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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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¶A sermon of the authority of the Keys.¶A sermon of the authoritie of the Kayes.
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Wherefore I doubt not but that my since be forgiven, and that I am made the son & heir of God. Thus good children, you ⟨image 255⟩ought generally in all temptations, to fortify your faith, and to comfort your selves, with the authority of God's word, but specially you shall learn this also, that our Lord Jesus Christ, did intend, by this authority of the Keys, to comfort the troubled consciences of them, that after their baptism, do fall in to heinous offences.
Wherfore I doubte not but that my synnes be forgyuen, and that I am made the sonne & heire of God. Thus good children, you ⟨image 255⟩ought generally in all temptations, to fortifie youre fayth, and to comforte your selfes, with the authoritie of Goddes word, but specially you shall learne this also, that oure Lorde Iesus Christe, dyd entende, by this authoritie of the Kayes, to comforte the troubled consciences of them, that after their baptisme, do fall in to haynous offences.
For it is not so easy a thing, to rise again from sin, as the mad and blind world doeth think, but when the devil and our faith shall skirmish together, then in those straits, and troubles of con science, we have need of the help of some true minister of the church, which (as it were in our swooning) may lift us up with the word of God, comfort and refresh us. As the wise king Solomon ⟨p. ccxxiiii⟩doth declare by this sentence. Woe to that man, which is alone, for when he falleth, he hath no man to lift him up again. And our Lord Jesus Christ, doeth speak so often times in the gospel of the authority of the keys, and hath added so great promises to the same, that it may well appear by the earnestness of Christs words, how careful he was for troubled consciences, and how fatherly an effection he had to comfort the same. Whereof it undoubtedly followeth, that we have great need of this comfort, and that it is much to be esteemed and set by. For first of all our saviour Christ, before he gave these keys in deed, he promised to Peter that he would give them, saying.