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A19564	Catechismus, that is to say, a shorte instruction into Christian religion for the synguler commoditie and profyte of childre[n] and yong people. Set forth by the mooste reuerende father in God Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury, primate of all England and Metropolitane	Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.; Jonas, Justus, 1493-1555.	1548 (1548)	STC 5993; ESTC S109272	142,949	534

patiently suffre al dyseases aduersities whiche it shal please god to send you and than without dowte you shalbe saued Wherefore good childrē learne these thinges dilygentlye and when you be demaunded what is baptisme Thē you shal answer baptisme is not water alone but it is water inclosed and ioyned to the worde of God and to the couenaunte of Gods promyse And these be the wordes wherby our Lorde Iesus Christ did ordeine baptisme which be written in the last chapter of sainct Mathew Go and teache all nations baptisynge theym in the name of the father and the sonne and the holy ghost And when you shalbe asked what auayleth baptisme you shal answer Baptisme worketh forgyuenes of synne it delyuereth from the kyngdome of the deuel and from death giueth lyfe and euerlastyng saluation to all them that beleue these wordes of Christ promise of god which are wrytten in the laste chapter of sainct Marke his gospel He that wil beleue and be baptised shalbe saued But he that will not beleue shalbe damned Thirdly yf a man aske you how can water bryng to passe so greate thynges ye shall aunswer Uerely the water worketh not these thynges but the worde of God whych is ioyned to the water and fayth whiche dothe beleue the worde of God For without the worde of God water is water and not baptisme but when the worde of the lyuyng God is ioyned to the water then it is baptisme and water of wonderful holsomnes and the bath of regeneration through the holy gohst as saincte Paule writeth God saued vs by the bath of regeneratiō and renewyng of the holy ghost whom he powred vpon vs plenteously by Iesus Christ our sauiour that we beyng made rightuous by his grace maye be heyres of euerlastyng lyfe Fourthly Yf a mā aske you what doth the baptisynge in the water betoken aunswer ye it betokeneth that olde Adam with all synnes and euel desyers ought daylye to be kylled in vs by trewe contritiō and repentaunce that he may rise againe from death and after he is risen with Christ may be a new man a new creature and may liue euerlastyngly in God and before God in rightuousnes and holynes As saincte Paule wryteth saying All we y t are baptised are buried w t Christe in to death that as Christ rose agayne by the glorie of his father so we also should walke in newnes of lyfe Thus ye haue hearde good children what is ment by y e wordes of baptisme by the which we are borne again and made newe to euerlastynge lyfe Learne these thynges dilygentlye and thanke God who in Christ hath called you to be partakers of so large and ample benefites And expresse baptisme in your lyfe and baptisme shalbe the greatest comforte to you bothe in your lyfe tyme and also in youre death bed For by baptisme we be grafted into the death of Christe wherfore synne deathe or hell can not hurte vs but we shall ouercome all these thynges by fayth as Christe himselfe ouercame theym And so by this newe byrthe we shall enter into the kyngdome of God and lyfe euerlastynge The whiche God graunte vs all Amen ¶ A sermon of the authoritie of the Kayes THe holye Apostle sainct Paul good children in the tenth chapiter of hys epistle to the Romaynes wryteth on this fashion Who so euer shal cal vpon the name of y e lord shall be saued But how shal they call on hym on whom they beleue not How shal they beleue on him of whome they haue not hearde Howe shall they heare without a preacher Howe shal they preach expcept they be sente By the whiche wourdes saynct Paule doeth euidently declare vnto vs two lessons The fyrst is that it is necessary to our saluation to haue prechers and ministers of Goddes mooste holy worde to instructe vs in the true fayth and knowlege of God The seconde is that preachers must not runne to this hyghe honore before they be called therto but they muste be ordeyned and appoynted to this office and sent to vs by God For it is not possible to be saued or to please God without fayth no mā can truely beleue in God by his owne wytte for of oure selfes we knowe not what we shoulde beleue but we must nedes heare Gods woorde taught vs by other Agayne the teachers except thei be called and sent can not frutfully teache For the seede of Goddes wourde doeth neuer brynge forth fruyt onles the Lorde of the haruest do gyue increase and by hys holye spirite do wourke with the sower But God doeth not worke with the preacher whom he hathe not sente as saynct Paule sayeth Howe shall they preache yf they be not sent Wherfore it is requisite that preachers should be called and sent of god and they must preache according to the authoritie and commission of God graūted vnto them wherby they may strengthen mennes belefe and assure their consciences that God hath commaūded them to preache after this or that fashion For els euerie manne shoulde styll be in doubt and thinke after this sort Who knoweth whether thys be true whiche I heare the preacher saye who can tell whether God hath commaunded him to preach these thynges or no And in case he teacheth no thynge but truth yet I am not sure that God wyll wourke with me as the preacher promyseth Perchaunce these promises perteine to other and not to me These doubtes in the tyme of temptation might trouble mens myndes yf we were not assured that our Lorde Iesus Christ him selfe hathe both ordeyned and appointed ministers preachers to teache vs his holye wourde and to minister his sacramentes and also hath appoynted theym what they shall teache in his name and what they shall do vnto vs. Therfore he called them and sent them and gaue thē instructions what they should do and speake to vs in his name to the intente that we shoulde gyue sure credence vnto theyr wordes and beleue that god wyll worke with vs accordyng to his wordes by them spoken And he hath promised therfore y t what soeuer they shoulde bynde vpon earth shoulde be bounde in heauē whatsoeuer they shuld lose vpon earth shuld be losed in heauen also Wherfore good children to the intente you maye stedfastlye beleue all thinges whiche god by his ministers doeth teache and promise vnto you and so be saued by your fayth learne diligently I prai you by what wordes our lord Iesus Christ gaue this cōmissiō cōmaundemēt to his ministers reherse thē here worde for word that so you may print thē in your memories and recite them the better when you come home The wordes of Christ be these ¶ Our Lorde Iesus brethed on his Apostles sayd Receaue the holye gost whose synnes ye forgyue they are forgyuen vnto them And whose synnes you reserue they are reserued Now good childrē you shal employ your selfes not onely to reherse these wordes without boke but also to vnderstande

God in oure harte whereby we maye kepe Goddes commaundementes accordyng to this saying of saynt Peter Let euerie one of you he baptised in the name of christ and then you shall receyue the gyft of the holy ghost The thirde is that by baptisme the whole rightuousnes of Christ is gyuen vnto vs that we maye clayme the same as our owne For so saincte Paule teachethe saying As many of ye as are baptised in Christe haue putte vpon you Christ. Fourthly by baptisme we die with Christ and are buried as it were in his bloude death that we shoulde suffer afflictions and death as Christ himself hath suffered And as that man whiche is baptised doth promise to God that he wyll dye with Christ that he maye be deade to synne and to the old Adam so on the other part God doth promise againe to him that he shalbe partaker of christes death and passion And also God maketh al afflictions whiche he sufferethe to be good and profitable vnto him as was the passion of Christ and not damnable as it was to Iudas and dyuerse other vngodlye parsons By thys which I haue hetherto spoken I trust you vnderstāde good children wherfore baptisme is called the bath of regeneratiō and howe in baptisme we be borne agayne and be made new creatures in Christe The whiche doctryne you shall the better vnderstande yf you consider in what cōdition you were before you were baptised and in what state you stande in after your baptisme Firste before we were baptised it is euidēt that we were synners and he that is a synner can haue no peace nor quietnes of cōscience before he come to Christ so muche he feareth Goddes wroth and euerlastyng damnation But after that oure synnes in baptisme be forgyuen vs and we beleue the promyse of God and so by oure faith be iustified than our conscyences be quieted and we be glad and mery trustyng assuredly that God is no more angrye with vs for our former offences and that we shal not be damned for y e same And thys is a meruelous alteration and renewyng of the inward manne the whyche coulde be wrought by the power of no creature but by God alone Also before we were baptised we were slaues and boundemen to synne so that we neyther coulde do that good which we would haue done nor could kepe vs from that euil whiche we would not haue done as saint Paule complaynethe of himselfe But whan by baptysme the holy gost was gyuen vs the whiche did spread abrode the loue of god in our hartes and did also delyuer vs from y e boundage and tyrannye of synne and gaue vs new strength power to wrastle against synne and manfullye to withstande our gostly enemye the deuel thā after a certen maner we were able to fulfyl gods commaūdementes And this is a greate chaunge and renewyng of the inwarde man And this I wold you shoulde know for a suertye good childrē stedfastly beleue y e same that no child of y e Iewes or Turkes whiche is not baptysed hathe the holy ghoste neyther that anye suche can vnderstande the worde of God neyther that anye suche is holy or righteous before God Wherefore you shall thanke God with all youre harte whiche hath brought you to baptysme And when you beleue in the name of Christ and loue the ghospell and are glad dyligēt to hear y e same thē this is a suer tokē y t by the gospel you haue receaued y e holy gost Furthermore he that is a synner not baptised althoughe he had the holy ghoste to this effecte to helpe him to fight againste synne yet oftentymes he is ouer come and falleth to synne And althoughe he doth oftentimes ouercome sinne yet this is a great vnperfectenes y t he dothe it not willingly but that this fight against sinne is tedious and greuous vnto him Wherefore he is euer in perrel lest he be ouercome of syn And in case he doth manfully w tstande synne yet he seeth that his iustyce and obedience be to weake and vnperfecte to stande before the iudgement of God as in dede no man not the holyest is able to stande before y e iudgemēt of God by his awne rightuousnes But when in baptisme the rightuousenes of Christ is gyuen and imputed to hym then he is delyuered from al those perrels For he knoweth for a suerty that he hath put vpō him Christ and that his weakenes imperfectiō is couered hydde with the perfecte ryghtuousnes and holynes of Christ. Wherfore after baptisme he doth not trust in his awne rightuousnes but in Christ only And he is no more pensyue or doubteful cōsyderynge his awne weaknes but he is ioyful because he cōsidereth that he is made partaker of Christes rightuousnes And this agayne is a great alteratiō and renewyng of the inwarde man These newe affections and spiritual mocions are in the soulles of suche as are borne again by baptisme but they be vnknowne to worldly men and suche as be not led by the spirite of God And whē they that beleue and be baptysed do continewe in this their faith to ●he ende of their lyues then God shall rayse them vp from death to lyfe that they maye be immortall and lyue euerlastingly with christ And then when syn and the kingdome of death is vtterli abolished and destroied we shalbe perfectly holy and rightuous both in body and soule And for this cause our sauioure Christ doth cal in y e gospel the rysyng againe from death a regeneration or a seconde begettyng Al these thynges doth baptisme worke in vs whē we beleue in Christe And therefore Christe sayeth He that wyll beleue and be baptysed shall be saued But he that wyl not beleue shalbe damned Wherefore good children learne dylygentlye I praye you the fruyt operation of baptisme For it worketh forgyuenes of sin it delyuereth from death power of the deuel it gyueth saluation euerlastynge lyfe to all them that beleue As the wordes of Christes promyse doth euydently witnesse But peraduenture some wil saye Howe can water worke so greate thinges To whome I answere that it is not the water that dothe these thinges but the almyghtye worde of God whiche is knyt and ioyned to the water faith which receyueth gods worde promyse For with out the worde of God water is water and not baptisme But when the worde of the liuing God is added and ioyned to the water then it is the bathe of regeneration and baptisme water and the lyuely springe of eternall saluation and a bathe that wassheth our soules by the holy ghoste as saynct Paule calleth it saying God hath saued vs thorowe hys mercy and made vs partakers of the rightuosnes of hys welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ. Now consyder depely I praie you how great benefytes these be that you maye not be vnkynde to him that hath done so much for you but stedfastlye beleue these thinges mortifye synne

And besydes these abuses ther is an other that maketh an ydoll of y t trew and lyuynge God And that is when we imagyn by oure owne heades an other forme or shape of god his wil than is true in dede and otherwise thā he himself hath declared to vs in his wourde As for an example whē we beleue that God is a bodely thynge hauynge handes fete other membres lyke a man or that he is more pleased wyth wearynge of a graye fryars coule or halowed garmentes than with any other semely apparel or that he delighte with our wilworkes and worshyppynges whyche he neuer commaunded but we of our braynes haue deuysed theym Suche phantasie and false opinion I saye maketh an ydoll of the trewe God it is a great offence against y e first chiefe commaundemēt But of thys you shal heare more in other sermons Wherfore good children take hede of suche ymaginations that you frame not to your selfes with in the temple of youre hartes anye straunge god or ydoll But suffer the lorde to be your God for he doeth offer himself very louingly and with a fatherly affection to be your God Therfore he sayeth to eache of you I am the Lorde thy God that is to saye I am youre lorde and your father I woulde fayne that you should take me for your veray God onely Yf I am your Lorde where is the feare dewe vnto me Onely feare me as your Lorde obey me with al your hart trust in me praye to me call vpon me and loue me good children as your father Yt were our bounden dewtye to praye vnto him with most feruent desier that he woulde vouchesafe to be our God But his goodnes is somuche inclyned towarde vs that he preuentethe vs and before we desiere hym he offereth himselfe to vs saying I am the Lorde thy God onely acknowlege me for God When he sayth I am thy God it is asmuche as yf he shoulde saye I wil powre all kindes of benefites vpon thee what soeuer kynde of aduersitie troubleth the make the moone to me whan soeuer y u lackest any thinge aske it of me I am not farre from the I am thy God At all tymes I wyl be present with the and I will helpe the in all thinges Now good children dyligently learne ye this lesson and graue it into youre memories So you shal loue God and put your trust in him For this is the meanynge of this first commaundement that we ought to feare loue the Lord God aboue all thing fasten our hope in him Wherfore good children with all dilygence learne you this rule And when this question shalbe demaunded of you how do you vndrestand the first commaūdement then shal ye answer thus In this precept we be commaunded to feare and loue God with al oure harte and to put oure whole trust and confidence in him The conclusion Now ye haue hearde good children in a briefe summe the trewe sincere and playne exposition of y e first commaundement beare away I praye you this doctrine and diligentlye recorde it walke in the feare of the Lorde that you transgresse not these commaūdementes For what soeuer God byddeth that is right iust good and holye what soeuer he forbiddeth that is wrong vniust euil and synne He himselfe requireth of vs to kepe his commaundementes and not dispise them For he saith I am the Lorde thy God a stronge and a ielous God whiche do punyshe the children y t do hate me euen to the thirde fourth generacion for the iniquite of their parentes And contrariwyse I do shewe mercy to a thousande generacions of them that loue me kepe my commaundementes In these wourdes God dothe threaten greuous punyshementes to all them that breake these commaundemētes wherefore it is our dewtie to feare his indignation punishment not to prouoke his wrathe vpon vs by oure disobediēce And contrary he doth promyse his fauor and goodnes to all theim that kepe these his commaūdemētes Therfore we ought to loue him cast oure affiaunce in him and obey his commaundemētes And speciallye ye good childerne oughte to feare God kepe his preceptes and to desire grace and helpe of him y t you maye perfourme and fulfyll them For the feare of God is the begynnyng of all wysedome and it maketh men godly disposeth them to all good workes And suche hauynge the fauour of God may profit many bothe in commen and priuate affaires Out of this feare of God springeth also a good conscience peace and quietnes of the same as you haue herde out of the spalme whiche was rehersed in the beginnyng of the preface and yf we continew to thende of our lifes in this trew knowledge and faith of God thā he ouer and besyde the forsaide benefites will gyue vnto vs lyfe euerlastyng y t whiche he graunt to you that is blessed for euer Amen ¶ Note that both y e preface and the conclusion also of this firste sermon shalbe repeted thone in the begynnyng and thother in the later ende in euery sermon made for the residew of the commaundementes YE haue herd good children in the former sermon that all maner of Idolatrie is forbyd by this commaundement Thou shalt haue none other Gods but me Where also it was declared vnto you howe you may commit spirituall ydolatrie by ouer muche fearyng trustynge and louyng of creatures But nowe I wyll speake of the moost grosse ydolatrie whiche standeth in wourshyppynge of ymages eyther of creatures or of God himselfe And this ydolatrye is forbyde by expresse wordes in this commaundement where God sayeth thus ¶ Thou shalt make the no grauē ymage nor any lykenesse of anye thynge which is in heauē aboue or in earth benethe or in the water vnder the earthe Thou shalt not bow downe vnto it nor wourship it These wordes by most interpretors of late tyme belonge to the first commaundement althoughe after the interpretation of manye aūcient autors they be the seconde commaundement in whiche wourdes it is to be noted that it is not withoute greate cause that God with so playne and expresse words doth forbydde wourshyppynge of ymages For he sawe that mans corrupte nature frō the firste tyme that he fell from God hathe euer ben enclined and redy to ydolatry and to bowe downe to creatures rather than to looke vp to God that made him Wherfore he inhibiteth all occations of the same God did also forsee that in the latter dayes men should come which woulde maynteine worshyppyng of images Not onlye with painted colors but also with paynted wordes saying We kneele not to the ymage but before the ymage we worshippe not the ymage but the thing which is represented by the ymage we worshippe not the creatures but the creatore in the creatures And suche lyke excuses the greatest ydolaters dyd alwaies pretend But to thentente they shoulde not so deceyue you God doeth oftentymes in holye scripture call vpon you sayinge Thou shalte