THE COMMUNION. Collect. Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid;.....

After the Prefaces. Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name: evermore praising thee and saying, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee, O Lord most high. Amen.

FORMS OF PRAYER TO BE USED AT SEA. O Eternal Lord God, who alone spreadest out the Heavens and rulest the raging of the Sea; who hast compassed the waters with bounds, until day and night come to an end :.....

O most glorious and gracious Lord God, whe dwellest in the heaven but beholdest all things below; .....

From the Thirty-nine Articles.

ARTICLE I.

Of Faith in the Holy Trinity.

There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite wisdom and goodness; the Maker and Preserver of all things both visible and invisible....

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THE SUM AND CONTENT OF ALL THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, BOTH OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT: as prefixed to many of the principal Translations of the Holy Bible, published in the Reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. viz. in Matthew's, A. D. 1537; Cranmer's, or the Great Bible, A. D. 1549.

First, the holy writings of the Bible teach us, that there is one God Almighty, that hath neither beginning nor ending: which of his own good. ness did create all things; of whom all things proceed, and without whom there is nothing; which is righteous and merciful, and which worketh all things in all, after his will; of whom it may not be demanded, wherefore he doth this, or that.

CRANMER'S CATECHISM.

To the intent, good children, that you may the better understand the true Christian faith and doctrine, you must first of all learn and know that God is a spiritual or ghostly substance, as Christ saith, John the 3d. God is not a bodily thing, which may be seen and felt. He is present in every place; he seeth and beholdeth all things, which we do, speak, or think, and yet he is not measured with any end, time, or place. And forasmuch as men's wit could not search or find out the knowledge of this high mystery of the

God, did open to us, that believe in him, what God is that is to say, that there is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, three persons, and yet one true and everlasting God,

NOWELL'S CATECHISM.

Master. Now go forward, and tell me, in as apt words as thou canst, what thou understandest by the name of God, which followeth next in the Creed.

Scholar. I will do the best I can, good master, as my wit and ability will serve me. I understand that there is one nature, or substance, or soul, or mind, or rather Divine Spirit (for diversely have wise men, both heathen and Christian, termed God, where indeed by no words he can be properly termed); eternal, without beginning and end, unmeasurable, uncorporal, invisible with the eyes of men, of most excellent majesty, which we call God, whom all people of the world must reverence and worship with highest honour; and in him, as in the best and greatest, to settle their hope and affiance.

REFORMATIO LEGUM, &c.

What is to be believed of the Nature of God and the blessed Trinity. Cap. 2.

Let all the sons of God born again through Jesus Christ, out of a pure heart, a good con

science, and an unfeigned faith, believe and confess that there is one living and true God eternal, and incorporeal, impassible, of infinite power, wisdom and goodness, the creator and preserver of all things, as well visible as invisible................

CHAPTER III.

Of the Trinity.

SECTION I.

As the Holy Scriptures teach that there is but one living and true God, so likewise do they instruct us, that there are three real and distinct Subsistences, or Persons, to whom the Divine Nature and Attributes are to be ascribed; or, in other words, that there are three Persons in One Godhead.

§ 2. In this incomprehensible and mysterious union, are declared to co-exist, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and this co-existence is usually designated, for the sake of brevity and explicitness, The Trinity in Unity.

§ 3. "The Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and the Holy Ghost, is all one; the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal." Each Person is uncreated, incomprehensible, and eternal; each one is Almighty, God, and Lord: and yet there are not three, but one of each distinct denomination. "In this Trinity none is afore or after other; none is greater or less than another" in the enjoyment of the Divine Perfections, but the whole three Persons are co-eternal together and co-equal. We are not therefore to " divide the