The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

1. of sound Knowledge, requisite in a worthy Communicant.

Sound ^aKnowledge is a sanctified understanding of the first Principles of Religion. As first, Of the Trinity of Persons in the unity ⟨p. 337⟩of the God-head. Secondly, Of the creation of Man, and his Fall. Thirdly, Of the curse and misery due to sin. Fourthly, Of the Natures and Offices of Christ, and redemption by faith in his death, especially of the doctrine of the Sacraments, sealing the same unto us. For as an house cannot be built unless the foundation he first laid; so no more can Religion stand, unless it be first grounded upon the certain knowledge of God's Word. Secondly, If we know not God's Will, we can neither believe nor do the same. For as worldly businesses cannot be done but by them who have skill therein; so without knowledge must men be much more ignorant in divine and spiritual matters. And yet in temporal things a Man may do much by the light of nature: but in religious mysteries, the more we rely upon ^*natural reason, the further we are from comprehending spiritual Truth. Which discovers the fearful estate of those who receive without knowledge, and the more fearful estate of those Pastors who minister unto them without Catechising.

Sound ^aKnowledge is a sanctified understanding of the first Principles of Religion. As first, Of the Trinity of Persons in the unity ⟨p. 337⟩of the God-head. Secondly, Of the creation of Man, and his Fall. Thirdly, Of the curse and misery due to sin. Fourthly, Of the Natures and Offices of Christ, and redemption by faith in his death, especially of the doctrine of the Sacraments, sealing the same unto us. For as an house cannot be built unless the foundation he first laid; so no more can Religion stand, unless it be first grounded upon the certain knowledge of God's Word. Secondly, If we know not God's Will, we can neither believe nor do the same. For as worldly businesses cannot be done but by them who have skill therein; so without knowledge must men be much more ignorant in divine and spiritual matters. And yet in temporal things a Man may do much by the light of nature: but in religious misteries, the more we rely upon