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 God from all eternity did in the beginning of time, create, or make out of nothing, the world, the heaven, and earn and all viſible and inviſible; and this he did by the word of his eternal power in the ſpace of ſix days and all very good. And that the ſame God doth by the ſame power unfold and maintain the creatures in that being which he at firſt gave them. By him all things ſubſiſt; from the higheſt angel to the meaneſt worm And that this God in the right of creation and preſervation is the ſupreme abſsolute Sovereign and Rector of the world ruling and governing all his creatures, and all their actions, according to the wiſe, holy, and eternal counſel of his own will, to the praiſe and glory of his own name.

4thly, I believe that God, as the governor of the world, hath given a law to his rational creatures; according to which they are to walk, in order to their glorifying him and that to the preſent ſons of men the ſcriptures of the Old and New Teſtaments are given, as the only rule to direct them both in faith and practice. That this book of Scripture was given by inſpiration of God; holy men ſpeaking and writing as they were moved by the Holy Ghoſt. [sic] And that this is the foundation of all revealed re-