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…

We acknowledge therefore two ¹natures, a divine, and humane in our one Lord Jesus Christ, and further say, that they be joined or knit together, not confounded or mixed, but rather that the property of their natures remain safe in one person, united or joined together, for that we worship one Christ our Lord, and not two: I say one, true GOD, and true ⟨image 71⟩man, as touching his divine nature, of like substance with his father: as ²touching his humanity, of like substance with us men, and like in all points, excepting sin. For as we do abhor from the Nestorians opinion, ³making two of one Christ, and breaking the unity of his person, so we willingly detest the madness of Eutiches, and Monothelites, or Monophysites, who deny the property of his human nature. Neither do we teach, that Christ his divine nature did suffer, ⁴or that he as touching his human nature, remaineth to this day on the earth, or that his humanity is every where: neither do we think or teach, that Christ had no true body, after it was glorified, or that then it was deified, and so deified, that it kept not the properties of a body and soul, or that it was changed all together into a divine nature, and began to be only one substance. Wherefore we allow not the fond foolish quirks of Schuenkfeldius, ⁵and such like subtle disputers, nor their intricate, obscure reasoning ⟨p. 28⟩of this matter, wherein they agree not among them selves. Further more, we believe, that our Lord Jesus Christ suffered and died in deed, for us in the flesh, as Peter sayeth. We ⁶detest therefore the Jacobites, and the Turks most impious madness, who abhor the passion of Christ. In the mean while we deny not, but that the Lord of glory, according to Pauls words, was crucified for us. For