Crudelitas Gallica

We testify that we wish to embrace and retain the doctrine of faith, as it is contained in the Catechism of this Church, and to submit ourselves to the discipline established in this Church, and that we will not adhere to or assent to any sects by which the peace and harmony, which God has established here by His word, might be disturbed.

And so that this matter may be signified even more expressly, and access to all subterfuges may be precluded, we confess that there is one God, in whom it is necessary for us to find rest, that we may worship and adore Him, and place all our hope in Him alone. Although He is of one and simple essence, He is nonetheless distinguished into three persons, which is why we detest all heresies condemned by the first Nicene Synod, and likewise the Ephesian and Chalcedonian [Synods], together with all the errors renewed by Servetus and his followers: For in this simplicity we rest, that in the unique essence of God there is the Father, who from eternity begat His Word, and always had His Spirit within Himself: and that each of those persons possesses His own peculiar idioms characteristic properties, so that the Deitas Divinity always remains whole.

We also confess that God created not only this visible world (that is, heaven and earth, and whatever is contained in them) but also invisible spirits: of whom some persevered in the obedience of God, while others were precipitated into destruction by their own malice. As to why they persevered, we acknowledge it is due to the gratuitous election of God, who continued to love them and embrace them with His goodness, granting them that they might remain firm and constant. And therefore we execrate the error

Manichaeans

of the Manichaeans, who imagined that the Devil is evil by nature, and that his origin and beginning derive from himself.