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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13256	The confescion of the fayth of the Sweserla[n]des	Schweizerischer Evangerlischer Kirchenbund.; Wishart, George, 1513?-1546.	1548 (1548)	STC 23553; ESTC S107832	7,516	30

¶ The confescion of the fayth of the Sweserlādes ✚ ¶ This confescion was fyrste wrytten and set out by the mini sters of the churche and congregacion of Sweuerland where all godlynes is receyued and the worde hadde in moste reuerence and from thence was sent vnto the Emperours maiestie then holdynge a gryat counsell or parliamēt in the yeare of our lord God M.v. C.xxxvii in the moneth of February Translated out of laten by George Ussher a scotchman who was burned in Scotland the yeare of oure lorde M.v. C. xl.vi ✚ Of the holy scrypture THe canonycall or holy scrypture whiche is the worde of god taught and gyuen by the holy spryte puplyshed vnto the worlde by the prophetes and holy apostles which also is the moost perfyte and auncient science and doctryne of wysoome it alone contayneth consumatly all godlynes and all sorte and maner of facyon of lyfe Of the exposicion of scrypture The interpretacion or exposiciō of this holy wrytte ought and shuld be sought out of it selfe so that it shulde be the owne interpretour the rule of charite and faythe hauynge gouernaunce ¶ Of mannes tradicions As to other thynges of tradicions of men howe bewtifull how moch receyued soeuer they be what so euer tradicions withdraweth vs stoppeth vs fro the scripture of such do we answere the sayenges of the lord as of thynges hurt full and vnprofytable they worshyppe me in vayne teachyng the doctrynes of man Mathi. xv ¶ Of the holy fathers For the whiche sorte of interpretacyon so farre as the holy fathers hathe not gone fro it not onely do we receyue them as interpretours of the scripture but also we honour and worshyp them as chosen and beloued instrumentes of God ¶ The ende entent of the scrypture The pryncypal entent of al the scripture canonicall is to declare that God is beniuolent and frendly mynded to mankynde and that he hathe declared that kyndnes in and throughe Iesu Chryste his onely sone the which kynd nes is receyuyd by fayth but this fayth is effectuous through charitie and expressed in an innocent lyfe ¶ Of God Of God we byleue in this sorte that he is almyghtie beynge one in substāce and thre in persones whiche euen as he hathe created by his worde that is his sone all thynges of nothynge so by his spirite and prouydence gouerns he preserue norysheth he most truly ryghtously and wysely all thynges ¶ Of man Man whiche is the perfectest image of God in earthe and also is the chefe dignite and honoure amonge all creatures visible beynge made of soule and body of the whiche twayne the body is mortall the soule immortall whan he was creat of god holy by fallynge in vyce and synne throughe his owne fal drew with hym in that same ruen fal so subiected all mākynde to the same calamitie wretchydnes that he fell in ¶ Of originall synne And so this pestiferous infection whiche men calleth originall hathe infecte and ouerspred the whole kynde of man so far that by no helpe he beynge the sone of wrathe and vengaunge and enemye of god coulde be healed by any meanes but by the helpe of god onely for yf there be any good that remayneth in man after the fall that same beynge ioyntelie made weaker and weaker by our vyce tournes to the worse because the strengthe and power of euyll ouercometh it and nother suffereth it vs to folowe reason nor yet to exersyse y e godlynes of our mynde ¶ Of frewyll Wherfore we attribute so free wyll to man as we whiche wyttynge wyllynge to do good fele experiēce of euyll Also euyll trewly we maye do of oure owne wyll but to enbrace and folowe good except we be elluminat styred vp and mounted by the grace of Chryst we maye not for god is he whiche worketh in vs bothe to wyll to performe and to accomplyshe for his owne good wyll sake and of god cōmeth our helth and saluacion but of our selfe commeth perdicion ¶ Of the eternall mynde of God to restore man And howbeit that through his fault man was subiecte vnto dampnacion and also was runne vnder the iuste indingnacion of God to take vengaunce of hym yet god the father neuer seaced to take a mercyfull cure ouer hym the whiche thynge is manifest not onely of the fyrste prynces and the whole lawe whiche as it is holy and good teaching vs the wyll of god ryghtuousnes and truthe so worketh it wrath and storeth vp synne within vs and slacketh it not and that not through any faulte of it selfe but through oure vyce but also clerely appereth it through Christ whiche was ordayned and geuen for that purpose ¶ Of Iesus Christ and that is done by hym This Christ the very sone of God very God and very man also was made our brother at the tyme appoynted he toke vpon hi whole man made of soule and body hauynge two natures vnpermyxte and one deuyne parsone to the intent that he shulde restore vnto lyfe vs that were deed and make vs aryse of God annexte with hym selfe he also after that he had taken vpon him of the immaculate virgin by operacion of the holy goost fleshe whiche was holy bycause of the vnion of the godhed which is and also was lyke to our fleshe in all thynges excepte in synfulnes and that bycause it behoued y e sacrefice for synne to be cleane and inmaculate gaue that same fleshe to death for to expell all our synne by that meanes and he also to the entent that we shuld haue one full and perfecte hope and trust of our inmortalitie hathe raysed vp agayne fro death to lyfe his owne fleshe and hathe set it and placed it in heauen at the ryghte hande of his almyghty father And there he sytteth our victorious champiō our gyder our capitayne and heed also our hyghest bysshop in dede synne death and hell beynge victoriously ouercome by hym and defendeth oure cause and pleateth it perpetually vntyll he shall reforme and fascion vs to that lykenes to whiche we were create and brynge vs to be partakers of eternall lyfe and we loke for hym and beleueth that he shall come at the ende of all ages to be our trewe ryghtuous iust Iudge and shall pronofice sentence agaynst all fleshe whiche shalbe raysed vp before to that Iudgement and that he shall exalte the godly a boue the heauens but the vngodly shall he cōdēpne bothe body soule to eternal distructiō And as he onely is oure mediatour and entercessour hoste and sacrifice bysshop lorde and our kynge Also do we acknowlage and confesse hym onely to be our attonement and raunsome satisfaction expiacion or wysdome our defence and our onely deliuerer refusyng vtterly all other meane of lyfe and saluacion excepte thus by Chryst onely ¶ The ende of the preachynge of the Gospell And therfore in the whole doctryne of the euangelystes anūnciat and shew to be the fyrste and chefely to be inculcated