Chapter 348
X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy
peighbour'a wife, nor his man-servant, no'r his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor ki» ass, Dor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
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419 The Shorter Catechism,
THE LORD'S PRAYER.
Mat. vi.
OUR Father which art In heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy king- dom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day oar daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen,
THE CREED.
I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth ; and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord, which was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, :*.-. ^. Continued was crucified, dead, and buried: he descended into hell*; in the state of the the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into power of death till heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Al- the third day. mighty, from thence he shall come to judge the quick and
the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost : the holy catholick church ; the communion of saints ; the forgiveness of sins ; the resurrection of the body ; and the life everlasting. Amen.
SO much of every question, both in the Larger and Shorter Catechism, is repeated in the answer, as maketh every answer an entire proposition or sentence in itself ; to the end the learner may further improve it upon all occasions, for his increase in knowledge and piety, even out of the course of iatechising, as well as in it.
And albeit the substance of the doctrine comprised in that abridgment, romnionly called TAe Apoiths Creed, be fully set forth in each of the Cate- rhisms, so as there is no necessity of inserting the Creed itself; yet it is here ijnnexed, not as though it were composed by the Apostles, or ought to be e*tcemed canonical scripture, a^ the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer, (much less a prayer, as ignorant people have been apt to make both it and the Decalogue,) but because it is a brief sum of the Christian faith, ap:reeable to the word of God, and anciently received in the churches qf Christ.
F I N I 8,
SUM OF SAVING KNOWLEDGE;
OR, A
BRIEF SUM
OF
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE,
CONTAINED IS THE
HOLY SCRIPTURES,
CONFESSION OF FAITH AND CATECHISMS ?
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TOGETHER WITH THE
PRACTICAL USE THEREOF.
UN vi. 37. A/I that the Father hath gi-jtn me shMl come to me ; anikhu that Cometh to me J tviU in no tviie cast out.
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e CONTENTS of the SUM of SAVING KNOWLEDGE.
1. Our woeful condition by na- ture.
IL The remedy proTided in Christ Je«U8.
