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The governance of virtue teaching all faithful christia[n]s, how they ought daily to lead…The gouernaunce of vertue teaching all faythful christia[n]s, how they oughte daily to leade…
The governance of virtue teaching all faithful christia[n]s, how they ought daily to lead their life, & fruitfully to spend their time unto the glory of God & the health of their own souls. Newly corrected & augme[n]ted by Thomas Becon. 1566The gouernaunce of vertue teaching all faythful christia[n]s, how they oughte daily to leade their lyfe, & fruitfully to spend their time vnto the glorye of God & the health of their owne soules. Newlye corrected & augme[n]ted by Thomas Becon. 1566
London: printed by John Day, 1566London: printed by Iohn Day, 1566
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Examples out of the old Testament.
Examples out of the olde Testament.
After that Adam and his wife through the crafty persuasions of Satan had transgressed gods commandment, god in the presence of them both, even for their comfort and for the quietness of their conscience, said unto the ser pent. I will set enmity between thee & a woman, between thy seed & her seed. The self same seed shall tread down thy head, and thou shalt tread upon his heel.
AFter that Adam and his wyfe thorow the crafty perswasions of Satan had transgressed gods commaundement, god in the presence of them both, euen for their comfort and for the quietnes of their conscience, sayd vnto the ser pent. I will set enmitie betwene thee & a woman, betwene thy seede & her sede. The selfe same seede shall tread downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vppon hys heele.
These words of God the father spoken unto the serpent, show evidently and manifestly prove, that Jesus Christ our Lord is the true and natural son of Mary, and unfeignedly took his flesh and humanity of her. For this word seed, in this place signifieth the whole substance of Christs manhood, and proveth evidently, that whatsoever Christ was being man, he truly and naturally received it of the corporal substance of Mary his mother the virgin. Cursed therefore is the heretic Apelles, which thought that Christ had received his body of the elements in the air, and passed through the virgin, as the water passed through a pipe. Cursed are these heretics Cerdo, Marcian and Manes, which hold that Christ had a fantastical body, appearing to be man, & pet having no part of manhood in him. Cursed is that heretic Ualentinus with his Apes the Anabaptists, which hold that Christ took no flesh of Mary his mother the virgin, but brought his body with him from heaven. God the father calleth Christ the seed of the woman. He therefore is the natural son of Mary his mother, and received his whole bodily substance of the most pure virgin or else should God greatly have erred, which called him the seed of a woman, but let God be true and all heretics liars.