Q. What do you mean by immediately?

A Such things as were made out of nothing, by a proper creation.

Q. What by mediately?

A. Such as were made out of something, formerly made out of nothing; or by an improper kind of creation.

Q. What things were produced by immediate creation?

A. All immaterial substances, the orders of angels, the souls of men, the heavens, and the simple or elementary bodies, as the earth, the water, and the air. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," (Gen. i. 1.)

Q. What things by mediate creation?

A. All the hosts of the earth; the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea. "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind," (Gen. i. 11.)

Let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth,“ (Gen. i 20.) "Out of the ground God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air," (Gen. ii. 19.) "God formed man out of the dust of the ground," (Gen. ii. 7.)

Q. Having shown the nature of creation as to things created, state this notion as to the agentHow then did God create all things?

A. By the power of his will.

"Thou hast

created all things, and for thy pleasure (i. e. by thy will they are, and were created," (Rev. iv. 11.) "Let there be light," the injunction; "and there was light,"-the creation.

Q. Was the creation from all eternity?

A. No; for though there is no instant assignable, before which God could not have made the world, yet we are bound to believe that the heavens and the earth are not eternal: "Now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had before the world was," (John xvii. 5.) "Blessed with all spiritual blessings, according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world," (Ephes. i. 3, 4.)

Q. Why is the creation of the world thus signally attributed to God the Father?

A. This is proved by the confession of the whole church at Jerusalem: "Lord, thou art God which hast made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is; against thy holy Child, Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilato, with thọ Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together," (Acts iv. 24, 27.) Jesus then was the child of that God which made the heaven and the earth, and consequently, the Father of Christ is the Creator of the world.

Q. Wherein consists the great necessity of professing our faith in this?

A. 1. As tending to the illustration of God's glory. 2. As effectual towards man's humiliation.

3. As productive of cheerful and universal obedience. 4. As affording consolation to the servants of God in all conditions.

Q. What is the second article?

A. "And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord." Q. What does this article present to us, as the object of our faith?

A. The second person of the blessed Trinity.
Q. How does it present him to us?

A. Under a three-fold description: by his nomination, his generation, and his dominion.

Q. What is he by his nomination?

A. Jesus Christ.

Q. What by his generation?

A. The only Son of God.

Q. What by his dominion?

A. Our Lord.

Q. What place has our Saviour in the blessed Trinity?

A. The second.

Q. Are Jesus," and "Christ," both, his names?

A. Yes; but not equally, or in like propriety. Q. Why is he called Christ?

A. Not by name, but by office and title.

Q. What is the name Jesus?

A. Undoubtedly the proper name of our Saviour, given to him, according to the custom of the Jews, at his circumcision.

Q. By whom was the name Jesus given to

him?

A. By an angel.

Q. What does Jesus signify?

A.

Our Saviour; or "he shall save," Luke i. 31. Matt. i. 21.

Q. By whom was he called Emmanuel?
A. By the declaration of a prophet.

Q. In what does Emmanuel differ from Jesus? A. The sense of Emmanuel is comprehended in Jesus, "God with us," being equivalent to "God our Saviour." The angelical "God the Saviour," being the prophetical "God with us."

Q. Who were types of Christ as our Saviour? A. Joshua in particular, and also the Judges of Israel.

Q. Show some instances in which Joshua was a type.

A. "As the minister of Moses," (Exod. xxiv. 13. Jos. i. 1.) he is a type of Christ, "the minister of the circumcision for the truth of God." (Rom. xv. 8.) As the judge and ruler of Israel, there is scarcely an action which is not predictive of our Saviour.

Q. Show where Jesus is called a Saviour.

A. Luke ii. 11. Acts xiii. 23. Acts iv. 12. Q. Why is Jesus called our Saviour? A. 1. Because he has opened and declared the way of eternal salvation. 2. Because he has

procured or wrought out salvation, (John iii.

17. Heb. ix. 22, 23, 26. Matt. xxvi. 28. Col. i. 14. Rom. v. 8, 9, 10. Eph. i. 7.) 3. Because he has conferred salvation on us, (John. xvii. 2.) Q. Is there any other way to heaven besides that which he hath shown us?

A. No.

Q. Are there any other means which can procure it for us but his blood?

it ?

A. No.

Q.

Is there any other person who can confer

A. No.

Q. Is not the belief of this part of the article evident as well as certain ?

A. It is. 1. Because there is no end of faith without a Saviour, and no other name but this by which we can be saved, and no way to be saved by him, but by believing in him, (1 John iii. 23, 24. 1 Tim. ii. 5.) 2. This belief is necessary, that we may delight and rejoice in the name of Jesus, as that in which all our happiness is involved, (Luke ii. 10, 11. Isa. ix. 2, 6, 3; xxxv. 4, 10.) 3. The belief in Jesus ought to inflame our affection, and kindle our love towards him. 4. It is necessary to promote esteem of him, and absolute obedience to him, (Phil. iii. 8. John xiv. 15. 1 John v. 3.)

Q. In explaining the title, "Christ," state