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 (good children) you see how good and merciful is God our heavenly father, who so much loveth us, and hath so fatherly a care for us, that he seeth what we lack, & what evils he should deliver us from, before we begin to ask. And he requireth not, that we should use many words, but only that from the deepness of our hearts we should call upon him, and do to him this honour, that is to say, to ask all things of him, to take him for our only God, and to trust assuredly, that he will hear us. Therefore good children, learn perfectly this lesson, that God willeth and requireth of us, that we in all necessities and danger, that may chance unto us, should call of him for help, and to put our trust and confidence in him alone, ⟨image 228⟩and in no man or creature besides him. For the prophet Hieremye sayeth. Cursed be he, which doth put his trust in man, & maketh him his defence. And although men do oftentimes help & succour us yet it is not men, that do it, but it is God that worketh these things by men, as by his instruments, whom he hath chosen for that purpose. But when God will not help us, then is there no man, that is able, to deliver us. If we have any wrong done unto us, then if it please God to succour us, he doth it by his judges and common officers, whom he hath ordained for that purpose. But if he be not minded to deliver us, then all the men in the world can not help us. Likewise when we be sick if God's pleasure be not to make us hole, what can all physicians & ⟨p. ccvi⟩medicines avail us? But if he be willing to make us hole again he worketh this thing by physicians and medicines, which he hath or dened for the same use. Our duties is therefore, in all our needs to call upon God, to ask help of him, to confess that all goodness cometh from him, and to make him only the author and chief giver of all the good things that we have, and to thank him for the same. Nevertheless we must also give due honour to gods instruments and means, by whom he worketh his benefits in us. Furthermore good children mark diligently this lesson also, that we be not taught to say in this petition, keep us from evil, but deliver us from evil.

Now (good children) you see howe good and merciful is God our heauenly father, who so much loueth vs, and hath so fatherlye a care for vs, that he seeth what we lacke, & what euils he should deliuer vs frome, before we begyn to aske. And he requireth not, yt we should vse many wordes, but only that from the depenes of oure hartes we shoulde cal vpon him, and do to him this honour, that is to say, to aske all thynges of him, to take him for our only God, and to truste assuredly, yt he wil heare vs. Therfore good children, lerne perfytely thys lesson, that God wylleth and requireth of vs, that we in all necessities and daunger, that may chaunce vnto vs, should cal of hym for helpe, and to putte our trust and confidence in him alone,