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<P>Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbi&s;hoppes and Bi|&s;hoppes of both prouinces and the whole cleargie, in the Con|uocation holden at London in the yere of our Lorde GOD. 1562. according to the compu|tation of the Churche of En|glande, for the auoiding of the diuer&s;ities of opinions, and for the &s;tabli&s;hyng of con&s;ent touching true religion.</P>
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<P>Put foorth by the Queenes aucthoritie.</P>
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<HEAD>1 Of fayth in the holy Trinitie.</HEAD>
<P>_THERE is but one ly|uing and true GOD, euerla&s;tyng, without bodye, partes, or pa&s;&s;i|ons, of infinite pow|er, wy&s;edome, &amp; good|ne&s;&s;e, the maker and pre&s;eruer of al thyngs both vi&s;ible and inui|&s;ible. And in vnitie of this Godhead there be three per&s;ons, of one &s;ub&s;taunce, power, and eternitie, the father, the &s;onne, and the holy gho&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>2 Of the worde or &s;onne of God which was made very man.</HEAD>
<P>THE Sonne, which is the worde of the Fa|ther, begotten from euerla&s;tyng of the Fa|ther, the very and eternall GOD, of one &s;ub&s;taunce with the father, tooke mans nature
<PB N="4" REF="3"> in the wombe of the ble&s;&s;ed Virgin, of her &s;ub|&s;taunce: &s;o that two whole and perfect natures, that is to &s;ay, the Godhead and manhood, were ioyned together in one per&s;on, neuer to be diui|ded, whereof is one Chri&s;t, very GOD and very man, who truely &s;uffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, to reconcile his father to vs, and to be a &s;acrifice, not onely for originall gylt, but al&s;o for all actuall &s;innes of men.</P>
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<HEAD>3 Of the goyng downe of Chri&s;te into hell.</HEAD>
<P>AS Chri&s;te dyed for vs, and was buryed: &s;o al&s;o it is to be beleued that he went downe into hell.</P>
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<HEAD>4 Of the re&s;urrection of Chri&s;te.</HEAD>
<P>CHri&s;t did truely ari&s;e agayne from death, and toke agayne his body, with fle&s;he, bones, and all thinges apparteyning to the perfection of mans nature, wherewith he a&s;cended into hea|uen, and there &s;itteth, vntyl he returne to iudge al men at the la&s;t day.</P>
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<HEAD>5 Of the holy gho&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>THE holy gho&s;t, proceedyng from the father and the &s;onne, is of one &s;ub&s;taunce, maie&s;tie, and glory, with the father and the &s;onne, be|ry and eternall God.</P>
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<HEAD>6 Of the &s;ufficiencie of the holy Scriptures for &s;aluation.</HEAD>
<P>HOlye Scripture conteyneth all thinges ne|ce&s;&s;arie to &s;aluation: &s;o that what&s;oeuer is not read therein, nor may be proued therby, is not to be required of any man, that it &s;houlde be beleued as an article of the fayth, or be thought requi&s;ite nece&s;&s;arie to &s;aluation. In the name of holy Scripture, we do vnder&s;tande tho&s;e Cano|nicall bookes of the olde and newe Te&s;tament, of who&s;e aucthoritie was neuer anye doubt in the Churche.</P>
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<HEAD>Of the names and number of the Canonicall Bookes.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Gene&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Exodus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Leuiticus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Numerie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Deuteronomium.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io&s;ue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iudges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ruth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 1. booke of Samuel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 2. booke of Samuel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 1. booke of Kinges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 2. booke of Kinges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 1. booke of Chroni.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 2. booke of Chroni.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 1. booke of E&s;dras.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 2. booke of E&s;dras.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The booke of He&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The booke of Iob.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The P&s;almes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Prouerbes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Eccle&s;ia. or preacher.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cantica, or &s;onges of Sa.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Prophetes the greater.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. Prophetes the le&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
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<P>And the other bookes (as Hierome &s;ayth) the Church doth reade for example of lyfe and in|&s;truction of maners: but yet doth it not applie them to e&s;tabli&s;he any doctrine. Suche are the&s;e folowyng.</P>
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<ITEM>The third boke of E&s;dras.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The fourth boke of E&s;dras</ITEM>
<ITEM>The booke of Tobias.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The booke of Iudith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The re&s;t of the booke of He&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The booke of VVi&s;dome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ie&s;us the &s;onne of Sirach.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Baruch, the Prophet.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;ong of the three children.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;torie of Su&s;anna.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of Bel and the Dragon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The prayer of Mana&s;&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 1. booke of Macha.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The. 2. booke of Macha.</ITEM>
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<P>All the bookes of the new Te&s;tament, as they are commonly receaued, we do receaue and accompt them for Canonicall.</P>
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<HEAD>7 Of the olde Te&s;tament.</HEAD>
<P>THE olde Te&s;tament is not contrarye to the newe, for both in the olde and newe Te&s;ta|ment euerla&s;tyng lyfe is offered to man|kinde by Chri&s;te, who is the onlye mediatour be|tweene God and man, being both God and man. Wherefore they are not to be hearde whiche faigne that the olde fathers dyd looke onlye for tran&s;itorie promi&s;es. Although the lawe geuen
<PB N="7" REF="4"> from God by Moy&s;es, as touchyng ceremonies and rites, do not bynde Chri&s;tian men, nor the ciuile preceptes therof, ought of nece&s;&s;itie to be re|ceaued in any common wealth: yet notwith&s;tan|dyng, no Chri&s;tian man what&s;oeuer, is free from the obedience of the commaundementes, whiche are called morall.</P>
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<HEAD>8 Of the three Credes.</HEAD>
<P>THE three Credes, Nicene Crede, Athana|&s;ius Crede, and that whiche is commonlye called the Apo&s;tles Crede, ought throughlye to be receaued and beleued: for they may be proued by mo&s;t certayne warrauntes of holy &s;cripture,</P>
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<HEAD>9 Of origianll or birth &s;inne.</HEAD>
<P>ORiginall &s;inne &s;tandeth not in the folow|ing of Adam (as the Pelagians do vayne|ly talke) but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of euery man, that naturally is en|gendred of the of&s;pryng of Adam, whereby man is very farre gone from originall ryghteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and is of his owne nature enclined to euyll, &s;o that the fle&s;he lu&s;teth alwayes contrarye to the &s;pirite, and therefore in euery per&s;on borne in|to this worlde, it de&s;erueth Gods wrath and
<PB N="8" REF="5"> damnation. And this infection of nature doth re|mayne, yea in them that are regenerated, wherby the lu&s;t of the fle&s;he, called in Greke <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">, whiche &s;ome do expounde the wy&s;edome, &s;ome &s;en&s;ualitie, &s;ome the affection, &s;ome the de&s;yre of the fle&s;he, is not &s;ubiect to the lawe of God. And although there is no condemnation for them that beleue and are baptized: yet the Apo&s;tle doth con|fe&s;&s;e that concupi&s;cence and lu&s;t hath of it &s;elfe the nature of &s;ynne.</P>
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<HEAD>10 Of free wyll.</HEAD>
<P>THE condition of man after the fall of Adam is &s;uche, that he can not turne and prepare hym &s;elfe by his owne natural &s;trength and good workes, to faith and calling vppon GOD: Wherfore we haue no power to do good workes plea&s;aunt and acceptable to GOD, without the grace of God by Chri&s;te preuentyng vs, that we may haue a good wyll, &amp; workyng with vs, when we haue that good wyll.</P>
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<HEAD>11 Of the iu&s;tification of man.</HEAD>
<P>WE are accompted ryghteous before God, only for the merite of our Lord &amp; &s;auiour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, by faith, &amp; not for ourowne
<PB N="9" REF="5"> workes or de&s;eruinges. Wherefore, that we are iu&s;tified by fayth onlye, is a mo&s;t whole&s;ome doc|trine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expre&s;&s;ed in the Homilie of iu&s;tification.</P>
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<HEAD>12 Of good workes.</HEAD>
<P>ALbeit that good workes, whiche are the fruites of fayth, and folowe after iu&s;tificati|on, can not put away our &s;innes, and endure the &s;eueritie of Gods iudgement: yet are they plea&s;ing and acceptable to God in Chri&s;te, and do &s;pring out nece&s;&s;aryly of a true and liuely faith, in &s;o muche that by them, a lyuely fayth may be as euidently knowen, as a tree di&s;cerned by the fruit.</P>
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<HEAD>13 Of workes before iu&s;tification.</HEAD>
<P>WOrkes done before the grace of Chri&s;te, and the in&s;piration of his &s;pirite, are not plea&s;aunt to God, fora&s;muche as they &s;pring not of fayth in Ie&s;u Chri&s;t, neyther do they make men meete to receaue grace, or (as the &s;chole aucthours &s;ay) de&s;erue grace of congruitie: yea rather for that they are not done as GOD hath wylled and commaunded them to be done, we doubt not but they haue the nature of &s;inne.</P>
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<HEAD>14 Of workes of &s;upererogation.</HEAD>
<P>VOluntary workes, be&s;ydes, ouer and aboue Gods commaundementes, whiche they call workes of &s;upererogation, can not be taught without arrogancie and impietie. For by them men do declare that they do not onely render vnto God as muche as they are bounde to do, but that they do more for his &s;ake then of bounden duetie is required: Whereas Chri&s;t &s;ayth playnely, When ye haue done all that are commaunded to you, &s;ay, We be vnprofitable &s;eruauntes.</P>
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<HEAD>15 Of Chri&s;t alone without &s;inne.</HEAD>
<P>CHri&s;te in the trueth of our nature, was made lyke vnto vs in al thinges (&s;inne only except) from whiche he was clearly voyde, both in his fle&s;he, &amp; in his &s;pirite. He came to be the lambe without &s;pot, who by &s;acrifice of hym &s;elfe once made, &s;houlde take away the &s;innes of the worlde: and &s;inne (as S. Ihon &s;ayth) was not in hym. But all we the re&s;t (although baptized, and borne agayne in Chri&s;te) yet offende in many thynges: and if we &s;ay we haue no &s;inne, we deceaue our &s;elues, and the trueth is not in vs.</P>
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<HEAD>16 Of &s;inne after Bapti&s;me.</HEAD>
<P>NOT euery deadly &s;inne wyllyngly commit|ted after bapti&s;me, is &s;inne agayn&s;t the holy gho&s;t, and vnpardonable. Wherefore, the graunt of repentaunce is not to be denyed to &s;uch as fal into &s;inne after bapti&s;me. After we haue re|ceaued the holy gho&s;t, we may depart from grace geuen, and fall into &s;inne, and by the grace of God (we may) ari&s;e againe and amende our liues. And therefore, they are to be condemned, whiche &s;ay they can no more &s;inne as long as they lyue here, or denye the place of forgeuene&s;&s;e to &s;uch as truely repent.</P>
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<HEAD>17 Of prede&s;tination and election.</HEAD>
<P>PRede&s;tination to lyfe, is the euerla&s;tyng pur|po&s;e of God, whereby (before the foundations of the worlde were layde) he hath con&s;tantly decreed by his coun&s;ell &s;ecrete to vs, to deliuer from cur&s;e and damnation, tho&s;e whom he hath cho&s;en in Chri&s;te out of mankynde, and do bring them by Chri&s;te to euerla&s;tyng &s;aluation, as ve&s;|&s;els made to honour. Wherefore they which be in|dued with &s;o excellent a benefite of God, be called accordyng to Gods purpo&s;e by his &s;pirite wor|kyng in due &s;ea&s;on: they through grace obey the callyng: they be iu&s;tified freelye: they be made &s;onnes of GOD by adoption: they be made lyke
<PB N="12" REF="7"> the image of his onlye begotten &s;onne Ie&s;us Chri&s;t: they walke religiou&s;ly in good workes, and at length by Gods mercie, they attayne to euerla|&s;tyng felicitie.</P>
<P>As the godly con&s;yderation of prede&s;tination, and our election in Chri&s;te, is full of &s;weete, plea|&s;aunt, and vn&s;peakeable comfort to godlye per|&s;ons, and &s;uch as feele in them &s;elues the working of the &s;pirite of Chri&s;te, mortifiyng the workes of the fle&s;he, &amp; their earthly members, and drawyng vp their mynde to hygh and heauenly thinges, a&s;|well becau&s;e it doth greatly e&s;tabli&s;he and con|firme their fayth of eternall &s;aluation to be en|ioyed through Chri&s;t, as becau&s;e it doth feruently kyndle their loue towardes God: So, for curious and carnall per&s;ons, lacking the &s;pirite of Chri&s;te, to haue continually before their eyes the &s;entence of Gods prede&s;tination, is a mo&s;te daungerous downefall, whereby the deuyll doth thru&s;t them eyther into de&s;peration, or into rechle&s;ne&s;&s;e of mo&s;t vncleane lyuyng, no le&s;&s;e perilous then de&s;|peration.</P>
<P>Furthermore, we mu&s;t receaue Gods promi&s;es in &s;uch wy&s;e, as they be generally &s;et foorth to vs in holy &s;cripture: and in our doynges, that wyll of God is to be folowed, whiche we haue expre&s;ly de|clared vnto vs in the worde of God.</P>
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<HEAD>18 Of obtaynyng eternall &s;aluation, on|ly by the name of Chri&s;te.</HEAD>
<P>THey al&s;o are to be had accur&s;ed, that pre&s;ume to &s;ay, that euery man &s;halbe &s;aued by the lawe or &s;ect which he profe&s;&s;eth, &s;o that he be diligent to frame his lyfe accordyng to that lawe, and the lyght of nature. For holye &s;cripture doth &s;et out vnto vs onlye the name of Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, whereby men mu&s;t be &s;aued.</P>
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<HEAD>19 Of the Church.</HEAD>
<P>THe vi&s;ible Church of Chri&s;te, is a congrega|tion of faythfull men, in the which the pure worde of GOD is preached, and the Sacra|mentes be duely mini&s;tred, accordyng to Chri&s;tes ordinaunce in all tho&s;e thynges that of nece&s;&s;itie are requi&s;ite to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>As the Church of Hieru&s;alem, Alexandria, and Antioche haue erred: &s;o al&s;o the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their lyuing and maner of ceremonies, but al&s;o in matters of fayth.</P>
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<HEAD>20 Of the aucthoritie of the Churche.</HEAD>
<P>IT is not lawfull for the Church to ordayne any thing that is contrary to GODS worde writ|ten, neyther may it &s;o expounde one place of
<PB N="14" REF="8"> &s;cripture, that it be repugnaunt to another. Wher|fore, although the Churche be a witne&s;&s;e and a ke|per of holy writ: yet, as it ought not to decree any thyng agayn&s;t the &s;ame, &s;o be&s;ides the &s;ame, ought it not to enforce any thing to be beleued for nece&s;&s;i|tie of &s;aluation.</P>
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<HEAD>21 Of the aucthoritie of generall Coun&s;elles.</HEAD>
<P>GEnerall Coun&s;elles may not be gathered to|gether without the commaundement and wyll of princes. And when they be gathered together (fora&s;muche as they be an a&s;&s;emblye of men, wherof all be not gouerned with the &s;pirite and worde of God) they may erre, and &s;ometyme haue erred, euen in thinges parteining vnto God. Wherefore, thinges ordeined by them as nece&s;&s;ary to &s;aluation, haue neyther &s;trength nor aucthori|tie, vnle&s;&s;e it may be declared that they be taken out of holy &s;cripture.</P>
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<HEAD>22 Of Purgatorie.</HEAD>
<P>THE Romi&s;he doctrine concernyng purgato|rie, pardons, wor&s;hipping and adoration a&s;|well of images, as of reliques, and al&s;o inuo|cation of Saintes, is a fonde thing, vainly inuen|ted, and grounded vpon no warrauntie of Scrip|ture, but rather repugnaunt to the worde of God.</P>
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<HEAD>23 Of mini&s;tring in the congre|gation.</HEAD>
<P>IT is not lawfull for any man to take vpon him the office of publique preachyng, or mini&s;tryng the Sacramentes in the congregation, before he be lawfully called and &s;ent to execute the &s;ame. And tho&s;e we ought to iudge lawfully called and &s;ent, whiche be cho&s;en and called to this worke by men who haue publique aucthoritie geuen vnto them in the congregation, to call and &s;ende mini|&s;ters into the Lordes vineyarde.</P>
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<HEAD>24 Of &s;peakyng in the congregation, in &s;uche a tongue as the people vn|der&s;tandeth.</HEAD>
<P>IT is a thyng playnely repugnaunt to the worde of God, &amp; the cu&s;tome of the primatiue Churche, to haue publique prayer in the Churche, or to mini&s;ter the Sacramentes, in a tongue not vn|der&s;tanded of the people.</P>
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<HEAD>25 Of the Sacramentes.</HEAD>
<P>SAcramentes ordayned of Chri&s;te, be not onely badges or tokens of chri&s;tian mens profe&s;&s;ion: but rather they be certayne &s;ure witne&s;&s;es and effectuall &s;ignes of grace and Gods good wyll to|wardes vs, by the whiche he doth worke inui&s;ibly
<PB N="16" REF="9"> in vs, and doth not onely quicken, but al&s;o &s;treng|then and confirme our fayth in hym.</P>
<P>There are two Sacramentes ordeyned of Chri&s;te our Lorde in the Go&s;pell, that is to &s;ay, Bapti&s;me, and the Supper of the Lorde.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e fyue, commonly called Sacramentes, that is to &s;ay, Confirmation, Penaunce, Orders, Matrimonie, and extreme Vnction, are not to be compted for Sacramentes of the Go&s;pel, being &s;uch as haue growen partly of the corrupt folow|ing of the Apo&s;tles, partly are &s;tates of life alowed in the &s;criptures: but yet haue not lyke nature of Sacramentes with Bapti&s;me and the Lordes Supper, for that they haue not any vi&s;ible &s;igne or ceremonie ordayned of God.</P>
<P>The Sacramentes were not ordeyned of Chri&s;t to be ga&s;ed vpon, or to be caryed about: but that we &s;houlde duely v&s;e them. And in &s;uche onlye, as worthyly receaue the &s;ame, they haue a whole|&s;ome effect or operation: But they that receaue them vnworthyly, purcha&s;e to them &s;elues dam|nation, as S. Paul &s;ayth.</P>
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<HEAD>26 Of the vnworthyne&s;&s;e of the mini|&s;ters, which hinder not the effect of the Sacramentes.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough in the vi&s;ible Churche the euyll be euer myngled with the good, &amp; &s;ometime the euyll haue cheefe aucthoritie in the mini&s;tra|tion
<PB N="17" REF="9"> of the worde &amp; Sacramentes: yet fora&s;much as they do not the &s;ame in theyr owne name, but in Chri&s;tes, and do mini&s;ter by his commi&s;&s;ion and aucthoritie, we may v&s;e their mini&s;terie, both in hearyng the word of God, &amp; in the receauing of the Sacramentes. Neyther is y^e effect of Chri&s;tes ordinaunce taken away by theyr wickedne&s;&s;e, nor the grace of Gods gyftes dimini&s;hed from &s;uch as by fayth &amp; ryghtlye do receaue the Sacramentes mini&s;tred vnto them, which be effectuall, becau&s;e of Chri&s;tes in&s;titution and promy&s;e, although they be mini&s;tred by euyll men.</P>
<P>Neuerthele&s;&s;e, it apparteyneth to the di&s;cipline of the Churche, that inquirie be made of euill mi|ni&s;ters, and that they be accu&s;ed by tho&s;e that haue knowledge of theyr offences: and finally, be|yng founde gyltie by iu&s;t iudgement, be depo&s;ed.</P>
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<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>27 Of Bapti&s;me.</HEAD>
<P>BApti&s;me is not only a &s;igne of profe&s;&s;ion, and marke of difference, whereby Chri&s;tian men are di&s;cerned from other that be not Chri&s;te|ned: but is al&s;o a&s;tgne of regeneration or ne we byrth, whereby, as by an in&s;trument, they that receaue Bapti&s;me ryghtly, are grafted into the Church: the promi&s;es of the forgeuene&s;&s;e of &s;inne, &amp; of our adoption to be the &s;onnes of God, by the holy gho&s;t, are vi&s;ibly &s;igned and &s;ealed: fayth is confirmed, and grace encrea&s;ed by vertue of pray|er
<PB N="18" REF="10"> vnto God. The bapti&s;me of young chyldren, is in anye wyfe to be retayned in the Churche, as mo&s;t agreeable with the in&s;titution of Chri&s;te.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>28 Of the Lordes Supper.</HEAD>
<P>THE Supper of the Lord, is not only a &s;igne of the loue that Chri&s;tians ought to haue a|mong them &s;elues one to another: but ra|ther it is a Sacrament of our redemption by Chri&s;ties death. In&s;omuch that to &s;uch as ryght|lye, worthylye, and with fayth receaue the &s;ame, the bread whiche we breake is a partakyng of the body of Chri&s;te, and likewi&s;e the cuppe of ble&s;|&s;ing, is a partaking of the blood of Chri&s;te.</P>
<P>Tran&s;ub&s;tantiation (or the chaunge of the &s;ub|&s;taunce of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lorde, can not be proued by holy writ: but is re|pugnaunt to the playne wordes of Scripture, ouerthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath geuen occa&s;ion to many &s;uper&s;titions.</P>
<P>The body of Chri&s;t is geuen, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heauenly and &s;piri|tuall maner: And the meane whereby the body of Chri&s;t is receaued and eaten in the Supper, is fayth.</P>
<P>The Sacrament of the Lordes Supper, was not by Chri&s;tes ordinaunce re&s;erued, caryed a|bout, lyfted vp, or wor&s;hypped.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="article">
<PB N="19" REF="10">
<HEAD>29 Of the wycked whiche do not eate the body of Chri&s;t in the v&s;e of the Lordes Supper.</HEAD>
<P>THe wicked, and &s;uche as be voyde of a lyue|lye fayth, although they do carnally and vi|&s;ibly pre&s;&s;e with theyr teeth (as Saint Au|gu&s;tine &s;ayth) the Sacrament of the bodye and blood of Chri&s;t: yet in no wy&s;e are they partakers of Chri&s;te, but rather, to theyr condemnation, do eate and drynke the &s;igne or Sacrament of &s;o great a thyng.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>30 Of both kyndes.</HEAD>
<P>THe cuppe of the Lorde is not to be denyed to the laye people. For both the partes of the Lordes Sacrament, by Chri&s;tes ordinance and commaundement, ought to be mini&s;tred to all chri&s;tian men alyke.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="31" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>31 Of the one oblation of Chri&s;te fini|&s;hed vpon the Cro&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>THe offeryng of Chri&s;t once made, is the per|fect redemption, propiciation, and &s;ati&s;facti|on for all the &s;innes of the whole worlde, both originall and actuall, and there is none o|ther &s;ati&s;faction for &s;inne, but that alone. Wher|fore the &s;acrifices of Ma&s;&s;es, in the whiche it was commonly &s;ayde that the Prie&s;tes did offer Chri&s;t
<PB N="20" REF="11" MS="y"> for the quicke and the dead, to haue remi&s;&s;ion of paine or gilt, were bla&s;phemous fables and daun|gerous deceiptes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="32" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>32 Of the mariage of Prie&s;tes.</HEAD>
<P>By&s;hops, Prie&s;tes, and Deacons, are not com|maunded by Gods lawe eyther to vowe the &s;tate of &s;ingle lyfe, or to ab&s;tayne from mari|age. Therefore it is lawfull al&s;o for them, as for all other chri&s;tian men, to marye at theyr owne di&s;cretion, as they &s;hall iudge the &s;ame to &s;erue better to godlyne&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="33" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>33 Of excommunicate per&s;ons, howe they are to be auoyded.</HEAD>
<P>THat per&s;on whiche by open denuntiation of the Churche, is ryghtly cut of from the vni|tie of the Churche, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faythfull as an Heathen and Publicane, vntyll he be openly reconciled by penaunce, and recea|ued into the Churche by a iudge that hath auc|thoritie thereto.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="34" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>34 Of the traditions of the Church.</HEAD>
<P>IT is not nece&s;&s;arie that traditions and ceremo|nies be in all places one, or vtterly like, for at all
<PB N="21" REF="11"> times they haue ben diuer&s;e, and may be chaun|ged accordyng to the diuer&s;itie of countreyes, times, and mens maners, &s;o that nothyng be or|deyned agayn&s;t Gods worde. Who&s;oeuer through his priuate iudgement, wyllyngly and purpo&s;ely doth openlye breake the traditions and ceremo|nies of the Church, which be not repugnaunt to the worde of God, and be ordayned and approued by common aucthoritie, ought to be rebuked openlye (that other may feare to do the lyke) as he that offendeth agayn&s;t the common order of the Churche, and hurteth the aucthoritie of the Magi&s;trate, and woundeth the con&s;ciences of the weake brethren.</P>
<P>Euery particuler and nationall Church, hath aucthoritie to ordayne, chaunge, and aboly&s;he ce|remonies or rites of the Churche ordayned onlye by mans aucthoritie, &s;o that all thynges be done to edifiyng.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="35" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>35 Of Homilies.</HEAD>
<P>THe &s;econde booke of Homilies, the &s;euerall titles whereof we haue ioyned vnder this ar|ticle, doth conteyne a godly and whole&s;ome doctrine, and nece&s;&s;ary for the&s;e tymes, as doth the former booke of Homilies, whiche were &s;et foorth in the time of Edwarde the &s;ixt: and there|fore we iudge them to be read in Churches by the Mini&s;ters diligently, and di&s;tinctlye, that they may be vnder&s;tanded of the people.</P>
<PB N="22" REF="12">
<LIST>
<HEAD>Of the names of the Homilies.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1 Of the right v&s;e of the Churche.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Agayn&s;t perill of Idolatrie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Of repayring and keping cleane of Churches.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Of good workes, fir&s;t of fa&s;tyng.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Agayn&s;t gluttony and drunkenne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Again&s;t exce&s;&s;e of apparell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Of prayer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8 Of the place and time of prayer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9 That common prayers and Sacramentes ought to be mini&s;tred in a knowen tongue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10 Of the reuerente e&s;timation of Gods worde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11 Of almes doing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Of the Natiuitie of Chri&s;te.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13 Of the pa&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;te.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14 Of the re&s;urrection of Chri&s;te.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15 Of the worthie receauing of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Chri&s;te.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16 Of the gyftes of the holy gho&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>17 For the Rogation dayes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>18 Of the &s;tate of Matrimonie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19 Of repentaunce.</ITEM>
<ITEM>20 Agayn&s;t Idlene&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Agayn&s;t rebellion.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="36" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>36 Of con&s;ecration of Bi&s;hops and mini&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>THE booke of Con&s;ecration of Archby&s;hops, and By&s;hops, and orderyng of Prie&s;tes and Deacons, lately &s;et foorth in the tyme of
<PB N="23" REF="12"> Edwarde the &s;ixte, and confyrmed at the &s;ame tyme by aucthoritie of Parliament, doth con|teyne all thynges nece&s;&s;ary to &s;uche con&s;ecration and orderyng: neyther hath it anye thyng, that of it &s;elfe is &s;uper&s;titious or vngodly. And there|fore, who&s;oeuer are con&s;ecrate or ordered accor|dyng to the rytes of that booke, &s;ence the &s;econde yere of the aforenamed kyng Edwarde vnto this tyme, or hereafter &s;halbe con&s;ecrated or ordered accordyng to the &s;ame rites, we decree all &s;uche to be ryghtly, orderly, and lawfully con&s;ecrated and ordered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="37" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>37 Of Ciuill Magi&s;trates.</HEAD>
<P>THe Queenes Maie&s;tie hath the cheefe pow|er in this Realme of Englande, and other her dominions, vnto whom the cheefe go|uernment of all e&s;tates of this Realme, whether they be Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or Ciuile, in all cau&s;es doth apparteyne, and is not, nor ought to be &s;ubiect to any forraigne iuri&s;diction.</P>
<P>Where we attribute to the Queenes Maie&s;tie the cheefe gouernment, by whiche titles we vn|der&s;tande the mindes of &s;ome &s;launderous folkes to be offended: we geue not to our princes the mi|ni&s;tring either of gods word, or of Sacramentes, the whiche thyng the Iniunctions al&s;o lately &s;et forth by Elizabeth our Queene, doth mo&s;t playn|ly te&s;tifie: But that only prerogatiue which we &s;ee to haue ben geuen alwayes to all godly Prin|ces
<PB N="24" REF="13"> in holy Scriptures by God hym &s;elfe, that is, that they &s;hould rule all e&s;tates and degrees com|mitted to theyr charge by God, whether they be Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall or Temporall, and re&s;trayne with the ciuill &s;worde the &s;tubburne and euyll doers.</P>
<P>The By&s;hop of Rome hath no iuri&s;diction in this Realme of Englande.</P>
<P>The lawes of the Realme may puny&s;he Chri|&s;tian men with death, for heynous and greeuous offences.</P>
<P>It is lawfull for Chri&s;tian men, at the com|maundement of the Magi&s;trate, to weare wea|pons, and &s;erue in the warres.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="38" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>38 Of Chri&s;tian mens goodes, whiche are not common.</HEAD>
<P>THe ryche&s;&s;e and goodes of Chri&s;tians are not common, as touchyng the ryght, tytle, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame, as certayne Ana|bapti&s;tes do fal&s;ely boa&s;t. Notwith&s;tandyng, eue|ry man ought of &s;uche thinges as he po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth, li|berally to geue almes to the poore, accordyng to his habilitie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="39" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>39 Of a Chri&s;tian mans othe.</HEAD>
<P>AS we confe&s;&s;e that vayne and ra&s;he &s;wea|ring is forbidden Chri&s;tian men by our lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, and Iames his Apo&s;tle: So
<PB N="25" REF="13"> we iudge that Chri&s;tian religion doth not prohi|bite, but that a man may &s;weare when the Ma|gi&s;trate requireth, in a cau&s;e of faith and charitie, &s;o it be done accordyng to the prophetes teaching, in iu&s;tice, iudgement, and trueth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="ratification">
<HEAD>40 The Ratification.</HEAD>
<P>_THIS Booke of Articles before re|hear&s;ed, is agayne approued, and allowed to be holden and execu|ted within the Realme, by the a&s;|&s;ent and con&s;ent of our Soue|raigne Ladye Elizabeth, by the grace of GOD, of Englande, Fraunce, and Ire|lande Queene, defender of the fayth. &amp;c. VVhich Articles were deliberately read, and confirmed a|gayne by the &s;ub&s;cription of the handes of the Ar|chby&s;hop and By&s;hoppes of the vpper hou&s;e, and by the &s;ub&s;cription of the whole Cleargie in the neather hou&s;e in their Conuocation, in the yere of our Lorde GOD. 1571.</P>
</DIV2>
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<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>The Table.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 Of fayth in the Trinitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Of Chri&s;te the &s;onne of GOD.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Of his goyng downe into hell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Of his Re&s;urrection.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Of the holy gho&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Of the &s;ufficiencie of the Scripture.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Of the olde Te&s;tament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8 Of the three Credes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9 Of originall &s;inne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10 Of free wyll,</ITEM>
<ITEM>11 Of Iu&s;tification.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Of good workes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13 Of workes before iu&s;tification.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14 Of workes of &s;upererogation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15 Of Chri&s;te alone without &s;inne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16 Of &s;inne after Bapti&s;me.</ITEM>
<ITEM>17 Of prede&s;tination and election.</ITEM>
<ITEM>18 Of obtayning &s;aluation by Chri&s;te.</ITEM>
<ITEM>19 Of the Churche.</ITEM>
<ITEM>20 Of the aucthoritie of the Churche.</ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Of the aucthoritie of generall Coun&s;els.</ITEM>
<ITEM>22 Of Purgatorie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>23 Of mini&s;tring in the congregation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>24 Of &s;peakyng in the congregation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>25 Of the Sacramentes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>26 Of the vnworthyne&s;&s;e of the Mini&s;ters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>27 Of Bapti&s;me.</ITEM>
<ITEM>28 Of the Lordes &s;upper.</ITEM>
<ITEM>29 Of the wicked whiche eate not the body of Chri&s;te.</ITEM>
<PB REF="14">
<ITEM>30 Of both kyndes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>31 Of Chri&s;tes one oblation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>32 Of the mariage of Prie&s;tes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>33 Of excommunicate per&s;ons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>34 Of traditions of the Churche.</ITEM>
<ITEM>35 Of Homilies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>36 Of con&s;ecration of Mini&s;ters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>37 Of ciuill Magi&s;trates.</ITEM>
<ITEM>38 Of chri&s;tian mens goods.</ITEM>
<ITEM>39 Of a chri&s;tian mans othe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>40 Of the ratification.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P>&para; Imprinted at Lon|don in Poules Churchyard, by Richarde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Queenes Maie&s;tie, in Anno Domini. 1571.</P>
<P>* Cum priuilegio Regiae maie&s;tatis.</P>
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