B11281:31
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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Yea it ascendeth to the supremest height of antiquity, which is to Adam himself: for in that his two sons did so apply themselves to the worship and religious service of God, it is certain (howsoever it be not literally expressed) that this came to pass by being catechized and instructed therein, by their Parents Adam and Eve.
Yea it ascendeth to the supremest height of antiquitie, which is to Adam himselfe: for in that his two sonnes did so applie themselues to the worship and religious seruice of God, it is certaine (howsoeuer it be not literally expressed) that this came to passe by being catechized and instructed therein, by their Parents Adam and Eue.
Fourthly, this maketh not a little for the high reputation of catechizing, in that all the reformed Churches throughout Christendom do urge and require the practise of it: wherein what do they otherwise then give an honourable testimony unto it?
Fourthly, this maketh not a little for the high reputation of catechizing, in that all the reformed Churches throughout Christendome doe vrge and require the practise of it: wherein what doe they otherwise then giue an honourable testimonie vnto it?
Lastly (which only might suffice, if there were no more spoken for it) Catechizing is of ordinance Apostolical; and so it is not of humane invention, but it hath Jehovah himself to be the founder of it. This is plain by Heb. 6. the Apostle having before spoken of the needfulness of it, whereas he saith, Ye have need again that we teach you the first principles of the word of God, then doth he afterward relate the Catechism it self in the main 2. principal points of it, which he termeth repentance from dead works, and faith towards God: he mentioneth also the two sorts of persons of whom it was required, to wit, the Converts before they were baptized, which he meaneth by the doctrine of Baptisms, and the children of Believers so soon as they came to discretion, which he meaneth by the laying on of hands, because these little ones after such exercises performed by them, had the hands, to wit, of the Pastors, laid on them.