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An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief…An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe…
An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief and plain declaration of the true religion professed and used in the same.An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe and plaine declaration of the true religion professed and vsed in the same.
Londini: printed by Reginald Wolfe, 1564
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We believe that the holy Ghost, who is, the third person in the holy Trinity; is very God: not made, not •reat, not begotten, but proceeding from both the Father and the Son, by a certain mean unknown unto men & unspeakable, and that it is his property to mollify and soften the hardness of mans heart, when he is once received thereunto, either by the wholesome preaching of the Gospel, or by any other way: that he doth give men light, and guide them unto the knowledge of God, to all way of truth, to newness of the whole lief, and to everlasting hope of salvation.
Wee beleeue that the holy Ghoste, who is, the third person in the holie Trinitie; is very God: not made, not •reat, not begotten, but proceding from both the Father and the Sonne, by a certain meane vnknowen vnto men & vnspeakable, and that it is his propretie to mollifie and soften ye hardnes of mans heart, when he is once receiued thereunto, eyther by ye holsom preaching of the Gospell, or by any other way: that he dothe geue men light, and guide them vnto the knowledge of God, to al waye of truth, to newnes of the whole liefe, and to euerlastinge hope of saluation.
We believe that there is one Church of God, and that the same is not shut up (as in times past among the Jews) into some one corner or kingdom, but ⟨image 22⟩that it is catholic and universal, and dispersed throughout the whole world. So that there is now no nation which can truly complain that they be shut forth. & may not be one of the Church & people of God: And that this Church is the Kingdom, the body and the spouse of Christ: and that Christ alone is the Prince of this Kingdom, that Christ alone is the head of this body, and that Christ alone is the bridegroom of this spouse.
Wee beleeue that there is one Church of God, and that the same is not shutte vp (as in times past amonge the Iewes) into some one corner or kyngdome, but ⟨image 22⟩