THE CHILD'S CATECHISM 245 E railing. Col. iii. S. Put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth : Lye not one to another :" 30. Q. What are those sinful actions which you must avoid ? A. Sinful actions are such as these, gluttony, drunkenness and quarrelling, wanton carriage and mispending of time, especially theLord's -day, doing dis- honour to God or injury to man. " Luke xxi. 34. Take heed to yourselves lest at any time your, hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. James iv. I. Whence come wars and fighting' amongyou ? Come they not from your lusts ? 1 Them. iv. 11. Study to be quiet, add todo your own business. Rom. xii. 11. Not sloth- ful in business. Rom. xii. 13. Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in cham- bering and wantonness. Rom. ii. 23. Through breaking the law thou dis- honourest God. Rom. xiii. 9, 10. Love thy neighbour as thyself. Love Lworketh no ill to his neighbour." 31. Q Have you never broke the commands of God, and sinned against him. A. My own heart and conscience tell me, that I havebroke God's holy commandments, and sinned against him both in thought, word and deed. " Prov. xx. 9. Who can say, 1 have made my heart clean, I am pitre from my sin? James iii. 2. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. Io many things we offend all. Eccl. vii. 20. There is not a just man upon earth that doth good, and sinneth not." 32. Q. How do you know that you have sinned in thought, word and deedagainst the blessed God? A. I have let evil thoughts run too much in my mind, and spoken too many evil words. I have too oftendone such deeds as are evil, and neglected what is good. See the scriptures under the former question. 33. Q. Whence comes it to pass that you have been such a sinner ? A. I was born into the world with inclinations to that which is evil, and I. have too much followed these inclinations all my life. " Ps. li. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother Con- ceive me. Gen. viii. 21. The imagination of man% heart is evil from big youth. Ephes. ii. 3. We all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature chitarenof wrath, even as others." 34. Q. How came you to be bornwith such inclinations to evil ? A. All mankind are born in sin, because they come from Adair', the first man who sinned against God. 0° Job xiv. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean ? Not one Job xv. 14. What is man, that be should be clean; or he who is born of e woman, that he shouldbe righteous? Rom. v. 12. By one man sin entered into the world. Verse 19. By one man's disobedience many were made sinners." Nomore of original sin is expressed in this catechism, than almost all ehris- tiana acknowledge; nor indeed are children well capable of taking in any deeper accounts of this doctrine. 35. Q. But why did you follow these evil inclinations? Was it not your duty to resist them when you knew they were evil ?. A. I ought to resist every sinful inclination, and therefore I have nosuffr. cieut excuse for myself before the great God. " Rom. vi. II. Let not sin reign in your mortal body, that you. .should obey it in the lusts thereof. Rom. i. 20, 21. They are without excuse, because when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, but became vain in their imaginations. Rom. iii. 19. Every mouth must be stopped, and all the world become guiltybefore God." 36. Q. What do you deserve becauseof your sins? A. My sins have deserved the wrath and curse of the almighty God who made me. " Ephes v. 6. Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience, Gal. iii. 10. Cursed is every one that continuer, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Isa. xxrii, II. lie that made them will not have mercy ou them." Q3
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