The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.

☞ The Crede of Athanasius. N

〈♫〉〈♫〉 WHat man soeuer he be that, salua∣tion 〈♫〉〈♫〉will attayne, the catholike belefe he muste 〈♫〉〈♫〉 before all thinges retayne, which faith vnles 〈♫〉〈♫〉 he holy kepe, and vndefiledly, without al doubt 〈♫〉〈♫〉 eternally, he shalbe sure to dye.

The Catholike belefe is this. that God we worship one.

In Trinitie and Trinitie in vnitie alone. So as we neyther doo confound, the persons of the three, Nor yet the substance whole of one In sunder parted be.

One person of the father is, an other of the Sonne, An other person propre of the holy Ghost alone. Of Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost but one the Godhed is, Like glory, coeternall eke the maiestie likewise.

Suche as the father is, such is the Sonne in eche degree, And suche also we do beleue the holy Ghost to be. Nncreat is the Father, and vncreat is the Sonne, The holy Ghost, vncreate: so vncreat is eche one.

In comprehensible Father is, Incomprehensible Sonne, And comprehensible also is The holy Ghost of none. The Father is eternall, and the Sonne eternall so, And in like sort eternall is, the holy Ghost also.

And yet though we beleue that eche of these eternall be: Yet there but one eternall is, and not eternals three. As ne incomprensible we, ne yet vncreat three, But one incomprensible, one vncreat holde to be.

Almightie so the father is, the sonne almightye so, And in like sort almightye is the holy Ghost also, And albeit that euery one of these almightie be: Yet there but one almightie is, and not almighties three.

The Father God is, God the Sonne, God holy Ghost also: Yet are there not three Gods in all, but one God and n••mo. So likewise Lorde the Father is, and Lorde also the Sonne, And Lord the holy Ghost: yet are there not three Lordes, but one.

For as we are compeld to graunt by Christian veritie, Eche of the persons by himselfe both God and Lord to be. So Catholick religion for biddeth vs alway

That eyther Gods be three, or that there Lordes be three to say.

Of none the father is, ne made ne creat, nor begot: The Sonne is of the Father, not creat ne made but got. The holy Ghost is of them both, the father and the Sonne, Ne made, ne creat, nor begot, but doth procede alone.

So we one Father hold, not three: one Sonne also not three: One holy Ghost alone, and not three holy Ghostes to be. None in this Trinitie before, nor after other is: Ne greater any then the rest, ne lesser be likewise.

But euery one amonge them selues, of all the persons three: Together coeternall all, and all coequall be. So vnitie in Trinitie, as said it is before: And Trinitie in vnitie in all things we adore.

Therfore what man so euer that saluation will attayne: This faith touching the Trinitie: of force he must reteyne.

And nedefull to eternall life it is that euery wight Of the incarnating of Christ our Lord beleue a right.

For this the right faith is, that we beleue and eke beknow, That Christ our Lorde the son of God, is God and man also, God of his fathers substaunce, got before the world began: And of his mothers substance, borne in worlde a very man.

Both perfect God and perfect man in one one Iesus Christ That doth of resonable soule, an humane flesh subsist, Touching his Godhed egall with his father God is he. Touching his manhed lower then his father in degree.

Who though he be both very God and very man also: yet is he but one Christ alone and is not persons two. One not by turning of Godhed into the flesh of man: But by taking manhod to God this beyng one began,

All one, not byconfounding of the substance into one:

But onely by the vnitie that is of one persone. For as the reasonable soule and flesh but one man is: So in one persone God and man is but one Christ likewise.

Who suffred for to saue vs all to hell he did descend: The third day rose agayne from dead, to heauen he did ascend. He sittes at the right hand of God thalmightie father there: From thence to iudge the quick and dead againe he shall retire.

At whose returne all men shall rise with bodies new restorde: And of theyr owne workes they shall geue accompt vnto the Lorde. And they into eternall lyfe shall go that haue done well, Who haue done ill shall go into eternall fire to dwell.

This is the catholike belefe, who doth not faithfully Beleue the same, without all dout, he saued can not be. To Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost, all glory be therfore, As in beginning was, is now, and shalbe euermore.