Art. XI. Of the Justification | much as they are bound to do, but that they do more for his

of Man.

We are accounted righteous sake than of bounden duty is before God, only for the Merit required: Whereas Christ saith of our Lord and Saviour Jesus plainly, When ye have done Christ by Faith; and not for all that are commanded to you, our own Works or Deservings. say, We are unprofitable serWherefore, that we are justi-vants.

out Sin.

fied by Faith only, is a most Art. XV. Of Christ alone withwholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largeChrist in the truth of our na ly is expressed in the Homily ture, was made like unto us in of Justification. all things, sin only except, from Art. XII. Of good Works.which he was clearly void, both Albeit that good Works, in his flesh, and in his spirit. He which are the Fruits of Faith, came to be a Lamb without and follow after Justification, spot, who by sacrifice of himcannot put away our sins, and self once made, should take endure the severity of God's away the sins of the world; Judgment; yet are they plea- and sin (as St. John saith) was sing and acceptable to God in not in him. But all we the Christ, and do spring out ne-rest (although baptized and cessarily of a true and lively born again in Christ) yet offend Faith; insomuch that by them in many things; and if we say a lively Faith may be as evi- we have no sin, we deceive dently known, as a tree dis- ourselves, and the truth is not cerned by the fruit. Art. XIII. Of Works before Justification.

in us.

Art. XVI. Of Sin after Baptism.

Works done before the grace Not every deadly sin, wilof Christ, and the inspiration lingly committed after Baptism, of his Spirit, are not pleasant to is sin against the Holy Ghost, God, forasmuch as they spring and unpardonable. Wherefore not of faith in Jesus Christ, the grant of repentance is not neither do they make men meet to be denied to such as fall into receive grace, or (as the to sin after Baptism. After we School-Authors say) deserve have received the Holy Ghost, grace of congruity: yea rather, we may depart from grace givfor that they are not done as en, and fall into sin, and by the God hath willed and command-grace of God (we may) arise ed them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin. Art. XIV. Of Works of Su

pererogation.

again, and amend our lives. And therefore they are to be condemned, which say, they can no more sin as long as they live here, or deny the place of Voluntary Works, besides forgiveness to such as truly reover and above God's Com-pent. mandments, which they call Art. XVII. Of Predestination Works of Supererogation, cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety. For by them men do declare, That they do not only render unto God as

and Election. Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid)

Art. XVIII.

by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of doth set out unto us only the Nature. For holy Scripture Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.

he hath constantly decreed, by forth to us in holy Scripture: his counsel, secret to us, to de- And in our doings, that will of liver from curse and damna-God is to be followed, which tion, those whom he hath cho-we have expressly declared unsen in Christ out of mankind, to us in the Word of God. and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels Of obtaining made to honour. Wherefore Eternal Salvation only by they, which be endued with so the Name of Christ. excellent a benefit of God, be They are also to be had accalled according to God's pur- cursed, that presume to say, pose by his Spirit working in that every man shall be saved due season: they through grace obey the calling: they be justified freely: they be made Sons of God by adoption they be made like the image of his only begotten Son Jesus Christ: they walk religiously in good works; and at length by God's mercy they attain to Art. XIX. Of the Church. everlasting felicity. The visible Church of Christ As the godly consideration of is. Congregation of faithful Predestination, and our Elec-mer, in the which the pure tion in Christ, is full of sweet. Word of God is preached, and pleasant, and unspeakable the Sacraments be duly miniscomfort to godly persons, and tered according to Christ's Orsuch as feel in themselves the dinance, in all those things that working of the Spirit of Christ, of necessity are requisite to mortifying the works of the the same. flesh and their earthly mem- As the Church of Hicrusnbers,and drawing up their mind lom, Alexandria, and Antito high and heavenly things, as och, have erred; so also the well because it doth greatly Church of Rome hath erred, establish and confirm their faith not only in their living and of eternal salvation, to be en- manner of Ceremonies, but aljoyed through Christ, as be- so in matters of faith. cause it doth fervently kindle. their love towards God: so, for curious and carnal persons, lacking the Spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God's Predestination, is a most dangerous downfall, whereby the Devil doth thrust them either into desperation, or into wretchlessness of most unclean living, no less perilous than desperation.

Furthermore, we must receive God's Promises in such wise as they be generally set

Art. XX. Of the Authority of

the Church.

The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and Authority in Controversies of Faith: And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written; neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a Witness and a Keeper of Holy Writ, yet as it ought not to

but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or Ceremony ordained of God.

The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or to be carried about, but that we should duly use them. And in such only as worthily receive the same, they have a wholesome effect or operation: but they that receive them unworthily, purchase to themselves damnation, as St. Paul saith.VING Art. XXVI. Of the Unworthi

ness of the Ministers, which it hinders not the Effect of the Sacraments.

It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God, and the custom of the Primitive Church, to have Public Prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments in a tongue Church the evil be ever mingled Although in the visible not understanded of the people. with the good, and sometime Art. XXV. Of the Sacraments the evil have chief authority in A Sacraments ordained of the ministration of the Word Christ be not only badges or and Sacraments: yet, foras tokens of Christian men's Pro-1 much as they do not the same

*The 21st of the former articles is omitted, because it is partly of a local and civil nature, and is provided for, as to the remaining parts of it, in other articles.

insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ; and likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ.

in their own name, but in Redemption by Christ's death: Christ's, and do minister by his Commission and Authority, we may use their Ministry, both in hearing the Word of God, and in receiving the Sacraments. Neither is the effect of Christ's Ordinance taken away by their wickedness, nor the grace of God's gifts diminished Transubstantiation (or the from such, as by faith, and right-change of the substance of ly, do receive the Sacraments Bread and Wine) in the Supministered unto them, which be per of the Lord, cannot be proeffectual, because of Christ's ved by Holy Writ; but it is reinstitution and promise, al-pugnant to the plain words of though they be ministered by Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many Superstitions.

evil men.

Nevertheless, it appertaineth to the Discipline of the Church, that inquiry be made of evil The Body of Christ is given, Ministers, and that they be ac- taken, and eaten in the Supper, cused by those that have know-only after an heavenly and spiledge of their offences: and ritual manner. And the mean finally being found guilty, by whereby the Body of Christ is just judgment, be deposed. received and eaten in the SupArt. XXVII. Of Baptism.per, is Faith. Baptism is not only a sign of The Sacrament of the Lord's Profession, and mark of Dif-Supper was not by Christ's Or ference, whereby Christian men dinance reserved, carried about, are discerned from others that lifted up, or worshipped. be not christened: but it is also Art. XXIX. Of the Wicked, a sign of Regeneration, or new which eat not of the Body Birth, whereby, as by an instru- of Christ in the Use of the ment, they that receive Baptism Lord's Supper. rightly are grafted into the The wicked, and such as be Church: the promises of the void of a lively faith, although forgiveness of sin, and of our they do carnally and visibly adoption to be the sons of God press with their teeth (as St. by the Holy Ghost, are visibly Augustine saith) the Sacra signed and sealed: faith is con-ment of the Body and Blood of firmed, and grace increased by Christ; yet in no wise are they virtue of Prayer unto God. The partakers of Christ; but rather Baptism of young children is to their Condemnation do eat in any wise to be retained in and drink the Sign or Sacrathe Church as most agreeable ment of so great a thing. with the institution of Christ. Art. XXX. Of both Kinds. Art. XXVIII. Of the Lord's Supper.

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The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the Love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another; but rather it is a Sacrament of our

The Cup of the Lord is not to be denied to the Lay-People: for both the parts of the Lord's Sacrament by Christ's Ordinance and Commandment ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike.

Art. XXXI. Of the one Obla-so that nothing be ordained tion of Christ finished upon against God's word. Whoso the Cross. ever, through his private judg The offering of Christ once ment, willingly and purposely made, is that perfect redemp-doth openly break the Tradition, propitiation, and satisfactions and Ceremonies of the tion for all the sins of the whole Church, which be not repugworld, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the Sacrifice of Masses, in which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deccits. Art. XXXII. Of the Marriage of Priests.

nant to the word of God, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly (that other may fear to do the like) as he that offendeth against the common Order of the Church, and hurteth the Authority of the Magistrate, and woundeth the Consciences of the weak Brethren.

Every Particular or National Church, hath Authority to orBishops, Priests, and Dea- dain, change, and abolish Cerecons, are not commanded by monies or Rites of the Church, God's law, either to vow the ordained only by man's authoestate of single life, or to ab-rity, so that all things be done stain from Marriage: therefore to edifying. it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

Art. XXXV, Of Homilies.

The second Book of Homilies, the several titles whereof we have joined, under this Article, doth contain a godly and Art. XXXIII. Of excommu-wholesome Doctrine, and nenicate Persons, how they are to be avoided.

That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the Unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by Penance, and received into the Church by a Judge that hath authority thereunto.

Art. XXXIV. Of the Tradi

tions of the Church.

It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in ali places one, or utterly like; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversity of countries, times, and men's manners,

cessary for these Times, as doth the former Book of Homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers diligently and distinctly, that they may be understanded of the people.

Of the names of the Homilies.
1. Of the right Use of the
Church.

2. Against Peril of Idolatry.
3. Of repairing and keeping
clean of Churches.
4. Of good Works: first of
Fasting.

5.

Against Gluttony and
Drunkenness.

6. Against Excess of Apparel.
7. Of Prayer.

8. Of the Place and Time of Prayer.