B11281:16
A catechism or brief instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian…A catechisme or briefe instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian…
A catechism or brief instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian religion With a short treatise premised concerning the profity and necessity of catechizing.A catechisme or briefe instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian religion With a short treatise premised concerning the profity and necessitie of catechizing.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1617London: printed by Edvvard Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1617
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Fourthly, what a special matter is it to be frequent in the reading of the sacred Scriptures, concerning which, the commandment of our heavenly master, is express for all, John 5. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think to have eternal life; and they are they which witness of me: hereby we are made wise unto salvation, 2 Tim. 3. now certain it is, that without Catechizing, the Scriptures will be as a sealed book: and therefore as we have in regard the reading of Gods book, to receive edification and comfort by it, it is needful we be skilled in the principles before.
Fourthly, what a speciall matter is it to bee frequent in the reading of the sacred Scriptures, concerning which, the commandement of our heauenly master, is expresse for all, Iohn 5. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life; and they are they which witnesse of me: hereby we are made wise vnto saluation, 2 Tim. 3. now certaine it is, that without Catechizing, the Scriptures will be as a sealed booke: and therefore as we haue in regard the reading of Gods booke, to receiue edification and comfort by it, it is needfull we be skilled in the principles before.
Fifthly, can there be a more notable preservative, to keep us safe from the multitude of seducers and impostors in the world, as Jesuits and Seminaries? How many are perverted by them? for they compass sea and land, to make of their profession, that they may make them the children of hell like themselves, I will not say two-fold worse; for that I suppose cannot be: witness their many treacheries and conspiracies, and especially that gun-powder business, which argue their attainment to perfection in this kind. If false Prophets may be known by their fruits, which is the rule of our master, Matth. 7. then it is no hard matter for these who will apply themselves to discerning of spirits (the which we are counselled,