1] Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea
concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to
be believed without any doubting; 2] that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is called
and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and
goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and 3] yet there are
three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father the Son,
and the Holy Ghost. And the term "person" 4] they use as the Fathers have used it, to signify,
not a part or quality in another, but that which subsists of itself.
5] They condemn all heresies which have sprung up against this article, as the Manichaeans,
who assumed two principles, one Good and the other Evil: also the Valentinians, Arians,
Eunomians, Mohammedans, and all such. 6] They condemn also the Samosatenes, old and
new, who, contending that there is but one Person, sophistically and impiously argue that the
Word and the Holy Ghost are not distinct Persons, but that "Word" signifies a spoken word,
and "Spirit" signifies motion created in things.