> Amen and Amen again. Had we stopped at these 10 good articles all would
have been much different and much pain and bloodshed would have been
avoided. But the Puritans did not like them and so...Blessings. GDVW+





> The Ten Articles were published in 1536 by _Thomas Cranmer_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer) . They were  the first
> guidelines of the _Church
> of England_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England)  as  it
> became
> independent of _Rome_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church)
> .
> In summary, the Ten Articles asserted:
>     1.  The binding authority of the Bible, the three œcumenical creeds,
> and
> the  first four œcumenical councils
>     2.  The necessity of baptism for salvation, even in the case of
> infants
> (Art.  II. says that 'infants ought to be baptized;' that, dying in
> infancy,
> they  'shall undoubtedly be saved thereby, and else not ;' that the
> opinions of
> _Anabaptists_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist)  and _Pelagians_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagianism)  are 'detestable  heresies, and
> utterly
> to be condemned.')
>     3.  The sacrament of penance, with confession and absolution, which
> are
> declared 'expedient and necessary'
>     4.  The substantial, real, corporal presence of Christ's body and
> blood
> under  the form of bread and wine in the eucharist
>     5.  Justification by faith, joined with charity and obedience
>     6.  The use of images in churches
>     7.  The honoring of saints and the Virgin Mary
>     8.  The invocation of saints
>     9.  The observance of various rites and ceremonies as good and
> laudable,
> such  as clerical vestments, sprinkling of holy water, bearing of candles
> on
> Candlemas-day, giving of ashes on Ash Wednesday
>     10. The doctrine of purgatory, and prayers for the dead in purgatory
> (made  purgatory a non-essential doctrine)
>
>
>
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