Lectures of I.B. vpon the xii. Articles of our Christian faith briefely set forth for the comfort of the godly, and the better instruction of the simple and ignorant. Also hereunto is annexed a briefe and cleare confession of the Christian faith, conteining an hundreth articles, according to the order of the Creede of the Apostles. Written by that learned [and] godly martyr I.H. sometime Bishop of Glocester in his life time.

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Lectures of I.B. vpon the xii. Articles of our Christian faith briefely set forth for the comfort of the godly, and the better instruction of the simple and ignorant. Also hereunto is annexed a briefe and cleare confession of the Christian faith, conteining an hundreth articles, according to the order of the Creede of the Apostles. Written by that learned [and] godly martyr I.H. sometime Bishop of Glocester in his life time.
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Baker, John, minister.
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Imprinted at London :: By C. Barker,
[1581]
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Christianity -- Creeds -- Early works to 1800.
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"Lectures of I.B. vpon the xii. Articles of our Christian faith briefely set forth for the comfort of the godly, and the better instruction of the simple and ignorant. Also hereunto is annexed a briefe and cleare confession of the Christian faith, conteining an hundreth articles, according to the order of the Creede of the Apostles. Written by that learned [and] godly martyr I.H. sometime Bishop of Glocester in his life time." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02043.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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The lxviii. Article.

I beleeue that this sacrament contei∣neth two things, the one is earthly, carnall and visible, and the other is heauenly, spiri∣tuall and inuisible. And I confesse that as our bodie and outward man receiueth the thing that is earthly and visible, which is the bread and the wyne, whereby the bodie is nourished and fedde: euen so verely our spirit and inward man receiueth the thing that is heauenly and spirituall, which is

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signified by the breade and wine, that is to say, the body and bloud of Christ, after such sorte, that thereby wee are become one with him, bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh, and made partakers with him of all righ∣teousnes and other vertues, giftes and gra∣ces, the which the eternall father hath be∣stowed on him.

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