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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27169	A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven.	Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723.	1687 (1687)	Wing B1572; ESTC R20774	24,111	46

and proper Sacraments of the new Covenant instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ and necessary to the Salvation of Mankind tho not all of them necessary to every Man viz. Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Pennance extreme Unction Orders and Matrimony all which do confer Grace and whereof Baptism Confirmation and Orders cannot be repeated without Sacriledg I likewise receive and admit all the received and approved Rites of the Catholique Church in the solemn Administration of all the aforesaid Sacraments All and every thing which was defined and declared about Original Sin and Justification by the most holy Council of Trent I embrace and receive I profess likewise that in the Mass is offered to God a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the Quick Dead and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is really and substantially the Body and Blood together with the Soul Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ And that there is a Conversion made of the whole Substance of Bread into his Body and of the whole Substance of Wine into his Blood which Conversion the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation I also confess that under either Kind or Species only whole and entire Christ and the true Sacrament is received I constantly hold that there is a Purgatory and that the Souls there detained are helped by the Suffrages of the Faithful As also that the Saints who reign together with Christ are to be worshipped and prayed to and their Reliques to be venerated I most firmly assert that the Images of Christ of the Blessed Virgin and of the other Saints are to be had and retained and that due Honour and Worship is to be imparted to them I also affirm that the Power of Indulgences was left by Christ to his Church and that the Vse of them is most salutary to Christian People I acknowledge the Holy Catholick and Apostolick Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches And I promise and swear true Obedience to the Pope of Rome who is Christ's Vicar and Successor to St. Peter the Prince of the Apostles I also without doubt receive and profess all other things delivered defined and declared by the sacred Canons and Occumenical Councils especially by the most holy Synod of Trent and all things contrary to them with all Heresies whatsoever condemned rejected and cursed by the Church I likewise reject and condemn and curse This true Catholick Faith without which no Man can be saved which at present I freely hold and profess I will by God's help constantly retain and confess intire and inviolable to my last Breath and take care to the utmost of my Power that the same shall be taught held and profest by all under me and whose Care shall belong to me in my Office I the aforesaid N. promise vow and swear it So help me God and these holy Evangils This Roman Creed it is about which we differ for as to the Christian Creed there is no Dispute betwixt us only that we account it sufficient and will profess none else This is the State of the Difference betwixt the Church of Rome and ours We stand for that Faith which is confest of all sides to be truly Catholick and Apostolick and disown that Roman which they would impose upon us I know that they seek to retort this Objection of making of new Creeds and would make the distinct Denial of the several Points of theirs to be in like manner so many Articles of ours as if it were with us as fundamental a Truth that there is no Roman Purgatory as that the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all Sins Whereas it is most apparent that the Negative of false Opinions doth in no wise become a Part of the Christian Doctrine nor of the Christian Creed True Religion is not to swell in Proportion to the Encrease of Errors for then every new Addition to Christianity would make a new necessary Article for the rejecting of it and it would be in the Power of every Heresiarch to enlarge the Rule of Faith against him Whereas the Christian Faith was once delivered to the Saints and must ever remain the same whatever Heresies some Men are pleased to broach That Saints and Images are to be worshipped is a Point of the Roman Faith that they are not is not a Point of mine 't is only a Declaration of my disowning this Roman Doctrine as being neither in the Christian Creed nor in the Word of God The refusing of Mens Errors whether they be Pagans or any Hereticks is not a Part of our Belief but rather of our Disbelief Our denying that Jupiter or Great Diana or any Creature though never so solemnly canoniz'd are to receive Religious Honours is only a renouncing of Mens Devices but doth not constitute so many new Doctrines only what God hath commanded in this case is Part of our Religion Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Our Creed and Religion therefore is still universal and truly Primitive although our rejecting some Points which they have made Part of theirs in the Church of Rome can be neither so Primitive nor so Universal What our Church owns for her Saving Belief is own'd and ever was by all Christian Churches what she rejects from being such is of a later Date and was never so general So that instead of asking us Where was our Religion before our Forefathers were forc'd to leave the Roman Church it should rather be enquired why they threw off those several Tenets contained in the Roman Creed and then the Question would be plain and fairly stated and might from every Man that hath but read the Bible receive a clear Answer But it is very unreasonable to demand such Authorities for refusing of any new and absurd humane Inventions as for the receiving those Truths which God hath expresly revealed and his Church received all along As for the Vices or Vertues of King Henry the 8th or any others who were engaged to struggle with the Papal Power and Usurpations they signify nothing to us The enormous Faults of such as are reputed Supreme and Infallible Guides of a Party may well reproach them But our Religion hath no dependence on Historical Passages of any Mens Doings God's Veracity and Revelation is the Ground we depend upon Him we worship and in Him we believe as is to be seen in our Publick Liturgies For that we claim the Warrant of his Word and the Suffrage of all Christian Churches than which no better Ground nor no higher Authority is ever to be had If the Roman Creed had the same we would embrace it heartily for the well-being of our Souls or if it were less repugnant to the Christian Institution we might be persuaded to comply or to be silent for the Peace and Tranquillity of our present Welfare But my Design is only to settle and to pacify them that are stagger'd and disturb'd with the ruder