Question 34

Wherefore doost thou call him our Lord?

Because he hauing redeemed our bodie and soule from sinne, not with golde nor with siluer, but with his owne precious blood, and hauing deliuered vs from all the power of the Deuill, doth chalenge vs properly to belong to himselfe.^a

The vse

Wee ought safelie and with true assurance of mind, to commit and deliuer ouer our selues for euer to be kept of him as our Lord, & to whome we properly belong, and are his owne peculiar, both in life and in death: the remembrance of this benefit, may also put vs in mind, that we do not hereafter thinke, speak, or deuise any thing, but for his glorie. For in that wee are the Lords, it is meete that wee liue and dye vnto him, and that his wisdome and will, to wit, his word and his spirit, doe gouerne all our actions: for he is appointed by the Father, to be the head of Angels and of the faythfull.