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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
To the reader: Unto the Christian Reader.To the reader: Ʋnto the Christian Reader.
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.
that we make God the author of sin, and man as a stock or a block, void of all goodness? that we pass not for the Church, and ⟨image 5⟩rail against the head thereof? that we abuse the Sacraments? that we are rebels, and teach subjects to disobey their Prince, inferiors to resist their superiors? that we preach nothing but liberty, liberty? to be short, that we cannot agree among our selves about the chiefest points of our Religion. These and many such like slanderous reports; have lying spirits put into the mouths of the Romish Clergy, and their adherents, which if thou credit to be as true as the Gospel, it will be long before thou believe the truth of the Gospel.
that we make God the auctor of sinne, and man as a stocke or a blocke, voide of all goodnes? that we passe not for the Churche, and ⟨image 5⟩rayle against the head therof? that we abuse the Sacramentes? that we are rebelles, and teach subiectes to disobay their Prince, inferiours to resist their superiours? that we preache nothinge but libertie, libertie? to be shorte, that we cannot agrée amonge our selues about the chiefest pointes of our Religion. These and many such like slaunderous reportes; haue lyinge spirites put into the mouthes of the Romishe Cleargie, and their adherentes, which if thou credite to be as true as the Gospell, it wil be longe before thou beleue the truth of the Gospell.
But if thou wilt vouchsafe, good Christian Reader, diligently to peruse in the fear of the Lord, this little treatise, not condemning it before thou read it, nor wresting every word to an evil sense, but with indifferency ponder each thing and judge uprightly: then, then I hope that God will open thine eyes, and give thee grace to see & to acknowledge his truth, will enrich thee with wisdom, to discern the Spirit of truth, from the Spirit of ⟨image 5⟩error, light from darkness, Christ from Antichrist.