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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

be honest trades godlye orders of lyfe and vertuous meete to bee exercised of Christians as Matrimonie Order Penance Confirmation and extreme vnction What is Matrimonie A lawfull ioyning togither of one man and one woman to liue chastlye togither forsaking all other for to bring forth children in the feare of God and to auoyde fornication contayning an vnseparable fellowship of lyfe togither What is Order Order hathe bene wrongfully taken both for a Sacrament and for the annoynted order of Priesthode which Christ tooke awaye But in deede a godly holy and reuerende state of Ministers Preachers Pastors or Apostles is of Christ allowed in the newe Testament to be louingly and reuerently receyued of vs as shepeheardes of the flocke Of whome sayeth Saint Paule They that rule well are worthie of double honour but namely they that laboure in worde and doctrine What is Confirmation A godlye allowance by the Bishop or Preacher of the children when they came to age into the congregation of Christ as a due examination or triall of their continuance in the same fayth whiche their Godfathers or sureties in their name professed and promised for them at their Baptisme to kepe And this Confirmation is as it were a discharge of the Godfathers bondes What is penaunce or repentaunce A nowe what is our dutie towarde him To loue him feare him honour him followe him serue him beleeue in him to fight vnder his standarde with all fayth charitie truth despising of worldlye things thanksgiuing innocencie fasting prayer obedience humilitie and pacience to put of the olde man and to doe on the newe to denie our selues to take the Crosse vpon vs to forsake all that wee haue for his sake and to set forth the glorie of his name that we maye become a worthie Temple for the holye ghost and meete heyres for the kingdome of heauen the true land of promise flowing with milke and honie What is it to loue God To cast oure whole minde and affection vppon God with all reuerence and earnestly desire to followe his will. What is it to feare God The feare of the Lorde is a lyke reuerence as children owe to their parents a willing and faithfull heede that wee committe nothing against him or his worde that we offende not so louing a Father but rather diligently apply our selues to liue according to his commaundement alway thinking that God doth presently see and beholde all our deedes words yea and thoughts This feare is the beginning of wisedome This feare maketh him blessed that hath it This feare is the fountayne of life This feare keepeth vs from sinne And besides a number of other commodities this feare maketh vs more warely to take heede of the craft of Satan The feare of the Lorde is also taken for the worshipping of the Lorde as it is written They feare mee in vayne with the commaundementes of men Ionas the Prophet also sayde I am an Hebrue and feare the God of heauen If these manye profites and commodities come of the feare of God howe chaunceth it that the deuilles doe not enioye the same which feare the Lorde as much as we As much in deede but not as well For there be two kindes of feare A childishe or reuerent feare whereof I haue alreadye spoken and a seruile bonde or slauishe feare The feare of the vngodlye by the consideration of the lawe and feare of punishment as likewise is the feare of the deuils is bonde seruile and thrall Of this feare speaketh Saint John in hys Epistle on this maner Feare is not in charitie but perfect charitie casteth feare out of the doores This feare is called a mightie feare in the Psalme bicause all things by it are done in vnfaythfulnesse in such ignorance and lacke of knowledge of the mercie of God as thoughe God were no naturall fatherly God but a seuere narrowe eyed Iudge or cruell tyrant These two kindes of feare are well described of the Poet Horace on this maner Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae Which may thus be translated into Englishe Good men doe well of a vertuous entent Euill men do well for feare of punishmēt What is it to honour and worship God Both with our whole mynde and strength thereof and with the bodie and power thereof as subiect to the mynde and both to God to reuerence and prayse God to to declare our loue and feare towardes him What is it to followe God To beleeue in him to keepe his doctrine and obey it to follow him whithersoeuer he leadeth or calleth vs to beare what burden soeuer he layeth vpon vs to doe as he hath done before vs and giuen vs an example to doe after him What is it to serue God To liue according to his word to beleeue in him to referre all thinges to his glorye to helpe our neighbour to obey him as our Lorde and maister whose seruice is no bondage but freedome whose burden is light whose yoke is pleasant as Christ sayth take my yoke vpon you and learne of me for I am mecke and lowly in hart and ye shall finde rest to your soules For my yoke is easye and my burden is light Saint Iohn also saith his commaundements are not greuous What is it to beleeue in God To receaue his seede and doctrine into our hart to cōmit our selues wholely vnto him in all thinges and certainely to assure our selues that all thinges are true and shall vndoubtedly be performed which he hath promised What is it to fight vnder his standarde To followe the example of our captaine christ As he by death hath conquered sin death hell and the deuill so we by mortifiing of our flesh ought to suppresse subdue and conquer the same with the helpe of our sauiour and captaine whose standarde the crosse vnles we follow we perishe and become a praye to our enemies neuer to bee redemed yf he doe not raunsome vs. What is truth Christ him selfe the word of God and what soeuer agreeth with him which can neyther deceaue nor be deceaued I am the way the truthe and the life sayth christ And in his prayer to God the father he sayth thy worde is the truth The ciuill truth is an agreemente of wordes and deedes to say as the thing is and as we know it to be Of this truthe speaketh the Apostle in his Epistle to the Ephesians saying put away lying and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour forasmuch as we are members one of an other Also the Prophet Zacharie speak euery man the truth to his neighbour let none of you imagine euill in his hart against his neighbour and loue no false othes c. What is it to despise worldly thinges Wholly to set our minde vppon heauenly thinges not regarding the transitorie and vncertaine vanities of this world according to the wordes of S. Peter all fleshe is as the grasse and all glory of man

sinnes be remitted we be euill vncleane and vnder dampnacion And on this fashion we are all euyll and sinners by nature Who is iust or righteous He that hath faith For through faith we are iustified To be iustified is to haue our sinnes not imputed vnto vs but to haue them forgeuen in Christ and for christ Euen as Dauid saith blessed are they whose vnrighteousnesses are forgeuen and whose sinnes are couered Blessed is that man to whom the Lord imputeth no sinne Now because the faithful man only receiueth and enioyeth this mercie forgeuenesse and this no imputing of sinne through faith therefore he is called iust and we through faith said to be iustified Sometime in Scripture the Hipocrites and they that thinke to be saued by their workes are called iuste or righteous as we rede I came not for the righteous c. Who is vnrighteous He that hath no faith What is euerlasting life It is the tast of the fauour and manifold mercies of God the peace of the conscience a feruent desire of heauen and to be with Christ which the holy Ghost doth kendle in the hartes of the faithfull Otherwhiles euerlasting life is called to knowe the very liuing God Iesus Christ whome he sent downe As it is sayd He that hath the Sonne and beleeueth in him hath euerlasting life What is euerlasting death or hell In this life it is the perpetuall grudge and horrible feare of conscience the distresse and tediousnesse of the minde dreding the wrath of God which the deuil increaseth in the vnfaithfull as it is plainely declared Also hell is taken for extreme temptacion which almost ledeth vs downe to desperacion as we rede The Lord leadeth vs downe to hell and bringeth vs vp againe After this life it betokeneth the fire of Hell where the damned soules be It is called also a fyrie furnesse and the vtter darknesse where is wayling and gnashing of teeth and vtter desperacion of the mercy of God. What thing is the blessing of God It is the fauour the grace the helpe and beneficence of God â–ª c. What is the curse of God It is the angre extreme wrath and the lacke of al the good benefites of God. What is a good conscience It is the peace of the mind a spirituall ioy and a plaine feeling and perceiuing of the goodnesse of God towardes vs through fayth in Iesus Christ which is described and set out And is no more to say but that when we perceiue that through faith in Iesus Christ our sinnes be forgeuen and that we be in the fauour of God we be harte hole mery and found What is an euill conscience It is an inward boyling heate and tossing of the minde for a mans wickednesse and when for pure anguish of the sight and horrore of sinne the hart fainteth and failleth him It is called in Scripture the worme of the conscience What is veritie and truth Christ himselfe the word of God and what soeuer els agreeth with the word of god For as Christ saith I am the way the truth and the life Also thy wordes be the truth There is also a Ciuile truth or veritie as it is called and that is when with that which is sayd the thing agreeth when we find words agreeing with the thing itselfe What is lesing or falsitie What soeuer thing is enemie and not agreeing to the truth and the word of God as mans tradicions or doctrines that serue not to the same word of God. What is the feare of God Suche an humblenes and lowe behauiour as naturall sonnes haue towardes their louing fathers It is also a redy glad and wylfull warenesse in ordering our selues that we do not commit any thing against God and his word for feare least we should offend so louing and tender a father Which feare as it springeth only out of faith so it is only in y faithful Then we feare God wisely when with hart and mind we so endeuer to liue and order our selues as yf we had God a witnesse and looker of all our deedes wordes ye and of our preuie thoughtes and cogitacious This louing dreade ingendereth wisedome and bringeth Gods blessing on vs and driueth out sinne out of the brest The seruile and bond feare is the amasing drede and abasshing of the mind that the wicked men haue of the wrath of God ingendred by laying the lawe to their euill liuing What is the contempt of God A dispising or a light regarding of the doctrine and the commaundementes of God proceeding of an vncleane hart and wicked minde a pleasure and delight in sinne and ignoraunce the roote of all mischiefe which fruite of incredulitie God neuer left vnpunished as it appeereth Exo. and Nume c. What is thankes geuing It is a remembraunce and a thankful acknowledging of the benefites of God when we surely thinke all that we haue commeth of him It is called in the Scripture sacrifice of prayse geuing What is vnkindnesse and priuie murmuring against God It is to grudge and not to be content with the workes of God and to forget his benefites Examples hereof we rede What is it to haue the holy Ghost To be godly disposed and to haue an heauenly burning in the mind euer vpright whole sincere and pure vertuous alway iudging the best willing and wishing wel to euery body the fruites of whome be all vertues which ye may see in the Galathians What is an euill mind or to haue the deuill It is to haue an euil concard mind to be against God and his word to be geuen all to wickednesse to misdeeme and iudge all to the worst What is a good Angell The messenger of God or what soeuer ye wyll by which God worketh vs and in vs that that is good profitable and commodious What is Sathan or an euill Angel An aduersary and enemy of God a worker of al mischefe death vnto vs Otherwhiles it is put only for the deuill What is the Crosse It is all manner of greuaunce geuen to euery manner of vocacion kind of life grounded on faith and the word of God what that we doo goeth not forward as we would It is also the teaching warning chastising rod and staffe of the Lord which names be for to be seene in the prouerbes and psalmes The Crosse of Christ is his Passion and the preaching of the same and the persecution that followeth the preachers and beleeuers of the same What is pleasure and the ease of this life It is when we haue all at will when God leaueth vs to our selues and troubleth vs not with any aduersitie for faith and the word of God. What is sinne It is the transgression and breaking of any of Gods commaundementes It is also a naturall propencion and inclinacion to noughtinesse ingendred with vs at