Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I Say? 3. Pray and truft on him, Rom. x. 12, 13. For there is no difference between the few and the Greek: For the fame Lord over all, is rich unto all that call upon him. For whofoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord fhall be faved. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, 2. How do ye prove he was fo conceived? A. Luke i. 25. And the Angel answered and faid unto her, The Holy Ghoft fhall come upon thee, and the power of the highest fhall overshadow thee; therefore alfo that holy thing which shall be born of thee, fhall be called the Son of God. Matth. i. 20. But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a Dream, Jaying, Fofeph thou Son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy Wife: for that which is conceiv'd in her is of the Holy Ghost. 2. Why was that neceffary? A. That he might be without Sin, Heb. vii. 26. For fuck an High Priest became us, who is holy, barmless, undefiled, feparate from Sinners, and made higher than the Heavens. 2. How do ye prove that his Mother was a Virgin? A. Ifa. vii. 14. Therefore the Lord himself full give you a fign, behold a Virgin fhall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call his Name Immanuel. Luke i. 34. Then faid Mary unto the Angel, bow fball this be, feeing that I know not a Man. Matth. i. 18, 25. Now the birth of Jefus Chrift was on this wife: wbenas bis mother Mary was espoused to FT 2 feph, feph, before they came together, he was found I A. Yes, 1 Tim. ii. 5. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Chrift Fefus. John i. 14. And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we bebeld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 2. Was he one Perfon as God, and another as Man? A. No. One as both. Acts xx. 28. Take heed therefore unto your felves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost bath made you Overfeers,to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 2. Why fo? A. If he was not Man, he could not have died at all. If he was not God his Death would have done us no good. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, 2. How do ye prove that Chrift was to suf fer? A. Luk. xxiv. 25, 26. Then he faid unto them, O Fool, and flow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken.. Ought not Chrift to have fuffered these things, and to enter into his Glory? Gen. iii. 15. And I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy feed and her feed, it shall bruife thy head, and thou shalt bruife his beel. 2. What did he suffer? A. Hun 1 A. Hunger and Thirft, Math. iv. 2. And when he had fated forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards an bungred Sorrow and Agonies, Matt. xxvi. 38. Then jaith he unto them, my foul is exceeding forrowful even unto death, tarry ye here and watch with me. His Agony, Luke xxii. 44. And being in an Agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his feat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Mark xv. 17, 18, 19. And they cloathed him with purple, and platted a Crown of Thorns, and put it about his head, and began to falute bim, Hail king of the Jews. And they fmote bim on the head with a reed, and did fpit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him. 2. Why did he suffer? A. For our Sins, Ifa. liii. 5. But he was wounded for our Tranfgreffioms, he was bruised for our Iniquities, the chaftifement of our Peace was upon him, and with his ftripes we are healed, 1 Pet. iii. 18. For Chrift alfo hath once fuffered for fins, the just for the unjuft (that he might bring us to God) being put to death in the flesh, but quickned by the Spirit. 1 Johnii. 2. And he is the propitiation for our Sins: and not for ours only, but alfo for the fins of the whole world. 2 Cor. v. 21. For he hath made him to be fin for us, who know no fin; that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him. What Benefit was that to us? A. Our Sins are thereby pardoned, Eph. i. 7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of fins, according to the riches of his grace. 2. How fo? A. Because he fuffered in our Nature united to his Perfon, Acts xx. 28. Take heed therefore unto your felves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghoft bath made you Overfeers, to feed the T 3 Church Church of God,which he hath purchafed with his own blood. 1 Tim. ii. 6. Who gave himself a Ransom for all to be teftified in due time. Under Pontius Pilate, 2. Who was he? A. Governor of Judea, Luke iii. 1. Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cefar, Pontius Pilate being Governor of Judea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee, and his Brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, and of the Region of Trachonitis, and Lyfanias the Tetrarch of Abilene. 2. How came he to fuffer under him? A. The Jews delivered him to him, Mattb. xxvii. 1, 2. When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took councel against fefus to put him to death; and when they bad bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the Governor. John xviii. 30, 31. They answered and faid unto him, If he were not a malefactor we would not have delivered him up unto thee. Then faid Pilate unto them, take ye him and judge him according to your law. The Jews thereFore faid unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. 2. What did he do to him? A. He acknowledged him innocent, and yet condemned him to die, Matth. xxvii. 24, 26. When Pilate faw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and w ed his hands before the multitude, faying, I am innocent of the blood of this just perfon: See ye to it. Then releafed be Barabbas unto them: and when be bad fcourged Fefus, be delivered him to be cr cified. Q. Why 2. Why is his Name put into the Creed? A. That we may know the Time when Chrift fuffered, Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law. 2. Why did he fuffer under him that was a R man? A. That the Scriptures might be fulfilled, P. xxii. 16. For dogs have compaffed me, the affembly of the wicked have inclofed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Zach. xii. 10. And I will pour upon the boufe of David, and upon the inhabitants of ferufalem, the Spirit of grace and of Supplications, and they fhall look upon me whom they bave pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only fon, and fhall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first born. Numb. xxi. 9. And Mofes made a ferpent of brass and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a Serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the Serpent of Brafs, he lived. John iii. 14 And as Mofes lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness, even fo muft the Son of man be lifted up. Was crucified, Dead, 2. How do ye prove he was crucified? A. Luke xxiii. 33. And when they were come ta the place which is called Calvary, there they cruci fied him and the malefactors; one on the right hand, and the other on the left. 2. What was that? A. They faften'd his Body to a Crofs, with Nails drove through his Hands and Feet, Pfal, xxii. 16. For dogs have compaffed me, the affembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my T4 Hands |