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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07128	The principles of Christian Religion necessary to be knowen of all the faythful: set forth to the great profite in trayning vp of all youth, by Tho. Becon.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1569 (1569)	STC 1753; ESTC S110680	56,582	182

Probations out of the holy Scriptures I will call vpō the Lord which is worthy to be praysed so shall I be safe from myne enemyes King Ezechias by prayer was deliuered from the proude wicked tyraunt Senacherib both hee and all hys So likewise was Ioseph Daniell Susanna Peter c. By prayer we get the victory of our enemies in battell ☞ Probations out of the holy Scriptures The people of Israell gotte the victory ouer the Amalechites so long as Moyses prayed for them When the blacke Mores came out to fight agaynst Asa King of Iuda Asa prayed vnto the Lorde and the Lorde gaue him the victory so that all his enemies were destroyed in battell Read y e chapter Iudas Machabeus after he had called on the name of the Lord got a noble victory of Gorgias and his company By prayer we obtaine health of body ☞ Probations out of the holy Scriptures The miracles which Christ wrought vpon thē that were diseased fled vnto hym for helpe with faythfull prayer proue this true By prayer we obtaine all thinges necessary for the body ☞ Probations out of the holy Scriptures Moyses by prayer obtained Māna from heauen for the Israelites Helias by prayer obtained raine of God to water the earth By prayer our sinnes are forgeuen vs. ☞ Probations out of the holy Scriptures I sayd I will confesse my sinnes vnto the Lord and thou forgauest the wickednes of my sinne For this shall euery one that is godly make his prayer to thee in a time when thou mayest be found I forgaue thee all that det whē thou desiredst me The sinfull Publicaue praying for remission of hys sinnes went home more righteous in the sight of God then the proud Pharisey If any be diseased among you let him call for the elders of the cōgregation and let them pray ouer him and annoint him with oyle in the name of y e Lorde and the prayer of fayth shall saue the sicke and the Lord shall raise hym vp and if he be in sinnes they shall be forgeuen hym By prayer we ouercome the deuill and all our ghostly enemies ☞ Probations out of the holy Scriptures Thys kinde of deuils is not cast out but by prayer and fasting Watch and pray that ye fall not into temptation The spirite is willing but the fleshe is weake By prayer we obtaine God the holy Ghost ☞ Probations out of the holy Scriptures If ye which are euill can geue your children good giftes how much more shall your father which is in heauen geue the holy ghost to them that desire it of hym As the disciples of Christ were gathered together in one place and continued in prayer they were all filled with the holy ghost By prayer we obtaine all good thinges both for the body and soule ☞ Probations out of the holy Scriptures What thinges soeuer ye desire whē ye pray beleue that ye receaue them and ye shall haue them The haruest is much but the labourers are fewe Pray ye therfore the Lorde of y e haruest that he will send labourers into hys haruest If any of you lacke wisedome let hym aske of hym that geueth it euen God which geueth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth and it shall bee geuen him But let him aske in fayth c. The Lord is euen at hand Bee careful for nothing but in all prayer and supplication let your peticions bee knowen vnto God with thank esgeuing ¶ Many other benefites receaue we of God through prayer which here to rehearse were to long Read diligently my booke called the Pathway vnto Prayer and that shall sufficiently instructe thée in all thing●s concerning prayer ¶ The Lordes prayer called the Pater noster with confirmations of euery Peticion out of the holy Scripture The Disciples sayd vnto Christ Lord teach vs to pray And he said vnto them when ye pray say Our Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy name c. ¶ The Preface of the Lordes Prayer OVr Father which art in heauen ☞ The confirmations Our Father Is not the Lord God the father and thine honour Hath hee not made thee ordayned thee Thou O Lorde God art our father and redemer Haue we not all one father Hath not God made vs no ●hy doth euery one of vs then despise hys owne brother Should not a sonne honour his father and a seruaunt hys master If I bee now a Father where is myne honour If I bee a Lorde where is my feare Ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage to feare any more but ye haue receaued y ● spirite of adoption wherby we cry Abba that is to say father The same spirite certifieth our spirite that we are the sonnes of God If we bee sonnes then are we also heyres the heyres I meane of God fellow heyres annexed with Christ. Which art in Heauen Heauē is my seate ▪ and the earth is my footestoole The Lorde hath prepared his seate in heauen Our God is in heauen hee doth whatsoeuer pleaseth hym Unto thee lift I vp myne eyes which dwellest in the heauens Call no man father vpon earth for one is your father which is in heauen ¶ The first Peticion HAllowed bee thy name ☞ The confirmations I will make the name of my holines to be knowen amōg my people of Israell and I wil not let my holy name to be euill spoken of any more but y ● very heathen also shall know that I am the Lord the holy one of Israell The time shall come that who soeuer calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saued From the rising vppe of the Sunne vnto the going downe of the same my name is great among the Gentries yea and that in all places The Lord gaue and the Lorde hath taken away Now blessed bee the name of the Lord. Sing vnto the Lorde and prayse hys name Bee telling of hys saluation from day to day Declare hys honour among the Heathen and hys wonders among all people I will declare thy name vnto my brethren In the middest of the congregation will I prayse thee The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous flyeth vnto it and shall be saued By Christ do we offer the sacrifice of prayer alwayes vnto God that is to say y e fruite of those lips which confesse hys name ¶ The second Peticion THy Kingdome come ☞ The confirmations Seeke fyrst the kingdome of God and the righteousnes therof and all thynges shall be ministred vnto you The kingdome of heauen suffereth violence the violent plucke it vnto them Who soeuer receaueth not the kingdome of God as a childe hee shall not enter into it Except a man be borne of water and of the spirite he can not enter into the kingdome of God

for in it there are many falles A mā that vseth much swearing shall be filled with wickednes and the plague shall neuer go from hys house And if he sweare in vaine he shall not bee found righteous for hys house shall be full of plagues The wordes of y ● swearer bring death God graunt that it bee not found in the house of Iacob but they that feare God esehue al such and lie not weltring in 〈◊〉 O prayse the Lord with me and let vs magnifie his 〈◊〉 together All our glory is in God all the day long and we will prayse thy name for euer Call on me in the day of trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt honour me Because he hath trusted in me I will deliuer hym yea I will defend hym because he hath knowen my name He shall call vpō me and I will heare hym yea I am with him in trouble I will deliuer him and bring hym to honour With long life will I satisfie hym and shewe hym my saluation The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous flyeth vnto it and shall be ●aued The time shall come that who soeuer calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saued ¶ The fourth Commaundement REmember that thou keepe holy the Sabbaoth day Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seueth day is the Sabbaoth of the Lorde thy God in it thou shalt do no maner of worke thou nor thy sonne nor thy daughter thy manseruaunt nor thy maydseruaunt nor thy cattell nor thy straunger that is within thy gates For in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day wherfore the Lord blessed the Sabbaoth day and ●allowed it ☜ The confirmations In any wise see that ye kepe my Sabbaothes for it is a signe betwene me and you in your generations for to know that I the Lord am he that doth sanctifie you The mā that was found gathering stickes on the Sabbaoth day was stoned to death at the commaundement of God Blessed is the man that taketh heede that he vnhalloweth not the Sabbaoth that is to say keepeth him selfe so that he doe no euill All they which keepe them selues that they vnhallow not the Sabbaoth I meane that they fulfill my couenaunt them will I bring to my holy mountaine and make thē ioyfull in my house of prayer If thou on the Sabbaoth day turne thy feete so that thou do not the thing which pleaseth thy self in my holy day but geuest God the honour so that thou doe not after thine owne imagination neither seeke thine owne will nor speake thine own wordes then shalt thou haue thy pleasure in the Lord and I will cary thee hie aboue y ● earth and feede thee with the heritage of Iacob thy father for the Lordes owne mouth hath so promised There shall be a new Sabbaoth for the other olde Sabbaoth and all 〈◊〉 shall come to worship before me sayth the Lord. There remaineth yet a rest to the people of God For hee y ● is entred into his rest ●ath ceased also frō his owne workes as God dyd from hys Let vs study therfore to enter into that rest least any mā fall after the same ensample of vnbeliefe ¶ What it is to keepe holy the Sabbaoth day To keepe holy y ● Sabbaoth day 〈…〉 from bodily labour that thou shouldest the more licenciously geue thy minde to the wearing of gallant apparell to ba●cketting to idle talke to vaine pastime such other filthy pleasures of the flesh but that thou setting aside all worldly business shouldest the more freely apply thy selfe to read heare and learne the wo●d of God to pray in the temple with the congregation to bee thankfull to God for his benefites to bee present at the ministration of y ● holy Sacramentes to be partaker of y ● mysteries of the Lordes body and bloud to geue some good thing to the reliefe of the poore to visite and comfort the sicke them that are in prison and casting away the workes of the fleshe wholy to exercise thy selfe in the fruites of the spirite ¶ The second Table of the Law cōtayning ●ixe Commaundementes wherin is dec●ared our dutie towardes our neighbour ¶ The fift Commaundement HOnour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be long in the land which the Lord thy God g●●eth thee ☞ The confirmations Ye shall reuerence euery mā his father and his mother Whosoeuer hee bee that curseth hys father or his mother let hym die for he y ● hath cursed his father and mother hys bloud be vpō him He that smiteth his father or mother let hym be slaine for it If any man haue a sonne that is stubborne and disobedient that he will not harken vnto y ● voice of his father nor y ● voyce of his mother they haue chastened him he will not obey them then shall his father his mother take him bring him out vnto y ● elders of that citie to the gates of that same place say vnto the elders of the citie this our sonne is stubborne disobedient will not harken vnto our voyce he is a riotour and a drunkard And all the men of that citie shall stone hym with stones vnto death Cursed be he that curseth his father and mother and all the people shall say Amen My sonne heare thy fathers doctrine and forsake not the law of thy mother For that shall bring grace to thy head shall be as a chaine about thy necke A good childe will harken to his fathers warning but hee that is scornefull will not heare when h● is reproued He y t hurteth hys father or 〈◊〉 teth out his mother is a shamefull and an vnworthy sonne Who so robbeth his father and mother and fayth it is no 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 is like vnto a destroyer Who so laugheth his father to sc●rne and setteth his mothers cōmaundemēt at ● ought the rauens picke out his eies in the valley and deuoured be he of younge ●gles The Lorde will haue the father honoured of the children and loke what a mother commaundeth her children he will haue it kep● Who so h●noureth hys father shall haue a ●ye of his owne children and when hee maketh hys prayer he shall be heard He that honoureth his father shall haue a longlife and he that is obedient for the Lordes sake his mother shall haue ioye of him He that feareth the Lord honoureth his father and mother doth them seruice as it were vnto the Lorde him selfe Honour thy father in deede in word in all pacience y t thou mayest haue Gods blessing hys blessing shall abide with thee at y e last The blessing of the father buildeth vp the houses of the children but the