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An
ORTHODOX CATECHISM
Being the Sum of
Christian Religion
Contained in the Law and Gospel.
With NKJV Proof Texts and
Scripture Index
By: Hercules Collins
(1646/7-1702)
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An Orthodox Catechism
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CONTENTS
Publisher’s Note ................................................. v
Original Preface ................................................ vii
Q. 1-11. Of Man’s Misery .............................. 1
Q. 12-24. Of Man’s Redemption................ 13
Q. 25-27. God the Father ............................ 28
Q. 28-51. God the Son ................................ 34
Q. 52-63. God the Holy Spirit .................... 60
Q. 64-67. The Sacraments ........................... 74
Q. 68-78. Baptism ......................................... 78
Q. 79-82. Laying on of Hands .................... 95
Q. 83-94. The Lord’s Supper .................... 105
Q. 95-100. Of Man’s Thankfulness ......... 127
Q. 101-137. The Law of God ................... 134
Q. 138-152. Prayer ...................................... 173
An Appendix Concerning the
Ordinance of Singing ................................. 195
The Apostles’ Creed ...................................... 217
The Nicene Creed .......................................... 219
The Athanasian Creed ................................... 221
Scripture Index ............................................... 225
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ORIGINAL PREFACE
Unto the Church of Christ, who upon
confession of faith have been baptized,
meeting in Old-Gravel-Lane London, grace,
mercy, and peace be multiplied unto you, and
the good will of him which dwelt in the bush
be with your spirits, Amen.
Dearly Beloved,
Forasmuch as there is but a small time
allotted unto any of us in this world, and not
knowing but my staff standeth next the door
ready to depart, I am desirous in this respect so
to bestow my precious and present time in my
Lord’s business, as I may not return to Him
with my talent wrapped up in a napkin, but may
leave behind me some poor token and
testimony of my love and duty towards Him,
and His blessed spouse, the church.
And forasmuch as the day we live in is very
gloomy and dark; full of error and heresy,
which spreads more and more (through the
indefatigable endeavors of the maintainers of
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it) like an overflowing leprosy, and eateth as
doth a canker.
Also considering it is a day of great
declension in love to God and one to another
also from those gospel truths, the least of
which is more worth than our lives: all which
may give God just cause to say to England’s
professors, as once to Israel, “What iniquity
have your fathers found in Me that they are
gone away far from Me?” As if God should say,
“Am I not the same as ever in power,
goodness, faithfulness? Is not my Word and
Ordinances the same, yea my promises and
heaven the same now as ever?”
Now that you may not be shaken, shattered,
and carried away with every wind and blast,
every puff and breath of error and heresy; also
that you may be the better established,
strengthened, and settled on that sure Rock
and Foundation of salvation, Christ’s merits, in
opposition to the poor imperfect works of an
impotent creature; also settled on the
foundation of Church constitution, on which
you are already built, through the grace of God
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which stirred you up to search the divine
Oracle, and Rule of divine service, as Ezra and
Nehemiah searched into the particular parts of
God’s worship, by which means they came to
the practice of that almost lost ordinance of
God, the Feast of Tabernacles, which for many
years was not practiced after the due order,
though a general notion was retained about it.
I say, under these considerations, I have in
charitable regard to your souls, presented you
with this small (but I am bold to say) sound
piece of divinity, which may not unfitly be
styled an abridgement, or epitome of law and
gospel, suited to everyone’s capacity in God’s
house: here is milk for babes, and meat for
strong men. It may not unfitly be compared to
the waters of the sanctuary, where some may
go up to the ankles, others to the knees, others
to the loins, and they are deep enough for
others to swim in. Here you are not only taught
to be good Christians, but good moralists; the
lack of which among them that have the leaves
and lamps of profession (as ‘tis to be feared
such have little more) is of a heart-breaking
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consideration to many that desire to walk with
God.
Now albeit here may be many things which
some of you may know already, yet unto such
those things I hope will be as acceptable as St.
Peter’s epistles were to the scattered saints,
though they knew much of the matter before;
yet I dare say here is something which may be
for information as well as establishment to the
most knowing among you.
I have not undertaken to present you with
new notions or principles, hoping an Athenian
spirit is in none of you, but do believe that an
old Gospel (to you that have tasted the
sweetness of it) will be more acceptable than a
new, though published by an angel from
heaven.
In what I have written you will see I agree
with the most orthodox divines in the
fundamental principles and articles of the
Christian faith, and also have industriously
expressed them in the same words, which have
on the like occasion been spoken, only
differing in some things about Church
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constitution, wherein I have taken a little pains
to shew you the true form of God’s house, with
the coming in thereof, and the going out
thereof: but I hope my zeal in this will not be
misinterpreted by any that truly fear God. That
God whom we serve is very jealous of his
worship; and forasmuch as by his Providence
the law of His house hath been preserved and
continued to us, we look upon it as our duty in
our generation to be searching out the mind of
God in His holy oracle, as Ezra and Nehemiah
did the Feast of Tabernacles, and to reform
what is amiss, as Hezekiah, who took a great
deal of pains to cleanse the house of God, and
set all things in order, that were out of order,
particularly caused the people to keep the
Passover according to the institution: for it had
not, saith the text, been of a long time kept in
such sort as it was written; and albeit the pure
institutions of Christ were not for some
hundreds of years practiced according to the
due order, or very little through the
innovations of Antichrist; and as circumcision
for about forty years was unpracticed in the
wilderness, yet as Joshua puts this duty in
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practice as soon as God signified his mind in
that particular, so we having our judgements
informed about the true way of worship, do
not dare to stifle the light God hath given us.
Now albeit there are some differences
between many godly divines and us in Church
constitution, yet inasmuch as those things are
not the essence of Christianity, but that we do
agree in the fundamental doctrine thereof,
there is sufficient ground to lay aside all
bitterness and prejudice, and labor to maintain
a spirit of love each to other, knowing we shall
never see all alike here. We find in the primitive
times that the Baptism of Christ was not
universally known, witness the ignorance of
Apollos that eminent disciple and minister,
which knew only the Baptism of John. And if
God shall enlighten any into any truth, which
they shall stifle for base and unwarrantable
ends, know that ‘tis God must judge, and not
man. And wherein we cannot concur, let us
leave that to the coming of Christ Jesus, as they
did their difficult cases in the Church of old
until there did arise a priest with Urim and
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Thummim, that might certainly inform them of
the mind of God thereabout.
I have proposed three Creeds to your
consideration, which ought thoroughly to be
believed and embraced by all those that would
be accounted Christians, viz. the Nicene Creed,
Athanasius his Creed, and the Creed
commonly called the Apostles’. The last of
which contains the sum of the gospel; which is
industriously opened and explained; and I
beseech you do not slight it because of its form,
nor antiquity, nor because supposed to be
composed by men; neither because some that
hold it, maintain some errors, or whose
conversation may not be correspondent to
such fundamental principles of salvation; but
take this for a perpetual rule, that whatever is
good in any, owned by any, whatever error or
vice it may be mixed withal, the good must not
be rejected for the error or evil’s sake, but
owned, commended, and accepted. Here is
also in the close of the book a brief, but full
exposition of that prayer Christ taught His
disciples. Also the Decalogue, or Ten
Commandments, unfolded.
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Now forasmuch as I have taken a great deal
of pains in gathering these broken fragments
together for your utility and profit, I hope you
will take a little pains to read it, and more to
live it; and I pray do it seriously and
observingly. Read it humbly and frequently,
read it with prayer and meditation, then am I
sure thou art a true Christian wilt love it more
and more. And as you love your own souls,
love your children’s, and declare it in praying
for them, as Job did for his, and instructing
them as Abraham did his; also winning them to
good by good example. And that this book may
be advantage to youth as well as others, it is
catechistically handled for their more easy
learning the principles of Christian religion,
that so they being seasoned with the true
Articles of Christian faith, may not so easily be
tainted with the sentiments of men of corrupt
minds in time of temptation. And it is heartily
desired that parents, especially professing ones,
were more concerned for the everlasting
welfare of their children, as David was for
Solomon, when he charged him near his death
to keep the Commandments and Judgements
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of God above all. And if parents would but
conscientiously read those divine Oracles
which hold forth their duty to their children, it
would doubtless be to them of great advantage.
As for this that I have presented to public
view, I beg the reader’s kind indulgence as to
the faults escaped therein. And for those whom
the Lord hath committed to my charge, that
the eternal God may be your Refuge, and
underneath you everlasting Arms; that grace
may be opened to your hearts, and your hearts
to grace; that the blessing of the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob may be upon you,
and the eternal Spirit may be with you, shall be
the prayer of your unworthy brother, but more
unworthy pastor,
H.C.
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Orthodox Catechism:
Being the Sum of
Christian Religion,
Contained in the Law and Gospel
Published
For preventing the Canker and
Poison of Heresy and Error.
By H. Collins.
Search the Scriptures. John 14:39
The Words that I have spoken, the same
shall judge you in the last day. John 12:48.
LONDON,
Printed in the Year, 1680.

Q. 1-11. Of Man’s Misery
Q. 1: What is thy only comfort in life and death?
A. That both in soul and body, 1 whether I live
or die, 2 I am not mine own, but belong wholly
unto my most faithful Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ: 3 who by His most precious blood fully
satisfying for all my sins, 4 hath delivered me
from all the power of the Devil, 5 and so
preserveth me, 6 that without the will of my
heavenly Father, not so much as an hair may
fall from my head; 7 yea all things must serve for
my safety: 8 wherefore by His Spirit also he
assureth me of everlasting life, 9 and maketh me
ready and prepared, 10 that henceforth I may
live to Him.
1 1 Cor. 6:19. Or do you not know that your body is
the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you
have from God, and you are not your own?
1 Thess. 5:10. Who died for us, that whether we wake
or sleep, we should live together with Him.
2 Rom. 14:8. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if
we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live
or die, we are the Lord's.
3 1 Cor. 3:23. And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
4 1 Pet. 1:18-19. Knowing that you were not redeemed
with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your
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aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb
without blemish and without spot. 1 John. 1:7. But if we
walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship
with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son
cleanses us from all sin. 2:2. And He Himself is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also
for the whole world.
5 1 John. 3:8. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil
has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son
of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works
of the devil. Heb. 2:14-15. Inasmuch then as the
children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself
likewise shared in the same, that through death He might
destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the
devil, and release those who through fear of death were
all their lifetime subject to bondage.
6 John 6:39. This is the will of the Father who sent
Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing,
but should raise it up at the last day.
7 Matt. 10:30. But the very hairs of your head are all
numbered. Luke 21:18. But not a hair of your head shall
be lost.
8 Rom. 8:28. And we know that all things work
together for good to those who love God, to those who
are the called according to His purpose.
9 2 Cor. 1:12. For our boasting is this: the testimony
of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the
world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly
wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly
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toward you. 5:5. Now He who has prepared us for this
very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a
guarantee. Eph. 1:13-14. In Him you also trusted, after
you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation;
in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the
Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our
inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, to the praise of His glory.
10 Rom. 8:24-25. For we were saved in this hope, but
hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope
for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see,
we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
Q. 2: How many things are necessary for thee to know,
that thou enjoying this comfort may live and die
happily?
A. Three. 1 The first, what is the greatness of my
sin and misery. 2 The second, how I am
delivered from all sin and misery. 3 The third,
what thanks I owe unto God for this delivery. 4
1 Luke 24:47. And that repentance and remission of
sins should be preached in His name to all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem. 1 Cor. 6:11. And such were some
of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified,
but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and
by the Spirit of our God. Rom. 8:15. For you did not
receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you
received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out,
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"Abba, Father." Tit. 3:3-8. For we ourselves were also
once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts
and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and
hating one another. But when the kindness and the love
of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works
of righteousness which we have done, but according to
His mercy He saved us, through the washing of
regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He
poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our
Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should
become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This
is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm
constantly, that those who have believed in God should
be careful to maintain good works. These things are
good and profitable to men.
2 John 4:41. And many more believed because of His
own word. Rom. 3:22-26. Even the righteousness of
God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who
believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely
by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His
blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness,
because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins
that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the
present time His righteousness, that He might be just
and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
3 John 17:3. And this is eternal life, that they may
know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom
You have sent.
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4 Eph. 5:10. Finding out what is acceptable to the
Lord. 1 Pet. 2:9. But you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that
you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out
of darkness into His marvelous light. 3:10-12. For "He
who would love life And see good days, Let him refrain
his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.
Let him turn away from evil and do good; Let him seek
peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the
righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the
face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
Rom. 6:11-13. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to
be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus
our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal
body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not
present your members as instruments of
unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as
being alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness to God. Matt. 5:16. Let
your light so shine before men, that they may see your
good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Tit. 2:11-12. For the grace of God that brings salvation
has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly in the present age.
Q. 3: Whence knowest thou thy misery?
A. Out of the law of God. 1
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1 Rom. 3:20. Therefore by the deeds of the law no
flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the
knowledge of sin. 7:5. For when we were in the flesh,
the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were
at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 13. Has
then what is good become death to me? Certainly not!
But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in
me through what is good, so that sin through the
commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 5:20.
Moreover the law entered that the offense might
abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much
more.
Q. 4: What doth the law of God require of us?
A. That which doth Christ summarily teach us,
Matt. 22:37-40. Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. 1
This is the first and the great commandment,
and the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself. On these two
commandments hang the whole Law and the
prophets.
1 Luke 10:27. So he answered and said, " 'You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your
soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and
'your neighbor as yourself.' "
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Q. 5: Art thou able to keep all these things perfectly?
A. No truly: 1 for by nature I am prone to the
hatred of God, and of my neighbors. 2
1 Rom. 3:10. As it is written: "There is none righteous,
no, not one. 23. For all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God. 1 John 1:8. If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
2 Rom. 8:7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against
God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed
can be. Eph. 2:3. Among whom also we all once
conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, just as the others. Tit. 3:3. For
we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in
malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.
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Q. 6: Did God then make man so wicked and
perverse?
A. Not so, 1 but rather He made him good, and
to His own image, 2 that is, endued with true
righteousness and holiness, that he might
rightly know God his Creator, and heartily love
Him, and live with Him blessed forever, and
that to praise and magnify Him. 3
1 Gen. 1:31. Then God saw everything that He had
made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and
the morning were the sixth day.
2 Gen. 1:26-27. Then God said, "Let Us make man in
Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the
air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created
man in His own image; in the image of God He created
him; male and female He created them.
3 2 Cor. 3:18. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding
as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory,
just as by the Spirit of the Lord. Col. 3:10. And have put
on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according
to the image of Him who created him. Eph. 4:24. And
that you put on the new man which was created
according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
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Q. 7: Whence then ariseth the wickedness of man’s
nature?
A. From the fall and disobedience of our first
parents, Adam and Eve: 1 hence is our nature so
corrupt, that we are all conceived and born in
sin. 2
1 Rom. 5:12. Therefore, just as through one man sin
entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death
spread to all men, because all sinned. 18-19. Therefore,
as through one man's offense judgment came to all men,
resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's
righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in
justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so also by one Man's
obedience many will be made righteous.
2 Ps. 51:5. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me. Gen. 5:3. And
Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a
son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him
Seth.
Q. 8: Are we so corrupt that we are not at all apt to do
well, and are prone to all evil?
A. Indeed we are, except we are regenerated by
the Holy Ghost. 1
1 John 3:5. Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot
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enter the kingdom of God." Gen. 6:5. Then the LORD
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually. Job 14:4. Who can bring a clean thing
out of an unclean? No one! 15:16. How much less man,
who is abominable and filthy, Who drinks iniquity like
water! Isa. 53:6. All we like sheep have gone astray; We
have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD
has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
FINIS.
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I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker
of heaven and earth;
And in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son,
our Lord;
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born
of the Virgin Mary;
Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified,
dead and buried;
He descended into hell;
The third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right
hand of God the Father Almighty;
From thence He shall come to judge the
quick and the dead;
I believe in the Holy Ghost;
I believe an holy catholic church; the
communion of saints;
The forgiveness of sins;
The resurrection of the body;
And the life everlasting. Amen.
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I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things
visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the onlybegotten
Son of God, begotten of the Father
before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light,
very God of very God; begotten, not made,
being of one substance with the Father, by
whom all things were made.
Who, for us men and for our salvation, came
down from heaven, and was incarnate by the
Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made
man; and was crucified also for us under
Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and
the third day He rose again, according to the
Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits
on the right hand of the Father; and He shall
come again, with glory, to judge both the quick
and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no
end.
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And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord
and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the
Father and the Son; who with the Father and
the Son together is worshipped and glorified;
who spoke by the prophets.
And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic
Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the
remission of sins; and I look for the
resurrection of the dead, and the life of the
world to come. Amen.
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Whosoever will be saved, before all things it
is necessary that he hold the catholic faith;
Which faith except everyone do keep whole
and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish
everlastingly.
And the catholic faith is this: that we worship
one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;
Neither confounding the Persons nor dividing
the substance.
For there is one Person of the Father,
another of the Son, and another of the Holy
Spirit.
But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal,
the majesty coeternal.
Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and
such is the Holy Spirit.
The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated,
and the Holy Spirit uncreated. The Father
incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible,
and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible. The
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Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy
Spirit eternal.
And yet they are not three eternals, but one
eternal. As also there are not three uncreated
nor three incomprehensibles, but one
uncreated and one incomprehensible.
So likewise, the Father is almighty, the Son is
almighty, and the Holy Spirit is almighty. And
yet they are not three almighties, but one
almighty.
So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the
Holy Spirit is God; And yet they are not three
Gods, but one God.
So likewise, the Father is Lord, the Son Lord,
and the Holy Spirit Lord; And yet they are not
three Lords, but one Lord. For like as we are
compelled by the Christian verity to
acknowledge every Person by himself to be
God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the
catholic religion to say, there are three Gods or
three Lords.
The Father is made of none, neither created
nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone;
not made nor created, but begotten. The Holy
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Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither
made, nor, created, nor begotten, but
proceeding.
So, there is one Father, not three Fathers;
one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not
three Holy Spirits.
And in this Trinity none is afore or after
another; none is greater or less than another.
But the whole three Persons are coeternal,
and coequal. So that in all things, as aforesaid,
the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is
to be worshipped. He therefore that will be
saved, must thus think of the Trinity.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting
salvation, that we also believe rightly the
incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For the right faith is that we believe and
confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of
God, is God and man.
God of the substance of the Father, begotten
before the worlds; and man of substance of His
mother, born in the world.
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Perfect God and perfect man, of a reasonable
soul and human flesh subsisting. Equal to the
Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior
to the Father as touching His manhood.
Who, although He is God and man, yet He is
not two, but one Christ. One, not by
conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by
taking of that manhood into God. One
altogether, not by confusion of substance, but
by unity of Person.
For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one
man, so God and man is one Christ; Who
suffered for our salvation, descended into hell,
rose again the third day from the dead; He
ascended into heaven, He sits on the right hand
of the Father, God, Almighty; From thence He
shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
At whose coming all men shall rise again with
their bodies; and shall give an account of their
own works. And they that have done good
shall go into life everlasting and they that have
done evil into everlasting fire.
This is the catholic faith, which except a man
believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
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SCRIPTURE INDEX
Genesis
1:1-2 ....................... 25.1
1:2 ........................... 52.1
1:26-27 ..................... 6.2
1:31 ........................... 6.1
2:17 ......................... 39.1
3:15 ......................... 19.1
5:3 ............................. 7.2
6:5 ............................. 8.1
9:6 ..............123.1, 123.4
9:25 ....................... 121.2
12:6-7 ..................... 73.9
13:15-17 ................. 73.9
15:16, 18 ................ 73.9
17:8-11 ................... 73.9
17:9-12 ................... 72.1
17:10 ....................... 86.3
17:11 ....................... 65.1
17:19, 21 ................ 73.5
21:10 ....................... 73.5
21:24, 31 .............. 116.2
22:18 ....................... 19.2
49:10-11 ................. 19.2
Exodus
12:26-27, 43, 48 .... 86.3
13:9 ............... 85.3, 86.3
15 ..... APPX. 25, 28, 32
15:1 ............... APPX. 10
15:21 ............. APPX. 15
20:2 ....................... 104.1
20:3-17 ................. 101.1
20:5 ............... 11.2, 12.1
20:7 ......................... 12.1
20:17 ..................... 134.1
21:14 ..................... 123.4
21:17 ..................... 121.1
22:18 ....................... 19.2
23:5 ....................... 125.4
23:7 ......................... 12.1
23:24 ..................... 111.1
24:8 ............... 85.2, 86.3
34:5-7 ................... 145.2
34:6 ......................... 11.1
34:13-14, 17 ......... 111.1
34:28 ..................... 102.1
Leviticus
5:1 ......................... 115.1
6:25 ......................... 65.1
9:24 ......................... 71.2
10:16 ....................... 71.2
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