ved: Before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith. tot ved: Before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith. Whosoever will be ved: Before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith. sa - ved: Before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith. ¶ Upon these Feasts; Christmas-day, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias, Easter-day, Ascension-day, Whitsunday, Saint John Baptist, Saint James, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Saint Andrew, and upon Trinity-Sunday, shall be sung or said at Morning Prayer, instead of the Apostles' Creed, this Confession of our Christian Faith, commonly called The Creed of Saint Athanasius, by the Minister and People standing. ST. ATHANASIUS' CREED.] : MORNING PRAYER. Son in'comprehensible and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the' Son eternal and the Holy Ghost e'ternal. : And yet they are not' three Gods: but one' God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the' Son Lord and the Holy Ghost' Lord. And yet not' three Lords: but one' Lord. For like as we are compelled by the' Christian verity: to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and' Lord; So are we forbidden by the' Catholick Religion to say, There be three Gods, or three' Lords. The Father is made of none neither created, nor be'gotten. The Son is of the Father alone: not made, nor created, but he gotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son : neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not' three Sons : one Holy Ghost, not three Holy' Ghosts. [ST. ATHANASIUS' CREED. And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other: none is greater, or less than an'other; But the whole three Persons are co-e'ternal together and co-'equal. So that in all things, as is a'foresaid : the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be' worshipped. He therefore that will be saved: must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting sal'vation: that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus' Christ. For the right Faith is, that we be'lieve and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and' Man; : God, of the Substance of the Father, begotten be'fore the worlds and Man, of the Substance of his Mother, born in the' world; Perfect God, and' perfect Man : of a reasonable soul and human flesh sub'sisting; Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead and inferior to the Father, as touching his' Manhood. Who although he be God and Man yet he is not two, but one' Christ; One; not by conversion of the' Godhead into flesh but by taking of the Manhood into' God; One altogether; not by con'fusion of Substance but by unity of' Per son. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is' one man so God and Man is one' Christ; |