A Short Instruction Into Christian Religion, a Catechism Set Forth by Archbishop Cranmer in MDXLVIII. Together with the Same in Lat., Tr., from the

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...And so by baptisme we enter into the kyngdome of God, John in. a. anj ghalbe saued for euer, yf we contynewe to oure lyues Collo. ii. b. ende in the faythe of Christe. 1 Pet iii. c. Wherfore good children, consydre diligently the strength of baptisme, and marke wel, howe greate treasures and how excellent benefytes you receaued in youre baptisme, that you maye thanke God for the same, and comfort your selfes by theim in al your temptations and endeuoure youre selfes, faithfully to performe al thinges, which you promysed in your baptisme. And that you may do this the better, hear and learne the wordes of our master Christe, by the whiche he dyd ordeyne and institute baptisme. And ofentymes repete the same, that you maye learne them worde for worde without the boke. These be the wordes of our Lorde Jesus Christe, spoken Mat xxviii.to ms dysciples. Go into the whole world, and teache all Mar. xvi. nations, and baptise them, in the name of the Father, and the Sonne, and the Holy Gost. He that wil beleue, and be baptised, shalbe saued. But he that wyll not beleue, shall be damned. By these wordes oure Lorde Jesus Christe dyd institute baptisme, wherby we be borne agayne to the kyngdom of God. And you good children shal gyue dilygence, not onely to reherse these wordes, but also to vnderstand, what Christ ment by the same. That when you be demaunded any questyon herein, you maye bothe make a dyrecte answere, and also in tyme to come be able to teache your children, as you your selues are nowe instructed. For what greater shame can ther be, then a man to professe himselfe to be a Christen man, because he is baptised, and yet he knoweth not what baptisme is, nor what strength the same hath, nor what the dyppyng in the water doth betoken?...