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A08068	The confession of faith of certayn English people living in exile, in the Low countreyes. Together with a brief note of the speciall heads of those things wherin we differ fro[m] the Church of Engla[n]d.; True confession of the faith, which wee falsely called Brownists, doo hould	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?; Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618.	1607 (1607)	STC 18435; ESTC S119852	30,939	73

the Law now in the tyme of the Gospel 4. That discreet faithfull able men though not yet in office of Ministerie may preach the Gospell and whole truth of God that men being first brought to knowledg converted to the Lord may then be ioyned together in holy comunion with Christ our head and one with another 5. That being thus ioyned every Church hath power in Christ to chuse and take vnto themselves meet and sufficient persons into the Offices and functions of Pastors Teachers Elders Deacons and Helpers as those which Christ hath appointed in his Testament for the feeding governing serving building vp of his Church And that no Antichristian Hierarchie or ministerie of Popes Arch-bishops Lord bishops Suffraganes Deanes Arch-deacons Chauncellors Parsons Vicars Priests Dumb-ministers or any such like may be set over the Spouse Church of Christ nor reteined therein 6. That the Ministers aforesaid being lawfully called by the Church where they are to administer ought to continew in their functions according to Gods ordinance and carefully to f●ed the flock of Christ cōmitted vnto them being not inioyned or suffred to beare Civil offices withall neither burthened with the execution of Civil affaires as the celebration of mariage bu●ying the dead c. which things belong aswel to those without as within the Church 7. That the due maintenance of the Officers aforesayd should be of the free and voluntarie contribution of the Church that according to Christs ordinance they which preach the Gospel may live of the Gospel and not by Popish Lordships and livings or Iewish Tithes Offerings And that therefore the Lands other like revenewes of the Prelats Clergie yet remayning being still also baits to allure the Iesuites Seminaries into the Land incitements vnto them to plot prosecute their woonted evil courses in hope to enioy them in tyme to come may and ought to be taken away converted to better vse as those of the Abbeyes Nunneries have been heretofore by the Princes power and authority to the honor of God great good of the Reālme 8. That al particular Churches ought to be so constituted as having their own peculiar Officers the whole body of every Church may meet together in one place ioyntly perform their duties to God one towards another And that the censures of admonition and excommunicatiō should in due maner be executed for sinne convicted obstinatly stood in This power also to be in the body of the Church whereof the parties so offending persisting are members 9. That the Church is not to be governed by Popish Canons Courts Classes Customes or any humane inventions but by the Lawes rules which Christ hath appointed in his Testament That no Apocrypha writings but only the Ca●nical scriptures are to be vsed in the Church And that the Lord is to be worshipped and called vpon in spirit truth according to that forme of praier given by the Lord Iesus Mat. 6. after the Leitourgie of his own Testament not by any other framed or imposed by men much lesse by one translated from the Popish 〈◊〉 as the Book of common praier c. 10. That the Sacraments being seales of Gods covenant ought to be administred onely to the faithful Baptisme to their seed or those vnder their government And that according to the simplicitie of the Gospel without any Popish or other abuses in either Sacrament 11. That the Church is not to be vrged to the observation of dayes tymes Iewish or Popish save only to sanctify the Lords day Neyther to be laden in thinges indifferent with rites ceremonies Whatsoever invented by men but that christian libertie may be rete●ned And what God hath left f●ee none to make bound 12. That al monuments of Idolatry in garments or any other things al Temples Altars Chappels other places dedicated heertofore by the Heathèns or Antichristians to their fa 〈…〉 worship ought by aucthoritie to be rased bolished not suffered to remayne for nourishing superstition much lesse imploied to the tr 〈…〉 worship of God 13. That Popish degrees in Theologie i 〈…〉 forcement to single life in Colledges abuse the study of prophane heathen Writers w 〈…〉 other like corruptions in Schooles Academi 〈…〉 should be removed redressed that so th 〈…〉 may be the welsprings 〈◊〉 series of true lea●ning godlines 14. Finally that all Churches peop●● without exception are bound in Religion on 〈…〉 ly to receive submit vnto that constitution Ministerie Worship order which Christ Lord King hath appovnted vnto his Churc● not to any other devised by Man whatsoeve●● Let him that readeth consider Act. 28 2 Rev 〈…〉 ●al 105. ● 14. Pet. 2 9. Psal. 46 1 Rev. 2. 5. * 2 Cor. 6. 1. ● 15. c Psa. 94. 20. 2 Thes. 2. 3. | Ps. 37. 2● Ier. 51. 6. Rev. 18. 4. 14. 1. Neh. 6. 6. 7. ● Harmon of Confes. ‡ 1 Pet. 2. 5. Ier. 51. 26. * Act. 2. 38. 40. 41. and 8. 36. 37. 15 9. Ioh 10. 3. 4 5. Esa. 35. 8. 9. | Ioh. 15. 2. 5. Mat. 18. 15. 17 Lev. 13. 46. Num. 4. 13. † Iohn 15. 19. 17. 14. 16 Mat. 3. 12. Lev. 20. 24. ●6 1 Iohn 4. 5. 6. About forty ecclesiasticall popish offices are at this day in the Church of England never a one appointed by Christ in his Testament With what words and rites in what habit and gesture these things are to be done they are taught in their Rubrik Some of them in certaine English books set forth have reckned above 100. popish corruptiōs yet reteyned in this Church * Rom. 12. 1. Cor. 12. Eph. 4. 11. 12 13. ‡ Ioh. 4. 24. Mat. 15. 9. † Deut. 6. 4. 5 Mat. 16. 6. ● Cor. 6. 14. 15. Psal. 106. 34. 35. 36. | Iudo vers 3. ‡ 2 Cor. 6. 17. Eph. 5. 11. * Rev. 18. 4. 14. 10 11. Mat. 6. 24. 2 Kin. 16. 10 11 12. Rev●l 13. 12. 14. 15. 〈◊〉 51. 6. Mi● 2. 10. Rev. 18. 4. 2 Cor. 6. 17. 〈…〉 40. Psal. 9. 12. Heb. 13. 3. Gal. 4. 4. 5. 6. 5. 1. 2. Heb. 8. 9. 10. chap. 2. Cor. 4. ● Iam. 2. ● † Deut 6. 4. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Eph. 4. 4. 5. 6. 1 Cor. ● 6. 12. 4. 5. 6. 13. Ier. 6. 16. Ioh. 14. 6. | 1 Tim. 6. 3. 13. 14. Mat. 15. 9. 28. 20. Deut. 4. 2. 6. 12. 32 1 Cor 4. 17. 14. 33. 2 Tim. ● 15. 16. 17. Gal 8. 9. Revel 2● 18 19. * Ioh. 4. 24. ‡ Exod. 3. 14. Rom. 11. 36. Act 17. 28. † 1 Tim. 1. 17. Esa. 6. 3. 66 1. 2. | 1 Iohn 5 7. Mat. 28. 19. Pro. 8. 22. Heb. 1. 3. 9. 14. Phil. 2. 6. 1 Cor. 8. 6. Micah 5. 2 Psal. 2. 7. Gal. 4. 6. Iohn 1. 1. 2. 18. 10. 30. 38. 15. 26. * Esa. 46. 10.

or never get out except with shipwrack of conscience vntil they be caryed forth vpon the Bere Neyther is there any care taken for their relief in this case but being cast into pryson there they are deteyned without any alloweance of meat or money for their mayntenance be their want and poverty never so great If they have any thing of their own there they are driven to spend it vp if they have nothing there they are left by the Prelates to feed on the ayre And that they may more readily be sterved or weakened in the truth they are cōmonly shut vp in close pryson their frends acquayntance being not suffred to come at them Nay even their wives children being kept and debarred from them by the tyranny of these bloody Prelats and their Instruments whose hard harts and vnnaturall cruelty if thou diddest vnderstand gentle Reader as many of vs haue felt and to this day yet feel it would make thy hart to bleed considering their vnmercyfull and barbarous dealing And how many soules haue perished in their prisons through miserable vsage how many have ben put to death and how many banished though we could to their eternall infamy relate to all the world yet wil we not blaze abroad their acts for we take no delight in laying opē their shame but mourne for them in secret cōmitting our cause to God that judgeth justly knowing that he that maketh inquisition for blood remembreth it and will not forget the complaint of the poore And thou Christian Reader vouch safe to remember vnto God in thy prayers such as yet remayne in bandes and pryson amongest them for the testimony of Iesus enduring a hard sight of afflictions and having the sentence of death in them selves are like if the Lord send not vnexspected deliverance there to end their dayes Concerning our selves who through the mercy of God have found a place of rest in this land for which benefyt we are alwayes and every where humbly thankfull we desyre Christian Reader thy charitable and Christian opinion of and holy prayers vnto God for vs whose kingdome we seek whose ordinances we desire to establish and obey protesting with good consciences that it is the truth of his Gospel only for which we strive against those cursed reliques of Antichristian apostasie vnto which we dare in no wise submit our selves no not for a moment For if it be not lawfull for Christians at this day to reteyn the ceremonyes of Moses Law together with the Gospel as the Passeover Circumcision the Priesthood Sacrifices c. which yet were once cōmanded by God himself how can we think it tollerable to observe the odious ceremonies of Antichrist or submit our selves to his lawes Priesthood Hierarchie traditions which the Lord never allowed which never entred into his heart yea which he hath so severely forbidden with fearfull judgments threatned vnto all that shal so do But because we have ben very grievously slaundred in our owne nation and the bruit thereoff hath followed vs vnto this land whereby we have ben hardly deemed of by many without cause we have ben forced at length to publysh this brief but true Confession of our fayth for the clearing of our selves from sclaunder and satisfying of many who desired to knowe the thinges we hold Wherein if in any thing we erre as who is so perfit that he erreth not we crave good Reader thy Christian brotherly censure and information promising alwayes through the grace of God to yeild vnto the truth when it shall be further shewed vs and leave our errors when by the light of his word they shal be reproved In lyke manner it shall be thy par● and duty to acknowledge and submytt vnto the truth by whomsoever it is professed looking alwayes rather to the preciousnes of the treasure it self then to the basenes of the vessels which conteyne it or the infirmities of those that witnes the same in whose mortall bodyes thow shalt see nothing but the markes and dying of our Lord Iesus Christ. But hold not thy fayth in respect of mens persons neyther be thow moved at the evyl reports which have ben raised of vs. Here hast thow the trew summe of our Christian saith try al thinges by the true light of Gods word and if thou shalt reap any profit by these our labours give God the glory and remember vs vnto him in thy prayers Farewell in Christ Iesus 1596. THE CONFESSION of Fayth of certaine English people living in the Low countreyes exiled VVE beleeve with the heart confesse with the mouth I. THat there is but one God one Christ one Spirit one Church on● truth one Faith one true Religion on● rule of godlines obedience for al Chri●●tians in all places at all tymes to be observed II. God is a spirit whose being is 〈◊〉 himself and giveth beeing moving preservation to al other things being himself eternal most holy every way infinite in greatnes wisdome power goodnes justice truth c. In this Godhead there be three distinct persons coeternal coequal and coessential being every one of them one and the same God therfore not divided but distinguished one from another by their several and peculiar propertie The Father of whom are the other persons but he of none the Sonne begotten of the Father from everlasting the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne before all beginnings III. God hath decreed in himself from everlasting touching al things and the very least circumstances of every thing effectually to work and dispose them according to the counsel of his own will to the glory of his name And touching his chiefest creatures GOD hath in Christ before the foundation of the world according to the good pleasure of his will foreordeyned some men and Angels to eternall lyfe to be accomplished through Iesus Christ to the prayse of the glorie of his grace And hath also of old according to his just purpose foreappointed other both Angels and men to eternall condēnation to be accōplished through their own corruption and desert to the prayse of his justice IIII. In the beginning God made al things of nothing very good and created man after his own image and likenes in righteousnes and holynes of truth But streightwayes after by the subtilty of the serpent which Satan vsed as his instrument himself with his Angels having sinned before not kept their first estate but left their owne habitation first Eva then Adam being seduced did wittingly and willingly fall into disobedience and transgression of the cōmaundement of God For the which death came vpon all and reigneth over al yea even over infants also which have not synned after the like manner of the transgression of Adam that is actually Hence also it is that all since the fall of Adam are begotten in his own likenes after his image