Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1858 — ATHANASIAN CREED. [ARTICLE]

ATHANASIAN CREED.

Whosoever will bet-saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. * Which Faith, except every #ne do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt, he Isliall perish everlastingly.! And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance; For there is one Person of the Fa’her, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is ail one, the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal”. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, arid such i,s the llolv Ghost. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreatc, ■ and the Holy Ghost uncreate. ■ The Father incomprehensible, the Son i incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost ini comprehensible. * ; The Father Son eternal; and the Holy Ghost eternal. i And yet they are not three eternals; but one eternal. 4 As also there are not three incomprehensiibles, nor three uncreated; but one uncreai ted, and one imeompreliensib’le. | Sp likewisle the Father is Almighty, the. ! Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Al- : mighty. I And yet they are not three Almighties; i but one Almighty. : So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. •And yet they art; not three Gods; but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Sun Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords; but one Lord. bke as we are compelled by the Christian verity, to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord, So are we the Catholic Religion, to sav. There be three Gods, or three Lords. ' The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is pf 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 Sm, not three Sons; Ghost, not threeTloly Ghosts. And in this Trinity nine is afore, or after; other; none is greater, or less than another; . But the whole three Persons are co-eter-nabtogether, and co-equal. So that, 'in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, is to be worshipped. He therefore-that will be saved, must thus i think of the Triinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting : salvation, that he also believe rightly tho ; Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ; ; For the right Faith is, that we believe and i confess, that ouir Lord Jesus Christ, the Son ■ of God, is God and Man; God of the Substance of the Father, be-i gotten before the worlds, and Man of the Substance of his Mother, born in tho world; Perfect God, and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead, and inferior to tho Father, as touching; his Manhood; Who, although he be God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ. One, not ,by iconversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God; One altogether, not by confusion of Sub-; stance, but by unity of. Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh * s j one Man, so God and Man is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation, descended; into hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on •he right hand oil the Father, God Almighty; from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coining all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall give account for; their own works; • And they that have done good shall go , 1 into life everlasting; and they that have' done evil into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith, which, except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost! As it was in the beginning, is now, and] ever shall be. world without end. Amen '