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A very short and pithie catechisme verie profitable for all that will come prepared to the Supper of the Lord: VVith a forme of confessyon, prayer and thanks giuing, very necessary and comfortable for all christian families. Made by Bartimeus Andrewes, preacher of the word of God at great Yarmouth: published at the request of the vvorshipfull and godlie magistrates there.
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Andrewes, Bartimaeus.
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A very short and pithie Catechisme verie profitable for all that will come prepared to the Supper of the Lord VVith a forme of confessyon prayer and thanks giuing Very necessary and comfortable for all Christian Families Made by Bartimeus Andrewes Preacher of the word of God at great Yarmouth Published at the request of the vvorshipfull and godlie Magistrates there Deute 6.6.7.8 6 And these words which I commaunde thee this day shall be in thy hart 7 Thou shalt rehearse them continually vnto thy Children and shalt talke of them when thou tarriest in thy house and as thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest downe when thou rysest vppe 8 And thou shalt binde them for a signe vppon thine hand and they shal be as frontlets between thine eyes c. 1. Peter 3.15 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your harts and be ready alwayes to giue an answere to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with méekenes and reuerence AT LONDON Printed by I. Charlewood 1586. To the right worshipfull and my deerelye beloued in the Lord M. Baileifes of great Yarmouth with the residue of the worshipfull Brethren the whole congregation there B. A. wysheth increase of all true ioy and peace with the multiplying of all spirituall graces vpon your soules to the fulfilling of your saluation in Christ Iesus Amen HAuing drawne a verye briefe and small Catechisme worshipful M. Baileifes and the residue of my deere Brethren for the priuate instruction of the petites and families of this great congregation for the better preparing of them to the reuerent vse of the holy Supper of the Lord and being required by your godly Pastor and diuers other to haue it published for the more easie helpe of the simple and ignoraunt I your vnworthy Teacher beeing ready to doo what duetie I can for the furtheraunce of your saluation generally which I wish and long for from my verye heart roote in Christ Iesus haue thought good to prefixe these fewe words in way of dedication of this small thing to your worshippe and the residue presuming vppon your Christian allowance of my well meaning hauing added heerevnto a certaine forme of confession prayer thanksgiuing though plaine yet I hope necessarie and comfortable for the vse of the Christian Families of your congregation And sith God hath by his owne hand sette your worships in the place of ciuill gouernment in this your corporation graunted by the noble progenitors of her Maiestie and continued stil and vpholden by her gracious bounty Let me bee so bolde with you as in a word to put you in minde and the residue of your worshipfull cōpany eligible to that office what thinges are most necessary for you to looke vnto in that charge God hath gyuen you a benefite and priuiledge of liberty not common to all her Maiesties people that you might the better bee fortified with meanes to further Gods glorie in your charge and because I perswade my selfe of the readines of you and the residue of your Brethren to set your hands and helpe to each lawful thing tending to Gods glory agreeable to his word which you all solemnly promised at my firste entrie amongst you and haue somewhat approued the same by your electing both of faithfull helpfull ministers of the word as also of so wise and godlie a Steward among you I resolue my selfe of the good successe of my labours of your willing obeisance to the Lordes wyll propounded in his word You must know that the burthen of this people lieth vppon your shoulders and that their eyes looke at you as those by whose example the people either perish and fall or are preserued and staied vp for the fall and vprysing of manie dependeth vpon publique persons Therefore in a Magistrate first is required a religious minde acquainted with Gods counsel in his word that hee exercising himselfe therein day and night Psal 1 2 might growe wyse in the Lords causes for this charge is laide vpon you from the Lorde to applie your selues to the worde of God for so it is saide of the Magistrate Deu. 17. Deu. 17 19 The word shal be with him and he shall reade therein all the dayes of his life that he may learne to feare the Lord his God and to keepe all the wordes of this Lawe to doo them c. Iosu 1.8 Also Ioshua is straightly charged Let not this booke of the Lawe depart out of thy mouth but meditate therein day and night that thou mayst doo according to all that is written therein then shalt thou make thy way prosperous c. So Iethro commaundeth Moses to chuse men fearing God Exo. 18. Exo 18 21 Prouide you among all the people men of good courage fearing God men dealing truely hating couetousnes and appoint them to bee Rulers c. So as you see that Magistrates must be religious and also men of courage Iosu 2 7 Exo 18 21 to execute iustice in all causes not corrupt with gyftes nor accepting the faces of menne without foolish pittie or faint-harted feare and without crueltie or reuenging affections but of al meeknes lenitie They must performe all faythfulnes and truth with equitie as those that are members of the same bodie appointed to see distributiue and equall iustice to bee administred to eache man accordinglie for so Moses requireth that they shal be men dealing truely Exo 18 21 so as they must not looke to men but to the causes taking heede of that caueat that Moses giueth Exo. 23. Exo 23 12 Thou shalt not receiue a false tale thou shalt not follow a multitude to doo euill neyther agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrow the trueth c. Neither must such neglect the execution of iustice against the offenders either for feare of reproche or rebuke least they countenaunce sinne thereby and beare the guylt of other mens fals Eccl. 8 11 For because sentence against an euyl worke is not executed speedely therfore the hart of the Chyldren of men is fully sette in them to doo euill Exo. 18 21. In all these thinges Couetousnes must be shunned the stepmother and ouerthrower of all iustice and truth which throweth out the harts euen of the wise to manie noisome lustes which drowne men in perdition 1 Tim 6 9 10 verie daungerous to men of wealth or authority and euer weighting vpō that degree of men VVherefore I beseeche you good my worshipfull Brethren vouchsafe the accepting of these instructions written in hast with a minde vnfeynedlie wishing you all good Be you presidents in godly sober exāple to this great people ouersee your own housholds first that they may be patterns lights of godlie discipline to others Remember Ioshua his protestation Iosu 2.4 I and my housholde wyll serue the Lord. Remember Nehemiah Nehe. 5. who enforced hys owne example and his seruantes to
perswade his brethren to iustice and loue Act. 10. Remember how Cornelius and his houshold feared God Nowe then beloued as you loue the Lorde as you tender your owne soules and your charges as you beare naturall affection to your common safetie and happines I beseeche you in the bowels of Iesus Christ indeuour to these thinges both small and great that you may profite in the worke of your saluation so shall you be famous in the church of God common weale you shal glad the soules of vs that labor amongst you in the word you shal bring glory to God eternal happines to your selus in the day of Christ Iesus Let Gods boke be orderlie read with reuerēce daily in your families let prayer be exercised in your housholdes and vouchsafe to helpe them in this small Catechisme that they may be fitte for further instruction Giue dilligence to harken to the word of lyfe and to put in vre these fewe prayers in this little booke or other with humilitie reuerence a liuelie sence and feeling of your miserie faith thankfulnes hope and with vnfained desire of profiting in all dueties of fayth and loue towards God your brethren For I liue if you stande in the fayth and sith God hath vouchsafed the blessed tidinges of saluation vppon you in the ministrie of hys word embrace it with thankfulnes and studie for all christian peace and vnitie among your selues fearing God furthering his holye religion and all dueties of loue among men that so our Towne may flourishe and prosper in all thinges otherwise wee can hope of no blessing at the hand of God There is great cause why care should bee hadde heerein Your Towne bordering vppon the sea is in perrill to forraine inuasions and to be steyned with the corrupt manners of other Countries to drinke in iniquitie euen as water therefore the more care to be hadde ouer it Christ sawe such Townes bordering on the Seas to be in most daunger sundrie wayes and therefore frequēted them most vouchsafed his presence doctrine chiefliest amongst them This is my sute to your worshippes this is my sute to the whole company to the whole congregation yea to euery soule amongst you Phil 2 1 If ye euer receiued comfort in Christ if euer you had loue to the brethren if euer any felowship of the spirit if any compassion mercy that you fulfyll my ioy Euen in this to be of one minde in doctrine of one consent in a godly and christian life to apply all dueties of Gods worship to haue care of your families instructing teaching and calling vpon them to be catechised to reade heare the word bee your selues forward therein exercisyng prayer reading and hearing of the word in faith good conscience that so by christian exercises your faith and obedience may be increased your families reformed your Towne happily gouerned that others may take example by you God may be glorified all spirituall blessings may be heaped vpon you and continued to your posterity after you vnto many generations your selues may in the ende receiue the possession of euerlasting life with Christ Iesus in the kingdome of God to whose blessed tuition I commend you and yours praying the Lorde to multiplye all hys graces and mercies vppon you and the whole people to keepe you in safetie from the daunger of enemies to sanctify you in his trueth to blesse you in your gouernment the people in obeying and to make you perfitte in all good workes to doo his wyll working in you that which is pleasant in his sight thorough Iesus Christe To whome with the Father and the holy spirit be all prayse and honor for euer and euer Amen Your worships to vse in in the Lord hartely desirous of your good and saluation in Christ Iesus B. Andrewes An order of prayer or a preparation to the reading of the word in your families Let vs prepare and stirre vppe our mindes by prayer that we may reade the word of God with profite O Lord our God who in thy wisedome and mercy hast appointed thy holie worde as the wholesome nourishment of our soules that by reading hearing and musing thereon we might growe vppe vnto saluation Wee beseeche thee to pardon all our sinnes for Iesus Christe his sake take away the corruption of our nature purge and sanctify our harts that we may read thy word at all times with reuerent mindes so as we may daily be borne againe confyrmed in faith reformed in our manners furthered in knowledge and obedience strengthened against all temptations furnished with patience against all tryals and fynally be made fruitfull in al good workes resembling thy Image and growing vppe into full holines righteousnes in thy sight til we are perfited in the heauens with Christ Iesus our Lord. Amen Let vs harken with reuerence to the holie word of the Lord our God written in such or such a Chapiter and Booke c. A breefe and short Catechisme made for the vse of housholdes and to be learned of all those that vvill be admitted to the Lords Supper By B. A. Minister TO what ende did God make you Aunswere That I might serue him according to his worde Lu 1 74 Eph 4 24 by dooing his wil in righteousnes and true holines all my life Minister VVhere shall you learne what is thys wyll of God Answere In his word and Lawe Minister Rehearse that Law of God Aunswere God spake and said Exo. 20 I am the Lord thy God c. Aunswere VVhat cheefely doth thys lawe require of you Answere First that I shoulde acknowledge (a) Deut 6 4 one onely God serue him in all purenes (b) De. 6.5 et 10 12 Luk 10 27 Ma 22 37 with all my hart soule minde strength will and thoughts in all thinges according to his worde Secondlie that I shoulde walke in (c) Mat 22 39 Ro. 13 8 7 10 loue faithfulnes and trueth with all men dooing dueties of conscience in my calling and (d) Le. 19 8 louing my neighbour as my selfe Minister Are you able of your selfe to doo hys wyll and keepe this his Lawe Aunswer Nothing lesse Minister VVhy so Aunswere Because of my corrupt nature which (a) Ro. 5 18 with Adam is fallen from the state of innocencie (b) Ro 8 7 and so is not obedient to the law of GOD. Minister VVhat are you by nature then Aunswer The (a) Eph 2 3 childe of wrath and (b) Ro 6 20 a sinner Minister VVhat is sinne Answere Euerie (a) 1 Ioh. 3 4 breaking or (b) Neh 9 34 Heb 2 3 neglecting of anie commandement of God and (c) Neh 1 7 Gal 3.10 the not dooing of euerie duetie commanded is sin Minister VVhat is the rewarde of sinne Answere The (a) Gal. 3 10 curse of God (b) Ro. 6 23 death with (c) Mar 9 48 Mat 25 46 2 Thes 1 9 Eze 18 20 euerlasting woe