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Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts.

And in this Trinity there is nothing before or after nothing greater or less; but the whole three Persons are coeternal together, and coequal.

So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity is to be worshipped in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity.

He, therefore, that will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.

Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now the right faith is, that we believe and confess that Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is both God and man.

He is God of the substance of His Father, begotten before the world; and He is man of the substance of His Mother, born in the world:

Perfect God and perfect man; of reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.

Equal to the Father according to His Godhead; and less than the Father according to His manhood.

Who, although He be both God and man, yet He is not two but one Christ:

One, not by the conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by the taking of the manhood unto God:

One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.

For as the reasonable soul and the flesh is 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 at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

At Whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall give an account of their own works.