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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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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
allowe her Maiesties auctoritie in causes Eccles. and ciuil we al of vs either simplie subscribe vnto the forme of pub praier prescribed or humblie which libertie the lawe giueth desire resolution in some fewe things we al of vs iointlie both embrace the Articles of the English Creed and renounce al haeretical opinions contrarie there-unto we al of vs acknowledge the good things that we do enioie and that the Church would florish much better if that good lawes alreadie made were faithfulie put in execution and the true discipline of Christ so greatlie and so long wished were firmelie established who doth not acknowledge A thing euident enough these manie yeeres but neuer so apparent as by this great and late trial of the Ministers So that this is another benefit redounding to vs thereby Another is that whereas the Papists would make their fauourers to beleeue who theie thinke wil credit al things whatsoeuer they do write that the farre greater parte of al degrees in this land are Catholiques and an infinite number of al states neuer consented vnto those things which we do yea and that al the Clergie in a manner be on their sides who is either so blinde that he seeth not or so ignorant that he knoweth not howe a greater vntruth could neuer haue bine published And in this respect we maie tearme it an happie trial that euen al the Papists maie learne how to credite them in things not so apparent when they wil not blush to giue-out which in their conscience they knowe is vntrue For God be thanked not the lesser parte but euen al the Ecclesiastical persons of the Church especialie which haue bine tried are on our side and not on the Papistes or else they dissemble so cursedly as no true Christian would to gaine the whole worlde And as al the realme maie see and must confesse thus much so her Maiestie and the right honorable of her priuie Counsel do best knowe and we may easilie coniecture that the noble and worshipful of this Realme chiefelie the greater and better parte haue deuoutlie sworne and be readie and that by sworde stoutlie to defend not Poperie as some seditious fellowes blowe abroad but the Religion publiquely into this lande by auctoritie receaued and our most noble princesse Queene Elizabeth not that odious and most infamous Pontifex And such as the Pastors are such be the flocks as the Nobles be such are the Commons and as the ruler of the citie is himselfe such are al theie that dwel therein Againe although our common enimie Satan which accuseth vs not onlie before man but also euen before the throne of the Almightie and that daie and night so much as in him was laboured to sowe the poisoned seedes of mortal strife and dissention among vs I trust he shalbe deceiued of his expectation and that which he made an occasion of discorde wilbe turned into a cause of an holie and indissoluble concord For holding her Maiestie immediatly after Christ in her dominions ouer al persons the chiefe gouernour the ordinarie seruice for a religious worship of God the Articles of our religion for the verie groundes of Christianitie where-upon we must build or perish what shal deterre vs from louing one another with a moste firme and Christian loue Shal pettie and trifling thinges of no waight or of smal importance yea or anie thing else that can be conceiued in heart or expressed by mouth or penne God forbid And in this holie vnitie we shal the more firmelie be rooted doe wee turne our eies from beholding one another and consider the vnquenchable malice of our capital enimies against vs and the cause of the same From the abundance of their malice they cal the holie Ministers of Christ raskals Intruders Philistims Wolues Apostataes as before was noted And theis infamous yea blasphemous titles theie attribute not vnto a fewe but vnto al euen from the poorest and moste obscure Curate in the countrie to the highest Praelate in the Palace Nowe if thus they thinke and write of vs in the time of their trial what wil theie not tearme vs if theie shoulde haue their wils And theie which haue so litle respect of persons and of gifts nowe wil haue much lesse then And the cause is neither for the Seruice which we haue in our Temples which diuers Popes haue offered to tollerate euen as it nowe is without alteration theie would neuer so do we must think were it either Schismatical haeretical or abominable as our English of al the vainest Papistes do saie nor for the diuersitie of our ceremonies it is for our Faith which is contrarie to theirs and for their Supremacie which we denie yea theie can beare al themselues do saie and turne all to good so long as the true Faith and substance of Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction be not destroyed but seeing wee haue and do both oppugne the faith and ouerthrowe the gouernement of the Church of Rome therfore the vilest wordes that Satan their spiritual father can put into their hearts be in most poisonful manner vomited forth to hurt vs. This being so howe ought we to loue and make of one another who are thus hated and by reuilings persecuted and that for one and the same cause at this present If that daie which theie so long-for should as either that or some other affliction in this world for our vnthankfulnesse or a more intollerable at the general iudgement which is neere at hand shal come it will not be to our griefe that we haue beleeued preached and professed the trueth which the Church of England at this daie doth hold but that we haue not liued there-after we shal repent and publishing the Gospel of peace haue yet bine contentious we shal repent and being seruants to one and the same Lord and master haue not onlie railed vpon but also beaten and pursued one another we shal repent and being watchmen haue not bine more vigilant and resident in our places we shal repent our negligence our coldnesse we shal repent if we haue either kept-out of the Lord his vine-yard such as both for abilitie could and for their zeale would either implant this faith in the ignorant or confirme it in the learned or to the certaine destruction of themselues and many others depending vpon them either brought or kept in the idle and idol shepherd that shal we repent also and that with teares Theis things that we maie carefulie thinke vpon and performe euerie of vs in our place the God of peace grant vs for his Christ sake to whome together with the holie Ghost be ascribed al honor and praise and glorie for al the good things both praesentlie imparted vpon vs and in the life to come praepared for vs for euermore Amen At London the 6. of Februarie Anno 1585. In Christ yours Tho. Rogers D. August Epist. 9. Incomparabiliter pulchrior est veritas Christianorum quàm Haelina Graecorum 1.