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Speaker 1: Larger Catechism by the Westminster Assembly. Question one hundred forty
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Speaker 1: nine is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments
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Speaker 1: of God? Answer? No man is able, either of himself
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Speaker 1: or by any grace received in this life perfectly to
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Speaker 1: keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them
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Speaker 1: in thought? Word? Indeed? Question one hundred fifty Are all
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Speaker 1: transgressions of the Law of God equally heinous in themselves
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Speaker 1: and in the sight of God? Answer? All transgressions of
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Speaker 1: the law are not equally heinous. But some sins, in themselves,
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Speaker 1: and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in
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Speaker 1: the sight of God than others. Question one hundred fifty one.
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Speaker 1: What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous
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Speaker 1: than others? Answer? Sins receive their aggravations one from the
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Speaker 1: person's offending, if they be of riper age, greater experience,
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Speaker 1: or grace eminent. For profession, gifts, place office, guides to
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Speaker 1: others and whose example is likely to be followed by others.
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Speaker 1: Two from the parties offended, if immediately against God, his
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Speaker 1: attributes and worship, against Christ and His grace, the Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: his witness and workings, against superiors, men of eminency, and
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Speaker 1: such as we stand especially related and engaged on. Two
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Speaker 1: against any of the saints, particularly weak brethren, the souls
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Speaker 1: of them or any other, and the common good of all,
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Speaker 1: or many. Three from the nature and quality of the offense,
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Speaker 1: if it be against the express letters of the law,
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Speaker 1: break many commandments, contain in it many sins, if not
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Speaker 1: only conceived in the heart, but breaks forth in words
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Speaker 1: and actions, scandalize others, and admit of no reparation. If
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Speaker 1: against means, mercies, judgments, light of nature, conviction of conscience,
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Speaker 1: public or private admonition, censures of the church, civil punishments
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Speaker 1: and our prayers, purposes, promises, vows, covenance, and engagements to
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Speaker 1: God or men, if done deliberately, wilfully, presumptuously, impudently, boastingly, maliciously, frequently,
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Speaker 1: obstinately with delight, continuance, or relapsing after repentance, for from
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Speaker 1: circumstances of time and place. If on the Lord's Day
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Speaker 1: or other times of divine worship, or immediately before or
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Speaker 1: after these or other helps to prevent or remedy such miscarriages,
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Speaker 1: if in public or in the presence of others who
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Speaker 1: are thereby likely to be provoked or defiled. Question one
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Speaker 1: hundred fifty two What doth every sin deserve at the
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Speaker 1: hands of God? Answer? Every sin, even the least being
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Speaker 1: against the sovereignty, goodness, and holiness of God, and against
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Speaker 1: His righteous Law, deserveth his wrath and curse, both in
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Speaker 1: this life and that which is to come, and cannot
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Speaker 1: be expiated but by the blood of Christ. Question one
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Speaker 1: hundred fifty three, What doth God require of us that
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Speaker 1: we may escape His wrath and curse due to us
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Speaker 1: by reason of the transgression of the law? Answer? That
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Speaker 1: we may escape the wrath and curse of God due
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Speaker 1: to us by reason of the transgression of the law.
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Speaker 1: He requireth of us repentance toward God and faith toward
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Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ, and the diligent use of the
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Speaker 1: outward means, whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of
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Speaker 1: his miss mediation. Question one hundred fifty four, what are
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Speaker 1: the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits
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Speaker 1: of his mediation. Answer the outward and ordinary means. Whereby
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Speaker 1: Christ communicates to his church the benefits of his mediation
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Speaker 1: are all his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments in prayer,
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Speaker 1: all which are made effectual to the elect for their salvation.
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Speaker 1: Question one hundred fifty five. How is the Word made
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Speaker 1: effectual to salvation? Answer? The Spirit of God maketh the reading,
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Speaker 1: but especially the preaching of the Word and effectual means
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Speaker 1: of enlightening, convincing and humbling sinners, of driving them out
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Speaker 1: of themselves and drawing them unto Christ, of conforming them
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Speaker 1: to His image and subduing them to His will, of
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Speaker 1: strengthening them against temptations and corruptions, or building them up
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Speaker 1: in grace and establishing their head hearts in holiness and
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Speaker 1: comfort through faith unto salvation. Question one hundred fifty six
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Speaker 1: is the Word of God to be read by all? Answer?
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Speaker 1: Although all are not to be permitted to read the
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Speaker 1: Word publicly to the congregation, Yet all sorts of people
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Speaker 1: are bound to read it apart by themselves and with
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Speaker 1: their families, to which end the Holy scriptures are to
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Speaker 1: be translated out of the Original into vulgar languages. Question
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Speaker 1: one hundred fifty seven How is the Word of God
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Speaker 1: to be read? Answer? The Holy Scriptures are to be
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Speaker 1: read with a high and reverent esteem of them, with
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Speaker 1: a firm persuasion that they are the very word of God,
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Speaker 1: and that He only can enable us to understand them,
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Speaker 1: with desire to know, believe, and obey the will of
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Speaker 1: God revealed in them, with diligence and attention to the
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Speaker 1: matter and scope of them, with meditation, application, self denial,
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Speaker 1: and prayer. Question one hundred fifty eight, By whom is
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Speaker 1: the Word of God to be preached? Answer? The Word
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Speaker 1: of God is to be preached only by such as
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Speaker 1: are sufficiently gifted and also duly approved and called to
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Speaker 1: that office. Question one hundred fifty nine. How is the
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Speaker 1: Word of God to be preached by those that are
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Speaker 1: called thereunto answer? They that are called to labor in
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Speaker 1: the ministry of the Word are to preach sound doctrine diligently,
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Speaker 1: in season and out of season, plainly, not in the
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Speaker 1: enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the
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Speaker 1: spirit and of power, faithfully making known the whole counsel
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Speaker 1: of God. Wisely applying themselves to the necessities and capacities
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Speaker 1: of the hearers, zealously with fervent love to God and
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Speaker 1: the souls of his people, sincerely aiming at His glory
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Speaker 1: and their conversion, edification and sol salvation. Question one hundred
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Speaker 1: sixty what is required of those that hear the word preached? Answer?
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Speaker 1: It is required of those that hear the word preached
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Speaker 1: that they attend upon it with diligence, preparation, and prayer.
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Speaker 1: Examine what they hear by the scriptures, Receive the truth
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Speaker 1: with faith, love, meekness, and readiness of mind as the
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Speaker 1: Word of God, Meditate and confer of it, hide it
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Speaker 1: in their hearts, and bring forth the fruit of it
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Speaker 1: in their lives. Question one hundred sixty one. How do
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Speaker 1: the sacraments become effectual means of salvation? Answer? The sacraments
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Speaker 1: become effectual means of salvation not by any power in
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Speaker 1: themselves or any virtue derived from the piety or intention
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Speaker 1: of Him by whom they are administered, but only by
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Speaker 1: the working of the Holy Ghost and the blessing of
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Speaker 1: Christ by whom they were instituted. Question one hundred sixty
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Speaker 1: two what is a sacrament? Answer? A sacrament is an
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Speaker 1: holy ordinance instituted by Christ in his church to signify, seal,
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Speaker 1: and exhibit unto those that are within the covenant of grace,
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Speaker 1: the benefits of His mediation, to strengthen and increase their
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Speaker 1: faith and all other graces, to oblige them to obedience,
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Speaker 1: to testify and cherish their love and communion one with another,
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Speaker 1: and to distinguish them from those that are without Question
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Speaker 1: one hundred sixty three what are the parts of a sacrament? Answer?
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Speaker 1: The parts of a sacrament are two, the one an
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Speaker 1: outward and sensible sign used according to Christ's own appointment,
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Speaker 1: the other an inward and spiritual grace thereby signified. Question
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Speaker 1: one hundred sixty four. How many sacraments hath Christ instituted
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Speaker 1: in his church under the New Testament. Answer? Under the
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Speaker 1: New ties Testament, christ hath instituted in his church only
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Speaker 1: two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Question one hundred
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Speaker 1: sixty five what is baptism? Answer? Baptism is a sacrament
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Speaker 1: of the New Testament, wherein Christ Hath ordained the washing
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Speaker 1: with water in the name of the Father and of
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Speaker 1: the Son and of the Holy Ghost, to be a
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Speaker 1: sign and seal of engrafting into himself a remission of
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Speaker 1: sins by His blood and regeneration by His spirit of
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Speaker 1: adoption and resurrection unto everlasting life, and whereby the parties
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Speaker 1: baptized are solemnly admitted into the Visible Church and enter
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Speaker 1: into an open and professed engagement to be holy and only.
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Speaker 1: The Lord's question one hundred sixty six. Unto whom is
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Speaker 1: baptism to be administered? Answer? Baptism is not to be
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Speaker 1: administered to any that are out of the Visible Church,
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Speaker 1: and so from the Covenant of Promise till they profess
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Speaker 1: their faith in Christ and obedience to Him. But infants
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Speaker 1: descending from parents, either both or but one of them
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Speaker 1: professing faith in Christ and obedience to Him, are in
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Speaker 1: that respect within the Covenant and to be baptized. Question
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Speaker 1: one hundred sixty seven, How is baptism to be improved
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Speaker 1: by us? Answer? The needful but much neglected duty of
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Speaker 1: improving our baptism is to be performed by us all
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Speaker 1: our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and
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Speaker 1: when we are present at the administration of it to others.
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Speaker 1: By serious and thankful consideration of the nature of it
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Speaker 1: and of the ends for which Christ instituted it, the
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Speaker 1: privileges and benefits conferred and sealed thereby, and our solemn
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Speaker 1: vow made therein, by being humbled for our sinful defilement,
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Speaker 1: are falling short of and walking contrary to the grace
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Speaker 1: of baptism and our engagements, by growing up to assurance
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Speaker 1: of pardon of sin and of all other blessings sealed
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Speaker 1: to us in that sacrament, by drawing strength from the
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Speaker 1: death and resurrection of Christ, into whom we are baptized
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Speaker 1: for the mortifying of sin and quickening of grace, and
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Speaker 1: by endeavoring to live by faith, to have our conversation
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Speaker 1: in holiness and righteousness as those that have therein given
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Speaker 1: up their names to Christ, and to walk in brotherly love,
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Speaker 1: as being baptized by the same spirit into one body.
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Speaker 1: Question one hundred sixty eight What is the Lord's Supper? Answer?
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Speaker 1: The Lord's Supper is a sacrament of the New Testament,
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Speaker 1: wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine according to
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Speaker 1: the appointment of Jesus Christ, his death is shown forth,
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Speaker 1: and they that worthily communicate feed upon His body and
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Speaker 1: blood to their spiritual nourishment and growth. In grace, have
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Speaker 1: their union and communion with Him confirmed, testify and renew
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Speaker 1: their thankfulness and engagement to God, and their mutual love
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Speaker 1: and fellowship with each other as members of the same
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Speaker 1: mystical body. Question one hundred sixty nine, How hath Christ
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Speaker 1: appointed bread and wine to be given and received in
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Speaker 1: the sacrament of the Lord's Supper? Answer? Christ, hath appointed
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Speaker 1: the ministers of His Word in the administration of the
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Speaker 1: Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, to set apart the bread
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Speaker 1: and wine from common use by the word of institution,
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Speaker 1: thanksgiving and prayer, to take and break the bread, and
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Speaker 1: to give both the bread and the wine to the communicants,
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Speaker 1: who are, by the same appointment to take and eat
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Speaker 1: the bread and to drink the wine, in thankful remembrance
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Speaker 1: that the body of Christ was broken and given, and
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Speaker 1: his blood shed for them. Question one hundred seventy how
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Speaker 1: do they that worthily communicate in the Lord's Supper feed
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Speaker 1: upon the body and blood of Christ? Therein answer, as
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Speaker 1: the body and blood of Christ are not corporally or
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Speaker 1: kernally present in with or under the bread and wine
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Speaker 1: of the Lord's Supper, and yet are spiritually present to
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Speaker 1: the faith of the receiver, no less truly and really
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Speaker 1: than the elements themselves are to our outward senses. So
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Speaker 1: they that worthily communicate in the Sacrament of the Lord's
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Speaker 1: Supper do therein feed upon the body and blood of Christ,
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Speaker 1: not after a corporal and carnal but in a spiritual manner,
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Speaker 1: yet truly and really, while by faith they receive and
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Speaker 1: apply unto themselves Christ crucified and all the benefits of
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Speaker 1: His death. Question one hundred seventy one. How are they
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Speaker 1: that receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper to prepare
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Speaker 1: themselves before they come unto it? Answer? They that receive
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Speaker 1: the sacrament of the Lord's Supper are before they come
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Speaker 1: to prepare themselves thereunto by examining themselves of their being
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Speaker 1: in Christ, of their sins and wants, of the truth
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Speaker 1: and measure of their knowledge, faith, repentance, love to God
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Speaker 1: and the brethren, charity to all men, forgiving those that
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Speaker 1: have done them wrong, of their desires after Christ and
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Speaker 1: of their new obedience, and by renewing the exercise of
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Speaker 1: these graces by serious meditation and fervent prayer. Question one
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Speaker 1: hundred seventy two. May one who doubteth of his being
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Speaker 1: in Christ, or of his due preparation come to the
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Speaker 1: Lord's Supper. Answer. One who doubteth of his being in Christ,
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Speaker 1: or of his due preparation to the sacrament of the
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Speaker 1: Lord's Supper may have true interest in Christ, though he
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Speaker 1: be not yet assured thereof and in God's account hath
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Speaker 1: it if he be duly affected with the apprehension of
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Speaker 1: the want of it, and unfeignedly desires to be found
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Speaker 1: in Christ and to depart from iniquity. In which case,
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Speaker 1: because promises are made, and this sacrament is appointed for
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Speaker 1: the relief even of weak and doubting Christians, he is
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Speaker 1: to bewail his unbelief and labor to have his doubts resolved,
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Speaker 1: And so doing he may and ought to come to
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Speaker 1: the Lord's Supper, that he may be further strengthened. Question
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Speaker 1: one hundred seventy three. May any who profess the faith
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Speaker 1: and desire to come to the Lord's Supper be kept
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Speaker 1: from it? Answer? Such as are found to be ignorant
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Speaker 1: or scandalous, notwithstanding their profession of the faith and desire
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Speaker 1: to come to the Lord's Supper, may and ought to
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Speaker 1: be kept from that sacrament. By the power which Christ
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Speaker 1: hath left in his church until they receive instruction and
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Speaker 1: manifest their reformation. Question one hundred seventy four What is
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Speaker 1: required of them that received the Sacrament of the Lord's
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Speaker 1: Supper in the time of the administration of it? Answer?
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Speaker 1: It is required of them that receive the sacrament of
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Speaker 1: the Lord's Supper, that, during the time of the administration
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Speaker 1: of it, with all holy reverence and attention, they wait
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Speaker 1: upon God in that ordinance, diligently observe the sacramental elements
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Speaker 1: and actions, heedfully discern the Lord's body, and affectionately meditate
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Speaker 1: on his death and sufferings, and thereby stir up themselves
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Speaker 1: to a vigorous exercise of their graces, in judging themselves
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Speaker 1: and sorrowing for sin, in earnest, hungering and thirsting after Christ,
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Speaker 1: feeding on him by faith, receiving of His fullness, trusting
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Speaker 1: in his merits, rejoicing in his love, giving thanks for
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Speaker 1: His grace, in renewing of their covenant with God, and
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Speaker 1: love to all the saints. Question one hundred seventy five
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Speaker 1: What is the duty of Christians after they have received
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Speaker 1: the sacrament of the Lord's Supper? Answer? The duty of Christians,
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Speaker 1: after they have received the sacrament of the Lord's Supper
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Speaker 1: is seriously to consider how they have behaved themselves therein
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Speaker 1: and with what success. If they find quickening and comfort,
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Speaker 1: to bless God, for it beg the continuance of it,
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Speaker 1: watch against relapses, fulfill their vows, and encourage themselves to
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Speaker 1: a frequent attendance on that ordinance. But if they find
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Speaker 1: no present benefit, more exactly to review their preparation to
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Speaker 1: and carriage at the sacrament in both which if they
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Speaker 1: can approve themselves to God and their own consciences, they
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Speaker 1: are to wait for the fruit of it in due time.
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Speaker 1: But if they see they have failed in either, they
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Speaker 1: are to be humbled and to attend upon it afterwards
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Speaker 1: with more care and diligence. Question one hundred seventy six,
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Speaker 1: wherein do the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper agree? Answer?
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Speaker 1: The sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper agree in
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Speaker 1: that the author of both is God, the spiritual part
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Speaker 1: of both is Christ, and his benefits. Both our seals
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Speaker 1: of the same Covenant are to be dispensed by ministers
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Speaker 1: of the Gospel and by none other. And to be
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Speaker 1: continued in the Church of Christ until his second coming.
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Speaker 1: Question one hundred seventy seven, wherein do the sacraments of
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Speaker 1: baptism and the Lord's Supper differ? Answer? The sacraments of
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Speaker 1: Baptism and the Lord's Supper differ in that Baptism is
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Speaker 1: to be administered but once with water, to be a
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Speaker 1: sign and seal of our regeneration and in grafting into Christ,
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Speaker 1: and that even to infants. Whereas the Lord's Supper is
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Speaker 1: to be administered often in the elements of bread and wine,
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Speaker 1: to represent and exhibit Christ as spiritual nourishment to the soul,
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Speaker 1: and to confirm our continuance in growth in Him. And
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Speaker 1: that only to such as are of years and ability
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Speaker 1: to examine themselves. Question one hundred seventy eight What is prayer? Answer?
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Speaker 1: Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God
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Speaker 1: in the name of Christ, by the help of His Spirit,
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Speaker 1: with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies.
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Speaker 1: Question one hundred seventy nine Are we to pray unto
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Speaker 1: God only? Answer? God only being able to search our hearts,
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Speaker 1: hear the requests, pardon the sins, and fulfill the desires
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Speaker 1: of all, and only to be believed in and worshiped
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Speaker 1: with religious worship. Prayer, which is the special part thereof,
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Speaker 1: is to be made by all to Him alone and
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Speaker 1: to none other. Question one hundred eighty What is it
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Speaker 1: to pray in the name of Christ? Answer? To pray
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Speaker 1: in the name of Christ is in obedience to His
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Speaker 1: command and in confidence of his promises to ask mercy
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Speaker 1: for his sake, not by bear mentioning of His name,
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Speaker 1: but by drying our encouragement to pray, and our boldness,
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Speaker 1: strength and hope of acceptance in prayer from Christ and
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Speaker 1: his mediation. Question one hundred eighty one. Why are we
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Speaker 1: to pray in the name of Christ? Answer? The sinfulness
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Speaker 1: of man and his distance from God, by reason thereof
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Speaker 1: being so great as that we can have no access
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Speaker 1: into His presence without a mediator, and there being none
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Speaker 1: in heaven or earth appointed to or fit for that
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Speaker 1: glorious work but Christ alone. We are to pray in
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Speaker 1: no other name but His only. Question one hundred eighty two,
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Speaker 1: How doth the Spirit help us to pray? Answer? We,
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Speaker 1: not knowing what to pray for as we ought, the
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Speaker 1: Spirit helpeth our infirmities, by enabling us to understand both
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Speaker 1: for whom and what and how prayer is to be made,
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Speaker 1: and by working and quickening in our hearts, although not
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Speaker 1: in all persons, nor at all times, in the same measure,
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Speaker 1: those apprehensions, affections, and graces which are requisite for the
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Speaker 1: right performance of that duty. Question one hundred eighty three.
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Speaker 1: For whom are we to pray? Answer? We are to
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Speaker 1: pray for the whole Church of Christ upon earth, for
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Speaker 1: magistrates and ministers, for ourselves, our brethren, yea, our enemies,
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Speaker 1: and for all sorts of men living or that shall
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Speaker 1: live hereafter, but not for the dead, nor for those
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Speaker 1: that are known to have sinned the sin unto death.
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Speaker 1: Question one hundred eighty four. For what things are we
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Speaker 1: to pray? Answer? We are to pray for all things
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Speaker 1: tending to the glory of God, the welfare of the Church,
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Speaker 1: our own or other's good, but not for anything that
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Speaker 1: is unlawful. Question one hundred eighty five. How are we
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Speaker 1: to pray? Answer? We are to pray with an awful
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Speaker 1: apprehension of the majesty of God and deep sense of
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Speaker 1: our own unworthiness, necessities and sins, with penitent, thankful and
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Speaker 1: enlarged hearts, with understanding, faith, sincerity, fervency, love, and perseverance,
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Speaker 1: waiting upon him with humble submission to his will. Question
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Speaker 1: one hundred eighty six What rule hath God given for
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Speaker 1: our direction in the duty of prayer? Answer? The whole
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Speaker 1: word of God is of use to direct us in
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Speaker 1: the duty of prayer. But the special rule of direction
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Speaker 1: is that form of prayer which our Savior Christ taught
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Speaker 1: his disciples, commonly called the Lord's prayer. Question one hundred
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Speaker 1: eighty seven, How is the Lord's prayer to be used? Answer?
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Speaker 1: The Lord's prayer is not only for direction as a
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Speaker 1: pattern according to which we are to make other prayers,
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Speaker 1: but may also be used as a prayer, so that
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Speaker 1: it be done with understanding, faith, reverence, and other graces
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Speaker 1: necessary for the right performance of the duty of prayer.
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Speaker 1: Question one hundred eighty eight of how many parts doth
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Speaker 1: the Lord's prayer consist? Answer? The Lord's prayer consists of
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Speaker 1: three parts, a preface, petitions, and a conclusion. Question one
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Speaker 1: hundred eighty nine. What doth the preface of the Lord's
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Speaker 1: Prayer teach us? Answer? The preface of the Lord's Prayer
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Speaker 1: contained in these words our Father, which are in heaven,
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Speaker 1: teacheth us, when we pray to draw near to God
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Speaker 1: with confidence of his fatherly goodness and our interest therein,
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Speaker 1: with reverence and all other childlike dispositions, heavenly affections, and
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Speaker 1: due apprehensions of His sovereign power, majesty and gracious condescension,
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Speaker 1: one hundred ninety what do we pray for in the
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Speaker 1: first petition? Answer in the first petition, which is hollowed,
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Speaker 1: be thy name, acknowledging the utter inability and indisposition that
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Speaker 1: is in ourselves and all men to honor God or right.
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Speaker 1: We pray that God would, by his grace enable and
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Speaker 1: incline us and others to know, to acknowledge, and highly
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Speaker 1: prevent and remove atheism, ignorance, idolatry, profaneness, and whatsoever is
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Speaker 1: dispose of all things to his own glory. Question one
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Speaker 1: hundred ninety one. What do we pray for in the
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Speaker 1: second petition? Answer in the second petition, which is Thy
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Speaker 1: Kingdom come acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by
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Speaker 1: nature under the dominion of Sin and Satan. We pray
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Speaker 1: that the kingdom of Sin and Satan may be destroyed
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Speaker 1: the Gospel propagated throughout the world the Jews called the
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Speaker 1: fullness of the Gentiles, brought in the church, furnished with
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Speaker 1: all gospel officers and ordinances, purged from corruption, countenanced and
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Speaker 1: maintained by the civil magistrate, that the ordinances of Christ
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Speaker 1: may be purely dispensed and made effectual to the converting
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Speaker 1: of those that are yet in their sins, and the confirming, comforting,
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Speaker 1: and building up of those that are already converted. That
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Speaker 1: Christ would rule in our hearts here and hasten the
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Speaker 1: time of his second coming and our reigning with him forever,
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Speaker 1: And that He would be pleased so to exercise the
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Speaker 1: kingdom of His power in all the world, as may
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Speaker 1: best conduce to these ends. Question one hundred ninety two,
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Speaker 1: What do we pray for in the third petition? Answer
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Speaker 1: in the third petition, which is, Thy will be done
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Speaker 1: in earth as it is in Heaven, acknowledging that by
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Speaker 1: nature we and all men are not only utterly unable
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Speaker 1: and unwilling to know and to do the will of God,
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Speaker 1: but prone to rebel against his word, to repine and
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Speaker 1: murmur against his providence, and wholly inclined to do the
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Speaker 1: will of the flesh and of the devil. We pray
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Speaker 1: that God would, by his spirit take away from ourselves
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Speaker 1: and others all blindness, weakness, indisposedness, and perverseness of heart,
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Speaker 1: and by his grace make us able and willing to know,
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Speaker 1: do and submit to His will in all things, with
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Speaker 1: the like humility, cheerfulness, faithfulness, diligence, zeal, sincerity, and constancy
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Speaker 1: as the angels do in heaven. Question one hundred ninety three,
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Speaker 1: What do we pray for in the fourth petition? Answer
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Speaker 1: in the fourth petition, which is give us this day
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Speaker 1: our daily bred acknowledging that in Adam and by our
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Speaker 1: own sin, we have forfeited our right to all the
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Speaker 1: outward blessings of this life, and deserve to be wholly
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Speaker 1: deprived of them by God, and to have them cursed
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Speaker 1: to us in the use of them, And that neither
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Speaker 1: they of themselves are able to sustain us, nor we
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Speaker 1: to merit or by our own industry to procure them,
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Speaker 1: but prone to desire, get and use them unlawfully. We
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Speaker 1: pray for ourselves and others that both they and we,
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Speaker 1: waiting upon the providence of God, from day to day,
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Speaker 1: in the use of lawful means, may of His free gift,
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Speaker 1: and as to His fatherly wisdom, shall seem best enjoy
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Speaker 1: a competent portion of them, and have the same continued
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Speaker 1: and blessed unto us in our holy and comfortable use
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Speaker 1: of them, and contentment in them, kept from all things
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Speaker 1: that are contrary to our temporal support and comfort. Question
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Speaker 1: the fifth petition? Answer in the fifth petition, which is,
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Speaker 1: forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors acknowledging
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Speaker 1: that we and all others are guilty both of original
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Speaker 1: and actual sin, and thereby become debtors to the grace
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Speaker 1: of God, and that neither we nor any other creature
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Speaker 1: can make the least satisfaction for that debt. We pray
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Speaker 1: for ourselves and others that God, of his free grace, would,
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Speaker 1: through the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, apprehended and applied
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Speaker 1: by faith, acquit us both of the guilt and punishment
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Speaker 1: of sin, except us in His beloved continue his favor
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Speaker 1: and grace to us, pardon our daily failings, and fill
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Speaker 1: us with peace and joy in giving us daily more
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Speaker 1: and more assurance of forgiveness, which we are the rather
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Speaker 1: emboldeness to ask and encouraged to expect when we have
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Speaker 1: this testimony in ourselves, that we from the heart forgive
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Speaker 1: others their offenses. Question one hundred and ninety five, what
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Speaker 1: do we pray for in the sixth petition? Answer in
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Speaker 1: the sixth petition, which is, and lead us not into temptation,
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Speaker 1: but deliver us from evil, acknowledging that the most wise,
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Speaker 1: righteous and gracious God, for divers, holy and just ends,
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Speaker 1: may so order things that we may be assaulted, foiled,
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Speaker 1: and for a time led captive by temptations, that satan,
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Speaker 1: the world and the flesh are ready powerfully to draw
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Speaker 1: us aside and ensnare us. And that we, even after
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Speaker 1: the pardon of our sins, by reason of our corruption, weakness,
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Speaker 1: and want of watchfulness, are not only subject to be
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Speaker 1: tempted and forward to expose ourselves unto temptations, but also
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Speaker 1: of ourselves unable and unwill willing to resist them, to
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Speaker 1: to be left under the power of them. We pray
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Speaker 1: that God would so overrule the world and all in it,
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Speaker 1: subdue the flesh, and restrain Satan, order all things, bestow
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Speaker 1: and bless all means of grace, and quicken us to
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Speaker 1: watchfulness in the use of them, that we and all
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Speaker 1: His people may, by His providence be kept from being
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Speaker 1: tempted to sin, or if tempted, that by His spirit
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Speaker 1: we may be powerfully supported and enabled to stand in
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Speaker 1: the hour of temptation, or when fallen, raised again and
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Speaker 1: recovered out of it, and have a sanctified use and
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Speaker 1: improvement thereof that our sanctification and salvation may be perfected,
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Speaker 1: Satan trodden under our feet, and we fully freed from sin, temptation,
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Speaker 1: and all evil forever. Question one hundred ninety six, What
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Speaker 1: doth the conclusion of the Lord's prayer? Teach us answer?
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Speaker 1: The conclusion of the Lord's prayer, which is for Thine
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Speaker 1: is the Kingdom and the power and the glory Forever, Amen,
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Speaker 1: teacheth Us to enforce our petitions with arguments which are
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Speaker 1: to be taken not from any worthiness in ourselves or
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Speaker 1: in any other creature, but from God, and with our
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Speaker 1: prayers to join praises ascribing to God alone eternal sovereignty,
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Speaker 1: omnipotency and glorious excellency in regard whereof He is able
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Speaker 1: and willing to help us. So we by faith are
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Speaker 1: emboldened to plead with Him that he would, and quietly
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Speaker 1: to rely upon Him that he will fulfill our requests.
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Speaker 1: And to testify this our desire and assurance, we say Amen.
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Speaker 1: End of Section four. Recording by Tricia g end of Westminster.
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