Chap. I. — Of the Scripture.

Ques. 1. What is Christian religion?

Ans. The ^aonly way of¹¹   Every one out of this way everlastingly damned. ²²   The life of religion is in the Life. knowing God aright, and ^bliving unto him.
^aJohn xiv. 5, 6, xvii. 3; Acts iv. 12. ^bCol. i. 10; 2 Cor. v. 15; Gal. ii. 19, 20.

Q. 2. Whence is it to be learned?

A. From the holy³³   Popish traditions are false lights, leading from God. Scripture only.
Isa. viii. 20; John v. 39.

Q. 3. What is the Scripture?

A. The books of the ^aOld and ^bNew⁴⁴   The authority of the Scripture dependeth not on the authority of the church, as the Papists blaspheme. ⁵⁵   All human inventions unnecessary helps in the worship of God. ⁶⁶   The word thereof is the sole directory for faith, worship, and life. Testament, ^cgiven by inspiration from God, containing all things necessary to be believed and done, that God may be worshipped and our souls saved.
^aIsa. viii. 20; Rom. iii. 2. ^bRev. xxii. 19, 20. ^c2 Tim. iii. 16, 17; Ps. xix. 7, 8; Jer. vii. 13; John xx. 31.

Q. 4. How know you them to be the word of God?

A. By the ^atestimony⁷⁷   This alone persuadeth and inwardly convinceth the heart of the divine verity of the Scripture; other motives, also, there are from without, and unanswerable arguments to prove the truth of them, as, — 1. Their antiquity; 2. Preservation from fury; 3. Prophecies in them; 4. The holiness and majesty of their doctrine agreeable to the nature of God; 5. Miracles; 6. The testimony of the church of all ages; 7. The blood of innumerable martyrs, &c. of God’s Spirit, working faith in my heart to close with that ^bheavenly majesty, and clear divine truth, that shineth in them.
^aMatt. xvi. 17; John xvi. 13; 1 Thess. ii. 13; 1 John ii. 20, v. 6. ^bLuke xxiv. 32; 1 Cor. ii. 14; Heb. iv. 12; 2 Pet. i. 19.