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A20262	A briefe & necessary instruction verye needefull to bee knowen of all housholders, whereby they maye the better teach and instruct their families in such points of Christian religion as is most meete. Not onely of them throughly to be vnderstood, but also requisite to be learned by hart of all suche as shall bee admitted vnto the Lordes Supper.	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.; More, John, d. 1592.	1572 (1572)	STC 6679; ESTC S114092	20,602	56

it is they are shut vp in blindnes and God hath couered them with a spirit of slomber they are set down in the counsels of the mockers despisers which say in much securitye where is the promise of his cōming O curssed law of liberty that hath so dulled their spirit And O bottomles pit and hel of whooredomes out of which such a stincking sauour cōtinually breatheth of Pluralities Totquots and al maner faculties and dronken dregs of popish abominations O Lord God we beseche thée multiply thy spirit yet more vpon thine anoynted chosen seruantes Leade them into the mydst of thy Sanctuary that they may drinke full of thy louing kindnes And enrich them so far wyth all thy blessinges that they may sée wyth thy Saintes what is the height the breadth the length the deapth and how vnsearchable is the ritches of thy glorye that hast alone immortalitie and dwellest in light which shall shine for euer That thy manyfolde mercies which thou hast multiplyed vnto them may be made perfect in that fulnes of spirit vntyl they shal say vnto themselues euen with the zeale of that noble Prophet and King I wyll not enter into the tabernacle of my house nor get vp into my bed I wil not suffer mine eyes to sleepe nor mine eyelyds to slumber vntyl I haue caused this land which thou hast blessed to spue out the surfetings of this deadly poyson O Lord God thou that art able bryng this good thing to passe let not our synnes seperate betwene vs and thy goodnes but open thine eares vnto our praiers and poure out thy compassions vpon vs that we our Rulers may all reioyce and syng together wyth thy Saintes in the Apocalips Allelu-iah saluation and glory power be to thée O Lord our God for true and righteous are thy iudgementes and thou hast condemned the great whoore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication And therfore make vs say continuallye Allelu-iah and her smoke let it ryse vp for euermore Amen Farewell good Christian Reader and forget not thy deutie to blesse them wyth thy prayer who haue blessed thée with libertye and helpe them to the gloryous triumphe of the Gospel of Christ who haue broken from thy neck the yoke of Antichrist that they may long rule with righteousnes with peace and with ioy in the holy Ghost whose gouernmēt hath made thée free from the bondage of Aegypt from the spiritual Baby lou from Pope and papacie which shame hath shadowed and shal at the last close it vp for euer From my Chamber the. 22. of Aprill 1572. Thyne in the lord vE D. Roma 8. 22. ¶ Euery creature groneth together and traueleth in payne vntyll this present and not onelye the creature but we also which haue the first fruites of the spirit euen we do sigh in our selues wayting for the adoption euen the redēption of our bodies ¶ A short instruction very necessary for all suche as shall be receiued to the Lordes Supper Question What is ●●e chiefest dutie of a Christian ●an 〈◊〉 this lyfe Aunswer ●he chiefest duty of man not ●●●●an onely but of all the creatu●es in the world in their nature is to set forth the glory of God. Question How shall we perfourme this dutie Answer To perfourme this duty it is necessary to know vnto what death we by our selues ar subiect What great saluatiō God of his free mercy hath geuen vnto vs throughe faith And what thankfulnes we owe vnto him for our deliuerance Question Tell me these thynges in order Fyrst what is syn and what doth it deserue Aunswer Synne is the breach of the law of God contayned in the ten commaundements and the reward of this synne is eternal death Question Rehearse the ten Commaundements Aunswer God spake these wordes sayd I am the Lord thy GOD whych brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage thou shalt haue none other Gods but me c. Question What meaneth this commaundement thou shalt haue none other Gods but me Aunswer The meaning of it is that I should acknowledge but one onely God that I shoulde honour and feare him that I should cleane vnto him that I should not do after the abominations of anye idolatrous people to worship stocks or stones that I ●●ould not harken to anye false Prophetes that teache their own fantasies and not the woord of God That I should not seeke to any Sorcerers Cōiurers Witches Soothsayers Charmers or any such But that I should harken vnto Christ alone and adde no thing to the woord which he hath spoken but put all my trust in God alone call vpon hym alone feare him alone and loue hym aboue all All this is contayned in thys fyrst commaūdement Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me Question What meaneth the second commaundement that we shall not make anye granen Image Aunswer The meaning of this is that we shoulde not thinke God to be lyke either man or woman or gold or syluer or anye manner creature that we should not woorshyp hym vnder the similitude of Sunne Moone or any other thyng what soeuer it be to how downe before it But onely in spirite and truth we must woorship God alone and beside him no other no Saint no Angell no creature And that the worshipping of God alone be not according to our fansies but onely as hym selfe hath commaunded in hys woord If in anye of these pointes we be faulty we haue broken this second commaundement Question What meaneth the third commaundement that we should not take the name of God in vayne Aunswere The meaning of it is that we shoulde not sweare falselye nor rashly nor in light matters but with feare and reuerence make mencion of the name of the Lorde our God in truth in iudgement and in righteousnes to the glorye of God or maintenance of brotherlye loue in which causes we must sweare by the name of God alone neither by heauen nor earth neither by booke Saint nor Angell nor any creature As for Masse Crosse Roode or suche other we ought so to detest suche manner Idols that they shoulde not once be named among vs But we should haue onely precious in our eies the glorious and fearfull name of the Lord our god This is to obey this thirde commaundement Question What meaneth the fourth commaundement Remember that thou keepe holye the Sabboth day Aunswer To keepe holye the sabboth day is to come together and with feare and reuerence to heare the word of God preached vnto vs to receaue his Sacramentes with fayth and with repentaunce to pray together with one heart and voyce to shewe in outwarde doyng our inwarde sabboth that we rest from sinne and wickednes that the spirit of God dwelleth in vs and wor keth in this lyfe the beginnyng of our euerlastyng

hath made the Children of God euen to faynt in their mourning vntil they shall sée the great mercies of God to take awaye the cause of their griefe We sée the great ignorance in which the people are euery wher couered the cloudes of darknes more then the darknes of Aegypt haue so ouer shadowed them that the light of the Gospel of the glorye of Christ who is the Image of God it doth hardlye or not at all shine in their vnbeleuing hartes Scarce one of a great many can giue an accompt of their faith yet S. Peter requireth it of euery Christian. A very few haue tasted the beginninges of the Gospel of Christ and yet S. Paule biddeth that the word dwel plentifulfully in eche one of our hartes The Apostle blameth the ignoraunce of the people who haue learned yet no further then repentance from dead workes and the first enstructions of the faith toward God But O Lord howe many thousands of vs of fayth and of true repentaunce can say nothyng The Prophet speaketh of the kyngdome of Christ that in those daies the earth should be ful of the know ledge of the Lord as the waters that do couer the sea where is now that blessed spirite of vnderstandyng to be poored vpon vs And wher is this riches of the knowledge of God Are not rather the multitude of our brethren clothed with darknes so that they grope in their wayes as at midnight know nothing of the way of lyfe We pray dayly according as we are taught Let thy kingdome come if we speake not like the Parets in woordes without vnderstanding then this is our meaning let thy spirite beare rule in our hartes and the knowledge of thy woorde lighten the eyes of our mynde And what do we then els but dally with the Lord if we pray styll for knowledge and yet sleepe stil in ignorance● Then thys is louing Brethren a good excuse for our boldnes if in so great necessitye according to our talentes we séeke to be profitable vnto many If any thinke that there are already sufficiently set forth many Catechismes I do easely graunt it but they are not sufficiently learned neither yet can be For it was necessary in the best and most godlye of these labours whilest the Christian faith is plainly taught to edifiyng of the simple and conuincing of the aduersary that the faithful teacher should vse moe wordes then can be caried in mynde of the ignorant man And therefore I thought itgood as briefly as I could to comprehende the effect of all that the begynninges beyng made playne and easely printed in memory we might enter into reasoning and disputation with our selues enstructing one another and helping one an other that we might haue the more fruit in the lōger labours of others but most of all that we might be encouraged to the most holy and liuely woord of God to drinke wyth continuall desire of the fruitfull spring euen vntyll the water of lyfe do flow vp in our hartes vnto euerlastyng gladnes the day starre do arise in our hartes which may lighten our mindes in to the knowledge of the God of glory There is nothyng remayning more why this labour should be misliked except anye man would thinke that euery Congregation had a sufficient Pastor to instruct those that were ignorant so that they should not néede any straunge Teacher God graunt that in time to come this maye be found true But yet we are farre from it euen as light from darknes or death from life or as knowledge and vnderstanding is from insensible blyndnes O that we had eyes to see so great miserie For sure it may not wel be iustified that in so cleare light of the woorde as God hath made now to shine vpon vs that there was euer nation which had so ignorant Ministers We maye here in compare with the man of synne him selfe I do not knowe that in the midst of all hys abominations there was a more lothsome sight of that idolatrous priesthood then we haue set vp among our selues to be fellow labourers among vs in the Gospell For what though they excéeded in loosnes of life Yet their darke and barbarous religion was so thicke a cloude spread ouer their maners that the fulnes of their lynnes was not easely seue But we haue the light that hath made althinges manyfest and the Sunne hath shined that hath disclosed iniquitie so that there hath not bene among vs any popish Priest so dronken nor any alehouse Chaplen at such a perpetuall truce with hys drinking pots that hath possibly purchased so much discredite to his belly God and kitchin faith as our dum Dogs and guides do dayly multiply against the God of Israel and the faith of his anointed our onely God and Sauiour It gréeneth me to remember and lotheth me much more to rehearse the estate of the ministration into whych we are fallen We haue good time now to complayne wyth the Prophet like people like priest Euen the same coueringes of Israel that shadowed then their glory they haue spread thē selues agayne as the heauens are come ouer our head in so great a tempest of blindnes ignorance that they haue shaken the foundations of all our comfort We saw in deede Halcionios dies the glad and pleasant daies in which our hope shined when first our happy gouernment turned away our sorrowes brake the yoke of Antitichrist deliuered vs from the power of darknes and caryed vs among the Saints of God into the kingdome of light But our hope hath since suffered a great Eclipse from the fulnes of her beutie such hath bene the malice of Satan He attempted agaynst vs euen at the first his most pestilent practise and hath brought accordinglye hys purpose to effect When God had turned the wyl of the Magistrate and enclined his eare to vnderstāding when he had geuen vnto him courage to scatter the enemies of his truth and planted true feare in his hart to establish his Gospel then the subtile Serpent which had turned all his deuices hether he bent his violence and thys counsell pleased hym best To corrupt the Priesthoode who should instruct the Prince by Vrim and Thumim that if thus he might darken the light of the people it might be the more easy to leade them out of the way Then he entred againe and with more successe into hys first assaultes wherewyth he tempted once our sauiour Christ He robbed the Minister of his blessed hope in the prouidence of God and made him seeke the wayes ful of vile shame to get his bread He hanged before his eyes an other veale of pompe and vanitie that he could not with open countenance see Christ but folowed the present plea sures that better liked him And so first woūding the head the infection hath growen since into the other partes of the body that now al most there is nothyng but woundes swelling and sores