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NOWELL’S
CATECHISM Master. Forasmuch
as the master ought to be to his scholars a second parent and father,
not of their bodies, but of their minds I see it belongeth
to the order of my duty, my dear child, not so much to instruct thee
civilly in learning and good manners, as to furnish thy mind, and that
in thy tender years, with good opinions and true religion. aFor
this age of childhood ought no less, yea, also much more, to be trained
with good lessons to godliness, than with good arts to humanity: wherefore
I thought meet to examine thee by certain short questions, that I may
surely know whether thou have well bestowed thy study and labour
therein, or no. Scholar. And
I for my part, right worshipful master, shall willingly answer your
demands, so far as I have been able with wit to conceive or keep in
memory, and can at this present call to mind and remember, what I have
heard you teach me out of the holy scriptures. M. Go to therefore, and
tell me what religion it is that thou professest. S. The
religion that I profess, right worshipful master, is the same whereof
the Lord Christ is the Author and Teacher, and which is therefore properly
and truly called the Christian religion, like as the professors thereof
are bnamed
Christians. M. Dost thou then acknowledge
thyself to be a follower of Christian godliness and religion, and a
scholar of our Lord and schoolmaster Christ? S. I do so acknowledge indeed, cand do unfeignedly and freely profess it: yea, I do settle therein the sum of all dmy felicity, as in that which is the chiefest good that can come to man, and such as without it our state should be far more miserable than the state of any brute creatures.
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