SYMBOLA EVANGELICA.

PARS SECUNDA:

ECCLESIA REFORMATA.

SYMBOLS OF THE EVANGELICAL REFORMED
CHURCH.

I. ARTICULI SIVE CONCLUSIONES LXVII. HULDRICI ZWINGLII.
THE SIXTY-SEVEN ARTICLES OF ULRICH ZWINGLI. A.D.
1523. GERMAN AND LATIN....

197

II. THESES BERNENSES. THE TEN THESES OF BERNE. A.D. 1528.
GERMAN AND LATIN..

III. CONFESSIO HELVETICA PRIOR (SIVE BASILEENSIS POSTE-
RIOR). THE FIRST HELVETIC (or SECOND BASLE) CONFES-
SION. A.D. 1536. LATIN AND GERMAN...

[Note on the CATECHISMUS Genevensis, the Consensus Tigurinus, and
the CONSENSUS GENEVENSIS]...

208

211

232

IV. CONFESSIO HELVETICA POSTERIOR. THE SECOND HELVETIC
CONFESSION. A.D. 1566. LATIN...

233

V. CATECHESIS HEIDELBERGENSIS SIVE PALATINA. THE HEI-
DELBERG OR PALATINATE CATECHISM. A.D. 1563. GERMAN
AND ENGLISH.....

307

VI. CONFESSIO GALLICANA. THE FRENCH CONFESSION. A.D. 1559.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH....

356

VII. CONFESSIO BELGICA. THE BELGIC CONFESSION. A.D. 1561.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH..

383

VIII. THE FIRST SCOTCH CONFESSION. CONFESSIO SCOTICANA I.
A.D. 1560. SCOTCH AND LATIN

437

IX. THE SECOND SCOTCH CONFESSION. CONFESSIO SCOTICANA II.
A.D. 1580. SCOTCH AND LATIN...

480

X. ARTICULI XXXIX. ECCLESIÆ ANGLICANE. THE THIRTYNINE ARTICLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. A.D. 1563 AND 1571. LATIN AND ENGLISH, WITH THE AMERICAN REVISION, 1801.. 486 XI. THE ANGLICAN CATECHISM. A.D. 1549, 1662. ENGLISH.. XII. ARTICULI LAMBETHANI. THE LAMBETH ARTICLES. A.D. 1595. LATIN AND ENGLISH.........

517

523

XIII. THE IRISH ARTICLES. A.D. 1615. ENGLISH

526

XIV. ARTICULI ARMINIANI SIVE REMONSTRANTIA. THE ARMIN-
IAN ARTICLES. A.D. 1610. DUTCH, LATIN, AND ENGLISH............
XV. CANONES SYNODI DORDRECHTANÆ. THE CANONS OF THE
SYNOD OF DORT. A.D. 1619. LATIN AND ENGLISH....
XVI. THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH. CONFESSIO WEST-
MONASTERIENSIS. A.D. 1647. ENGLISH AND LATIN, WITH THE AMER-

545

550

ICAN ALTERATIONS..........

XVII. THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM. CATECHISMUS WESTMONASTERIENSIS BREVIS. A.D. 1647. ENGLISH AND

LATIN.......

676

[Fac-simile of the title-page of the first collection of Reformed Creeds.]

CORPVS ET SYNTAGMA

CONFESSIONVM

FIDEI

QVE IN DIVERSIS REGNIS ET NATIONIBVS, ECCLESIARVM nomine fuerunt authenticè editæ: in celeberrimis Conuentibus exhibitæ, publicáque auctoritate comprobatæ.

QVIBVS ANNECTITVR, IN OMNIBVS CHRISTIANÆ Religionis Articulis, CATHOLICVS CONSENS VS, ex Sententiis Veterum, qui PATRES vocantur, defumptus.

CONFESSIONVM ENVMERATIONEM ET HARMONIAM: atque huius Catholici Veterum cum illis Confenfus, ordinem indicant paginæ primæ fingularum partium huius Syntagmatis, in Tres Partes diftributi.

EDITIO NOVA,

In qua quid præftitum fit, docet pagina fequens.

XHIBENTVR hoc in Volumine, celeberrima Confeffiones Fidei ex optimis quibufque editionibus omni ex parte integra. Non pri uatum aut alicuius priuati fcriptum, fed publicum ad omnes & fingulos pertinens: in quo Ecclefiæ Dei audientiam fibi fieri postulant, vt ex ipfarum vocibus dignofcatur earum doctrina: nihil enim, nifi abfcondi veretur Religionis veritas, ne damnetur ignorata. Fuerat quidem earum Harmonia, ante triginta annos edita: fed per varias fectiones interfecta. Nunc verò illa tanquam corpus integrum, confpicienda repræfentantur, & quàm in illa editione plures. Venuftiùs autem & vtilius cernitur ipfum corpus totum, quàm partes eius diuulfa. Earum quoque nexus & harmonia facilè deprehendetur vel ex integra lectione, vel ex Concordantia per fingulos articulos hic illis annexa: quibus etiam in hoc Syntagmate adiungitur ex Sententiis veterum, qui Patres vocantur, Catholicus Confenfus: Anno quidem 1595 à me editus, nunc rurfus multò locupletior factus, ac quibufdam Articulis auclus: cuius inftitutum declarat quæ in illo eft ad Illuftriffimum Principem præfixa Epiftola.

At verò cur illa Confeffiones fidei conftituta in diuerfis Regnis & Nationibus, caufæ fuere complures perquam neceffaria, quæ in ipfarum Præfationibus declarantur. Nam per illas, tanquam ex Tabulis authenticis quid in Ecclefiis doceretur, manifeftum fuit, aduerfus calumnias & iniqua præiudicia: vnde & in celeberrimis Conuentibus exhibitæ fuerunt ¶ 2