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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

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

ARTICLE Of faith in the holy Trinitie THere is but 1 one liuing and true God euerlasting without bodie partes or passions of infinite power wisedome and goodnes 2 the maker and preseruer of al thinges both visible and inuisible 3 And in vnitie of this God-hed there be three persons of one substance power and aeternitie the Father the Sonne and the holie Ghost The Propositions 1. There is but one God who is liuing true euerlasting 2. God is the maker and praeseruer of al thinges 3. In the vnitie of the God-hed there is à Trinitie of persons 1. That there is but one God who is c. It is à truth which 1. Maie be gathered from the al holie and sacred Scripture which giueth vs to knowe that God is 1. But one Exod. 30. 3. Deut. 6 4. Psal. 18 31. Mal. 2 10. 1. Cor. 8 4 c. 1. Tim. 2 5. 2. The verie God 1. Chro. 15 3 Ier. 10 10. Iohn 17 3. 1. Thes. 1 9. 3. Euerlasting Psal. 102 24 c. Dan. 6 26. 1. Tim. 1 17. 4. Without bodie c. Psal. 104 1 c. Iohn 4 24. 2. Cor. 3 17. 5. Of infinite Power Ezech. 10 5 2. Cor. 6 18. Reuel 11 17. Wisedom Psal. 1. 7 5. Rom. 16 27 1. Tim. 1 17. Goodnes Psal. 106 1. Psal. 107 1. 2. Is agreeable to the publique confessions of the Church of God in Ausburgh art 2. Heluet. 2 art 2. Bohem. cap. 3. France art 1. Fland. art 2. Wittemb cap. 1. Whereby we maie beholde th'impietie Of such as flatlie denie there is à God as did Diagoras Theodorus Of such as be doubtful whether there be anie God As was Protagoras As are the Macchiauils Of such as fained two Gods as did the Valentinians Manechies Of such who saie there be manie Gods as did the Gentils wherof some worshipped for God Beastes as the Aegyptians Th'elements as the Persians Iupiter c. as the Indians Graecians Romans Of such as ascribe the forme and lineaments of man vnto God as did the Anthropomorphites Of such as put anie confidence in Sanctes As the Papistes Man As the Papistes Riches As the Atheistes Horses c. As the Atheistes 2. That by God the world 1. VVas made it agreeth with 1. The Scripture Gen. 1 1 c. Psal. 124 8. Psal. 134 3. Psal. 135 6. Heb. 1 2. Col. 1 16. 2. The Confess of the Church of God in Heluet. 2 cap. 6 7. Basil. art 1. France art 7. Fland. art 12 2. Is preserued it accordeth vnto 1. The word of God Psal. 104 1 c. Matth. 10 29 c. Act. 17 25 c. Heb. 1 3. 2. The confess of the Church of God in Heluet. 2 cap. 7. Basil. 1 2. France art 18. Fland. art 12 13. Herebie are condemned al Heretiques errors which impugne 1 The creation of the worlde by God as did Aristotle that saide the world was aeternal and without beginning The Marcionites who saide God made not the world For it was too base à thing for him to create The Manechies which ascribed the creation of al things vnto two Gods or Beginnings or Natures Th'one Good where-of ca●● good thinges Th'other Euil where-of came euil thinges 2. The prouidence of God as The Stoikes who ascribe al thinges to Fate or Destinie The Epicures which thinke howe God is idle and gouerneth not the world 3. Though there is but one God yet that there be three persons in the God-head it is agreeable 1. To the sacred Scripture Gen. 1 1 c. Psal. 33 6. Matth. 3 16 17. Gal. 4 6. 2. Cor 13 13. 1. Iohn 5 7. 2. To the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. To the confess of the godlie in Heluet. ● art 6. ● cap. 3. Ausburgh art 1. France art 6. Fland. art 8 9. Bohem. cap. 3. Witemb cap 1 Sueuia art 2. Curssed then are al opinions of men contrarie here-vnto which do Saie there is one God and not three persons in the God head as do the Iewes Turkes Saie there be moe God than one and yet not three persons nor of one nature but of contrarie disposition as the Gnostikes Marcionites Valentinians Thinke there be three Gods or spirits not distinguished onlie but diuided also as the Tritheites Holde that not à Trinitie but à Quaternitie is to be worshipped as the Emperour Anastasius commaunded Graunte The name of three sondrie persons and denie their persons as did the These did saie howe the same God was called in the holie Scripture by diuers names And therfore that the Father became flesh and suffered because one the same God is called the Father Sonne and holie Ghost For this cause they were called Patripassians In this number was Seruetus Noëtians Praxeneans Termogenians The names and persons of three and yet doe depriue not onelie the Sonne and holie Ghost of their Diuinitie but the whole Trinitie of their properties For they sayde there be three in heauen the Father the VVorde and the holie Ghost but the Father onelie is verie God the VVorde is the breath of the Father and the holie Ghost is the Spirit created by God of nothing through the VVorde And so they spoile the Sonne and the holie Ghost of their Deitie and the whole Trinitie of their properties These were the Arian and Macedonian heretiques who were called Pneumatomachoie because they warred against the holie Ghost 2. ARTICLE Of the word or sonne of God which was made verie man THe Sonne which is the 1 VVord of the Father begotten from euerlasting of the Father the verie and eternal God of one substance with the Father 2 tooke mans nature in the wombe of the blessed Virgine of her substance so that 3 two whole perfect natures that is to say the Godhead and man-hood were ioyned in one person neuer to be diuided whereof is one Christ verie God and verie man 4 who suffered was crucified dead and buried to reconcile his Father to vs and to be a sacrifice not only for original gilte but also for al actual sinnes of men The Propositions 1. Christ is verie God 2. Christ is verie man 3. Christ is God and man and that in one person 4. Christ is the Sauiour of the world 1 That Christ is verie God with vs also 1. The Scriptures do witnesse As it is apparent that he is The Word Ioh. 1. 1. Begotten of the Father frō euerlasting Psal. 2 7. Act. 13. 33 Heb. 1 5. Heb. 5 5. Very God Ioh. 17. 3. Iohn 8 42. Mat. 1. 23. God eternal Heb. 5 5. Of one substance with the Father Heb. 1 3. 2. The Creede Do testifie Apostolical Nicene Athanasian 3. The confessiōs of the churches in Do acknowledge Helue conf 1. art 11. 2. cap. 11. Bohem. cap. 4. 6. Ausburgh art 6. France art 13. 14. Fland. art 10. Wittemb cap. 2. Sueuia art 2. Miserably therefore haue they erred which deny the diuinitie of our Sauiour Christ. As did Arius Corinthus Ebion Eunomius P. Samosatenus As doe