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.

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 iu∣stified 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 spi∣rite to bee iustified through fayth.

For in Ies•• Christ, neither is cir∣cumcision any thyng worth, ney∣ther 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 re∣ceaue 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 re∣ceaue

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 sacri∣fices, 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 Ser∣pent in the wildernes, so must the sonne of man be lifted vp, that eue∣ry 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 be∣gotten 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 be∣leueth 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 se∣eth the sonne, and beleueth in him, hath euerlasting life.

Notes

• Eph. ij.
• Iohn. j.
• Gal. iij.
• Rom. iiij.
• Rom. iij.
• Rom. v.
• Gal. ij.
• Gal. v.
• Ose. ij.
• Math. xij.
• Mat. xxj.
• Iacob. j.
• Rom. ••.
• Gal. iij.
• Acte. xiij.
• Rom. ••••▪
• Iere. v.
• Gene. iiij.
• Iohn. iij.
• Iohn. v.
• Iohn. vj.