doth God forbid in this commaundement Answere The Lord in this commaundement forbiddeth and condemneth al (2) Leuit. 24.11.14.16 blaspheming of the name of God all (3) Leuit. 19.12 zach 5.3 mal 3.5 periury or forswearing and al vnlawfull or vaine swearing be it by the name of God directly or indirectly by his (4) Math. 5.34 23.22 creatures and all abuse of his holy name by (5) Exod. 22.18 micha 5.12 mal 3.5 witchcraft sorcery or charming or cursed speaking or in any wise to thinke or speak of the name of God without great reuerence of his maiesty Question What doth the Lord require of vs in this commaundement Answere That whensoeuer we be required to take an othe for confirmation of truth to the glory of God or the profit of our brethren we should with al reuerence call (1) Deut. 6.13 iere 4.2 heb 6.16 God to witnesse for the truth and that when we either speake or thinke of him we should do it with all (2) Iere. 10.6.7 psalm 8.1 reuerence of his maiesty And to stirre vs to fly these euils and to moue vs to vse his holye name in all reuerence he threatneth that he will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine but culpable of the (3) Deu. 28.26.27 cursse of God and eternall damnation Question Rehearse the fourth Commaundement Answere Remember thou keepe holy the sabboth day Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do But the seuenth day is the sabboth of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no maner of worke thou and thy some and thy daughter thy man seruaunt and thy mayde seruaunt thy cattell and the straunger that is with in thy gates For in sixe dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day Wherefore the Lorde blessed the seuenth day and hollowed it Question What doth the Lord require of vs in this commaundement Answere That we should sanctifie the sabboth day in (1) Exo. 16.26 deut 5.4 resting from our owne bodilie labours in worldly thinges And in one place to assemble our selues togeather with feare and reuerence (2) Math. 13.54 luk 4.16 acts 20.7 to heare marke and lay vp in our harts the worde of God preached and taught vnto vs. And to pray (3) 1. Cor. 14.15 togeather in one consent vnity of spirite And at the times appointed to vse the (4) 1. Cor. 11.23.28.29 sacraments in faith and repentaunce And all our life to rest from (5) Heb. 4.9.10 11. wickednes that the Lorde by his holy spirite may worke in vs his good worke that so we may begin in this life the euerlasting rest (6) Exo. 20. deut 5. To stirre vs vnto these dueties the Lorde setteth forth the example of his owne rest c. Answere Rehearse the fift commandement Question Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may belong in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee Question What vnderstandest thou by honour Answere Feare reuerence and loue shewed foorthe (1) Leu. 19.3 eph 6.1 colo 3.10 by obedience to their commaundementes by assisting them in al good by (2) Mat. 15.6 rereleeuing them in their necessities The vices contrary are condemned Question What vnderstande you by father and mother Answere Not onely natural parents but also all (3) Exo. 22.28 leu 19.32 rom 13.1 magistrates and gouernours pastours or ministers and scholemaisters (4) Eph. 5.6 col 3.28 maisters of housholdes and all superiours ordeined of God to the defending and guiding of their inferiours To stirre them to the obedience of this commaundement the Lord addeth his promise to blesse them with long life Question Rehearse the sixt commandement Answere Thou shalt do no murther Question What doth the Lorde forbid and condemne in this commaundement Answere The Lord in this commandement forbiddeth not onely all vnlawful (1) Gen 9.6 murther or killing in act but also all hatred (2) Leuit. 19.17.18 mat 5.22 1. iohn 3.15 malice anger and all desire of vengeance And all quarelling fighting mocks and taunts proceeding of the same and all occasions of prouoking to anger c. Question What is required in this commandement Answere That we should (3) Math. 5.44 rom 12.17.18.19 loue our neighboures as our selues which must be shewed in care to preserue life in helping releeuing and comsorting one another Question Rehearse the seuenth commaundement Answere Thou shalt not commit adultery Question What doth the Lorde forbid and condemne in this commaundement Answere Not onely al adultery and fornication and vnlawful society of man and woman (1) Leui. 18.20 20.10 deut 23.17 in act but also all vnchaste (2) Math. 5.28 thoughts and vnlawful lusts of the hart and al occasions that might serue to prouoke thereunto Question What is required in this commandement Answere That we should lead our liues in all (3) 1. Cor. 6.15.19 1. thes 4.4 chastity both in soules and bodyes as pure Temples of the holy Ghost c. Question Which is the eight Commaundement Answere Thou shalt not steale Question What doth God forbid and condemn in this commaundement Answere Firste all robbing and stealing in acte (1) Leu. 19.11 Secondly all extorcion and oppression (2) 1. The 4.6 eph 4.28 Thirdly all deceipte in bying and selling (3) Ephe. 3.5 and vnlawfull desire to enrich our selues with hurt or losse of our neighbours Question What is required of vs in this commaundement Answere Firste that we bee (4) 1. Tim. 6.6 content with that portion which God hach giuen vs not seeking to augment it by vnlawfull meanes Secondly that euery one of vs (5) 2. The. 3.10 trauell faithfully in his calling Thirdly to be (6) 1. Tim. 6.18 eph 4.28 heb 13 16. helpfull to them that neede Question Which is the ninth Commaundement Answere Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour Question What is forbidden and condemned in this commandement Answere First wee are forbidden to speake falsely in (1) Exo. 23.1 pio 19.5 iudgement when wee be requires to beare witnesse Secondly all (2) Psal 15.3 ephe 4.25 backbiting of any man al lying flattering or dissembling Thirdly it is forbidden to speake euill of our brethren for priuate offences (3) Math. 18.15 if by priuate admonitions they may be won Question What is required of vs in this commaundement Answere The vertues which bee contrary to these vices as to speake truth in witnesse bearing to haue like regard to the (4) Mat. 7.12 credite of others as we woulde they should haue of ours Question Which is the tenth Commaundement Answere Thou shalt not couet thy neighbors house thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife his seruaunt his mayde his ore his asse nor any thing that is his Question What doth the Lord forbid and condemne in this commaundement Answere All euill
cor 14.16 Of the grace of God Question How is that obtayned Answere By prayer made in Christes name Question Then that we eate not or drink not vnworthily and so haue damnation it is good we come together in prayer ioyning with the Minster in the congregation that we worthily take it Answere God graunt vs so to do Amen W. HORNE A moste easy and plaine instruction for all Christians Question VVhether arte thou a sinner or not Answere I am a sinner by nature a (1) Rom. 3.9 eph 2.1.3 1 Iohn 1.8 childe of wrath most worthie of eternal damnatiō Question How becamest thou a sinner and childe of wrath Answere By the fal and transgression (2) Gen 3.6 of Adam (3) Psal 51.5 rom 5.12 for we comming of him that was corrupt are corrupt as he was Question What is sinne Answere Sinne is the transgression of the (4) 1. Ioh. 2.4.15 law of God (5) Mat. 5.22.27 12.36 iam 3.2 be it either by thought word or deede Question By what means commeth the knowledge of sinne Answere By the law (1) Rom 5.20 7.7 of God Question What is the reward of sinne Answere The rewarde of sinne (2) Rom. 6.23 math 25.41 is eternall death Question What is the remedy and meanes to be deliuered from that eternall death which sinne deserueth Answere (3) Ioh. 14.6.25 Onely our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ (4) Rom. 4. who hath dyed to deliuer vs from our sinnes and rose againe to iustifie vs. Question By what means shal we know that the death of Christ is profitable for vs to deliuer vs from our sins and to reconcile vs to God Answere (5) Ioh. 6.3.16 acts 13.39 rom 3.25 By faith which Gods spirit worketh in our hearts Question What is the means to come to faith whereby we apprehend Iesus Christe with his righteousnesse Answere (1) Rom. 10.17 acts 2.37.38.41 1. cor 4.15 The means to come to faith and to haue the same increase in vs is the ministery of the worde or Gospell of God and the Sacraments with continuall and hearty prayer to God for his grace and blessing in the same Question Seeing that by the law commeth the knowledge of sinne and the ten commaundements containe the summe of the law it shall be profitable to know what sinnes the Lord condemneth and forbiddeth and what vertue he requyreth in each commaundement Therefore rehearse the commaundements Answere (2) Exod. 20. deut 5. Heare O Israel I am the lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egipt and out of the house of bondage c. Question What doth the Lorde teach vs by this preface Answere In that he saith (1) Gen. 17.1 leuit 19.12 20.17 deut 32.39 I am the Lord thy God he sheweth his almighty power and excellent maiestie Also the high authoritie hee hath ouer his people And when he sayth he brought them out of the land of (2) Esai 1.2 5. 4. ezek 16. rom 2.4 Egipt and out of the house of bondage He setteth foorth his infinite goodnesse and so giueth a reason to stir vp the people of Israel vnto the obedience of his lawes vnles they will shew them selues both rebellious and disobedient to his power and authoritie and vnthankfull for his goodnes So (3) Rom. 9.25 1. pet 2.10 now seeing the lord hath deliuered vs out of the bondage of sinne and from the tyrannie of the Deuill and blesseth vs with his manyfold benefites both for our bodyes and soules the same reason serueth no lesse for vs then it did for them Question Rehearse the first commaundement Answere Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me Question What doth the Lorde requyre of vs in this commaundement Answere First that we shoulde acknowledge him to be the (1) Iam. 1 17. fountaine and giuer of all good thinges (2) Psa 115.3.135.6 eph 1.11 and the preseruer and gouernour of all things Secondly (3) Deut. 10.12 mal 1.6 that we feare reuerence and loue him aboue all things Thirdly that our (4) Ier. 17.7 eph 1.12.13 trust and confidence be fixed and stayed in him onely Fourthly that we (5) Psal 50.15 rom 10.12 iam 1.5 call vpon him in faith for what soeuer thinges we stande in need of either for our soules or bodies Fiftly that we (6) Psal 50.14 ephe 5.20 thes 5.18 heb 13.15 be thankful to him for all his giftes Question What sinnes doth the Lorde forbid and condemn in this commandement Answere All those which bee contrary to the vertues required As not to (7) Esai 31.1.2 ie 17.5 48 7. acknowledge him to be the fountaine and giuer of all good-thinges the preseruer and gouernour of all thinges or to attribute the same to anye other or to transfer that fear reuerence and loue trust or confidence that is due to God to any thing els whatsoeuer it be or in our necessity to call vppon any other c. Question Rehearse the second commaundement Answere Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen image nor the likenes of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath nor in the water vnder the earth thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God and visite the sinnes of the fathers vppon the Children vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy vnto thousandes of them that loue me and keepe my commaundements Question What sin doth God forbid and condemne in this commaundement Answere That we shoulde thinke God to be like either man or woman or any other creature whatsoeuer it be (1) Deu. 4.15.16 esa 40.18 1. tim 6.16 and therefore the we make no image of God to expresse him by Secondly that we make no image of any other thing for religion either to worship (2) Exo. 32. psa 97.7 106.36 the image it self either God saint or angel by the image neither yet to this ende to be the better put in mind of God by the image Question What doth God require of vs in this commaundement Answere That we should worship God (3) Ioh. 4.23 deut 5.32.12 32. according to his worde and ordinaunce and not after (4) Esay 29 13. mat 15.9 our fantasies or commandementes of men Question What haue we to learne by the the addition Answere In the same the Lorde doth stirre vs to the obedience of his commaundementes by a dubble reason of the one side to flye sinne for (5) Exod. 34.7 Leuit. 26.14 deut 28.15 luk 13.3 feare of his iuctice and on the other to follow vertue for the (1) Leuit. 26.3 deut 28.1 esai 1.19 mat 5.3.7 promise of his mercie Question Rehearse the third commandement Answere Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vaine for the Lorde will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine Question What
sinne in his members And he was buried for a confirmation of the trueth of his death And when it is sayde hee descended into hell I learne that he suffered not onely the torments of body due to our bodyes but also the torment and anguishe (5) Esay 53 10. luk 22.44 mat 27.46 of soule and conscience to deliuer our soules yea that he hath humbled him selfe to beare the payne and tormentes of hell for the tyme for our saluation In that Christ rose againe the third day from the dead First I learne that he hath (1) 1. Cor. 15.57 rom 4.25 ouercome death and hell for my iustification Secondly I learne to rise from sin (2) Rom. 6.4 col 3.1 to follow righteousnesse Thirdly by the resurrection of christ we haue a gage and testimony of our resurrection that we shal (3) 1. Cor. 15.16 rise again at the last day In that he is ascended into heauen I learne that his ascention is a pledge to vs that we shal ascend (4) Iohn 14.3 after him thither where he is And in that he sitteth at the right hand of God I learne that al power is giuen vnto him in heaueu and earth and that he al (5) Mat. 28.18 ephe 1.20 creatures subiect vnto him that he (6) Rom. 8.32 maketh intercession for vs. In that which he sayde that Christ shal come to iudge the quicke and dead First I learn that he which (7) Iob. 19.25 math 19.28 shal be iudge is our sauiour and therefore his comming shal be for our saluation Secondly to the (8) 2. The. 1.8 rom 1.7 math 25.41 terrour of the vngodly that he shal be their iudge whom they haue refused and dispised Question What learne you in the third part Answere First I learne that the holy Ghost is very God (1) Mat. 28 19. ioh 14.26 equall with the father and the sonne and that he printeth in our harts the (2) Eph 1.13 4.30 promises of God made vnto vs in Iesus Christ and beareth (3) Rom. 8.16 witnesse to our spirits that we are the children of God And worketh in vs the (4) Rom. 8,10 ephe 4.23 hatred of sinne stirreth vs vp to holinesse of life Question What learne you in the fourth part Answere Firste I acknowledge and beleeue that God hath a Catholique that is to say an (5) Mat. 28.19 act 10.35 vniuersal Church which is the number of Gods elect (6) 1. Kin. 19.18 rom 11.4 ephe 1.4 people that he hath chosen out of al Nations to eternal life and (7) Eph. 5.26.12 sanctified in Iesus Christ And in this Church there is a (8) 1. Cor. 12. eph 4.13 communion and fellowship of Saintes and true faithful people all which the Lord (9) 2. Tim. 2.19 knoweth to be his of which number I beleeue my selfe to be one Question What difference is there betweene the inuisible Church and the visible Answere The inuisible Church comprehendeth all the electe of God from the beginning of the worlds vnto the ende thereof And the visible Church are those that yet remayne in this vale of misery holding the profession of faith and the doctrine of Iesus Christ Now the markes to know the visible Church are the true (1) Math. 28.19 preaching of the Gospel or worde of God the right administration of the (2) 1. Cor. 11.23 sacraments (3) 2. Cor. ◠5 and discipline In these wordes the forgiuenesse of sinnes I learne that both I my selfe (4) 1. Iohn 1.7 reui 1.6 and al that truely beleeue in Iesus Christ are so washed and clensed from their sinnes and haue them so forgiuen in Christ that they shall (5) Iete 31.31 heb 8.12 neuer be layd vnto their charge And in these wordes the resurrection of the body and the life euerlasting I learne that these mortall bodyes of the faithfull (1) Iob. 19.25 dan. 12.2 i. cor 15.42 shall be raysed vp at the last day and shall be couered againe with their skin and shal be made like to the glorious body of Iesus (2) Phil. 3.22 dani 12.3 christ according to his mightye working whereby he is able to subdue al things vnto him selfe And after this resurrection shall enioy (3) Math. 25.46 col 3.4 euerlasting life with Christe in the glory of his Father Question By what meanes is this faith maintayned increased and strengthened in vs Answere The ordinay meanes are First the (4) Rom. 10.17 preaching of the word as is the shewed before Secondly the true vse of the (5) Mat. 26.26 28.29 sacraments (6) 2. Cor. 5.5 Thirdly discipline The (7) Mat. 6.6 mar 11.24 fourth earnest prayer Question What is a sacrament Answere A Sacrament is a visible signe ordayned (8) Mat. 28.19 mat 26.26 mar 1.4 1. cor 11.26 〈◊〉 God to confirme our faith in the truth of his promises concerning his inuisible graces in Christ Iesus with a mutuall protesting of the honour that we beare vnto him Question How many sacraments hath Christ ordayned in his Church Answere Two Baptisme and (1) Math. 28.19 26.26 the supper of the Lord. Question How many parts are there in a Sacrament Answere Two the outward signe and the inuisible grace Question What is the outward signe in Baptisme Answere (2) Mat. 3.11 Water wherwith the partie to be baptised is dipped or sprinckled in the name (3) Math. 28.19 of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Question What is the inuisible grace in Baptisme Answere First it signifieth that as our bodies are washed with water so our (1) Mar. 1.4 acts 2.38 sins are washed away and forgiuen vs by the bloud of Christ Secondly it setteth before vs our regeneration (2) Rom. 6.3.4 tit 2.5 or spirituall newe birth to be shewed forth in dying vnto sinne and rising to newnesse of life Question What is the outwarde signe in the Lordes supper Answere Bread and wine (3) Mat. 26.26.27 both of which the Lord hath expresly commanded al to receiue Question What is the inuisible grace signified by the bread and wine Answere The body (4) Luke 22.19 1. cor 11.25 of Christe broken and his bloud shed for vs together with al the benefites of his passion Question How are the outward signes receiued Answere They are receiued with the hande eaten (1) 1. Cor. 11.14 with the mouth and disgested with the stomack Question How are the inuisible graces receiued Answere They are receiued onely by (2) Ioh. 6.35.53.54.55 faith whereby we feed of them as of a foode giuen vs of euerlasting life Question Why did God choose those creatures of Bread and Wine to represent vnto vs the bodye and blood of Christe rather then anye other earthly creatures Answere Because there are none other earthly creatures that can so aptly represent vnto our outwarde senses those thinges that God woulde haue vs to learne by this