A little catechisme, that is to say, a short instruction touching christian religion, set forth by Theodorus Beza Minister of the Church of God in Geneua.

The tenth section.

Q. 1. Wherefore hath the Lorde ordeined & instituted two signes in his holy supper see∣ing that in Baptisme there is but one only?

A. To assure vs that he doth not feede vs to the halues, but wholly, being not onelye our meate but also our drinke.

Q. 2. Where is Iesus Christ nowe according to his humane nature?

A. In heauen, from whence he shall come to iudge the liuing and the dead.

Q. 3. By what meanes can you then whiche are on the earth receiue him?

A. As I receiue with my hande and my mouth the sacrament, that is to saye, that bread and that wine, for the nourishment of thys bodye, euen so by the vertue, and power of the holye Ghoste, I doe inwardly and in my soule receiue and im∣brace thorowe faythe our Lorde Iesus

Christ, verye God and verye man, that by him I may liue eternally.

Q. 4. Doe they which haue no fayth receiue Iesus Christ in the supper?

A. No, for Iesus Christe is not receaued but by fayth, yet doe they in deede receiue the sacrament, but to theyr condemnation.

Q 5. How so?

A. Because that they make no difference betwene common bread and cōmon wine, and that which is the sacrament of the bo∣dy and bloud of Iesus Christe, whom they reiect and throw from them thorowe theyr vnbeliefe.

Q 6. Howe must a man prepare himselfe t•• come worthily to the supper?

A. If he haue true repentance of the life y^t is passed, confessing their sins before God, and amending them towards God and his brethren, so much as in him lyeth, w^t aful•• deliberation & purpose to be better in time to come, and embracing Iesus Christ by a•• true fayth in his promises and sacraments for the alone and only sauior,

Q. 7. But hath Iesus Christe left it vnto our liberty and choyse▪ whether we will go to the supper, or not goe to it?

A. In forbidding men to resort thether vn∣worthily, he commandeth all them whiche haue iudgement and discretion, to prepare

themselues y^t they may repaire worthily to it.

God giue vs all grace to go to it to his honor and glory, and to our saluation. So be it.