quickened with their souls: and so there shall be a general resurrection from the dead. Q. How shall the quick appear? A. Such as then remain alive, shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye: which shall be to them instead of death. Q. What sentence shall Christ pronounce upon the righ teous? A. Come2, ye blessed of my Father; inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Q. What sentence shall he pronounce upon the wicked? A. Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels. Q. What shall follow this? A. Christ' shall deliver up the kingdom to his Father, and God shall be all in all. y 2 Tim. chap. 4. ver. 1. 1 Thess. chap. 4. ver. 15, 16, 17. I Cor. chap. 15. ver. 51, 52, 53. 2 Cor. chap. 5. ver. 4. 7 Matt. chap. 5. ver. 34. 1 Cor. chap. 15. ver. 24, 28. a Ibid. chap. 25. ver. 41. THE METHOD OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION; SHEWING THE CONJUNCTION OF THE CHIEF POINTS THEREOF, WITH A MORE PARTICULAR DECLARATION OF SOME PARTICULAR HEADS, WHICH WERE BUT SHORTLY TOUCHED IN THE FORMER SUM. THE METHOD OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION, QUESTION. What certain rule have we left us, for our direction in the knowledge of the true religion, whereby we must he saved? ANSWER. The holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament: which God delivered unto us by the ministry of his servants the prophets and apostles; to inform us perfectly in all things that are needful for us to know in matters of religion. Q. What be the general heads of religion, which in these holy writings are delivered unto us? A. The knowledge of God's nature and kingdom. A. First, his essence or being, which is but one; and then, the persons which are three in number. Q. What do you consider in God's essence or being? A. His perfection and life. Q. How are we to conceive of God, in regard of his perfection? a Psalm 103. ver. 8. 19. and Psalm 145. ver. 3, 4. 11, 12. 1 Chron. chap. 29. ver. 11. Matt. chap. 6. ver. 3. b Col. chap. 2. ver. 9. Heb, chap. 1. ver. 3. 1 John, chap. 5. ver. 7. A. That he is a spirit, most single and infinite; having his being from himself, and having need of nothing which is without himself. Q. Why do you call God a spirit? A. To declare his being to be such, as hath no body, and is not subject to our outward senses: that we admit not any base conceit of his glorious majesty, in thinking him to be like unto any thing which can be seen by the eye of man. Q. What understand you by the singleness or simplicity of God's nature? A. That he hath no parts nor qualities in him; but whatsoever is in him is God, and God's whole essence. Q. What gather you of this, that God hath no parts nor qualities? A. That he neither can be divided, nor changed; but remaineth always in the same state without any alteration at all. Q. In what respect do you call God's essence infinite? A. In that it is free from all measure both of time and place. Q. How is God free from all measure of time? A. In that he is eternal, without beginning and without ending, never elder nor younger; and hath all things present unto him, nothing former or latter, past or to come. Q. How is God infinite in regard of place? A. Ing that he filleth all things and places, both within and without the world; present every where, and conained no where. Q. How is he present every where? Hath he one part of himself here, and another there? eJob, chap. 11. ver. 7, 8. 1 Tim. chap. 6. ver. 16. Isai. chap. 145. ver. 3. Rev. chap. 1. ver. 8. Rom. Rom. chap. 1. ver. 23. Isaiah, chap. 43. ver. 25. e Mal. chap. 3. ver. 6. f Rev. chap. 1. ver. 8. chap. 8. ver. 58. chap. 11. ver. 36. Acts, chap. 17. ver. 24. 81 Kings, chap. 8. ver. 27. 2 Pet. chap. 3. ver. 8. John, |