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A02884	The catechisme, or maner to teach children and others the Christian fayth used in all the landes and dominions that are under the mighty Prince Frederike, the Palsgraue of ye Rhone, elector of the empyre, &c. Translated out of Latin into Englysh, by William Turner Doctor of Phisicke, easely to be vnderstanded and read, aswell of the people of the north cuntry, as others.; Heidelberger Katechismus. English.	Turner, William, d. 1568.	1572 (1572)	STC 13028; ESTC S112597	22,595	59

faith AN. It is not onely a knowlege wherby I doo surely assent to all thinges which God hath opened to vs in his worde but also a sure trust kindled in my harte by the Holy ghost through the Gospell whereby I am at peace with God surely rekenyng with my selfe and iudgeyng that forgeuenes of sinnes euerlastyng lyfe rightuusnes was geuē not only to other but also to me that fréely by the mercy of God for the deseruing of Christ alone QV. * What are those thinges that a Christ●n man must néedes beleue AN. * All thinges that are promised in the Gospel the sum whereof is contayned in the Creede or articles of our faith wherein is shortly conteyned as in a certayne shorte sum the cheif poyntes of the catholike and vndoubted faith of all Christians QVESTION ¶ What is the Créede ye speake of ANSVVER I Beleue in God the Father almighty maker of heauen earth And in Iesus Christe his onely begotten sonne our lord Which was conceyued by the holy gost borne of the virgin Mary Suffred vnder Pontius Pilate was crucified dead buried went downe into Hell. The thyrd day he rose agayne from the dead And went vp into heauen sitteth there at the right hand of god the Father almighty From thence shall he come to iudge the quicke the dead I beleue in the holy gost That ther is a catholike church A communion of Saints Forgeuenes of sinnes The rising agayne of the flesh And the lyfe euerlastyng Amen QVE Into how many partes is this Créede deuided AN. ¶ Into thrée partes the firste is of the euerlasting father and of our creation The seconde is of the sonne our redemption or deliuerance The thyrd is of the Holy gost and makyng of vs holy sauing vs from sinne QV. ¶ When as there is but one onely substance of God why namest thou three the father the son and the Holy gost AN. ¶ Because God hath so opened him self in his word that these thrée sundry persōs are that one trew euerlastyng God. ¶ Of the Father QVESTION WHat doest thou beleue when thou sayest I beleue in God the father almighty maker of heauen and earth AN. ¶ I doo beleue that the euerlastyng Father of our Lorde Iesus Christ which hath made of nothyng heauen and earth and althinges that are therein with his euerlastyng counsel prouision vpholdeth and gouerneth al the same for Christs sake is my God and my father and therefore so trust rest in him that I doo not doubt but he wyl prouide for me al thīgs nedful both for my soule and body and that he wil also tourne vnto my Saluation all the euyls and troubles that he layeth vpon me in this troublesome lyfe both because he can doo it as an almighty God and will do it as a gentil Father QV. ¶ What is the prouision or prouidence of God AN. The almighti power of god present in euery place whereby it holdeth vp as it were with his hand gouerneth heauen and earth and all creatures in so much that those things that grow vpon the earth rayne also faire wether and drines plentuusnes in bearing barrennes meat and drink health and sicknes ryches pouerti and to conclude all thinges fall and come vnto vs not without aduice or by chance but by his fatherly aduised counsell wyll and purpose QVE ¶ What profite haue we by this knowlege of the creatiō prouidēce of god ANS ¶ That in aduersitie we maye be pacient and in prosperytie thankfull and in time to come we maye haue a very good hope in God our moste faythfull Father knowing that there is nothyng that can drawe vs awaye from his loue for all creatures are so in his Power that withoute his wyll they can not onely doo nothynge but euen not so much as to stere or moue Of the Sonne QVESTION WWhy is the Son of God called Iesus that is the Sauer AN. * Because he saueth vs from al our sinnes as no saluatiō ought to be craued of any other so can there none be found in other but in him alone QV. * Then whether doo they beleue in the onely sauer Iesus which séeke happynes saluation of saints or of themselues or of any other thyng AN. * No For although they boast thēselues and reioyce in him as their Sauer in their words yet for al that in very ded● they deny the only Sauer Iesus for either must Iesus not be a perfit Sauer or els al they that receaue him with a trew faith for a Sauer haue in their possessyon in hym all thinges necessary vnto saluation QV. * Why is he called Christus that is annoynted AN. * Because he was ordayned of the Father and was annoynted of the Holy gost the highest prophet and doctor which hath opened vnto vs the secret counsel and all the wyll of his father concerning our redemption deliuerance And the hye Preist who with one sacrifice or offring of his body and no mo hath bought vs agayne and continually maketh intercession to his Father for vs And a Kinge which gouerneth vs with his worde and his spirit and defēdeth and kepeth the Saluation which we haue gotten by hym QV. ¶ But why art thou called a christian AN. Becaus through faith I am a mēber of ●esus Christ and am pertaker of his anointing ▪ so that I confesse his name geue my selfe vp vnto him to be a liuing offring of thankfulnes in this life to fight against sin Sathan with a fre and good conscience and afterwarde may hould enioy the euerlastīg kyngdōe with Christ ouer al cretures QV. ¶ For what cause is Christ called the onely begotten son of god whē we are also the sonnes of God AN. * Because Christ is only the euerlastyng and natural son of the father euerlastyng and we are but sonnes chosen and taken vp of the Father of fauour for Christes sake QV. * Why callest thou hym our Lord ANS ¶ Because he byinge agayne our bodyes and soules from sinne not with Golde nor Siluer but with his precious bloud and deliuering them from all power of the deuyll hath claymed vs for his owne proper seruants belongīg vnto none other Lord or master QV. ¶ What beleuest thou when thou sayest he was conceiued by the holy ghost and borne of the virgin Mary AN. ¶ That the sonne of God which is and abydeth trew and euerlasting god hath taken the very trewe nature of man of the flesh and bloud of the virgin Marye by the workyng of the Holy ghost that he might be also with al the true seed of Dauid lyke vnto his Brethern in all thinges sauing onely in sinne QV. ¶ What profite takest thou of the holy conception and birth of Christ AN. That he is our meane or mediator and with his innocentnes perfite holines couereth my sinnes in the which I am conceiued to com into the sight of God.

The Cathechisme or maner to teach Children and others the Christian fayth Vsed in all the landes and dominions that are vnder the mighty Prince Frederike the Palsgraue of the Rhene Elector of the Empyre c. Translated out of Latin into Englysh by William Turner Doctor of Phisicke Easely to be vnderstanded and read aswell of the people of the North cuntry as others ¶ Imprinted at London by Richarde Iohnes dwellyng in the vpper end of Fléetlane 1572. A Cathechisme for Children QVESTION WHich is the onely comforte ●oth in lyfe and in death ANS ¶ That both concernyng my soule and my body whether I liue or I dye I am not mine owne but belong only vnto my most faithfull Lord and sauer Iesus Christ who with his precious blud moste fully makyng amendes for all my sinnes hath delyuered me from the power of the Deuyll and kéepeth mée so that without the wyll of my heauenly Father ther can not so much as an h●ire fall from my head Yea and further that all things must serue for my saluation wherfore he hath made mee sure of euerlastyng lyfe by his holy spirite maketh mée prompt and redy from henceforth to lyue accordyng to his wyll QVE ¶ How many thinges are néedfull for thée to know that thou mayst come by and enioy this cumforte that thou mayste both liue and dye blessedly AN. ¶ Thrée first how great my sinne and wretchednes is The second by what meanes I may be deliuered from my sin The thyrd is what thanks I owe vnto my Lorde God for my deliuerance ¶ The first parte of mans wretchednes or miserable state QVESTION BY what meanes shalt thou com by the knowledge of thy wretchednes AN. ¶ BY the law of God. QV. * What doth the lawe of God require of vs. AN. ¶ That doth Christ in a shorte sum teach vs Mathew .xxij. and Luke .x. Thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy hart with all thy soule with all thy thought and with al thy strength This is the first and greatest cōmandement And the second is lyke vnto this Thou shalt loue thy neighbor as thyne owne selfe And the whole law prophetes hang vpon these two commandements QV. Canst thou kéepe al these things ꝑfitly AN. No for I am ready disposed of nature to hate God and my neighbor QV. ¶ Did God then make man so vntoward crooked and so froward AN. * No for he made him good and vnto the likenes of his owne selfe that is endewed with trew rightuusnes holynes that he should rightly know god his maker and hartely loue him liue for euer with him to that end that he might loue and praise him QVE * Then from whence sprang vp this crooked frowardnesse of mans nature ANS ¶ Of the fall disobedience of our first Father and Mother Adam Eue by whō our nature is so made crooked naughty that we al be concepued and borne in sin QV. * Are we then all so wounded that we be vtterly vnsufficient to do any good thing and disposed and ready to all vice wickednes AN. Yea surely except that we be borne agayne by the Holy ghost QV. * Doth not God then doo wronge to man whiles he requireth of him by the lawe to doo those thinges which he is not able to doo perfourme and fulfill AN. ¶ No for God made Adam so that he might fulfill those things but he at the entisment of the Deuyll and by his owne stubbornesse both spoiled himselfe and his after commers of those godly gifts QVE Doth God let go vnpunished such stubburnes and departing from him ANS * Nay he is by horible meanes angry both with our sinnes that are grafted in vs by nature also with them that we afterwardes worke and doo and the same he punisheth by his moste rightuus iudgement with present and euerlastinge punishmentes as he doth pronounce Cursed is euery man that abydeth not in all thynges that are written in the Booke of the Law that thou shuld kepe them QVE ¶ Then is not God also mercifull AN. He is in déede mercifull but so that he is also rightuus wherfore his rightuusnes requireth that it the is done against the moste highe maiestie of God shuld be punished with the greatest punishments both of soule and body ¶ The seconde parte of the deliuerance of man. QVESTION THen when as by the right iudgemēt of God we ar in danger both of euerlasting paines of suche that lasteth here but for a time is there yet any way or meanes wherby we may be deliuered from these paynes may be brought in fauour agayne with God AN. ¶ God wyl that we shall make amends or satisfaction vnto his rightuusnes wherfore we must néedes eyther by our selues or by some other content him QVE ¶ Can wée by our selues make amendes or satisfaction vnto him ANS ¶ By no meanes at all but rather from day to day do encrease our det QV. ¶ Can any creature in heauen or in earth whiche is only a creature make satisfaction recompence or amendes for vs and our sinnes AN. None at all For to begyn withal God wyl not punish that in any other creture which is due to be paid by man and moreouer it can not because it is nothyng but a creature abyde the wrath of God against sin and deliuer other from the same ¶ QVESTION ¶ What maner of man is to be soughtout to be our mediator and deliuerer AN. He which is in déede a very ryght man and perfitly rightuus and yet more mighty thē al creatures that is he which also is euen very trew God. QV. Why is it needefull that he should be a very man and perfitly rightuus ANS Because the rightuusnes of God requyreth that the same nature which hath sinned should pay make amends for sin But he that is a sinner can not pay and make amendes for other sinners QVE ¶ Why must he also be very God withall AN. That by his godly power he may abyde the burthen of Gods wrath in his flesh and maye gett agayne and restore vnto vs the rightuusnes and lyfe which we haue lost QVE ¶ Who is that mediator which is both very God and very man and perfitly rightuus withall AN. * Our Lord Iesus Christ which is made vnto vs the wisdome of God rightuusnes hallower and deliuerer QVE * How knowest thou this AN. ¶ By the Gospell which God dyd open in Paradise and afterward hath farther set it abroade by the Patriarches and prophets did darkly declare as it wer in a shaddow by the Sacrifices and other ceremonies of the lawe and last of al fulfilled by his onely begotten sonne QV. Then is saluation geuen by Christ to all men that perished in Adam AN. ¶ Not to all but onely to them that by a trew faith are graffted in him and receyue or be pertakers of his benefites or good déedes QV. * What is

my lyfe time and that he wil fréely geue vnto me the rightuusnes of Christ so that I shall not come at any tyme to iudgement to be condemned QV. ¶ What comfort hast thou by the ry●sing agayne of the flesh AN. * That not only my soule after that it shal departe from the body shal straight way be taken vp vnto Christ her head but also that this my flesh raysed vp by this power of Christ shal be ioyned agayne vnto my soule and shall be made lyke vnto the glorius body of Christ QV. ¶ What comfort takest thou of the article of euerlastyng lyfe AN That for as much as I fele al redy the beginninge of euerlastynge lyfe in my hart it shall afterwarde come to passe that after this lyfe I shall come to full and perfite blessednes wherein I may prayse god foreuer which blessednes neither eye hath séene nor eare hath hard neither the thought of man is able to reach vnto QV. ¶ But when thou beleuest all these things what profit hast thou therby AN. ¶ That I am rightuus in Christ before God an heyre of euerlastyng lyfe QV. How art thou rightuus before god AN. * Onely by faith or beléefe in Iesus Christ in so much that although my consciēce did accuse me that I haue sinned greuously agaynst all the commaundements of God and haue kepte perfitly neuer one of them and am also ready and disposed yet styll to al euyl yet for al that so that I can receiue all these good déeds of Christ by a true fayth of my mind the perfit satisfaction or amēds makynge the rightuusnesse and holynesse of Christ is coumpted and geuen vnto mee by the only mercy of God euen as though I had neuer done any sin neither any spot should cleaue vnto me and furthermore as though I had fulfilled in mine own person the obedience which Christ hath fulfilled ꝑformed for me QV. ¶ Why doest thou hold that thou art made rightuus by faith alone AN. * Not because I doo please God with the worthynesse of my fayth but because the amendes makyng or satisfaction rightuusnes and holynes of Christe are my rightuusnes before God I can not take holde therof and apply the same vnto me by any other meanes then by fayth alone QV. ¶ Why can not our good workes be rightuusnes or at the leaste some parte of rightuusnes before God AN. * Because that rightuusnes that must stand faste before the iudgemente of God must be in all poyntes perfite and agreeing with the word of God al our good workes euen the most holy and perfectest workes that we doo in this lyfe are vnperfite and defiled with sinne QV. ¶ How doo our good works deserue nothynge when as God doth promise that be wyll geue a rewarde for them both in this lyfe and in the lyfe to come AN. * That reward is geuen not of deseruing but of fauour QV. ¶ Doth not this learning make mē to be careles Godlesse and of loose liuing AN. * No for it is not possible but that they that are grafted into Christ throught fay●h shall brynge foorth good and thankefull fruits ¶ Of the Sacramentes QVESTION THen séeing that only faith maketh vs pertakers of Christ and of good dedes from whence cometh this fayth AN. * From the Holy ghost who kindleth it in our harts through the preachynge of the Gospell and strengthneth the same by the vsing of the Sacraments QV. ¶ What are the Sacraments AN. * They ar holy signes and seals set before our eyes ordayned of god for that cause that by them he might open vnto vs and settle or confirme more largely the promyse of the Gospell that is to wyt he geueth fréely forgeuenes of sīnes and lyfe euerlastyng not only to the number of beleuers but to euery one that beleueth for that onely sacrifice of christ which he made perfite vpon the crosse QV. ¶ Then whether do both the word and Sacraments looke to that ende that they may lead our faith vnto the sacrifice of christ fully ended on the crosse as vnto the gr●und of our saluation AN. * It is so indéed for the holy Ghoste teacheth by the Gospell assureth vs by the Sacramēts that al our saluatiō standeth in the only sacrifice of christ offred for vs vpon the crosse QV. ¶ How many Sacramentes hath Christ ordayned in the new testament AN. Two. Baptisme the holy Supper ¶ Of Baptisme QVESTION HOw arte thou warned and assured in Baptisme that thou art partaker of that only Sacrifice AN. * Because Christ commaunded the outward washing putting to this promise that I am assurely washed by his bloud the holy gost from al my vncleanes of my soule that is from all my sinnes as I am outwardly washed with water wherby all the filthynes of the body is scowred away QV. ¶ What is it to be washed with the bloud and spirite of Christ AN. It is to receiue of God forgeuenes of our sinnes fréely for christes blouds sake which he shed for vs in his sacrifice vpon the crosse and also to be made new men by the Holy gost by his making of vs holy to be made members of Christ that thereby wée may dye from sinne more and more may lyue holily and vnblamedly QV. ¶ Where promised Christe that he wold so surely wash vs with his bloud and spirite as we are washed outewardly with the outwarde water of Baptisme ANS ¶ In the .xvi. of Sainct Marke where as he firste ordeyned Baptisme whose words are these Go and teach all nations and baptise them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy Gost And he that wyll beleue and be baptised shall be saued but he that wyll not beleue shall be damned And this promise is rehersed agayne wher as the Scripture nameth Bapisme the bath of the new birth and washing away of sinnes QVESTION Is not the outward baptising with water the washing away of our sinnes AN. * It is not for onely the bloud of Christ maketh vs cleane from al sin QV. ¶ Then why doth the holy Ghost cal baptisme the bath of the new byrth and washing away of sin AN. * God not without a great cause speaketh so to wit not onely to teach vs that as the filthines of our bodies is scoured away with water so likewise are our sins washed and scowred away with the bloud Spirit of Christ but also much more that he might sicker and assure vs by this godly token and pledge that we are as surely washed from our sinnes inwardely by the inward washing as we are outwardly washed with the outward and seable water QV. ¶ Ought all young spechlesse children to be baptized AN. * Yea in any case for when as they belonge as well vnto the couenaunt or promyse and to the chyrch of god as they doo that are fully growne and are perfit men women and when as forgeuenes of sins and