- #AOC31 But why art thou called a Christian? Because through Faith I am a member of Jesus Christ, and partaker of his anointing, that both I may confess his name, and present my self unto him a lively Sacrifice of thankfulness, and also may in t...
- #AOC32 For what cause is Christ called the only begotten Son of God, when we also are the Sons of God? Because Christ alone is the eternal and natural Son of the eternal Father, and we are but Sons adopted of the Father by Grace for his sake.
- #AOC33 Wherefore callest thou him our Lord? Because he redeeming and ransoming both our Body and Soul from Sin, not with Gold nor Silver, but with his precious Blood, and delivering us from all the Power of the Devil, hath set us free to serve...
- #AOC34 What believest thou when thou sayest, He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary? That the Son of God, who is and continueth true and everlasting God, took the very Nature of man, of the flesh and blood of the Virgin Mary, through the working of the Holy-Ghost, that withal he might...
- #AOC35 What profit takest thou by Christ’s holy Conception and Nativity? That he is our Mediator, and doth cover with his Innocency and perfect Holiness my Sins, in which I was conceived, that they may not come in the Sight of God.
- #AOC36 What believest thou when thou sayest he suffered. That he all the time of his life which he lead in the Earth, but especially at the end thereof, sustained the wrath of God, both in body and soul, against the sin of mankind, that he might by his pass...
- #AOC37 For what cause should he suffer under Pilate, as being his Judg? That he being innocent and condemned before a civil Judg might deliver us from the severe Judgment of God which remained for all men.
- #AOC38 But is there any more in it, that he was fastened to the Cross, than if he had suffered any other kind of death? There is more: for by this I am assured that he took upon himself the curse which did ly on me; for the death of the Cross was accursed of God.
- #AOC39 Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself unto death? Because the Justice and Truth of God could by no other means be satisfied for our sins, but by the very death of the Son of God.
- #AOC40 To what end was he buried also? That thereby he might manifest that he was dead indeed.
- #AOC41 But since that Christ died for us, why must we also die? Our death is not a satisfaction for our Sins, but the abolishing of Sin, and our passage into everlasting Life.
- #AOC42 What other commodity receive we by the Death of Christ? That by the virtue of his Death our old man is crucified, slain, and buried together with him, (figured out in holy Baptism) that henceforth evil lusts and desires may not reign in us, but we may offe...
- #AOC43 Why is there added, he descended into Hell? That in my greatest pains and most grevious temptations I may support my self with this comfort, that my Lord Jesus Christ hath delivered me (by the unspeakable distresses, torments and terrors of his...
- #AOC44 What doth the Resurrection of Christ profit us? First, by his Resurrection he vanquished death, that he might make us partakers of that Righteousness which he had gotten us by his death. Again, we are now also stirred up by his Power to a new Life....
- #AOC45 How understand you that he ascended into Heaven? That Christ, his Disciples looking on, was taken up from the Earth into Heaven, and yet still is there for our sakes, and will be until he come again to judge the quick and the dead.
- #AOC46 Is not Christ with us then until the end of the World, as he hath promised? Christ is true God, and true Man, and so according to his Manhood is not now on Earth, but according to his Godhead, his Majesty, his Grace, and Spirit is at no time from us.
- #AOC47 Are not by this means the two natures in Christ pulled assunder, if his Humanity be not wheresoever his Divinity is? No; for seeing his Divinity is incomprehensible, and every where present, it followeth necessarily that the same is without the bounds of his humane Nature which he took unto him, and yet is neverthel...
- #AOC48 What Fruit doth the Ascension of Christ into Heaven bring unto us? First that he maketh Intercession to his Father in Heaven for us; next that we have our Flesh in Heaven, that we may be confirmed thereby, as by a sure Pledge, that it shall come to passe that he who...
- #AOC49 Why is it further said, he sitteth at the Right-Hand of God? Because Christ therefore is ascended into Heaven, to shew there that he is the Head of his Church, by whom the Father governeth all things.
- #AOC50 What profit is this Glory of our Head Christ unto us? First, that through his Holy Spirit he poureth upon us his Members heavenly Graces, then that he shieldeth and defendeth us by his Power against all our Enemies.
- #AOC51 What Comfort hast thou by the coming of Christ again to judge the quick and the dead? That in all my Miseries and Persecutions, I look with my Head lifted up, for the very same who before yielded himself unto the Judgment of God for me, and took away all Malediction from me, to come Ju...
- #AOC52 What believest thou concerning the Holy Ghost? First, that He is true and Coeternal God, with the eternal Father, and the Son; secondly, that he is also given unto me, to make me, through a true Faith, Partaker of Christ and all his Benefits, to c...
- #AOC53 What believest thou concerning the Holy and Catholick Church of Christ? I believe that the Son of God doth from the beginning of the World to the End thereof, gather, defend, and preserve unto himself by his Spirit and Word, out of whole Mankind, a Company chosen to everl...
- #AOC54 What mean those words, The Communion of Saints? First, that all and every one who believeth, are in common Partakers of Christ and all his Graces, as being his Members; and then that every one ought readily and chearfully to bestow the Gifts and Gr...
- #AOC55 What believest thou concerning Remission of Sins? That God, for the Satisfaction made by Christ, hath put out all the Remembrance of my Sins, and also of that Corruption within me wherewith I must fight all my life time, and doth freely indow me with...
- #AOC56 What Comfort hast thou by the Resurrection of the Flesh? That not only my Soul, after it shall depart out of my Body, shall presently be taken up to Christ, but that this my Flesh also, being raised up by the Power of Christ, shall be again united to my Sou...
- #AOC57 What Comfort takest thou of the Article of everlasting Life? That forasmuch as I feel already in my Heart the beginning of everlasting Life, it shall at length come to pass that after this Life I shall enjoy full and perfect Bliss, wherein I may magnify God for...
- #AOC58 But when thou believest all these things, what profit redoundeth thence unto thee? That I am righteous in Christ before God, and an Heir of eternal Life.
- #AOC59 How art thou righteous before God? Only by Faith in Christ Jesus. So that although my Concience accuse me that I have grievously trespassed against all the Commandments of God, and have not kept one of them, and further am as yet prone...
- #AOC60 Why affirmest thou that thou art made Righteous by Faith only? Not for that I please God through the Worthiness of meer Faith, but because only the Satisfaction, Righteousness and Holiness of Christ is my Righteousness before God, and I cannot take hold of it, or...
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