Blair Collection > Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

AN CHREIDIMH.
refreaflal agas re toil a Athar do reir
athoile agas a throraaonta : Creidim
fòs agas adbhuim Iofa crisd antaontfla
naighthoir & an Meffias neoch do bhi
agcothrom chumh achta re dia fein.
Nihe amhain gur lòr leis bheith gan
inmhe acht doghabh fioghair tfearb-
hontaigh vime as go mbeith fe' cofrnh-
uil rinde ingach enni abfegmhais pea-
caidh amhain : do dhaingniughadh a-
throcaire indaind, & do thabhairt mha
ithfeachais duind o Dhia anuair frith
find in ar gcloind mhallaidhe, do bhri-
dh tfeachrain ar nathar Adhaimh, ni
raibhe flighe oile againd do bheradh
find ochuing peacaidh agas dhamhna-
idh acht Iofa buidh nafarrdha dfulang
pàife agas peine arfon ar ndimhainifne.
i. an ni roba leis ondduir do rinde eland
dhileas do dhia dhinde, agas anuair fos
bhudh choimhlionta anaimfear do gei-
neadh è o chumhachtaibh anfpioraid
naoimh agas rugadh è le Muire oigh do
reir fheola agas do nocht fe' fa faoghal
foifgel antflanaidhe, no gur damnadh e
and preserveth the same, accordinge to the purpose of his will.
I beleve also and confesse Jesus Christe the onely Saviour and
Messias, who beinge equall with God, made him self of no reputa-
tion, but tooke on him the shape of a servant, and became man in
all thinges like unto us (synne except) to assure us of mercie and
forgivenes. For when through our father Adam's transgression we
were become childrene of perdition, there was no meanes to bring
us from that yoke of synne and damnation, but onely Jesus Christe
our Lord : who givinge us that by grace, which was his by
nature, made us (through faith) the childrene of God : who when
the fulnes of tyme was come, was conceyved by the power of
the Holy Ghoste, borne of the Virgine Marie (accordinge to the
the fleshe), and preached in earthe the gospell of salvation, tyll