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Articles of religion, agreed upon by both Houses and the principall divines thorough [sic] all England and Wales for the avoiding of diversities of opinions whereunto is added His Majesties declaration in confirming the same.; Thirty-nine Articles
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Church of England.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
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of eternall salvation to be enjoyed through Christ an because it doth fervently kindle their love towards God So for curious and carnall persons lacking the Spirit of Christ to have continually before their eyes the sentence of Gods predestination is a most dangerous downfall whereby the devil doth thrust them either into desperation or into wretchlesnesse of most unclean living no lesse perillous then desperation Furthermore we must receive Gods promises in such wise as they be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture and in our doings that will of God is to be followed which we have expresly declared unto us in the Word of God 18. Of obtaining eternall salvation onely by the Name of Christ They also are to be had accursed that presume to say that every man shall be saved 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 unto us only the name of Iesus Christ whereby men must be saved 19. Of the Church The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithfull men in the which the pure Word of God is preached and the Sacraments be duly ministred according to Christs ordinance in all those things that of necesity are requisitie to the same As the Church of Ierusalem Alexandria and Antioch have erred So also the Church of Rome hath erred not onely in their living and manner of ceremonies but also in matters of faith 20. Of the authority of the Church The Church hath power to decree Rights or Ceremonies and authority in controversies of faith And yet it is not lawfull for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to Gods word written neither may it so expound one place of scripture that it be repugnant to another Wherfore although the church be a witnesse and a keeper of holy Writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be beleeved for necessity of salvation 21. Of the authority of generall Councels Generall Councels may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of princes And when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an assembly of men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God they may erre and sometime have erred even in things pertaining unto God Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority unlesse it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture 22. Of Purgatorie The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory Pardons worshipping and adoration aswell of Images as of Reliques and also invocation of Saints is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to the Word of God 23. Of ministring in the congregation It is not lawfull for any man to take upon him the office of publike preaching or ministring the Sacraments in the Congregation before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent which be chosen and called to this work by men who have publike authority given unto them in the Congregation to call and send Ministers into the Lords vineyard 24. Of speaking in the Congregation in a knowne tongue It is a thing plainly repugnant to the word of God the custom of the Primitive Church to have publike praier in the Church or to minister the Sacraments in a tongue not understood of the people 25 Of the Sacraments Sacraments ordained of Christ be not onely badges or tokens of Christian mens profession but rather they be certain sure witnesses and effectuall signes of grace and Gods good will towards us by the which he doth work invisible in us and doth not onely quicken but also strengthen and confirm our faith in him There are Two Sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel that is to say Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. Those five commonly called Sacraments that is to say Confirmation Penance Orders Matrimony and extream Vnction are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel being such as have grown partly of the cortupt following of the Apostles partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptisme and the Lords Supper for that they have not any visible signe or ceremony ordained of God The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon or to be carried about but that we should duely use them And in such onely as worthily receive the same they have a wholsome effect or operation but they that receive them unworthily purchase to themselves damnation as S. Paul saith 26. Of the unworthinesse of the Ministers which hinder not the effect of the Sacraments Although in the visible church the evil mingled with the good and sometime the evil have chief authority in the ministration of the Word and Sacrament yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name but in Christs and do minister by his commission authority we may use their ministery both in hearing the word of God and in the receiving of the Sacraments Neither is the effect of Christs ordinance taken away by their wickednesse nor the grace of Gods gifts diminished from such as by faith and rightly do receive the Sacraments ministred unto them which be effectuall because of Christs institution and promise though they be ministred by evil men Neverthelesse it appertaineth to the discipline of the Church that enquiry be made of evil Ministers and that they be accused by those that have knowledge of their offences and finally being found guilty by just judgement be deposed 27. Of Baptisme Baptisme is not onely a signe of profession and mark of difference whereby Christian men are diserned from others that be not Christened but it is also a signe of Regeneration or new birth whereby as by an instrument they that receive Baptisme rightly are grafted into the Church the promises of the forgivenesse of sin and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the holy Ghost and visibly signed and sealed faith is confirmed and grace increased by vertue of prayer unto God The Baptisme of young children is in any wise to be reteined in the Church as most agreeable with the institution of Christ 28. Of the Lords Supper The Supper of the Lord is not onely a signe of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another but rather it is a Sacrament of our redemption by Christs death Insomuch that to such as rightly worthily and with faith receive the same the bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ and likewise the Cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ Transubstantiation or the change of the substance of Bread and wine in the Supper of the Lord cannot be proved by
holy Writ but it is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament and hath given occasion to many superstitions The body of Christ is given taken and eaten in the supper onely after an heavenly and spirituall manner And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith The Sacrament of the Lords Supper was not by Christs ordinance reserved carried about lifted up or worshipped 29. Of the wicked which eat not the body of Christ in the use of the Lords Supper The wicked and such as be void of lively faith although they doe carnally and visibly presse with their teeth as S. Augustine saith the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ but rather to their condemnation do eat and drink the signe or Sacrament of so great a thing 30. Of both kindes The Cup of the Lord is not to bee denied to the Lay-people For both the parts of the Lord Sacrament by Christs ordinance and commandment ought to be ministred to all Christian men a like 31. Of Christs one Oblation The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption propitiation and sarisfaction for all the sins of the whole world both originall and actuall and there is none other satisfaction for sin but that alone Wherfore the sacrifices of Masses in the which it was commonly said that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick the dead to have remission of pain or guilt were blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits 32. Of the Traditions of the Church Bishops Priests and Deacons are not commanded by God law either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage therefore it is lawfull also for them as for all other Christian men to marry at their own discretion as they shall judge the same to serve better to godlinesse 33 Of excommunicate persons and how they are to be avoided That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church and excommunicated ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithfull as an Heathen and Publican untill he be openly reconciled by Penance and received into the Church by a Iudge that hath authoritie thereto 34. Of Traditions of the Church It is not necessarie that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one or utterly like for at all times they have been divers and may be changed according so the diversity of countreys times and mens manners so that nothing be ordained against Gods Word Whosoever through his private judgement willingly and purposely doth openly break the Traditions and Ceremonies of the Church which be not repugnant to the Word of God and be ordained and approved by common authoritie ought to be rebuked openly that other may fear to do the like as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church and burteth the authority of the Magistrate and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren Every particular or nationall Church hath authority to ordain change and abolish Ceremonies or Rites of the Church ordained only by mans authority so that all things be done to edifying 35. Of Homilies The second Book of Homilies doth contain a godly and wholsome doctrine and necessarie for these times as doth the former Book of Homilies which were set forth by the time of Edward the sixth and therefore we judge them to be read in Churches ni â—he Ministers diligently and distinctly that they may be understanded of the people Of the names of the Homilies â— Of the right use of the Church â— Against perill of Idolatry â— Of the repairing and keeping cleane of Churches 4 Of good works first of fasting 5 Against gluttony and drunkennesse 6 Against excesse of apparell 7 Of praier 8 Of the place and time of Praier 9 That common Praiers Sacraments ought to bee ministred in a known tongue â—0 Of the reverent estimation of Gods Word 11 Of almes-doing 12 Of the Nativity of Christ 13 Of the Passion of Christ 14 Of the Resurrection of Christ 15 Of the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ 16 Of the gifts of the Holy Ghost 17 For the Rogation daies 18 Of the state of Matrimonie 19 Of Repentance 20 Against Idlenesse 21 Against Rebellion 36. Of Consecration of Ministers The book of Consecrations of Archbishops and Bishops and ordering of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of Edward the sixth and confirmed at the same â—ime by authoritie of Parliament doth contain all things necessarie to such Consecraâ—ion and ordering neither hath it any thing that of it selfe is superstitious and ungodâ—â— And therâ—fore whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the Rites of that â—ooke since the second yeer of the afore-named King Edward unto this time or hereâ—fter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same Rites we decree all such to â—e rightly orderly and lawfully consecrated and ordered 37 Of the civill Magistrates The Queens Majesty hath the chiefe power in this Realm of England and other â—â—r Dominions unto whom the chiefe government of all estates of this Realm wheâ—her they be Ecclesiasticall or Civill in all causes doth appertain and is not nor ought 〈◊〉 be subject to any forraign Iurisdiction Where we attribute to the Queens Majestie the chiefe government by which Tiâ—es we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended we give not to our â—rinces the ministring either of Gods Word or of the Sacraments the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queene doe moâ—â— plainly testifie but that only prerogative which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himselfe that is that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to theiâ— charge by God whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Temporall and restrain with the civill sword the stubborn and evill doers The Bishop of Rome hath no Jurisdiction in this Realm of England The Lawes of the Realm may punish Christian men with death foâ— heinous and grievous offences It is lawfull for Christian men at the commandment of the Magistrate to wear weapons and serve in the wars 38. Of Christian mens goods which are not common The riches and goods of Christians are not common as touching the right title and possession of the same as certaine Anabaptists doâ— falsly boast Notwithstanding every man ought of such things as hâ— possesseth liberally to give alms to the poor according to his ability 39. Of a Christian mans oath As we confesse that vain and rash swearing is forbidden Christian men by our Lord Jesus Christ and James his Apostle so we judge thaâ— Christian Religion doth not prohibit but that a man may swear wherâ— the Magistrate requireth in a cause of faith and charity so it be donâ— according to the Prophets teaching in justice judgment and truth 40. The Ratification THis Book of Articles before rehearsed is again approved and allowed to be holden and executed within the Realm by the assent and consenâ— of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. Which Article were deliberately read and confirmed again by the subscription of the hanâ— of the Archbishop and Bishop of the upper House and by the subscription oâ— the whole Clergie in the nether House in their Convocation in the yeer of ouâ— Lord God 1571. FINIS