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Speaker 1: Articles from the Book of Common Prayer sixteen sixty two.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by
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Speaker 1: Michael Maggs. Articles agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops
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Speaker 1: of both provinces and the whole clergy in the Convocation
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Speaker 1: holden at London in the year fifteen sixty two for
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Speaker 1: the avoiding of diversities of opinions and for the establishing
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Speaker 1: of consent touching true religion, reprinted by His Majesty's Commandment,
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Speaker 1: with his Royal Declaration prefixed thereunto His Majesty's declaration, being
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Speaker 1: by God's ordinance, according to our just title Defender of
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Speaker 1: the Faith and supreme Governor of the Church, within these
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Speaker 1: our dominions, we hold it most agreeable to this our
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Speaker 1: kingly office and our own religion zeal to conserve and
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Speaker 1: maintain the Church committed to our charge in the unity
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Speaker 1: of true religion and in the bond of peace, and
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Speaker 1: not to suffer unnecessary disputations, altercations, or questions to be
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Speaker 1: raised which may nourish faction, both in the Church and Commonwealth.
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Speaker 1: We have, therefore, upon mature deliberation, and with the advice
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Speaker 1: of so many of our bishops as might conveniently be
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Speaker 1: called together thought fit to make this declaration following that
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Speaker 1: the articles of the Church of England, which have been
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Speaker 1: allowed and authorized heretofore, and which our clergy generally have
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Speaker 1: subscribed unto do, contain the true doctrine of the Church
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Speaker 1: of England, agreeable to God's Word, which we do therefore
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Speaker 1: ratify and confirm, requiring all all our loving subjects to
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Speaker 1: continue in the uniform profession thereof, and prohibiting the least
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Speaker 1: difference from the said articles, which to that end we
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Speaker 1: command to be new printed, and this our declaration to
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Speaker 1: be published therewith that we are supreme Governor of the
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Speaker 1: Church of England, and that if any difference arise about
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Speaker 1: the external policy concerning the injunctions, canons, and other constitutions whatsoever,
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Speaker 1: thereto belonging the clergy in their convocation is to order
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Speaker 1: and settle them, having first obtained leave under our broad
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Speaker 1: seal to do so, we approving their said ordinances and constitutions,
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Speaker 1: provided that none be made contrary to the laws and
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Speaker 1: customs of the Land, that out of our princely care,
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Speaker 1: that the churchmen may do the work which is proper
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Speaker 1: unto them. The bishops and clergy, from time to time,
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Speaker 1: in convocation upon their humble desire, shall have license under
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Speaker 1: our broad seal to deliberate of and to do. All
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Speaker 1: such things as being made plain by them, and dissented
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Speaker 1: unto by us, shall concern the settled continuance of the
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Speaker 1: doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, now established,
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Speaker 1: from which we will not endure any varying or departing
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Speaker 1: in the least degree. That for the present, though some
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Speaker 1: differences have been ill raised, yet we take comfort in
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Speaker 1: this that all clergymen within our realm have always most
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Speaker 1: willingly subscribed to the articles established, which is an argument
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Speaker 1: to us that they all agree in the true, usual
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Speaker 1: literal meaning of the said articles, And that even in
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Speaker 1: those curious points in which the present differences lie, men
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Speaker 1: of all sorts take the articles of the Church of
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Speaker 1: England to be for them, which is an argument again
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Speaker 1: that none of them intend any desertion of the articles established.
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Speaker 1: That therefore, in these both curious and unhappy differences, which
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Speaker 1: have for so many hundred years, in different times and places,
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Speaker 1: exercised the Church of Christ, we will that all further
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Speaker 1: curious search be laid aside, and these disputes shut up
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Speaker 1: in God's promises as they be generally set forth to
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Speaker 1: us in the Holy Scriptures, and the general meaning of
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Speaker 1: the Articles of the Church of England according to them,
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Speaker 1: And that no man thereafter shall either print or preach
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Speaker 1: to draw the article aside any way, but shall submit
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Speaker 1: to it in the plain and full meaning thereof, and
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Speaker 1: shall not put his own sense or comment to be
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Speaker 1: the meaning of the article, but shall take it in
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Speaker 1: the literal and grammatical sense. That if any public reader
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Speaker 1: in either of our universities, or any head or master
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Speaker 1: of a college, or any other person, respectively, in either
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Speaker 1: of them, shall affix any new sense to any article,
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Speaker 1: or shall publicly read, determine, or hold any public disputation,
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Speaker 1: or suffer any such to be held either way, in
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Speaker 1: either the universities or colleges, respectively, Or if any divine
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Speaker 1: in the universities shall preach or print anything either way
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Speaker 1: other than is already established in convocation with our royal assent,
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Speaker 1: he or they the offenders, shall be liable to our
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Speaker 1: displeasure and the Church's censure in our commission ecclesiastical as
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Speaker 1: well as any other. And we shall see there shall
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Speaker 1: be due execution upon them. Articles of religion, one of faith.
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Speaker 1: In the Holy Trinity, there is but one living and
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Speaker 1: true God, everlasting, without body parts or passions, of infinite power, wisdom,
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Speaker 1: and goodness, the maker and preserver of all things, both
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Speaker 1: visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead, there
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Speaker 1: be three persons of one substance, power and eternity, the Father,
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Speaker 1: the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Two of the Word
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Speaker 1: or Son of God, which was made very man, the Son,
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Speaker 1: which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting
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Speaker 1: of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of
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Speaker 1: one substance. With the Father, took man's nature in the
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Speaker 1: womb of the blessed Virgin of her substance, so that
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Speaker 1: the two whole and perfect natures, that is to say,
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Speaker 1: the Godhead and the Manhood, were joined together in one person,
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Speaker 1: never to be divided. Whereof is one Christ, very God
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Speaker 1: and very man, who truly suffered, was crucified, dead and
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Speaker 1: buried to reconcile his Father to us, and to be
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Speaker 1: a sacrifice not only for original guilt but also for
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Speaker 1: actual sins of men. Three of the going down of
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Speaker 1: Christ into Hell, as Christ died for us and was
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Speaker 1: buried so also it is to believe that he went
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Speaker 1: down into hell. Four of the Resurrection of Christ. Christ
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Speaker 1: did truly rise again from death, and took again his
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Speaker 1: body with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the
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Speaker 1: perfection of man's nature. Wherewiz he ascended into heaven, and
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Speaker 1: there sitteth until he returns to judge all men at
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Speaker 1: the last Day. Five of the Holy Ghost. The Holy
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Speaker 1: Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of
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Speaker 1: one substance, majesty and glory with the Father and the Son,
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Speaker 1: very and eternal God. Six of the sufficiency of the
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Speaker 1: Holy Scriptures for salvation. Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary
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Speaker 1: to salvation, so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor
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Speaker 1: may be proved thereby, is not to be required of
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Speaker 1: any man that it should be believed as an article
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Speaker 1: of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to say.
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Speaker 1: In the name of the Holy Scripture, we do understand
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Speaker 1: those canonical books of the Old and New Testament, of
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Speaker 1: whose authority was never any doubt in the Church. Of
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Speaker 1: the names and number of the canonical books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth,
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Speaker 1: first book of Samuel, the Second Book of Samuel, the
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Speaker 1: First Book of Kings, the Second Book of Kings, the
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Speaker 1: First Book of Chronicles, the Second Book of Chronicles, the
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Speaker 1: first Book of Estras, the second Book of Estras, the
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Speaker 1: Book of Esther, the Book of Job, the Psalms, the Proverbs,
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Speaker 1: Ecclesiastes or the Preacher Cantica, or the Songs of Solomon,
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Speaker 1: Four Prophets, the Greater Twelve Prophets, the less and the
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Speaker 1: other books. As Heromi says, the Church does read for
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Speaker 1: example of life and instruction of manners, but yet does
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Speaker 1: it not apply them to establish any doctrine, Such as
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Speaker 1: are the following, the Third Book of Estras, the fourth
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Speaker 1: Book of Estras, the Book of Tobias, the Book of Judas,
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Speaker 1: the rest of the Book of Hester, the Book of Wisdom, Jesus,
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Speaker 1: the Son of Syrac Barrak, the Prophet, the Song of
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Speaker 1: the Three Children, the Story of Susannah, of Bell and
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Speaker 1: the Dragon, the Prayer of Manaces, the First Book of Maccabees,
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Speaker 1: the Second Book of Maccabees, all of the books of
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Speaker 1: the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do
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Speaker 1: receive and account them. Canonical seven of the Old Testament,
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Speaker 1: the Old Testament is not contrary to the New, for
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Speaker 1: both in the Old and New Testament, everlasting life is
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Speaker 1: offered to mankind by Christ, who is the only mediator
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Speaker 1: between God and man, being both God and man. Wherefore
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Speaker 1: they are not to be heard, which feign that the
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Speaker 1: old fathers did look only for transitory promises. Although the
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Speaker 1: law given from God by Moses, as touching ceremonies and rites,
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Speaker 1: did not bind Christian men, nor the civil precepts thereof
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Speaker 1: ought of necessity to be received in any commonwealth. Yet notwithstanding,
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Speaker 1: no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of
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Speaker 1: the commandments, which are called moral. Eight of the Creeds,
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Speaker 1: the three creeds Nicene Creed, Athanasius's Creed, and that which
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Speaker 1: is commonly called the apostles creed ought thoroughly to be
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Speaker 1: received and believed, for they may be proved by most
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Speaker 1: certain warrants of Holy Scripture. Nine of original or birth sin.
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Speaker 1: Original sin stand as not in the following of Adam,
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Speaker 1: as the Pelagians do vainly talk. But it is the
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Speaker 1: fault and corruption of the nature of every man that
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Speaker 1: naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man
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Speaker 1: is very far gone from the original righteousness, and is
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Speaker 1: of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the
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Speaker 1: flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit. And therefore in
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Speaker 1: every person born into this world it deserveth God's wrath
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Speaker 1: and damnation. And this infection of nature doth remain yea
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Speaker 1: in them that are regenerated. Whereby the lust of the
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Speaker 1: flesh called in Greek ronemas akos, which some do expound,
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Speaker 1: the wisdom, some, sensuality some, the affection some. The desire
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Speaker 1: of the flesh is not subject to the law of God.
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Speaker 1: And although there is no condemnation for them that believe
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Speaker 1: and are baptized, yet the apostle does confess that concupiscence
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Speaker 1: and lust hath of itself the nature of sin. Ten
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Speaker 1: of free will. The condition of man after the fall
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Speaker 1: of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare
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Speaker 1: himself by his own natural strengths and good works, to
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Speaker 1: faith and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power
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Speaker 1: to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God without
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Speaker 1: the grace of God by Christ preventing us that we
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Speaker 1: may have a good will, and working with us when
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Speaker 1: we have that goodwill. Eleven of the Justification of man.
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Speaker 1: We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit
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Speaker 1: of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, by faith, and
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Speaker 1: not of our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we
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Speaker 1: are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine
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Speaker 1: and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed
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Speaker 1: in the Homily of justification twelve of good works. Albeit
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Speaker 1: that good works, which are the fruits of face and
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Speaker 1: follow after justification, cannot put away our sins and endure
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Speaker 1: the severity of God's judgment. Yet are they pleasing and
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Speaker 1: acceptable to God in Christ? And do spring out necessarily
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Speaker 1: of a true and lively face, inasmuch that by them
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Speaker 1: a lively face may be as evidently known as a
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Speaker 1: tree discerned by the fruit thirteen of works before justification.
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Speaker 1: Works done before the grace of Christ and the inspiration
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Speaker 1: of His spirit are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as
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Speaker 1: day spring not a faith in Jesus Christ. Neither do
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Speaker 1: they make men meet to receive grace, or, as the
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Speaker 1: school authors say, deserve grace of congruity. Yea. Rather, for
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Speaker 1: that they are not done as God has willed and
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Speaker 1: commanded them to be done. We doubt not, but they
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Speaker 1: have the nature of sin. Fourteen of works of supererogation.
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Speaker 1: Voluntary works besides over and above God's commandments, which they
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Speaker 1: call works of supererogation, cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety.
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Speaker 1: For by them men do declare that they do not
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Speaker 1: only render unto God as much as they are bound
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Speaker 1: to do, but that they do more for His sake
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Speaker 1: than of bound and duty is required. Whereas Christ says plainly,
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Speaker 1: when ye have done all that are commanded to you,
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Speaker 1: say we are unprofitable servants. Fifteen of Christ alone without sin. Christ,
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Speaker 1: in the truth of our nature, was made like unto
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Speaker 1: us in all things sin only, except from which He
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Speaker 1: was clearly void, both in his flesh and in his spirit.
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Speaker 1: He came to be the lamb without spot, who, by
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Speaker 1: sacrificing of himself, once made, should take away the sins
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Speaker 1: of the world. And sin, as Saint John says, was
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Speaker 1: not in him, but all we the rest, although baptized
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Speaker 1: and born again in Christ, yet offend in many things.
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Speaker 1: And if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.
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Speaker 1: And the truth is not in us. Sixteen of sin
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Speaker 1: after baptism, not every deadly sin willingly committed after baptism
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Speaker 1: is sin against the Holy Ghost and unpardonable. Wherefore the
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Speaker 1: grant of repentance is not to be denied to such
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Speaker 1: as fall into sin after baptism. After we have received
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Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, we may depart from grace given and
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Speaker 1: fall into sin, and by the grace of God we
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Speaker 1: may rise again and amend our lives. And therefore they
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Speaker 1: are to be condemned, which say they can no more
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Speaker 1: sin as long as they live here, or deny the
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Speaker 1: place of forgiveness to such as truly repent seventeen of
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Speaker 1: predestination and election. Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose
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Speaker 1: of God, whereby before the foundations of the world were laid,
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Speaker 1: He has constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us
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Speaker 1: to deliver from curse and damnation those whom He has
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Speaker 1: chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them
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Speaker 1: by Christ to everlasting salvation as vessels made to honor. Wherefore,
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Speaker 1: they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God,
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Speaker 1: be called according to God's purpose by his spirit working
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Speaker 1: in due season, they through grace obey the calling. They
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Speaker 1: be justified freely, they be made sons of God. By
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Speaker 1: adoption they be made like the image of His only
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Speaker 1: begotten son, Jesus Christ. They walk religiously in good works,
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Speaker 1: and at length, by God's mercy they attain to everlasting felicity.
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Speaker 1: As the Godly consideration of predestination and our election in
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Speaker 1: Christ is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to
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Speaker 1: godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working
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Speaker 1: of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the
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Speaker 1: flesh and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind
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Speaker 1: to high and heavenly things as well, because it does
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Speaker 1: greatly establish and confirm their face of eternal salvation to
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Speaker 1: be enjoyed through Christ, as because it doth fervently kindle
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Speaker 1: their love toward God. So for curious and carnal persons
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Speaker 1: lacking the Spirit of Christ to have continually before their
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Speaker 1: eyes the sentence of God's predestination is a most dangerous downfall,
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Speaker 1: whereby the devil doth thrust them either into desperation or
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Speaker 1: into wretchedness of most unclean living, no less perilous than desperation. Furthermore,
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Speaker 1: we must receive God's promises in such wise as they
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Speaker 1: be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture, and
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Speaker 1: in all our doings that will of God is to
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Speaker 1: be followed, which we have expressly declared unto us in
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Speaker 1: the Word of God. Eighteen of obtaining eternal salvation only
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Speaker 1: by the name of Christ. They also are to be
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Speaker 1: had a cursed that presume to say that every man
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Speaker 1: shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth,
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Speaker 1: so that he be diligent to frame his life according
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Speaker 1: to that law and the law of nature. For Holy
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Speaker 1: Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved. Nineteen of the Church,
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Speaker 1: the Visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men,
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Speaker 1: in the which the pure Word of God is preached
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Speaker 1: and the sacraments be duely ministered according to Christ's ordnance
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Speaker 1: in all those things that of necessity are requisite to
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Speaker 1: the same as the Church of Herusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch
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Speaker 1: have erred, so also the Church of Rome Hathard, not
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Speaker 1: only in their living and manner of ceremonies, but also
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Speaker 1: in matters of faith. Twenty of the authority of the Church.
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Speaker 1: The Church has power to decree rites or ceremonies, and
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Speaker 1: authority in controversies of faith. And yet it is not
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Speaker 1: lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary
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Speaker 1: to God's Word written. Neither may it so expound one
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Speaker 1: place of scripture that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore,
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Speaker 1: although the Church be a witness and keeper of holy writ,
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Speaker 1: yet as it ought not to decree anything against the same,
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Speaker 1: so besides the same ought it not to enforce anything
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Speaker 1: to be believed for necessity of salvation. Twenty one of
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Speaker 1: the authority of general counsels. General counsels may not be
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Speaker 1: gathered together without the commandment and will of princes. And
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Speaker 1: when they be gathered together, forasmuch as they be an
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Speaker 1: assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the
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Speaker 1: spirit and word of God, they may err, and may
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Speaker 1: sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore,
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Speaker 1: things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither
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Speaker 1: strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they
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Speaker 1: be taken out of Holy Scripture. Twenty two of purgatory.
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Speaker 1: The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory pardons, worshiping and adoration, as
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Speaker 1: well as of images of relics, and also invocation of saints,
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Speaker 1: is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no
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Speaker 1: warranty of scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God.
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Speaker 1: Twenty three. Of ministering in the congregation. It is not
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Speaker 1: lawful for any man to take upon him the office
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Speaker 1: of public preaching or ministering the sacraments in the congregation
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Speaker 1: before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same,
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Speaker 1: and those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent,
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Speaker 1: which be chosen and called to this work by men
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Speaker 1: who have public authority given unto them in the congregation
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Speaker 1: to call and send ministers in the Lord's vineyard twenty
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Speaker 1: four of speaking in the congregation in such a time
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Speaker 1: hung as the people understand us, it is a thing
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Speaker 1: plainly repugnant to the Word of God and the custom
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Speaker 1: of the primitive church to have public prayer in the church,
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Speaker 1: or to minister the sacraments in a tongue not understanded
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Speaker 1: by the people. Twenty five. Of the sacraments sacraments ordained
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Speaker 1: of Christ be not only badges or tokens of Christian
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Speaker 1: men's profession, but rather they be certain, sure witnesses and
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Speaker 1: effectual signs of grace and God's will. Towards us, by
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Speaker 1: the which He does work invisibly in us, and does
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Speaker 1: not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm our faith
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Speaker 1: in Him. There are two sacraments ordained of Christ, our
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Speaker 1: Lord in the Gospel, that is to say, Baptism and
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Speaker 1: the Supper of the Lord. Those five commonly called sacraments,
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Speaker 1: that is to say, confirmation, penance, orders, matrimony, and extreme
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Speaker 1: unction are not to be counted for sacraments of the Gospel,
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Speaker 1: being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following
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Speaker 1: of the apostles, partly our states of life allowed in
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Speaker 1: the scriptures, but yet have not like nature of sacraments
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Speaker 1: with Baptism and the Lord's Supper, for that they have
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Speaker 1: not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God. The
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Speaker 1: sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon
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Speaker 1: or to be carried about, but that we should duly
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Speaker 1: use them. And in such only as worthily receive the same,
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Speaker 1: they have a wholesome effect or operation. But they that
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Speaker 1: receive them unworthily purchased to themselves damnation, as Saint Paul
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Speaker 1: Saith twenty six of the unworthiness of ministers, which hinders
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Speaker 1: not the effect of the sacraments. Although in the Visible
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Speaker 1: Church the evil be ever mingled with a good, and
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Speaker 1: sometime the evil have chief authority in the ministration of
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Speaker 1: the Word and the sacraments. Yet forasmuch as they do
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Speaker 1: not the same in their own name, but in Christ's,
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Speaker 1: and do minister by His commission and authority, we may
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Speaker 1: use their ministry both in hearing the Word of God
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Speaker 1: and in receiving the sacraments. Neither is the effect of
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Speaker 1: Christ's ordinance taken away by their wickedness, nor the grace
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Speaker 1: of God's gifts diminished from such as by faith and
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Speaker 1: rightly do receive the sacraments ministered unto them, which be
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Speaker 1: effectual because of Christ's institution and promise, though they be
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Speaker 1: minis by evil men. Nevertheless, it appertaineth to the discipline
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Speaker 1: of the Church that inquiry be made of evil ministers,
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Speaker 1: and that they may be accused of those who have
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Speaker 1: knowledge of their offenses, and, finally, being found guilty by
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Speaker 1: just judgment, be deposed. Twenty seven of baptism. Baptism is
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Speaker 1: not only a sign of profession and mark of difference,
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Speaker 1: whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not
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Speaker 1: christened but it is also a sign of regeneration or
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Speaker 1: new birth, whereby as an instrument, they that receive baptism
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Speaker 1: rightly are grafted into the Church. The promises of the
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Speaker 1: forgiveness of sin and of our adoption to be the
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Speaker 1: sons of God by the Holy Ghost are visibly signed
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Speaker 1: and sealed. Face is confirmed, and grace increased by the
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Speaker 1: virtue of prayer unto God. The baptism of young children
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Speaker 1: is in any wise to be retained in the Church
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Speaker 1: as most agreeable with the institution of Christ. Twenty eight
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Speaker 1: of the Lord's Supper. The Supper of the Lord is
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Speaker 1: not only a sign of the love that Christians ought
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Speaker 1: to have among themselves one to another, but rather it
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Speaker 1: is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death, insomuch
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Speaker 1: that to such as rightly, worthily and with faith receive
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Speaker 1: the same. The bread which we break is a partaking
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Speaker 1: of the body of Christ, and likewise the cup of
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Speaker 1: blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ. Transubstantiation,
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Speaker 1: or the change of the substance of bread and wine
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Speaker 1: in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by
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Speaker 1: Holy writ, but is repugnant to the place words of
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Speaker 1: Scripture overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given
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Speaker 1: occasion to many superstitions. The body of Christ is given,
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Speaker 1: taken and eaten in the Supper only after an heavenly
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Speaker 1: and spiritual manner, And the meen, whereby the Body of
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Speaker 1: Christ is received and eaten in the supper, is faith.
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Speaker 1: The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not, by Christ's ordinance, reserved,
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Speaker 1: carried about, lifted up, or worshiped. Twenty nine of the
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Speaker 1: wicked which eat not the body of Christ in the
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Speaker 1: use of the Lord's Supper. The wicked and such as
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Speaker 1: be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally
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Speaker 1: and visibly press with their teeth, as Saint Augustus says,
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Speaker 1: the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. Yet
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Speaker 1: in no wye are they partakers of Christ, but rather
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Speaker 1: to their condemnation to eat and drink the sign or
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Speaker 1: sacrament of so great a thing. Thirty of both kinds.
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Speaker 1: The cup of the Lord is not to be denied
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Speaker 1: to the lay people, for both the parts of the
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Speaker 1: Lord's Sacrament, by Christ's ordinance and commandment, ought to be
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Speaker 1: ministered to all Christian men alike. Thirty one of the
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Speaker 1: one oblation of Christ finished upon the cross. The offering
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Speaker 1: of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and
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Speaker 1: satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both
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Speaker 1: original and actual. And there is none other satisfaction for
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Speaker 1: sin but that alone. Wherefore, the sacrifices of the masses,
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Speaker 1: in which it is commonly said that the priest did
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Speaker 1: offer Christ for the quick and the dead to have
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Speaker 1: remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits.
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Speaker 1: Thirty two of the marriage of priests, bishops, Priests and
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Speaker 1: deacons are not commanded by God's law either to vow
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Speaker 1: the estate of a single life or to abstain from marriage.
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Speaker 1: Therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other
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Speaker 1: Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they
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Speaker 1: shall judge the same to serve better to godliness. Thirty
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Speaker 1: three of excommunicate persons, how they are to be avoided.
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Speaker 1: That person which, by open denunciation of the Church, is
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Speaker 1: rightly cut off from the unity of the Church and
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Speaker 1: excommunicated ought to be taken of the whole multitude of
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Speaker 1: the faithful as an heathen and publican, until he be
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Speaker 1: openly reconciled by penance and received into the church by
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Speaker 1: a judge that hath authority thereunto thirty four of the
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Speaker 1: traditions of the Church. It is not necessary that traditions
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Speaker 1: and ceremonies be in all places one or utterly alike,
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Speaker 1: for at all times they have been diverse, and may
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Speaker 1: be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and
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Speaker 1: men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's word. Whosoever,
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Speaker 1: through his private judgment, willingly and purposely does openly break
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Speaker 1: the traditions and ceremonies of the Church, which be not
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Speaker 1: repugnant to the Word of God and be ordained and
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Speaker 1: approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly, that
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Speaker 1: others may fear to do the like as he that
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Speaker 1: offend us against the common order of the Church, and
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Speaker 1: hurt us the authority of the magistrate, and woundeth the
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Speaker 1: consciences of the weak brethren. Every particular or national church
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Speaker 1: hath authority to ordain, change and abolish ceremonies or rites
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Speaker 1: of the Church ordained only by man's authority, so that
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Speaker 1: all things be done to Edifying thirty five of the Homilies,
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Speaker 1: the Second Book of Homilies. The several titles whereof we
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Speaker 1: have joined under this article does contain a godly and
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Speaker 1: wholesome doctrine and necessary for these times, as does the
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Speaker 1: former Book of Homilies, which were set forth in the
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Speaker 1: time of Edward. Six. And therefore we judge them to
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Speaker 1: be read in the churches by the ministers diligently and distinctly,
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Speaker 1: that they may be understanded by the people. Of the
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Speaker 1: names of the homilies, One of the right use of
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Speaker 1: the Church. Two against peril idultery, three, of repairing and
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Speaker 1: keeping clean of churches. Four of good works, first of fasting,
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Speaker 1: five against gluttony and drunkenness, six against excess of apparel,
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Speaker 1: seven of prayer, eight of the time and place of prayer.
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Speaker 1: Nine that common prayers and sacraments ought to be ministered
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Speaker 1: in a known tongue. Ten of the reverend estimation of
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Speaker 1: God's Word, eleven of alms doing, twelve of the Nativity
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Speaker 1: of Christ, thirteen of the Passion of Christ, fourteen of
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Speaker 1: the Resurrection of Christ, fifteen of the worthy receiving of
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Speaker 1: the sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ. Sixteen
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Speaker 1: of the gifts of the Holy Ghost, seventeen for therogation
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Speaker 1: days eighteen of the state of matrimony, nineteen of repentance,
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Speaker 1: twenty against idleness, twenty one against rebellion, thirty six of
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Speaker 1: Consecration of Bishops and Ministers. The Book of Consecration of
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Speaker 1: Archbishops and Bishops and Ordering of Priests and Deacons, lately
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Speaker 1: set forth in the time of Edward six, and confirmed
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Speaker 1: at the same time by authority of Parliament, does contain
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Speaker 1: all things necessary to such consecration and ordering. Neither has
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Speaker 1: it anything that of itself is superstitious and ungodly. And
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Speaker 1: therefore whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the rites
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Speaker 1: of that book since the second year of the forenamed
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Speaker 1: King Edward, unto this time or hereafter, shall be consecrated
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Speaker 1: or ordered according to the same rites. We decree all
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Speaker 1: such to be rightly, orderly, and lawfully consecrated and ordered,
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Speaker 1: thirty seven of them the civil magistrates. The King's Majesty
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Speaker 1: hath the chief power in this realm of England and
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Speaker 1: other his dominions, unto whom the chief government of all
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Speaker 1: estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil,
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Speaker 1: in all causes, doth appertain, and is not nor ought
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Speaker 1: to be subject to any foreign jurisdiction where we attribute
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Speaker 1: to the King's Majesty the chief government, by which titles
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Speaker 1: we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended.
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Speaker 1: We give not to our princes the ministering either of
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Speaker 1: God's Word or of the sacraments, the which thing. The
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Speaker 1: injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth, our Queen, do
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Speaker 1: most plainly testify, but that only prerogative which we see
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Speaker 1: to have been given always to all gods princes in
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Speaker 1: holy scriptures by God himself, that is, that they should
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Speaker 1: rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God,
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Speaker 1: whether they be ecclesiastical or temporal, and restrain with the
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Speaker 1: civil sword the stubborn and evil doers. The Bishop of
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Speaker 1: Rome has no jurisdiction in this realm of England. The
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Speaker 1: laws of the realm may punish Christian men with death
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Speaker 1: for heenous and grievous offenses. It is lawful for Christian men,
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Speaker 1: at the commandment of the magistrate, to wear weapons and
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Speaker 1: to serve in the wars. Thirty eight of Christian men's
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Speaker 1: goods which are not common, the riches and goods of
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Speaker 1: Christians are not common as touching the right title and
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Speaker 1: possession of the same, as certain Anabaptists do falsely boast,
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Speaker 1: notwithstanding every man ought of such things, he possesses liberally
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Speaker 1: to give alms to the poor according to his ability
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Speaker 1: thirty nine of a Christian Man's Oath. As we confess
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Speaker 1: that vain and rash swearing is forbidden Christian men by
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Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ and James's Apostle, so we judge
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Speaker 1: that Christian religion does not prohibit, but that a man
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Speaker 1: may swear when the magistrate acquire us in a cause
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Speaker 1: of faith and charity. So it be done according to
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Speaker 1: the Prophet's teaching in justice, judgment and truth. The ratification
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Speaker 1: this book of articles, before rehearsed, is again approved and
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Speaker 1: allowed to beholden and executed within the realm, by the
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Speaker 1: assent and consent of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the
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Speaker 1: grace of God of England, France and Ireland, Queen Defender
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Speaker 1: of the Faith, et cetera. Which articles were deliberately read
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Speaker 1: and confirmed again by the subscription of the hands of
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Speaker 1: the Archbishop and Bishops of the Upper House, and by
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Speaker 1: the subscription of the whole Clergy of the nether House
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Speaker 1: in their convocation in the year of our Lord fifteen
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Speaker 1: seventy one. End of the Articles, end of selections from
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Speaker 1: the Book of Common Prayer sixteen sixty two, as approved
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Speaker 1: by the Parliament of England,