é$ The HISTORY of the PUßMPANS. Chap. M. Mary, '° ring, That they would not difpute but in writing, except it were before 1554. the queen and council, or before either houfe of parliament, becaufe of 1]1. Refor. the mifreports and unfair ufage they had every where met with." At V. Ii. the fame time, they printed a fummary of their faith, for which they were p 285. ready to offer up their lives to the halter or the fire, as God fhould ap- point. Reformers And here they declared, " That they believed the fcri tures to be the Derlaratitt }' p of Faith. " true word of God, and the judge of all controverfies in matters of reli- " gion ; and that the church is to be obeyed as long as the followed this word. " That they adhered to the apofile's creed ; and thofe creeds let out by " the councils of Nice, Con/lantrnaple, Ephefirs, and Calcedon; and by the " firfl and fourth councils of Toledo; and the fymbols of ilthanafaus, Ire- " nazis, Tertullian, and Damafs. " They believed juftification by faith alone; which faith was not only " an opinion, but a certain perfuafion wrought by the HolyGhofi, which " did illuminate the mind, and fupple the heart to fubmit it felf unfeignedly " to God. They acknowledged the neceffity of an inherent righteoufnefs; but " that juftification and pardon of fins, came only by Chrift's righteoufnefs imputed to them. " ° They affirmed, that the worfhip of God ought to be performed in a tongue underfioodby the people. " That Chrift only, and not the faints, were to be prayed to. " That immediately after death, departed fouls pats either into the (late " of the bleffed, or of the damned, without any purgatorybetween. " ° That baptifm and the Lord's fupper are the facraments of Chrift, which " ought to be adminifier'd according to his inftitutions ; and therefore they " condemned the denying the cup to the people, tranfubfiantiation, the ado- rationor facrifice of the mats; and affertedthe lawfulnefs of marriage to " all ranks and orders of men." Thefe truths they declare themfelves ready to defend, as before; and in conclufion charge all people to enter into no rebellion againfi the queen, but to obey her in all points, except where her commands are contrary to the law of God. This put an end to all farther triumphs of the popifh party for the prefent, and was a noble teflimony to the chief and diftin- guilhing doétrines of the protefiant faith. But finte the reformers were not to be run down by noifeand clamour, their ftedfaftnefs muff encoun- ter the fiery trial. The queen's third parliament met November I r. In the writs of fum- moos, the title of fupreme head of the church was omitted, though it was Hill by law veiled in the crown. The money brought from Spain had procured
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