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A18174	A short catechisme, or playne instruction, conteynynge the su[m]me of Christian learninge sett fourth by the kings maiesties authoritie, for all scholemaisters to teache. To thys catechisme are adioyned the Articles agreed vpon by the bishoppes [and] other learned and godly men, in the last conuocatio[n] at London, in the yeare of our Lorde, M.D.LII. for to roote out the discord of of [sic] opinions, and stablish the agreme[n]t of trew religion: Likewyse published by the Kinges maiesties authoritie. 1553.; Catechismus brevis Christianae disciplinae summam continens, omnibus ludimagistris authoritate Regia commendatus. English.	Ponet, John, 1516?-1556, attributed name. aut	1553 (1553)	STC 4812; ESTC S119226	42,500	192

Scholer I will proue howe well I can do it your pleasure is maister as I take it that I point ye out some certaine congregation that may be seene Master That it is in dede so it shal be good for y ● to do Scholer That congregation is nothing elsse but a certayne multytude of menne which wher soeuer they be professe the pure vprighte learning of Christ and that in such sort as it is faithfully set fourth in the holye testamēt by the Euangelists and Apostles whiche in al points are gouerned and ru led by the lawes statutes of theyr kinge and hye Byshoppe Christe in the bonde of charity which vse his ho lye misteryes that are commonlie called sacramentes with such purenesse simplicity as touchinge theire nature and substaunce as the Apostles of Christ vsed and left behinde in writing The marckes therefore of this churche are firste pure preachyng of the gospel thē brotherly loue out of which as members of al one body springeth good wyl of eche to other thirdlye vprighte and vncorrupted vse of the Lordes sacraments accordynge to the ordynaunce of the Gospell laste of all brotherlye correction and excōmunication or banishynge those out of the church that wyll not amend their liues This marcke the holye fathers tearmed discipline This is that same churche that is grounded vpon the assured rocke Iesus Christ and vpō trust in hym This is that same church which Paul calleth the piller and vpholding stay of truth To this church belōg the keies whearwyth heauen is locked and vnlocked for that is done by the ministration of the worde wherunto properly appertayneth the power to bynde and louse to holde for gylty and forgiue synnes So that whosoeuer beleueth the Gospell preached in thys church he shal be saued but whoso beleueth not he shal be dāpned Master Now wold I fain heare thy beliefe of the holy ghost Scholer I confesse him to be the thyrd person of the holy trinitie Andsith be is equal with the father the sonne of the verye same nature that he ought egally to bee worshipped with thē bothe Mast. Whi is he called holy Scholer Not onelye for hys owne holynesse but for that by hym are made holye the chosen of God and members of Christe And thearfore haue the scriptures termed him the spirit of sanctification or makyng holy Master Wherin consysteth thys sanctification Scholer Fyrste we be newe gotten by his inward motion And therfor said Christ we muste be newe borne of water and of the spirit Thē by his inspiration are we adopted as it wer bi choise made the chyldren of God For whych cause he is not causelesse called the spirit of adoption By his lyght are we lightened to vnderstand Gods misteryes By hys iudgemēt are sinnes pardoned and reteined By his power is the fleshe wyth her lustes kept downe tamed Bi his pleasure ar the manifold gyftes dealt amonge the holye Finallye by hys meanes shal our mortal bodies be relyued Therfore in the author of so great gifts we do not wythout a cause beleue honor cal vpō him ▪ Master Wel thou hast now said sufficiently of the holly ghost But thys woulde I heare of thee why it immediatelye foloweth that we beleue the holye vniuersall churche and the communiō of Sayntes Scholer These two thinges I haue alwai thoght to be most fitly coupled togither Because the felowshyppes and incorporacions of other men procede and be gouerned by other meanes policies but the church whyche is an assemble of men called to euerlastinge saluacion is bothe gathered together gouerned by the holy ghost of whom we euē now made mention Which thyng sith it can not be perceiued bi bodily sense or light of nature is by right and for good rea son heare reckened amonge thynges that are knowē by beleife And thearfore thys calling togither of the faith full is called vniuersall because it is bonde to no one speciall place For God thorowout al costes of y ● world hath them that worshyppe hym Whych thoughe they be far scattered a sonder by diuerse distāce of countries and dominions yet ar they members most nearlye ioyned of that same bodi wherof Christe is the heade and haue one spirit fayth sacramētes prayers forgiuenesse of sinnes and heauēly blisse common among them all and be so knyt with the bōd of loue that they e●…deuour thēselues in nothyng more than eche to help other and to build together in Christ. Master Seynge thou haste already spokē of the knowledge of god and his members I woulde also heare ▪ what is the true seruyce of God Scholer Fyrst we must consider that the right trewe knowledge of God is the principal and onli fundatiō of Gods seruyce The same knowledge fear doth foster and mayntayne whyche in scriptures is called the begynnyng of wisedōe Faith and hope are the proppes and staies whearupō leane all the rest that I haue rehearsed Furthermore charitie whych we call loue is lyke an euerlastyng bonde by the strayght knot wherof al other vertues be boūd in one together and theyr force encreased These be the inward partes of Gods seruice that is to say whyche consyst in the mynde Master What hast thou to say of the Sabbat or the ho ly dai which euē now thou madest mention of amonge the lawes of the firste table Scholer Sabbat is as much to sai as rest It was apoin ted for onlye honoure and seruice of God and it is a figure of that reast and quiet nes whiche they haue that beleue in Christe For oure trust in Christ doth set our myndes at liberty from all slauishe feare of the law sin deathe and hel assuring vs in the meane season that by him we please God that he hath made vs hys chyldren and heiers of his kingdome wherby thear groweth in our hartes peace and true quietnes of mind whiche is a certayn foretaste of y ● moste blessed quiet whiche we shall haue in hys kyngdome As for those thynges that are vsed to bee done on the sabbothe daye as Ceremonies and exercises in the seruyce of God they are tokens and wytnesses of thys assured truste And mete it is that faithfull Christiās on such daies as are apointed oute for holye thynges shold lay asyde vnholy your kes and gyue them selues earnestly to religion and ser uynge of God Master What be the parts of that outwarde seruynge God whyche thou saydest euen now dyd stand in certain bodily exercises which are also tokēs of the inward seruinge hym Scholer Fyrst to teache and heare the learnynge of the gospel thē the pure and naturall vse of the ceremonies and sacramentes last of all prayer made vnto God by Christe and in the name of Christ which without faile obteineth the holly ghoste the moste assured author of all trew seruynge God and vpryght religion Master Tell me what thou callest sacramentes Scholer

execute moste greuous punyshmente On the other side he that liueth accordynge to the rule of these lawes shal fynde both prayse and blysse and God also hys mercyful and boūtyfull good Lord. Master Thou haste shortlye sette out the. x. commaundementes Now then tell me how all these thinges that thou haste particularlye declared Christe hath in fewe wordes conteyned settyng●… forth vnto vs in a sūme the whole pyth of the law Scholer Wil you that I knit vp in a briefe abrydgement all that belongeth bothe to God to men Master ●…ea Scho. Christ sayeth thus Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God wyth al thy hart wyth all thy soule wyth all thy mynde and with al thy strength Thys is the greatest commaundement in the lawe The other is lyke vn ▪ to this Thou shal●… loue thy neyghbour as thy selfe Up ▪ on these two commaundemētes hang the whole law ▪ and the Prophetes Master I wyll nowe that thou tell me further what lawe is that whyche thou speakest of that whych we call the lawe of nature or some other besydes Scholer I remēber maister that I learned that of you longe ago that it was ingraffed by God in the nature of man whyle nature was yet sounde and vncorrupted But after the ētrā●… of synne although the wyse were somewhat after a sort ●…ot vtterly ignorant of that ●…yght of nature yet was it ●…y that tyme so hydde from the greatest part of mē that they scāt perceyued any shadow thereof Master What is the cause that god willed it to be written out in tables and that i●… should be priuatli appointed to one people alone Scholer I wyll shewe you ▪ By oryginal synn●… and euel custome the image of God in mā was so at the begynning darkened the iudgemēt of nature so corrupted that man him selfe doth no●… snfficiently vnderstād wha●… difference is betwene ho●… stye and dyshonestye rygh●… and wrong The bountyfull God thearefore myndynge to renewe that image in vs fyrst wrought this by y ● law wrytten in tables that wee myght knowe our selues therin as it were in a glasse behold the fylthe and spots of oure soule and stubborne hardnes of a corrupted hert that by thys meane yet acknowledgynge our synne perceiuing the weakenes of our fleshe and the wrathe of God fear●…ely bent agaynste vs for synne we myghte the ●…ore feruently long for oure ●…ior Christ Iesus which ●…y hys deathe and precious ●…prynklynge of hys bloude hath clensed and washed away our sinnes pacified the wrath of the almyghtye father by the holye breathe of hys Spirite createth newe hartes in vs and reneweth our mindes after the image and lykenesse of theyr Creator in true ryghteousnes holynes Whych thyng neither the iustyce of the lawe nor any sacrifices of Moses were able to performe And that no man is made ryghteous bi the law it is euidēt not onelye thereby that the ryghteous lyueth by fayth but also hereby that no mortal man is able to fulfyll all that the law of both the tables commaundeth For we haue hindraūces that striue agaynste the lawe as the weakenes of the fleshe frowarde appetite and lust naturally engēdred As for sacrifice cleansynges washinges and other ceremonies of the lawe they were but shadoes lykenesses images and figures of the trew and euerlastyng sacrifice of Iesus Christ done vppon the crosse By the benefit wherof alone all the synnes of all beleuers euen from the begynnynge of the worlde ▪ ar ●…ardoned by the onlye mercye of God and by no desert of ours Master I heare not yet why almyghty Gods wyll was to declare hys secrete pleasure to one people alone whi che was the Israelites Scholer Forsooth that had I almost forgotten I suppose it was not don for this entent as thoughe the lawe of the. x. commauudements dyd not belong generally to ail men for asmuche as the Lord our God is not onelye the God of the Iewes but also of the Gentiles but rather this was ment thearby that the true Messias whiche is our Christ myght be knowen at hys commynge into the worlde who muste nedes haue beene borne of that natiō and none other for true perfourmannce of the promise For the whych cause Gods pleasure was to appoynt out for hymselfe one certaine people holy sōdred from the rest and as it were peculiarly hys owne That bi this meane his diuine worde might be continually kept holy pure and vncorrupted Master Hitherto thou hast wel satisfied me deare sōne Now lette vs come to the Christian confession whych I wyll that thou playnlye reherse vnto me Scholer It shall be done I beleue in God the father al myghty maker of heauen and earthe And in Iesu Christ hys only sonne our Lorde whych was conceiued by the holy Gost borne of the virgin Mary Suffered vnder Pōce Pilate was crucified dead and buryed He went downe to hell the thyrde daye he rose agayne from the deade He went vp to heauen sytteth on the ryght hande of God the father almighty from thence shall he come to iudge the quycke and the dead I beleue in y ● holy gost I beleue the holy vniuersall church the communion of sayntes the forgeuenes of synnes the rysynge agayne of the flesh the lyfe euerlastynge Master All these my sōne thou hast rehersed generallye and shortelye Therefore thou shalt do wel to set out largelye all that thou hast spokē particularlye that I may playnly perceiue what thy belefe is concerning ech of them And fyrst I wolde heare of the knowledge of god afterward of the right seruing of hym Scholer I wil wyth a good wyl obey your plesure dear Maister as far as my simple wytte wyll suffer me Aboue all thynges we muste stedfastly beleue and holde that God almyghtye the father in the begynnyng of nothyng made fashyoned this whole frame of the world and al things what soeuer are conteined therin and that they all are made by the power of hys worde that is of Iesu Christe the sonne of God Which thing is sufficientlye approued by witnes of scriptures Moreouer that whē he had thus shapen all creatures he ruled gouerned saued them by hys bountie and liberall hand hath ministred yet also ministreth most largelye all that is needefull for mayntenaunce and preseruynge of oure lyfe that we should so vse them as behoueth myndeful and godlye chyldren Master Why dost thou call God father Scholer For two causes the one for that he made vs all at the beginning and gaue life vnto vs all the other is more weyghtye for that by hys holy spirit and by faith he hath begottē vs agayne makynge vs hys chyldren gyuing vs hys kyngdome and the enheritaunce of lyf●… euerlastynge wyth Iesu Christ hys owne trew and naturall sonne Master Seynge then God hath created all other thinges to serue man and made man to obey honour gloryfye him What canst thou say more of the

begynning and makyng of man Scholer Euen that whyche Moses wrote that God shaped the fyrste man of claye and put into hym soule and life thē that he cast Adam in a deade sleepe brought foorth a woman whome he drewe oute of hys syde to make her a companiō with hym of al his life wealth And therfore was man called Adam because he tooke hys beginning of the earth and the womā called Eue. because she was appoynted to be the mother of al liuīg Mast. What image is that after the lykenesse whereof thou sayest that man was made Scholer That is most absolute righteousnesse and perfect holynes whyche moste nearely belongeth to the ●…ry nature of God and mos●… clearely appeared in Christ our new Adā Of the whyche in vs thear scante are to be seen any sparcles Master What ▪ are ther sc●… to be seen Scholer It is true forsooth for they do not now so shi●… as they dyd in the begynning before mans fall for as much as man by the darknesse of synnes and myst of errours hath corrupted the bryghtnesse of thys image In suche sorte hath God i●… hys wrathe wreaked hym vpon the synful man Maister But I pray the tell me wherefore came it thus to passe ▪ Scholer I wyll shewe you When the Lorde God had made the frame of thys world he hym selfe planted a garden full of delyte and pleasure in a certaine place Eastward and called it Eden Wherein besyde other passynge fayre trees not far frō the myddes of the garden was thear one specially called the tree of lyfe and another called y ● tre of knowledge of good euell Herein the Lord of his singuler loue placed man and committed vnto hym the garden to dresse and looke vnto geuynge hym libertie to eate of the fruites of all the trees of paradyse except the fruite of the tree of knowledge of good euell The fruite of thys tree if euer he tasted he shoulde wythout fayle die for it But Eue deceyued by the deuell counterfetynge the shape of a serpent gathered of the forbidden fruite whych was for the fayrenes to the eye to be desyred for the sweetenesse in tast to be reached at and pleasaūt for the knowledge of good euell ▪ and she eate thearof and gaue vnto her housba●… to eate of the same For which doing they both immediatly dyed that is to say were not only subiect to the death of the bodye but also lost the life of the soule whyche is ryghteousnesse And foorthwith the image of God was defaced in thē and the most beautiful proportion of ryghteousnesse holynesse ▪ truth and knowledge of God was confoūded and in a maner vtterly blotted out Thear remayned the earthly image ioyned with vnrighteousnesse guyle fleshly mynde depe ignoraūce of godli and heauenly thinges Hereof grew the weakenes of our flesh●… ▪ hereof came thys corruptiō and disorder of lustes affectiōs hereof came that pestilence hereof came that seede and nurishmēt of sins wherwyth mankynd is infected and it is called synne originall Moreouer therby nature was so corrupted ouerthrowen that vnlesse the goodnes and mercye of almyghty God had holpē vs bi the medicine of grace euē as in bodi we are thrust down into al wretchedness●… of death so muste it needes haue bene that al mē of all sortes should be throwen into euerlasting punyshment and fyre vnquencheable Master Oh the vnthankefulnesse of men But what hope had our first parents and from thence fourth the rest whearby they wear releue●… ▪ Scholer When the Lorde God had both wyth words and dedes chastised Adam and Eue for he thrust them both out of the gardē wyth a most greeuous reproche he then cursed the serpent threatnynge hym that the tyme should one day come when the seede of the ●…omā should breake hys head After ward the Lord God stablyshed that same gloryous and most bountiful promise fyrst with a couenant made betwene hym and Abrahā by circumcision and in Isaac hys sonne then agayne by Moses last of all by the oracles of y e noble prophets Master What meaneth the serpentes head that seede that God speaketh of ▪ Scholer In the serpēts head lieth all his venim●… ●…d the whole pyth of hys lyfe and force Thearfore do I take the serpents head to betok●… the whole power and king dome or more truli the tirānie of the old serpe●…t the deuel The sede as saint ▪ Paul doth plainly teache is ▪ Iesus Christ the sonne of God very God and veri man cōceaned of the holy Gost engendred of the wombe and substaū●…e of Marie the blessed pure vndefiled maide and was so borne ●…ostred by her as other babes de sauinge that he was most far from all infection of synne Master All these founda●…ions that thou hast layed ar most ●…rew Nowe thearfore let vs go forwarde to those hys doinges whearin lie●… our salua●…ion and conquest agaynst that old serpent Scholer It shalbe done good Maister After that Christe Iesus hadde delyuered incharge to his Apostles that most ioyfull and in al pointes heauenlye doctryne the gospell whych in greeke is called Euangelion in Englysh good tidinges and had as by sealyng stablished the same wyth tokens and miracles innumerable whe●… of all hys lyfe was full at lēgth was he sore s●…urged mocked wyth pottyng sco●…nyng and spyttynge in hys face laste of all hys handes and ●…ete bored thorow with nayles and he fastened to a crosse Then he trulye dyed and was truly buryed that by hys moste sweete sacrifice he myghte pacifye his fathers wrath against mākynde and subdue hym by his death who had y e authoritie of deathe which was the deuel forasmuch not onlye the lyuinge but also the deade wear they in hell or elsse whear they all felt the power force of this death to whom lieng in prison as Peter sayeth Christe preached though dead in body yet relyued in Spirite The third daye after he vprose a gayne a lyue in bodye also and wyth manye notable profes the space of .xl. daies he abode among hys disciples eatyng and drynkyng with thē In whose syghte he was conueyed away in a cloud vp into heauen or rather aboue al heauēs wher he now sitteth at the ryght hand of God the father being made Lorde of all thinges be they in heauen or in earth kynge of all kynges our euerlasting onlye hee Bisshoppe our only attournye only mediatour onely●… peace maker betwene God and men Now sithēs that he is entred into his glorious maiestie by sendynge downe his holy spirit vnto vs as he promised he lighteneth our dark blyndnesse moueth ruleth teacheth cleanseth cōforteth and reioyseth our myndes and so will he styll continually do tyll the end of the worlde Master Well I se thou hast touched the chiefe Articles of our religion and hast set out as in a shorte abrydgement the Creede that thou diddest