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71 And yet they are not three Almightyes : but one Almighty.

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 himselfe 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 lesse then another.

But the whole three persons are coeternall together : and coequall.

So that in all things, as is aforesaid : the Vnity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Vnity is to be worshipped.

He therefore that will be saved : must thus thinke of the Trinity.

Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting Salvation : that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the right Faith is that we believe, and confesse : that our Lord Iesus Christ the Son of God, is God and Man.

God of the Substance of the Father, begotten before the Worlds : and Man of the Substance of his mother, borne in the world.