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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…

Name: A catechism or brief instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian…
Author: Caspar Olevian

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.

Caspar Olevian 1536–1587London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1617London: printed by Edvvard Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1617

[22], 41, [1] p. · 10k words · STC 1024 · ESTC S115851

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A CATECHISM or brief instruction by way of Question and Answer, i… › Part 2 › Of the Holy Catholic Church.A CATECHISME or briefe instruction by way of Question and Answer, i… › Part 2 › Of the Holy Catholique Church.

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And for that I cannot take hold of it, and apply it to my self, any other way then by faith alone^y.

And for that I cannot take hold of it, and applie it to my selfe, any other way then by faith alone^y.

yRom: 4: 16.

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Q Why cannot our good works go for righteousness, or some part of it, before God?

Q Why cannot our good workes go for righteousnesse, or some part of it, before God?

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A. Because that righteousness, which must stand before the judgement of God, must be perfect and in all points agreeable with the law of God^z: now our works even the best of them, are imperfect and defiled with sin^a.

A. Because that righteousnesse, which must stand before the iudgement of God, must be perfect and in all points agreeable with the law of God^z: now our workes euen the best of them, are imperfect and defiled with sinne^a

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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…

Of the Sacraments.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of the Sacraments.

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