TREASURE OF KNOWLEDGE: SPRINGING FROM THE fountain of godliness, which is the word of God.  
A LITTLE CATECHISM, wherein is handled the doctrine of the knowledge of God in jesus Christ.  
Also a brief and pithy Exposition of the ten Commandments of Almighty God, the knowledge of the covenant of grace, the doctrine of the Sacraments, the Lords, Prayer, fasting, holy feasts and vows, and wherein the estate of the elect and reprobate, from Luke 16. 12. is plainly expounded and declared in Questions and Answers, by the late faithful Minister and servant of jesus Christ,  
WILLIAM DYKE.  
LONDON, Printed by R. Field for Robert Mylbourne, and are to be sold at the great South door of Paul's. 1620.   

A TREASURE OF KNOWLEDGE, SPRINging from the fountain of godliness, which is the word of God.  
Question. WHereupon ought faith and true religion to be grounded?  
Answer. Upon the written word of God, contained in the old and new Testaments. Eph. 2. 20.  
Q. Who is the author of these holy Scriptures?  
A. God himself Heb. 1. 1.  
Q. How came these Scriptures first to the Church from God?  
A. By divine inspiration. 2. Tim. 3. 16. 2. Pet. 20. 21.  
Q. To what end were they given?  
A. Perfectly to teach us what to believe to salvation, and how to live well. 2. Tim. 3. 16. joh. 5. 39 6. 68 Psal. 119. 9 105. john 20. 31.  
Q. Of what authority be these holy Scriptures?  
A. Of the highest authority, above all men and Angels. Gal. 1. 18.  
Q. What is the reason of this?  
A. 1. Because they are of God.  
2. Because they only immediately & directly bind the conscience. jam. 4. 12. Esa. 33. 22.  
Q. Which be those books of the holy Scriptures?  
A. The old and new Testaments.  
Q. Which be those of the old Testament?  
A. The Law and the Prophets.  
Q. Which be those Books of the Law?  
The five books of Moses, called 


1. Genesis.  
2. Exodus.  
3. Leviticus.  
4. Numbers.  
5. Deuteronomie.     
Q. Which be the Prophets?  
A. They are either in 


Poesy, and those are Doctrinal: 

Proverbes.  
Ecclesiastes.  
Canticles.  
Lamentation of jeremy.  
job.  
Psalms.    
or  
prose which are 

Historical 

judges.  
jehosua.  
Ruth.  
1. & 2. Samuel.  
1. & 2. Kings.  
Ezrah.  
Nehemiah.  
Hester.  
1. & 2. Chron.    
Doctrinal, which are Prophets, called 

Greater, 

Esay.  
jeremy.  
Ezechiel.  
Daniel.    
Lesser 

Hosea.  
joel.  
Amos.  
Obadiah.  
jonah.  
Micha.  
Nahum.  
Habakkuch  
Zophany.  
Haggai.  
Zecharia.  
Malachi.         
Q. Which be the books of the new Testament?  
A. They are either 


Historical, either of  
Doctrinal, as the Epistles of 

Christ, as  
or  
The Apostles, as 

Matthew.  
Mark.  
Luke.  
john.   

Acts.      


Paul to  
james.  
1. & 2. Peter.  
1. 2. & 3. john.  
jude.  
Apocalyps, which is also  
Prophetical.     

the Romans.  
1. & 2. Corin.  
Galathians.  
Ephesians.  
Philippians.  
Colossians.  
1. & 2. Thessa.  
1. & 2. Timo.  
Titus.  
Philemon.  
Hebrews.       
Q. How is it proved that these Scriptures are indeed the word of God?  
A. 1. By the perfect concord between all those writings, notwithstanding the diversity of persons by whom, places where, times when, and matter whereof they were written.  
2. By the admirable majesty and force that is in them to change the hearts of men. Heb. 4. 12. 1. Cor. 14. 24. 25.  
3. By the working of the Spirit in the hearts of God's children, to assure them they are the Scriptures of God.  
Q. How prove you that the Apocryphal books are not the word of God?  
A. 1. Because they are not written in the Hebrew character, as all the books of the old Testament were.  
2. Because the ancient Church of the jews did never receive them to be read or expounded in their public assemblies. Act. 13. 15. 27. 15. 21.  
3. The primitive Church both Greek and Latin after the Apostles did never receive them for Scripture.  
4. They contain many things repugnant to holy Scriptures.  
Hitherto of the Scriptures▪  
Q. What do you consider of concerning God?  
A. 1. His Nature. 2. His Attributes. 3. The Trinity of Persons. 4. His Works.  
Q. What is God?  
A. An eternal Essence, that hath being of himself. Exod. 3. 14.  
Q. Of how many sorts be his Attributes?  
A. Of two 


Incommunicable  
and  
Communicable.     
Q. What be his Attributes incommunicable?  
A. Two Simpleness, of nature. and Infiniteness  
Q. What is that which you call simpleness of nature?  
A. It is an essential property in God, whereby every thing that is in God, is God himself. 1. Peter. 3. 17. 1. john 4. 16.  
Q. What do you consider of his infiniteness?  
A. It is either in 


Greatness,  
or  
Eternity.     
Q. What is his Greatness?  
A. It is an essential property in God, whereby he containeth all things, and is contained of nothing. 1. Kings 8. 27.  
Q. What is his infiniteness in Eternity?  
A. It is an essential property in God, whereby he is the first and the last. Reuel. 1. 8  
Q. What be the attributes of God that are communicable?  
A. Those which he doth communicate to others, as power, wisdom, mercy, and such like. Exod. 34 6.  
Q. Are those in men or Angels as they be in God?  
A. No: in God they be essential, in us by participiation: in him absolutely perfect, in us imperfect. 1. Cor. 13. 9 In him without measure, and in all fullness, john 1. 16. In us by measure.  
Q. What is further to be considered of concerning God?  
A. The Trinity of Persons.  
Q. What is a person in the Trinity?  
A. A distinct substance, having in it the whole Godhead. john 14. 9 16. Colos. 2. 9  
Q. What is the Father?  
A. The first person in the Trinity, who hath of himself eternally begotten his only Son. Psal. 2. 7.  
Q. What is the Son?  
A. The second person in the Trinity, eternally begotten of the substance of the Father. john 1. 18.  
Q. What is the holy Ghost?  
A. The third person in the Trinity, eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son. john 15. 26.  
Q. Is every one of these three persons the true and Eternal God?  
A. The Father is God. Rom. 1. 7. john 17. 3. The Son is God. Esay 9 6. 7. john 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. john 5. 20. The holy Ghost is God, because the names, properties, nature, and actions of God are given unto him. Act. 5. 3. 4. Gen. 1. 2. Esay 61. 2. Act. 2. 28. 1. Cor. 2. 10. 11. 1. Cor. 12. 4. 8. 9 10. 11.  
Q. Is any of these greater one than another?  
A. No, they are all coequal and coeternal, of the self same infinite being, power, and majestic. john. 5. 7.  
Q. How are these, being three, said to be one?  
A. They are one in being and essence, but three persons and substances.  
Q. Every one of these being true God, are there then more Gods then one?  
A. No, there is but one only God. Deut. 4. 6. 1. Sam. 2. 2. Esay 45. 5. Ephes. 4. 6. 1. Cor. 8. 5. 6.  
Q. What is the reason that these three are but one God?  
A. Because the Godhead is communicable to all the Persons, but the Persons are incommunicable. john 14. 9  
Q. What be the personal properties?  
A. To the Father to beget: To the Son to be begotten: To the holy Ghost, to proceed from the Father and the Son. john 1. 18. & 15. 26. Hitherto of the Trinity.  
Q. What do you consider of in the works of God?  
A. Two things 


1. The Decree  
2. The execution of the Decree. Lam. 2. 17.     
Q. What is God's Decree?  
A. It is the most perfect will of God, of every thing. Ephes. 1. 11.  
Q. What do you consider of in this Decree?  
A. That it is 


General  
and  
Special.     
General is that which is generally of all things. Acts. 15. 18.  
Special is that which is specially of some things, as of men and Angels, called Predestination. Ephes. 1. 5. Rom. 8. 30.  
Q. What is Predestination?  
A. It is the Decree of God, concerning the everlasting estate of men and Angels.  
Q. What are the parts of Predestination?  
A. 1. Election. Ephes. 1. 4. Rom. 9 11. 23.  
2. Reprobation. 1. Thes. 5. 9 1. Pet. 2. 8. jud. 4. Rom. 9 22.  
Q. What is election?  
A. Gods eternal appointing of certain men and Angels to eternal life. Rom. 9 23.  
Q. What is Reprobation?  
A. Gods eternal appointing of certain men and Angels to destruction. Rom. 9 22.  
Q. What is the cause of this Decree?  
A. The will of God. Rom. 9 18.  
Q. When did this Decree begin?  
A. It was before the foundation of the word was laid, and therefore it is eternal. Ephes. 1. 4. jude 4. 2. Tim. 1. 9  
Q. What is the end of God's election?  
A. The praise of his glorious Grace. Ephes. 1. 6.  
Q. What is the end of Reprobation?  
A. The praise of his glorious justice. Pro. 16. 4.  
Q. Can this Decree be altered?  
A. No: but remaineth unchangeably the same for ever. Rom. 9 11. john 13. 1. james 1. 17. Rom. 11. 29. Malach. 3. 6.  
Hitherto of the Decree.  
Q. What is the execution of the Decree?  
A. The fulfilling of that which is decreed. Ephe. 1. 11. Dan. 4. 21.  
Q. What are the parts of execution?  
A. Two: Creation and Providence.  
Q. What is Creation?  
A. The giving of the first being, form, and quality to every Creature.  
Q. What are the parts of Creation?  
A. Two 


1. The rude mass of the world wherein all things were confounded & mingled one with another.  
2. The beautiful frame and fashion of the world made of this rude mass.     
Q. Whereof was the rude mass made?  
A. Of nothing. Heb. 11. 3.  
Q. How was it kept and preserved?  
A. By the holy Ghost. Gen. 1. 2.  
Q. What do you consider in the frame and fashion of the world?  
A. Two things 


1. The elements which are the most simple substances.  
2. The bodies which are compounded of the Elements.     
Q. What be those Elements?  
A. Fire, Water, Earth, Aire.  
Q. What understand you by the bodies compounded?  
A. The rest of the creatures made of the uneven mixture of the Elements.  
Q. How many sorts of creatures be there?  
A. Two 


Visible.  
Invisible. Coloss. 1. 16.     
Q. How many sorts of visible creatures be there?  
A. Two. Sensible. Insensible.  
Q. What do you consider in the Creation of man.  
A. His parts, sexes, and dignities.  
Q. How many parts be there of man?  
A. Two: Body and Soul. Eccles. 12. 17. 1. Thes. 5. 23.  
Q. Whereof was the body made?  
A. Of the dust of the earth, and therefore mortal. Gen. 2. 7.  
Q. What is the Soul?  
A. A spiritual substance, and therefore immortal. Gen. 2. 7.  
Q. Why is not the Soul mortal?  
A. Because it was not made of any of the Elements, it being free from composition is also free from decay and perishing.  
Q. What are the divers Sexes?  
A. Two, male and female: and of either there was created but one. Gen. 1. 27. & 2. 22 Malach. 2. 15.  
Q. What are the dignities?  
A. 1. To be made after Gods own Image. 2. To have power and dominion over the creatures. Gen. 1. 26. 27.  
Q. What understand you by the Image of God?  
A. Perfection of knowledge and purity. Colos. 3. 10. Ephe. 4. 24.  
Q. Who made the Angels?  
A. In the six days God also created them of nothing.  
Q. What consider you in their creation?  
A. Their nature, knowledge, power, and office.  
Q. What is their nature?  
A. It is not of any corporal matter, but merely spiritual and incorruptible. Heb. 1. 14.  
Q. What is their knowledge?  
A. It is natural, for they be intelligent spirits, in a fare higher degree than is the spirit of man.  
2. Experimental.  
3. By revelation.  
Q. What is their power?  
A. It is very great, yet it is limited to do only what God will. 2. Thess. 1.  
Q. What is their office.  
A. 1. To defend, protect, and deliver the righteous. Act. 12. 7. 8. 11. 15. Psal. 34. 7. 2. To destroy the wicked. 2. King. 19 35. Act. 12. 23.  
Q. How many sorts of Angels be there?  
A. Two: good and bad.  
Q. How were they created?  
A. They were all made Angels of light. jude 6.  
Q. How came they bad?  
A. Not by creation but by transgresson. jude 6.  
Q. Whereby did God made all things?  
A. By his word. Heb. 11. 3. Gen. 1.  
Q. In what estate were the rest of the creatures made and placed?  
A. They were all made good and perfect in their kind. Gen. 1. 31.  
What was the end of all the works which God made?  
A. His only glory. Rom. 11. 36. Psal. 19 1. 2. Hitherto of the Creation.  
Q. What is providence?  
A. A most wise disposing of all things to their proper and appointed ends.  
Q. How fare doth this providence extend itself?  
A. 1. In general to all things both small and great. Matth. 10. 29.  
2. In special to matters of chance. Pro. 16. 33  
3. To actions of evil. Gen. 45. 5. 7. 8. 2. Sam. 16. 10. 1. King. 22. 20. 21. 22. 23. 2. Sam. 12. 12. Amos 3. 6.  
Q. Is not God than the author of sin?  
A. He that is goodness itself cannot be author of any thing but of that which is perfectly good, and therefore doth that well and justly which the instruments do ill and unlawfully.  
Q. How doth God's providence bring things to pass?  
A. 1. Sometimes by means. Acts 27. 31.  
2. Sometimes without means. Ruth 2. 3.  
Q. What consider you in the means?  
A. 1. Sometimes they are lawful.  
2. Sometimes indirect. Gen. 27. 6. 7. 8.  
Q. Of what things chief is this providence?  
A. Of men and Angels.  
Q. What of them especially is to be considered?  
A. The fall of both; the repair of man. Gen. 3. 1. 2. 3. 15. jude 6. 2. Pet. 2. 4.  
Q. What do you consider of the fall of man?  
A. Two things; the causes of the fall, and the fall itself.  
Q. What be the causes?  
A. They are either 


1. Principal, as the devil.  
or  
2. Instrumental, as the serpent.     
Q. What was their fall?  
A. A voluntary transgression of that Law which God gave them, from whence came original and actual sin.  
Q. What is original sin?  
A. A privation of original purity, and corruption of the powers and faculties of nature.  
Q. How is original sin called in the Scriptures?  
A. The old man, concupiscence, sin that dwelleth in us: the body of sin, the law of the members. Rom. 6. 6. 7. 7. 20. 23.  
Q. When doth this sin first begin in man?  
A. In his conception. Psal. 51. 5.  
Q. What is actual sin?  
A. It is the breaking of the Law of God, in thought, word, and deed.  
Q. Are all sins equal?  
A. The first motion is not so great a sin as the outward action: some are pardonable, some unpardonable. Acts 5. 3. 4. Luke 12. 4. 7. 48. Matthew 12. 31. Heb. 6. 4. john 5. 16.  
Q. What followed sin?  
A. Two things; guilt and punishment.  
Q. What is that guilt?  
A. It is the desert of sin, whereby we become subject to the wrath and punishment of God.  
Q. What doth this guiltiness work in us?  
A. 1. It doth still accuse and worketh unquietness in the mind. Gen. 4. 7. Rom. 2. 15.  
2. It is an horror and torment to the conscience. Pro. 28. 1.  
Q. What is the remedy against this?  
A. 1. To resist and withstand the first motion of sin.  
2. To humble ourselves to the Lord by confession and repentance for sin committed.  
Q. What is the punishment?  
A. It is all evil upon the sinner, both in this life, and in the life to come.  
Q. What are the evils in this life?  
A. 1. Ignorance, darkness of mind, hardness of heart, proneness to sin. Eph. 4. 17. 18. 19  
2. Calamities and miseries upon the bodies, goods, or name. Deut. 28. 15. 16. 17. etc.  
Q. What is the evil in the life to come?  
A. Everlasting destruction both of body and soul. Rom. 6. 21. 23.  
Q. Did this guilt and punishment rest in Adam and went no further?  
A. It did not rest in him, but spread itself to all his posterity. Rom. 5. 12. 13. 14.  
Q. What is the scope of this Scripture?  
A. To show that the sin of one man's eating the forbidden fruit is the sin of all men.  
Q. Why should the posterity of Adam be guilty of that sin they never did?  
A. Because all mankind was in Adam's loins when he sinned, as in Abraham Levi is said to have paid tithes to Melchisedech.  
Q. What followeth upon this?  
A. That by propagation of our last Parents we are partakers of the transgression of our first Parents. Hitherto of the fall.  
Q. What is the repair of man?  
A. A restoring of mankind to a fare better estate than ever we had in Adam. Rom. 5. 15.  
Q. What is the way to recover this estate?  
A. Only by faith in the covenant of grace.  
Q. How doth that appear that faith is the only way?  
A. Because the Scripture showeth that the Fathers before and under the Law and Gospel, were by this way of faith and by no other, justified, and saved. Gen. 15. 6. Heb. 13. 8.  
Q. To whom doth this restoring belong?  
A. Only to mankind, and not to the Angels that are fallen.  
Q. Why doth it not belong also unto them?  
A. 1. Because the promise of restoring was made only to man, and not to them. Gen. 3. 15.  
2. Because the restoring was wrought in the nature of man, and not of Angels. Hebr. 2. 16.  
Q. What are the outward means of this restoring?  
A. The word of God preached, and the Sacraments rightly administered.  
Q. What are the parts of the word?  
A. The Law, called the covenant of works.  
The Gospel, called the covenant of grace.  
Q. What doth the Law require?  
A. Perfection in all things, which none can do in any thing.  
Q. If the Law cannot justify, what use is there of it?  
A. Though it cannot justify, yet there is great use of it.  
First, to the unregenerate.  
1. To discover their sin.  
2. To aggravate and increase it.  
3. To pronounce the sentence of death aainst them, and so is a Schoolmaster to bring them to Christ. Gal. 3. 24.  
Secondly, To the regenerate.  
1. It is a light to show and direct them how to live aright after they be come to Christ. Psal. 119. 105.  
2. It doth quicken and stir up to obedience.  
3. It keepeth down the rebellion of the flesh in the best.  
Q. What rules are to be observed for the better understanding of the Law?  
A. 1. In every commandment there is a figurative speech, whereby more is commanded or forbidden then is named.  
2. In every commandment there be two parts, affirmative and negative, whereof the one is expressed, and the other understood.  
3. Whatsoever every commandment commandeth or forbiddeth, it commandeth all means and occasions thereunto, and forbiddeth the contrary.  
4. The Law is spiritual, and therefore is given to rule and order as well the inward man as the outward.  
Q. Why is every commandment set forth in the second person and singular number, (thou?)  
A. That every particular man may know that God speaketh to him.  
Q. How is the Law divided?  
A. Into two Tables, the first and the second. Exod. 34. 1. Deut. 4. 13.  
Q. What is proper to the first Table?  
A. 1. That intreateth of God and his worship only.  
2. The duties and sins of the first Table are greater than the duties and sins of the second Table, if the comparison be equal, otherwise not.  
3. Every commandment of the first Table have their several reasons annexed unto them.  
Q. Why are the reasons of the commandment of the first Table set down rather then the second?  
A. To show that there is less light left in us of the worship of God, then of the duties we own to our neighbour.  
Q. What doth the second Table teach us?  
A. The duties of love and righteousness to our neighbours, both in our general and particular callings.  
Q. What is to be observed from hence, that God hath joined these two Tables together?  
A. That in that obedience which is pleasing to God, the duties of both tables must be joined together, and never severed. 1. joh. 4. 20. 21.  
Q. Rehearse the words of the preface.  
A. God spoke all these words, saying, etc.  
Q. What is contained in these words?  
A. The precept itself, and three several reasons set before it.  
Q. What is the first reason?  
A. It is contained in these words, I am jehovah, or the Lord; whereby God showeth that he hath absolute power and just right to command all, and therefore of right all are bound to obey whatsoever he commandeth.  
Q. What is the second reason?  
A. It is contained in these words, Thy God. In which God doth bind himself by promise, to give us all good things here, & in the world to come eternal life; & therefore we are bound to obey him. Heb. 11. 16. Ps. 144. 15.  
Q. What is the third reason?  
A. It is contained in these words, Which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, etc. In which God puts the jews in mind what a great deliverance he had given them, and therefore bound them to obey him.  
Q. How doth this reason concern us?  
A. That deliverance did shadow out our spiritual deliverance from sin and the devil, and therefore we are straightly bound to obey this law.  
Q. Rehearse the first commandment.  
A. Thou shalt have no other gods, etc.  
Q. What is the sum of this commandment?  
A. The inward worship of God.  
Q. What is particularly forbidden and commanded in this precept?  
Forbidden. Commanded. To be ignorant of the true God, his essence, attributes, the trinity of persons, his works. To knowledge the only true God, his essence, his attributes, the trinity of persons, his works. joh. 17. 3. To affirm that there is no God.  Multitude of gods.  A false God.  False imaginations of the true God. Rom. 1. 21.  The love of creatures above God, Mat. 10. 37 To love God above all. Deut. 6. 5. Ex. 32. 32 To trust in creatures jerem. 17. 5. job. 31. 24. To put our trust & confidence in God, though means be wanting. 2. Chron. 20. 20. Prou. 3. 5. To hope for help from creatures. job 31. 24.  To seek to witches. Leu. 20. 6. Deut. 18. 10. To set our hope in God. Ps. 78. 7. 2. Chro. 14. 11. To prefer the physician before God. 2. Chron. 16. 12. To seek unto God for help. Esay 8. 19 Impatiency, murmuring. Num. 14. 2. Patience in afflictions. job 1. 21. jam. 5. 10. Levit. 10. 3. To fear man more than God. Es. 51. 12, 13 To fear God above all. Matth. 10. 28. Irreverence, hardness of heart. Inward reverence of the Majesty of God. Heb. 11. 7. Presumption, carnal security. Ps. 36. 1. Inward humility. 1. Pet. 5. 5. To give glory to others, or to take it to ourselves. Acts 12. 22. To give all glory to God for mercies unto us, or for any good done by us to others.  
Q. Rehearse the second commandment.  
A. Thou shalt make thee no graved image, neither the likeness of any thing, etc.  
Q. What is contained in these words?  
A. The precept itself, and the reasons.  
Q. What is the sum of this commandment?  
A. The outward worship of God.  
Q. What are the parts of the negative part of this commandment?  
A. They are two: 1. the making of idols.  2. the worshipping   
Q. What is generally forbidden?  
A. All will-worship. Col. 2. 23.  
Q. What is particularly  
Forbidden? Commanded? All representations of the holy Trinity. Deut. 4. 15, 16. Esa. 40. 18. Act. 17. 29. That outward worship which God in his word hath appointed. Levit. 18. 4. 5. To make the likeness of any creature for religious uses. Heb. 2. 18. The parts whereof are,  1. Such as he hath given us to use. To be present at idol service. 2. Cor. 6. 16. 2. Such as we give him for service according to his word. Feasts. 1. Cor. 10. 7. Of the first sort are, the Ministry of the word, Sacraments, the Censures of the Church. Matth. 28. 15. 18. 19 & 26. 26. Bodily gestures to idols. 1. Cor. 6. 19  To worship God after the unlawful fashion of other countries and people, judaisme, Turkism, Papism. Levit. 18. 3. Deut. 12. 30. 31. Of the other sort are prayer, thanksgiving. Psal. 50. 14, 15, 23.  And these be ordinary. To give divine worship unto creatures.  
1. Reasonable, as 


1. Men. Act 10. 25, 26. 14. 15.  
2. Angels. Reu. 19 10.      2. Unreasonable and insensible.  Ecclesiastical ceremonies without warrant of the word, and whereof there is no use. Esa. 1. 12. Mat. 15. 9 Fasting, feasts, vows and lots. Esay 22. 12. Math. 9 15. Eccles. 5. 3. And these be extraordinary. All inventions and traditions of men, repugnant to God's word. The gestures of the body orderly and reverently used, according to the diverse parts of God's worship. False ministeries and Sacraments. As at the reading of the word of God, to stand up. Nehem. 8. 5.  At prayer,  To lift up the hands. 1. Tim. 2. 8. 1. Kin. 8. 22.  To kneel. 2. Chron. 6. 13. Act. 20. 36.  To lift up the eyes. joh. 17. 1. All occasions of idolatry familiar society, and affinity with idolaters. Deut. 7. 2. 3. 2. Cor. 6. 14. Gen. 24. 3. 28. 1. 34. 14.  To add or take from the word of God. Deut. 12. 32.   
Q. What is contained in the reasons annexed to the second commandment?  
A. 1. A threatening of judgement against the transgressors of this commandment, thereby to keep us from false worship.  
2. A promise of much mercy to all that worship the true God according to the rule of his word.  
Q. Rehearse the third commandment.  
A. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain.  
Q. What is contained in these words?  
A. 1. The precept itself: 2. the reasons of it.  
Q. What is the sum of this commandment?  
A. The right use of the holy Name of God, and of all the parts of his worship.  
Q. What is meant by the Name of God?  
A. All that whereby he is made known unto us, as his titles, attributes, works, word, and Sacraments. Psal. 8. 1. Rom. 2. 24. Levit. 22. 2.  
Q. What is particularly  
Forbidden? Commanded? A. To speak of the titles of God in our common talk, without inward reverence or just cause. To think & speak reverently of the names & titles of God upon just cause, and for a good end, to profit ourselves & others thereby. Luk. 1. 28. Esa. 12. 2. Psal. 18. 13. Act. 10. 33. To swear falsely. Levit. 19 12. Zach. 5. 4. To swear truly. Rashly, without just cause. jam. 5. 12. Not at all in our ordinary communication. Mat. 5. 37. By that which is no god. Ier 5. 7. To swear by none but God. Deut. 6. 13. jer. 12. 16. To swear by creatures, Matth. 5. 34. 35.  Perjury. Mat. 5. 35. To perform lawful oaths. Math. 5. 33. Blasphemy. Levit. 24. 15.  To speak evil of God's attributes. To speak of the attributes of God with all reverence. To speak unreverently of his works.  To use the name of God about witchcraft, charms, etc.  Unlawful vows. To perform all lawful vows. Eccles. 5. 3. To come to any part of God's service without due preparation. To come prepared. Eccles. 4. 17. 1. Cor. 11. 28. In hearing, wand'ring thoughts, hardness of heart, dulness, to be sleepy: not to apply the word. To be attentive and inwardly moved with reverence, wise hearted to apply the word. Isa. 66. 2. Heb. 11. 7 Not to profit by the means. Psal. 50. 17. By the means to grow in knowledge. Math. 13. 23. A scandalous life. 2. Sam. 12. 14. By holy conversation to adorn the profession. 1. Pet. 2. 12. To pray in a strange tongue. To pray in a known tongue. To pray without feeling. And in feeling. 1. Cor. 14. 15. To bless God for evil things. 1. Sam. 23 21.  To sing Psalms without affections. To sing with affection. Col. 3. 16. 1. Cor. 14. 19 Corrupt sense, false doctrine, and applications of the Scriptures. Ezech. 13. 22. The pure handling of the word of God. 1. Pet. 4. 11. By the works of his mercy, not to trust in him. Psal. 78. 22. By the works of his mercy, to love him and to trust in him. Psal. 78. 7. By his judgements not to fear, nor repent. By his judgements to fear, and seek unto him by repentance. Exod. 14. 31. 2. Chro. 20. 3.  
Q. What is the sum of the reason annexed to this commandment?  
A. It contains a threatening of extreme vengeance against the transgressors of this commandment.  
Q. Rehearse the fourth commandment.  
A. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.  
Q. What is contained in these words?  
A. 1. The precept itself: 2. the reasons.  
Q. Wherein doth the sanctifying of the Sabbath consist?  
A. 1. In abstaining from our ordinary business.  
2. In performing the works of the Sabbath.  
Q. What is particularly  
Commanded? Forbidden? A. That our thoughts and meditations be spiritual, and wholly set upon things that concern the kingdom of God. Psal. 119. 15. 23. To have our thoughts upon our ordinary business and worldly affairs. Esay 58. 13. To speak and confer of those things that are heavenly. To talk of our ordinary business, and worldly affairs. Esay 58. 13. To do the works of the Sabbath. To do our ordinary weeks business. Neh. 13. 15. 17. 
Which are 


1. Public.  
2. Private.     To work in ear-ring time, in harvest time.  To work about the Temple. Exod. 34. 13. 21. 31. To rise early and travel to the word, if it be not where we dwell. 2. Kings 4. 23. Matth. 1. 35. journeys, Fairs, sports, banqueting. Exod. 16. 29. Nehe. 13. 16. To be present at the Public assemblies from the beginning to the end. Ezekiel 46. 10. To be absent from the public assemblies, to come after it is begun, to go away before it be ended. To join with the Church in hearing, prayer, and the Sacraments. Acts 13. 15. 15. 21. 17. 2. Not to join in affection and fit gesture with the Church in the service of God. Private exercises of the Sabbbath which are,  
By ourselves, 


Meditation.  
Reading.  
Prayer.      
With others 


Conference.  
Prayer.  
Singing of  
Psalms.      
To others, 


To exhort, to distribute to the poor.  
To visit and comfort the afflicted.       
Q. What are the reasons annexed to this commandment?  
A. 1. The first is a reason of comparison, of the less: If God hath given us six days to follow our callings, we ought to rest one in seven, and to keep that holy to the Lord.  
2. God himself rested the seaventh day, therefore we ought to do so.  
Q. How is the second Table divided?  
A. 1. Into those commandments which concern special duties to special persons, as the fifth commandment.  
2. Into those which concern general duties unto all, as the last five commandments.  
Q. Rehearse the fifth commandment?  
A. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.  
Q. What is contained in these words?  
A. 1. The precept: 2. the reasons.  
Q. What is the sum of this commandment?  
A. All special duties to man, in regard of his and our special calling.  
Q. What is meant by father and mother?  
A. Our natural parents, and all others that be above us, in gifts, calling, or age.  
Q. What is particularly  
Commanded? Forbidden? A. The duties of children to parents.  
Reverence 


Inward.  
Levit. 19 3.  
Outward.  
Gen. 48. 12.     Vnreverent behaviour towards them.  To contemn them. Gen. 9 22. Pro. 20. 20. Exod. 21. 17. Declared,  By rising up, and bowing down before them. Levit. 19 32. 1. King. 2. 19  To be silent whilst they speak. Acts 24. 10. job 32. 6. 7. To interrupt them in their speech. To give them their just titles when we speak unto them. 1. Pet. 3. 6. 1. Sam. 1. 14. 15. Gen. 31. 35.  This is due to all Superiors.  Obedience to their commandments, in matters of religion & things of this life, also in marriage. Ephes. 6. 1. judges 14. 2. Disobedience in this or any of them. Rom. 1. 30. Gen. 28. 9 To relieve them. Gen. 47. 12. To neglect them or suffer them to want. Servants to Masters.  Loving affections to persuade them to that which is good for their good. 2. Kings 5. 14. To hate them. Subjection to the froward. 1. Pet. 2. 18. To be rebellious against them. Patiently to suffer their wrongs. 1. Pet. 2. 18. Murmuring and impatiency. Providence to prevent evil. 1. Sam. 25. 17. To be careless. Painfulness. Gen. 31. 40. Idleness, eye-service. Col. 3. 22. Faithfulness. Gen. 31. 38. 39 40. Tit. 2. 10. To pilfer away their Master's goods, to waste their estate. Tit. 2. 10. To be grieved at their misery. To find out some course for their ease, and to persuade them unto it. 1. Sam. 16. 15. 16.  Not to answer again. Titus 2. 9 To give froward answers. To prefer their Master's business before their own. Gen. 24. 33.  Wives unto Husbands.  Subjection, Col. 3. 18. Eph. 5. 22. To be stubborn & rebellious. To better his estate by  
her 


Providence. Pro. 14.  
Paines. Pro. 31. 16. 27. 13.  
Government.     To waste his estate. To persuade their Husbands to that which is good. Gen. 31. 16. To hinder them from that which is good. meekness, modesty▪ 1. Pet. 3. 3. 4. Frowardness. To Magistrates.  Subjection, tribute, prayer. Rom. 13. 1. 2. 1. Tim. 2. 2. Rebellion, contempt of authority. 2. Pet. 2. 10. To Ministers.  To hear and obey their doctrine. Not to hear them. To maintain them. To neglect them. To be subject to their just & righteous censures. Heb. 13. 17. Gal. 6. 6. To resist them. To the aged and those of gifts.  To arise up before them. Levit. 19 32.  To knowledge their gifts, and to speak to their praise. Dan. 2. 46. Gen. 41. 38. 2. Corinth. 8. 22. 23. To envy them.  To speak to their disgrace. Duties of Parents to Children.  To teach and command them the true knowledge & service of God, according to their years and capacity. Deu. 21. 18. 20. Prou. 31. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8, 9 1. Chron. 28. 9 1. King. 2. 3. Ephes. 6. 4. Gen. 18. 19 Not to teach them at all.  To teach them errors. To observe and discern their aptness, and so to fit them for callings accordingly. Gen. 4. 2. To let them grow up in idleness, or force them to such courses for gain, for which they have no aptness nor disposition. To lay up and provide for them. 2. Cor. 12. 14. Gen. 25. 5, 6. To neglect them. To correct them with moderation for amendment. Prou. 29. 17. & 19 18. Not to correct them.  To exceed measure in correcting them. To marry them in the Lord, or to keep To keep them unmarried when there is them unmarried if they see fit. 1. Cor. 7. 37. need to marry them. To servants. To force them to marry such whom they affect not, to marry them to profane persons. To teach them and command them the knowledge and fear of God. Gen. 18. 19 Not to teach them at all. To make provision of food and necessaries sitting for them. Prou. 27. 26. 27. & 31. 15. 21. To seduce and poison them with errors. To recompense their service according to their labour and desert. Deu. 15. 13, 14, 15. To deny them necessaries, and that which is fitting for them. Chastisement with mercy. To send them away empty handed. To give good example unto them. Psalm 101. 2. To correct without just cause, or about measure. To teach them their trade, and to fulfil all covenants unto them. To give ill exampie to the family.  To keep them from the knowledge of their trade: not to pay them Col. 4. 1. their wages. To wives.  To love, teach and exhort them. Ephes. 5. 25. To hate them.  Not to delight and take comfort in them. Prou. 5. 19 To defend and protect them from evil. Gen. 20. 16. To suffer them to be wronged. To bear with their infirmities. 1. Peter. 3. 7. To reproach or disgrace them with their infirmities. To provide for them, and to live peaceably with them. Esa. 4. 1. 1. Sam. 4. 5. To suffer them to want.  To live bitterly and contentiously with them. Col. 3. 19 To subjects.  To provide teaching for the people. To let the people be without preaching. To maintain true religion. To hinder and put down the preaching of the Gospel. To compel his subjects unto it. To tolerate all religions. To decree good laws, and to see them duly executed. To decree wicked laws. To preserve peace, the Common wealth, and honest life. Not to punish evil doers speedily. Eccles. 8. 11. To punish the evil. To punish and disgrace those that do well. To defend the good. 1. Tim. 2. 2. Rom. 13. 3, 4. Ezra 7. 25. 2. Chron. 17. 7, 8, 9 & 30. 6. To countenance the evil.  Tyranny. Ministers to their people.  To teach and exhort them. Not to teach at all, or seldom, & unprofitably. To convince all gainsayers. To let heresies spring up in the Church. To apply their doctrine. To apply the word falsely. Ezech. 13. 22. To administer the Sacraments and censures.  To be examples to the flock in all things that are good. Rom. 12. 7. 8. 1 Pet. 5. 2. 3. 2. Tim. 2. 15. & 4. 2. To give example of ill life. To the young.  To teach them honest things. To be teachers of dishonest things. To procure reverence to themselves by their grave & wise carriage. Tit. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. Prou. 16. 31. job 29. 8. To be examples of lose life.  
Q. What is the reason that is put to this commandment?  
A. It contains a promise of a long life to those that be dutiful & obedient to parents.  
Q. Rehearse the sixth commandment.  
A. Thou shalt not kill.  
Q. What is the sum of this commandment?  
A. All general duties concerning the life and person of our neighbour.  
Q. What is particularly  
Forbidden? Commanded? To kill, or any way to procure hurts or wounds to their or our own bodies. Gen 4. 8. 2. Sam. 11. 15. & 12 9 Levit. 24. 19, 20. To preserve his and our own person, life, and health. job 29. 15. Luke 10. 34, 35. Excessive correction.  To hurt the impotent.  Deut. 25. 3. Levit 19 4.  To overworke men.  To deny succour and relief to those that are in distress. Esa. 58 7. To give to those in need. Eccles. 11. 2. Cruelty and hard usage of the creature. Mercy. Prou. 12. 10. All threatenings, bitter & provoking speeches. Math. 5. 22. 2. Sam 6. 20. Pro. 12. 18. Courteous and amiable speeches.  Soft and friendly answers. Prou. 15. 1. To mock at the mean condition of others. 1. Sam. 17. 18.  A wrathful & frowning countenance. Goe 4. 5, 6. A loving & friendly countenance. A scornful nodding the head: to gnash the tooth at one. Math. 27. 39 Acts 7. 54.  Anger without cause, or past measure. Math. 5. 22. To be slow to anger. jam. 1. 19 Hatred, envy, frowardness. Love, meekness, 1. john 3. 15. james 3. 14. long-suffering. Ephes. 4. 2. 26. Col. 3. 12, 13. To eat & drink that which overthrows our health.  Surfeiting.  To eat out of season. Eccles. 10. 16. Seasonable diet.  
Q. Rehearse the seventh commandment.  
A. Thou shalt not commit adultery.  
Q. What is the sum of this commandment?  
A. Chastity of body and mind.  
Q. What is particularly forbidden and commanded?  
Forbidden. Commanded. All uncleanness. Chastity of body and spirit. Adultery, fornication, incest. Levit. 19 29. Deut. 23. 17. & 22. 28. 1. Thess. 4. 3. Honest and chaste life both in single and married estate. 1. Thes. 4. 4 To have many wives at once, Polygamy. Gen. 2. 22. 24. Leu. 18. 18. 1. Tim. 3. 2. One wife for one husband. Mal. 2. 15. 1. Cor. 7. 2. To entice or enforce  any to uncleanness. 2. Sam. 13. 11. 14.  The excessive and immoderate use of the marriage bed. The moderate and sanctified use of the wife. Buggery, man with man, man or woman with beasts. Levit. 18. 23. Rom. 1. 26, 27. The natural use of that kind which God hath appointed. Unchaste lusts, burning desires. Mat. 5. 28 1. Cor. 7. 9 1. Thes. 4. 5. To be chaste in spirit. Occasions.  Idleness, gluttony, drunkenness. Ezech. 16. 49. Esa. 5. 22. Genes. 19 32. Temperance, sobriety. Acts 24. 25. Men to wear women's apparel, women mens. Modest, decent, and comely apparel. 1. Tim 2. 9 Wanton and new-fangled attires. Deut. 22. 5. Es. 3. 16. Zeph. 1. 8  Wanton diet, & such meats and drinks as provoke lust. Ezec. 16. 49. Esa. 5. 11. Eccl. 10. 16 Sober diet, to eat for strength. Eccles. 10 17. Wanton speeches, plays, & amorous books. 1. Cor. 15. 33. Modest and chaste talk. Ephes. 5. 3. 4. Wanton looks and gestures. To make a covenant with our eyes. job. 31. 1. To company with those that are light & wanton. Gen. 39 10. 2. Pet. 2. 14.  Mixed and wanton dancing, wand'ring or gadding abroad, to see or to be seen. Gen. 34. 1.  The married to defraud one another. 1. Cor. 7. 5. Due benevolence. 1. Cor. 7. 3. Separation of man and wife. 1. Cor. 7. 5. To live together. 1. Cor. 7. 5. Not to marry when there is need. 1. Cor. 7. 9 To marry in the lord 1. Cor. 7. 39  
Q. Rehearse the eight commandment?  
A. Thou shalt not steal.  
Q. What is the sum of this commandment?  
A. All general duties to men, in respect of their goods.  
Q. What is particularly  
Forbidden? Commanded? To take away our neighbour's goods by robbery, oppression, or fraud. Levit. 6. 2. 1. Thess. 4. 6. To preserve and defend their goods. Deut. 22. 1. 2. 3. 1. Sam. 25. 7. 15. 16. To withhold To restore Pledges: Pledges: Things left with us to keep, things found, borrowed. Deut. 24. 12. Exod. 22. 26. Levit. 6. 2. 3. Psal. 37. 21 Things left with us to keep, found, or borrowed. Prodigal and wasteful spending. Frugality. john 6. 12. Niggardliness to spare more than is just. Prou. 11. 24. Liberality. Esay 32. 8. Desire of our neighbour's goods. Math. 15. 19 1. Tim. 6. 9 10.  Discontentednes with our present estate. To be content with things present. 1. Pet. 5. 8. 1. Tim. 6. 8. Phil. 4. 11. 12.  
Q. Rehearse the ninth commandment.  
A. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.  
Q. What is the sum of this commandment?  
A. All general duties in respect of his good name.  
Q. What is particularly  
Forbidden? Commanded? To witness falsely against our neighbours. Prou. 19 5. To witness the truth. Lying, dissembling, talebearing, backbiting, slandering, Rom. 1. 29. 30. Levit. 19 16. To rejoice at the good report of another. Rash censuring and judging. Matth. 7. 1. 2.  To speak of secret faults to their disgrace. Prou. 11. 13. To conceal faults. To wrest words to a contrary sense and meaning. Math. 26. 61.  To interpret things spoken or done in the worst part. To take doubtful things in the best sense. Gen. 37. 33. 1. Cor. 13. 7. To speak the truth, yet with a purpose to hurt.  To speak of men's infirmities, & mean conditions, to their disgrace. 1. Sam. 17. 28. To commend the good parts and gifts of God in them to others. Prou. 27. 2. To justify the evil, and to condemn the good. Prou. 17. 28. To justify the good and to condemn the evil. Psal. 15. 4. To believe all reports and tales Exod. 2 〈…〉 1. Sam. 24. 10. Psal. 15. 3. To reject the tale bearer. Prou. 25. 23. To be silent when our neighbours are evil spoken of. To speak in their defence. Prou. 31. 8. Evil surmises, suspicions without ground, envy, emulation. 1. Tim. 6. 4. Acts 28. 4. 2. 13. 1. Sam. 1. 13. Gen. 37. 11. 1. Sam. 17. 28. Always to think the best, and in love to cover and pass by offences. Prou. 10. 12. 1. Cor. 13. 5.  
Q. Rehearse the tenth commandment.  
A. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, neither any thing that is thy neighbours.  
Q. What difference between this and the former commandments?  
A. The former forbidden the outward action of sin with the consent.  
This forbids the first motion of sin without the consent.  
Q. What is particularly  
Forbidden? Commanded? All thoughts and desires against our neighbours, without consent. Rom. 7. 7. That all our thoughts and desires be for the good of our neighbour. 1. Tim. 1. 8. 1. Thess. 5. 23. The first motions of sin with the least liking. Opposition against the first touch and tender of evil. Gal. 5. 17.  
Q. Is all desire here forbidden?  
A. No, but that which is after something of our neighbours.  
Q. Are evil thoughts against God forbidden in this commandment?  
A. They are forbidden in the first commandment, but in this only such as be against our neighbour.  
Q. How many degrees of sin are there forbidden in the Law?  
A. Three.  
The first motion in the first and in the tenth commandments, against God and against our neighbour.  
The consent and outward action of sin in the rest.  
Q. Where else do you find these degrees of sin?  
A. Acts 5. 34.  
Q. What is the sum of the Law?  
A. To love the Lord with all our whole hearts, and our neighbour as ourself.  
Q. What love of God is commanded in the Law?  
A. That which is perfect, which must be with all the powers and faculties of soul & body. Mark 12. 30.  
Q. What love to our neighbour is commanded?  
A. To love him as ourself, to study for his good as for our own. Mark 12. 31. So much of the Covenant of works.  
Q. What is the covenant of grace?  
A. That God will give unto us life everlasting through jesus Christ, if we believe in him. jerem. 31. 32. 33.  
Q. Why was this covenant of grace given?  
A. Because the covenant of works cannot (by reason of the infirmity of the flesh) give life unto any. Rom. 8. 3.  
Q. What is the sum of this new covenant?  
A. The second person in Trinity, Christ jesus the only Son of God.  
Q. What do you consider of in Christ?  
A. His person and his office.  
Q. What consider you in his person?  
A. 1. His Godhead that maketh a person, and that in honour and dignity he is fare above all men and Angels.  
2. His Manhood which hath substance in the person of the Godhead.  
Q. What consider you of his Godhead?  
A. That he is the only natural Son of God his Father, equal with the Father and the holy Ghost.  
Q. What of his Manhood?  
A. That the divine nature took to himself a reasonable soul and body. Hebrews 2. 16.  
Q. Was there no change of these natures one into another, nor any mixture of them?  
A. There was no change of the natures themselves, nor of their essential properties, but these two were united into one person, yet distinguished in substance, properties, and actions.  
Q. Why must Christ be man?  
A. 1. Because he must be fit to die.  
2. Because by man the sin was committed, therefore by man the recompense must be made, the justice of God so requiring.  
Q. Why must Christ be God?  
A. Because he might be able to pay the infinite ransom for us.  
Q. When were those two natures united?  
A. From the first moment of Christ's conception in the womb of the virgin Mary.  
Q. What is the use of the conjunction of these two natures?  
A. That the manhood of our Saviour Christ, being personally united to the Godhead, the obedience of Christ must be of infinite merit, as being the obedience of God. So much of his person.  
Q. What is his office?  
A. A Mediator.  
Q. What name is given to him in regard of his office?  
A. Christ.  
Q. What doth that name signify?  
A. Anointed.  
Q. How many Mediators are there?  
A. Only one, Christ jesus. 1. Tim. 2. 5.  
Q. Why must Christ alone be Mediator?  
A. Because Christ alone did partake both the nature of God and man, which is of necessity for him that should mediate between both.  
Q. What be the parts of his Mediatorship?  
A. His Priesthood and his Kingdom.  
Q. What be the works of his Priesthood?  
A. 1. Teaching.  
2. Meriting.  
Q. How did Christ teach the will of his Father?  
A. 1. By himself, in his own personal ministry.  
2. By his servants before and after him. 1. Pet. 3. 18, 19 Luke 10. 16.  
Q. What is the other work of his Priesthood?  
A. The meriting of our redemption.  
Q. How did he perform that?  
A. By the actions of 


1. his base estate.  
2. his glory.     
Q. What were the actions which he did in his base estate?  
A. 1. Suffering. 2. Fulfilling.  
Q. What was his suffering?  
A. That in body and soul he suffered the uttermost of God's wrath, which was due unto us for our sins. Esa. 53. 5. 6. 8. Mat. 26. where at large is set out the whole story and all the parts of his sufferings.  
Q. What understand you by fulfilling?  
A. The perfect keeping of the whole Law. Math. 3. 5.  
Q. What are the actions which he did in his glory?  
A. His resurrection, ascension, sitting at the right hand of his Father. Rom. 1. 4. 8. 34. Acts 1. 9  
Q. What fruit and benefit is there unto us by these works of his Priesthood?  
A. They are two: 


Redemption.  
Intercession.     
Q. What is redemption?  
A. To be delivered from the state of sin and death, and restored to righteousness and eternal life. Col. 1. 13. Gal. 5. 5. Heb. 9 12.  
Q. What be the parts of redemption?  
A. They are two: 


justification.  
Sanctification.     
Q. What is justification?  
A. To be delivered from the guilt of all sin, and to be made partakers of the righteousness of Christ.  
Q. What are the parts of justification?  
A. They are two: 


1. Remission of sins. Col. 1. 14. 2. Cor. 5. 19 Heb. 9 26. 28.  
2. Imputation of Christ his righteousness. Coloss. 2. 13. Rom. 4. 3. 6.     
Q. What is remission?  
A. The utter abolishing of all sin by the death of Christ. 1. john 3. 5. Heb. 9 26.  
Q. What is imputation?  
A. A reckoning of Christ's righteousness for our own.  
Q. What is sanctification?  
A. To be free from the tyranny and bondage of sin, and to be restored to righteousness.  
Q. What are the parts of sanctification?  
A. They are two: 


1. Mortification. Col. 3. 5.  
2. Quickening. Rom. 8. 11.     
Q. What is mortification?  
A. A subduing of the power of sin. Rom. 8. 12.  
Q. What is quickening?  
A. A renewing of us to newness of life. Rom. 6. 4. 5.  
Q. What is Intercession?  
A. A taking away of all pollution from our obedience, through the merits of Christ. 1. joh. 2. 1. and a continual intermediating for us to God.  
Q. What is the other part of his Mediatorship?  
A. His Kingdom, whereby all the works of his Priesthood are made profitable unto us.  
Q. What is to be considered in that?  
A. 1. The kingdom itself. 2. The administration of it.  
Q. What is to be considered in the kingdom itself?  
A. Two things: that it is a kingdom of 


Grace. joh. 2. 28 Acts 2. 17.  
Glory. john 17. 1.     
Q. What else consider you in this kingdom?  
A. 1. The greatness of it. 2. The nature of it.  
Q. Wherein doth the greatness of it consist?  
A. In 


1. The extent, which is infinite. Psal. 28. 9  
2. The power of it, which is absolute. Reuel. 3. 7.     
Q. Of what nature is this kingdom?  
A. It is 


1. Spiritual. john 18. 36.  
2. Eternal. Esa. 9 7. Dan. 7. 14. 27. Luke 1. 53.     
Q. Are not we partakers of this his Priesthood and kingdom?  
A. Yes: we are made Priests to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by jesus Christ. 1. Pet. 2. 5.  
King's to subdue our own rebellious affections. Reuel. 1. 6.  
Q. Wherein doth the administration of the kingdom consist?  
A. In things and persons.  
Q. What be the things?  
A. They be of two sorts: 


1. Inward.  
2. Outward.     
Q. What be the inward?  
A. The Spirit, peace, joy, righteousness, and faith, which are given by the outward.  
Q. What is faith.  
A. An assurance of the love of God towards me in Christ jesus, that he is mine, and I am his. john 20. 28. Rom. 8. 38. Cant. 2. 16. 6. 3. 7. 10.  
Q. What consider you in faith?  
A. 1. That it is of God, and not of our selves. Math. 16. 17.  
2. That it is not in all, but only in the elect. Acts 13. 48.  
3. That it is known by the fruits, which are, obedience to God's commandments. jam. 2. 20. john 14. 15.  
4. That it is common to all the children of God, yet in a different measure. 2. Pet. 1. 1. 1. Cor. 12. 11.  
5. It is not here perfect in any, but increaseth and groweth daily. Rom 1. 17.  
6. The least measure of it saveth. Math. 17. 20. It cannot be utterly lost. Rom. 11. 29. Luke 22. 32.  
Q. What mean you by the Spirit in this place?  
A. The power of God, which works in the hearts of men things which the natural discourse of reason cannot attain unto.  
Q. What is the diverse working of God's Spirit in the Church?  
A. It is in things 


1. Common to the Elect and reprobate.  
2. Proper to the Elect.     
Q. What is proper to both?  
A. Illumination, knowledge, gifts of preaching, hearing with joy, and doing of many things. Heb. 6. 4. Math. 7. 22. 13. 20. Mark 6. 20.  
Q. What is the work of the Spirit proper to the Elect?  
A. A particular faith, justification, sanctification of the Spirit.  
Q. What be the outward things in the kingdom of Christ?  
A. 1. Such as God hath given unto us.  
2. Such as we do give unto him for service according to his word.  
Q. What be those things which he giveth unto us?  
A. 1. The Ministry of the word.  
2. Sacraments.  
3. Censures of the Church.  
Q. What is the Ministry?  
A. It is an ordinance of God in the Church, which he hath appointed for the opening and applying of the Scriptures, thereby to call men to the knowledge of salvation. Math. 21. 25.  
Q. What is a Sacrament?  
A. It is a sacred action of the whole Church, wherein by outward signs done according to the ordinance of God, inward things are offered to all, and exhibited only to the faithful, to strengthen their faith in the eternal Covenant.  
Q. What do you consider in a Sacrament?  
A. 1. Some things that are outward.  
2. Some things that are inward.  
Q. What be outward things in a Sacrament?  
A. 1. The persons that do minister and receive.  
2. That which they do minister and receive.  
Q. What be the persons?  
A. The Minister and the Communicants.  
Q. What belongs to the Minister?  
A. Chief to consecrate and deliver the outward elements.  
Q. Wherein stands the consecration?  
A. 1. In declaring and opening the institution of the Sacrament.  
2. In prayer and thanksgiving to God, the Church joining with him.  
Q. Is not the nature and substance of the element changed by this consecration?  
A. There is no change of the substance of the element: for then there were no Sacrament.  
Q. Is there then no difference between those elements and others of that kind in common use?  
A. None at all in substance, but only in their use, during the time of that present action.  
Q. Why then are the outward Elements called by the name of the thing signified, as bread to be called the body of Christ?  
A. 1. To show the unseparable conjunction of the things signified with the outward sign, to the worthy receiver. 1. Cor. 10 16.  
2. More fully to assure the worthy receiver that he doth as verily receive the things signified, as he doth the outward signs.  
Q. What is required before our receiving the Sacrament?  
A. Preparation.  
Q. Wherein standeth that?  
A. In Knowledge, Faith, Repentance.  
Q. What is required in the Action of receiving?  
A. 1. A reverend behaviour.  
2. To meditate of our own misery.  
3. To think of the death and sufferings of Christ.  
4. Not to rest in the outward Elements, but to lift up our hearts to Christ.  
Q. What is required after the Sacrament?  
A. 1. To examine ourselves for comfort and benefit received by them, and to rejoice for the same, with thanksgiving. Acts 8. 39  
2. Not finding ourselves to have profited by by them, to judge ourselves, and be humbled. 1. Cor. 11. 30. 31.  
Q. How many Sacraments be there?  
A. Only two.  
Q. Why were there no more ordained?  
A. Because by these two we are assured of all graces.  
Q. Which is the first?  
A. Baptism.  
Q. What is Baptism?  
A. A Sacrament of the new covenant, whereby our entrance into the Church is sealed unto us.  
Q. What is the outward sign in Baptism?  
A. Water.  
Q. What doth that signify?  
A. Washing.  
Q. What agreement is there between the sign and the thing signified?  
A. As water washeth away the filth of the body, so doth the blood of Christ cleanse us from all unrighteousness, both original and actual.  
Q. What benefit have we by Baptism?  
A. It sealeth unto us 


1. The forgiveness of all our sins.  
2. Our union with Christ.  
3. Our regeneration.     
Q. Who are to be baptised?  
A. The children of the faithful, and those which turn Christians.  
Q. What is the Lords Supper?  
A. It is the second Sacrament of the new Testament, whereby is sealed unto us our continuance and growth in Christ.  
Q What be the outward signs in a Sacrament?  
A. Bread and wine.  
Q. What do they signify?  
A. The body and blood of Christ.  
Q. What agreement is there between the signs and the thing signified?  
A. As bread and wine nourisheth our bodies, so doth the body and blood of Christ nourish our souls to eternal life.  
Q. Are there divers graces offered in Baptism and the Lords Supper?  
A. No, but the same grace in both, but to divers ends.  
Q. To whom doth this Sacrament belong?  
A. To such as be of the Church, that have knowledge, and live without scandal.  
Q. What is required of those which come to this Sacrament?  
A. 1. To be prepared.  
2. How to behave themselves at it.  
3. What is to be done after it.  
Q. What affections ought we to have at the Communion?  
A. Sorrow and gladness.  
Q. Do you see any thing in the Sacrament to make you grieve?  
A. Yes; the breaking of the bread, and pouring out of the wine.  
Q. How doth that move us to mourn?  
A. The breaking of the bread and pouring out of the wine, do set forth before us the crucifying of Christ, which when we see, we should be moved to mourn for our sins, which have caused all those torments upon our Saviour Christ.  
Q. What is the cause we should rejoice?  
A. Because by the death of Christ set forth in the Communion we are saved.  
Q. What benefit have we by this Sacrament?  
A. We are thereby more nearly and fully united unto Christ, from whence cometh 


1. New increase of faith.  
2. New power & strength against sin.  
3. New quickening to further obedience.     
Q. What is common to the word and Sacraments, and what is proper to each?  
A. Common to both, to increase faith.  
Proper to the word, to begin faith.  
Proper to the Sacraments more sensibly, fully and effectually to confirm faith, than the word alone without the Sacrament.  
Q. What is the reason of that?  
A. Because the Sacrament speaks to more of our outward senses than the word doth.  
Q. What use is there of the censures of the Church?  
A. 1. To keep the members of the same in due obedience.  
2. To put from amongst them such as live not in conformity to the will of God.  
Q. What is the end of them?  
A. To bring men to repentance. 1. Cor. 5. 5.  
Q. How many sorts are there?  
A. Two, public, and private.  
Q. What are the private?  
A. 1. Privately and alone to admonish the offender. Matth. 18. 15.  
2. If he repent not, to admonish him in the hearing of others. Matth. 18. 16.  
Q. What are the public?  
Two: 


Suspension. Numb. 9 7.  
Excommunication. Matth. 18. 17. 1. Cor. 5. 4.     
Q. For what cause ought these censures to be administered?  
A. 1. That the Name of God be not evil spoken of by suffering scandalous persons amongst them.  
2. Lest others be corrupted, and the weak fall away. 1. Cor. 5. 6. 7.  
3. Lest some without be hindered from joining themselves to the Church.  
Q. What is the power of this censure?  
A. To bind and lose the sins of men.  
Q. Who appointed these censures in the Church?  
A. Our Saviour Christ. They were practised also by the Apostles. Matth. 18. 15. 16. 17. 1. Cor. 5. 4. 5. 1. Tim. 1. 20.  
Hitherto of the things which God giveth us.  
Q. What are those that we give unto God?  
A. Prayers, thanksgiving, vows, fasting, and holy feastings.  
Q. What is prayer?  
A. A calling upon God alone in the name of Christ.  
Q. What should move us to pray?  
A. 1. Chief the commandment and promise of God. Psal. 50. 15.  
2. God's favourable acceptance of that duty.  
3. Our own wants, and the needs of others.  
Q. In what manner must we pray?  
A. In faith, and feeling of our own wants.  
Q. For what things must we pray?  
A. For things promised or commanded in the word of God.  
Q. What pattern is there in Scripture to direct us in this work?  
A. That which Christ hath taught us in the Gospel. Matth. 6. 9  
Q. What is to be considered in that?  
A. 1. The Preface.  
2. The prayer itself.  
Q. What is contained in the Preface, Our Father which art in heaven?  
A. Two things, 


The love of God.  
The power of God.     
Q. How is God our Father?  
A. By the means of Christ jesus.  
Q. What are the parts of this prayer?  
A. Two: 


Requests.  
Thanksgiving.     
Q. How many sorts of Petitions be there?  
A. Two: 


1. Such as concern God's glory alone.  
2. Such as concern ourselves in the things of this life, & the life to come.     
Q. What do you consider in the three first Petitions?  
A. The first concerns God's glory itself.  
The other two the means whereby he is glorified.  
Q. What is the first Petition?  
A. Hallowed be thy Name.  
Q. What is understood by the Name of God?  
A. God himself, his attributes, works, word, Sacraments, and Ecclesiastical censures. Rom. 2. 24.  
Q. What is meant by this word, Hallowed?  
A. To put apart from common use, that which is holy.  
Q. What do we pray for in this petition?  
A. 1. For the true knowledge of God, of his word, and his works.  
2. That we and others may sanctify God in believing his word, though it seem to us impossible. Numb. 20. 12. Rom. 4. 20.  
3. For fervent zeal to God's house and ordinances. Psal. 69. 9  
4. That we and others may glorify God by holy conversation. 1. Pet. 2. 12.  
5. That we and others may praise God for all his mercies.  
Q. What do we pray against?  
A. 1. Ignorance and hardness of heart.  
2. Against all things that hinder God's glory. Esa. 2. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.  
3. Against unbelief and coldness in God's service.  
4. Against profaneness of life, and unthankfulness.  
5. Against giving of honour and glory to creatures.  
Q. Rehearse the second petition.  
A. Thy kingdom come.  
Q. What is meant by kingdom?  
A. The kingdom of power and grace.  
Q. What desire we touching the government of the world?  
A. That God by his overruling power would dispose of all persons and things as may be most for his own glory.  
Q. What further?  
A. That this government may be for the enlargement of his kingdom here, and accomplishment of it at the last day.  
Q. For what things do we pray in this petition?  
A. 1. For the establishment of all God's ordinances, that the Word, Sacraments, and Censures may be rightly administered.  
2. That God would furnish his Church with fit Officers.  
3. That so many of jews and Gentiles as belong to Christ, may be called.  
4. For the powerful working of his Spirit, in renewing and quickening every member of the Church.  
5. That Christ would hasten his last coming.  
Q. What do we pray against?  
A. 1. The bondage of sin and Satan in ourselves and others.  
2. All humane inventions and traditions set up in stead of God's ordinances, and made essential parts of his worship.  
3. Against all counsels and powers which do oppose the Gospel and Christ's ordinances.  
Q. Rehearse the third petition.  
A. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.  
Q. What is meant by the will of God?  
A. That which he hath revealed in his word.  
Q. What is meant by earth and heaven?  
A. Those things which are in earth and heaven.  
Q. What do you here pray for?  
A. 1. That we and all men may know Gods will, and do it.  
2. Patience and cheerfulness under the crossc.  
3. To deny and forsake our own wills.  
Q. What do we pray against?  
A. Ignorance and disobedience.  
Q. What is meant by these words, In earth as it is in heaven?  
A. That we and others may do the will of God, as the Angels do it.  
Q. How is that?  
A. Most willingly, readily and speedily.  
Q. Rehearse the fourth petition.  
A. Give us this day our daily bread.  
Q. What is meant by bread?  
A. All outward things both for necessity, and Christian comfort and refection.  
Q. What is here prayed for?  
A. The enjoying of outward blessings according to the will of God.  
Q. What is prayed against?  
A. The removing and keeping back of evils, as shall seem good to the Lord.  
Q. What learn we from this word, Give?  
A. That we enjoy all that we have by gift, and not by desert.  
Q. Why do we say, give us, when we have it already?  
A. Because the creature of itself hath no power to nourish. Deut. 8. 3.  
Q. Why is it added, for the day?  
A. To teach us to rest contented with our present condition.  
Q. Why is it called ours?  
A. To teach us to use lawful means for that we have.  
Q. What is meant by this word, daily?  
A. Things fit and agreeable to our condition and calling, and whereof we daily stand in need of. Prou. 30. 8.  
Q. Rehearse the fifth petition.  
A. Forgive us our trespasses.  
Q. What is meant by this word, forgive?  
A. That our sins may be covered, and not imputed. Psal. 32. 1.  
Q. What do you learn from these words, forgive us?  
A. 1. That we are all guilty of sin, and that in none there is power to satisfy for the same.  
2. That the expiating and putting out of this guilt, is only by the death of Christ.  
3. That in this life there is no perfection.  
4. There must be a free and humble confession of our sins.  
5. That there is no justification by works.  
6. The way to remove sin, is pardon by Christ.  
Q. What do we here pray for?  
A. 1. To have knowledge and godly sorrow for our sins.  
4. That Christ's righteousness may be imputed unto us, and so we justified.  
3. For joy in the holy Ghost, and inward peace of conscience.  
4. To be released of the wrath of God.  
Q. What pray we against?  
A. The blindness and ignorance of sin, hardness of heart, fear, unbelief. joh. 8. 18.  
Q. What is in these words, For even we also forgive them that trespass against us?  
A. That our readiness to forgive others, doth assure us that God doth forgive us. If we forgive not, neither will God forgive us.  
Q. How are we said to forgive?  
A. We forgive not sin as it is a sin against God, but only the wrong that is done unto us.  
Q. Rehearse the sixth petition.  
A. Lead us not into temptation, etc.  
Q. What is meant by temptation?  
A. All allurements and enticements unto sin, by the world, the flesh, and the devil.  
Q. What is meant by leading into temptation?  
A. Not to be given over to the power of temptation.  
Q. How is God said to tempt?  
A. When as a most just and righteous judge, he punisheth one sin with another. 2. Thess. 2. 11. Rom. 1. 24.  
Q. What is meant by evil?  
A. Satan and sin.  
Q. What do we pray against?  
A. 1. The rebellion of our wicked nature.  
2. Our proneness to yield to sin and Satan.  
3. The remnant of sin rebelling against the law of the mind.  
Q. What do you pray for?  
A. That God would more and more set us at liberty from sin and Satan.  
Q. Rehearse the Thanksgiving.  
A. For thine is the kingdom, etc.  
Q. What is meant by kingdom?  
A. Absolute right and sovereignty over all things.  
Q. What is meant by power?  
A. The rule and government of all things after the counsel of his own will.  
Q. What is meant by glory?  
A. The praise which is due unto him.  
Q. What is meant by this, for ever?  
A. Eternity.  
Q. What is meant by the word Amen?  
A. 1. The earnest desire of the things prayed for.  
2. The assurance of faith to receive them in due time.  
Q. What be the other things that we do give unto God?  
A. Fasting, holy Feasts, Vows.  
Q. What is a Fast?  
A. An abstinence commanded by God for the whole day, with confession of sins to God, and prayer.  
Q. What consider you in a Fast?  
A. 1. The Author. 2. The cause. 3. The parts. 4. The end of it.  
Q. Who is the Author of it?  
A. God. Levit. 23. 27. Isa. 22. 12. Luk. 5. 35.  
Q. What are the causes of fasting?  
A. 1. judgements already upon us, or near at hand.  
2. Business of great moment, or importance to be done. Neh. 1. 4. 11. Hest. 4. 16.  
Q. What be the parts of it?  
A. They are two: 


1. Inward.  
2. Outward.     
Q. What consider you in the outward?  
A. Matter of 


Ceremony.  
Substance.     
Q. What is the outward ceremony of it?  
A. 1. To abstain from meat and drink.  
2. To rest from all labours, as upon the Sabbath.  
3. To mourn and to weep.  
4. Separation of married persons for a time. joel 2. 13. 17. Ezech. 7. 3. Exod. 19 5. 1. Cor. 7. 5.  
Q. What is that in the outward which is matter of substance?  
A. Preaching, prayer, reading the Scriptures, confession of sins to God. Nehe. 9 3. 4.  
Q. What is the inward part of fasting?  
A. A sorrowful, broken, and melting heart for sin. joel 2. 13.  
Q. What is the end of fasting?  
1. To witness and testify our repentance.  
2. To make our prayers more fervent.  
3. To remove present judgements, and to prevent those that are near.  
4. To obtain some great mercy at the hands of God.  
Q. How many kinds of fasts be there?  
A. Two: 


1. Public.  
2. Private.     
Q. What is the public?  
A. When all the Churches of the land, or any one doth it by command of the Magistrate.  
Q. What is the private?  
A. When a family or any one in it doth it.  
Q. What is an holy feast?  
A. It is a solemn thanksgiving unto God for some specially mercy, obtained specially by fasting. Numb. 10. 10. Nehe. 8. 9 10. 11. 12. Zach. 8. 19 2. Chro. 20. 26. 27. 28.  
Q. Wherein doth it consist?  
A. Partly in exercise outward & bodily: Partly in exercises of godliness.  
Q. What is the outward?  
A. A more liberal use of the creatures, as meats, drinks, and apparel, then is ordinary: Nehe. 8. 10.  
Q. May we not eat and drink more that day then on other days?  
A. No; the exceeding is not in the quantity of meat and drink, but in a more dainty and bountiful diet then ordinary.  
Q. Why may not men eat more then usually they do?  
A. Because we must use that moderation and sobriety, as may the better fit us to perform that duty of thanksgiving to God.  
Q. What is the exercise of godliness on that day?  
A. It is in duty to God, or kindness to men.  
Q. What is the duty to God?  
A. Thanksgiving to God for that present benefit, and that in an extraordinany manner, both in regard of gladness and joy in heart, as also in length of time.  
Q. What is that unto men?  
A. To send gifts to our friends, and portions to the poor. Nehe. 8. 10. Hest. 9 19 22.  
Q. What is a vow?  
A. A solemn promise made to God by fit persons, of lawful things. Psal. 66. 13. 14. 1. Sam. 1. 11. judg. 11. 30. 31.  
Q. Who are fit persons to vow?  
A. Such as have knowledge, judgement, and ability to discern of a vow, and of the duties belonging to the performance of the same.  
Q. What is the end and use of a vow?  
A. 1. To strengthen our faith.  
2. To testify our thankfulness to God.  
Hitherto of the things that belong to the kingdom of Christ.  
Q. What be the persons?  
A. 1. Such officers as God hath appointed to govern his Church.  
2. Such as are to be governed.  
Q. What be those officers?  
A. Such as deal in the Word and Sacraments, as Pastors and Teachers, of what rank soever they be.  
Q. What are those to be governed?  
A. The rest of the people of what condition soever. Hitherto of the government.  
Q. Rehearse the History of Lazarus?  
A. And it was so that the beggar died, etc.  
Q. What is the doctrine of this place?  
A. It doth set out the estate of the dead.  
Q. What is here to be observed concerning that point?  
A. Something common to good and bad.  
Something proper to each.  
Q. What is common to both?  
A. Separation of body and soul, the natural death, putrefaction of the body in the grave.  
Q. After death what is proper to each?  
A. To the soul of the righteous a blessed estate. joh. 14. 3. Reve. 14. 13.  
To the soul of the unrighteous, the extreme torments of hell.  
Q. When do their souls pass to those places?  
A. Immediately, and so soon as the soul leaves the body, it goeth to the place appointed. Luke 23. 43.  
Q. Rehearse the place, etc.  
A. 1. Cor. 15. 51. 52. 56. Behold I show you a secret, etc.  
Q. What observe you from hence?  
A. 1. That the bodies of the faithful shall rise again.  
2. In what manner they shall rise.  
Q. By what argument doth the Apostle prove that the body shall rise again?  
A. 1. Behold Christ is risen.  
2. That else the preaching of the Gospel, our Baptism, and sufferings should be all in vain.  
3. That we should be still in our sins, and most miserable of all others.  
Q. How shall the body rise?  
A. It shall be changed from a body subject to infirmity, dishonour, and corruption, into a body, strong, glorious and immortal. Phil. 3. 21.  
Q. Shall all be thus changed?  
A. The dead shall first be raised, and then those that are found alive at his coming shall be thus changed. 1. Thess. 4. 15. 16.  
Q. Rehearse the place of, etc.  
A. Matth. 25. 31. 32. 33. 34. And when the Son of man cometh in his glory, etc.  
Q. What is the scope of this place?  
A. The last judgement.  
Q. What have we to consider of that?  
A. 1. The certainty of it.  
2. The tokens going before it.  
Q. What is the certainty of it?  
A. Christ hath 


Often foretold it.  
Sworn it. Reve. 10. 6.     
Q. What be the tokens going before it?  
A. A 〈…〉 apostasy, multiplicity of heresies:  
Great 


Security. 2. Thess. 2. 3. Matth. 24. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.  
Troubles. Luke 17. 26. Math. 24. 29. 30. Mark 13. 14.     
Q. How shall Christ come to judgement?  
A. With great power and glory. Mat. 25. 31  
Q. What is the end of Christ's coming?  
A. 1. To give sentence.  
2. To execute the same.  
Q. What consider you in the sentence?  
A. 1. That it is for the righteous, Come ye the blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom.  
2. That it is against the wicked, Go ye cursed.  
Q. What consider you in the execution?  
A. 1. The casting of the wicked into hell.  
2. The triumphant going of the righteous into heaven.  
Q. What is to be considered in that their blessed estate?  
A. 1. Fullness of glory common to all.  
2. An higher degree and measure in that fullness, specially 〈…〉.  
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