A Little Star Catechism
William Mason
Originally Printed In 1653
Posted On Oct. 11, 2015
Giving some light into the Counsels and Purposes of God revealed in the Scriptures; or a Catechism, wherein specific Gospel Truths are clearly set forth, and which by way of Question and Answer are opened and explained.
William Mason is not Church of England Mason, 1719-1791, who wrote the ‘high-grace’ devotional entitled “Spiritual Treasury for the Children of God;” but this Mason was an Early Anti-Baptist {note: not Ana-Baptist, or Baptist, but Anti-Baptist}, of whom sadly little is known.
A Little Star Catechism: Giving some light into the Counsels and Purposes of God revealed in the Scriptures. Wherein these ensuing principles. 1. What God is and how he manifests himself? 2. Why he made the world and man? 3. Man’s condition: By creation - by his fall - by being restored by Jesus Christ? 4. The uses and ends of the Law? 5. What the Gospel is? 6. Justification, what it is? 7. Sanctification, what it is, and how it is wrought? 8. What repentance is? 9. The use and ends of the Scriptures? 10. What true prayer is? 11. Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper, why, and how used? 12. General redemption, what and how to be adjudged of? 13. What is the Resurrection and the Judgment? 14. What is Heaven and Hell, in truth and in mystery? All which are briefly by way of Question and Answer opened and explained.