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.
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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.
Author
Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?
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[Amsterdam :: G. Thorp],
Reprinted in the yeare. 1607.
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Brownists -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08068.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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IIII.
In the| beginning, God made al things
of nothing very good: and created man
after his own image and likenes in righ∣teousnes
and holynes of truth. But
‡ streightwayes after, by the subtilty of
the serpent which Satan vsed as his in∣strument
(† himself with his Angels ha∣ving
sinned before, & not kept their first
estate, but left their owne habitation:)
first| Eva, then Adam being seduced, did
wittingly and willingly fall into disobe∣dience
and transgression of the cōmaun∣dement
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 trans∣gression
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, being conceived and formed
in iniquity, and so by nature children
of wrath and servants of sinne, and sub∣ject
to death, and all other calamities due