THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK. 1. The Confession of the Christian Faith. 2. The Order of electing Ministers, Elders, and 3. The Assembly of the Ministry. 4. An Order for the Interpretation of the Scriptures. 5. A Confession of our Sins, used before the Sermon. 6. A General Prayer after the Sermon for the Whole 7. Other Sorts of Prayer to be used after the Ser- mon, the Sunday, and Day of Public Prayer. 8. The Ministration of Baptism, and the Lord's A CONFESSION OF THE FAITH OF THE CHURCHES OF ENGLAND. I believe in God, I BELIEVE a and confess b Rom. x. a b Gen. xvii. Ps. lxiii; cxxxix. the Father Almighty. my Lord God, eternal, infinite, unmeasurable, incomprehensible, invisible, and almighty, most merciful, Gen. i. most just, and only wise: one substance and three persons, the Father, the Son, 1 John iii. and the Holy Ghost. almighty с Ephes. iv. d Gen. i. Matt. iii; xxviii. Prov. viii. f Gen. i. Ps. xxxiii. Gen. i. Maker of hea- I BELIEVE also, that the Heb. i. ven and earth. Father, by his e power and wisdom, hath not only fof Jer. xxxii. nothing created heaven, earth, and all things therein contained, and man 8 after Ephes. iv. his own image, that he might in him be h glorified; but also by his 'fatherly providence governeth, maintaineth, and preserveth the same, according to the purpose of his will. k 1 Pet. v. Col. iii. h 1 Cor. vi. John xvii. Prov. xvi. ¡ Matt. vi. Luke xvii. * Ephes. i. 1 Matt. i. Acts iv. 1 Tim. i. m John i. Phil. ii. 1 Tim. iii. 1 John v. Rom. ix. n Heb. ii. Phil. ii. 1 Pet. ii. • Rom. viii. 1 John ii. P Gen. iii. Rom. v. 9 Acts iv. 1 Pet. ii. Isa. xxviii. Rom. ix. r John i. Heb. i. Rom. i. Psal. ii. • Gal. iii. Rom. viii. " Isa. vii. Luke i. Rom. i. I Acts x. Rom. i. m I BELIEVE also and con- And in Jesus Christ, his only fess Jesus Christ, the only son our Lord. Saviour and Messias: who, being equal with God, made himself of no reputation, but took on him the shape of a servant, and "became man in all things like unto us, sin except, to assure us of mercy and forgiveness. For when, P through our father Adam's transgression we were become children of perdition, there was no means to bring us from that yoke of sin and damnation, but only Jesus Christ our Lord who, giving us that by grace, which was his by nature, made us, through faith, the children of God. For when the fulness of which was contime was come, he was con- ceived by the ceived by the power of the of the Virgin Holy Ghost, born of the Mary. г Holy Ghost,born Virgin Mary (according to the flesh,) and preached in earth the Gospel of salvation; till at length, by the * y envy of the priests, he was guiltless |