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AT MORNING PRAYER.

Upon these Feasts; Christmas- day, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias, Easter- day, Ascension- day, Whitsunday, Saint John Baptist, Saint James, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Saint Andrew, and upon Trinity- Sunday, shall be sung or said at Morning Prayer, instead of the Apostles' Creed, this Confession of our Christian Faith, commonly called The Creed of Saint Athanasius, by the Minister and people standing.

Quicunque vult. WHOSOEVER will be saved:

before all things it is neces­sary that he hold the Catholick

Faith.

Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

And the Catholick Faith is this: That we worship one God in Tri­nity, and Trinity in Unity;

Neither confounding the Per­sons: nor dividing the Substance.

For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son: and another of the Holy Ghost.

But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one the Glory equal, the Majesty co- eternal.

Such as the Father is, such is the Son and such is the Holy Ghost.

The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghost

uncreate.

The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal and the Holy Ghost e­ternal.

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And yet they are not three eter­nals but one eternal.

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As also there are not three in­comprehensibles, nor three un­created: but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible.

So likewise the Father is Al­

mighty, the Son Almighty: and the Holy Ghost Almighty.

And yet they are not three Al­mighties: but one Almighty.

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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 of 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 co­equal.

So that in all things, as is afore­