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A57847	The Tridentine-gospel, or, papal creed made at Trent, and promulgated at Rome, by Pope Pius IV : exhibited and demonstrated to be new, heterodox, and antichristian : in a sermon / by William Ramsay ... ; hereto is added, Pope Pius his Bull in Latine and English, necessary to be seen by all that would know the present faith of Rome, especially in these our nations where they conceal it.	Ramsay, William, B.D.; Catholic Church. Pope (1559-1565 : Pius IV). Professio fidei Tridentina. English & Latin.	1672 (1672)	Wing R221; ESTC R14528	21,776	35

Truth to embrace Fables This Pride and Itch were the diseases of the Romish people These heap of Masters were Romish Doctors Canonists and School-men The Truth is the Gospel and the Fables are Romances that is Romish Tenets and Tridentine Articles And although this Apostasie which the Apostle here and 2 Thess 2.3 speaks of was not compleated in the first Centuries of the Christian Church to a notorious degree nor perhaps is yet fully accomplished yet the Apostle there v. 7. witnesseth that even then the mystery of iniquity was a working But in these last days Certes The work is brought to so notorious a Fabrick that he must needs renounce the Principles of Reason and quit all belief in the Scriptures that will not acknowledge the Roman Forgery of a new Gospel which with a monstrous Art was contrived into one frame and body in the Council of Trent out of the chief Romantick pieces that from the beginning Iniquity had wrought on We have a whole world of Testimony but their own solemn confession is the best evidence For Pope Pius the Fourth ad perpetuam rei memoriam to their own eternal confusion by an authentick Bull canonized a certain form of profession of the present Faith of Rome commanding the same to be professed avowed and sworn solemnly by all Ecclesiastick and Religious Professors and by all Proselytes and promoted persons of the Church of Rome as the true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved Which is the proper and distinctive title and character of a Gospel I commend the Bull it self to your reading I will now First shew the occasion of their creating this New Creed 2. I le give a sum of that Creed 3. I le demonstrate its novelty and contrariety to the Gospel The occasion of this strange production was this The Points of Romish Doctrine dissenting from the Gospel and Testament of Christ were amplified to such a quantity by Bulls Decrees Canons and Schoolmen and imposed so heavily upon the People from Chair and Pulpit that the aggrievance of such doctrine became palpable and notorious to the world especially such learned men as had knowledge of Holy Writ Wherefore many most learned and zealous Christians notwithstanding the Popes terrour and tyranny in the Spirit of Christ Protested against it But the Pope seeing on one side that his Empire could not subsist if his Schoolmens inventions were once annull'd and on the other side knowing that no authority of God either from Scripture or Creed gave warrant or surety to his Doctrine being now invaded most zealously by many Christian Doctors Princes and Nations he herded together that great Synagogue of Schoolmen at Trent all his adjured Vassals all sworn Followers of their respective Leaders and Princes of School-doctrine Alexander H●les Thomas Aquinas John Dunscot and William Occham which are the four Evangelists of School-Gospel in the Church of Rome In this eximious Synagogue of Schoolmen the Mystery of Iniquity first presumed the title of a Gospel that is of the true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved There Truth long deserted and forsaken began to be solemnly disavowed and forsworn And Fables of Romantick Faith which had long passed for true began to be avowed as the Gospel of Truth There to the Gospel of Jesus Christ is arrogated another Gospel of Rome to the Apostolical Symbol the Roman Creed The Apostolical one consists in 12 short Articles because the Authors thereof summarily delivered what is necessary to believe But that of Rome consists in 14 long Articles because seven Devils that is a sum of Iniquity as Gregory the Great interprets being cast out of Rome when Christianity first took place they entred again with double number and force when Popery made the last things of Rome worse than the first The sum of these 14 Articles follows The First puts generally and indefinitely all the Traditions Customs and Constitutions of the Church of Rome for the foundation and ground of Faith The Second gives the second place to the Scriptures after the pre-eminent authority of Romish Constitutions restraining the Spirit of God speaking in the Hagiographers to the narrow sense and interpretation of Schoolmen The Third loads the Law of Christ with seven Sacraments whereof one to wit Pennance includes within it self a larger Law Creed and Gospel than Christ and all his Apostles ever preached The Fourth is very zealous and puts all the Rites Customs and Ceremonies used by the Church of Rome in her solemn administration of Sacraments among the necessary tenets of Christian Faith The Fifth involves an infinity of Creeds to wit all and several the disputes and points which the Council of Trent was pleased to declare and define concerning the spatious matter of Justification and Original Sin The Sixth makes a full profession of the Sacrifice of the Mass and Transubstantiation The Seventh professeth the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to be perfected under the sign of Bread alone The Eighth holds Purgatory as a Territory subject to the Pope The Ninth holds the Adoration and Worship of Saints and their Reliques The Tenth holds Image-Worship The Eleventh holds Pardons Graces of the Pope and Indulgences as most necessary instruments of Salvation The Twelfth professeth the present Church of Rome to be the Only Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church Mother and Mistress of all other Churches and voweth unlimited Obedience to the Pope as Head thereof The Thirteenth universally and undoubtedly receives and professeth all the Decrees and Declarations of Roman Canons and Councils but above all to wit even the four Primitive Councils whatsoever is delivered defined or declared in the holy and sacred Synod of Trent and rejecteth all things contrary to wit even the Scripture it self The Fourteenth recollecteth all the foresaid Articles and solemnly promiseth voweth and sweareth to maintain and teach them not as Articles of Peace of Obedience of Conformity or Legal Doctrine but as the true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved Which is the character and essential property of the Gospel of Jesus Christ even in that strict sense we before explicated usurpt by this Scholastick Synagogue of Trent to mysterize and gild Iniquity This is the sum of that Gospel which the present Church of Rome maintains and so from the beginning of my Discourse hitherto I have laid open both Gospels first that of Jesus Christ which consists in believing in Jesus Christ and in keeping his Commandments then That of Christs pretended Vicair the Pope which consists totally in believing the Popes Definitions and in obeying his Precepts He that acknowledgeth not the contradiction and repugnancy of these two Gospels must needs forfeit the esteem of a reasonable man as well as of a right principled Christian Behold their difference from bottom to top The foundation of the one is Jesus Christ which was laid from the beginning and another foundation can no man lay 1 Cor. 3.11 The foundation of the other is Papal

Indignation of God and as if that were not enough to fill his blasphemous throat he adds a double one of St. Peter and Paul implying his own as the root of his bitterness In fine Our Text casts an imperative reiterated Curse upon whomsoever in Heaven or Earth Apostle or Angel that preacheth any thing as Gospel besides what was already preached even at the first preaching of which the Creed is a Catholick Sum. How monstrous then is the Papal presumption To retort this Curse upon the Spirit of God to wit upon all that in obedience to that Spirit admits not the Gospel he preacheth which is not only besides what was first preacht but evidently new ●nd repugnant A Symbol of Papal definitions elevated by Papal Decree above the prerogative of the written Law and Gospel of Christ amplified without limit numero pondere mensurâ in number weight and measure Not we therefore whom God hath commanded to bless them that curse us But God the Father of all Mercies as well as the Avenger of the Impious will decide yea hath decided in his holy Word this day declared in your ears the Cause of his holy Gospel Let us not fear the terrour of Man but submit to the power of Christ Jesus subscribing to his holy written Testament on Earth that our Names may be written in the Book of Life in Heaven Let us fight a good fight of constant Faith in the true Catholick and Apostolick Church of Christ militant on Earth which Name is no way due to the Romish Synagogue For she denies the Catholick doctrine of the Gospel and the Apostolical legacie of the Creed seeking to establish a Gospel and Creed of her own on Papal authority and Romish tradition whence her name is Papal or Roman and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Church consisting of Members called and chosen by the calling of Christ and the Word of his Spirit but rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a City or Synagogue convened and driven together by political stratagems and powerful coaction But as the Scriptures are certainly the Catholick Testament of Christ and the Creed an Apostolical Legacy of Faith So whatsoever Church maintains these as at this day Our Church of England is truly Catholick and Apostolical Now rejoyce thou Spouse of Christ Prosper and flourish gloriously thou House of God thou Church of England The Heavens reap perpetual harvest of Joy and Glory in the Saints that ascend to the Tabernacles of Immortality from the Tents of thy Militia The Angels ever protect and guard thee that the gates of Hell cannot prevail against thee The Queens also of the Earth that is thy Sisters the other Reformed Churches of Christ admire praise and honour thee but to speak thy happiness in a word God loveth thee for Thou art that Philadelphia that beloved Sister of Christ to which the Spirit speaks Rev. 3.9 I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee Because thou hast kept the word of my patience I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the Earth Behold I come quickly hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy Crown That is You Pastors and People of the Church of England hold fast the form of sound words which you have in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 1.13 Hold fast the Primitive Gospel of the Kingdom which consisteth in Faith unfeigned in Jesus Christ and in such Love one to another as Christ loved us withal That no man take thy Crown Not only Men by humane Traditions and politick inventions will rob thy temporal Crown usurping Supremacy but even thy right to the Crown of eternity will as soon leave thee as thou shalt leave thy first Faith and Charity To conclude Take a short Corollary or Recapitulation of all that hath been said First it hath on one side been manifestly evidenced from the Word of God that the Gospel of the Kingdom that is the Repentance to which Christ promised his Kingdom is to believe and love to believe in the Saviour Jesus and to keep his Commandments Secondly on the other side it hath been manifestly evidenced from the solemn profession of Faith in the present Church of Rome canonized by Pope Pius Quartus that she imposeth as necessary to salvation a far heavier burden than that Gospel of Christ to wit the Creed or Gospel of Trent Thirdly it is evident in our Text that it is not in the power of Apostle or Angel much less of a Pope to impose another Gospel than that of Christ And then in fine Fourthly it must needs be evident that whosoever is so much a Christian as to believe the Scriptures and so much a reasonable Man as to distinguish between one Gospel and another must needs acknowledge the Church of Rome to preach another Gospel than that of Christ and consequently if he loves and hopes eternal life will desert that Church which leaves the paths of the Gospel of life and seek to be Member of such a Christian body as adheres to its head Jesus Christ by a sincere adhesion to his saving Gospel Such is the Evangelical Apostolical and Catholick Church of England in which God maintain and increase the Faith and Love which is in his Son Christ Jesus through his Holy Spirit Amen BULLA Sanctissimi Domini nostri DOMINI PII Divina Providentia PAPAE Quarti Super formâ Juramenti Professionis Fidei PIUS Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei ad perpetuam Rei Memoriam INjunctim nobis Apostolicae servitutis officium requirit ut ea quae Dominus omnipotens ad providam Ecclesiae suae directionem Sanctis Patribus in nomine suo congregatis divinitus inspirare dignatus est ad ejus laudem gloriam incunctantur exequi properemus Cum itaque juxta Concilii Tridentini dispositionem omnes quos deinceps Cathedralibus superioribus Ecclestis praefici vel quibus de illarum dignitatibus canonicatibus aliis quibuscunque beneficiis Ecclesiasticis curam animarum habentibus provideri continget publicam orthodoxae fidei professionem facere séque in Romanae Ecclesiae obedientiâ permansuros spondere jurare teneantur Nos volentes etiam per quoscunque quibus de Monasteriis Conventibus Donibus aliis quibuseunque locis Regularibus quorumcunque Ordinum etiam Militiarum quocunque nomine vel titulo providebitur idem serva●● ad hoc ut unius ejusdem fidei professio uniformiter ab omnibus exhibeatur unicáque certa illius forma cunctis innotescat nostrae sollicitudinis partes in hoc alicui minimè desiderari formam ipsam praesentibus annotatam publica●i ubique gentium per eos ad quos ex decretis ipsius Concilii alios praedictos spectat recipi observari ac sub●enis per