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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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* Quest. The proof of this being very needful, I am willing to hear it, and therefore I now ask you, How it may be confirmed?
Answ. First, I shall offer this; That these Phrases or Expressions, To know God, and To know Jesus Christ, are oftentimes so used in the Holy Scriptures: Whence I gather, that it is not strange so to accept and take them here; Hos. 53.4. Tit. 1.16. Jer. 9.3. Ch. 31.34. Heb. 8.11. Dan. 11.32. Hos. 2.20. Joh. 15.21. Ch. 17.25. 1 Thess. 4.5. Psal. 36.10. Job 18.21. Isa. 53.11. 1 John 2.3, 4. Ch. 4.6.
* Quest. You do well to infer no more, seeing these Phrases are frequently ⟨p. 8⟩restrained to a mere knowledge or notion of God and Christ; or for knowledge as distinct from Love and Acknowledgement: Yea, sometimes they are said to know God, and to know Christ, who have only the means of knowing them,