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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.
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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