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A04118	Articles of religion agreed vpon by the archbishops, and bishops, and the rest of the clergie of Ireland, in the conuocation holden at Dublin in the yeare of our Lord God 1615. for the auoyding of diuersities of opinions: and the establishing of concent touching true religion.; Articles. 1615	Church of Ireland.	1628 (1628)	STC 14261; ESTC S107433	14,133	38

in deliuering vs from our former captiuity without requiring of any ransome to be paid or amends to be made on our parts which thing by vs had beene vnpossible to be done And wheras all the world was not able of themselues to pay any part towards their ransome it pleased our heauenly Father of his infinite mercy without any desert of ours to prouide for vs the most precious merits of his own Sonne whereby our ransome might be fully paid the Law fulfilled his iustice fully satisfied So that Christ is now the righteousnesse of all them that truly beleeue in him He for them paid their ransome by his death He for them fulfilled the Law in his life That now in him and by him euery true Christian man may be called a fulfiller of the Law for as much as that which our infirmity was not able to effect Christs iustice hath performed And thus the iustice mercy of God doe embrace each other the grace of God not shutting out the iustice of God in the matter of our iustification but only shutting out the iustice of man that is to say the iustice of our own works from being any cause of deseruing our iustification article 36 When we say that we are iustified by Faith only we doe not meane that the said iustifying Faith is alone in man without true Repentance Hope Charity and the Feare of God for such a faith is dead and cannot iustifie neither do we meane that this our act to beleeue in Christ or this our faith in Christ which is within vs doth of it selfe iustifie vs or deserue our iustification vnto vs for that were to account our selues to bee iustified by the vertue or dignity of some thing that is within our selues but the true vnderstanding and meaning thereof is that although we heare Gods Word and beleeue it although we haue Faith Hope Charity Repentance and the Feare of God within vs and adde neuer so many good workes thereunto yet we must renounce the merit of all our said vertues of Faith Hope Charity and all our other vertues and good deedes which wee either haue done shall do or can do as things that be far too weake and vnperfect and vnsufficient to deserue remission of our sins and our iustification and therefore we must trust only in Gods mercy the merits of his most dearly beloued Sonne our only Redeemer Sauiour and Iustifier Iesus Christ Neuerthelesse because faith doth directly send vs to Christ for our iustification that by faith giuen vs of God we embrace the promise of Gods mercy and the remission of our sins which thing none other of our vertues or workes properly doth therefore the Scripture vseth to say that Faith without workes and the ancient Fathers of the Church to the same purpose that onely Faith doth iustifie vs. article 37 By iustifying Faith wee vnderstand not onely the common beliefe of the Articles of Christian Religion and a perswasion of the truth of Gods Word in generall but also a particular application of the gracious promises of the Gospell to the comfort of our owne soules whereby we lay hold on Christ with all his benefits hauing an earnest trust and confidence in God that he will be mercifull vnto vs for his onely Sonnes sake So that a true beleeuer may be certaine by the assurance of faith of the forgiuenesse of his sinnes and of his euerlasting saluation by Christ article 38 A true liuely iustifying Faith and the sanctifying Spirit of God is not extinguished nor vanisheth away in the regenerate either finally or totally Of sanctification and good workes article 39 ALl that are iustified are likewise sanctified their faith being alwaies accompanied with true Repentance and good Workes article 40 Repentance is a gift of God whereby a godly sorrow is wrought in the heart of the faithfull for offending God their mercifull Father by their former transgressions together with a constant resolution for the time to come to cleaue vnto God and to leade a new life article 41 Albeit that good workes which are the fruits of faith and follow after iustification cannot make satisfaction for our sinnes and endure the seuerity of Gods iudgement yet are they pleasing to God and accepted of him in Christ and doe spring from a true and liuely Faith which by them is to be discerned as a tree by the fruit article 42 The workes which God would haue his people to walke in are such as he hath commanded in his holy Scripture and not such works as men haue deuised out of their own braine of a blind zeale and deuotion without the warrant of the Word of God article 43 The regenerate cannot fulfill the Law of God perfectly in this life For in many things we offend all and if we say we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues and the truth is not in vs. article 44 Not euery heynous sinne willingly committed after Baptisme is sin against the holy Ghost and vnpardonable And therefore to such as fall into sin after Baptisme place for repentance is not to be denied article 45 Voluntary workes besides ouer and aboue Gods commandements which they call works of Supererogation cannot be taught without arrogancy impiety For by them men doe declare that they doe not onely render vnto God as much as they are bound to doe but that they doe more for his sake man of bounden duety is required Of the seruice of God article 46 OVr duety towards God is to beleeue in him to feare him and to loue him with all our heart with all our minde and with all our soule and with all our strength to worship him and to giue him thankes to put our whole trust in him to call vpon him to honour his holy Name and his Word and to serue him truly the daies of our life article 47 In all our necessities we ought to haue recourse vnto God by prayer assuring our selues that whatsoeuer we aske of the Father in the name of his Sonne our onely mediator and intercessor Christ Iesus and according to his will he will vndoubtedly grant it article 48 We ought to prepare our hearts before we pray and vnderstand the things that we aske when we pray that both our hearts and voices may together sound in the eares of Gods Maiestie article 49 When Almighty God smiteth vs with affliction or some great calamity hangeth ouer vs or anie other waightie cause so requireth it is our dutie to humble our selues in fasting to bewaile our sinnes with a sorrowfull heart and to addict our selues to earnest prayer that it might please God to turne his wrath from vs or supply vs with such graces as we greatly stand in need of article 50 Fasting is a withholding of meat drinke and all naturall food with other outward delights from the body for the determined time of fasting As for those abstinences which are appointed by publike order of our State for eating of fish and forbearing

faith of eternall saluation to bee enioyed through Christ as because it doth feruently kindle their loue towards God and on the contrary side for curious and carnall persons lacking the spirit of Christ to haue continually before their eies the sentence of Gods predestination is very dangerous article 17 We must receiue Gods promises in such wise as they be generally set forth vnto vs in holy Scripture and in our doings that will of God is to be followed which wee haue expresly declared vnto vs in the Word of God Of the creation and gouernment of all things article 18 IN the beginning of time when no creature had any being God by his word alone in the space of sixe dayes created all things and afterwards by his prouidence doth continue propagate and order them according to his owne will article 19 The principall creatures are Angels Men. article 20 Of Angels some continued in that holy state wherein they were created and are by Gods grace for euer established therein others fell from the same and are reserued in chaines of darknesse vnto the iudgement of the great day article 21 Man being at the beginning created according to the Image of God which consisted especially in the Wisedome of his minde and the true Holinesse of his free-will had the couenant of the Law ingrafted in his heart whereby God did promise vnto him euerlasting life vpon condition that he performed entire and perfect obedience vnto his Commandements according to that measure of strength wherewith he was endued in his creation and threatned death vnto him if he did not performe the same Of the fall of man originall sinne and the state of man before iustification article 22 BY one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and so death went ouer all men for as much as all haue sinned article 23 Originall sinne standeth not in the imitation of Adam as the Pelagians dreame but is the fault and corruption of the nature of euery person that naturally is ingendred and propagated from Adam whereby it commeth to passe that man is depriued of originall righteousnesse and by nature is bent vnto sinne And therefore in euery person borne into the world it deserueth Gods wrath and damnation article 24 This corruption of nature doth remaine euen in those that are regenerated whereby the flesh alwayes lusteth against the spirit and cannot bee made subiect to the Law of God And how soeuer for Christs sake there bee no condemnation to such as are regenerate and doe beleeue yet doth the Apostle acknowledge that in it selfe this concupiscence hath the nature of sinne article 25 The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turne and prepare himselfe by his owne naturall strength and good workes to Faith and calling vpon God Wherefore wee haue no power to doe good works pleasing acceptable vnto God without the grace of God preuenting vs that we may haue a good will and working with vs when we haue that good will article 26 Workes done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his spirit are not pleasing vnto God for as much as they spring not of faith in Iesus Christ neither do they make men meet to receiue grace or as the Schoole-Authors say deserue grace of congruity yea rather for that they are not done in such sort as God hath willed and commanded them to be done we doubt not but they are sinfull article 27 All sinnes are not equall but some far more heynous than others yet the very least is of its owne nature mortall and without Gods mercie maketh the offendor lyable vnto euerlasting damnation article 28 God is not the Author of sinne howbeit he doth not onely permit but also by his prouidence gouerne order the same guiding it in such sort by his infinite wisedome as it turneth to the manifestation of his owne glory and to the good of his Elect. Of Christ the mediator of the second Couenant article 29 THe Son which is the Word of the Father begotten from euerlasting of the Father the true and eternall God of one substance with the Father tooke mans nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin of her substance so that two whole and perfect natures that is to say the Godhead and Manhood were inseparably ioyned in one person making one Christ very God and very man article 30 Christ in the truth of our nature was made like vnto vs in all things sinne only excepted from which he was clearly voide both in his life in his nature He came as a Lambe without spot to take away the sins of the world by the sacrifice of himselfe once made and sin as S. Iohn saith was not in him He fulfilled the Law for vs perfectly For our sakes he endured most grieuous torments immediatly in his soule and most painfull sufferings in his body He was crucified and died to reconcile his Father vnto vs and to be a sacrifice not only for originall guilt but also for all our actuall transgressions He was buried and descended into hell and the third day rose from the dead and tooke againe his body with flesh bones and all things appertaining to the perfection of mans nature wherewith he ascended into Heauen and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father vntill he returne to iudge all men at the last day Of the communicating of the grace of Christ article 31 THey are to be condemned that presume to say that euery man shall bee saued by the law or sect which he professeth so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature For holy Scripture doth set out vnto vs onely the name of Iesus Christ whereby men must be saued article 32 None can come vnto Christ vnlesse it bee giuen vnto him and vnlesse the Father draw him And all men are not so drawne by the Father that they may come vnto the Sonne Neither is there such a sufficient measure of grace vouchsafed vnto euery man whereby hee is enabled to come vnto euerlasting life article 33 All Gods elect are in their time inseparably vnited vnto Christ by the effectuall and vitall influence of the holy Ghost deriued from him as from the head vnto euery true member of his mysticall body And being thus made one with Christ they are truely regenerated and made partakers of him and all his benefits Of Iustification and Faith article 34 WE are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ applyed by faith and not for our owne workes or merits And this righteousnesse which we so receiue of Gods mercy and Christs merits imbraced by faith is taken accepted and allowed of God for our perfect and full iustification article 35 Although this iustification be free vnto vs yet it commeth not so freely vnto vs that there is no ransome paid therfore at all God shewed his great mercy