A19564:373
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…
Catechismus, that is to say, a short instruction into Christian religion for the singular commodity and profit of children[n] and young people. Set forth by the most reverend father in God Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and MetropolitanCatechismus, that is to say, a shorte instruction into Christian religion for the synguler commoditie and profyte of childre[n] and yong people. Set forth by the mooste reuerende father in God Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury, primate of all England and Metropolitane
printed for Gwalter Lynne, 1548
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Go into the whole world / and teach all nations / & baptise them / in the name of the father / & the son / and the holy ghost.1 He that will believe / and be baptised / shall be saved. But he that will not believe / shall be damned.
Go into the whole world / and teache al nations / & baptise thē / in the name of the father / & the sonne / and the holi gost.1 He that wyl beleue / and be baptised / shalbe saued. But he that wyll not beleue / shall be damned.
- 1mat. xxviii Mar. xvi.
By these words our Lord ⟨p. ccxiii⟩Jesus Christ did institute baptism, whereby we be borne again to the kingdom of God. And you good children shall give diligence not only to rehearse these words, but also to understand, what christ meant by the same. That when you be demanded any question herein, you may both make a direct answer, and also in time to come be able to teach your children, as you your selves are now instructed. For what greater shame can there be, then a man to profess him self to be a Christen man, because he is baptised, and yet he knoweth not what baptism is, nor what strength the same hath, nor what the dipping in the water doth betoken? where as all our life time we ought to keep those promises, which there we solemnly made before God and man, and all our ⟨image 236⟩profession and life ought to agree to our baptism. Wherefore good children, to the intent you may the better know the strength & power of baptism, you shall first understand, that our lord Jesus Christ hath instituted and annexed to the gospel, three sacraments or holy seals, of his covenant and lege made with us. And by these three, gods ministers do work with us in the name and place of God (yea God him self worketh with us) to confirm us in our faith, & to ascertain us, that we are the lively members of Gods true church, and the chosen people of God, to whom the gospel is sent, and that all those things belong to us, whereof the promises of the gospel make mention. The first of these sacraments is baptism, by the which we be borne again to a new and heavenly