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A29188 The poor man's help being, I. An abridgement of Bishop Pearson on the Creed; shewing what he is to believe. II. A short exposition of the Lord's Prayer, directing him what to beg of God. III. The Ten Commandments explain'd; teaching him his duty both to God and man. With some additional helps for his private devotion. Bralesford, Humphrey, 1658-1733. 1689 (1689) Wing B4209; ESTC R216294 21,939 63

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that God is but one And that there neither is nor can be any more And thus I believe in God. I believe in God the Father I believe that this one God is the Father of all things of Men and Angels because they are his Off spring by Creation and that he is in a more peculiar manner the Father of all those whom he regenerates by his Spirit whom he adopteth in his Son as Heirs and Co-heirs with him whom he crowneth with the Reward of an eternal Inheritance in the Heavens But far above all this besides his general Off-spring and peculiar People to whom he hath given power to become the Sons of God I believe him in a more eminent manner to be the Father of one singular and proper Son his own his beloved his only begotten Son whom he hath not only begotten of the Blessed Virgin by the coming of the Holy Ghost and the over-shadowing of his Power not only sent with special Authority as the King of Israel not only raised from the Dead and made Heir of all things in his House but before and in order to all this hath begotten him from all eternity in the same Divinity and Majesty with Himself whereby I acknowledge him to be always a Father as much as always a God. And in this Relation I believe That as he is the Original Cause of all things because they were Created by him so he is the Fountain of the Son begotten by him and of the Holy Ghost proceeding from him Almighty I believe that this Father is not subject to the Infirmities of Age and that there is no weakness attending the Ancient of days but on the contrary I believe that Omnipotency is part of the Being of the God-head and that thereby he has not only power to work or do any thing but Authority and an eternal Right both of making what when and how he pleaseth and of possessing whatsoever he makes and of using and disposing all things which he thus possesseth I believe that this power is most absolute because he that has it depends upon none neither is he to give any account for the Use and Exercise of it that it is infinite for largeness as being a power over all things without exception that it is full and perfect as being over every thing without limitation to be Eternal as having neither Beginning nor End. Maker of Heaven and Earth I believe that both Heaven and Earth and all things contained in them have not their Being of themselves but were made in the beginning that there was nothing at first but God who produced most part of this World out of nothing and the rest out of that which was formerly made out of nothing This I believe was done by the most free and voluntary Act of the Will of God of which no Reason or Motive can be given but his Goodness And that this was done by the determination of his Will at what time he pleased probably within an hundred and thirty Generations of Men most certainly within six or seven thousand years I acknowledge this God who is the Creator of the World to be the same God who is the Father of our Lord JESVS CHRIST And thus I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth Article II. And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord. I Believe that there was and is a Man whose Name by the Ministry of an Angel was Called Iesus I believe this Iesus to be the Saviour of the World in that he hath revealed to the Sons of Men the only way for the Salvation of their Souls and has wrought out this Salvation for them by his own Blood obtaining Remission for Sinners making Reconciliation for his Enemies paying the price of Redemption for Captives and that he shall at last actually confer this salvation which he hath revealed and procured upon all those that unfeignedly and stedfastly believe in him I acknowledge that there is no other way to Heaven than this which he hath shewn us that there is no other means that can procure it for us but his blood and that there is no other person that shall confer it on us but himself And in Iesus Christ. I believe that there was a man promised by God foretold of the Prophets to be the Messias the Redeemer of Israel and the expectation of the Nations I believe that this Messias is already come that the Man born in the days of Herod of the Virgin Mary who by an Angel from Heaven was Called Iesus is that true Messias so long and so often promised that as he was the Messias he was also the Christ that is the Anointed of God and that he was anointed to three special Offices belonging to him as the Mediator between God and Man that he was a Prophet revealing to us the whole Will of God for the Salvation of man that he was a Priest and hath given himself a Sacrifice for Sin and so hath made an atonement for us that he is a King set down at the Right hand of God far above all Principalities and Powers whereby when he hath subdued all our Enemies he will confer actual perfect and eternal Happiness upon us I believe that this Unction by which he became the true Messias was not performed by any material Oyle but by the Spirit of God which he received as the Head and conveyeth to his Members His only Son. I believe that Iesus Christ the Saviour and Messias is the true proper and natural Son of God begotten of the substance of the Father which substance cannot be multiplyed or divided and yet it is so totally communicated to the Son that he is of the same Being with the Father God of God Light of Light very God of very God. And as he is the Son of God so he alone was begotten of God by a proper and natural Generation all God's other Sons which are said to be begotten being Sons only by Adoption Our Lord. I believe that Iesus Christ the only begotten Son of God is the true Jehovah whose Being is of it self from all eternity and on whom all other things do depend and therefore he hath an absolute supream and universal Dominion over all things as he is God and is invested with all Power in Heaven and Earth as he is Man. That he hath this Power partly for the compleating our Redemption and the Destruction of our Enemies that this Power is to continue to the end of all things and then to be resigned to the Father That he has this Power also partly because the God-head and Manhood is united or it was due to him for suffering so obediently and therefore this Power must be eternal because it belongs unto that Kingdom which shall have no end And though he is thus Lord of all things by right of the first Creation and constant Preservation of them yet he is more peculiarly the Lord of us who by Faith are