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I Beleue in one God the Father almightie, maker of heauen and earth.
Without faith it can not be that any man should please God. For he that commeth to God, must beleue that God is, and that hee is a re∣warder of them that seeke hym.
God is the Lord onely.
I am God, & there is none but I.
I am y• Lord, & there is els none.
I am the Lorde, besides whom there is none other God. A true God, and such as saueth, there is none but I alone.
I am he, before whom there was neuer any God, neither shall there be any after me. I am, yea, I am Lorde alone, and besides me there is no Sauiour.
I am the first and last, & besides me there is no God.
We are sure, that there is none other God but one.
Thou (O Lord) art our father and redemer. Thy name is from euerlasting.
Haue not we all one father? Hath not one God created vs? Why then doth euery one of vs de∣spise hys owne brother, & so breake
the couenaunt of our fathers?
Call no mā your father vpon the earth, for one is your father which is in heauen.
We haue but one God, euen the father, of whom all thinges are.
One Lorde, one fayth, one bap∣tisme, one God, and one father of all, which is aboue al, and through all, and in you all.
I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfecte.
Thou (O Lorde) art the great and mightie God, whose name is the Lord of Hostes, great in coun∣sell, and excellent in worke.
Beholde, I am the Lorde God of all fleshe, is there any thyng to hard for me? Shall any thyng be vnpossible in my sight, saith y• Lord of Hostes?
With God al things are possible. O Lorde God almightie, true and
righteous are thy iudgementes.
In the beginning God made heauen and earth.
The heauēs (O Lord) are th••••••, the earth also is thine, thou hast layde the foundation of the round worlde, and all that therin is.
The Lorde made the heauens, and spread them abroad, and set forth the earth with her increase, which geueth breath vnto the peo∣ple that is in it, and spirite to them that dwell therin.
O Lord God, it is thou that hast made hauen and earth with thy great power and hie arme▪ & there is nothing hid from thee.
O Lorde; thou art God, which hast made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that in them is.
ANd in Iesus Christ hys onely begotte•• Sonne our Lord.
He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlasting life. But hee that beleueth not on the sonne, shall not see life, but the wrath of God aby∣deth vpon hym.
Thys is the worke of God, y• ye beleue on him whom he hath sent.
If ye beleue not that I am hee, ye shall die in your sinnes.
Christ said to y• blind man, whom he had made to see: doost thou be∣le••••a on the Soone of God? He an∣swered and soyd: who is it Lord, that I might beleue on him: Iesus sayd vnto hym: Thou hast seene hym, and he it is that talketh with thee. And he sayd: Lord, I beleue: and he worshipped hym.
that beleueth on me, yea though he were dead, yet shall hee liue. And whosoeuer liueth and beleueth on me, shall neuer die. Beleuest thou this? She sayd vnto him: yea Lord, I beleue that thou art Christ the ••onne of God, which shoulde come into the world.
Ye beleue in God; beleue also in me.
This is God the fathers com∣maundemēt, that we beleue on the name of hys sonne Iesus Christ. He that beleveth on the sonne of God, hath the witnes in hym selfe. He y• beleueth not God, hath made hym a lier, because hee beleued not the recorde that God gaue of hys sonne. And this is that record, how that God hath gauē vnto vs eter∣nall life, & this life is in his sonne.
He that hath the sonne, hath life and he that hath not y• sonne, hath not life.
The Lord said vnto me, y• art myn sōne, this day haue I begottē thee.
This is my welbeloued sonne, in whom I am well pleased.
Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God.
God hath so loued y• worlde, that he gaue hys onely begotten sonne, that euery one y• beleueth on him, may not perishe, but haue euerla∣sting life. For God sent not hys sonne into the world to condemne the world, but that y• world should be saued by hym.
He that beleueth on hym, is not condemned: but hee that beleueth not, is already cōdemned, because hee hath not beleued on the name of the onely begottē sonne of God.
In this appeareth y• loue of God toward vs, because y• God sent hys onely begotten sonne into y• world, that we might liue through hym.
I am the Lord, and thys is my name. My glory will I geue to none other, neyther myne honour to grauen Images.
God is faythfull, by whom ye are called vnto the fellowship of hys sonne Iesus Christ our Lord.
There is but one Lord, euē Ie∣sus Christ, by whō are all thynges, and we by hym.
Ye call me Master and Lorde, & ye say well, for so am I in deede.
WHich was conceaued by the holy ghost, borne of the Virgin Mary.
Ioseph y• sonne of Dauid, feare not to take vnto thee Mary thy wife. For that which is conceaued in her, commeth of the holy ghost.
The holy ghost shall come vpon thee, and the power of y• ••iert shalt
ouershadow thee. Therfore, that holy thyng which shall bee borne, shall be called the sonne of God.
Beholde, a Uirgin shall cōceaue and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 are a some, and thou shalt call hys name Emanuell.
Unto vs is a childe borne, and vnto vs a sonne is geuen.
There shall come a rod forth of the kinred of I say, and a blossome shall florishe out of hys roote.
Iacob beg at Ioseph y• husband of Mary, of whom Iesus was borne, which is called Christ.
She shal bring forth a sonne, and y• shalt call hys name Iesus. For he shall saue his people frō their sins.
Beholde, thou shalt conceaue in thy wombe, and beare a sonne, and shalt call hys name Iesus.
When the tyme was full come, God sent hys sonne made of a wo∣man & made bonde vnto the lawe.
HE suffered vnder Ponce Pilate, was cruci••••∣ed, dead & buried. He descended into hell.
The kinges of the earth stoode vp, and the rulers toke counsell to∣gether agaynst the Lorde, and a∣gaynst hys annoynted.
Of a truth (O Lord) agaynst thy holy childe Iesus (whom thou hast annoynted) both Herode and also Ponce Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israell, gathered them selues together in thys citie, for to do whatsoeuer thy hand and thy counsell determined before to bee done.
I geue thee the charge in y• sight of God, which quickneth all thin∣ges, and before Iesu Christ (which vnder Ponce Pilate, witnessed a good witnessing) that thou keepe the commaūdement, and be with∣out
spot. &c.
They pearsed my handes and my feete.
He was wounded for our offen∣ces, & smitten for our wickednes.
They shall loke vpon me whom they haue pearsed.
As Moyses lifted vp the serpent in the wildernes: so must the sonne of man be lifted vp, that euery one which beleueth on hym, may not perishe, but haue euerlasting lyfe.
Ye seeke Iesus yt was crucified.
Christ hys owne selfe bare our sinnes in hys body on the tree, that wee being deliuered from sinne, should liue vnto righteousnes. By whose stripes ye were healed.
After thys ixij. weekes shall Christ be flame, and they shall haue no pleasure in hym.
When we were yet ••••u••ers; Christ dyed for vs.
Christ died for our sinnes, accor∣ding to the Scriptures.
Hys grace was geuē hym with the condeumed.
First of all I deliuered vnto you, that which I receaued: how that Christ dyed for our sinnes, agreing to the Scripture, and that he was buryed.
Ioseph and Nicodemus tooke Iesus body, and buried it in a new graue.
Thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell, neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
Thou through the bloud of thy couenaunt, shalt let the prisoners out of the pit, wherin is no water.
O death, I will be thy death: O hell, I will be thy destruction.
Christ hath once suffered for sins, the iuste for the vniust, to bryng vs to God, and was killed as per∣taynyng to the fleshe, but was quickned in the spirite. In which spirite hee also went, and prea∣ched vnto the spirites that were in prison.
THe thyrd day hee rose agayne from the dead.
I layd me downe and slept, and rose vp againe, for the Lord sustai∣ned me.
After two daies shall he quicken vs, and in the third day shall hee raise vs vp, so that we shall liue in hys sight.
Ye slew the authour of lyfe, whom God hath raised vp from the dead.
Christ died for our sinnes, & rose agayne for our iustification.
Iesus Christ rose agayn y• third day, according to the Scriptures.
Remember that Iesus Christ of the seede of Dauid, rose againe frō death, according to my Gospell.
HE ascended into heauen, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almightie.
God is gone vp with a mery noyse, and the Lorde with y• sound of the trumpe.
Thou art gone vp on hie, thou hast led captiuitie captiue, and re∣ceaued giftes for men.
It came to passe as hee blessed them, hee departed from them, and was caryed vp into heauen.
Iesus was taken vp on hie, and a cloude receaued hym vp out of their sight. And while they looked
stedfastly vp toward heauen, as he went, beholde, two men stoode by them in white apparell, which also said: ye mē of Galile, why stand ye gasing vp into heauen? This same Iesus, which is taken vp frō you into heauen, shall so come, as ye haue seene hym go into heauen.
Whē he went on hie, he led cap∣tiuitie captiue, and gaue giftes vn∣to men. That hee ascended: what meaneth it? but that he also descen∣ded first into the lowest partes of the earth? He y• descended, is euen the same also y• ascended vp aboue all heauens, to fulfill all thinges.
And sitteth on the right hand of God the father almightie.
The Lord sayd vnto my Lord: sit thou on my right hand, vntill I make thine enemies thy fotestoole.
When the Lord had spoken vn∣to them, he was receaued into hea∣uen,
and is sitting on y• right hand of God.
Christ is on y• right hand of God, and maketh intercession for vs.
If ye be risen againe with Christ, seke those things which are aboue, where Christ sitteth on the ryght hand of God.
Christ hath by hys own person purged our sinnes, & sitteth on the right hand of the maiestie on hie.
FRom thence hee shall come to iudge the quicke and dead.
The Lord shall iudge y• world with righteousnes, and the people with equitie.
Read the xxv. chapt. of S. Ma∣thewes Gospell.
The father hath committed all iudgement vnto the sonne, because that all mē should honor the sonne, as they honour the father.
Christ was ordayned of God to be iudge of quicke and dead.
We must all appeare before the iudgemēt seate of Christ, that eue∣ry man may receaue the works of his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Our conuersation is in heauen, from whence we looke for a Sa∣uiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ, which shall chaunge our vile body, that he may make it lyke vnto hys glorious body, accordyng to the working, wherby he is able to sub∣due all thinges vnto hym selfe.
The Lorde Iesus Christ shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing in his kingdome.
God is ready to iudge y• quicke and the dead.
I beleue in the holy Ghost.
the face of the waters.
Take not thy holy spirite frō me.
When Christ was baptised, the holy ghost came downe vpon hy•• in the likenes of a doue.
Christ cōmaunded hys disciples to baptise in the name of the fa∣ther, and of the sonne, and of the holy ghost.
The holy ghost shall reproue the world of sinne.
There are three which geue wit∣nesse in heauen, y• father, the sonne, and the holy ghost, and they three are one.
I Beleue the holy vniuersall congregation: which is the fellowship of Sainctes.
If he will not heare the congre∣gation, let him be vnto thee as an heathen man, and as a Publicane.
Christ loued the congregation, and gaue him self for it, to sanctifie
it, and clensed it in the fountayne of water through y• word, to make it vnto him self a glorious congre∣gation, without spot or wrinckle, or any such thyng, that it should be holy, and without blame.
I write these thinges vnto thee, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the house of God, which is the congre∣gation of the liuing God, the piller and ground of the truth.
All that beleued kept themselues together, and had all thinges com∣mon, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all mē, as euery man had neede. And they continued dayly with one accorde in the temple, & brake bread from house to house, and dyd eate their meate together with gladnes and singlenes of hart, praysing God.
The multitude of them that be∣leued, were of one hart, and of one
soule. Neither sayd any of them, that ought of the thinges which he possessed, was hys owne, but they had all thinges cōmon. And great grace was with them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked. For as many as were pos∣sessors of landes or houses, solde them, and brought the price of the thinges that were solde, and layde it down at the Apostles feete. And distribution was made vnto euery man according as he had neede.
I Beleue in the forgeuenes of sinnes.
I am he, yea, I am he, which put away thine iniquities, and that for mine owne sake, and will remem∣ber them no more.
The Lorde shall put downe our wickednesses, & cast all our sinnes into the bottome of the sea.
the west, so farre hath hee set our sinnes from vs.
Yea, like as a father pitieth hys owne children: euen so is the Lord mercifull vnto all them that feare him. For hee knoweth perfectly wherof we be made, he remēbreth that we are but dust.
Christ hath taken vpon hym our infirmities, and borne our diseases.
The sonne of man came to seeke and saue that was lost.
All that beleue in Christ, shall not perishe, but haue euerlasting life.
Thys is a true saying, and wor∣thy to bee noted, that Christ Iesus came into y• world to saue sinners.
The bloud of Iesus Christ ma∣keth vs cleane frō all sinne. If we say we haue no sinne, we deceaue our selues, & the truth is not in vs. But if we confesse our sinnes, God is faithfull and righteous to for∣geue vs our sinnes, and to make vs cleane from all iniquitie.
I Beleue the resurrection of the body.
I beleue that my redemer liueth, and that I shall rise out of y• earth in the latter day: and that I shall be clothed again with this skinne, and see God my Sauiour in my fleshe. Yea, I my selfe shall behold hym, not with other eyes, but with these same eies. Thys hope is stedfast∣ly set in my hart.
Thy dead men shall liue, euen with my body shall they rise again. Awake and sing ye that dwell in the duste. For thy dewe is euen as the dew of herbes, & the earth shall cast out them that be vnder her.
O ye dry bones, he are the worde of the Lord. Thus sayth the Lorde God vnto these bones: beholde, I will put breath vnto you, that ye may liue: I will geue you sinewes, and make fleshe grow vpō you, and
couer you ouer with skinne: and so geue you breath, that ye may liue, and know that I am the Lord.
Behold, I will open your graues (O my people) and take you out of your Sepulchres.
The houre shall come, in y• which all that are in y• graues, shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God, and shall come forth: they yt haue done good, vnto the resurrection of lyfe: and they that haue done euill, vnto the resurrection of damnation.
If Christ be preached how that he rose frō the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resur∣rection of the dead? If there be no rising agayne of the dead, then is Christ not risen againe? If Christ bee not risen agayne, then is our preaching in vaine, and your fayth also is in vaine.
Read the whole Chapter.
vp the Lord Iesus, shall raise vs vp also by the meanes of Iesus.
If we beleue that Iesus dyed, and rose againe, euen them also which sleepe by Iesus, will God bring againe with him.
Read y• latter end of the chapter.
I Beleue euerlasting life.
Many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some to euerlasting life, some to perpetu∣all shame & reprofe. The wise (such as haue taught 〈◊〉〈◊〉 her) shall glister 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the shining of heauen: and those that haue instructed the multitude vnto godlines, shal be as y• starres, world without end.
¶Read the. 2. Chapter of the 4. booke of E••••ras.
know thē, and they follow me, and I geue them euerlasting life.
This is euerlasting life, euen to know thee yt alone true God, and whō thou hast sent Iesus Christ.
O Father, these that thou hast geuē me, I will that where I am, there also they bee with me, that they may see my glory, which thou hast geuen me.
The eye hath not seene, and the eare hath not heard, neither haue the thinges entred into the hart of man, which God hath prepared for them th••t loue hym.
We know that if our earthly mā∣sion of this dwelling were destroy∣ed, we haue a building of God, an habitation not made with hands, but euerlasting in heauen. Amen.
¶All these Articles aforesayd, I with my whole hart beleue, & with my mouth vnfaynedly confesse to be true and agrea∣ble to Gods holy word.
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Deut. vj.
Deut. 32.
Esa. xiv.
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