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A brief declaration of the universality of the Church of Christ, and the unity…A briefe declaration of the universalitie of the Church of Christ, and the unitie…
A brief declaration of the universality of the Church of Christ, and the unity of the Catholic faith professed therein delivered in a sermon before His Majesty the 20th. of June 1624. at Wansted. By James Usher, Bishop of Meath.A briefe declaration of the universalitie of the Church of Christ, and the unitie of the Catholike faith professed therein delivered in a sermon before His Maiestie the 20th. of Iune 1624. at Wansted. By Iames Ussher, Bishop of Meath.
London: printed by John Dawson for Ephraim Dawson, 1629London: printed by Iohn Dawson for Ephraim Dawson, 1629
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The Creed which the Eastern Churches used in ⟨p. 19⟩Baptism, was larger then this: being either the same, or very little different from that which we commonly call the Nicene Creed; because the greatest part of it was repeated and confirmed in the first general Council held at Nice: where the first draught thereof was presented to the Synod by Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, with this Preamble. tAs we have received from the Bishops that were before us, both at our first catechizing, and when we received Baptism: and as we have learned from the holy Scriptures; and as we have both believed and taught, when we entered into the Ministry, and in our Bishopric it self: so believing at this present also, we declare this our faith unto you. To this the Nicene Fathers added a more clear explication of the Deity of the Son (against the Arian heresy, wherewith the Church was then troubled), professing him to be begotten, not made, and to be of one substance with the Father. The second general Council, which was assembled fifty-six years after at Constantinople, approving this confession of the faith, as umost ancient and agreeable to Baptism, enlarged it somewhat; in the Article that concerned the Holy Ghost especially, which at that time was most oppugned by the Macedonian Heretics. And whereas the Nicene confession proceeded no further, than to the belief which we have in the holy Trinity; the Fathers of Constantinople made it up, by adding that which was commonly professed touching the Catholic Church and the privileges belonging thereunto. Epiphanius repeating this Creed at large, xaffirmeth it to have been delivered unto the Church by the Apostles. yCassianus avoucheth as much, where he urgeth this against Nestorius, ⟨p. 20⟩as the Creed anciently received in the Church of Antioch; from whence he came. The Roman Church, after the days of Charles the great, added the article of the procession of the H•ly Ghost from the Son, unto this Symbol: and the