Master. Now, would I fain hear thy belief of the Holy Ghost.

Scholar. I confess him to be the third person of the Holy Trinity. And since he is equal with the Father and the Son, and of the very same nature, that he ought equally to be worshipped with them both.

Master. Why is he called holy?

Scholar. Not only for his own holiness. but for that by him are made holy, the chosen of God, and members of Christ. And therefore have the Scriptures termed him the Spirit of sanctification or making holy.

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Master. Wherein consisteth this sanctification? Scholar. First, we be new gotten by his inward motion. And therefore said Christ, we 'must be new born of water, and of the Spirit." Then by his inspiration are we adopted, and as it were by choice made the children of God. For which cause he is not causelessly called the Spirit of adoption. By his light are we enlightened to understand God's mysteries. By his judgment are sins pardoned and retained. By his power is the flesh with her lusts kept down and tamed. By his pleasure are the manifold gifts dealt among the holy. Finally, by his means shall our mortal bodies be revived. Therefore, in the author of so great gifts we do not without a cause believe, honour, and call upon him.

Master. Well, thou hast now said sufficiently of the Holy Ghost. But this would I hear of thee, why it immediately followeth, that we believe the holy universal Church, and the communion of saints?

Scholar. These two things I have alway thought to be most fitly coupled together; because the fellowships and incorporations of other men proceed and be governed by other means and policies; but the Church, which is an assembly of men called to everlasting salvation, is both gathered together and governed by the Holy Ghost, of whom we even now made mention. Which thing, since it cannot be perceived by bodily sense or light of nature, is (by right and for good reason) here reckoned among things that are known by belief.

And therefore this calling together of the faithful

is called universal, because it is bound to no one special place. For God, throughout all coasts of the world, hath them that worship him; which, though they be far scattered asunder by divers distance of countries and dominions; yet are they members most nearly joined of that same body, whereof Christ is the head; and have one spirit, faith, sacraments, prayers, forgiveness of sins, and heavenly bliss, common among them all; and be so knit with the bond of love, that they endeavour themselves in nothing more, than each to help other, and to build together in Christ.

Master. Seeing thou hast already spoken of the knowledge of God and his members, I would also hear what is the true service of God?

Scholar. First, we must consider, that the right and true knowledge of God, is the principal and only foundation of God's service. The same knowledge fear doth foster and maintain, which in Scriptures is called, "The beginning of wisdom." Faith and hope are the props and stays whereupon lean all the rest that I have rehearsed. Furthermore, charity, which we call love, is like an everlasting bond, by the strait knot whereof all other virtues be bound in one together, and their force increased. These are the inward parts of God's service, that is to say, which consist in the mind.

Master. What hast thou to say of the Sabbath, or the holy day, which even now thou madest mention of, among the laws of the first table?

Scholar. Sabbath is as much as to say, rest. It was appointed for only honour and service of God, and it is a figure of that rest and quietness, which

they have, that believe in Christ. For our trust in Christ doth set our minds at liberty from all slavish fear of the law, sin, death and hell; assuring us in the mean season, that by him we please God, and that he hath made us his children, and heirs of his kingdom: whereby there groweth in our hearts peace and true quietness of mind, which is a certain foretaste of the most blessed quiet, which we shall have in his kingdom.

As for those things that are used to be done on the Sabbath-day, as ceremonies and exercises in the service of God, they are tokens and witnesses of this assured trust. And meet it is, that faithful Christians, on such days as are appointed out for holy things, should lay aside unholy works, and give themselves earnestly to religion and serving of God.

Master. What be the parts of that outward serving God, which thou sayedst even now, did stand in certain bodily exercises, which are also tokens of the inward serving him?

Scholar. First, to teach and hear the learning of the Gospel; then the pure and natural use of the ceremonies and sacraments; last of all, prayer made unto God by Christ, and in the name of Christ, which without fail obtaineth the Holy Ghost, the most assured author of all true serving God, and upright religion.

Master. Tell me what thou callest sacraments?

Scholar. They are certain customary, reverent doings and ceremonies, ordained by Christ, that by them he might put us in remembrance of his benefits and we might declare our profession, that we

be of the number of them, which are partakers of the same benefits, and which fasten all their affiance in him that we are not ashamed of the name of Christ, or to be termed Christ's scholars.

Master. Tell me, my son, how these two sacraments be ministered-baptism, and that which Paul calleth the Supper of the Lord ?

Scholar. Him that believeth in Christ, professeth the articles of the Christian religion, and mindeth to be baptized (I speak now of them that be grown to ripe years of discretion, since for the young babes their parents' or the Church's profession sufficeth,) the minister dippeth in, or washeth with pure and clean water only, in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: and then commendeth him by prayer to God, into whose Church he is now openly, as it were, enrolled, that it may please God to grant him his grace, whereby he may answer in belief and life agreeably to his profession.

Master. What is the use of the Lord's Supper?

Scholar. Even the very same that was ordained by the Lord himself, Jesus Christ. Which (as St. Paul saith,) the same night that he was betrayed, took bread; and when he had given thanks, brake it and said, This is my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me. In like manner, when supper was ended, he gave them the cup, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood. Do this, as oft as ye shall drink thereof, in the remembrance of me." This was the manner and order of the Lord's Supper, which we ought to hold and keep; that the remembrance of so great a benefit,