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 fourth Article.

HE suffered vnder Ponce Pilate, was cruci••••∣ed, dead & buried. He descended into hell.

☜The confirmations.

He suffered vnder Ponce Pilate.

The kinges of the earth stoode vp, and the rulers toke counsell to∣gether agaynst the Lorde, and a∣gaynst hys annoynted.

Of a truth (O Lord) agaynst thy holy childe Iesus (whom thou hast annoynted) both Herode and also Ponce Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israell, gathered them selues together in thys citie, for to do whatsoeuer thy hand and thy counsell determined before to bee done.

I geue thee the charge in y^• sight of God, which quickneth all thin∣ges, and before Iesu Christ (which vnder Ponce Pilate, witnessed a good witnessing) that thou keepe the commaūdement, and be with∣out

spot. &c.

Was crucified.

They pearsed my handes and my feete.

He was wounded for our offen∣ces, & smitten for our wickednes.

They shall loke vpon me whom they haue pearsed.

As Moyses lifted vp the serpent in the wildernes: so must the sonne of man be lifted vp, that euery one which beleueth on hym, may not perishe, but haue euerlasting lyfe.

Ye seeke Iesus y^t was crucified.

We preach Christ crucified.

Christ hys owne selfe bare our sinnes in hys body on the tree, that wee being deliuered from sinne, should liue vnto righteousnes. By whose stripes ye were healed.

Dead.

After thys ixij. weekes shall Christ be flame, and they shall haue no pleasure in hym.

When we were yet ••••u••ers; Christ dyed for vs.

Christ died for our sinnes, accor∣ding to the Scriptures.

Buryed.

Hys grace was geuē hym with the condeumed.

First of all I deliuered vnto you, that which I receaued: how that Christ dyed for our sinnes, agreing to the Scripture, and that he was buryed.

Ioseph and Nicodemus tooke Iesus body, and buried it in a new graue.

Hee descended into hell.

Thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell, neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

Thou through the bloud of thy couenaunt, shalt let the prisoners out of the pit, wherin is no water.

O death, I will be thy death: O hell, I will be thy destruction.

Christ hath once suffered for sins, the iuste for the vniust, to bryng vs to God, and was killed as per∣taynyng to the fleshe, but was quickned in the spirite. In which spirite hee also went, and prea∣ched vnto the spirites that were in prison.

Notes

• Psal. ij.
• Acte. iiij.
• Tim. vj.
• Psal. xxij.
• Esa. liij.
• Zach. xij.
• Iohn. iij.
• Math. 28.
• j. Cor. j.
• j. Pet. ij.
• don. ix.
• Rom. v.
• j. Cor. xv.
• Esa. liij.
• j. Cor. xv.
• Ioh. xix.
• Psal. xvj.
• Zaeh. ix.
• ••se. xiij.
• j. Pet. iij.