Q. What is it to be made a Christian? A. It is to be made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven.

Q. What is it to be a member of Christ? A. To be a member of Christ's Church. Q. What is it to be a member of Christ's Church?

A. One of that body or society of men who believe in Jesus Christ.

Q. What is it to be a child of God? A. To be made his child by adoption and grace.

Q. What do those words signify?

A. God's receiving us into his love and favour, for the sake of Christ; and giving us the promise of a portion, which we had not before.

Q. What is that portion?

A. An inheritance in the kingdom of Heaven.

Q. Wherein does this inheritance consist?

A. In a life of everlasting happiness after death.

Q. Upon what conditions are you to expect it?

A If I do those things which my

jodfathers and godmothers promised for me at my baptism.

SECT. II.

Q. What did your godfathers and godmothers promise for you at your. baptism?

A. They did promise and vow three things in my name.

Q. What is the first thing they promised for you at your baptism?

A. That I should renounce the Devil; the world and the flesh

Q. Who is the Devil?

A. The chief of the wicked fallen Angels.

Q. What are the works of the Devil? A. All wickedness, but especially lying, and tempting men to Sin.

Q. What do you mean by the pomps and vanities of this wicked world?

A. Pride, gaming, ill company, and all vain pleasures.

Q. What do you mean by the sinful lusts of the Flesh?

A. Drunkenness, fornication, and all uncleanness

Q. What do you mean by renouncing all these?

A. The forsaking and avoiding them, the not following or being led by them. Q. What is the second thing your godfathers and godmothers promised for you?

A. That I should believe all the articles of the Christian faith.

Q. What do you mean by the articles of the Christian Faith?

A. All such points of Doctrine as Christ has taught us in order to salvation, which are briefly contained in the Apostles' Creed.

Q. What is the third thing your godfathers and godmothers promised for you?

A. That I should keep God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.

Q. Why are we bound to believe and do all that our godfathers and godmothers promised for us?

A. Because, if we do not, we can never attain to the Kingdom of Heaven. Q. What is the State of Salvation we here thank God for calling us to?

A. That happy state we are admitted into by baptism.

Q. What does every one gain by being baptized?

A. He is taken into covenant with God. Q. What are the terms and conditions of this covenant?

A. God on his part promises to bestow upon us eternal life.

Q. And what do we promise to God on our part when we are baptized?

A. That we will serve and obey Him, and live according to the Gospel of Christ.

Q. Are you able to do this?

A. Yes, by the help of God, and the assistance of his Holy Spirit.

Q. But will the performance of these conditions obtain for you eternal life?

A. Not on account of our own deserts, but for the sake and through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

SECT. III.

Of the Creed or Belief.

Q. Where are the articles of our Christian faith contained?

A. In that which we call the Creed or Belief.

Q. Say the Belief.

A. I believe in God the Father ALmighty, &c.

Q. Who made you?

A. God.

Q. Are there more Gods than one?
A. There is but one God.

Q. How many persons are there in the Unity of the Godhead?

4. Three.

Q. Who are these three persons? A. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.

Q. Why is God here called the Father?

A. Because he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Q. For what other reason do you call God the Father?

A. Because he made us and all the world, and stiti continues to preserve us