CONSTITUTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL,

Anno 1604.

WHOSOEVER shall hereafter affirm, that the church of England, by law established, under the king's majesty, is not a true and an apostolical church, teaching and maintaining the doctrine of the apostles; let him be excommunicated ipso facto, and not restored, but only by the archbishop, after his repentance and public revocation of this his wicked error. Can. 3.

Whosoever shall hereafter affirm, that any of the 39 articles agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces and the whole clergy, in the convocation holden at London, in the year of our Lord God 1562, for the avoiding of diversities of opinions, and for the establishing of consent touching true religion, are in any part superstitious or crroneous, or such as he may not with a good conscience subscribe unto; let him be excommunicated ipso facto, and not restored, but only by the archbishop, after his repentance and public revocation of such his wicked errors. Can. 5.

Whosoever shall hereafter separate themselves from the communion of saints, as it is approved by the apostles' rules in the church of England, and combine themselves in a new brotherhood, accounting the Christians who are conformable to the doctrine, government, rites, and ceremonies of the church of England, to be profane and unmect for them to join with in christian profession; let them be excommunicated ipso facto, and not restored, but by the archbishop, after their repentance and public revocation of such their wicked errors.

Can. 9.

3

[ROGERS.]

OF THE

THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES.

ART.

I.

II.

III.

OF Faith in the Holy Trinity.

Of the Word of God, which was made very Man.

Of the Going down of Christ into Hell.

IV. Of the Resurrection of Christ.

XI.

Of the Justification of Man.

XII. Of good Works.

XIII. Of Works before Justification.
XIV. Of Works of Supererogation.
XV. Of Christ alone without sin.

XVI. Of Sin after Baptism.

XVII. Of Predestination and Election.

XVIII. Of Obtaining eternal salvation only by the Name of Christ.

XIX. Of the Church.

XX. Of the Authority of the Church.

XXI. Of the Authority of General Councils.

XXII. Of Purgatory.

XXIII. Of Ministering in the Congregation.

XXIV. Of the Speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue, as the

people understand not.

XXV. Of the Sacraments.

XXVI. Of the Unworthiness of the Ministers, which hinder not the

effects of the Sacraments.

XXVII. Of Baptism.

XXVIII. Of the Lord's Supper.

XXIX. Of the Wicked which do not cat the Body and Blood of Christ in the use of the Lord's Supper.

XXX. Of both Kinds.

XXXI. Of the Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.

XXXII. Of tho Marriage of Priests.

XXXIII. Of Excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided.

XXXIV. Of the Traditions of the Church.

XXXV. Of Homilies.

XXXVI. Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers.

XXXVII. Of the Civil Magistrate.

XXXVIII. Of Christian men's goods, which are not common.

XXXIX. Of a Christian man's Oath.

THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE

BELIEVED AND PROFESSED IN

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

ARTICLE I.

Of faith in the Holy Trinity.

There is but (1) one living, and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness: (2) the maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. (3) And in unity of this Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

1.

ing, &c.

2.

3.

persons.

The Propositions.

There is but one God, who is living, true, everlast

God is the maker and preserver of all things.

In the Unity of the Godhead there is a Trinity of

Proposition I.

There is but one God, who is living, true, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions: of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness.

The proof from the word of God.

That there is but one God, who is, &c., is a truth which may be gathered from the all-holy and sacred scripture and is agreeable to the doctrine of the reformed churches. For both God's word giveth us to know that God is one, and no more", the living and true God, everlasting", without body,

b

Thou shalt have none other gods before me, Exod. xx. 3. The Lord our God is Lord only, Deut. vi. 4. Who is God beside the Lord? Psal. xviii. 31. Hath not one God made us? Mal. ii. 10. There is none other God but one, 1 Cor. viii. 4.

b Mine heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God, Psal. lxxxiv. 2. Ye are the temple of the living God, 2 Cor. vi. 16.

For a long season Israel hath been without the true God, 2

parts, or passions; of infinito power', wisdom, and good[Conf. Aug.] ness": and God's people in their public Confessions' from Ausburgh, Helvetia, Bohemia, France, Flanders and WittemBob. Cap. 3. berg testify the same.

Art. 1.

[Helv.] 2.

Art. 111.

Gall. Art. I. Belg. Art.11. Wittemb.] Cap. 1.

Chron. xv. 3. The Lord is the God of truth; he is the living God, and an everlasting king, Jer. x. 10. This is life eternal, that they know thee to be the only very God, &c. John xvii. 3. Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 1 Thess. i. 9.

O my God, &c. thy years endure from generation to generation, &c. thy years shall not fail, Psal. cii. 24, 26, 27. He is the living God, and remaineth for ever, Dan. vi. 26.

* O Lord my God, thou art exceeding great, thou art clothed with glory, and honour; which covereth himself with light as with a garment, &c., Psal. civ. 1, &c. God is a spirit, John iv. 24. The Lord is the Spirit, 2 Cor. iii. 17. He is not a man that he should repent, 1 Sam. xv. 29. I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath, I will not return to destroy Israel: for I am God, and not man, IIos. xi. 9.

The sound of the cherubims' wings was heard into the utter court, as the voice of the Almighty God, when he speaketh, Ezek. x. 5. I will be a father unto you, &c. saith the Lord Almighty, 2 Cor. vi. 18. We give thee thanks, Lord God Almighty, Rev. xi. 17.

Great is our Lord, and great is his power: his wisdom is infinite, Ps. cxlvii. 5. To God only wise bo honour, and glory for ever and ever, 1 Tim. i. 17. To God, I say, only wise, be praiso through Jesus Christ for evor, Amen. Rom. xvi. 27.

Praise ye the Lord, becauso he is good, for his mercy enduroth for ever. Psal. cvi. 1; cvii. 1; cviii. 1, &c.

[' Ecclesiæ magno consensu apud nos docent....quod sit una essentia divina, quæ appellatur et est Deus, æternus, incorporeus, impartibilis, immensa potentia, sapientia, bonitate, creator et conservator omnium rerum, visibilium et invisibilium. -Harm. Conf. Genev. 1581. Sect. 1. p. 40. Ex August. Conf. Art. 1. Deum credimus et docemus unum esse essentia sive natura, per se subsistentem, sibi ad omnia sufficientem, invisibilem, incorporeum, immensum, æternum.....summum, bonum, vivum,......omnipotentem, et summe sapientem, clementem sive misericordem, justum atque veracein.-Ibid. p. 23. Ex Helvet. Conf. Post. cap. 3.......Nostri docent.....sccundum essentiam ....... unum tantum, verum, solum, æternum, omnipotentem, incomprehensibilem Deum, unius æqualis individuæ divinæ essentia.-Ibid. p. 29. Ex Boliem. Conf. cap. 3. Credimus et agnoscimus unicum Deum, qui sit unica et simplex essentia spiritualis, æterna, invisibilis, immutabilis, infinita, incomprehensibilis, inenarrabilis, omnipotens, summe sapiens, bona, justa et misericors.— Ibid. p. 33. Ex Gall. Conf. Art. 1. Corde credimus et ore confitemur, unicam esse et simplicem essentiam spiritualem, quam Deum vocamus, æternum, incomprehensibilem, inconspicuum, immutabilem, infinitum, qui totus est sapiens, fonsque omnium bonorum uberrimus.-Ibid. p. 36. Ex Belg. Conf. Art. 1. Credimus et confitemur, unum solum, verum, æternum, immensum esse Deum, omnipotentem creatorem, &c.-Ibid. p. 47. Ex Virtemb. Conf. c. 1.

Errors and adversaries unto this truth.

Then, impious and execrable are the opinions of Diagoras and Theodorus, who flatly denied there was any God'.

Of Protagoras, and the Machivilian atheists, which are doubtful whether there be a God.

contr. Ma

c. 1, 2.

Alex. Strom.

Epiphan.

Of such as feigned unto themselves divers and sundry gods, as did the Manichees, the Basilidians, the 'Valen- August. tinians, the Messalian' heretics, the gentiles and heathen nich. Lib. i. people; whereof some in place of God worshipped beasts un- Clemen. reasonable, as the Egyptians did a calf, an ox3, cats, vul- Lib. v.11 tures, and crocodiles: the Syrians a fish", and pigeons; Gand. Merula the Persians a dragon; some as gods have adored under the names of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and such and some even at this day for God do worship kine, the and what they think good; so the inhabitants of Baly" in the voyage of the

East Indies.

Exod.

de Mirabil.

Merula de

men, Lib. I. c. 56. like"; Mirab. Lib. sun, Hist. of Bel.

Dcos esse dubitabat Protagoras: nullos esso omnino Diagoras [Melius] et Theodorus Cyrenaicus putaverunt.-M. T. Cic. do Nat. Deor. Lib. 1. [c. 1.]

k Protagoras Dcos in dubium vocavit; Diagoras exclusit.-Lactan. [Opp. Par. 1748. Tom. 1. Lib. 1.] de Fals. Rel. cap. 2. [p. 7.]

Valentinus, xxx. Deorum prædicator, saith Cyril, [Opp. Par. 1720.] Catech. vi. [17, p. 97.]

m Piscem Syri venerantur.-Cic. [de Nat. Deor. II. 15, 39.] "Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men: and they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercurius, &c. Then Jupiter's priest, &c. Acts xiv. 11, &c. Who knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana? Acts xix. 35.

[ Duos enim deos, unum bonum, alterum malum esse perhibetis.-Aug. Opp. Paris. 1836-8. Tom. 1. col. 1123. De Mor. Eccl. et Manich. Lib. 1. cap. 10.]

[* Πάλιν ὁ Μωϋσῆς οὐκ ἐπιτρέπων βωμοὺς καὶ τεμένη πολλαχοῦ κατασκευάζεσθαι, ἕνα δ ̓ οὖν νέων ἱδρυσάμενος τοῦ Θεοῦ, μονογενῆ τε κόσμον, ὡς φησὶν ὁ Βασιλείδης, καὶ τὸν ἕνα, ὡς οὐκ ἔτι τῷ Βασιλείδῃ δοκεῖ, κατήγγελε Θεόν. Clem. Alex. Opp. Oxon. 1715. Tom. 11. Strom. Lib. v. c. 11. p. 690.]

[' Ἀλλ ̓ ἐκεῖνοι μὲν (sc. Μασσαλίανοι) ἐξ Ελλήνων ὡρμῶντο....καὶ θεοὺς μὲν λέγοντες, μηδενὶ μηδὲν προσκυνοῦντες κ.τ.λ. Epiphan. Opp. Paris. 1622. Tom. I. p. 1067. Adv. Hær. Lib. 111. Tom. 11. Hær. 80.]

[ Bovem, quem ipsi Apim nominabant alias Egyptii, sacrificiis exquisitis adorabant; præter hunc etiam ex animalibus venerabantur feles, crocodilos, vultures, ibes, et ichneumones.-Gand. Merula de Memorab. Lib. 111. c. 56, p. 232. Lugd. 1556.]

[ Syrii columbas olim adorabant.—Ibid. c. 48, p. 226.] [ Churchill's Voyages. Lond. 1747. Vol. v111. p. 417.]

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