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The Faith, Doctrine, and Religion, Professed, and Protected in the Realm of England, Expressed in Thirty-Nine Articles

1607 · 39 entries

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By

Thomas Rogers

Dates

first published 1607

Tradition

anglican, reformed

Also called

The Catholic Doctrine of the Church of England

Follows

The Faith, Doctrine, and religion, professed, & protected in the Realme of England, and dominions of the same: Expressed in 39 Articles, concordablie agreed vpon by the reuerend Bishops, and Clergie of this Kingdome, at two seuerall meetings, or Conuocations of theirs, in the yeares of our Lord, 1562, and 1604: The said Articles analised into Propositions, and the Propositions prooued to be agreeable both to the written word of God, and to the extant Confessions of all the neighbour Churches, Christianlie reformed, John Legatt’s printing, 1607 (Cambridge); STC 21228, ESTC S116041 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org

Transcribed

From EEBO-TCP A10958Checked against a copy at archive.org: every heading, each article’s text and its first page word by word, fifteen pages drawn at random word by word, and every margin note the import report doubted that gives Bible references; EMENDATIONS.md lists what was corrected, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-29

License

Public domain

Notes

Thomas Rogers (c. 1553–1616), rector of Horringer and chaplain to Archbishop Bancroft, to whom it is dedicated: the first commentary on the Thirty-Nine Articles. It revises his The English Creede (part 1, 1585; part 2, 1587; EEBO-TCP A68668 and A10957). Its text is headed “The Catholike Doctrine, beleeued and professed in the Church of England”, the title of later printings and of the Parker Society’s edition (1854; archive.org, catholicdoctrine00roge). Each article is printed, then “analised into propositions”, and each proposition proved from Scripture and from the confessions of the reformed churches (the Harmony of Confessions), and the errors and adversaries it condemns listed. Each entry is an article, on all of articles1571’s paragraphs of it; its items are the article as Rogers prints it, the list of propositions, and each proposition, with its proof and its errors under it, each a heading with its paragraphs. Every margin note is a segment’s: the Bible references it gives are its proofs, and the note as printed its note where it says more (the verses quoted, a confession, a father); a note citing a commentary on a verse (“Test. Rhem. an. Rom. 8.17.”) gives none. The small figures that number the propositions in an article’s text are left out. The dedication is prose/preface and the canons of 1604 printed after it prose/canons; the title page, the table of titles and pages and the printer’s errata are left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A10958 by scripts/import-tcp.mjs (--kind commentary --on articles1571), and proofread against the scan, EEBO’s film of the printing, which films pp. 6–7 and 206–209 twice. The TCP’s gaps elsewhere are kept as it has them. Its readings, conventions and corrections are in commentaries/rogers1607/EMENDATIONS.md.

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Thirty-Nine Articles (1571)

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