The Thirty-Nine Articles · Earlier and related versions
Lambeth Articles (1595) · related, later
Nine Calvinist propositions on predestination drawn up by Whitgift and others at Lambeth; never ratified by the Crown and so never part of the formularies. Related, later.
Source: Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol. III (New York, 1877), pp. 523–525: Latin from Strype's Life of Whitgift, English from Fuller's Church History; via CCEL. Public domain.
I. Article 1
God from eternity hath predestinated certain men unto life; certain men he hath reprobated.
Latin
Deus ab æterno prædestinavit quosdam ad vitam, et quosdam ad mortem reprobavit.
Compare: Article XVII
II. Article 2
The moving or efficient cause of predestination unto life is not the foresight of faith, or of perseverance, or of good works, or of any thing that is in the person predestinated, but only the good will and pleasure of God.
Latin
Causa movens aut efficiens prædestinationis ad vitam non est prævisio fidei, aut perseverantiæ, aut bonorum operum, aut ullius rei, quæ insit in personis prædestinatis, sed sola voluntas beneplaciti Dei.
Compare: Article XVII
III. Article 3
There is predetermined a certain number of the predestinate, which can neither be augmented nor diminished.
Latin
Prædestinatorum præfinitus et certus numerus est qui nec augeri nec minui potest.
Compare: Article XVII
IV. Article 4
Those who are not predestinated to salvation shall be necessarily damned for their sins.
Latin
Qui non sunt prædestinati ad salutem necessario propter peccata sua damnabuntur.
Compare: Article XVII
V. Article 5
A true, living, and justifying faith, and the Spirit of God justifying [sanctifying], is not extinguished, falleth not away; it vanisheth not away in the elect, either finally or totally.
Latin
Vera, viva [et] justificans fides, et Spiritus Dei sanctificans non extinguitur, non excidit, non evanescit in electus, aut finaliter aut totaliter.
Compare: Article XVI, Article XVII
VI. Article 6
A man truly faithful, that is, such a one who is endued with a justifying faith, is certain, with the full assurance of faith, of the remission of his sins and of his everlasting salvation by Christ.
Latin
Homo vere fidelis, id est, fide justificante præditus, certus est plerophoria fidei, de remissione peccatorum suorum, et salute sempiterna sua per Christum.
Compare: Article XVII
VII. Article 7
Saving grace is not given, is not granted, is not communicated to all men, by which they may be saved if they will.
Latin
Gratia salutaris non tribuitur, non communicator, non conceditur universis hominibus, qua servari possint, si voluerint.
Compare: Article XVII
VIII. Article 8
No man can come unto Christ unless it shall be given unto him, and unless the Father shall draw him; and all men are not drawn by the Father, that they may come to the Son.
Latin
Nemo potest venire ad Christum, nisi datum ei fuerit, et nisi Pater eum traxerit. Et omnes homines non trahuntur a Patre, ut veniant ad Filium.
Compare: Article XVII
IX. Article 9
It is not in the will or power of every one to be saved.
Latin
Non est positum in arbitrio aut potestate uniuscuiusque hominis servari.
Compare: Article XVII