The Mother and the Child, Part – Title page 1
Commandements.
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What is the Law of God?
C.
To louelove God and my neighbour.
M.
Of how many commandements doth the law conſiſt?
C.
Of ten.
M.
How bee they diuided.
C.
Into two tables.
M.
How many are in the firſt table?
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Foure: which ſhew our dutie to God.
M
How many in the …cond table?
C.
Six: which ſhew our dutie to our neighbour.
M.
Which is the firſt commandement?
C.
Thou ſhalt hauehave no other Gods, &c.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
Atheiſme, Papiſme, Ignorance, and Infidelitie.
M.
What is the ſecond commandement?
C.
Thou ſhalt not make to thy ſelfe &c.
M.
What is the breach …?
C.
To worſhip God according to mens inuentions.
M.
What is the third commandement?
C.
Thou ſhalt not take the name &c.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
Vaine ſwearing, and a wicked conuerſation.
M.
What is the fourth commandement?
C.
Remember that thou keep holy &c.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
In doing any thing of our own, for profit or pleaſure.
M.
What is the fift commandement?
C.
Honour thy Father and thy Mother, &c.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
Diſobedience to our Superiours: or want of duty to our Inferiours.
M.
What is the ſixt commandement?
C.
Thou ſhalt not kill.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
Vnlawfull ſmiting of the hand, or malice of the heart.
M.
VVhat is the ſeuenth commandement?
C.
Thou ſhalt not commit adulterie.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
All vncleanneſſe of bodie and minde.
M.
What is the eight commandement?
C.
Thou ſhalt not ſteale.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
The taking away of my neighbors goods, by fraude or violence.
M.
What is the ninth commandement?
C.
Thou ſhalt not beare falſe witnes.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
All lying and backbiting.
M.
What is the tenth commandement?
C.
Thou ſhalt not couet &c.
M.
What is the breach of this commandement?
C.
All euill deſires and motions of the heart.
They that will ſee this more at large, let them reade Mr. Dod on the commandements.
M.
To whom doeſt thou pray?
C.
To God alone.
M.
In whoſe name?
C.
In the name of Ieſus Chriſt.
M.
After what manner?
C.
As Chriſt taught his diſciples.
M.
What be the words?
C.
Our Father, &c.
M.
How many Petitions bee there in this Prayer?
C.
Six.
M.
How bee they diuided?
C.
The firſt three, for the glorie of God: the ſecond, for our commoditie of bodie and ſoule.
M.
What bee the firſt words?
C.
Our Father which art in heauen.
M.
What is meant by this?
C.
It is a Preface, to breede reuerence before prayer.
M.
Why is this title our, and not my?
C.
I pray for my brethren, as for my ſelfe.
M.
VVhy doe you call God father?
C.
Hee is ſo to vsus in Chriſt Ieſus.
M.
Why doe you place him in Heauen?
C.
It is the ſeat of his Maieſtie.
M.
What is the firſt Petition?
C.
Hallowed bee thy name.
M.
How is his name hallowed?
C.
When wee know him in vnderſtanding and in practice.
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What is the ſecond petition?
C.
Thy Kingdome come.
M.
What is meant by this?
C.
The kingdome of grace and of glory?
M.
What is the third petition?
C.
Thy will be done in earth, &c.
M.
What doe you pray for, here?
C.
VVilling obedience and contentation.
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What is the fourth petition?
C.
GiueGive vsus this day our dayly bread.
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What doe you aske in this Petition?
C.
All things neceſſary for this preſent life.
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What is the fift Petition?
C.
Forgiue vsus our treſpaſſes.
M.
What is the forgiuenes of ſinne?
C.
Iuſtification by Chriſt.
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What meaneth, as wee forgiue &c?
C.
It is our comfort, if we feele our readineſſe to forgiue others.
M.
What is the ſixt Petition?
C.
Lead vsus not into temptation.
M.
What do you deſire in this?
C.
To bee kept from thoſe that lead to ſinne.
M.
VVhy is it added, for thine is thy kingdome, power &c?
C.
To ſhew vsus that all praiſe is to be giuen to God at all times.
Amen. Wee truſt it ſhall be ſo.
FINIS.
COMFORTAble and fruitfull Meditations on the Lords Prayer.
LONDON Printed by H. L. for T. M. and Ionas Man: and are to be ſold at the ſigne of the Talbot, in Pater noſter Rowe. 1611.