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 coequal.

"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, begotten before the
world; and he is Man of the substance of his mother, born in the
world.

"Perfect God and perfect Man; of a rational soul, and human flesh
subsisting.

"Equal to the Father according to his Godhead, and less 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; thence he shall come to judge the living and
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 steadfastly, he cannot be saved.

"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As
it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, one God, world
without end. AMEN."

This Creed is said to have been drawn up in the fourth century. "It
obtained in France about A. D. 850, and was received in Spain and Germany
about one hundred and eighty years later. We have clear proofs of its
being sung alternately in the English churches in the tenth c