¶The third Peticion.
THy will be done, as in heauen, so likewyse in earth.
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.
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- 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.
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- Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.
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- An. 1569.
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☞The confirmations.
Teach me (O Lorde) to doe thy will, for thou art my God.
Not euery one that sayth vnto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdome of heauen, but hee that doth the will of my father which is in heauen.
Whosoeuer doth the will of my father which is in heauen, he is my brother, sister, and mother.
This is the will of him that sent me, that whosoeuer seeth y• sonne, and beleueth on him, hath euerla∣sting life.
Fashion not your selues lyke vn∣to thys world, but bee ye chaunged through the renuing of your mind, that ye may proue, what thing that good and acceptable and perfecte will of God is.
This is the will of God, euen your sanctifying, that ye abstaine from whoredome, that euery one
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of you know how to keepe his ves∣sell in hol••••es and honour, and not in the lust of concupiscence, as the heathen do which know not God.
For asmuch as Christ hath suffe∣red for vs in the flesh, arme ye your selues likewise with ye same minde. For he which suffereth in the flesh, ceaseth from sinne, that hee from hence forth shoulde liue (as long time as he remayneth in the flesh) not after the lustes of men, but af∣ter the will of God. For it is suffici∣ent for vs, that we haue spent the time that is past of the life, after the will of the Gentiles, walking in wantonnes, lustes, excesse of drin∣king, and abominable idolatry.
Notes
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Psal. cxlij.
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Math. viij.
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Mat. xij.
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Iohn. vj.
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Rom. xij.
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1. Thess. 4.
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j. Pet. iiij••.