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fpoken before by the holy prophets, and of the
commandments of us the apoftles of tlijs Lord
and Saviour. 2 Tim. iii. 15. From a child thou
haft known the holy fcriptures, which are able to
make thee wife to iàlvation.
Q^ What do the fcriptures teach you of the
knowledge of God ?
A. The fcriptures teach me what God is in hihi-
fclf, and what he is in relation to us who are his
creatures.
See the fcriptures under the two following quefiions.
Q^ Who is God, considered in himieif, or in
his own nature ?
A. God in his own nature is a Spirit, every
where prefent, without beginning, and with-
out end, moll wife and powerful, moft holy
and merciful, moft juft and true.
John iv, 24. God is a Spirit. Jer. xxiii. 24.
Can any hide himfelf in fecret places that I fhall
not fee him, faith the Lord ? Do not I fill
heaven and earth-? Pfal. xc. 2. From everlaft-
ing to everlafting thou art God. Rom. xvi. 27.
To God only wife be glory. Rev. iv. 8. Lord
God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to
come. If. vi. 3. Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord
of hofts. Exod. xxxiv. 6. The Lord, the Lord
God, merciful and gracious, Deut. xxxii. 4. A
God of truth, and without iniquity, juft and
right is he.
Q. What is God in relation to us who are his
creatures ?
A. As the great God is our Maker who
gave us our being, fo he continually preferves
us, and does us good : he is our Lord and
ruier now, and he will be our judge at lait.
Pfal. c. 3. Know ye that the Lord he is
God, it is he who hath made us, and not we
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