anguish he hanged himself So horrible and dreadfull were in his sight hell gates the wages payment of his iniquity There is also an euangelicall penitence whiche is a continuall study purpose and endeuerment and wilfull meditacion of mortifieng our fleshe and fashioning our liues to the wyll of the Lorde And this kind of penitence is onely in them that are renued and vnto whom the forgiuenesse of sin through Christ is giuē As for this word penaunce because the Popes clergy hath iugled with it so craftely and deceyued the poore innocentes eyes it is well done to reproue the euill vse and handling of it as the mainteyning of the same is wicked What signifie the latter times in Scripture The Prophetes signifie by them commonly the dayes wherein the prophesies and the figures of the olde testament going on Christ toke effecte and were perfourmed For when Christ came both the prophesies figures ceased And euer sence Christ is openly sincerely clearely and without all shadowes set out and preached and so shall continue vnto the worldes ende Paule calleth The latter dayes the time a little before the end of the worlde and the day of the iudgement of the lord In which we be euen nowe What is the consummation and ende of the worlde It is when the state and forme of the worlde shall passe by And when this chaunge of Winter Sommer and spring shall cease when there shall be neyther night nor day What is the day of the Lorde The greate assemblement court and paritament of all men that hath ben from Adam to the last man at what day our Lorde Iesus Christ shall come with great power and maiesty and pronounce the last sentence and dome both to the good and to the euill adiudging the euill to euerlasting punishment with the deuilles and graunting the good and godly man euerlasting ioye and felicitie to the which that we may come God through our Sauiour Iesus Christ graunt to whome be all honor and prayse Amen Geue the glory to GOD alone ¶ An other booke of Demaundes of holy Scriptures verye profitable to all Students of Diuinitie WHO is the author and maker of the most beautifull frame of this world God whiche by his almightie power wisedom and goodnesse doth now also order gouerne and preserue the same What is God An endlesse vncreated substance without both beginning and ending Which by his worde alone first created all things and nowe disposeth and ruleth ▪ yea and conserueth all things one substance distinguished but not deuided into thre sundrie persons the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost and notwithstanding remayning one alone true and perfect God. What is his word whereby he first created and nowe preserueth and gouerneth all things It is the decreed sentence appointment will power and wisedome of God. The Sonne is also called the word bicause he is the wisedome and might of his father the word in the Scripture is oftentimes called by a metaphore or similitude water wine milke a lantern or candle the voyce of the shepeheard the ryght hand of the Lord the breath of the Lords mouthe the bread of life a pearle or precious stone and such like In what state did God create man Perfect righteous and good according to his owne image and likenesse hauing fier and water set before him to take which he would being endued with free will to doo euill or to continue still in goodnesse What then condemned vs Sinne by the lawe What is Sinne Sinne is the transgression or breaking of the whole lawe or of any one commaundement of god And all that is done without fayth is sinne and therefore the good workes of the infidelles doe nothing profite them What is the Lawe A learning teaching vs with authoritie what ought to be done or auoyded in thought worde or deede with rewardes and punishmentes for doing or omitting the same This law is our schoolemaister to teach vs the waye to Christ by whome the violence sting power and the shadowes of the lawe bee takē away in whose place he hath brought in grace and truth Howe chaunced we to synne By the choyce of our free will graunted to vs either to doe good or euill whereby we lost both our felicitie that we were first placed in and that our free will also Howe then were both we and our forefathers reconciled to the fauour of God which wee lost by our disobedience being as vnfruite full branches of the rotden roote of Adam By the performance of the mercifull promise of God giuen to Adam that the seede of the woman shoulde breake the serpents heade Renued to Abraham that in his seede all Nations shoulde bee blessed and perfourmed by Christ which by his death payd our raunsome whiche promise and perfourmaunce conueyed vnto our forefathers and vs and vnto all the Church by faith hath ben and is the common and general meane of saluacion they that is to say our forefathers beleeuing that Christ was to come by whome alone they should be saued we with no doubtfull faith confessing that he is come dyed and rose againe for to regenerate vs to God to mortify vs to sinne the fleshe and the world to rayse vp againe at the laste day and so to take vs vnto him selfe placing vs in the glory of his father Who receyueth this benefyte The church of Christ only What is the church of Christ The whole number of the faithfull beleeuers in Christes comming sufferance and resurrection members of the misticall body of Christ Graines to make one loafe Graps to make one wine liuely stones to buylde on a spirituall house in Christ to offer spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God thorowe the same Christ Iesus which is the head of the same body the corner stone of the sayd house the Lord and husband to the sayd church his spouse maried to him by faith Who bestoweth this benefyte vpon vs God through Iesus Christ his sonne by whome he hath made vs his children also and fellowe heyres with Christe of hys What sygnifyeth this name IESVS A Sauiour which is the chiefe poynt of his office and cause of his comming into this worlde as appeareth by the wordes of the Aungell to Ioseph shee meaning Marie shall bring forth a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iesus For he shall saue his people from their sinnes What signifyeth this name CHRIST Annointed whereupon it may be gathered that our Sauiour Christ is a king a priest and a Prophet which .iii. were accustomed by the lawe ceremonial to be annointed A king bicause by inheritance he being the sonne of God ought to be Lord and Ruler of all thinges and bicause he hath conquered and subdued vnto him selfe by death by bearing our sinnes by redeeming vs his inheritance out of the power of the deuill all the whole kingdome power and aucthority ouer death sinne and
consyst Of two partes that is to saye of the element and of the worde Howe manye Sacramentes are there Two Baptisme and the Lordes supper What is Baptisme The washing of euerye beleeuing Christian in water that taketh vppon him to professe the name of Christ whiche water certifieth our fayth of the inwarde washing and clensing of our soules by the spirite of God a token of our regeneration of the mortification of our fleshe of our buriall with Christe and of our resurrection vnto a newe lyfe If the beleeuing Christians onely be baptised according to this saying of Christe He that beleeueth and is baptised shall bee saued Why shoulde the Infantes be baptised which for imperfection of age are not able to beleeue Though Infantes haue not power to beleeue or to confesse their beliefe yet haue they fayth imputed vnto them for the promise sake of God bicause they bee the seede of the faythfull as hee sayde to Abraham I will be thy God and the God of thy seede Seeing then that they also haue that promise of saluation why should they be forbiddē the promised pledge or seale of that same promsied saluation The Sacraments of the Iewes diffred nothing from ours in effect but onelye in the outwarde element and forme of executing the same Why then shoulde oure Infants be more forbidden Baptisme than the Iewes infantes were forbidden Circumcision at the eyght daye Seing we reade that the Apostles baptised sundrie housholdes as of Stephana Lidia Onesiphorus c. if a man may gesse at a thing whereof wee haue no certaintie it is lyke inoughe that they baptised some Infantes also But to leaue all gesses and vncertain coniectures we are sure that the Iewes infantes passed with their parentes out of Egypt thorow the red sea and vnder the cloud which were tokens of our baptisme What if the infants die before they receaue the Sacrament of Baptisme Gods promise of saluacion vnto them is not for default of the Sacrament minished or made vayne and of no effect For the spirite is not so bound to the water that it can not worke his office where the water wanteth or that it of necessitie must alway be there where the water is sprinckled Simon Magus had the Sacramētal water but he had not holy Ghost being in dede an Hipocrit and filthy dissembler In the Chronicle of the Apostles Artes we reade that while Peter preached the holy Ghost came vpon them that heard him yea and that before they were baptised by the reason whereof Peter brast out into these wordes saide can any man forbyd water that these should not be baptised which haue receaued the holy Ghost as well as we True Christians whether they be old or young are not saued bicause outwardly they bee washed with the Sacramentall water but bicause they be Gods children by electron through Christ yea and that before the foundacions of the world were layd and are sealed vp by the spirite of God vnto euerlasting life the giftes and calling of God being such that it can not repent him of them Notwithstanding the Sacrament of Baptisme ought not therefore to be neglected but with all reuerence to be embraced both of old and young For he that despiseth the Sacrament despiseth not the Sacrament only but the authour of the Sacrament which is Christ Iesus the Lorde What is the Supper of the Lord or the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ Bread and Wine consecrated that is to say made and appoynted of God to bee a Sacrament to put vs in rememberance that as the bread is broken and the wine powred out so Christes body was broken and his blood shed for our redemption And as the bread receaued through our mouth and digested in our stomacke driueth away our hunger and norysheth our body the wine likewise receiued and digested quencheth our thirst and quickeneth our bloud so Christes bodie and bloude receyued by fayth digested with worthie continuaunce therein not disagreeing from the right receyuing thereof slaketh our hunger and thirst that is to saye our emptynesse of grace and drynesse of fayth nourysheth and quickeneth both our bodye and soule making vs partakers of the whole merites and dignitie of the bodie and bloude of christ And as the bread of many granes is made one loafe and the wyne pressed togither of sundry grapes so wee being many are one body in Christ And bicause we are of his body we must needes also be quickened by his bloude and lyue of hys spirite Remayneth there the substance of breade and wine after the wordes of consecration as they terme them or but the accidentes of them onely as the authors of Transubstantiation haue heretofore taught If the substaunce of breade and wyne shoulde bee denied to remayne in the Sacrament of the bodie and bloude of Christ so shoulde it cease to be a Sacrament For euery sacrament as we haue tofore hearde consisteth of the word and of the element Now yf we take away water from Baptisme so is there no Sacrament verely euen so in like manner take away Bread and Wine from the Lordes Supper so ceaseth it to be a sacrament To declare that bread remayneth after the wordes of consecration Saint Paule calleth it breade diuers times as we may see in his first Epistle to the Corinthians S. Luke also in his Chronicle of the Apostles actes whēsoeuer he maketh mention of the Lordes Supper calleth it the breaking of breade And it is to bee thought that so worthye learned men woulde haue presumed to call so honourable a mysterie breade if there had bene no breade remayning but onelye the accidentes of breade as oure Transsubstantiators teache Doth not our Sauiour Christe after the wordes of consecration call the misterie of his bloud the fruite of the vine And who is so farre estraunged from the right rule of reason whiche knoweth not that the fruite of the vine is wyne Here doth it euidently appeare by the authoritie of Gods worde that in the Sacrament of Christes bodie and bloude there remayneth after the wordes of consecration the substance both of breade and wine whereof it truly followeth that the Popishe doctrine of Transsubstantiation is nothing else than a vaine dreame and foolishe fancie brought in by Antichrist neuer knowne of the ancient fathers of Christes church nor yet receyued of the Greekes vnto this day Why sayst thou there but two Sacramentes when we haue heretofore bene taught that there are seauen Sacramentes Bicause Christ in the newe Testament lefte no mo to be occupied in his Churche As there were giuen to the people of the olde lawe but two Sacramentes That is to say Circumcision and the Passeouer so likewise in the newe Testament Christe appointed but two Sacraments that is in steade of Circumcision Baptisme and in the place of the Passeouer the Lordes Supper Therefore as for the rest they be not aptly called Sacraments They
come to nought Veryly as there is not a greater blessing geuen of GOD to any nacion then the gift of his vvoord so I knovve not yf a greater cursse from GOD can be cast vppon any people then vvhen the vvoord of GOD and the true preaching thereof is taken avvay from them as these vvoordes of GOD spoken by the prophete doo manifestly declare Beholde the tyme commeth sayth the Lorde GOD that I shall send an hunger into the earth not the hunger of bread nor the thyrst of vvater but an hunger to heare the vvoord of the LORD so that they shal goe from the one sea to the other yea from the North to the East runnyng about to seeke the vvoord of the Lorde and shall not finde it In this behalfe therfore are ye the inhabitauntes of Sandvviche greatly blessed of the Lord our God vvhich hath not onely very richelv geuen you his vvoorde to be preached taught and read among you but also hartes to receaue and beleeue the same as yf vve reade of Lydia vvhose hart sayth blessed Luke the Lorde opened that shee attended to the thinges vvhich Paul spake Out of this your feruent zeale and burnyng loue tovvard this diuine and heauenly Philosophie many godly and Christen fruites of Gods spirite haue issued and plentifully come foorth as brotherly concord and vnfained amitie among your selues not your selues onely but also among all the inhabitauntes of your Tovvne so that all contention strife debate discord emnitie variaunce tumultes quarelles lavvynges c. banished and auoyded beneuolence loue concord agreement vnitie amitie freendship gentlenesse humanitie and vvhatsoeuer maketh vnto the bond of peace ruleth and raigneth among you vvhich godly vnitie and concord dooth so euidently declare you to be of God as nothing more In this shall all men knovve that ye are my Disciples sayth Christe yf one of you loue an other As discord bringeth al thinges to hauocke so dooth concord conserue keepe in good order and make to increase vvhat so euer is good and profitable to a common vveale or to any part thereof As Salustius sayth By concord small thinges encrease and grovve but by discorde mighty and great thinges decay and come to nought It vvas very vvittely and learnedly ansvyeared of Terence vvhen the noble Senate of the most noble Romanes demaunded of him after the destruction of Carthage vvhat he thought to be the cause of the subuertion if so ample populus and florishing citie vvhether the puissaunce of the Romans vvhose force seemed to be incomparable or the feeblenesse of the Carthaginenses not being able to resist No sayth he neyther your valiance nor our vvant of puissance vvas the subuersion of our citie but the discorde of the Citizens The mightiest fortresse and strongest Bulvvarcke that eyther Citie or Tovvne can haue is the concord of Citizens vvithout the vvhich all puissaunce all force all vvytte al pollicie all castels all martiall armonies are vayne and vnprofitable verely in this behalfe are ye also greatly blessed of God vvhich both in godly vvorldly affaires are of one mind of one meaning vvithout al diffencion among you O blessed fruite of Gods spirite Moreouer hovve idlenesse that chiefe maistres of vices all vtterly exiled and banished out of your Tovvne No man liueth there idlely All degrees of persons are godly vertuously and profitably occupied euery man according to his vocacion and calling All studye to be quiet and to meddle vvith theyr ovvne businesse and to vvorke vvith theyr ovvne hands that they may not only eate theyr ovvne breade according to the commanndement of God but also through those their laboures haue vvhereof they may geue vnto such as haue neede as Saint John saith he that hath tvvo coates let him geue one to him that hath none And he that hath meate let him doo likevvise Certes diligent and vertuous trauaile vpholdeth the Citie but idle and sluggysh hands roote vp the foundacions thereof Furthermore vvho can yenough prayse and sufficiently commende your studious carefulnesse and painefull trauaile in making prouision for the poore members of Christe vvhich haue not of them selues vvhereof to liue Verely yee haue a fatherly care for your poore ' that none of them should vvant Ye count their lacke your ovvne lack neyther are ye lesse moued vvith theyr miseries then yf ye your selfs vvere touched vvith the same according to this saying of Saint Iohn He that hath the substance of this vvoorld and seeth his brother haue neede anb shutteth vp his compassion from him hovv dvvelleth the loue of God in him Vnmercifulnesse tovvard the poore vvas one of the chiefe causes vvhy that florishing and to much vvealthy Citie Sodome as the Prophet teacheth vvas destroyed vvith fire an brimstone from heauen Verely euen so contraryvvise vvhere the vvorkes of mercie are diligently practised vpon the poore there is the blessing of God conseruation of the Tovvne or Citie encrease of goodes and fortunate successe in all honest and godly trauayles as Salomon sayth He that geueth to the poore shall not vvant He that lendeth to the Lorde that shevveth mercie to the poore and it be recompenced him to the vttermost as our Sauiour Christe sayth Geue and it shal be geuen vnto you good measure and pressed dovvne and shaken togeather and runnyng ouer shall men geue into your bosomes For he that geueth but a cuppe of cold vvater for Christes sake shall not loose his revvard Yf thou vvylt breake thy bread to the hungry sayth GOD by the Prophete and leade the needy vvayfaring man into thy house couer the naked man and not turne avvay thy face from the poore thy lyght shall breake foorth as the mornyng and thy health florishe right shortly yea thy righteousnesse shal goe before thee and the glory of the Lord shal embrace thee Then yf thou callest the Lord shall aunsvvere thee yf thon cryest he shall say Here I am O blessed is the man sayth the Psalmographe that considereth the poore and needy the Lorde shall deliuer him in the time of trouble The Lorde shall preserue him and keepe him aliue that he may be blessed vpon earth and not be deliuered into the vvyll of his enimies The Lorde shall comfort him vvhen he lyeth sicke vpon his bedde yea and make his bedde in his sieknesse Agayne vvhat shall I speake of your gentle and louyng enterteynement of strangers and forreners vvhich for the testemony of Christes most glorious Gospell and for the quietnesse of theyr conscience that they may the more freely serue GOD vvith a pure mind are not only content to suffer vnvvorthy banishment vvith the losse of their goodes but also day and nyght to labour vvith their ovvne handes for their liuing that they may be no burden to any man These most vvyllyngly and gladly ye admit receaue and embrace cherishe entertayne and comfort These ye lodge place among you not as strangers but as Citizens not as forreners but as your dearely beloued
the number of the leaues be considered but yf the matter therof be diligently pondered it shal be found both great profitable Thus for this present taking my leaue of you I vvysh to you and to the vvhole Tovvne all good and prosperous things both for your bodyes soules most humbly beseeching God to finishe that good vvoorke vvhich he hath begun in you vnto the glory of his name vnto the profite of his holy congregation Amen From my house at Caunterbury the fyrst of September 1563. The Demaundes of holy Scripture WHO did create vs God who also made al the world of nought What things damned vs Sinne. In so much as Adam did eate by the perswasion of Eua of the Apple forbidden him of god For sinne is the breaking of the commaundementes of GOD. Who redemed vs and set vs in the fauour of GOD againe Iesus Christ by takyng our nature on him What is God vnto vs Whereas before he was a seuere straight Iudge through Christe he is become our most louing tender and mercifull father What are we His dearely beloued children What thing is GOD An infinite substaunce which onely with his word of might did create and make all thinges and with his most high and incomparable wisedome gouerneth all thing and of his inestimable goodnesse suffereth and preserueth all thing I call that infinite both which hath neyther beginning nor ending and that which can not be comprehended nor compassed by mans braine what thing it is And in both these significacions God is infinite Furthermore that is to euery man god or a god that he loueth dreadâ—th and worshippeth with all his hart The Scripture also calleth the Iudges and Officers of the earth gods What is a strange God or an other God What soeuer thing we worshyp besides the very lyuing god And that also that doth alienate and turneth our harte from Gods worde is called a strang or an other God. What thing is fayth It is a full and perfite confidence and trust in God through Christe ingendred in our harte by hearing the worde of God and as Paul defineth faith Faith is a sure confidence of thinges which we looke for and the certaintie of promises What is hope A styffe and firme expectacion of such thinges as be promised vs of the worde of GOD. What is charitie The principall fruite of faith a prompte and redy wyll to doo good to our neighbour Otherwhyles the workes of mercie are called charitie What is the lawe It is the liuely wyll of God geuen vs by commaundement as well in the newe testament as in the olde whose worke and operacion is to shewe sinne to shewe that God is angry with vs for our euill doing and dayly transgression of his commaundement whose duty is to accuse vs in our conscience to cast vs downe and make vs seeme vyle nought worth in our sight and by this meanes eyther bringeth vs to vtter desperacion or els leadeth vs as it were by the hande to Christe the only true pacifier of the conscience What is the Gospel It is a glad tiding Or els you may call it euery promise that God made of Christe and of other his good benefites wherby the cloudes of the conscience be put awaye and mans minde erected and made mery whether these promises be in the new testament or in the old Paule saith it is the power of God where by all that beleeue are brought to healthe and sauegarde What is it to be a godly man or who is godly He or shee that hath faith and the feare of God before their eyes Who is wicked or vngodly He or shee that beleeueth not the promise of God and that hath not the dreade of God before them Who is a Christian man He that beleeueth on Christe and liueth according to his worde Who is an Ethnike or Miscreant He that vseth not those lawes and ordinaunces and hath not the faith that we haue Or els he that seeketh to be saued by some other meanes then by Christ. Who is an Heretik He which thinketh and styfly mainteineth any thing against the doctrine of faith that is to say the word of God. Marke here the word of God to be called the doctrine of faith because faith draweth from no whence els her principles then from the worde of god Because she only learneth marketh and beareth away the word of God. What is the kingdome of Heauen It is where the word of God is truly preached and receiued and where it beareth fruite meete for the doctrine whose king and Lord is Christ. What is the worlde An heape and mustre of men without the word of God among whom the word of God is despised and persecuted where is a rablement of al vices whose Prince and God is Sathan In some place it is called an hot boyling Sea which can not rest and be asswaged What is the word of God It is the decreed sentence word and will of God expressed and left behind of the Prophetes and Apostles to vs in the canonical bookes of the newe testament and the old whiche word he that reciueth that is to say knowledgeth in his hart to be true and holy and liueth according to it receiueth God and he that refuseth it despiseth God and as much as lieth in him he maketh God a lyer The word of God hath sundry names in Scripture as the sword of the spirite a two edged sword a fire sword an iron wal a strong hold a well fensed towre consuming fire It is also called whete the rod of the mouth of the Lord the breth of the mouth of the Lorde a mysterie an oracle the print or secreat wyll of the Lord. What are mans tradicions What soeuer mans reason hath or doth imagen without the word of God and ordeyneth and wylleth it to be reputed and taken as good godly and pleasant in the sight of god They be called in Scripture Cocle and Chasse Of these speaketh Christe where he saith They do serue me in vaine whyle they teach such doctrine as are nothing but the commaundementes of men Who be good Only God is good Notwithstanding because all they that haue the spirite of God and are ruled by his word be of the flocke of God and vnder his keeping therefore God doth communicate and imparte his goodnesse to them and so they be called good as theyr Father Lord and Gouernour is Who be euill They that haue not the spirite of God nor be ruled by his word whether they liue vpright outwardly and according of the letter of the lawe as Cato Socrates and they that be counted good and vertuous among the Turkes and Iewes or els they that be open transgressours of the lawe For in Christ only is saluacion and remission of sinnes And vnto that time that our
speake vnto you they be spirite and life meaning they amount and passe the fleshe and sence of reason they be spirituall and heauenly It is sometime put for what so euer liueth and breatheth as all the spirits prayse ye the Lorde sometime for the breath and winde What is the fleshe Euery affection the hart the minde and thought of man and what so euer els man doth or can do by al the powers of his reason destitute of the worde of God. For Christe saith That which is borne of the fleshe that is it vnderstandeth not thinges that be spirituall Fleshe other while betokeneth the letter and fleshly vnderstanding The fleshe profiteth nothing it is the spirite that quickeneth What is the newe man It is the man that is renued and borne againe by faith and the worde through the spirite of god Except a man be borne a new he can not se the kingdome of heauen To be borne anewe he calleth where as before we were but carnall and fleshly not vnderstanding the misteryes of the spirite we must be borne agayne in spirite that is to become spirituall and more meete to vnderstanâ—e espirituall thinges What is the olde man Our affections appetites and vnderstanding according to reason without faith euen as we be all naturally borne of our mother as it appeareth in diuers places of the Scripture Also the whole body of sinne is called the old man in Scripture and they liue according to the old man that liue in ignoraunce and followe the lustes of their hart not walking in the newnesse of lyfe Who is blessed or happy All be it I may aunswere with Christ blessed is he that heareth and kepeth the woorde of God yet is he otherwyse defined in the Scripture As he is to be thought happy who holdeth him selfe well content with his fortune and thankefully receyueth whatsoeuer God sendeth him and who is at one with God and al creatures that is doth not murmure against God and on the other side enuieth nor dispiseth any man. Who is a wretch or vnhappy He that holdeth not him selfe content with that that God hath sent him He with whome nothing goeth forwarde nor agreeth not with God nor man. Who is poore He that can not make any great boastes or crakes of himselfe and who is destitute of all helpe as be they of whome Christe saith blessed are the poore in spirite in Scripture he is called lowe humble and hungry and he who is nowe in aduersitie Who is riche He is called riche in Scripture which needeth no helpe concerning his saluacion but hath workes ynough and more then ynoughe to bring him to heauen And as a man may call it full vp to the throte of the righteousnesse as be all Hipocrites Phariseies and iustifiers of them selues they also be called riche in Scripture which be proud mighty and dronken with fortune and prosperitie euer polling the poore Who is wyse and circumspect He which knoweth God and his worde which when he doubteth as keth counsell and doth all thing thereafter Who is a foole He that rashly is caried hither and thither with euery mocion that considereth nothing regardeth nothing nor suffereth himselfe to be corrected and warned of his euill doing but headlong runneth as he began forsing not whether he sinke or swymme or what becommeth of him and who as he knoweth not the worde of God so he passeth not on it The wisedome of God taken as foolishnesse before the worlde is the preaching of the Crosse of Christ and the iustifiing by faith that is to say though to suffer persecution for the worde of God and to preach that we iustified by faith be godly and the wisedome of the spirite yet the world laugheth it to scorne and counteth it highe foolishenesse The wisedome of the fleshe is foolishnesse before God. What is a childe or to be a childe A childe in Scripture is a wicked man or he that is ignoraunt and not excercised in godlynesse and Gods word be he olde or be he young Or he that lacketh spirituall iudgemeÌ„t in discerning chosing things Wo be to the countrey whose King is a childe And he shall die a childe of a C. yeere olde A child also is sometime taken for humble or meke Who soeuer huÌ„bleth him selfe as this childe is greatest in the kingdome of Heauen What is an olde man auncient or elder He which is well taught and instructed in the worde of God and exercised therein He which liueth honestly and without reprose hauing horenesse of maners authoritie grauitie and high knowledge in the worde of God. What is Christe The annointed king and priest of God sitting on the right hande of the father hauing full power to defend and warrant his flocke and being a ready aduocate for his at their neede And by him all Christen men be annoynted kings and priestes They be called kinges when in Christe and through Christe they subdue their wylde affections the diuell and death They be called priestes and sacrificers when they offer vp their bodyes into a liuely holy and acceptable sacrifice vnto God which is our reasonable seruing of God. What is Antichriste The adnersary of Christe and he which goeth about to obscure or vtterly to abrogate and pull away his glory teaching defining and determining that Christe is not the king priest and aduocate of his flocke What is prayer A brenning desire or peticion of the minde lift vp and directed vnto God springing and comming of the neede and lacke that we find in our selfe as farre foorth as faith and the promise of God suffereth and permitteth vs where marke that we aske such thinges as be honest and lawfull Sometime it is taken for the lifting vp of the handes the desire trying and sighing of the poore and such as stand in neede And some doth call it more generally the lifting vp of the mind to God. What is temptation The profe and trial of our faith and an exercise and practise of the worde Otherwhiles it is called the rod and staffe of the Lorde and the discipline whereby we see our selues and perceyue how well we haue profited and gon forwarde in the word which may best be tryed then when that we goe about doth not goe forward as we woulde What is desperacion It is when in temptacion and such trying of vs wheither it be by aduersitie or any other thing we fall downe distrust and cast away all hope of the mercie and goodnesse of God then I say when of no side appeareth any hope or succor and when we be as seemeth to vs vtterly forgotten and cast away of God. Of which temptacion we may see a manifest example To speake properly desperacion is the vtter and finall dispayre and distrust of helpe VVhat is vocacion or calling It is the manner of life vnto which God hath
face and outwarde sight The face of the anger of God is the feling of the curse wrath of God also the presence sight iudgment of God is caled his face as Let al the earth hushe or be stil before the face of the Lord. As the Waxe vadeth and consumeth in the face of the fire so shal all sinners perishe before the face of God. What is the eye of man It is reason or the wysedome of the flesh A single eye is reason instructed with the word of God. A wicked eye is reason depraued and corrupt enuye engendred against their neighboure for the gyftes of god Otherwhiles the eye hand right foote c. betoken our kinsmen and best belooued freendes What betoken feete in Scripture The feete be and betoken the affections desire and will of the harte My foote stode straight foorth that is to say I haue neyther hurt any man nor would hurt And though perchaunce I haue hurt any yet I willed none euill or hated any c. To washe one an others feete is one to loue an other and to wyll well one to an other What is a slaunder to offende or to be offendicle to any man It is whereby the faith or charitie of our brother is offended or hurt The faith of the brother is offended when any man preacheth teacheth other thinges then the word of god Of this kind of slaunder speaketh Christ. Who soeuer offendeth one of these little ones c. The charitie of our neighbour is offended or hurt when we helpe not the poore when we be not glad of our neyghboures prosperitie and sory in his aduersitie c. It is the obstacle and let whereby we fall and stomble in the way of the Lorde that is to say we haue not a life vpright and worthy the Lorde I meane when we stagger in the faith or loue towardes our neighbour in which two euery christian ought stoutly and still to walke Forgetting with saint Paule the thinges that be behind our backes endeuering to come to the marke set before our eyes Otherwhiles slaunder or offending is taken in Scripture for the offending wher by the wicked can not beare the word What is an Hipocrite It is the wicked man coloured and cloked with godlynesse Wherefore hipocrisy is called fayned holynesse What is an enuious man He whose hart for anger burneth at an other mans prosperitie nor can suffer with his will any other to be enriched with the benefites of god So did Cayn enuy Abell his brother Saul Dauid and Ioab Amasas But Iohn did not enuy Christ his successour when he sayd He must increase and I decrease Nor Ionathas Saules sonne did not thus hate Dauid his loyall and trusty freende and companion What is for God to sleepe When he seemeth to vs to forsake vs in our temptation nor helpeth vs So slept Christe in the ship his Apostles being in daunger and ieoperdye And so doth Dauid call vpon God to awake saying arise wake Lorde why doest thou sleepe so long What is it for men to sleepe When they without all care of the word of God slugge and sleepe in sinne and ignoraunce when they refuse contemne and regarde it not To rest and sleepe in the Lord is to dye in fayth c. What is to be awake To exercise and put in vre the word of God and our faith What is fortune It is fate or destiny chaunsing to any man by the will of God without mans prouidence Who is my brother He that hath one father with me that is to say God. Who is my weake brother He that hath one faith with me in God and fauoureth the Gospell but yet wauereth and doubteth in his conscience of some things as meates and difference of dayes Who is my neighbour He on whom I exercise charitie and loue or hee who needeth my helpe Who is a Lorde or maister He that hath a seruant gouerneth and ruleth another as he whiche keepeth vnder vices and lewde appetites is Lord and maister ouer them so through faith in Iesus Christ we be Lordes ouer the Deuill Death and sinne Also he that vseth the Sabboth or holy daye as he seeth neede that is to saye doubteth not if he see the loue of his neighbour requireth the contrarie to breake it that man I say is the Lorde of the Sabboth day Who is a seruant He that hath a maister and is not his owne man or else he that is at the becke and commaundement of another Thus Paule calleth himselfe the seruant of Christ as he that doth and accomplisheth the will of sinne he is a seruaunt to sinne What is a true and faithfull seruaunt He that hath fayth and doth his duetie with all diligence according to his vocation and calling What is a slothfull and vnfaithfull seruant He which beleeueth not in God negligently ordereth himselfe in his vocacion and refuseth to beare his crosse What is an officer or ruler Euery lawfull power among men ordeined of God to the defence and protection of that that is good and to prohibite and to punishe that that is euill according to right and equity What is a tyraunt An vnlawfull and vniust ruler which administreth all things as he list and laieth great burdens yokes vpon the people doing against all conscience equity Such a one was Pharao to the children of Israell Howbeit suche be not to be resisted of Christian men but obeyed in all thinges saue where they wil haue vs doo that that God forbiddeth vs and haue vs not to do that that god biddeth And we must tarye till God deliuer vs out of suche tyrauntes handes as the children of Israel did What is matrimony or wedlocke The lawfull coupling and resort of man and woman according to the ordinance and commaundement of God. What is adultery The vnlawful company of man and woman as is the mariage with the mother sister aunt brothers wyfe and such other wherein Moyses treateth To that perteyneth stupre incest fornicacyon and like abhominacions touched in the foresaid Chapiters What is properly mans worke or that man can doo What soeuer that reason and the nature of man can inuent and doo as to rule his house well to gouerne the common weale buylde and searche the nature of thinges and dispute and reason vpon them What is that that is aboue mans power otherwise called spirituall and heauenly What soeuer surmounteth reason and that man can not attaine vnto except God graunteth it and geueth power to obtaine it as that our sinnes be forgiuen through faith and that we be saued by Iesus that dyed on the crosse That God is our defender and louing father yea in aduersitie and trouble That God is iust yea whē he suffereth the good men to
be persecuted and troubled And on the otherside letteth the euill men to enioy and haue all their pleasure and will here and preuaile against the good men What is fleshe and bloud The circumlocution and very descripcion of man For man of him selfe is nothing but fleshlye and carnall Blessed art thou Simon the sonne of Ionas for fleshe and bloude hath not opened this vnto thee but my father that is in heauen sayth Christ. What is care and thought A playne token of diffidence and distrust in god It is an vnfaithfull care pensifenesse of the minde for meate drinke clothing and suche other necessaries which in whome soeuer you doe see it surely it can not bee denied but that he is destitute of fayth in God and that his minde is set ouermuch to worldly things Therefore I saye vnto you be not carefull for the life c. After all such things doe the heathen seeke sayeth Christ. The care and thought of faith is prohibited by Gods worde For faith onelye looketh and leaneth to Gods worde and promises Nowe to take thoughte and care least God will not fulfill his worde and promises is to mistrust and not beleeue God and so much as lyeth in vs to make God a lyer Wherefore as I saide before all thought and care of matters pertaining to faith is vtterly to be put away The care and sorowe in thinges belonging to charitie and loue in euery mans vocation is commaunded by Gods word as one to be sorie for anothers mischaunce and miserie What is the gladnesse of the heart A token of confidence in God when in aduersitie trouble or affliction wee wayle not frowne or fret within our selues but reioyce looke stoutly on it and holde our selues well apayde hauing this euer before our eyes The sonne whom GOD loueth and receyueth he vseth to chasten and beate Cōtrariwise it is also a token of worldly welthinesse and delight in pleasures of the fleshe whom God threatneth Wo be vnto you that laugh here for ye shall wepe and wayle sayth Christ. What is to sinne against the father and the sonne It is to resist and persecute the worde of God but yet by ignoraunce and of a good zeale as Paule did before he was conuerted What is the sinne against the holy ghost It is when any resisteth the open manifest and knowne truth when any beleeue not the open and playne promises of God and when any dispaireth finally in the mercie of God. What is ment by this word Zeale in Scripture Zeale is anger medled and mixte with loue as when the louing father is angry with his childe for doing amisse he doth it not because he hateth his sonne but in doing so he signifieth his fatherly loue towardes him willing by that that shall do no more so but endeuer to better For when the childe is thus chidden or beaten he taketh heede that he doth not so againe for feare of a more grieuous punishment It betokeneth also the anger that chaunseth betwixt them that loue hartely togeather c. From hence commeth iealousy whiche springeth out of vehement loue God is called in Scripture a iealous God not that because any should thinke that any such affections were in God But that we might learne that God dooth all the things that are done for nothing else but for their sake onely whome he loueth so tenderly euen his elect Not bicause he looketh for anye vauntage by it but that they may be saued and enioye the kingdome prepared for them What is the bodie of Christ The congregation of all faithfull and of all that dinesse of the will to naughtinesse There dwelleth not in me that is to saye in my flesh ought that is good Wherfore what soeuer is in vs that is good commeth of GOD. What be Sacraments and Signes Good assurances and confirmations of the word of God. Some define them thus Sacramentes be signes and witnesses of the will of god towardes vs by whiche hee moueth and stirreth our heartes to beleeue Such were the skinnes wherwith God clothed Adam and Eua the Rainebowe Circumcision c. Such be with vs Baptisme and the Sacrament of Christes bodie and bloude What is Baptisme The dipping into the water in token of repentance and newnesse of life to followe It is also defined to be the badge and cognizaunce whereby not onely we be knowen to be of the flocke of Christ but that also wee bee stablished in our conscience that we be in the fauor of God and our sinnes forgiuen It is called the cleane and pure water the lauacre of our regeneration or fountayne of the newe birth What is the Sacrament of Christes bodie and bloude or of thankesgiuing An holy mysterie of the bodie and bloude of Christ institute of Christ to be eaten of all Christian men in token of remission of sinnes through Christ That euen as sure as we take the bread and eate it with the mouth of the bodie and drinke the wine so verily and certainly euē at the same instant with the mouth of our faith we receyue the verie bodie and bloude of Christe and there it doth as actually comforte and sustayne the soule as dothe the breade and the wyne nourishe and comfort the heart and the outwarde man. And as verily as the most souereign plaster and salue layde to a wounde or sore draweth oute the filth and healeth it so verily and really doth the bodie and bloud of Christe thus receyued put awaye the sores and deformities of the soule and not alonely maketh it whole but also pure cleane without scar wrinkle and spot and so maketh it a delectable louely and fayre spouse in the sight of god Lo what it is to receyue the bodie and bloude of Christ in faith What is penitence or repentance We reade of two manner of kindes of repentances One was a Legale in the olde lawe vsed of the Iewes and Israelites This kinde of repentaunce is a certaine contricion of the minde and hatred and detestation of our sinne with a sorowe and compunction of the hart which springeth and ryseth as soone as we begin to feele and perceyue the abhomination of oure sinne by laying our deedes and desires of our heart to Gods lawe Suche was the repentaunce and penitence of the Niniuets and of Manasses and of other which were greatly sorie and compunct in their hart what by cōsidering their offences on one part the anger iust wrath of God hanging ouer their heade for these offences The tokens and outward signes of which repentaunce amongest the Iewes was commonly clothing in sacke cloth sprinkling and casting asshes vpon theyr heare and fasting a day two or three This kinde of penitence may also the wicked men haue For Iudas that betrayed Christ afterward when he perceyued how wickedly he had done toke such care sorowe and pensifnesse that for pure
the deuill A priest bicause he once for all hath entred In Sancta Sanctorum into the most holy and innermost tabernacle of God and hath offered once for all a perpetuall sufficient facrifice to satisfy for al mens sinnes and to purchase all mens redemption not ceasing nowe still to be a perpetuall Mediator and Intercessor to God his father for man he himselfe being both God and man making an ende of and abolishing all sacrifices and ceremonies which were but shadowes and significations to put the Iewes in remembraunce of his comming before he came A prophet for the true and onely sufficient doctrine whiche he preached being here in earth and lefte behinde him written by his Apostles for our learning binding our conscience to be subiect to none other doctrine but to his alone By his kingdome hee hath made vs kings and heires of his kingdome by adoption and conquerors through his most valiant victorie of oure enimies sinne death hell and the deuill By his Priesthoode with the holy oyle of his spirite he hath made and annoynted vs Priestes to offer to God the father acceptable sacrifices thorowe him whiche are the sacrifices of righteousnes of praise of thankesgiuing of an humble and contrite heart of fayth and wholye to crucifie and offer vp our selues vnto him and by the same office we being made partakers by him of the same maye be bolde to come to the sight of God to offer vp our sacrifice and prayer By the office of his prophecie or scholemaistership he doth lighten vs with the true knowledge of his Father instructeth vs in the truth and maketh vs the Disciples of god By this annoyntment receyueth he these three offices to communicate them with vs wherevpon we are called Christians What is a King A rightfull magistrate or heade power vnder God among men ordeyned of God for the defence of the good and keeping downe of the euill according to right and iustice What is a Priest An officer appointed and licenced of God to presente himselfe to the sight of God for to obtaine his fauour by intercession or to pacifie his wrath by offring vp of sacrifice acceptable to him What is a Prophet A messenger of God to declare the will of God eyther in shewing the threatenings or opening the promises or expounding and declaring the mysteries conteyned in his holy worde or will to vs his children Why doest thou call vs his children seeing that Christ is his only son We are not by nature the childrē of god as Christ only is but by adoption grace or fauour of god As for Christe he is of the same substance and essence with his father By what meanes doe wee receyue at the hande of God these heauenly treasures Or by what meanes are they conueyed vnto vs By Faith. What is Faith An assured confidence and trust in the truth of God in the merites and promises of Christ conceyued thorowe Christ by hearing of his worde hoping still for the performaunce of the sayde promises in the meane season not ydle but still working by charitie Or as S. Paule defineth it in his Epistle to the Hebrues Faith is a sure confidence of things that are hoped for and a certainty of things that are not seene What is Hope A constant looking for of those things which we haue conceyued thorowe faith by the worde of God. What is Charitie A godly vertue a louely and gentle affection of the minde whereby we loue God aboue all thinges and our neighbour as our selfe Charitie also is taken for the fruites of faith and workes of mercie Who is my neighbour Any man vpon whome I doo execute the workes of mercy or that standeth in neede of my helpe Were we predestinate by the grace of God through Christ to his vocation election iustification and saluation before the beginning of the world Yea verely so sayth S. Paule he chosed vs in Christ Iesu before the foundacions of the world were layde Agayne he sayth we know that al things worke for the best vnto them that loue God which also are called of purpose For those which he knewe before he also ordayned before that they should be like fashioned vnto the shape of his Sonne that he might be the first begotten sonne among many brethren Moreouer whome he appoynted before them also he called And whome he hath called them also he iustified whom he iustified them he also glorified What is the grace of God Gods fauour beneuolence and kinde minde that of him selfe without our deseruing he beareth toward vs whereby he was moued to bestow vpon vs his Sonne Christ and all other his good giftes with free imputacion of his goodnesse and vndeserued remission of our sinnes What is Predestinacion The secret◠vnchaungeable appointment of God before all beginninges by his counsell and wisedome to life euerlasting concerning his elect and chosen people or any other beginning ordering or ending of all things What is vocation To be called of the Lord to any manner of benefite office or ministracion There be two kindes of vocation generall as thus in S. Mathewes Gospell come vnto me all ye that laboure and are laden and I will refreshe you Particular as the calling or appointment of Kings Prophetes Apostles c. What is election The choyce or appoyntment of God to anye ministration office dignitie or preheminence whiche immediatly followeth the particular calling as for an example He that heareth the word is called but he that beleeueth is chosen By this hearing and beleeuing may this place be expounded Manye are called but fewe chosen What is Iustification Of vnrighteous to be made righteous by the rigteousnesse of Christ which we conceyue by fayth What is Saluation To enioye the felicitie prepared of Christ for the faythfull to be of the number of the glorified saints Whereby art thou certified of this liberalitie and of these benefites of God towarde mankinde By the office of the Apostles and Preachers appointed for the same purpose What is the office of the Apostles and Preachers To preach the worde of God or the Gospell of Christ and to minister the sacraments which Christ himself hath ordeyned to be vsed in the Church Howe is that proued Christ sayd to his Apostles go and teache all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Againe Go throughout the whole world and preache the Gospell to euerye creature And of the Supper of the Lorde Christ sayde Doe this in the remembraunce of me What is the Gospell It is a doctrine conteyning the promise of free remission of sinnes purchased by Christ alone What is a Sacrament A visible signe of an inuisible grace or an outwarde element or corporall substaunce appointed of God to certifie our fayth wherewith onely wee receyue it of the promises of God annexed therevnto Of howe manye partes doth a Sacrament
as the floure of the grasse c. Knowing and acknowledging with S. Paule that wee haue here no certaine abyding place but seeke for one to come againe that as we brought nothing into the world so shall we cary nothing out of it but hauing meate drinke and cloth we ought to be content and abundantly satisfied forasmuch as godlynesse is great riches yf a man be content with that he hath What is thankes giuing to God To remember the benefites of the Lord confessing and acknowledging al to come of him offryng him our whole hart loue seruice for the same What is innocencie A mind or conscience giltie of no sinne which commeth through faith in Iesus Christ as the Apostle sayth we being iustified by faith are at peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ by whome also it chaunced vnto vs to be brought in through fayth vnto this grace wherein we stand and reioyce in the hope of the glory of God. What is fasting To beware that wee oppresse not the bodie and so by that meanes the minde also with surfetting drunkennesse and excesse as our Sauiour Christ sayth Take heede to your selues least at any time your hearts be ouercome with surfetting drunkennesse cares of this lyfe c. Agayne to liue chastly purely and soberly to abstayne from vices to bring oure bodie into bondage to the spirite and the spirite to God to minister to the bodie only y that is necessarie to mortifie the flesh with the affections and lustes of the same The right abstinence from meates taken as a way or helpe to the abstinence from sinne consisteth not in the qualitie but in the quantitie of the meat not what but how much meat drink thou receyuest For whether fasteth more aright he that moderately receyueth of flesh or he that cloyeth himselfe with fish ▪ All things are pure to them that are pure sayth the Apostle All the creatures of God are good and nothing to bee refused if it be receiued with thankesgiuing For it is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer Why then is this lawe so earnestlye established with such penaltie vpon it that wee eate no fleshe on Fridayes or other dayes appointed to abstayne from the same I take that as a ciuile positiue Lawe lyke to the actes of Parliament made for sundrie and diliers purposes concerning the state of a Realme and for the wealth of the same For if it were anye lawe of God binding our conscience no King nor Pope myght dispence with the breaking of it What is prayer To call vpon the name of the Lorde assuredly trusting to obtayne that we require so that wee aske of him in his sōnes name and none other that thing whiche he will to bee required and none other that eyther for obtayning of good things auoyding of euill or releasing and forgiuenesse of euill and sinnes past Whatsoeuer ye aske in my name sayeth Christ that will I doe that the Father maye bee glorified by the Sonne If ye shall aske any thing in my name I will do it Again verilye verilye I say vnto you Whatsoeuer ye shall aske the Father in my name he will giue it you And Saynt Iohn in his Epistle sayth This is the truste that we haue in him that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth vs And if we knowe that he heareth vs we knowe that we haue the petitions that wee desire of him What is obedience A lowlye and hartie submission of our selues to God and afterwarde to oure Parentes to the Magistrates to oure Superiours and to all those to whome God hath committed the rule and gouernance of his flocke and people in this worlde or in iust causes to all them to whome we be by anye title inferiour But what yf our Superiours wyll enforce vs to obey them in vniust causes In this behalfe we owe them no obedience God is the highest Magistrate If any inferiour Magistrate commaundeth any thing contrary to his godly commaundement and blessed wyll we must aunswere with the apostles Oportet deo magis obedire quam hominibus We must obey God more then men Examples hereof we haue many and diuers both in the olde and in the newe Testament What is humilitie A subiection of the proud hauty courage of our mind shewing our selues inferior to all men presuming in nothing esteming our selues worse then all men in our owne conceates And this is that which the apostle saith In giuing honor goe one before an other Againe be not hye minded but make your selues equall to them of the lower sorte Be not wyse in your owne conceates Hereto agreeth the saying of S. Peter submit your selues euery man one to an other Knit your selues togeather in lowlynesse of mind For God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble Submit your selues therefore vnder the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you when the time is come What is pacience Willingly without resistance eyther in thought word or deede to suffer vndeserued punishment after the example of Christ which prayed for them that persecuted and moste cruelly tormented him This pacience is described of S. Peter in his first Epistle where he sayth seruauntes obey your maisters with feare not only yf they be good and courteous but also though they be froward For this is thanke worthy yf a man for conscience toward God endure griefe and suffer wrong vndeserued For what prayse is it yf when ye be buffeted for your faultes ye take it paciently But and yf when ye doo well ye suffer wrong and take it paciently then is there thanke with god For hereunto verely were ye called for Christe also suffered for vs leauing vs an example that we should follow his steppes whiche did no sinne neyther was there guile found in his mouth which when he was reuiled reuiled not againe when he suffred he threatned not but committed the vengeance to him that iudgeth righteously c. What is the olde man that we must put of The naughty corrupt and rotten nature which sithens the fall of Adam we haue lineally at our first generation receaued of our parentes through the corruption of the first roote Adam Or thus the noughty concupiscence lust to sinne and affection of our fleshe without faith of this olde man speaketh our Sauiour Christ on this maner That which is borne of flesh is fleshe And except a man be borne from aboue he cannot see the kingdome of god Also the Apostle Laye from you the olde man which is corrupt according to the deceauable lustes Againe put of the olde man with his workes What is the newe man that we must doo on The renewyng of man by fayth and the word of God the spirite of God geuen by Christ our spirituall and second Adam Agayne to tame the old man our fleshely and first Father Adam to beget vs agayne and adopte vs
Antichrist is Prayer what is is Temptacion what it is Desperation what is is Iob. 7. Vocation or calling what it is Math. 20. Predestination what it is Rom. 9.10.11 Free wyll what it is Ioan. 8. Eccl. 1◠The temple of God what it is 1. Cor. 3. 2. Cor. 6. The church what it is The church of Christe The Church of Sathan To keepe holy day what it is Esay 56. Grace what it is Merites workes what The name of God what it is What it is to shew the word of God. To serue God what it is To serue the deuill what it is To worship God what it is To beleeue in God what it is To fast what is is Luke 21. To folowe Christ what it is What it is to leaue all things for Christes sake To deny a mans selfe what it is To visite what it is Luke 7. Exo. 20. What the hand of God is The arme of God. Esay 54. The finger of GOD. Luke 13. The eyes of God. The countenance of God. Psalm 33. The face of GOD. Psalm 103. The mouth of the Lorde Esay 1. What the face of the anger of God is Abac. 2. Psalm 67. The eye of man what A single eye A wycked eye Math. 21. Math. 5.18 Feete what they signify Psalm 25. Psalm 25. To wash one an others feete what it is Slaunder or offendicle what it is Math. 18. Phil. 3. Math. 13.14.15 Hipocrite Enuious man. Gen. 4. 1. Reg. 18. 2. Reg. 20. Ioan. 3.1 Reg. 18. God to sleepe what it is Math. 8. Psalm 44. Men to sleepe what it is Math. 13. Ioan. 7. To be awake Fortune Brother Math. 23. Weake brother Rom. 14. Neighboure Lorde or Maister Mark. 2. Seruaunt Ioan. 8. A true and faithfull seruaunt Matth. 24. A slouthfull and vnfaithfull seruaunte Magistrate Roma 13. Tirant Exod. 1. Note well Matrymony Gen. 3. Adultery Mans worke Workes passing mans power Fleshe and blood what it is Ioan. 3. Math. 16. Care and thought what it is Math. 6. Gladnesse of harte what it is Prouerb 3. Heb. 12. Luke 6. Sinne against the father and the sonne 1. Timo. 1. Sinne against the holy Ghost Zeale what it signifieth Iealousy Why God is called a iealouse God. The body of Christ what it is Rom. 7. Iac. 1. Sacramentes what they are Gen. 3.9.17 Baptisme Tit. 3. The supper of the Lorde Repentance Ionas 3. 2. Par. 33. The signes of repentance Math. 27. The latter tims what they signifie 1. Timo. 4. 1. Cor. 10. The ende of the worlde The day of the Lorde Math. 25. Gene. 1. Iere. 10. Eccle. 18. Act. 4. Ioan. 1. Math. 3.28 1. Ioan. 5. Ioan. 1. Psalm 41. Eccle. 40. Esay 55. 1. Pet. 2. Psalm 119. Ioan. 10. Psalm 80. 2. Thess. 2. Ioan. 6. Math. 13. Gen. 2. Sap. 2. Eccle. 15. Gen. 3. Rom. 5. Rom. 14. Gal. 3. Ephe. 2. Ioan. 1. Eccle. 15. Rom. 4◠Gen. 3. 1. Timo. 2. 1. Pet. 2. 1. Pet. 2. Ephe. 1.5 Coloss. 2. Psalm 118. Ose. 2. Ioan. 1. Galat. 3. Rom. 8. Math. 1. Christ is our king Heb. 2 Christ is our priest Heb. 7.9.10 Christ is our Prophet 2. Pet. 2. Apoc. 1. 1. Cor. 15. 1. Pet. 2. Heb. 13. Rom. 12. Rom. 13. 1. Pet. 2. Heb. 5◠Christe by nature is the sonne of God we by adoption Rom. 10. Heb. 2. Math. 25. Luke 10. Ephe. 2. Rom. 8. Ephe. 1. Math. 11. Math. 22. Math. 28. Marc. 16. 1. Cor. 4. Math. 28. Mar. 16. Math. 26. 1. Pet. 3. Tit. 3. Ioan. 3. Rom. 6. Mark. 16. Gen. 17. Gen. 17. 1. Cor. 1. Act. 16. 2. Tim. 1.4 Exod. 13.14 1. Cor. 10. Gen. 17. Act. 8. Act. 10. Ephe. 2. Rom. 11. Note wel 1. Cor. 10. 1. Cor. 10.11 Act. 2.20 Matth. 26. Marc. 14. Luke 22. Gen. 2. Math. 19. 1. Cor. 7. 1. Tim. 5. Prou. 1. Eccle. 25. Pro. 14. Eccle. 1. Esay 29. Ionas 1. Iac. 2. Two kinds of feare 1. Ioan. 4. Psalm 90. Math. 11. 1. Ioan. 5. Ioan. 14. Ioan. 17. Ephe. 4. Zach. 8. 1. Pet. 1. Esay 40. Iac. 1. Heb. 13. 1. Tim. 6. Rom. 5. Luke 21. Tit. 1. 1. Timo. 4. Ioan. 14. Ioan. 16. 1. Ioan. 5. Act. 5. Rom. 12. 1. Pet. 5. Luke 23. 1. Pet. 2. Ioan. 3. Ephe. 4. Coloss. 3. Ioan. 3. Ephe. 4. Coloss. 3. Math. 10. Luke 14. Ioan. 4. 1. Cor. 3. 1. Pet. 2. Math. 16. Math. 13. Rom. 14. Math. 25. Luk. 13. Ioan. 8. Ioan. 10. Ioan. 19. Ioan. 3. Psalm 17. 1. Cor. 13. 1. Ioan. 3. 1. Cor. ◠1. Ioan 2. 1. Cor. 10. Iac. 5. Apoc. 22◠Math. 24. Act. 1. 1. Thess. 5. Math. 24. Luk. 17. Math. 24. Math. 25. ¶ To the Christian Reader VPon vewe of these our demaunds Christian reader if thou further demaunde some question of the boke of the towne for which it is of the Author and of the Printer no answere I suppose so fully iust be it that the question double it self twice and againe as to adiudge the one both in name and deede holy the other in life godly the third in his worke learned the last in his intent carefull for them and not vnmindefull of thee For in whatsoeuer true religion christian example godly inuention and studious enterprise coulde be beneficiall in that haue they all ioyntly and seuerally eche by doctrine practise wit with paynfull and no lesse chargeable endeuour serued if not satisfied thy godly contentation And for that in doctrine all thinges are written for instruction rightly to vnderstande faithfully to beleeue and readily to confesse that reason of hope which we haue demaunde who will frende or aduersarie aunswere who shall skilfull or vnlearned to eche of these Christian dueties with respect of their person and eche capacitie this little Pamphlet ministreth readilye sufficient furniture by playne explication of the principall grounds of our religion worthy of thy diligence thou if not vnworthy of the knowledge But I lament with alas What is it to talke rightly or smothly and to walke crookedly Is not the sweete Christian harmonie in consent of saying and doing For what discorde maketh eyther of these by it selfe or what agreement To apply or pleade very olde and almost deade example hath some force to vice or vertue in priuate talke or publike sermon And the late allegations of Fraunce or Flaunders purporting noueltie doe spedily quicken our dull sense of hearing but the home made mention of our familiars whose affection doth it not moue to eyther side What can you more greedily heare or I long as with child to tel The great grace and gift of God on Sandwich towne by the sound of the Gospel hath it wrought in vain with the townesmen are they taught wel not wel gouerned shew thei forth gods prais with mouth and plucke it down with hand or rather they expresse their fayth by their works and their works by faith in brotherly loue eche to other in liberalitie to the poore in hospitalitie to the Straunger in erection and maintenance of schooles in most carefull prouision that no one among them lyue ydle Which godly proceedings when the father of this booke that painfull and godly instrument of Christ his church maister Thomas Becon did with priuate comforte beholde be coulde not with safe dutie but acknowledge soūd out the same publikly to the great prayse of God the increase of their beginnings and example of all others who by reason of decay through sande and shelf albeit they cannot so happily ēter their welnere stopped hauen yet by view of their race in Iesus Christ maye finishe the same course by repayred lyfe to their hoped heauen And therefore this worke he tooke in hande in order and matter excellent edifying by question playne for capacitie and briefe for memorie not as the Seraphicall and Sorbonicall Doctors of the schole who giue sucklings in religion vinegar for milk the stronger hard stones for hartie meat but following the precept of Saint Paule teacheth and confirmeth them in such as bee good and profitable But least the author of his intent the Senate and towne of Sandwich of their benefite shoulde be frustrate and the commendation of their godly example hidden from such as contende to followe wee haue thought it good nowe first separately and alone to print the same whiche before without greater charge in buying the whole workes of Thomas Becon coulde not be bad This our labour if thou shalte accept it cannot be otherwise God giuing grace but that in all profitable maner wee shall be further carefull and diligent for thy Christian vtilitie Farewell in Christ. R. D.