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A19938	A catechisme wherin is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian faith, contained in the Lords prayer and the Creed, by way of question and answer betweene Protestant and Papist. Diuided into twenty Saboth exercises, for children to learne the Christian religion.	Davis, Francis, fl. 1612.	1612 (1612)	STC 6368; ESTC S117500	15,595	46

is it not a great reproch and dishonor vnto our Lord Iesus Christ to say that hee was accursed and that before God Pro. No not a whit for he through his almighty power by taking the cursse from vs vnto himselfe did in such sort make it voide and of none effect that hee himselfe neuerthelesse continued still so blessed that hee was able to fill vs also with his blessings Pap. Declare that followeth Pro. In so much as death was a punishment appointed vnto man for sinne therefore our Sauiour Christ did suffer death and by suffering ouer-came it And to the intent also to make it the more certainely knowne vnto vs that his death was not counterfeit it pleased him also to bee buried after the common manner of men Pap. But it appeareth not that any profit commeth to vs by this that Christ hath wonne the victory of death seeing that wee notwithstanding cease not to dye Pro. That doth not hinder for the death of the faithfull is now nothing else but a ready passage to a better life Pap. It followeth then necessary hereof that wee ought in no wise to bee afraide of death as though it were a dreadfull thing but rather it behooueth vs willingly to walke the trace of our head and Captaine Iesus Christ Pro. It is euen so The tenth Sunday Pap. What is the sence of that clause Hee descended into Hell Pro. That Christ did not onely suffer naturall death which is a separation of the soule from the body but also that his soule after this seperation did descend into Hell or the place of the damned Pap. For what consideration would hee descend thither Pro. To shew the wicked that they were iustly condemned because they beléeued not in him and to triumph ouer the diuell in his own tents whither he pursued him and that his victorie and the soueraintie of his humane nature might appeare ouer all and lastly that we might not descend and abide there for euer he descended and returned according as it was prophecied of him Thou wilt not leaue my soule in Hell nor suffer thy holy one to see corruption Pap. Was his descending into Hell a part of his passion or humiliation Pro. No but of his victory and exaltation according to that testimony of S. Paul He spoiled principalities and powers and he led captiuity captiue This he did in Hell euen in that place where the Diuell had most power whereby both the diuell might be the more disgraced and Christ himselfe more honoured Pap. What testimonies of Scripture haue you to prooue this Pro. Psal 16.10 Thou wilt not leaue my soule in Hell which is cited by Saint Peter Act. 2.31 also Eph. 4.9 In that he ascended what is it but that hee sirst descended into the lowest parts of the earth Also Rom. 10.7 say not in thy heart who shall ascend into Heauen this is to bring downe Christ or who shall descend into the deepe this is to bring Christ againe from the dead what can be vnderstood by the déepe but Hell as it is taken Luc. 8.31 And they requested him not to send them into the deepe The eleuenth Sunday Pap. May wee now gather by this what profit commeth to the faithfull by the death of Iesus Christ Pro. Yea very well and first of all wee sée that it is a sacrifice wherewith he hath fully satisfied his Fathers iudgment in our behalfe and thereby also he hath appeased Gods wrath and hath brought vs into his fauour againe Secondly that his bloud is a washing of our soules from all maner of spottes And finally that hee hath so cleane wiped away our sinnes through his death that GOD will neuer here-after haue remembrance of them so that the Obligation which was against vs is now cancelled and made voyde Pap. Haue wee none other profit of his death Pro. Yes verily that is if wee bee true members of Christ our old man is crucified and our flesh is mortified to the end that none euill lusts doe hereafter beare rule in vs. The twelfth sunday Papist Expound the Article following Pro. Hee rose the third day from death to life wherein hee shewed that hee had gotten the victory of death and sinne For through his resurrection hee hath swallowed vp death hee brake a sunder the chaines of the diuell and finally hee destroyed all his power Pap. Tell mee how many wayes this resurrection of Christ doth profit vs Pro. Thrée manner of wayes The first that wee haue fully obtained to bee righteous thereby Secondly it is a sure gage of our immortality Thirdly that if wee bee indéed truly pertakers of his resurrection wee rise now in this present world into a new kinde of life whereby wee serue GOD onely and lead our liues agréeable to his will The thirteenth Sunday Papist Let vs now goe forward to the rest Pro. Hee ascended into heauen Pap. Went CHRIST vp into heauen in such sort that hee is no longer in the earth Pro. Yea for when hee had performed wholy all things that were enioyned him by the commandement of his Father and had accomplished all that was necessary for our saluation it was not néedfull hee should remaine any longer in the world Pap. What profit haue we by this Ascension Pro. We receiue double profit thereby for since that our Sauiour Christ is entred into Heauen in our name euen in like maner as he came down from thence for our sakes he hath therby made an open entry into the same place for vs giuing withal an assured knowledge that the gate of heauen is now open to receiue vs which was before shut through our sinnes The second profit is that he appeared in the sight of God the father to make Intercession for vs and to bee our Aduocate to make answere for vs. Pap. But is our sauiour Christ so ascended into heauen that hee is no more heere with vs Pro. Not so for hée him-selfe promiseth the contrary that is that he will bee present with vs vnto the worlds end Pap. Is it ment of his bodily presence that hee maketh promise soe to continue with vs Pro. No verily for it is another matter to speake of his body which was taken vp into Heauen and of his power which is spred abroad throughout the whole world Pap. Declare the meaning of this sentence he sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Pro. The vnderstanding of that is that he hath receiued into his handes the gouernance of Heauen and Earth whereby he is King and Ruler ouer all Pap. What signifieth this word right hand and the sitting at the right hand Pro. It is a similitude or manner of spéech borrowed of earthly Princes which are wont to place on their right side such as they substitute next vnder them to rule in their name Pap. Then thou meanest nothing else therby but that which Saint Paul speaketh that he was appointed head of the Church set in authority aboue all powers and that he

by this meanes we draw out of him as out of a fountaine al the spirituall guifts that we haue Pap. To what vse doth the Kingdome of Christ serue vs Pro. To set vs at liberty of Conscience to liue godly and holily that we being inriched with his spirituall blessings and armed with his power may be able to ouercome the Diuell sinne flesh and the world which bee pernicious enemies vnto our soules Pap. What profit haue wee of his Preisthood Pro. First by this meanes he is our mediator to bring vs vnto the fauour of God his father and againe héereby wée haue a frée entry to come in and shew our selues boldly before God to offer vp our selues with all that belongeth vnto vs for a sacrifice and in this point we are fellows after a sort of his Preisthood Pap. The vtility of his office in that hee is a Prophet is yet behind Pro. Since our Lord Iesus hath receiued his office to become the maister and teacher of his flock the end of this diuinity is to bring vs to the right knowledge of the Father and of his truth so that we might become Gods houshould schollers and of his family Pap. Then it is true that a man may breifly gather of the words that this name Christ doth include three sundry offices that God hath giuen vnto his sonne to the intent to bestow the fruit and profit of the same vpon his elect Pro. It is true The seauenth Sunday Pap. By what reason callest thou Christ the onely Sonne of God since God doth name all vs also his Children Pro. As touching that that we are Gods children we are not so of nature but only of his fatherly adoption and by grace in that God doth aceept vs for his Children now our Lord Iesus beeing begotten of the substance of his father and béeing of the selfe same nature may iustly bée called Gods onely sonne for that there is none other that is so by nature Pap. This is then thy meaning that this honour pertaineth peculiarly to him alone as to whom it belongeth of nature the which notwithstanding he hath by free gift of his goodnesse communicated vnto vs in that we are his members Pro. It is euen so and therfore in respect of that his communicating with vs the scripture calleth Christ in an other place the first borne among many brethren Pap. Why callest thou him our Lord Pro. Because he is appointed of the Father to haue Lordship ouer vs and to rule in Heauen and earth and to bee the head of men and Angells Pap. What is the meaning of that which followeth Pro. It declareth after what sort the sonne of God was anoynted of his father to become our Sauiour That is to say he tooke vppon him our flesh and therein fulfilled all things necessary for our redemption according as they bée héere rehearsed Pap. What meanest thou by these two clauses conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary Pro. That he was fashioned in the Virgins woombe taking very substance and manner of her that he might therby become the séed of Dauid as the Prophet had before signified and yet notwithstanding all this was wrought by the maruelous and secret power of the holy Ghost without the company of man Pap. What is it then needful that he should take vpon him our very flesh Pro. Yea verily for it was conuenient that mans disobedience against God should be purged in the nature of man And moreouer if Christ had not beene partaker of our nature hee had not beene a meet Mediator to make vs at one with God his Father Pap. Then is this thy saying that it behooueth that Christ should become very man to the end he might execute the office of a Sauiour as in our person Pro. Yea verily for we must borrow of him all that which is lacking in our selues for this our default could not otherwise be remedied Pap. By what cause was this thing wrought by Gods holy spirit and not rather by the company of man according to the order of nature Pro. Because the seed of man is of it selfe altogether corrupted with sinne it behooued that this conception of Christ should be wrought by the power of the holy Ghost whereby our Sauiour might be preserued from all corruption of sinne and replenished with all manner of holinesse Pap. So then by these sayings it is euidently declared vnto vs that he which should purify and clense others from filth of sinne must be himselfe free from al spots thereof and euen from his mothers wombe dedicated vnto God in purenesse of nature so that hee may not be guilty of that corruption wherewith the whole stock of man is infected Pro. I meane so The eight Sunday Pap. Wherefore speakest thou of his death immediatly after his birth and leauest out the whole history of his life Pro. Because there is nothing mentioned or spoken of in our Créed but that which pecularily belongeth to the substance of our redemption Pap. Why is it not said plainly in one word that he dyed without any speaking of Pontius Pilate by whose iudgement he suffered Pro. This was not onely to make the history of Christs passion to haue more euident assurance but also to declare vnto vs that he was cōdemned to death by a Iudge Pap How so Pro. He dyed to suffer the paine that was due vnto vs that we might be thereby deliuered from the same Now for so much as we were guilty before Gods iudgment as wicked misdooers Christ tooke vpon him our persons and vouchsafed to shew himselfe before an earthly Iudge and to bee condemned by his mouth that thereby wée might be declared before the iudgement seat of God Pap. Notwithstanding Pilate doth pronounce him innocent and so by that he doth not condemne him worthy of death Pro. Pilate did both the one and the other First hée was pronounced innocent and iust by the Iudges owne mouth to signifie that he suffered not for his owne desart but for our trespasses and yet withall the same Iudge did giue solemnly the sentence of death against him to testifie and expresse that hee is our true pledge and ransome as hee who also hath taken vnto him our condemnation to deliuer vs from the same Pap. That is well said for if he had beene a sinner indeed hee had not beene meete to haue suffered death for the offences of other and neuerthelesse to the end we might bee cleerely quit by his condemnation it was necessary that hee should be counted as among the wicked Pro. So I meane The ninth Sunday Pap. Where thou sayest Christ suffered on the Crosse was that kinde of death of more importance then if hee had beene otherwise put to death Pro. Yea verily and as touching that matter Saint Paul saith that he was hanged on a tree to the intent that hee might take vpon him our cursse and so discharge vs for that kinde of death was accursed of God Pap. What