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Every Christian  must  believe  that  there  is  one  God, and no  more  than  one  God:  that  this  God  is  a  pure Spirit, the  Lord  and  Maker  of  heaven  and  earth,  who has neither  beginning  nor  end,  but  is  always  the  same; is every  where  present;  knows  and  sees  all  things;  can do all  things  whatsoever  he  pleases;  and  is  infinite  in  all perfections.

2. Every  Christian  is  bound  to  believe  that  in  this  one God there  are  three  several  Persons,  perfectly  equal,  and of the  same  substance:  the  Father,  who  proceeds  from none; the  Son,  who  is  born  of  the  Father  before  all  ages; and the  Holy  Ghost,  who  proceeds  eternally  from  the Father and  the  Son;  and  that  these  three  Persons  are all equally  eternal,  equal  in  wisdom  and  power,  and  are all three  one  and  the  same Lord,  one  and  the  same God.

3. We  must  all  believe  that  this  God  created  the  angels to be  with  him  forever,  and  that  one  part  of  them  fell  from God by  sin,  and  became  devils;  that  God  also  created  Adam and Eve,  the  first  parents  of  all  mankind,  and  placed  them  in the  earthly  paradise,  from  whence  they  were  justly  banished for the  sin  they  committed in  eating  of  the  fruit  of  the  forbidden