i. Prov. xix. 5, 9. k. Prov. xi. 13. 1. Titus iii. 2. m. 2 Theff. iii. 1o, 11, 12. 10. Here is to be remembred, that the 1x. To tell no lies of any body i, nor spiteful truth k, nor to give bad words l. x. And not to defire other folks things; but to learn and work to get my living m. keeping all the Commandments is not only for the love of God and our neighbour, but also for the true love of our selves. Deut. x. 13. : XVI. Q. You have done many faults against God's Commandments. What does God command you to do, that he may forgive you? n. Pfalm cxix. 59. Lam. iii. 40. D. James iv. 8, 9, 10. Deut. xxxii. 6. Joel ii. 12, 13. p. That is tell with a fad heart. 9. 1 John i. Lev. xvi. 21. r. Mat. vi. 12. 9. s. Mat. xxii. 36, 37, 38. xiv. 15. 1 t. John A. God commands me to think of all my faults I can XVII. Q. What else does God command you to do, that he may forgive you ? ม. Matth. v. 23 to 27. God is the judge, that will punish him that neglects to feek forgiveness, and make amends for the wrong he has done. x. Matth. vi. 14, 15. A. For my faults against my Father or my Mother, or against any body else; God commands me to pray them to forgive me, and to make them the best amends I can u. And he commands me to forgive every body that has done me any wrong x. XVIII. When you have done all that God may forgive you, what must you do then ? B A. I : A. I must believe that God will forgive me for the fake of Christ's dying for our faults y. y. Rom. iv. 5. 24, 25. I believe God will furely perform his promises to forgive me (ver. 24. Luke xxiv. 47.) for the sake of Chrift's Dying for our fins: because God raised him from the dead to call us to, and give us the fame forgiveness, Aθς ν. 31. chap. xxvi. 17, 18. This forgiveness is granted as foon as I have begun to repent truly. 2 Sam. xii. 13. Luke xv. 20. chap. xix. 8, 9. Provided I am not flack to perform my whole duty, Luke ix. 62. XIX. Q. Let me bear how you confess your faults. z. Because Chrift died upon the Cross for our fins; and prays to God for our pars don. Rom. viii. Because Chrit by Dying for our fins, bought for us grace to forsake them; (Titus 14. ii. and prays to God for grace for us, Heb. iv. 14, 15, 16. See 25 Question. A Confeffion for a Child. A. O God, my wonderful Good Father, I have done wickedly against thy Commandments. I have not done that I shou'd do: and I have done that I shou'd not do (Then I confefs my feveral faults: and then I say) I pray thee forgive me, I pray thee forgive me for Jesus Chrift's fake z. And for his fake help me to do fo no more a. Every day thou must confess with hearty forrow the fins thou hast done that day. Then God will forgive thee, as he commands thee to forgive thy brother, Luke xvii. 3, 4. If thou hast done any great fin, or any wilful fin, whether great or small: as soon as thou dost think of it, thou must be earnestly forry for it, and confefs it, and beg forgiveness. Matth. xxvi. 75- On Fridays, or other Fafting days, once a week, if thou canst conveniently, (Matth. ix, 14, 15. Luke ii. 37) at least once a month; and without fail on every folemn Fast day, thou must confefs all the several forts of the fins of thy whole life, that thou canst remember. Lev. xvi. 21, 29. Joel i. 14. chap. ii. 12 to 19. Jonah iii. And remember always that the not doing any good, is fin, as well as the doing any evil. James iv. 17. XX. Q. You norb. Johnv. XX. Q. You cannot leave any of your faults, do any thing that is good without God's help b. You 4, 5. must therefore always beg his help c. bow you pray to God. A Prayer for a Child. Let me hear Phil.ii. 13. : c. Luke xi. 9 to 14. Eph.vi.18. : : til thou A. Our Father which art in heaven, make me Use this and every body to love and fear thee more than Prayer unall things. Do thou rule our hearts. And help dost well us to do all thou wilt have us do. Give us that understand love thee what we have need of to day. And for-the Lord's give us our faults: for we forgive others their Prayer. faults against us. And let us not be tic'd nor driven to any naughtiness: but keep us from all evil doing. Thou canst do all we pray for: for thou art the Great King of all the world for ever and d. Daniel ever d. And all we beg for Jesus Christ his fake e. ii. 37. e. Because by his Dying for the fins of all the world, he has bought for every one all that God fees good for him; and prays to God for the fame. I Tim. ii. 1 to 7. Heb. ix. 12, 24. Pfalm ii. 8. See 25 Question. XXI. Q. Why do you say, for we forgive others their faults against us? L A. Because if we do not forgive others, God will not forgive us f. God? XXII. Q. What must you do when you pray to A. Always when I pray to God I must give him thanks g. XXIII. Q. Let me bear how you give thanks God. A Thanksgiving for a Child. f. Matth: g. Phil.iv to Col. iv. 21 A. Our most Kind Father, who dost give us all we have, I thank thee with all my heart for all B 2 thy thy Goodness to me, and to every body. I thank thee for making us, and for keeping us from hurt, and for giving us meat, drink and clothes, and all we have. But I thank thee most of all for thy most wonderful love to give thine own Son to die upon the Cross for our faults, to save us; and for giving thy Holy Ghost to help us to do what thou doft command us; and for bringing all that truly love thee to heaven. And I pray thee for b. Because Jesus Christ's fake b, to make me and every body by his dy-as thankful as we ought to be for all thy Gooding for our ness to us. fins he has : 1 bought for us power to keep God's Commandments. (Titus ii. 14.) and prays to God for grace for us, John xvii. 20, 21. Pfalm ii. 8. See 25 Question. XXIV. Q. What must you do that you may be fit to pray and give thanks unto God? i. As Question 16, he has promised it, A. I must do all that God commands me to do for the forgiveness of my faults i. I must pray and give thanks heartily k, and with fear l. And I must believe God will do what is best for me in every for Jesus Christ's fake. will God do all you pray for, XXV. Q. Why A. Because all we pray for are the forgiveness, and the blessings of forgiveness which Chrift died for n, and prays to God for 0. n. By fin we loft : Therefore when our fins are forgiven given us again, And therefore Chrift's Chrift's Blood shed for the forgiveness of our fins, is called his Blood of the New Testament: Because in the fame forgiveness are contain'd all the Mercies promised in the New Testament to them that obey all the Commands of it. For the fake of Christ's Dying for every man, (Heb. ii. 9.) God so far forgives every one, as to give him power to do what he expects from him, (Rom. v. 6, 8, 10. 1 Tim. ii. 4, 5, 6.) and to give him other good things and corrections to turn his heart to God. Matth. v. 45. Luke vi. 35. Jer. v. 3, 24. Rom. ii. 4. And every one that does what God expects from him, God fully forgives him, so as to give him all good, and save him from all evil, as God fees fit. Heb. xi. 6. 0. Heb. vii. 25. ch. ix. 12, 24. XXVI. Q. You said you were made a Christian, and God's child, and an heir of heaven, when you were Christen'd. How were you then made a Christian, and God's child, and an heir of heaven ? A. The Minister did pray with my friends for me p, and did wash me in token of my leaving my faults q, to believer, and serves God the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost t. Then God for Chrift's sake u. did forgive my faults x, and give me the help of the Holy Ghost to believe and serve him y. p. Matth. vii. 7. q. As I ought to leave them, with truly repenting of them, Mat. iii. 6, 11. Alts ii. 38. r. To believe God's word, and so to believe his promises to forgive my fins, and give me the help of the Holy Ghoft. See notes xy. s. Do all God's Commandments to the best of my power, Matth. xxviii. 19, 20. t. Matth. xxviii. 19. Atts xix. 4. 1 Cor. i. 12, 13. I must believe and ferve God the Father, and his Son Jefus Chrift, and the Holy Ghost: because every one of them is God; and because all Three have taught us the Word and Commandments of God, Heb. i. 1, 2. chap. iii. 7 to 12. chap. x. 15, 16, 17. And the whole Word of God is the Word of all Three. John xv. 26. chap. xvi. 15. 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11. u. Because Chrift Died for the forgiveness of our fins, (Matth. xxvi. 28.) and thereby bought for us power to leave them, Titus ii. 14. See 25 Question. x y. Titus iii. 5,7. Mark x. 14. Chrift promises all the blessings of the Gospel to infants, (Luke xviii. 15.) by most lovingly calling them to him for his blessing, and by declariing B 3 |