Catechismus, that is to say, a short instruction into Christian religion for the singular…Catechismus, that is to say, a shorte instruction into Christian religion for the synguler…

Now you have heard, how in the fifth petition, we desire God to give us all those things, which our Lord Jesus Christ hath deserved for us, by his passion, death and glorious resurrection, that is to say forgiveness of our since, and all thereto belonging, even as we forgive them that have offended us, as you have learned in the second ⟨p. cxciiii⟩part of the Creed, which entreateth of our Redemption. Now therefore followeth the sixth petition, in the which we pray, that God will give us all those things, which we have learned in the .iii. part of the Creed, which entreateth of our Sanctification, that is to say, we desire, that God will vouchsafe, to send us the holy ghost, which may assist us in our continual battle against sin, the flesh, the world and the devil, that in all temptations and skirmishes with the same, we may man fully withstand them, and overcome them. For this we desire, when we say. And suffer us not to be led into temptation. And to the intent, that ye may the better understand this petition, ye shall first diligently learn this lesson, that although sin is forgiven ⟨image 217⟩us by Christ, yet it is not wholly purged or driven out of us, but sin yet sticketh fast in our flesh, which doeth tempt and provoke us to do against Gods commandments. For ye have all ready learned by the ten commandments, what sin is, and what is very ungodliness, to the intent ye may eschew it. Also you have herd in your Creed, that God doth forgive us our since, and doeth no more condemn us for the same, when we believe in the son of God our saviour Jesus Christ. But yet nevertheless, we feel the temptations of sin, which cleaveth to us like glue. And that this is true every one of you doth feel in your selves by daily experience. For when you grudge to do that thing, which your parents commandeth you to do, then sin ⟨p. cxcv⟩tempteth you, and provoketh you to stubbornness and disobedience toward your father and mother. But yield not you to this temptation, but obey your father and mother, as God hath commanded you. Likewise when you see other children have any gay thing, which pleaseth you so well, that you would fain have the same, then sin tempteth and moveth you either by force, or by stealth, or else by some crafty means to pick it from them, and so to deceive your neighbour.