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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- Imprinted at London :: By Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate,
- An. 1569.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07128.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024.
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or a dreamer of dreames, and geue thee a signe or wonder, & that signe or wonder which hee hath said, come to passe, and then say: let vs go after straunge Gods, which thou hast not knowen, and let vs serue them: harken not thou vnto the wordes of that prophet, or drea∣mer of dreames: For the Lorde thy God proueth you, to know whe∣ther you loue the Lorde your God with all your hart, & with all your soule. Ye shall walke after y• Lorde your God, and feare hym, and kepe his commaundement, and harken vnto his voyce, serue hym, & cleaue vnto hym. And that prophet, or dreamer of dreames, shall die, be∣cause he hath spoken to turne you away from the Lord your God.
The Prophet which shall pre∣sume to speake a word in my name, which I haue not commaunded hym to speake, or that he speaketh
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in the name of straunge Gods, the same Prophet shall die.
Iehu king of Israell, caused all the priestes of Baal to be slaine, and all the images to bee fet out of the temple of Baal, & to bee burnt. He caused also hys captaines and men of warre, to breake the image of Baal, and to destroy the house of Baal, so yt Baals house was made a draft house vnto thys day. And because Iehu thus sought the glo∣ry of God, and destroyed idolatry, with the maintainers therof, he li∣ued quietly in hys kingdome vnto hys dying day, and hys children vnto the fourth generation, sat on the seate of Israell.
King Iosias put downe the mi∣nisters of Baal, whom the kings of Iuda had foūded to burne incense in the hill altars and cities of Iu∣da, that were round about Ierusa∣lem, & also them that burnt incense
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vnto Baal, to the Sunne, to the Moone, to the Planets, and to all the Hoste of heauen.
Notes
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Deut. xiij.
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Deut. 18.
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4. Reg. 10
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4. Reg. 23