- #AOC1 What is thy only comfort in Life and Death? That both in Soul and Body, whether I live or dye, I am not mine own, but belong wholly unto my most faithful Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: who by his most precious Blood fully satisfying for all my...
- #AOC2 How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou injoying this comfort mayst live and dye happily? Three. The first, what is the greatness of my sin and misery. The second, how I am delivered from all Sin and Misery. The third, what thanks I owe unto God for this delivery.
- #AOC3 Whence knowest thou thy misery? Out of the Law of God.
- #AOC4 What doth the Law of God require of us? That which Christ doth summarily teach us, Matthew 22:37–40. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, and with all thy Mind, and with all thy Strength. This is the f...
- #AOC5 Art thou able to keep all these things perfectly? No truly: for by nature I am prone to the hatred of God, and of my Neighbours.
- #AOC6 Did God then make man so wicked and perverse? Not so, but rather he made him good, and to his own Image; that is, indued with true Righteousness and Holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, and heartily love him, and live with him bl...
- #AOC7 Whence then ariseth the wickedness of Mans nature? From the fall and disobedience of our first Parents Adam and Eve: hence is our nature so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in Sin.
- #AOC8 Are we so corrupt that we are not at all apt to do well, and are prone to all vice? Indeed we are, except we are regenerated by the Holy Ghost.
- #AOC9 Doth not God then Injury to Man who in the Law requireth that of him which he is not able to perform? No; For God had made Man such a one as he might perform it: but Man by the impulsion of the Devil, and his own stubbornness bereaved himself and all his posterity of those Divine Graces.
- #AOC10 Doth God leave this stubbornness and falling away of Man unpunished? No: but is angry in most dreadful manner, as well for the sins wherein we are born, as also for those which our selves commit, and in most just Judgment punisheth them with present and everlasting Pun...
- #AOC11 Is not God therefore merciful? Yea, Verily he is merciful; but so, that he is also just: wherefore his Justice requireth that the same which is committed against the divine Majesty of God, should also be recompenced with extream, t...
- #AOC12 Seeing 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? God will have his Justice satisfied: wherefore it is necessary that we satisfy either by our selves, or by another.
- #AOC13 Are we able to satisfy by our selves? Not a whit. Nay rather we do every day increase our debt.
- #AOC14 Is there any creature in Heaven or in Earth, which is only a creature, able to satisfy for us? None. For first God will not punish that Sin in any other creature which man hath committed: and further, neither can that which is nothing but a creature sustain the wrath of God against sin, and del...
- #AOC15 What manner of Mediatour then, and Deliverer must we seek for? Such a one verily as is very Man, and perfectly just, and yet in Power above all creatures, that is, one who also is very God.
- #AOC16 Wherefore is it necessary that he be very Man, and that perfectly just too? Because that the Justice of God requireth that the same humane nature which hath sinned, do it self likewise make recompence for sin: but he that is himself a sinner, cannot make recompence for others...
- #AOC17 Why must he also be very God? That he might by the Power of his Godhead sustain in his flesh the burthen of God’s wrath, and might recover and restore unto us that Righteousness and Life which we lost.
- #AOC18 And who is that Mediatour which is together both very God, and a very perfectly just Man? Even our Lord Jesus Christ, who is made to us of God’s Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification & Redemption.
- #AOC19 Whence knowest thou this? Out of the Gospel which God first made known in Paradise, and afterwards did spread it a broad by the Patriarchs and Prophets: shadowed it by Sacrifices and other Ceremonies of the Law; and lastly acc...
- #AOC20 Is then Salvation restored by Christ to all men who perished in Adam? Not to all: but to those only who by a true Faith are ingrafted into him, and receive his benefits.
- #AOC21 What is Faith? It is not only a knowledg, whereby I surely assent to all things which God hath revealed unto us in his Word, but also an hassured trust kindled in my heart by the Holy Ghost, through the Gospel, wher...
- #AOC22 What are those things which are necessary for a Christian man to believe? All things which are promised us in the Gospel: the sum whereof is briefly comprised in the Articles of the Catholick and undoubted Faith of all true Christians, commonly called the Creed. I believe i...
- #AOC23 Into how many parts is this Creed divided? Into three: the first of the eternal Father, and our Creation: the second of the Son and our Redemption: the third of the Holy Ghost, and our Sanctification.
- #AOC24 Seing there is but one only substance of God, why namest thou those three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? Because God hath so manifested himself in his Word, that these three distinct Persons are that one true everlasting God.
- #AOC25 What believest thou when thou sayest, I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth? I believe the everlasting Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, who made of nothing Heaven and Earth, with all that are in them; who likewise upholdeth and governeth the same by his eternal Counsel and Pro...
- #AOC26 What is the Providence of God? The almighty Power of God, every where present, whereby he doth as it were by his hand uphold and govern Heaven and Earth, with all the Creatures therein, so that those things which grow in the Earth,...
- #AOC27 What doth this knowledg of the Creation and Providence of God profit us? That in adversity we may be patient, and thankful in prosperity, and have hereafter our chiefest hope reposed in God our most faithful Father; being sure that there is nothing which may withdraw us fr...
- #AOC28 Why is the Son of God called Jesus, that is, a Saviour? Because he saveth us from our sins; neither ought any safety to be sought for from any other, nor can elsewhere be found.
- #AOC29 Do they then believe in the only Saviour Jesus, who seek for happiness and safety of the Saints, or of themselves, or else where? No: for although in word they boast themselves of him as their only Saviour, yet indeed they deny the only Saviour Jesus: for it must needs be that either Jesus is not a perfect Saviour, or that those...
- #AOC30 Why is he called Christ, that is, anointed? Because he was ordained of the Father, and anointed of the holy Ghost the chief Prophet and Teacher, who hath opened unto us the secret Counsel, & all the will of his Father concerning our Redemp...
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