Question 22

What are those thinges which a Christian man must of necessitie beleeue?

All those thinges that are promised vnto vs in the Gospell: the sum whereof is briefly comprised in the Apostles Creed, or in the chiefe heades of the Catholike & vndoubted faith of al Christians.^a

The vse.

Which being so, we gather from hence two conclusions: one, that non of those things ought to bee reckoned vnder the name of the Gospel, which men haue added to the written word of God, that is, to the doctrine conteined in the books of both testaments: the other is, that they are very Antichrists, and instruments of Sathan, who fearing to haue their iugling bewraied, do cry out, that onlie on certaine sort of men must reade the Scripture, and therefore it is very vnlawful to translate the holy scriptures into the vulgare tongues, which may be vnderstood even of siely Weomen.