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A72015	Articles agreed upon by the arch-bishops and bishops of both provinces, and the whole clergie in the convocation holden at London, in the yeer 1562. For the avoiding of diversities of opinions, and for the stablishing of consent touching true religion. Re-printed by his Majesties commandment: with his royall declaration prefixed thereunto.; Thirty-nine Articles. English	Church of England.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1638 (1638)	STC 10060; ESTC S125374	10,343	42

Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up their minde to high and heavenly things as wel because it doeth greatly establish and confirme their faith of eternall salvation to be enjoyed through Christ as because it doeth fervently kindle their love towards God So for curious and carnall persons lacking the Spirit of Christ to have continually before their eyes the sentence of Gods predestination is a most dangerous downfall whereby the devill doeth thrust them either into desperation or into wretchlesnesse of most unclean living no lesse perilous then desperation Furthermore we must receive Gods promises in such wise as they be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture and in our doings that will of God is to be followed which we have expresly declared unto us in the Word of God 18. Of obtaining eternall Salvation only by the Name of Christ THey also are to be had accursed that presume to say that every man shall bee saved by the law or sect which he professeth so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Iesus Christ whereby men must be saved 19. Of the Church THe visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithfull men in the which the pure Word of God is preached and the Sacraments be duly ministred according to Christs ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same As the Church of Hierusalem Alexandria and Antioch have erred So also the Church of Rome hath erred not only in their living and manner of ceremonies but also in matters of faith 20. Of the authoritie of the Church THe Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies and authoritie in controversies of faith And yet it is not lawfull for the Church to ordaine any thing that is contrary to Gods Word written neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to an other Wherefore although the Church be a witnes and a keeper of holy Writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be beleeved for necessitie of salvation 21. Of the authority of generall Councels GEnerall Councels may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes And when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an assembly of men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God they may erre and sometime have erred even in things pertaining unto God Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authoritie unlesse it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture 22. Of purgatorie THe Romish doctrine concerning Purgatorie Pardons worshipping and adoration aswell of Images as of Reliques and also invocation of Saints is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to the Word of God 23. Of ministring in the Congregation IT is not lawfull for any man to take upon him the office of publike preaching or ministring the Sacraments in the Congregation before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent which be chosen and called to this work by men who have publike authoritie given unto them in the Congregation to call and send Ministers into the Lords vineyard 24. Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people understandeth IT is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God and the custom of the Primitive Church to have publique prayer in the Church or to minister the Sacraments in a tongue not understanded of the people 25. Of the Sacraments SAcraments ordeined of Christ be not onely badges or tokens of Christian mens profession but rather they be certain sure witnesses and effectuall signes of grace and Gods good will towards us by the which hee doth work invisibly in us and doth not only quicken but also stengthen and confirm our faith in him There are two Sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel that is to say Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. Those five commonly called Sacraments that is to say Confirmation Penance Orders Matrimony and extream Vnction are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptisme and the Lords Supper for that they have not any visible signe or ceremony ordained of God The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon or to be carried about but that we should duly use them And in such only as worthily receive the same they have a wholsome effect or operation But they that receive them unworthily purchase to themselves damnation as S. Paul saith 26. Of the unworthinesse of the Ministers which hinder not the effect of the Sacraments ALthough in the visible Church the evill be ever mingled with the good and sometime the evill have chief authority in the ministration of the Word and Sacraments yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name but in Christs and do minister by his commission and authoritie we may vse their ministrie both in hearing the Word of God and in the receiving of the Sacraments Neither is the effect of Christs ordinance taken away by their wickednesse nor the grace of Gods gifts diminished from such as by faith and rightly do receive the Sacraments ministred unto them which be effectuall because of Christs institution and promise although they be ministred by evill men Neverthelesse it appertaineth to the discipline of the Church that enquiry bemade of evil Ministers and that they be accused by those that have knowledge of their oftences and finally being found guilty by just judgement be deposed 27. Of Baptisme BAptisme is not onely a signe of profession and mark of difference whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not Christned but it is also a signe of Regeneration or new birth whereby as by an instrument they that receive Baptisme rightly are grafted into the Church the promises of the forgivenesse of sinne and of our adoption to be the sonnes of God by the holy Ghost are visibly signed and sealed faith is confirmed and grace increased by vertue of prayer unto God The Baptisme of young children is in any wise to be retained in the Church as most agreeable with the institution of Christ 28. Of the Lords Supper THe Supper of the Lord is not onely a signe of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another but rather it is a Sacrament of our redemption by Christs death Insomuch that to such as rightly worthily and with faith receive the same the bread which we break is

ARTICLES AGREED VPON by the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole CLERGIE In the Convocation holden at LONDON in the yeer 1562. For the avoiding of diversities of opinions and for the stablishing of Consent touching true RELIGION Re-printed by His Majesties Commandment with His Royall Declaration prefixed thereunto DIEV ET MON DROIT ¶ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent MAJESTIE And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1638. HIS MAIESTIES DECLARATION BEing by Gods ordinance according to Our just Title Defender of the Faith and supream Governour of the Church within these Our Dominions We hold it most agreeable to this Our Kingly Office Our own Religious zeal to conserve and maintain the Church committed to Our charge in the unitie of true Religion in the bond of peace and not to suffer unnecessary Disputations altercations or questions to be raysed which may nourish faction both in the Church and Common-wealth We have therefore upon mature deliberation and with the advice of so many of Our Bishops as might conveniently be called together thought fit to make this Declaration following That the Articles of the Church of England which have been allowed and authorized heretofore and which Our Clergie generally have subscribed unto do contain the true doctrine of the Church of England agreeable to Gods word which We do therefore ratifie and confirme requiring all Our loving Subjects to continue in the uniform profession therof and prohibiting the least difference from the said Articles which to that end We command to be new printed this Our declaration to be published therewith That We are supream Governour of the Church of England and that if any difference arise about the externall policie concerning Injunctions Canons or other Constitutions whatsoever thereto belonging the Clergie in their Convocation is to order and settle them having first obtained leave under Our broad Seal so to do and We approving their said Ordinances and Constitutions providing that none be made contrary to the Laws and Customes of the Land That out of Our Princely care that the Churchmen may do the work which is proper unto them the Bishops and Clergie from time to time in Convocatiō upon their humble desire shall have licence under Our broad Seal to deliberate of and to do all such things as being made plain by them assented unto by Vs shall concern the setled continuance of the doctrine discipline of the Church of England now established from which We will not endure any varying or departing in the least degree That for the present though some differences have been ill raised yet We take comfort in this that all Clergie-men within Our Realm have alwayes most willingly subscribed to the Articles established which is an argument to Vs that they all agree in the true usuall literall meaning of the said Articles and that even in those curious points in which the present differences lie men of all sorts take the Articles of the Church of England to be for them which is an argumēt again that none of them intend any desertion of the Articles established That therefore in these both curious and unhappy differences which have for so many hundred yeers in different times and places exercised the Church of Christ We will that all further curious search be laid aside these disputes shut up in Gods promises as they be generally set forth to Vs in the holy Scriptures and the generall meaning of the Articles of the Church of England according to them And that no man hereafter shall either print or preach to draw the Article aside anyway but shall submit to it in the plain and full meaning thereof And shall not put his own sense or Comment to be the meaning of the Article but shall take it in the literall and Grammaticall sense That if any publique Reader in either Our Vniversities or any Head or Master of a Colledge or any other person respectively in either of them shall affix any new sense to any Article or shall publiquely read determine or hold any publique disputation or suffer any such to be held either way in either the Vniversities or Colledges respectively or if any Divine in the Vniversities shall preach or print any thing either way other then is already established in Convocation with Our Royall assent he or they the offenders shall be liable to Our displeasure the Churches censure in Our Commission Ecclesiasticall as well as any other and We will see there shall be due execution upon them ARTICLES OF RELIGION 1. Of faith in the holy TRINITY THere is but one living and true God everlasting without body parts or passions of infinite power wisdome and goodnesse the Maker and preserver of all things both visible and invisible And in unity of this Godhead there be three persons of one substance power and eternity the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost 2. Of the Word or Sonne of God which was made very man THe Sonne which is the Word of the Father begotten from everlasting of the Father the very and eternall God of one substance with the Father took mans nature in the wombe of the blessed Virgin of her substance so that two whole and perfect natures that is to say the Godhead and manhood were ioyned together in one person never to be devided whereof is one Christ very God and very man who truely suffered was crucified dead and buried to reconcile his Father to us and to be a sacrifice not onely for originall guilt but also for actuall sinnes of men 3. ¶ Of the going down of Christ into Hell AS Christ died for us and was buried so also is it to be beleeved that he went down into hell 4. ¶ Of the resurrection of Christ CHrist did truely rise again from death and took again his body with flesh bones and all things appertaining to the perfection of mans nature wherewith he ascended into heaven and there sitteth untill he return to judge all men at the last day 5. ¶ Of the holy Ghost THe holy Ghost proceeding from the father and the Sonne is of one Substance Majestie and Glory with the Father and the Sonne very and eternall God 6. ¶ Of the sufficiencie of the Holy Scriptures for salvation HOly Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be beleeved as an Article of the faith or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation In the name of the holy Scripture we do understand those Canonicall Books of the Old and New Testament of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church ❧ Of the names and number of the Canonicall Books GEnesis Exodus Leviticus Numeri Deuteronomium Iosue Iudges Ruth The 1. Book of Samuel The 2. Book of Samuel The 1. Book of Kings The 2. Book of Kings The 1. Book of Chron. The