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A10958	The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. English creede.	1607 (1607)	STC 21228; ESTC S116041	208,079	284

same doe all reformed Churches beleeue and confesse The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth The premises doe make Against the Tretheites which affirme the holy Ghost to be inferior vnto the Father Against the Arrians who said the holy Ghost was inferior to the Sonne Against the Macedonian heretikes who held the holy Ghost to be but a minister and seruant of the Father and the Sonne yet of more excellent maiestie and dignitie then the Angels Against many erroneous spirits which deliuer the holy Ghost to be nothing els but The motion of God in his creatures as did the Samosatenians A bare power and efficacie of God working by a secret inspiration as the Turkes and certaine English Sadduces doe imagine The Inheritance allotted to the faithfull and the beeing or vertuous estate of Christ as dreameth H.N. The affection of charitie or Loue within vs an error of Petrus Lombardus Gods loue fauour and vertue whereby he worketh in his children so thought Ochinus and Seruetus 3. Proposition The holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne The proofe from Gods word The proceeding of the holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne we gather from the holy scripture which teacheth how The Father sendeth the comforter which is the holy Ghost in the name of the Sonne and the sonne sendeth the comforter the spirit of truth from the Father he proceedeth of the Father and is sent of the Sonne So with vs say the auncient Fathers and Christians He proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne The holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Sonne neither made nor created but proceeding So there is one Father not three Fathers one sonne not three sonnes one holy Ghost not three holy Ghostes which is the faith of the moderne christians Errors and aduersaries vnto this truth This discouereth all them to be impious and to erre from the way of truth which hold and affirme That the holy Ghost proceedeth neither from the Father nor the Sonne but is one and the same person that Christ is as the Arrians doe That the holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father but not from the sonne as at this day the Graecians the Russians the Moscouites maintaine That there is a double proceeding of the holy Ghost one temporall the other eternall an error of Peter Lombard vncontrolled hitherto and therefore well liked of the Papists 6. Article Of the sufficiencie of the holy Scripture for saluation Holy Scripture 1 containeth all things necessarie for saluation so that whatsoeuer is not read therein nor may be prooued thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be beleeued as an article of the Faith or be thought requisite necessary to saluation 2 In the name of the holy Scripture we doe vnderstand those Canonicall bookes of the old and newe testament of whose authoritie was neuer any doubt in the Church Of the names and number of the Canonicall bookes Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomium Iosue Iudges Ruth The 1. Booke of Samuel The 2. Booke of Samuel The 1. Booke of Kings The 2. Booke of Kings The 1. Booke of Chronicles The 2. Booke of Chronicles The 1. Booke of Esdras The 2. Booke of Esdras The Booke of Esther The Booke of Iob. The Psalmes The Proverbs Eccles. or the Preacher Canticles or song of Salomon 4. Prophets the greater 12Prophets the lesse 3 And the other bookes as Hierome saith the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners but yet doth it not applie them to stablish any doctrine Such are these following The 3. Booke of Esdras The 4. Booke of Esdras The Booke of Tobias The Booke of Iudith The rest of the Booke of Hester The Booke of wisedome Iesus the sonne of Sirach Baruch the Prophet Song of the 3. children The story of Susanna Of Bel and the Dragon The praier of Manasses The 1. Booke of Macchabes The 2. Booke of Macchabes 4 All the bookes of the newe Testament as they are commonly receiued we doe receiue and accompt them for Canonicall The propositions 1. The sacred Scripture conteineth all things necessarie to be knowen and beleeued for the saluation of man 2. All the bookes in the volume of the Bible are not Canonicall but some and namely those here specified are 3. The 3. 4. bookes of Esdras the booke of Tobias c. are apocryphal 4. Of the newe Testament all the bookes are Canonicall 1. Proposition The sacred Scripture containeth all things necessary to be knowne and beleeued for the saluation of man The proofe from Gods word THe holy Scriptures to be sufficient to instruct vs in all things necessary to be knowen and beleeued for mans saluation the word of God teacheth Ye shall put nothing vnto the word which I command you saith the Lord neither shall yee take ought therefrom Whatsoeuer I command you take heed you doe it thou shalt put nothing thereto nor take ought therfrom Thou shalt not turne away from it to the right hand nor to the left that thou maist prosper whither soeuer thou goest Euery word of God is pure c. Put nothing vnto his words least he reprooue thee and thou be found a liar These things are written that ye might beleeue c. and that in beleeuing yee might haue life through his Name The whole Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God and is profitable to teach to improoue to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse that the man of God may be absolute beeing made perfect vnto all good workes If any man shall adde vnto these things God shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in this booke and if any man shall diminish of the wordes of this booke God shall take away his part out of the booke of life and out of the holy cittie and from those things which are written in this booke Hereunto Gods people both alwaies haue and at this present doe subscribe The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth Therefore adversaries be wee to all adversaries to this truth especially To such as scorne and contemptuously reiect the booke of God as both did the Circumcellians which defaced and burnt the holy Scriptures and Pope Leo the tenth who tearmed the holy Gospel A fable of Christ and doe the prophane Atheists Also to such as debase the credite and estimation of the holy Scriptures as Dauid George did and both doe the papists who haue an opinion that the scriptures of God are not sufficient to instruct mankinde vnto saluation and the Anabaptists which deeme not the holy Bible to be the word of God with the Familie of Loue in whose bookes nothing is more frequent then the tearming of Gods reverend ministers and preachers Scripture learned Also to them which with Gods word doe equall their owne doctrines

Iniunctions precepts and Traditions as doe the Papists For of their doctrine say the Rhemists whatsoeuer the lawfull Apostles Pastors or Preists of Gods church preach in the vnitie of the same Church meaning the newe church of Rome is to be taken for Gods owne word To the same purpose but more blasphemously Stapletō As the Iewes were to beleeue Christ so are wee simply in euery thing to beleeue the church of Rome whether it teacheth truth or errors Whatsoeuer by the authoritie of the Church is commanded ought of all men to be esteemed as the very Gospell saith Abbat Trithemius of Popish precepts and our English Rhemists He that despiseth the Churches or her lawfull Pastors precepts And of their Traditions He that refuseth ecclesiasticall traditions deserueth to be throwne out of the church among the Heathen as well as he which refuseth the Gospell saith Didacus Stella and the counsell of Trent with like affection of godlines and reuerence embrace wee and worship the bookes of the old and new Testament and ecclesiasticall Traditions saith the Counsell The like opinion haue the Moscovites of Traditions To them finally are we adversarie which aboue the Scriptures doe preferre their owne 1 inuentions as did the Philosophers whereof one said of Moses That good man maketh a trimme discourse but prooueth nothing and the Graecians to whome the Gospell is foolishnes 2 and imaginations as did the Manichies David George and doe the Turkes and Familie of Loue 3 or Traditions as doe the Papists who more cruelly doe punish the violators of their owne Traditions and ordinances then they doe the breakers of Gods commandements 4 or Statutes Edicts Iudgements Proclamations c. proceeding from the braine of man as Mac●hiauell doth and his schollers 2. Proposition All the bookes in the volume of the Bible are not Canonicall but some are That some bookes and namely those aboue mentioned are Canonicall it hath bin graunted by the best learned and most godly of long time And as all reformed churches in the world are of the same iudgement with vs so in their publike Confessions some haue so accounted and iudged of them as we doe Adversaries to this truth Therefore to speake first of the canonicall bookes of the old Testament much haue they offended which either reiected all or allowed but some of the bookes of the old testament of the former sort were the Seuerians Basilides Carpocrates and the Manichies are the Catabaptistes of the latter were sundrie whereof Some receiued no moe but onely the fiue bookes of Moses as the Sadduceis Some of all the bookes in the old testament reiect the workes of Moses and namely his foure last bookes as the Moscovites Some embraced the Law onely and the Prophets as the Samarites Some esteemed neither the Law nor the Prophets as the Appelleans Some had in contempt the booke of the Canticles as Sebastian Castello And some the booke of Iob as the Anabaptists 3. Proposition The third and fourth bookes of Esdras the booke of Tobias c. be Apocrypha That diuers and namely these bookes mentioned are Apocrypha we are neither the first that said nor they alone which affirme the same For so iudge of them did the auncient councel at Laodicea and doe the Churches reformed and name-in France and Belgia c. Aduersaries vnto this truth So that they are to be held and taken heede of as Seducers which vpon the Church would thrust either other mens workes and deuises not comprised in the Bible as would Some the new Prophets Barrobas and Barrolf of Basilides the heretike Some the manifestations of Marcion the heretike Some the mysteries of Manichie the heritike Others Esaias Ascensorium of Hierax the heretike Others the Gospel after the Egyptians after S. Andrew S. Iames the lesser S. Peter S. Bartholomew the 12. Apostles Barnabas Nicodemus Thaddeus The Canons of the Apostles others Others the Acts of S. Abdie S. Andreas S. Paul Peter Philip Thomas Others the Reuelation of S. Paul Peter Steven Thomas Others the bookes of the Anabaptists of H.N. with Popish Legendes and the like Or the bookes Apocrypha within the volume of the Bible as the Papists who therefore anathematize and curse so many as take them not for Canonicall 4. Proposition Of the newe Testament all bookes are Canonicall Although some of the auncient Fathers and Doctors accepted not all the bookes contained within the volume of the newe Testament for Canonicall yet in the end they were wholly taken and receiued by the common consent of the Church of Christ in this world for the very word of God as they are at this day almost in all places where the Gospel is preached and professed Howbeit we iudge them Canonicall not so much because learned and godly men in the Church so haue and doe receiue and allowe of them as for that the holy Spirit in our hearts doth testifie that they are from God They carrie a sacred and diuine authoritie with them and they doe also agree in all pointes with the other bookes of God in the old Testament Errors adversaries vnto this truth Therefore in admitting all and euery of these bookes acknowledging them to be Canonicall we demonstrate our selues to be against Such as reiected all the newe Testament as did the Iewes our Matthew Hamant Such as allowed part but not the whole new Testament and these were of diuers sorts whereof Some allowed of the Euangelists onely Matthew as the Cerdonites and Ebionites others onely Luk as the Marcionites others onely Iohn as the Valentinians Some accepted onely the Acts of the Apostles as the Tatians others of all other bookes reiected the said Actes as the Manichies and the Seuerites Some of S. Pauls epistles tooke the epistles vnto Timothie and Titus onely to be Canonical as Marcion the heretike Some as Apocryphal refused the epistle vnto Philemon others the epistle vnto the Hebrewes the epistle of S. Iames as Althemerus others the first and second epistles of Iohn with the epistle of Iude as Wigandus others the epistle vnto the Hebrewes of Iames the two last of Iohn and of Iude as Cardinall Caietane Some reiected the booke of S. Iohns reuelations or the Apocalypse as Heshusius we are also against them which allowed neither the whole newe Testament nor those bookes wholly which they embraced as the Marcionites who defaced all those places in the Gospell after Luke and in the epistles which concernd either the diuinitie or humanitie of our Sauiour Christ And lastly are wee against them which receiue the whole new Testament but deface and put out such textes as mislike them as the Turkes who scrape out whatsoeuer they finde touching the passion of Christ alleadging how it was added purposely by the Iewes in

a m. ● Test. 117.19 Epicurus 126. m. 35. vix 130.17 we may 131.25 3 or 26. ● before ibid. be 6 chosen 27. work 5 132.21 d. the. 136.26 but that 41. m. Towres 141.30 But there 144.12 Christians from the. 31. in any 145.9 Saravia 11. appertaine 147.12 Sacrament 149.8 Eutychites 14. Sacraments 30. d. of 154.10 d. be 12. Exorcists 29. the Cardinall 155.19 Acolyte 20. not alwaies in his Church 30. as a. 158.31 great 159.4 Alva 8. abused by 15. guise is 162.7 are but 20. Hēriciās 166.13 Not Manicheans 167.8 d. they 26. Iouinians 169.21 a sect a. 29. d. the 34. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 se sub ii 38 nowe 172.8 the Lords supper is a sacrament 173. m. 5. communion 19. sacrilegious 21. Antwerp an 17428. whole christ is 176. m. 14. vt substan 23. nil est 177.3 therefore 17. at Masse or borne about to the sicke he shall kneele downe deuoutly say his pater noster or 178.3 in the. 12. signe 179.14 doctrine 180.6 hath so 20. the Artotarites 23. Eucratites 183.8 d. and no woman 9. and came 185.4 religion 187.9 vncontinent life 188.30 alliteration 189.3 which error 4. Ochinites 191.21 ve●mine when they haue annoyed 195. m. 23. Sab. do 196.9 d. by 197.17 Rhene Frankeland and S●e●uland 36. 〈…〉 doest it 191.24 the well 192.3 d. both 194.24 vt plurimis 25. Smeton 199.22 consecration 26. d. l. 202.16 of the. 204.15 d. there 208.16 Monet●rius 211.13 Hugh Capet 215.4 goods Archb. Cranmer Vnitie of doctrine in all Churches reformed a Ab initio reformationis ardebant amore veritatis omnes Poli●ici ecclesiastic● plebei Jezler de diutur belli Euchar. p. 49. Vnitie of doctrine in the Church of Eng. in K. Ed. 6. his daies An. 1552. K. Edward 6. q. Mary The pr●iers of the persecuted Saints for the reducing of true religion into the realm F. Latimer B. Parkhurst Q. Elizab. True doctrine restored an 1558. and an vniformitie of the same established and publshed an 1562. An. 1562. Arch. Parker Subscription required vnto the Booke of Art an 1571. An. 1572. * Bartholomaeus flet quia gallicus occu●hat a●las Vnitie of doctrine still cōtinued Archbish. Grindall The f●ctious encrease and growe confident Vnity of doctrine stil holdeth among vs. An. 1583. Arch. VVhitegift Subscription the second time called for An. 1584. How basely the Brethren conceiue of the doctrine by the Bishops agreed vpon and established by the prince The vncoath doctrine of the factious Brethren Of the second Subscription vrged an 84. The Brethrēs diuine conceipts of their Discipline The Br. renue and continue their base cōceits of the publike Art of in our religiō comparison of their new Gospell An. 1588. Q. Elizabeth opposeth her authoritie against the Br. their bookes and writings Most learned worthy men set themselues against the Br. and the Presbyterian discipline A Stratagem of the Br. An. 1595. Certaine fruites and effects of the Sab. doctrine published by consent of the Brethren The summe of the Sa● doctrine broached by the Brethren The Br. doctrine of the Sabbath called in by authoritie and forbidden any more to be printed An. 1599. 1600. Purity of doctrine all Q. Eliz. raigne maintained in England An. 1602. K. Iames. An. 1603. K. Iames abused and troubled with false informations and petions of the Br. K. Iames patronizeth the doctrine religion countenaunced by Q. Eliz. Dominini Incarna●i an 1604. Subscription the third time vrged Of the subscription called for a Can. 2.127 b Ibid. The Church of England setled and cōst●nt in her Religion An. 1605. The Brethren no changlings VVhy the Br. will subscribe vnto some but not vnto all the Articles A late deuise of the Br. to shunne subscribtion The purpose and doctrine of our Church continue the same Neither the Doctrine nor purpose of our Church altered a Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me Ex. 20.3 the lord our God is Lord onely Deut. 6.4 Who is God beside the Lord Psal. 18.31 Hath not one God made vs Mal. 2 10. There is none other God but one 1. Cor. 8.4 b Mine heart and my flesh reioyce in the liuing God Psal. 84.2 Ye are the Temple of the liuing God 2. Cor. 6.16 c For a long season Israel hath bin without the true God 2 Chron. 15.3 The Lord is the God of truth he is the liuing God and an euerlasting King Ier. 10.10 This is life eternall that they know thee to be the onely very God c. Ioh. 17.3 Ye turned to God from idols to serue the liuing and true God 1. Thess. 1 9. d O my God c. thy yeares endure from generation to generation c. thy yeares shall not faile Psal 102. v. 24 26 27. He is the liuing God and remaineth for euer Dan. 6.16 e O Lord my God thou art exc●eding great thou art clothed with glorie and honour which couereth himselfe with light as with a garment c. Psal. 104. v. 1. c. God is a spirit Ioh. 4.24 The Lord is the spirit 2. Cor. 3.17 He is not a man that he should repent 1. Sam. 15.29 I will not execute the fiercenes of my wrath I will not returne to destroy Israel for I am God and not man Hos. 11.9 f The sound of the Cherubims wings was heard into the vtter court as the v●ice of the Almightie God when he speaketh Ezek. 10.5 I will be a Father vnto you c s●ith the Lord Almightie 2. Cor. 6.18 We giue thee thanks Lord God Almightie Reuel 11.17 g Great is our Lord and great is his power his wisdome is infinite Psal. 147.5 To God onely wise be honour and glorie for euer and euer 1. Tim. 1.17 To God I say onely wise be praise through Iesus Christ for euer Amen Rom. 16.27 h Praise ye the Lord because he is good for his mercie endureth for euer Psal. 106.1.107.1.108.1 c. i Art 1. k Confes. 2. ar 2. l cap. 3. m art 1. n art 2. o cap. 1. a Deos esse dubitabat Protagoras nullos esse omnino Diagoras Th●o●●rus Cyreniacus putauerunt M. T. Ci●e de Nat. Deor. l. 1. b Protagoras Deos in dubium vocavit Diagoras exclusi● Lactan. de fal Rel. cap. 2. c August contra Manich. l. 2 c. 1 2. d Clemen Alex. str l. 5. e Valentinus trigintae Deorum praedicator saith Cyril catech 6. f Epiphan g Exod. 32. h Gand. Merula demi●abil lib. 3. c. 56. i Piscem Syri venerantur Cic. de Senect k Merula de mirab l. 3. c. 48. l Histor. of Bel. m Gods are come downe to vs in the likenes of mē and they called Barnab●s Iupiter and Paul Mercurius c. Then Iupiters priest c. Act. 14.11 c. who knoweth not that the citie of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Goddesse Diana Act. 19.35 n Voiage of the Holland ships o Theodoret. l. 4. c. 10. p Tu es nostra fides in te credimus will the

of these is like that of the false Apostles which came from Iudea vnto Antioch and taught the Brethren that vnlesse they were Circumcised after the manner of Moses they could not be saued Whome the Apostles Paul and Barnabas first and afterwards Peter Iames and the rest at Ierusalem both zealously did resist and in their first Synod or conuocation powerfully suppresse The latter as bad as that hath bin the mother of many hereticall assertions and horrible conclusions I haue read and many there be aliue which will iustifie it how it was preached in a Mercate towne in Oxfordshire that to doe any seruile worke or businesse on the Lords day is as great a sinne as to kill a man or to committe adultery It was preached in Sommersetshire that to throw a bowle on the Sabboth day is as great a sinne as to kill a man It was preached in Norfolke that to make a Feast or wedding dinner on the Lords day is as great a sinne as for a Father to take a knife and cutte his childes throate It was preached in Suffolke I can name the man and I was present when hee was conuented before his ordinary for preaching the same that to ring moe Bels then one vpon the Lords day to call the people vnto Church is as great a sinne as to commit murder When these things I read and heard mine heart was strucken with an horror and so is it still when I doe but thinke of them and calling into minde the Sabboth doctrine at London printed for I. Porter and T. Man an 95 which I had read afore wherein very many things are to this effect I presently smelt both whose disciples all those preachers are and that the said doctrine had taken deepe impression in mens hearts and was dispersed while our watchmen were otherwise busied if not asleepe ouer the whole kingdome 23. It is a comfort vnto my soule and will be till my dying houre that I haue beene the man and the meanes that these Sabbatarian errors and impieties are brought into light and knowledge of the State whereby whatsoeuer else sure I am this good hath ensued namely that the said bookes of the Sabbath comprehending the aboue mentioned and many moe such fearefull and haereticall assertions haue beene both called in and forbidden any more to be printed and made common Your Graces predecessor Archb. Whitegift by his letters and Officers at Synods and visitations an 99. did the one and Sir Iohn Popham L. chiefe Iustice of England at Burie S. Edmonds in Suff. an 1600. did the other And both these most reuerend sage and honorable Personages by their censures haue declared if men will take admonition that this Sabbath doctrine of the Brethren agreeth neither with the doctrine of our Church nor with the lawes and orders of this kingdome disturbeth the peace both of the Common-weale and Church and tendeth vnto Schisme in the one and Sedition in the other and therefore neither to be backt nor bolsterd by any good Subiect whether hee bee Church or Common-weale man 24. Thus haue errors and noisome doctrines like boiles and Botches euer and anone risen vp to the ouerthrowe of our Churches health and salfety if it might be but yet such hath beene the Phisicke of our discipline as what by launcing purging and other good meanes vsed the Bodie still hath beene vpholden and preserued from time to time And well may errors like grosse humors and tumors continue among vs as neuer Church was or will be quite without them while it is militant heere vpon earth yet are they not of the substance at all of our Religion or any part of our Churches doctrine no more then ill humors which bee in are of the Bodie or dregs in a Vessell of wine bee any part either of the Vessell or Wine which remaneth as at the first most sound and vncorrupted and so continued euen vntill the dying day of that most illustrious religious Princesse Queene Elizabeth The verie Brethren themselues doe write that In regard of the common grounds of Religion and of the Ministerie We are all one We are all of one Faith one Baptisme one Bodie one spirit haue all one Father one Lord and be all of one Heart against all wickednes superstition idolatrie haeresie and we seeke with one Christian desire the aduancement of the pure Religion worshippe and honor of God We are Ministers of the word by one order we administer prayers and Sacraments by one forme we preach one Faith and substance of doctrine And wee praise God heartily that the true Faith by which we may be saued and the true Doctrine of the Sacraments and the pure Worshipe of God is truly taught and that by publike authoritie and retained in the booke of Articles Hitherto the said Brethren And this was their verdict of our Churches doctrine in the last yeare saue one of Q. Elizabeths raigne then which nothing was euer more truely said or written And this Vnitie and puritie of doctrine shee left with vs when shee departed this world 25. Nowe After Elizabeth raigned Noble Iames. Who found this our Church as all the world knoweth in respect of the groundes of true Religion at Vnitie and that Vnitie in Veritie and that Veritie confirmed by publike and regall approbation These ecclesiasticall ministers therefore though a thousand for number who at his Maiesties first comming into this kingdome either cōplained vnto his Highnes of I know not what errors imperfections in our Church euē in points of doctrine as if shee erred in matters of Faith or desired that an Vniformity of doctrine might be prescribed as if the same had not alreadie bin done to his hands or as weary belike of the old by Queene Elizabeth countenaunced and continued desired his Maiestie to take them out a newe Lesson as did the the 71. Brethren of Suffolk are not to be liked Neither can we extoll the goodnes of our God sufficiently toward our King and vs all for inspiring his royall heart with holy wisedome to discerne these vnstaied and troublesome spirits and in abling his Highnes with power and graces from aboue to decree orders and directions for the generall benefit and peace of the whole Church neither suffered hee his eies to sleepe nor his eie-lids to slumber nor the temples of his head to take any rest till he had set them downe afore all other though neuer so important and waightie affaires of the Crowne and Kingdome 26. My selfe haue read and thousand thousands with an hundred thousand of his Subiects besides haue either read or heard of Proclamations after Proclamations to the number of sixe or seauen at the least of bookes and open speeches of his Maiestie vttered in the Parliament house and all of them made vulgar within a yeare and little more after his happie ingresse into this kingdome taking the administration of this most famous flourishing Empire vpon himself

wherby the doctrine in this land allowed publiquely graced imbraced of all sorts at his entrance into the Realme hath been not only acknowledged to bee agreeable to Gods word sincere and the very same which both his Highnes and the whole Church and kingdome of Scotland yea and the primitiue Church professed but also by his authoritie regall and paramont as one of the maine pillers supporting his Estate ratified to continue and all hope either of allowing or tolerating in this kingdome of any other doctrine religion or faction whatsoeuer opposite or any way thwarting the Faith and confession of the Church of England in most plaine pithy and peremptorie words and speeches cut off The yeare 62. was not more famous for the Vniformitie of doctrine in religion then concluded then the yeare 604. is memorable and will be for seconding the same neither gotte the Clergie in those daies more credit in composing the Articles of our Vnitie in Faith then did the last Conuocation whereat your Grace then Bishop of London was present and President in ratifying the Acts and Articles of their Antecessors neither was Q. Elizabeth more honoured in establishing them at the first then is our K. Iames renowned and more and more will be for approouing vnder the great Seale of England the late and last Constitutions and Canons ecclesiasticall 27. Whereby no person shall hereafter be receiued into the ministery nor neither by Institution or Collation admitted to any ecclesiasticall liuing nor suffered to preach to catechize or to be Lecturer or Reader of Diuinitie in either Vniuersitie or in any Cathedrall or Collegiat Church Cittie or Market towne Parish Church Chappell or in any other place in this realme except c. and except hee shall first Subscribe to these three Articles c. Whereof the third is that he alloweth the booke of Articles of Religion c. Nor any licensed to preach Read Lecture or Catechize comming to reside in any Diocesse shall be permitted there to preach read lecture catechize or minister the Sacraments or to execute any other ecclesiasticall function by what authoritie soeuer he be thereunto admitted vnlesse he first consent and Subscribe to the three Articles Neither shall any man teach either in publike schole or in priuate house except he shall first subscribe to the first and third Articles simply c. Neither shall any man be admitted a Chancellar Commissarie or officiall to exercise any ecclesiasticall iurisdiction except c. and shal Subscribe to the Articles of Religion agreed vpon in the Conuocation in the yeare 1562 c. And likewise all Chancellours Commissaries Registers and all other that doe nowe possesse or execute any places of ecclesiasticall iurisdiction or seruice shall before Christmas next in the presence of the Archbishop or Bishop or in open Court vnder whome or where they execute their offices take the same Oathes and Subscribe as before is said or vpon refusall so to doe shall be suspended from the execution of their Offices vntill they shall take the said Oathes and Subscribe as afore said 28. In which Constitutions the wisedome of his Highnesse sheweth it selfe to be excellent who indeede as exceeding necessary both for the retaine of peace in the Church and preuenting of newe doctrine curious speculations and offenses which otherwise daily would spring vp and intolerably encrease calleth for Subscription in testimonie of mens cordiall consent vnto the receiued doctrine of our Church but exacteth not their Oathes as some doe much lesse Oathes Vowes and Subscription too but onely in a particular respect and that of a very fewe in publike office as our neighbours haue done Againe hee requireth Subscription but not of ciuill magistrates not of the Commons as else-where some doe not of euery man yea of womē aswel as of men as did the persecuted Church at Frankeford in Q. Maries daies not of Noble Gentlemen and Courtiers as in Scotland was exacted in our Kings minoritie but onely of ecclesiasticall Ministers Teachers and spirituall Officers or of those which would be such and so doe the reformed Churches in France and Germanie at this very day Last of all his Maiestie calleth for Subscription vnto Articles of religion but they are not either Articles of his owne lately deuised or the old newely turkened but the verie Articles agreed vpon by the Archbishopes and Bishops of both Prouinces and the whole Clergie in the Conuocation holden at London and that in the yeare of our Lord God 1562 and vnto none other euen the same Articles for number thirtie nine no moe no fewer and for words sillables and letters the verie same vnaugmented vndiminished vnaltered 29. And beeing the same the whole world is to knowe that the Church of England is not in religion changed or variable like the Moone nor affecteth noueltie or newe lessons but holdeth stedfastly and conscionably that truth which by the Martyrs and other Ministers in this last age of the world hath bin restored vnto this kingdome and is grounded vpon Gods written word the onely foundation of our Faith And being the same all men againe may see that we are stil at Vnitie both among our selues at home and with the neighbour Churches abroad in all matters of cheifest importance fundamentall points of religion though our adversaries the Papists would faine beate the contrarie into the common peoples heads And being the same there is nowe as also from the first restauration of the Gospell among vs there hath beene an Vniformitie likewise of doctrine by authoritie established which at the King his first arriuall among vs was so much desired by the Brethren And finally being the same let vs not doubt but perswade our selues that we shall find the Antichristian Church of Rome too the same which for the same doctrine and for none other cause prosecuteth all Christian churches but ours of England especially with sworde fire and powder in most hostile yea and hellish manner the effect of whose hatred against vs as we haue often seene so especially had wee felt the same the next yeare after our Kings ratification of these Articles had not our euer mercifull God most miraculouslie detected both the Treason and Traitors For which his fauours his holy Name be glorified of vs and our posteritie throughout all generations 30. So our Church is the same But be the Brethren the faithfull and godly Brethren too the same nowe which they haue also beene If they bee then will they not denie which an 72. they writ that We hold the substance of religion with them nor which an 602. they published is afore remembred that the true Faith by which we may be saued and the true doctrine of the Sacraments the pure worship of God be truly taught and that by publike authoritie and retained in the booke of Articles And in this Confession I pray God they may constantly perseuere Howebeit euen these men which in a

not be the seruants of men and that none humane constitution in the Church doth binde any man to breake the least commaundement of God The consideration heereof hath caused other Churches also with a sweete consent to condemne such wicked ceremonies and traditions of men Errors Adversaries to this truth Such vngodly traditions ceremonies are all the ceremonies and traditions in a manner of the Antichristian synagogue of Rome Such also be the Sabbatarian traditions and ceremonies lately broached because they be imposed vpon the Church Necessarilie and perpetually to be obserued of all and euerie Christian vnder paine of damnation both of soule and body For say they speaking yet of their priuate and Classicall Iniunction about the Sabboth day The Lord hath commaunded so praecise a Rest vnto all sorts of men that it may not by any fraude deceipt or circumvention whatsoeuer be broken but that he will most seuerely require it at our hands vnder the paine of his euerlasting displeasure This viz. the manner of keeping the Sabboth praescribed by themselues the Lord requireth of all and euery one continually from the beginning to the end of our liues without any interruption Vnder the paine of euerlasting condemnation Another sort of people there is among vs which will obserue and vse all Ceremonies whatsoeuer as the temporizing Familistes who at Rome and such like places of Superstition will goe vnto idolatrous seruices and doe adoration vnto Idols and no where will they striue or varie with any one about Religion but keepe all externall orders albeit in their hearts they scorne all professions and Seruices but their owne tearming all Temples and Churches in derision Common houses and all Gods seruices or religions besids their owne Foolishnes To the Christian Reader Christian and beloued Reader let me request thee to obserue well the first section of the proofe of this present proposition and therein howe I speake of ceremonies and traditions apparently impious among which I doe reckon papisticall Crosses whereunto the Romanistes doe attribute diuine adoration as elsewhere in this booke and subscription of mine I haue declared and could more copiouslie but the reliques of a Libell of theirs left in the parrish church of Euborne in Barkshire an 1604 sufficiently shal expresse the thoughts of Papists touching their Crosse and Crossing whose words be these Nowe Ma. Parson for your welcome home Read these fewe lines you knowe not from whom You hold Crosse for an outward token and signe And remembrance only in religion thine And of the profession the people doe make For more then this comes to thou dost is not take Yet holy Church tells vs of holy Crosse much more Of power and virtue to heale sicke and sore Of holinesse to blesse vs and keepe vs from euill From fowle feend to fend vs and saue vs from Deuill And of many miracles which holy Crosse hath wrought All which by tradition to light Church hath brought Wherefore holy worship holy Church doth it giue And surely so will we so long as we liue Though thou saist Idolatrie and vilde superstition Yet we knowe it is holy Churches tradition Holy Crosse then disgrace not but bring it in renowne For vp shall the Crosse goe and you shall goe downe Of this Crosse I spake and mean● and of none other when I number it among things meerely impious and vnlawfull And therefore haue I not a little woundred at those my Brethren which drawe these words of mine in this section vnto the Crosse vsed in our church at Baptisme which I neuer thought nor take to be either papisticall or impious because none adoration not so much as ciuill much lesse diuine is giuen thereunto either by our church in generall or of any minister or member thereof in particular If they haue no other Patrons for their not vsing or refusing the ceremonie of the Crosse then my selfe they are in an ill case For both in my iudgement and practise I doe allowe thereof This their peruerting of my words contrarie to their sence and my meaning telleth mee that other mens wordes and names are but too much abused by them in that booke to the backing of schisme and faction in the Church and State which from our soules we doe abhorre 4. Proposition Euery particular or nationall Church may ordaine change abolish ceremonies or rites ordained onely by mans authoritie so that all things be done to edifying It hath pleased our most mercifull Lord and Sauiour Christ for the maintenance of his Church militant that two sorts of rites or ceremonies should be vsed whereof Some God his most excellent maiestie hath himselfe ordained as the ceremonie of Baptisme and the Lords Supper which are till the end of the world without all addition diminution and alteration with all zeale and religion to be obserued Others be ordained by the authoritie of each prouintiall or nationall Church that partely for comelinesse that is to say that by those helpes the people of God the better may be inflamed with a godly zeale and that sobernes and grauitie may appeare in the handling of ecclesiastical matters and partly for order sake euen that gouernors may haue rules and directions how to gouerne by Auditors and inferiors may know how to prepare and behaue themselues in sacred assemblies and a ioyfull peace may be continued by the well ordering of Church affaires We haue already prooued that these latter sort of ceremonies may be made and changed augmented or diminished as fit opportunitie and occasions shall be ministred and that by particular or nationall Churches which thing is also affirmed by our neighbours Adversaries vnto this truth This manifesteth to the world the intolerable both arrogancie of the Romish church which dare take vpon her to alter and applie to wrong vses the very Sacraments instituted euen by Christ himselfe and to prescribe ceremonies and rites not to some particular but to all Churches in al times and places It sheweth also the boldnesse of our home-adversaries the Puritane dominicanes which say that the Church nor no man can take away the libertie of working sixe daies in the weeke from men and driue them to a necessarie rest of the body vpon any day sauing the seuenth Againe say these men the Church hath none authoritie ordinarily and perpetually to sanctifie any day but the seuenth day which the Lord hath sanctified nor to set vp any day like to the Sabboth day The latter sort what in them is quench the peoples deuotion and hinder them from frequenting of Churches vpon all holydaies falling on the weeke daies and ordained by the lawfull authoritie of the Church 35. Article Of Homilies The second booke of Homilies the seuerall titles wherof we haue ioyned vnder this Article doth containe a godly and wholesome doctrine and necessarie for these times as doth the former booke of Homilies which were set foorth in the

time of Edward the sixt and therefore wee iudge them to be read in Churches by the ministers diligently and distinctly that they may bee vnderstood of the people Of the names of the Homilies 1. Of the right vse of the Church 2. against perill of Idolatrie 3. Of the repairing and keeping cleane of Churches 4. Of good workes first of Fasting 5. Against Gluttonie and drunkenes 6. Against excesse of apparell 7. Of prayer 8. Of the place and time of prayer 9. That common prayers and Sacraments ought to bee ministred in a known tongue 10. Of the reuerend estimation of Gods word 11. Of Almes doing 12. Of the Natiuitie of Christ. 13. Of the Passion of Christ. 14. Of the Resurrection of Christ. 15. Of the worthy receiuing of the Sacrament of the Bodie and Blood of Christ. 16. Of the gifts of the holy Ghost 17. For the Rogation daies 18. Of the state of Matrimonie 19. Of Repentance 20. Against Idlenesse 21. Against Rebellion Touching this Article the greatest matter is not whether these Homilies meant and mentioned doe containe doctrine both godly wholesome and necessarie but whether Homilies or any Apocrypha wrightings at all may be read in the open Church and before the congregation which I thinke they may and prooue thus Great is the excellencie great also the vtility of Gods word preached Therefore saith S. Paul None can beleeue without a preacher and Woe is mee if I preach not the Gospell Howbeit the manner of preaching is not alwaies one the same For the Apostles were to teach as well by the penne as by the liuely voice Paul did preach the Gospell by writing wee owe in a manner more to the bonds of Paul for his bookes than to his libertie for preaching Calvins writings will edifie all men continually in the time to come Protestants bookes are witnesses of sound doctrine and sincere Christianitie For my part I cannot but magnifie the goodnes of God for all good meanes to bring vs vnto Faith and so vnto saluation but especially for the written labours of holy and learned men whose doings in all ages not onely haue bin approoued but also vsed and read many of them in the most sacred assemblies So In the primitiue church was publikely read the Epistle of the Laodicians in the Church of the Colossians the Epistle of Clemens vnto the Corinthians Hermes his pastor and the Homilies of the Fathers In the reformed Churches in Flanders and France read are M. Calvins sermons vpon Iob and in the Italian French Dutch and Scottish churches the said Calvin his Catechisme is both read and expounded publikely and that before the whole Congregation The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth Deceiued then and out of the way of truth are they which of Preaching by the mouth conceiue either too basely or too highly too basely as doe the anabaptists and Familie of Loue they affirming there ought to be no preaching at all and that Preachers are not sent of God neither doe preach Gods word but the dead letter of the Scripture these with the said Anabaptists tearming them letter Doctors preaching the letter and imagination of their owne knowledge but not the word of the liuing God Too highly as doe the Puritanes of all sorts For say they Except God worke miraculously and extraordinarily which is not to be looked for of vs the bare Reading yea not of the Scriptures without Preaching cannot deliuer so much as one poore soule from destruction Reading of whatsoeuer in the Church without preaching is not feeding but as ill as playing vpon a stage and worse too Without Preaching of the word viz. by the liuely voice of a minister and without the booke the Sabboth cannot be hallowed either of a minister or people in the least measure which the Lord requireth of vs Next erre doe they which set their wits and learning either against all bookes in generall except the sacred Bible or against the publike reading of any learned mens writings be they neuer so diuine and godly in the open and sacred assemblies Of the former sort are the Anabaptists who as Sleidan recordeth did burne the bookes writings and monuments of learned men reseruing and preseruing onely the holy Scriptures from the fire Of the latter be the Brownists Disciplinatians and Sabbatarians The Brownists doe say that No Apocrypha must be brought into the Christian assemblies so the disciplinarians Ministers ought not to read openly in the congregation any writings but onely the Canonicall scriptures they complaine that humane writings are brought into the church they crie out Remooue Homilies and they supplicate vnto K. Iames that the Canonicall scriptures onely may be read in the Church And so but much more bitterly and erroneously the Sabbatarians we damne our selues say they if wee goe not from those ministers and Churches where the Scriptures and Homilies onely be read and seeke not vnto the prophets when and so often as wee haue them not at home 36. Article Of consecration of Bishops and ministers The booke of Consecration 1 of Archbishops and Bishops and ordering of priests and Deacons set forth in the time of Edward the sixt and confirmed at the same time by authoritie of Parliament doth containe all th●ngs necessary to such consecration and ordering neither hath it any thing that of it selfe is superstitious or vngodly And therefore 2 whosoeuer are consecrated or ordered according to the rites of that booke since the second yeare of the aforesaid K. Edward vnto this time or hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same rites we decree all such to be rightly and orderly and lawfully consecrated ordered The Propositions 1. It is agreeable to the word of God and practise of the primitiue church that there should be Archbishops Bishops and such like differences and inequalities of ecclesiasticall ministers 2. Whosoeuer be or shall be consecrated or ordered according to the rites of the booke of Consecration of Archbishops Bishops and ordering of Priests and Deacons they be rightly orderly and lawfully consecrated and ordered 1. Proposition It is agreable to the word of God and practise of the 〈◊〉 church that there should be Archbishops Bishops and such like differences and inequalities of ecclesiasticall ministers The proofe from Gods word ALbeit the tearmes and titles of Archbishops wee finde not yet the superioritie which they enioy and authoritie which Bishops and Archbishops doe exercise in ordering and consecrating of Bishops and ecclesiasticall ministers is grounded vpon the word of God For we finde that In the Apostles daies howe themselues both were in dignitie aboue the euangelists and the 70. disciples and for authoritie both in and ouer the Church as twelue Patriarches saith Beza and also established an ecclesiasticall Hierarchie Hence came it that Bishop was of Ierusalem Iames