3 THE CONFESSION of FAIT H, Ufed in the English Congregation at GENEVA Received and Approved by the CHURCH of SCOTLAND, &c. I I. my c in God the Heaven and Earth Believe and confeffe. I believe Lord GOD eternal, in- Father Alfinite, unmeasurable, in- mighty, comprehenfible and invi- Maker of fible, one in fubftance and three in perfons, Father, Sonne and holie Ghofte: who by his Almightie power and wifedome hath not onlie of nothing created Heaven, Earth, and all thinges therein conteined, and Man after his owne image, that hee might in him bee glori A 2 b Gen. 17. 1. Pfal, 63. 1. & 90.2. & 139. 1--16. Tim. 1. 17. • Deut. 6. 4. d Gen. 1. 26. 28. 19. r John S. 7. fied e Heb. 1. 2. Prov. 8. 22--30. 33. 6, 7. 8 Gen. 1, 26. Eph. 4. 24. Colą 3. zo. Confection of Faith, Used in the English Congregation A T GENEV A; Received and Approved by the Church of Scotland. In the Beginning of the REFORMATION. I COR. iii. 11. Another foundacion can no man laye then it that is layde, whych is Jesus Christ. EDINBURGH, Printed by JAMES WATSON, His Majesty's Printer. MDCCXX. And in fus Chrift his only Son our Who was Conceived fied, but alfo by his Fatherly Providence governeth, mainteineth and preferveth the fame, according to the purpose of his will *. I I I. Believe alfo and confeffe. JESUS CHRIST the onlie Saviour and Meffias, who beeing equall with Go D, made himfelfe of no reputation, but tooke on him the fhape of a fervant, and became man, in all things like unto us, finne excepted, to affure us of mercie and forgiveneffe. For when through our father Adams tranfgreffion wee were become children of perdition, there was no meanes to bring us from that yoke of finne and damnation, but onlie Jefus Christ our Lord', who giving us that by grace which was his by nature, made us through faith the children of God . Who when the fulneffe of time was by the Ho- Come, was conceived by the power ly Ghoft, of the holie Ghofte, borne of the Vir the Virgin gine Marie, according to the flesh, and born of preached Gen. 3. Rom. 5. 16, 17, 18. Eph. 2. 3. Gal. 3. 10, 13. f Acts 4. 12. 1 Pet. 2. 6. Ifa. 28. 16. Rom. §. 33. 8 John 1. 1, 2. Heb. 1.5. Rom. 1. 4. Pfal. 2. 7. h Gal. 3. 26. Rom. 8. 14. John 1. 12. Eph. I. S.. i Gal. 4. 4. Rom. 1. 2, 3. Acts 2. 22. * Ifai. 7. 14. Luk. 1, 81, 35. Rom. 1. 3. preached in earth the Gofpel of Salvation, till at length, by tyrannie of the Priefts, ide he was guitleffe condemned under Pontius suffered Pilate, then Prefident of Jurie, and mofte under Ponflanderouflie hanged on the Croffe betis Pilate, tweene two thieves, as a notorious tref- fied, paffer, where taking upon him the pur nishment of our finnes, hee delivered us from the curfe of the law". was cruci And for as much as he, being onlie God, could not feele death, neither being onlie man, could overcome death, hee Dead and joyned both together, and fuffered his hu- buried, manitie to bee punished with mofte cruell death, feeling in himfelfe the anger and fevere judgement of God, even as if hee He dehad beene in the extreame torments of hell, fcended and therefore cryed with aloude voyce, My God,my God,Why hast thou forfaken mee?? Thus of his free mercie, without compulfion, he offered up himfelf as the onlie facrifice to purge the finnes of all the world, fo that all other facrifices for finne are blafphemous, and derogate from the fufficiencie hereof. The which death, albeit it did fufficientlie reconcile us to God', yet the A Scri into Hell, P Pfal. 22. 1. Mat. 27.46. 9.Ifa.3. Heb. 9, 12, 14, 25, 26, 28. and 1o. 10, 12, 14. Gal. I. 4. Rom. 4. 25. and 5.8, 9, 10. 47, 48, Mat. 12. Mark 15. 1 John 1. 7. • Col. 1. 20. Gal. 3. 13. Ifa. 53. 6, 8, 10. • Acts 2. 24. 1 Pet, 2, 24. Ifa. $3, 4, 5, 7, 19, |