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A68668	The English creede consenting vvith the true auncient catholique, and apostolique Church in al the points, and articles of religion which euerie Christian is to knowe and beleeue that would be saued. The first parte, in most loyal maner to the glorie of God, credit of our Church, and displaieng of al hærisies, and errors, both olde and newe, contrarie to the faith, subscribed vnto by Thomas Rogers. Allowed by auctoritie.; English creede. Part 1.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1585 (1585)	STC 21226.5; ESTC S116384	40,505	88

he reteined no more the properties of his bodie and soule nor the vnion of both natures but was meerelie God The Fam. of Loue which take the resurrection of Christ to be but an allegorie and no certaine historie 2. In saying how christ with his very body ascended into heauen we declare our selues to dissent not 1. From the scriptures Psalm 47 5. Psal. 68 18. Psal. 110 1. Math. 22 44. Math. 26 64. Act. 1 9. Luke 24 51. Rom. 8 34. Ephes. 4 8 9 10. 2. From the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. From the Confes. of the Churches of Helue 1. art 11. 2. cap. 11. Basil. art 4. Bohem. cap. 6. France art 15. Fland. art 20. Ausburgh art 3. Saxon. art 3. Sueuia art 2. But we altogether dissent 1. From the Vbiquitaries as Papistes Certaine Germans Which doe holde that the body of Christ is Not only in heauen But also in earth and that euery where Where the Sacrament is 〈…〉 In euery kingdome In euery Countrey In euery citie In euery parish In euery loase In euery peece of bread and cup of wine 2. From the Papistes that say how Christ ascended carrying with him the soules which he losed from captiuitie bondage of the Diuel wheras there is not one word either 1. In the S. Scripture 2. In any sound Confession Olde Newe That the soules of the righteous Were not afore 〈…〉 Were then placed 〈…〉 ● Where we say that Christ shal come again to iudge al men we agree 1. With the scripture Acts. 10 42. Rom. 2 16. 2. Tim. 4 1 8. Iam. 5 9. 2. With the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. With the Confes. of the Churches in Helue 2. cap. 11. 1. art 11. Basil. art 9. Bohem. cap. 6. Fland. art 37. Ausburgh art 3. Sueuia art 2. But we renounce their opiniōs which thinke That there shal be no iudgement at al as the Atheists Epicures of this world do That The Diuels The wicked shalbe saued as do the Origenists That before the iudgement there shalbe a golden worlde the godly and none besides enioying the same peaceablie and gloriouslie as the Iewes do That the righteous are in godly glory shal from henceforth liue euerlastingly with Christ raigne vpon earth as the Fam. of Loue teacheth 5. ARTICLE Of the holie Ghost THe holie Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne is of one substance maiestie and glorie with the Father and the Sonne verie and eternal God This article concerning the holy ghost 1. The Scripture Math. 28 19. Act. 2 4. 2. Cor. 13 ●3 2. Pet. 1 21. 1. Iohn 5 7. 2. The Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. The Confes. of the Churches in Heluet. 1. Art 6. 2. Cap. 3. Basil. art 1. Ausburgh art 1. France art 6. Bohem. cap. 3. Fland. art 8 9 11. Wittemb cap. 1. 3. Sueuia art 1. Do verifie In saying That the holie Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne we shew our selues not to be of the error of the Graecians which said howe the holy Ghost proceeded from the Father but not from the Sonne That the holy Ghost is of one substance with the Father and the Sonne we declare our selues aduersaries to the Macedonian heretiques who sayde the holy Ghost was a Creature which is of another substaunce than GOD is That the holie Ghost is of one substance maiestie and glorie with the Father and the Sonne we altogether dissent from the heresie of the Sabellians Tritheites which thought the holie Ghost to be that which God the Father and God the Sonne were and no distinct person from them 6. ARTICLE Of the sufficiencie of the holy Scriptures for saluation HOlie Scripture 1 conteineth al thinges necessarie to saluation so that whatsoeuer is not read therein nor maie be proued thereby is not to be required of anie man that it should be beleeued as an article of the faith or be thought requisit necessarie to saluation 2 In the name of the holie Scripture we doe vnderstande those Canonical bookes of the old and newe Testament of whose auctoritie was neuer any doubt in the Church Of the names and number of the Canonical bookes Genesis Exodus Leuiticus Devteronomium Iosue Iudges Ruth The 1. booke of Samuel The 2. booke of Samuel The 1. booke of Kinges The 2. booke of Kinges The 1. booke of Chron. The 2. booke of Chron. The 1. booke of Esdras The 2. booke of Esdras The booke of Esther The booke of Iob. The Psalmes The Prouerbes Eccles. or the Preacher Cant. or song of Salomon 4. Prophets the greater 12. Prophets the lesse 3 And the other bookes as Hierome saith the Church doth reade for example of life and instruction of manners but yet doeth it not applie them to stablish anie doctrine Such are theis following The third booke of Esdras The fourth 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 three children The storie of Susanna Of Bel and the Dragon The praier of Manasses The 1. booke of Machab. The 2. booke of Machab. 4 Al the bookes of the Newe Testament as they are commonlie receiued we doe receaue and accompt for Canonical The Propositions 1. The S. Scripture containeth al thinges necessarie vnto the saluation of man 2. Al the bookes in the volume of the Bible are not Canonical 3. The 3. and 4. bookes of Esdras the booke of Tobias c. are Apocripha 4. In the newe testament al the bookes are Canonical 1 That the Scriptures of God are al sufficient and necessarie to instruct vs vnto ●●luation with vs 1 The S. Scripture Deut. 4 2. 12 8. Iosh. 1 7. Prou. 30 5. Iohn 20 31. Gal. 1 8. 2. Tim. 3 16. Reuel 22 18. 19. 2. The confess of the Churches of God in Heluet 1. art 1 4. 2. cap. ● Basil. art 10. Bohem. cap. 1. France art 2 4 5. Fland. art 5 7. Saxon. art 1. Wittemb cap. 30. Sueuia art 1. Do witnesse And therefore we are aduersaries to al such as before the worde of God do prefer their owne Inuentions as the Philosophers whereof one saide of Moses That good man maketh a trim discourse but hee proueth nothing Phantastical imaginations a● Did the Manechies Doe the Libertines Anabaptistes Fam of Loue. Traditions as the Papistes which euidently appeareth in that they do moste cruelie punish and torment such as refuse The wicked precepts of men or not at al or ouerslightly correct the breakers of God his commaundements To keepe popish holie daies To heare their blasphemous Masse To obserue their superstitious fastings and ceremonies Statutes or edicts or decrees or iudgements or proclamations or els whatsoeuer proceeding from the braine of man as Macchiauel doth and his fauorers 2. That some bookes in the Bible are Canonical and some Apocrypha it hath bene graūted by the best learned and most godly of long time And as all the

reformed Churches in the worlde are of the same iudgement with vs so in their publique confessions some haue so compted and iudged of them as we doe As namelie the Church in France art 3. Fland art 4. Therefore to speake first of the Canonicall bookes of the olde Testament they haue hainously offended defaced the glory of God which 1. Reiected al the bookes of the old● Testament as did the Heretiques Basilides Ca●po●rates the Manichies 2. Allowed some but not al the Canonical bookes of the old Testament And of this sorte Some receaued no more but the. 5. bookes of Moses as the Saduceis Some receaued the Lawe onlie and the Prophetes as the Samarites Some receaued neither the law nor the Prophetes as the Appelleans 3. That diuers yea and those bookes here mentioned are Apocrypha we are neither the first that said it nor they only which affirme the same For The auncient Councel at Laodicea can 59. did The confessions of the Churches reformed in Doe France art 3. Fland art 4. Iudge them not to be Canonical So that they are to be taken heede of as seducers which would thrust vpon the Church 1. The bookes for canonical Apocrypha within the volume of the Bible as the Papistes would and therefore accursse so manie as take them not for canonical Conc. Trid sess 4. decr de can Scrip. 2. Anie bookes not comprehended in the Bible whether they be The newe Prophetes Barcobas and Barcolf of Basilides the heretique The Phaneroses or manifestations of Marcion the heretique The mysteries of Manechie the Heretique Isais Ascensorium of Hierax the Heretique The Gospel after The Aegyptians The Hebrues The 12. Apostles Barnabas Thomas Nicodemus The Actes of S. Paul The Reuel of S. Peter The bookes of the Montanistes Anabaptistes HN. Papistes ● 4 Although some of the auncient Doctors accepted not all the bookes comprehended within the volume of the new testament for Canonical yet in the ende they were wholy takē and receiued by the common consent of the Church of Christ in this world for the verie word of God as they are at this day in al places where the Gospel is preached professed Howbeit we iudge them canonical Not so much because man in the world doth so receiue and allow of them As for that 1 The holy spirit in our hartes doth testifie that they are from God 2 They carrie a sacred auctoritie with thē 3 They do agree with the other books of God in the old Testament Therefore in receiuing thē wholy not in part we shewe our selues vtterly to condemne Such as receiued not the whole new● Testament but a part thereof And these were of diuers kindes whereof Some reiected all the Epistles of Paule c. and allowed only the Gospel after Mathewe as Corinthus the Heretique Some receaued of the As Marcionth● Heretique Euangelistes onely Luke Epistles of Paul only the Epistle vnto Timothie and Titus Some alowed of al the testament only the Act● of the Apostles as Tatian the Heretique Such as allowed neither the whole new Testament nor those books wholie which they receiued as the Marcionites who defaced al those places in the Gospel after Luke and in the Epistles which concerned either the Diuinitie or humanitie of our S. Christ. Such as receaue read the new Testament but scrape out such text● therein as mislike them as the Turkes who scrape out whatsoeuer they finde touching the passion of Christ saying how it was added purposely by the Iewes in derision of the Christians 7. ARTICLE Of the old Testament THe 1 old Testament is not contrarie to the new for both in the old and newe Testament euerlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ who is the onely mediator betweene God and man being both God and man 2VVherefore they are not to be heard which faine that the old Fathers did looke only for transitorie promises 3 Although the Lawe giuen from God by Moses as tuching ceremonies and rites do not bind Christian men nor the ciuil precepts thereof ought of necessitie to be receiued in any Common wealth yet notwithstanding no Christian man whatsoeuer is free from the obedience of the Commaundements which are called moral The Propositions 1 The old Testament is not contrarie vnto the new 2 The old Fathers looked for eternal happinesse so wel as for temporal blessings 3 The Law moral remaineth though the ceremonial and ciuil be abrogate 1 That the old Testament is not contrarie to the newe it may easily be proued by many inuincible arguments yet is it most apparant in that our Christ verie God and verie man as aboue p. 6 7. hath beene declared is offred vnto mankind by them both That 1 There is one Christ and no moc 2. Christ is the Son of God 3. Christ is verie man 4. Christ was born at Bethlehem 5. Christ was born of a virgine 6. Christ was honoured of wi●e men 7. Christ rid vpon an Asse vnto lerusalem 8. Christ was betrayed 9. Christ did suffer not for his owne but for our sins 10. Christ did rise againe 11. Christ did ascend As ' it is apparent in the newe Testament 1. Acts. 3 25. Gal. 3 8. 16. 2. Acts. 13 33. 3. Heb. 2 12. 4. Math. 2 1. 5. Math. 1 23. 6. Math. 2 11. 7. Math. 21 1. 8. Luke 22 7. 9. Mat. 8 17. Acts. 8 32. 1. Cor. 15 3. 1. Pet. 2 24. 10. Act. 2 25. 1. Cor. 15 ● 11 Ephes. 4. 8. So is it confirmed by the old Testament 1. Gen. 12 3. 2. Psalm 2 7. 3. Psalm 22 22. 4. Micah 5 2. 5. Isa. 7 14. 6. Esai 60 6. 7. Zech. 9 9. 8. Zech. 11 12. 9. Isa. 53 5. 10. Psal. 16 10. Ion. 2 1. 11. Psal. 68 8. So that we are aduersaries to their doctrine and they as it should seeme enemies to this which Vtterly reiect the old Testament as did the Heretiques Basilides Carpocra●es Manichies Say that the Law as contrarie to the Gospel is not to be preached as do the Antiomies and Anabaptists 2 That the old Fathers looked not only for transitorie promises but for eternal happinesse beside 1 The Scripture Rom. 1 1. 2 c. 1. Peter 1 10. 2. The confession of the people of God in Heluet. Confes. 2. cap. 13. Saxonie art 3. Do testifie Wherefore they are not to be heard which thinke the fathers hoped for temporal and not for spiritual and eternal happinesse as Many of the Iewes did The Fa of Loue as it should seeme doth 3. That the Law 1. Ceremonial is not necessarilie to be obserued of al men and in al times 1. The Scripture by The example of Stephan Acts 6 14. The vision Acts 10. 13 c. Th'Apostles Acts 15 1 c. The testimonie of Paul Gal. 2 3 c. Ephes. 2 14. Col. 2 16. Peter 1. Pet. 1 18 19. 2. The Confessions of the Churches of God in France art 23. Fland. art 25. Doe witnesse Theie therefore are in à wrong opinion

THE English Creede CONSENTING WITH THE TRVE AVNCIENT CATHOlique and apostolique Church in al the points and articles of Religion which euerie Christian is to knowe and beleeue that would be saued THE FIRST PARTE IN MOST LOYAL MANER TO THE GLORIE OF GOD CREDIT OF OVR Church and displaieng of al haerisies and errors both olde and newe contrarie to the faith subscribed vnto by THOMAS ROGERS Allowed by auctoritie Cyprianus Epist. li. 1. epist. 4. Humanos errores mendacia relinquamus in veritate Dei maneamus verbum Dei manet in aeternum NON SOLO PANE VIVET HOMO I W AT LONDON IMPRINTED BY JOHN VVINdet for Andrew Maunsel at the brasen Serpent in Pauls church yard 1585. REVERENDISSIMO IN CHRISTO PATRI AC DOMINO EDMVNDO PROVIDENTIA DIVINA NORWICENSI EPISCOPO RELIGIONIS VERAE CATHOLICAE AC ORTHODOXAE ET PROFESSORI CONSTANTI ET FAVTORI QVIDEM SINGVLARI ATHEISMI IVDAISMI TVRCISMI PAPISMI ANABAPTISMI ET OMNIVM DENIQVE FANATICARVM OPINIONVM HOSTI ACERRIMO ET CAPITALI THOMAS ROGERIVS PRIOREM HANC SYMBOLO ANGLICANO SVBSCRIPTIONIS SVAE PARTEM HONORIS DEBITAEQVE OBSERVANTIAE ERGO DICAT CONSECRATQVE To the Christian readers and hearers S. OF the great subscription vrged from the Pastors and ministers of the worde and Sacramentes in a great part of this land the last yeare yee can not lightlie be ignorant The causes of the same being either secrete I cannot or not conuenient to be published I may not set downe What the euent thereof wil be God he knoweth what it hath beene according to the diuersitie of mans minde diuerslie do men thinke thereof For some are of opinion that much hurt thereby hath redounded to the Church of God and they think not amisse in diuers considerations others again wiselie do suppose that it hath made not a little vnto the glorie of God and comfort of his seruants as whereby a ful and perfect trial of men is had diuers of the godlie notablie be deliuered from the manifold slanders wicked surmises falslie raised of them through the secret and subtil suggestions of Satan and his members For to speake first of her Maiesties authoritie in causes Ecclesiastical and that to offend none of Gods children but to the consolation of manie of al that haue bine examined what one hath denied the same who but most willingly and cheerefully doeth ascribe so much as the lawes of this land in euerie respect do giue vnto her highnes Who but hath offered as to subscribe so to sweare vnto that article Who but would suffer the losse not of goods onely but of life also for the maintenance of the same And although the Papistes do write that to grant this vnto her maiestie is lothsome and base flatterie abominable and blasphemous adulation shameful haeresie and vntruth against nature and is not to make her next to God in her Realme but to make her the God of her people For the next step saie theie vnto diuine adoration is to saie beleeue that a temporal King is aboue the Priest in causes Ecclesiastical or that in a Christian common weale the next dignitie to Christ or God is not the priest but the Prince yet can we not to auoid the aeternal displeasure of God but thinke it and to showe our selues dutiful loial subiects subscribe vnto the same hauing learned so to do out of Gods holie word As for the supremacie chalenged by the Pope whom as heretofore so dailie but most sacrilegiouslie theie cal The general pastor yea The common Father of al Christians specialie of princes yea The chiefe priest and pastor of our soules yea The supreme pastor of Gods faithful people yea The high pastor of Christs vniuersal Church and to omit a number of such blasphemous titles The prince of Gods people as we know no such praerogatiue giuen him by the word of God so we do vtterly renounce and altogether mislike the same And to come vnto another Article concerning the booke of common praier not one that I know hath refused simplie to subscribe vnto that neither Though some denie not onlie that that forme but that anie forme of publique ordinarie praier is to be vsed in the Church and think it papistical and giue out that it doth but mocke the Lorde and the Lorde loatheth and spueth it out of his mouth though some againe write that it hath no part of the catholique seruice and cal it a Caluinistical a schismatical a damnable schismatical an heretical an abominable seruice These be the ●●●●dest and charitable words of them whom theie saie no protestant in England is able to reproue of a●●● vntruth or slander railing immodestie c. yet what is that vnto vs which of al Gods ministers that haue bine tried can iustlie be charged so much as to fauor much lesse to maintaine those vngodlie assertion And the auctors too who are theie Not nightbirds Not light hedded and fugitiue persons Not our professed and knowen enimies It maie not be denied but some do with-hold their pens from approuing that holie booke in euerie point by subscription yet are there none I trust that proudlie contemne it none that disdainfulie despise it none but in the feare of God and in pub Churches alwaies and onely doe vse it and manie haue set their hands there-unto and al I doubt not but so would were that which is offensiue reformed and that which is crooked made streight and that which is doubtful made euident and plaine Which things also are for number but verie fewe and therefore maie the more easilie be remoued and remaine for the most part in the directions and rubricks and therefore with lesse offence may be taken awaie Neither doth anie minister of the word that I heare denie by subscription to allow the booke concerning the Articles summe of our faith but what lawes do exact or enioine most willinglie haue theie offered to performe And no cause is there whie we should not so doe the auctors of the same do moue the soueraigne authoritie whereby it was established and is vpholden doth moue but the necessarie and al Christian doctrine there-in comprised doth most of al moue vs not onlie in heart to like thereof but with mouth also and euerie waie to praise it and to glorifie the goodnes of God for the same Our fore-fathers manie of them desired to see that though it were but secretlie and to the hazarding of their lands goods and liues which in that booke we openlie and publiquelie to our vnspeakable comfort and profit do see maintained Besides it is the badge of Eng. Christians whereby we are knowen to the vniuersal worlde not onlie to agree with al the godlie that haue bine or do liue at this present in the material points of religion but also to disagree from the Iewes Turks Papists Anabaptists and al other prophane men So that