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.

¶The second Article.

ANd in Iesus Christ hys onely begotte•• Sonne our Lord.

☜The confirmations.

And in Iesus Christ.

He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlasting life. But hee that beleueth not on the sonne, shall not see life, but the wrath of God aby∣deth vpon hym.

Thys is the worke of God, y^• ye beleue on him whom he hath sent.

If ye beleue not that I am hee, ye shall die in your sinnes.

Christ said to y^• blind man, whom he had made to see: doost thou be∣le••••a on the Soone of God? He an∣swered and soyd: who is it Lord, that I might beleue on him: Iesus sayd vnto hym: Thou hast seene hym, and he it is that talketh with thee. And he sayd: Lord, I beleue: and he worshipped hym.

Christ sayd vnto Martha: Hee

that beleueth on me, yea though he were dead, yet shall hee liue. And whosoeuer liueth and beleueth on me, shall neuer die. Beleuest thou this? She sayd vnto him: yea Lord, I beleue that thou art Christ the ••onne of God, which shoulde come into the world.

Ye beleue in God; beleue also in me.

This is God the fathers com∣maundemēt, that we beleue on the name of hys sonne Iesus Christ. He that beleveth on the sonne of God, hath the witnes in hym selfe. He y^• beleueth not God, hath made hym a lier, because hee beleued not the recorde that God gaue of hys sonne. And this is that record, how that God hath gauē vnto vs eter∣nall life, & this life is in his sonne.

He that hath the sonne, hath life and he that hath not y^• sonne, hath not life.

His onely begotten Sonne.

The Lord said vnto me, y^• art myn sōne, this day haue I begottē thee.

This is my welbeloued sonne, in whom I am well pleased.

Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God.

God hath so loued y^• worlde, that he gaue hys onely begotten sonne, that euery one y^• beleueth on him, may not perishe, but haue euerla∣sting life. For God sent not hys sonne into the world to condemne the world, but that y^• world should be saued by hym.

He that beleueth on hym, is not condemned: but hee that beleueth not, is already cōdemned, because hee hath not beleued on the name of the onely begottē sonne of God.

In this appeareth y^• loue of God toward vs, because y^• God sent hys onely begotten sonne into y^• world, that we might liue through hym.

Our Lord.

I am the Lord, and thys is my name. My glory will I geue to none other, neyther myne honour to grauen Images.

God is faythfull, by whom ye are called vnto the fellowship of hys sonne Iesus Christ our Lord.

There is but one Lord, euē Ie∣sus Christ, by whō are all thynges, and we by hym.

Ye call me Master and Lorde, & ye say well, for so am I in deede.

Notes

• Iohn. ii••▪
• Iohn. vj.
• Io••. vii▪
• Iohn. xj.
• Iohn. xiiij.
• j Iohn. iij.
• j. Iohn. v.
• Psal. ij.
• Math. iij.
• Math. xv.
• Iohn. iij.
• Iohn. iij.
• j. Ioh. iiij.
• Esa. xlij.
• j. Cor. j.
• j. Cor. viij.
• Iohn. xiij.