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At Morning Prayer
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Vpon these Feasts; Christmas day, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias, Easter day, Ascension day, Whitsunday, Saint John Baptist, Saint James, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon, and Saint Jude, Saint Andrew, and vpon Trinity Sunday shall be sung, or said at morning Prayer, instead of the Apostles Creed, this Confession of our christian Faith, commonly called the Creed of Saint Athanasius, by the Minister and people standing.

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Quicumque vult Whosoever will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith.

Which Faith, except every one do keepe whole and vndefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

And the Catholick Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in vnity.

Neither confounding the persons : nor dividing the Substance.

For there is one person of the Father, 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 all one : the glory equall, the Majesty coeternall.

Such as the Father is, such is the Son : and such is the holy Ghost.

The Father vncreate, the Son vncreate : and the holy Ghost vncreate.

The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible : and the holy Ghost incomprehensible.

The Father eternall, the Son eternall : and the holy Ghost eternall.

And yet they are not three eternals : but one eternall.

As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three vncreated, : but one vncreated, and one incomprehensible.

So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty : and the holy Ghost Almighty.