A Taste of the Truth, Summary
THE TEN QVESTIONS AND ANSWERS, Without the Exposition.
1. Question.
WHat is it that doth, may, or ought to convince you that there is a God?
Answ. The works, the word of God, and my own conscience ought …o convince me that there is a God.
2. Q. What is God, so farre as he hath revealed himself in his word?
A. God is one holy Spirit distinguished into three persons, Father, Son, and holy Ghost.
3. Q. How, and in what condition did this God thus distinguished make you and all mankinde at the first in Adam?
A. God made me and all mankinde at the first in Adam after his own Image, righteous both in soul and body, and so, in a blessed condition.
4. Q. Did you and all mankinde keep the Image of God, and continue in that righteous and happy estate that you were made in at the first in Adam?
A. I, and all mankinde sinned in Adam, and so, lost the Image of God, and our blessed estate in Paradise, and became liable to all curses temporall, spirituall and eternall.
5. Q. Hath God utterly forsaken you and all mankinde in this sinfull cursed condition you are fallen into?
A. God so loved the world, that he gave his onelyonly begotten Son: that whosoever beleeveth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
6. Q. Will God save all men by Jesus Christ, whom he sent into the world to save sinners?
A. He that beleeveth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that beleeveth not the Son, shall not see life: but the wrath of God abideth on him.
7. Q. Is it in your own power and strength truly to beleeve in the Lord Jesus Christ?
A. Faith is the gift of God, and I cannot say that Jesus is Lord, but by the holy Ghost.
8. Q. What means ought you to use, that you may attain faith, full assurance of faith, and all other graces necessary to salvation?
A. I ought to wait upon God in hearing, that I may attain faith: And in hearing, praying, and in making use of the Gospel, Sacraments, Baptisme, and the Lords Supper that I may be confirmed in beleeving, and obtain all other graces requisite to salvation.
9. Q. What manner of life ought you to lead as you are a Christian and one that professes to beleeve in the Lord Jesus Christ?
A. I ought to live by the faith that I have in the Son of God, a godly, righteous, and a sober life according to the rule of the word.
10. Q. What will become of you at the hour of death and at the day of judgement, if you beleeve, and shew forth your faith by a holy life?
A. I living and dying in the faith, my soul shall go to heaven, and be with Christ, my body to the earth untill the day of judgement, and then it shall be raised again, united to my soul, and so I shall be ever with the Lord in glory.