A31334:261
Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein…
Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein all the necessary points of religion are methodically proposed in Scripture-language, abundantly confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, and in some places concisely expounded : in the whole, all controversies are warily shunned, so that all true Christians, of what persuasion soever, may (if they need the help of others) use this catechism for their children, or others that are under their power and card / written upon request, by a lover of truth and peace.Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein all the necessary points of religion are methodically proposed in Scripture-language, abundantly confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, and in some places concisely expounded : in the whole, all controversies are warily shunn'd, so that all true Christians, of what persuassion soever, may (if they need the help of others) use this catechism for their children, or others that are under their power and card / written upon request, by a lover of truth and peace.
London: printed by J.D., 1680
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A. I mean that Work of God, and that Work of Jesus the Christ of God, that Men may be saved, or be partakers of the Promise of God in Christ by the Gospel.
[Joh. 3.17. God sent not his Son into the World to condemn the World, but that the World through him might be saved. Joh. 12.47. I came not (saith Christ) to judg [condemn] the World, but to save the World. That which God and Christ do for the Salvation of Men, is often in the Scriptures (as here afterwards will appear) called the Work of God, and of Christ. This Work is, That Men may be partakers of the Promise of God in Christ by the Gospel. Ephes. 3.6. That the Gentiles should be fellow-Heirs, and of the same Body, and partakers of his Promise in Christ by the Gospel. That is, That the Gentiles may participate in the Promise of God with the Jews as Co-heirs; that is, by a common right, and as being of the same Body, that is, by equal right with them, and this by Christ, on the terms and conditions ⟨p. 76⟩which the Gospel makes known and requireth.]
Q. It will be convenient that first we discourse of the End and Intent of the Work of God and Christ, and then of the Work it self: Wherefore I shall ask you a few Questions concerning the Intent of this Work, and in the first place this: What are we to understand here by the Promise of God?