thy God am a jealous God, and vifit the fins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and fhew mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments. III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain. IV. Remember that thou keep holy the fabbath-day. Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all that thou haft to do; but the feventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, thy man-fervant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and rested the feventh day: wherefore the Lord bleffed the feventh day, and hallowed it. V. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. VI. Thou shalt do no murder. VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery. VIII. Thou shalt not steal. IX. Thou shalt not bear falfe witness againft thy neighbour. X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house, thou fhalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his fervant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is his. Quest. What doft thou chiefly learn by thefe commandments? Anfw. I learn two things: My duty towards God, and my duty towards my neighbour. Queft. What is thy duty towards God? Anfw. My duty towards God, is to believe in him, to fear him, and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, and with all my foul, and with all my ftrength; to worthip him, to give him thanks, to put my whole trust in him, to call upon him, to honour his holy Name and his Word; and to ferve him truly all the days of my life. Quest Quest. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour? To Anfw. My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as myself, and to do to all men, as I would they should do unto me. To love, honour, and fuccour my father and mother. To honour and obey the king, and all that are put in authority under him. To fub nit myfelf to all my governors, teachers, fpiritual paflors and rafters. order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters. To hurt no body by word or deed. To be true and juft in all my dealing. To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart. To keep my hands from picking and ftealing, and my tongue from evil-fpeaking, lying and flandering. To keep my body in temperance, fobernefs, and chastity. Not to cover nor defire other mens goods; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that itate of life unto which it fhall pleafe God to call me. Catechift. My good child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyfelf, nor to walk in the com mandments of God, and to ferve him without his fpecial grace, which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent Prayer. Let me hear therefore if thou canft fay the Lords prayer. Ο Anfwer. UR Father, which art in heaven; Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen. Quest. What defireft thou of God in this Prayer? Anfw. I defire my Lord God our heavenly Father, who is the giver of all goodness, to fend his grace unto me, and to all people, that we may worship him, ferve him, and obey him as we ought to do. And I pray unto God, that he will fend us all things that be needful both for our fouls and bodies, and that he will be merciful unto us, and forgive us our fins; and that it will pleafe him to fave and de-. fend us in all dangers ghoftly and bodily; and that he will keep keep us from all fin and wickedness, and from our ghoftly enemy, and from everlafting death. And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodnets, through our Lord Jefus Chrift: And therefore I fay, Amen. So be it. Question. Ow many Sacraments hath Chrift ordained in his H Church? Anfw. Two only, as generally neceffary to falvation; that is to fay, Baptifm and the Supper of the Lord. Quest. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament? Anfw. I mean an outward and visible fign of an inward and fpiritual grace, given unto us, ordained by Chrift himfelf, as a means whereby we receive the fame, and a pledge to affure us thereof. Queft. How many parts are there in a Sacrament? Anfw. Two: the outward vifible fign, and the inward Spiritual grace. Queft. What is the outward vifible fign or form in Baptifm? Anfw. Water: wherein the perfon is baptized, Ín the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. Queft. What is the inward and fpiritual grace? Anfw. A death unto fin, and a new birth unto righteoufnefs for being by nature born in fin, and the children of wrath, we are hereby made the children of grace. Queft. What is required of perfons to be baptized? Anfw. Repentance, whereby they forfake fin; and faith, whereby they stedfaftly believe the promifes of God made to them in that Sacrament. Quest. Why then ate Infants baptized, when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them? Anfw. Becaufe they promise them both by their fureties: which promife when they come to age, themfelves are bound to perforin. Quest. Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained? Anf. For the continual remembrance of the facrifice of the death of Christ, and of the benefits which we receive thereby. Y y Quest Quest. What is the outward part or fign of the Lords Supper? Anfw. Bread and Wine, which the Lord hath commanded to be received.e Quest. What is the inward part, or thing fignified? Anfw. The Body and Blood of Chrift, which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lords Supper. Quest. What are the benefits whereof we are partakers thereby ? Anfw. The ftrengthening and refreshing of our fouls by the Body and Blood of Chrift, as our bodies are by the Bread and Wine. Quest. What is repuired of them who come to the Lords Supper? Anfw. To examine themselves, whether they repent them truly of their former fins, ftedfastly purpofing to lead a new life; have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Chrift, with a thankful remembrance of his death; and be in charity with all men. The Curate of every Parifh fhall diligently upon Sundays and Holy-days, after the fecond Leffon at Evening Prayer, openly in the Church inftruct and examine fo many Children of bis Parish fent unto him, as he shall think convenient, in fome part of this Catechifm. And all Fathers, Mothers, Mafters, and Dames, shall cause their Children, Servants, and Apprentices (which have not learned their Catechifm) to come to the Church at the Time appointed, and obediently to hear, and be ordered by the Curate, until fuch Time as they have learned all that is here appointed for them to learn. So foon as Children are come to a competent Age, and can say in their Mother Tongue, the Creed, the Lords Prayer, and the Ten Commandments; and alfo can answer to the other Questions of this fhort Catechism; they shall be brought to the Bishop. And every one shall have a Godfather, or a Godmather, as a witness of their Confirmation. And whenfoever the Bishop shall give knowledge for Children to be brought unto him for their Confirmation, the Curate of every Parifh fhall either bring or fend in Writing, with his Hand fubfcribed thereunto, the Names of all fuch Perfons within bis Parish, as he shall think fit to be prefented to the Bishop to be Confirmed. And if the Bishop approve of them, he shall Confirm them in manner following. The The Order of CONFIRMATION, or laying on of Hands upon those that are baptized, and come to Years of Difcretion. Upon the Day appointed, all that are to be then confirmed, being placed, and Aanding in order before the Bishop; he (or fome other Minifter appointed by him) fhall read this Preface following: T O the end that Confirmation may be miniftered to the more edifying of fuch as fhall receive it, the Church hath thought good to order, That none hereafter shall be confirmed, but fuch as can fay the Creed, the Lord'sPrayer, and the Ten Commandments; and can alfo answer fuch other Questions, as in the fhort Catechifm are contained: Which Order is very convenient to be observed; to the end that children being now come to the years of difcretion, and having learned what their Godfathers and Godmothers promised for them in Baptifm, they may themfelves, with their own mouth and confent, openly before the Church, ratify and confirm the fame, and alfo promife, that, by the grace of God, they will evermore endeavour themselves faithfully to obferve fuch things as they, by their own confeffion, have affented unto. D Then fball the Bishop fay. O ye here in the prefence of God, and of this Congregation, renew the folemn promise and vow that was made in your name at your Baptifm; ratifying and confirming the fame in your own perfons, and acknowledging yourfelves bound to believe and to do all those things which your Godfathers, and Godmothers then undertook for you? And every one fhall audibly answer, I do. The Bishop. UR help is in the Name of the Lord; Anfwer. Henceforth world without end. Bishop. |