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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.
☞ Now if Christ had taken no flesh of Mary, how could he have come of the seed of Abraham? But that we should be without all doubt concerning Christs humanity, and be certain that he was the true and natural son of Mary, receiving his manhood neither of the elements of the air, nor yet bringing it with him from heaven, but taking it of the true and natural substance of Mary his mother. God saith expressly: In thy seed. Let us note well this pronoun. Thy. In thy seed saith he, and not in the seed that Christ shall bring from heaven, or out of the air. Howe could Christ justly have been called Abraham's seed, if he had never taken any part of Abraham's substance? But the Apostle saith: Christ toke the seed of Abraham, and not of the angels, so that he must be like to his brothers in all things. Let God therefore be true, and all heretics liars.