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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06733	The demaundes of holy scripture, with answeres to the same wherein are defined, and declared the cheefe, and principall poyntes of Christian doctrine: very profitable for the right vnderstanding of holy scriptures: made by T. Becon, and dravven out of his great vvorkes.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1577 (1577)	STC 1718; ESTC S110677	46,473	108

anguish he hanged himself So horrible and dreadfull were in his sight hell gates the wages payment of his iniquity There is also an euangelicall penitence whiche is a continuall study purpose and endeuerment and wilfull meditacion of mortifieng our fleshe and fashioning our liues to the wyll of the Lorde And this kind of penitence is onely in them that are renued and vnto whom the forgiuenesse of sin through Christ is giuē As for this word penaunce because the Popes clergy hath iugled with it so craftely and deceyued the poore innocentes eyes it is well done to reproue the euill vse and handling of it as the mainteyning of the same is wicked What signifie the latter times in Scripture The Prophetes signifie by them commonly the dayes wherein the prophesies and the figures of the olde testament going on Christ toke effecte and were perfourmed For when Christ came both the prophesies figures ceased And euer sence Christ is openly sincerely clearely and without all shadowes set out and preached and so shall continue vnto the worldes ende Paule calleth The latter dayes the time a little before the end of the worlde and the day of the iudgement of the lord In which we be euen nowe What is the consummation and ende of the worlde It is when the state and forme of the worlde shall passe by And when this chaunge of Winter Sommer and spring shall cease when there shall be neyther night nor day What is the day of the Lorde The greate assemblement court and paritament of all men that hath ben from Adam to the last man at what day our Lorde Iesus Christ shall come with great power and maiesty and pronounce the last sentence and dome both to the good and to the euill adiudging the euill to euerlasting punishment with the deuilles and graunting the good and godly man euerlasting ioye and felicitie to the which that we may come God through our Sauiour Iesus Christ graunt to whome be all honor and prayse Amen Geue the glory to GOD alone ¶ An other booke of Demaundes of holy Scriptures verye profitable to all Students of Diuinitie WHO is the author and maker of the most beautifull frame of this world God whiche by his almightie power wisedom and goodnesse doth now also order gouerne and preserue the same What is God An endlesse vncreated substance without both beginning and ending Which by his worde alone first created all things and nowe disposeth and ruleth ▪ yea and conserueth all things one substance distinguished but not deuided into thre sundrie persons the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost and notwithstanding remayning one alone true and perfect God. What is his word whereby he first created and nowe preserueth and gouerneth all things It is the decreed sentence appointment will power and wisedome of God. The Sonne is also called the word bicause he is the wisedome and might of his father the word in the Scripture is oftentimes called by a metaphore or similitude water wine milke a lantern or candle the voyce of the shepeheard the ryght hand of the Lord the breath of the Lords mouthe the bread of life a pearle or precious stone and such like In what state did God create man Perfect righteous and good according to his owne image and likenesse hauing fier and water set before him to take which he would being endued with free will to doo euill or to continue still in goodnesse What then condemned vs Sinne by the lawe What is Sinne Sinne is the transgression or breaking of the whole lawe or of any one commaundement of god And all that is done without fayth is sinne and therefore the good workes of the infidelles doe nothing profite them What is the Lawe A learning teaching vs with authoritie what ought to be done or auoyded in thought worde or deede with rewardes and punishmentes for doing or omitting the same This law is our schoolemaister to teach vs the waye to Christ by whome the violence sting power and the shadowes of the lawe bee takē away in whose place he hath brought in grace and truth Howe chaunced we to synne By the choyce of our free will graunted to vs either to doe good or euill whereby we lost both our felicitie that we were first placed in and that our free will also Howe then were both we and our forefathers reconciled to the fauour of God which wee lost by our disobedience being as vnfruite full branches of the rotden roote of Adam By the performance of the mercifull promise of God giuen to Adam that the seede of the woman shoulde breake the serpents heade Renued to Abraham that in his seede all Nations shoulde bee blessed and perfourmed by Christ which by his death payd our raunsome whiche promise and perfourmaunce conueyed vnto our forefathers and vs and vnto all the Church by faith hath ben and is the common and general meane of saluacion they that is to say our forefathers beleeuing that Christ was to come by whome alone they should be saued we with no doubtfull faith confessing that he is come dyed and rose againe for to regenerate vs to God to mortify vs to sinne the fleshe and the world to rayse vp againe at the laste day and so to take vs vnto him selfe placing vs in the glory of his father Who receyueth this benefyte The church of Christ only What is the church of Christ The whole number of the faithfull beleeuers in Christes comming sufferance and resurrection members of the misticall body of Christ Graines to make one loafe Graps to make one wine liuely stones to buylde on a spirituall house in Christ to offer spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God thorowe the same Christ Iesus which is the head of the same body the corner stone of the sayd house the Lord and husband to the sayd church his spouse maried to him by faith Who bestoweth this benefyte vpon vs God through Iesus Christ his sonne by whome he hath made vs his children also and fellowe heyres with Christe of hys What sygnifyeth this name IESVS A Sauiour which is the chiefe poynt of his office and cause of his comming into this worlde as appeareth by the wordes of the Aungell to Ioseph shee meaning Marie shall bring forth a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iesus For he shall saue his people from their sinnes What signifyeth this name CHRIST Annointed whereupon it may be gathered that our Sauiour Christ is a king a priest and a Prophet which .iii. were accustomed by the lawe ceremonial to be annointed A king bicause by inheritance he being the sonne of God ought to be Lord and Ruler of all thinges and bicause he hath conquered and subdued vnto him selfe by death by bearing our sinnes by redeeming vs his inheritance out of the power of the deuill all the whole kingdome power and aucthority ouer death sinne and

our byrth What soeuer is not of faith is sinne It is also the distrust in God and the ignoraunce and contempt of him and a trust and confidence in our owne workes What is originall sinne It is the poyson and corruption that we haue in our birth through the infection of our nature in Adam which doth bring foorth in vs the fruite of incredulitie and all wickednesse and maketh vs vnable to the workes of the lawe as the lawe requireth them to be done of vs vntil Christ and his word hath made vs a newe creature What is originall Iustice The integritie holenesse soundnesse of the powers of the body and the soule whereby both the soule and the body could verely obey doo and fulfill the lawe of god Wherefore after the poison of sin entred nature lost her integritie and soundnesse and the venim of sinne made weake faint and feeble the whole nature of man so that it could not in no wise wil or do the worke that it whole before could do And not this only but it infected and corrupted the flesh and the soule and all the powers of them both which infection ingendred in the nature of man hus febled the ignoraunce and contempt of God the distrust in God the murmuring against God when he sendeth aduersitie or sicknesse It causeth furthermore man to be without the feare of God to hate the iudgement of God to flee and runne away from God when he chasteneth vs to be angry with him and dispayre and to trust in thinges corruptible c. These be the horrible biles sores pockes and carbucles that disfigure the face of man Which though they be neuer so high yet our schole men and canonistes I meane the professours of the Byshop of Romes lawes coule neuer see or perceyue These Chiste through faith at our baptisme doth suppresse and abate theyr power and at the last by death doth vtterly vainguishe and kill What meane you by these wordes Poena and Culpa This word Culpa which is in english a faute or trespasse properly in this place betokeneth the gilt as we call it or the trespasse and that which the law punisheth in the deede or fact as in an act of felony the law punisheth not the comming to the Horse nor yet the brideling no nor the leading of the Horse from the stable medowe or common for all these may be doone without the euill and vnlawfull desire of the Horse and agayne with the owners leaue But the lawe punisheth the comming the brydeling and taking away the Horse against the owners wyll and with the mind of stealing him and calleth the facte thefte or felony This word Poena which is in Englyshe payne is the wages and punishment taken for the faute And thus some kinde of vices al hurtes damages sicknesse pest ilences perils errours and the lacke of Gods word that we haue among vs be paines and punishmentes of sinne That God punisheth sinne with losse and daunger both of body goodes with sicknesse pestilence and such other none I thinke doubteth but that he punisheth sinne by sinne and sinne by errours and heresies the worlde can not so clerely perceiue Howe be it Paul doth playnly declare it where he sayth because the Gentils turned the glory of God and worshiped the creature more then the maker c. Therefore saith he God gaue them vp vnto shameful lustes c. Which iustes be there straight after expressed And this punishment I meane to punish sinne by sinne is a very sore punishment He punisheth sinne by errours and heresies thus When the word of God is plenteously and sincerely preached as it is nowe and yet men still kicke against it or in case many receiue it yet fewe or non regard it or liue according to it but with their wordes make on it only for a fleshly libertie then I say God taketh his word away from thence as who be not worthy of it and letteth the worlde preuaile against his preachers and suffreth Antechriste who must nedes succeede Christ to kill them so that Antichriste peaceably enioyeth his kingdome as he hath doone all ready this great while and he must needes haue like doctrine to him selfe So did he punishe the Iewes his owne elected people at sundry times more then .ii. M. yeere and suffered them to worship false Gods or els to set vp their owne tradicions Gods preceptes neglected So also hath he punished our fore fathers these viii or ix C. yeeres And now except we thankefully receyue his woord and liue thereafter in the newnesse of life according as we are called no doubt of it he wyll not only revolue and cast vs downe againe to our old ignoraunce captiuitie and bondage but also shortly take such vengeaunce on vs as he threatened Bethsaida Corazin c. Nowe God remitteth the crime gylte and trespace to his electe through faith in Christe but he reserueth after a certayne manner a little porcion of the paine not to counterpeise therewith or satisfy his iustice for the crime as the Byshop of Rome with his complices hath taught vs this great while but to chastise their flesh with all and sometime to be an example vnto other to forbeare like crimes for fear of like punishment or to declare the yre of God for such crimes So that what trouble vexacion griefe losse sicknesse so euer the best men that be haue they deserue it with much more Howbeit no not thus GOD would beate scourge and trye his and it were not for their owne profite and auayle For by this meanes he nourtereth reineth and humbleth his electe that they may knowe them selues the better and lest they runne at large after the world as it appeareth by the aduoutry of Dauid and many other storyes in the Byble What is innocencie The purenesse of the minde and when the conscience is not giltie or findeth it selfe culpable in any thing This innocency only the faythe in Iesus Christe ingendereth in vs In this state was Paule after many interpreters mindes when he sayd I knowe nought by my selfe c. He sayd not this that he thought not him selfe a sinner and that he trespassed not afore God for then had he ben a lyer For Moyses saith to the Lord it is thou that takest away trespasse iniquitie and sinne and none innocent before thee but he meaneth of his conuersacion In this state also was Ezechias the good King when he turned him to the wal and wepte Here we call not to be giltie or culpable to haue the peace of the conscience and the is when we beleeue through Christe that our sinnes be hid for vnto that time the lawe ceaseth not to accuse vs in our conscience What is the spirite It is a Heauenly sence or vnderstanding springing out of the worde of God or els the selfe word of God exceeding the sence of the fleshe and reason The wordes that I