# Book of Common Prayer (1892)/The Creed of St Athanasius

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Quicumque vult Whosoever will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith.
Which Faith, except every one do keepe whole and vndefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
And the Catholick Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in vnity.
Neither confounding the persons : nor dividing the Substance.
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 equall, the Majesty coeternall.
Such as the Father is, such is the Son : and such is the holy Ghost.
The Father vncreate, the Son vncreate : and the holy Ghost vncreate.
The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible : and the holy Ghost incomprehensible.
The Father eternall, the Son eternall : and the holy Ghost eternall.
And yet they are not three eternals : but one eternall.
As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three vncreated, : but one vncreated, and one incomprehensible.
So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty : and the holy Ghost Almighty. ​And yet they are not three Almightyes : 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 himselfe to be God and Lord.
So are we forbidden by the Catholick religion : to say there be 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 lesse then another.
But the whole three persons are coeternall together : and coequall.
So that in all things, as is aforesaid : the Vnity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Vnity is to be worshipped.
He therefore that will be saved : must thus thinke 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 confesse : that our Lord Iesus Christ the Son of God, is God and Man.
God of the Substance of the Father, begotten before the Worlds : and Man of the Substance of his mother, borne in the world.
​Perfect God, and perfect man : of a reasonable soule, and humane flesh subsisting.
Equall to the Father, as touching his Godhead : and inferiour to the Father, as touching his manhood.
Who although he be God and man : yet he is not twoe, but one Christ.
One, not by Conversion of the Godhead into Flesh : but by takeing of the manhood into God.
One altogether, not by Confusion of Substance : but by Vnity of person.
For as the reasonable soule and Flesh is one man : So God and man is one Christ.
Who suffered for our Salvation : descended into hell; rose againe the third day from the dead.
He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father God Almighty : from whence he shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead.
At whose coming all men shall rise againe 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 evill into everlasting fire.
This is the Catholick Faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.