A13257:285
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
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.
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We believe, asith Jesus Christ is given to be our only advocate, band that he commandeth us to have familiar recourse in his name to his father, cyea that it is not lawful for us to pray, but according to the form, that God hath appointed us by his word, dthat all that which men have imagined, touching intercession of dead Saints, is but abuse and deceit of Satan, to turn men from the ⟨image 153⟩form of true prayer. We despise also all other means, wherewith men presume to be able to ransom them selves to Godward, as derogating the sacrifice of the death and passion of Jesus Christ. To be short, we esteem purgatory for an illusion forged in the same forge, the cMonkish vows, pilgrimages, forbidding of Marriages and use of meats, the Ceremonious observation of days, Auricular confession, Pardons, with all other such like, were: whereby men think too deserve grace and salvation: Which things we despise, not only for the false opinion of desert, that is had in them, but also because they are mans inventions, and yoke mens con sciences.
We beleue, asith Iesus Christe is geuen to bée our onely aduocate,