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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06733	The demaundes of holy scripture, with answeres to the same wherein are defined, and declared the cheefe, and principall poyntes of Christian doctrine: very profitable for the right vnderstanding of holy scriptures: made by T. Becon, and dravven out of his great vvorkes.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1577 (1577)	STC 1718; ESTC S110677	46,473	108

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 honest trades godlye orders of lyfe and vertuous meete to bee exercised of Christians as Matrimonie Order Penance Confirmation and extreme vnction What is Matrimonie A lawfull ioyning togither of one man and one woman to liue chastlye togither forsaking all other for to bring forth children in the feare of God and to auoyde fornication contayning an vnseparable fellowship of lyfe togither What is Order Order hathe bene wrongfully taken both for a Sacrament and for the annoynted order of Priesthode which Christ tooke awaye But in deede a godly holy and reuerende state of Ministers Preachers Pastors or Apostles is of Christ allowed in the newe Testament to be louingly and reuerently receyued of vs as shepeheardes of the flocke Of whome sayeth Saint Paule They that rule well are worthie of double honour but namely they that laboure in worde and doctrine What is Confirmation A godlye allowance by the Bishop or Preacher of the children when they came to age into the congregation of Christ as a due examination or triall of their continuance in the same fayth whiche their Godfathers or sureties in their name professed and promised for them at their Baptisme to kepe And this Confirmation is as it were a discharge of the Godfathers bondes What is penaunce or repentaunce A nowe what is our dutie towarde him To loue him feare him honour him followe him serue him beleeue in him to fight vnder his standarde with all fayth charitie truth despising of worldlye things thanksgiuing innocencie fasting prayer obedience humilitie and pacience to put of the olde man and to doe on the newe to denie our selues to take the Crosse vpon vs to forsake all that wee haue for his sake and to set forth the glorie of his name that we maye become a worthie Temple for the holye ghost and meete heyres for the kingdome of heauen the true land of promise flowing with milke and honie What is it to loue God To cast oure whole minde and affection vppon God with all reuerence and earnestly desire to followe his will. What is it to feare God The feare of the Lorde is a lyke reuerence as children owe to their parents a willing and faithfull heede that wee committe nothing against him or his worde that we offende not so louing a Father but rather diligently apply our selues to liue according to his commaundement alway thinking that God doth presently see and beholde all our deedes words yea and thoughts This feare is the beginning of wisedome This feare maketh him blessed that hath it This feare is the fountayne of life This feare keepeth vs from sinne And besides a number of other commodities this feare maketh vs more warely to take heede of the craft of Satan The feare of the Lorde is also taken for the worshipping of the Lorde as it is written They feare mee in vayne with the commaundementes of men Ionas the Prophet also sayde I am an Hebrue and feare the God of heauen If these manye profites and commodities come of the feare of God howe chaunceth it that the deuilles doe not enioye the same which feare the Lorde as much as we As much in deede but not as well For there be two kindes of feare A childishe or reuerent feare whereof I haue alreadye spoken and a seruile bonde or slauishe feare The feare of the vngodlye by the consideration of the lawe and feare of punishment as likewise is the feare of the deuils is bonde seruile and thrall Of this feare speaketh Saint John in hys Epistle on this maner Feare is not in charitie but perfect charitie casteth feare out of the doores This feare is called a mightie feare in the Psalme bicause all things by it are done in vnfaythfulnesse in such ignorance and lacke of knowledge of the mercie of God as thoughe God were no naturall fatherly God but a seuere narrowe eyed Iudge or cruell tyrant These two kindes of feare are well described of the Poet Horace on this maner Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae Which may thus be translated into Englishe Good men doe well of a vertuous entent Euill men do well for feare of punishmēt What is it to honour and worship God Both with our whole mynde and strength thereof and with the bodie and power thereof as subiect to the mynde and both to God to reuerence and prayse God to to declare our loue and feare towardes him What is it to followe God To beleeue in him to keepe his doctrine and obey it to follow him whithersoeuer he leadeth or calleth vs to beare what burden soeuer he layeth vpon vs to doe as he hath done before vs and giuen vs an example to doe after him What is it to serue God To liue according to his word to beleeue in him to referre all thinges to his glorye to helpe our neighbour to obey him as our Lorde and maister whose seruice is no bondage but freedome whose burden is light whose yoke is pleasant as Christ sayth take my yoke vpon you and learne of me for I am mecke and lowly in hart and ye shall finde rest to your soules For my yoke is easye and my burden is light Saint Iohn also saith his commaundements are not greuous What is it to beleeue in God To receaue his seede and doctrine into our hart to cōmit our selues wholely vnto him in all thinges and certainely to assure our selues that all thinges are true and shall vndoubtedly be performed which he hath promised What is it to fight vnder his standarde To followe the example of our captaine christ As he by death hath conquered sin death hell and the deuill so we by mortifiing of our flesh ought to suppresse subdue and conquer the same with the helpe of our sauiour and captaine whose standarde the crosse vnles we follow we perishe and become a praye to our enemies neuer to bee redemed yf he doe not raunsome vs. What is truth Christ him selfe the word of God and what soeuer agreeth with him which can neyther deceaue nor be deceaued I am the way the truthe and the life sayth christ And in his prayer to God the father he sayth thy worde is the truth The ciuill truth is an agreemente of wordes and deedes to say as the thing is and as we know it to be Of this truthe speaketh the Apostle in his Epistle to the Ephesians saying put away lying and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour forasmuch as we are members one of an other Also the Prophet Zacharie speak euery man the truth to his neighbour let none of you imagine euill in his hart against his neighbour and loue no false othes c. What is it to despise worldly thinges Wholly to set our minde vppon heauenly thinges not regarding the transitorie and vncertaine vanities of this world according to the wordes of S. Peter all fleshe is as the grasse and all glory of man