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21. How does it appear that the Holy Ghost is very God? But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whilst it remained was it not thine own? and after it was sold was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of GOD knoweth no man, but the Spirit of GOD.- For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. Acts 5. 3, 4. 1 Cor. 2. 11. Luke 12. 12. || Gen. 1. 2. 2 Cor. 13. 14. Acts 13. 2. and 15. 28. and 16. 6, 7. 1 Cor. 3. 16, 17. Isa. 6. 8-10. Acts 28. 25-27. and 13. 2, 4. and 15. 28.

Have you felt infinite obligations to the Holy Ghost? Have you never resisted nor grieved him?

22. What is said of the Holy Spirit's direct agency in the sanctification of sinful hearts?

God hath sealed us, and given to us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit helpeth our infirmities.- Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 2 Cor. 1. 22. Rom. 8. 26. John 3. 5, 6, 8. || and 14. 16, 26. and 16. 7, 13. Acts 4. 8, 31. Rom. 8. 5, 9, 13. 1 Pet. 1. 22.

Have you desired and experienced the sanctifying agency of the Holy Spirit? What other blessing is so important as this?

23. Does God execute his own will or purposes in all things? But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.- And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, what doest thou? In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh ALL THINGS after the counsel of his own will. Job 23. 13. Dan. 4. 35. Eph. 1. 11. || Rom. 9. 11, 12. Jude 3, 4. 2 Tim. 1. 7, 9. (d) Ps. 135. 6. Amos 3. 6. Acts 4. 27, 28. Luke 10. 21. Is it not immensely desirable that the controlling agency of Infinite Wisdom and Benevolence should extend to all worlds (d) See Appendix, Note D.

and all creatures? Do you believe and love the doctrine of GOD's universal efficiency? What is the real cause of opposition to this doctrine? Eccl. 9. 3.

24. What is a summary of the history of creation?

Through faith we understand the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind and God saw that it was good. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after their kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So GoD created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.- Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions. Heb. 11. 3. Gen. 1. 1, 21, 24, 26, 27. Eccl. 7. 29. Heb. 1. 10. Ps. 74. 16. Rev. 16. 4. Jer. 10. 12. Rev. 4. 11. Ps. 33. 6.

What obligations does creating goodness impose on you? Have you felt and yielded to these obligations?

25. What is the nature of the covenant of works, and with whom was such a covenant made?

And the Lord GOD commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.- Behold, all souls are mine as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine the soul that sinneth, it shall die. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident; for the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith but the man that doeth them shall live in them.- Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law, to do them; and all the people shall say, Amen. Gen.. 2. 16, 17. Ez. 18, 4. Gal. 3. 10-12. Deut. 27. 26. || and 10. 12, 13. and 28. 2, 6. 15, 19. Jer. 11. 3.

Can any sinner be justified by this covenant of works? Do you renounce all dependance on it?

26. What is a summary of the history of the fall.

Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which the Lord GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die; for God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw, that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.- Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Gen. 3. 1-6 Rom. 5. 12. Gen. 3. 9-19.

To what evils has the apostacy exposed you? How can there evils be averted or mitigated?

27. What is the character and state of ALL mankind by nature?

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after GOD. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways. And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before GOD. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of GoD. Rom. 3. 10-19. 23. || and 1. 28-32. Eph. 2. 1-3. Tit. 3. 3. 1 John 5. 19. Gen. 8. 21. Job 15. 14-16.

Have you felt that naturally this character and state is yours? Has this consideration abased you before God?

28. What is a correct description of the unrenewed heart? (e) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?- And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.- Because the carnal mind is enmity against GoD: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from sin. Jer. 17. 9. Gen. 6. 5. Rom. 8. 7. Mat. 15. 19. Prov. 20. 9. || Ps. 51. 5. Prov. 27. 19.

How vile and odious to God must the unrenewed heart appear? Have you such a heart?

29. What is the language of the unsanctified heart?

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?- Ye have said, it is vain to serve GoD: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt GOD are delivered. Job 21. 14, 15. Mal. 3. 14, 15. ||Job 22. 17. Ps. 10. 3, 6, 11. Luke 8. 37. Rom. 1. 28. Is. 30. 10, 11.

Does your practice speak this language, or not? What it you should be judicially left of God?

30. Is the wrath of God revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men?

The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.- For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebukes with flames of fire. For by fire, and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens, behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together,

(e) See Appendix, Note E.

saith the Lord. But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousnes, indignation, and wrath; Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile. Nah. 1. 3, 5, 6. Is. 66. 15-17. Rom. 2. 8, 9. || Ps. 7. 11, 12. Rev. 6. 15-17. Deut. 29. 19, 20. and 32. 18-23, 40—42.

In your own characters are you not exposed to God's wrath? Will you not flee from the wrath to come?

31. Is perfect holiness in the creature required by the Creator?

And he answering said, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with ALL thy heart, and with ALL thy soul, and with ALL thy strength, and with ALL thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. Be ye therefore PERFECT: even as your Father which is in heaven, is perfect. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. Luke 10. 27. Mat. 5. 48. 1 Pet. 1. 15, 16. || Heb. 12. 14. Eph. 4. 22-24. 2 Pet. 3. 11, 14. 2 Cor. 13. 11.

Have you ever been perfectly holy? Can you ever be justified by that law, whose commandment is so exceeding

broad?

32. What is sin, and how manifested?

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of GOD.What shall we say then? Is the law sin? GOD forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet. But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 1 John 3. 4. Gal. 5. 19-21. Rom. 7. 7—10. || Jam. 1. 14, 15. Mat. 15. 19. Does sin appear exceeding sinful to you? Or do you live in the allowed indulgence of it?

33. "Have all the workers of iniquity no" true “knowledge of God?"

The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not

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