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SECT. II.

What is your Pame :

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Q. Who gave you this Name?

A. My Godfathers, and Godmothers, &c. Q. What is that Name which is here demanded of you?

A. It is my Chriftian Name; therefore fo called, because it was given to Me by my Godfathers, and Godmothers, at my Baptifm. For as from my Natural Parents I derive the Name of my Family; fo from thofe who were my Spiritual Parents, I take that Name which properly belongs to me as a Member of Christ's Church. Gen. xvii. 5, 15. Gen. xxi. 3, 4. Luk. į. 59, 60. Luk. ii. 21,

Q. Whom do you mean by your Godfathers and Godmothers?

A. I mean thofe Perfons who became Sureties for me at my Baptifm: And upon whofe Promife there made in my Name, I was Baptized, and fo fœderally admitted into the Communion of Chrift's Church.

Q. What are the Benefits which by your Baptifm have accrued to you?

A. They are Many, and Great Ones, but may, in general, be reduced to thefe Three; that thereby was made a Member of Chzik, the Child of God,and an Inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven.

Q. How were you hereby made a Member of Christ?.

A. As I was made a (a) Member of his MyEph. 22, ftical Body, the Church; of which Chrift is 2. the (b) Head. (a) 1 Cor. xii. 27. Ye are the Body

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iv. 15. v. 23. Chrift is the Head of the Church.
Q. How were you hereby made the Child of
God?

12, 13. Rom, viii.14,

Acts iii. 25.

A. As, by this means, I was taken into Co-Jo. i. 12, 13 venant with Him; was adopted into his Fami- Heb. ii. 11 ly; dedicated to his Service; and intituled to his Promises. Gal. iii. 26, 27, Ye are All the s Children of God by Faith in Jefus Chrift. For as many of you as have been Baptized into Christ, have put on Chrift. And if ye be Chrifts, then are ye Abrahams Seed, and Heirs according to the Promife. See Gal. iv. 5,7. Eph. i. 5.

Q. How were you hereby made an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven?

Gal. iv. 5, 7.

A. As, by my Baptifm, I became intituled Rom. viii.is, to a Right to it; and was actually put into fuch 27; a State, that if I be not wanting to my felf, I Ephef. 1.5. fhall not fail of being made Partaker of it. Tit.Pet iii. 21. iii. 4, &c. But after that, the Kindness and Love of God our Saviour toward Man appeared, Not by Works of Righteoufnefs which we have done, but according to his Mercy, he faved us, by the washing of Regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost: That being juftified by his Grace, we should be made Heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life. 1 Pet. i. 32 &c. Bleffed be the God, and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who according to his abundant Mercy, bath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the Refurrection of Fefus Chrift from the Dead. to an Inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, referved in Heaven for Us. Q. Are All, who are Baptized, made Partakers thereby of these Benefits?

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A. They are all, at that time, either made Partakers of them, or intituled to them. But thofe only continue to hold their Right to thefe B 3

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Heb. ii. 3.

Privileges, who take care to fulfill their part of the Covenant which was therein made between God and Them.

Q. Have none, but fuch as are Baptized, a Right to thefe Benefits?

A. None have a Right to them but fuch as. are Baptized, or were ready to have been Baptized, had they had the Opportunity of Receiving that Holy Sacrament. Fo. iii. 5. Except a Man be born of Water, and of the Spirit, be cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth, and is baptized, fhall be faved.

SECT. III.

QW Bat did your Godfathers, and Godmothers their fo2 you ?

A. They did pzómife and Wow three things in my Name, &c.

Q. What is the firft Thing which your Godfathers, and Godmothers, promised in your Name?

A. That I thould Renounce the Devil, and all his Works, the Pomps, and Wanity, of this Wicked Wozld, and all the linful Lufts of the Fleth.

Q. What does the Renouncing of all these import?

A. It imports an utter forfaking of Them: And obliges me not only inwardly to deteft Them; but fo to watch, and govern all my Outward Actions, as not to follow, nor be led by Them.

Q. Do you think that you shall be able thus, to renounce the Devil, the World, and your Own Flesh?

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A. So perfectly, as I could, wifh, I cannot hope to do it in this prefent Life: Yet I truft that, by the Grace of God, I fhall always from my heart deteft, and abhor them; And fo order my Life, and Actions, as not to be drawn into any evil Courfes by them; nor even into the actual Commiffion of any very great, and voluntary Sins.

Q. What mean you by the Devil? A. It is the common name given in Scripture to thofe wicked Spirits, who having rebelled againft God, and being thereupon justly caft off from that Glorious State in which they were created by him; do make it their conftant Bufinefs and Endeavour to draw as many of us as they can into the fame Rebellion, and thereby into the fame State of Mifery with themselves. 1 Pet. v. 8. Be fober, be vigilant: because your Adverfary the Devil, as a roaring Lion, walketh about, feeking whom he may devour.

Q. What are the Works of the Devil, which, together with him, you, at your Baptism, promised to Renounce?

Mat.xiii. 39.

Luk.viii. 12. Je. viii. 44.

Eph. iv. 27.

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1 Tim.iii.6,7.

Heb. ii. 14.
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Jam. iv. 7.
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A. (a) All manner of Sin: But chiefly I com- (a) Jo.viii,44. prehend,under this firft Rank, thofe Sins which (6) Tim iii. either more immediately relate to him, or proceed from his Suggeftions; (b) fuch as Pride,Ma- jam.3.14,15. Jo. viii. 44. lice, Envy, Revenge, Murder, Lying; and, Joh. ii. 15. above all, Witch-craft, and Idolatry.

Q. What is the next Enemy which, at your Baptifm, you promifed to Renounce?

A. This Wicker Moslo,with all the Pomps, and Clanitiy, of it.

Q. How is it that you call the World, (the Work of God's Hands) a Wicked World?

A. Not that it is in its felf fo, but only to fhew how far, and in what refpect, I am to B 4 Renounce

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Renounce it; namely, in all fuch cafes in which it would draw me into any Wickedness, for the fake of any thing which I defire, or enjoy, in it. Jam. iv. 4. Gal. 1.4. Chrift gave himself for our Sins, that be might deliver us from this prefent Evil World. 1 John ii. 15. Love not the World neither the things that are in the World: If any Man Love the World, the Love of the Father is not in him.

I Jo. ii. 16.

Act xxv. 23.
Phil. ii. 3.

Q. What do you mean by the Pomps,and Vanity, of this Wicked World?

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A. They do most properly denote the vain fhew, and magnificence,of fuch as are Great,and Rich,in it: But do withal comprehend the Riches themselves which minifter to thefe Vanities together with the Covetoufnefs, Injustice, Oppreffion, and whatsoever other Sins, of the like kind, Men commit for the fupport of their Vanity, and to obtain fuch things as minister only to the Pomp, and Pride,of Life.

Q. What is the Third Enemy, which your Religion engages you to Renounce? 4. The Sinful Lufts of the Flech. Q. What mean you by the Word Flesh? A. I mean that Natural Corruption which dwells in our Flesh, and through which we are continually apt either to be led into Sin,or to be hindered in our Duty. Rom. vii. 18. 23. For I know that in me, that is in my Flesh,dwelleth no good thing. Rom. viii. 13. Therefore, we are Debtors not to the Flesh, to live after the Flesh: for if ye live after the Flesh ye shall die, but if ye, through the Spirit, do mortifie the deeds of the Body, ye fhall live. See Gal. v. 16, 17.

Q. What do you understand by the Sinful Lufts of the Flesh?

A. Thofe inordinate Defires, and Inclinations, which proceed from this Principle; and

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