The Whole Booke of Psalmes ‎#14b

14b. Quicunque vult

1 What man soever he be that
salvation will attaine:
The Catholike beliefe hee must
before all things retaine.
Which faith unlesse hee holy keepe,
& undefiledly,
without all doubt eternally
he shall be sure to die.

2 The Catholike beliefe is this,
that God we worship one
In Trinitie, and Trinitie
in Unitie alone.
So as we neyther doe confound
the persons of the three:
Nor yet the substance whole of one
in sunder parted be.

3 One person of the Father is,
another of the Sonne,
Another person proper of
the holy Ghost alone.
Of Father, Sonne and holy Ghost,
but one the God-head is:
Like glory, coeternall eke
the majestie likewise.

4 Such as the Father is, such is
the Sonne in each degree:
And such also we doe beleeve
the holy Ghost to be.
Uncreate is the Father, and
uncreate is the Sonne:
The holy Ghost uncreate, so
uncreate is each one.

5 Incomprehensible Father is,
incomprehensible Sonne:
And comprehensible also is
the holy Ghost of none.
The Father is eternall, and
the Sonne eternall so:
And in like sort eternall is
the holy Ghost also.

6 And yet thou we beleeve that each
of these eternall be:
Yet there but one eternall is,
and not eternals three.
As ne incomprehensible we,
ne yet uncreate three:
But one incomprehensible, one
uncreate hold to be.

7 Almighty so the Father is
the Sonne almightie so:
And in like sort almightie is
the holy Ghost also.
And albeit that every one
of these Almighty be:
yet there but one Almighty is,
and not almighties three.

8 The Father God is, God the Sonne,
God holy Ghost also:
Yet there are not three Gods at all,
but one God and no moe.
So likewise Lord the Father is,
and Lord also the Sonne:
And Lord also the holy Ghost, yet are
there not three Lords but one.

9 For as we are compeld to grant
by Christian veritie:
Each of the persons by himselfe,
both God and man to be.
So Catholike religion
forbiddeth us alway,
That eyther Gods be three, or that
there Lords be three to say.

10 Of none the Father is, ne made,
ne create, nor begot:
The Sonne is of the Father, not
create, ne made, but got.
The holy Ghost is of them both,
the Father and the Sonne:
Ne made, ne create, nor begot,
but doth proceede alone.

11 So we one Father hold, not three,
one Sonne also not three:
One holy Ghost alone, and not
three holy Ghosts to be.
None in this Trinitie before
nor after other is:
Ne greater any then the rest,
ne lesser be likewise.

12 But every one maong themselves
of all the persons three:
Together coeternall all,
and all coequall be.
So Unitie in Trinitie,
as said it is before:
And Trinitie in Unitie
in all things we adore.

13 Therefore what man soever that
salvation will attaine:
This faith teaching the Trinitie
of force he must retaine.
And needfull to eternall life
it is that every wight
Of the incarnation of Christ,
our Lord beleeve aright.

14 For this the right faith is that we
beleeve and eke doe know,
That Christ our Lord the Sonne of God
is God and man also.
God of his Fathers substance, got
before the world began
And of his mothers substance borne
in world a very man.

15 Both perfect God and perfect man,
in one, one Jesus Christ:
That doth of reasonable soule
and humane flesh subsist.
Touching his God-head, equall with
his father God is hee:
Touching his man-hood lower then
his Father in degree.

16 Who though he be both very God,
and very man also:
Yet is he but one Christ alone,
and is not persons two.
One not by turning of God-head
into the flesh of man:
But by taking man-hood to God,
this being one began.

17 All one, not by confounding of
the substance into one:
But onely by the unitie
that is of one person.
For as the reasonable soule
and flesh but one man is:
So in one person God and man
is but one Christ likewise.

18 Who suffered for to save us all,
to hell he did descend:
The third day rose againe from death,
to heaven he did ascend,
He sits at the right hand of God,
Th'Almighty Father there:
From thence to judge the quicke & dead
againe he shall retire.

19 At whose returne all men shall rise
with bodyes new restorde:
And of their own works they shal give
account unto the Lord
And they into eternall life
shall goe what have done well:
Who have done ill shall goe into
eternall fire to dwell.

20 This is the Catholike beliefe,
who doth not faithfully
Beleeve the same, without all doubt
he saved cannot be.
¶ To Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost
all glory be therefore:
As in beginning was is now,
and shall be evermore.

Text Information

• First Line: What man soever he be that salvation will attaine
• Title: Quicunque vult
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1621
• Notes: Public domain.

Tune Information

• Name: [What man soever he be that salvation will attaine]
• Harmonizer: J. Farmer
• Incipit: 13455 34534 33233
• Key: F Major