HELP TO AN EXPOSITION, &.c. PREFACE. Question 1. WHAT does the word Catechism mean? Answer. Instruction by question and an swer. 2. Were a person to write a book of questions on any subject, with answers to them, what would it be called? A catechism. 3. Why then is this a catechism? That I may understand what I am taught. 5. What are you taught in the Church Catechism? The Christian religion. 6. In what manner should you be taught this? So as to understand it. 7. Quote a text to prove that you understand what you learn. should 19. "I had rather speak," &c. 1 Cor. xiv. 8. What does St. Luke say he wrote his Gospel for? That we might understand. Luke i. 2, 3, 4. 9. Why are you taught as children? God enjoins it: "Thou shalt teach thy children." Deut. vi. 7. 10. At what age did our Lord, as a child, dispute with the doctors? Twelve years. Luke ii. 42. 11. What person is praised by St. Paul for having known the Holy Scriptures from a child? Timothy. 2 Tim. iii. 15. 12. If one be taught the faith when young, what is he likely not to do when old? Depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. 13. What will probably become of the child who is left to himself? The Wise Man saith, "He will bring his mother to shame." Prov. xxix. 15. 14. What society has Christ our Lord appointed to teach his religion? The Church: e. g. "Go ye, (that is, the apostles,) and teach all nations." Matt. xxviii. 19. "The Church, the ground of the truth." 1 Tim. iii. 15. 15. Has Christ appointed any other society besides the Church? None. 16. Does not God, in the Old Testament, refer you to the priest's lips for instruction? Yes: "the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts." 17. Is there not the same admonition in the New Testament, to seek teaching at the mouth of God's priests? Yes: "He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me. ." Luke x. 16. 10 BAPTISMAL PRIVILEGES. 1 WHAT do you call your first name? My Christian name. 2. Why called your Christian name? It was given me when I was made a Christian, or united to Christ. 3. What is your family name? M. or N. 4. Who gave you that name ? My natural parents. 5. What is your Christian name? M. or N. 6. Who gave you that? My spiritual or god-parents. 7. Why are they called god-parents; that is, to whom do they present you? To God. 8. In whose ways do they engage to instruct you? In God's ways; therefore god-parents. 9. Of what use are godfathers and godmothers? 1. They can always prove that I have been made a member of Christ's Church. 2. They are at hand to instruct me, if my parents die, or are wicked persons. 3. It |