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.