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THE

APOSTLES' CREED

BY

BISHOP KEN.

I Believe.

Y Lord and my God, with a full,
free and firm affent, I believe
all the articles of my Creed,
because Thou haft revealed

them; I know Thou art Infallible Truth,

a

Faith working by love.

and canft not, Thou art Infinite Love, Deut. xxxii.

and wilt not deceive me: Glory be to Thee.

With all my heart, O my God, do I love and praise Thee, who art fo infinitely

a He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and

right is He.

b Good and upright is the Lord therefore will He teach finners in the way.

a

4.

Heb. vi. 18. b Pfal. xxv. 8.

Amiable in Thyself, and fo full of Love to us, that all I can know, or believe of Thee, excites me to love Thee.

Lord, daily increase my Faith; make James ii. 20. it active and fruitful, that I may believe and love Thee as entirely as becomes one entirely devoted to Thee.

Its objects. The Unity of God.

d Deut. iv. 35.

Ifaiah xliv.6; xlv. 5, 6.

In God.

BELIEVE, O my God, that Thou art One, and that there is no other God befides Thee; Thou art that One Infinite and Independent Being, that One Only True God, whom all men, and all angels are to adore: All Glory be to Thee.

c But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

d Unto thee it was showed, that thou mighteft know that the Lord He is God; there is none else befide Him.

Thus faith the Lord the King of Ifrael, and his redeemer the Lord of hofts; I am the first, and I am the last; and

O Lord God, help me to love and to praise Thee with God-like affections, and

a fuitable devotion.

e

Mat. iii. 17; John i. 5.

xxviii. 19.

I believe, O my God, that in the Unity The Trinity of Thy Godhead, there is a Trinity of Perfons, I believe in Thee, O Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, in whofe Name I was baptized, to whofe fervice I am religiously devoted: All Glory be to Thee.

I believe, I admire, I love, I praise, I adore Thee, O moft Bleffed and Glorious Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghoft, for being the joint Authors of our Salvation: All Glory be to Thee.

O Sacred and Dreadful, and Mysterious Trinity, though I cannot conceive Thee, yet let me daily experiment Thy Goodnefs; Let Thy Grace, O Lord Jefus ; let Thy Love, O God the Father; let Thy

e And lo a voice from heaven, faying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of

the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy
Ghoft.

f The grace of the
Lord Jefus Christ, and
the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy

f

2 Cor. xiii.

14.

Communications, O Holy Spirit, be ever

with me.

The Father.

The first
Perfon of the
Trinity.

IB

BELIEVE, and love, and praise Thee,
O my God, the first Person in the

His diftinc-moft Adorable Trinity; the Fountain of
tive Proper-
ty, Father.
the Godhead; the Eternal Father of Thy
Co-eternal Son," Jefus my Saviour.

5 John i. 18; v. 18.

Glory be to Thee, O God the Father,

h John iii. for fo loving the world," as to give Thy Only Begotten Son to redeem us.

16.

Glory be to Thee, O Heavenly Father, for first loving us, and giving the dearest thing Thou hadft for us; O help me to love again, and to think nothing too dear for Thee.