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more and more to die unto Sin, and live unto Righteoufnels.

36. Queft. What are the Benefits which in this Life do accompany or flow from Juftification, Adoption, and Sanctification?

Anfw. The Benefits which in this Life do accom pany or flow from Juftification, Adoption, and Sanctification, are Affurance of God's Love, Peace of Confcience", Joy in the Holy Ghoft", Increase of Grace, and Perfeverance therein to the End?. 37. Queft. What Benefit do Believers receive from Chrift at Death? ¿

Anfw. The Souls of Believers are at their Death made perfect in Holinefs, and do immediately pals into Glory, and their Bodies being ftill united to Chrift,

after God is created in righteoufnefs, and true holiness.

1 Rom. 6.4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptifm unto death: that like as Chrift was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even fo we alfo fhould walk in newness of life. v. 6. Know ing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of fin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve fin.

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36. Rom. 5.1. Therefore being juftified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jefus Chrift. v. 2. By whom alfo we have accefs by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. v. 5. And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is fhed abroad in our hearts, by the holy Ghoft which is given unto us.

Rom. 14. 17. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but tighteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy Ghost.

Prov. 4. 18. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that thi neth more and more unto the per fect day.

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P 1 John 5. 13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 1P, 1.5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto falvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

37.9 Heb. 12.23. To the general affembly and church of the firftborn which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the fpirits of just men, made perfect.

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2 Cor. 5.1. For we know, that if our earthly houfe of this taber nacle were diffolved, we have à building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. v. 6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilft we are

Christ, do reft in their Graves till the Refurretion v.

38. Queft. What Benefits do Believers receive from Chrift at the Refurrection?"

Anfw. At the Resurrection, Believers being raifed up in Glory w, fhall be openly acknowledged, and acquitted in the Day of Judgment, and made perfectly bleffed, in full enjoying of God to all Eternity

39.Q. What is the Duty which God requireth of Man? Anfw. The Duty which God requireth of Man, is Obedience to his revealed Will ",

at home in the body, we are abfent from the Lord: v. s. We are confident, I fay, and willing rarather to be abfent from the body, and to be prefent with the Lord. Phil. 1. 23. For I am in a ftrait betwixt two, having a defire to depart, and to be with Chrift; which is far better. Luke 23.43. And Jefus faid unto him, Verily I fay unto thee, To day fhalt thou be with me in paradife.

1 Thef. 4. 14. For if we believe that Jefus died, and rofe again,even fo them alfo which fleep in Jefus will God bring with him.

t Ifai. 57. 2. He fhall enter into peace: they fhall reft in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Job 19. 26. And though after my skin, worms deftroy this body, yet in my flesh fhall I fee God: v. 27. Whom I fhall fee for my felf, and mine eyes fhall behold, and not another; though my reins be confumed within me.

38. W 1 Cor 15.43 It is fown in difhonour, it is raifed in glory: it is fown in weakness, it is raifed in power.

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unto him, Well done, good and faithful fervant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Matth. 1o. 32. Whofoever therefore fhall confefs me before men, him will I confefs also before my Father which is in heaven.

y 1 John 3.2. Beloved, now are we the fons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we fhall be: but we know, that when he fhall appear, we shall be like him; for we fhall fee him as he is. 1 Cor. 13. 12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as alfo I am known.

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I Thef. 4. 17. Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and fo fhall we ever be with the Lord, v. 18. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.

39. a Micah 6.8. He hath fhewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do juftly, and to love mercy,

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40. Queft. What did God at firft reveal to Man for the Rule of his Obedience?

Anfw, The Rule which God at first revealed to Man for his Obedience, was the Moral Law b. 41. Queft. Where is the Moral Law fummarily com prehended?

Anfw. The Moral Law is fummarily comprehen ded in the Ten Commandments c.

42. Queft. What is the Sum of the Ten Commandments? Anfw. The Sum of the Ten Commandments is, To love the Lord our God, with all our Heart,with all our Soul, with all our Strength, and with all our Mind; and our Neighbour as our felves d.

43. Q. What is the Preface to the Ten Commandments? Anfw. The Preface to the Ten Commandments is in these Words, I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.

44. Queft. What doth the Preface to the Ten Com mandments teach us?

Anfw and to walk humbly with thy God? that the man which doth those I Sam. 15. 22. And Samuel faid, things, fhall live by them. Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offering and facrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than facrifice; and to hearken, than the fat of rams.

41. Deut. Io. 4. And he wrote on the tables, according to the firft writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord fpake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the affembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

42. a Mat. 22.37. Jefus faid unto him, Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, aud with all thy mind. v. 38. This is the first and great V. 39. And the

40. b Rom. 2. 14. For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law unto themselves: v. 15. Which fhew the work of the law written in their hearts, their confciences commandment. alfo bearing witnefs, and their thoughts the mean while accufing or elfe excufing one another. Rom. 10. 5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteousness which is of the law,

fecond is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy felf. v. 40. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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Anfw The Preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us, That because God is the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer; therefore we are bound to keep all his Commandments £.

45. Queft. Which is the Firft Commandment? Anfw. The First Commandment is, Thou shalt have no other Gods befoze me &.

46. Q. What is required in the Firft Commandment? Anfw, The Firft Commandment requireth us to know, and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God, and to worship and glorify. him accordingly.

47.Q. What is forbidden in the First Commandment? Anfw. The First Commandment forbiddeth the Denying, or not worshipping and glorifying the

true 44. f Luke 1. 74. That he would with a perfect heart, and with a grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear, v. 75. In holiness and righteoufnefs before him, all the days of our life. 1 Pet. 1. 15. But as he which hath called you is holy, fo be ye holy in all manner of converfation; v. 16. Becaufe it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy. v. 17. And if you call on the Father, who without refpect of perfons judgeth according to every mans work, pafs the time of your fojourning here in fear: v. 18. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as filver and gold, from your vain converfation, received by tradition from your fathers; v, 19. But with the precious blood of Chrift, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.

willing mind: for the Lord fearcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou feek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forfake him, he will caft thee off for ever. Dent. 26. 17. Thou haft avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and and to walk in his ways, and to keep his ftatutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice.

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i Matth. 4. 10. Then faith Jefus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou serve. Pfalm 29. 2. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

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47. Pfalm 14. 1. The fool hath faid in his heart, There is no God: they are corrupt, they have done abominable works,there is none that doth good,

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true God, as God', and our God", and the giving that Worship and Glory to any Other which is due to him alone ".

48. Queft. What are we especially taught by these Words Before me, in the First Commandment?

Anfu. Thele Words Before me, in the Firft Commandment, teach us, That God who feeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with the Sin of having any other God o.

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49. Queft. Which is the Second Commandment? Anfw. The Second Commandment is, Chou Chalt not make unto thee any graven Image, o2 any Likeness of any tiang that in heaven above, o2 that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the Water under theEarth: Thou shalt not bow down thy felf to them, noz servethem: For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vifiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Childzen unto the Third and Fourth Genera tion of them that hate me: And thewing Ver

Rom. 1. 21. Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imagina-, tions, and their foolish heart was darkned.

Pfalm 81. 10. I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. v. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice: and Ifrael would none

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unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural ule into that which is against nature.

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48. Ezek. 8. s. Then faid! unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way towards the north: fo I lift up mine eyes the way to ward the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar, this idol of jealoufy in the entry. v. 6. He faid furthermore unto me, Son of man, feeft thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Ifrael committeth here. that I fhould go far off from my

Rom. 1.25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and wor fhipped and ferved the creature fanctuary? but turn thee yet again, more than the Creator, who is bleffed for ever, Amen. v. 26. tions, &c. to the end of the chapter. For this cause God gave them up

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