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.

Secondly, to put vs in remembrance, that for as much as we are become the souldiours of Christ, we ought so long as we liue, vali∣auntly to fight agaynst the deuill, the world, and the fleshe, to mortifie all vncleane lustes, to die vnto sinne, and to rise againe new mē,

bearing the image of Christ, and fashioning our conuersation and maners after his exam∣ple, that we may learne the Lord our God in such holines and righteousnes, as is allowed before hym all the dayes of our life.

☜Probations out of the holy Scriptures.

know ye not, that all we which are baptised into Iesus Christ, are baptised to die with hym? We are buried then with him by baptisme, for to dye, that likewise as Christ was raised from death by the glory of the father, euen so we also should walke in a new life. For if we bee graft in death like vnto hym: euen so shall we partakers of the resur∣rection, knowing this, that our old mā is crucified with hym also, that the body of sinne might vtterly bee destroyed, y^t hence forth we should not be seruauntes vnto sinne. For hee that is dead, is iustified from sinne. Wherefore, if we bee dead with Christ, we beleue that we shall also liue with him.

All ye that are baptised, haue put on Christ.

Ye are buryed with Christ tho∣row baptisme, in whom ye are also risen againe thorow fayth, that is wrought by the operation of God, which raysed hym from death.

If ye then bee risen againe with Christ, seke those things which are aboue, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affec∣tion on heauenly thinges, & not on earthly thinges. For ye are dead, & your life is hid with Christ in God. When soeuer Christ, which is your life, shall shewe him selfe, then shall ye also appeare with hym in glory.

Notes

• Rom. vj.
• Gal••. iij.
• Coloss. ij.
• Coloss. iij.