The foundation of Christian religion gathered into sixe principles. And it is to bee learned of ignorant people, that they may be fit to hear sermons with profit, and to receiue the Lords Supper with comfort.

The Exposition of the Principles.

I.

Question.

WHat is God?

A. GOD is aa 1.1 spirit, or a spirituall substāce, most wise, most holie, eternall, infinite.

Q How doo you perswade your self that there is such a God.

A. Besides the testimonie of the Scriptures, plaine reason will shew it.

Q. What is one reason?

A. When I consider b 1.2 the wonder∣full frame of the world, me thinks the silly creatures y^t be in it could neuer make it: neither could it make itselfe: and therefore besides al these, the ma∣ker

of it must néedes bée God. Euen as when a man comes into a strange Countrey, and sees faire and sumptu∣ous buildings, and yet findes no li∣uing creatures there beside birds and Beasts, hee will not imagine that ei∣ther Birds or Beasts reared by those buildings, but he presently conceiues that some men either were or haue been there.

Q. What other reason haue you?

A. c 1.3 A man that commits any sinne, as murder, fornication, adultery, blas∣phemie, &c. albeit he dooth so conceale the matter, that no man liuing know of it, yet oftentimes he hath a griping in his conscience, and feeles the verie flashings of hel fire: which is a strong reason, to shew that there is a God, before whose iudgement seate he must answere for his fact.

Q. How many Gods are there?

A. No d 1.4 more but one.

Q How doo you conceiue this one God in your minde?

A. Not e 1.5by framing any image of him in my minde (as ignorant folkes

doo, that thinke him to be an olde man sitting in heauen) but I conceaue him by his properties and works.

Q. What be his chiefe properties?

A. First, he is f 1.6 most wise, vnder∣standing all things aright, and kno∣wing the reason of them. g 1.7Secondly hee is most holy, which appeareth in that hee is most iust and mercifull vnto his creatures. Thirdly, hee is eternall, h 1.8 without either beginning or ende of dayes. Lastly, hee is in∣finite, i 1.9 both because hee is present in all places, and because hee is of pow∣er sufficient to doo whatsoeuer hee k 1.10will.

Q. What be the workes of God?

A. l 1.11The creation of the world, and of euery thing therein, and the preser∣uation of them beeing created by his speciall prouidence.

Q. How knowe you that God go∣uerneth euery particular thing in the world by his speciall prouidence.

A. To omit the m 1.12 Scriptures, I see it by experience: n 1.13 Meate, Drinke, and cloathing being void of life, could

not preserue the life of man, vnlesse there were a speciall prouidence of God to giue vertue vnto them.

Q. How is this one God distingui∣shed?

A. o 1.14Into the Father which beget∣teth the Sonne: into the Sonne who is begotten of the Father: into the holie Ghost, p 1.15 who proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne.

II.

Q. Let vs now come to our selues, and first tel me what is the natural e∣state of man?

A. Euerie man is by nature, q 1.16dead in sinne as a loathsome carrion, or as a dead corps lieth rotting and stinck∣ing in the graue.

Q. What is Sinne?

A. Any r 1.17 breach of the Lawe of GOD, if it bee no more but the least want of that which the Lawe requi∣reth.

Q How many sortes of sinne are there?

A. Sinne is either s 1.18 the corruption

of nature, or any euil actions that pro∣ceede of it as fruites thereof.

Q. In whome is this corruption of nature?

A. In all men, t 1.19 none excepted.

Q. In what part of man is it?

A. In euerie u 1.20 part both of bodie and soule, like as a Leprosie that run∣neth from the crowne of the head, to the sole of the foote.

Q. Shew mee how euerie parte of man is corrupted with sinne?

A. First, in the x 1.21 mind there is no∣thing but ignorance and blindnesse concerning heauenlie matters. Se∣condly, y 1.22 the cōscience is defiled, being alwaies either benummed with sin, or els turmoyled with inward accusa∣tions and terrours. Thirdly, z 1.23 the wil of man only willeth and lusteth after euill. Fourthly, the a 1.24 affections of the heart, as loue, ioy, hope, desire, &c. are moued & stirred to that which is euil to embrace it, and they are neuer stirred vnto that which is good, vnlesse it be to eschewe it. Lastly, the b 1.25 mem∣bers of the bodie are the instruments

and tooles of the minde for the executi∣on of sinne.

Q. What be those euil actions that are the fruites of this corruption?

A. Euill c 1.26thoughts in the mind•• which come either by a mans own conceiuing, or by the d 1.27 suggestion of the Diuell: euill motions and lusts sturring in the heart, and from thes•• arise euill words and deedes, when a∣ny occasion is giuen.

Q. How commeth it to passe that al•• men are thus defiled with sinne?

A By e 1.28 Adams infidelitie and disobe∣dience, in eating the forbidden fruite•• euen as wee see great personages b•• treason doo not only hurt themselues but also staine their bloud, & disgrac•• their posteritie.

Q. What hurt comes to man by his sinne?

A. f 1.29 He is continually subiect to th•• curse of God in his life time, in th•• end of his life, and after this life.

Q What is the cursse of GOD in this life?

A. In g 1.30 the body diseases, aches

paines: in the soule, blindnesse, hard∣nesse of heart, horrour of conscience: in goods, hinderances and losses: in name, ignominie and reproach: lastly, in the whole man, bondage vnder sa∣than the Prince of darkenesse.

Q. What manner of bondage is this?

A. This h 1.31 bondage is when a man is the slaue of the Diuell, and hath him to raigne in his heart as his God.

Q. How may a man knowe whe∣ther sathan be his God or not?

A. He may know it by this, if hee giue obedience to him in his heart, and expresse it in his conuersation.

Q. And how shall a man perceiue this obedience?

A. If he i 1.32 take delight in the euill motions that Sathan puts into his heart, and doo fulfill the lusts of the Diuell.

Q. What is the cursse due to man in the end of his life?

A. k 1.33 Death, which is the seperation of bodie and soule.

Q. What is the cursse after this life?

A. l 1.34Eternall damnation in hell

fire, whereof euerie man is guiltie, and is in as great danger of it, as the Traitor apprehended is in danger of hanging, drawing, and quarte∣ring.

III.

Q. If damnation be the reward of sinne, then is a man of all creatures most miserable. A Dog or a Toade when they die, all their miserie is en∣ded: but when a man dieth, there is the beginning of his woe.

A. It were so indeede, if there were no meanes of deliuerance. but God hath shewed his mercie in giuing a Sauiour to mankinde.

Q. How is this Sauiour called?

A. m 1.35Iesus Christ.

Q. What is Iesus Christ?

A. The n 1.36 eternall Sonne of God made man in all things, euen o 1.37 in his infirmities like other men, saue onelie in sinne.

Q. How was hee made man voide of sinne?

A. He was p 1.38 conceiued in the womb of a Virgin, and sanctified by the holy Ghost, at his conception.

Q. Why must our Sauiour bee both God and man?

A. He q 1.39must be a man: because man hath sinned, and therefore a man must die for sinne to appease Gods wrath: hee must bee God to sustaine and vp∣hold the manhood, to ouercome and vanquish death.

Q. What be the offices of Christ to make him an al-sufficient Sauiour.

A. He r 1.40 is a Priest, a Prophet, a King.

Q. Why is he a Priest?

A. To worke the meanes of sal∣uation in the behalfe of mankinde.

Q. How doth he worke the meanes of saluation?

A. s 1.41First, by making satisfaction to his Father for the sinne of man: se∣condly, by making intercession.

Q. How doth he make satisfaction?

A. By two meanes: and the first is by offering a Sacrifice.

Q. What is this sacrifice?

A. t 1.42Christ himselfe, as hee is man, consisting of bodie and soule.

Q. What is the u 1.43Aulter?

A. Christ as he is God, is the Aul∣ter on which he sacrificed himselfe.

Q. Who was the Priest?

A. None but x 1.44 Christ, and that as he is both God and man.

Q. How oft did he sacrifice himself?

A. Neuer but y 1.45 once.

Q. What death did hee suffer when he sacrificed himselfe?

A. A death vpon the Crosse, peculi∣ar to him alone: for z 1.46 besides the sepe∣ration of body and soule, hee felt also the panges of hell, in that the whole wrath of God due to the sinne of man, was powred foorth vpon him.

Q. What profit commeth by this sacrifice?

A. Gods a 1.47wrath is appeased for sin.

Q. Could the suffering of Christ, which was but for a short time, ap∣pease Gods wrath?

A. Yea, for seeing Christ suffered * 1.48 GOD suffered: and that is more than if all men in the world had suffe∣red for euer.

Q. Now tell mee the other meanes of satisfaction.

A. It is the perfect fulfilling of the Lawe.

Q. How did he fulfill the Lawe?

A. By b 1.49 his perfect righteousnes: which consisteth of two partes, the first, the integritie and purenesse of his humaine nature; the other, c 1.50 his obedience in performing all that the lawe required.

Q. You haue shewed how Christ dooth make satisfaction, tell mee like∣wise how he doth make intercession?

A. Hee alone dooth continually d 1.51ap∣peare before his Father in Heauen, making the faithful & all their praiers acceptable vnto him, through the me∣rits of his owne perfect satisfaction.

Q. Why is Christ a Prophet?

A. To e 1.52reueale vnto his Church the way and meanes of saluation, and this hee dooth outwardly by the Mini∣sterie of his word, and inwardlie by the teaching of his holy Spirit.

Q. Why is he also a King?

A. That f 1.53 hee might bountifullie bestow vpon vs, and conuey vnto vs all the foresaid meanes of saluation.

Q. How dooth hee shew himselfe to be a King?

A. In g 1.54 that, being dead and buri∣ed, he rose from the graue, quickned

his dead body, ascended into heauen, and now sitteth at the right hand of his Father, with full power and glo∣rie in heauen.

Q. How else?

A. In h 1.55that he doth continually in∣spire and direct his seruants by the di∣uine power of his holy spirit, accord∣ing to his holy word.

Q But to whome will this blessed King communicate all meanes of sal∣uation?

A. Hee i 1.56offereth them to all man∣kinde, and they are sufficient to saue all mankinde: but all shall not bee sa∣ued thereby, because by faith they will not receiue them.

IIII.

Q. What is Faith?

A. Faith, is a k 1.57 wonderfull grace of God, by which a man doth appre∣hend and applie Christ and all his be∣nefits vnto himselfe.

Q How dooth a man apply Christ vnto himselfe, seeing we are on earth, and Christ in heauen?

A. This l 1.58 applying is done by assu∣rance,

when a man is verily perswa∣ded by the holy spirit, of Gods fa∣uour towards himselfe particularly, & of the forgiuenesse of his owne sinnes.

Q. How dooth God bring men tru∣lie to beleeue in Christ?

A. First he prepareth their hearts, that they might bee capable of faith: and then he worketh faith in them.

Q How doth God prepare mēs harts?

A. m 1.59 By brusing them, as if one would breake an hard stone to pouder: and this is done by humbling them.

Q. How doth God humble a man?

A. By working in him a sight of his sinnes, and a sorrow for them.

Q How is the sight of sin wrought?

A. By the o 1.60Morall law: the summe whereof is the ten commandements.

Q. What sinnes may I finde in my selfe by them?

A. Ten.

Q. What is the first?

A. a 1.61 To make some thing thy God which is not God, by fearing it, lo∣uing it, so trusting in it more than in the true God.

Q What is the second?

A. b 1.62To worship false Gods or the true God in a false manner.

Q. What is the third.

A. c 1.63To dishonour God in abusing his titles words, and workes.

Q. What is the fourth?

A. d 1.64To breake the Sabaoth in doo∣ing the works of their calling and of the flesh: and in leauing vndone the workes of the spirit.

Q. What be the sixe latter?

A. To do any thing that may hinder thy neighbours e 1.65dignitie, f 1.66 life, g 1.67 cha∣stity, h 1.68wealth, i 1.69 good name; k 1.70 though it be but in the secret thoughts and mo∣tions of thy heart, vnto which thou giuest no liking nor consent.

Q. What is sorrow for sinne?

A. It is l 1.71 when a mans conscience is touched with a liuely feeling of Gods displeasure for any of these sinnes: in m 1.72 such wise, that hee is wholly out of heart with himselfe, acknowledging that hée hath deserued shame, and con∣fusion eternally.

Q. How doth God work this sorrow?

A. By the terrible curse of the law.

Q. What is that?

A. He n 1.73 which breakes but one of the commandements of God, though it be but once in all his life time; & that onely in one thought, is in danger of eternall damnation thereby.

Q. When mens hearts are thus prepared, how doth GOD ingraft faith in them?

A. By working certaine inwarde motions in the heart, which are the seeds of faith, out of which it breedeth.

Q. What is the first of them?

A. When a man humbled vnder the burden of his sinnes, dooth o 1.74 acknow∣ledge and feele that he stands in great neede of Christ.

Q. What is the second?

A. An p 1.75 hungring desire and a lon∣ging to be made partakers of Christ and all his merits.

Q. What is the third?

A. q 1.76 A flying to the throne of grace, from the sentence of the law, pricking the conscience.

Q. How is this done?

A. By r 1.77 praying, with sending vp lowde cries for Gods fauour in Christ in the pardoning of sinne: and with

feruent perseuerance herein, till the desire of the heart be graunted.

Q. What followeth after all this?

A. GOD then, s 1.78 according to his merciful promise, lets the poore sinner feele the assurance of his loue where∣with hee loueth him in Christ; which assurance is a liuely faith.

Q. Are there diuers degrees and measures of true faith?

A. t 1.79 Yea.

Q. What is the least measure of true faith that any man can haue?

A.

When a man of an humble spirit by reason of the u 1.80 littlenes of his faith, doth not yet feele the assurance of the forgiuenes of his sinnes, and yet he is perswaded that they are pardonable, and therefore desireth that they should be pardoned, & with his heart prayeth to God to pardon them.

Q. How doo you know that such a man hath faith?

A. These x 1.81 desires and prayers are testimonie of the spirit, whose pro∣pertie it is to stirre vp a longing and a lusting after heauenly things, with sighes and groanes for Gods fauour

and mercie in Christ. Nowe y 1.82 where the spirit of Christ is, there is Christ dwelling: and where Christ dwelleth, there is true fayth how weake soeuer it be.

Q. What is the greatest measure of fayth?

A. When a man is fully perswa∣ded of GODS loue in Christ to∣wardes himselfe particularly,* 1.83 and of the forgiuenes of his owne sinnes.

Q. When shall a Christian heart come to this full assurance?

A. Not b 1.84 at the first, but in some continuance of time, when hee hath been well practized in repentaunce, and hath had diuers experiences of Gods loue vnto him in Christ: then af∣ter them will appeare in his heart the fulnes of perswasion: which is the ripenes c 1.85 and strength of faith.

Q. What benefites doth a man re∣ceiue by his fayth in Christ?

A. Hereby d 1.86 hee is iustified before God and sanctified.

Q. What is this to bee iustified be∣fore God?

A. It e 1.87 compreheneth two things the first, to be cleared from the guil∣tinesse and punishment of sinne: the second, to bee accepted as perfectly righteous before God.

Q. How is a man cleared from the guiltines and punishment of his sinne.

A. By Christs f 1.88 sufferings and death vpon the Crosse.

Q. Howe is he accepted righteous before God?

g 1.89A. By the righteousnes of Christ imputed to him.

Q. What profit comes by being thus iustified?

A. Hereby h 1.90 and by no other means in the world, the beleeuer shall bee ac∣cepted before Gods iudgement seate, as worthie of eternall life by the me∣rits of the same righteousnesse of Christ.

Q. Doo not good works then make vs worthie of eternall life?

A. No: for GOD who is perfect righteousnesse it selfe, will finde in the best workes wee doo, more matter of damnation than of saluation: & there∣fore k 1.91 wee must rather condemne our

selues for our good works, than looke to be iustified before God thereby.

Q. How may a man know, that hee is iustified before God?

A. He neede not ascend into heauen to search the secret counsell of God: l 1.92 but rather descend into his own hart to search whether he be sanctified or not.

Q. What is it to be sanctified?

A. It comprehendeth two things: the first to be purged from the cor∣ruption of his owne nature: the se∣cond to be indued with inward righ∣teousnes.

Q. Howe is the corruption of sinne purged?

A. By the n 1.93 merites and power of Christs death, which being by faith applyed, is as a corasiue to abate, cō∣sume, & weaken the power of all sinne.

Q. Howe is a man indued with in∣herent righteousnes?

A. Through the o 1.94 vertue of Christs resurrection, which being applied by fayth, is as a restoratiue to reuiue a man that is dead in sin to newnes of life.

Q. In what part of man is sanctfi∣cation wrought?

A. In p 1.95 euery part of body & soule▪

Q. In what time is it wrought?

A. It is q 1.96 begun in this life, in which the faythfull receiue onely the first fruits of the spirit, and it is not fini∣shed before the end of this life.

Q. What graces of the spirit do v∣sually shewe themselues in the heart of a man sanctified?

A. The hatredr 1.97 of sinne, and the loue of righteousnes.

Q. What proceedes of them?

A. Repentance, which is s 1.98 a settled purpose in the heart, with a careful in∣deuour to leaue all his sinnes, and to liue a Christian life.

Q. What goeth with repentance?

A. A continual fighting and strug∣ling against the assaults of a mans owne flesh, against the motions of the Diuell, and the enticements of the world,

Q. What followeth after a man hath gotten the victory in any temp∣tation or affliction?

A. t 1.99 Experience of Gods loue in

Christ and so increase of peace of con∣science and ioy in the holy Ghost.

Q. What followes, if in any temp∣tation he bee ouercome, and through infirmitie fall?

A. After a while u 1.100 there wil arise a godly sorrow, which is, whē a man is grieued for no other cause in y^e worlde but for this onely, y^t by his sin he hath displeased GOD, who hath bin vnto him a most merciful & louing Father.

Q. What signe is there of this so∣rowe?

A. The true signe x 1.101of it is this, when a man can be grieued for the very dis∣obedience to God in his euill worde or deede, though hee should neuer bee punished, and though there were nei∣ther heauen nor hell.

Q. What followes after this so∣rowe?

A. Repentance y 1.102 renewed a fresh.

Q. By what signes will this repen∣tance appeare.

A. Ay z 1.103 seauen. 1. A care to leaue the sinne into which hee is fallen. 2. An vtter condemning of himselfe for it, with a crauing of pardon. 3. A

great anger against himselfe for hi•• carelesnesse 4. A feare least hee shoul•• fall into the same sinne againe. 5. desire euer after to please God. 6. zeale of the same. 7. Reuenge vpo•• himselfe for his former offence.

V

Q. What outward meanes mus•• wee vse to obtaine faith and all bless∣sings of God which come by faith.

A. The preaching a 1.104 of Gods word•• and the administration of the Sacra∣ments, and prayer.

Q. Where is the word of God to be found?

A. The whole word of God neede∣full to saluation is set down in the ho∣ly Scriptures.* 1.105

Q. How know you that the Scrip∣tures are the word of GOD and no•• mens pollicies?

A. I am assured of it. First, b 1.106 be∣cause the holy Ghost perswadeth my conscience that it is so. Secondly, I see it by experience: for the preaching of the c 1.107 Scriptures haue the power of GOD in them to humble a man

when they are preached, and to cast him downe to hell: and afterward to restore and raise him vp againe.

Q. What is the vse of the word of God preached?

A. First it d 1.108breedeth and then it in∣creaseth faith in them which are chosē to saluatiō: but vnto them that perish it is by reason of their corruption an occasion of their further damnation.

Q. How must we heare Gods word, y^t it may be effecuall to our saluation?

A. Wee e 1.109 must come vnto it with hunger-bitten hearts, hauing an ap∣petite to the worde; we must mark it with attention, receiue it by faith, sub∣mit our selues vnto it with feare and trembling, euen then when our faults are reproued: lastly, wee must hide it in the corners of our hearts, that wee may frame our liues and conuersati∣ons by it.

Q. What is a Sacrament?

A. A f 1.110 signe to represent, a seale to confirme, an instrument to conuey Christ and all his benefites to them that doo beleeue in him.

Q. Why must a Sacramēt represent

the mercies of God before our eyes?

A. Because we are dull to conceiue and to remember them.

Q. Why doth the Sacrament seale vnto vs the mercies of God?

A. Because we are full of vnbeleefe and doubting of them.

Q. Why is the Sacrament the in∣stument of the spirite to conuey the mercies of God into our hearts?

A. Because we are like Thomas, we will not beleeue till wee feele them in some measure in our hearts.

Q. How many Sacramēts are there?

A. Two g 1.111 and no more. Baptisme, by which wee haue our admission in∣to the true Church of God: and the Lords supper, by which wee are nou∣rished and preserued in the Church after our admission.

Q. What is done in Baptisme?

A. h 1.112 Solemnly in the assembly of the church a couenant is made betweene the Lord and the party baptized.

Q. In y^e making of this couenāt what doth God promise to y^e party baptized?

A. * 1.113Christ with all blessings that come by him.

Q. To what condition is the party baptized, bound?

A. To i 1.114 receiue Christ, and to re∣pent of his sinne.

Q. What meaneth the sprinkling or dipping in water.

A. The couenant being solemnly made, is therby sealed and confirmed.

Q. How commeth it to passe that many after their baptisme for a long time feele not the effect and fruit of it, and some neuer?

A. The fault is not in GOD, who keepes his couenants; but the fault is in themselues, in that they doo not keepe the condition of the couenant to receiue Christ by faith, and to repent of all their sinnes.

Q. When shall a man then see the effect of his Baptisme?

A. At what k 1.115 time soeuer he doth receiue Christ by faith, though it bee an hundred yeares after, hee shall then feele the power of GOD to regene∣rate him, & to work al things in him, which he offered in Baptisme.

Q. Howe if a man neuer keepe the condition, to which he bound himselfe

in Baptisme?

A. His damnation l 1.116shal be the grea∣ter, because hee breaketh his vowe made to God.

Q. What is done in the L. supper?

A. The former couenant made in Baptisme, is renued in m 1.117 the Lords supper, betweene the Lord himselfe & the receiuer.

Q. What is the receiuer?

A. Euery one n 1.118 that hath been bap∣tized, and after his baptisme hath tru∣ly beleeued in Christ: and repented of his sinne from his heart.

Q. What meaneth the bread & wine, the eating of the bread, & drinking of the wine?

A. These outward actions o 1.119 are a second seale, set by the Lordes owne hand vnto his couenant. And they doo giue euery receiuer to vnderstād, that as God doth blesse the bread & wine, to preserue & strengthen the bodie of the receiuer: so christ receiued by faith, shall nourish him, and preserue both bodie and soule vnto eternall life.

Q. What shall a true receiuer feele in himselfe after the receiuing of the

Sacrament?

A. p 1.120 The increase of his faith in Christ, the increase of sanctification, a greater measure of dying to sinne, a greater care to liue in newnes of life.

Q. What if a man after the recei∣uing of the Sacrament, neuer finde any such thing in himselfe?

A. Hee may well suspect himselfe, whether he did euer repent or not.

Q. What is another meanes of in∣creasing faith?

A. Praier.

Q. What is praier?

A. r 1.121A familiar speach with God: s 1.122 in which either we craue things needful, or giue thanks for things receiued.

Q. In asking things needfull, what is required?

A. Two things, an earnest desire, and faith.

Q. t 1.123What things must a Christian mans heart desire?

A. Sixe things especially.

Q. What are they?

A. 1. a 1.124 That he may glorifie God: 2. That b 1.125 God may raigne in his heart & not sinne: 3. c 1.126That he may do Gods

will, and not the lusts of his flesh: 4. d 1.127 That he may rely himselfe on Gods prouidence for all the meanes of this temporall life: 5. e 1.128 That he may be iu∣stified, and be at peace with God: 6. f 1.129That by the power of God hee may be strengthened against all tēptatiōs.

Q What is faith?

A. A g 1.130perswasion, that these things which we truly desire, God will grant them for Christs sake.

VI.

Q. After that a man hath led a short life in this world, what followeth thē?

A. Death, which is the parting a∣sunder of body and soule.

Q. Why doo wicked men and vnbe∣leeuers die?

A. That q 1.131their bodies may goe to the earth, and their soules may be cast into hell fier.

Q Why doo the godly die?

A. That r 1.132their bodies may rest for a while in the earth. & their soules may enter into heauen immediatlie.

Q. What followeth after death?

A. The day of iudgement.

Q. What signe is there to knowe this day from other dayes?

A. s 1.133 Heauen and earth shall bee consu∣med with fier immediatlie before the comming of the Iudge.

Q. Who shall be the Iudge?

A. Iesus Christ the sonne of God.

Q. What shall bee the comming to iudgement?

A. He t 1.134shall come in the clouds in great Maiestie and glorie with infinit companie of Angels.

Q How shall all men bee cited to iudgement?

A. At the u 1.135 sound of a trumpet, the liuing shall be changed in the twinck∣ling of an eye, and the dead shal rise a∣gaine euerie one with x 1.136his owne bo∣die, and all shall be gathered together before Christ: and after this, the good shall bee seuered from the bad, y 1.137these standing on the left hand of Christ, the other on the right.

Q. How will Christ trie and exa∣mine euery mans cause?

A. The a 1.138bookes of all mens doo∣ings shall bee laide open, and euerie man shal be tried by the workes which

he did in his life time, because they ar•• open and manifest signes b 1.139 of faith o•• vnbeliefe.

Q. What sentence will he giue?

A. He wil giue c 1.140sentence of saluation to the elect and godly, but he will pro∣nounce sentence of damnation agains•• vnbeleeuers and reprobates.

Q. What state shall the godly be in after the day of iudgement?

A. They d 1.141 shal continue for euer in the highest heauen in the presence of God hauing ful fellowship with Christ Ie∣sus, and raigning with him for euer.

Q. What state shall the wicked bee in after the day of Iudgement?

A. In eternall perdition and destruc∣tion in hell fire.

Q. What is that?

A. It e 1.142stands in three things especi∣ally, 1. a perpetuall seperation from Gods cōfortable presence, 2. fellow∣ship with the diuel and his angels, 3. an horrible pang and torment both of bodie and soule, arising of the feeling of the whole wrath of God, powred foorth on the wicked, for euer, worlde without end.

FINIS.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Ioh. 4.24.
• b 1.2

  Rom. 1.20. act. 14.17.
• c 1.3

  Rom. 2 15. gen. 38.10. & 13, 14.
• d 1.4

  1. Cor. 8.6.
• e 1.5

  Deut. 4.16. amos 4.13.
• f 1.6

  Iob. 12.13.
• g 1.7

  Esay. 6.3. exod. 20.5.6.
• h 1.8

  Isay. 41.4.
• i 1.9

  Psal. 139. all
• k 1.10

  Iob. 9.4. deut 10.17.
• l 1.11

  Iere. 10.12. psal. 33.6.
• m 1.12

  Matt. 10 30. prou. 16.33.
• n 1.13

  Leuit. 26.26 matt. 4.4.
• o 1.14

  1 Iohn 5.7. matth. 3.12.
• p 1.15

  Ioh. 15.26.
• q 1.16

  Ephes. 2.1. 1. tim. 5.5.
• r 1.17

  1. Ioh. 3.4. rom. ••.7. gal. 3.10.
• s 1.18

  Coloss. 3.9. psal. 15.5.
• t 1.19

  Rom. 3.10,
• u 1.20

  Gen 6.5. 1. thess. 5.23.
• x 1.21

  1. Cor. 2.14. rom. 8.5.
• y 1.22

  Tit. 1.15. ephe. 4.18. esay. 57.20.
• z 1.23

  Phi. 2.13. iob. 15.16.
• a 1.24

  Gal. 5.24.
• b 1.25

  Rom. 6.19.
• c 1.26

  Gen. 6.5.
• d 1.27

  Ioh. 13.2. act. 5.3. 1. chro. 21.1.
• e 1.28

  Rom· 5.12.18, 19. gen. 3.
• f 1.29

  Gal. 3.10.
• g 1.30

  Deut. 28.21, 22.27.65, 66, 67.
• h 1.31

  Heb. 2.14. ephe. 2.2. 2. cor. 4.4. luk. 11, 21.
• i 1.32

  Ioh. 8.44. 1. ioh. 3.8.
• k 1.33

  Rom. 5.12.
• l 1.34

  Gal. 3.10. rom. 3.10.
• m 1.35

  Matt. 1.21.
• n 1.36

  Heb. 2.16. ioh. 1.14.
• o 1.37

  Heb. 5.7. mar. 13.18.
• p 1.38

  Matt. 1.18.
• q 1.39

  1. Tim. 2.5.6
• r 1.40

  Psal. 45.7. luk. 4.18. deut. 18.15.18. luk. 1.33. psal. 100. all
• s 1.41

  Matth 20.28 heb. 7.25, 26.
• t 1.42

  Esay. 53.10.
• u 1.43

  Apoc. 8.3. heb. 13.10.
• x 1.44

  Heb. 5.5, 6.
• y 1.45

  Heb. 9.28.
• z 1.46

  Esay 53.5. ioh. 12.9. reuel. 19.15. luk. 22.44.
• a 1.47

  Heb. 9 26.
• * 1.48

  Act. 20.28. 2. cor. 5 19.
• b 1.49

  1. Cor. 1.30. rom. 2.19. 2. Cor. 5.21.
• c 1.50

  Rom. 5.18. rom. 4.8.
• d 1.51

  Rom. 8.34. 1. pet. 2.5.
• e 1.52

  Ioh. 6.45. matth. 3.17.
• f 1.53

  Esay 9.7.
• g 1.54

  Acts. 10.40. ephes, 4.8. act. 1.9.
• h 1.55

  Esa. 9.7. and 30.21.
• i 1.56

  Ioh. 1.11. 1. ioh. 2.2.
• k 1.57

  Ioh. 1.12. & 6.35. gal. 3.27. coloss. 2.12.
• l 1.58

  1. Cor. 1.12. rom. 8.16.
• m 1.59

  Ezech. 11.19 hos. 6.1, 2.
• o 1.60

  Rom. 3.20. & 7.7, 8.
• a 1.61

  Cōmand. I.
• b 1.62

  II.
• c 1.63

  III.
• d 1.64

  IIII.
• e 1.65

  V.
• f 1.66

  VI.
• g 1.67

  VII.
• h 1.68

  VIII.
• i 1.69

  IX.
• k 1.70

  X.
• l 1.71

  Act. 2.37, 38. cant. 5.4.
• m 1.72

  1. Tim. 1.15 luk. 15.21.
• n 1.73

  Gal. 3.
• o 1.74

  Esay 55.1. ioh. 7.37. luk. 1.53.
• p 1.75

  Reuel. 21.6
• q 1.76

  Heb. 4.16,
• r 1.77

  Luke. 15.18, 19. mat. 15.22, 23. act. 8.22. 2. cor. 12.1.
• s 1.78

  Math. 7.7. esay. 65.24.
• t 1.79

  Rom. 1.17. luk. 17.5.
• u 1.80

  Esay. 42.••. matt. 17.20. luk. 17.5.
• x 1.81

  Rom. 8.23.24 gal. 4.6. matt. 5.6
• y 1.82

  Rom. 8.9. ephe. 3.17.
• * 1.83

  Rom. 8.38, 39 cant. 8.6, 7
• b 1.84

  2. Tim. 4.7, 8 psal. 23.6. with 1, 2, 3, 4,
• c 1.85

  Ro. 4.20, 21.
• d 1.86

  1. Cor. 1.39. act. 15 9 rom. 4.3.
• e 1.87

  Rom 8.33.
• f 1.88

  Collos. 1.22. 1. pet. 2.25. 1. ioh. 1.17
• g 1.89

  2 Cor. 5.21.
• h 1.90

  Rom. 4.17. apoc 21 27
• k 1.91

  Psal. 143.2 esay. 64.6
• l 1.92

  Rom. 8.1 1. iohn. 3.9.
• n 1.93

  Rom. 6.4. 1. pet. 4.1, 2
• o 1.94

  Rom. 6.5, 6 phillip. 3.10.
• p 1.95

  1. Thess. 5.23
• q 1.96

  Rom. 8.23. 2. cor. 5.2, 2.
• r 1.97

  Psa. 119.113 & 40.9 &. 101 3. rom 7.22.
• s 1.98

  Psal 119 57.112
• t 1.99

  Rom 5.3. 2. cor. 1.5.
• u 1.100

  2. Cor. 7.8.9. matth. 26.72.
• x 1.101

  1 Pet. 2.19.
• y 1.102

  2. Cor. 7.11.
• z 1.103

  2. Cor. 7.11.
• a 1.104

  Prou. 28.19. rom. 10.14. mat. 28.19, 20.
• * 1.105

  2. Tim. 3.16.
• b 1.106

  Ephes. 1.13.
• c 1.107

  Heb. 4.12. 1. cor. 14.25.
• d 1.108

  Rom. 1.17. 2 cor. 2.16 hebr. 4.2.
• e 1.109

  Iam. 1.19 act. 16.14. hebr. 4.2 esay. 66.2 luke 2.51. psal 119 11.
• f 1.110

  Rom. 4.11 gen. 17.12 gal. 3.1
• g 1.111

  1. Cor. 10.1, 2.3.
• h 1.112

  Act. 2.38 tit. 3 5. act. 22.16. matth. 28.19
• * 1.113

  Gal. 3.27. 1. pet. 3.21.
• i 1.114

  Mark. 16.16.
• k 1.115

  Hebr. 10.20. 1. pet. 3.21.
• l 1.116

  Deut. 23.21, 22. eccl. 3.4.
• m 1.117

  ••. Cor. 11.23, 24, 25, and 12, 13
• n 1.118

  1. Cor. 11.28.31. matth. 5.22, 23. esay 66.2, 3.
• o 1.119

  1. Cor. 10.16 17.
• p 1.120

  1. Cor. 10.16 17. & 11.24.
• r 1.121

  1. Iohn. 5.14.
• s 1.122

  1. Tim. 2.1. phil. 4.6.
• t 1.123

  Mark. 11.24.
• a 1.124

  Petition. I.
• b 1.125

  II.
• c 1.126

  III.
• d 1.127

  IIII.
• e 1.128

  V.
• f 1.129

  VI.
• g 1.130

  Amen.
• q 1.131

  Luc. 16.22.23.
• r 1.132

  Luc. 23 43. act. 7.70. 1. thess. 4.3. heb 2.14. 1. cor. 15.5.
• s 1.133

  2. Pet 3.11, 12.
• t 1.134

  1. Thess. 4.16 17.
• u 1.135

  Matt. 24.3.
• x 1.136

  Iob. 19.26.
• y 1.137

  Matt. 25 32.33.
• a 1.138

  Reue. 20.12. dan. 7.10.
• b 1.139

  Ioh. 3.18. & 5.24.
• c 1.140

  Matth. 25.34.41.
• d 1.141

  Matt. 25.34. apoc. 21.2, 3, 4.11.
• e 1.142

  2. Thess. 1.8, 9. esay. 66.24. apoc. 21.8.