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Fifty Godly and Learned Sermons (The Decades)
Fifty godly and learned sermons divided into five decades, containing the chief and principal points of Christian religion, written in three several tomes or sections, by Henry Bullinger minister of the church of Tigure in Switzerland. Whereunto is adjoined a triple or three-fold table very fruitful and necessary. Translated out of Latin into English by H.I. student in divinity.Fiftie godlie and learned sermons diuided into fiue decades, conteyning the chiefe and principall pointes of Christian religion, written in three seuerall tomes or sections, by Henrie Bullinger minister of the churche of Tigure in Swicerlande. Whereunto is adioyned a triple or three-folde table verie fruitefull and necessarie. Translated out of Latine into English by H.I. student in diuinitie.
London: printed by Henry Middleton for Ralph Newberrie, 1577London: printed by Henry Middleton for Ralphe Newberrie, 1577
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The Creed of the fourth Council kept at Toledo, taken out of the book of Isidore.
The Creede of the fourth Counsell kept at Toledo, taken out of the booke of Isidore.
AS we have learned of the holy fathers, that the father, and the son, and the holy ghost are of one Godhead and substance, (so) is our confession, believing the trinity in the difference of persons, and openly professing the unity in the Godhead, neither confound we the persons, nor divide the substance. We say that the father is made or begotten of none: we affirm that the son is not made, but begotten of the father: and we profess that the holy ghost is neither created nor begotten, but proceeding from the father and the son. And (we confess) that the Lord him self Jesus Christ the son of God, and the maker of all things, begotten of the substance of his father before all the worlds, came down from his father in the latter times for the redemption of the world, who (nevertheless) never ⟨image 8⟩ceased to be with the father. For he was incarnate by the holy ghost and the glorious virgin Mary the holy mother of God, and of her was borne alone the same Lord Jesus Christ, one in the trinity, being perfect (man) in soul and body, taking on man without sin, being still what he was, taking to him what he was not: touching his godhead equal with the father, (and) inferior to his father touching his manhood, having in one person the property of two natures. For (there are) in him two natures, God and man. And yet not two sons or two Gods, but the same (God and man) one person in both natures, who suffered grief and death for our salvation, not in the power of his godhead, but in the infirmity of his manhood. He descended to them below to draw out by force the Saints which were held there. And he rose again, the power of death being overcome. He was taken up into the Heavens, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. By whose death and blood we being made clean have obtained forgiveness of (our) sins, and shall be raised up again by him in the last day, in the same flesh wherein now we live, (and) in that manner wherein the same (our) Lord did rise again, (and) shall receive of him, some in reward of their well-doing life everlasting, and some for their sins the judgement of everlasting punishment. This is the faith of the Catholic church, this confession we keep and hold, which whosoever shall keep steadfastly, he shall have everlasting salvation.