Twelve articles on religion Isaac Newton c. 487 words Newton Project London 2006 Newton Project, Imperial College

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 post-1710, in English, c. 491 words, 1 p.

Printed in Brewster (1855), 2: 349-50 and McLachlan, Theological Manuscripts, 56-7.

 1 p.

in English

 Keynes Ms. 8, King's College, Cambridge, UK UKCambridgeKing's College Keynes Mss Keynes Ms. 8 SL252

Bought at the Sotheby sale by 'Ulysses' (probably the London bookseller Jacob Schwartz) for £21, and offered to Keynes by Bertram Rota of Bodley House, Vigo St., London W1 on 5 March 1938 for £17.10s.. On 9 April Keynes offered Rota £20 for lots 184 (now Keynes Ms. 118) and 252 (this one), which Rota accepted on behalf of his (unspecified) client on 12 April.

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 post-1710 England English Holograph ReligionDoctrine Transcribed by Stephen Snobelen Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Checked against original by John Young Tagged by John Young Coding audited and updated to Newton v2.0 DTD by Michael Hawkins Coding checked and updated to Newton v2.1 DTD by John Young Updated to Newton V3.0 (TEI P5 Schema) by Michael Hawkins Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins 1

Artic. 1. There is one God the Father eternal everliving, omnipresent, omniscient, almighty, the maker of heaven & earth, & one Mediator between God & Man the Man Christ Iesus.

Artic 2. The father is the invisible God whom no eye hath seen or can see, all other beings are sometimes visible.

Artic. 3. The Father hath life in himself & hath given the son to have life in himself.

Artic 4 The father is omniscient & hath all knowledge of future things originally in his own breast, & communicates knowledge to the son of future things to the son Iesus Christ & none in heaven or earth or under the earth is worthy to receive knowledge of future things immediately from the father except the Lamb. And therefore the testimony of Iesus is the Spirit of Prophesy & Iesus is the Word or Prophet of God.

Artic 5. The father is immoveable th no place being caplable of becoming emptier or fuller of him then it is by the eternal necessity of nature: all other beingbeings are moveable from place to place.

Artic 6. All the worship (whether of prayer praise or thanks giving wchwhich was due to the father before the coming of Christ is still due to him. Christ came not to diminish the worship of his father.

Artic. 7. A Prayers are most prevalent when directed to the father in the name of yethe son

Artic. 8. We are to return thanks to yethe father alone for creating us & giving us food & raiment & other blessings of this life & whatsover we are to thank him for or desire that he would do for us we ask of him immediately in the name of Christ

Artic. 9. We need not pray to Christ to intercede for us. If we pray the father aright he will intercede.

Artic. 10. T It is not necessary to salvation to direct orour prayers to any other then yethe father in yethe name of the son.

Artic. 11. To give the name of God to Angels or Kings is not against yethe first commandment. To give the worship of the God of the Iews to Angels or Kings is against it. The meaning of the commandment is Tohou shalt worship no other Gods but me.

Artic 12. To give glory Christto Christ & the Holy Ghost To us there is but one God yethe father of whom are all things & we of him, & one Lord Iesus Christ by whom are all things & we by him. And each have their proper worship We are that is, we are to worship the father alone as God Almighty & the Lor Iesus alone as the Lord the Messiah the king of kin great King the Lamb of God who was slain & hath redeemed us wthwith his blood & was made us kings & Priests.