ARTICLE
I: Of faith in the Holy Trinity.
The
proof from the word of God.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: God is the maker and preserver of all things.
The
errors and adversaries unto these truths.
Proposition
III: In the Unity of the Godhead there is a Trinity of persons.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
II: Of the Word of God which was made very man.
Proposition
I: Christ is very God.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: Christ is very man.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
III: Christ is God and man, and that in one Person.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
IV: Christ is the Saviour of mankind.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
III: Of the going down of Christ into Hell.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
IV: Of the Resurrection of Christ.
Proposition
I: Christ is risen from the dead.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: Christ is ascended into heaven.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
I: The Holy Ghost is very and eternal God.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: The Holy Ghost is of one substance, majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son.
The
proof from the word of God.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
III: The Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
VI: Of the sufficiency of the holy Scripture for salvation.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: All the books in the volume of the Bible are not canonical, but some are.
Proposition
III: The third and fourth Books of Esdras, the Book of Tobias, &c. be
Apocrypha.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
IV.: Of the New Testament all the books are canonical.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
VII: Of the Old Testament.
Proposition
I: The Old Testament is not contrary to the New.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
III: Christians are not bound at all to the observation of the Judaical
ceremonies.
The
proof from the word of God.
Errors
and adversaries to this truth.
Proposition
V: No Christian man whosoever is freed from the obedience of the moral law.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
VIII: Of the three Creeds.
Proposition
I: The Nicene, Athanasian, and Apostolical Creeds, ought to be received and
believed.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
IX: Of Original, or Birth-sin.
Proposition
I: There is original sin.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: Original sin is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man,
&c.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
III: Original sin remaineth in God his dear children.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
IV: Concupiscence, even in the regenerate, is sin.
[The
proof from God’s word 31.]
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
I: Man of his own strength may do outward and evil works before he is
regenerate.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
XI: Of the Justification of Man.
The
proof from the word of God.
Errors
and adversaries to this truth.
Proposition
II: Only by faith are we accounted righteous before God.
Proposition
III: We are accounted righteous before God, not for our own works or
deservings.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
I: Good works do please God.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: No work is good, except it spring from faith.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
III: Good works are the outward signs of the inward belief.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
XIII: Of Works before Justification.
Proposition
I: Works done before justification please not God.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: Works done before justification deserve not grace of congruity.
[The
proof from God’s word 5.]
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
III: Works done before justification have the nature of sin.
The
proof from the word of God.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
XIV: Of Works of Supererogation.
Proposition
I: Works of supererogation cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: Works of supererogation are the subversion of godliness and true religion.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
XV: Of Christ alone without sin.
Proposition
I: Christ is truly and perfectly righteous.
Errors
and adversaries to this truth.
Proposition
II: All men besides Christ, though regenerate, be sinners.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
XVI: Of Sin after Baptism.
Proposition
I: Every sin committed after baptism is not the sin against the Holy Ghost.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
The
proof from the word of God.
The adversaries
unto this truth.
Proposition
III: No men utterly are to be cast of as reprobate which unfeignedly repent.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
XVII: Of Predestination and Election.
Proposition
I: There is a predestination of men unto everlasting life.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: Predestination hath been from everlasting.
Proposition
III: They which are predestinate unto salvation cannot perish.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
IV: Not all men, but certain be predestinate to be saved.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Errors
and adversaries to this truth.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
X: In our actions the word of God, which is his revealed will, must be our
direction.
The
adversaries unto this truth.
ARTICLE
XVIII: Of obtaining eternal salvation only by the name of Christ.
Proposition
I: The profession of every religion cannot save a man, live he never so
virtuously.
The
proof from the word of God.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
I: There is a church of Christ both invisible and visible.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: There is but one Church.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
III: The visible Church is a Catholic Church.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
IV: The word of God was, and for time is, before the church.
The
errors and adversaries unto this truth.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Errors
and adversaries to this truth.
ARTICLE
XX: Of the Authority of the Church.
Proposition
I: The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
II: The church may not ordain what rites and ceremonies she will.
Errors
and adversaries unto this truth.
Proposition
III: The church hath authority to judge and determine in controversies of
faith.