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A mirrour of truth, of the highest concern to all sorts of people, noble and ignoble, rich or poor, soveraigne or subject
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purpose As the name of Christian doth distinguish the Church from Jews Gentiles and Heathens so the name Catholick from falsâ Prophets and peculiar Sects who glory under the name of Christ and belong not to him And to this purpose said Pacianus my Name is Christian my Sirname Catholickâ This Name therefore is most deservedly put into the Creed of the Apostles aâ distinguishing from all Sects and Hereticks and most proper to the true Church Only None therefore can miss of the true Church who follow the Catholickâ The general name will most certainly inform you her very adversaries being Judges Luk. 19.22 Out of thy mouth I Judge thee O wicked Servant The true Church must be One holy Catholick and Consequently Apostolick THe Fourth and last mark is Apostolick Apostolick shewing the true Church and Religion not taken up at the second hand as many do now a days to be derived from Christ and his Apostles and so to us as an inheritance from our Ancestors by a continual succession of Bishops from the Chayr of Peter to this present Pope and so to continue without âayling every One holding Vnion with his Predecessors True Religion no Inveâtion of Maââ and keeping still the same Profession of Faith so visibly and apparently that it is like a City upon a Mountain or a Candle on a Candlestick to give light to all in the house of God Whereby it is manifest that it is not the Invention of Man it never being contrary to it self in Doctrin but allwaies running in the same Current of Apostolical Tradition and through this united strength hath out lasted many hundreds of Heresies which though manifestly divided in themselves did ever joyne hands to overthrow this One holy Catholick Apostolick Faith but never found any other Rock then It against which they split themselves And thus we know it to be that kingdom of which Daniel Prophesieth saying Dan. 2.44 And in the Dayes of these Kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and this kingdom shall not be given to any other people but it shall break and destroy all those kingdoms shall stand for ever Observe therefore I beseech you out of this Mark that those who pretend to be founders of new Religions Reformers or what else they please to be called were once of this Apostolical continued Faith and went out and forsook it and consequently their Doctrin is later or less Antient Math. 14. and for this very reason not good seed but Cockle which the envious Man soweth after For these are the Properties of Hereticks and false teachers to be inventors of new Doctrin to divide and separate themselves to cause dissentions scandals against the Doctrin they had learned The true Faith therefore is Apostolical to be traced up to the Apostles and Christ himself the fountain and author of all truth Now if you desire to know in particular the positive tenents of the true Catholick Faith which I find St. Augustin the Monk of the holy Order of St. Benedict preached and professed who planted the Christian Faith in England above a thousand yeares ago in the yeare 596. in the reign of Elbert otherwise Ethelbert King of Kent who married Queen Bertha of France a Catholick sent by St. Gregary the great theâ Pope of Rome in that Apostolical Mission Doctor of the Church Monk of the same holy Order who founded seaven Monasteries himself six in Sicilia the 7th in Rome dedicated to St. Andrew of which St. Augustin was Abbot And in very deed searching into Antiquity and the Tradition of the Church by which the Truth infallibly is delivered to us I find the very same Articles plainly to be traced even to Christ himself and his immediate successor St. Peter and so down to us till this day and shall be till the worlds end visible and Apparent which is the sure Footing for every one to tread in They are these contained in the Profession of Faith received by the Church to wit I. N. Do by a firm Faith believe and Profess all every thing contained in the Symbol of Faith which the Holy Roman Church useth viz. I believe in one God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and Earth and of all things Visible and invisible And in One Lord Jesus Christ the onely begotteâ Son of God and begotten oâ his Father before all Agesâ God of God Light of Lightâ very God of very God begotten not made Consubstantial to the Father by whom all things were madeâ who for us men and for ouâ salvation descended from heaven and was incarnated by the holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and made Man was also crucifyed for us under Pontius Pilat suffered and was buried and rose the third day according to the Scripturesâ and ascended into Heavenâ sitteth at the right hand oâ the Father and shall come again with Glory to judge the quick and the dead of whose Kingdom there shall be no End And in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of âife who proceedeth from âhe Father and Son who together with the Father and âhe Son is equally adored and âonglorified who spake by âhe Prophets And One Hoây Catholick and Apostolick Church I confess one Baptisme for the Remission of ââns and I expect the resurrection of the dead and life âf the world to come Amen The Apostolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions and the other Observations and Constitutions of the samâ Church I do most firmly admit and embrace Likewise I admit the Holy Scripture according to that sense which our holy Motheâ the Catholick Church eveâ did and doth hold to which it belongs to judge of the truâ sense and interpretation oâ the Holy Scriptures neitheâ will I receive or interpreâ it but according to thâ unanimous Consent of thâ Fathers I profess also that there aââ Seaven true and proper Sacraments of the new Law instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ and necessary to the salvation of Mankind though not all to every particular Person To wit Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Pen-nance Extream Unction holy Order Matrimony And that they do confer Grace of these that Baptism Confirmation and Order without Sacrilege cannot be reiterated The received and approved rites also of the Catholick Church in the solemn Administration of all the foresaid Sacraments I do receive admit I do embrace and receive all and every one of the Doctrines touching original Sin and Justification which have been defined and declared in the Holy Council of Trent I do in like manner profess that there is a true proper and Propitiatory Sacrifice for the living and the dead offered to God in the Mass by lawful Priests truly ordained And that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist after Consecration there is truly really and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ And that the whole substance of Bread is converted into
the Body of Christ and the whole substance of Wine into his Blood Which Conversion the Catholique Church calls Transubstantiation I acknowledg likewise that under One only form all and entire Christ and a true Sacrament is received I do constantly hold there is a Purgatory and that the souls there detayned are holpen by the Prayers and suffrages of the faithful In like manner that the Saints raigning with Christ are to be venerated and invoked and that they offer up Prayers to God for us and that their Reliques are to be reverenced I do most constantly affirm that the Images of Christ of the Virgin mother of God and of other Saints are to be kept and had in due honour and Veneration That the power also of Indulgences was left by Christ in his Church and the right use of them to be wholsom and profitable to Christian People I do acknowledge that the Holy Catholick and Apostolick Roman Church is the Mother and Mistriss of all Churches And I do promise true Obedience to the Bishop of Rome the Successor of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ This was the Constant Profession of Faith in those dayes by St. Augustin and all his disciples Venerable Bedes Histâry set forth by Docter Tho. Staplâton and Prâsented to Queen Eââzabeth in the Yeare 1565. And For Further proof read ãâã Book Callââ Englands ãâã old Religioâ set forth by H. B. Printed at Antwerpe 1659. Now that you may not think I impose upon St. Augustin read the History of England written by Venerable Bede 800. Yeares ago and other most authentik Histories St. Augustins very letter to Pope Gregory before mentioned acknowledging Him cheif Pastor ruled by Him as head and Chief His life practise and Conversation holding forth both by word and Example all and every Article of Faith aforesaid daily sacrificing and offering up the Holy Masse even in the same manner as now it is praying to the Saints and for the dead administring the Sacraments in a word doing all the Catholick Church doth now at this Day and ever shall For as I have often said and say it again There can be no new Article of Faith The Articles are alwaies and ever will be the same Methinks I heare some Murmur and mutter Objection saying this discourse tends plainly to Popery and the introducing thereof To which answer is already Answer clearly plainly made with this distinction If they mean by Popery the ancient true Catholick Apostolick Christian faith such as Christ and his Apostles planted and taught and continueth from Christ to this hour and ever shall as is here set down That is to say again again a Truth never too oftento be repeated The Christian Religion planted by Christ and his Apostles as is here set down derived by infallible Authority of Tradition down to us without Addition or diminution Then in Gods name let such Popery be introduced every where if that be Popery to the Glory of God and salvation of all Mens Souls But if you mean by Popery Superstition Idolatry and that the Pope is infallible in his Person That he hath power to depose Kings and over temporal possessions I would have no such Popery introduced I defy and abhorr it knowing it to be novelty and the invention of Men. I am none of that Company gang or Crew I am I hope a good Christian and Loyal subject I acknowledge the Pope chief Pastor Successor of St. Peter supream head of the Church to whom all owe Obedience and Subjection in spiritual things and from whom as from the Fountain all spiritual Jurisdiction is derived But as St. Bernard observes well His Power is over the Sins of the People not over the Possessions of the Earth Math. 22.21 Give to Caesar what is Caesers to God what is Gods And here I leave you and if this be not sufficient to satisfy any indifferent man seeking the Truth of Religion let their own Conscience be judge which will give Testimony against them in that day when Jerusalem shall be searched with Lanthorns and the Hearts of all made known and manifest Sopho. 1.12 and the veil of Hypocrisy and vain Fancy taken away from the Face of the pretended Saints A Prayer O Our Lord God most humbly prostrate at thy feet in this perilloââ time we most heartily supplicate thy divine Majesty as thou desirest not the Death but repentance of sinners be propitious ãâã thy People returning to Thee that theâ remaining devout to thee Thou mai'ââ mercifully remove the scourge of thy Angerâ and absolve us from all Errors whereby wâ shall be delivered from the Perditioâ which hangs over us Through our Lorâ Jesus Christ AMEN AMEN AMEN Ezec. 16.55 Et tu filia tua revertimini ad Antiquitatem vestram And thou and thy Daughters shall return to your Antiquity Errare possum haereticus esse nolo Err I may a Heretick I will not be ECCLESIAE JUDICIO SUBIECTA SUNTO B. P. S.