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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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What are we to understand by the only true God?
Answ. By the only true God we are to understand, the only Creator and most high Lord, or Governor of all things.
[2 Kings 19.19. Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save us out of his hand, that all the Kingdoms of the Earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only. Jude 4. Certain Men crept in—denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 King. 19.15. And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel which dwellest between the Cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the Kingdoms of the Earth; thou hast made Heaven and Earth. Isa. 44.24, &c. Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the Womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the Heavens alone, ⟨p. 11⟩that spreadeth abroad the Earth by my self; that frustrateth the Tokens of the Liars, &c. Nehem. 9.6, &c. Thou, even thou art Lord alone, thou hast made Heaven, the Heaven of Heavens with all their Host, the Earth and all things that are therein, the Seas and all that is therein; and thou preservest them all, and the Host of Heaven worshippeth thee, &c. Dan. 5.18, &c. O thou King, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy Father a Kingdom, &c. But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his Kingly Throne, &c. till he knew that the most high God ruled in the Kingdom of Men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.