follow the blessed steps of his most holy life, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. For St. Simon and St. Jude. O Almighty God, who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the head corner-stone; . COMMUNION. Exhortation. Confession. For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past;...... Proper Preface upon Easter Day. ....For he is the very Paschal Lamb which was offered for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world; ...... After the Lord's Prayer. Most humbly beseeching thee to grant, that by the merits and death of thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in his blood, we and all thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of his passion. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. THE SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY. Which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence, and first miracle that he wrought in Cana of Galilee : From the Thirty-nine Articles. ARTICLE XVIII. Of obtaining eternal Salvation only by the Name of Christ. They also are to be accursed, that presume to say, that every Man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved. ARTICLE XXXI. Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross. The offering of Christ once made, is that per fect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual: and there is none other, satisfaction for sin, but that alone; wherefore the sacrifice of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits. From the Homilies. BOOK I. HOMILY 3. Of the Salvation of all Mankind. BOOK II. HOMILY 7. Of Prayer. (passim.) HOMILY 12. Of the Nativity. (passim.) SUM AND CONTENT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. Unto whom we must come, and follow him with a cheerful heart, that he may instruct and teach us: for he is our Master, meek and humble of heart; he is our example, of whom we must learn the rule of good living: further, he is our priest, high bishop, and only mediator: which now sitteth on the right-hand of God the Father, is our advocate, and prayeth ever for us; which will undoubtedly obtain whatsoever we desire, either of him, or of his Father in his name; if we believe that he will do it when we require it, for so hath he promised. Let us therefore not doubt (although we sometimes sin) with a confidence to come unto him, and with a living and undoubting faith, that we shall obtain mercy. For therefore came he to the intent to save sinners: neither requireth he any thing more of us, than to come unto him without fear. CRANMER'S CATECHISM. And again, if he had not been very God, he could not have been pure and clean from all sin, and so have made a true and perfect satisfaction for our sins for no man can perfectly fulfil the will of God, but God himself alone. Wherefore in that he suffered for our sins, thereby he declared that he was a very pure and natural man. Again, he gave most certain and evident tokens of his Godhead, in that he overcame and vanquished the devil, sin, and death: for if he had not been very God, he could not have loosed the bands of death, neither have raised himself from death to life. So you hear, good children, that our Lord Jesus Christ, was very God and very man, not conceived in sin (as we be), but conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the most pure virgin, Mary. And as man he suffered death for us, and descended into hell. But as naturally God, he loosed the bands and pains of hell, he destroyed the kingdom of death, he rose from death to life, and so paid the ransom for our sins, and took away all the guiltiness of the same. There fore, when we believe in Christ, and stedfastly cleaving to the word of God, surely persuade ourselves in our hearts that we be thus redeemed by Christ, then God is no more angry or displeased with us for our sins, but freely and mercifully he forgiveth us all our offences for the death and passion of his Son Jesus Christ, and he giveth us also the Holy Ghost, by whose help we may withstand sin, and be delivered from the The which matters St. Paul doth knit up in one brief sentence, not so short as notable and weighty; saying, "Christ was delivered to death for our sins, and did rise again for our justification." In the which sentence St. Paul doth not only declare what Christ did, but also for what end, and for whom he suffered death and rose again. same. We have no mediator and intercessor by whom we approach to God the Father but Jesus Christ, in whose name only all things are obtained. But that which we see done in their churches is base and heathenish; not only because they have set up an infinite number of intercessors, without any authority of the word of God; so that, as Jeremiah saith, according to the number of thy cities, so are thy gods; so that miserable men know not which to apply themselves to; and though they |