The sins of people were also
thought to cause storms, and also plagues.
In 1562, the Church of England wrote down its Christian Protestant
beliefs in thirty-nine Articles of Religion, which specifically
excluded certain Catholic beliefs. They were incorporated into
statute in 1571 establishing them as the tenets of the official
religion of England. The first eighteen endorsed the ideas of one
God, Christ as the son of God who was sacrificed for all the sins
of men, the resurrection of Christ from the dead and ascension
into heaven, the Holy Ghost proceeding from the father and the
son, the books of the Bible, the original sin of Adam and his
offspring, justification of man by faith in Christ rather than by
good works, goods works as the inspired fruit and proof of faith
in Christ, Christ in the flesh as like man except for the absence
of sin, the chance for sinners who have been Baptised to be
forgiven if they truly repent and amend their lives, the
predestination of some to be brought by Christ to eternal
salvation and their minds to be drawn up to high and heavenly
things, and salvation only by the name of Christ and not by a
sect. Other tenets described the proper functions of the church,
distinguishing them from Roman Catholic practice. Specifically,
the church was not to expound one place of scripture so that it
was inconsistent with another place of scripture.
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