[Alternate readings in brackets]

• Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith.
• Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
• And the Catholic Faith is this:
  That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity,
• Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance [Essence].
• 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 [uncreated], the Son uncreate [uncreated], and the Holy Ghost uncreate [uncreated].
• The Father incomprehensible [unlimited], the Son incomprehensible [unlimited], and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible [unlimited].
• 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 [infinites], nor three uncreated, but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible [infinite].
• 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 Catholic Religion, to say, There be [are] 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 [there is nothing before, or after: nothing greater or less];
• 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 [let him] thus think 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 [Essence] of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the Substance [Essence] 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 [is] God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ;
• One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking assumption of the Manhood into God;
• One altogether, not by confusion of Substance [Essence], 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 [Hades, spirit-world], rose again the third day from the dead.
• He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God [God the Father] Almighty,
• From whence [thence] he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
• At whose coming all men shall 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 Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully [truly and firmly], he cannot be saved.