A15877:14
The Reckoning and Declaration of the Faith
The reckoning and declaration of the faith and belief of huldrike Zwingli bishop of ziiryk the chief town of Helvetia, sent to Charles .v. that now is Emperor of Rome: holding a parliament or counsel at Ausbrough with the chief lords and learned men of Germany, the year of our Lord M.D.xxx. in the month of July.The rekenynge and declaracion of the fayth and belefe of huldrike zwyngly byshoppe of ziiryk the chefe town of Heluitia, sent to Charles .v. that nowe is Emproure of Rome: holdynge a parlement or counsayll at Ausbrough with the chefe lordes and lerned men of Germanye, the yere of our Lorde M.D.xxx. in the moneth of July.
printed by Richard wire, 1548printed by Richarde wyer, 1548
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Preface › Article 1: ¶ The first Article.Preface › Article 1: ¶ The fyrste Article.
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¶ The first Article.
¶ The fyrste Article.
First of all / I both believe and know / that there is but one god / one alone for all sufficient: and him self to be naturally good / true / almighty, just, wise,1 the creator & curate of all things visible and invisible, and even the same my god to be the father, the son, & the holy ghost, three parsons, but one only in substance. I believe as concerning the unite of the godhead & the trinity of these names or persons in all things according unto the exposition of the Creed of Nicene & Athanasu. I believe & know it firmly,2 that the son toke unto him the hole nature of man which consisteth of body & soul receiving it verily of the immaculate and perpetual virgin Mary, so that this hole and perfect man thus assumpte into the unite of the person of the son of god be not so assumpt that the man should constitute a peculiar person as is every other name? but so was the man head taken up unto the Godhead to be the person of the son of god / inseparable / indivisible / and indissociable.3 For albeit that both the natures that is to wit the divine and human ⟨image 6⟩so held their properties that either of them in him be seen & espied verily and naturally:4 yet do not these distinct properties & works of these two natures dissever & dissociate the unite of the person: no more then in a man the mind & the flesh make two persons For like as these two, are naturally greatly distinct / so are they endowed with distinct properties & operations.5 And yet is not the man constituted of these twain, two persons, but one: even as is god and man one christ, the perpetual son of god from everlasting but the son of man from the time appointed and determined, one person, & one Christ perfect God, perfect man / not so that of the one nature the toher be made, or be mixed together, but that either of them both abide in her own property, and yet is not the unite of the persons through this sundry properties dissevered. And thus, this same person one Christ, very God and man, as touching the property of his manhood, he wailed, he cried, and wept in his cradle, he grew and waxed / and increased in wisdom / desired to eat and drink,