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B04689	The foundation of Christian religion, gathered into six principles. And it is to be learned of ignorant people, that they may be fit to heare sermons with profit, and to receive the Lords Supper with comfort.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Shelton, Thomas, 1601-1650?	1660 (1660)	Wing P1566B; ESTC R215935	19,838	53

none other God but one He is Creator of all things In the beginning God created the heaven Gen. 1. 1. and the earth Through faith we understand that the Heb. 11. 3. world was ordained by the Word of God so that the things which we see are not made of things which did appeare 4. He is Governour of all things The eyes of the Lord in every place behold Prov. 15. 3. the evil and the good Yea and all the haires of your heads are Mat. 10. 30. numbred 5. Distinguished into the Father the Son and holy Ghost And Jesus when he was baptized came Mat. 3. 16. straight out of the water and loe the heavens were opened unto him and John saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lighting upon him And loe a voice came from heaven saying Ven. 17. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased For there are three that bare record in Joh. 5. 7. Heaven the Father the Word and the holy Ghost and these three are one The second Principle Q. What doest thou believe concerning man and concerning thine own self A. All men are wholly corrupted with sin through Adams fall and so are become slaves of Satan and guilty of eternal damnation 1. All men are corrupted with sin As it is written There is none righteous Rom. 3. 10. no not one 2. They are wholly corrupted Now the very God of peace sanctifie you 1 Thes 5. 23. throughout and I pray God that your whole spirit and soul and body may be kept blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ This I say therefore and testifie in the Eph. 4. 17. Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds Having their cogitations darkned and being Verse 18. strangers from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the hardness of their hearts When the Lord saw that the wickedness Gen. 6. 5. of man was great in the earth and all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were onely evil continually 3. Through Adams fall Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death Rom. 5. 12. went over all men for so much as all men have sinned 4. And so are become slaves of Satan Wherein in times past ye walked according Eph. 2. 2. to the course of the world and after the Prince that ruleth in the air even the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience For as much then as the children were Heb. 2. 14. partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part with them that he might destroy through death him that had the power of death that is the devil In whom the God of this world hath 2 Chr. 4. 4. blinded the mindes that is of Infidels that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ which is the Image of God should not shine unto them 5. And guilty of eternal damnation For as many as are of the works of the Gal. 3. 10. Law are under the curse for it is written Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them Likewise then as by the offence of one the fault came on all men to condemnation so by the justifying of one the benefit abounded towards all men to the justification of life The third Principle Q. VVhat means is there for thee to escape this damnable estate A. Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God being made man by his death upon the Cross and by his righteousness hath perfectly alone by himself accomplished all things that are needful for the salvation of man-kind 1. Christ Jesus the eternal Son of God And the Word was made flesh and dwelt Joh. 1. 14. among us and we saw the glory thereof as the glory of the onely begotten Son of the Father full of grace and truth 2. Being made man For he in no sort took the Angels but Heb. 2. 16. he took the seed of Abraham 3. By his death upon the Cross But he was wounded for our transgressions Isa 53. 5. he was broken for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed 4. And by his righteousness For as by one mans disobedience many Rom. 5. 19. were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous For he hath made him to be sin for us 2 Cor. 5. 21. which knew no sin that we should be made the righteousness of God in him 5. Hath perfectly Wherefore he is able also perfectly to save them that come unto God by him Heb. 7. 25. seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them 6. Alone by himself Neither is there salvation in any other Act 4. 12. for among men there is given none other name under Heaven whereby we must be saved 7. Accomplished all things needful for the Salvation of mankind And he is the reconciliation for our 1 Joh. 2. 2. sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole World The fourth Principle Q. But how mayest thou be made partaker of Christ and his benefits A. A man of a contrite and humble spirit by Faith alone apprehending applying Christ with all his merits unto himself is justified before God and sanctified 1. A man of a contrite and humble spirit For thus saith he that is high and excellent Isa 57. 15. he that inhabiteth eternity whose name is the Holy One I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to give life to them that are of a contrite heart The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit Ps 51. 17. a contrite and a broken heart O God thou wilt not despise 2. By faith alone As soon as Jesus heard that word spoken Mar. 5. 36. he said unto the Ruler of the Synagogue Be not afraid onely believe So Moses made a Serpent of brass and Num. 21. 9. set it up for a sign and when a Serpent had bitten any man then he looked to the Serpent of brass and lived And as Moses lifted up the Serpent in Joh. 3. 14. the wilderness so must the Son of man be lifted up That who soever believeth in him should Vers 15. not perish but have eternal life 3. Apprehending and applying Christ with all his merits unto himself But as many as received him to them he Joh. ● 12. gave power to be the sons of God to them that believe in his name And Jesus said unto them I am the bread of life he that Joh. 6. 35. cometh to me shall not hunger and he that believeth in me shall never thirst 4. Is justified before God

THE FOUNDATION OF Christian Religion Gathered into Six PRINCIPLES And it is to be learned of ignorant People that they may be fit to hear Sermons with Profit and to receive the Lords Supper with Comfort Psal 119. vers 103. The entrance into thy word sheweth light and giveth understanding to the simple HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA LONDON Printed by John Field and are to be sold by John Williams at the Crown in S. Pauls Church-yard and George Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill 1660. TO ALL IGNORANT PEOPLE That desire to be INSTRUCTED POor people your maner is to sooth up your selves as though you were in a most happy estate but if the matter come to a just tryal it will fall out far otherwise For you lead your lives in great ignorance as may appear by these your common opinions which follow 1. That faith is a mans good meaning and his good serving of God 2. That God is served by the rehearsing of the ten Commandments the Lords Prayer and the Creed 3. That ye have believed in Christ ever since you could remember 4. That it is pity that he should live which doth any whit doubt of his salvation 5. That none can tell whether he shall be saved or not certainly but that all men must be of a good belief 6. That howsoever a man live yet if he call upon God on his death-bed and say Lord have mercy upon me and so go away like a lamb he is certainly saved 7. That if any be strangely visited he is either taken with a Planet or bewitched 8. That a man may lawfully swear when he speaketh nothing but the truth and swears by nothing but that which is good as by his faith and troth 9. That a Preacher is a good man no longer then he is in the Pulpit They think all like themselves 10. That a man may repent when he will because the Scripture saith At what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sins c. 11. That it is an easier thing to please God then to please our neighbor 12. That ye can keep the Commandments as well as God will give you leave 13. That it is safest to do in religion as most do 14. That merry ballads and books as Skoggin Bevis of Southampton c. are good to drive away the time and to remove heart-qualms 15. That ye can serve God with all your hearts and that you would be sorry else 16. That a man need not hear so many Sermons except he could follow them better 17. That a man which cometh at no Sermons may as well believe as he which hears all the Sermons in the world 18. That ye know all the Preacher can tell you For he can say nothing but that every man is a sinner that we must love our neighbor as our selves that every man must be saved 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 cheap 20. That drinking and bezeling in the Ale-house or Tavern is good fellowship and shews a good kinde nature and maintains neighborhood 21. That a man may swear by the Mass because it is nothing now and by our Lady because she is gone out of the country 22. That every man must be for himself and God for us all 23. That a man may make of his own whatsoever he can 24. That if a man remember to say his prayers every morning though he never understand them he hath blessed himself for all the day following 25. That a man prayeth when he saith the ten Commandments 26. That a man eats his Maker in the Sacrament 27. That if a man be no adulterer no thief no murderer and do no man harm he is a right honest man 28. That a man need not have any knowledge of Religion because he is not book-learned 29. That one may have a good meaning when he saith and doth that which is evil 30. That a man may go to wizards called wise-men for counsel because God hath provided a salve for every sore 31. That ye are to be excused in all your doings because the best men are sinners 32. That ye have so strong a Faith in Christ that no evil company can hurt you These and such like sayings what argue they but your gross ignorance now where ignorance raigneth there raigns sin and where sin raigns there the devil rules and where he rules men are in a damnable case Ye will reply unto me thus That ye are not so bad as I would make you If need be you can say the Creed the Lords Prayer and the ten Commandments and therefore ye will be of Gods belief say all men what they will and you defie the Devil from your hearts I answer again That it is not sufficient to say all these without book unless ye can understand the meaning of the words and be able to make a right use of the Commandments of the Creed of the Lords Prayer by applying them inwardly to your hearts and consciences and outwardly to your lives and conversations This is the very point in which ye fail And for an help in this your ignorance to bring you to true knowledge unfeigned faith and sound repentance here I have set down the principal points of Christian Religion in six plain and easie Rules even such as the simplest may easily learn and hereunto is adjoyned an Exposition of them word by word If ye do want other good directions then use this my labor for your good instruction In reading of it first learn the six principles and when you have them without book and the meaning of them withal then learn the exposition also which being well conceived and in some measure felt in the heart ye shall be able to profit by Sermons whereas now ye cannot and the ordinary parts of the Catechism namely the ten Commandments the Creed the Lords Prayer and the institution of the two Sacraments shall more easily be understood Thine in Christ Jesus William Perkins THE FOUNDATION OF Christian Religion Gathered into Six PRINCIPLES The first Principle Question WHat dost thou believe concerning God A. There is one God Creator and Governor of all things distinguished into the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Proofs out of the word of God 1. There is a God For the invisible things of him that is Ro 2. 1. 13. his eternal power and Godhead are seen by the creation of the world being considered in his works to the intent that they should be with out excuse Novertheless he left not himself without Act. 14. 17 witness in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness 2. This God is one Concerning therefore meats sacrificed to 1 Cor. 8. 4. idols we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is

A. A death upon the Cross peculiar to him alone z Esa 53. 5. Joh. 12. 27. Rev. 19. 15. Luk. 22. 44. for besides the separation of body and soul he felt also the pangs of hell in that the whole wrath of God due to the sin of man was poured forth upon him Q. What profit cometh by his sacrifice A. Gods a Heb. 9. 26. wrath is appeased by it Q. Could the sufferings of Christ which were but for a short time countervail everlasting damnation and so appease Gods wrath A. Yea for seeing Christ suffered God b Acts 20. 28. 2 Cor. 5. 15. suffered though not in his Godhead and that is more then if all the men in the world had suffered for ever and ever Q. Now tell me the other means of satisfaction A. It is the perfect fulfilling of the Law Q. How did he fulfil the Law A. By his c 1 Cor. 1. 30. Rom. 3. 25. 2 Cor. 5. 2● perfect righteousness which consists of two parts the first the integrity and pureness of his humane nature the other d Rom. 5. 19 Rom. 4. 1. his obedience in performing all that the Law requireth Q. You have shewed how Christ doth make satisfaction tell me likewise how doth he make intercession A. He doth alone continually d Rom. 8. 34. 1 Pet. 2. 5. appear before his Father in Heaven making the faithful and all their prayers acceptable unto him by applying of the merits of his own perfect satisfaction to them Q. Why is Christ a Prophet A. To e Joh. 6. 45. Mat. 3. 17. reveal unto his Church the way and means of salvation and this he doth outwardly by the Ministery of his Word and inwardly by the teaching of his holy Spirit Q. Why is he also a King A. That f Isa 9. 7. he might bountifully bestow upon us and convey unto us all the aforesaid means of salvation Q. How doth he shew himself to be a King A. In g Act. 10. 40. Eph. 4. 8. Act. 1. 9. that being dead and buried he rose from the grave quickned his dead body ascended into heaven and now sitteth at the right hand of his Father with full power and glory in heaven Q. How else A. In h Isa 9. 7. 30. 21. that he doth continually inspire and direct his servants by the divine power of his holy Spirit according to his holy Word Q. But to whom will this blessed King communicate all these means of salvation A. He i Mat. 20. 16. Joh. 〈…〉 1 Joh. 2. 3. G●l 3. 27. Col. 2. 12. offereth them to many and they are sufficient to save all mankinde but all shall not be saved thereby because by faith they will not receive them The fourth Principle expounded Q. What is Faith A. Faith is k Joh. 1. 12. 6. 35. G●l 3. 27. Col. 2. 12. a wonderful grace of God by which a man doth apprehend and apply Christ and all his benefits unto himself Q. How doth a man apply Christ unto himself seeing we are on earth and Christ in heaven A. This l 2 Cor. 1. 21 22. Rom. 8. 16. applying is done by assurance when a man is verily perswaded by the holy Spirit of Gods favor towards himself particularly and of the forgiveness of his own sins Q. How doth God bring men truly to believe in Christ A. First he prepareth their hearts that they might be capable of faith and then worketh faith in them Q. How doth God prepare mens hearts A. m Ezek. 11. 19. Hos 6. 1 2. By bruising them as if one would break an hard stone to powder and this is done by humbling them Q. How doth God humble a man A. By working in him a sight of his sins and a sorrow for them Q. How is the sight of sin wrought A. By the a Rom. 3. 20. 7. 7. moral Law the sum whereof is the ten Commandments Q. What sins may I finde in my self by them A. Ten. Q. What is the first A. b Com. I. To make something thy God which is not God by fearing it loving it and so trusting in it more then in the true God Q. What is the second A. c II. To worship false gods or the true God in a false maner Q. What is the third A. d III. To dishonor God in abusing his titles words and works Q. What is the fourth A e IV. To break the Sabbath in doing the works of thy calling and of the flesh and in leaving undone the works of the Spirit Q. What be the six latter A. To do any thing that may hinder thy neighbors f V. dignity g VI. life h VII chastity h VIII wealth i IX good name k X. though it be but in the secret thoughts and motions of the heart unto which thou givest no liking or consent Q. What is sorrow for sin A. It is l Act. 3. 37 38. when a mans conscience is touched with a lively feeling of Gods displeasure for any of these sins m 1 Tim. 1. 5. Luk. 15. 21. Ezra 9. 6 7. in such wise that he utterly despairs of salvation in regard of any thing in himself acknowledging that he hath deserved shame and confusion eternally Q. How doth God work this sorrow A. By the terrible curse of the Law Q. What is that A. He n Gal. 3. 10. which breaks but one of the Commandments of God though it be but once in all his life time and that onely in one thought is subject to and in danger of eternal damnation thereby Q. When mens hearts are thus prepared how doth God ingraft faith in them A. By working certain inward motions in the heart which are the seeds of faith out of which it breedeth Q. What is the first of them A. When a man humbled under the burthen of his sins o Esa 55. 2. Joh. 7. 27. Luk. 1. 53. doth acknowledge and feel that he stands in great need of Christ Q. What is the second A. An p Mat. 5. 4. hungring desire and a longing to be made partaker of Christ and all his merits Q. What is the third A. A q Heb. 4. 16. flying to the Throne of Grace from the sentence of the Law pricking the conscience Q. How is it done A. By r Luke 15. 18 19. Mat. 15. 21. 23 c. Act. 8. 22. 2 Cor. 12. 8. praying with sending up loud cries for Gods favor in Christ in the pardoning of sin and with fervent perseverance herein till the desire of the heart be granted Q. What followeth after this A. God then s Mat. 7. 7. Esa 65. 24. Job 33. 26. according to his merciful promise le ts the poor sinner feel the assurance of his love wherewith he loveth him in Christ which assurance is a lively faith Q. Are there divers degrees and measures of true faith A. t Rom. 2. 1. 7. Luk.

i Luk. 23. 42. Act. 7. 60. 1 Thes 4. 3. Heb. 2. 14. 1 Cor. 15. 51. their bodies may rest for a while in the earth and their souls may enter into Heaven immediately Q. VVhat followeth after death A. The day of Judgement Q. VVhat sign is there to know this day from other days A. k 2 Pet. 3. 1. Heaven and earth shall be consumed with fire immediately before the coming of the Judge Q. Who shall be the Judge A. Jesus Christ the Son of God Q. What shall be the coming to Judgement A. He shall come l 1 Thes 4. 16 17. in the clouds in great Majesty and Glory with infinite company of Angels Q. How shall a man be cited to Judgement A. At the m Mat. 24. 31. 1 Cor. 15. 51 52. sound of the Trumpet the living shall be changed in the twinckling of an eye and the dead shall rise again every one with his n Job 19. 25. own body and all shall be gathered together before Christ and after this the good shall be severed from the bad o Mat. 25. 32 33. these standing on the left hand of Christ the other on the right Q. How will Christ try and examine every mans cause A. The p Rev. 20. 21. Dan. 7. 20. books of every mans doings shall be laid open mens consciences shall be made either to accuse them or excuse them and every man shall be tryed by the works which he did in his life time because they are open and manifest signs q Job 3. 18. 5. 24. of faith or unbelief Q. What sentence will he give A. He will give * Mat. 25. 34 41. sentence of salvation to the Elect and godly but he will pronounce sentence of damnation against unbelievers and reprobates Q. What state shall the godly be in after the day of Judgement A. They r Mat. 25. 34. Apoc. 21. 2 3 4 5. shall continue for ever in the highest Heaven in the presence of God having fellowship with Christ Jesus and reigning with him for ever Q. What state shall the wicked be in after the day of Judgement A. In eternal perdition and destruction in hell fire Q. What is that A. It s 2 Thes 1. 9. Isa 66. 14. Apoc. 21. 8. stands in three things especially 1. A perpetual separation from Gods comfortable presence 2. Fellowship with the Devil and his Angels 3. An horrible pang and torment both of body and soul arising from the feeling of the whole wrath of God poured forth on the wicked for ever world without end and if the pain of one tooth for one day be so great endless shall be the pain of the whole man body and soul for ever and ever FINIS HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA TO THE SUPREAM AUTHORITY OF ENGLAND Thomas Shelton Wisheth Heavenly Grace and Earthly Glory Right Honourable IT is a saying of Solomon There is no new thing under the Sun but that which now is hath been I do beleeve it hath a truth concerning this very Art of Charactery which though it were not so exact formerly yet hath run along through all Ages There seetneth to be a hint of it in the placing of the Vowels in the writing of the Hebrew It is reported of some of the Fathers in ancient time that they Preached every day as Chrysostome by name to the people of Antioch whose Homilies are yet extant which could hardly have been transcribed so fast without some help this way I have seen a Book almost as ancient as Printing and in the Frontispiece printed This was taken by Characters Within this last Century of yeers diverse men have published severall methods of Short-writing as Mr B●le Dr. Bright John and Edmund Willis W●l Labourer and others And above thirty years since I endeavoured my self to doe somewhat that way and composed a Booke with the best skill I then had which by Gods blessing proved beneficiall to many Bu● hearing diverse complaine of some difficulty in my former Rules and finding my selfe by long experience and practice it was something short of perfection though generally accounted more exact then any of the former I have now at the request of many by Gods assistance after long study and paines composed a New Art more compendious and exact I am certaine then any that was yet brought to light and soeasie that an ordinary capacity by Gods blessing may be able in two h●ures learning to write any Chapter in the Bible and to give an account of every word How usefull such an Art may prove may be guessed by the blessing of God bestowed upon my weake endeavours in the former whereby many thousands by learning and using it have reaped profit and comfort Whereby also the memory of many worthy Divines Doctor Preston Doctor Sibs Doctor Day and diverse others is perpetuated to Posterity in their works by this Art taken and published which else had perished with the breath that uttered them And whereby likewise many Gentlemen and Merchants and others in forreigne parts have with freedome used Bibles and Testaments written in this Art without feare of bloody Inquisitors And should the revolution of times bring forth such as the Marian dayes which God avert when one small Epistle of the New Testament was at the rate of five pounds and one Chapter sold for a Load of Hay how precious then Notes of wholesome Divinity taken in this Art now in this Harvest of the Gospel would be both those that should have and those that should want them would know though in a different manner they would prove like the Jews Manna on the Sabath when there was none to be gathered abroad My desire is that my paines herein may prove instrumentall for the good of many I make bold to present it to your Honours as that poore Persian his handfull of Water to his King having no better Gift humbly craving your Honours favourable construction and protection of it and as in duty I stand bound so by Gods grace I shall continually pray for your Honours happinesse and acknowledge my selfe Your Honours humble Servant THO SHELTON