FormulariesThirty-Nine Articles
The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion
Agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the year 1562 · ratified 1571 · text of the Book of Common Prayer (1662)
Contents
- I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity
- II. Of the Word or Son of God, which was made very Man
- III. Of the going down of Christ into Hell
- IV. Of the Resurrection of Christ
- V. Of the Holy Ghost
- VI. Of the Sufficiency of the holy Scriptures for salvation
- VII. Of the Old Testament
- VIII. Of the Three Creeds
- IX. Of Original or Birth-sin
- X. Of Free-Will
- XI. Of the Justification of Man
- XII. Of Good Works
- XIII. Of Works before Justification
- XIV. Of Works of Supererogation
- XV. Of Christ alone without Sin
- XVI. Of Sin after Baptism
- XVII. Of Predestination and Election
- XVIII. Of obtaining eternal Salvation only by the Name of Christ
- XIX. Of the Church
- XX. Of the Authority of the Church
- XXI. Of the Authority of General Councils
- XXII. Of Purgatory
- XXIII. Of Ministering in the Congregation
- XXIV. Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people understandeth
- XXV. Of the Sacraments
- XXVI. Of the Unworthiness of the Ministers, which hinders not the effect of the Sacrament
- XXVII. Of Baptism
- XXVIII. Of the Lord's Supper
- XXIX. Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lord's Supper
- XXX. Of both kinds
- XXXI. Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross
- XXXII. Of the Marriage of Priests
- XXXIII. Of Excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided
- XXXIV. Of the Traditions of the Church
- XXXV. Of the Homilies
- XXXVI. Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers
- XXXVII. Of the Civil Magistrates
- XXXVIII. Of Christian men's Goods, which are not common
- XXXIX. Of a Christian man's Oath
- The Ratification
Each Article has its own page with the full text, historical context, links to the commentaries, and a Study panel (Scripture proofs and Homilies).
The Ratification
This Book of Articles before rehearsed, is again approved, and allowed to be holden and executed within the Realm, by the assent and consent of our Sovereign Lady ELIZABETH, by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. Which Articles were deliberately read, and confirmed again by the subscription of the hands of the Archbishop and Bishops of the Upper-house, and by the subscription of the whole Clergy of the Nether-house in their Convocation, in the Year of our Lord 1571.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662), Articles of Religion, as transcribed at churchofengland.org.
Commentaries
- The Faith, Doctrine, and Religion Professed and Protected in the Realm of England — Thomas Rogers, 1607 · all 39 Articles · EEBO-TCP transcription
- A Defense of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England — John Ellis, 1700 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England — Gilbert Burnet, 1700 · all 39 Articles · EEBO-TCP transcription
- Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica; or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers — William Beveridge, 1847 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, Illustrated with Notes — Edward Welchman, 1790 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- A Practical Exposition upon the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England — Anonymous, 1716 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- An Exposition on the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England — John Veneer, 1734 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- A Scriptural Comment upon the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England — Martin Madan, 1772 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- Lectures in Divinity, Delivered in the University of Cambridge — John Hey, 1796 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- Elements of Christian Theology — George Pretyman Tomline, 1818 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, Illustrated by Copious Extracts from the Liturgy, Homilies, Nowell's Catechism, and Jewell's Apology — William Wilson, 1821 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles by the Reformers — Thomas R. Jones, 1849 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- Questions and Answers on the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England — William Trollope, 1850 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles, Historical and Doctrinal — Edward Harold Browne, 1865 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- An Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles — Alexander Penrose Forbes, 1871 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- A Commentary on the Thirty-Nine Articles — Thomas Pownall Boultbee, 1877 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- An Introduction to the Articles of the Church of England — G. F. Maclear and W. W. Williams, 1895 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- The Thirty-Nine Articles and the Age of the Reformation — E. Tyrrell Green, 1896 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England — Edgar C. S. Gibson, 1896 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- The Thirty-Nine Articles: A Short Exposition — Bernard C. Jackson, 1900 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR
- A Theological Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England — E. J. Bicknell, 1919 · all 39 Articles · cleaned OCR