Q. What external power is it that must compel to the Lords Supper? A. Christ's divine word only, and not earthly 2 Cor. 10. 4. Heb. 4. 12. Act. 2. 37. 2 Co●. 1. 24. power. Q When are people fit to receive the Ordinance of the Lords Supper? A. When they apprehend Christ is in them, 2 Co●. 13. 5. 1 Co●. 11. 28. Ioh● 13. 27. 1 Cor. 12. 13. Psalm 110. 3. 2 Cor 9 13. their sins are pardoned in his sufferings, and are desirous and willing to perform the same. Q. May a member of a Church omit partaking of Christi Supper, being present? A. He may lawfully, his conscience being troubled. 1 Co●. 11. 27. 29 Q. Will not the leaving members thus at liberty, breed confusion? A. That breeds no confusion which God hath 1 Co●. 14. 33. appointed. Q What necessity is there, that every Believer Mat. 6. 33. Act. 20. 28. Lu. 22. 29, 30. 1 Pres. 2. 1●. Mat. 1● 12 Heb. 13. 7. 17● Mat. 25. 1. 13. ought to be a member of a particular Church of Christ? A. Very great, because Christ commands the same. 2. For Christ's commands, without being a Mat. 18. 17. 20 1 Cor. 5. 4 12 member of a particular Church, cannot be by any performed. 3. None can orderly have baptism and the 1 Cor. 11. 33. Deut. 12. 13. 14● & 16. 2, 5, 6. Lords Supper, except they be members of a true particular Church. 4. It is a woeful estate to be out of Christ's Ecc'es'. 4. 10. particular Church: for if one fall, he hath not a second to help him up. 5. Christ hath allowed no other estate for his Rev. 1. 11. Gal. 1. Cor. 1, etc. children, wherein to continue in this lise. 6. If any may live out of a particular Church estate, than every one may, and so Christ's ordaining of particular Churches is made vain, and none need to continue them. Q. What benefit is there by being a member of a particular Church of Christ? A. Right to all Christ's privileges therein. 1 Cor. 3. 21, 22. Psal. 133. 3. & 87. 2. Gal. 6. 12. Ro. 15. 1. Mat. 18. 17. 20. 1 Cor. 5. 2 Cor. 7. 10. Ro. 1. 12. Gal. 2. 9 2. God's love more in that estate, then in any other, 3. Help of the Brethren in all sailings. 4. Christ's power of discipline in his Church, to recall us from vice, which elsewhere cannot be. 5. Justification of the Brethren, our conversation is holy, and we in God's favour. Q. To what end must every one be a member of a particular Church of Christ. A. That they may do his will, and manifest Psalm 40. 7, 8. Heb. 10. 9 that they rebel not in any thing against him. 2. To keep up that which Christ hath planted. 1 Cor. 14. 12. 3. That Christ's power may be seen in his Psalm 40. 10. particular Churches. 1 Cor. 14. 33. 2 The●. 3. 6, 7. 11. Psal. 37. 23 Deut 12 13, 14. & 16. 2. 5, 6. 1 Cor. 11. 33. Heb. 13. 7. Ezek. 33. 2. 4. That every one may walk in God's order and not extravagantly. 5. That they may rightly have the privileges of all Christ's Ordinances, and approbation of his Church in receiving. 6. That they may be watched over, kept from danger, and do their duty. Q. What must a Believer do to be received a member of a particular Church of Christ? A. Live unblamably, and make his public Luke 9 62. Psal. 110. 3. 2 Cor. 9 13. Acts 241. profession voluntarily, that Christ is the Son of God, his Redeemer, and only by him to be obeyed. Q. What must the Church of Christ do to one that offers himself to be a member? A. Instruct him that Christ and Anti-christ Iosh. 24. 22, 23. or Belial cannot both be served by him. Q. What is the party's duty, being instructed? A. To make his voluntary answer to their Iosh. 24. 24. instruction. Q. What if his voluntary answer be not sufficient to discern him a Saint? A. The Church must leave him with refusal. Luke 9 62. & 18. ●2. Q. What must the Church do to a member that hath committed evil, and is obstinate. A. Accuse him of his sin in the due order of Math. 18. 17. 20. Christ's Gospel. For love thinks no evil before it see it. 1 Cor. 13. 5. Q. May not the Church examine the offender, and constrain him to accuse himself? A. They may not, for love cannot think evil, 1 Cor. 13. 5. before it behold the same. 2. If the Church may by examination, constrain any to accuse themselves: the oath Exoficio or Inquisition is no more. Q. How must a member of a Church behave himself towards ox excommunicated? A. Respect him as a Heathen. Q. May not a member of a Charch join with Math. 18. 17. 1 Cor. 5. one excommunicated in a divine personal act, while he stands justly censured? A. No: for he is not in order of fellowship Mat. 18. 15. 20. 1 Cor 5. 1 Tim. 6. 3. 6. with him, but remains in his sin. Q. May not one of a true church have personal communion with one, that lives in visible sin? A. He may not, but must separate (in all worship) 2 Cor. 6. 17. Isa. 5. 11. 1 Tim 6. 5. jer. 15. 19 1 Cor. 5. 11. Mat. 18. 15. 18. from him. Q. May not one complain on an evil worshipper (to the civil Magistrate) for his evil worship, to have him punished for it? A. No: for that were to raise persecution against Acts 19 37. 40. & 18. 12. 16. him. Q. What is persecution? A. Troubling honest peaceable people about Dan. 6. 5. 16. matters of the worship of their God. Q. May not one then join with the Ministers of England, in their Churches? A. No: for their best Church actions are unholy, in Ministry, Order, Power, and place. Rev. 13. 2. & 16. 13. & 20. 2. 1. In Ministry, theirs is from the Bishops, the Bishops from the Pope, (in Mason's book, set forth Act. 6. 3. Ezek. 33. 2. Act. 14. 23. 1 Cor. 16. 3. Act. 1. 23. 26. by authority) and the Pope from Satan, themselves affirm in their preaching commonly. Whereas Christ's Minister is from the Church he serveth in. 2. In Order, for the Church of England hath Deut 4. 2. 5, 6. 1 Tim. 6. 3. 6. Deut. 5. 32. Rev. 22. 18, 19 & 10. 9, 10. 1 Corin. 11. 2. 1 Chron. 15. 13. reading for prayer, a false Article in their Faith, blasphemy in the administration of the Lords Supper, in that they acknowledge Arch-Angels when there is but one Archangel Christ Jesus, crossing, kneeling, etc. Whereas Christ's Church must read only Gods divine word: and according to the same direction therein, administer, confess, and perform Jer. 1. 7, 8. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 16, 17. Gal. 3. 15. Psal. 19 7, 8, 9 Prov. 30. 5. prayer, not adding to his order in any circumstance in the performance of his Ordinances. 3. In power, theirs is by a Commissaries Court, or earthly authority in the new Church model. 1 Cor. 5. 4, 5. 2 Cor. 2. 7, 8, 9, 10. Mat. 18. 17. 20. Whereas Christ's Church is only by his own Ecclesiastical or divine power within the same. 4. In place, theirs are holy by their own making and yet stand undemolished. Whereas the Lord hath made all places holy aalike, Math. 24. 2. Acts 17. 30. 1 Tim. 2. 8. and will not have any place left standing that may ensnare his people. Q. What must one brother in Church fellowship do to another brother that falleth into sin. A. Pray to the Almighty for the remission of 1 john 5. 16. his sins. 2. keep his sin secret. Galat. 6. 1. 3. Watch a time when he is fittest to receive Act. 3. 21. Psal. 32. c. instruction. 4. Tell him his fault secretly, when he is alone. Mat. 13. 15, 16, 17. 5. prove the act evil unto him by GOD'S Word. 2 Sam. 12. 1. 7. Ephes. 6. 17. Pro. 15. 1. 1 Cor. 16. 14. 2 Sam. 12. 1. Rom. 16. 17. 6. Use moderate speeches with love and wisdom to persuade him from it. Q. If I see my brother sin, may I not tell another, before I have told him? A. No: It is hateful to the Lord; Cham's Gen. 9 22. 25● Psalm 101. 56 practice, and they cursed that do it. Q. What is that Church which is mingled with all sorts of people, profane and wicked? A. It is a Church of confusion, where the Rev. 18. 1. 4. 2 Cor. 6. 14. 17, 18. 1 Tim. 6. 4, 5. Acts 19 9 Lords people may not tarry. Q. What is that Church which was never contracted or covenanted together to be a church? A. An adulterous practiser, and stealer of Prov 9 13. 17, 18. & 5. 3, 4. Dan. 11. 22, 23. jer. 3. 14. Ephes 5. 23. that she bestows upon the people. 1. * Ephes. 4. 16. Neh. 9 38. & 10. 28. For without a Covenant, many cannot become a body, neither in divine nor humane things. 2. If they could, the children of Israel need not to have covenanted when they came out of Babel. 3. Neither a man with a maid to make her Math. 1. 18. Luke 1. 27. his wife. Q. What is that particular Church that hath not Christ's power among themselves, (without the help of any) to excommunicate? A. It is an Anti-christian Church. Rev. 3. 9 Mat. 18. 20. 1 Cor. 5. 4. 1 Cor. 1. 18. Rom. 1. 13. Matth. 15. 20. For Christ will be with that his Church power, where ever his Church is. As a King will be with his power of judgement where his Assize is held. Q. what is the matter whereof Anti-christs Church is made? A. A company (externally compelled by civil authority) of visible, profane, blind zealous jer. 15. 17. 19 Rev. 13. 16. & 18. 1. Isay 1. 2. dissemblers, and ignorant persons, which condemn in others, what they practise themselves and any other that will, if they by threatening and punishing can make them say and swear as they would have them. Q. Is none of God's Elect in Babel, or in a● Anti-christian Church? A. There is; but they are not of that Church neither is it lawful for them to continue therein. Revel. 18. 4. 1 john 2. 19 Q. what is that makes men to be visibly on● with an Anti-christaan Church? A. Joining and submitting together under Dan. 11. 23. Rom. 6. 16. their commanded orders. Q. What is that which makes men contin●● Antichrists subjects? A. The fear of punishment, ignorance of the Revel. 13. 15. truth, and worldly riches gained by that service. Matth. 23. 34. Revel. 12. 4. Q. What are the marks whereby we may know Babel, or an Anti-christian Church? A. By altering of God's Ordinances or order, Isay 24. 5. Dan. 11. 31. Matth. 24. 15. Mar. 13. 14. 2 Cor. 10. 4. & 1 24. Mat. 24. 9 Act. 12. 4. and placing of men's inventions in the stead thereof, compulsion to divine obedience by civil authority, forcing men against their consciences to say as they would have: & imprisoning those that cannot yield unto them. Q. What is the power which Anti-christ hath left unto his Churches? A. It is wicked Articles, and mischievous Luke 6. 22. Matth. 23. 15. tale-telling, is appointed for Courts to open and shut hell therewith, that Satan servants may be forced in, and they being in shall not get out. Q. Are the Lords children ever the worse for the Anti-christian Churches (or courts) excommunication, or punishment? A. No: they are much the better, for they Luke 6. ●2, 23 joh. 16. 2. Mat. 5. 10, 11. Mark 10. 29. 30. have particular promises of God's favour more than before. Q. Is not one church of Anti-christ inferior to another, and tied to obey their impositions, or the impositions of some Anti-christian assembly of their Divines? Answ. They are, as appears by their Lady Whores of Canterbury and York, with the slavish pandering Churches, they (and their Antichristian assembly of Divines) reign over. Q. Doth not the giving of the Sacrament, and preaching of the Word make a true Church? Ans. No: than one lying in a Gaol among Je●em. 7. 10. 1 Kings 13. 2. Amos 4. 4. 5. M●cha 1. & 6. 16. 2. Acts 13. 2, 10. 12. Thiefs and Murderers, preaching the Word, and giving the Sacrament, make these Thiefs a true Church: for the Lord abhorred Shilo for the wickedness of the Priests: and Dan and Bethel, though they had God's Ordinances among them. Q. May not the child of God stand a member of one of the Churches of England, or Antichrist? A. He may not: because none of the Churches of England were set up of Christ, neither are any of them governed by him. They were not set up of Christ, neither in Matter, Gathering, Joining, Ministry, Maintenance, Acts, nor Order. o Ro. 1. 7. 1 Cor. 1, 2. 2. Cor. 1. 1. Ephes. 1. 4. 1 Thes. 2. 10. Act. 9 4. Heb. 1. 3. 1 Pet. 1. 16. 2 Cor. 13. 12. Col. 1. 2. 1 Thes 5. 27. Heb. 13. 24. 1 Cor. 5. 5. 7. 1 joh. 2. 19 Act. 8. 2●. Ex. 12. 43. 48. In Matter: they of the Churches of England, were all persecuting Papists at the first. When at the first, Christ's Church must be all visible holy Saints, and no other. 2. In Gathering, they of the Churches of England were forced together by an earthly Proclamation. When Christ's people must freely come together into a Church, (only) by the preaching of his divine Word. 3. In Joining: they of the Churches of England Act. 2. 37. 40. & 4. 1. 4. & 16. 14, 15. 34. & 8. 5, 12, run together as rude people, getting children without covenanting, or marrying first together. * Ephes. 5. 23 Nehem. 9 38. Gen. 17. 7. 9, 10, 11. Heb. 13. 20 Act. 3. 25. Heb. 8. 6. 7, 8, 9, 10. Gal. 3. 17. Mat. 18. 20. Neh 10. 29. When Christ's Church must first be married, or covenanted together, before they perform Church Ordinances. 4. In Ministry: they of the Churches of England preach by virtue of an Ordinance Act. 6. 3. Eze. 33. 2. Acts 14. 23. 1 Cor. 16. 3. Act. 1. 23. 26. from an Anti-christian Bishop, and a licence from him, or the Presbyters. When Christ's Ministers must preach by virtue of that calling the Church whereof he is, shall give unto him. 5. In maintenance: the Ministers of the 1 Cor. 9 14. 1 Tim. 5. 17, 18. Heb. 7. 12. Phillip 4. 10 Ro. 15. 27. Gal. 6. 6. Mat. 10. 9, 10. Lu. 10. 7. & 22. 25. Church of England live by Tithes, Glebe's, and Offerings, etc. When Christ's Ministers must live by the free gift of the Church whereof they are, if they receive for their Ministry any thing. 6. In acts: They of the Churches of England have a false Article in their Faith, blasphemy jer. 1 7, 8 & 2. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 16, 17. Gal 3. 15. Psal. 19 7, 8, 9 Prov. 30. 5, 6. Deu● 4. 2. 5, 6. 1 Tim. 6. 3. 4, 5. in the Administration of the Sacrament, in that they acknowledge Arch-Angels, when there is but one Archangel, Christ Jesus: and a humane Service or Directory-booke to read unto the people. When Christ's Church must read only his divine Word, and according to the same Word administer, confess, and perform prayer. 7. In Order: they of the Churches of England, jam. 2 1. Heb. 8. 5. Deut. 5. 32. have respect of Persons, Crossing, Kneeling, etc. When Christ's servants may not respect the Rev. 22. 18. 19 20. & 10. 9, 10. 1 Cor. 11 2. 1 Chr. 15. 13. rich before the poor in the Church, (in respect of this world's goods) neither add to his order in any circumstance in the performance of his Ordinances. In Government: Theirs of the Churches of England is by the power of a Commissaries Court, or some other earthly power newly established. When Christ's Government is by his own Power (without the help of earthly power) 1 Cor. 5. 4. 12, 13. 2 Cor. 2. 7, 8, 9, 10. Matth. 18. 20. within his own Church. Q. May not the child of God lawfully pray with the Ministers of the Church of England, in their Churches? A. They may not; for they give acknowledgement Hag. 2 12, 13. Isa. 42. 8. Math 23. 9, 10 of making Divine Laws for the order of worship to worldly Magistrates, and blaspheme in their prayers, in giving Primate, Metropolitan, Lord, Grace, Reverend Father in God, unto a wicked creature, which attributes and Honour belongs only to the Lord Jesus, and his Honour he will not give unto any creature. Q. May not the child of God hear the Rom. 16. 17. jer. 23. 16. Mat. 15. 8. 14 Isay 29 13. & 60. 3. Luke. 6. Word preached in some one of the Churches of England, or Anti-christ? A. He may not 〈◊〉 For a false Minister is odious unto the Lord, and all his Saints. 39 john 10. 5. 1 Tim. 3. 6. Prov. 19 27. Prov. 16. 27. Psal. 50. 16, 17 john 10. 1. 2. For they ought not so long as they so stand to take God's name in their mouths. 3. For the Lords servants will not follow them who are strange in office towards him. 4. For my presence is an encouraging them in their Corasiticall practices. For if none would hear, they would not preach. 5. If I may hear them who are strange in office Mat. 1. 24, 25. 34. & 3. 1●, 12, Luk. 8. 28, 29. to Christ, I may hear the Pope or devil, if he as Satan will preach God's Word unto me. Yet Christ would not permit Satan to say, he was the Son of God. Q. How can it be unlawful to hear some of the Ministers of the Church of England, (of the old stamp, or new form) seeing they are very good men? A. It is impossible for any man to be a good Mat. 23 Num. 16. 1 King. 18. 19, & 22. 24. man, holding a wicked office, (more than for a thief to be an honest man continuing stealing) their goodness is but colour, it is not substance (as proves) if you touch their Honour, or Riches that should maintain the same. Q. How can so many men of great learning, (being new sealed with the old stamp) be deceived? A. There were 450. false Prophets in King 1 King. 13 19: & 22. 6. Ahabs time, and very few true to stand against them, (and there are fare more learned Papists stamped with the Priesthood then of England) 2 Pet. 2. 1. john 4. 1. 2 Tim. 4. 3. and as there were false Prophets that did deceive, so there are and shall be. Q. How can it be unlawful, to be a member, pray, or hear God's Word taught in the Churches of England, seeing Conversion is in them? A. Conversion is not in any of the Churches Gal. 4. 26. of England, otherwise then the Word of God is among them; which Word converts or condemns always in all places, and from the Word I acknowledge none may departed. 1 Tim. 6. 3, 4, 5, 6 Rom. 16. 17. jerem. 15. 17. But from the Priests and people where the Word of God is taught, and had with Instituted Ceremonies of men's Inventions, which they will not amend; all that will have assurance Math 7. 22, 23 Mat. 5. 19, 20, 21, 22. they are the Lords Children, must departed, and there may not abide. Because such Priests and People so continuing, are rejected of the Lord. 2. For their do and themselves in divine Psalm 101. 3. Prov. 29. 27. worship is abominable unto the Lord and all his Saints. 3. Such people make a worship to themselves. Phil. 3. 19 4 If it be not so, we need not have refused the Congregated worship in Rome, but do wickedly in standing against them. Q. Where were you Converted, seeing you were not converted in the Church of England? A. In Jerusalem from above, which is the G●l 4: 16, 27. Psal. 87. 5, 6. Esay 54. 1. mother of all God's Elect, Q. What is jerusalem from above? A. It is Christ and his Gospel. 1 Cor. 4. 15. Q. How know you jerusalem from above to be Christ and his Gospel? A. Because God the Father preached it. Gen. 3. 15. The seed of the woman shall break the Serpent's Gallat. 38. head: and there shall be enmity between the woman's seed, and the Serpents. And in him all Nations shall be blessed. Matth. 1. 21. Acts 4. 12. And he shall save his people from their sins. There being no other name under heaven given, whereby we must be saved. EZEKIEL 33. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the Sword upon a land; if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman, If when he seethe the sword come upon the land, he blow the Trumpet and warn the people, Than whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his ownn head. He heard the sound of the Trumpet, and took not warning, his blood shall be upon him: but he that taketh warning, shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the Trumpet, and the people be not warned: if the sword come and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity: but his blood will I require at the watchman's hands. THE SAINT'S BELIEF. I Believe in one Almighty GOD, a Gen. 1. 1. Prov. 16. 4. Creator and maker of all things, b 1 Joh. 5. 7. distinguished in three, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: c joh. 10. 30. 1 john 5. 7. but not divided, d Gen. 1. 2. joh. 1. 1, 2, 3● all working together in the Creation, e Ro. 3. 24. Eph. 1. 7. Redemption, f Ps. 97. 10. Phil. 4. 7. preservation, g Tit. 2. 11. joh. 11. 25. and salvation of Man. The Son our Lord Jesus Christ, h Col. 2. 9 Mat. 1. 23. GOD i 1 Tim. 2. 5. Act. 2. 23. Heb. 7, 24. and Man; k 1 john 4. 9 john 3. 17. begotten and sent by the Father; l Isay 7. 14. Lu. 2. 7. conceived and borne of the Virgin Mary; m joh. 11 48. joh. 19 12. 15, 16. suffered under the Roman power, Pilat being judge; n Mat. 27. 35. crucified, o joh. 19 23. dead, p Luke 23. 43. 46. and his soul immediately received by God his Father; q john 19 41, 42. and his body buried; r 1 Cor. 15. 4. risen again the third day according to the Scriptures; s Act. 1. 9, 10, 11. joh. 20. 17. and ascended into heaven; t Heb. 1. 3. sits at the right hand of God; u Acts 3. 21. whom the heavens must contain for a time; w 1 joh. 2. 12. joh. 1. 29. in whom all our sins are forgiven; x 1 Thes. 4. 16, 17. and from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead; y Matth. 25. 32. before whom every one shall appear; z Math. 12. 36. to give an account a Gen. 6. 5. 1 Cor. 3. 20. Eccl. 12. 14. of every evil thought, b Mat. 12. 36. idle word, c Exo. 20. 7. Mat. 5. 34 35, 36, 37. Jam. 1 26. vain oath, and d Rev. 22. 12. Matth. 25. 41. 45, 46 wicked action. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, e ●oh. 14. 26. joh 15. 26. joh. 16. 13. sent by the Father and the Son to teach and lead f Col. 3. 12. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Rom. 9 11. his Elect in all truth, * Gen. 17. 6, 7. Gal. 3. 9 11 jer. 31. 1. 8. Act. 2. 39 Gal. 4. 28. Isay 49. 22. & 59 21. & 61. 9 Psalm 147. 19, 20. Zach. 8. 5. promising the faithful and their children that he will be their God, & they shall be his people; g Mat. 18. 17, 18, 19, 20. Rev. 1. 1. ●● Gal. 1. 2. Instituting by his Apostles for them, particular Churches here on earth, and no other; h 1 Cor. 3. 21, 22, 23. Psalm 1. 49 7, 8, 9 every Ordinance of God belonging to every one of them; i 2 Cor. 12. 13. all of equal authority, no one being greater or lesser than other, either in power or privileges; k john 15. 10. 14. john 5. 39 who must serve him as he hath commanded in his holy Scriptures, l Rev. 22. 18. Deut. 5. 32. Matth. 28. 20. both in Ordinances, m Collos. 2. 5. 1 Cor. 14. 40. 1 Cor. 15. 2. Levit. 10. 1, 2. 1 Chron. 2● 9 11. 1 Chron. 15. 13. Numb. 15. 16. and Order, n 2 Tim. 1. 13, 14. Mat. 9 22. Mark 16. 16. Heb. 11. 1. in their own faith; o 1 Tim. 1. 19 1 john 3 20. with a pure conscience; p Hebr. 10. 25. Mat. 18. 17, 18, 19, 20. all Believers being bound in duty to have and hold communion in some one of them, * Deut. 4. 9, 10. & 11. 19 Isay 28. 10. Joel 2. 3. Deut. 6, 6, 7. 1 Tim. 3. 4. 12. Tit. 1. 6. and teach unto their children what the Lord hath done for them, and what he doth require of them, q Acts 6. 2, 3. 5. Act. 14. 23. Acts 1. 15. 23. 26. Ezek. 33. 2. Numb. 8. 10. & that every Church hath power from God to elect and ordain their own Officers, r 2 Cor. 2. 7, 8. 3 joh. 10. receive in Believers, s Mat. 18. 17, 18, 19, 20. 1 Cor. 5. 12, 13. Acts 11. 2. 3. 4. and excommunicate any one of them that lives in transgression, without the help or assistance of any; t Rom. 2. 11. Deut. 1. 17. Jam. 2. 9 Acts 11. 2, 3, 4. no one member being more free than another. u Rem. 13. 2, 3. 4, 5. Exod. 20. 12. Ephes. 6. 5. And I believe that I am bound in conscience to God, to honour and obey the higher Powers, Father, Mother, etc. and every Officer under him, whether they be Christians, irreligious, Idolaters or Heathens. The Commandment requires obedience to every one of them of what Religion soever they be, equally and alike. w 1 Cor. 15. Matth. 25. 24. And I believe the bodies of the Justice shall rise to life everlasting, x Isay 30. 33. Matth. 25. 41. 46. and the wicked to everlasting perdition. Teach a Child in the trade of his Prov. 22. 6. way, and when he is old, he shall not departed from it. Try all things, keep that which 1 Thes. 5. 21. is good. Acts 17, 11. These were also more noble men than they which were of Thessalonica which received the Word with all readidinesse, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so. 1 Sam. 15. 22. To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of Rams. By me JOHN TURNER, Prisoner of our Lord jesus Christ (committed by the Bishops) near 14. years, for affirming Christ jesus hath left in his written Word sufficient direction to order his Church and children in his worship: So that nothing may be done, over not above, nor besides, what is commanded therein by a Precept and example, or a true gathered consequence, which I dare not but affirm, though I die for the same. And now delivered, (as abusively imprisoned all this time) by the most Honourable Lords in Parliament, 1641. 1 Cor. 15. 57 Thanks be unto God which hath hath given us victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Reprinted, enlarged, and rectified by the AUTHOR, 1645. Q. May not the English Service-Booke be ●●ad and obeyed in the Church of Christ? A. No; the Service-Booke may not, bemuse Mark. 8. 15. Isay 29. 13. Math. 15. 8. 9 Amos 6, 5, 13, 14. Jer. 44. 16. it is invented by man, contrary to the commandments of God, and besides, it is ●illed with errors, untruths, and blasphemies, yea, and contradictions to his word. First, Invented by man, in that the Con●●ocation Isay 66. 3. Rev. 22. 19: 20. of Bishops and Priests, or Clergymen made it, contrary to these Scriptures. Secondly, Errors, in that they pray for the very damned, in these words: All that ●●vell by land or by water, when they have Joh. 17. 9 19 20 Rom. 9 27. 1 Joh. 5. 16. ●rayed for God's Children before, contrary to Thirdly, Untruths, in that it holdeth forth, that the Priests or Ministers have power to Mar. 2. 7. 8. 9 ●●●give sins in their Visitation of the sick, which ● contrary to Fourthly, Blasphemy, in that it acknowledging Jud. 9 Jam. 4. 12. Mat. 23. 9, 10, 11. Luk, 22, 25. Archangels, and doth attribute the titles of Primate, Lord, Grace, and Reverend ●ather in God, to wicked and ungodly men, contrary to Fifthly, Contradictions to God's word, in Rev. 13. 17. & 149, 10, & 15. 2 Col. 2. 20, 21, 22, 23. Gal. 2. 4, 5, & 1, 10. Act. 17. 30. 1 Tim. 2. 8. Rev. 22. 17. ●say 55, 1, 2. that it addeth the Cross to Baptism, kneeling to the Lords Supper, holiness to their Church high-places, and purse-penalties for their offenders, contrary to Q. May not the Directory-Booke be read and obeyed in the Church of Christ? A. The Directory-Booke may not, because Christ hath made a better, wiser, more ancient, and more infallible book of direction, 2 Tim. 3. 15. Rev. 22. 18. 19 Joh. 12. 48. Deut. 5. 32. for to direct his Church in his written word then that is, by which all shall be judged at the last day. 1. And they ●●● bring not the first and best Deut. 18. ●. Mal. 1. 1 Cor. 12. 13. to the sacr●fice of God, are accursed. 2. There is no word of God to warrant the making of that Directory-Booke, more than Jeroboham had for the making of Calves of 1 King. 12. Gold, which he set up in two high places; one at Dan, the other at Bethel, to the confusion of himself, and his posterity. 2. This Directory-Booke is newly invented by men and hath Error. Untruth, and Contradictions to the Canonical Scriptures; yea, many directions in it that hath no word of God's truth to hold forth the same. First, Newly invented by men, in that the Exod. 2. 4. Rom. 1. 30. Amo● 6. ●. Psal, 99 8. ●●● 106, 29, 39 Rev. 22. 1▪ Assembly of Presbyterian Divines (as they ●all themselves) made it 1644, contrary to these Scriptures, Secondly, Errors, in that by Baptism of Nehe. 9 29. 2 Cor. 8. 5. Mat. 18. 20. water they make members of their Churches, contrary to Thirdly, Untruths, in that by receiving the 1 Cor, 11. 26. 30. 2 Cor. 13. 5. Heb. 8. 10. 11. Bread and Wine (in the ordinance of the Lords Supper) they say, They receive Christ Jesus Christ, contrary to When the exceptable receivers have 1 Cor, 11. 29. Heb. 11. 6. and ●, 11. Christ before; and those that have not, receive their own damnation. Fourthly, Contradictions to the Canonical Scriptures, in that they add a Directory-Booke to Christ's Book, of direction in Deut. 5. 32. Rev. 22. 18. 19 Eze. 43. 8. L●k. 22. 19 Mat. 26. 2●. 27 1 Joh. 3. 9 & 5 16. Mat. 13. 31. 32 Church worship; enjoin all of every Parish (by earthly power) to come to their Assemblies: command their Ministers in prayer, to acknowledge, they are worthy of the heaviest judgement inflicted upon the most rebellious sinners, pag. 9 contrary to When Christ will have none forced (by earthly power) to come to his Churches; neither can his Children be culpable ' of tha● Psal. 110. 3. Mat. 13. 25. 30 1 Joh. 5. 16. & 3 6, 9 jude. heavy judgement, of being guilty of sin against the holy Ghost, which the most rebellious sinners are; and the devil sins no deeper, nor hath more judgement on him; then that of the most rebellious sinners, which is unpardonable, past all repentance, and all prayer. Printed for the public good of those that desire to know the truth, and that desire the Lord Jesus Christ should reign alone Lord, Lawgiver, and King in his Church.