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A17478 A briefe and necessarie catechisme, concerning the principall poynts of our Christian religion Written for the good of all such as seeke after consolation in Christ. By R.C. R. C., fl. 1602.; Greenham, Richard, attributed name. aut 1574 (1574) STC 4296; ESTC S115042 20,180 63

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haue in Christ all that the Law requireth But yet they remayne transgressors of the Law. They are transgressors in themselues and yet righteous in Christ and in their inner man they loue righteousnesse and hate sinne VVhat then is the state of the faithfull in this life They are sure in Christ and yet fight against sinne VVhat fight haue they 1 Within they haue the battaile of the flesh against the spirit 2 Without the temptations of sathan and of the world How shall they ouercome By a liuely faith in Iesus Christ. VVhat call you the flesh The corruption of our nature wherein we were borne and conceiued Doth that remaine after regeneration Yea it dwelleth in vs and cleaueth fast vnto vs so long as we carry the outward flesh about vs. How doth the flesh fight against the spirit By continuall lusting against it and that is two waies 1 By hindering or corrupting vs in the good motions works deeds of the spirit 2 By continuall moouing vs to euill motions words and déeds What call you the spirit The holy spirit which God in Christ hath giuen vs wherby we are begottē againe Doe wee not receiue the spirit in full measure and in perfection at the first No But first wee receiue the first fruits afterward daily increases of the same vnto the end if that fault be not in vs. How doth the spirit fight in vs. By lusting against the flesh and that is also two waies 1 Partly by rebuking and partly by restrayning in vs the euill motions and déeds of the flesh 2 By continuall inlightening vs affecting vs with thoughts words déeds agreeable to Gods will. What call you the world The corrupt state condition of men and the rest of the creatures How doth the world fight against vs. By alluring and drawing vs to the corruptions thereof and the meanes it vseth héerein are two 1 Oft times by false pleasures profit and glory of this world from our obedience to God. 2 Oft times it draweth vs by paines and losses and reproches to distrust Gods promises How shall we ouercome the pleasures profit and glory of this world 1 By a true faith in Iesus Christ who desposed all these things to work our saluation and to make vs able to ouercome them 2 By a faith in Gods word that feareth vs from doing any thing that is against his will. How shall we ouercome the paines losses and reproches of this world 1 By a liuely faith in Iesus Christ who suffered all these things to worke our saluation and inableth vs to suffer them 2 By a stedfast faith in Gods prouidence that we shall want no good thing and that all things soeming hurtful shall be turned to the furtherance of our saluation What call you sathan The aduersarie and enemie of God and his people How doth he fight against vs 1 By subtilty alluring vs to sinne and therefore he is called a tempter and a Serpent 2 By laying fearfully to our charge our sinnes committed and therefore he is called the deuill that is an accuser 3 By séeking by manifold inward terrors and outward troubles to swallow vs vp and therefore hee is called a roaring Lyon. How shall we fight against him and his temptations 1 By faith in Iesus Christ who ouercame all his temptations in his owne person to the end we might ouerthrow him 2 By resisting the inward motiens and outward occasions of sinne How shall we doe that By beleeuing that we are baptised into the death and resurrection of Christ. How shall we ouercome sathan and his accusations 1 By faith in Iesus Christ who hath iustified vs for all the sinne for the which he can accuse vs. 2 By all those comfortable promises of the forgiuenes of sins which in Christs name is made vnto vs. How shall we ouercome him in our terrors and troubles 1 By faith in Iesus Christ who was heard in all his terrors and troubles to giue vs an assurance that we shall not be ouercome by them 2 By faith in Gods prouidence wherby we knowe that he can doe no more vnto vs then the Lord doth direct for our good VVe haue hard that the word is the first chiefe means not only to beget but also to strengthen and increase faith in vs what is the next principall meanes That is Prayer chiefly seruing for the strengthning and increasing of faith vvhat is Prayer Prayer is a lifting vp of the minde and a powring out of the hart before God. Is there any prescript rule of Prayer left vs in the Scriptures Yea euen that which our Sauiour Christ taught his disciples called the Lords Prayer Is it lawfull to vse no other manner of words Yea we may vse an other forme but we must pray for the same things and with like affection as are prescribed ther. How is that Prayer deuided Into three parts 1 The preface or enterance thereto 2 The prayer it selfe 3 The cōclusion or shutting vp of that same vvhich is the Preface Our Father which art in heauen vvhat doth this put vs in minde of 1 Of him to whom we pray 2 Of our owne estate in prayer To whom doe we pray To God the Father the Sonne and the the holy Ghost vvhy doe you heare name the father Because discerning the persons wee pray vnto the father secretly vnderstanding that wee doe so in the mediation of his sonne by the working of the holy Ghost vvhy must we pray to the father in the mediation of Christ his Sonne Because God beeing displeased for sinne we can haue no dealing with him but only by the meanes of his sonne in whom he is well pleased vvhy must we pray by the working of the holy Ghost Because the holy ghost assureth vs that God is our Father whereas we know not what to pray nor how he teacheth vs. vvhat must we be perswaded of our owne estate in prayer Partly concerning our selues and partlie concerning others VVhat perswasion must wee haue touching our selues We must be truly humbled and withall haue a certaine confidence that wee shall be hard How shall we be truly humbled 1 With a perswasion of our sinfull miserie and vnworthines to be holpen 2 With a most certaine perswasion of the most glorious Maiestie of God in heauen that must helpe vs. How shal we be assured that we shall be heard 1 By being perswaded that God loueth vs as his own children in our Lord Iesus Christ. 2 By faith being perswaded that God our Father is able to doe whatsoeuer he will in heauen and earth What must wee be perswaded concerning other 1 That all Gods people pray for vs. 2 We must be perswaded that it is our bounded dutie to pray for other as well as for our selues How are the petitions duided 1 We make our requests for those things which concerne Gods Maiestie 2 For those things which concerne our owne welfare Which be those that concerne Gods Maiestie The thrée first 1 Hallowed be thy name 2 Thy kingdome come 3 Thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen What is meant by the name of God. 1 The names and titles of God as Iehoua the Lord of Lords c. 2 The wisedome power mercy goodnes truth righteousnes and the eternitie of God. Why be these called the names of God. Because as names serue to discerne things by so by these things GOD is knowne to be God. What is meant by this word sanctified We pray that God as he is glorious in himselfe so he may be declared and made knowne to men How shall Gods name be declared to be holy and glorious 1 We pray that his wisedome power mercy c. may more and more be imparted into vs and other of Gods people 2 We pray that according as wee know these things so the fruits of them may appeare in ours all Gods peoples liues that so Gods name may be honoured and praised What doe we pray against in his petion 1 Against all ignorance of the holy things we should know and want of good workes whereby God wants of his glory 2 Against all false religion wickednes and vngodlines by which Gods name is dishonoured FINIS Com. 1. Com. 2. Com. 3. Com. 4. Com. 6. Com. 7. Com. 8. Com. 9. Com. 10. The Beleefe 1. Cor. 15 20. Act. 1. 2. 9. Heb. 9. 15. 1. Pet. 3. 22. Math. 6. 26. c. 1. Cor. 15. 51. 52. Reue. 22. 20 Rom. 8. 1.