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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

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

2. Book of Chron. The 1. Book of Esdras The 2. Book of Esdras The Book of Hester The Book of Iob. The Psalmes The Proverbs Ecclesiast or Preacher Cantica or songs of Solom 4. Prophets the greater 12. Prophets the lesse And the other Books as Hierome saith the Church doeth read for example of life and instruction of manners but yet doeth it not apply them to establish any doctrine Such are these following The 3. Book of Esdras The 4. Book of Esdras The Book of Tobias The Book of Iudeth The rest of the Book of Hester The Book of Wisdome Iesus the sonne of Sirach Baruch the Prophet The song of the three children The Story of Susanna Of Bell and the Dragon The prayer of Manasses The 1. Book of Maccabees The 2. Book of Maccabees All the Books of the New Testament as they are commonly received we do receive and account hem Canonicall 7. Of the Old Testament THe Old Testament is not contrary to the New for both in the Old and new Testament everlasting life is offered to mankinde by Christ who is the onely Mediator between God and man being both God and man Wherefore they are not to be heard which feigne that the old fathers did look onely for transitory promises Although the Law given from God by Moses as touching Ceremonies and Rites do not binde Christian men nor the civill precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any Common wealth yet notwithstanding no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Morall 8. Of the three Creeds THe three Creeds Nice Creed Athanasius Creed and that which is commonly called the Apostles Creed ought thorowly to be received and beleeved for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture 9. Of originall birth or sinne ORiginall sinne standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pelagians do vainly talk but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man that naturally is ingendred of the off-spring of Adam whereby man is very farre gone from originall righteousnesse and is of his own nature enclined to evill so that the flesh lusteth alwayes contrary to the spirit and therefore in every person born into this world it deserveth Gods wrath and damnation And this infection of nature doth remain yea in them that are regenerated whereby the lust of the flesh called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some do expound the wisdome some sensuality some the affection some the desire of the flesh is not subject to the law of God And although there is no condemnation for them that beleeve and are baptized yet the Apostle doth confesse that concupiscence and lust hath of it self the nature of sinne 10. Of free-will THe condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself by his own naturall strength and good works to faith and calling upon God Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God without the grace of God by Christ preventing us that we may have a good will and working with us when we have that good will 11. Of the Iustification of man WE are accounted righteous before God onely for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ by faith and not for our own works or deservings Wherefore that we are justified by faith onely is a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Iustification 12. ¶ Of good works ALbeit that good works which are the fruits of faith and follow after Iustification cannot put away our sinnes and endure the severity of Gods Iudgement yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith in so much that by them a lively faith may be as evidently knowen as a tree discerned by the fruit 13. ¶ Of works before Iustification WOrks done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasant to God forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Iesu Christ neither do they make men meet to receive grace or as the School-Authors say deserve grace of congruitie yea rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done we doubt not but they have the nature of sinne 14. ¶ Of works of Supererogation VOluntary works besids over and above Gods Commandments which they call works of Supererogation cannot be taught with our arrogancie and impietie For by them men do declare that they do not onely render unto God as much as they are bound to do but that they do more for his sake then of bounden duety is required Whereas Christ saith plainly When ye have done all that are commanded to you say We are unprofitable servants 15. Of Christ alone without sinne CHrist in the truth of our nature was made like unto us in all things sinne onely except from which he was clearly void both in his flesh and in his Spirit He came to be a Lambe without spot who by sacrifice of himself once made should take away the sinnes of the world and sinne as Saint John saith was not in him But all we the rest although baptized and born again in Christ yet offend in many things and if we say we have no sinne we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 16. Of sinne after Baptisme NOt every deadly sinne willingly committed after Baptisme is sinne against the holy Ghost and unpardonable Wherfore the grant of repentance is not to be denyed to such as fall into sinne after Baptisme After we have received the holy Ghost we may depart from grace given and fall into sinne and by the grace of God we may arise again and amend our lives And therfore they are to be condemned which say they can no more sinne as long as they live heer to denie the place of forgivenesse to such as truely repent 17. Of Predestination and Election PRedestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the world were laid he hath constantly decreed by his counsell secret to us to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankinde and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation as vessels made to honour Wherefore they which be indued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to Gods purpose by his Spirit working in due season they through grace obey the calling they be justified freely they be made sonnes of God by adoption they be made like the Image of his onely begotten Sonne Iesus Christ they walk religiously in good works and at length by Gods mercy they attain to everlasting felicitie As the godly consideration of Predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the