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are ever attacking us with their united force. Our only hope in all these dangers and conflicts centres in thy strength and protection. O stand thou for us, and we care not who rise up against us. We believe that thou art faithful, and will not suffer us to be tempted above our strength. O never suffer us to forsake thee, and we know thou wilt never forsake us. Let not the devil circumvent us by his frauds and deceits, nor ever glory in having prevailed over us. Arm us not only against the terrors and flatteries of the world, but likewise against the dangers of our passions and concupiscences. And whatever trial thou mayest be pleased to send us, let thy supporting grace ever conduct us thro' them with advantage to our souls: that by thy favour and mercy we may be faithful unto death, and so receive the crown of life.

But deliver us from evil. Amen.

O SOVEREIGN God, the fountain of all good, deliver us from all evil: from our sins, as well as the punishment we deserve for them. From wars, plagues, famine, and such like scourges of thy justice, which we have reason to appre hend hang over our heads on account of our impenitence: from heresy and schism, and that spiritualindness which self

conceit and pride expose us to. Infine, from hardness of heart, from final impe nitence, and everlasting damnation: from all these evils may thy infinite goodness, O God, deliver us, through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

The CREED of ST. ATHANASIUS WHOSOEVER Would be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith. Which faith, except every one do keep entire and unviolated, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

Now 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 one is the person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost.

But the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.

Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost.

The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, and the Holy Ghost is uncreated.

The Father is incomprehensible, the Son is incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost is incomprehensible.

The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Ghost is eternal.

And yet they are not three Eternals, but one Eternal.

As also they are not three Uncreateds, nor three Incomprehensibles, but one Uncreated, and one Incomprehensible.

In like manner the Father is Almighty, the Son is Almighty, and the Holy Ghost is Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties, but one Almighty

So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God.

And yet they are not three Gods, but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Ghost is Lord.

And yet they are not three Lords, but one Lord.

For as we are compelled by the Christian truth to acknowledge every person by himself to be God and Lord:

So we are forbidden by the Catholic religion, to say there are three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of no one, neither created, nor begotten.

The Son is from the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten.

The Holy Ghost is from the Father and the Son; not made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one 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 co-eternal to one another and co-equal.

So that in all things, as has been already said above, 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, be gotten before the world; and he is man of the substance of his Mother, born in the world.

Perfect God and perfect man: subsisting of a rational soul and human flesh.

Equal to the Father according to his Godhead,

and lesser 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 rational 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 thence 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.

And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.

This is the Catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully and stedfastly, he cannot be saved.

Glory be to the Father, etc.

A Prayer in a Storm at Sea.

O Most powerful, glorious, and merciful Lord God, at whose command the winds blow, and the raging waves of the sea are lifted up, and who also stills the rage thereof in the moment it pleaseth thy goodness, I thy creature, a miserable sinner, presume, in this my great distress, to call upon thee for help: Save me, O Lord! or else I perish. I

acknowledge, O God, my past great neglects, and am sorry I have refused to hearken to the calm voice of thy worde but now I see how terrible thou art in all thy wonderful works, the great God to be feared above all; and therefore I adore thy divine Majesty, acknowledging thy power, and imploring thy protection. Help me, O Lord, and save me for thy mercy's sake. Hear me, O Lord, and save me thro' the infinite merits of my blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ, Amen,

An internal Act of Martyrdom.

I WILLINGLY and from my heart renounce my country; my lands and possessions; my kindred and friends; yea even the whole world, and whatsoever is most dear unto me; and here, in the presence of God and his angels, offer up myself to the shedding the last drop of my blood, and losing as many lives (if it were possible I had them) as there are hairs on my head, for and in defence of the Catholic faith, and every point there-, of; as also in the maintenance of any other pious and just cause; which death I would joyfully and contentedly suffer, not so much for the sake of that good which, thro' God's mercy, would thereby redound to my soul, as chiefly to the ho nour of the blessed Trinity.

And this act of martyrdom I here

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