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A07480	A short and faythful instruction, gathered out of holy Scripture composed in questions and answeres, for the edifyeng and comfort of the symple Christianes, whych intende worthely to receyue the holy supper of the Lorde.; Claer bewiis, van het recht gebruyck des nachtmaels Christi	Micronius, Marten, d. 1559.; Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556, attrib. trans.	1556 (1556)	STC 17864; ESTC S104495	6,813	20

A short and faythful Instruction gathered out of holy Scripture composed in Questions and Answeres for the edifyeng and comfort of the symple Christianes whych intende worthely to receyue the holy Supper of the Lorde 1. Corin. xi ¶ Who so euer shall eate of thys Bread drinke of the Cuppe of the Lorde vnworthely shalbe gylty of the body and bloud of the Lorde 2. Corin. 4. ¶ I beleue and therfore I speake ¶ To the faythful congregacion of the Dutch Churche at London Grace and peace from God the father and from our Lorde Jesus Christe FOrasmuche as our Lorde Jesus Christ hath cōmaunded all true Christiās to obserue holde and vse hys holy Supper in remembraunce of hym tyl his cōmyng agayne seyng also that al they whiche accordyng to the rule of holy scripture neither do examyn trye nor proue them selues ryghtly before y e recept of the sayd holy supper neither yet do truly iudge discerne the difference of it frō other prophane bankettes are gyltie of the body bloude of Christ and seyng also that no man can accordyngly other trye proue hymselfe or ryghtly iudge discerne the body of the Lorde except he first knowe and vnderstande the foūdacion groūde of the christen fayth and religion Therfore haue we as they whych are carefull for the health of your soules wryttē this brefe shorte sūmary of the moste nedefull and principall partes of the christen religion to your moste profytable instruction comforte to thentent that no mā other through ignoraunce shulde despise that cōmaundement of Christ or els thorough stubburnes shuld 〈◊〉 not regarde the recepte of that holy ●upper or in any wyse slaunderously or vnworthely abuse it In consideracion wherof we humbly beseche you of charitie and for Christ Jesus sake that you wyll thankfully take thys my labour and wyth all diligēce imbrace it to the further aūce of your owne saluaciō and our ioye in the daye of the Lorde Gyuen in London by your welwyllyng Minister Marten Micron 8. Decemb. 1552. Question Welbeloued brother or syster N. seyng that thou intēdest to receaue with vs the holy Supper of the Lorde Jesus Christe so before all thynges yf otherwyse thou wylt not make thy selfe gyltie of hys bodye and bloud thou muste be a christian therfore we aske of thee Wherby knowest thou that thou arte a Christian. Answere Two maner of wayes Fyrste bycause the holy ghost by the witnesse of fayth certifieth me in myne herte sealeth my conscience that I am the chylde of God alonly through the merite of Jesus Christe Secondarely because that I thorowe the same spirite as touching the inwarde man am moued wyllyngly and gladly to the due obedience of goddes holy cōmaundementes Question Whych are the cōmaūdemētes Answere Those whych God hymselfe cōmaūded Moses in the .xx. Cha. of Exo. wrote in maner and forme folowyng ¶ The. ten cōmaundementes I Am the Lorde thy God which brought the out of the lande of Egypte out of the house of bondage Thou shalte haue none other Goddes but me commandment 2 Thou shalt not make vnto thy selfe any grauen ymage nor the lykenesse of any thinge that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneth nor in the water vnder the earth thou shalt not bowe downe to thē nor worship them For I the Lorde thy God am a gelouse God and viset the sinnes of the fathers vpon the chyldren vnto the thyrd fourth generacion of them that hate me shewe mercy vnto thousandes in them that loue me and kepe my commaundementes commandment 3 ¶ Thou shalte not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne For the Lorde wyll not holde hym gyltlesse that taketh hys name in vayne commandment 4 ¶ Remember that thou kepe holy y e Sabboth daye Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and do all that thou haste to do but-the seuenth daye is the sabboth of the Lorde thy God In it thou shalt do no maner of worke thou and thy sonne thy doughter thy man seruaunt and thy mayd seruaunt thy cattel and the straunger that is wythin thy gates for in syxe dayes the Lorde made heauen and earthe the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth daye Wherfore the Lorde blessed the seuenth daye and halowed it commandment 5 ¶ Honour thy father thy mother that thy dayes maye be longe in the lande whych the Lorde thy God gyueth the. ¶ Thou shalt do no murther commandment 6 ¶ Thou shalt not cōmitte adultery commandment 7 ¶ Thou shalt not steale commandment 8 ¶ Thou shalt not beare false wytnesse agaynst commandment 9 thy neyghbour ¶ Thou shalt not couet thy neyghbours commandment 10 house y u shalt not couet thy neyghbours wyfe nor hys seruaunt nor hys mayde nor hys Oxe nor his Asse nor any thing that is hys Question Howe are these cōmaundementes deuyded Answere Into two tables wherof the first pertayneth to God and the other to oure neyghbour Question What learnest thou in the foure fyrst cōmaundementes whyche belonge alonly vnto God Answere That I shall set my fayth truste and confidence vpon no creature but vp on God alone And hym not wyth ymage seruice or any other counterfayt worshippyng but alone in spirite and truthe shall worship and serue shall also daylye prayse hys holye uame and exercyse my selfe diligently not onely in hearyng hys holy worde but also in the vse of his Sacramentes Question What learnest thou in the sixe cōmaundementes folowynge whyche belonge to our neyghbour Answere That I shalbe obediēt vnto thē whome God hathe set ouer me and that I shal by no maner of meanes be hurtfull to my neyghbour in hys body wyfe famylie goodes honour name fame or estimacion no not so muche as w t any euel luit but in al godly and honest thinges shalbe to hym an helpe furtherāce Question Haste thou these cōmaundementes in all pointes so perfytlye fulfylled that y u art able to stande in the iudgemēt Answere Och naye for seyng that y ● lawe is spiritual and I am carnal I can not but confesse my selfe in many thynges agaynst that holy lawe to haue offended not onlye in leauyng vndone that that is therin cōmaunded but also-in doynge that that is therin forbydden Question Seyng that man because of one synne by the sentence of the lawe is condemned and excluded out of the kyngdōe of God howe shalt thou then be saued for asmuche as in many thynges thou haste synned and because that no man can entre into Goddes kyngdom vnlesse he be cleane from all synne Answere My saluacion dependeth onely of mere mercy and grace thorow Jesus Christ whyche wythout al my deseruing hath taken and accepted me for one of hys members also hath made me partaker of all hys gracious merites good dedes because wyth a repentaunt herte I beleue vndoutedly to be saued thorow hym Question Seyng the

grounde of thy fayth is set alone vpō Jesus Christe wylt thou shortlye declare what thou beleuest on Christe Answere I beleue that Jesus Christ in one persone is very God of God very mā of man and also that he is my only mediatour aduocate intercessour hyghe Preest Kynge and Prophete whyche hath taken vpon hym my curse and condempnacion and hath to me agayne re-restored frely hys holynes and righteousnes as it is moste briefly comprysed in the chiefe articles of our Christen fayth Question Whyche are the chief articles of the Christen fayth Answere ¶ I beleue in God the father almyghty maker of heauen and earth c. Question What vnderstādest thou by that worde I beleue as thou confessest sayeng I beleue in God the Father I beleue in God the Sonne I beleue in God the holy Ghost Answere I meane thys that I set all my fayth truste and confidence in God the Father who hathe made me and all the worlde In God the Sonne who hathe redemed me and all mankynde and in God the holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the chosen people of God Question Beleuest thou then that God the father the sonne and the holy Ghost are one true God Answere Yea moste surely for so all the holy scripture teacheth vs and therof are we admonyshed in our baptyme wherin we are baptysed in the name of y e father and of the sonne and of the holy Ghoste Question Hathe Christe ordened no sure outward exercises and certaine markes and tokens wherby hys congregacion maye be knowen and discerned from all other churches and sectes Answere Yes doutles and that because of oure weaknesse that we thorowe them maye be exercysed and strengthened in a sure fayth also by the due administracion of them may so muche the better be styrred vp to the due obedience of the forsayd cōmaundementes of God ¶ Sure markes and tokens of Christes true Churche Question What are y e sure exercises markes tokēs of the true church of Christ Answere The fyrst is the syncere preachyng of Goddes holy worde The seconde is the ryght vse of the Sacramentes instituted and ordeyned of Christe And the thyrde is the christen correcciō of the congregacion In whych thre thinges all true christianes ordenarely with all diligence and obedience ought to exercyse them selues wherby also they are seperated disseuered frō al other sectes Question Wherin standeth the syncere preachyng of the holy worde of God Answere In the ryght declarynge of the lawe and of the holy gospel wherof hytherto I haue made my confession ¶ Of the Sacramentes Question What are the Sacramentes Answere They are holy exercises seales effectuall tokens of remembraunce ordeyned of the Lorde him selfe for the comforte of his congregacion In whych exercyses the free forgeuenesse of synnes in and by Christ Jesus before our eyes and that moste clearly and euidentlye is set out and sealed And besyde that we are therby admonyshed of our duty both towardes God and to our neyghbour Question Howe many suche Sacramentes are there Answere Two that is Baptyme And the holy Supper of the Lorde ¶ Of Baptyme Question What is Baptyme Answere It is an holy ordinaūce of Christ in the recept wherof all the membres of hys congregacion in whych yonge children are conteyned also are baptysed w c water in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Question What comforte hast thou of thy Baptyme Answere Great cōforte For albeit of nature I am vncleane the child of wrath yet neuerthelesse by fayth in the promyses of mercy am I fully persuaded that thorowe Jesus Christe I am assuredly certeynlye accepted and taken into the grace and fauour of God as my body in the recept of baptyme is besprenkled and wasshed wyth water Question What more comforte haste thou of Baptyme Answere Forsoth thys that I may all my lyfe longe haue a continuall forgeuenes of my synnes into the whych thorow the deuels temptacion myne owne weaknes and fraylnes I maye chaunce to fall whensoeuer I wyth a repētant hert in spirite and fayth thorow Jesus Christ do praye and aske pardon and forgeuenesse of the same Question Wherof moreouer arte thou admonished in thy baptyme Answere Truly that I shal al my lyfe lōge forsake the deuell the worlde and all the fylthy lustes of my fleshe and wyth al diligence continually walke in a new and godly lyfe ¶ Of Christes holy Supper Question What is the holy Supper of the Lorde Answere It is an holy soule banket ordened of Jesus Christe for an effectuall remembraūce of hys death especially that he vpon the crosse once for all offered vp hys innocent bodye and there also shed hys moste precious bloude for the forgeuenes of synnes Question Wherfore intendest thou to receyne the holy Supper of our Lorde Jesus Christe Auswere Because my Lorde and Maister Jesus Christe hath wylled ordeined and cōmaunded it to be receyued in remembraunce of hys death for the synguler cōforte profyt and cōmoditie of me and of all the worthy receyuers of it Question What profyt and comforte fyndest thou in the due and worthye recepte therof Answere Truely in the ryght ministracion therof it is lyuely and effectually set out to me myserable synner as it were before myne eyes beaten into my remēbraunce yea wytnessed and sealed to my feble conscience through the holy Ghost that Christ hath once for al vpō the crosse made an euerlastyng full and parfyte oblacion and sacrifice for my synnes and that I also beleuynge in hym haue thorough hys death and oblaciō once made forgyuenes of my synnes wyth comfort and full truste of euerlastynge lyfe as verely truly and certeinlye as I at hys table eate of the breade broken and drinke of the cuppe of the Lorde whyche after the vse of holy scripture maner of Sacramentes he calleth his body bloude Question What fourme maner and propertie of speakyng vseth the holy scripture in all Sacramentes Answere Uerely that the outwarde partes or matter of the Sacramentes in the holy scripture are decked bewtifyed and adourned wyth the names of the mysteries and hyd thynges whych they signifye to thentent it myght be knowē wher vnto they were ꝓperly ordeined wherfore they shulde be receyued As circumcision is called the Couenaunt of God the Paschlambe is intitled the Passeouer or passe by Baptyme is named y e wasshing awaye of synne or bath of the new byrth Euen so the holy Supper is called the body of Christ broken for vs and his bloud shedde for vs. Questi Is y ● very natural body bloud of Christ necessarely present here vpō erth so that in y e supper it may be eatē drōkē Answere Nay truely For fyrst it were vtterly contrary to the nature propertie of al Sacramentes Againe the opinion of corporal presence obscureth the