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I do without any scruple receive, approve, and confess all other 

 matters, defined and declared in the sacred canons, and general 

 councils, and chiefly in the holy council of Trent ; and do in the 

 same manner c®ndemn, reject, and anathematize every thing that 

 Is contrary to the same; together with all heresies condenmed, 

 rejected and anathematized by the said Church ; namely the 

 diabolical and perverse heresy of Nestorius, and its false teachers 

 Theodorus and Diodorus, and all that have and do follow it, who 

 being persuaded and seduced by the devil, do impiously maintain, 

 that our Lord an,d Saviour Christ consists of two persons, affirm- 

 ing the Divine Word not to have taken the flesh into a unity of 

 person with itself, but only to have dwelt therein as in a temple ; 

 and so will not say, that God was incarnate, or that our Lady, 

 the most Blessed Virgin, was the mother of God, but only the 

 mother of Christ; all which I reject, condemn and anathematize 

 as diabolical heresies; and do believe, and embrace, and approve 

 of all that was determined about this matter, ia tlie council of 

 Ephesus, consisting of two hundred fathers, in which by order of 

 Celestine first bishop of Rome, the blessed St. Cyril, patriarch 

 of Alexandria was president, whom I acknowledge to be a saint 

 now enjoying God, and that all that blaspheme him are. in a state 

 of damnation. 



Moreover I do condemn all that say, that the passion of our 

 Saviour ought not to be mentioned, and that it is an injury to 

 him to do it,- ou the contrary, I do believe and confess, that the 

 consideration and discourses thereof are holy, and of benefit to 

 souls. 



I do likewise confess and believe, that in pure Christianity there 

 is only one law of our Lord Jesus Christ, true God, and true Man ; 

 in hke manner as there is no more than one only true God, one 

 only faith, and one only baptism ; which one only law was 

 preached by all the holy Apostles, and their disciples and success- 

 ors after the same manner. I do therefore condemn and reject 

 all those who ignorantly teach, that there was one law of St. 

 Thomas, and another law of St. Peter, and that they are so 

 difterent as not to have any thing to do with one another; as also 

 all other heresies and errors condemned by holy mother Church. 



This true and cathohc faith, out of which there is no salvat.on. 

 and which at present I do of my own free w.ll, pmtcss and truly 

 hold and believe, I shall with the help of God endeavour to keep 



