A catechisme or briefe instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian religion With a short treatise premised concerning the profity and necessitie of catechizing.

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Title: A catechisme or briefe instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian religion With a short treatise premised concerning the profity and necessitie of catechizing.
Author: Olevian, Caspar, 1536-1587.
Publication: London :: Printed by Edvvard Griffin for Henry Fetherstone,; 1617.
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Subject terms: Heidelberger Katechismus -- Early works to 1800.; Catechisms, English -- Early works to 1800.
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Of the Father.

Q. What beleeuest thou when thou

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sayest, I beleeue in God the Father Al∣mighty, maker of heauen and earth?

A. I beléeue, that God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, who hath made of nothing heauen and earth, with all therein q 1.1, who likewise vpholdeth, and by his prouidence gouerneth the same, to be my God, and my Father r 1.2, and therefore I doe put my whole trust and confidence in him.

Q. What is the prouidence of God?

A. The almighty power of God, whereby he maintaineth and gouerneth all things, so that nothing commeth to passe by fortune, but only according to the counsell of his good will s 1.3.

Q. What doth the knowledge of Gods creation and prouidence profit vs?

A. That in aduersitie we be pati∣ent, and in prosperitie thankfull to our God, and that in him we haue most firme hope for the time to come t 1.4.

Notes

q 1.1

Gen. 1. 1.

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r 1.2

Ioh. 20. 17.

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s 1.3

Matt. 10. 29. 30.

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t 1.4

Iob 1. 21.

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