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A08068	The confession of faith of certayn English people living in exile, in the Low countreyes. Together with a brief note of the speciall heads of those things wherin we differ fro[m] the Church of Engla[n]d.; True confession of the faith, which wee falsely called Brownists, doo hould	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?; Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618.	1607 (1607)	STC 18435; ESTC S119852	30,939	73

or never get out except with shipwrack of conscience vntil they be caryed forth vpon the Bere Neyther is there any care taken for their relief in this case but being cast into pryson there they are deteyned without any alloweance of meat or money for their mayntenance be their want and poverty never so great If they have any thing of their own there they are driven to spend it vp if they have nothing there they are left by the Prelates to feed on the ayre And that they may more readily be sterved or weakened in the truth they are cōmonly shut vp in close pryson their frends acquayntance being not suffred to come at them Nay even their wives children being kept and debarred from them by the tyranny of these bloody Prelats and their Instruments whose hard harts and vnnaturall cruelty if thou diddest vnderstand gentle Reader as many of vs haue felt and to this day yet feel it would make thy hart to bleed considering their vnmercyfull and barbarous dealing And how many soules haue perished in their prisons through miserable vsage how many have ben put to death and how many banished though we could to their eternall infamy relate to all the world yet wil we not blaze abroad their acts for we take no delight in laying opē their shame but mourne for them in secret cōmitting our cause to God that judgeth justly knowing that he that maketh inquisition for blood remembreth it and will not forget the complaint of the poore And thou Christian Reader vouch safe to remember vnto God in thy prayers such as yet remayne in bandes and pryson amongest them for the testimony of Iesus enduring a hard sight of afflictions and having the sentence of death in them selves are like if the Lord send not vnexspected deliverance there to end their dayes Concerning our selves who through the mercy of God have found a place of rest in this land for which benefyt we are alwayes and every where humbly thankfull we desyre Christian Reader thy charitable and Christian opinion of and holy prayers vnto God for vs whose kingdome we seek whose ordinances we desire to establish and obey protesting with good consciences that it is the truth of his Gospel only for which we strive against those cursed reliques of Antichristian apostasie vnto which we dare in no wise submit our selves no not for a moment For if it be not lawfull for Christians at this day to reteyn the ceremonyes of Moses Law together with the Gospel as the Passeover Circumcision the Priesthood Sacrifices c. which yet were once cōmanded by God himself how can we think it tollerable to observe the odious ceremonies of Antichrist or submit our selves to his lawes Priesthood Hierarchie traditions which the Lord never allowed which never entred into his heart yea which he hath so severely forbidden with fearfull judgments threatned vnto all that shal so do But because we have ben very grievously slaundred in our owne nation and the bruit thereoff hath followed vs vnto this land whereby we have ben hardly deemed of by many without cause we have ben forced at length to publysh this brief but true Confession of our fayth for the clearing of our selves from sclaunder and satisfying of many who desired to knowe the thinges we hold Wherein if in any thing we erre as who is so perfit that he erreth not we crave good Reader thy Christian brotherly censure and information promising alwayes through the grace of God to yeild vnto the truth when it shall be further shewed vs and leave our errors when by the light of his word they shal be reproved In lyke manner it shall be thy par● and duty to acknowledge and submytt vnto the truth by whomsoever it is professed looking alwayes rather to the preciousnes of the treasure it self then to the basenes of the vessels which conteyne it or the infirmities of those that witnes the same in whose mortall bodyes thow shalt see nothing but the markes and dying of our Lord Iesus Christ. But hold not thy fayth in respect of mens persons neyther be thow moved at the evyl reports which have ben raised of vs. Here hast thow the trew summe of our Christian saith try al thinges by the true light of Gods word and if thou shalt reap any profit by these our labours give God the glory and remember vs vnto him in thy prayers Farewell in Christ Iesus 1596. THE CONFESSION of Fayth of certaine English people living in the Low countreyes exiled VVE beleeve with the heart confesse with the mouth I. THat there is but one God one Christ one Spirit one Church on● truth one Faith one true Religion on● rule of godlines obedience for al Chri●●tians in all places at all tymes to be observed II. God is a spirit whose being is 〈◊〉 himself and giveth beeing moving preservation to al other things being himself eternal most holy every way infinite in greatnes wisdome power goodnes justice truth c. In this Godhead there be three distinct persons coeternal coequal and coessential being every one of them one and the same God therfore not divided but distinguished one from another by their several and peculiar propertie The Father of whom are the other persons but he of none the Sonne begotten of the Father from everlasting the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne before all beginnings III. God hath decreed in himself from everlasting touching al things and the very least circumstances of every thing effectually to work and dispose them according to the counsel of his own will to the glory of his name And touching his chiefest creatures GOD hath in Christ before the foundation of the world according to the good pleasure of his will foreordeyned some men and Angels to eternall lyfe to be accomplished through Iesus Christ to the prayse of the glorie of his grace And hath also of old according to his just purpose foreappointed other both Angels and men to eternall condēnation to be accōplished through their own corruption and desert to the prayse of his justice IIII. In the beginning God made al things of nothing very good and created man after his own image and likenes in righteousnes and holynes of truth But streightwayes after by the subtilty of the serpent which Satan vsed as his instrument himself with his Angels having sinned before not kept their first estate but left their owne habitation first Eva then Adam being seduced did wittingly and willingly fall into disobedience and transgression of the cōmaundement of God For the which death came vpon all and reigneth over al yea even over infants also which have not synned after the like manner of the transgression of Adam that is actually Hence also it is that all since the fall of Adam are begotten in his own likenes after his image

vnder Christ their onely head XXXIX It is the office and duty of Princes Magistrates who by the ordinance of God are supreme governours vnder him over all persons and causes within their Realmes and dominions to suppresse and root out by their authoritie al false Ministeries voluntarie religions counterfeit worship of God to abolish and destroy the Idol Temples Images Altars Vestments all other monuments of Idolatry and superstition and to take and convert to their own civill vses not only the benefit of all such idolatrous buildings and monuments but also the Revenues Demeanes Lordships Possessions Gleabes and Maintenance of any false Ministeries and vnlawfull ecclesiasticall functions whatsoever within their dominions And on the other hand to stablish and mainteyn by their lawes every part of Gods word his Christian Religion pure worship and true Ministery described in his word to cherish and protect all such as are careful to worship God according to his word and to lead a godly lyfe in al peace and loyalty yea to enforce al their subjects whether Ecclesiasticall or Civil to do their dutyes to God and men protecting mainteining the good punishing and restreyning the evil according as God hath commaunded whose Lieutenants they are here on earth XL. And thus the protectiō cōmandement of the Princes and Magistrates maketh it much more peaceable though no whit at all more lawfull to walke in the wayes and ordinances of Iesus Christ which he hath commanded his Church to keep without spot and vurebukeable vntill his appearing in the end of the world And in this behalf therefore the brethren thus mynded and proceding as is before said are both cōtinually to supplicate to God and as they may to their Princes Governors that thus vnder thē they may lead a quiet and peaceable lyfe in al godlines and honestie XLI And if God encline the Magigstrates hearts to the allowance and protection of the Church therein it ought to be accoūted a singular happy blessing of God who grāteth such noursing Fathers Mothers to his Church And it behoveth al to be careful to walk worthie so great a mercy of God in all thankfulnes and obedience XLII But if God withold the Magistrates allowance furtherance herein yet must wee notwithstanding proceed together in Christian covenant cōmunion thus to walke in the obedience of Christ and confession of his faith and Gospel even through the middest of all tryalls afflictiōs not accounting our goods lands wives children Fathers Mothers brethren sisters no nor our lives dear vnto vs so as wee may finish our course with joy remembring alwayes that we ought to obey God rather then man grounding vpon the commandement commission promise of our Saviour Christ who as he hath all power in heaven and in earth so hath also promised if we keep his commandements which hee hath given without limitation of tyme place Magistrates allowance or disallowance to be with vs vnto the end of the world and when we have finished our course and kept the faith to give vs the crown of righteousnes which is layd vp for all that love his appearing XLIII Vnto al men is to be given whatsoever is due vnto them Tributes Customes and all other such lawfull accustomed dutyes ought willingly and orderly to be payed and performed Our lands goods and bodyes to be submitted in the Lord to the Magistrates pleasure And the Magistrates themselves every way to be acknowledged reverenced and obeyed according to godlines not because of wrath onely but also for conscience sake And finally all men so to be estemed and regarded as is due and meet for their place age estate and condition XLIIII And thus we labour to giue vnto God y t which is Gods vnto Cesar that which is Cesars and vnto all men that which belongeth vnto them Endevoring our selves to have alwayes a cleare conscience towards God and towards men And having hope in God that the resurrection of the dead shal be of the just vnto life of the vnjust vnto condemnation everlasting Now if any take this to be heresie then do we with the Apostle freely confesse that after the way which they call heresie we worship God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ beleeving all things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets and Apostles and whatsoever is according to this rule of truth published in our owne countrey or holden by any reformed Churches in their Confessions abroad in the world We do also reiect and detest all straunge and heretical opinions doctrines of all Hereticks both old and new whatsoever XLV Finally whereas we are much slaundered and traduced as if we denyed or misliked that forme of prayer commonly called the Lords prayer we thought it needful here also cōcerning it to make known that we beleev and acknowledg it to be a most absolute and most excellent forme of prayer such as no men nor Angels can set downe the like And that it was taught and appointed by our Lord Iesus Christ not that we should be tyed to the vse of those very words but that we should according to that rule make all our requests and thankesgiving vnto God forasmuch as it is a perfect forme patterne conteining in it plaine sufficient directions of prayer for all occasions necessities that have ben are or shal be to the Church of God or any member therof to the end of the world Now vnto him that is able to keep vs that woe fal 〈◊〉 and to present vs faultlesse before the presence of his glory with ioy that is to God only wise our Saviour be glory and maiestie and dominion power both now 〈◊〉 for ever Amen ¶ The heads of the differences between vs and the Church of England as it standeth at this day concerning divers corruptions of Antichrist yet remayning among them I. THat Christ the Lord hath by his last Testament given to his Church and set therein sufficient ordinary Offices with the maner of calling or Entrance Works and Maintenance for the administration of his holy things and for the sufficient ordinary instruction guydance service of his Church to the end of the world 2. That every particular Church hath like full interest power to enioy and practise all the ordinances of Christ given by him to his Church to be observed therein perpetually 3. That a true visible Church is a company of people called and separated from the world by the word of God and ioyned together by voluntarie profession of the faith of Christ in the fellowship of the Gospell And that therefore no prophane persons vnbeleevers or wicked livers may be received reteyned or c●̄pelled to be members in the Church of Christ which is his body God having in all ages appointed made a separation of his people from the world before the Law vnder