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A10958	The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. English creede.	1607 (1607)	STC 21228; ESTC S116041	208,079	284

into the world that he should condemne the world but that the world through him might be saued God will that all men shall be saued and come vnto the knowledge of the truth 2. The doctrine of the Gospell for the free remission of sinnes is to be preached not vnto a fewe but vniuersally and generally vnto all men Goe therefore and teach all nations baptizing them c Goe into all the world and preach the Gospell to euery creature He that shall beleeue and be baptized shall be saued but hee that will not beleeue shall be damned 3. The seales of the couenant be appointed to be giuen to all men and members of the visible Church or desirous to be ineorporated there into For All are to be baptized and all are to participate of the bread and cuppe at the Lords supper 4. As the disobedience of Adam brought condemnation vpon all men so the blood and obedience of Christ is able all-sufficient to wash away all sinnes and that of all men 5. No man euer truly repented but he was receiued againe into fauour so was Dauid after his adulterie Manasses after his Idolatrie Peter after his Apostacie the Thiefe vpon the Crosse the Niniuites The adversaries vnto this truth They are not to be heard then which say that The number of the Elect is but small and seeing wee are vncertaine whether wee be of that companie or no wee will proceede in our course as wee haue begunne God is an acceptor of persons and so vniust in chusing some and refusing others God hath predestinate all those personns to eternall death which are not in the state of true repentance which was one of Glouers errors It is the part therefore of all and euery man Not to refuse the mercies of God both generally and gratiously offered vnto all men by his word and Sacraments Not to despaire in respect either of the greatnes or multitude of his sinnes Nor yet to prouoke the Lord to execute his vengeance vpon them through prophanes of life or securitie 10. Proposition In our actions the word of God which is his reuealed will must be our direction The proofe from Gods word In our doings but cheiefly in the matter of Predestination wee are to follow not our own iudgement and what seemeth good in our owne opinions but the will of God and that will too not which is concealed from vs viz. of God his omnipotencie wherby he gouerneth at his pleasure the things by himselfe created whereof mention is made both in the Psalmes in the Prophet Isay and other places of his word but of his fauour and good pleasure towards man reuealed in the holy Scriptures by Iesus Christ whome wee are to heare Subscribed hereunto haue and doe Gods church euery where The adversaries vnto this truth This truth is gainesaid by the Phrygians Montanists and Messalians also by the Enthusiastes Anabaptists And Familie of Loue which leaue the written word of God and relie vpon their owne dreames visions and lying reuelations Hence proceedeth the contempt of Gods written word and of the Preachers and all religious exercises thereof For saith the Familie of Loue No difference is there betweene a ceremoniall either Letre Doctor Christian an vncircumcised Heathen 18. Article Of obtaining eternall saluation onely by the name of Christ. 1 They also are to be had accursed that presume to say that euery man shall be saued by the Lawe or sect which he professeth so that he be ●iligent to frame his life according to that Law and the light of nature For holy Scripture doth set out vnto vs 2 onely the name of Iesus Christ whereby men must be saued The propositions 1. The profession of euery religion cannot saue a man liue he neuer so virtuously 2. No man euer was is or shall be saued but onely by the Name or faith of Iesus Christ. 1. Proposition The profession of euery religion cannot saue a man liue hee neuer so virtuously The proofe from the word of God THis we cannot but acknowledge to be a truth if wee beleeue the Scriptures for they testifie that Iewes and Gentiles are all vnder sinn culpable before God and depriued of the glory of God All men that would be saued must be borne againe of the holy Ghost No man is iustified by the workes of the Lawe either ceremoniall or morall God hateth the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes and of Balaam The Reprobate whose names are not written in the booke of the life of the Lambe they doe worship the Beast Punishments eternall and intolerable are threatned both to the Beast and the false prophet and likewise to all such as will not goe out of Babylon and to all Idolaters The confessions of Gods people are to this ende and purpose Errors adversaries vnto this truth Then to be had accursed are they which affirme that This obseruation of the Iudaicall ceremonies is necessarie vnto saluation as did the false apostles the Ebionites and the Corinthians Such throughout the world as lead an vpright life and be morally righteous whatsoeuer their religion is shall be saued as many of the Philosophers were in the opinion of the Valentinian and Basilidian heretikes of Galeatus Martius and Erasmus Roterodam That men externally may professe any religion and notwithstanding be saued if their affections and hart be with the Familie of Loue That all those which liue vprightly and doe good deedes shall be of equall happines in the kingdome of heauen be they Turkes Christians Iewes or Moores A Turkish error That men may embrace and follow the sect and religion which they haue most minde vnto and so doing please God and shall be saued the Lampatians doctrine That no sect euer erred or were out of the way to heauen a fancie of the Rhetorians 1. Proposition No man euer was is or shal be saued but onely by the name or Faith of Iesus Christ. The proofe from Gods word This wee cannot but acknowledge to be true if also wee beleeue the scriptures which say that Among men there is giuen none other name vnder heauen whereby wee must be saued Through Iesus Christ his name all that beleeue in him shall receiue remission of sinnes In thee viz. Christ Iesus shall all the Gentiles be blessed And this is the Faith and confession of the reformed Churches The errors and Adversaries vnto this truth Many waies this truth very heretically is oppugned For Some teach that wee are saued not by Christ but as the Valentinians said by the labour of their hands and by their owne good workes as Simon Magus boasted by his faire Helene as Matthew Hamant held by other meanes and that all persons which worshipped Christ are abominable Idolaters as

Iesus was bound led away and deliuered vnto Pilate A councell iudged our S. Christ to be both a deceiuer and a blaphemer A councell corrupted the Souldiers and willed them to tell a Lie A counsell withstood Peter and Iohn and commanded them that in no wise they should speake or teach in the name of Iesus A councell both caused the Apostles to be beaten and commanded them also that they should not preach in the name of Iesus In auncient writings of credit wee may read how contrarie to Gods word by Councells Arrianisme hath bin confirmed as by the Councell at Ariminum By councells the traditions and bookes of foolish men haue bin made of equall authoririe with the word of God as by the counsell of Trent By councells hath bin established both the adoration of images as by the second councell of Nice and the Inuocation of creatures as by the Tridentine councell By councells the authority of princes hath bin empaired the Pope and Clergie advanced aboue all earthly Princes as by the Councell of Lateran The consideration of the premises and the like mooued S. Hilarie to call the Synode of Mediolane The Synagogue of the malignant and S Augustine to write vnto Maximinus Neither ought I to obiect against thee the Synode of Nice nor thou against mee the Synod of Ariminum and Nazianzene openly to pronounce that Hee neuer sawe any good end of a Councell and The French king his Embassadour to say vnto the chapter of Trent that scarsely any good at all or very little came by Councells vnto the state of Christendome and Cornelius Bishop of Bitonto to breake out into these words in the face of the Councell at Trent I would that with one consent wee had not altogether declined from religion vnto superstition from faith vnto infidelitie from Christ vnto Antichrist from God vnto Epicures Aduersaries vnto this truth This notwithstanding the Papists doe continue in an opinion that councells cannot erre 4. Proposition The things ordained hy generall Councells are so farre to be embraced and beleeued as they are consonant to Gods holy word The proofe from Gods word Generall councells we simply condemne not yet doe wee not ground our faith vpon any councell but onely vpon the written word of God Therefore in generall Councells whatsoeuer is agreeable vnto the written word of God we doe reuerendly embrace but whatsoeuer is contrarie vnto or besides the will of God reuealed in the holy scriptures wee doe carefully auoid And so are wee commaunded to doe euen by God himselfe Whatsoeuer I command you take heed you doe it thou shalt put nothing thereto nor take ought therefrom Walke ye not in the ordinances of your fathers neither obserue their manners c. I am the Lord your God walke in my statutes and keepe my iudgements and doe them Though that wee or an Angell from heauen preach vnto you otherwise then that which wee haue preached vnto you let him be accursed As wee said before so say I now againe If any man preach vnto you otherwise then that yee haue receiued let him be accursed And so thinke the Churches reformed with vs The adversaries vnto this truth Contrarie hereunto are the opinions of the Papists For of them Some doe thinke that the decrees of Councells doe binde all nations as Pope Hormisda decreed they should Some as Pope Gregory the great supposed that some coūsells and namely the councell of Nice of Constanstinople Ephesus and Chalcedon some as Campian thought that all councells were of equall authoritie with the word of God Others as the Guisiā faction in Frāce be resolued in matters of religion to follow the footesteps of their ancestors though Gods word and a thousand councells decree to the contrary 22. Article Of Purgatorie The Romish doctrine concerning 1 Purgatorie 2 Pardons worshipping and adoration as well 3 of images as 4 of Reliques and 5 also Inuocation of Saints is a fond thing vainely inuented and grounded vpon no warrantie of Scripture but rather repugnant to the word of God The Propositions The Romish doctrine concerning 1. Purgatorie 2. Pardons 3. Worshipping and adoration of Images 4. Reliques 5. Inuocation of Saintes is a fond thing and not warranted by the holy Scripture nor consonant but contrarie vnto the same 1. Proposition The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatorie is fond and not warranted by the holy Scripture nor consonant but contrary vnto the same The proofe from Gods word IT is granted as well by the Romish or false as by the true Church that none vncleane thing can enter into the kingdome of God And because all men either haue bin or be still vncleane therefore they must be purged from sinne But in the manner of purging them who are vnpure they doe greatly differ For the true church looking into the word of God doth finde that wee are sanctified or made cleane in diuers respects diuersly as by Baptisme by the word preached by the blood of Christ and by the spirit of God and that in this life and not in the other world For in the sacred scripture there is mention but onely of two waies one leading vnto destruction the other bringing vnto life of two sorts of men whereof some beleeue and they are saued some beleeue not and they are damned and of two States one blessed where Lazarus is the other cursed where Diues doth abide A third way or sort or state cannot be founde in the word of God And therefore the Purgatorie in another world both denied hath alwaies bin by the Greeke Churches and neither is nor will be acknowledged by any of Gods reformed Churches in this world as their Confessions do testifie Adversaries vnto this truth Erroneous therefore and not warrantable by Gods word concerning Purgatorie is the doctrine both of the old Heretikes the Montanists who thought there was a purging of soules after this life and of the newe and renued Heretikes the Papists For They thinke it to be vnsound doctrine and not sufferable in any booke for Christians to diliuer that it is vnpossible for godly and faithfull men or women to be punished after they be dead Therefore deleatur say they Blot out such doctrine They teach by their Catechismes that to doubt whether there is a Purgatorie or no is a breach of the first commandement Thus doe they pray for the soules of the faithfull as they fancie boyling in the torments of purgatorie Auete omnes animae fideles quarum corpora hîc vbique conquiescunt in puluere Dominus Iesus Christus qui vos nos redemit suo pretiosissimo sanguine dignetur vos à poenis liberare c. that is All haile all faithfull soules whose bodies doe here and euery where rest in the dust The Lord Iesus Christ who hath redeemed both you and vs with

that the church of Rome neither hath nor can erre Erraverunt aliae ecclesiae saith Di. Stella other churches as of Antioch Alexandria Constantinople c. haue erred sed nunquam ecclesia Romana but the church of Rome neuer yet erred Id constanter negamus saith Costerus the Iesuit we constantly deny that christ his Vicars Peters successors the Bishops of Rome haue either taught heresies or can propound errors God preserueth the truth of christian religion in the Apostolike sea of Rome and It is not possible that the church meaning the church of Rome can erre or hath erred at any time in any point say the Rhemists 20. Article Of the authoritie of the Church 1 The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies 2 and authoritie in controuersies of faith And yet it is not lawfull for the Church 3 to ordaine any thing that is contrarie to Gods word 4 neither may it so expound one place of Scripture 5 that it be repugnant to another VVherefore although 6 the Church be a witnesse and a keeper of holy writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so 7 besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be beleeued for necessitie of saluation The propositions 1. The church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies 2. The church may not ordaine what rites or ceremonies shee will 3. The church hath authoritie to iudge and determine in controuersies of faith 4. The church hath power to interpret and expound the word of God 5. The Analogie of faith must be respected in the exposition of the Scripture 6. The church is the witnesse and keeper of Gods written word 7. The church may not enforce any thing to be beleeued as necessarie vnto saluation that is either contrarie or besides the word of God 1. Proposition The church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies The proofe from the word of God THe churches authoritie to decree rites or ceremonies is warranted in the word of God first by the example of the Apostles who did ordaine rites and ceremonies among other things that In the church men should not be couered Women should keepe silence and be couered A knowen tongue vnderstood of the common auditorie should be vsed with other things Next by the generall and binding commandement of God himselfe who at all times will haue euery thing in the church to be done vnto edifying honestie and by order as beeing not the author of confusion but of peace All churches protestant confesse the same Errors adversaries vnto this truth This power being giuen by the Supreame authoritie vnto the Church they doe greatly offend which doe condemne either generally all or particularly some rites and ceremonies orderly and lawfully established of the former sort are 1. The Familie of Loue who say of themselues how they are a free people in bondage vnto no creature nor to any created thing they haue no seuerall distenting or variable religions either ceremonies 2. The Brownists who teach that euery Christian is to ioyn himselfe vnto that people among whome the Lords worship is free and not bound or withholden with any iurisdiction of this world 3. The Puritanes whereof some would haue all matters of ceremonies to be left in christian libertie vnto euery man Others would haue both temples to be left without seruice Sermons and Sacraments and Princes to be scared with the feare of vproares and sedition and all because they would be freed from the obedience vnto ceremonies not impious of themseluees imposed by the Church the Father of these men was Illyricus of whome Melancton writeth Of the latter kinde be 1. The Familie of Loue againe who vtterly dislike our Churches or Temples also our Liturgies formes of seruing our God and finally our designed times of meeting together for the worshippe of God Our Churches there blasphemously tearme Common houses and so we tearme Brothell houses or the stewes Our Lyturgies and manner of seruing of God they call Foolishnes of taken on seruices false and seducing Gods seruices of no man to be ordained nor to be obeied or vsed when they are established with these ioyne the Barrowists who doe write that to haue Leiturgies and formes of common praier is to haue another Gospell and another Testament Our Sabboths they contemne yea they condemne for they say There ought to be no Sabboth day Our Sabbatarians goe not so farre yet come they neere unto these Familists when they divulge that The Church hath no authoritie ordinarily and perpetually to sanctifie any day but the seuenth day which the Lord himselfe had sanctified The church cannot take away this libertie of working sixe daies in the weeke These assertions are against all holy daies lawfully established Barrow yet goeth further then doe these men for he saith how the obseruing of times as it is in our church is an error fundamentall They also be alike culpable who approouing some rites and ceremonies do yet tie the church or people of God to the obseruation of the ceremonies either Mosaicall as many haue donne and doe or of the Romish Church as doe the Papists and the halfe papists the Familie of Loue Finally they are out of the way which thinke that either one man as the Pope or any certaine calling of men as the clergie hath power to decree and appoint rites or ceremonies though of themselues good vnto the whole church of God dipersed ouer the vniuersall world 2. Proposition The Church may not ordaine what rites and ceremonies shee will The proofe from Gods word As it is a cleere truth that the church may ordaine ceremonies so true is it also that the church hath no power to appoint what rites or ceremonies shee will For shee must decree none which be Either for their owe nature impious like the ordinances manners and Idols of our forefathers teachers of vanitie and of lies Or for vse superstitious like the brazen Serpent which king Ezekiah brake in peices Or for their weight ouer heauie and greiuous to be borne like the Iewish constitutions Or for their worthines in the eies of the ordainers either of equall price or of more account then the very ordinances of God so as for the performance of them the lawes of God must be left vndone such were many of the Pharisaicall tires and traditions Or against the libertie of christians and to the entangling of them againe with the yoake of seruile bondage Or last of all any way contrary to the commandements word and will of God But the rites ceremonies and constitutions of the church they must make altogether and tend both to the nourishing and encrease of loue friedship and quietnes among christians and also to the retaining of Gods people in the holy seruice worship

and feare of God according to the rule of the Apostle afore mentioned let all things be done honestly by order All churches reformed consent hereunto Errors and Adversaries vnto this truth The premises beeing as they are most true most false then is it which the Papists doe publish viz. that The church hath power to change the Sacraments ordained euen by Christ himselfe Whatsoeuer the Apostles and Rulers of the Church command is to be kept and obeyed The authoritie of the of the Church is greater then of the Sacred Scripture 3. Proposition The Church hath authoritie to iudge and determine in controuersies of faith The proofe from Gods word Authoritie is giuen to the Church and to euery member of sound iudgement in the same to iudge in controuersies of faith and so in their places to embrance the truth and to auoid and improoue Antichristianitie and errors and this is not the priuate opinion of our Church but both the straight commandement of God himselfe particularly vnto all Teachers and hearers of Gods word and generally vnto the whole Church and also the iudgement of our godly brethren in forraigne countries The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth Vnsound therefore in iudgement are the Papists For first they maintaine That the Pope of Rome hath the power to iudge all men and matter but may be iudged of no man to decree without controlment against the epistles of S. Paul to dispense euen against the new Testament and to giue the sense and meaning of the holy Scripture to which sense or Interpration of his all and euery man without contradiction must yeeld and obey Next they publish hold that the power to iudge of religiō points of doctrine is either in Bishops onely as some of thē doe thinke or in their Clergie onely as other deeme and in the Church of Rome onely as all of them suppose 4. Proposition The Church hath power to interpret and expound the word of God The proofe from Gods word To interpret the word of God is a peculiar blessing giuen by God onely to the Church and companie of the faithfull though not to all and euery of them For No man knoweth the Sonne but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father but the Sonne and he to whom the Sonne will reueale him It is giuen to you to know the secrets of heauen saith our Sauiour vnto his disciples but to them it is not giuen The manifestation of the Spirit is giuen to euery man to profit withall For to one is giuen by the Spirit the word of wisedome c. and to another Prophecie If any thing be reuealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace saith S. Paul vnto the Church at Corinth Yee haue an ointment from him that is holy and yee haue knowen all things c. yee neede not that any man teach you saith the Apostle Iohn Hereunto subscribe the Churches in Heluetia Wittemberg Boheme The errors and Adversaries vnto this truth Many sundry are the adversaries vnto this truth wherof Some thinke that to expound the word of God is so easie a matter as any Student endued with a good naturall wit by diligence and industrie of his owne may doe the same Some teach how to interpret the Scriptures is too hard a thing for any mortall man to attaine vnto so did Iohannes de Wessalia and doe many Anabaptists Some though they acknowledge that diuers haue the gift to open the sense of Gods word yet that some say they are not the knowen Preachers writers in the reformed and Christian assemblies whom the Familie of Loue in scorne doe tearme the scipture learned For saith the said Familie It is meere lies and vntruth c. whatsoeuer the Scripture learned through their knowledge out of the Scriptures institute preach and teach They preach the letre c. but not the wotd of liuing God but themselues onely haue that gift neither euery one of the Familie but the illuminate Elders For to them it is giuen to knowe the truth they are the Elders of the godly vnderstanding and of the manly wisedome the Primats or principalls in the Light Some doe suppose that to interpret the holy Scriptures is not so much a speciall gift of God vpon some chosen persons as an ordinary power annexed to the state and calling of Popes Bishops and Clergie men Others be so farre from giuing the people of God not being of the Clergie power to expound as they will not suffer them to read nor so much as to haue the Scriptures by them in a vulgar tongue except it be their owne most corrupt and barbarous translation which but of late yeares neither and that in part too is granted by the Papists but in place thereof they thrust vpon the Laitie their most idolatrous and blasphemous Fustinals Legendes Rosaries Horaries and Psalteries of our Lady as falsly they called her 5. Proposition The analogie of faith must be respected in their exposition of the Scripture The proofe from Gods word Forasmuch as no prophecie is of any priuate motion and whatsoeuer interpretation man giueth if it agree not to the analogie of faith which S. Paul gaue in commandement to be obserued is a priuate interpretation speciall heede is to be had that one place of Scripture be so expounded as it agree with another and al to the proportion of faith The Churches reformed approoue this assertiō by their subscriptions Errors Adversaries to this truth Of another iudgement are many For Some doe thinke the Scriptures may be expounded in what sense and to what purpose men list as the Pharisies the Seuerians and Papists among whome there be which from this opinion doe tearme the most holy word Scriptures of God most reprochfully A shipmans hoase a Leaden rule a Nose of waxe Some doe mislike all interpretations and written Commentaries vpon the Scriptures as vnnecessary and vaine such were Seruetus Valdesius Coranus with others of late yeares and are the Libertines Scwenkfeldians and Familie of Loue Some depend wholly vpon visions revelations as did the Enthusiasts Nicholaus Storch Thomas Monetarius the Anabaptists and our late English reformer Hacket Some dislike of the literall and preferre the Allegoricall sense of the Scriptures and thereby deuise what them list most monstrously from the word of God as did the Originists and doe the Libertines and Familie of Loue hence teaching on the other that the spirituall vnderstanding is the worde of God and that to embrace the literall sense is to commit Idolatrie Some of euery place of Scripture will haue an exposition both Analogicall Allegoricall historicall and morall as the curious Thomists and Monckes Some are addicted to an interpretation which they cal

that the king of Spain and their Catholike faith are so linked together as it is become a point of necessitie in the Catholike faith to put all Europe into the handes of the said King otherwise the Catholike religion will be vtterly extingvished and perish Others of them haue published a new Gospell called Euangelium aeternum Spiritus sancti which they say doth so farre excell the Gospell of Christ as the Cernell surpasseth the shell the Sunne the Moone light darkenes The author whereof was one Cyrellus a Carmelite And lastly the Puritanes and all the speculations of Brown Barrow Greene Penrie Marprelate T.C.E.G.R.H. A.C. I.B. with the newe Sabbatarians and their fancies 21. Article Of the authoritie of generall Councells Generall Councells 1 may not be gathered together without the commandement and will of Princes And 2 when they be gathered together forasmunch as they be an assemblie of men whereof all be not gouerned with the Spirit and word of God they may erre and 3 sometimes haue erred euen in things pertaining vnto God wherfore 4 things ordained by them as necessarie vnto saluation haue neither strength nor authority vnlesse it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scriptures The propositions 1. Generall Councells may not be gathered together but by the commandement and will of Princes 2. Generall Councells may erre 3. Generall Councells haue erred euen in things pertaining vnto God 4. The things ordained by generall Councells are so farre to be embraced and beleeued as they are consonant to Gods holy word 1. Proposition Generall Councells may not be gathered together but by the commandement and will of Princes The proofe from Gods word GReat is the power and authoritie of Kings and Princes by the word of God For as the defense of Religion is committed vnto them so must they see that all men doe their duties That these things the better may be performed they are as iust occasion is offered not as men vnder the power of others to Simon but as Supreame gouernours within their own terretories and dominions to command all sorts of men to meete together and that either to the implanting of the truth where it is not or to the suppressing of sinne errors idolatrie and superstition where or in whomsoeuer it doth arise or is rooted Such Councells were holden both in the time of the Moisaicall gouernement by the commandement of the most godly Kings Dauid Salomon Asa Ezekiah and Iosiah and since the Gospell hath bin receiued into kingdomes and Commonweales by Christian Princes kings and Emperours who gathered Councells both Generall as the Nicene was by Constantine the great the Councell of Constantinople by Theodosius the elder the Counsell of Ephesus by Theodosius the younger the councell of Calcedon by Marcian Nationall and Prouinciall so the Counsell at Frankford Rhemes Taron Arelot and Moguntia by the will and commandement of Charles the great at Matison by Gunthranus at Paris and Orleance by the direction and appointment of Childebert were kept and holden And neuer yet hath there bin a councell either Generall or nationall or whatsoeuer I only except the councells held by the Apostles and Apostolicall men in a troublesome state and time of the Church there beeing then no Christian Princes Emperours to countenance the truth either begun or ended to the glorie of God but it hath bin I say not called onely but confirmed also by some godly Emperour King or Queene This in effect is granted by all reformed Churches The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth This assertion hath bin oppugned and that diuersly both by the Papists and Puritanes For the Papists they say Emperours and kings be the Pope his Summoners but of themselues are no absolute and powerfull commanders and callers of Councels There ought no councel to be kept without the determinate consent of the Bishop of Rome No councell euer yet had firme and lawful authority which was not confirmed by the Bishop of Rome The Popes of Rome and not Christian Princes haue the authoritie and power of making lawes ecclesiasticall and of calling Councells And the Puritanes do thinke that priuate persons without the leaue or priuitie of Princes may summon assemblies about Church causes at their pleasures and consult about the publike affaires of the Church Of this minde was Beza and be the disciplinarians both of South and North Brittaine Others aduersaries to both Puritanes and Papists are of minde that were the Pope a good man as he is nothing lesse he might and hee being wicked other good Bishops though subiect vnto Kings and Emperours may summon Counsells at their discretions An error of Seluererus The Muscouites haue a fancie that since the seuenth generall Counsell that was neither Prince nor Pope nor any other men els haue power to call a generall counsell 2. Proposition Generall coucells may erre The proofe from Gods word Generall Councells consisting first of men who may erre nothing more easily for all the imaginations of mans heart are onely euill continually euen from his youth but God onely is true and all men are yea and euery man is a Liar Next of men differing in yeares riches learning iudgement calling and authoritie whereby distractions of opinions often doe arise Thirdly of many mē wherof the wicked be for nūber commonly the maior part and the better in outward countenance of the world Lastly of men not al nor alwaies either gouerned with Gods holy Spirit and word or gathered together in the Name of Christ none of sounde iudgement in Religion do doubt but they may erre If Paphmitius had bin absent at Nice that Councell had erred If Hierome had bine away at Calcedon that Councell had erred At any time if some be beleeued be the Pope of Rome not present at such meetings either per se or per Legatum by himselfe or his Legate no Councell but must erre Therefore Councells may erre That which one Counsell doth establish another will disanull They will not wee must thinke reuoke that which is well decreed Therefore councells may erre The adversaries vnto this truth Therefore erre doe the papists which say that the holy Spirit is the director of all Councells and That councells cannot erre 3. Proposition Generall Councells haue erred euen in things pertaining vnto God The proofe from Gods word Councells both generall and particular haue erred and that in matters of Faith For in the holy Scriptures wee finde that it was ordained If any man did confesse that Iesus was the Christ hee should be excommunicate which could not be but by a Councell A councell was gathered to suppresse Christ and his doctrine A councell consulted how they might take Iesus by subtilty and kill him A councell sought for false witnesse to put him to death By a counsell

drunken of All Heereunto subscribe the Churches The adversaries vnto this truth Though it be a mans couenant yet when it is confirmed no man doth abrogate or addeth any thing thereunto What impudencie then yea what impietie doe they showe which alter this ordinance of God Some by adding thereto So added was vnto the Bread Cheese by the Autotarits Blood by the Cataphrygians the Seed of man by the Manichies vnto the Wine warme Water by the Moscouits Some by taking there from so the Eutratits the Tatians the Seuerians vse no wine at all the Manichies doe minister only the Bread the Papistes though they vse both kinds yet they alwaies denie the Cup vnto the people and vnto Priests also when they say not Masse affirming that The people participating of the Cup thereby perceaue no fruite of spirituall comfort but receaue to themselues damnation It is not by Gods but Mans lawe that Lay persons communicate either in both kinds or in one Notwithstanding that Christ instituted the Sacrament to be receaued vnder both kinds and the primitiue Church accordingly did so administer the same Hoc tamen non obstante yet this notwithstanding it is to be taken of the Laitie but vnder one kind Some by confounding the elements So the Moscouites doe mingle Bread and Wine together and the Papistes make a mixture of Wine and Water maintaining that Water must be mixt with Wine at the consecration of the blood and that the mixture of Water with Wine without sin cannot be omitted Some by changing the Elements So the Aquarians and the Hydroparastites for Wine administred and gaue Water vnto the people 31. Article Of the one Oblation of Christ finished vpon the Crosse. The offering of Christ once made 1 is that perfect redemption propitiation and satisfaction for all the sinnes of the whole world both originall and actuall and there is none other satisfaction for sinne but that alone VVherefore 2 the sacrifice of masses in the which it was commonly said that the Preists did offer Christ for the quicke the dead to haue remission of paine and guilt were blasphemous fables and dangerous deceipts The Propositions 1. The blood of Iesus Christ once shed for mankind vpon the Crosse is a perfect redemption propitiation and satisfaction for all the sinnes of the whole world 2. Sacrifices of the Masse are most blasphemous Fables dangerous deceipts 1. Proposition The Blood of Iesus Christ once shed for mankind vpon the Crosse is a perfect redemption propitiation and satisfaction for all the sinnes of the whole world The proofe from Gods word OF the benefits redounding vnto mankind by Christ his offering vp of himselfe vpon the Crosse we haue in sundrie places afore spoken and by the word of God prooued him to be the perfect Redemption propitiation and satisfaction for all the sinnes of the whole world both originall and actuall Heereunto the Churches of God beare witnesse The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth Hereby it is euident to the eies of all godly persons that most accursed be the errors of them which doe affirme that From the beginning of the world vntill the 15. yeare of the Emperour Tiberius none at al were ●aued The error of Manes the heretike Mans body is not capable of happines but the soule onely and yet no soules shall be saued but there owne said the Marcionites All men and women that sinne after Baptisme are vndoubtedly damned In this error were the Montanists and the Nouatians Our saluation is of our selues so said Melchior Hoffeman an arch Heretike Man is restored to grace of Gods meere mercie without the meanes of Christs blood death and passion One of Mathew Hamants blaspemous assertions The Sauiour of Men is Iesus Christ a man and no woman who came into the world to saue no women but men say some Papists and redeemed the superior world onely which is man said Postellus the Iesuit and yet not all men neither for S. Francis hath redeemed so many as are saued since his daies say the Franciscan Friers The Sauiour of women from her time till the end of the world is S. Clare affirm some other papists as Postellus saith it it one mother Iane The Sauiour of men and women is S. Mary through her virginitie say some is S. Christina by her passion say other Papists There is no sufficient sacrifice yet offered for the sinnes of the world One of F. Kets errors Christ hath satisfied and was offered onely for originall sin an error of Thomas Aquinas Sinnes actuall and veniall are taken away by sacred Ceremonies by a Bishops blessing by a preists absolution Sinnes actuall and Mortall be remised by a Pardon from some Bishop or from the Pope of Rome 2. Proposition The sacrifices of the Masse are most blasphemous Fables and dangerous deceipts The papists deliuer how the the Masse is a sacrifice a sacrifice propitiatorie a sacrifice propitiatorie for the quick the dead the same propitiatorie sacrifice that was offered by Christ himselfe vpon the Crosse A sacrifice in which by virtue of a fewe euen fiue words mumbled by a Preist Christ euen that Christ which hung vpon the Crosse is contained A sacrifice seruing for all persons quick and dead to purge them from their sinnes to ease them of their paines to satisfie for their punishment and for all necessities corporall and spirituall A sacrifice propitiatorie of Iesus Christ really offered to God the Father and that often in the honour of dead Saints A sacrifice wherein Christ is so gloriously as it is to be adored euen with diuine worship both of Priest and people A sacrifice meritorious to all them for whom it is offered although they be not liuing but dead not present but absent not endued either with zeale or knowledge but quite destitute of faith and that ex opere operato Hereby are wee to note first blasphemous Fables For It is a fable that the Masse is a sacrifice and that propitiatorie a fable that a fewe words of a Priest can change Bread into a liuing Body yea many Bodies with their soules and that of Iesus Christ God and man a fable that one and the same sacrifice is offered in the Masse which was offered on the Crosse a fable that the said Masse is any whit profitable for the quick much lesse for the dead Next dangerous deceipts For hereby men are to beleeue that Creatures may be adored contrary to Gods word Christ is often offered contrary to the Scripture The Preist offereth vp Christ contrarie to the Scripture Sinnes be forgiuen without blood contrary to the Scripture Christ died not once but dieth daily contrarie to the Scripture Faith is not

same doe all reformed Churches beleeue and confesse The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth The premises doe make Against the Tretheites which affirme the holy Ghost to be inferior vnto the Father Against the Arrians who said the holy Ghost was inferior to the Sonne Against the Macedonian heretikes who held the holy Ghost to be but a minister and seruant of the Father and the Sonne yet of more excellent maiestie and dignitie then the Angels Against many erroneous spirits which deliuer the holy Ghost to be nothing els but The motion of God in his creatures as did the Samosatenians A bare power and efficacie of God working by a secret inspiration as the Turkes and certaine English Sadduces doe imagine The Inheritance allotted to the faithfull and the beeing or vertuous estate of Christ as dreameth H.N. The affection of charitie or Loue within vs an error of Petrus Lombardus Gods loue fauour and vertue whereby he worketh in his children so thought Ochinus and Seruetus 3. Proposition The holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne The proofe from Gods word The proceeding of the holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne we gather from the holy scripture which teacheth how The Father sendeth the comforter which is the holy Ghost in the name of the Sonne and the sonne sendeth the comforter the spirit of truth from the Father he proceedeth of the Father and is sent of the Sonne So with vs say the auncient Fathers and Christians He proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne The holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Sonne neither made nor created but proceeding So there is one Father not three Fathers one sonne not three sonnes one holy Ghost not three holy Ghostes which is the faith of the moderne christians Errors and aduersaries vnto this truth This discouereth all them to be impious and to erre from the way of truth which hold and affirme That the holy Ghost proceedeth neither from the Father nor the Sonne but is one and the same person that Christ is as the Arrians doe That the holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father but not from the sonne as at this day the Graecians the Russians the Moscouites maintaine That there is a double proceeding of the holy Ghost one temporall the other eternall an error of Peter Lombard vncontrolled hitherto and therefore well liked of the Papists 6. Article Of the sufficiencie of the holy Scripture for saluation Holy Scripture 1 containeth all things necessarie for saluation so that whatsoeuer is not read therein nor may be prooued thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be beleeued as an article of the Faith or be thought requisite necessary to saluation 2 In the name of the holy Scripture we doe vnderstand those Canonicall bookes of the old and newe testament of whose authoritie was neuer any doubt in the Church Of the names and number of the Canonicall bookes Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomium Iosue Iudges Ruth The 1. Booke of Samuel The 2. Booke of Samuel The 1. Booke of Kings The 2. Booke of Kings The 1. Booke of Chronicles The 2. Booke of Chronicles The 1. Booke of Esdras The 2. Booke of Esdras The Booke of Esther The Booke of Iob. The Psalmes The Proverbs Eccles. or the Preacher Canticles or song of Salomon 4. Prophets the greater 12Prophets the lesse 3 And the other bookes as Hierome saith the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners but yet doth it not applie them to stablish any doctrine Such are these following The 3. Booke of Esdras The 4. Booke of Esdras The Booke of Tobias The Booke of Iudith The rest of the Booke of Hester The Booke of wisedome Iesus the sonne of Sirach Baruch the Prophet Song of the 3. children The story of Susanna Of Bel and the Dragon The praier of Manasses The 1. Booke of Macchabes The 2. Booke of Macchabes 4 All the bookes of the newe Testament as they are commonly receiued we doe receiue and accompt them for Canonicall The propositions 1. The sacred Scripture conteineth all things necessarie to be knowen and beleeued for the saluation of man 2. All the bookes in the volume of the Bible are not Canonicall but some and namely those here specified are 3. The 3. 4. bookes of Esdras the booke of Tobias c. are apocryphal 4. Of the newe Testament all the bookes are Canonicall 1. Proposition The sacred Scripture containeth all things necessary to be knowne and beleeued for the saluation of man The proofe from Gods word THe holy Scriptures to be sufficient to instruct vs in all things necessary to be knowen and beleeued for mans saluation the word of God teacheth Ye shall put nothing vnto the word which I command you saith the Lord neither shall yee take ought therefrom Whatsoeuer I command you take heed you doe it thou shalt put nothing thereto nor take ought therfrom Thou shalt not turne away from it to the right hand nor to the left that thou maist prosper whither soeuer thou goest Euery word of God is pure c. Put nothing vnto his words least he reprooue thee and thou be found a liar These things are written that ye might beleeue c. and that in beleeuing yee might haue life through his Name The whole Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God and is profitable to teach to improoue to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse that the man of God may be absolute beeing made perfect vnto all good workes If any man shall adde vnto these things God shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in this booke and if any man shall diminish of the wordes of this booke God shall take away his part out of the booke of life and out of the holy cittie and from those things which are written in this booke Hereunto Gods people both alwaies haue and at this present doe subscribe The Errors and adversaries vnto this truth Therefore adversaries be wee to all adversaries to this truth especially To such as scorne and contemptuously reiect the booke of God as both did the Circumcellians which defaced and burnt the holy Scriptures and Pope Leo the tenth who tearmed the holy Gospel A fable of Christ and doe the prophane Atheists Also to such as debase the credite and estimation of the holy Scriptures as Dauid George did and both doe the papists who haue an opinion that the scriptures of God are not sufficient to instruct mankinde vnto saluation and the Anabaptists which deeme not the holy Bible to be the word of God with the Familie of Loue in whose bookes nothing is more frequent then the tearming of Gods reverend ministers and preachers Scripture learned Also to them which with Gods word doe equall their owne doctrines

yet afterward confessed his master Christ and of all the disciples who fled and yet returned This both granted is and published for truth by the Churches The adversaries vnto this truth Vnto this truth subscribe will not Either by the Catharans Nouatians Iouinians which thinke Gods people be regenerate into a pure and Angelicall state so that neither they be nor can be defiled with any contagion of sinne Either the Libertines whose opinions were that Whosoeuer hath Gods spirit in him cannot sinne Dauid sinned not after he had receiued the holy Ghost Regeneration is the restoring of the estate wherein Adam was placed afore his fall Or the Papists who are of minde that The workes of men iustified are perfect in this life No man which is fallen into sinne can rise againe and be saued without their Sacrament of Penance S. Francis attained vnto the perfection of holines and could not sinne at all 3. Proposition No men vtterly are to be cast off as reprobates which vnfainedly repent Such as doe fall from grace and yet returne againe vnto the Lord by true repentance are to be receiued as members of Gods church and this by the Scripture is verefied For there wee read that God would haue all men saued God is alwaies readie to receiue the penitent into fauour For there is ioy in heauen for the sinner that conuerteth Christ is grieued when sinners will not repent He shall saue a soule from death and hide a multitude of sinnes which conuerteth a sinner from going astray out of his way The Lord would haue no man to perish but al men to come to repentance If wee acknowledge our sinnes he is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to clense vs from all vnrighteousnesse Hee exhorteth his erring people to repent and doe their first workes neither refuseth hee the sinner that repenteth as appeareth in the example of the Prodigall sonne and of the debter God then being so gratious and mercifull man after his ensample is both by all good meanes to prouoke sinners vnto repentance and they testifying the same to receiue them into fauour So did S. Paul will the Galatians Brethren saith hee if a man be fallen by occasion into any fault yea which are spirituall restore such one with the spirit of meekenes considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted So did hee enioyne the Corinthians when hee saide If anie hath caused sorrowe the same hath not made me sorie but partly least I should more charge him you all It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many So that nowe contrarywise yee ought rather to forgiue and comfort him least the same should be swallowed yp with ouermuch heauinesse When also he said Receiue him meaning Ouesinus And so teach the Churches Errors and Adversaries vnto this truth Adversaries vnto this truth are they First which leaue nothing but the vnappeasable wrath of God to such as doe sinne after Baptisme as as did both in old time the Montanists and Nouatians and of late yeares Melchior Hoffman the Arch Heretike of his daies and the Anabaptists in Germaine and the Barrowists among our selues in England Next who say that being once regenerate sinne is cut away as with a Rasor so that the godly cannot sinne and therefore neede no repentance so did the Messalians and doe the Familie of Loue Lastly the desperate whose sinnes being either most infinite or abominable they thinke how God hee neither can nor will forgiue them such in times past were Kaine and Iudas in our fathers Franciscus Spira and one Doctor Kraus and in our daies Bolton euen hee that first hatched that sect in England which afterward was tearmed Brownisme 17. Article Of praedistination and election 1 Predestination to life is the euerlasting purpose of God whereby 2 before the foundations of the world was laid he hath 3 constantly decreed by his councell secret to vs to deliuer from curse and damnation 4 those whome he hath chosen 5 in Christ out of mankinde and to bring them by Christ to euerlasting saluation as vessells made to honour wherefore they which be indued with so excellent a benefit of God 6 be called according to Gods purpose by his Spirit working in due season 7 they through grace obey the calling they be iustified freely they be made sonnes of God by adoption they be made like the image of his onely begotten Sonne Iesus Christ they walke religiously in good workes at length by Gods mercie they attaine to euerlasting felicitie 8 As the godly consideration of Predestination and our election in Christ is full of sweete pleasant and vnspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feele in themselues the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the workes of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing vp their minde to high and heauenly things as well because it doth greatly establish and confirme their faith of eternall saluation to be enioyed through Christ as because it doth feruently kindle their loue towards God So for curious and carnall persons lacking the Spirit of Christ to haue continually before their eies the sentence of Gods predestination is amost dangerous down fall whereby the Deuill doth thrust them into desperation or into rechlesnes of most vncleane liuing no lesse perilous then desperation Furthermore 9 wee must receiue Gods promises in such wise as they be generally set forth vnto vs in holy Scripture and 10 in our doings that will of God is to be followed which wee haue expresly declared vnto vs in the word of God The Propositions 1. There is a Predestination of men vnto everlasting life 2. Predestination hath bin from euerlasting 3. They which are predestinate vnto saluation cannot perish 4. Not all men but certaine are predestinate to be saued 5. In Christ Iesus of the meere will and purpose of God some are elected and not others vnto saluation 6. They who are elected vnto saluation if they come vnto yeares of discretion are called both outwardly by the word inwardly by the spirit of God 7. The Predestinate are both iustified by faith sanctified by the holy Ghost and shall be glorified in the life to come 8. The consideration of Predestination is to the godly wise most comfortable but to curious and carnall persons very dangerous 9. The generall promises of God set forth in the holy Scriptures are to be embraced of vs. 10. In our actions the word of God which is his his revealed will must be our direction 1. Proposition There is a predestination of men vnto euerlasting life The proofe from Gods word That of men some be predestinate vnto life it is a truth most apparent in the holy Scripture by the testimonie both of Christ himselfe who saith To sit at my right hand and at my

necessarie in communicants contrary to the Scripture Wee are to adore Christ as alwaies present contrary to the Scripture where we are taught to remember him absent The fauour of God by mony may be purchased from a priest contrary to the Scripture All which their fables and deceipts doe tend to the utter abolishing of true relion Therefore iustly haue wee and our godly brethren abandoned the masse Accursed then stand those Papists before God which take the Masse to be the Sacrifice of Christ his body and Blood and the onely soueraigne worship due to God in his Church 32. Article Of the Marriage of Preists Bishops priests and Deacons 1 are not commanded by Gods law either to vowe the estate of single life or to abstaine from marriage Therefore it is lawfull also for them 2 as for all other Christian men to marry at their owne discretion as they shall iudge the same to serue better to godlinesse The Propositions 1. By the word of God it is lawfull for Bishops and all other ecclesiasticall Ministers to marrie at their owne discretion 2. It is lawfull by the word of God for all Christian men and women to marrie at their owne discretion in the feare of God 1. Proposition By the word of God it is lawfull for Bishops and all other ecclesiasticall ministers to marrie at their owne discretion The proofe from Gods word NEither the single nor the wedded life is enioined any man much lesse any calling of men by the word of God And that ecclesiasticall ministers in particular may marry it is euident both from the old and the newe Testament From the old Testament both by the Commandements giuen vnto the Priests for the choise of their wiues and by the examples also of the religious Priests as Aaron Eli Zacharias c. Prophets which were all married as it is thought except Ieremie From the newe Testament by the words of S. Paul who saith A Bishop must be the husband of one wife one that hath childrē vnder obediēce An Elder must be vnreproueable the husband of one wife hauing faithfull children Deacons must be the husbands of one wife and haue wiues that be honest not euill speakers c. and by the example of Peter Paul yea of the Apostles who were all married men Iohn the Euangelist onely except as some thinke All sincere Churches and professors subscribe hereunto Adversaries vnto this truth And none of Gods churches or people be of the mind Either of the vigilantians that all and euerie one of the Clerge is necessarily to marrie or not to be admitted for a Minister Or of the Iouinians whose Elect or Preists might not marrie Or of the Papists who teach that From the Apostles time it was neuer lawfull for Priests to marrie The three orders of Deacons Subdeacons and Preists are bound not to marrie After Orders to marrie it is not lawfull it is to turne back vnto Satan and Apostacie None may be a priest though hee will vowe a single life if he haue bin a married man For a priest to play the whore-maister it is lesse offence then to take a wife This was the speech of Cardinall Campeius And most infamous is the Romish Clergie for their vnclean and vncontinent Hence written is it Of Pope Paul the 2. Anxia testiculos Pauli ne Roma requiras Filia huic nata est haec docet esse m●rem Of Pope Innocent the 8 Bis quattuor Nocens genuit puellulos Totidem sed et Nocens genuit puellulas O' Roma possis hunc meritó dicere Patrem Of Pope Alex. the 6 Non spado Alexander fuerat Lucretia nempe Illius coniux nata nurusque fuit Of the Priests Multi vos sanctos multi vos dicere Patres Gaudent et vobis nomina tanta placent Ast ego vos sanctos non possum dicere Patres Possum cùm natos vos genuisse sciam Of the Iesuites With women yee lie not but with Males rather Speake Iesuit how canst thou be a Father c. 2. Proposition It is lawfull by the word of God for all Christian men and women to marrie at their owne discretion in the feare of God The proofe from Gods word The Spirite of God saith vnto men and women in all ages Bring foorth fruite and multiplie and fill the earth Marriage is honorable among all men and the bed vndefiled To auoide fornication let euery man haue his wife and euery woman haue her husband If they cannot abstaine let them marrie Notwithstanding in saying that Christians may marrie at their discretion the meaning is not that any may marry if they thinke good either within the degrees of kinred and affinitie prohibited by wholesome lawes or without the consent of parents or of others in the roome of parents if they be vnder tuition or to other ends then God hath praefixed So testifie with vs the reformed Churches Errors Adversaries to this truth Greatly hath this truth bin crossed and contradicted For Some leaue it not to men and womens discretions but compell them whether they will or no to marrie so did the Ossenes Some vtterly doe condemne marriage as did the Gnostikes the Hieracites the Priscillianistes the Montanistes the Saturnians the Aerians the Apostolikes Some allowe of the wedded life yet not in all sorts of persons For The Papistes forbid all Clergie men to marrie as also all Godfathers Godmothers and whosoeuer be of spirituall kinred Some will haue none to marrie but Virgins and single persons as the Henricians Some condemne all alteration of marriage or twice marrying the husband or wife being dead such haeretickes were the Catharans c. Some would haue women though married to be all common as the Nicolaitans and Daui-georgians Some will nor marrie according to Gods ordinance but thinke that one man at one and the same time may haue manie wiues In which were the Hermogenians and are the Ohinites 33. Article Of excommunicate persons howe they are to be auoyded That person 1 which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the vnitie of the Church and excommunicate ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithfull as an Heathen and Publican 2 vntill he bee openly reconciled by penance and receiued into the Church by a Iudge that hath authoritie thereto The propositions 1. The person that is rightly by the Church excommunicate is of all the faithfull to be taken for an Heathen and Publican 2. An excommunicate person trulie repenting is to be receaued into the Church againe 1. Proposition The person that is rightly by the Church excommunicate is of all the faithfull to be taken for an Heathen and Publican The proofe from Gods word THe most seuere and vttermost punishment that the