“substance, (so) is our confession, believing the Trinity in the difference of persons, and openly professing the unity in the Godhead; neither confound we the persons, nor divide the substance. We say, that the Father is made or begotten of none: we affirm, that the Son is not made, but begotten of the Father: and we profess that the Holy Ghost is neither created nor begotten, but proceeding from the Father and the Son. And (we confess) that the Lord himself Jesus Christ the Son of God, and the maker of all things, begotten of the substance of his Father before all the worlds, came down from his Father in the latter times for the redemption of the world, who (nevertheless) never ceased to be with the Father. For he was incarnate by the Holy Ghost and the glorious virgin Mary the holy mother of God, and of her was born alone the same Lord Jesus Christ, one in the Trinity, being perfect (man) in soul and body, taking on man without sin, being still what he was, taking to him what he was not: touching his Godhead equal with the Father, (and) inferior to his Father touching his manhood, having in one person the property of two natures. For (there are) in him two natures, God and man: and yet not two Sons or two Gods, but the same (God and man) one person in both natures, who
[genitum, descendisse ultimo tempore pro redemptione mundi a Patre,]
[qui nunquam desiit esse cum Patre. Incarnatus est enim ex Spiritu]
[Sancto, et sancta gloriosa Dei genitrice Virgine Maria, et natus ex]
[ipsa, solus autem Dominus Jesus Christus; unus de sancta Trinitate,]
[anima et carne perfectum sine peccato suscipiens hominem, manens]
[quod erat, assumens quod non erat: sequalis Patri secundum Divini-]
[tatem, minor Patre secundum humanitatem: habens in una Persona]
[duarum naturarum proprietatem: naturse enim in illo dus, Deus et]
[homo, non autem duo Filii et Dei duo, sed idem una Persona in utra-]
[que natura, perferens passionem et mortem pro nostra salute, non in]
[virtute Divinitatis, sed infirmitate humanitatis. Descendit ad inferos,]
[ut sanctos qui ibidem tenebantur erueret: devictoque mortis imperio]
[resurrexit: assumptus deinde in ccelum, venturus est in futurum ad]
[judicium vivorum et mortuorum: cujus nos morte et sanguine mun-]
[dati remissionem. peccatorum consecuti sumus: resuscitandi ab eo in]
[die novissima in ea qua nunc vivimus carne: et in ea qua resurrexit]
[idem Dominus forma percepturi ab ipso, alii pro justitiee meritis vitam]
[@ternam, alii pro peccatis supplicii seterni sententiam. Hee est]
[catholic ecclesie fides: hanc confessionem conservamus atque tene-]
[mus: quam quisquis firmissime custodierit, perpetuam salutem habebit.]
[—Labb. Concil. Par. 1671. Tom. v. 1703. P]]
suffered grief and death for our salvation, not in the power of his Godhead, but in the infirmity of his manhood. He descended to them below to draw out by force the saints which were held there. And he rose again, the power of death being overcome. He was taken up into the heavens, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. By whose death and blood we being made clean have obtained forgiveness of (our) sins, and shall be raised up again by him in the last day in the same flesh wherein we now live, (and) in that manner wherein the same (our) Lord did rise again, (and) shall receive of him, some in reward of their welldoing life everlasting, and some for their sins the judgment of everlasting punishment. This is the faith of the catholic church, this confession we keep and hold, which whosoever shall keep stedfastly, he shall have everlasting salvation. A DECLARATION OF THE FAITH OR PREACHING OF THE EVANGELICAL AND APOSTOLICAL TRUTH, BY THE BLESSED MARTYR IRENAUS, TAKEN OUT OF THE THIRD CHAPTER OF HIS FIRST BOOK “CON-TRA VALENT.” the Tue church, dispersed through the whole world even to the ends of the earth, hath of the apostles and their disciples received the belief, which is in one God the Father Almighty, which made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is. And in one Jesus Christ the Son of God, (who was) incarnate for our salvation. And in the Holy Ghost, who by the prophets preached the mystery of the dispensation, and the coming of the beloved Jesus Christ our Lord, with his nativity of the virgin, and his passion, and resurrection from the dead, and his ascension in the flesh into the heavens, and his coming again out of the heavens in the glory of the Father to restore all things, and to raise up again all flesh of mankind: so that to Christ Jesus our Lord, both God, and Saviour, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father, every knee may bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue may praise him, and that he may judge rightly in all things, and that he may cast the spirits of naughtiness, with the angels which transgressed and became rebels, and wicked, unjust, mischievous,