Do the Called of God hear any Voice from Heaven? A. Ordinarily it is a Call without Sound, yet as efficacious as an audible Voice from Heaven.

That all Believer's Privileges are not in Hope, but some in Hand, 1 John 3:1 Behold what Manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God.

But doth not James say otherwise, James 2:14 What doth it profit, my Brethren, though a Man, says he, hath Faith, and have not Works, Can Faith save him? A. The two Apostles contradict not one another. Paul speaks of Justification before God; and James of justifying our Faith before Men.

It teacheth us to carry ourselves as Children to our heavenly Father: First, In our Imitation of him, Eph 5:1 Be ye therefore Followers of God as dear Children : Secondly, In our Submission to him, Heb 12:9 Furthermore, we have had Fathers of our Flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them Reverence: Shall we not much rather be in Subjection to the Father of Spirits, and live? Thirdly, In our Dependence on him, Matt 6:32 For your heavenly Father knoweth that you have Need of all these Things.

True Sanctification purgeth the Heart from the Love of Sin, Rom 7:15 For that which I do, I allow not And the Life from the Dominion of Sin, Rom 6:19 As ye have yielded your Members Servants to Uncleanness, and to Iniquity, unto Iniquity ; even so now yield your Members Servants to Righteousness, unto Holiness.

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How did Christ deliver us from this Misery [of Sin and Hell] ? A. First, By Price : Secondly, By Power. By Price, 1 Peter 1:18-19 Ye are not redeemed with Silver and Gold from your vain Conversation, received by Tradition from your Fathers : But with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without Blemish, and without Spot. By Power, Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the Power of Darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son.

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Nothing can be a Sin but what God hath either expressly, or by Consequence, forbidden in his Word.

Why was this Tree called the Tree of Knowledge? A. Not from any natural Efficacy it had to give Knowledge ; but the Knowledge he should have by eating, or not eating, was experimental Knowledge, i.e. Knowledge to his Sorrow.

Did no Man ever escape the Sin of Adam? A. Yes, the Man Christ Jesus did, and he only, Heb 7:26 For such an high Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from Sinners.

Why was Christ not tainted with it? A. Because he came into the World in an extraordinary Way, Matt 1:18

It should provoke Parents to use their utmost Diligence for the Conversion of their Children, who draw Sin from them.

[What do you learn from the misery here and hereafter?] The wo[e]ful State of the unconverted. Miserable here, and miserable to Eternity.

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