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

1. All men are corrupted with sin.

As it is written, There is none righteous, * 1.1 no not one.

2. They are wholly corrupted.

Now the very God of peace sanctifie you * 1.2 throughout, and I pray God that your whole spirit, and soul, and body may be kept blame∣less unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This I say therefore, and testifie in the * 1.3 Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds:

Having their cogitations darkned, and be∣ing * 1.4 strangers from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their hearts.

When the Lord saw that the wickedness * 1.5 of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were onely evil continually.

3. Through Adams fall.

Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world, and death by sin, and so death * 1.6 went over all men, for so much as all men have sinned.

4. And so are become slaves of Satan.

Wherein in times past ye walked accord∣ing * 1.7 to the course of the world, and after the Prince that ruleth in the air, even the spi∣rit that now worketh in the children of dis∣obedience.

For as much then as the children were * 1.8 partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part with them, that he might destroy through death, him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.

In whom the God of this world hath * 1.9 blinded the mindes, that is, of Infidels, that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, which is the Image of God, should not shine unto them.

5. And guilty of eternal damnation.

For as many as are of the works of the * 1.10 Law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them. Likewise then as by

the offence of one, the fault came on all men to condemnation: so by the justifying of one, the benefit abounded towards all men to the justification of life.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Rom. 3. 10.
• * 1.2

  1 Thes. 5. 23.
• * 1.3

  Eph. 4. 17.
• * 1.4

  Verse 18.
• * 1.5

  Gen. 6. 5.
• * 1.6

  Rom. 5. 12.
• * 1.7

  Eph. 2. 2.
• * 1.8

  Heb. 2. 14.
• * 1.9

  2 Chr. 4. 4.
• * 1.10

  Gal. 3. 10.