: So likewise the Father is Almighty, | believe and confess that our the Son Almighty: and the Holy Jesus Christ, the Son of God, isGhost Almighty. and Man; And yet They are not three Almighties but one Almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet They are not three Gods: but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords: but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity: to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the Catholick Religion: to say, There be three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none: neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone: not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is the Father and of the Son: neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons : one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other none is greater, or less than another; But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved: must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation: that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we God, of the Substance of the ther, begotten before the wor and Man, of the Substance of Mother, born in the world; Perfect God, and perfect Ma a reasonable soul and human subsisting; Equal to the Father, as tou His Godhead: and inferior to Father, as touching His Manhood Who although He be God Man: yet He is not two, but Christ; One; not by conversion of: Godhead into flesh: but by taking the Manhood into God; One altogether; not by co sion of Substance but by unity Person. For as the reasonable soul flesh is one man: so God and M is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvati descended into hell, rose again third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, He st teth on the right hand of the Fathe God Almighty from whence B shall come to judge the quick a the dead. At whose coming all men shall ris again with their bodies and sh give account for their own works : And they that have done goo shall go into life everlasting they that have done evil into ever lasting fire. This is the Catholick Faith: which except a man believe faithfully, be cannot be saved. That it may please Thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of Thy Word; and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth, and shew it accordingly; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please Thee to endue the Lords of the Council, and all the Nobility, with grace, wisdom, and understanding; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please Thee to bless and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please Thee to bless and keep all Thy people; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please Thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please Thee to give us an heart to love and dread Thee, and diligently to live after Thy commandments; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please Thee to give to all Thy people increase of grace to hear meekly Thy Word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit; We beseech Thee to hear us, good That it may please Thee to s cour, help, and comfort, all that in danger, necessity, and tribulati We beseech Thee to hear us, Lord. That it may please Thee to r serve all that travel by land or water, all women labouring of c all sick persons, and young child and to shew Thy pity upon all soners and captives; We beseech Thee to hear us, go Lord. That it may please Thee to defe and provide for, the fatherless c dren, and widows, and all that desolate and oppressed; We beseech Thee to hear us, go Lord. That it may please Thee to ha mercy upon all men; We beseech Thee to hear us, gos Lord. That it may please Thee to forg our enemies, persecutors, and sla derers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech Thee to hear us, g Lord. That it may please Thee to g and preserve to our use the kind fruits of the earth, so as in due ti we may enjoy them; We beseech Thee to hear us, goo Lord. That it may please Thee to giv us true repentance; to forgive us our sins, negligences, and ignorances and to endue us with the grace Thy Holy Spirit to amend our live according to Thy holy Word; We beseech Thee to hear us, god Amen. accord to make our common sup-world knowledge of Thy truth, and of Here endeth the LITANY. PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS, UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, To be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany, or of Morning and Evening For Rain. PRAYERS. Thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised to all them that seek Thy kingdom, and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance; Send us, we beseech Thee, in this our necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to Thy honour; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 2 Cor. xiii. THE, grace of our Lord Jesus For fair Weather. drown all the world, except eight persons, and afterward of Thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again; We humbly beseech Thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and waters, yet upon our true repentance Thou wilt send us such weather, as that we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season; and learn both by Thy punishment to amend our lives, and for Thy clemency to give Thee praise and glory; through Jesus Christ our In the time of Dearth and Famine. fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts in- Or this. TE in the time of Elisha the prophet, didst suddenly in Samaria turn great scarcity and dearth into plenty and cheapness; Have mercy upon us, that we, who are now for our sins punished with like adversity, may likewise find a seasonable relief: Increase the fruits of the earth by Thy heavenly benediction; and grant that we, receiving Thy bountiful liberality, may use the same to Thy glory, the relief of those that are needy, and our own comfort; through bu pre Me at min and ทร H |