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A11949	A catechisme briefly opening the misterie of our redemption by Christ hauing the proues of euery point so annexed, and ioined vnder euery answer, that the ruder sort of people may be much furthered thereby, if they would vse a little diligence and endeuor to commit it to memory, or be much conuersant in reading thereof, or if they cannot read in hearing it read by others, vnto knowledge, and godlinesse.	Settle, Thomas.	1587 (1587)	STC 22267; ESTC S114769	38,264	95

conuersation receiued by the traditions of the Fathers but with the pretious bloud of Christ as of a lambe vndefiled and without spot and many suche like places Yet we are alwaies to vnderstand that a speciall part of our redemption consisteth in the sufferings of his soule For therin he bickered had combat with al the powers of hell damnation which was due for our sins the stings horrors sorrows as Peter Acts 2. calleth them whereof caused him to sweat drops like water bloud trickling downe from his body so great was his agony Luke 22 ●● as Luke in the 22. chapter recordeth whē the angels came to comfort him Againe vpon the crosse the wrath of God did so presse his soule for our sinnes that for extreme anguish this pitifull exclamation was wrested from his mouth Mat 27 49. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Who can think that these strong cryings teares as in Hebrews 5. they are tearmed Heb 5 7. were euer in the Son of God for because of a bodily death which we do sée many weake men yea which suffer for no good cause amongst vs most constantly to endure In these his sufferinges he hath spoyled death hell as it is written in threatening wise O Death I will be thy death O graue Hosea 13 14 I will be thy destruction And againe in Collossians 2. Collos 2 15. And hee hath spoyled the principalities and powers and hath made a shew of them openly and tryumphed ouer them in the same crosse Qu. But nowe sith none can enioy the ioies of heauen and eternal life but those that fulfill the will of God and perfecte obedience vnto his Lawe Howe shall wee poore sinners doe in this behalfe An. The goodnes of our God hath in this behalfe also prouided for vs raising vp for vs a mightie saluation The Apostle saith in the 4. to the Galathians that Christ was made vnder the law that he might redeeme them which were vnder the lawe Gal 4 v. 4 5. that they might receiue the adoption of sons And againe he saith in the second to the Collossians And you which were deade in sinnes Collos 2. ver 13 14 15. and in the vncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickned together with him that is Christ forgiuing all your trespasses and putting out the hande writing of ordinances that was against vs which was contrarie to vs he euen tooke it out of the way and fastened it vnto his crosse Againe 1 Rom 10 4 in Romans the 10. Christ is the end of the law for righteousnes vnto euerie one that beleeueth 1 Cor 1 30. Lastly in 1. Corinthians 1. it is said that Christ is made of God our wisedome righteousnesse sanctification redemption that is to say that whatsoeuer we haue néede of to the obteining of eternal life saluation we haue it in him as in a full fraught and plentifull storehouse Qu. Doth this saluatiō pertaine to all and shall all be partakers of the same An. The saluation is offered to all but none shal haue it but those that beléeue As it is written in the 16. of the gospell after Marke Mark 16 15 Go ye into all the world and preach the gospell to euery creature He that shall beleeue and be baptized shall be saued and he that wil not beleeue shal be damned Qu. What is it to beleeue An. To beléeue is to bee fully perswaded that God the father which hath made me the promise of saluation in his Sonne wil faithfully performe his promise vnto me For as Abraham hauing Gods promise made vnto him as the Apostle affirmeth in the 4. to the Romans did not doubt of the promise through vnbeliefe Rom. 4. ℣ se ●0 21 but was strengthened in the faith and gaue glory to God béeing fully assured that he which had promised was also able to do it euen so also wee hauing Gods promise for saith the apostle in the same place it is not written for him onlie Rom. 4.23 but also for vs must not doubt of the promise through vnbeliefe but bee fully assured to obteine it God béeing both able and faithfull Q. How is faith wrought in men An. Thrée thinges especially for the woorking of faith are to bee noted from the Scripture First the preaching of Gods word For saith the Apostle Romans the 10. How shall they heare without a preacher Rom. 10 15. and how shall they preach except they be sent c. Then faith is by hearing and hearing by the word of God 1. Cor. 1.21 And againe in the 1. Corinthians 1. It pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to saue them that beleeue Iohn 11.20 Also Iohn the 11. I pray not saith Christ for these my disciples alone but for them also which shall beleeue in me through their word that is their preaching Qu. What is the second thing that you note from the scriptures to be necessary to the begetting of faith An. The second is that hée whiche preacheth be sent authorised of God For how saith the Apostle in the 10. to the Romans shall they preach except they be sent Rom. 10.15 Againe the Prophet Ieremie in his 23. chapter saith Iere. 23 32. I sent them not nor commanded them therfore they being no profit to this people Our sauiour Christ saith in the 10. of Iohn Iohn 10. ℣ s 1 2. That he that entreth not in by the doore into the sheepefold but climeth vp some otherway he is a theefe and a robber And in the 10. verse he saith That a theefe commeth not but for to steale to kill and to destroy so farre is it of that they shall beget men to the faith Iob calleth such a messenger a mā of a thousand in his 33. chapter Iob. 33 23. Qu What is the third thing An. The working of the Holy ghost in the ministration of the word with power in the hearers harts as by these places of Scripture is and by many other may be proued Paule in the fourth chapter of his former Epistle to the Corinthians threatning to come to Corinth to make triall of the doctrine of the false Apostles which were so highly extolled and of the effectualnesse thereof affirmeth 1. Cor. 4. ℣ s 19 20. that the kingdome of God that is the ministrie of the Gospell stands not in word but in the power of the Spirite In the second chapter of the same Epistle he saith ● Cor. 2 4. Neither stood my word and my preaching in the intising speach of mans wisedome but in plaine euidence of the spirite and power that your faith might not bee in the wisedome of men but in the power of God Againe in the former Epistle to the Thessalonians the first chapter 1. Thess 1 5. For our gospell was not vnto you in word onely but also in power and in the Holy ghost In all these

how a man may know certainely that he hath faith and Repentance An. If he can say in true féeling The good that I would doo that I doo not Rom. 7 19. and the euill that I would not doo that I doo with Paule in the 7. to the Romans Math. 5. and mourne vnder the burden of his sinne If he delite in the lawe of God in the inner man Rom. 8 16. If he be led by the spirit of God Rom. 8 14. If he haue crucified the flesh with the affections of the flesh Galat. 5 24. If he walke according to the rule of a new creature Galat. 6 15. be a new creature peace shal be vpō him mercie as saith the Apostle If he can say with the Apostle 2. Cor. 1 12. This is my reioycing the testimonie of my cōsciēce that in simplicitie godly purenes and not in fleshly wisedome but by the grace of God I haue had my conuersation in the world If hée haue true loue towardes the brethren euen to be gréeued in their griefes and ioyfull in their good and carefull to helpe them in christian compassion by easing their gréeues and furthering their good it is a true marke of the child of God And thereby saith Iohn we know that we are of the truth 1. Iohn 3.19 and shall before him that is God assure our harts And in 1. Iohn 4. he saith Herby we know that he dwelleth in vs and we in him because he hath giuen vs of his spirit that is the fruits of his spirit Roman 8. And if any haue not the fruits of the spirit the same is none of his The fruits of the spirit are as appeareth in Galathians 5. loue ioy peace Galat. 5 22. long suffering gentlenes goodnes faith meeknes c. If a mā by these notes examine himselfe he may iudge of his repentāce If any man haue not repented he is diligently to attend vpon the holy ministry of the law the gospel that he may be called in Gods good time Qu. How may Gods people know a faithfull man An. By 3. marks specially First by his professing frequenting of the publike worship of God when it may be had As in Romans 10. Rom. 10 9. For if thou shalt cōfesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus beleeue with thy hart that God raised him from the dead thou shalt be saued And in 1. Peter 3. 1. Pet. 3.15 Be redie alwaies to giue an answer to euery mā that asketh you a reason of that hope that is in you Our sauiour Christ saith in Iohn 8. He that is of God heareth Gods word Iohn 8 47. Secondly by his honest godly conuersation amōg men for Paule saith 2. Tim. 2. The Lord knoweth who are his ℣ se 15 let euery one that nameth the name of Chrst departe from iniquitie Shew me saith Iames in the second of his Epistle thy faith by thy works Iames. 2 18. and I will shewe thee my faith by my workes Where he plainely sheweth that if good works be away Matth. 7. there is no faith Yee shall know them saith Christ by their fruit verse 16 20. for a good tree bringeth foorth good fruit c. Thirdly by true Christian loue Iohn 13 35. Hereby saith Christ in the 13. of Iohn shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye haue loue one to an other These are thrée sure markes to know a faithfull man by so farre as man may iudge Hypocrites God will either display in this world in time by bringing their sinnes abroad to the view of all men as he did Symon Magus his sinnes Iudas Saules and many others or else when the secrets of all mens harts shal be disclosed he will throwe those tares into vnquenchable fier with others prepared to condemnation Qu How may a mā know an vnfaithfull man and an infidell An. By his life vnreformed continuance in his wickednes after he is rebuked heareth how he ought to walke Luke 6. verse 43 44. It is not a good tree saith Christ in the sixt of Luke which bringeth foorth euill fruit neither an euil tree that bringeth forth good fruite Againe Iohn saith in his first epistle and third chapiter 1 Iohn 3 10. In this are the children of God knowne and the children of the deuill whosoeuer doth not righteousnesse is not of God And againe He that committeth sinne is of the deuill Prouerbes 29. Hee that hardeneth his necke when he is rebuked Prou. 29 1. shall sodainly be destroied and cannot bee cured Psalme 68. Surely God will wound the head of his enemies Psal 68 21. and the hairy pate of him that walketh in his sinne Qu. Now shew what ioyes are prepafor true Christians An. Such as saith the Apostle in the second chapiter of the former Epistle to the Corinthians The eye hath not seene 1 Cor 2 9. neither the eare heard neyther the heart of man conceiued prepared by God for them that loue him Peter in the fift of his first Epistle tearmeth those ioyes the incorruptible crowne of glory In the 21. of the Reuelation 1 Peter 5 4. Reuel 21 ℣ 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. this ioy is described in the description of newe Ierusalem buylded of gold pretious stones and pearles c. where by most excellent earthly things is sette foorth the excellencie of those thinges which passe and excéede mans capacitie Wherfore let none of vs be a prophane person as was Esau Hebr. 12 16. to sell our birth-right for a messe of pottage and for the pleasures of the doonghill of this world which endure but for a season to loose the ioyes and dainties of heauen which are eternall Which thing God graunt vnto vs for his Christ his sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost thrée persons one onely God King of kinges and Lorde of lordes who onelie hath immortalitie and dwelleth in the light that no man can attaine vnto whom neuer man sawe neyther can sée be honour and power euerlastingly Amen The ende of the Catechisme To the Christian Reader BEcause this Catechisme is verye short I thought it needfull to adde and adioyne vnto the ende thereof good Reader certeine duties requyred by God at the handes of his people to be performed vnder payne of damnation and the testimonies of Scripture which proue the same For surely this naughtye age in performance of dutie is verie remisse vntoward perswaded as it seemeth that a meere profession of Religion with the lippe is Christianity inough And what is the speeches of the most part of men in these dayes when they are blamed for their vngodly life but these such like VVhy God is merciful men cannot be saints and angels you are ouer precise pure Luke 1 ℣ se 74 75. As if it were not