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8. How doth God execute his decrees?

God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.

Q. 9. What is the work of creation?

A. The work of creation is, God's making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of fix days, and all very good.

10. How did God create man?

A. God created man male and female, after his, own image, in knowledge, righteoufnefs, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures t.

Q. 11. What are God's works of providence?

A. God's works of providence are, his moít holy v, wife w,

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the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghoft and these three are one. Matth. xxviii. there 19.Go ye fore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft.

7. r Eph. i. 4. According as he hath chofen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we fhould be holy, and without blame before him in love. v. It. In whom alfo we have obtained an inheritance, being predeftinated according to the purpofe of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Rom. ix, 22. What if God, willing to fhew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-fuffering the veffels of wrath fitted to destruction : V. 23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the veffels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory?

9. Gen. i. throughout. Heb. xi. 3. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, fo that things which are feen were not made of things which do

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10. t Gen. i. 26. And God faid, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. V. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them v. 28. And God bleffed them, and God faid unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and fubdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Col. iii. 10. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. Eph. iv. 24. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteoufnefs and true holiness.

11. Pfal. cxlv. 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and ho ly in all his works.

w Pfal. civ. 24. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wifdom haft

and powerful preserving x, and governing all his creatures, and all their actions y.

Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercife toward man in the estate wherein he was created?

A. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience: forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death z.

Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?

A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the eftate wherein they were created, by finning against God a.

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14. What is fin?

A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or tranfgreffion of the law of God b.

haft thou made them all: the carth is full of thy riches. If xxviii. 29. This alfo cometh forth from the Lord of hofts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. x Heb. i. 3. Who being thể brightnefs of his glory, and the exprefs image of his perfon, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himfelf purged our fins, fat down on the right hand of the Majefty on high.

y Pfal. ciii. 19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens : and his kingdom ruleth over all. Matth. x. 29. Are not two fparrows fold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. v. 30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. v. 31. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many fparrows.

12. z Gal. iii. 12. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doth the fhall live in them. Gen. ii. 17. But of the tree of the know ledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that

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13. a Gen. iii. 6. And when the woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleafant to the eyes, and a tree to be defi red to make one wife; fhe took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave alfo unto her husband with her; and he did eat. v. 7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they fewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves ap: ons. v. 8. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themfelves from the prefence of the Lord God, amongst the trees of the garden. v. 13. And

the Lord God faid unto the woman, What is this that thou haft done? And the woman faid, The ferpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Eccl. vii 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have fought out many inventions.

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Q. 15. What was the fin whereby our first parents fell from the eftate wherein they were created?

A. The fin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit c.

16. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first tranfgreffion? A. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himfelf, but for his pofterity; all mankind, defcending from him by ordinary generation, finned in him, and fell with him in his firft tranfgreffion d.

Q. 17. Into what eftate did the fall bring mankind?

A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of fin and mifery e.

Q. 18. Wherein confifts the finfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?

A. The finfulness of that eftate whereinto man fell, confifts in the guilt of Adam's firft fin, the want of original righteousnefs, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original fin; together with all actual tranfgreffions which proceed from it f.

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15. Gen. iii. 6. (See in letter a) V. 12. The woman whom thou gaveft to be with me, fhe gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

16. d Gen. ii. 16. And the Lord God commanded the man, faying. Of every tree of the garden thou mayeft freely eat: v. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt furely die. Rom. v. 12. Wherefore, as by one man fin entered into the world, and death by fin; and fo death paffed upon all men, for that all have finned. Cor. XV. 21. For fince by man came death, by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. v. 22. For as in Adam all die, even fo in Chrift fhall all be made alive.

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17. e Rom. v. 12. Wherefore, as by one man fin entered into the world, and death by fin; and fo death paffed upon all men, for that all have finned.

18. f Rom. v. 12. Wherefore, as by one man fin entered into the world, and death by fin; and fo death paffed upon all men, for that all have finned. v. 19. For as by one man's disobedience many were made finners: fo by the obedience of one fhall many be made righteous. Rom. v. from verf. 10. to the 20. Eph. ii. 1. And you hath he quickened who were dead in trefpaffes and fins. v. 2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the courfe of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the fpirit. that now worketh in the children of difobedience. v. 3. Among whom, alfo we all had our converfation in times paft, in the lufts of our flesh,

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Q 19. What is the mifery of that estate where into `man fell? A. All mankind, by their fall, loft communion with God are under his wrath and curfe h, and fo made liable to all the miferies in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever i.

Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of fin and mifery?

A. God having out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected fome to everlasting life k, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of fin and misery, and to bring them into to an estate of salvation by a Redeemer 1.

fulfilling the defires of the flesh, and of the mind? and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. James i. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own luft, and enticed. v. 15. Then when luft hath conceived, it bringing forth fin and fin when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Matth. xv. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders adulteries, fornication, thefts, false witnefs, blafphemies.

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19. g Gen. iii. 8. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themfelves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. v. 1o. And he faid, I heard thy voice in the garden: and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. v. 24. So he drove out the man and he placed at the eaft of the garden of Eden, cherubims, and a flaming fword, which turned every way, to`keep the way of the tree of life.

h Eph. ii. 2. Wherein in time paft ye walked according to the courfe of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the fpirit that now worketh in the children of difobedience. v. 3. A

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mong whom alfo we all had our converfation in times paft, in the lufts of our flesh, fulfilling the defires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Gal. iii. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curfe for it is written, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his fins : * Rom. vi. 23. For the wages of fin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Matth. XXV. 41. Then fhall he fay alfo unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye curfed, into everlafting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. v. 46. And thefe shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life enternal.

20. k Eph. i. 4. According as he hath chofen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we fhould be holy, and without blame before him in love.

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Q. 21. Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?!

A. The only Redeemer of God's elect, is the Lord Jefus Chrift m, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man n, and fo was, and continueth to be God and man, in two distinct natures, and one perfon for ever o.

& 22. How did Chrift being the Son of God, become man? A. Chrift, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body p, and a reasonable foul q conceived by the power of the Holy Ghoft, in the womb

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law is the knowledge of fin. v. 21. But now the righteoufnefs of God without the law is manifefted, being witneffed by the law and the prophets; v. 22. Even the righteouf nefs of God which is by faith of Jefus Chrift unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference. Gal. iii, 21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs should have been by the law. v. 22. But the fcripture hath concluded all under fin, that the promife by faith in Jefus Chrift might be given to them that believe.

21. m 1 Tim. ii. 5. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Chrift Jefus; v. 6. Who gave himfelf a ranfom for all, to be teftified in due time.

n John i. 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. Gal. iv. But when the fulrefs of the time was come, God fent forth his Şon made of a woman, made under the law.

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all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Luke i. 35. And the angel anfwered and faid unto her, The Holy Ghoft fhall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overfhadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which fhall be born of thee, fhall be called the Son of God. Col. ii. 9. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Heb. vii. 24. But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. v. 25. Wherefore he is able alfo to fave them to the uttermoft, that come unto God by him, fecing he ever liveth to make interceflion for them.

22. p Heb. ii. 14. Forafmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewife took part of the fame that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. v. 16. For verily he took not on him the nature of angel; but he took on him the feed of Abraham. Heb. x. 5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body haft thou prepared me.

q Matth. xxvi. 38. Then faith he unto them, My foul is exceeding forrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

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