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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

sinnes be remitted we be euill vncleane and vnder dampnacion And on this fashion we are all euyll and sinners by nature Who is iust or righteous He that hath faith For through faith we are iustified To be iustified is to haue our sinnes not imputed vnto vs but to haue them forgeuen in Christ and for christ Euen as Dauid saith blessed are they whose vnrighteousnesses are forgeuen and whose sinnes are couered Blessed is that man to whom the Lord imputeth no sinne Now because the faithful man only receiueth and enioyeth this mercie forgeuenesse and this no imputing of sinne through faith therefore he is called iust and we through faith said to be iustified Sometime in Scripture the Hipocrites and they that thinke to be saued by their workes are called iuste or righteous as we rede I came not for the righteous c. Who is vnrighteous He that hath no faith What is euerlasting life It is the tast of the fauour and manifold mercies of God the peace of the conscience a feruent desire of heauen and to be with Christ which the holy Ghost doth kendle in the hartes of the faithfull Otherwhiles euerlasting life is called to knowe the very liuing God Iesus Christ whome he sent downe As it is sayd He that hath the Sonne and beleeueth in him hath euerlasting life What is euerlasting death or hell In this life it is the perpetuall grudge and horrible feare of conscience the distresse and tediousnesse of the minde dreding the wrath of God which the deuil increaseth in the vnfaithfull as it is plainely declared Also hell is taken for extreme temptacion which almost ledeth vs downe to desperacion as we rede The Lord leadeth vs downe to hell and bringeth vs vp againe After this life it betokeneth the fire of Hell where the damned soules be It is called also a fyrie furnesse and the vtter darknesse where is wayling and gnashing of teeth and vtter desperacion of the mercy of God. What thing is the blessing of God It is the fauour the grace the helpe and beneficence of God â–ª c. What is the curse of God It is the angre extreme wrath and the lacke of al the good benefites of God. What is a good conscience It is the peace of the mind a spirituall ioy and a plaine feeling and perceiuing of the goodnesse of God towardes vs through fayth in Iesus Christ which is described and set out And is no more to say but that when we perceiue that through faith in Iesus Christ our sinnes be forgeuen and that we be in the fauour of God we be harte hole mery and found What is an euill conscience It is an inward boyling heate and tossing of the minde for a mans wickednesse and when for pure anguish of the sight and horrore of sinne the hart fainteth and failleth him It is called in Scripture the worme of the conscience What is veritie and truth Christ himselfe the word of God and what soeuer els agreeth with the word of god For as Christ saith I am the way the truth and the life Also thy wordes be the truth There is also a Ciuile truth or veritie as it is called and that is when with that which is sayd the thing agreeth when we find words agreeing with the thing itselfe What is lesing or falsitie What soeuer thing is enemie and not agreeing to the truth and the word of God as mans tradicions or doctrines that serue not to the same word of God. What is the feare of God Suche an humblenes and lowe behauiour as naturall sonnes haue towardes their louing fathers It is also a redy glad and wylfull warenesse in ordering our selues that we do not commit any thing against God and his word for feare least we should offend so louing and tender a father Which feare as it springeth only out of faith so it is only in y faithful Then we feare God wisely when with hart and mind we so endeuer to liue and order our selues as yf we had God a witnesse and looker of all our deedes wordes ye and of our preuie thoughtes and cogitacious This louing dreade ingendereth wisedome and bringeth Gods blessing on vs and driueth out sinne out of the brest The seruile and bond feare is the amasing drede and abasshing of the mind that the wicked men haue of the wrath of God ingendred by laying the lawe to their euill liuing What is the contempt of God A dispising or a light regarding of the doctrine and the commaundementes of God proceeding of an vncleane hart and wicked minde a pleasure and delight in sinne and ignoraunce the roote of all mischiefe which fruite of incredulitie God neuer left vnpunished as it appeereth Exo. and Nume c. What is thankes geuing It is a remembraunce and a thankful acknowledging of the benefites of God when we surely thinke all that we haue commeth of him It is called in the Scripture sacrifice of prayse geuing What is vnkindnesse and priuie murmuring against God It is to grudge and not to be content with the workes of God and to forget his benefites Examples hereof we rede What is it to haue the holy Ghost To be godly disposed and to haue an heauenly burning in the mind euer vpright whole sincere and pure vertuous alway iudging the best willing and wishing wel to euery body the fruites of whome be all vertues which ye may see in the Galathians What is an euill mind or to haue the deuill It is to haue an euil concard mind to be against God and his word to be geuen all to wickednesse to misdeeme and iudge all to the worst What is a good Angell The messenger of God or what soeuer ye wyll by which God worketh vs and in vs that that is good profitable and commodious What is Sathan or an euill Angel An aduersary and enemy of God a worker of al mischefe death vnto vs Otherwhiles it is put only for the deuill What is the Crosse It is all manner of greuaunce geuen to euery manner of vocacion kind of life grounded on faith and the word of God what that we doo goeth not forward as we would It is also the teaching warning chastising rod and staffe of the Lord which names be for to be seene in the prouerbes and psalmes The Crosse of Christ is his Passion and the preaching of the same and the persecution that followeth the preachers and beleeuers of the same What is pleasure and the ease of this life It is when we haue all at will when God leaueth vs to our selues and troubleth vs not with any aduersitie for faith and the word of God. What is sinne It is the transgression and breaking of any of Gods commaundementes It is also a naturall propencion and inclinacion to noughtinesse ingendred with vs at

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

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 vnderstan●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 iudgemēt 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 hūbleth 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