all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?’ (Heb. i. 14).
And the Lord Jesus himself testifies of the devil, saying, ‘He that hath been a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of lies’ (John viii. 44).
We teach, therefore, that some angels persisted in obedience, and were appointed unto the faithful service of God and men; and that others fell of their own accord, and ran headlong into destruction, and so became enemies to all good, and to all the faithful, etc.
Now, touching man, the Spirit says that in the beginning he was ‘created according to the image and likeness of God’ (Gen. i. 27); that God placed him in paradise, and made all thing subject unto him; which David doth most nobly set forth in the 8th Psalm. Moreover, God gave unto him a wife, and blessed them.
We say, also, that man doth consist of two, and those divers substances in one person; of a soul immortal (as that which being separated from the body doth neither sleep nor die), and a body mortal, which, notwithstanding, at the last judgment shall be raised again from the dead, that from henceforth the whole man may continue forever in life or in death.
We condemn all those who mock at, or by subtle disputations call into doubt, the immortality of the soul, or say that the soul sleeps, or that it is a part of God. To be short, we condemn all opinion of all men whatsoever who think otherwise of the creation of angels, devils, and men that is delivered unto us by the Scriptures in the Apostolic Church of Christ.
CHAPTER VIII.—OF MAN’S FALL; SIN, AND THE CAUSE OF SIN.
Man was from the beginning created of God after the image of God, in righteousness and true holiness, good and upright; but by the instigation of the serpent and his own fault, falling from the goodness and uprightness, he became subject to sin, death, and divers calamities; and such a one as he became by his fall, such are all his offspring, even subject to sin, death, and sundry calamities.
And we take sin to be that natural corruption of man, derived or spread from our first parents unto us all, through which we, be-
