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Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen
Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The year of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The yeare of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538
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That is / I do not only believe / that Jesus Christ is the true & only Son of God / by everlasting & godly nature / & being from the beginning & ever begotten: but also that all things are subdued under him / & that ⟨image 33⟩he is my lord / and the lord of all creatures / made ruler of them being man / which he him self with the father in his divinity did make.
That is / I do not only beleue / that Iesu Christ is the true & only sonne of God / by euerlasting & godly nature / & beyng frō the begynnyng & euer begotten: but also that all thinges are subdued vnder hym / & that ⟨image 33⟩he is my lorde / and the lorde of all creatures / made ruler of theym beyng man / whiche he hym self with the father in his diuynite dyd make.
I believe that no man may believe in god the father or may come unto the father / nether by science and learning nether by works / nether by their own reason and wit or by what thing so ever may be named in heaven or earth / but by this and in this Jesus Christ his only Son / that is to say by the saith in the name and power of Jesus Christ.
I beleue that no man may beleue in god the father or may come vnto the father / nether by science and lernyng nether by workes / nether by theyre owne reason and witte or by what thing so euer may be named in heuen or erthe / but by this and in this Iesu Chryst his onely sonne / that is to say by the sayth in the name and power of Iesu Chryst.
I believe unfeignedly / and surely / that he was conceived for my profit by the holy ghost without all mans and carnal work / without a bodily father / or mans seed / and that to purify / and make spiritual my sinful / fleshly / unclean / and damnable conception / and all theirs that believe in him: moved to his mercy of his own and free will and the will of the almighty father.