he reteined no more the properties of his bodie and soule nor the vnion of both natures but was meerelie God The Fam. of Loue which take the resurrection of Christ to be but an allegorie and no certaine historie 2. In saying how christ with his very body ascended into heauen we declare our selues to dissent not 1. From the scriptures Psalm 47 5. Psal. 68 18. Psal. 110 1. Math. 22 44. Math. 26 64. Act. 1 9. Luke 24 51. Rom. 8 34. Ephes. 4 8 9 10. 2. From the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. From the Confes. of the Churches of Helue 1. art 11. 2. cap. 11. Basil. art 4. Bohem. cap. 6. France art 15. Fland. art 20. Ausburgh art 3. Saxon. art 3. Sueuia art 2. But we altogether dissent 1. From the Vbiquitaries as Papistes Certaine Germans Which doe holde that the body of Christ is Not only in heauen But also in earth and that euery where Where the Sacrament is 〈…〉 In euery kingdome In euery Countrey In euery citie In euery parish In euery loase In euery peece of bread and cup of wine 2. From the Papistes that say how Christ ascended carrying with him the soules which he losed from captiuitie bondage of the Diuel wheras there is not one word either 1. In the S. Scripture 2. In any sound Confession Olde Newe That the soules of the righteous Were not afore 〈…〉 Were then placed 〈…〉 â— Where we say that Christ shal come again to iudge al men we agree 1. With the scripture Acts. 10 42. Rom. 2 16. 2. Tim. 4 1 8. Iam. 5 9. 2. With the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. With the Confes. of the Churches in Helue 2. cap. 11. 1. art 11. Basil. art 9. Bohem. cap. 6. Fland. art 37. Ausburgh art 3. Sueuia art 2. But we renounce their opinioÌ„s which thinke That there shal be no iudgement at al as the Atheists Epicures of this world do That The Diuels The wicked shalbe saued as do the Origenists That before the iudgement there shalbe a golden worlde the godly and none besides enioying the same peaceablie and gloriouslie as the Iewes do That the righteous are in godly glory shal from henceforth liue euerlastingly with Christ raigne vpon earth as the Fam. of Loue teacheth 5. ARTICLE Of the holie Ghost THe holie Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne is of one substance maiestie and glorie with the Father and the Sonne verie and eternal God This article concerning the holy ghost 1. The Scripture Math. 28 19. Act. 2 4. 2. Cor. 13 â—3 2. Pet. 1 21. 1. Iohn 5 7. 2. The Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. The Confes. of the Churches in Heluet. 1. Art 6. 2. Cap. 3. Basil. art 1. Ausburgh art 1. France art 6. Bohem. cap. 3. Fland. art 8 9 11. Wittemb cap. 1. 3. Sueuia art 1. Do verifie In saying That the holie Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne we shew our selues not to be of the error of the Graecians which said howe the holy Ghost proceeded from the Father but not from the Sonne That the holy Ghost is of one substance with the Father and the Sonne we declare our selues aduersaries to the Macedonian heretiques who sayde the holy Ghost was a Creature which is of another substaunce than GOD is That the holie Ghost is of one substance maiestie and glorie with the Father and the Sonne we altogether dissent from the heresie of the Sabellians Tritheites which thought the holie Ghost to be that which God the Father and God the Sonne were and no distinct person from them 6. ARTICLE Of the sufficiencie of the holy Scriptures for saluation HOlie Scripture 1 conteineth al thinges necessarie to saluation so that whatsoeuer is not read therein nor maie be proued thereby is not to be required of anie man that it should be beleeued as an article of the faith or be thought requisit necessarie to saluation 2 In the name of the holie Scripture we doe vnderstande those Canonical bookes of the old and newe Testament of whose auctoritie was neuer any doubt in the Church Of the names and number of the Canonical bookes Genesis Exodus Leuiticus Devteronomium Iosue Iudges Ruth The 1. booke of Samuel The 2. booke of Samuel The 1. booke of Kinges The 2. booke of Kinges The 1. booke of Chron. The 2. booke of Chron. The 1. booke of Esdras The 2. booke of Esdras The booke of Esther The booke of Iob. The Psalmes The Prouerbes Eccles. or the Preacher Cant. or song of Salomon 4. Prophets the greater 12. Prophets the lesse 3 And the other bookes as Hierome saith the Church doth reade for example of life and instruction of manners but yet doeth it not applie them to stablish anie doctrine Such are theis following The third booke of Esdras The fourth booke of Esdras The booke of Tobias The booke of Iudith The rest of the booke of Hester The booke of wisedome Iesus the sonne of Sirach Baruch the Prophet Song of the three children The storie of Susanna Of Bel and the Dragon The praier of Manasses The 1. booke of Machab. The 2. booke of Machab. 4 Al the bookes of the Newe Testament as they are commonlie receiued we doe receaue and accompt for Canonical The Propositions 1. The S. Scripture containeth al thinges necessarie vnto the saluation of man 2. Al the bookes in the volume of the Bible are not Canonical 3. The 3. and 4. bookes of Esdras the booke of Tobias c. are Apocripha 4. In the newe testament al the bookes are Canonical 1 That the Scriptures of God are al sufficient and necessarie to instruct vs vnto â—â—luation with vs 1 The S. Scripture Deut. 4 2. 12 8. Iosh. 1 7. Prou. 30 5. Iohn 20 31. Gal. 1 8. 2. Tim. 3 16. Reuel 22 18. 19. 2. The confess of the Churches of God in Heluet 1. art 1 4. 2. cap. â— Basil. art 10. Bohem. cap. 1. France art 2 4 5. Fland. art 5 7. Saxon. art 1. Wittemb cap. 30. Sueuia art 1. Do witnesse And therefore we are aduersaries to al such as before the worde of God do prefer their owne Inuentions as the Philosophers whereof one saide of Moses That good man maketh a trim discourse but hee proueth nothing Phantastical imaginations aâ— Did the Manechies Doe the Libertines Anabaptistes Fam of Loue. Traditions as the Papistes which euidently appeareth in that they do moste cruelie punish and torment such as refuse The wicked precepts of men or not at al or ouerslightly correct the breakers of God his commaundements To keepe popish holie daies To heare their blasphemous Masse To obserue their superstitious fastings and ceremonies Statutes or edicts or decrees or iudgements or proclamations or els whatsoeuer proceeding from the braine of man as Macchiauel doth and his fauorers 2. That some bookes in the Bible are Canonical and some Apocrypha it hath bene grauÌ„ted by the best learned and most godly of long time And as all the
ARTICLE Of faith in the holy Trinitie THere is but 1 one liuing and true God euerlasting without bodie partes or passions of infinite power wisedome and goodnes 2 the maker and preseruer of al thinges both visible and inuisible 3 And in vnitie of this God-hed there be three persons of one substance power and aeternitie the Father the Sonne and the holie Ghost The Propositions 1. There is but one God who is liuing true euerlasting 2. God is the maker and praeseruer of al thinges 3. In the vnitie of the God-hed there is à Trinitie of persons 1. That there is but one God who is c. It is à truth which 1. Maie be gathered from the al holie and sacred Scripture which giueth vs to knowe that God is 1. But one Exod. 30. 3. Deut. 6 4. Psal. 18 31. Mal. 2 10. 1. Cor. 8 4 c. 1. Tim. 2 5. 2. The verie God 1. Chro. 15 3 Ier. 10 10. Iohn 17 3. 1. Thes. 1 9. 3. Euerlasting Psal. 102 24 c. Dan. 6 26. 1. Tim. 1 17. 4. Without bodie c. Psal. 104 1 c. Iohn 4 24. 2. Cor. 3 17. 5. Of infinite Power Ezech. 10 5 2. Cor. 6 18. Reuel 11 17. Wisedom Psal. 1. 7 5. Rom. 16 27 1. Tim. 1 17. Goodnes Psal. 106 1. Psal. 107 1. 2. Is agreeable to the publique confessions of the Church of God in Ausburgh art 2. Heluet. 2 art 2. Bohem. cap. 3. France art 1. Fland. art 2. Wittemb cap. 1. Whereby we maie beholde th'impietie Of such as flatlie denie there is à God as did Diagoras Theodorus Of such as be doubtful whether there be anie God As was Protagoras As are the Macchiauils Of such as fained two Gods as did the Valentinians Manechies Of such who saie there be manie Gods as did the Gentils wherof some worshipped for God Beastes as the Aegyptians Th'elements as the Persians Iupiter c. as the Indians Graecians Romans Of such as ascribe the forme and lineaments of man vnto God as did the Anthropomorphites Of such as put anie confidence in Sanctes As the Papistes Man As the Papistes Riches As the Atheistes Horses c. As the Atheistes 2. That by God the world 1. VVas made it agreeth with 1. The Scripture Gen. 1 1 c. Psal. 124 8. Psal. 134 3. Psal. 135 6. Heb. 1 2. Col. 1 16. 2. The Confess of the Church of God in Heluet. 2 cap. 6 7. Basil. art 1. France art 7. Fland. art 12 2. Is preserued it accordeth vnto 1. The word of God Psal. 104 1 c. Matth. 10 29 c. Act. 17 25 c. Heb. 1 3. 2. The confess of the Church of God in Heluet. 2 cap. 7. Basil. 1 2. France art 18. Fland. art 12 13. Herebie are condemned al Heretiques errors which impugne 1 The creation of the worlde by God as did Aristotle that saide the world was aeternal and without beginning The Marcionites who saide God made not the world For it was too base à thing for him to create The Manechies which ascribed the creation of al things vnto two Gods or Beginnings or Natures Th'one Good where-of caâ—â— good thinges Th'other Euil where-of came euil thinges 2. The prouidence of God as The Stoikes who ascribe al thinges to Fate or Destinie The Epicures which thinke howe God is idle and gouerneth not the world 3. Though there is but one God yet that there be three persons in the God-head it is agreeable 1. To the sacred Scripture Gen. 1 1 c. Psal. 33 6. Matth. 3 16 17. Gal. 4 6. 2. Cor 13 13. 1. Iohn 5 7. 2. To the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. To the confess of the godlie in Heluet. â— art 6. â— cap. 3. Ausburgh art 1. France art 6. Fland. art 8 9. Bohem. cap. 3. Witemb cap 1 Sueuia art 2. Curssed then are al opinions of men contrarie here-vnto which do Saie there is one God and not three persons in the God head as do the Iewes Turkes Saie there be moe God than one and yet not three persons nor of one nature but of contrarie disposition as the Gnostikes Marcionites Valentinians Thinke there be three Gods or spirits not distinguished onlie but diuided also as the Tritheites Holde that not à Trinitie but à Quaternitie is to be worshipped as the Emperour Anastasius commaunded Graunte The name of three sondrie persons and denie their persons as did the These did saie howe the same God was called in the holie Scripture by diuers names And therfore that the Father became flesh and suffered because one the same God is called the Father Sonne and holie Ghost For this cause they were called Patripassians In this number was Seruetus Noëtians Praxeneans Termogenians The names and persons of three and yet doe depriue not onelie the Sonne and holie Ghost of their Diuinitie but the whole Trinitie of their properties For they sayde there be three in heauen the Father the VVorde and the holie Ghost but the Father onelie is verie God the VVorde is the breath of the Father and the holie Ghost is the Spirit created by God of nothing through the VVorde And so they spoile the Sonne and the holie Ghost of their Deitie and the whole Trinitie of their properties These were the Arian and Macedonian heretiques who were called Pneumatomachoie because they warred against the holie Ghost 2. ARTICLE Of the word or sonne of God which was made verie man THe Sonne which is the 1 VVord of the Father begotten from euerlasting of the Father the verie and eternal God of one substance with the Father 2 tooke mans nature in the wombe of the blessed Virgine of her substance so that 3 two whole perfect natures that is to say the Godhead and man-hood were ioyned in one person neuer to be diuided whereof is one Christ verie God and verie man 4 who suffered was crucified dead and buried to reconcile his Father to vs and to be a sacrifice not only for original gilte but also for al actual sinnes of men The Propositions 1. Christ is verie God 2. Christ is verie man 3. Christ is God and man and that in one person 4. Christ is the Sauiour of the world 1 That Christ is verie God with vs also 1. The Scriptures do witnesse As it is apparent that he is The Word Ioh. 1. 1. Begotten of the Father froÌ„ euerlasting Psal. 2 7. Act. 13. 33 Heb. 1 5. Heb. 5 5. Very God Ioh. 17. 3. Iohn 8 42. Mat. 1. 23. God eternal Heb. 5 5. Of one substance with the Father Heb. 1 3. 2. The Creede Do testifie Apostolical Nicene Athanasian 3. The confessioÌ„s of the churches in Do acknowledge Helue conf 1. art 11. 2. cap. 11. Bohem. cap. 4. 6. Ausburgh art 6. France art 13. 14. Fland. art 10. Wittemb cap. 2. Sueuia art 2. Miserably therefore haue they erred which deny the diuinitie of our Sauiour Christ. As did Arius Corinthus Ebion Eunomius P. Samosatenus As doe
The Iewes The Turkes which say that Christ was A good man Not God 2. Holding the humanitie of Christ we do agree 1. with the scripture which entreateth of Christ his Conception Gen. 49 10. Isa. 7 14. Mat. 1 18 c. Luke 1 26 c. Growing Luke 2 40. Hungering Mat. 4 2. Thirsting Iohn 4 7 19 28. Weeping Luke 19 41. Sleeping Mark 4 38. Suffering deth Math. 27 50. Marke 15 37. Luke 23 46. Ioh. 19. 30. 33 2. With the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. With the Confession of the godly in Helue Confes. 1. art 11. 1. cap. 11. Basil. art 4. Bohem. cap. 6. Fland. art 18. France art 14. Ausburgh art 3. Wittemb cap. 2. Sueuia art 2. Therfore most wicked was the opinion of those men which said That Christ had a body without a soule as Eunomius the heretique did That Christ had a soule without sense and reason as Apollinaris did That Christ tooke not flesh of the Virgine Marie as did the Valentinians Arians doe the Anabaptists Fam. of Loue. That Christ tooke flesh not of the Virgine only but by the seede of man too as Ebion gaue out 3. That the diuine and humane nature of Christ is vnited in one person accordeth 1. With the Scripture Iohn 1 14. c. Math. 3 17. Ephes. 4 10. Phil. 2 5. c. 1 Tim. 2 5. 2. With the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. With the Confes. of the Churches in Confes. Helue 1. cap. 11. 2. art 11. Basil. art 4. Bohem. art 6. France art 15. Fland. art 19. Ausburgh art 3. Wittemb cap. 2. Sueuia art 2. Therefore detestable is the error Of Eutiches and Dioscorus who thought the two natures of Christ were so confounded that the nature of the Word and of the Flesh was one and the same Of Nestorius who denied the two natures of Christ to be vnited that the properties of the one might in some sense be ascribed vnto the other and sayde that as Christ had two natures so he had not one but two persons Of Seruetus who said of Christ that he was the Patren of al things but a figure of the sonne of God and that the bodie of Christ was compact of three vncreated elements and so confounded and ouerthrew both natures 4. That Christ is the Sauior of the world agreeth 1. With the Scripture which testifieth that Christ trulie Suffered was crucified Died was buried Matth 27 26 c. And that 1. To reconcile his Father vnto vs Rom. 5. 10. 2 Cor. 5. 18 c. Ephes. 2 16. Col. 1 19 20. 2. To be a sacrifice c. for al sinnes of men Isa 53 4. Iohn 1 19. Gal. 3 13. 2. Cor. 5 21. 1. Iohn 2 2. 2. With the Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 3. With the Confess of the Churches in Heluet. 1. cap. 11. 2 art 11. Basil. art 4. Bohem. art 6. France art 13 16 17. Fland. art 20. 21. Ausburg art 3. Saxon. art 3. Wittemb cap. 2. Sueuia art 2. Then wicked are al opinions contrarie herevnto which tende To shewe that Did suffer aâ— that of the Patripassians The Father in his Deitie Not the Sonne in his humanitie To shewe that Christ did not truelie suffer but in imagination as the Heretiques Cerdon and Basilicus cast-forth To bring the passion of our Lorde into detestation as do the fantasies of the wicked Iacobites and Turkes To make the passion of Christ Of none effect To put awaie but Original sinne onlie As that of Popish Masses Popish praiers Popish pardons Popish Purgatorie To showe that Christ died not for the sinnes of al men To showe that some sinnes be so filthie as Christ his bloud vppon true repentance cannot washe them awaie 3. ARTICLE Of the going downe of Christ into hel AS Christ died for vs and was buried so also it is to be beleeued that he went downe into hel That our Sauiour Christ descended into Hel together without Church 1. The ancient creeds 1. Apostolical 2. Athanasian 2. The confessions of the Churches of Heluet. 2 cap. 11. Basil. art 4. Ausburgh art 3. Sueuia art 2. Doe testifie Which worde Hel in this article as we take it signifieth Not the place of euerlasting tormeÌ„ts where Diues was and is Luke 16 23. Al the reprobate together shalbe Matth. 25 41. In which place Christ as man was not forasmuch as 1. His bodie laie in the graue Matth. 12. 40. Matth. 16 4. Luke 11 29. 2. His soule was CommeÌ„ded into the hands of God the Father Psal 31 5. Luke 23. 46 In Paradise so is it set downe as a thing wel to be obserued not in Hel Luke 23 43. The terrors and torments of the bodie and soule which Christ suffered as appeareth Isa 53 6. Isa. 53. 10. Psal. 116. 3 Matth. 26 38. Matth. 27 46 Luke 22 42. And so we are against them 1. Which saie that Christ descended not into Hel at al. 2. Which thinke that Christ descended into the place of torments where in soule he endured for a time the paines which the damned spirits doe there sustaine 3. Which holde that Christ went downe into Lake â—ymbo to fetch from thence as Canisius to loose from thence as Vaux he saith the soules of our forefathers which afore his death were shut vp in the close prison of Hel. 4. ARTICLE Of the Resurrection of Christ. CHrist did trulie 1 arise againe from death and tooke againe his bodie with flesh bones and al thinges appertaining to the perfection of mans nature 2 wherewith he ascended into heauen and there sitteth 3 vntil he returne to iudge al men at the last daie The Propositions 1. Christ is risen from death 2. Christ is ascended into heauen 3. Christ wil come againe to iudge the quicke and the dead 1. The resurrection of Christ is 1. Proued by the Scriptures For it is euident that Christ Should arise In th'old Testament Psal. 16 12. Isa. 53 10. In the Newe Testament by the testimonie of our Sauiour Christ Matth. 12 40 Marke 9 31. Marke 10 34. Luke 9 22. Did rise again By his appearing to Marie Magdalene Iohn 20 14 c. Diuers women Matth. 2â— 9. Two Disciples in the field Luke 24 13. Tenne Disciples Iohn 20 19. c. Al the Disciples Iohn 20 26. Moe than 500. brethren at once 1. Cor. 15 6. To sundrie 40. daies together Act. 1 3. By the testimonie of Peter Act. 1 22. Act. 2 31. 1. Pet. 1 3. Paul Act. 17 3. Rom. 10 9. 1. Cor. 15 4 c. 2. Affirmed by 1. The Creede Apostolical Nicen Athanasian 2. The Confession of the churches in Heluet. 1. art 11. 2 cap. 11 Basil. art 4. Bohem. cap. 6. France art 15 16. Ausburgh art 3. Sueuia art 2. So that vtterlie false and vnchristian is the opinion of The Sadducâ—is which flatlie denie the resurrection of anie The Iewes that wil not acknowledge this resurrect of Christ. The Schuenkfeldians that saâ—e howe our Sauiour after his resurrection was so deified that
which thinke that in force It stil is as do the Iewes Turkes Cerdonits Armenians It shalbe à thousand yeeres together after the general resurrection as do the Apollinareans and Millenaries 2. Moral is to be taught kept and obeied of euerie man is easilie proued Wherebie the vane opinions of the Antinomies is vtterlie confuted and condemned 1. In the S. Scripture by infinite places and namelie Rom. 2 13. Rom. 3 31. 1. Cor. 7. 19. 2. By the consent of al good Christians and by the publique confessions of the Church of God in France expreslie art 23. 8. ARTICLE Of the three Creedes THe three Creedes Nicene creede Athanasius creede and that which is commonly called the Apostles creede ought throughlie to be receiued and beleeued for they maie be proued by most certaine warrants of holie Scripture The Propositions The Nicen The Athanasian The Apostolical Creede 1. Is to be receiued and beleeued 2. Maie be proued by the holie Scripture That the 1. Nicen That the 2. Athanasian That the 3. Apostolical Creedes 1. Are to be receiued and beleeued with vs the Churches of God 1. In the old time haue thought 2. At this daie in By publique confessions do acknowledge France art 5. Saxon. art 1. Flan. art 9. Heluet. Confess 2 cap. 11. 2. May be proued by most certaine warrants of the S. Scripture is verie apparent in that they al speake 1. Of one and the same God whom we are to beleeue is 1. For essence but one Deut. 6 4. Mal. 2 10. 1. Cor. 8 4. c. Ephe. 4 c. 2. In persons three Matth. 3 17. Gal. 4 6. 1. Iohn 5 7. The 1. Father the Creator Psal. 134. 3. Heb. 1 2. Col. 1 16. Rom. 11 36. The 2. Sonne the redeemer Isa. 53. 4. Rom. 5. 18. Gal. 3 13. Ephes. 2 16. 1. Iohn 2 2. The 3. Spirit the sanctifier 2. Cor. 1 21 22. 1. Pet. 1 2. 2. Of the people of God whom we must also thinke to be 1. The Church 1. Holie Ephes. 1. 3. Ephes. 2 21. Coloss. 1 22. Catholique Isa. 54 2. Psal. 87. 4. Acts. 1 8 c. Ephes. 2. 14. Reu. 5. 9. 2. The communion of sanctes Ephes. 4 15. 1. Cor. 10. 16. Heb. 10 25. 1. Iohn 1. 7. 3. Pardoned of al their sinnes Isa. 44 22. Matth. 18 23 c. Col. 2 13. Appointed to 4. Arise froÌ„ death Iohn 5. 28. 1. Cor. 15 12 c Phil. 3. 21. 5. Enioy eternal life both of bodie soule Iohn 6 39. 1. Pet. 1. 4. Reuel 21 4. Therefore we are enimies to al aduersaries of the doctrine in them comprised whether they be Arrianâ— Iewes Turkes Sadducies Papists Epicures Atheists 9. ARTICLE Of original or birth sinne ORiginal 1 2 sinne standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pelagians do vanelie talke but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of euerie man that naturallie is engendred of the ofspring of Adam wherebie man is verie farre gone from original righteousnes and is of his owne nature enclined to euil so that the flesh lusteth alwaies against the spirit and therefore in euerie person borne into this world it deserueth Gods wrath and damnation 3 And this infection of nature doth remaine yea in them that are regenerated whereby the lust of the fleshe called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some do expound the wisedome some sensualitie some the affection some the desire of the flesh is not subiect to the law of God 4 And although there is no condemnation for them that beleeue and are baptised yet Th'Apostle doth confesse that concupiscence and luste hath of itselfe the nature of sinne The Propositions 1. There is original sinne 2 What original sinne is 3 Original sinne remaneth in God his children 4 Concupiscence euen in the regenerate is sinne 1. Though this worde original sin is not to be founde in the Can. Scripture yet that there is Orig sin it is cleare 1. By the S. Scripture wherein is set downe most euidentlie thereof 1. The cause which is 1. Principalie the fal of Adam as Rom. 5. 15 c. 1. Cor. 15. 22. Who fel partly By the suggestion of the Diuel Cor. 11. 3. Gen. 3. 4. Through his owne free will 2. Secondarily the propagation of the corrupted nature fro man vnto man So sayth Christ Iohn 3 3 6 â—3 Paul Rom. 5. 12 1. Cor. 15 48. Peter 2. Pet. 2. Iames cap. 1. â—8 Iohn 1. Epist. 3 4 5. 2. The subiect euen the old man with al his powers minde wil heart For in the 1. Minde there is Darkenesse Ignorance Of God his wil Matth. 12. 34. Rom 8 7. Rom 3 4. 1. Cor. 2 14. 2. Tim. 3 8. 1. Iohn 3 1. 1. Iohn 5 20. 2. Will and hart there is Concupiscence Rebellious motions For so it is Matth. 5 19. Act. 7. 39. Act. 15 9. Rom. 1 21. Iam. 1 13. 3. The effects which are 1. Not only actual sins and they both Math. 15. 19. 1. Inwarde as vngodly Affections Cogitations 2. Outward as Wicked lookes Prophane speech Diuelish actions 2. But also 1. An euil conscience 1. Iohn 3. 21. 2. The wrath of God Rom. 1 18. Col. 3 ver 5. 6. 3. Death Iohn 8 24. Rom. 5 12. Iam. 1 15. 4. Eternal damnation Rom. 5 18. 2. By the Confession of the Churches of God in Heluet. confes 1. Art 8. 2. Cap. 8. Basil. art 2. Bohem. cap. 4. France art 9. 11. Fland. art 15. Ausburgh art 2. Saxon. art 2. And thus armed both with the word of God and the confessioÌ„s of the purest Churches we do offer battell Both to the Carpocratians and such like who vtterlie denie that there is any original sinne And also Not only to Florinus Blastus c. who make God the Auctor of sinne But also to al such as curiously enquire whether God woulde haue AdaÌ„ to fal or why he stayd him not from offending 2. Original sinne â—â— Not the imitation of Adam his wickednesse For neither doth The Scripture speake thereof Any Church reformed or otherwise so thinke and some flatly by publique coÌ„fession with vs denie it as the Church in France art 10. in Fland. art 15. Partly 1. The Imputation of Adam his disobedience vnto vs. So sayth 1. The Scripture Rom. 5. verse 12. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 2. The Churches of god at Ausburgh art 2. Saxon. art 2. Wittemb cap. 4. 2. The fault and corruption of the nature of euery man As we find in the 1. Scripture Rom. 5. 12. Rom. 3 23. Rom. 7 18. 1. Cor. 15. 48. Ephe. 2 3. 2. Confessions of the Churches in Helue lat ca. 8. France art 10. Bohem. cap. 4. Ausburg art 2. Saxon. art 2. Wittemb ca. 4. Our Sauiour Christonly exempted from the taint of this corruption For He is the immaculate Lambe 1. Pet. 1. 19. He did no sinne 1. Pet. 2. 22. He knew no sinne 2. Cor. 5 21. He was tempted yet without sinne Hebr. 4 15. Now aduersaries herevnto
punished with fewe Which shalbe punished with manie A sinne 1. Iohn 5 6. Vnto death Not vnto death A sinne against which shalbe forgiuen The Father The Son The holie Ghost that neuer shalbe forgiuen Matth. 12 31. Mar. 3 39. Luke 12 10. 2. In the publique confessions of the Church of God at Heluet. 2 cap. 8. Bohem. cap. 4. Saxon. art 10. Diuerslie hath this doctrine bine inuaded For Some haue thought al sinnes to be like as the Stoikes Pelagians â—ouinians Some taught howe none of the godlie fathers and nations from the beginning of the worlde vntill the 15. yeare of Tiberius the Emperour though earnestly theie did repent were saued but were punished alike with vtter confusion as Manes the Heretique Some giue out that al euerlastingly be condemned which depart out of this world Afore theie are baptized as the Papistes Afore theie come vnto yeares of discretion as the Heracites 2. That the verie regenerate maie fal and yet rise againe is à true doctrine 1. Graunted vpon the Scriptures For in them we do euidentlie see That fal They maie Partlie by the admonitions Of Christ vnto The man healed of the palsie Iohn 5 14. The adultresse Iohn 8 11. Of Paul vnto Th Ephesians cap. 4 21. Colossians cap. 3 8. The Hebrues cap. 5 12. Timothie 1. T. 1 9. 2. T. 4 3 2. T. 2 22. Of Peter vnto al the godly 1. Pet. 2 10. 1. Pet. 5 8. 2. Pet. 3 17. Partlie by the example of Dauid Salomon Peter c. Theiâ— do euen by the 5. petition of the Lord his prayer were there nothing beside to proue the same but looke pag. 31 32 43 54. That being falleÌ„ they maie rise againe by the Exhortations of the Angel vnto the churches of Reuel 2. Ephesus Pergamus Thyatira Examples Of Peter who denied and yet afterwarde confessed Christ. Of al the Disciples which fled Matth. 26 56. and yet came againe But subscribe herevnto wil not The Catharans The Nouatians The Iouinians The Anabaptistes The Fam. of Loue. Who thinke that the people of God be regenerate into a pure and Angelical state so that they be defiled with no contagion of sinne The Papistes simplie For though they graunt that the godlie maie rise againe from sinne yet they denie that they can so do without their Sacrament of Penance which is an error Conc. Trid. sess 6. can 29. 2. Grounded by al the godly published in the confession of Heluet. 2 cap. 7. Bohem. cap. 5 8. Saxon. art 10 11. Wittemb art 32. Sueu art 15. 3. Such as do fal yet returne againe by vnfained repentance vnto the Lorde are to be receaued as meÌ„bers of the true Church And this is verified 1. In the Scripture For there is it That God Would haue al men to be saued Matth. 11 28. 1. Tim. 2 4. Is readie to receaue the penitent Luke 15. 7. Luke 19 41. Iam. 5 20. 2. Pet. 3 10. 1. Iohn 1 9. Reuel 2 5 c. Doth refuse none that returne vnto him by repentance as appeareth in th'example Of the prodigal childe Luke 15 20. Of the debitor Matth. 18 26 c. That vpon repentance man must receaue comfort them which haue gone astraie So did Paul wil The Galathians to restore the weake Gal. 6 1. The Corinthians to comfort the man which had committed incest 2. Cor. 2 7 c. Philemon to receaue One simus Phil. vers 12. 2. In the Christian confessions of the godlie in Heluet. 2 cap. 14. Bohem. 5. Ausburgh art 11. Saxon. art 3. Wittemb art 12. Aduersaries vnto this truth are Who leaue nothing but thâ—â—apeaseable wrath of God to such as offend after Baptisme The Montanists The Nouatians The Anabaptistes That saie how being once regenerate sinne is cut awaie as with à rasor so that they cannot sinne neither neede to repent The Messalians The Fam. of Loue. The desperate whose sinnes be either so manie or so grieuous that they think how God he neither can nor wil forgiue them 17. Article Of Predestination and Election PRedestination 1 to life is the euerlasting 5 purpose of God vvhereby 2 before the foundations of the vvorld vvere laid he hath 3 constantlye decreed by his councel secrete to vs to deliuer from curse damnation 4 those vvhome he hath chosen 5 in Christ out of mankinde and to bring them by Christ to euerlasting 5 saluation as vessels made 5 to honor 6 vvherefore they vvhich be endued vvith so excellent a benesite of God be called according to Gods purpose by his spirit vvorking in due season they through grace obey the calling they be iustified freely they be made sonnes of God by adoption they be made like the image of his only begotten sâ—nne Iesus Christ they vvalke religiously in good vvorkes and at length by Gods mercy they attaine to euerlasting felicitie As 8 the godly consideration of predestination and our election in Christ is ful of svveete pleasant vnspeakable comfort to godly persons such as feele in themselues the vvorking of the spirite of Christ mortefying the vvorks of the flesh their earthly members dravving vp their mind to high and heauenly things as vvel because it doth greatly establish and confirme their faith of eternal saluation to be enioyed through Christ as because it doth feruently kindle their loue tovvards God so for curious and carnal persons lacking the spirit of Christ to haue continually before their eies the sentence of Gods predestination is a moste dangerous dovvnfal vvhereby the diuel doth thrust them either into desperation or into rechlesnesse of most vncleane liuing no lesse perilous than desperation 9 Furthermore vve must receiue Gods promises in such vvise as they be generaly set forth vnto vs in holy scripture 10 and in our doings that vvil of God is to be follovved vvhiche vve haue expressely declared vnto vs in the vvord of God The Propositions 1. There is a Praedestination vnto euerlasting life 2. Praedestination hath bine from euerlasting 3. They which are praedestinate vnto saluation cannot perish 4. Not al men but certaine are praedestinate to be saued 5. VVhy some are elected and not others 6. Who they are which shalbe saued 7. VVhat are the effects of Praedestination 8. The vse of the doctrine of praedestinatioÌ„ both to the godly wicked 9. VVhat may keepe men both from desperation also froÌ„ securitie 10. In our actions the word of God which is his reuealed wil must be our direction 1. That amoÌ„g men some be predestinate vnto life it is a truth most apparent 1. In the Scripture 1. By the testimonie Of Christ himselfe Math. 10 20. 20 23. 22 14. 24 22. 25 35. Luke 12 32. 17 34. Iohn 6 37. 10 26 c. Of the Euangeliste Luke Act. 13. 48. Apostle Paul Rom. 8 29 c. 9. 10. 11. 1. Cor. 1. 27. 2. Cor. 2. 13. Ephes. 1. 2. By the example of The Creatures Man Angels Math. 25 41. â—ude vers 6. The two Bretheren Habel Kain Gen. 4.