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The chief and principal articles of the Christen faith to hold against the Pope,…The chiefe and pryncypall articles of the Christen faythe to holde againste the Pope,…
The chief and principal articles of the Christen faith to hold against the Pope, and all papists, and the gates of hell, with other three very profitable and necessary books the names or titles, whereof are contain in the leaf next following. Made by Doctor Marten Luther. To the reader. In this book shall you find Christian reader the right probation of the right old catholic Church, and of the new false Church, whereby either of them is to be known. Read and judge.The chiefe and pryncypall articles of the Christen faythe to holde againste the Pope, and al papistes, and the gates of hell, with other thre very profitable and necessary bokes the names or tyttels, whereof are conteyne in the leafe next followynge. Made by Doctor Marten Luther. To the reader. In thys boke shal you fynde Christian reader the ryght probation of the righte olde catholyke Churche, and of the newe false Churche, whereby eyther of them is to be knowen. Reade and iudge.
printed by S. Mierdman for Gwalter Lynne, 1548
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He therefore that will be saved, let him understand thus of the trinity.
He therfore that wyll be saued, let hym vnderstande thus of the trinite.
But it is necessary unto everlasting health that every Christian believe also faithfully the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But it is necessary vnto euerlasting helth that euery Christian beleue also faythfully the incarnation of oure Lorde Iesu Christe.
It is therefore the right faith, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ the son of GOD, is God and man.
It is therfore the ryght fayth, that we beleue and confesse, that our Lorde Iesus Christe the sonne of GOD, is God and man.
He is God by the substance of the father, gotten before all worlds, and he is man by the substance of the mother, borne in the world.