Trinity-Sunday.
Psalm 67
Deus misereatur
GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us : and shew us the light of his
countenance, and be merciful unto us:
2. That thy way may be known upon earth : thy saving health among all
nations.
3. Let the people praise thee, O God : yea, let all the people praise
thee.
4. O let the nations rejoice and be glad : for thou shalt judge the
folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.
5. Let the people praise thee, O God : let all the people praise thee.
6. Then shall the earth bring forth her increase : and God, even our
own God, shall give us his blessing.
7. God shall bless us : and all the ends of the world shall fear him.
The Collect.
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God,
who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith to
acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of thy Divine
Majesty to worship the Unity; We beseech thee, that thou wouldst keep us steadfast
in this faith, and evermore defend us from all adversities, who livest and
reignest, one God, world without end. Amen.
Old
Testament Reading: Numbers 21.4-9
Psalter:
Psalm 29, 33 | 93, 97, 150
Epistle
Reading: Revelation 4.1-11
Gospel
Reading: St. John 3.1-15
THE
CREED OF ST. ATHANASIUS
At
Morning Prayer.
{Upon
these Feasts; Christmas Day, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias,
Easter Day, Ascension Day, Whitsunday, Saint John Baptist, Saint James,
Saint Bartholomew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon and Saint Jude,
Saint Andrew, and upon Trinity Sunday, shall be sung or said at
Morning Prayer, instead of the Apostles’ Creed, this Confession of our
Christian Faith, commonly called the Creed of Athanasius, by the
Minister and people standing.}
Quicunque vult.
WHOSOEVER will be saved :
before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith.
Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled : without
doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
And the Catholick Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity,
and Trinity in Unity;
Neither confounding the Persons : nor dividing the Substance.
For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son : and another
of the Holy Ghost.
But the Godhead of the Father, 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 uncreate, the Son uncreate : and the Holy Ghost uncreate.
The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible : and the Holy
Ghost incomprehensible.
The Father eternal, the Son eternal : and the Holy Ghost eternal.
And yet they are not three eternals : but one eternal.
As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated :
but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible.
So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty : and the Holy
Ghost 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 Lord : and the Holy Ghost Lord.
And yet not three Lords : but one Lord.
For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge
every Person by himself to be both God and Lord;
So are we forbidden by the Catholick Religion : to say, There be three
Gods, or three Lords.
The Father is made of none : neither created, nor begotten.
The Son is of the Father alone : not made, nor created, but begotten.
The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son : neither 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 none is afore, or after other : none is greater, or
less than another;
But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together : and co-equal.
So that in all things, as is aforesaid : the Unity in Trinity and the
Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
He therefore that will be saved : must think thus of the Trinity.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation : that he also
believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess : that our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man;
God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds : and
Man of the substance of his Mother, born in the world;
Perfect God and perfect Man : of a reasonable soul and human flesh
subsisting.
Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead : and inferior to the
Father, as touching his manhood;
Who, although he be God and Man : yet he is not two, but one Christ;
One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh : but by taking of the
Manhood into God;
One altogether; not by confusion of Substance : but by unity of Person.
For as the reasonable soul and 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 the Father,
God Almighty : from whence he will come to judge the quick and the dead.
At whose coming all men will rise again with their bodies : and shall
give account for 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 Catholick Faith : which except a man believe faithfully, he
cannot be saved.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.
