inheritance. The Articles of the Christian Faith, are all those divine truths which are revealed in the Holy Scriptures concerning God and Christ, and the salvation of mankind. To believe them, signifies to be fully satisfied in your own mind that they are true, and to resolve to act according to this belief. To walk in God's commandments, signifies to do what God has commanded, and keep from doing what he has forbidden in the Scriptures.

Questions.---How many things did your godfathers and godmothers promise in your name? [Ans. Three:] Who did they promise you should renounce or give up? [Ans. The devil.] Who is the devil? Ans. The chief of the wicked fallen angels.] What is he to mankind? [Ans. Their great enemy. What are you to renounce besides the devil? [Ans. All his works.] What are the works of the Devil? [Ans. All kinds of wickedness.] How will you be in the next world if you do the works of the devil upon earth? [Ans: Miserable for ever.] What else are you to renounce? Ans. The pomps- and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.] Why is the world called a wicked one? [Ans. Because so many wicked things are done in it.] What are you to believe? [Ans. All the Articles of the Christian Faith.] What are you to keep and walk in? [Ans. God's holy will and command-ments.] What is meant by walking in God's commandments? [Ans. Doing what God has commanded, and not doing what God has forbidden.] How long are you to walk in God's commandments, or live according to them?: [ns. All the days of my life.]

Question-Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and do as they (that is your Godfathers and Godmothers) promised for you?

Answer.-Yes, verily ;--and by God's help, so I will. And I heartily thank our heavenly Father,that he hath called me to this state of salvation,through Jesus Christ our Saviour. And I pray unto God to give me his grace,--that I may continue in the same unto my life's end.

Instruction.---Yes, verily, signifies yes indeed and in truth. You are bound to believe and to do what your godfathers and godmothers promised for you, because, unless you believe and do these things, you cannot be a member

of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the king-dom of heaven. A state of salvation is the way of being saved from everlasting death. It is by the goodness of God that we are put into the way of salvation.

Questions---What do you mean by yes, verily? Ans.. Yes, indeed.] Are you bound to believe and do what your godfathers and godmothers promised for you? [das. Yes.] Can you expect to be the child of God if you do not renounce the devil and all his works? [Ans. No.] Can you expect to be reckoned a member of Christ, that is, one of his Church, or people, if you will not believe the Articles › of the Christian faith, or those things which Christians are . required to believe? [Ans. No.] Can you expect to be made an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven, and have a place there, if you do not keep God's holy will and commandments unto your life's end? [Ans. No.] Can you do this of yourself? [Ans. No.] Whose help do you want toenable you to do your duty? [Ans. God's help.] What way has your heavenly father put you into? [Ans. The way of salvation.] What is that? [Ans. The way to be saved from everlasting death, and to have everlasting life.] Through whom has God called, or put you into this way of salvation? Ans. Through Jesus Christ our Saviour.] What should you do in return for God's goodness, in putting you into the way of salvation? [Ans. Heartily thank him.] When: you are put into the way of salvation, can you keep in it yourself? [Ans. No.]. What should you pray for then? [Ans. God's grace.]

Explanation.---You see what great privileges belong to the Christian Covenant, and the solemn promise and vow which have been made in your name, by which you were. admitted at an early age into this Covenant. You were admitted into this covenant, according to the forms of the Church of England; consider yourself, therefore, as a mem-ber of that church in particular, and resolve to comply with all the Holy Ordinances of it, that your religion may be consistent, and not made up of opposite opinions.

LECTURE II.
Of the Creed.

Explanation.---In the last Lecture I explained to you what your godfathers promised in your name to renounce.

You must now learn what they promised you should be... lieve. Let me hear you then

Rehearse, or say, the Articles of thy Belief.

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, &c.. Explanation.---This Creed, or Belief, contains all that Christians are taught by the New Testament to believe, and no one can be a complete Christian, without believing what is here put together, for it is all founded upon Scripture. The Creed when explained is usually divided into twelve Articles as follows, and I will shew you how each of these Articles is confirmed by the New Testament.

Art. 1. I believe in God, the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth..

Throughout the Gospel, our Lord Jesus Christ speaks of God as our Heavenly Father, because he regards good Christians as his adopted children. And we know from the first chapter of the Bible, that God is the maker of every thing in heaven and earth.

Art. 2. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our. Lord.

That Jesus Christ is the only Son of God, we know, because Christ, and he only, was owned by God the Father as his Son by a voice from. Heaven, at his baptism. See Matt. chap. iii. ver. 17; and at his transfiguration, chap. xvii. ver. 5. Christ also called himself the Son of God, and proved himself to be so, by his doctrine, his miracles, his resurrection, and ascension;---and all the Apostles speak. of Christ as the only Son of God and our Lord.

Art. 3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary?

In the second chapter of St. Luke, we have an account of our Saviour's being conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary.

Art. 4 Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried. He descended into hell.

All the four Evangelists relate, at the end of their Gos-pels, that our Lord suffered when Pontius Pilate was the Roman Governor of Judea; that he was crucified; that he actually died, and was buried. By his going into hell, is

understood, that his soul was separated from his body, and' went to the place of departed spirits.

Art. 5. The third day he rose again from the dead.

The Evangelists relate; that our Lord was crucified or the Friday, and that he rose again on the day we call Sunday, and the Lord's day, which was the third day.

Art. 6. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty.

St. Mark and St. Luke declare, that Christ ascended into heaven, to the right hand of God.

Art. 7. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

Our Lord, while on earth, frequently declared, that he should go to heaven, and return again at the end of the world, to judge mankind. And in the first chapter of the Acts, we read, that two Angels told those who saw our Lord ascend in the clouds, that he would come again in like manner. And all the Apostles who wrote Epistles, speak of Christ's coming again to judge all mankind. By the quick are meant those who will be alive upon earth at his coming, by the dead those that will rise.

Art. 8. I believe in the Holy Ghost.

That there is a Holy Ghost or Spirit we read in many parts of the New Testament; and that the Holy Ghost is God is very plain from his operations and gifts, as described. in the Acts and the Epistles.

Art. 9. The Holy Catholic Church: the Com-munion of Saints.

That there is a Holy Catholic or universal Church; consisting of all holy persons who ever lived in the world, and of all holy persons now living in it, is one of the doctrines of the Christian Religion. See in particular Hebrews, chap. xii. ver. 23. And that all the members of the Church are in communion, or partakers of the blessings of the Gos-pel, is also to be learnt from Scripture. See 1 Cor. chap. x. ver. 17. Ephes. chap. iv. ver. 4 and 5.

Art. 10. The Forgiveness of Sins..

Our Saviour himself repeatedly promised forgiveness of

sin to all who truly repent; and all the apostles taught this doctrrne, in their discourses and epistles.

Art. 11. The Resurrection of the Body.

Our Saviour promised to raise all mankind to life; and St. Paul, in the fifteenth chapter of his first Epistle to the Corinthians, gives a particular account of the resurrection of the body,

Art. 12. And the Life everlasting. Amen."

The life everlasting is that life to which all mankind will` be raised at the last day; and of which we read in many parts of the New Testament, when the good will be made happy for ever and ever: and the wicked miserable to all eternity. The word Amen means here, All this I believe. Keep the particulars I have now told you in mind, when you read the New Testament, and you will be fully convinced, that all the Articles of the Christian Faith, relating to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, are in the Creed or Belief, and that the Apostles believed them. Now tell me, in the words of the Catechism,

Question.-What dost thou chiefly learn in these articles of thy belief?

Answer.-First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who made me and all the world; secondly, in God the Son,-who redeemed me and all mankind;-thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost,-who sanctified me and all the elect people of God!

Instruction.---We learn from the Scriptures, that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, are one God. This unity in the Godhead, these three persons in one God, our Church calls the Trinity, or three in one.

The manner in which the three persons of the Trinity are one God, we are not called upon to believe, for we cannot possibly understand it. We can know no more of God than he sees fit to reveal, but what God has revealed we should readily believe on his word..

Questions.---What do we learn from the Scriptures concerning the nature of God? [Ans. That the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, are one God.] What word is used in our church to express this unity of three persons in one God? [Ans. The Trinity.] How much can we understand of the nature of God? [Ans. No more than God sees