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A12162	A compendious form and summe of Christian doctrine, called The testimonie of a true faith meete for well disposed families, for the more knowledge [in] God, and better nourishing vp, and confirming of all such, as loue saluation in Iesus Christ. Gathered, corrected, and newly augmented, by Christopher Shutte, Maister of Arte, seene and allowed.	Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626.	1579 (1579)	STC 22468; ESTC S100084	27,860	76

and hath reconciled me to the Father and in whom the Father is well pleased 80. Question For whome must thou pray Answeare For all men liuing for kinges magistrates ministers yea and for my enimies but for the deade I haue no commaundement to pray neyther can I help them after they be gonne hence for as they be found at the day of their death so shall they rise againe onely this can I doe to geue God thankes for their deliuerance out of this world 81. Question How must thou prepare thy selfe to pray Answeare First I must be touched with the necessitie of those thinges which I pray for my minde must be deuout and not caryed to and fro with vaine thoughtes I must appeare before God in true repentaunce and fayth being at loue with all men framing my life ryghteously asking in such a tongue as I vnderstand acording to the will of God. 82. Question How must thou pray Answeare According to the forme prescribed of our Sauiour Christ in these woordes Our Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen Geue vs this day our dayly breade And forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgeue thē that trespas against vs And lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill For thine is the kingdome the power and the glory for euer and euer So be it 83. Question What is the meaning of this praier Answeare We pray to God in the first petition that his glory may appeare and that our liues and conuersation may set foorth the same In the second we pray that God would gouerne the kingdome of his Church killing sinne and the lustes thereof in the same and to renue it to ryghteousnesse of lyfe That he would also treade downe Satan and al his power and that he would shortly accomplish the number of his elect and hasten the comming of Christ to iudgement In the thirde we pray that all our dooings may be agreeable to his will without contradiction or murmuring In the fourth we desire him to graunt vs what soeuer is needefull to the sustenance and preseruation of our lyfe and that all our dooinges may be to his glorye and the profit of our neighboures In the fifth wee praye for the forgiuenesse of our sinnes and the punishment therof for his mercies sake euen as we shall pardon others their offences doone to vs without bearing mallice or hatred towardes them In the last wee praye that God would guyde vs with his spirite that we may get the victorie ouer Sathan sinne and hell and be defended from all euills After we conclude with these woordes For thine is the kingdome c. To set foorth our desire to his glory his honour and prayse whose power is also infinite and therefore he can graunt our requestes We make an end with this woorde Amen both desiring that what wee haue asked may be fulfilled and also assuring our selues that our requestes shal be fulfilled accordingly as they bee agreeing to the will of God. 84. Question What if God do not graunt thy petitions at the first Answeare That may be either because I haue not asked in assurance of faith and according to the will of God or els by differring the graunt of my requestes he will trye and exercise my faith more in calling vpon him that I might continue in praier depend vpon his mercifull goodnes who notwithstanding at the first he dooth not graunt my requestes yet in his good tyme he will accomplish the same 85. Question Is there any helpe for thee to praye more deuoutly Answeare Yea truly fasting is a speciall preparatiue to the same 86. Question What is a Christian faste Answeare It is not onely an abstinence from meates and drinkes to chastice my body but also from sinne and the delights therof which hurte the soule to the end thorowe true repentance faith Godly praier and renouncing of euyll the Spirite may haue dominion in me 87. Question What is the right vse of fasting Answeare First to chastice my body and to bring it into subiection to the spirit Secondly to be a witnes of my true repentance and submission to the will of God. Thirdly that my spirit way be more ready to prayer 88. Question Is there any abuse in the exercise of fasting Answeare Yea many first to fast longer then the body may endure after to tare more deliciously Secondly to put holinesse in fasting one day more than an other or in abstayning from one meate more than from another Thirdly to thinke by fasting to purchase forgeuenes of sinnes whereas the same commeth onely of the free mercy of God in Christ without any mannes woorthinesse or deseruing Last of all in abstayning from meates not to abstaine from sinnes and all thinges which cause or nourish the same 89. Question Hitherto thou hast answeared verie well to all pointes of thy faith yet one thing further I desire to know which is why al men be not of this opinion in religion that thou art of Answeare Although there be but one true God and one perfect religion yet must you not thinke that all men will euer agree together in one religion for there is and hath bene alwaies a continuall hatred betweene Christ the seede of the woman and the seede of the serpent And therefore many are professed enemies to the way of truth 100. Question What way than thinkest thou best to winne such as be out of the way and to bring them to the imbracing of true religion Answeare As it is specially required in building of an house first to remoue away the impedimentes and than to lay a sure foundation and afterward to vphold the building likewise those thinges which tend not to the glory of God but which men haue abused must be rooted oute as all reliques of papistrie superstitiō in stead therof a good foundatiō layd by the word of God by which all reformation must be made Secondly it is specially required that a good and godlye preaching minister be placed in euery congregation for where such a one wanteth the people perish Thirdly that there be a right and perfect vse of ecclesiasticall censure and correction to the end the congregation may be better kept in awe of duetie and obedience so that the best may be affraid to offend 101. Question To be short doost thou thinke it sufficient onely to knowe these things aforesaid Answeare No but it is required that I ioyne good lyfe and conuersation with knowledge and therefore I pray daiely that I may haue grace geuen me that I maye liue godlily righteously and soberly in this worlde and so bee confirmed in the truth that I may proceede from faith to faith and be so comforted

whilest by the preaching of the Lawe I am brought to the feeeling of my sinnes and raysed vp with the comfortable promises of the Gospel receyued by faith My harte is lightned purified and gouerned by the holy Ghost my will and minde reformed the Image of God renued againe in me 10. Question Why did God regenerate thee and not raither get him selfe glory by condemning thee according to thy sinnes Answeare Although the Lorde might iustly haue condemned all Adams posteritie by reason of their sinnes yet notwithstanding some of them according to his iust iudgementes he leaueth in their owne corruption deuoid of all grace and Vessels of his wrath vnto damnation Othersome he embraceth in his great loue vnto saluation whome hee accepteth in mercy without any deserts of their own Of which number my conscience dooth perswade me that I am one And therefore he hath regenerate me first to declare his great loue mercy euerlasting kindnes towardes me whom he chose in his sonne Christ to saluation And therefore in an happie tyme he hath called me by the preaching of his woord and iustified me by my onely faith in Christes death Secondly that I being thus borne anewe may bring foorth the fruites of righteousnes to glorifie him withall Thirdly that all the end of my regeneration is life euerlasting so at the Lordes good time I may receiue the same among his Saintes 11. Question Shew me what be the meanes wherby thy saluation is wrought Answeare The ordinarie meanes commonly are two that is to say the woorde of God and faith 12. Question What is the woorde of God Answeare It is those Canonicall scriptures written by the spirite of God commended to man both in the olde and newe Testament wherein are conteined all thinges necessarie to our saluation according to the which the Lord will haue all his religion measured without either adding or diminishing 13 Question How canst thou knowe the true religion in so many sundrie opinions of the same as be in the worlde Answeare First I trie the religion taught me by the woorde of God and by his spirite geuen me to vnderstande the same Secondly I knowe this spirite to be a right spirit because it confesseth Christ to be come in the fleshe that is to say ascribeth the whole worke of my saluation to him and to no other thing Thirdly I expounde one place of Scripture as it is not contrarie to another And thus I trie the truth making the worde of GOD to iudge and determine what I ought to followe 14. Question What is the cause why the word of God is preached to many and yet taketh place but in few Answeare The causes are manie first manns owne disobedience and contempt of the worde through want of faith Secondly the malice of Sathan who blindeth and hardeneth the hearts of the vnfaithfull that they shoulde not see and beleeue the truth Thirdly the iust iudgement of God Who because they refuse to receiue and beleeue the truth doth giue them vp into a reprobate minde and sendeth strong delusion among them that as they doe delight in lies and m vnrighteousnesse so the same may be their destruction 15. Question How is the worde of GOD deuided Answeare Into the Lawe and the Gospel 16. Question What is the Lawe Answeare It is the ten commaundementes of God requiring of euerie one most pure perfect and perpetuall obedience promising saluation to them which fulfill the same threatning death and damnation to the transgressours thereof 17. Question Rehearse the same to me Answeare 1 Thou shalt haue none other Gods but me 2 Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the waters vnder the earth thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor worship them for I the Lorde thy God am a ielous God and visiteth the iniquities of the fathers vpon the children vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewe mercie vnto thousandes in them that loue me and keepe my commaundementes 3 Thou shalte not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vaine for the Lord will not holde him guilteles that taketh his name in vayne 4 Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabboth day sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seuenth day is the Sabboth of the Lorde thy GOD in it thou shalt doe no manner of worke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruaunt and thy mayd seruaunt thy cattel the stranger within thy gates for in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day wherefore the Lorde blessed the seuenth day and hallowed it 5 Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be long in the lande which the Lord thy God geueth thee 6 Thou shalt not kill 7 Thou shalt not commit adulterie 8 Thou shalt not steale 9 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour 10 Thou shalt not couet thy neighboures house thou shalte not couet thy neighboures wife nor his seruaunt nor his maide nor his Oxe nor his Asse nor any thing that is his 18. Question What sayest thou of the first commaundement Answeare The Lorde therein requireth true obedience to his woorde the feare and loue of his name a sure faith and trust in his promises the right inuocation vppon his name with thankesgeuing for his benefites whereby his true worshippe may be knowen aright whiche thinges as he doth commaunde so doeth he forbidde all manner of superstition and idolatrie the contempt and denial of his woorde the lacke of feare faith and loue towardes him calling vppon other creatures and finally whatsoeuer polluteth his seruice or our consciences in whose presence all our doinges doe appeare 19. Question What sayest thou of the seconde Thou shalt not make c. Answeare God doth therein declare how he wil be worshiped For seeing that his true worship is worke or seruice commaunded in his woord proceeding of faith and tending to his glory as he is a spirite so he will be woorshiped in spirit and truth without any mixture of Idolatrie or superstition And therefore he forbiddeth the making of Images to expresse him by all manner deuotion or reuerence geuing to them eyther in looking at them or in bowing the knee before them in prayer he is the Lorde our God and will not haue his power to be contemned he is ielous ouer vs and will not suffer eyther our soules or bodies to be defiled with any filthinesse of Idolatrie which if we doe he will reuenenge the same to the third and fourth generation Briefly he forbiddeth hereby all representations and tokens of Idolatrie all

whiche in due tyme bringeth forth the fruites of good liuing 36. Question What doest thou learne hereby Answeare First I learne to know God who is made my Father by Christ thorowe adoption and grace 2 Secondly I applie to my selfe by this my faith al the merites of Christ as fully as if I had doone the same my self 3 Thirdly I haue a sure trust in his merites and mercy and boldnes to offer vp my prayers to GOD the father by him 4 Last of all I knowe his promises to be faithfull and true and that he will perfourme them whē it pleaseth his godly wisedome 37. Question Whence commeth faith Answeare It is the gift of GOD wrought in my hart by the preaching of the Gospell and by the holy Ghost 38. Question What is the summe of faith Answeare I beleeue in God the father almightie maker of heauen and earth and in Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lorde which was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary suffred vnder Poncius Pilate was crucified deade and buried he descended into Hell and rose againe the third day from the deade he ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almightie from thence he shall come to iudge the quicke and the deade I beleeue in the holy Ghost the holy catholike Churche the communion of saintes the forgiuenes of sinnes the resurrection of the body and the life euerlasting 39. Question What art thou taught hereby Answeare 1 First what to beleeue of God my father and creatour 2 Secondly of Christ my redeemer 3 Thirdly of the holy Ghost my sanctifiour Last of all concerning the church of God 40. Question What canst thou say of God Answeare God is a spirituall nature euerlasting almightie infinite true good righteous and mercifull who hath made the worlde and hath begotten the Sonne of himselfe from euerlasting The sonne is the wisdome and image of the father begotten of the father very God of very God who in his time appointed became man. The holie Ghost is the power and vertue proceeding from them both which three although they be distinct in persons yet are they equal al one in Godhead eternitie dignitie and power 41. Question What sayest thou of the first parte of this faith Answeare I beleeue that God is not onely the naturall father of his sonne Christ but also that he is by grace my father by whose wisedome as heauen and earth and all things therin conteined were made so the same by his power is gouerned and preserued 42. Question What thinkest thou of the second Answeare I beleeue that the sonne of God became man in all thinges like vnto me onely sinne excepted and in my nature wrought what was needefull to my saluation wherefore he is named Iesus that is a Sauiour 43. Question How is thy saluation wrought Answeare This woord Christ doth teach the same for first it signifieth him to be a king and to haue purchased to him selfe by his bloode the spirituall kingdome of his Church all the enemies thereof conquered Whiche kingdome now he gouerneth by his woord and by his spirit whereby he raigneth in my hart and in the hartes of his elect Secondly it teacheth that he was a prieste to offer vp him selfe once for all a swete sacrifice to take away my sinnes and to be a mediatour by whom and in whose name I may offer vp my prayers to God my heauenly father and through him be heard Thirdly it putteth me in mynde that he was a Prophet sent to preach the will of his heauenly father whom alone I must heare and obey as my Lord who being thus appoynted of his father was betraied of Iudas condemned by Pilat crucified by the Iewes buried by Ioseph of Aromathia and Nicodemus suffred in his bodie not onely the punishmentes due to my body but also in his soule the punishmentes due to my soule that was the very tormentes of hel and death and separation from God by whose death my obedience is wrought the malediction of Gods Lawe cancelled the Diuell and his power subdued the wrath of God appeased and I set in his fauour agayne And thus is the death of Christ the onely and full raunsome for my sinnes by vertue whereof sinne also dyeth and is killed in me 44. Question It is verie needefull to keepe this excellent benefite alwayes in minde tell me therefore howe thou canst meditate the same aright Answeare First I consider howe great the wrath of God was towarde my sinnes which coulde be appeased with nothing but onelie with the deare bloudshedding of his sonne and thereby I beginne to hate and eschewe sinne euermore Secondly herein I doo behold also the great loue of GOD whiche spared not his sonne for my sake and likewise the great loue of his sonne that vouchesafed to doe so much for me Thirdly I applie and appropriate the same vnto my selfe whatsoeuer Iesus Christ herein hath done for I am fullie assured that he did it for me 45. Question What sayest thou of his resurrection Answeare As he died for my sinnes so he rose agayne for my iustification hauing gotten the victorie ouer sinne death hell and damnation and geueth me power through his spirit to rise vnto newnes of life assuring me that my bodily death shal be no destruction but that I shall rise againe at the last day to life euerlasting 46. Question Shewe thy minde of his ascention Answeare He ascended with his bodie into heauen where he remayneth hauing all power geuen him of his father but with his spirite he is present with his people by which his ascention he hath taken possession for me in heauen where he also continueth a mediatour to make intercession for me to his father and finally teacheth me to set mine affection vppon heauenlie thinges 47. Question What meanest thou by his comming to iudgement Answeare I beleeue that he which is my sauiour shal come to cleare me and all his elect in iudgement and to condemne the wicked which in their life time refused him to followe their pleasures 48. Question What saiest thou of the holy Ghost Answeare I beleeue that he is the spirit of sanctification geuen to lighten my mynde and to leade me into all trueth he is the earnest of mine inheritance in heauen the seale to imprinte Gods promises in my heart the fountaine of grace and the water which purgeth me from mine vncleannesse and maketh mee to die to sinne and to be holy vnto God. 49. Question Shewe thy minde concerning the Church Answeare The Church is the societie of all faithfull people whom God in Christ hath chosen to saluation before the world was made of which

number I beleeue that I am one 50. Question What is there no saluation without the Church Answeare No for as the branch except it abide in the Vine cannot bring foorth fruite but dyeth and withereth and so is cast into the fyre euen so except a man be graffed into the bodye of Christ which is the Church therein continue he can not be saued And therefore not euery religion shall saue the professour thereof but onely the truth of Iesus Christ 51. Question What be the markes thereof Answeare The sincere woord of God the right administration of the Sacraments and Ecclesiasticall discipline 52. Question Why is the Church called holy Answeare Because God will haue his people to liue holily soberly righteously in this world and not to greeue the holy Ghost by any vncleannesse by whom they bee sanctified and by whom whilest they suffer themselues to be led they cānot erre in matters of faith and saluation 53. Question I pray thee herein by the way what thinkest thou of the church of Rome whose doctrine hath bene receiued many yeares hath she erred and beene deceiued Answeare The Churche of Rome in the beginning and long after the Apostles time was a true Churche and so long as she followed the worde of God and suffered her selfe to be guided with his spirite shee was free from eroure in matters of faith But when she began to abounde in wealth she forgate hir former husband Christ Iesus and committed fornication with straunge Gods leauing the doctrine of Christ and his religion and deuising a new worshippe of her owne wherein according to the iust iudgement of God she florished a long time and therewithall polluted and made drounken the most part of the worlde whilest so many embraced her lawes and religion yea euen all those whiche were not chosen to saluation and sealed by the spirit of faith And of this her departing from the faith sprang that great darkenesse and ignoraunce of true religion in these latter dayes 54. Question What meaneth the communion of Saintes Answeare It signifieth the felowshippe which all the electe haue one with an other communicating according to the measure of faith all spirituall graces amongest themselues the studying to keep the vnitie of the spirit in the bound of peace 55. Question What beleeuest thou of the forgiuenesse of sinnes Answeare First I beleeue that before my sinnes be forgeuen me there is nothing in me but meere wickednesse Secondly I beleeue that al my sinnes and the punishment thereof bee taken away by Christes death and I made pertaker of his righteousnesse Thirdly I beleeue that faith alone without anie worthinesse of my selfe doth make me partaker of these graces and this my righteousnes before God. 56. Question What sayest thou of the rest the resurrectiō of the bodie life euerlasting Answeare I beleeue when this life is ended that my soule shall goe to God and my bodie to rest in the earth til the last day when they shall both ioyne together againe incorruptible and remaine with God for euer in the kingdome of heauen 57. Question Howe knowest thou that thou hast suche a faith as this Answeare First I knowe the same by the testimonie of the holie Ghost which assureth my conscience that I am the childe of God and whiche maketh me crie Abba father in ful and perfect assurance thereof Secondly I knowe by the workes and fruites of faith whiche Iesus Christ being vnited and ioyned vnto me bringeth forth in me by the vertue of his spirit killing my corrupt and sinfull nature and quickening me to righteousnesse of life 58. Question Than cannot such a faith as this bee fruitelesse and without good workes Answeare No but good workes doe follow faith as the testimonies and fruites of my thankfulnesse to God whereby my faith is knowne and approued of men wherefore it is called faith whiche worketh by loue 59. Question What workes must thou doe Answeare Suche as be commaunded me in the lawe of God whiche as they come of grace geuen me and not of mine owne power so must they needes be done for first God hath so commaunded Secondly his benefits bind me thereto Thirdly my baptisme doth teach me to die vnto sinne and liue vnto righteousnesse Fourthly I must glorifie God by my well doing Last of all I must make strong my faith and election and learne to auoyde the wrath of God. 60. Question What rewarde shalt thou haue for thy good deedes Answeare The woorkes whiche I doe before I be iustified before God by Christ can not please him because they be done without faith The workes which follow my regeneration doe please GOD not because of anie woorthinesse of mine in them but God accepteth them because of my faith in Christ through whom they are not done in vaine so that the rewarde which is geuen vnto them commeth onely of the free mercie and fauour of God whilest he rewardeth not my deserts but crowneth his giftes of grace in me 61. Question But the Scripture maketh mention often of rewarde to good woorkes Answeare It is true that my labour is not in vayne in the Lorde yet my good workes are not such that of themselues they can deserue any suche thing For there bee three thinges required to the nature of merites First that the good woorkes be mans owne for but to bestowe and repay agayne the same which he had lent him what rewarde can he haue But as for mans good workes they be not his own but the giftes of God lent him to vse he himselfe Gods instrument to occupie the same Secondly it is required that a man doe the worke of his owne accorde without constreint or respect of duetie for he that is bound to doe the same cannot wel pleade of merite for he doeth but what of duetie he oughte to doe But whatsoeuer the righteous doe it is of duetie for he is infinite wayes indebted vnto god Thirdly to the nature of deseruing it is required that there be a iust proportion betweene the thing giuen and the thing receiued but none of mans works are comparable to euerlasting life And therefore I confesse that I can not deserue any thing of the kingdome of heauen by mine owne works for the reward which God geueth vnto my woorkes is the free gift of grace giuen to me onely for my faithes sake in Christ in whome my workes please god Wherefore yf man be neuer so vertuous in the sighte of the world haue neuer so faire a shewe of good deedes and not being graffed by fayth on Iesus Christ they are altogeather vnfruitefull and vayne 62. Question With what helpes doeth God further thee to saluation Answeare Besides that the worde of God doth helpe to vphold my faith the sacraments and