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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

of all estates and degrees as they bee ●aught in Gods word that all ages and all kindes of people may here learne to know their dutie both toward God hys neighbour Neyther is any thyng taught in thys treatise that is not sufficiently fortressed with the authorities of the holy scriptures so that I doubt not but the godly learned which loue to heare the voyce of their shepheard Christ wil not disallow this my diligence Let other intreate of hie misteries clime vp to the hiest heauen I shall be content to write of thinges according to my knowledge and your capacitie to creepe vpon the ground Let other talke of the vnknowen secretes of the blessed trinitie of predestination of the state of the soules departed c. I will speake of the Articles of the Christian ●ayth of the Lordes prayer of the x. Cōmaundementes of the Sacramēts of Christes church c. Let other be counted y ● flowers of learning for opening I know not how secrete mysteries I force not to be called vnlearned so y ● I may know Christ crucified and in teaching him eyther by my writinges or sermons winne some vnto God But to end embrace vertue loue learning garnish your brest with the fruites of Gods spirite be not idle flie vaine and too much childishe pastimes spend your tyme fruitfully exercise your self in reading gods worde so shall God blesse you multiplie your yeares on earth and geue you ioyfull dayes vnto the great comfort of your self and the singular ioy of your honourable parentes whō with you I wishe alway prosperously to do Fare ye well The Principles of Christian Religion Of Fayth What fayth is FAith is a sure perswasion and an vndoubted beliefe of y e hart in the mercifull promises of God made to all faythfull penitent sinners in Christes bloud and frely performed of God the father for Christes sake What benefites we receaue of God through fayth By fayth we which afore by nature were the children of wrath are made the sonnes and children of God ☜ Probations out of the holy Scriptures As many as receaued hym to thē gaue he power to be made y ● sōnes of God euen thē y ● beleued on hys name which were borne not of bloud nor of the will of y ● flesh nor yet of the will of mā but of God All ye are y ● sōnes of God because ye haue beleued on Christ Iesu. By fayth we which afore were sinners are iustified and counted righteous in the sight of God for Christes sake ☜ Probations out of the holy Scriptures We plainly affirme that a man is iustified by fayth without the workes of the law We being iustified by fayth haue peace toward God through our Lord Iesu Christ. We know that a man is not iustified by the deedes of the law but by the fayth of Iesus Christ we haue beleued on Iesu Christ that we might be ●ustified by the fayth of Christ not by the dedes of the lawe because by the deedes of the law no flesh shall be iustified As many of you as are iustified by the law are fallen from grace We looke and hope for in the spirite to bee iustified through fayth For in Ies● Christ neither is circumcision any thyng worth neyther yet vncircumcision but fayth which worketh by loue By fayth we are maryed vnto Christ. ☜ Probations out of the holy Scriptures I will mary thee vnto my self in fayth thou shalt know the Lord. Fayth is the wedding garment wherewith wee bee maried vnto Christ according to the parable which we read in the Gospell By fayth our prayers are accepted and heard of God ☜ Probations out of the holy Scriptures All thinges whatsoeuer ye aske in prayer if ye beleue ye shall receaue them Let him that prayeth aske in fayth and doubt not For hee that doubteth is like a waue of the sea which is tost with the windes and caried with violence Neyther let that man thinke that hee shall receaue any thing of the Lord. By fayth Christes fulfilling of the lawe is counted our fulfilling ☜ Probations out of the holy Scriptures Christ is the fulfilling of the law to iustifie all that beleue Christ hath deliuered vs hee speaketh of the faythfull from the curse of the law in as much as hee was made accursed for our sakes Be it knowen vnto you ye men and brethren y t through thys man Christ is preached vnto you the forgeuenes of sinnes and that by hym all that beleue are iustified from all thinges from the which ye could not be iustified by the law of Moyses By fayth our workes are allowed before God for Christes sake ☜ Probations out of the holy Scriptures Whatsoeuer is not of faith is sin Thine eyes O Lord loke vpon ●ayth Abells sacrifice was allowed of God because it was done in faith And so likewise were all the sacrifices which the holy Patriarkes and other godly men offered in the olde lawe By fayth euerlasting life is geuen vnto vs for Christes sake ☜ Probations out of the holy Scriptures As Moyses lifted vp the Serpent in the wildernes so must the sonne of man be lifted vp that euery one that beleueth on hym may not peris●e but haue euerlasting life For God hath so loued the world that hee gaue hys onely begotten sonne that euery one that beleueth in hym may not perishe but haue euerlasting life He that beleueth on the sonne hath euerlasting life But he y t beleueth not on y ● sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God abydeth on hym He that heareth my worde and beleueth on hym that sent me hath euerlasting life and shall not come into damnation but is scaped frō death vnto life This is the will of hym that sent me that euery one which seeth the sonne and beleueth in him hath euerlasting life ¶ The xij Articles of the Christian fayth● with confirmations of the same out of the holy scripture ¶ The fyrst Article I Beleue in one God the Father almightie maker of heauen and earth ☜ The confirmations I beleue Without faith it can not be that any man should please God For he that commeth to God must beleue that God is and that hee is a rewarder of them that seeke hym In one God Heare O Israell the Lord our God is the Lord onely I am God there is none but I. I am y ● Lord there is els none I am the Lorde besides whom there is none other God A true God and such as saueth there is none but I alone I am he before whom there was neuer any God neither shall there be any after me I am yea I am Lorde alone and besides me there is no Sauiour I am the first and last besides me there is no God We are sure that there is none other