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A19432	A very short and pithie catechisme verie profitable for all that will come prepared to the Supper of the Lord: VVith a forme of confessyon, prayer and thanks giuing, very necessary and comfortable for all christian families. Made by Bartimeus Andrewes, preacher of the word of God at great Yarmouth: published at the request of the vvorshipfull and godlie magistrates there.	Andrewes, Bartimaeus.	1586 (1586)	STC 586; ESTC S108527	21,533	78

condemnation thou hast againe redeemed vs by the precious death and bloodshedding of thy Sonne freed vs from bondage pardoned all our sinnes and restored vs into fauour euen with thy selfe inuested vs into all thy ritches and heauenly treasures hast called vs by the ministrie of thy worde into a newe life iustified vs freelie through fayth sanctifyed vs by thy grace and holie spirit and so made vs of vile and myserable cayteifes and bondmen of Satan chayned vnto euerlasting darknes and iudgment the freemen of Christ Iesus sette at liberty vnto euerlasting life hast giuen vs the earnest of our saluation thy spirite whereby thou hast in some measure furnished vs with fayth knowledge and zeale working in vs vnto repentaunce and a nevve life O Lord thou mightest haue left vs in darknes and in the shadowe of death in error ignorance with other natiōs that know the not thou myghtest haue deteyned thy grace from vs giuen vs vp to our own hartes lust into a reprobate mynde with the vngodly of the world that shall neuer taste of thy goodnes that we might fill vppe the cuppe of thy wrath thou mightest haue broken in vppon vs with thy plagues and punishmentes as thou hast doone vppon some who haue not exeeded the measure of our iniquities and mightest haue executed fearefull iudgments against vs in the midest of the dayes of our ignoraunce and contempt against thee when wee euer without remorse of conscience not knowing like poore wretches our desperate estate but yet Lorde blessed be thy name who hath spared vs hetherto and touched our hartes vnto some measure of repentaunce hast opened our eyes to see thy trueth hast freed vs from darknes and death caused vs to taste of thy word made sinne lothsome vnto vs ioyed our hearts with the tydinges of our saluation renued our harts giuen vs hope of a better life and framed our hearts to some loue of thy children and to some measure of holines in thy sight O Lord what mooued thee to al this but thine owne free mercie for which we rēder all praise vnto thee graunt vs grace to walke worthy of these thy mercies with thankfull harts all our life VVee blesse thy name ô Lord our God for thy fatherlie care and diuine prouidence whereby thou haste alwayes watched ouer vs and protected vs graciously from our cradle deliuering vs from manie plagues punishments and daungers which our sins had iustly deserued to haue brought vpon vs and heaping many vndeserued benefites vpon vs thou haste trusted vs with health wealth liberty prosperity freendship and peace which all we haue abused yet haste thou spared vs. Thou hast set vs in a calling amongst men haste blessed our affayres prospered the workes of our hands nothing hath wanted vnto vs that might expresse thy loue eyther appartayning to our soules or our bodies the graces of thy spirite thou haste in some measure shed vppon vs the soueraigne meanes of our saluation thy word and Sacraments thou hast ritchly offred vnto vs hast giuen vs interest into al thy riches treasures yea euen into thy self so as we may with boldnes resort vnto thee in al necessities in the name of thy son O lord this is a happy benefitt that we may confer with thy maiestie by prayer in all our distresses and affaires and may powre out our cōplaints into thy bosome be regarded oh stirre vp our faith Lord to put in vre thys comfortable exercise of our fayth euen prayer in all pure manner VVe praise thy high maiesty O Lorde for all meanes of our saluation for the comfortable ministry of thy seruauntes the Preachers and for thy graces vppon them praying thee to encrease bothe the number of them and thy graces gyftes in them that theyr labours beeing blessed thy Church may flourish Like thankes praise and honour be giuen vnto thee for all Christian Princes Magistrates whom thou hast stirred vp in any place to haue a care of thy church Gospell and for thy mercie to all countries that haue imbraced thy word that blessed messuage of health and saluation and in this aboue all other wee thinke our selues beholding to thee ô Lorde that thou haste beene gratious to our Land to place vs there where thy Gospell flourisheth and for that thou hast suffred vs to lyue in this age in such a place wherin we see thy goodnes trueth in thy word when other nations yea some other places of this our owne land perrish in ignoraunce We can not forget O lorde thy louing kindnes shewed to vs in bestowing vpon vs so gracious a Princesse as our soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth as also such christian wise graue and honorable counsellers nobles and magistrates louing thy trueth gospel for preseruing protecting so miraculouslie her royall personne our countrie and all estates watching ouer vs reuealing confounding the conspiracies and treasons bothe of forraine and domesticall ennimies from time to time hauing heeretofore deliuered vs from the captiuity and thraldome of the man of sinne euen the Pope restored to vs peace liberty true religion christian gouernment the preaching of thy gospell the safetie of our life finally all blessings necessarie for soule body thou hast richlie bestowed vpon vs for which we can neuer sufficientlie praise thee VVe thank thee O Lord for the safety of thys our towne and corporation where vvee dwell in preseruing vs from all forraine inuasion and incursion of enemies as also for our selues our families and charges in prouiding for vs who hast continuallie beene mercifull vnto vs haste preserued vs in the day time and watched ouer vs in the night season for all these thinges O God and whatsoeuer els that we haue receiued at thy hands eyther for our soules or bodies and for all thy graces vppon thy whole Church and vppon all nations wee offer vppe vnto thee thys our poore Sacrifice of thanksgiuing praise most hūbly praying the in the name and mediation of thy sonne Christ Iesus to pardon al our sinnes the imperfections of our prayers and thanksgiuings to accept of them for his sake in whose name onely we are bold to present thy maiestye with our suites Lastly wee most entirelie beseech thee to stirre vs vp effectuallie vnto all thankfulnes obedience in the whole course of our life quickning our faith inflaming our loue that we may with al cheerefulnes doo dueties to thee our brethren in our callinges that we all thy seruāts whatsoeuer being furthered holden out by thy grace may growe vp vnto full holines in thy feare tyll we all are fully perfited in the heauens to receiue the full measure of our saluation in that blessed inheritaunce of the Saints with Christ Iesus in the day of his glorious appearaunce to whō with thee and the holie spirit be all praise honour glorye power might and dominion for euer-more Amen A prayer for the Marriners to be vsed at the Sea O

bodies in life 1 Cor 11 24 25 so must wee often receiue the Lordes supper to confirme our faith and to testify our thankfull remembraunce of Christes death Minister It seemeth then that you must needes haue your hart touched for your sinnes when you come to the communion repenting your former life and you must come with hope of forgiuenes Aunswer It is very true els can I haue no comfort or benefite by it therfore I pray God to touch my hart aright for my sinnes and to pardon them that I may come worthelie therevnto Minister Doo you take this Sacrament then as a pledge of Gods loue in forgiuing your sinnes doo you purpose and professe vnfeynedly amendment of life and to liue with your brethren in christian loue Aunswere Yea indeede and I make thys an vtter renouncing of my former life that by Gods grace I maye heereafter lead a new life which grace God grant me Amen Minister So doing I as the minister of God receiue you to the comunity of the saints of God and seale vnto you the mercies of God by the authority of his worde to your euerlasting comfort in Christe Iesus Aunswere The Lord giue me grace to walk woorthy of his calling in his feare all my life that I may bee acceptable to him in Iesus Christ Amen Minister vvyll you exercise your fayth in praying for these things daily Aunswer Yea by Gods grace Minister vvhat is prayer Aunswer It is to aske all good thinges at the hand of God and to giue him thanks for all things receiued Minister To whom wyll you make your prayers Aunswere To God alone Minister vvho directeth your affections in prayer Aunswer Rom 8 27 The spirite of God which maketh a request according to the wyll of God in his Saints Minister Howe are your prayers acceptable Heb 15 15 1 Pet 2 5. Aunswer By Iesus Christ Minister By what rule wyll you frame your prayers Aunswere By that order of Christ Mat. 6 9. set down to his Disciples which wee call the Lords prayer Minister Repeate it Aunswer Our Father which art in heauen c. Minister vvhat is the summe of this prayer Aunswere Firste wee pray heere for all thinges that may make to the glory of God and aduauncing of hys name for the enlarging of his kingdome and the performance of his wyl in all thinges Secondly we pray for al thinges needefull for our selues bothe for our bodies and soules that so by the direction of his grace and spirite we beeing freed from sinne may serue him freelie in righteousnes and holines all our lyfe which grace God graunt me and all hys people Amen Finis quod B. Andrewes ❧ A forme of confessyon O Lord our God moste louing gracious and mercifull Father to whom belongeth righteousnes and mercie compassyon and forgiuenes to vs belongeth shame and confusion of faces because we haue transgressed in not obeying thy voice and in breaking all thy holy commaundementes for wee acknowledge O Lord that euen in our conception we were enfolden in the gylt of condemnation beeing conceiued in sin and borne the children of wrath and from thencefoorth haue wandred in vngodly pathes and in the wayes of destruction sin hauing entred vppon all the partes of our whole man hath wholie corrupted both our wyll and vnderstanding our thoughtes are prophane our imaginations worldlie our desyres carnall and vncleane our iudgments corrupt whereby wee haue beene disobedient to thy heauenlye wyll ignoraunt stubborne malicious impacient enuious full of selfe-loue full of hypocrisie finallye fraught with all euill concupiscences and voyde of grace till thou dyddest touch our hartes by thy Spyrite and worde and calledst vs to sanctification Yea and since thou haste called vs by the preaching of thy Gospell O Lorde what sinnes and corruptions haue clouen vnto vs stil so as the workes of thy grace begunne in vs doo so scarcelie appeare as that thou mayst iustlie withdrawe from vs those graces which thou hast trusted vs with For we confesse we haue abused thy grace receiued neglecting the meanes of our saluation Our zeale is colde our fayth is weake our hope languisheth our repentaunce is maymed and barren not yeelding such fruite as may plainely approue our sanctification VVee are forgetful of thy goodnes and vnthankfull for thy mercies Alas LORD all the coste that thou haste bestowed and charge that thou haste beene at in gyuinge thy sonne Christe Iesus to shed hys deere heart bloode for our synnes hath not gaged our bowelles wyth godlie sorrowe vnto repentaunce nor affected vs wyth loue of thee againe Euen thys Lorde is enough to condemne vs if wee hadde nothinge els to wytnesse againste vs that we so slenderlie account of the death of thy Sonne and so retchleslye and forgetfullye thinke of it Yf thou shouldest forget all our sinnes past the vanities of our former daies and frailtie of our youth that none of these shold be thought vppon yet our present sinnes and slippings sithens our calling would condemne vs downe to hell Yea if our present sinnes should bee passed ouer yet our readines to slide and transgresse in time to come would argue vs guilty of death Yea and more then this Lorde in that wee haue not rightlie sorrowed nor repented vs vnfeynedlie of these euils we stand guiltie before thee as also in that the sinnes of our forefathers wherevnto wee stand intiteled remaine vnsorrowed for by vs the staine whereof hath set a purple ●●e vpon vs so deepe as wee can neuer wash off except thy free pardō all these things call for iudgements not onelie vppon vs but also vppon our posterity Oh how haue we despised thy Lawes howe haue wee neglected the preachinge of thy worde the instrument of our saluation how haue we wayted on our owne lustes seruing as apprentices vnto sinne Howe haue we refused thy counsell and sette instruction at naught we haue set more by the world then by thy word wee haue spent as prodigall children the strength of our young yeeres in vanitie and haue drunke in iniquitie as water our cares haue beene for the world and our owne pleasures and profits not for thy glorie vvee haue murmured grudged when thou hast crossed vs with any affliction or trouble we haue forgotten thee in our prosperitie and growen wanton and vnthankfull Our conscience in trayning vp our families and children in thy feare O Lorde how small hath it beene our selues haue beene ill presidents to them in loosenes of behauiour in idle talkes and iestes that are not comelie VVe haue beene impacient and vnequall in our gouernment to austere in smaller offences against our selues and sometime to remisse in slender passyng ouer of greater offences concerning thy glorie wee haue sought our selues our own commodities not thee wee haue disobeyed our parents and betters so haue left our selues small hope of obedience at the handes of those that are vnder vs. And as for our brethren and neighbours