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3. Queft. What do the Scriptures principally teach Anfw. The Scriptures principally teach, what Man is to believe concerning God, and what DuGod requires of Man.

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4. Queft. What is GOD?

Aufw. God is a Spirit, Infinite, Eternal", and Unchangeable, in his Being, Wisdom', Power Holiness", Juftice, Goodness and Truth °. 5. Queft. Are there more Gods than One?

Anfw. There is but One only, the Living and True God P.

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4. John 4. 24. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, muft worship him in fpirit and in truth.

Job 11.7. Canft thou by fearching find out God? canft thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 7.8. It is as high as heaven, what canft thou do? deeper than hell, what canft thou know? v. 9. The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the fea.

Pfalm 90. 2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world even from everlafting to everlasting thou art God.

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i James 1. 17. Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither fhadow of turning, k Exod. 3. 14. And God faid unto Mofes, I AM THAT I AM; and he faid, Thus fhalt thou fay unto the children of Ifrael, I AM hath sent me unto you.

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Pfalm 147.5. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite,

m Rev. 4.8. And the four beafts had each of them fix wings about him, and they were full of eyes within; and they reft not day and night, faying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

Rev. 15. 4. Who fhall not fear thee, O Lord,and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all na tions fhall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifeft.

• Exod. 34. 6. And the Lord paffed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, v. 7. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and tranfgreffion and fin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; vifiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,and upon the childrens children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

5. P Deut. 6. 4. Hear, O Ifrael, the Lord our God is one Lord. Jerem. 10. 10. But the Lord is the

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6. Quest. How many Perfons are there in the God-Head? Anfw. There are Three Perfons in the God-Head; the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghoft; and thefe Three are One God, the fame in Substance, equal in Power and Glory 9.

7. Queft. What are the Decrees of God?..

Anfw. The Decrees of God, are, his eternal Purpofe according to the Counfel of his Will, whereby for his own Glory, he hath fore-ordained whatfoever comes to pass".

8. Queft. How doth God execute his Decrees?

Anfw. God executeth his Decrees in the Works of Creation and Providence.

9. Queft. What is the Work of Creation?

Anfw. The Work of Creation is, God's making all Things of Nothing by the Word of his Power, in the fpace of Six Days, and all very Good! 10. Queft. How did God create Man?

Anfw. God created Man Male and Female after his own Image, in Knowledge, Righteoufnefs,

true God, he is the living God, and an everlating king; at his wrath the earth fhall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

alfo we have obtained an inheritance, being predeftinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counfel of his own will. Rom. 9. 22. What if God, 6.9 1 John 5. 7. For there are willing to fhew his wrath, and to three that bear record in heaven, make his power known, endured the Father, the Word, and the ho- with much long-suffering the vesly Ghoft: and these three are one. fels of wrath fitted to deftructions Mattb. 28. 19. Go ye therefore v. 23. And that he might make and teach all nations, baptizing known the riches of his glory on them in the name of the Father, the veffels of mercy, which he had and of the Son, and of the holy afore prepared unto glory. Ghost.

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9. Gen. 1. throughout. Heb. 11.3. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, fo that things which are feen were not made of things which do appear,

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11. Queft. What are God's Works of Providence? Anfw. God's Works of Providence are his most Holy, Wife, and Powerful preferving, and governing all his Creatures, and all their Actions

12. Queft. What Special Act of Providence did God exercife toward Man in the Eftate wherein he was created?

Anfw. When God had created Man, he entred into a Covenant of Life with him, upon Condition of perfect Obedience: forbidding him to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, upon Pain of Death.

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Gen. 1. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. v. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them. v. 28. And God bleffed them, and God faid unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and fubdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth Col. 3.10.And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him, Eph. 4. 24. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness, and true holiness.

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11. Pfalm 145. 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

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Pfalm 104 24. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wif dom haft thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches. Ifai. 28. 29. This alfo cometh forth from the Lord of hofts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

*Heb.1.3. Who being the bright nefs of his glory, and the exprefs image of his perfon, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our fins, fate down on the right hand of the majesty on high.

y Pfalm 103. 19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all. Matth. 10.29. Are not two fparrows fold for a farthing? and one of them fhall not fall on the ground without your father. v. 30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbred. v. 31. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many fparrows.

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6. Queft. How many Perfons are there in the God-Head? Anfw. There are Three Perfons in the God-Head; the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghoft; and thefe Three are One God, the fame in Subftance, equal in Power and Glory .

7. Queft. What are the Decrees of God?.

Anfw. The Decrees of God, are, his eternal Purpofe according to the Counsel of his Will, whereby for his own Glory, he hath fore-ordained whatfoever comes to pass *.

8. Queft. How doth God execute his Decrees?

Anfw. God executeth his Decrees in the Works of Creation and Providence.

9. Queft. What is the Work of Creation?

Anfw. The Work of Creation is, God's making all Things of Nothing by the Word of his Power, in the fpace of Six Days, and all very Good!. 10. Queft. How did God create Man?

Anfw. God created Man Male and Female after his own Image, in Knowledge, Righteouf

true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king; at his wrath the earth fhall tremble, and the nations fhall not be able to abide his indignation.

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alfo we have obtained an inheritance, being predeftinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counfel of his own will. Rom. 9. 22. What if God, 6.9 1 John 5. 7. For there are willing to fhew his wrath, and to three that bear record in heaven, make his power known, endured the Father, the Word, and the ho- with much long-suffering the vesly Ghoft: and these three are one. fels of wrath fitted to deftructions Mattb. 28. 19. Go ye therefore v. 23. And that he might make and teach all nations, baptizing known the riches of his glory on them in the name of the Father, the veffels of mercy, which he had and of the Son, and of the holy afore prepared unto glory. Ghoft

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7. Eph. 1. 4. According as he hath chofen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we fhould be holy, and without blame before him in love. v. 11. In whom

9. Gen. 1. throughout. Heb. II.3. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, fo that things which are feen were not made of things which do appear,

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17. Quest. Into what Eftate did the Fall bring Man

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Anfw. The Fall brought Mankind, into an Estate of Sin and Mifery .

18. Quest. Wherein confifts the finfulness of that Eftate whereinto Man fell?

Anfw. The finfulness of that Eftate whereinto Man fell, confifts in the Guilt of Adam's firft Sin, the Want of Original Righteousness, and the Corruption of his whole Nature, which is commonly called Original Sin, together with all actual Tranfgreffions which proceed from it.

19. Queft. What is the Mifery of that Eftate whereinto Man fell?

Anfw. All Mankind by their Fall loft Commu

nion Of every tree of the garden thou made finners: fo by the obedience mayft freely eat. v. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eateft thereof, thou shalt furely die. Rom. s. 12. Wherefore, as by one man fin entred into the world, and death by fin; and fo death paffed upon all men, for that all have finned. 1.Cor. 15. 21. For fince by man came death, by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. v. 22. For as in Adam all die, so in Chrift fhall all be made alive.

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of one, fhall many be made righteous. Rom. 5. from verse 10.to the 20. Eph. 2.1. And you hath be quickned who were dead in trefpaffes and fins, v. 2. Wherein in times past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the fpirit that now worketh in the children of difobedience. v.3. Among whom alfo we all had our conver fation in times past, in the lufts of our flesh, fulfilling the defires of the feth, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others, James 1. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own luft, and enticed. v. 15. Then when luft hath conceived, it bringeth forth fin: and fin when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Matth. 15.19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blafphemies. 194€ G

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