and chief cause, one supreme and most excellent being.

Q. Why call you him the true God?

A. To distinguish him from all titular Gods, as magistrates and others; and from all idols and false Gods.

Q. Why call you him the living God?

A. Because all life, natural, spiritual, and eternal, is in him and only from him.

Q. How doth it appear that there are Three Persons in the Godhead, and only three?

A. It appears these three ways: 1. From the baptismal institution, Matthew xxviii. 19. "Baptize all nations in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." 2. From the apostolical benediction, 2 Cor. xiii. 14. "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all." 3 From plain and positive scripture assertions: 1 John v. 7. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost.'

Q. What are the distinct operations which scripture attributes to the several persons?

A. It ascribes generally the work of creation to the Father, it attributes particularly the work of redemption to the Son, and the work of sanctification to the Holy Ghost,

Q.

Of the Fall.

How many sorts or ranks of creatures did God

make for the glorifying of him upon earth,

and the enjoymeut of him in heaven?

A. Two sorts; namely, angels and men.
Q. What are angels?

A. Finite and immortal spirits, created by and made after the image of the glorious God.

Q. Did the angels continue in that holy and happy state in which they were created?

A. All the angels did not sin, but many of them did, and their sin is supposed to be pride.

Q. Did God provide any remedy for the fallen angels recovery?

A. No: but they are all "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, to the judgment of the great day." Jude 6.

Q Adam being the first man that God created and made, of what parts did Adam consist?

A. Of two parts, namely, a soul and a body.
Q. What was his body made of?

A. The dust of the ground.

Q. Was his soul so made?

A. No; God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Q. Did God make Adam an holy creature, or a sinful creature?

A. An holy creature, after his own image.

Q. Wherein does the image of God consist? A. In righteousness and holiness, and a sovereign dominion over all his creatures.

Q. How can man then be a sinful creature?

A. Though he was made upright, yet was his will mutable; and by abusing his liberty, he fell from that holy state in which he was created, by eating the forbidden fruit.

Q. Who tempted him to eat the forbidden fruit?

A. The woman, "whose name was Eve," whom God made of one of Adam's ribs, to be an help-mate for him, and not a tempter of him.

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Q. Who tempted her?

A. The serpent; that is, the devil, in and by the serpent.

Q. Did Adam only hurt himself by eating the forbidden fruit?

A. No verily, he ruined not only himself but all his posterity; he being the root of all mankind, they sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression. Q. Wherein consists the sin and misery of that estate into which Adam and his posterity fell?

A. In the dreadful effects of that fatal fall; for our understandings are thereby darkened, our wills perverted, our affections misplaced, and all the faculties of our souls inclined to that which is evil, and averse to all that is good.

Q. What was the punishment due to Adam and his posterity for that sin?

A. Death, according to the threatning of God, "In the day that thou eatest, thou shalt die."

Q. What death was intended in that threatning? A. Temporal, spiritual, and eternal; or the death of the body, by the loss of life the death of the soul, by the loss of God's image; and the death of the body and soul for ever, by the loss of God.

Q. What lessons of instructions may you gather from the fall?

A. Very many, and those very useful, 1. I learn of what a malignant nature sin is, inasmuch as one sin defiled and destroyed the whole world. 2. 2. The wonderful wisdom of God in sending Christ in our nature to take away the sins of the world. 3. The necessity of our interest in Christ, and union with him that as we have received of the first Adam corruption for corruption, we may also receive of the second Adam grace for grace.

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Q. What inferences may be drawn from our first parents fall?

A. Such as these, namely, 1. That the best of us, when left to ourselves cannot be long safe, 2. That since man before the fall could not be his own keeper, much less since the fall can he be his own Saviour. 3. We learn how wonderful great our obligations are to the blessed Jesus, who recovered and saved us, when the fall left us hopeless and helpless.

Q.

DID

Of Man's Recovery by Christ.

ID not God provide a remedy for fallen man's ?

recovery

A. Yes, he sent his own Son to die for him; "who took not on him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham." Heb. ii. 16.

Q. For whom of mankind did Christ die?

A. He gave himself a ransom for all; he "tasted death for every man ;" and his death was a propitiation for the sins of the whole world; though only such as believe and obey the gospel, shall savingly partake of the benefits of his death.

Q. Who was God's own Son that thus died? A. The Lord Jesus Christ, who being God from eternity, became man in the fulness of time. Q. How many natures had Christ?

A. Two natures; a divine nature, as God; and a human nature, as man.

Q. Do these two natures make two persons? A. No; the human nature was united to the se

cond Person in the Godhead, and continues to abide in union with it, and that for ever.

Q. In which of these natures did Christ suffer? A. In his human nature, as man.

Q. In which nature did he satisfy, or give satisfaction to the justice of God for our sins?

A. In his divine nature, as he was God equal with the Father.

Q. How do you prove Christ to be God?

A. By a threefold argument: 1. Because the attributes of God are given to him; he is said to be eternal, and all-knowing, St. John xxi. 17. "Lord thou knowest all things." 2. Because the works of God were wrought by him; he cleansed the lepers, raised the dead, yea, he made the world, John i. 3. "All things were made by him," &c. 3. Because divine honour is given to him by the commandment of God, Heb. i. 6. "Let all the angels of God worship him."

Q. How prove you Christ to be a man?

A. Because he had a true body, and a reasonable soul, and "was in all things made like unto us, sin only excepted."

Q. Why would Christ be born?

A. That he might die for our salvation.
Q. Who was he born of?

A. Of the Virgin Mary,

Q. Was he born in sin, as you were?

A. No; he was neither born in sin, nor lived in any sin; for then he could not have satisfied the justice of God for sin.

Q. How came he to be born without sin?
A. By being conceived of the Holy Ghost.
Q. What does the name JESUS signify?

A. A Saviour, because he was to save his people from their sins.