I - Of GOD

WE confesse and acknowledge one onely God, Deut. 14. 1 Cor. 8.6. Isai 44.4, 5. 1 Tim. 1.17. 1 King 8.17. 2 Chron. 8 18. Psal. 139.7, 8. Gen. 17.1. 1 Tim. 6.15, 16 Exod 3.14, 15. Matt. 28.19. 1 Joh. 5.7. Gen 1.1. Heb. 11.3. Act. 17.28. Prov. 16.4. to whom onely we must cleave, whom onely we must serve, whom onely we must Worship, and in whom onely we must put our trust; who is Eternall, Infinite, Unmeasurable, Incomprehensible, Omnipotent, Invisible, one in Substance, and yet distinct into three Persons, The Father, The Son, And the holy Ghost; by whom we confesse and believe all things in heaven and earth, as well Visible as Invisible, to have been Created, to be Retained in their being, and to be Ruled and Guided by his inscrutable Providence, to such end as his eternall Wisedom, Goodnesse and Justice hath appointed them, to the manifestation of his own Glory.