The Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

F O I R M A N
teagal cleg. Acht do chum go madh
feirrde do thuigfemaois fm roind è
agceithre chuid priondfubalta. Bean-
aidh an che'dchuid de re Dia Athar,
an dara cuid, re Hiofa Criofd ar Dtig-
hearna, Foillfeochaidh an treas cuid
ar gcreideamh dhuinn fa Sbiorad naomh,
agas foilleochaidh an ceathramhadh
cuid dheigheanach. Cre'd e ar
gcreideamh adtimcheall na Heagluife,
agas grafa De ar na fiorthoirbheart
di. Ar tus adtimcheall De' adbhamao-
id tri neithe .i. gurab e' Dia ar nathair
ar tus, go bfuil fe vile chumhachtach,
andara ni, gurab e cruthuighthoir neimhe
agas talmhana e, antreas ni, goir-
raaoid ar nathair dhe, agas creidmaoid
gurab è ar nathair, ni na mhain ar fon
ar gcruthaidhthe. Oir ata fm coitche
and duinn vile, agas dona creatuiribh
eile, ge nach bfuaradar anmhe'idfm do-
noir, Dia do bheith na Athair gradh-
ach aca, acht is vime ghoirmaoid ar
Nathair dhe, ar fon gur thogh fe go
faor find, mar chloind ochta dho fe'in
do chum
but that we may the better understand what is conteined in the
same, we shal divide it into foure principal partes. The first shall
conceme God the Father, The second, Jesus Christ our Lord.
The third shal expresse to us our faith in the Holy Ghost. And
the fourth and last, shal declare what is our faith concerning the
Church, and of the graces of God freely given to the same.
First, of God we confesse three things, to wit, that he is our
Father, Almightie, maker of heaven and earth. Our Father we
call him, and so by faith beleve him to be, not so muche, because he
hath created us (for that we have common with the rest of creatures,
who yet are not called to that honour to have God to them a favourable
Father ;) but we call him Father, by reason of his free adoption,
by the which he hath chosen us to lyf everlasting in Jesus Christ
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