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Quicunque vult.

WHosoeuer will be saued: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholike faith. * 1.1

Which faith, except euery one do keepe holy and bndefiled: without doubt hee shall perish euerlastingly.

And the Catholike faith is this: that we worship one God in trinitie, and trinitie in vnitie.

Neither confounding the persons nor diuiding the substance.

For there is one person of y^e Father, another of the Sonne: and another of the holy Ghost.

But the godhead of the Father, of the Sonne, & of the holy Ghost, is all one:the glory equall, the maiestie coeternall.

Such as the Father is, such is the Sonne:and such is the holy Ghost.

The Father vncreate, the Sonne vncreate:and the holy Ghost vncreate.

The Father incomprehensible, the Sonne incomprehensible: and the holy Ghost incomprehensible.

The Father eternall, the Sonne eternall:and the holy Ghost eternall.

And yet they are not three eternals:but one eternall.

As also there be not three incomprehensibles, nor three vncreated: but one vucreated, and one incomprehensible.

So like wise the Father is almighty, the Sonne almighty: and the holy Ghost almighty.

And yet they are not three almighties:but one almighty.

So the Father is God, the Sonne is God: and the holy Ghost is God.

And yet they are not three Gods:but one God.

So like wise the Father is Lord, the Sonne Lord:and the holy Ghost Lord.

And yet not three Lords:but one Lord.

For like as we be compelled by the Christian verity:to acknowledge euery person by himselfe to be God and Lord.

So are wee forbidden by the Catholique Religion: to say there be three Gods, or three Lords.

The Father is made of none: neither created, nor begotten.

The Sonne is of the Father alone: not made, nor created, but begotten.

The holy Ghost is of the Father, and of the sonne:neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

So three is one Father, not three fathers, one Sonne, not three sonnes:one holy Ghost, not three holy ghost.

And in this Trinitie, none is afore or after other: none is greater or lesse then another.

But the whole three persons bee coeternall together: and cocquall.

So that in all things, as is aforesaid: the Vnitie in Trinitic, and the Trintie in Vnitie is to be worshipped.

Hee therefore that will bee saued: must thus thinke of the Trinitie.

Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting saluation: that he also beleeue rigthtly in the incarnation of our Lord Iesus Christ.

For the right faith is, that wee beleeue and confesse: that our Lord Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God, is God and man.

God, of the substance of the father, begotten before the worlds: and man, of the substance of his mother, borne in the world.

Perfect God, and perfect man: of a reasonable soule, and humane flesh subsisting.

Equall to the Father as touching his godhead: and inferior to the Father, touching his manhood.

Who although he be God and man: yet he is not two, but one Christ.

One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh: but by taking of the manhood into God.

One altogether, not by confusion of substance: but by vnitie of person.

For as the reasonable soule and flesh is one man:so God and man is one Christ.

Who suffered for our saluation: descended into hell, rose againe the third day from the dead.

He ascended into heauen, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty: from whence he shalll come to iudge the quicke and the dead.

At whose comming all men shall rise againe with their bodies: and shall giue accompt for their owne workes.

And they that haue done good, shall goe into life euerlasting: and they that haue done euil into euerlasting fire.

This is the Catholique faith: which except a man beleeue faithfully, he cannot be saued.

Glory be to the Fathet, and to the Sonne, amp;c.

As it was in the beginning, is now, &c.

Thus endcth the order of Morning and Euening prayer throughout thewhole yeere.

Notes

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