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What way should you serve God? A. By obeying his commands and trusting in him, by reading, hearing, prayer, and praise, Q. What is the chief thing you should remember i i the days of your youth ? A. My Creator and Redeemer. Q. Where lies your chief hap- piness ? A. In the enjoyment of God. Q. What doth God chiefly re- quire of you ? A. To believe and obey him. 9. What is the rule of your faith and obedience ? A. The Holy Scriptures. Q. Where are they contained ? A. In the Old and New Testa- ments. Q. How does the Old Testa- ment begin and end? A. It begins with the book of Genesis and ends with Malachi. Q. How does the New Testa- ment begin and end ? A. It begins with Matthew and ends with Revelation. Q. Is not the Bible the best book in the world ? A. Yes. . a Why so ? A. Because God 18 the Author of it, and its words are indited by hin^. Q. Should you not be busy learning to read and understand them? A. Yes. Q. What is God ? A. He is a Spirit. Q. What is a spirit ? A. An invisible being, that is not made up of flesh and blood, as we are. Q. Are there any spirits be- ides God ? A. Yes. Q. What are they? A. Angels and souls of men. Q. How do they difier from God ? A. Angels and souls of men are but finite and created spirits, but God is an infinite and uncreated spirit. Q. Had God any beginning ? A. No. Q. Will behave any end? A. No. Q. Is he from everlasting to everlasting? A. Yes. Q. Had angels and souls of men a beginning ? A. Yes. Q. Who gave it them? A. God. Q. Will they have an end ? A. No. Q. Is not God far more glorious than we can conceive ? A. Yes. Q. How many Gods are there ? A. There is but one only. Q. How many persons are there in the Godhead? A. Three, Q. Who are they ? A. The Father, the Son, and .the Holy Ghost. A. Q. A. . Q- it? in 2 ^ Q. Are not these three the same in substance ? A. Yes. Q. Had the world a beginning? A. Yes. Who made it? A. God. Of what did he make it ? Of nothing. By what did he make it ? By the word of his power. In what time did he make A. In the space of six days. Q. In what condition did he malce all things ? A. He made all things very good. Q. On which of the days was man made ? A. On the sixth. Q. What did God on the seventh dayP A. He rested from all his works and sanctided the Sabbath to himself. Q. Who was the first man the world ? A. Adam. Q. Who was the first woman? A. Eve. Q. In what state were they created ? A. In a holy and happy state. Q. Were they free from all sin and miserv ? A. Yes Q. Did they abide in this state? A. No. Q. How fell they from it ? A. By breaking covenant with God. Q. How many covenants hath God made with man ? A. Two. Q. What are these ? A. The covenant of works and the covenant of grace Q. With whom did he make the covenant of works? A. With our first parents, Adam and Eve. Q. Was it made in their own name only? A. No, not in their own, but in the name of all their posterity. ^ Q. With whom did God make the covenant of grace r A. With the elect in Christ, or with Christ in the elect's name. Q. Who are the elect ? mother's catechism. A. Those whom God chose from all eternity, and gave to Christ to be redeemed from wrath. Q. What was the condition or tenor of the covenant of works 1 A. Do this and live. Q. What is the condition or tenor of the covenant of grace ? A. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Q. Why is the first covenant called the covenant of works ? A. Because works or obedience was the condition of it. Q. What sort of obedience did it require? A. Perfect obedience. Q. Why is it called the cove- nant of life ? A. Because life was the reward promised for keeping it. Q. What sort of life did it promise? A. Life temporal, spiritual, and eternal. Q. what was the penalty threatened for breaking this covenant? A. Death ; for God said, *In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shaft surely die.' Q. What sort of death was it ? A. Death temporal, spiritual, and eternal. Q. What is death temporal ? A. The separation of tlie soul from the body. Q. What is death spiritual ? A. The separation of the soul from God. Q. What is death eternal ? A. The separation of both soul and body from God for ever. Q. Did our first parents keep the covenant of works ? A. No. Q. How did they break it ? A . By eating the forbidden fruit. Q. Who forbade them to eat it?^ _A. God. Q. Who bade them eat it ? A. The Devil. Q. Was their eating it a great sm? A. Yes. 2; mother's CAT£0HISM. chose from 3 to Christ wrath, •ndition or of works ? ndition or of grace ? jord Jesus b be saved. covenant I works ? obedience it. dience did jbedience. the cove- he reward it. ife did it temporal, J penalty king this I ; for God lou eatest rely die.' th was it ? spiritual, smporal ? )f tlie soul piritual ? >f the soul ternal ? f both soul ir ever, ents keep ? A. No. •eak it ? iden fruit, em to eat eat it ? it a great Q. What made it so? A. Because, in doing it, they disobeyed God, sinned against the clearest light, were unthank- ful to God, discontented with their condition, and believed the devil rather than God. Q. Did our first parents and all their }»osterity hereby incur the ])enalty of the first cove- nant.'' A. Yes. Q. Did they die that very day they ate the forbidden fruit ? A. They died spiritually that day, and also became liable to temporal and eternal death. Q. Did they not lose great happiness by their fall? A. Yes. Q. What lost they? A. They lost the image of God, and communion with God. Q. What mean you by the image of God which they lost? A. That holiness and purity implanted in their nature by creation, which is also called original righteousness. Q. What mean you by commu- nion with God which they lost f A. The sweet converse and fel- lowship which our first parents had with God before the fall. Q. Is there not a way to re cover these choice blessings ? A. Y'es, by Jesus Christ. Q. Are you liable to all these losses and miseries which Adam brought on himself by the fall ? A, Yes. Q. Are you guilty of Adam's first sin? A. Yes. Q. How can that be, seeing you were not then bom ? A. Because Adam in the first covenant ispresented me, and stood bound for me, and all his posterity. Q. In what estate is man bom now? A. In an estate of sin and misery. Q. Brought you any sin into the world with you ? A. Yes. Q. What do you call it? A. Original sin. Q. What is that sin? A. The sin that is conveyed to me by my parents from Adam. O. Are you both guilty and filthy by this sin ? A. Yes. Q.'Is your nature both cor- rupted and defiled by it? A. Yes. Q. How know you that ? A. Because I feel my heart naturally backward to that which is good, and prone to that which is evil. Q. Is original sin enough to damn you though you had no more? A. Yes. Q. What more sin have you than original sin ? A. I have actual sin also. Q. What is actual sin ? A. The sin I daily commit in thought, word, and deed. Q. Is not original sin the spring of all actual sin ? A. Yes. Q. Are you not become mis- erable as well as sinful by the fall? A. Yes. Q. What are the miseries which the fall brought upon us ? A. They are threefold : tem- poral, spiritual, and eternal. Q. Wnat are the temporal miseries ? A. They are the troubles and afflictions of the body. Q. What are these ? A. Such as famine, wars, pesti- lence, poverty, reproach, sick- ness, and the pains of death at last. (3- What are the spiritual mis- eries we are liable to by the fall ? A. They are the plagues and diseases o^ the soul. Q. What are these ? A. Such as the loss of God's image and communion with him, mother's nATECHlSM. blindness of mind, hardness of heart, sacredness of conscience, weakness of memory, & the like. Q. What are the eternal mise- ries we are liable unto ? A. The painsof liell hereafter, which never have an end. Q. Is there not a remedv for lost man under the hreacii of the first covenant 'J A. Yes. Q. Did God enter into another covenant with usi A. Yes. 6. What is it called r" A The covenant of grace. Q. Why is it so called? . A. Because all things promised in it are of God's free gift, and 80 even is faith itself, which is the condition required of uS' for interesting us in Christ, and the benefits of this covenant. Q. Is not this covenant more excellent than the first? A. Yes. Q. Did the first covenant allow of a Mediator? A. No. Q. Did it admit of repentance, or promise forgiveness of sins ? A. No. , .. ^ . Q. Did it admit of sincere, though imperfect endeavours after obedience? A. No. Q. Doth the covenant of grace admit of all these? A. Yes. 6. Can the covenant of grace be broken or dissolved by our sins as the covenant of works was? A. No. Q. Is this any encouragement to us in sinning? , , ,. A. No, but rather to holiness ; for we must not sin because grace doth abound. Q. Why is the covenant of grace so sure and stedfast? ^ A. Because it hath a divme mediator and surety to answer Q. Who provided this noble remedy for us? A. pod. Q. What moved him to do it i A. His own free will. . Q. Did man merit nothing at God's hand in his fallen state? A. Nothing but wrath for his Q. How think you to get your sins pardoned? A. By Jesus Christ, the surety of lost sinners. Q. Will God pardon your sm without satisfaction to hia justice? A. No Q. Are you then able to satisfy God's justice for your own sm? A. No. . , ^ Q. Is God content to take sat- isfaction from another in your stead? A. Yes I Q. But who IS able and willing to give that satisfaction for us? A. Jesus Christ is both able and willing i -^-u *. Q. Was none able to do it but he? A. None. Q. Why so? A. Because none but he could bear infinite wrath. Q. Who is this Jesus Christ? A. He is the eternal Son of God, and the second person of the glorious Trinity Q. Hath God any other who are called his sons, besides our Lord Jesus Christ? A. Yes. Q. Who are these ? A. Angels and believers. Q. Is there not a great differ- ence betwixt these and Christ .' A. Yes. Q.' How are angels the sons of God? ,. ^ ^. Tn A. By immediate creation. In this sense Adam is called the son of God. O. How are believers the sons of God? A. By regeneration and adoption ? . . "4" How is Christ the Son of C^od? , ^. „ , A. By eternal generation, and therefore is called hia only Son. MOTHER'S CATECHISM. hinp; at state '( I for his ;etyour y Jesua sinners, y^our sin to his satisfy wn sin ? :ake sat- in your d willing i for usr oth able do it but he could 1 Christ? J Son of )erson of bher who sides our A. Yes. (rers. sat differ- i Christ? the sons jation. In lalled the '8 the sons generation he Son of ation, and only Son. Q. What hath Christ done for lost sinners ? , , ^ , A. He hath undertaken to be a Mediator betwixt God and them in the covenant of re- demption. , , , , Q. Whom doth he redeem:' A. The elect. Q. From what doth he redeem them ? A. From sin and hell. Q. What way did Christ i)er Where was he born? In Bethlehem. Of what tribe came he? Of the tribe of Judah. Of what family ? Of the family of David. In what condition was Christ born V A. In a low condition. Q. What was that ? A. He was born of a mean Q. A. i 1 Q. What are these? A. 'J form his undertakinR? A. He woman in a stable, and laid in took our nature ui)on him, and a manger. i*^ :„ shed his precious tlood for us. Q. Did he lead a mean life in Q. How many natures hath this world f A. les. Cl^ist ? A. Two. Q. Why did he all this ? ^ - • - A. For our sakes. Q. Did he take upon him any of the infirmities of our nature r A. Such as were sinless and and common. Q. What are these? A. Such as grief, weariness, hunger, thirst, sleej), sweating, bleeding, and the like. Q. Wherefore took he these upon him ? A. That he might be the more capable to sympa- thise with us in trouble. Q. Why is our Redeemer called Jesus? A. Because he saves his people from their sins. Q. Why is he called Christ ? A. Because he was ap^ nited and consecrated to his u.odia- tory offices. ^ , Q. How many offices was he appointed to ? A. Three. The nature of God and the nature of man. Q. Why behoved our Redeemer to be both God and man ? A. He was man to die for us, and God to overcome death. Q. Had he always these two natures? A. No. Q. Was he not God from all eternity? A. Yes. Q. Was he man from all eter- nity? A. No. Q. When became he man? A. In the fulness of time, when iihe sceptre was departing from Judah. ^ . , i ^t. Q. Will he continue to be both God and man for ever ? A. Yes. Q. How became he man ? A. By taking to himself a true body and soul. Q. Of whom was he bom r* A. Of the Virgin Mary. A* Had he any father on earth? A. No . Q. How was he conceived then? A. By the power of the Holy Ghost. . . n, Wh'"^ was he conceived in this' manner? A. That he might be free fr^m original sin. Q. Had he no sin or pollution whatever? A. No. "^6.' What are these ? A. Th ... The offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king. Q. Have you need of a media- torwithall these offices? A. Yes. Q. Why behoved Christ's me- diatory office to be three-fold j* A. To answer our three-fold misery. , „ ^ _ Q. What is that? A. Igno- rance, guilt, and servitude. Q. What need have you of mother's catechism. 6 Christ as a Prophet ? A Tni n it i Christ as a Priest' ^ *^\i,r'«^>',*''« ^0^*^ sweat, and Christ as a King? A. To deliver me frombondaije and govern me by his laws. . y. Wow doth Clirist cure onr Ignorance? A. By his word and Spirit teaching us. guHt ? ^ ^^*'^ ^'^ '^^^^^ ^^^ °"^ u.^J'?^ r'^ ^y^'"^ ^"^ offering a sacrifice for us upon the cross. y. How doth he deliver us from bondage? A. By his power carrying on a work ofcon- "" n"' wrfi^"S<^^^«ation in us. lor us f ^* i?r\® ?®,^^'^ ^^ *he cross. nni*' • .^; 4 cursed, shameful, and painful death. * Q. For what end did he die ? fy. ol*- ? • a blessed sacrifice, to satisfy justice for sin, and to reconcile us to God. Q.. What was the sacrifice that Christ offered up for us ' A. It was himself. H Whether did he offer his soul or his body ? n • ^! offered both for us. n^W?/^^^* A. Yes. ,of^;*- " r^"f ^^^^ ^^o '"«re sat- isfaction for them ? A. No. 'if. How know you that ? cross. It 18 finished, and then gave up the.ghost,'and af er^ ^n "^w^i:*! r*''^^ ^'•'^'^ *he grave. he^dS?? * becameof Christafte^ ne died ? A. His body was buried m the grave and hiJs^S! went to paradise. ri!?;of?^* *'^® .""^°" betwixt iJirists two natures still con- dS? "ot^'li'l^ndbg of hia statol'th^MSt""'.;^!*'"' Q. When did he rise from the frr\'- ,A<)n the third day after his death. ^ f h?; 9^^H* ^^Y ®^ *^® week was that? A. It was the first day Lor r ^®^'^°*^ hence called the Q. Was the Sabbath at that time changed from the seventh to the first day of the week ? A. Yes. 'Offered the pains of hell also n J' &il^"„^_"^_^? ^".'•^edeemer. r\ T\-i u ^S!"* "i "®'i also. M' Did he^uffer only the wrath of men and devils for us' GotaSo.'"^'''^*^^™*^^^ Q. Did he suffer only in his Hy/or f ? A. He suffered m nis srsul "Isft ^.9; Where d/d he that espe- ciaDv? A. In the garden, and on the cross. „^ J IiT """""* "* ""* xAcueemer, and that we might constantly keep up the memory of his glori- ous resurrection, and victory over all his and our enemies. T rff^r^ F® *bese enemies ? ^n?;^ ^/rU' *^^® world, sin, death, and hell. • 9l -^^ Christ see comiption »n the grave? A. No. V?. How came that? A. Be- cause he was without sin. know that he I there ? y sweat, and he spake at tice fully sat- irist sutfered . Yes. no more sat- A. No. 'U that ? t said on the fJ, and then and after- 'm the grave. FChnstafter 8 hodj was and his soul >n betwixt s still con- iing of his long in the A. No. 36 from the i third day i week was lie first day e called the kh at that le seventh week? fiis change Redeemer, constantly I his glon- l victory lemies. lemies ? 'orld, sin, 5miption o. . A. Bo- iin. Q. By whoso power rose he ' A. Bvi,o\verofhi8Godhoa(l. y. Why did honae? f ,,• To show that justice was ^illy satished, and fiia enemies whoilv conquered. Q. if ow long stayed Chi-ist on earth after lie rose ? A. Forty days. WOTHEH S CATECHJsai. ,.Q- Will there not bo a great difterence betwixt the resurrec- wici:;i:>A!'^^eT''"^''^^ Q. What will tliat be? A. I Jio righteous will rise with glory and triunn.ii ; but the wic • Q. th trembling and iiorror. xviust they all come to the A. Confirming his disciplea ' '" "" „„ f . - — ':'""» uia uiscipiea and instructing them in thiiiLcs concerning the kingdom of God. y. W hat did he afterwards ' n * lYn ^s'-'^ntled up to heaven. «. Where sits he there ? n wLH^®- "'Kht hAud of God. y. What 13 ho doing ? A* -SrAVu^'^^^^cessionforus. *i,^' ^,L^^ ®^®'' come again to the world ? A Yes ° Q. When? A. At the kst day. f i,H P^**^ ^?Y "i*" k»ow when that day will be ? A. No . Q-. >y^y doth God keep that day hid from us ? ,1 ^' ^i^u* ^^^,J"ay watch every clav and be still upon our guard. y. -In what manner will Christ come again? n*.:^' ?f '"P^* glorious manner, attended with Eis holy angels Q- For what end will he come ? A. fo judge the world. dav ? a" V^l^U""^^^ «* *hat Ihl A A S^*t» *^e quick and the dead; all that ever were ^""rJ ^''v'n*",^^" *he world. ' l^oTi, ^Vill. all that are then dead AY ^*^^^ *^^"' ^^*^®® ■ ,.i«9 P ^^^^^ \^,?^ !*on a work of tification iu e outward makes use V irod. b step of the lan? conviiice a md misery. 3xt step of conversion? coveries of lext? b the heart id the way a renewed ility of hia rue love to his com- love God ? t and soul, the world. 3bey God's Sincerely, rsallv. iiand.s are vided ? lere in the ^our. lere in the Srst table y to God. 'ond table y to man ten com- tten? A. the finger 1 of stone. it A. Q. To whom did God at first ^I'^wt^^"*!., A. To Moses. Q. Where did he that? Upon Mount Sinai. Can you repeat them ? Yes. Should you not study to understand them ? A. Yes. .,Q- What command forbids Idolatry, or the worshipping of false gods? A. The first. y. What command forbids superstition, or the worshipping ot God in a wrong way ? A. The second. Q. What command forbids swearing, or profaning of God's naine ? A. The third. Q. What command eiijoins you to keep the Sabbath day ? A. The fourth. Q ?l^?T ought you to keep the Sabbath ? A. By worshipping ot God both in public and private jy^on it, not thinking my own thoughts, nor speaking my own words, nor doing my own works upon that day. Q. What command enjoins you to obey your parents ? A. The fifth. Q' What command forbids you to fight with and hurt your neighbour? A. The sixth. Q. What command forbids un- cleanness ? A. The seventh. U. What command forbids stealing ? A. The eighth. Si- What command forbids ly}ng?,„^A. The ninth. H' What command forbids *'T^\'^?^. 4- The tenth. y. What IS the sum of the ten commandments ? A. To love ItOh linn **!■" »^^ir>.V»V»^.,_ ^l ouould you keep all the commands perfectly? A. Yes. y. Are you able to do it? A. No. Q. Do you break them daily? mother's catechism. A. Yes. Q. What way do you that ? A- in thought, word, and deed. y. Was ever any man able to keep the commandments per- fectly? A. Yes. Q. Who was that ? A. Adam before the fall. , Q. Was there never a man smce the fail, able to keep them perfectly ? A. None but Jesus Christ. C^. Was he a mere man ? A. No. Q. What was he then ? A. He was both God andn m one person Q. What do we deserve for breaking everyone of these com- mands ? A. The wrath of God. both here and hereafter. Q. By whom think you to escape this wrath ? A. By Jesus Christ, who fulfilled the y^' and satisfied justice for me. . Q. May every man assert his interest in what Christ hath done and suffered ? A. No. Q. Who are they that may do itwarrantably? A. All true believers and sincere penitents. Q. Who are true believers ? A. Those who have fled to Jesus Christ, and closed with him by true faith. Q. What is this faith? A. It is the hand of the soul, that accepts and relies on Christ as the great Saviour and remedy offered to us by God. Q. For what end is he offered ? A. For life and salvation. Q. Where is he offered to us ? A. In the Gospel. . Q' ypon what terms is he of* ^Ti- A.Freely, fully, and in all Ins offices, as a prophet, priest, and king. Q. Who are those that are sin- cere penitents? 10 n ^' • -^5^^®®. ^h^ ^^»ve turned to Ixod in Christ, by a true and un- leigned repentance. Q. What is this repentance ? . A. It 13 a hearty grief for our sins, and turning from them all *o Jesus Christ, and the way of 1 ^'Ji f^^V^^ ?^ ^^y to escape lieu but by faith and repentance? A. No. Q. Can you repent and believe ofvourselt? A. No. 9* ^^Y, ^® y°" ^"^w that ? A. Gods word tells me so and besides, I find my heart naturally dead and hard as a stone. Q. What is it that can quicken the dead soul and break the hard heart ? A. Nothing !)ut God's almighty power and free grace. ' Q. Should you not be always looking to that power, and prav- mi3:forit? A. Yes. ^ MOTHER'S CATECHISM. < a* "^,/i ^PM "2? * stranger to by God, and 'far off from hTm nature ? A. Yes. Q.. How are you brought near to nim f ^' ?Ji*^® ^^«od o^ Christ. y. What are the ordinary means of our acquaintance and communion with Christ ? A. The word, sacraments, and prayer. .«9'i ^^'Tu ®"S^*, Pu to read and hear the word ? A. With faith, love, and atten- tion. Q. What is a sacrament. . A. It IS a visible sign for show- ing forth and applying Christ and his benefits to us ' there ? A. Two. eTi vl]^.^^^^^ *h® sacraments of the Ola Testament ? A. Cir- cumcision and the Passover. Q. Are these now abrogated? A. Yes. Q. What are the sacraments of the Is ew Testament? A. Baptism and the Lord's oupper. Q. Who appointed them. Q. For what end did he ap- point these sacraments ? A. To be seals of the covenant , ^race, tor confirming his peo- ple s faith. H: S?,7AWY,'^^*^'^y<^ontinue? ^ ViVi x"^* ^ second coming. ^J. What IS the outward ele- ment or sign made use of in baptism ? A. Water sprinkled on the body. 9" ^H\ ^^ signified by that ? A. Ihe blood of Christ, which washeth away the sin and guilt of the soul. Q. In whose name were you baptized ? ^ A. In the name of the Father Son, and Holy Ghost. Q. ^Vhat are you engaged to thereby? A To profess, believe, and obey the holy Trinity; and to renounce the devil, the world, and the flesh. Q. What are the outward ele- ments m the Lord's Supper ? A. Bread and wine. Q. WJat do these signify to us' A. The body and blood of Christ. Q. When did Christ institute this sacrament ? A. In the same night m which he was betrayed. Q. For what end? A. To keep up the remem- brance of his death and suffer- ings among his people, to "the end of the world. 9. Is there any difference be- twixt Baptism and the Lord's Supper? A. Yes. 1 mi V abrogated ? 5 sacraments ent? the Lord's d them, le only Head i did he ap- nts? he covenant ing his peo- ey continue? 3nd coming, utward ele- ■ use of in r sprinkled 3d by that ? irist, which n and guilt J were yo\x the Father, engaged to ss, believe, inity; and the world, tward ele- lupper ? jnifytoiis? blood of mother's catechism. fc institute 1 the same betrayed, e remem- nd sufFer- 'e, to the Jrence be- le Lord's ■\ Q. Do theynot both represent, seal, and apply the same thing? A- Yes. Q. Wherein then lies the dif- ference ? A. The one is for initiation, the other is for nutrition ; Bai)ti8m IS the door at which God's children must enter, the Lord's Supper is the table at which they must feed. Q; Is Baptism to be repeated agam? A. No. Q. Is the Lord's Supper to be frequently received? A. Yes. Q. How will you be able to perform your baptismal engage- ments? ^ A. I must pray daily to God for strength to enable me, for I have it not of myself. Q. How many parts doth Prayer consist of? A. Three. Q. What are these three ? ,, A. Confession, petition, and thanksgiving. Q. To whom only should you pray? A. To God. Q. In whose name are you to make your requests? A. In the name of Christ. 11 Q. In what manner are you to make them ? A. With huiiiility, faith, and fervency. Q- For what things are vou to pray? A. Only for things agreeable to the will of God. Q. Hath God given you any directory for prayer? A. Yes. Q. What is that? A. The Holy Scriptures in general^ and the Lord's Prayer mparticular. Q. Can you repeat the. Lord's Prayer? A. Yes. . Q. How many parts are there in the Lord's Prayer ? A. Three. Q. What are these ? Q. How many of these peti- tions are for temporal things ? A. There is but one. Q. Which of them is it ? A. The fourth ; to wit, "Give us this day our daily bread." Q. Why is there but one peti- tion for temporal mercies ? A. To teach us to be much more earnest for spiritual blessings * ^° |or temporal good things. Q. What are those things that you should be most earnest in prayer for? A. For mercy to pardon my sins, and grace to help me in time of need, and particularly for through-bearing at the hour of my death. Q. Is there no way to escape death? A. No. Q. Why so ? A. Because it is appointed for all men once to die. Q. Were never any accepted nor freed from death. A. None but Enoch and Elias. Q. What became of them ? A. They were translated to heaven without tasting of death. Q. What brought death into the world? A. Sin. _ Q. What is the means to take sm out of the world ? A. Death. Q- Are believers never perfectly free from sin till death ? A. No. Q. What is the sting of death ? A. Sin. Q. Who hath taken out the stmg of death for believers ? A. Christ. Q. Isdeaththenaimnishment to them? A. No. Q. Is not death an advaiit-**-<^8 to a believer? A. Yes.^ °" Q. Wlyso? A. Because it ends his sorrows and begins his joy, being a Mes- A. A preface, six petitions, sed outlet to all misery, an-i an and a conclusion. linlet to all happiness. 12 n Ttr,. MOTHEA'S CATECHISM. compared to in ScripS F *^ L^^^X" t^^^^^ ^"^"« ^th fire A. lo a sleep. f*7} wu *^°? ^^^ evermore. pa?e(Uo ?* * a" *i^«irgrave8 com- deaih V^^'l ^^ ^^^^^ go at *^ A ^ir^ f A. To beds of rest n xktu j ' 4P "eaven. Q- What do they rest from ? Z J^^ ^^^"s *here ? Sin's suggestions. ' ^^^ 8"! a suggestions. oi^l ^'a * '® •*^^ punishment of. sm and an inlet to eternal ?• rVJ^^t^Xthe grave to him? holy angels. Q. What heaven?""" ''''* °^ * P^^ is wWe^*hprt r?1 ^^^"«"s place, wnere^here is fulness of iov anr^ pleasures for evermore ^' ^ \ What do the wicked in heU? great day. Who dwells there? r ^iru.^"^'^^ ^^^ his angels .Whatsortofaplaceisheli? do the saints m t ^ Q- What heaven ? itirap£„e';;r^;?„r,Sfaet4: -*. »»- "lust looic to Jesus nn». HISTORICAL QUESTIONS OUT OF THE BIBLP A. Eve? "^^^ ^'■^^ '^°"'^°- A '^^ih^^/'^!¥l'^ formed? A. Of the dust of the ground. §• fc?^f,^''^« Eve made ? O* wv.* ^^ Vrpm Adam's side. Q. Where did God put them when they were made' A. In the garden of Eden. Q. For what end ? A. To keep and dress it. *4- When was that? crettion*:'"*^^y^^'-«^terthe wo^idl^s^^otd. ^^ *^- -J^ oi^.-J.I^^'Js^ of their grievous lfarailj''°"* ''"' ^^»'"' and hi. •urns with fire evermore, le godly go at leaveu. there ? rist, and the ►f a place is lorious Dlace, !ss of joy, and lore. 3 wicked in 'se, and blas- e saints in Christ, aing 5r evermore. 11 we win to to Jesus our e pattern of D the merits IIBLB. 's sons W£,8 1? A.Seth. lest man in thuselah. old world le flood. 3 after the the old ' grievous from that and his I Q. How was he saved ? A. By the ark which he built. _ Q. How long was he in build- mg the ark P A. An hundred and twenty years. , 9- Why was he so long in buildmg it ? A. To give warn- mg to the world, and space to repent of their sins. Q. Was he therefore called a preacher of righteousness? A. Yes. Q. How many sons had Noah ? A. Three; Shem, Ham, and mother's catechism. 13 Japheth. Q. Which of best? A. Q. Which of them was the Shem. them was the A. Ham. most wicked? „. ii«,iii. Q. From which of them are we descended ? A. From Japheth. Q. When began the difference of languages ? A. At the building of Babel. Q. How was Sodom destroyed? A. By fire and brimstone irom heaven. Q. Werenoneof thatcitysaved from It? A. None but Lot and ins wife, and their two daughters. Q. What became of his wife ? A. She was turned into a pillar of salt. Q. What was the cause oi this sore punishment ? A. Her looking back to Sodom, and love to the world. *u^*n^^® ^% ¥ *^at is called the Father of the faithful? A. Abraham. Q. What was the greatest trial of his faith ? T ^' The offering up of his son Isaac, at God's command. ^. How many sons had Isaac ? ^' iwo : Jacob and Esau. Q. How many sons had Jacob ? A. Twelve. Q. Which of them was the eldest? A. Eouben. Q. Which of them was the youngest? A. Beiyamin. . Q. Which of them was sold into Egypt? A. Joseph. Q. Who sold him ? A. His bretb-^en. Q. Howmany tribes were there of the children of Israel ? A. Twelve. Q. Of which of the tribes did uod choose his priests and mini- sters ? A. Of the tribe of Levi. Q. Of which of them did Christ come? A. Of the tribe of Judah. Q. How were the Israelites oppressed in Egypt ? A. Their bodies were en- slaved, and their males were destroyed in the river Nilus. Q. Who oppressed them ? A. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, y. How many plagues did the ^ord send upon Egypt for that ? A. Ten. Q. How were the Egyptians destroyed at last ? A. They were drowned in the Red Sea. Q. How were the children of Israel preserved there ? A. The Lord divided the RedSea, so that they went through on dry land? y. Who was the man that brought them out of Egypt ? A. Moses. 4.u^' ^,^^ ^?r? *h^y guided through the wilderness ? A. By a pillar of cloud by day. and a pillar of fire b7 niglit. Q. How were they fed there ? A. By manna from heaven. Q. How got they drink in'that dry desert? A. The Lord Jrowght water out of the rock, A* followed them all the way. Q. Who Wfirfi f.h«v fKo+ +V.« earth opened upon, and swal- lowed up ahVe ? A. Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Q. Wherefore were they so punished ? 14 motuek's catechism. A. For rebelling ajjainst Moses aud Aaron. Q. How many were of the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt ? A. About six hundred thousand. Q. How many of these went into Canaan ? A. None but Caleb and Joshua. Q. What became of the rest ? A. They all died in the wil- derness. Q. What was the greatest sin they committed in the wilder- ness ? A. The making and worshipping the golden calf. Q. Who was the meekest man? A. Moses. Q. Who was . the strongest man ? ' A. Samson. Q. Who was the most patient man? A. Job? Q. Who was the man according to God's own heart ? A . David. Q. Who was the most beauti- ful man. A. Absalom. Q. Who was the wisest man ? A. Solomon. Q. Who was Solomon ? A. The son of David, and king of Jerusalem. Q. Who built the temple of Jerusalem ? A. Solomon, that wise and mighty king. Q. When was it built ? A. About a thousand years before Christ ? Q. Who were they that were cast into the fiery furnace ? A. The three children, Shad- rach, Meshach, and Abednego. Q. Wherefore was it ? A. Be- cause they would not worship Nebuchadnezzar's golden image. Q. Who was it that was cast into the den of lions ? A. Daniel. Q. Wherefore was it ? A. Because he would not for- bear praying to God. Q. Who was it that was cast into the sea, and swallowed ui) by the whale ? A. Jonah, Q. Were all these holy men preserved and dehvered ? A. Yes : by the power aud mercy of God. Q. About what time was it that our Saviour was born !" A. About four thousand yeurs after the creation of the world. Q. Who was King in Judea then? A. Herod. Q. Who was Emperor of Rome then ? A. Augustus. Q. Who was Chrisfs Fore- runner ? A. John the Bajitist. Q. What became of him ? A. He was beheaded in the prison by Herod. Q. Wherefore was it ? A. Because he reproved Herod for having Herodias to wife. Q. Who first published Christ's birth ? A. The angels. Q. To whom did they publish it? A. To the shepherds. Q. Who first worshijiped Christ after he was born ? A. Tlie three wise men of the East. Q. How were they led to him ? A. By a star. Q. Who slew the young chil- dren of Bethlehem ? A. Herod. Q. Wherefore slew he them ? A. Because he thought to slay Christ among them. Q. How did Christ escape ? A. He was carried into Egypt by Joseph and Mary. Q. How manv Apostles did Christ choose ? " A. Twelve. Q. Which of them did he love best? A. John. 0. Which of them was most zealous ? A. Peter. Q. Which of them took he to witness his transfiguration and agony ? A. Peter, James, and John. Q. Which of them denied him? i. mother's catecuism. allowed ui) A.. Jonah. 3 holy men ired? power and ime was it i born Y isand yeurs tiie world. ? in Judea rod. inperor of ^UKUStUS. ist's Fore- he Bajitist. i him ? ied in the it? »ved Herod to wife, published Cne angels, ley publish pherds. )ped Christ A. The 3 East, ed to him ? 7cung chil- A. Herod, he them P bought to 3m. escape ? nto Egyi^t ostles did L. Twelve, id he love was most took he to 'ation and id John, inied him? 15 f A. Peter. Q. Which of them betrayed hiiii ? A. Judas. 0. For how much did Judas sell him? A. For thirty pieces of silver. Q. What became of Judas af- terward ? A. He despaired and hanged himself. Q. Who was it that condemned Christ to be crucified? A. Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor. Q. Who stirred up Pilate to doit? A. The Jews. Q. Which of the apostles was first killed ? A. James. Q. Which of them lived long- est ? A. John. Q. Who was the first martyr for Christ? A.Stephen. Q. What death did he die? A. He was stoned to death. Q. Who was it that was eaten up of worms ? A. Herod, who killed James with the sword. Q. Who was it that thought to purchase the Holy Ghost with money ? A. Simon Magus. Q. Who was it that from a persecutor became a preacher ? A. Paul. Q. Who was it that trembled at Paul's preaching ? A. Felix, the Roman governor. Q. What king was it that was almost persuaded to be a Chris- tian by Paul? A. King Agrippa. Q. When was Jerusalem de- stroyed, both city and temple? A. About forty years after Christ's death. Q. By whom was this done? A. By Titus, the Roman go- vernor. Q. What became of the pro- phets and apostles ? A. They generally suffered martyrdom for the' doctrines they taught; Isaiah was sawn asunder, Jeremiah was stoned, Peter and Andrew were cruci- fied, Paul beheaded, etc. PRAYER FOR THE MORNING OF A SABBATH DAY. Most holy and blessed God. thou art the maker of all thing? in heaven and earth: and thou madest me for thy glory and service. Lord, help nie to remember thee, mv Creator m_ che days of my youth. . I confess, that, fcy nature, I am a child of wrath, and an heir of hell • my heart is oackward to tliat which is good, and wholly mclmed to that which 13 evil. God be merciful to me a sinner. OLord, if thou hadst not provided a Saviour for me, I had been lost and undone for ever. Lord,_ deliver me from the wrath to come, for .^e sake of Jesus Christ thy Son, who laid dov.'n his life to save such lost sinners as ' am. Create in me a clean heart, God. and renew a right spirit within me : Lord take away my hard and stony heart, and give me a soft and broken heart 'or sin! '-' ^rgive all my sins, original and actual ; and wash them all away in tht^ blood oi t/nnst my Saviour, that cleanseth from all sin. Lord, preserve me continually irom the snares of sm and temptations of the devil. Lord, give me grace to love q„k1^1?° ^}l ™y heart, to mention thy name still with reverence, to keep thy Sabbath with delight, and hear thy word with attention. . Lord, bless all my relations, and esneciallv mv narents • cnuatotliem. ... God make me a dutiftal I thank thee for taking care of me this last night : Lord, watch over me through this thy holy day, and all the days of my life, and bring me to heaven at last, that J^J'*??.^*'v' ^'^^^ *^"ee. Bee thy face, and sing thy praise for evermore : for Jesua Cnrist s sake. Amen. PRAYER FOR THE EVENING OF A SABBATH DAY thirhoIy^KndhSt&nS^^^^ baat brought me In safety to ihe close of PRAYER 'FOR THE MORNING OF A WEEK DAY if feT,^.!:of^"^ (Jpd thou didst form me in the womb, and took me safelv from ..,^K • vi'^T- '^*?* encouraged little children to come unto thee and said "rtf of?he S/nSf ^\^f,Jl^ ^P-T'"^ "II ^'f®' ^"'1 preserving me through the darknosa ?i.„f fiP A n '^'^y- ^'^^'^' K"i '»« t« f«"««^ my Saviour, that'!' may deny a^lunJoduiS mI'I tT^^'"'*'- -""^ live soberly, rigkeously, and godly fntiul present world Gol Jnd man"'"'' '""'^'' ^^"^ '° ""''^"^ ^"^ ^^''^'"^' "^^ »« favour both with in.»nTfi,of fl'^'Ji'^ ^**!??,'',l!"*5 I?®: ^^^'^ '"e in the way that I should walk, and grant that, from my childhood, I may know the Holy Scriptures. Lord bless mv parents, and all my relations; enable me to do my duty to them;ajXthem to do keln mettTh. r?.*ti^^^V P'^'f^. '"^ *^l«"»^ ^^' siVnt She" of tf^n^ght" that I may be everjvith^ the wf for'tfe 8ake"SfTe8U8"chri'8rwho"^wkh^t^^ O Father, and the Holy Spirit, is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. * A.Y. to the close of shall I render uling tliy Son r hia uuspealc- ur Lord Jesus precepts, rau- iiia slei)8. r, and look up all my wants. 3, as I grow in nits and rela- forgive mine he night, and ?ath, and pre- 'ith thee, and imb for ever- and for ever. e safely from igers. I was me a portion ni said, "Of Jtection, and rt and a new able to ; and Tie be a com- ly baptismal ish, and still bhe darkness 'ays to mind all niy sins, ind Saviour, iship of thy lismade and er. leart, mind, ungodliness !sent world. • both with 1 walk, and "d, bless my them to do ' the night; g whom he g Kingciom, with thee. P^ i iiiillliiltti