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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25944	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	Church of England.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1642 (1642)	Wing A3867; ESTC R6456	9,871	18

Songs of Solomon Foure Prophets the greater Twelve Prophets the lesse And the other Books as Hierome saith the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine Such are these following The third Book of Esdras The fourth Book of Esdras The Book of Tobias The Book of Judeth The rest of the Book of Hester The Book of Wisdom Jesus the son of Sirach Baruch the Prophet The song of the three childrē The Story of Susanna Of Bell and the Dragon The prayer of Manasses The first Book of Maccabees The second Book of Maccab. All the books of the new Testament as they are commonly received we do receive and account them Canonicall 7. Of the old Testament The old Testament is not contrary to the new for both in the old and new Testament everlasting life is offered to mankinde by Christ who is the only Mediator between God and man being both God and man Wherfore they are not to be heard which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises Although the law given from God by Moses as touching Ceremonies and Rites do not binde Christian men nor the civill precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any Commonwealth yet notwithstanding no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called Morall 8. Of the three Creeds The three Creeds Nice Creed Athanasius Creed and that which ●s commonly called the Apostles Creed ought thorowly to be received and beleeved for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture 9. Of originall birth or sin Originall sin standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pela●ians do vainly talk but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man that naturally is ingendred of the off-spring of Adam wherby man is very far gone from originall righteousnesse and is of ●is own nature enclined to evil so that the flesh lusteth alwayes con●rary to the spirit and therfore in every person born into this world 〈◊〉 deserveth Gods wrath and damnation And this infection of nature doth remain yea in them that are regenerated whereby the lust of the flesh called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some do expound the wisdom some sensuality some the affection some the desire of the flesh is not subject to the law of God And although there is no condemnation for them that beleeve and are baptized yet the Apostle doth confesse that concupiscence and lust hath of it selfe the nature of sin 10. Of free will The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself by his own naturall strength and good works to faith and calling upon God Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God without the grace of God by Christ preventing us that we may have a good will and working with us when we have that good will 11. Of the Iustification of man We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ by faith and not for our own works or deservings Wherefore that we are justified by faith onely is a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Iustification 12. Of good works Albeit that good works which are the fruits of faith and follow after Justification cannot put away our sins and endure the severity of Gods judgement yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith in so much that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit 13. Of works before justification Works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasant to God forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Iesu Christ neither do they make men meet to receive grace or as the school-authors say deserve grace of congruity yea rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done we doubt not but they have the nature of sin 14. Of works of supererogation Voluntary works besides over and above Gods commandments which they call works of supererogation cannot be taught without arrogancy and impietie For by them men do declare that they do not onely render unto God as much as they are bound to do but that they do more for his sake then of bounden duty is required Whereas Christ saith plainly When ye have done all that are commanded to you say We are unprofitable servants 15. Of Christ alone without sin Christ in the truth of our nature was made like us in all things sin only except from which he was clearly void both in his flesh and in his spirit He came to be a Lamb without spot who by sacrifice of himself once made should take away the sins of the world and sin as S. John saith was not in him But all we the rest altough baptized and born again in Christ yet offend in many things and if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 16. Of sin after Baptisme Not every deadly sin willingly committed after Baptisme is sin against the holy Ghost and unpardonable Wherefore the grant of repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sin after Baptisme After we have received the holy Ghost we may depart from grace given and fall into sin and by the grace of God we may arise again and amend our lives And therefore they are to be condemned which say they can no more sin as long as they live here to deny the place of forgivenesse to such as truely repent 17. Of Predestination and Election Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the world were laid he hath constantly decreed by his counsell secret to us to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankinde and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation as vessels made to honour Wherefore they which be indued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to Gods purpose by his Spirit working in due season they through grace obey the calling they be justified freely they be made sons of God by adoption they be made like the Image of his onely begotten Son Iesus Christ they walk religiously in good works and at length by Gods mercy they attain to everlasting felicity As the godly consideration of Predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up their minde to high and heavenly things as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith

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