At my Baptism; when I was dedicated to God, with prayer that, being born again and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, I might always live as a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. Question. What is required of the children of God? Answer. We should love the Lord Jesus Christ with all our hearts, and endeavour to keep his holy will and commandments. We should renounce the devil and all his works, and abstain from the vain pleasures of this world and the sinful lusts of the flesh. Question. Do you think you are bound to do all these things? Answer. Yes, verily; and we should pray unto God to give us his grace that we may constantly love and obey him; and I heartily thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called us to the knowledge of his grace and salvation, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. I Repeat the Creed. Catechist. Answer. BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried; The third day he rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, And sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholick Church [or, The holy Church Universal]; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body; And the Life everlasting. Amen. Question. What do you chiefly learn in this creed? Answer. First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath made me, and all the world. Secondly, in God the Son, who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind. Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth all the believing people of God. Question. Which are the Ten Commandments THE Answer. HE same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus, saying, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. I. Thou shalt have none other gods but me. II. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments. III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain. IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maidservant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it. V. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. VI. Thou shalt do no murder. VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery. VIII. Thou shalt not steal. IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. Question. What do you chiefly learn from these Commandments? Answer. I learn two things: my duty towards God, and my duty towards my Neighbour. Question. What is your duty towards God? Answer. My duty towards God, is to believe in him, to fear him, and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength; to worship him, to give him thanks, to put my whole trust in him, to call upon him, to honour his holy Name and his Word, and to serve him truly all the days of my life. Question. What is your duty towards your Neighbour? Answer. My duty towards my Neighbour, is to love him as myself, and to do to all men, as I would they should do unto me: To love, honour, and succour my father and mother: To honour and obey the Queen, and all that are put in authority under her: To hurt nobody by word nor deed: To be true and just in all my dealing: To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart: To keep my hands from pilfering and stealing, and my tongue from evil-speaking, lying, and slandering: To keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity: Not to covet nor desire other men's goods; but to learn and labour truly to get my own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me. Catechist. My good Child, know this, that you are not able to do these things of yourself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace; which you must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer. Let me now hear you repeat the Lord's Prayer. OUR Answer. UR Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass |