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The Larger Catechiſm. 17 ed and condemned by wicked Men b, ſhall come a- gain at the laſt Day in great Powers, and in the full Manifeſtation of his own Glory, and of his Father's with all his holy Angels a, with a Shout, with the Voice of the Archangel, and with the Trumpet of God, to judge the World in Righteousness f. b Acts iii. 14, 15. c Mat. xxiv, 30. d Luke. ix. 26. Mat. xxv. 3. c 1 Theſſ. iv. 16. f Acts xvii. 31. Q. What Benefits hath Chriſt procures by his Me- diation? A. Chriſt, by his Mediation, hath procured Re- demption g, with all other Benefits of the Covenant of Grace h. g Heb. ix. 12. h 2 Cor. i 20. Q. How do we come to be made Partakers of the Benefits which Chriſt hath procured? A. We are made Partakers of the Benefits which Chriſt hath procured, by the Application of them unto us i, which is the Work eſpecially of God the Holy Ghoſt k. i John. 11, 12. k Titus iii. 5. 6. Q. Who are made Partakers of Redemption through Chriſt? A. Redemption is certainly applied and effectually communicated to all thoſe for whom Chriſt hath pur- chaſed it l, who are in Time by the Holy Ghoſt en- abled to believe in Chriſt, according to the Goſpel m. 1 Eph. i. 13, 14 John vi. 37, 39. & X. 15. 16. m Epl. i. 8. 2 Cor. iv. 13. Q. Can they who have never heard the Goſpel, and to know mot Jeſus Chriſt, or believe in bin, be ſaved by their living according to the Light of Nature ? A. They who, having never heard the Goſpel know not Jeſus Chriſt o, and believe not in him, cannot be ſaved, be they never ſo diligent to frame their lives according to the Light of Nature, or the