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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.
Against the plucking away of thy trust and confidence from Christ and his merits, to put it in the merits of other creatures or in thine own good works, or in the intercession of saints, or the sacrifice of the Popish Mass.
Against the plucking away of thy trust and confidence from Christ and his merites, to put it in the merites of other creatures or in thine owne good workes, or in the intercession of saints, or the sacrifice of the Popish Masse.
IF Satan by this subtle and crafty suggestion seeking thy damnation, go about to pluck thy faith, confidence, and trust from Christ his blood, and his merits, to repose it in the merits of men, or in thine own good deeds, works and merits, or in the intercession of saints, or in the sacrifice of the Popish mass, so that thy whole salvation shall not hang on Christ▪ & his deservings only but rather on some other strange means: lean not to his temptations, but manfully ⟨p. 35⟩resist them, steadfastly abiding in this persuasion that Christ alone is thy righteousness and that all thy salvation dependeth on him alone and on none other thing, neither in heaven nor in earth. And that thou may est be confirmed in this faith, let these scriptures which are un•ubted verities, ever be before thine eyes & suffer not thy self neither by y• crafty assaults of satan, nor by the subtle and fleshly reasons of any man to be plucked from them.
IF Sathan by this subtile and crafty suggestion seking thy dānation, go about to pluck thy faith, confidence, and truste from Christe his bloud, and his merites, to repose it in the merites of men, or in thine own good dedes, works and merites, or in the intercession of saintes, or in the sacrifice of the Popishe masse, so that thy whole saluation shall not hang on Christ & his deseruīgs only but rather on some other stran̄g meanes: leane not to his temptations, but manfully