Exposition Upon the Church Catechism, Exposition · Part 2
A SCHEME Of a shorter Catechism, Taken out of the words of the Church-Catechism, each Answer being broken into several Questions and Answers.
Q. VVHat is your Name? A. As in the Catechism.
Q. Who gave you this Name?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. When did your Godfathers and Godmothers give you that Name?
Q. What were you then made?
Q. Whose Member were you then made?
Q. Whose Child were you made?
Q. Whereof were you made an Inheritour?
Q. What did your God-fathers and God-mothers then do for you? A. As in the Catechism.
Q. How many things did they promise?
Q. In whose Name did they promise them?
Q. What is the first promise they made in your Name?
Q. Whom, are you, (by that promise) to renounce?
Q. Whose Works are you to renounce?
Q. What Pomps and Vanities are you to renounce?
Q. And what lusts, or desires?
Q. How many of them are to be thus renounced?
Q. What is the second Promise?
Q. What did they Promise you should believe?
Q. What Faith is it, whose Articles you are to believe?
Q. How many Articles of the Faith are you to believe?
Q. What is the third Promise?
Q. What are you, by this Promise, to keep?
Q. Wherein are you to walk?
Q. How long are you thus to walk?
Q. Dost thou not think thou art bound to believe and do, as they promised for thee?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. By whose help are you to do these things?
Q. What State are you called to, by your Baptism?
Q. Who called you to it?
Q. Through whom?
Q. What do you to God for so calling you?
Q. How long do you desire to continue in this State?
Q. Whose Grace must you have, to enable you to do so?
Q. How are you to get that Grace?
Q. Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. What do you here believe concerning God the Father?
Q. What kind of Father is God?
Q. Whereof is he the Maker?
Q. Whose Son (as God) is Jesus Christ?
Q. Hath God any more such Sons? Or is he his only Son?
Q. What is Jesus Christ to us?
Q. By whom (when he became Man) was he conceived?
Q. Of whom was he born?
Q. Ʋnder whom did he suffer?
Q. What did he especially suffer under him?
Q. Was he taken alive from the Cross, or dead?
Q. What was done with him after his death?
Q. Whither did he descend?
Q. Did he continue in that state, or did he rise again?
Q. What day after his death did he rise again to life?
Q. Whither went he after his Resurrection?
Q. What doth he in Heaven?
Q. Where doth he sit there?
Q. Shall he always continue there, or shall he come thence?
Q. What shall he come to do?
Q. Whom shall Christ judge when he cometh?
Q. What Ghost, or Spirit, say you, you believe in?
Q. What Church do you believe, or joyn your self to, by Faith?
Q. What should they be, that are in the Communion of that Church?
Q. What do the Members of that Church obtain, as to their sins?
Q. What as to their Bodies?
Q. What estate shall they be in after the Resurrection?
Q. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. You mention (as the objects of your belief) God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Are these three, three Gods?
A. No.
Q. What are they than?
A. Three Persons in one God.
Q. What did God the Father for you?
Q. Did he make no more but you?
Q. What did God the Son for you?
Q. Did he Redeem none but you? or some few others?
Q. What doth the Holy Ghost for you?
Q. Doth he Sanctifie none but you?
Q. Tell me how many Commandments there be?
A. Ten.
Q. Which be they?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. In what Chapter, and of what Book, find you these Commandments?
Q. What did God do for his People Israel?
Q. From whence, said you, did he bring them out?
Q. What was the Land of Egypt to them?
Q. Which is the first Commandment?
Q. How many Gods may we have?
Q. Which is the second Commandment?
Q. What is it that we are forbidden to make for a God?
Q. What likenesses are we forbidden to liken God to?
Q. May we not liken God, to the Sun, Moon, Stars, or Angels in Heaven?
Q. Nor to any Man, Woman, Beast, Plant or Fowl, or Fish, that are in the Earth, or Water?
Q. May we not bow down to, or worship such, if they be made by others?
Q. What Name, or Attribute doth God here assume, to deter us from Idolatry?
Q. How doth God express his jealousie in case of Idolatry?
Q. Ʋpon whom doth God visit the sins of Idolatrous Fathers?
Q. To how many Generations doth this severity reach?
Q. Idolaters pretend to love God: but how doth God judg them affected to him?
Q. And how are his true Worshippers affected to him?
Q. How do Men shew that they love God?
Q. To how many Generations of those that love him, doth he extend his Mercy?
Q. Rehearse the Third Commandment?
Q. How must we not take, or use the Name of God?
Q. What doth God threaten to such as take his Name in vain?
Q. Which is the fourth Commandment?
Q. What day is it that we must keep Holy?
Q. What course must we take, that we may keep it Holy?
Q. How many days in every week may we labour?
Q. What must we do in those six days?
Q. What proportion of time, in every week, must Gods Sabbath take up?
Q. What work must not be done on that day?
Q. Who are forbidden to work on that day?
Q. If a Man work not himself, may he not imploy his Children to work?
Q. Nor his Servants, nor his Cattle? nor a Stranger that lives under him?
Q. What Reason doth God fortifie this Law withal, from his own Example?
Q. What did God make?
Q. In how many days did he make all these things?
Q. What did he for the seventh day, when he had rested on it?
Q. Why did God Sanctify and bless that day?
Q. Repeat the Fifth Commandment?
Q. Who are the Persons, you must honour, by vertue of this Commandment?
Q. What may those Persons expect, who thus honour their Fathers and Mothers?
Q. Repeat the Sixth Commandment?
Q. What are we forbidden to do in this Commandment?
Q. Rehearse the Seventh Commandment?
Q. What is it which you are here forbidden to commit?
Q. Repeat the Eighth Commandment?
Q. What (by this Commandment) must you not do?
Q. Which is the Ninth Commandment?
Q. What kind of Testimony (or Witness) must you not bear?
Q. Against whom must you not bear such false Witness?
Q. Which is the Tenth Commandment?
Q. What are you here forbidden to covet?
Q. May you not covet your Neighbours House, if it be better, or finer, than yours?
Q. Nor his Wife, if she be fairer, or richer than yours?
Q. Nor his Man servant, or Maid, if they be fitter for your work?
Q. Nor his Ox, nor his Ass?
Q. Nor any other thing of his?
Q. What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. How many things, said you, you learned by them?
Q. Which are the two things, you say, you learn by them?
Q. What is thy duty towards God?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. Whom are you to believe in, fear, love, and worship?
Q. How are you to love God?
Q. How much trust must you put in him?
Q. What belonging to God, must you honour?
Q. How must you serve him?
Q. How long must you serve him?
Q. What is thy Duty towards thy Neighbour?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. How must you love your Neighbour?
Q. How must you do to all men?
Q. What must you do to your natural Father, and Mother?
Q. What must you do to the King, and all in Authority?
Q. What, to your Governours, Teachers, Spiritual Pastors, and Masters?
Q. What, to all your betters?
Q. What are you not to do to anybody?
Q. What must you be, in all your dealing?
Q. What must you not bear in your heart?
Q. What are you to keep your hands from?
Q. And what, your Tongue?
Q. How are you to keep your body?
Q. How are you to carry your self towards other mens goods?
Q. What are you to learn, and labour for?
Q. In what manner must you get your own living?
Q. What state of life must you stick and keep to?
Q. And what are you to do in that state of life?
Q. Let me hear, if thou canst say the Lords Prayer?
Q. Whom do you here pray to?
Q. What Relation bears God to us?
Q. Where is he (in special manner) present?
Q. What is the first Petition of this Prayer?
Q. What do we therein desire may be hallowed, or sanctified?
Q. What is the second Petition?
Q. What do we therein pray, may come?
Q. What is the third Petition?
Q. What do we here ask concerning Gods will?
Q. Where, do we pray, that it may be done?
Q. How should Gods will …e done on Earth?
Q. What is the fourth Petition?
Q. What is the thing we beg for in this Petition?
Q. How much bread do we pray for, every day?
Q. What is the fifth Petition?
Q. What do we here pray to God to forgive?
Q. How do we desire God should forgive us?
Q. Whom are we to forgive, if we will be forgiven by God?
Q. Which is the sixth Petition?
Q. What do we here pray not to be led into?
Q. What do we pray to be delivered from?
Q. What is the conclusion of this Prayer?
Q. What do we herein acknowledg to belong to God?
Q. How long shall these things belong to him?
Q. What (in general) is the substance of this Prayer? Or what destrest thou of God in this Prayer?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. Who is the giver of all goodness?
Q. What do we first pray God to send?
Q. To whom do you pray God to send it?
Q. To what end do we pray him to send it?
Q. How are we to worship, serve, and obey God?
Q. What are the next things we pray him to send us?
Q. What needful things are those we pray him to send?
Q. You pray that he will be merciful to us. Wherein?
Q. What do we pray to be saved and defended in?
Q. What are ghostly dangers?
A. The dangers of our Souls, or Spiritual dangers.
Q. What do we pray that God will keep us from?
Q. What is the first of those things we pray to be kept from?
Q. What is the second?
Q. Who is our ghostly Enemy?
A. our Spiritual Enemy, the Devil?
Q. What is the third?
Q. What death is that we pray against?
Q. Whence do we expect all these good things?
Q. Through whom do we hope to obtain them?
Q. What signifies, Amen?
Q. How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained to his Church?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. Which are the two? Name them.
Q. Are these Sacraments necessary?
Q. To what end are they necessary?
Q. Are they necessary only to some particular Christians; or generally to all?
Q. Are there no more such Sacraments, but these two?
Q. What mean you by this word Sacrament?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. What kind of sign is requisite to make a Sacrament?
Q. What kind of Grace must it be an outward and visible … of?
Q. To whom belongs it to ordain such a sign of Grace?
Q. And who gives it?
Q. What are the Sacraments ordained for? or of what use … they to us?
Q. What is the use of Sacraments, as a means?
Q. What do they as pledges?
Q. How many Parts are there in a Sacrament?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. Which is the first part?
Q. Which is the second?
Q. What is the outward visible sign or form in Baptism?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVherein are Persons to be baptized?
Q. In whose name are they to be baptized?
Q. What is the inward and spiritual Grace?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVhat are baptized Persons to die unto?
Q. VVhat are they therein new born to?
Q. VVhat are you, and all persons, by nature?
Q. VVhat are you Children of, or liable to, thereby?
Q. VVhat are you made by Baptism?
Q. What is required of Persons to be baptized?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVhat do men do, when they Repent: or by Repentance?
Q. VVhat do they do by Faith?
Q. VVhat Promises (especially) in Baptism, are we to believe?
Q. Why then, are Infants baptized, when by reason of their tender Age, they cannot perform them?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVhat do Infants promise in Baptism?
Q. By whom do they promise them?
Q. VVho are bound to perform the Promise made for Infants by their Sureties?
Q. VVhen are they bound to perform it?
Q. Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVhat are we to remember in the Lords Supper?
Q. VVhat is the Death of Christ here called?
Q. How long is this Sacrifice of Christ's Death to be remembred?
Q. VVhat else (besides the Sacrifice of Christs death) are we to remember herein?
Q. What is the outward Part or Sign in the Lords Supper?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVhat do men outwardly receive in the Lords Supper?
Q. Is it not enough to receive bread alone, without the wine?
Q. VVhy must we necessarily receive both?
Q. What is the inward part, or thing signified?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVhichWhich of the outward signs (Bread or VVine) signifies Christs body?
Q. And which of them, his blood?
Q. How are the Body and Blood of Christ taken and received in the Lords Supper?
Q. By whom are they so taken and received?
Q. And are they taken and received verily and indeed by … but the faithful?
Q. What are the Benefits, whereof we are made partakers thereby?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVhat is it that is strengthened and refreshed in the Lord Supper?
Q. VVhereby are our souls there strengthened and refreshed?
Q. In what manner are they there strengthened and refreshed?
Q. What is required of them who come to the Lord Supper?
A. As in the Catechism.
Q. VVhichWhich is the first thing examined by them?
Q. VVhat are men to repent of, before they come?
Q. How are they to repent of them?
Q. VVhat are they to purpose?
Q. How are they thus to purpose?
Q. VVhat is the second thing to be examined?
Q. In what must they have this Faith?
Q. VVhat kind of Faith must they have?
Q. Through whom doth this lively Faith expect mercy?
Q. From whom doth it expect it?
Q. VVhat is the third thing to be examined?
Q. VVhat kind of remembrance must we have of the death … Christ?
Q. VVhat is the fourth and last thing, to be examined?
Q. VVhom must they be in charity with, who will worth… receive this Sacrament?