A. Adam. By learning this perfect, children will have learned several things in the Historical Catechism, before they are required to learn it as their

proper business. And to render these things yet more familiar to children, I would propose that the Historical Catechism, and also the larger catalogue of names which are drawn out of scripture, be appointed as lessons to be read at school and at home, by children while they are learning their younger and shorter catechisms. There will be found hard names enough in them to exercise and improve their reading and spelling: And the perpetual variety of new things occurring may allure them to take delight in perusing it. Children of good memories will learn a great part of it by heart in this manner: The scripture histories will stick upon their minds because they strike the young imagination with pleasure, and give an agreeable entertainment.

Answer. The first man that God made, and the father of us all.

2 Q. Who was Eve?

A. The first woman, and she was the mother of us all.

3 Q. Who was Cain?

A. Adam's eldest son, and he killed his brother Abel.

4 Q. What was Abel?

A. A better man than Cain, and therefore Cain hated him.

5 Q. Who was Enoch?

A. The man who pleased God,* and he was taken up to heaven without dying.

6 Q. Who was Noah?

A. The good man who was saved when the world was drowned.

7 Q. Who was Job?

A. The most patient man under pains and losses.

8 Q. Who was Abraham?

A. The pattern of believers,† and the friend of God. 9 Q. Who was Isaac?

A. Abraham's son according to God's promise.

10 Q. Who was Sarah?

A. Abraham's wife, and she was Isaac's mother.

11 Q. Who was Jacob?

A. Isaac's younger son, and he craftily obtained his father's blessing. 12 Q. What was Israel?

A. A new name that God himself gave to Jacob.

13 Q. Who was Joseph?

A. Israel's beloved son, but his brethren hated him and sold him.

14 Q. Who were the twelve patriarchs?

A. The twelve sons of Jacob, and the fathers of the people of Israel.

* The usual character of Enoch is, that he walked with God; but this phrase is above the understanding of children: Nor is it given only to Enoch in scripture, for Noah also walked with God; Gen. vi. 9. I have rather therefore expressed it, that Enoch pleased God; as in Heb. xi. 5.

+ It is also the usual character of Abraham, that he was the father of the faithful; Rom. iv. 11. but it chiefly means the pattern of believers, which is much easier for children to understand.

15 Q. Who was Pharaoh?

A. The king of Egypt, who drowned the children, and he was drowned in the Red Sea. 16 Q. Who was Moses?

A. The deliverer and lawgiver of the people of Israel, and he led them through the wilderness.

17 Q. Who was Aaron?

A. Moses's brother, and he was the first high-priest of Israel.

18 Q. Who were the priests?

A. They who offered sacrifice to God, and taught his laws to men.

19 Q Who was Joshua?

A. The leader of Israel when Moses was dead, and he brought them into the promised land.

20 Q. Who was Samson?

A. The strongest man, and he slew a thousand of his enemies with a jaw-bone.

21 Q. Who was Eli?

A. He was a good old man, but God was angry with him for not keeping his children from wickedness.

22 Q. Who was Samuel?

A. The prophet whom God called when he was a child.

23 Q. Who were the prophets?

A. Persons whom God taught to foretel things to come, and to make known his mind to the world.

24 Q. Who was David?

A. The man after God's own heart, who was raised from a shepherd to a king.

25 Q. Who was Goliath?

A. The giant whom David slew with a sling and a stone.

26 Q. Who was Absalom ?

A. David's wicked son, who rebelled against his father, and he was killed as he hung on a tree.

27 Q. Who was Solomon?

A. David's beloved son, the king of Israel, and the wisest of men.

28 Q. Who was Josiah?

A. A very young king, whose heart was tender and he feared God. 29 Q. Who was Isaiah?

A. The prophet who spake more of Jesus Christ than the rest.

30 Q. Who was Elijah?

A. The prophet who was carried to heaven in a chariot of fire.

31 Q. Who was Elisha?

A. The prophet who was mocked by the children, and a wild bear tore them to pieces. 32 Q. Who was Gehazi?

A. The prophet's servant who told a lie, and he was struck with a leprosy which could never be cured.

33 Q. Who was Jonah?

A. The prophet who lay three days and three nights in the belly of a fish.

34 Q. Who was Daniel?

A. The prophet who was saved in the lions den, because he prayed to God.

35 Q. Who were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?

A. The three Jews who would not worship an image, and they were cast into the fiery furnace, and were not burned.

36 Q. Who was Nebuchadnezzar ?

A. The proud king of Babylon, who run mad and was driven among the beasts.

THE SCRIPTURE-NAMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

1 QUESTION,

WHO was Jesus Christ?

Answer. The Son of God, and the Saviour of men.

2 Q. Who was the Virgin Mary?

A. The mother of Jesus Christ.

3 Q. Who was Joseph the carpenter?

A. The supposed father of Christ, because he married his mother.

4 Q. Who were the Jews?

A. The family of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and God chose them for his own people. 5 Q. Who were the Gentiles?

A. All the nations besides the Jews.

6 Q. Who was Cæsar?

A. The emperor of Rome, and the ruler of the world.

7 Q. Who was Herod the Great?

A. The king of Judea, who killed all the children in a town, in hopes to kill Christ.

8 Q. Who was John the Baptist?

A. The prophet who told the Jews that Christ was come.

9 Q. Who was the other Herod?

A. The king of Galilee, who cut off John the Baptist's head.

10 Q. Who were the disciples of Christ?

A. Those who learned of him as their Master.

11 Q. Who was Nathanael?

A. A disciple of Christ, and a man without guile.

12 Q. Who was Nicodemus?

A. The fearful disciple who came to Jesus by night.

13 Q. Who was Mary Magdalene?

A. A great sinner, who washed Christ's feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair. 14 Q. Who was Lazarus?

A. A friend of Christ, whom he raised to life when he had been dead four days.

15 Q. Who was Martha?

A. Lazarus's sister, who was cumbered too much in making a feast for Christ.

16 Q. Who was Mary, the sister of Martha?

A. The woman that chose the better part, and heard Jesus preach.

17 Q. Who were the apostles?

4. Those twelve disciples whom Christ chose for the chief ministers of his gospel.

18 Q. Who was Simon Peter?

A. The apostle that denied Christ and repented.

19 Q. Who was John?

A. The beloved apostle that leaned on the bosom of Christ?

20 Q. Who was Thomas?

A. The apostle who was hard to be persuaded that Christ rose from the dead.

21 Q. Who was Judas?

A. The wicked disciple who betrayed Christ with a kiss.

22 Q. Who was Caiaphas?

A. The high-priest who condemned Christ.

23 Q. Who was Pontius Pilate?

A. The governor of Judea, who ordered Christ to be crucified.

24 Q. Who was Joseph of Arimathea?

A. A rich man that buried Christ in his own tomb.

25 Q. Who were the four evangelists?

A. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, who wrote the history of Christ's life and death. 26 Q. Who were Ananias and Sapphira?

A. A man and his wife who were struck dead for telling a lie.

27 Q. Who was Stephen?

A. The first man who was put to death for Christ's sake.

28 Q. Who was Paul?

A. A young man who was first a persecutor and afterwards an apostle of Christ. 29 Q. Who was Dorcas?

A. A good woman who made clothes for the poor, and she was raised from the dead. 30. Q. Who was Elymas?

A. A wicked man who was struck blind for speaking against the gospel.

31 Q. Who was Apollos?

A. A warm and lively preacher of the gospel.

32 Q. Who was Eutychus?

A. A youth who slept at sermon, and falling down was taken up dead.

33 Q. Who was Timothy?

A. A young minister, who knew the scriptures from his youth.