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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68610	A booke of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set foorth the cheef points of the Christian religion ... A worke right necessary and profitable for all such as shal haue to deale vvith the capious quarelinges of the vvrangling aduersaries of Gods truthe. Written in Latin by the lerned clerke Theodore Beza Vezelius, and newly translated into English by Arthur Golding.; Quaestionum et responsionum Christianarum libellus. English	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1574 (1574)	STC 2038; ESTC S112801	79,360	184

fulfill Gods law bycause he cannot but sin and disfeateth him of challendging any peece of rightuousnes to himselfe Here vpon is brought in an exposition of the rewarding or recompencinge of good workes together with a declaration from whēce they springe and of the difference in punishements and rewards By occasion wherof he disproueth the fond obiection of such as holde opinion that Christ hath abolished but the merites of the ceremoniall la we and defaceth the works of Papisticall preparatiō shewing wherfore works be called good And so he concludeth that all things needfull to saluation are founde in Christ alone to whom wee cleaue by faith so as there is no dampnation for them that be greffed in Christ and that the sam knowledge is the only knowledge of Saluatiō and that the said faith or knowledge is the free gifie of God put into vs by Gods mere grace and not bred in vs by nature or purchased by our owne power or deseruinge By ●his meanes he leadeth vs to the headspringes of Gods eternall prouidence and predestination in the discourse wherof after he hath aunswered to all obiections and modestly and learnedly shewed what a Christen man ought to think or speake in that behalf with reuerence of Gods maiestie last of all he setteth forth a godlye and necessary remedy against the perlous temptation of particular predestination for such as are desirous to know whither they be ordeined to saluation or no. And thus your L. Wisedome perceiueth that although this boke be but small in volume yet conteineth it right profounde misteries and great store of matter very necessary to be perfectly knowen and to be had at the fingers endes of all men specially which shal haue occasion to encounter with the impes of the olde serpent namely with the adders broode of the Romish Antechrist with the children of this world who bee much more politike wylie and forecasting in their kinde then the childrē of light bee Wherefore I thought it not an vnmeete peece of worke wherby to testifie some maner of remembraunce of your L ▪ most honorable courtesie to wards me according wherunto it may please you too giue this my labour leaue to passe forth vnder your fauorable acceptation as a hansel● of some greater worke her after too the more benefite of my natiue coūtry and the further commendation of your L. goodnesse who are ryght well knowen to be an earnest fauorer of Gods glory and a diligent furtherer of the welfare of his church written at London the. 12. of Iune 1572. Your good Lordships most humble to commaund Arthur Golding A booke of christen questions and aunswers Question WHo hath set vs in this worlde Aunswere God of his owne singuler goodnesse Quest To what ende Ans To the ende that we shoulde serue him and that he shoulde bee glorifyed by geuing eternall life vnto vs. Quest VVhich is the way to woorship him a right and consequently to attaiue eternall life and to glorifie him dewly Ans To knowe and acknowledge hym after the same maner that hee hath disclosed himselfe vnto vs in his word Quest VVhat callest thou the worde of God. Ans That whiche the Prophetes and Apostles haue receiued by gods spirite and committed to writing whiche booke wee terme by the name of the olde and newe Testament Quest VVho then is the authour of those bookes Ans God him selfe And the writers or penners therof were the Prophetes and Apostles Quest How knowest thou that Ans The thinges themselues that are treated of those in writings the maiesty of god shyning forth in that homelynesse of speache the heauenlye purenesse and singuler holynes that vttereth it self euery where in them the most sure stedfastnes of the principles wherupon that doctrine is grounded and the laying together of the foresayings of their fallings out doe ynough and more then ynough shew these writings to be altogether diuine and heauenly that the same is the most perfect doctrine of truth though all the world should saye neuer so muche to the contrary To the confirmation hereof maketh also the orderlye successe of thinges done and the recorde of godlye men deliuered from hande to hande And that I know these thinges in such wyse as I fully agree to matters whiche men are wont partly to dispise and laughe to scorne and partly so to embrace as yet notwithstandinge they wote not at all what they beleue I impute it wholy to the holy Ghost who hath opened my hart that I might both héere and vnderstande these secretes Quest Is all that we must beleue to saluation comprehended in those writing Ans Altogether Quest VVhat is it then that the writinges of the prophets and Apostles do teache vs cheefely to beleue concernyng God himselfe Ans That the Essence of God is one and the persons thrée the father the sun and the holy Ghost Quest What meanest thou by Essence An. I meane the nature that is common to those thrée persons Quest VVhat meanest thou by persons Ans I meane the verie parties themselues that haue their beynge in that nature Quest These three persons then are thei three gods like as there be so many men as there bee persons indued with humaine nature Ans No not so For these three seueral persons are all but one self same God. Quest VVhy so Ans For in asmuch as gods Essence is moste single infinite and vnable to bee parted therefore these three parsons are not seperated one from another but onelye distinguished so as the father is not the sonne or the holye Ghoste but the father only nor the sonne the father or the holy Ghoste but the sonne onely nor the holy Ghoste the father or the sonne but the holye Ghost onelye and yet all those three seuerall persons be one selfe same perfect God of one euerlastingnesse of one Essence and of one equalitie howbeit that in order thoughe not in degree the Father is fyrst who is of none the Sonne is seconde who is of the Father and the holy Ghost is thirde who is of the father and of the sonne both of them vnspeakably by the euerlastynge communion of the whole Essence of the godhead the Sonne begotten and the holye Ghost proceeding Quest Truly as far as I see the depth of this misterie is vnpossible to be vttered Ans It is so in deede if a man will seke a reason howe that shoulde come to passe But we bee sure it is so by the expresse word of god And therfore wee must beléeue and reuerence the misterie that god hath opened vnto vs and not searche for the thing that he hath hidden from vs which we be not able to conceiue Quest Doth this knowledge of Gods Essence suffice to saue a man. Ans No. For besydes manye other thinges whereby Gods nature is after a sorte paynted out vnto vs least wee might surmise him to bee like the things that are created it standeth