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DOCT. IX. Heresies and Errours condemned.
WE condemne therefore the Valen∣tinians, Alarcionites, Manichees, and as many as have taught, or have left any thing in writing behinde them, against this article of our Chri∣stian faith: whether they feigned the world to be made by some other God then the Father of Christ; or whe∣ther they held that, all things that are good were made by one God that is good, and all things that are evil by another that is evil. For, how can he be God which is not the chief and soveraigne good, and the onely maker of all good things. We con∣demne also all those which hold that the soul of man was made of the sub∣stance of God; or which deny it to be immortall and alwayes working; or which make the Image of God to consist onely in the dominion over his creatures; or, last of all, which deny that the first man was created by God at the first with free-will true∣ly so called.