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A scriptural catechism. The heads of the Christian religion plainly, briefly, and fully delivered…
A scriptural catechism. The heads of the Christian religion plainly, briefly, and fully delivered in a catechism, which endeavours a sufficient answer to every question, barely with a pertinent sentence of sacred Scripture, and enables the learner at once with great ease to confirm as well as assert the great articles of the faith once delivered unto the saints. / By Cotton Mather. ; [One line from John]
Boston: printed by R. Pierce for Nicholas Buttolph, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q What is the First Commandment? or the Commandment which respects the Natural Worship of God, and enjoins us to worship the only true God, and him only?
* A Exod. 20.3. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
Q What is one special duty to be done in exercising the graces required in the first commandment?
A. Psal. 84.8. I will hear what God the Lord will speak.
Q. What is a second special duty, to be done in exercising the graces required in the first commandment?