An Orthodox Catechism

    The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), Zacharias Ursinus

    Question 114

    THE THIRD PART OF MANS THANKFVLNES

    1. But can they, who are conuerted vnto God, perfectly obserue and keepe these commaundementes?

      No: But euen the holiest men as long as they liue, haue onely smale beginnings of this obedience: yet so, that they ; ; begin with an earnest and vnfained desire and endeuour to liue not according to some onely, but according to all the commaundements of God. ;