The gouernaunce of vertue teaching all faythful christia[n]s, how they oughte daily to leade their lyfe, & fruitfully to spend their time vnto the glorye of God & the health of their owne soules. Newlye corrected & augme[n]ted by Thomas Becon. 1566

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The gouernaunce of vertue teaching all faythful christia[n]s, how they oughte daily to leade their lyfe, & fruitfully to spend their time vnto the glorye of God & the health of their owne soules. Newlye corrected & augme[n]ted by Thomas Becon. 1566
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Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.
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Imprinted at London :: By Iohn Day,
[1566]
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gouernaunce of vertue teaching all faythful christia[n]s, how they oughte daily to leade their lyfe, & fruitfully to spend their time vnto the glorye of God & the health of their owne soules. Newlye corrected & augme[n]ted by Thomas Becon. 1566." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06832.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.

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Examples out of the olde Testament.

That holy king and prophet Dauid, be∣ing* 1.1 fully perswaded that by Christ which was to come, Sathans head was broken a sunder, sinne was vanquished, death was ouercome, hell was swalowed vp, that they could nothinge hurt that fayth∣ful man lamented & sorowed, that he con∣tinued so long in this vale of misery, and moste hartelye wished to be deliuered out of thys prison, and to goe vnto the Lord his God.

That godly and aunciente father To∣by, knowing that neither sinne, death, nor hell, can do any thing against gods chosē people which in Christe haue gotten the

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victory ouer them al, so that they nede not to feare death, nor anye thing to come af∣ter this life, praied to god on this maner: Nowe O lord drale with me according to thy wyl, and commaūd my spirite to be re∣ceiued in peace, for more expedient were it for me to dye, than to liue.

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