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ACTION III.

Ecaufe without Faith it is impoffible to please God; and the Holy Catholick Faith, without which none can be faved, is the beginning of true Life, and the foundation of all our Good; the Purity thereof being that, that distinguishes Chriftians and Catholicks from all other People; wherefore the Synod being fenfible, that by means of fome Heretical Perfons, and Books scattered all over this Bishoprick, many Errors and Falfities have been fown therein, with which many are poifoned, and more may be, doth judge it neceffary, befides the profeffion of Faith that has been made, further to declare to the People in fome Chapters, the chief Articles of our Holy Catholick Faith, and to point at, and obferve the Errors contained in their Books, and to have them Preached against in this Bishoprick, that fo knowing the mifchief and falfehood of them, they may avoid them.

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CHAP. I.

The Doctrine of Faith.

Ur Holy Faith, that is believed with one unanimous confent by the Catholick Church fpread all over the World, is, That we believe in One only True, Almighty, Immutable, Incomprehenfible, and Ineffable God, the Eternal Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, One in Effence, and Three in Perfons; the Father not begotten, the Son begotten of the Father, and of the fame fubftance with him, and equal to him, and the Holy Ghost proceeding eternally from the Father and the Son; not as from two Principals, or two Inspirations, but from both as from one only Principal, and one only Inspiration; the Father is not the Son, nor the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is not the Father, nor the Son; but the Father is only the Father, the Son is only the Son, and the Holy Spirit is only the Holy Spirit, none of them being before another in Eternity, nor fuperiour to another in Majefty, nor inferiour to another in Power, but were all without beginning or end; the Father is he who begot, the Son is he who was born, and the Holy Ghoft he who proceedeth, Consubstantial, Equal, alike Almighty, and alike Eternal. These three Perfons are one only God, and not three Gods, one

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only Effence and Subftance, one Nature, one Immensity, one Principal, one Creator of all things Vifible and Invisible, Corporal and Spiritual, who when he pleased, created all things, with his goodness, and would that they should be all very good.

CHA P. II.

Urthermore; That the only begotten Son of God, who is always with the Father, and the Holy Spirit, Confubftantial to the Father, at the time appointed by the profound Wisdom of the Divine Mercy, for the redeeming of Men from the fin of Adam, and from all other fins, was truly Incarnate by the operation of the Holy Spirit, in the pure Womb of our Lady the most Bleffed Virgin Mary, and in her took our true and intire Nature of Man, that is, a Body and rational Soul, into the Unity of the Divine Perfon; which Unity was fuch, that our Lord Jefus Christ is God and Man, and the Son of God, and the Son of Man, in as much as he was the Son of the Blessed Virgin; fo that the one Nature is not confounded with the other, neither did the one pass into, nor mix it felf with the other; neither did either of them vanish, or cease to be; but in one only Perfon, or in one Divine Suppofitum, there are two perfect Natures, a Diviñe and Humane, but fo that the properties of both Natures are still preserved, there being two Wills,

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the Divine and Humane, and two Operations, Christ still continuing one; for as the Form of God does not destroy the Form of a Servant, fo the Form of a Servant does not diminish the Form of God; because he who is true God, is also true Man: God, because in the beginning he was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word: Man, because the Word was made Flesh, and died among us: God, becaufe by his own Power he fatisfied five Thousand Men with five Loaves, and promised the Water of Eternal Life to the Samaritan Woman, and raised Lazarus from the Grave when he had been dead four days, and gave fight to the Blind, cured the Sick, and commanded the Winds and the Seas: Man, because he fuffered Hunger and Thirft, was weary in the Way, was fastned with Nails to the Cross, and died thereon: Equal to the Eternal Father as to the Divinity, and Inferior to the Father as to the Humanity, and Mortal, and Paffible.

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CHA P. III.

Urthermore; That the fame Son of God that was Incarnate, was truly born of the Virgin Mary, and had his Sacred Body formed of the pure Blood of the fame most Blessed Virgin, and is truly her Son; for which reason we confefs her to be truly the Mother of God, and that he ought to be fo called and invocated

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by the whole Catholick Church; for that the really and truly brought forth according to the Flesh, tho' without any Pain or Paffion, the true Son of God, made Man; and that the faid Son of God Incarnate, truly fuffered for us, and was truly dead and buried, and in his Soul truly defcended into Hell, or Limbo, to redeem the Souls of the Holy Fathers, which were therein, and did truly rife again from the dead the third day, and afterwards for forty days taught his Difciples, fpeaking with them of the Kingdom of Heaven, and immediately by his own Power afcended into the Heavens, where he fits at the right hand of the Majefty, Glory, and Power of the Father, from whence he fhall come to Judge the quick and the dead, and to give to every one according to their Works.

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CHA P. IV.

Urthermore; That none that are descended from Adam, ever were or can be faved by any other means, than by Faith in the Mediator betwixt God and Man, our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Son of God; who by his Blood and Death reconciled us to the Eternal Father, by having fatisfied him for our Debts; the Faith before our Saviour appeared in the World, being to believe in him who was to come; as after his appearance, to believe in him who is come, and by his Blood and Death has faved us,

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