fhalt not covet thy neigh- to all my betters: To hurt

bour's wife, nor his fervant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is his.

Quest. What doft thou chiefly learn by thefe com

mandments?

Anfw. I learn two things; my duty towards God, and my duty towards my Neighbour.

Quest. What is thy duty towards God?

no body by word or deed: To be true and juft in all my dealings: To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart: To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and flandering: To keep my body in temperance, fobernels, and chastity: Not to covet nor defire other men's goods; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

Anfw. My duty towards God is, to believe in him; to fear him; and to love him with all my heart, with all Catechift. My good child, my mind, with all my foul, know this, that thou art not and with all my ftrength; to able to do these things of thyworship him; to give him felf, nor to walk in the Comthanks; to put my whole mandments of God, and to truft in him; to call upon ferve him, without his fpecial him ; to honour his holy Grace, which thou must learn Name and his Word; and at all times to call for by dito ferve him truly all the ligent Prayer: Let me hear, days of my life. therefore, if thou canst fay Queft. What is thy duty the Lord's Prayer.

towards thy Neighbour?

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Anfwer.

my Neighbour is, to low him O Re Fath, I; who art in

as myfelf, and to do to all thy Name; Thy Kingdom men as I would they fhould come; Thy will be done on do unto me: To love, ho- Earth, as it is in Heaven : nour, and fuccour my father Give us this day our daily and mother: To honour and bread; And forgive us our obey the Civil Authority: trefpaffes, as we forgive those To fubmit myself to all my who trefpafs againft us; And governors, teachers, fpiritual lead us not into temptation; paftors, and mafters: To or- But deliver us from evil. der myself lowly and reverently Amen.

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Quest.

Queft. What defireft thou us; ordained by Chrift him

of God in this Prayer?

felf; as a means whereby we receive the fame, and a pledge to affure us thereof.

Queft. How many parts are there in a Sacrament?

Anfw. Two; the outward vifible fign, and the inward

Queft. What is the outward vifible fign or form in Baptifm?

Anfw. Water; wherein the perfon is baptized, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft.

Anfw. I defire my Lord God, our heavenly Father, who is the giver of all goodness, to fend his grace unto me and to all people; that we may worship him, ferve him, and obey him, as we fpiritual grace. ought to do: And I pray unto God, that he will fend us all things that are needful both for our fouls and bodies; and that he will be merciful unto us, and forgive us our fins; and that it will please him to fave and defend us in all dangers both of foul and body; and that he will keep us from all fin and wickednefs, and from our fpiritual enemy, and from everlafting death: And this I truft he will do of his mercy and goodnefs, through our Lord Jefus Chrift; and therefore I fay, Amen: So be it.

Question

WOW many Sacraments
hath Christ ordained

How

in his Church?

Anfw. Two only, as generally neceffary to falvation; that is to fay, Baptism, and the Supper of the Lord.

Queft. What meaneft thou by this word Sacrament?

Queft. What is the inward and spiritual grace?

Anfw. A death unto fin, and a new birth unto righteousness: For being by nature born in fin, and the children of wrath, we are hereby made the children of grace. Queft. What is required of perfons to be baptized?

Anfw. Repentance, whereby they forfake fin; and Faith, whereby they ftedfaftly believe the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament.

Queft. Why then are Infants baptized, when by reafon of their tender age they cannot perform them?

Anfw. Because they promise them both by their fureties; which promife, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform.

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ment of the Lord's Supper fits whereof we are partakers

ordained ?

Anfio. For the continual

thereby ?

remembrance of the sacrifice and refreshing of our fouls by
Answ. The strengthening

of the death of Chrift, and of
the benefits which we receive

thereby.

Quest. What is the outward part or fign of the Lord's Supper ?

Anfw. Bread and Wine, which the Lord hath commanded to be received.

Quest. What is the inward part or thing fignified?

the Body and Blood of Chrift,
as our bodies are by the bread
and wine.

Quest. What is required of
those who come to the Lord's

Supper ?

Answ: To examine themselves, whether they repent them truly of their former fins, stedfastly purposing to lead a new life, have a lively

Anfw. The Body and Blood
of Chrift, which are spiritu- faith in God's mercy, through
ally taken and received by the Chrift, with a thankful re-
faithful in the Lord's Supper. membrance of his death; and
Quest. What are the bene- be in charity with all men.

The Minister of every Parish shall diligently upon Sundays and
Holy-days, or on fome other convenient occafions, openly in the
Church, inftruct or examine so many Children of bis Parish,
fent unto him, as be shall think convenient, in fome part of this
Catechism.

And all Fathers, Mothers, Masters, and Mistresses shall cause
their Children, Servants, and Apprentices, who have not learned
their Catechism, to come to the Church at the time appointed,
and obediently to bear, and to be ordered by the Minister, until
fuch time as they have learned all that is bere appointed for
them to learn.

So foon as Children are come to a competent age, and ean fay the
Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, and
can answer to the other questions of this short Catechism, they
shall be brought to the Bishop.

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And whenfoever the Bishop shall give knowledge for Children
to be brought unto bim for their Confirmation, the Minister of
every Parish shall either bring, or fend in writing, with bis
band fubfcribed thereunto, the Names of all fuch Perfons within
bis Parish, as be shall think fit to be presented to the Bishop
to be confirmed.

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Or Laying on of Hands upon those that are baptized, and come to Years of Difcretion.

Upon the Day appointed, all that are to be then confirmed, being placed and standing in order before the Bishop; he, or fome other Minister appointed by him, shall read this Preface following :

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Then shall the Bishop say,

O ye here, in the preD sence of God, and of this Congregation, renew the folemn promise and vow that ye made, or that was made in your name, at your Baptifm;

O the end that Confir- ratifying and confirming the mation may be minif- fame; and acknowledging tered to the more edifying of yourselves bound to believe fuch as shall receive it, the and to do all those things Church hath thought good to which ye then undertook, or order, that none shall be con- your Sponsors then underfirmed, but fuch as can say took for you? the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments;

And every one shall audibly answer, I do.

Bishop.

is in

of the Lord;

the Name

Anfw. Who hath made heaven and earth.

Bishop. Bleffed be the Name

and can also answer to fuch other Questions, as in the short Catechism are contained: Which Order is very convenient to be observed; to the end that children, being now come to the years of difcretion, and having of the Lord. learned what their Godfa- Anfw. Henceforth world thers and Godmothers pro- without end. mised for them in Baptifm, may themselves, with their own mouth and confent, openly before the Church ratify and confirm the same; and also promise, that, by the grace of God, they will evermore endeavour themselves

Bishop. Lord hear our

prayer;

Anfw. And let our cry come unto thee.

Bishop. Let us pray.

LMIGHTY and ever

faithfully to observe fuch vouchsafed to regenerate these things as they, by their own thy servants by Water and the confeffion, have assented unto. Holy Ghost, and haft given

unto them forgiveness of all thy Name; Thy Kingdom their fins; ftrengthen them, come; Thy Will be done on we beseech thee, O Lord, with Earth, as it is in Heaven: the Holy Ghoft, the Com- Give us this day our daily forter; and daily increase in bread; And forgive us our them thy manifold gifts of trefpaffes, as we forgive those grace; the fpirit of wisdom who trefpafs against us; And and understanding, the fpirit lead us not into temptation; of counsel and ghoftly ftrength, But deliver us from evil. the spirit of knowledge and Amen. true godliness; and fill them, O Lord, with the spirit of thy holy fear, now and for ever. Amen.

¶Then all of them in order kneeling before the Bishop, he fball lay his Hands upon the Head of every one feverally, faying,

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EFEND, O Lord, this thy Child, [or, this thy Servant] with thy heavenly grace; that he may continue thine for ever, and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more, until he come unto thy everlasting Kingdom. ¶Then fhall the Bishop fay, The Lord be with you. Anfw. And with thy fpirit.

And all kneeling down, the
Bishop fhall add,

Let us pray.

UR Father, who art in
Heaven, Hallowed be

And this Collect.

LMIGHTY and ever

A living God, who makeft

us both to will and to do thofe things which are good, and acceptable unto thy Divine Majefty; we make our humble fupplications unto thee for these thy fervants, upon whom, after the example of thy holy Apostles, we have now laid our hands; to certify them, by this fign, of thy favour and gracious goodness towards them. Let thy Fatherly hand, we beseech thee, ever be over them: Let thy Holy Spirit ever be with them: And fo lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy Word, that in the end they may obtain everlasting life, through our Lord Jefus Chrift; who, with thee and the Holy Ghoft, liveth and reigneth ever one God, world without end. Amen.

O Almighty