Firmly I Believe and Truly

Verse 1

Firmly I believe and truly God is Three and God is One; and I next acknowledge duly manhood taken by the Son.

Verse 2

And I trust and hope most fully in that manhood crucified; and each thought and deed unruly do to death, as he has died.

Verse 3

Simply to his grace and wholly light and life and strength belong, and I love supremely, solely, him the holy, him the strong.

Verse 4

And I hold in veneration, for the love of him alone, Holy Church as his creation, and her teachings as his own.

Verse 5

Adoration ay be given, with and through the angelic host, to the God of earth and heaven, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.