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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

to God whiche Spirite we receaue by Christ at our regeneration Of this newe man speaketh our Sauiour Christe thus That whiche is borne of the spirite is spirite Also S. Paule Be renued in the spirit of your minde and put on the newe man whiche after God is shapen in righteousnesse and true holynesse Againe put on the newe man which is renued in the knowledge and image of him that made him What is it to denye our selues Playnly to professe that all our laboures and works profit nothing vnto saluatiō to slea the old Adam with al his lusts affectiōs What is it to forsake all that we haue for Christes sake To esteeme al that we haue not to be ours for his sake and willingly if neede so require for the profession of his name to depart from wyfe children parentes freendes countrey house landes and all thinges els that we doo or may enioye yea and to put our selues in danger of all perill for the name of Christ and profession of the Gospell He that loueth father or mother more then me saith Christ is not worthy of me And he that loueth sonne or daughter more then mee is not worthy of me And he that taketh not his crosse and followeth me is not worthy of me He that findeth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for my sake shall finde it Agayne if a man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wyfe and children and bretheren or sisters yea his owne life also he cannot be my disciple And whosoeuer doth not beare his crosse and come after me he cannot be my disciple What is the crosse that we must take vpon on vs Any sorow or payne that belonggeth to any vocation or trade of life for the tryall and profe of our faith and pacience Also it is the correction chastening rodde and staffe of the Lord wherewith he punisheth them whome he loueth not to theyr damnation or vtter casting away from his fauour but to saluation and to teach vs to flye vnto him in our trouble aduersity as children to our most deare louing father What is ment by the name of the Lorde whose glory we must set forth The glory prayse wysedome might power worship honor and maiestie of the Lorde Or the knowledg preaching and aduauncement of his holy worde What is the temple of the holy Ghost An honest godly and faithfull christian hart in the which God is rightly worshipped in spirite and truth wherein are offered spirituall sacrifices of prayse innocencie thankes geuing of an humble and contrite hart whose chiefe corner stone is christ Knowe ye not saith Saint Paule that ye are the temple of God and howe the spirite of God dwelleth in you ▪ If any man defile the temple of God him shall God destroye For the temple of God is holy which temple ye are Saint Peter also sayth Ye as liuing stones are made a spirituall house an holy Priesthode for to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ. What is the kingdome of heauen The kingdome of heauen is diuerslye taken in the Scriptures First for the holy Gospell and worde of God bicause that is the scepter and yron rodde whereby God ruleth reygneth and dwelleth in the hearts of the faythfull Of this kingdome speaketh Christ in the Gospell on this wise I will giue thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen that is to saye I will commit vnto thee the office to preache the Gospell of saluation which openeth and vnlocketh vnto men the waye and doore by the whiche they may be saued and enter into the kingdome of heauen Item the kingdome of heauen is lyke vnto leauen which a woman tooke and hydde in three peckes of meale tyll it were all leauenned Secondlye the kingdome of heauen is taken for fayth it selfe as Saint Paule sayeth The kingdome of heauen is not meate and drinke but righteousnesse and peace and ioye in the holy ghost Thirdlye the kingdome of heauen is expounded the whole congregation of the faythfull abyding in this lyfe in whome the Lorde by his worde and spirite doth inuisibly dwell and reygne Of this kingdome speaketh Christ in the Gospell on this maner The kingdome of heauen is lyke to ten virgines whiche tooke their lampes and went to meete the Brydegrome Fyue of them were wyse and fiue were foolishe c. Fourthlye the kingdome of heauen is taken for the ioye felicitie and pleasure which the soules of the beleeuers enioye when they are departed out of this world and their bodies also ioyned with the soules at the day of Iudgement shall enioy euen in that place which Christ hath prepared for them to possesse where they shall bee comforted with the sight of his Maiestie and Godheade and with the fruition of his perpetuall felicitie with him Of this kingdome speaketh Christ in the Gospell When ye shall see Abraham Isaac and Iacob and the Prophets in the kingdome of God and you to bee driuen out of the dores Finallye the kingdome of heauen is wheresoeuer Gods worde is preached from which kingdome they onely are excluded whiche beleeue not the worde according to this saying of Christ He that is of God heareth the wordes of god But yee heare not bicause yee are not of god Agayne My sheepe heare my voyce Item Euerye one that is of the truth heareth my voyce What meanest thou by a lande that floweth with milke and honie Pleasaunt abundance of all things both sweete and profitable By the honie is vnderstoode sweetenesse ioy gladnesse and pleasure By the milke pure nourishment whereby we still continue growe and increase in fayth and godlynesse vnto the measure of Christ. When shall we enter vppon and enioye this kingdome this promised lande that floweth with milke and honie The church militant in this worlde gouerned by the spirite of their most mightie valiant victorious and triumphant Captayne Christ already enioyeth after a certayne maner in spirite thorowe fayth in this kingdome and blessed lande as it is written He that beleeueth on the Sonne hath euerlasting life Hee that beleeueth not on the Sonne shall not see lyfe but the wrath of God abydeth vpon him But when they are ioyned togither both bodie and soule with the reast of the faithfull congregation which are departed out of this world in the faith of Christ to make one whole tryumphant congregation when they haue by the power of Christe conquered the malignant church of the deuill which shall be at the last day of iudgement which we doo dayly looke for nowe in these latter times then shall they truely and perfectly enioye and possesse all the ioyes and pleasures of that most ioiful and pleasant lande whereof Dauid speaketh on this manner I beleeue to see the good things of the Lorde in the land of the liuing Nowe we see in a glasse sayth the Apostle euen in a

the number of the leaues be considered but yf the matter therof be diligently pondered it shal be found both great profitable Thus for this present taking my leaue of you I vvysh to you and to the vvhole Tovvne all good and prosperous things both for your bodyes soules most humbly beseeching God to finishe that good vvoorke vvhich he hath begun in you vnto the glory of his name vnto the profite of his holy congregation Amen From my house at Caunterbury the fyrst of September 1563. The Demaundes of holy Scripture WHO did create vs God who also made al the world of nought What things damned vs Sinne. In so much as Adam did eate by the perswasion of Eua of the Apple forbidden him of god For sinne is the breaking of the commaundementes of GOD. Who redemed vs and set vs in the fauour of GOD againe Iesus Christ by takyng our nature on him What is God vnto vs Whereas before he was a seuere straight Iudge through Christe he is become our most louing tender and mercifull father What are we His dearely beloued children What thing is GOD An infinite substaunce which onely with his word of might did create and make all thinges and with his most high and incomparable wisedome gouerneth all thing and of his inestimable goodnesse suffereth and preserueth all thing I call that infinite both which hath neyther beginning nor ending and that which can not be comprehended nor compassed by mans braine what thing it is And in both these significacions God is infinite Furthermore that is to euery man god or a god that he loueth dread●th and worshippeth with all his hart The Scripture also calleth the Iudges and Officers of the earth gods What is a strange God or an other God What soeuer thing we worshyp besides the very lyuing god And that also that doth alienate and turneth our harte from Gods worde is called a strang or an other God. What thing is fayth It is a full and perfite confidence and trust in God through Christe ingendred in our harte by hearing the worde of God and as Paul defineth faith Faith is a sure confidence of thinges which we looke for and the certaintie of promises What is hope A styffe and firme expectacion of such thinges as be promised vs of the worde of GOD. What is charitie The principall fruite of faith a prompte and redy wyll to doo good to our neighbour Otherwhyles the workes of mercie are called charitie What is the lawe It is the liuely wyll of God geuen vs by commaundement as well in the newe testament as in the olde whose worke and operacion is to shewe sinne to shewe that God is angry with vs for our euill doing and dayly transgression of his commaundement whose duty is to accuse vs in our conscience to cast vs downe and make vs seeme vyle nought worth in our sight and by this meanes eyther bringeth vs to vtter desperacion or els leadeth vs as it were by the hande to Christe the only true pacifier of the conscience What is the Gospel It is a glad tiding Or els you may call it euery promise that God made of Christe and of other his good benefites wherby the cloudes of the conscience be put awaye and mans minde erected and made mery whether these promises be in the new testament or in the old Paule saith it is the power of God where by all that beleeue are brought to healthe and sauegarde What is it to be a godly man or who is godly He or shee that hath faith and the feare of God before their eyes Who is wicked or vngodly He or shee that beleeueth not the promise of God and that hath not the dreade of God before them Who is a Christian man He that beleeueth on Christe and liueth according to his worde Who is an Ethnike or Miscreant He that vseth not those lawes and ordinaunces and hath not the faith that we haue Or els he that seeketh to be saued by some other meanes then by Christ. Who is an Heretik He which thinketh and styfly mainteineth any thing against the doctrine of faith that is to say the word of God. Marke here the word of God to be called the doctrine of faith because faith draweth from no whence els her principles then from the worde of god Because she only learneth marketh and beareth away the word of God. What is the kingdome of Heauen It is where the word of God is truly preached and receiued and where it beareth fruite meete for the doctrine whose king and Lord is Christ. What is the worlde An heape and mustre of men without the word of God among whom the word of God is despised and persecuted where is a rablement of al vices whose Prince and God is Sathan In some place it is called an hot boyling Sea which can not rest and be asswaged What is the word of God It is the decreed sentence word and will of God expressed and left behind of the Prophetes and Apostles to vs in the canonical bookes of the newe testament and the old whiche word he that reciueth that is to say knowledgeth in his hart to be true and holy and liueth according to it receiueth God and he that refuseth it despiseth God and as much as lieth in him he maketh God a lyer The word of God hath sundry names in Scripture as the sword of the spirite a two edged sword a fire sword an iron wal a strong hold a well fensed towre consuming fire It is also called whete the rod of the mouth of the Lord the breth of the mouth of the Lorde a mysterie an oracle the print or secreat wyll of the Lord. What are mans tradicions What soeuer mans reason hath or doth imagen without the word of God and ordeyneth and wylleth it to be reputed and taken as good godly and pleasant in the sight of god They be called in Scripture Cocle and Chasse Of these speaketh Christe where he saith They do serue me in vaine whyle they teach such doctrine as are nothing but the commaundementes of men Who be good Only God is good Notwithstanding because all they that haue the spirite of God and are ruled by his word be of the flocke of God and vnder his keeping therefore God doth communicate and imparte his goodnesse to them and so they be called good as theyr Father Lord and Gouernour is Who be euill They that haue not the spirite of God nor be ruled by his word whether they liue vpright outwardly and according of the letter of the lawe as Cato Socrates and they that be counted good and vertuous among the Turkes and Iewes or els they that be open transgressours of the lawe For in Christ only is saluacion and remission of sinnes And vnto that time that our

as the floure of the grasse c. Knowing and acknowledging with S. Paule that wee haue here no certaine abyding place but seeke for one to come againe that as we brought nothing into the world so shall we cary nothing out of it but hauing meate drinke and cloth we ought to be content and abundantly satisfied forasmuch as godlynesse is great riches yf a man be content with that he hath What is thankes giuing to God To remember the benefites of the Lord confessing and acknowledging al to come of him offryng him our whole hart loue seruice for the same What is innocencie A mind or conscience giltie of no sinne which commeth through faith in Iesus Christ as the Apostle sayth we being iustified by faith are at peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ by whome also it chaunced vnto vs to be brought in through fayth vnto this grace wherein we stand and reioyce in the hope of the glory of God. What is fasting To beware that wee oppresse not the bodie and so by that meanes the minde also with surfetting drunkennesse and excesse as our Sauiour Christ sayth Take heede to your selues least at any time your hearts be ouercome with surfetting drunkennesse cares of this lyfe c. Agayne to liue chastly purely and soberly to abstayne from vices to bring oure bodie into bondage to the spirite and the spirite to God to minister to the bodie only y that is necessarie to mortifie the flesh with the affections and lustes of the same The right abstinence from meates taken as a way or helpe to the abstinence from sinne consisteth not in the qualitie but in the quantitie of the meat not what but how much meat drink thou receyuest For whether fasteth more aright he that moderately receyueth of flesh or he that cloyeth himselfe with fish ▪ All things are pure to them that are pure sayth the Apostle All the creatures of God are good and nothing to bee refused if it be receiued with thankesgiuing For it is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer Why then is this lawe so earnestlye established with such penaltie vpon it that wee eate no fleshe on Fridayes or other dayes appointed to abstayne from the same I take that as a ciuile positiue Lawe lyke to the actes of Parliament made for sundrie and diliers purposes concerning the state of a Realme and for the wealth of the same For if it were anye lawe of God binding our conscience no King nor Pope myght dispence with the breaking of it What is prayer To call vpon the name of the Lorde assuredly trusting to obtayne that we require so that wee aske of him in his sōnes name and none other that thing whiche he will to bee required and none other that eyther for obtayning of good things auoyding of euill or releasing and forgiuenesse of euill and sinnes past Whatsoeuer ye aske in my name sayeth Christ that will I doe that the Father maye bee glorified by the Sonne If ye shall aske any thing in my name I will do it Again verilye verilye I say vnto you Whatsoeuer ye shall aske the Father in my name he will giue it you And Saynt Iohn in his Epistle sayth This is the truste that we haue in him that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth vs And if we knowe that he heareth vs we knowe that we haue the petitions that wee desire of him What is obedience A lowlye and hartie submission of our selues to God and afterwarde to oure Parentes to the Magistrates to oure Superiours and to all those to whome God hath committed the rule and gouernance of his flocke and people in this worlde or in iust causes to all them to whome we be by anye title inferiour But what yf our Superiours wyll enforce vs to obey them in vniust causes In this behalfe we owe them no obedience God is the highest Magistrate If any inferiour Magistrate commaundeth any thing contrary to his godly commaundement and blessed wyll we must aunswere with the apostles Oportet deo magis obedire quam hominibus We must obey God more then men Examples hereof we haue many and diuers both in the olde and in the newe Testament What is humilitie A subiection of the proud hauty courage of our mind shewing our selues inferior to all men presuming in nothing esteming our selues worse then all men in our owne conceates And this is that which the apostle saith In giuing honor goe one before an other Againe be not hye minded but make your selues equall to them of the lower sorte Be not wyse in your owne conceates Hereto agreeth the saying of S. Peter submit your selues euery man one to an other Knit your selues togeather in lowlynesse of mind For God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble Submit your selues therefore vnder the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you when the time is come What is pacience Willingly without resistance eyther in thought word or deede to suffer vndeserued punishment after the example of Christ which prayed for them that persecuted and moste cruelly tormented him This pacience is described of S. Peter in his first Epistle where he sayth seruauntes obey your maisters with feare not only yf they be good and courteous but also though they be froward For this is thanke worthy yf a man for conscience toward God endure griefe and suffer wrong vndeserued For what prayse is it yf when ye be buffeted for your faultes ye take it paciently But and yf when ye doo well ye suffer wrong and take it paciently then is there thanke with god For hereunto verely were ye called for Christe also suffered for vs leauing vs an example that we should follow his steppes whiche did no sinne neyther was there guile found in his mouth which when he was reuiled reuiled not againe when he suffred he threatned not but committed the vengeance to him that iudgeth righteously c. What is the olde man that we must put of The naughty corrupt and rotten nature which sithens the fall of Adam we haue lineally at our first generation receaued of our parentes through the corruption of the first roote Adam Or thus the noughty concupiscence lust to sinne and affection of our fleshe without faith of this olde man speaketh our Sauiour Christ on this maner That which is borne of flesh is fleshe And except a man be borne from aboue he cannot see the kingdome of god Also the Apostle Laye from you the olde man which is corrupt according to the deceauable lustes Againe put of the olde man with his workes What is the newe man that we must doo on The renewyng of man by fayth and the word of God the spirite of God geuen by Christ our spirituall and second Adam Agayne to tame the old man our fleshely and first Father Adam to beget vs agayne and adopte vs