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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

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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
theie or he which shal with-drawe his hand from allowing the same maie vehementlie be suspected to be a contemner of the sacred auctoritie of this noble realme and of the doctrine of Christ a dissenter not onlie from al the godlie in this land and therfore not worthie to liue among vs but also from the true Christians who both haue liued heretofore and remaine in anie reformed Church at this present time and a fauorer either of the Iewish or Turkish or Popish or Anabaptistical or some vngodlie and cursed opinion or other Theis things one of the weakest of my brethren knowne I confesse yet through confidence in our chiefe captaine Iesus Christ whose al power is I haue vndertaken to proue in two books or treatises the former wherof is now before you the other in good time if so it please God shal come abroad In which aduisedlie looke and yee shal perceiue that the Religion established by the auctoritie and professed of al degrees in this land is neither a false religion as the Papists do thinke stil tearming it how like Christians iudge yee vngrateful haeresie barbarous haeresie brutish haeresie cruel haeresie wicked haeresie wild condemned haeresie diuelish doctrine but founded and built vpon the immouable fundations which the true Apostles of Iesus Christ and the Prophets haue laid and therefore cannot deceiue nor a new religion a newe faith a newe and barbarous Gospel a newe haeresie as the Antichristians and priestes of the breaden God woulde perswade and make their credulous companie to beleeue found-out by Zwinglius whom they cal The vnfortunate father of our Eng. faith and not extant in England aboue 5. or 6. yeres before the short reigne of K. Edward the sixt but the most ancient receiued euen from Christ himselfe and his written word nor A wicked religion tending vnto Paganisme Epicurisme but that the man of God maie be absolute being made perfect vnto al good workes nor at this present taught in a corner of the world by vs onlie but with a sweete harmonie and consent of al the Churches protestant in Europe publiquelie embraced Againe besides that al the enimies of name which the truth hath had from time to time euen til this verie houre be here discouered yee shal so cleerlie and plainlie beholde as anie thing yee maie when the Sunne gloriouslie doth show himself that Poperie is not the onlie true worship of God that Poperie is not consonant to God his sacred word and wil but planted by weake wicked men that Poperie is not the old Religion but a new or more trulie a loathsome Chaos of all condemned haeresies and antichristian opinions and that Poperie agreeth not with the church of God in this land or in anie other countrie or citie almost in no one substantial material point of Christianitie and so is not the Catholique or c●●●on Religion as theie commonlie giue out And therefore is to be detested and the teachers ●●ereof whether Seminaries or others to be held accursed and the maintainers of the same as ●●ch to be taken heede of as the Arrian Nestorian Pelagian and such like haeretikes that haue liued heretofore or as the Iewes Turkes Anabaptistes which trouble the world in theis daies And therefore right godly wisedome and Christian magnanimitie hath our soueraigne Queene her noble Counsel declared in suffering the papistes being more dangerous to the Realme and as hurtful to the true and Catholique religion to haue no more fauor either publiquelie in temples or priuatelie in houses to assemble themselues together than the Iewes or Turkes the contrarie wherof as they excedingly do wish so wee trust shal neuer come to passe notwithstanding the maruelous opinion they haue in their Gregorie the 13. that now is Pope who theie hope shal once be the bane of our vngrateful heresie And hauing noted these things iudge in the name of God both what he was that incited the Emp. Charles the 5. to make warre rather against that most puissant and noble King of famous memorie whom the enimies of their countrie saie is Radi●●●eccati Henrie the eight for enclining but in part vnto that truth which wholie is here defended than against the Turke what theie are who cal our countrie The sanctuarie of the worst men our Church The slaughter house of haeresie our Martyrs No martyrs but murtherers of themselues our Ministers Intruders vncircumcised Philistims wolues Apostataes the honorable Counsel A sort of heretiques her roial Maiestie A Schismatique an Haeretique un Ethnique a Publicane and therefore of Bishops to be excommunicate i of the nobles to be resisted and of al the commons to be disobeyed iudge in the feare of God whether Poperie be Christianitie and al other sects as theie saie false religions and whether the professors of this Creede be out of the Church as one naie manie Antichristians would persuade and so can haue neither saluation in the next nor anie true peace and securitie in this world and whether Papists are to be cherished as good catholique Christians and the hot Protestants which most carefulie embrace al theis religious Articles to be punished as the Screecher would insinuate Besides forsomuch as the Papists do not onlie thinke but also giue-out that we are at ferce contention among our selues let them aduisedlie consider either howe al the Protestant Churches in Europe do subscribe vnto our Articles or we vnto their confessions and then tel what our dissension is It maie be they wil saie al reformed Churches subscribe not to euerie of our Articles But manie do and none denie I saie not anie of our Articles but not anie one Thesis or proposition of anie Article common to al Christians I grant some confessions be larger than other some are and conteine more matter of Christianitie than others do yet are theie not contrarie no more than Athanasius Creed is contrarie to the Apostles because it is larger nor the Decaloge is contrarie to the moral Lawe because it is the summe of it nor the Commandements Loue God aboue al and thie neighbor as thie selfe are contrarie to the Decaloge because theie are the Epitome of that also Occasions maie fal out that we maie be briefe vpon occasion we maie vse mo words as errors be suppressed or do spring vp And it is to be wished that as new errors peep out so frō time to time new Articles by auctoritie were published thereby to make it euident vnto the whole world both howe hurtfull theie be to the Church of Christ and how we condemne them Nowe as the Papists cannot in truth saie that we dissent from the godlie Christians liuing in other parts of the world so maie theie not tel vs so odiouslie of diuision among our selues at home For we al of vs