A13257:109
A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the…A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the…
A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the seas: with an exhortation to the reformation of the Church. Perused and allowed according to the Queens Majesties injunctions.A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the seas: with an exhortation to the reformation of the Churche. Perused and allowed accordinge to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by Henry Wykes for Lucas Harrison, 1568
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¶ Of Jesus Christ true God, and perfect man, the only saviour of the world. Chap. 11.
¶ Of Iesus Christ true God, and perfecte man, the onely sauiour of the worlde. Chap. 11.
WE believe and teach, that the Son of God our lord Jesus 1Christ from the beginning, was predestinate of his father, to be the saviour of the world, and that he ⟨p. 26⟩was begot not only, when he took flesh of the virgin Mary, and before the foundation of the world was laid, but even before all eternity, and that of his Father, after an unspeakable sort. For Isaiah saith. xxxv. What man shall declare his generation. And Mich. v. His going forth hath been from the beginning, and from everlasting. And John in the Gospel. Cha. j. In the beginning was the word, & the word was with God, and that word was GOD. &c. Therefore the Son, touching his divinity, is coequal, and of one substance with the Father, true God, not by name or adoption, or any dignity only, but in substance, and nature, as John the Apostle sayeth. 2This is the true God, and life everlasting, and Paul Heb. j. He hath made his Son heir of all things, by whom he made the world, being the brightness of the glory, and the engraved form of his person, and bearing up all things by his mighty word: for in the Gospel the Lord himself hath said: Glorify thou me, O father, with ⟨image 69⟩[…] ⟨p. 26⟩[…] ⟨image 70⟩thine own self, with the glory which