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A12162	A compendious form and summe of Christian doctrine, called The testimonie of a true faith meete for well disposed families, for the more knowledge [in] God, and better nourishing vp, and confirming of all such, as loue saluation in Iesus Christ. Gathered, corrected, and newly augmented, by Christopher Shutte, Maister of Arte, seene and allowed.	Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626.	1579 (1579)	STC 22468; ESTC S100084	27,860	76

whilest by the preaching of the Lawe I am brought to the feeeling of my sinnes and raysed vp with the comfortable promises of the Gospel receyued by faith My harte is lightned purified and gouerned by the holy Ghost my will and minde reformed the Image of God renued againe in me 10. Question Why did God regenerate thee and not raither get him selfe glory by condemning thee according to thy sinnes Answeare Although the Lorde might iustly haue condemned all Adams posteritie by reason of their sinnes yet notwithstanding some of them according to his iust iudgementes he leaueth in their owne corruption deuoid of all grace and Vessels of his wrath vnto damnation Othersome he embraceth in his great loue vnto saluation whome hee accepteth in mercy without any deserts of their own Of which number my conscience dooth perswade me that I am one And therefore he hath regenerate me first to declare his great loue mercy euerlasting kindnes towardes me whom he chose in his sonne Christ to saluation And therefore in an happie tyme he hath called me by the preaching of his woord and iustified me by my onely faith in Christes death Secondly that I being thus borne anewe may bring foorth the fruites of righteousnes to glorifie him withall Thirdly that all the end of my regeneration is life euerlasting so at the Lordes good time I may receiue the same among his Saintes 11. Question Shew me what be the meanes wherby thy saluation is wrought Answeare The ordinarie meanes commonly are two that is to say the woorde of God and faith 12. Question What is the woorde of God Answeare It is those Canonicall scriptures written by the spirite of God commended to man both in the olde and newe Testament wherein are conteined all thinges necessarie to our saluation according to the which the Lord will haue all his religion measured without either adding or diminishing 13 Question How canst thou knowe the true religion in so many sundrie opinions of the same as be in the worlde Answeare First I trie the religion taught me by the woorde of God and by his spirite geuen me to vnderstande the same Secondly I knowe this spirite to be a right spirit because it confesseth Christ to be come in the fleshe that is to say ascribeth the whole worke of my saluation to him and to no other thing Thirdly I expounde one place of Scripture as it is not contrarie to another And thus I trie the truth making the worde of GOD to iudge and determine what I ought to followe 14. Question What is the cause why the word of God is preached to many and yet taketh place but in few Answeare The causes are manie first manns owne disobedience and contempt of the worde through want of faith Secondly the malice of Sathan who blindeth and hardeneth the hearts of the vnfaithfull that they shoulde not see and beleeue the truth Thirdly the iust iudgement of God Who because they refuse to receiue and beleeue the truth doth giue them vp into a reprobate minde and sendeth strong delusion among them that as they doe delight in lies and m vnrighteousnesse so the same may be their destruction 15. Question How is the worde of GOD deuided Answeare Into the Lawe and the Gospel 16. Question What is the Lawe Answeare It is the ten commaundementes of God requiring of euerie one most pure perfect and perpetuall obedience promising saluation to them which fulfill the same threatning death and damnation to the transgressours thereof 17. Question Rehearse the same to me Answeare 1 Thou shalt haue none other Gods but me 2 Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the waters vnder the earth thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor worship them for I the Lorde thy God am a ielous God and visiteth the iniquities of the fathers vpon the children vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewe mercie vnto thousandes in them that loue me and keepe my commaundementes 3 Thou shalte not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vaine for the Lord will not holde him guilteles that taketh his name in vayne 4 Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabboth day sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seuenth day is the Sabboth of the Lorde thy GOD in it thou shalt doe no manner of worke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruaunt and thy mayd seruaunt thy cattel the stranger within thy gates for in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day wherefore the Lorde blessed the seuenth day and hallowed it 5 Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be long in the lande which the Lord thy God geueth thee 6 Thou shalt not kill 7 Thou shalt not commit adulterie 8 Thou shalt not steale 9 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour 10 Thou shalt not couet thy neighboures house thou shalte not couet thy neighboures wife nor his seruaunt nor his maide nor his Oxe nor his Asse nor any thing that is his 18. Question What sayest thou of the first commaundement Answeare The Lorde therein requireth true obedience to his woorde the feare and loue of his name a sure faith and trust in his promises the right inuocation vppon his name with thankesgeuing for his benefites whereby his true worshippe may be knowen aright whiche thinges as he doth commaunde so doeth he forbidde all manner of superstition and idolatrie the contempt and denial of his woorde the lacke of feare faith and loue towardes him calling vppon other creatures and finally whatsoeuer polluteth his seruice or our consciences in whose presence all our doinges doe appeare 19. Question What sayest thou of the seconde Thou shalt not make c. Answeare God doth therein declare how he wil be worshiped For seeing that his true worship is worke or seruice commaunded in his woord proceeding of faith and tending to his glory as he is a spirite so he will be woorshiped in spirit and truth without any mixture of Idolatrie or superstition And therefore he forbiddeth the making of Images to expresse him by all manner deuotion or reuerence geuing to them eyther in looking at them or in bowing the knee before them in prayer he is the Lorde our God and will not haue his power to be contemned he is ielous ouer vs and will not suffer eyther our soules or bodies to be defiled with any filthinesse of Idolatrie which if we doe he will reuenenge the same to the third and fourth generation Briefly he forbiddeth hereby all representations and tokens of Idolatrie all

good foundation of trewe religion in the feare of god Forasmuch as obedience to the Lawe of God is he readiest onely way to the fountaine of all perfect happinesse And for this cause the godly men of all ages prouided alwaies from time to time that they might nourish trew religion in their Families to the end both they and theirs might be instructed better in the Lawe of God and haue good successe in those thinges which they went about 2. Question Doest thou than thinke that those housholdes are disordered and not rightly ruled where there is no dayly meditation of religion kept Answeare Such Families may rather be accounted a sincke of sinne where the people are carefull of worldy profits and vaine delight careles of the woord of God and trewe religion And therefore they arein this case often times nearer to destruction 3. Question How doest thou order and gouern thy house in Christian religion Answeare As Moses commaunded the people of Israell to teach their children the Lawe of the Lord that in all their affaires they might haue an eye vnto the same so am I carefull that my whole Familie feare God and know his woord by some dayly exercise and meditation thereof So as they may be the better able to render a reason of their faith They pray and geue thankes together in all their doinges They liue godlily soberly and righteously They make restitution to whom they haue done wrong And finally whatsoeuer they doo they doo all to the glory of God and so they prosper to God be praise therfore 4. Question Well than I pray thee shewe me the summe of that religion which thou doest keepe in thy Familie For it is the duetie of a true Christian alwayes to be ready to render an account of his faith to the ende it may appeare that he is not ashamed of Christ and his doctrine Let me therefore heare what thou canst say of the principall points of Christian Religion Answeare There be three speciall partes thereof the first is to knowe God and my elfe the second is the meanes whereby my saluation is wrought the third what helpes God doeth further me withall vnto life euerlasting 5. Question What saiest thou of the knowledge of God Answeare The same is of two sortes the one is vniuersall and knowen by the creation of heauen and earth wherein God offereth himselfe to be seene and knowen of me as the onely fountaine of all goodnesse who alone ought to be worshipped For his eternitie appeareth in the making of the world his goodnesse in preseruing the same his prouidence in the tokens which are seene and felt wherby what pleaseth his godly will commeth to passe and not by blinde fortune his wisedome in ordering of the thinges created his righteousnesse in deliuering the godly and punishing the wicked his mercy in patiently forbearing sinners and calling them to repentance So that what may be knowen of God is manifest in the thinges created which vniuersall knowledge taketh away all excuse from the vngodly which woorship not God aright but to me it is a ready way to bring me to the true worship of God. The other knowledge is speciall and onely proper to the elect whereby thorow faith poured into my hart by the holy Ghost I am assured that my saluation is wrought by Christ the sonne of God by whom I am made the childe of God thorow grace and heyre with Christ of his kingdome which knowledge onely commeth of grace and so is geuen to me but it is restrained from the wicked because of their sinne and hardenesse of hart 6. Question What sayest thou of the knowledge of thy selfe Answeare By creation I was made in Adam according to the Image of GOD I meane not any bodily shape for God is a spirit and without body in true righteousnesse and holynesse that is to say in al perfection and happinesse of nature both in right iudgement reason will and strength In which happy state if Adam had continued both I and all his posteritie had bene blessed for euer 7. Question Howe didest thou fall from this grace Answeare My fall appeareth in that Adam who had this blessing for me thorow the intisement of the Serpent brake the commaundement of God in eating of the forbidden fruite and by the same depriued himselfe of his former happinesse and brought sinne death hell the wrath of God and all kinde of miseries into the world as iust punishmentes for his desertes In which his sinfull act his pride disobedience lacke of faith vnthankefulnesse to his creatour and light credite to the Deuill appeared In which offence both I and al his ofspringe are wrapped in as much as in him wee all haue sinned for he had the blessing geuen to keepe or loose for him and his Wherefore I and all others descending of him by him in him haue fallen from grace and are infected with his corruptions conceyued in sinne borne in iniquitie and by nature the children of wrath and vtterly vndone without the grace and mercy of God. 8. Question What is mannes free will his power strength wisedome and such lyke vertues lost by this his fall in Adam all which he had in the beginning Answeare Concerning mans will before his fall the same was free but afterward not so but as the same is freed by grace For his iudgement is vnperfect and often deceiued his will in many thinges hindred and his strength decayed that of himselfe he cannot perceiue the thinges which belong to the kingdome of god So that as now to will aright is the gift of grace so to wil chose amisse is the lacke of grace And yet this will of man not regenerate in some respect may be termed free because a man doeth euill by his owne consent and not by compulsion And as for other his vertues and good giftes which he had before his fall lyke as in a ruinous house there remaine certaines reliques of an house although nothing comparable to their former excellencie so after Adams fall man not egenerate hath a certeine kinde of wisedome carnall knowledge shewe of religion and holines and yet the same so imperfect both by his naturall corruption by the tyrannie of the Deuill that till hee bee regenerate and sanctified with grace from aboue he can not please God. 9. Question Howe art thou restored to grace againe Answeare My restauration commeth thorowe the free mercy and fauour of God who after this my fall in Adam raysed both him and me vp againe with the comfortable promise of a Sauiour who by his death should pacifie the wrath of God and bring me into his fauour againe by whose obedience I am made righteous which my regeneration commeth thus to me