Drawn out of the Breasts of both Testaments,
for their Souls Nourishment.
From the New England Primer 1777 Edition
By JOHN COTTON.
Q. WHAT hath God done for you?
A. God hath made me, he keepeth me, and he can save me.
Q. What is God?
A. God is a Spirit of himself & for himself.
Q. How many Gods be there?
A. There is but one God in three Persons, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Q. How did God make you?
A. In my first parents holy and righteous.
Q. Are you then born holy and righteous?
A. No, my first father sinned and I in him.
Q. Are you then born a sinner?
A. I was conceived in sin, & born in iniquity.
Q. What is your birth sin?
A. Adam’s sin imputed to me, and a corrupt nature dwelling in me.
Q. What is your corrupt nature?
A. My corrupt nature is empty of grace, bent unto sin, only unto sin, and that continually.
Q. What is sin?
A. Sin is a transgression of the law.
Q. How many commandments of the law be there?
A. Ten.
Q. What is the first commandment?
A .Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
Q . What is the meaning of this commandment?
A. That we should worship the only true God, and no other besides him.
Q. What is the second commandment?
A. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image.
Q. What is the meaning of this commandment?
A. That we should worship the only true God, with true worship, such as he hath ordained, not such as man hath invented.
Q. What is the third commandment?
A. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Q. What is meant by the name of God?
A. God himself & the good things of God, whereby he is known as a man by his name, and his attributes, worship, word and works.
Q. What is it not to take his name in vain?
A. To make use of God & the good things of God to his glory, and our own good, not vainly, not irreverently, not unprofitably.
Q. Which is the fourth commandment?
A. Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
Q. What is the meaning of this commandment?
A. That we should rest from labor, and much more from play on the Lord’s day, that we may draw nigh to God in holy duties.
Q. What is the fifth commandment?
A. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Q. What are meant by father and mother?
A. All our superiors whether in family, school, church and commonwealth.
Q. What is the honor due unto them?
A. Reverence, obedience, and (when I am able) recompense.
Q. What is the sixth commandment?
A. Thou shalt do no murder.
Q. What is the meaning of this commandment?
A. That we should not shorten the life or health of ourselves or others, but preserve both
Q. What is the seventh commandment?
A. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Q. What is the sin here forbidden?
A. To defile ourselves or others with unclean lusts.
Q. What is the duty here commanded?
A. Chastity to posess our vessels in holiness and honor.
Q. What is the eighth commandment?
A. Thou shalt not steal.
Q. What is the stealth here forbidden?
A. To take away another man’s goods without his leave, or to spend our own without benefit to ourselves or others.
Q. What is the duty here commanded?
A. To get our goods honestly, to keep them safely, and spend them thriftily.
Q. What is the ninth commandment?
A. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Q. What is the sin here forbidden?
A. To lie falsely, to think or speak untruly of ourselves or others
Q. What is the duty here required?
A. Truth and faithfulness.
Q. What is the tenth commandment?
A. Thou shalt not covet…
Q. What is the coveting here forbidden?
A. Lust after the things of other men, and want of contentment with our own.
Q. Whether have you kept all these commandments?
A. No, I and all men are sinners.
Q. What are the wages of sin?
A. Death and damnation.
Q. How then look you to be saved?
A. Only by Jefus Christ.
Q. Who is Jesus Christ?
A. The eternal Son of God, who for our sakes became man that he might redeem & save us.
Q. How has Christ redeem and save us?
A. By his righteous life, and bitter death, and glorious resurrection to life again.
Q. How do we come to have a part & fellowship with Christ in his death & resurrection?
A. By the power of his word and spirit, which brings us to him, and keeps us in him.
Q. What is the word?
A. The holy scriptures of the prophets and apostles, the old and new testament, the law and gospel.
Q. How doth the ministry of the law bring you toward Christ?
A. By bringing me to know my sin, and the wrath of God, against me for it.
Q. What are you hereby the nearer to Christ?
A. So I come to feel my cursed estate and need of a Saviour.
Q. How doth the ministry of the Gospel help you in this cursed estate?
A. By humbling me yet more, and then raising me out of this estate.
Q. How doth the ministry of the Gospel humble you yet more?
A. By revealing the grace of the Lord Jesus in dying to save sinners, and yet convincing me of my sin in not believing on him, and of my utter insufficiency to come to him, and so I feel myself utterly lost.
Q. How doth the ministry of the gospel raise you up out of this lost estate to come to Christ?
A. By teaching me the value and virtue of the death of Christ, and the riches of his grace to lost sinners by revealing the promise of grace to such, and by ministering the Spirit of
grace to apply Christ, and his promise of grace unto myself, and to keep me in him.
Q. How doth the Spirit of grace apply Christ & his promise grace unto you and keep you in him?
A. By begetting in me faith to receive him, prayer to call upon him, repentance to mourn after him, and new obedience to serve him.
Q. What is faith?
A. Faith is the grace of the Spirit, whereby I deny myself, and believe on Christ for righteousness and salvation.
Q. What is prayer?
A. It is calling upon God in the name of Christ by the help of the Holy Ghost, according to the will of God.
Q. What is repentance?
A. Repentance is a grace of the Spirit, whereby I loath my sins, and myself for them and confess them before the Lord, and mourn after Christ for the pardon of them, and for grace to serve him in newness of life.
Q. What is the newness of life, or new obedience?
A. Newness of life is a grace of the Spirit, whereby I forfake my former lust & vain company, and walk before the Lord in the light of his word, and in the communion of saints.
Q. What is the communion of saints?
A. It is the fellowship of the church in the blessings of the covenant of grace, and the seals thereof.
Q. What is the church?
A. It is a congregation of saints joined together in the bond of this covenant, to worship the Lord, and to edify one another in all his holy ordinances.
Q, What is the bond of the covenant by which the church is joined together?
A. It is the profession of that covenant which God has made with his faithful people, to be a God unto them, and to their seed.
Q. What doth the Lord bind his people to in this covenant?
A. To give up themselves & their seed first to the Lord to be his people, & then to the elders & brethren of the church to set forward the worship of God & their mutual edification.
Q. How do they give up themselves and their seed to the Lord?
A. By receiving thro’ faith the Lord & his covenant to themfelves, & to their seed & accordingly walking themselves & training up their children in the ways of the covenant.
Q.How do they give up themselves and their seed to the elders and brethren of the church?
A. By confessing of their sins, and profession
of their faith, and of their subjection to the gospel of Christ; and so they and their seed are received into the fellowship of the church and the seals thereof.
Q. What are the seals of the covenant now in the days of the gospel?
A. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
Q. What is done for you in baptism?
A. In baptism the washing with water is a sign and seal of my washing in the blood and spirit of Christ, and thereby of my ingrafting into Christ, of the pardon and cleansing of my sins, of my raising up out of afflictions, and also of my resurrection from the dead at the last day.
Q. What is done for you in the Lord’s supper?
A. In the Lord’s supper, the receiving of the bread broken and the wine poured out is a sign and seal of my receiving the communion of the body of Christ broken for me, and of his blood shed for me, and thereby of my growth in Christ, and the pardon and healing of my sins, of the fellowship of the Spirit, of my strengthening and quickening in grace, and of my sitting together with Christ on his throne of glory at the last judgment.
Q. What was the resurrection from the dead, which was sealed up to you in baptism?
A. When Christ shall come in his last judgment, all that are in their graves shall rise again, both the just and unjust.
Q. What is the judgment, which is sealed up to you in the Lord’s supper?
A. At the last day we shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, to give an account of our works, and receive our reward according to them.
Q. What is the reward that shall then be given?
A. The righteous shall go into life eternal, and the wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire with the Devil and his angels.
A friend of mine recommended the The New England Primer 1777 Edition to use to help raise my son. I like the focus on God and His Word. It was this sort of teaching that raised godly men and women.
Here is an update from a missionary friend named Aaron Bradley. He loves Jesus tremendously.
I hope you enjoy this prayer letter and I hope that it encourages you to serve and follow Jesus.
Aaron writes:
In Jesus Christ,
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John 15:1-3 (New King James Version)
I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
What does God want to prune out of your life? Don’t resist it. Let the vinedresser do His work.
He has been doing this in my life a lot recently. It is painful, but the fruit is better than the pain.
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I voted: No. The motto has historical and patriotic significance and does nothing to establish a state religion.
The poll came from this article:
This is a quote from the GodTube.com website about this event:
“The Saddleback Civil Forum series was established by Dr. Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA, to promote civil discourse and the common good of all. Presidential hopefuls Senators Barack Obama and John McCain made their first joint appearance of the 2008 campaign at the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion to discuss their views on a range of hot-button issues. The event, held at Saddleback Church’s main campus on August 16, was hosted by Dr. Rick Warren. ”
“The direction of your life is determined by what you say. Your words determine the course and direction of your life, just as a bit turns a horse and a rudder turns a ship.”
This is a nugget I got from George Clerie’s Bible Study.
- Today I need to make a lot of phone calls to resellers.
- Still working on refining my Todoist account. I hope it works.
- I just sold a tape library. Thank you God.
- I need to make sure I follow my processes or I will miss things.
- On Todoist, I like how I can add tasks above and below a task and set reminders on the task. Sweet.
- I like how I can save the history on Todoist.
- I am thinking about adding uservoice to LetScriptureSpeak.com.
- 11:57 AM Spoke with a friend who is getting married. He is trying to figure out whether to stay in San Diego after the wedding or move to Portland.
- Working on figuring out how to organize my digital work world.
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