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Believe and confeffe my I believe Lord GOD eternal, in- Father Alfinite, unmeafurable, in- mighty, comprehenfible and invi- Maker of fible, one in fubftance and Earth. and three in persons, Father, Sonne and holie Ghofte who by his Almightie power and wifedome hath not onlie of nothing created Heaven, Earth, and all thinges therein conteined, and Man after his owne image, that hee might in him bee glori

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1. Rom. 10. 10.

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b Gen. 17. I. Pfal. 63. 1. &

90. 2. & 139. 1--16. 1 Tim, I. 17. c Deut. 6. 4. Eph. 4. 6.

d. Gen. 1. 26. Mat. 3,16,17, & 28. 19. I John S. 7.

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Sus Chrift his only Son our

fied, but alfo by his Fatherly Providence governeth, mainteineth and preferveth the fame', according to the purpose of his will.

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Believe alfo and confeffe JESUS CHRIST the onlie Saviour and Meffias, who beeing equall with GOD, Lord. made himselfe of no reputation, but tooke

Who was

conceived

on him the fhape of a fervant, and became man, in all things like unto us, finne excepted, to affure us of mercie and forgiveneffe. For when through our father Adams tranfgreffion wee were become children of perdition, there was no meanes to bring us from that yoke of finne and damnation, but onlie Jefus Chrift our Lord, who giving us that by grace which was his by natures, made us through faith the children of God.

Who when the fulneffe of time was by the Ho- come was conceived by the power ly Ghoft, of the holie Ghofte, borne of the Vitthe Virgingine Marie, according to the flefh, and preached

born of

Mary,

Prov. 16.4. John 17.1. 1 Cor. 6. 20.

i Mat. 6. 26--32. Luke 12. 2430. 1 Pet. 5. 7. Phil. 4. 6. k Eph. . 11.

II. Mat. 1. 21.Acts 4. 12, 1 Tim. I. IS.

b John 1. Phil. 2. 6, 7. 1 Tim. 3. 16. 1 John 5.20. Rom. 9. 5.

Heb. 2. 14, 16, 17. Phil. 2.7,8. a Pet. 2. 22. 1 John 3.5.

d Rom. 8. 31, &c. 1 John 2, 1,

preached in earth the Gofpel of Salvation', till at length, by tyrannie of the Priests,. he was guitleffe condemned under Pontius Suffered Pilate, then Prefident of Jurie, and mofte under Ponflanderoulie hanged on the Croffe betweene two thieves, as a notorious tref- fied, paffer", where taking upon him the pu nifhment of our finnes, hee delivered us from the curfe of the law ".

tius Pilate,

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And for as much as he, being onlie God, could not feele death, neither being onlie man, could overcome death, hee Dead and joyned both together, and fuffered his hu- buried, manitie to bee punished with mofte cruell death, feeling in himfelfe the anger and fevere judgement of God, even as if hee He dehad beene in the extreame torments of hell, fcended and therefore cryed with a loude voyce, into Hell, My God,my God,Why haft thou forfaken mee?

Thus of his free mercie, without compulfion, he offered up himfelf as the onlie facrifice to purge the finnes of all the world, fo that all other facrifices for finne are blafphemous, and derogate from the fufficiencie hereof,

The which death, albeit it did fufficientlie reconcile us to God, yet the

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P Pfal. 22. 1. Mat. 27, 46.

9 Ifa. 53. Heb. 9. 12, 14, 25, 26, 28. and 10, 10, 12, 14. Gal. 1. 4. Rom. 4. 25. and 5, 8, 9, 10, 1 John 1. 7.

Col, 1. 20.

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Scriptures doe commonlie attribute our The third regeneration to his refurrection: for as rofe again by rifing againe from the grave the third day, he conquered death", even fo the victorie of our Faith ftandeth in his resurrection, and therefore without the one we cannot feele the benefite of the other: For as by death finne was taken away, fo our righteousneffe was reftored by his refurrection.

ed into Heaven,

And because he would accomplish all things, and take poffeffion for us in his He afcend- kingdome *, he afcended into Heaven ', to enlarge that fame kingdome by the aboundant power of his Spirite, by whom wee are most affured of his continuall interceffion towardes God the Father for us. And although hee be in Heaven, as touching his corporall prefence, where the Father hath now fet him at his right hande, committing unto him the adminiftration of all thinges, as well in Heaven above, as in the earth beneath, yet is hee prefent with us his members, even to the ende of the world, in preferving and governing us with his effectual power and

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and grace. Who (when all thinges are fulfilled which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his Prophets, fince the world beganne ) will come in the fame vifible From forme in the which hee afcended, with thence fhall he an unfpeakeable Majeftie, power and com- come to panie, to feparate the lambes from the judge the goates, the elect from the reprobate ; fo quick and that none, whether he be alive then, or dead before, fhall efcape his judgement.

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Oreover, I believe and confeffe the I believe holy Ghofte, God equal with the in the ho Father and the Sonne, who regenerateth and fanctifieth us, ruleth and guideth us into all trueth, perfwading us moste affuredlie in our confciences, that we are the children of God, brethren to Jesus Christ, and fellow-heires with him of life everlasting.

Yet notwithstanding it is not fufficient to believe that God is Omnipotent and mercifull, that Chrift hath made fatisfa&tion, or that the holy Ghofte hath this power and effect, except we do apply the fame benefits to our felves, who are Gods elect".