and perdition of soule and bodie Minister Then by euery breaking of the Lawe you dayly deserue death and procure Gods curse Answer It is verie true Minister How shall you be freed from this curse Aunswere Ga 3 13 By Iesus Christ my Sauiour and redeemer Minister VVhat did he for you Aunswer He was both (a) Ro 9 5 Col 2 9 He 1 3 perfit God that he might be able (b) He 2 14 to ouercome death for me and also he was perfect (c) Mat 1 25 Ga 4 4 man that he might (d) Heb 2 11 Col 1 22 suffer death and Gods wrath for my sinnes and so in bothe these natures together he fully satisfied the iustice of God for me and purchased my saluation Minister VVhat moued God thus to saue you Aunswer His owne meere loue fauoure and mercie without any respect of my worthines Minister How are you assured of this mercy of GOD. Aunswere By a true faith in Christ Minister Rehearse the summe of your fayth Aunswer I beleeue in God the father almightie c. Minister VVhat breefely doo you gather out of these articles Aunswer My faith is assured heerein that God the father (a) Ioh. 3.1 of his owne good will (b) Rom 8 3 Eph. 5 2 Tit 2 14 gaue his sonne Iesus Christ very God and man to redeeme mee from sinne by hys death and passion (c) Rom. 8 9 2 Cor 5 5 1 Ioh. 4 13 sending out his holie spirite into mee to cause Christ his (d) Rom 8 10. death life to be effectuall to renue me (e) et 6 4. into a new life he hath made me of his Church and companie of beleeuers sanctifyed to doo hys will here to glorifie him in euerlasting life in the world to come Minister VVherefore dyd Christ thus suffer and dye Answere Ro. 4 25 For my sinnes Minister vvhat profite haue you by his death Answere I haue (a) Ephesi 1.7 forgiuenes of sinnes (b) Ro. 6 6 the mortification of my flesh and the (c) Col 1 20 appeasing of Gods wrath Minister vvhat meane you by his descending into hell Aunswer Not that Christ went into the place of torments with his soule or bodie but that for a time he (a) Esa 53 4 5 felt his Fathers wrath and the (b) Act 2 24. dolers of eternall death in his (c) Mat 26 38 42 Luke 22 43 Hebr 5 7 soule and conscience heere on earth for vs that hee might bee a redeemer as well of the soule as of the body Minister vvhat profit haue you by his resurrection Aunswer I haue (a) Ro. 4 15 righteousnes a gage (b) 1 Cor 15 20. of my immortality and (c) Rom 6 4 newnes of life Minister vvhat vse make you of the article concerning the holy Ghost Aunswer I learne therein that it is God the holy (a) Ioh 6 63 et 14 26 ghost only which maketh Christ his death and life profitable to me (b) Ioh 3 6 by renuing my hart to the obedience of Gods wil and working faith in me to apply the merits of Christ to my selfe and by the same spirite God gathereth a Churche to himselfe in all (c) Ioh 10.16 the world by his worde Minister How doth Gods spirite worke fayth in you Aunswer By the word of God preached Ro 10 14 Minister vvhat are the meanes to increase nourish and vphold your fayth Answere Rom. 10 17 The hearing of the word of God preached the vse of the Sacraments and of prayer Minister vvyll you then bee dilligent to heare the word to vse the Sacraments and to frequent prayer that your fayth may be increased Aunswer Yea by Gods grace Minister vvhat is a Sacrament Answere A Sacrament is an outward (a) Gen 17.11 Rom 4 11. seale ioyned vnto the word which visibly representeth vnto vs spirituall thinges and assureth our faith of Gods promises declared in his word Minister Howe many Sacraments hath God ordeyned Answere Two Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. Minister How doth Baptisme profit your fayth Answere Fyrst by assuring mee that I am (a) Rom 6 3 5. 1 Cor 12 13 one with Christ Secondlye that I am (b) Iohn 3 3.5 begotten againe (c) Col 2 11 from sinne into a newe lyfe Thirdlie by being a pledge of d the forgiuenes of my sinnes (b) Mat 3 6 Act 2 38 for as the water clenseth the body so our soules by (e) Heb. 9 12. 1. Pet. 3 22 1. Ioh. 1.7 Apo. 1.5 the bloode of Christ are purged from sinne Minister vvhat profit hath your fayth by the Lordes Supper Answer Euen this that as outwardly I receiue the breade and wine to nourish my bodie so (a) 1 Col. 10 16 12 13 inwardlie I receiue Christ by faith euen as mine owne whose bodye (b) Cor 1 14.22 and bloode clenseth mee from sin and nourisheth mee to eternall life Minister Doo you receiue the very body blood of Christ really in the bread Answere Ioh 6 63 Nothinglesse but onelie spirituallie by faith Minister Howe shall you come worthely to the Lords supper Answere When I come with faith and repentance Minister How shall you knowe when you come to the communion with fayth Answere First if I acknowledge mine owne pouertie and wants confesse the mercies of God (a) Ps 103 1 2 1 Cor 11 24 with thanksgiuing Secondlie when I assure my selfe of the (b) Mat 26 28 forgiuenes of my sins by the death and sacrifice of Christ onely Minister How shall you know when you come with repentance Answere First if I (a) 1. Cor 11 28 examine and proue my heart and am truely (b) 2. Cor 7 10 greeued for my sinnes (c) Pro 28. 13 Mat 3 6 confessing them before God and forsaking them Secondlie if I vnfainedlie purpose to walke (d) Mat 3 8 in a newe life that is in holines to GOD and true loue to my neighbour (e) Mat 5 23 24. reconciling my selfe to them that I offende and (f) Mat 6 14 15 Col 3 13 forgiuing others that I may be forgiuen Minister vvhat doth the bread broken signifie Answere It signifieth the bodie of Christe broken for my sinnes Minister vvhat doth the wine signifie Answere The blood of Christe shed for my sinnes Minister vvhat differeth baptisme from the Lords supper sith they both betoken the remyssion of sinnes Answere Baptisme grafteth vs into Christ by regeneration in hope of remission of sinnes The Supper nourisheth vs being grafted to feele the power of death 1 Cor 22 13 and resurrectiō of Christ dailie strengthening our Faith into a newe life Minister vvhy receiue you Baptisme but once in all your life and the supper of the Lord often times Aunswer Because that as we neede but once to be borne so we neede but once to be baptised but as wee neede often to be fedde to nourish our
bodies in life 1 Cor 11 24 25 so must wee often receiue the Lordes supper to confirme our faith and to testify our thankfull remembraunce of Christes death Minister It seemeth then that you must needes haue your hart touched for your sinnes when you come to the communion repenting your former life and you must come with hope of forgiuenes Aunswer It is very true els can I haue no comfort or benefite by it therfore I pray God to touch my hart aright for my sinnes and to pardon them that I may come worthelie therevnto Minister Doo you take this Sacrament then as a pledge of Gods loue in forgiuing your sinnes doo you purpose and professe vnfeynedly amendment of life and to liue with your brethren in christian loue Aunswere Yea indeede and I make thys an vtter renouncing of my former life that by Gods grace I maye heereafter lead a new life which grace God grant me Amen Minister So doing I as the minister of God receiue you to the comunity of the saints of God and seale vnto you the mercies of God by the authority of his worde to your euerlasting comfort in Christe Iesus Aunswere The Lord giue me grace to walk woorthy of his calling in his feare all my life that I may bee acceptable to him in Iesus Christ Amen Minister vvyll you exercise your fayth in praying for these things daily Aunswer Yea by Gods grace Minister vvhat is prayer Aunswer It is to aske all good thinges at the hand of God and to giue him thanks for all things receiued Minister To whom wyll you make your prayers Aunswere To God alone Minister vvho directeth your affections in prayer Aunswer Rom 8 27 The spirite of God which maketh a request according to the wyll of God in his Saints Minister Howe are your prayers acceptable Heb 15 15 1 Pet 2 5. Aunswer By Iesus Christ Minister By what rule wyll you frame your prayers Aunswere By that order of Christ Mat. 6 9. set down to his Disciples which wee call the Lords prayer Minister Repeate it Aunswer Our Father which art in heauen c. Minister vvhat is the summe of this prayer Aunswere Firste wee pray heere for all thinges that may make to the glory of God and aduauncing of hys name for the enlarging of his kingdome and the performance of his wyl in all thinges Secondly we pray for al thinges needefull for our selues bothe for our bodies and soules that so by the direction of his grace and spirite we beeing freed from sinne may serue him freelie in righteousnes and holines all our lyfe which grace God graunt me and all hys people Amen Finis quod B. Andrewes ⧠A forme of confessyon O Lord our God moste louing gracious and mercifull Father to whom belongeth righteousnes and mercie compassyon and forgiuenes to vs belongeth shame and confusion of faces because we haue transgressed in not obeying thy voice and in breaking all thy holy commaundementes for wee acknowledge O Lord that euen in our conception we were enfolden in the gylt of condemnation beeing conceiued in sin and borne the children of wrath and from thencefoorth haue wandred in vngodly pathes and in the wayes of destruction sin hauing entred vppon all the partes of our whole man hath wholie corrupted both our wyll and vnderstanding our thoughtes are prophane our imaginations worldlie our desyres carnall and vncleane our iudgments corrupt whereby wee haue beene disobedient to thy heauenlye wyll ignoraunt stubborne malicious impacient enuious full of selfe-loue full of hypocrisie finallye fraught with all euill concupiscences and voyde of grace till thou dyddest touch our hartes by thy Spyrite and worde and calledst vs to sanctification Yea and since thou haste called vs by the preaching of thy Gospell O Lorde what sinnes and corruptions haue clouen vnto vs stil so as the workes of thy grace begunne in vs doo so scarcelie appeare as that thou mayst iustlie withdrawe from vs those graces which thou hast trusted vs with For we confesse we haue abused thy grace receiued neglecting the meanes of our saluation Our zeale is colde our fayth is weake our hope languisheth our repentaunce is maymed and barren not yeelding such fruite as may plainely approue our sanctification VVee are forgetful of thy goodnes and vnthankfull for thy mercies Alas LORD all the coste that thou haste bestowed and charge that thou haste beene at in gyuinge thy sonne Christe Iesus to shed hys deere heart bloode for our synnes hath not gaged our bowelles wyth godlie sorrowe vnto repentaunce nor affected vs wyth loue of thee againe Euen thys Lorde is enough to condemne vs if wee hadde nothinge els to wytnesse againste vs that we so slenderlie account of the death of thy Sonne and so retchleslye and forgetfullye thinke of it Yf thou shouldest forget all our sinnes past the vanities of our former daies and frailtie of our youth that none of these shold be thought vppon yet our present sinnes and slippings sithens our calling would condemne vs downe to hell Yea if our present sinnes should bee passed ouer yet our readines to slide and transgresse in time to come would argue vs guilty of death Yea and more then this Lorde in that wee haue not rightlie sorrowed nor repented vs vnfeynedlie of these euils we stand guiltie before thee as also in that the sinnes of our forefathers wherevnto wee stand intiteled remaine vnsorrowed for by vs the staine whereof hath set a purple â—â—e vpon vs so deepe as wee can neuer wash off except thy free pardoÌ„ all these things call for iudgements not onelie vppon vs but also vppon our posterity Oh how haue we despised thy Lawes howe haue wee neglected the preachinge of thy worde the instrument of our saluation how haue we wayted on our owne lustes seruing as apprentices vnto sinne Howe haue we refused thy counsell and sette instruction at naught we haue set more by the world then by thy word wee haue spent as prodigall children the strength of our young yeeres in vanitie and haue drunke in iniquitie as water our cares haue beene for the world and our owne pleasures and profits not for thy glorie vvee haue murmured grudged when thou hast crossed vs with any affliction or trouble we haue forgotten thee in our prosperitie and growen wanton and vnthankfull Our conscience in trayning vp our families and children in thy feare O Lorde how small hath it beene our selues haue beene ill presidents to them in loosenes of behauiour in idle talkes and iestes that are not comelie VVe haue beene impacient and vnequall in our gouernment to austere in smaller offences against our selues and sometime to remisse in slender passyng ouer of greater offences concerning thy glorie wee haue sought our selues our own commodities not thee wee haue disobeyed our parents and betters so haue left our selues small hope of obedience at the handes of those that are vnder vs. And as for our brethren and neighbours
Lord thou most mightie God of all power soueraigntie who hast made the heauens and the earth the sea all deepe places we thy poore seruants doo humbly throwe downe our selues before thy high maiesty acknowledging all our manifolde and heynous sins crauing entirely pardon and forgiuenes of them all for thy sonne Christe Iesus his sake namelie our vnpreparednesse to thys so holie a duetye of Prayer intreating thy good Maiesty to behold vs in thy fauour and to receiue vs into thy blessed protection that sith wee are by thee assigned our labours in the mightie deepes that in the sweat of our browes with danger of our liues we should therin trauell for our lawfull maintenaunce it may please thy good maiestie to prosper the worke of our handes to guide vs in all our actions to defende vs from all dangers eyther of ennemies seeking our life or goods or of the merciles songs and swallowing sandes or of stormie wyndes and raging tempestes or of any other distresse whatsoeuer that betydeth such as trauell therein Thou mightest ô Lord we confesse take aduauntage to make our voyages fishings vnprosperous to spoile our goods to betray vs vnto enemies to swallow vs vppe in the bottomlesse Gulfe of the Seas because wee haue not feared thee with reuerence haue not obeyed thy worde haue beene carelesse of thy seruice vnthankfull for our former deliueraunces successe distrustfull of thy prouidence repyning at thy hand in our losses forgetfull of thy great and maruailous workes we haue gathered iniquity and haue beene stayned with the corrupt manners of other natyons haue blasphemed thy name passed our daies in ryotte forgotten thee vpon the shoare though lately come out of feareful daungers wee haue beene wanton stubborne and vnruly so as we haue freighted our Vessels more with sinne vanity vngodlines then with goods or lading so as it is maruaile wee haue not suncken in the rolling seas and descended down to hel but that thy mercie hath kept vs. But ô Lorde euen our God thou that tamest Leuiathan and smitest the heads of the dragons of the deepe smite our stony hearts with the liuely sense of our sinnes humble vs vnto repentaunce turne thy displeasure from vs deal not with vs according to our transgressions but according to thy mercies we appeale to the throne of thy grace wash vs in the bloode of thy sonne from all our sinnes renue our harts dailie to thy will to the obedience of thy word that we may make conscience to heare it with reuerence when we may for ó Lorde in this one thing thou hast abridged those that farre trauaile on the Seas into diuers countries of the dailie vse of the ministrye of thy word and sacraments which other enioye tarrying at home which is some pettie iudgmēt of thine to hūble vs make vs more carefull O lord stir vs vp therefore to the reading of thy word in our trauelling to such other exercises carefullie and faithfullie that we may be zealous of thy glorie thankfull for thy mercies daily benefits confident to trust in thy prouidence in all estates patient in troubles without murmuring watchful ouer our selus that we be not defiled with the corruptions of other places yea Lord teach vs to auoid all swearing dronkennes ryot exces fornication idolatry contēpt iniury deceit lying quarrelling and all vncleanes that both when we are on the seas on the shoare we may feare glorifie praise thy most holy name gouerne vs ó lord in our deedes words in our gouernment as also our cōpany that they may obey be subiect to al christian discipline that so thou mightest prosper vs in al our affairs increasing the fruit of our labors defending vs frō our enemies frō robberies losses al daūgers finally bring vs safely to the port Hauen of our desire ó lord make vs truely thankfull vnto thee for our former deliuerances benefits and if euer thou shalt crosse vs by any los hindrance or afflictiō for our sins hūble vs therin let vs acknowledg thy hād therin with thankfulnes patience that we may therby be spurred forward to the reforming of our liues Bee thou with vs on the boystrous ô Lord in thy name wee hoyse our sayles and launche foorth into the depe be present with vs in our troubles and dangers heare vs deliuer vs when we call vpon thee for great are the daungers that we sayle in euerie way but thou art our God we trust in thee oh saue vs guide vs protect vs deliuer vs that wee may still liue to prayse thee VVe commit Lord our selues our shyps our goods and liues into thy hand both this day or night and euer heereafter to bee preserued at thy pleasure and let vs neuer forget all thy maruailous works O Lord wee praye thee blesse all our freendes and kyndred on the land our wyues parents children masters families or whomsoeuer that are tyed to vs by anye band of freendship or nature in the Lord. Finally Lord wee pray thee frame our soules to all duties of holines towards thy maiesty increasing all true fayth feare and loue in vs towardes thee inflaming our hartes with all christian loue to our brethren for thy sake These things if thou shalt performe vnto vs O Lord our God wee shall neuer forget to praise and magnifie thy holy name therefore These things ô lord with all other graces necessarye for vs for thy whole church for all nations people and for all our brethrē and for all degrees wee hūbly craue the same at thy maiesties hande in the name mediation of thy son Christe Iesus saying as hee hath taught vs. Our father which art in heauen hallowed he thy name c. O Lord increase our fayth and obedience toward thee and thy worde Amen