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A10270	Certayne short questions and answeres Very profitable and necessarye for yong children, and such as are desirous to be instructed in the principles of the Christian fayth.		1580 (1580)	STC 20558; ESTC S105680	4,202	18

is a sure trust in God and in Iesus Christ our Lorde and a certaintie of things promised by God whiche can not otherwise be discerned than with the eye of Faith Question Whence commeth Faith Answere It is the gifte of God as Paule sayth in the second to the Ephes By grace you are saued through Fayth not of our selues it is the gift of GOD. Question Doth Faith only iustifie a man Answere It doth Iustifie Question How is a iustifying faith knowen from a dead fayth Answere By the fruites works which are with faith that iustifieth Question What is Faith withoute good life Answere It is dead Question What are workes without Faith Answere They be sinne be they neuer so glorious before men Question How come men by faith Answere In the tenth to the Romaynes it is shewed that Faith commeth by hearing the Word of God Question Can a man be saued without faith in Christ Answere No for Christ saith Hee that beleeueth not is condēned already These Questions are briefely collected out of the former for the help of such as in a shorte summe are desirous to learne by hearte the chiefe principles of Christian Religion Question WHat is God Answere God is a Spirite Quest How must he be woorshipped Ans In Spirite and truth Quest What is Iesus Christ Ans Christ is perfect God and perfect Man Quest How know you he is God Ans Bycause he is equall with hys Father Quest How know you he is Man Ans Bycause in our nature he redéemed vs from our sinnes Quest What is the Catholike Church Ans All faythfull people dispersed throughout the whole world Quest Art thou the sonne of God Ans I am Quest Art thou the sonne of God by nature or by grace Ans By grace Quest Howe doest thou knowe that thou art the sonne of God by grace Ans The spirit doth witnesse to our spirit that we are the sonnes of God Quest Of what substance is the holy ghost Ans A spirituall substance Quest Of what nature Ans Of one with God Quest Then the holy ghost is God Ans He is so Quest Then there be thrée Gods as God the Father God the Sonne and God the holy Ghost Ans No the distinction is in persons not in deytie as the Catholike Fayth teacheth vs. The conclusion then God the Father is our creator Christ in his person oure Redéemer the holy Ghost who procedeth from both our sanctifier and procéedes from thē as light heate frō the sonne and so lightneth that whole world and remayneth still in God and is very God Qu. What is a sacramēt Answere It is a visible signe of an inuisible grace as for example the water wherewith the childe is baptised is the visible signe of the inuisible grace of God by whose grace these our sinnes he cleansed by Christes bloud so lykewise the sacramentall bread and wine do signifye to vs the body of Iesus Christ naturally and truly both his body broken and his bloud shed vpon the crosse for our saluation Question Do not these Sacraments of themselues conferre grace Answere No we saith S. Iohn Baptise with water we minister the outwarde signes but it is Christe whiche doth Baptise with the holy Ghost and by the outward Elements by vs ministred we do confirme the inward grace which is giuen by God Quest Then of necessitie al are saued whiche participate Baptisme and the Lords Supper Ans So many are saued as are partakers of the inuisible graces whereof the sacraments are visible signes Quest How if a childe borne of beléeuing parents be preuented with deathe before Baptisme and so receiue not the visible signe Ans It is most requisite that we doe preserue it to publike Baptisme by all meanes lawful if not yet they be saued by inuisible grace bycause the children of faithfull beléeuing parents are sanctifyed in their mothers wombes Quest Then what néede Baptisme Ans It is of greate necessitie for the commandements sake Math. 28. and to refuse it is to despise that ordināce of God for although he worke sometime wythout all meanes yet we must not ceasse to vse the meanes appoynted that is to baptise the whole world in the name of the father the sonne and the holy ghost Quest What is Faith Ans It is a sure trust in God and Iesus Christ our Lord. Quest Whence commeth Faith Ans It is the gift of God Quest Doth Faith only iustifie a mā Ans It doth iustifie Quest Howe is a iustifying Fayth knowen from a dead Fayth Ans By the fruites works which are with faith that iustifyeth Quest What is faith without good life Ans It is dead Quest What are workes without faith Ans They be sinne be they neuer so gorgeous before men Quest How come men by faith Ans In the tenth to the Romaines Faith commeth by hearing the word of God Quest Can a man be saued without Faith in Christ Ans No for Christ sayeth He that beleeueth not is condemned already FINIS

Certayne short Questions and Answeres Very profitable and necessarye for yong Children and such as are desirous to be instructed in the principles of the Christian Fayth ⸫ AT LONDON Printed by Henry Middleton for Thomas Man 1580. Certayne short Questions and Answeres very profitable and necessarie for yong Children and such as are desirous to be instructed in the principles of the Christian Fayth Question WHat is GOD Answere A Spirite Question Why doest thou not saye he is Almighty Eternal Omnipotent Inuisible conteyning all and not conteyned Answere All this I do cōfesse But I answere simply as Christ sayth Iohn 4. The substance of God is Spiritual and not Carnall Question How is Man then sayde to be the Image of God Answere It is spoken of the principall part of Man which is his Soule whiche the Apostle sayeth is created in the true likenesse of God in righteousnesse and holynesse so is it like God being both immortall and spirituall a God is Question Then is the Soule of man of one nature and substaunce with God Answere No it is a substance spirituall created of God infused into mā and it is immortall Question How is God to be worshipped Answere In Spirit and Truth Question How in Spirite Answere With a deuoute minde a faithfull heart in a spirituall manner not with earthly affection Question Howe then must hée bée worshipped in Truth Answere That is according to hys holy will in his Word not according to mans fantasie Question Howe if in worshipping of God we be not myndfull of hym in our Prayers Answere Then it is vayne sayeth Christ to worship him with our lippes and oure heartes farre from hym and withoute we pray in Spirite Prayer preuayles not neyther dothe it pearce the eares of God Quest Then a faithful deuout mind is specially required in prayer Ans It is so which God for Christes sake graunt vnto vs. Quest What is Christ Answere Perfecte God and perfecte man Quest Howe doest thou knowe he is God Ans Bycause he is equall wyth hys father Quest Howe knowest thou he is equall with his father Ans Bycause he sayth I and the Father are one also Paule sayth He being equall with his Father tooke vpon hym the shape of a seruant Quest How doest thou know that he is man Ans Bycause he tooke naturall fleshe of the virgin Mary and was conceyued by the holy Ghost withoute sinne and in that naturall body dyed a most paynefull deathe to redéeme vs from our synnes as the Apostle sayeth He came into the world to saue sinners Question What is the Catholique Church Answere It is a congregation of all faithfull men dispersed throughout the whole world amongst whome the pure word of God is preached and the sacramēts are ministred according to Christes institution Question Art thou the child of God Answere I am Question By Nature or by Grace Answere Not by Nature for so we are the children of Gods wrath Quest Now knowest thou that thou art the child of God by Grace Ans Bycause he hath giuen the earnest of his spirit into our hearts which crieth Abba Pater whiche spirite witnesseth to oure spirite that we are the sonnes of God Question Is not this presumption for a sinner to say he is Gods sonne Ans It is no presumption so to say so it be holye presumption to call oure selues Gods children from the testimonie of a good cōscience seing Christ hath willed vs in prayer to call his Father our Father Question Of what substance is the holy Ghost Answere A Spirituall substance as God is Question Of what Nature Answere Being God one of nature with God Question Then the holy Ghost is God Answere He is so Question Thē there be thrée Gods as God the Father God the Sonne and God the holy Ghost Answere No the distinction is in person not in deitie as the Catholique fayth teacheth vs. The conclusion therfore is that God the Father is our Creator Christ in his person is our Redéemer the holy Ghost who procéedes frō both is oure sanctifyer and procéedes from them euen as lighte and heate from the Sonne and yet so lightneth the whole Worlde that it remayneth still with God and is very God Question What is a Sacramente Answere It is a visible signe of an inuisible grace as for example the water wherewith the childe is baptised is the visible signe of the inuisible grace of God by whose grace these our sinnes be cleansed by Christes bloud so likewise the Sacramētal Bred Wine do signifie to vs the body of Iesus Christ naturally and truly his body broken his bloud shed vpō the crosse for our salutiō Question According to this definition Sacramentes be infinite Let me knowe why Baptisme and the Lordes Supper are only alowed Sacramentes in the Church Answere Bycause they be cōmanded by Gods worde haue promises of grace and saluation annexed vnto thē Question Do Sacraments of themselues conferre grace Answere No but God doth by them exhibit graces vnto vs for Iohn sayeth We Baptise with Water we minister the outwarde signes but it is Christ whiche doth Baptise with the holy Ghost and by the outward Elementes by vs ministred we do confirme the inward grace which is giuen by God Quest What be those graces that be conferred from God to vs by these sacraments Ans Regeneration of life increase of spirituall blessings forgiuenesse of sinnes and life euerlasting Quest Then of necessitie all are not saued which participate Baptisme and the Lords Supper Ans So many are saued as are partakers of the inuisible graces whereof the Sacraments are visible signes Quest How if a child borne of beléeuing parents be preuented with death before Baptisme and so receyue not the visible signe Answere It is most requisite that we endeuour to offer them to publique Baptisme by all meanes lawful otherwise if we be hindered by some necessitie not to be shunned yet we oughte to perswade our selues that they are saued by the inuisible grace bycause the children of faithfull beléeuing parents are receiued in the couenaunt and may be sanctifyed in their mothers wombes Question Then what néedeth Baptisme Answere It is of great necessitie for the commaundements sake conteyned in the eight and twentieth of Mathew and to refuse it is to despise the ordinance of God for although he worke sometime without all meanes yet must not we ceasse to vse the meanes appoynted when we are in a Christian Church and may haue them that is to Baptise the whole World in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Question Haue you no further reason for the vse of Baptisme Answere That is said is sufficient yet I doe say further it is the pledge of Gods couenant made with vs and the visible signe of oure adoption that wée are his by Grace and Faith in Christ and the visible marke whereby wée are knowen from the vncircumcised sort Question What is Faith Answere It