Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same: and aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick: reduced into .17. common places. Translated into Englishe by Iohn Coxe. 1572

The Answere.

YT may very easily appeare* 1.1 by this question, that those wicked men whiche were the authors of these questi∣ons, did neuer rightly vnderstande this holy Prayer common vnto all men, and commonly called the Lords pray∣er. For they speake thereof, as though wée dyd••e pray the same of ourselues without Chryste, when as muche ra∣ther it is the prayer of Chryste, and is so named, not onely for that he made the same, but also for that wée nowe pray the same as euen by his mouthe. For when wée say the Lords prayer, we then with those wordes pray euen as it were with Chrysts owne mouth:

therefore the father, who loueth hys sonne, acknowledgeth his wordes and prayer, and those are moste acceptable vnto him, & therefore euen for his sons sake he heareth vs. And therfore in the Lords prayer Chryst is made the only intercessor, and although wée pray the same with the Apostles, yet are we not herd for their sakes, but for Christs: for euen their prayers are made effectuall & acceptable vnto god through Chryst. In the Acts they require the gift of the holy ghost, of whō the Lord before had spoken in the gospel, saying that his fa∣ther would send him in his name: and therfore it euery where appeareth, that Chryst is the true aduocate and inter∣cesser of all the faythfull. And it were not a little to be wondred at, why these men sho•••••• more set by and regard the intercession of sa••••c••s, than of Chryst, on lesse they did man••festly declare thē selues to be of that number of whome Paule speaketh in the ••••••ste Chapter to the Romanes, saying. which wor∣ship and serue the creatures more than the creator, &c.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Howe wee praye in Christes name when wee saye the Lordes prai∣er.