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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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Part 2 › Chapter 7: Of God's Work by Jesus Christ, for the saving of Sinners.
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[The Law of God is a binding direction from God concerning Duty, forbidding that which is Evil, and commanding that which is needful to be done. Now the Transgression of this Law, either in doing what it forbids, or leaving undone what it commands, is sin, 1 Joh. 3.4. & 5.17. That man, whoever he be, that lives in Sin, or committeth Sin, by loving Sin, and walking in it, is a Servant of Sin, and a Child of the Devil. Joh. 8.34. Verily, verily, I say unto you, (saith Christ) Whosoever committeth Sin, is the Servant of Sin. Rom. 6.2. Such are said to live in Sin. 1 John 3.10. In this the Children of God are manifest, and the Children of the Devil: Whosoever doth not Righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his Brother.
Q. But why are they that live in Sin thus called?
A. They that live in Sin are called the Servants of Sin, because they yield their Members Servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity, and may expect the Wages of Sin, which is Death; and they are called the Children of the Devil, because they do the Works of the Devil, and may expect to go into everlasting Fire with ⟨p. 89⟩the Devil & his Angels. [Rom. 6.16, 19, 21, 23.