spiritual meat, and drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ’ (1 Cor. x. 3, 4). And therefore we read that John said, that ‘Christ was the Lamb which was slain from the foundation of the world’ (Rev. xiii. 8); and that John the Baptist witnesseth, that Christ is that ‘Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world’ (John i. 29).
Wherefore we do plainly and openly profess and preach, that Jesus Christ is the only Redeemer and Saviour of the world, the King and High Priest, the true and looked-for Messiah, that holy and blessed one (I say) whom all the shadows of the law, and the prophecies of the prophets, did prefigure and promise; and that God did supply and send him unto us, so that now we are not to look for any other. And now there remains nothing, but that we all should give all glory to him, believe in him, and rest in him only, contemning and rejecting all other aids of our life. For they are fallen from the grace of God, and make Christ of no value unto themselves, whosoever they be that seek salvation in any other things besides Christ alone (Gal. v. 4).
And, to speak many things in a few words, with a sincere heart we believe, and with liberty of speech we freely profess, whatsoever things are defined out of the Holy Scritpures, and comprehended in the creeds, and in the decrees of those four first and most excellent councils—held at Nicæa, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon—together with blessed Athanasius’s creed and all other creeds like to these, touching the mystery of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ; and we condemn all things contrary to the same.
And thus we remain the Christian, sound, and Catholic faith, whole and inviolable, knowing that nothing is contained in the aforesaid creeds which is not agreeable to the Word of God, and makes wholly for the sincere declaration of the faith.
CHAPTER XII.—OF THE LAW OF GOD.
We teach that the will of God is set down unto us in the law of God; to wit, that he would have us to do, or not to do, what is good and just, or what is evil and unjust. We therefore confess that ‘The law is good and holy’ (Rom. vii. 12); and that this law is, by the finger of God, either ‘written in the hearts of men’ (Rom. ii. 15), and so is called the law of nature, or engravn in the two tables of stone, and
