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The Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel
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concerning His manhood, yet is ever present with us concerning his
Godhead.

From that place also we believe that Christ shall come again to execute
that general judgment, as well of them whom He shall then find alive in
the body as of them that be already dead.

We believe that the Holy Ghost, who is the third person in the Holy
Trinity, is very God: not made, not created, not begotten, but proceeding
from both the Father and the Son, by a certain mean unknown unto men, and
unspeakable; and that it is His property to mollify and soften the
hardness of man's heart when He is once received thereinto, either by the
wholesome preaching of the Gospel, or by any other way: that he doth give
men light, and guide them unto the knowledge of God; to all way of truth;
to newness of the whole life; and to everlasting hope of salvation.

* * * * *

We believe that there is one Church of God, and that the same is not shut
up (as in times past among the Jews) into some one corner or kingdom, but
that it is catholic and universal, and dispersed throughout the whole
world. So that there is now no nation which may truly complain that they
be shut forth, and may not be one of the Church and people of God: and
that this Church is the kingdom, the body, and the spouse of Christ; and
that Christ alone is the Prince of this kingdom; that Christ alone is the
Head of this Body; and that Christ alone is the Bridegroom of this
spouse.

Furthermore, we believe that there be divers degrees of ministers in the
Church; whereof some be deacons, some priests, some bishops; to whom is
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