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A05494	A catechisme of Christian religion taught in the schooles and churches of the Low-countries, and dominions of the countie Palatine: with the arguments, and vse of the seueral doctrins of the same catechisme By Ieremias Bastingius. And now authorized by the Kinges Maiestie, for the vse of Scotland. Wherunto is adioyned certaine praiers, both publike and priuate, for sundry purposes.; Heidelberger Katechismus. English.	Bastingius, Jeremais, 1551-1595. aut	1591 (1591)	STC 1562; ESTC S114402	51,290	136

gouerned by one soule so are we all by one and the same spirite Question 77 Where hath Christ promised that he will as certainlie giue vnto the beleeuers his bodie and his blood in this maner to be eaten and drunke as they doo eate this bread beeing broken and drinke this cup. Answere In the institution of the Supper the wordes whereof are these g 1. Cor. 11 1● c Mat. 26.26 c Mark 24.22 c. Luk. 22.19 c. Our Lord Iesus Christ the same night that he was betraied tooke bread when he had giuen thankes he brake it and said Take eate this is my bodie which is broken for you this doo yee in remembrance of me Likewise after supper he took the cup saying h Ezod 24.8 Heb. 9.2 This cup is the new Testamēt in my blood i Exod. 13.9 This doe as oft as ye drinke it in remembrance of me For as often as ye eat this bread and drinke this cup ye shew the lords death til he come This promise is repeated by Paule when he saith b 1. Cor. 10.10.17 k The cup of thanksgiuing wherewith we giue thankes is it not the communion of the blood of christ The bread which we breake is it not the communion of the Lordes bodie Because wee beeing manie are one bread and one body for we are al partakers of one bread OF TRANSVBSTANTIATION THE ARGVMENT Transubstantiation of breade and wine in the vse of the supper disprooued and the true exposition and meaning of these words Bread is the body of Christ Question Lords day 29 78 What then are bread and wine made the very body blood of Christ Answere No truelie But as the water of baptisme is l Mat. 26.29 Mar 14.24 not turned into the blood of Christ neither is the verie washing away of sinnes but only a token and pledge of those things which are sealed vnto vs in Baptisme No more is the bread of the Lords Supper the verie bodie of m 1. Cor. 10.16 c. 11.26 c. Christ although after the nature of Sacraments and the n Gen. 17.10 c Ex. 26.27 43.48 13.9 Act. 7.8 Ex. 24.8 Leu. 16.10 17.12 Isa 6.6.7 Tit. 3.5 Act. 22.16 1. Pet. 3.21 1. Cor 10.1 maner of speach which the holy Ghost vseth in speaking of these thinges the bread is called the body of Christ Question 79 Why then doeth Christ call the bread his bodie the cup his blood or the newe Testament in his bloode and Paul calleth the bread and wine the communion of the body blood of Christ Answere Christ not without great cause so speaketh to wit not onely to teach vs that as bread and wine sustaineth the life of the bodie so also his bodie crucified and his blood shed is indeede the meat and drink of our soul where by it may be o Iohn 6.51.55.56 nourished to life everlasting but much more by this visible signe and pledg to assure vs that wee are noe lesse trulie made partakers of his bodie and blood by the woorking of the holie Ghost then we do a 1. Cor. 10.16.17 with the mouth of the bodie receiue these holy signes in remembrance of him Secondly that his passion and obedience is as certainlie ours as if we our selues had payed the punishment of our sinnes and made satisfaction vnto God OF THE MASSE THE ARGVMENT An opposition of the Masse and the Supper of the Lorde and whoe ought may come vnto the supper whome Christ woulde haue to bee kept from the Supper Question Lords day 30 80 What difference is there betwen the Supper of the Lord and the Popish Masse Answere The supper of the Lorde doth witnes vnto vs that we haue perfect forgiuenes of all our sinnes for that onely sacrifice of Christ which himselfe once offered b Heb. 7.27 9.12.26.28 10.10.12.14 Ioh. 19 30. Mat. 26.28 Luc. 22.19 20 vppon the Crosse and then that wee are by the holy Ghost ingraffed into c 1. Cor. 6.17 10 16. 12 13. Christ who nowe according to his humanitie is onely in Heauen at the right hand of his d Heb. 1 3. 8. ● Father and will there be e Ioh. 4.21 22 23. 20 17. Luc. 24.52 Act. 7.55.56 Col. 3.1 Phil. 3.10 1. Thes 19.10 worshipped of vs. But in the Masse it is denyed that the quick and dead haue forgiuenes of sinnes for the onelie suffering of Christ vnlesse Christ be still euery day offered for them by the Priests and then it is taught that Christ is bodily vnder the appearance of bread and wine and therefore ought to be worshipped in them And so the very foundation of the Masse is nothing els but a denying of that onely sacrifice suffering of Iesus Christ and a most cursed Idolatrie Question 81 Whoe ought to come to the Supper of the Lord Answere Only they who are trulie sory that they haue offended God by their sins and do beleeue that they are forgiuen them for Christs sake and that whatsoeuer other infirmities they haue they are couered by his passion and death and who desire more and more to goe forward in fayth and vprightnes of life But hypocrits they that do not trulie repent doe eat g Cor. 10 21. 11.28 c. drink vnto themselues condemnation Question 82 May they also bee admitted to this Supper who declare them selues by their confession and life to be vnbeleeuers and vngodly men Answere No in no wise For by that meanes the couenant of God is prophaned the wrath of God is h 5. Cor 11.20 34 Isai 1.11 c. 66.3 Ier 7.20 c. psa 50.16 prouoked against the whole congregation wherfore the Church by the commandement of Christ and of his Apostles vsing the keies of the kingdom of heauen ought to keepe backe such from the Supper vntill they repent and amend their maners OF THE KEYES THE ARGVMENT Of the keyes and their nomber to wit of the vse and authoritie of the key of the Gospell and of discipline in opening and shutting the kingdome of God Question Lords day 31 83 What are the keyes of the kingdome of Heauen Answere The preaching of the Gospell and Ecclesiastical discipline whereby heauen is opened to them that beleeue and i Mat. 16.19 18 18. shut against vnbeleeuers The vse THe vse of the doctrine of the keyes is double for we are first put in mind by them of our misery before the Lord cal vs by his Gospel namely that we are banished from the kingdome of God and consequently excluded from righteousnes and saluation Last of all that we are fast bound as it were with the bonds and fetters of Sathan Secondly howe great good God dooth bestowe vpon vs and offer vnto vs when he bleseth vs with the preaching of the Gospell putting vs in hope that if we beleeue in Christ he wil deliuer vs from the power

of darknes and translate vs into the kingdome of his beloued Son 2. Tim. 1 1● whereto belongeth that of the Apostle that life and immortallitie vvere brought to light by the Gospell For Christ is the doore and gate of saluation Iohn 14.6 Act 10.45 and euen the onlie way which we must enter into to come vnto the kingdome of heauen Whereby it appeareth that they are deceiued whoe thinke that every one whether he be Turke or Iewe may be saued in his own superstition so he keep some outward shadow and shewe of Iustice for God hath ordained the preaching of the Gospell to be the key whereby he wil haue the kingdome of heau●n to be opened and the faithfull to be let into it and whome in Christ his Sonne hee hath chosen vnto saluation Question 84 How is the kingdome of heuen opened and shut by the preaching of the Gospell Answere When by the commaundement of Christ it is openly preached to al and euerie one that beleeueth that al their sinnes are forgiuen them by God so oft as they lay hold vpon the promise of the Gospel by a true faith Contrariwise vnto all vnbeleeuers and hypocrits it is denounced that the wrath of God euerlasting condemnation lieth vpon them so long as they k Ioan. 20.21 22.23 Mat 16.19 continue in their sinnes According to which testimonie of the Gospell God will iudge aswell in this present life as in the life to come Question 85 Howe is the kingdome of Heauen shut and opened by Ecclesiastical discipline Answere When by the commaundement of Christ they who are in name Christians but in doctrine or life shew themselues l Rom. 12 7.8.9 1 Cor. 12.20 strangers frō Christ after they haue bene once or twise admonished and wil not depart from their errors or sinfull liuing are presented to the Church or to those who are appointed to that office by the Church and if they obey not their admonition are by forbidding them the Sacramentes by them shut out from the assemblie of the Church and by God himselfe from the kingdom of Christ and againe and if they possesse amendement and doo indeed declare it are receiued as m Ma 18.15.16.17 1. Cor 5.3 4 5.2 The. 3.14 15 2. Iohn 10.11 2 Cor. 2.6.7.10 11. 1 Tim 5.17 members of Christ and of the Church THE THIRD PARTE OF MANS THANKFVLNES THE ARGVMENT Of the necessitie of good workes and the punishment of them who go on carelesly in their sinnes Question Lords day 32 86 Seeing we are deliuered from al sinnes and miseries without any desert of our own by the only mercie of God for Christes sake to what end should we doe good workes Answere Because after that Christ hath redeemed vs by his blood he dooth also renewe vs by his spirit according to his owne image to the end that hauing receiued so great benefites wee shoulde all our life long a Rom. 6.13 12.1.2 2. pet 2.5.9.10 1. Cor. 6.20 shewe our selues thankfull towards God and that he might be b Mat. 5.16 1. pet 2.10 glorified by vs. Secondly that wee also every one of vs may bee c 2. Pet. 1.10 Mat. 7 17 18. Gal. 5 6.22 assured of our faith by the fruits thereof Last of all that by the vprightnes of our life we may gaine d 1. pet 3.1.2 Mat. ● 16. Rom. 14 19. others vnto Christ The vse VVHich being so it followeth that the studie of good workes is necessarie 1. To honour God by our life 2. To worke out our owne saluation in feare and trembling 3. To ed●fie our neighbour by good examples which is indeede to liue worthie of the Gospell Phil. 2.22 Question 87 Can not they then bee saued who being vnthankfull and continuing securely in their sinnes are not turned from their wickednes vnto God Answere By no meanes for as the scripture witnesseth neither vncleane persons nor Idolaters nor adulterers nor theeues nor couetous persons nor drunkards nor raylers nor oppressors shall e 1 Cor. 6 9 10. Ephe. 5.3.6 1. Ioh. 3.14.15 inherit the Kingdome of God OF REPENTANCE THE ARGVMENT Of repentance and the fruits thereof to wit good works Question Lords day 33 88 Of what partes consisteth true repentance or turning vnto God Answere Of the f Ro. 6 4.5 6. Eph. 4.22.23 42. Col 3 5 6 7.8 9.10 1. Cor. 5 7. 2. Cor. 7 mortifiing or killing of the ould man and quickening of the new man Question 89 What is the mortification of the old man Answere Truelie and from the hart to be sory that by thy sinnes thou hast offended God and more and more to hate and g Rom. ● 13. Ioel. 2.13 Ho 5.14 6.1 flie from them Question 90 What is the quickening of the newe man Answere True reioycing in God through h Rom. 5.1 14 17. Isa 57.15 Christ and a forward desire to frame our life according to Gods will and to exercise i Rom. 6.10.11 Gal. 2 20. all good workes Question 91 What workes are good Answere Onely those that are done af a true k Rom. 11.23 faith according to the l 1. Sam. 15.22 Ephe. 2.10 lawe of God m 1. Cor. 10.31 are referred only to his glory and not those which are deuised by our selues vppon a good intent or n Deut. 11.32 Eze. 20.18.19 Is 29 13. Mat. 1● 9 commanded by mens traditions Question 92 What is the Law of God Answere The Lorde spake all these o Exod. 20 Deu. 5 wordes saying 1 I am Iehoua thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of seruaunts see thou haue no strange God before my face 2 Make not to thy selfe any grauen Image nor drawe any likenes of those things which are either in heauen aboue or in the Earth beneath or in the water vnder the Earth thou shalt not fall downe before them nor worship them For I am the Lord thy God strong and ielious auenging the sinnes of the Fathers vppon the children and that to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewing mercie vppon thousands in them that loue me and keepe my commandements 3 Take not the name of the Lorde thy God in vaine for the Lord will not let him goe vnpunished that taketh his name in vaine 4 Remēber to keep holie the Sabbath day Six daies shalt thou labor and doe all thy worke But vpon the seauenth day shal be the Sabbath vnto the Lord thy God Thou shalt doe no worke neither thou nor thy Son nor thy daughter nor thy seruant nor thine handmaid nor thy cattel nor the straunger that is within thy gates For in Six dayes the Lorde made the Heauen the Earth the Sea and all things that are in them and rested the seauenth day therefore the Lord blessed the seuenth day and hallowed it 5 Honor thy Father and thy Mother that thou maiest liue long vpon the land which the

our selues or by some other Question 13 Are wee able to satisfie by our selues Answere Not one whit Yea rather we do c Iob. ●9 23 15.15 Math. 6.22 increase our debt euerie day Question 14 Can any creature in Heauen or in Earth make satisfaction for vs Answere None at all For first God wil not d Heb. 2.14 punish any other creature for that sinne that man hath committed Secōdly that which is but an only creature is not able to indure the wrath of God against sinne and to e Psal 130.3 Iob. 4.18 25.5 deliuer others from it Question 15 Then what maner of mediatour and deliuerer must we seeke for Answere Such a one as is true man and perfectly iust and yet notwithstāding more mightie than all creatures that is who is also true f 1. Cor. 15.21 25. Iere. 23.6 Esa 53.11 2. Cor. 5.14 Heb 7.16 Esa 7.14 Rom. 8.3 God OF THE MEDIATOVR THE ARGVMENT That Christ is that onlie mediatour true man and perfectlie iust and true God such a one as in the Gospell is promised and exhibited Question Lords day 6 16 Wherefore must he needs be true man and perfectlie just Answere Because the iustice of God requireth that the same nature of man which sinned should also pay the punishment of sinne but he g Rom 5.12 17. that were a sinner himselfe h 1. Pet. 3.18 could not pay for other men Question 17 Wherefore ought hee also to be true God Answere That by the power of his Godhead he might be able to i Esa 55.3 18. Act. 2.24 1. Pet 3.18 sustaine the burden of Gods wrath in his flesh to recouer k 1. Ioh. 1.2 4.9.10 Act. 20.28 Ioh. 3.16 and restore vnto vs the righteousnesse and life that we had lost Question 18 But who is that Mediatour who is both true God and true and perfect man Answere Our Lord Iesus Christ l Mat. 1.23 1. Tim. 3.16 Iohn 14.16 .. 1. Tim. ● 5. Luke ● 11 who is made vnto vs of God wisedom righteousnes sanctification and perfect m 1. Cor. 3.30 redemption Question 19 Whereby knowest thou that Answere By the Gospell which God first reueiled in n Gen. 3.15 Paradise and afterwarde did o Genes 22.18 46.10.11 Ro. 1.2 Heb. 1.1 Act 3.12 c. 10.43 publish by the Patriarks and Prophets p Ioh. 5.46 Heb. 10.7 shadowed out in sacrifices and ceremonies and last of al q Gal. 4.4 3.24 Heb 13.8 accomplished by his onely begotten sonne The vse THe vses of this doctrine of the Gospel are four for first hereby appeareth the antiquitie of the doctrine of Christ our only redeemer so that to doubt of the truth therof were to robbe God for that it hath witnes from God himselfe from the Fathers and the Prophets led by the holy Ghost whereunto also the sacrifices and ceremonies did lead men and whereof the Son of God himselfe comming in the flesh bare witnes Wherefore it behoueth vs carefullie to vphold in the Church and faithfully to expounde and retaine this doctrine both for the worthines of it as comming from God and for the antiquity and also for the necessitie and profit thereof Another vse is to know that after Christ is once com the shadows of the sacrifices haue an end and that now after the Sunne is risen there is no more place for the ceremonies of the Lawe and that concerning the vse of them they are fulfilled abollished in the death of Christ The third vse is to learne by despising the World the transitorie delightes thereof to desire with the whole affection of the heart that soueraigne good that is offered vnto vs in the Gospel and when it is offered to lay hold on it The fourth vse is in al affliction and euen in life and death to comfort our selues by these glad tydings of saluation purchased by Christ which far exceedeth all the ioyes of the wicked OF THE GOSPEL THE ARGVMENT That Christ is a Sauior onlie of those that beleeue and of true fayth and of the summe of those things that are to be beleeued Question Lords day 7 20 Is saluation then restored to all men by Christ that perished in Adam Answere Not to al but only to those who are ingraffed into him by true faith r Ioh. 1.12 ● 36 Esa 53.11 Psal 2.12 Rom. 11.20 Heb. 4. ● 10.39 and do lay hold vpon all his benefites Question 21 What is true fayth Answere It is not onely a knowledge by which I doe stedfastly assent to all things which God hath ſ He. 11.13 Iam 2.19 Gal. 2.20 reueiled vnto vs in his woord but also an assured t Rom. 4.16 5.1 10.10 c. Iam. 1.8 affiance kindled in my u Rom. 1 16. 10.17 1. Cor. 1.21 Mar. 16.16 Act. 16.14 hart by the holy x Mat. 16.17 Ioh. 3.5 Gal. 5.22 Phi. 1.19 Ghost through the Gospell by which I rest vpon God making sure account that forgiuenesse of sinnes euerlasting righteousnes and life is y Ha. 2.4 Mat. 9.2 Eph. 2.7.8.9 Rom. 5.1 bestowed not onely vpon others but also vpon me and that freely by the mercie of God for the z Rom. 3.24.25 Act. 10.43 merit and desert of Christ alone Question 22 What are those thinges which a Christian man must of necessitie beleeue Answere All those thinges that are a Iohn 20 30 Mat. 28 10 promised vnto vs in the Gospell the sum whereof is briefly comprised in the Apostles Creed or in the chiefe heades of the Catholike vndoubted faith of al Christians The vse VVHich being so we gather from hence two conclusions one that non of those things ought to bee reckoned vnder the name of the Gospel which men haue added to the written word of God that is to the doctrine conteined in the books of both testaments the other is that they are very Antichrists and instruments of Sathan who fearing to haue their iugling bewraied do cry out that onlie on certaine sort of men must reade the Scripture and therefore it is very vnlawful to translate the holy scriptures into the vulgare tongues which may be vnderstood even of siely Weomen Question 23 What is that Creede of the Apostles Answere 1 I beleeue in God the father almightie maker of heauen and earth 2 And in Iesus Christ his only son our Lord. 3 Which was conceiued of the holy Ghost born of the virgin Mary 4 Suffered vnder Pontius Pilat was crucified dead buried descended into hell 5 Rose againe the third day from the dead 6 And ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almightie 7 From thence hee shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead 8 I beleeue in the holie Ghost 9 I beleeue the catholike Church the communion of Saintes 10 I beleeue the forgiuenesse of sinnes 11 The resurrection of the flesh 12 And the life