The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold I. Hopkins & others: conferred with the Ebrue, with apt Notes to synge the[m] withal

What man soeuer he be that,
saluation will attayne,
the catholike belefe he muste
before all thinges retayne,
which faith vnles he holy kepe,
and vndefiledly,
without al doubt eternally,
he shalbe sure to dye.

The Catholike belefe is this.
that God we worship one,

In Trinitie and Trinitie
in vnitie alone.
So as we neyther doo confound,
the persons of the three,
Nor yet the substance whole of one
In sunder parted be.

One person of the father is,
an other of the Sonne,
An other person propre of
the holy Ghost alone.
Of Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost
but one the Godhed is,
Like glory, coeternall eke
the maiestie likewise.

Suche as the father is, such is
the Sonne in eche degree,
And suche also we do beleue
the holy Ghost to be.
Nncreat is the Father, and
vncreat is the Sonne,
The holy Ghost, vncreate: so
vncreat is eche one.

In comprehensible Father is,
Incomprehensible Sonne,
And comprehensible also is
The holy Ghost of none.
The Father is eternall, and
the Sonne eternall so,
And in like sort eternall is,
the holy Ghost also.

And yet though we beleue that eche
of these eternall be:
Yet there but one eternall is,
and not eternals three.
As ne incomprensible we,
ne yet vncreat three,
But one incomprensible, one
vncreat holde to be.

Almightie so the father is,
the sonne almightye so,
And in like sort almightye is
the holy Ghost also,
And albeit that euery one
of these almightie be:
Yet there but one almightie is,
and not almighties three.

The Father God is, God the Sonne,
God holy Ghost also:
Yet are there not three Gods in all,
but one God and no mo.
So likewise Lorde the Father is,
and Lorde also the Sonne,
And Lord the holy Ghost: yet are
there not three Lordes, but one.

For as we are compeld to graunt
by Christian veritie,
Eche of the persons by himselfe
both God and Lord to be.
So Catholick religion
forbiddeth vs alway

That eyther Gods be three, or that
there Lordes be three to say.

Of none the father is, ne made
ne creat, nor begot:
The Sonne is of the Father, not
creat ne made but got.
The holy Ghost is of them both,
the father and the Sonne,
Ne made, ne creat, nor begot,
but doth procede alone.

So we one Father hold, not three:
one Sonne also not three:
One holy Ghost alone, and not
three holy Ghostes to be.
None in this Trinitie before,
nor after other is:
Ne greater any then the rest,
ne lesser be likewise.

But euery one amonge themselues,
of all the persons three:
Together coeternall all,
and all coequall be.
So vnitie in Trinitie,
as said it is before:
And Trinitie in vnitie
in all things we adore.

Therfore what man so euer that
saluation will attayne:
This faith touching the Trinitie:
of force he must reteyne.

And nedefull to eternall life
it is that euery wight
Of the incarnating of Christ
our Lord beleue a right.

For this the right faith is, that we
beleue and eke beknow,
That Christ our Lorde the son of God,
is God and man also,
God of his fathers substaunce, got
before the world began:
And of his mothers substance, borne
in worlde a very man.

Both perfect God and perfect man
in one one Iesus Christ
That doth of resonable soule,
an humane flesh subsist,
Touching his Godhed egall with
his father God is he.
Touching his manhed lower then
his father in degree.

Who though he be both very God
and very man also:
yet is he but one Christ alone
and is not persons two.
One not by turning of Godhed
into the flesh of man:
But by taking manhod to God
this beyng one began,

All one, not by confounding of
the substance into one:

But onely by the vnitie
that is of one persone.
For as the reasonable soule
and flesh but one man is:
So in one persone God and man
is but one Christ like wise.

Who suffred for to saue vs all
to hell he did descend:
The third day rose agayne from dead,
to heauen he did ascend.
He sittes at the right hand of God
thalmightie father there:
From thence to iudge the quick and dead
againe he shall retire.

At whose returne all men shall rise
with bodies new restorde:
And of theyr owne workes they shall geue
accompt vnto the Lorde.
And they into eternall lyfe
shall go that haue done well,
Who haue done ill shall go into
eternall fire to dwell.

This is the catholike belefe,
who doth not faithfully
Beleue the same, without all dout,
he saued can not be.
To Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost,
all glory be therfore,
As in beginning was, is now,
and shalbe euermore.

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The Crede of Athanasius.