The first edition of the Articles of Schmalkald ap- peared in Wittenberg, 1538, 4to, in German; in Lat- in (by Generanus), 1541, 8vo. Selnekker afterward made a new Latin version, which is the one adopted in the collection of Lutheran creeds in Latin. A new edition of the German text, with the literature of the subject, was published by Marheineke (Berlin, 1817, 4to). See also, for the text and history, Francke, Li- hi Symiolici Eccl. Luther ana (Lips. 1847, 12mo); Gue- ricke, Chris//. Symbolik, § 14; Ranke, History rf the Reformation, vol. iii.
'ARTICLES, Six. This was an act (known as "the bloody statute") passed during that period of re- action against the Reformation in the mind of Henry
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VIII, which lasted from 1538 to 1544. Gardner and Tonstall took advantage of this mood of the king's mind, and procured the enactment, in 1539, of the "six articles for the abolishing of diversity of opinions ;" in reality, a law to punish with death all persons who should adopt the doctrines of the Reformers on the points covered by it. These points were, that in the sacrament of the altar, after consecration, there re- mains no substance of bread and wine, but the natural bod}r and blood of Christ; that communion in both kinds is not necessary ; that priests, according to the law of God, may not marry ; that vows of chastity ought to be observed ; that private masses ought to be continued; and that auricular confession is expedient and necessary, and ought to be retained in the church. Cranmer strenuously opposed this act, but afterward complied. Latimer and Shaxton resigned their bish- oprics. It was under this act that Anne Askew (q. v.), or Ascough, was executed in 154G. — Burnet, Flint. Engl. Reform, i, 416; ii, G3 ; Maitland, Essays of the Reformation, essay xii ; Hard wick, Church History, iii, 205 ; Neal, History of the Puritans, vol. i, ch. i.
ARTICLES, Twenty-five, of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. They are as follows :
I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity.— There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body or part?, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of all things, visible and invisible. And in unity of this God- head there are three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
II. Of the Word, or Son of God, who was made very Man. — The Son, who is the Word of the Father, the very and eter- nal God, of one substance with the Father, took man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin ; so that two whole and per- fect natures, that is to say, the Godhead and manhood, were joined together in one person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God and very man, who truly suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men.
III. Of the Resurrection of Christ.— Christ did truly rise again from the dead, and took again his body, with all things appertaining to the perfection of man's nature, wherewith he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth until he return to judge all men at the last day.
IV. Of the Holy Gliost The Holy Ghost, proceeding from
the Father and the Son, is of o.ie substance, majesty, and glo- ry with the Father and the Son, very and eternal God.
V. The Suficif ney of the Holy Scriptures for Solvation. — The Holy Scriptures contain all things necessary to salvation ; so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to b? required of any man that it should lie believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or nec- essary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture, we do understand those canonical books of the Old and New Tes- tament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the church.
The Sanies of the Canonical Iiook<: Gi nesis, Kxodus, Le- viticus, Numbers, Deuteronomv, do-hua. Judges, Until, The First Book of Samuel, The Second Book of Samuel, The First I? >ok of Kings, The Second Book of Kings, The First Book of Chronicles, The Second Book of Chronicles, The Book of Kzra, The Book of Nehemiah, The Book of Ksther, The Book of Job, The Psalms, The Proverbs, l'.c.clesiastes, or the Preacher, Cantica, or Songs of Solomon, Four prophets the greater, Twelve Prophets the less; all the books of the New Testa- ment, as they are commonly received, we do receive and ac- count canonical.
VI. Of the Old Testament The Old Testament is not con- trary to the New; for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and man, b ing both God and man. Wherefore they are not to be heard who feign that the old fathers did look only for transitory promises. Although the law given from God by Moses, as touching ceremonies and rites, doth not bind Christians, nor ought the civil precepts thereof of necessity be received in any commonwealth ; yet, notwithstanding, no Christian whatsoever is fn e from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral.