❧ A declaration of certain principal Articles of Religion, set out by the order of both Archbishops Metropolitans, and the rest of the Bishops, for the unity of doctrine to be taught and holden of all Parsons, Vicars, and Curates, aswell in testification of their common consent in the said doctrine, to the stopping of the mouths of them that go about to slander the ministers of the Church for diversity of judgement: as necessary for the instruction of their people, to be read by the said Parsons, Vicars, and Curates, at their possession taking o● first entry into their Cures: And also after that yearly at two several times. That is to say, the Sundays next following Easter day and Saint Michael tharchan●ell, or on some other Sunday within one month after those feasts, immediately after the Gospel.  
FOrasmuch as it appertaineth to all Christian men, but especially to the ministers and the pastors of the Church, being teachers & instructors of others, to be ready to give a reason of their faith when they shallbe thereunto required: I for my part now appointed your Parson, Vicar, or Curate, having before mine eyes the fear of God, & the testimony of my conscience, do acknowledge for myself, and require you to assent to the same. i first that there is but one living and true God, of infinite power, wisdom, & goodness, the maker and preserver of all things, and that in unity of this Godhead, there be three persons of one substance, of equal power and eternity, the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost.  
two I believe also whatsoever is contained in the holy Canonical Scriptures, in the which Scriptures are contained all things necessary to salvation, by the which also all errors & heresies may sufficiently be reproved and convicted, and all doctrine and Articles necessary to salvation established. I do also most firmly believe and confess all the Articles contained in the three Creeds: the Nicene Creed, Athanasius Creed, and our common Creed, called the Apostles Creed: for these do briefly contain the principal Articles of our faith, which are are large set forth in the holy Scriptures.  
iii I acknowledge also that Church to be the spouse of Christ, wherein the word of God is truly taught, the Sacraments orderly ministered according to Christ's institution, and the authority of the keys duly used. And that every such particular Church hath authority to institute, to change, & clean to put away Ceremonies and other Ecclesiastical rites, as they be superfluous, or be abused, and to constitute other, making more to seemliness, to order, or edification.  
iiii Moreover I confess that it is not lawful for any man to take upon him any office or ministry, either Ecclesiastical or secular, but such only as are lawfully thereunto called by their high authorities, according to the ordinances of this Realm.  
v Furthermore I do acknowledge the Queen's majesties prerogative, and superiority of government of all estates & in all causes, aswell Ecclesiastical as Temporal, within this Realm, & other her dominions & countries, to be agreeable to God's word, & of right to appertain to her highness, in such sort as is in the late Act of Parliament expressed, & sithence by her majesties Injunctions declared & expounded.  
vi Moreover, touching the Bishop of Rome, I do acknowledge and confess, that by the Scriptures and word of God, he hath no more authority than other Bishops have in their provinces and dioceses: And therefore the power which he now challengeth, that is, to be the supreme head of the universal Church of Christ, and so to be above all Emperors, Kings, and Princes, is an usurped power, contrary to the Scriptures and word of God, and contrary to the example of the primitive Church. And therefore is for most just causes taken away, and abolished within this Realm.  
seven Furthermore I do grant and confess, that the book of common prayer & administration of the holy Sacraments, set forth by authority of parliament, is agreeable to the Scriptures, & that it is Catholic, Apostolic, & most for the advancing of God's glory, and the edifying of God's people, both for that it is in a tongue that may be understanded of the people, and also for the doctrine and form of ministration contained in the same.  
viii And although in the administration of Baptism, there is neither exorcism, oil, salt, spittle, or hallowing of the water now used. And for that they were of late years abused, and esteemed necessary, where they pertain not to the substance and necessity of the Sacrament, they be reasonably abolished: and yet the Sacrament full and perfectly ministered to all intents and purposes agreeable to the institution of our Saviour Christ.  
ix Moreover I do not only acknowledge, that private masses were never used amongst the fathers of the primitive Church, I mean public ministration & receiving of the Sacrament by the priest alone, without a just number of communicants, according to Christ's saying, Take ye, and eat ye, etc. but also that the doctrine, which maintaineth the mass to be a propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead, and a mean to deliver souls out of purgatory, is neither agreeable to Christ's ordinance, nor grounded upon doctrine Apostolic, but contrariwise most ungodly & most injurious to the precious redemption of our Saviour Christ, and his only sufficient sacrifice offered once for ever upon the altar of the cross.  
x I am of that mind also, that the holy Communion or Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, for the due obedience to Christ's institution, and to express the virtue of the same, aught to be ministered unto the people under both kinds, & that it is avouched by certain fathers of the Church, to be a plain sacrilege to rob them of the mystical cup, for whom Christ hath shed his most precious blood: seeing he himself hath said, Drink ye all of this. Considering also that in the time of the ancient doctors of the Church, as Cyprian, Jerome, Augustine, Gelasius & others, vi. C. years after Christ and more, both the parts of the Sacrament were ministered to the people.  
Last of all, as I do utterly disallow the extolling of Images, Relics, and feigned miracles, and also all kinds of expressing God invisible, in the form of an old man, or the holy Ghost, in form of a Dove, and all other vain worshipping of God, devised by man's fantasy, beside or contrary to the Scriptures: (as wandering on pilgrimages, setting up of candles, praying upon beads, & such like superstition,) which kind of works have no promise of reward in scripture, but contrariwise threatenings and maledictions: So I do exhort all men to the obedience of God's law, and to the works of faith, as charity, mercy, pity, alms, devout and fervent prayer with th'affection of the heart, & not with the mouth only, godly abstinence & fasting, chastity, obedience to the rulers & superior powers, with such like works and godliness of life, commanded by God in his word: which as Saint Paul saith, hath promises both of this life, and of the life to come, and are works only acceptable in God's sight.  
These things above rehearsed, though they be appointed by common order, yet do I without all compulsion, with freedom of mind & conscience, from the bottom of my heart, and upon most sure persuasion, acknowledge to be true and agreeable to God's word. And therefore I exhort you all, of whom I have cure, hearty & obediently to embrace and receive the same, that we all joining together in unity of spirit, faith, & charity, may also at length be joined together in the kingdom of God, & that through the ●●●…ts and death of our Saviour jesus Christ. To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all ●●●ry and empire, now and for ever. Amen.   

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