Q. How is God faid to be a Father? A. 1. As he created all Things; 1 Cor. viii.6.God the father, of whom are all things. 2. As he is the Father of our Lord -Jefus Chrift. 3. As he is our Father, by adopting us Ein him, having predeftinated us to the adoption of children by Jefus Chrift, Eph i. 5. Q. Why do you ftile God Almighty? A. Because he has Power to difpofe of, and govern all Things as he pleaseth. Q. How do you prove God to be thus Almighty? A. From Pfal. Ixii. 11. Power belongeth unto God. Pfal. ciii! 19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all. Q. What is meant by Heaven and Earth? A. The World, and all Things that are therein. Q. What Proof have you of God's being the Maker of the Heaven and the Earth? A. From Gen. i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Acts iv. 24. Lord, thou art God, which haft made heaven and earth, and the fea, and all that in them is Heb. Heb. xi. 3. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, fo that the things which are feen, were not made of things which do appear. 2. Of what did God make the World! A. He made it out of nothing. 2. How is the World preferved? A. By the fame divine Power that made it. Q. How do you prove this? A. From Neh. ix. 6, Thou, even thou art Lord alone: thou haft made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their hoft; the earth, with all things that are therein; the feas, and all that is therein: and thou preferveft them all. SECT. IV. Of God the Son; particularly his Names, Offices, and Relations. 2. HAT does the fecond Branch of the Creed treat of? WH A. Of God the Son, and the Work of Redemption. 2. How is our Redeemer defcribed? A. By his Names, Offices and Relations, Q. By what Names is he called here? Q. What doth the Name Jefus fignify? Q. Why was he called Jefus? A. Because he was to SAVE his people from their fins, Matt, i, 21. Q. What doth the word Chrift fignify? A. It is the fame with Meffiah, and fignifies Anointed. Q. Why is he called Chrift, or the Anointed? A. Because he was in a spiritual manner to perform the Offices belonging to God's Anointed. Q. What are those Offices? A. They are the Offices of King, Prieft, and Prophet. Q. How is Chrift a King? A As he governs and protects his Church. Q. How is he a Priest? A. As he did make Atonement, and now intercedes for, and bleffeth his Church. Q: Howi s Christ a Prophet? A. As he teaches his Church; which he did in his Perfon, and continues to do by his Spirit, Word, and Miniftry. Q. How Q. By what Names is he called here ? Q. What doth the Name Jefus fignify? A. It fignifies a SAVIOUR. Q. Why was he called Jefus? A. Because he was to SAVE his people am their fins, Matt. i, 21. Q. What doth the word Chrift fignify? A. It is the fame with Meffiah, and ignifies Anointed. Q. Why is he called Chrift, or the Anointed? A. Because he was in a fpiritual manner o perform the Offices belonging to God's Anointed. Q. What are thofe Offices! A. They are the Offices of King, Prieft, and Prophet. |