A Scriptural Catechism

Worship thou shalt no God but Me.

No graven Image make to thee.

The Lords Name take not thou in vain.

The Sabbath do not thou profane.

〈…〉 to thy Parents Honour due.

And see that thou no Murder do.

Commit thou no Adultery.

Moreover from all Stealing fly.

No false thing of thy Neighbour say.

And Covet not in any way.

p. 1LAMBS Led unto Green Pastures and still Waters, By a SCRIPTURAL CATECHISM.

Quest. WHat should young-people coun◊ the most necessary or co◊◊mendable thing that can 〈…〉 spoken of them?

* A. 2 Tim 3.15. From a Child thou hast know◊ the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation.

Q. Who is the Author of the Holy Scriptures contained in the thirty nine Books of the Old, and the twenty seven Books of the New Testament?

A. 2 Tim. 3.16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for Doctrine, for Reproof, for Correction, for Instruction in Righteousness.

Q Is there but One God, the first cause and the last end of all things?

* A. 1 Cor. 8.5, 6. There is none other God, but one; for though there be that are called Gods▪ yet unto us there is but one God, of whom are all things▪ and we for him.

Q. How many Persons, or ways of Subsisting, are there in the one God?

Q. What has God said aboue his All sufficiency, or his having enough in himself to satisfie himself and all other Beings?

A. Gen. 17.1. The Lord said, I am the All-sufficient God.

Q. What hath God said about his Unchangeableness, or his being always the same?

A. Sam. 1.17 With him is no Variableness, or shadow of Turning.

Q. What has God said about his Immensity, or 〈…〉 being incomprehensibly every-where?

A. Jer. 23 24. Can any hide himself in secret 〈…〉 that I shall not see him? saith the Lord; do not I fill Heaven and Earth? saith the Lord.

Q. What has God said about his Eternity, or his being without any beginning or ending for ever?

A Psal. 90.2. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God.

Q 〈…〉 God such Infinite Knowledge and Wisdom, 〈…〉 to understand Himself and all other 〈…〉 ?

p. 3A. Psal. 14 7.5. Great is our Lord, his Understanding is infinite.

Q. Is God such Infinite Goodness, as to be in Himself most fully amiable and desirable, and bountiful unto all his Creatures?

A. Zech. 9.17. How great is his goodness, & how great is his beauty!

p. 3Q. Is God such Infinite Mercy, as readily to succour his poor Creatures in all their miseries?

Q. Is God such Infinite Patience, as to forbear long, and abate much the punishments due unto sinful Creatures?

Q. Is God such Infinite Holiness, as to Advance Himself alone, and to agree with none but those that concur with him in doing so?

A. Isa 6.3. Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts, the whole Earth is full of his glory.

Q. Is God such Infinite Power, as can do al◊ things which imply not contradiction and imperfection.

A. Mat. 1◊.26. With God all things are possible.

Q. Is there with God such infinite Soveraignty as manages all things in the world, according to the counsel of his own Royal Will?

A. Dan. 4.35. He doth according to His Will, and 〈…〉 can stay his Hand, or say unto Him, what doest thou?

Q. Hath God with an everlasting Decree and Purpose fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass?

p. 4A. Eph. 1.11. He works all things after the Counsel of his own Will.

Q. Has God with an everlasting Election chosen a certain number of men, to be Vessels for the glory of his grace for-ever, with an everlasting Reprobation passing over others?

A. Rom. 8.29, 30. Whom he did fore-know, them he also did predestinate, to be conformed unto the Image of his Son; moreover, whom he did predestinate them he also called.

Q. Who made the World, and when and how?

* A. Gen. 1.1, 31. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth; and God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very good; and the evening and the morning were the Sixth day.

Q. Who preserves and governs the world, and rules all the Motions in it?

* A. Psal. 103.19. The Lord has prepared his Throne in the Heavens, and his Kingdom ruleth over all.

Q. What are those Heavenly Spirits which God made in the beginning of Time, for his own peculiar Service and Honour?

A. Heb. 1.14. Are not the Angels all Ministring Spirits, sent for to Minister for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation.

p. 4Q. Are not many of the Angels become Devils or wicked Spirits, full of Enmity against God and Man?

A. Jude 6. The Angels which kept not their first Estate, but left their own Habitation, He p. 5hath reserved in everlasting Chains under Darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day.

Q. What was the condition in which man was Created?

* A. Gen. 1.27. God created man in his own Image, in the Image of God created he him, male and female created he them.

Q. What was that Covenant of works which God made with man at the first Creation?

A. Gal. 3.10. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them.

Q When God made a Trial of mans obedience to Him, in forbidding him one Tree of Paradise, what was the issue of it?

* A. Gen. 3. 6. When the Woman saw that the Tree was good for Food, and that it was pleasant to the Eyes, and a Tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.