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A09426 The foundation of Christian religion gathered into sixe principles. And it is to be learned of ignorant people, that they may be fit to heare sermons with profit, and to receiue the Lords Supper with comfort. Perkins, William, 1588-1602. 1618 (1618) STC 19717; ESTC S110444 4,800 18

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THE FOVNDATION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION GATHERED INTO SIXE Principles And it is to be learned of ignorant people that they may be fit to heare Sermons with profit and to receiue the Lords Supper with comfort Psal 119. vers 20. The entrance into thy words sheweth light and giueth vnderstanding to the simple ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA Printed at London by Iohn Legate Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1618. To all ignorant people that desire to be instructed POore people your manner is to soth vp your selues as though you were in a most happy estate but if the matter come to a iust triall it will fall out farre otherwise For yee leade your liues in great ignorance as may appeare by these common opinions which follow 1 That faith is a mans good meaning and his seruing of God 2 That God is serued by the rehearsing of the tenne commaundements the Lords prayer and the Creede 3 That ye haue beleeued in Christ euer since you could remember 4 That it is pitrie that hee should liue which doth any whit doubt of his saluation 5 That none can tell whether he shall be saued or no certainely but that all men must be of a good beliefe 6 That howsoeuer a man liue yet if hee call vpon God on his death bedde and say Lord haue mercy vpon mee and so goe away like a lambe hee is certainely ued 7 That if any bee strangely visited he is either taken with a planet or bewitched 8 That a man may lawfully sweare when hee speaketh nothing but the troth and sweares by nothing but that which is good as by faith and troth 9 That a preacher is a good man no longer then hee is in the Pulpit They thinke all like themselues 10 That a man may repent when hee will because the Scripture saith At what time soeuer a sinner doth repent him of his sinne c. 12 That it is an easier thing to please God then to please our neighbour 13 That yee can keepe the commandements as well as God will giue you leaue 13 That it is safest to doe in religion as most doe 14 That merry ballads and bookes as Sk●ggin Beuis of Southampton c. are good to driue away the time and to remooue heart qualmes 15 That yee serue God with all your hearts and that you would be sorry else 16 That a man need not heare so many Sermons except hee could follow them better 17 That a man which commeth at no Sermons may as well beleeue as hee which heares all the Sermons in the world 18 That ye know all the Preacher can tell you For hee can say nothing but that euery man is a sinner that wee must loue our neighbours as our selues that euery man must be saued 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 cheape 20 That drinking and bezeling in the alehouse or tauerne is good fellowship and shewes a good kind nature and maintaines neighbourhood 21 That a man may sweare by the Masse because it is nothing now and by● Lady because shee it gone out of the countrey 22 That euery man must bee for himselfe and God for vs all 23 That a man may make of his owne whatsoeuer he can 24 That if a man remember to say his praiers in the morning though he neuer vnderstand them hee hath blessed himselfe for all the day following 25 That a man praieth when hee saith the ten commandements 26 That a man eates his maker in the Sacrament 27 That if a man be no adulterer no theefe no murtherer do no man harme he is a right honest man 28 That a man neede not to haue any knowledge of religion because he is not book-learned 29 That one may haue a good meaning when hee saith and doth that which is euill 30 That a man may goe to wizzards called wise men for counsell because God hath prouided a salue for euery sore 31 That yee are to bee excused in all your doings because the best men are sinners 32 That yee haue so strong a faith in Christ that no euill company can hurt you These and such like sayings what argue they but your grosse ignorance Now where ignorance raineth there raignes sin and where sinne raignes there the diuell rules and where he rules men are in a damnable case Ye will reply vnto me thus that yee are not so bad as I would make you If neede be you can say the Creed the Lords praier the ten Commandements and therfore ye will be of Gods beliefe say all men what they will and you defie the dinell from your hearts I answer againe that it is not sufficient to say all these without booke vnles ye can vnderstand the meaning of the words and be able to make a right vse of the commandements of the Creed of the Lords prayer by applying them inwardly to your hearts and consciences and outwardly to your liues and conuersation This is the very point in which ye faile And for a helpe in this your ignorance to bring you to true knowledge vnfained faith and sound repentance heere I haue set downe the principall points of Christian Religion in sixe plaine and easie rules euen such as the simplest may easily learne and hereunto is adioyned an exposition of them word by word If yee doe want other good directions then vse this my labour for your good instruction In reading of it first learne the sixe principles and when you haue them without booke and the meaning of the withall then learne the exposition also which beeing well conceiued and in some me asure felt in the heart ye shall be able to profit by Sermons whereas now ye cannot and the ordinary parts of the Catechisme namely the ten Commandements the Creeds the Lords prayer and the institution of the two Sacraments shall more easily be vnderstood Thine in Christ Iesus William Perkins The Foundation of Christian Religion gathered into sixe Principles The first Principle Question VVHat doest thou beleeue concerning God A. There is one God Creator and gouernor of all things distinguished into the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Proofes out of the word of God 1. There is a God For the inuisible things of him that is his eternall power and Godhead Rom. 1.20 are seene by the creation of the world beeing considered in his workes to the intent that they should be without excuse Neuerthelesse hee left not himselfe without witnesse in thou be did good Act. 14.17 and gaue vs rame from heauen and fruitfull seasons fulfilling our hearts with foode and gladnesse 2. There is one God 1. Cor. 8.4 Concerning therefore meates sacrificed to idols wee know that an idoll is nothing in the world and that there is none other God but one 3. He is Creator of all things In the beginning God created the heauens and