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 sixt Article.

HE ascended into heauen, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almightie.

☜The confirmations.

Hee ascended into heauen.

God is gone vp with a mery noyse,* 1.1 and the Lorde with y^• sound of the trumpe.

Thou art gone vp on hie,* 1.2 thou hast led captiuitie captiue, and re∣ceaued giftes for men.

It came to passe as hee blessed them,* 1.3 hee departed from them, and was caryed vp into heauen.

Iesus was taken vp on hie,* 1.4 and a cloude receaued hym vp out of their sight. And while they looked

stedfastly vp toward heauen, as he went, beholde, two men stoode by them in white apparell, which also said: ye mē of Galile, why stand ye gasing vp into heauen? This same Iesus, which is taken vp frō you into heauen, shall so come, as ye haue seene hym go into heauen.

Whē he went on hie,* 1.5 he led cap∣tiuitie captiue, and gaue giftes vn∣to men. That hee ascended: what meaneth it? but that he also descen∣ded first into the lowest partes of the earth? He y^• descended, is euen the same also y^• ascended vp aboue all heauens, to fulfill all thinges.

And sitteth on the right hand of God the father almightie.

☜The confirmations.

The Lord sayd vnto my Lord:* 1.6 sit thou on my right hand, vntill I make thine enemies thy fotestoole.

When the Lord had spoken vn∣to them,* 1.7 he was receaued into hea∣uen,

and is sitting on y^• right hand of God.

Christ is on y^• right hand of God,* 1.8 and maketh intercession for vs.

If ye be risen againe with Christ,* 1.9 seke those things which are aboue, where Christ sitteth on the ryght hand of God.

Christ hath by hys own person purged our sinnes,* 1.10 & sitteth on the right hand of the maiestie on hie.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Psal. lvj.
• * 1.2

  Psa. lxviij
• * 1.3

  Luke. 24.
• * 1.4

  Acte. j.
• * 1.5

  Ephe. iiij.
• * 1.6

  Psal. cx.
• * 1.7

  Mar. xvj.
• * 1.8

  Rom. viij.
• * 1.9

  Coloss. iij.
• * 1.10

  Heb. j.