the confession of faith first I believe that nothing be without beginning but  God no nature no matter no spirit no essence but one only and the same God  that God as he be eternal almighty only wise only good in his nature so he be  eternal father son and holy spirit in three person I believe that God be so  holy pure and zealous that it be impossible for he to be please in any  creature though the work of his own hand so that neither angel man nor world  can stand or can stand one moment in his eye without behold the same in the  face of a mediator and therefore that before he with who all thing be present  the lamb of God be slay before all world without which eternal counsel of God  it be impossible for he to have descend to any work of creation but shall have  enjoy the bless and individual society of the three person in the Godhead only  for ever but that out of his eternal and infinite goodness and love purpose to  become a creator and to communicate with his creature that so in the person of  the mediator the true ladder may be fix whereby God may descend to his  creature and his creature may ascend to God so that God by the reconcilement  of a mediator turn his countenance towards his creature though not in the same  height and degree make way unto the disposition of his most holy and sacred  will whereby some of his creature may stand and keep their estate other may  fall and be restore unto their estate but yet remain in be though under wrath  and corruption all in the virtue of a mediator which be the great mystery and  perfect centre of all God way unto his creature and unto which all his other  work and wonder do but serve and refer that he choose accord to his pleasure  man to be that creature to who nature the eternal son of God shall be unite  and among the generation of man he elect a small flock in who by the  participation of himself he purpose to express the ray of his glory all the  ministration of angel damnation of devil and reprobate universal  administration of all creature and dispensation of all time have no other end  but as the way and ambages of God to he further glorify in his saint who be  one with the mediator who be one with God that by the virtue of God his  eternal counsel touch a mediator he descend at his own good pleasure and  accord to the time and season to himself best know to become a creator and by  his eternal word create all thing and by his eternal spirit do comfort and  preserve they that he make all thing in their first estate good and remove  from himself leave the beginning of all evil and vanity unto the liberty of  the creature but reserve in himself the beginning of all restitution and the  liberty of his grace use never thelesse and turn the fall and defection of the  creature which to his prescience be eternal know to make a way to his eternal  counsel touch a mediator the work he purpose to accomplish in he that God  create spirit whereof some keep their stand and other fall he create heaven  and earth and all their army and generation and give unto they constant and  everlasting law which we call nature which be nothing but the law of the  creation which lawsneverthelesse have have three change or time and be to have  their four and last the first when the matter of heaven and earth be create  without from the second by the interim of every day work the three by the  curse which notwithstanding be no new creation but a privation of part of the  first creation and the four and last at the end of the world the manner  whereof be not yet reveal so as the law of nature which now remain and govern  inviolable till the end of the world begin to be in force when God rest from  his work and cease to create but receive a revocation in part by the curse  since which time they change not that notwithstanding God have rest from  create since the first sabbath yet nevertheless he do accomplish and fulfil  his divine will in all thing great and small general and particular as full  and exact by providence as he can do by miracle and new creation though his  work be not immediate and direct but by compass not violate nature which be  his own law upon his creature that as at the first the soul of man be not  produce of heaven or earth but be breathe immediate from God so that the way  and proceed of God with spirit be not include in nature that be in the law of  heaven or earth but be reserve to the law of his secret will and grace whereby  God work still and rest not from the work of creation as he do from the work  of redemption but continue work to the end of the world at what time also that  work shall accomplish and a eternal sabbath shall ensue likewise that  whensoever God do break the law of nature by miracle which ever be new  creation he never come to that point or pass but he have regard to the work of  redemption which be the great and whereunto all God saint and martyr do refer  that God create man in his own image or likeness in a reasonable soul in  innocence and sovereignty that he give he a law and command which be in his  power to keep but he keep it not that man make a total defection from God  presume to imagine that the law and prohibition of God be not the rule of good  and evil but that good and evil have their principle and beginning and lust  after the knowledge of those imaginary beginning to the end to depend no more  upon God will reveal but upon himself and his own light as a God then the  which there can not be a sin more opposite to the law of God that yet  nevertheless this great sin be not original move by the malice of man but be  insinuate by the instigation and suggestion of the devil who be the first  defect creature and fall of malice and not by temptation that upon the fall of  man death and vanity enter by the justice of God and the image of God in man  be deface and heaven and earth which be make for man use be subdue to  corruption by his fall but then that instant and without intermission of time  after the word of God law because through the fall of man frustrate as to  obedience there succeed the great word of the promise that the righteousness  of God may be make and wrought by faith that aswell the word of God as the  word of his promise endure the same for ever but that they have be reveal in  several manner accord to the dispensation of time for the law be first imprint  in that remnant of light of nature which be leave after the fall be sufficient  to accuse it be more manifest express in the write law it be yet more open by  the prophet and last express in the true perfection of the son of God the  great prophet and perfect interpreter of the law that likewise the word of the  promise be manifest and reveal first by immediate revelation and inspiration  after by figure which be of two nature the one the right and ceremony of the  law the other the continual history of the old world and church of the jews  which though it be literal true yet it be pregnant of a perpetual allegory and  a shadow of the work of redemption which be to follow the same promise or  evangel be more clear reveal and express by the prophet than by the son  himself and last by the holy ghost which illuminate the church to the end of  the world that in the fullness of time accord to the promise and oath of God  of a choose lineage descend the bless seed of the woman jesus Christ the only  beget son of God and saviour of the world who be conceive by the power and  overshadow of the holy ghost and tookflesh of the virgin marry that the word  do not only take flesh or be join to flesh though without conconfusion of  substance or nature so as the eternal son of God and ever bless son of marry  be one person so one as the bless virgin may be true and catholicly call God  para the mother of God so one as there be no unity in universal nature not  that of the soul and body of man so perfect for the three heavenly unity  whereof that be the second exceed all natural unity that be the unity of the  three person in the Godhead the unity of God and man in Christ and the unity  of Christ in the church the holy ghost be the worker of both these latter  unity for by the holy ghost be Christ regenerate in the flesh and by the holy  ghost be man regenerate and quicken in the spirit that jesus the lord become  in the flesh a sacrificer and a sacrifice for sin a satisfaction and price to  the justice of God a meriter of glory and of the kingdom a pattern of all  righteousness a preacher of the word which himself be a finisher of the  ceremony a corner stone to remove the separation between Jew and gentle a  intercession for the church a lord of nature in his miracle a conqueror of  death and the power of darkness in his resurrection and that he fulfil the  whole counsel of God perform his whole sacred office and anoint upon earth and  accomplish the whole work of redemption and restitution of man to a state  superior to the angel where the state of his creation be inferior and  reconcile and establish all thing accord to the will of the father that in the  fullness of time jesus the lord be bear in the day of Herod and suffer under  the government of Pontius Pilate be deputy of the Roman and under the high  priest hood of caiphas and be betray by Judas one of the twelve apostle and be  crucify at Jerusalem and die after a true and natural death and his body lie  in the sepulchre the three day he raise himself from the bind of death and  arise and show himself to many choose witness by the space of diverse day and  in the end of those day in the sight of many he ascend into heaven where he  continue his intercession and shall come in his appoint time in great glory  for to judge the world that the suffer and merit of Christ as they be  sufficient to do away the sin of the whole world so they be effectual to such  as be regenerate by the holy ghost who breathe where he listen of free grace  which grace as a seed Incorruptible quicken the spirit of man and conceive he  a new the son of God and a member of Christ so that Christ have man flesh and  man have Christ spirit there be a open passage and imputation whereby sin and  wrath be convey from man to Christ and merit and life be convey from Christ to  man which seed of the holy ghost first figure in we the image of Christ slay  or crucify in we in a holy faith and then renew in we the image of God in  holiness and righteousness though both imperfect and in degree far differ even  in God elect as well in regard of the office of the spirit as the illumination  which be more or less in a large proportion as namely in the church before  Christ which nevertheless be partaker of one and the same salvation with we  that the work of the spirit though it be not tie to any mean in heaven or in  earth yet it be ordinary dispense by the preach of the word and administration  of the sacrament the covenant of the father upon the child payer read the  censure of the church the society of the godly the cross and affliction God  benefit his judgement upon other his great miracle the contemplation of his  creature all which though some be more principal God use as the mean of  vocation and conversion of his elect not derogate from his power to call  immediate by his grace and at all hour and moment of the day that be of man  life accord to his good pleasure that the word of God by which his will be  reveal continue in revelation and tradition until Moses and that the scripture  be from Moses time until the time of the apostle and evangelist in who age  after the come of the holy ghost the searcher of all trtuh the book of the  scripture be shut up and close and can receive any new addition and that the  church have no power after the scripture to teach or command any thing  contrary to the write word but be as the ark wherein the table of the first  testament be keep and preserve that be to say the church have only the custody  and delivery over of the scripture commit unto the fame together with the  interpretation of they that there be a universal or catholic church of God  disperse over the face of the earth which be Christ spouse and Christ body be  gather of the father of the old world of the church of the jews of the spirit  of the faithful dissolve of the spirit of the faithful militant and of the  name yet to be bear which be already write n the book of life that there be  also a visible church distinguish by the outward work of God covenant and the  renew of the holy doctrine with the use of the mystery of God and the  invocation and sanctification of his holy name that there be also a holy  succession in the prophet of the new testament and the father of the church  from the time of the apostle and disciple which see our saviour in the flesh  unto the consummation of the work of the ministry which person be call of God  by gift or inward anoint and the vocation of God follow by a outward call and  ordination of the church I believe that the soul of those that die in the lord  be bless and rest from their labour enjoy the sight of God yet so as they be  in far expectation of their glory in the last day at which time all fleshof  man shall arise and be change and shall appear and receive from jesus Christ  eternal judgement and the glory of the saint shall then be till and the  kingdom shall be give to God the father from which time all thing shall  continue for ever in that be and estate which then they shall receive so there  be three time if time they may be call or part of eternity the first the time  before beginning when the Godhead be without the be of any creature the second  the time of the mystery which continue from the creation to the dissolution of  the world and the three the time of the revelation of the saint of God which  time be the last and be everlasting without change Finis