Saturday, May 21, 2005

Trinity Sunday

Whosoever will be saved : before all thinges it is necessarye that he holde the Catholyke fayth. Whiche fayth except every one dooe kepe holy and undefyled : without doubt he shal perishe everlastingly. And the Catholike faith is this : that we wurship one God in Trinitie, and Trinitie in unitie. Neyther confounding the persones : nor devidyng the substaunce.

For there is one persone of the father, another of the sonne : and an other of the holy gost. But the godhead of the father, of the sonne, and of the holy Goste, is all one : the glorye equall, the majestie coeternall. Such as the father is, suche is the sonne, and suche is the holy gost. The father uncreate, the sonne uncreate : and the holy gost uncreate. The father incomprehensible, the sonne incomprehensible and the holy gost incomprehensible. The father eternall, the sonne eternall : and the holy gost eternall. And yet they are not three eternalles : but one eternall. As also there be not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated : but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible.

So lykewyse, the father is almyghtie : the sonne almightie, and the holy gost almightie. And yet are they not three almyghtyes: but one almightie. So the father is God, the sonne God: and the holye gost God. And yet are they not three Goddes: but one God. So lykewise the father is Lord, the sonne Lord : and the holy gost Lorde. And yet not three Lordes: but one Lorde.


From the Quicunque Vult, in the translation in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer