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lord_n	commandment_n	day_n	sabbath_n	21,308	5	10.2371	5	false

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

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

¶ A compendious form and summe of Christian doctrine called the Testimonie of a true Faith meete for well disposed families for the more knowledge in God and better nourishing vp and confirming of all such as loue saluation in Iesus Christ Gathered corrected and newly augmented by Christopher Shutte Maister of Arte Seene and allowed Psal. 34.11 Come ye children hearken vnto me I wil teach you the feare of the Lorde ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson dwelling at the three Cranes in the Vinetree 1579. To the right Honorable and his singuler good Lorde George Earle of Cumberland c. Christopher Shutte wisheth all increase of grace in the holie Ghost long continuance of life in al happie health and prosperity AFter that I called to minde Right Honorable and my verie good Lord the diligent care and prudent prouision which Dauid and other good Princes and rulers of Israel had for planting true religion in their Families for their better conuersation and good gouernement according to the lawe and rule of faith and had bene also often intreated and earnestly inuited by some my verie friendes and suche as loue the saluation of the faithfull to contract some compendious and Christian forme of godlie instructions and sweete prayers much requisite in well disposed families whose godlie demaunde I was not willing to denie bothe because I see the lacke thereof in manie families to require so needefull a labour and also because I woulde not abridge my duetie to my brethren and felowshippe of the faithfull if it were but with the poore widowe to cast two mites into the treasurie And waying also with my selfe howe manie busie braines are occupied to quarrell without a cause with truth it selfe I thought your honoures Godly Patronage to be a sure asyle to support and defende against the sting of carping Zoilus whatsoeuer in godly wise herein I shoulde propound And therefore I haue boldlie presumed too rest vpon your Honoures hoped protection as the chiefest anchore holde I had herein and take effecte to the ende my laboures might the better proceede Whereto my good Lorde I was diuerslie incensed First by your Honoures good liking and procuration of good litterature from time to time whiche neuer happened to anie without deserued prayse and iust commendation Secondly I was moued by your Honours good acceptation of my studies in the Lorde and other good remembraunces towardes me both of youre honour vnto whome I recount my selfe most deepely indebted and also of my good and most vertuous Ladie whom the Lorde hath ioyned as a moste comfortable delight and helpe vnto your honour Whose faithfull societie and happie felowship importeth an euident argument of Gods greate goodnesse towardes you in blessing you with the felowship of such a one as few or none excell or goe beyonde in trew godlinesse honestie and vertue To whom for her Honoures good affection to Christian religion I recognise my selfe muche bounde with all obedience Thirdly I was prouoked herevnto specially because such is and ought to bee the zeale and loue of all nobilitie whereof your honour is a most towwarde Braunche alwayes with maine and might to defend the cause of true Religion to the glorie of God and saluation of his people for whiche cause the Lorde hath stirred vp moste noble men and godlie Magistrates to be as Patrones and protectoures to the Ambassadoures of his worde for the better proceeding of religion So he raysed vp Moses to Aaron Iosua to Eleazar Dauid to Nathan Asa too Azariah Iehosaphat to Micha Ezechias and others to Esaie and Ieremie Zerubbabel to Iehoshua and finally the Emperoure Constantine to the councel of Nice All which were rightlie termed Nobles for the zeale and loue they had to true religion And albeit by sinister and crooked meanes some were ennobled and so crept into the carefull chaire of worldlie dignitie yet none were euer rightly and in verie deede accompted noble but such as vndertooke the patronage and aide of Christian religion which thing I humblie craue vpon your Honoure For euen in this wise Moses doth call the Israelites a pretious and a noble generation so long as they obserued the commaundements of the lord Vpon the like condition the Lord established his mercies with king Dauid his Seruaunt that the throne of Iuda should not be destitute of one to raigne vpon the same for euer To which thing Dauid had respect when he lay vppon his death bedde and therevpon councelled Salomon his sonne to whom the kingdome was promised to walke in the way of truth wherein he had bene brought vp to the ende he might prosper and haue good successe To like purpose Romanus a man of great nobilitie being caried to the place of martirdom for the profession of Christian religion a rare thing in Nobles to beholde boldely auouched that his nobilitie rested not so much in the bloude of his Auncestoures as in the profession of the Christian faith and other vertues thereto agreeing And therefore he saide Non progenitorum sanguis sed Christianae pietatis professio me nobilem facit that is Not the bloud of my progenitoures but the profession of Christian religion maketh me noble and renowned And in deede if we shoulde with a single eye looke to the Prosapie of Adam and wild oliue tree out of the which all fleshe was taken there woulde be no great cause of triumph to anie of any thing whiche wee haue of nature But this is and ought to be manns chiefe nobilitie that he is graffed in Christe Iesus by faith adopted to be the child of God made by faith pertaker of his graces and felow heire of his kingdome and this is very nobilitie Wherewith Saint Ambrose beeing moued aduertised the Emperour Theodosius and in him all nobilitie to consider his nature to bee fraile least happilie principallitie shoulde blinde him and make him quite forget himselfe and his obedience towardes God. Wherevpon it may be gathered right honorable that not onelie the Potentates of al sortes ought well to remember their calling but specially to addresse them selues in all obedience to serue the Lorde to foster his churche to promote and defende his true religion For therefore are they called to nobilitie wherein I woulde to God it might well please euen all degrees of suche as bee exalted on highe and gouernoures of families deepely to acknowledge and confesse that the Lord hath made them Fathers for his trueth Patrones to mainteine religion and lightes of godlie life for others to followe For like as the sonne in the firmament giueth light to all the regions rounde about him and by his bright appearing expelleth the darkenesse comforteth and cheereth the worlde Semblably shoulde nobilitie banish sinne and corrupt religion and be a lantern of Godlie life to comforte and shine to others that they mighte directe their liues after their good ensamples as the Apostle wisheth the godlie to bee without rebuke in