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
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
Christian brothers for vvhom also ye are no lesse carefull then for your selues that nothing be lacking vnto them but that they may haue sufficiently of all good and necessarie thinges This is the true hospitalitie I meane the gentle enterteynement of godly straungers vviche are afflicted for the vvordes sake Of these speaketh GOD on this manner Yf a straunger soiourne vvith thee in your land ye shall not vexe him But the stranger that dvvelleth vvith you shal be as one of your selues and thou shalt loue him as thy selfe Of these speaketh Christ on this vvyse I vvas harbourlesse and ye tooke me in Of these speaketh Saint Paul thus Distribute to the necessitie of the Saintes Be redy to harbour Agayne Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers for there by haue diuers men lodged Angels vnvvares Of these speaketh S. Peter on this sort Be ye harberors one to another vvithout grudging Of these speaketh Saint Iohn on this manner Thou dooest faythfully vvhatsoeuer thou dooest to the brethren and to the straungers Of these GOD in his lavves geueth a speciall charge both to the riche men and also to the Byshoppes and spirituall Pastors of his congregation that they should see to them and make prouision for them that they lacke nothing Highly in Gods fauour must the godly straungers be seeing GOD geueth to his people so great charge ouer them VVho therefore can othervvyse then highly commend the louing gentlenesse and gentle loue the bounteous liberalitie and liberall bountie vvhich ye shevve to the poore scattered members of Christe These be vvoorthy fruites of the Gospell These vvoorkes shevve that ye haue not receiued the grace of God in vayne and that ye be not of the company of those Gospellers vvhiche vvith their mouth professe GOD but vvith their deedes deny him being abominable and disobedient and vnapt vnto euery good vvoorke Such professours or rather peruersers of the Gospell are like to that Sonne vvhich promised his father to vvork in his Vineyard and vvrought nothing at all Yea they are as Saint Iude termeth them in his Epistle cloudes vvithout vvater trees vvithout fruite raging vvaues of the sea foming out their ovvne shame vvandring starres to vvhome is reserued the mist of darknesse for euer fleshely hauing no spirit c. and in deede like to those fiue foolish Virgins vvhich had Lampes but in theyr Lampes no Oyle and not vnlike to the Figge tree vvithout fruite vvhich Christ cursed for her barrennesse But God right vvorshipful and dearely beloued hath geuen you an other minde and grafted in you a better spirite that yee do not only knovve God but also earnestly labour to do his holy and blessed vvill that by this meanes yee may be founde not only fauorers but also follovvers not only talkers but also vvalkers not only louers but also liuers not only professoures but also practisers not only vvorders but also vvorkers of the holy scripture and so become blessed as our Sauiour Christ saith If yee knovve these thinges and doo them blessed are yee For not euery one that saith vnto me Lord Lorde shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but he that doth the vvill of the father vvhich is in heauen he shal enter into the kingdome of heauen Yee are my freendes yf you doo those thinges that I commaunde you He that hath my commaundements and keepeth them he it is that loueth me For in the sight of god as The apostle saith they are not righteous vvhich heare the lavve but the doers of the lavve shall be iustified If any man be in Christ he is a nevve creature They truly that are Christes haue crucified the flesh vvith the affections and lustes VVe are the vvorkmanship of God created in Christ Iesu vnto good vvorkes vvhich God hath ordayned that vve should vvalke in them Let our eares learne saith Saint Paul to excell in good vvorkes as farre foorth as neede requireth that they be not vnfruitefull Herein is my father glorified saieth our Sauiour Christ that ye beare much fruite and become my Disciples Ye haue not chosen me but I haue chosen you and ordayned you to goe and bring foorth fruite and that your fruite should remaine Goe therefore foorth right vvorshipfull and dearely beloued as ye haue begun in the vvay of righteousnesse Receaue the Gospell of Christe vvhich is the vvorde of your saluacion and bread of life vvith greedy and desirous mindes Call on God dayly as ye doo vvith feruent prayer and cease not to be thankfull vnto him for his benefits Be an example in life and conuersacion to them that are vnder you Seke the quietness and commodity of your Tovvne and of the inhabitauntes of the same rather then your ovvne gaine and profite study rather to be loued then feared To the vvicked and sinfull be seuere and sharpe but to the good and godly be gentle and louing Continue your goodnesses and liberalitie to the poore strangers vvhich are exiled for the testimony of the Lorde Iesus and tender them as your selues Suffer not idlenesse to creepe vvithin the bounds of your tovvne but rather prouide that al be vvell vertuously occupied Of the poore haue diligent consideratiō but as for the sturdy lasie lubbers vvhich gladly lyue of the labour of other mens handes and hate to be vvell occupied them selues eyther compell to vvoorke or els banishe them your tovvne Looke diligently to the bringing vp of your youth eyther in good letters or els in some vertuous exercices that in time to come they be not vnprofitable members of the common vveale But aboue all thinges see that they be brought vp in the nurture and feare of the Lorde and in the knovvledge of his holy vvoord that they may learne euen from their Cradles to serue their Lorde GOD in holynesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of the Lorde And that this thing may the more conueniently be brought to passe as ye haue earnestly entended and to that end haue prouided large summes of money among your selues so vvith al expedition prouide that your Schoole may be erected and set vp for the godly and vertuous education of your youth So shall you both doo a noble sacrifyce vnto God deserue vvell of many and also leaue to your posteritie a vvoorthy monument of a most vvoorthy enterprise And to helpe forvvarde some poynt of godly doctrine to be taught in your nevve erected Schoole After I had finished this little treatise entituled The Demaundes of holy Scripture I thought it not vnsitting nor vnvvorthy our frēdship to dedicate the same to your vvoorships and so by you to commend it to the Christian youth of your Schoole In it they shall learne to knovve and vnderstand the principall and cheefe poyntes of Gods doctrine so that by this meanes they shal be able to render a reason both of theyr fayth and doctrine vvhich they professe and not be like Horses Mules that haue no vnderstanding The book is little yf
to God whiche Spirite we receaue by Christ at our regeneration Of this newe man speaketh our Sauiour Christe thus That whiche is borne of the spirite is spirite Also S. Paule Be renued in the spirit of your minde and put on the newe man whiche after God is shapen in righteousnesse and true holynesse Againe put on the newe man which is renued in the knowledge and image of him that made him What is it to denye our selues Playnly to professe that all our laboures and works profit nothing vnto saluatiō to slea the old Adam with al his lusts affectiōs What is it to forsake all that we haue for Christes sake To esteeme al that we haue not to be ours for his sake and willingly if neede so require for the profession of his name to depart from wyfe children parentes freendes countrey house landes and all thinges els that we doo or may enioye yea and to put our selues in danger of all perill for the name of Christ and profession of the Gospell He that loueth father or mother more then me saith Christ is not worthy of me And he that loueth sonne or daughter more then mee is not worthy of me And he that taketh not his crosse and followeth me is not worthy of me He that findeth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for my sake shall finde it Agayne if a man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wyfe and children and bretheren or sisters yea his owne life also he cannot be my disciple And whosoeuer doth not beare his crosse and come after me he cannot be my disciple What is the crosse that we must take vpon on vs Any sorow or payne that belonggeth to any vocation or trade of life for the tryall and profe of our faith and pacience Also it is the correction chastening rodde and staffe of the Lord wherewith he punisheth them whome he loueth not to theyr damnation or vtter casting away from his fauour but to saluation and to teach vs to flye vnto him in our trouble aduersity as children to our most deare louing father What is ment by the name of the Lorde whose glory we must set forth The glory prayse wysedome might power worship honor and maiestie of the Lorde Or the knowledg preaching and aduauncement of his holy worde What is the temple of the holy Ghost An honest godly and faithfull christian hart in the which God is rightly worshipped in spirite and truth wherein are offered spirituall sacrifices of prayse innocencie thankes geuing of an humble and contrite hart whose chiefe corner stone is christ Knowe ye not saith Saint Paule that ye are the temple of God and howe the spirite of God dwelleth in you ▪ If any man defile the temple of God him shall God destroye For the temple of God is holy which temple ye are Saint Peter also sayth Ye as liuing stones are made a spirituall house an holy Priesthode for to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ. What is the kingdome of heauen The kingdome of heauen is diuerslye taken in the Scriptures First for the holy Gospell and worde of God bicause that is the scepter and yron rodde whereby God ruleth reygneth and dwelleth in the hearts of the faythfull Of this kingdome speaketh Christ in the Gospell on this wise I will giue thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen that is to saye I will commit vnto thee the office to preache the Gospell of saluation which openeth and vnlocketh vnto men the waye and doore by the whiche they may be saued and enter into the kingdome of heauen Item the kingdome of heauen is lyke vnto leauen which a woman tooke and hydde in three peckes of meale tyll it were all leauenned Secondlye the kingdome of heauen is taken for fayth it selfe as Saint Paule sayeth The kingdome of heauen is not meate and drinke but righteousnesse and peace and ioye in the holy ghost Thirdlye the kingdome of heauen is expounded the whole congregation of the faythfull abyding in this lyfe in whome the Lorde by his worde and spirite doth inuisibly dwell and reygne Of this kingdome speaketh Christ in the Gospell on this maner The kingdome of heauen is lyke to ten virgines whiche tooke their lampes and went to meete the Brydegrome Fyue of them were wyse and fiue were foolishe c. Fourthlye the kingdome of heauen is taken for the ioye felicitie and pleasure which the soules of the beleeuers enioye when they are departed out of this world and their bodies also ioyned with the soules at the day of Iudgement shall enioy euen in that place which Christ hath prepared for them to possesse where they shall bee comforted with the sight of his Maiestie and Godheade and with the fruition of his perpetuall felicitie with him Of this kingdome speaketh Christ in the Gospell When ye shall see Abraham Isaac and Iacob and the Prophets in the kingdome of God and you to bee driuen out of the dores Finallye the kingdome of heauen is wheresoeuer Gods worde is preached from which kingdome they onely are excluded whiche beleeue not the worde according to this saying of Christ He that is of God heareth the wordes of god But yee heare not bicause yee are not of god Agayne My sheepe heare my voyce Item Euerye one that is of the truth heareth my voyce What meanest thou by a lande that floweth with milke and honie Pleasaunt abundance of all things both sweete and profitable By the honie is vnderstoode sweetenesse ioy gladnesse and pleasure By the milke pure nourishment whereby we still continue growe and increase in fayth and godlynesse vnto the measure of Christ. When shall we enter vppon and enioye this kingdome this promised lande that floweth with milke and honie The church militant in this worlde gouerned by the spirite of their most mightie valiant victorious and triumphant Captayne Christ already enioyeth after a certayne maner in spirite thorowe fayth in this kingdome and blessed lande as it is written He that beleeueth on the Sonne hath euerlasting life Hee that beleeueth not on the Sonne shall not see lyfe but the wrath of God abydeth vpon him But when they are ioyned togither both bodie and soule with the reast of the faithfull congregation which are departed out of this world in the faith of Christ to make one whole tryumphant congregation when they haue by the power of Christe conquered the malignant church of the deuill which shall be at the last day of iudgement which we doo dayly looke for nowe in these latter times then shall they truely and perfectly enioye and possesse all the ioyes and pleasures of that most ioiful and pleasant lande whereof Dauid speaketh on this manner I beleeue to see the good things of the Lorde in the land of the liuing Nowe we see in a glasse sayth the Apostle euen in a
darke speaking but then shall we see face to face And as S. Iohn saith It dooth not yet appeare what we shall be But we knowe that when it shall appeare we shall be like him For we shall see him as he is The eye hath not seene and the eare hath not heard neyther haue entred into the hart of man the thinges which God hath prepared for them that loue him And all these thinges shall the elect congregation of God enioy and possesse immediatly after the ende of these latter times wherein we now liue What callest thou the latter times The first times were vnder the lawe of nature till the lawe of Moyses The seconde vnder the lawe of Moses till the kingdome thereof abolished Christ entred into this worlde Nowe the thirde and last time is and hath bene sithence the entring of Christ into this worlde to take out fleshe vpon him by ioyning in him togither both Godheade and Manheade with an vnseparable knotte to reconcile and knitte togeather God and man nowe that all the prophecies figures of Christ be brought to an ende The last times also are the times that goe immediatly before the day of the Lord and ende of the world Saint Iohn saith Little children it is the last time Saint Paul saith We are they whom the endes of the world are come vpon Saint Iames saith The comming of the Lorde draweth nigh The Iudge standeth before the doore And our Sauiour Christ himselfe sayth The time is at hande Beholde I come shortly and my rewarde is with me to giue euerye man according as his deedes shall be Howe farre thinkest thou that daye to be hence No man can pronounce any certaintie of the time when that day shall be as our sauiour Christ sayth â–ª Of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Aungels in heauen but my father onely Agayne It is not for you to knowe the times and seasons which the father hath put in his owne power Saint Paule saith that the day of the Lorde shall come euen as a thiefe in the night For when they shall saye Peace peace all things are safe then shall sodayne destruction come vpon them as sorowe commeth vppon a woman trauayling with childe and they shal not scape Notwithstanding although the holy Scriptures doe passe ouer with silence the certaintie of the time when Christ shall come to iudge the worlde as a thing more curious than profitable for our saluation that by this meanes wee might set our selues in the more readinesse against his comming bicause we are not certaine of the day and houre yet we may plainely perceyue that it is not farre of both by the comparison of our dayes with the dayes of Noe For thus saith Christ as it happened in the dayes of Noe so shal it be also in the dayes of the Sonne of man. They did eate and drinke they maryed wyues and were maryed euen vnto the same day that Noe went into the Arke and the floud came and destroyed them all c. Euen so shall it bee in the day when the sonne of man shal appeare and by the shortening of the dayes promised in the Scripture for the electes sake and diuers other argumentes besides Nowe when that day shall once come which vndoubtedly shall come out of hand then shall the Lord seperate the Sheepe from the Goates rewarde the vngodly with punishment due to their vnbeleife and the godly he shall put in possession of that most glorious and blessed kingdome whiche he purchased for them by the crucifying of his bodie and shedding of his bloude To this Lorde Christ our alone Sauiour with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and prayse both now and euer Amen Giue the glorie to God alone Iohn 3. Matth. 13. Amos. 8. Actes 16. Iohn 13. Luke .3 1. Ioan. 3. Ezech. 16. Luke .6 Esay 58. Exod. 22. Leuit. 19. Matth. 25. Romans 12. Hebru 13. Gene. 19. 1. Peter 4. Leuit. 19. and. 23. Deut. 24. 1. Tim. 4. Titus 1. Iude. Epist. Matth. 25. Romans .2 Galat. 5. Ephe. 2. Tit. .3 Ioan. .15 Gene. 1. Eccle. 18. psalme 146. Acte 14.17 Romans 5. Gene. 3. What sin is Gene. 3. Romans 5. 1. Timoth. 2. Romans 5. Ephe. 1.2 Collossi 1. 1. Ioan. 3. Ioan. 1. Galathi 4. What God is God is infinite Exodus 22. Psalme 82. What a strange God is What faith is Romans 10. Hebru 11. What hope is What charitie is Math. 25. What the law of god is The office of the law Ioan. 7. Romans 7. 2. Cor. 3. Galat. 3. What the Gospell is Romans 1. Who is godly Who is vngodly Who is a Christian. Who is an Ethnike An Heretike who The word of God is the doctrin of faith The kingdom of Heauen what it is The world what it is The word of God what it is The nams of the worde of God. Ephe. 6. Heb. 4. Iere. 22. 2. Thess. 2. What mens traditions are Math. 13. Iere. 23. Math. 15. Marke 7. Math. 19 How men are good Who be euill Acte 4. Ephe. 2. Who is righteous What it is to be iustified Psalm 32. Rom. 4. Rom. 4.5 Gal. 2.3 Vnrighteous who Euerlasting life what Ioan. 17. Ioan. 5. Hell or euerlasting death what it is Hell diuersly taken 1. Reg. 2. Esay 66. Apoc. 22. Math. 13.22.25 What the blessing of God is What the curse of God is What a good conscience is Rom. 5. Esay 57.35 What an euyl conscience is Ioan. 14. Ioan. 17. What falshod is The feare of God what it is Rom. 8. What the contempt or despysing of God is Thankes geuing what it is Psalm 50. Vnkindnesse and murmuring against God what it is Exod. 16.17 To haue the holy Ghoste what it is Galat. 5. To be euill minded or to haue the deuil what it is A good Angell what it is An euill Angell what it is The Crosse what it is What the Crosse of Christe is What the pleasure and ease of this life is What sinne is Originall sinne what it is Originall iustice what it is Rom. 7.2 Cor. 3. The corruption of the nature of man. What this word Culpa signifieth What this word Poena signifieth Rom. 1. Math. 5. Note wel God punisheth sinne in this worlde not after thys life in purgatory as the Papistes faine 1. Cor. 11. 2. Reg. 12. Innocencie what it is 1. Cor. 4. 1. Ioan. 1. Exod. 34. 4. Reg. 20. What the spirite is Ioan. 6. Psalm 150. Ioan. 3. What the fleshe is Ioan. 3.1 Cor. 2. Ioan. 6. What the newe man is Ioan. 3. What the old man is Psalm 51. Ephe. 2. Coloss. 2. Blessed or happy who Luke 12. Who is vnhappy Poore who is Math. 5. Ritch who is Luke 1.6 Luke 16. Iac. 5. Wise and circumspect who A foole who 1. Cor. 3. A child what Eccl. 10. Esay 65. Math. 18. What an Elder is What Christe is Exod. 19. 1. Pet. 2. Apoc. 1. Romans 12. What
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.