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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 are the external calamities laid on us for our sins?
A. Gen. 3.17, 18. Cursed is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and Thistles shall it bring forth to thee; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread, until thou return unto the ground.
Q. What are the internal calamities come on us for our sins?
A. Eph. 2.1, 2, 3. And you who were dead in Trespasses & sins, wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the […] the spirit that now works in the Children of Disobedience, among whom also we all had our Conversation ⟨p. 7⟩in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the Children of wrath.