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A19938	A catechisme wherin is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian faith, contained in the Lords prayer and the Creed, by way of question and answer betweene Protestant and Papist. Diuided into twenty Saboth exercises, for children to learne the Christian religion.	Davis, Francis, fl. 1612.	1612 (1612)	STC 6368; ESTC S117500	15,595	46

A Catechisme wherin is contained the true grounds of the Articles of the Christian faith contained in the Lords prayer and the Creed by way of Question and answer betweene Protestant and Papist Diuided into twenty Saboth exercises for children to learne the Christian Religion Imprinted at London by G. Eld. 1612. To the VVorshipfull and my good friend Maister Thomas Digges Esquire Francis Dauis wisheth health long life with increase of much worsh●p Sir SInce I haue made bold already with your worship in offering to present my labours vnto you and finding your worship so kindly to receiue them I haue heere in this small volume taken some paines in gathering these few instructions and how soeuer they are I wished them well So presenting them to your worship desiring you to depresse errors with my good meaning loth to bee tedious vnto you in a trifle I leaue you to the protection of the Almighty praying vnto him to send you much health and happinesse I rest Your Worships to command during life FRAN DAVIS To the Reader GEntle Reader since that I haue heeretofore set forth some of my workes and finding of your kinde receit of them it hath stirred me vp into farther matters whereof this small volume is one wherein is declared the true ground of the Articles of the Christian faith contained in the Lords prayer and the Creede whereunto I haue set out the Papist to aske the Question and the Protestant to resolue it which it doth also serue for youth to learne and the Minister to aske the Question and the Child to answere It is but a small price for to buy this book and the Child to learne in the weeke dayes but so much as I haue marked from one Sunday to another and euery Sunday the Minister of euery parish to but call the Children afore him euery Sunday but one howre and to examine them vppon them few points and no doubt but they will labour and striue in the weeke dayes to get in their mindes by root of heart to answere him and no doubt but it will encrease in time to some comfort to the soules health Thus Reader wishing you well and desiring you to follow these few Instructions in order as I haue declared them but I leaue it to thy owne consideration and thy better meditation So with my praier for the same to the Almighty God I end Your freind F. D. The Papist meeting with the Protestant and being desirous to be conuerted or instructed by him in the true knowledge of God and of his Christian faith to the which the Papist asketh the question and the Protestant resolueth him The first question of the Papist is of the Articles of the faith and also this may serue for the instruction of youth and children Papist WHat is the principall and chiefest end of mans life Pro. To know God Pap. What moueth thee to say so Pro. Wherevnto man was created and made Because hee hath created vs and placed vs in this world to set forth his glory in vs and it is good reason that we employ our whole life in his glory séeing he is the beginning and fountaine thereof Pap. What is then the chiefest felicitie of man Pro. Euen the selfe same I meane to know GOD and to haue his glory shewed forth in vs. Pap. The greatest felicity that man can atta●… to Why doost thou call this mans chiefe felicitie Pro. Because without it our condition or estate were more miserable then the state of brute beasts Pap. Hereby then wee may euidently see that there can no such misery come vnto man as not to liue in the knowledge of God Pro. That is most certaine Pap. But what is the true and right knowledge of God Pro. The true knowledge of God When a man so knoweth God that he giue him due honor Pap. Which is the way to honor God arigh Pro. The right manner to worship God standeth in foure points It is to put our whole trust and confidence in him to study so serue him in obeying his will to call vpon him in our necessities séeking our saluation and all good things at his hands and finally to acknowledge both with hart and mouth that he is the liuely fountaine of all goodnesse The second Sunday Pap. Well then to the end that these former questions giue me full satisfaction I pray declare more at large which is the first point Pro. The first point of honouring God To put our whole confidence in God Pap. How may that be Pro. When we haue an assured knowledge that he is Almighty perfectly God Pap. Is that sufficient Pro. No. Pap. Shew the reason Pro. For there is no worthinesse in vs why God should either shew his power to helpe vs or vse his mercifull goodnesse to saue vs. Pap. What is there then further required Pro. That euery one of vs be fully assured in his conscience that he is beloued of God and that hee will be both his Father and Sauiour Pap. How shall we be assured thereof Pro. The foundation of our faith By his owne word wherein he vttereth vnto vs his mercy in Christ and assureth vs of his loue toward vs. Pap. Then the very ground to haue a sure confidence in God is to know him in our Sauiour Christ Pro. Yes truly Pap. Then briefly what is the effect of this knowledge of God in Christ Pro. It is contained in the confession of the faith vsed of all Christians which is commonly called the Créed of the Apostles both because it is a briefe gathering of the Articles of that faith which hath béene alwayes contained in Christs Church and also because it was taken out of the pure doctrine of the Apostles Pap. Rehearse the same Pro. The Creed of the Apostles I beléeue in God the Father Almighty maker of heauen and earth c. I beléeue in the holy Ghost c. The third Sunday Pap. To the intent that this confession may be more plainly declared into how many parts shall we deuide it Pro. The Christian faith standeth in 4 points Into foure principall parts Pap. What be they Pro. The first concerneth God the father The second is of the sonne Iesus Christ wherein briefly also the whole history of our redemption is rehearsed The third is touching the holy ghost The fourth concerneth the Church and Gods gifts to the same Pap. Seeing there is but one God what moueth thee to make rehearsall of the father the sonne and the holy Ghost as if there were three Pro. As concerning the Trinity Because that in the substance or nature of God we haue to consider the father as the fountaine beginning and originall cause of all things then secondly his sonne who is the euerlasting wisdoms Thirdly the holy Ghost who is his vertue and power spred vpon creatures and yet neuerthelesse remaineth alwayes wholy to himselfe Pap. This is then thy meaning that there is no

by this meanes we draw out of him as out of a fountaine al the spirituall guifts that we haue Pap. To what vse doth the Kingdome of Christ serue vs Pro. To set vs at liberty of Conscience to liue godly and holily that we being inriched with his spirituall blessings and armed with his power may be able to ouercome the Diuell sinne flesh and the world which bee pernicious enemies vnto our soules Pap. What profit haue wee of his Preisthood Pro. First by this meanes he is our mediator to bring vs vnto the fauour of God his father and againe héereby wée haue a frée entry to come in and shew our selues boldly before God to offer vp our selues with all that belongeth vnto vs for a sacrifice and in this point we are fellows after a sort of his Preisthood Pap. The vtility of his office in that hee is a Prophet is yet behind Pro. Since our Lord Iesus hath receiued his office to become the maister and teacher of his flock the end of this diuinity is to bring vs to the right knowledge of the Father and of his truth so that we might become Gods houshould schollers and of his family Pap. Then it is true that a man may breifly gather of the words that this name Christ doth include three sundry offices that God hath giuen vnto his sonne to the intent to bestow the fruit and profit of the same vpon his elect Pro. It is true The seauenth Sunday Pap. By what reason callest thou Christ the onely Sonne of God since God doth name all vs also his Children Pro. As touching that that we are Gods children we are not so of nature but only of his fatherly adoption and by grace in that God doth aceept vs for his Children now our Lord Iesus beeing begotten of the substance of his father and béeing of the selfe same nature may iustly bée called Gods onely sonne for that there is none other that is so by nature Pap. This is then thy meaning that this honour pertaineth peculiarly to him alone as to whom it belongeth of nature the which notwithstanding he hath by free gift of his goodnesse communicated vnto vs in that we are his members Pro. It is euen so and therfore in respect of that his communicating with vs the scripture calleth Christ in an other place the first borne among many brethren Pap. Why callest thou him our Lord Pro. Because he is appointed of the Father to haue Lordship ouer vs and to rule in Heauen and earth and to bee the head of men and Angells Pap. What is the meaning of that which followeth Pro. It declareth after what sort the sonne of God was anoynted of his father to become our Sauiour That is to say he tooke vppon him our flesh and therein fulfilled all things necessary for our redemption according as they bée héere rehearsed Pap. What meanest thou by these two clauses conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary Pro. That he was fashioned in the Virgins woombe taking very substance and manner of her that he might therby become the séed of Dauid as the Prophet had before signified and yet notwithstanding all this was wrought by the maruelous and secret power of the holy Ghost without the company of man Pap. What is it then needful that he should take vpon him our very flesh Pro. Yea verily for it was conuenient that mans disobedience against God should be purged in the nature of man And moreouer if Christ had not beene partaker of our nature hee had not beene a meet Mediator to make vs at one with God his Father Pap. Then is this thy saying that it behooueth that Christ should become very man to the end he might execute the office of a Sauiour as in our person Pro. Yea verily for we must borrow of him all that which is lacking in our selues for this our default could not otherwise be remedied Pap. By what cause was this thing wrought by Gods holy spirit and not rather by the company of man according to the order of nature Pro. Because the seed of man is of it selfe altogether corrupted with sinne it behooued that this conception of Christ should be wrought by the power of the holy Ghost whereby our Sauiour might be preserued from all corruption of sinne and replenished with all manner of holinesse Pap. So then by these sayings it is euidently declared vnto vs that he which should purify and clense others from filth of sinne must be himselfe free from al spots thereof and euen from his mothers wombe dedicated vnto God in purenesse of nature so that hee may not be guilty of that corruption wherewith the whole stock of man is infected Pro. I meane so The eight Sunday Pap. Wherefore speakest thou of his death immediatly after his birth and leauest out the whole history of his life Pro. Because there is nothing mentioned or spoken of in our Créed but that which pecularily belongeth to the substance of our redemption Pap. Why is it not said plainly in one word that he dyed without any speaking of Pontius Pilate by whose iudgement he suffered Pro. This was not onely to make the history of Christs passion to haue more euident assurance but also to declare vnto vs that he was cōdemned to death by a Iudge Pap How so Pro. He dyed to suffer the paine that was due vnto vs that we might be thereby deliuered from the same Now for so much as we were guilty before Gods iudgment as wicked misdooers Christ tooke vpon him our persons and vouchsafed to shew himselfe before an earthly Iudge and to bee condemned by his mouth that thereby wée might be declared before the iudgement seat of God Pap. Notwithstanding Pilate doth pronounce him innocent and so by that he doth not condemne him worthy of death Pro. Pilate did both the one and the other First hée was pronounced innocent and iust by the Iudges owne mouth to signifie that he suffered not for his owne desart but for our trespasses and yet withall the same Iudge did giue solemnly the sentence of death against him to testifie and expresse that hee is our true pledge and ransome as hee who also hath taken vnto him our condemnation to deliuer vs from the same Pap. That is well said for if he had beene a sinner indeed hee had not beene meete to haue suffered death for the offences of other and neuerthelesse to the end we might bee cleerely quit by his condemnation it was necessary that hee should be counted as among the wicked Pro. So I meane The ninth Sunday Pap. Where thou sayest Christ suffered on the Crosse was that kinde of death of more importance then if hee had beene otherwise put to death Pro. Yea verily and as touching that matter Saint Paul saith that he was hanged on a tree to the intent that hee might take vpon him our cursse and so discharge vs for that kinde of death was accursed of God Pap. What