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B04689	The foundation of Christian religion, gathered into six principles. And it is to be learned of ignorant people, that they may be fit to heare sermons with profit, and to receive the Lords Supper with comfort.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Shelton, Thomas, 1601-1650?	1660 (1660)	Wing P1566B; ESTC R215935	19,838	53

THE FOUNDATION OF Christian Religion Gathered into Six PRINCIPLES And it is to be learned of ignorant People that they may be fit to hear Sermons with Profit and to receive the Lords Supper with Comfort Psal 119. vers 103. The entrance into thy word sheweth light and giveth understanding to the simple HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA LONDON Printed by John Field and are to be sold by John Williams at the Crown in S. Pauls Church-yard and George Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill 1660. TO ALL IGNORANT PEOPLE That desire to be INSTRUCTED POor people your maner is to sooth up your selves as though you were in a most happy estate but if the matter come to a just tryal it will fall out far otherwise For you lead your lives in great ignorance as may appear by these your common opinions which follow 1. That faith is a mans good meaning and his good serving of God 2. That God is served by the rehearsing of the ten Commandments the Lords Prayer and the Creed 3. That ye have believed in Christ ever since you could remember 4. That it is pity that he should live which doth any whit doubt of his salvation 5. That none can tell whether he shall be saved or not certainly but that all men must be of a good belief 6. That howsoever a man live yet if he call upon God on his death-bed and say Lord have mercy upon me and so go away like a lamb he is certainly saved 7. That if any be strangely visited he is either taken with a Planet or bewitched 8. That a man may lawfully swear when he speaketh nothing but the truth and swears by nothing but that which is good as by his faith and troth 9. That a Preacher is a good man no longer then he is in the Pulpit They think all like themselves 10. That a man may repent when he will because the Scripture saith At what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sins c. 11. That it is an easier thing to please God then to please our neighbor 12. That ye can keep the Commandments as well as God will give you leave 13. That it is safest to do in religion as most do 14. That merry ballads and books as Skoggin Bevis of Southampton c. are good to drive away the time and to remove heart-qualms 15. That ye can serve God with all your hearts and that you would be sorry else 16. That a man need not hear so many Sermons except he could follow them better 17. That a man which cometh at no Sermons may as well believe as he which hears all the Sermons in the world 18. That ye know all the Preacher can tell you For he can say nothing but that every man is a sinner that we must love our neighbor as our selves that every man must be saved by Christ and all this ye can tell as well as he 19. That it was a good world when the old Religion was because all things were cheap 20. That drinking and bezeling in the Ale-house or Tavern is good fellowship and shews a good kinde nature and maintains neighborhood 21. That a man may swear by the Mass because it is nothing now and by our Lady because she is gone out of the country 22. That every man must be for himself and God for us all 23. That a man may make of his own whatsoever he can 24. That if a man remember to say his prayers every morning though he never understand them he hath blessed himself for all the day following 25. That a man prayeth when he saith the ten Commandments 26. That a man eats his Maker in the Sacrament 27. That if a man be no adulterer no thief no murderer and do no man harm he is a right honest man 28. That a man need not have any knowledge of Religion because he is not book-learned 29. That one may have a good meaning when he saith and doth that which is evil 30. That a man may go to wizards called wise-men for counsel because God hath provided a salve for every sore 31. That ye are to be excused in all your doings because the best men are sinners 32. That ye have so strong a Faith in Christ that no evil company can hurt you These and such like sayings what argue they but your gross ignorance now where ignorance raigneth there raigns sin and where sin raigns there the devil rules and where he rules men are in a damnable case Ye will reply unto me thus That ye are not so bad as I would make you If need be you can say the Creed the Lords Prayer and the ten Commandments and therefore ye will be of Gods belief say all men what they will and you defie the Devil from your hearts I answer again That it is not sufficient to say all these without book unless ye can understand the meaning of the words and be able to make a right use of the Commandments of the Creed of the Lords Prayer by applying them inwardly to your hearts and consciences and outwardly to your lives and conversations This is the very point in which ye fail And for an help in this your ignorance to bring you to true knowledge unfeigned faith and sound repentance here I have set down the principal points of Christian Religion in six plain and easie Rules even such as the simplest may easily learn and hereunto is adjoyned an Exposition of them word by word If ye do want other good directions then use this my labor for your good instruction In reading of it first learn the six principles and when you have them without book and the meaning of them withal then learn the exposition also which being well conceived and in some measure felt in the heart ye shall be able to profit by Sermons whereas now ye cannot and the ordinary parts of the Catechism namely the ten Commandments the Creed the Lords Prayer and the institution of the two Sacraments shall more easily be understood Thine in Christ Jesus William Perkins THE FOUNDATION OF Christian Religion Gathered into Six PRINCIPLES The first Principle Question WHat dost thou believe concerning God A. There is one God Creator and Governor of all things distinguished into the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Proofs out of the word of God 1. There is a God For the invisible things of him that is Ro 2. 1. 13. his eternal power and Godhead are seen by the creation of the world being considered in his works to the intent that they should be with out excuse Novertheless he left not himself without Act. 14. 17 witness in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness 2. This God is one Concerning therefore meats sacrificed to 1 Cor. 8. 4. idols we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is