The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique.

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The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique.
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Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.
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[Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legatt, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge,
1607.
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Church of England. -- Thirty-nine Articles -- Early works to 1800.
Church of England -- Creeds -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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"The faith, doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the realme of England, and dominions of the same expressed in 39 articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend bishops, and clergie of this kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: the said articles analised into propositions, and the propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant confessions of all the neighbour churches, Christianlie reformed: the aduersaries also of note, and name, which from the apostles daies, and primitiue Church hetherto, haue crossed, or contradicted the said articles in generall, or any particle, or proposition arising from anie of them in particular, heereby are discouered, laid open, and so confuted. Perused, and by the lawfull authoritie of the Church of England, allowed to be publique." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10958.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.

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The proofe from Gods word.

The office of the ciuill magistrate is to restraine; and if need be to punnish, according to the qualitie of their offences, the disturbers of the quiet, and peace of the Common-weale; and that as occasion shall require, sometime by force of armes, if the enemies of his State, bee either forraigne, or domesticall, and they gathered together, be many and mighty.a 1.1 To this end Kings and Princes haue both men, munition, Subsidies,b 1.2 and Tributes. So against the enimies of God, and good men, went of Israell, and Iudah, the valiant Iudges, and the noble, and puissant Princes.

And sometimes they execute their wholesome, and penall Statuts vpon the goods, cartell, Lands, and Bodies of their disorderly, and rebellious subiects.

For the King is the minister of God to take vengeance on

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him that doth euill. Therefore Princes are to be feared, not of them which doe well, but of such as doe wickedly a 1.3.

And this doe the people of God acknowledge to bee true b 1.4.

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