Q. 69. Have all the members of the church right to the
Lord's table, and is suspension lawful ?......
Q. 70. Is there any such thing in the church, as a rank, or
classis, or species of church-members at age, who are not
to be admitted to the Lord's table, but only to the hear-
ing of the Word, and prayer, between infant members, and
adult, confirmed ones?....
Q. 71. Whether a form of prayer be lawful?...
Q. 72. Are forms of prayer or preaching in the church lawful? 415
Q. 73. Are public forms of man's devising or composing
lawful?
Q. 74. Is it lawful to impose forms on the congregation or
the people in public worship? .....
Q. 75. Is it lawful to use forms composed by man, and im-
posed not only on the people, but on the pastors of the
churches ?......
Q. 76. Doth not the calling of a minister so consist in the ex-
ercise of his own ministerial gifts, that he may not officiate
without them, nor make use of other men's gifts instead of
them?.....
Q. Is it lawful to read a prayer in the church?.......
Q. 77. Is it lawful to pray in the church without a prescribed
or premeditated form of words?......
Q. 78. Whether are set forms of words, or free praying with-
out them the better way; and what are the commodities,
and incommodities of each way ?. . . . .
Q. 79. Is it lawful to forbear the preaching of some truths,
upon man's prohibition, that I may have liberty to preach
the rest? yea, and to promise to forbear them, or to do it
for the church's peace ?
Q. 80. May or must a minister silenced, or forbid to preach
the Gospel, go on still to preach it against the law? ...
Q. 81. May we lawfully keep the Lord's day as a fast? ....
Q. 82. How should the Lord's day be spent in the main?
Q. 83. May the people bear a vocal part in worship, or do
any more than say, Amen?......
Q. 84. Is it not a sin for our clerks to make themselves the
mouth of the people, who are not ordained ministers of Christ? 438
Q. 85. Are repetitions of the same words in church-prayers
lawful?....
Q. 86. Is it lawful to bow at the name of Jesus?..
Q. 87. Is it lawful to stand up at the Gospel as we are ap-
pointed?
Q. 88. Is it lawful to kneel when the Decalogue is read?..
Q. 89. What gestures are fittest in all the public worship?..
Q. 90. What if the pastor and church cannot agree, about
singing psalms, or what version or translation to use, or
time or place of meeting, &c. ?.....
Q. 91. What if the pastor excommunicate a man, and the
people will not forbear his communion, as thinking him
unjustly excommunicated?..
Q. 92. May a whole church, or the greater part be excom-
municated? ...
Q. 93. What if a church have two pastors, and one ex-
communicate a man and the other absolve him, what
shall the church and the dissenter do?
Q. 94. For what sins may a man be denied communion or
excommunicated; whether for impenitence in every little
sin; or for great sin without impenitence?
Q.95. Must the pastor examine the people before the sacrament? 446
Q. 96. Is the sacrament of the Lord's supper a converting
ordinance?....
Q. 97. Must no man come to the sacrament that is uncertain
or doubtful of the sincerity of his faith and repentance?
Q. 98. Is it lawful or a duty to join oblations to the sacra-
ment, and how? ..
Q. 99. How many sacraments are there appointed by Christ? 449
Q. 100. How far is it lawful, needful, or unlawful for a man
to afflict himself by external penances for sin ?........
Q. 101. Is it lawful to observe stated times of fasting imposed
by others, without extraordinary occasions; and particu-
larly Lent?
Q. 102. May we continue in a church where some one ordi-
nance of Christ is wanting; as discipline, prayer, preach-
ing, or sacraments, though we have all the rest?
..... 457
Q. 103. Must the pastors remove from one church to another,
whenever the magistrate commandeth us, though the
bishops contradict it, and the church consent not to dis-
miss us? And so of other cases of disagreement..
Q. 104. Is a pastor obliged to his flock for life; or is it lawful
so to oblige himself; and may he remove without their
consent? And so also of a church-member, the same
questions are put
Q. 105. When many men pretend at once to be the true
pastors of a particular church, against each other's title,
through differences between the magistrates, the ordainers,
and the flocks, what should the people do, and whom
should they adhere to?
Q. 106. To whom doth it belong to reform a corrupted
church; to the magistrates, pastors, or people?........ ibid.
Q. 107. Who is to call synods; princes, pastors, or people?
Q. 108. To whom doth it belong to appoint days and assem-
blies for public humiliation and thanksgiving?....
Q. 109. May we omit church-assemblies on the Lord's day,
if the magistrates forbid them? ....
Q. 110. Must we obey the magistrate if he only forbid us
worshipping God, in such a place, or country, or in such
numbers, or the like circumstances?.....
Q. 111. Must subjects or servants forbear weekly lectures,
reading, or such helps, above the Lord's day's worship, if
princes or masters do forbid them? ...
Q. 112. Whether religious worship may be given to a crea-
ture, and what?
Q. 113. What images, and what use of images, is lawful or
unlawful?....
Q. 114. Whether stage-plays, where the virtuous and vicious
are personated, be lawful?
Q. 115. Is it ever unlawful to use the known symbols and
badges of idolatry?....
Q. 116. Is it unlawful to use the badge or symbol of any
error or sect in the worship of God? ...
Q. 117. Are all indifferent things made unlawful to us, which
shall be abused to idolatrous worship?......
Q. 118. May we use the names of week days which idolaters
honoured their idols with, as Sunday, Monday, Saturday,
and the rest? And so the months?...
Q. 119. Is it lawful to pray secretly when we come first into
church, especially when the church is otherwise employed? 490
Q. 120. May a preacher kneel down in the pulpit and use his
private prayers when he is in the assembly?....
Q. 121. May a minister pray publicly in his own name singly,
for himself or others; or only in the church's name as
their mouth to God?
Q. 122. May the name 'priests,' 'sacrifice,' and 'altar' be law-
fully now used instead of Christ's ministers,' 'worship,'
and the holy table?'
Q. 123. May the communion-table be turned altarwise and
railed in; and is it lawful to come up to the rails to com-
municate?......
Q. 124. Is it lawful to use David's psalms in our assemblies ?
Q. 125. May psalms be used as prayers, and praises and
thanksgivings; or only as instructive? even the reading
as well as the singing of them?.....
Q. 126. Are our church-tunes lawful being of man's invention? ibid.
Q. 127. Is church-music by organs or such instruments
lawful?......
Q. 128. Is the Lord's day a sabbath, and so to be called and
kept, and that of Divine institution; and is the seventh
day sabbath abrogated? &c.... . . .
Q. 129. Is it lawful to appoint human holy-days, and ob-
serve them?.
Q. 130. How far are the Holy Scriptures a law and perfect rule
to us?
Q. 131. What additions or human inventions in or about re-
ligion not commanded in Scripture, are lawful or unlawful?
Q. 132. Is it unlawful to obey in all those cases, where it is
unlawful to impose and command, or in what cases ? And
how far pastors must be believed and obeyed?. . . . . . . .
Q. 133. What are the additions or inventions of men, which
are not forbidden by the Word of God, (whether by rulers
or by private men invented)?......
Q. 134. What are the mischiefs of unlawful additions in re-
ligion?
Q. 135. What are the mischiefs of men's error on the other ex-
treme, who pretend that Scripture is a rule where it is not,
and deny the aforesaid lawful things, on pretence that Scrip-
ture is a perfect rule, (say some, for all things)?........
Q. 136. How shall we know what parts of Scripture precept
or example were intended for universal, constant obliga-
tion, and what were but for the time and persons that they
were then directed to?......
Q. 137. How much of the Scripture is necessary to salvation
to be believed and understood? ...
Q. 138. How may we know the fundamentals, essentials, or
what parts are necessary to salvation? And is the Papists'
way allowable that (some of them) deny that distinction,
and make the difference to be only in the degrees of man's
opportunities of knowledge?
Q. 139. What is the use and authority of the creed? And is
it of the apostles' framing or not? And is it the Word of
God or not?..
Q. 140. What is the use of catechisms?
Q. 141. Could any of us have known by the Scriptures alone
the essentials of religion from the rest, if tradition had not
given them to us in the creed as from apostolical collection? ibid.
Q. 142. What is the best method of a true catechism or sum
of theology?........................
Q. 143. What is the use of various church-confessions or ar-
ticles of faith? ......
Q. 144. May not the subscribing of the whole Scriptures
serve turn for all the aforesaid ends without creeds,
catechisms, or confessions?
Q. 145. May a man be saved that believeth all the essentials
of religion as coming to him by verbal tradition, and not as
contained in the Holy Scriptures, which perhaps he never
knew?
Q. 146. Is the Scripture fit for all Christians to read, being
so obscure?......
Q. 147. How far is tradition and men's words and ministry
to be used or trusted in, in the exercise of faith? ..........
Q. 148. How know we the true canon of Scripture from
Apocrypha?.....
Q. 149. Is the public reading of the Scripture the proper work
of the minister; or may a layman ordinarily do it, or
another officer ?
Q. 150. Is it lawful to read the Apocrypha, or any good books
besides the Scriptures to the church; as homilies? &c. . 538
Q. 151. May church-assemblies be held, where there is no
minister; or what public worship may be so performed by
laymen, (as among infidels or papists where persecution hath
killed, imprisoned, or expelled the ministry)?....
Q. 152. Is it lawful to subscribe or profess full assent and
consent to any religious books besides the Scriptures,
seeing all men are fallible?
Q. 153. May we lawfully swear obedience in all things lawful
and honest, either to usurpers, or to our lawful pastors?. 541
Q. 154. Must all our preaching be upon some text of Scripture? 544
Q. 155. Is not the law of Moses abrogated; and the whole
Old Testament out of date, and therefore not to be read
publicly and preached?
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