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194 Points of religion. 
6 To praise him in all companie,’ 
7 To loue him alway hartilie,’ 
8 To dread him alway christianlie,‘ 
9 To aske him mercie penitently,* 
o To trust him alway faithfully, 
1 To obey him alway willingly, 
12 To abide him alway patiently, 
13 To thanke him alway thankfully, 
14 To liue here alway vertuously, 
15 To vse thy neighbour honestly, 
16 To looke for death still presently, 
17 To helpe the poore in miserie, . 
18 To hope for heauens felicitie, | 
19 To haue faith hope and charitie, 
20 To count this life but vanitie: 
be points of Christianitie. 
106. 
* The Authors beleefe. 
corte I HIS is my stedfast Créede, my faith, and all my trust, 
That in the heauens there is a God, most mightie, 
milde and iust. 
A God aboue all gods, a King aboue all kings, 
The Lord of lords, chiefe gouernour of heauen and 
earthly things. 
2 That power hath of life, of death, of heauen and hell, 
Maker of That all thing made as pleaseth him, so woonderfull to 
- Heauen. 
tell: 
That made the hanging Skies, so deckt with diuers lights, 
Of darknes made the chéerfull daies, and all our restfull 
nights. 
1 alway worthely. 1577. 2 steadfastlie. 1573 (M.), 1577. 
3 fearfullie. 1573 (M.), 1577. 4 heartilie. 1573 (M.), 1577- 
