CHAPTER XII.

2. Q. _What learn you from |Martha|’s serving, though CHRIST before this had condemned her too great solicitude?_

_A._ That religion does not call us from our common business, but teaches us to follow it, with a proper principle, obedience to GOD; and that too not at the expence of the one thing needful.

5. Q. _What learn you hence?_

_A._ That all who speak well, are not saints, though it is best to judge charitably of all.

8. Q. _What learn you hence?_

_A._ That if CHRIST was not to be with us always, then he is not bodily present at the mass, as the _Romish_ church supposes.

39. Q. _Did the Prophets foretelling their hardness of heart, lay the |Jews| under a necessity of not believing?_

_A._ No more than our knowing the sun will rise to-morrow, obliges the sun to rise. The Prophet foreknew by the Spirit of GOD that it would be so, therefore foretold it.

40. Q. _Does GOD harden any one’s heart?_

_A._ Not till they have hardened their own hearts: thus _Pharaoh_ first hardened his own heart, and then it is said GOD hardened it.

42, 43. Q. _What learn you hence?_

_A._ That a fear of contempt, &c. &c. keeps many well-disposed people from confessing CHRIST before men; and that we can never be christians, till we are content only with that honour and praise which cometh from GOD.