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An Orthodox Catechism (modernized)

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By
Hercules Collins
Dates
first published 1680
Tradition
baptist, reformed
Also called
Orthodox Catechism; Collins’s Catechism
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The same text as An Orthodox Catechism (1680)
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Public domain
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Prefaces and appendices

Contents

Introduction

  1. 1What is your only comfort in Life and Death?
  2. 2How many things are necessary for you to know, that you enjoying this comfort mayst live and die happily?
  3. 3Whence knowest you your misery?
  4. 4What does the Law of God require of us?
  5. 5Are you able to keep all these things perfectly?
  6. 6Did God then make man so wicked and perverse?
  7. 7Whence then arises the wickedness of Mans nature?
  8. 8Are we so corrupt that we are not at all apt to do well, and are prone to all vice?
  9. 9Does not God then Injury to Man who in the Law requires that of him which he is not able to perform?
  10. 10Does God leave this stubbornness and falling away of Man unpunished?
  11. 11Is not God therefore merciful?
  12. 12Seeing then by the just Judgment of God we are subject both to temporal and eternal Punishments, is there yet any way or means remaining whereby we may be delivered from these Punishments, and be reconciled to God?
  13. 13Are we able to satisfy by our selves?
  14. 14Is there any creature in Heaven or in Earth, which is only a creature, able to satisfy for us?
  15. 15What manner of Mediator then, and Deliverer must we seek for?
  16. 16Wherefore is it necessary that he be very Man, and that perfectly just too?
  17. 17Why must he also be very God?
  18. 18And who is that Mediator which is together both very God, and a very perfectly just Man?
  19. 19Whence knowest you this?
  20. 20Is then Salvation restored by Christ to all men who perished in Adam?
  21. 21What is Faith?
  22. 22What are those things which are necessary for a Christian man to believe?
  23. 23Into how many parts is this Creed divided?
  24. 24Seing there is but one only substance of God, why namest you those three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost?
  25. 25What believest you when you sayest, I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth?
  26. 26What is the Providence of God?
  27. 27What does this knowledge of the Creation and Providence of God profit us?
  28. 28Why is the Son of God called Jesus, that is, a Savior?
  29. 29Do they then believe in the only Savior Jesus, who seek for happiness and safety of the Saints, or of themselves, or else where?
  30. 30Why is he called Christ, that is, anointed?
  31. 31But why are you called a Christian?
  32. 32For what cause is Christ called the only begotten Son of God, when we also are the Sons of God?
  33. 33Wherefore callest you him our Lord?
  34. 34What believest you when you sayest, He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary?
  35. 35What profit takest you by Christ’s holy Conception and Nativity?
  36. 36What believest you when you sayest he suffered.
  37. 37For what cause should he suffer under Pilate, as being his Judge?
  38. 38But is there any more in it, that he was fastened to the Cross, than if he had suffered any other kind of death?
  39. 39Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself unto death?
  40. 40To what end was he buried also?
  41. 41But since that Christ died for us, why must we also die?
  42. 42What other commodity receive we by the Death of Christ?
  43. 43Why is there added, he descended into Hell?
  44. 44What does the Resurrection of Christ profit us?
  45. 45How understand you that he ascended into Heaven?
  46. 46Is not Christ with us then until the end of the World, as he has promised?
  47. 47Are not by this means the two natures in Christ pulled asunder, if his Humanity be not wheresoever his Divinity is?
  48. 48What Fruit does the Ascension of Christ into Heaven bring unto us?
  49. 49Why is it further said, he sits at the Right-Hand of God?
  50. 50What profit is this Glory of our Head Christ unto us?
  51. 51What Comfort have you by the coming of Christ again to judge the quick and the dead?

Of the Holy Ghost

  1. 52What believest you concerning the Holy Ghost?
  2. 53What believest you concerning the Holy and Catholic Church of Christ?
  3. 54What mean those words, The Communion of Saints?
  4. 55What believest you concerning Remission of Sins?
  5. 56What Comfort have you by the Resurrection of the Flesh?
  6. 57What Comfort takest you of the Article of everlasting Life?
  7. 58But when you believest all these things, what profit redounds thence unto you?
  8. 59How are you righteous before God?
  9. 60Why affirmest you that you are made Righteous by Faith only?
  10. 61Why cannot our good Works be Righteousness, or some part of Righteousness before God?
  11. 62How is it that our good Works merit nothing, seeing God promises that he will give a Reward for them both in this Life, and in the Life to come?
  12. 63But does not this Doctrine make Men careless and profane?

Of the Sacraments

  1. 64Seeing then that only Faith makes us Partakers of Christ and his Benefits, whence does it proceed?
  2. 65What are the Sacraments?
  3. 66Does then both the Word and Sacraments tend to that End, as to lead our Faith unto the Sacrifice of Christ finished on the Cross as to the only ground of our Salvation?
  4. 67How many Sacraments has Christ ordained in the new Testament?
  5. 68What is Baptism?
  6. 69Who are the proper Subjects of this Ordinance?
  7. 70Are no Infants to be baptized?
  8. 71Does the Scripture any where expressly forbid the Baptizing of Infants?
  9. 72May not the Infant Seed of Believers under the Gospel be baptized as well as the Infant Seed of Abraham under the Law was circumcised?
  10. 73Seeing the Infants of Believers are in the Covenant of Grace with their Parents, as some say, why may not they be baptized under the Gospel, as well as Abrahams Infant Seed was circumcised under the Law?
  11. 74How are you admonished and assured in Baptism, that you are Partaker of the only Sacrifice of Christ?
  12. 75What is it to be washed with the Blood and Spirit of Christ?
  13. 76Where does Christ promise us that he will as certainly wash us with his Blood and Spirit, as we are washed with the Water of Baptism?
  14. 77Is then the outward Baptism of Water the washing away of Sins?
  15. 78Why then does the Holy Ghost call Baptism the washing of the New-birth, and forgiveness of Sins?
  16. 79What Principle of Christ’s Doctrine in the holy Scripture followeth Baptism in order?
  17. 80What is the form and end of this Ordinance?
  18. 81Is it the Duty of every Christian to be under this Practice?
  19. 82Did not the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit follow upon laying on of Hands in the Apostles time?

Of the Lord’s Supper

  1. 83How are you in the Lords Supper admonished and warranted that you are Partaker of that only Sacrifice of Christ offered on the Cross, and of all his Benefits?
  2. 84What is it to eat the Body of Christ?
  3. 85Where has Christ promised that he will as certainly give his Body and Blood so to be eaten and drunken, as they eat this Bread broken, and drink this Cup?
  4. 86Are then the Bread and Wine made the very Body and Blood of Christ?
  5. 87Why then does Christ call Bread his Body, and the Cup his Blood, or the new Testament in his Blood; and St. Paul calls Bread and Wine the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ?
  6. 88What Difference is there between the Supper of the Lord, and the Popish Mass?
  7. 89Who are to come unto the Table of the Lord?
  8. 90Are they also to be admitted to the Lords Supper who in Confession and Life declare themselves to be Infidels, profane, and ungodly?
  9. 91How ought this Ordinance of the Lords Supper to be closed?
  10. 92You told us but now, that those who in Confession and Life declare themselves to be Infidels, profane and ungodly, should by the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven be driven from this Supper: what are the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven?
  11. 93How is the Kingdom of Heaven opened and shut by preaching of the Gospel?
  12. 94How is the Kingdom of Heaven opened and shut by Ecclesiastical Discipline?

The third Part is of Man’s Thankfulness

  1. 95Whereas we are delivered from all our Sins and Miseries without any Merit of ours, by the Mercy of God, only for Christ’s sake; for what cause are we to do good Works?
  2. 96Cannot they then be saved which be unthankful, and remain still careless in their Sins, and are not converted from their Wickedness to God?
  3. 97Of what Parts consists the Conversion of Man unto God?
  4. 98What is the mortifying of the old Man?
  5. 99What is the quickening of the new Man?
  6. 100What are good Works?
  7. 101Which is the Law of God?
  8. 102How are these Commandments divided?
  9. 103What is the Preface to the ten Commandments?
  10. 104What learn we from this Preface?
  11. 105Do these things belong unto us?
  12. 106What is the first Commandment?
  13. 107What does God require in the first Commandment?
  14. 108What is Idolatry?
  15. 109What is the second Commandment?
  16. 110What does this second Commandment require?
  17. 111May there then at all any Images or Resemblances of things be made?
  18. 112But may not Images be tolerated in Churches, which may serve for Books unto the common People?
  19. 113What is the third Commandment?
  20. 114What does God decree in the third Commandment?
  21. 115Is it then so grievous a Sin by swearing, or banning, to take the Name of God in vain, as that God is also angry with them who in as much as in them lies do not forbid or hinder it?
  22. 116May a Man swear religiously and lawfully, by the Name of God?
  23. 117Is it lawful to swear by Saints, or other Creatures?
  24. 118What is the fourth Commandment?
  25. 119What are we taught by the fourth Commandment?
  26. 120What is the fifth Commandment?
  27. 121What does God enjoin us in the fifth Commandment?
  28. 122What is the sixth Commandment?
  29. 123What does God exact in the sixth Commandment?
  30. 124But this Commandment seems to forbid Murder only?
  31. 125Is it enough then that we kill no Man, in such sort as has been said?
  32. 126What is the seventh Commandment?
  33. 127What is the meaning of the seventh Commandment?
  34. 128Forbids God nothing else in this Commandment but actual Adultery, and such kinds of uncleanness?
  35. 129What is the eighth Commandment?
  36. 130What does God forbid in the eighth Commandment?
  37. 131What are those things which God here commands?
  38. 132What is the ninth Commandment?
  39. 133What does the ninth Commandment exact?
  40. 134What is the tenth Commandment?
  41. 135What does the tenth Commandment forbid?
  42. 136But can they who are converted to God, perfectly observe, and keep these Commandments?
  43. 137Why will God then have his Law to be so exactly and severely preached seeing there is no Man in this life able to keep it?

Of Prayer

  1. 138Wherefore is Prayer necessary for Christians?
  2. 139What is required unto that Prayer which shall please God, and be heard of him?
  3. 140What are those things which he commands us to ask of him?
  4. 141What Prayer is that?
  5. 142Are Christians tied to this very Form of Prayer?
  6. 143Why does Christ teach us to call God our Father?
  7. 144Why is that added, which are in Heaven?
  8. 145What is the first Petition?
  9. 146What is the second Petition?
  10. 147What is the third Petition?
  11. 148What is the fourth Petition?
  12. 149What is the fifth Petition?
  13. 150What is the sixth Petition?
  14. 151How concludest you this Prayer?
  15. 152What means this Particle, Amen?