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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

Faith to justification and salvation have no sin as the Romists attribute to their Priestly absolutions and Papal indulgences No For if we say we have no sin the truth is not in us 1 Joh. 1.8 How then do we keep the Commandments it follows immediately v. 9. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins to wit if we have an unfeigned Faith in his name which will certainly through love work a sorrow to offend him who is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world 1 Joh. 2.2 Thus it appears that to believe unfeignedly in Jesus Christ and to keep the Commandments are two things inseparable Wherefore whensoever we hear eternal life and salvation promised to the one the other must be understood included as a necessary part of that Repentance to which Christ hath promised his Kingdom The mutual relation of these parts being thus observed we are to consider them distinctly by themselves And first The Holy Scripture every where proclaims That To believe Jesus to be the Son of God is an absolute sum of all necessary Faith yea I dare say This is the way of Salvation the Repentance to which the Kingdom is promised and the whole Primitive Gospel of Christ in the strict sense and propriety of that word as we explicated before And Jesus Christ himself is my Warrant Author and Argument Joh. 6.29 This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent And lest we might interpret this in too narrow a sense Christ would be his own Interpreter v. 40. This is the will of him that sent me that every one which believeth on the Son may have everlasting life and I will raise him up a● the last day And lest yet we might think with the Papists that he instructed us by halfs he adds not to his words to do which was both easie and necessary if his doctrine were not already perfect he adds not I say to his words but repeats the same words with more brevity and a double asseveration v. 47. Verily verily I say unto you He that believeth on me hath everlasting life What could be more plainly more peremptorily more authoritatively declared than this What reasonable man after this plain and earnest declaration of Christ himself the author and finisher of our faith Hebr. 12.2 can think it needful to run after Pope Apostle o● Angel to learn if this faith be sufficient of which Christ hath already given sentence He that believeth hath everlasting life Must not that needs be the Gospel of the Kingdom to which the King Jesus declaratively promiseth the Kingdom Must not that needs be the way of everlasting life which so solemnly is shewn commended and commanded unto us by him that is the way the truth and the life Let us therefore with all confidence relie on the most warrantable Word of Christs own oral promise which is so far from needing the confirmation of a Papal Bull that Apostles or Angels preaching any other Gospel are declared accursed Yet It will not be amiss to see how consonant the Proclamation of the Apostles is to the Archetypal Word of their Master to the Primitive and Oral Law of their Lord. The most beloved Disciple of Jesus John is an irrefragable Recorder chap. 20.31 He bears record that the Gospels were written that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing we might have life through his name His Epistles are decretal in this point 1 Jo. 5.3 he formally professeth his design saying I write to that end that ye may know that ye have eternal life if ye believe in the name of the Son of God Farther the practice of the Apostles as appears in the Book of their Acts was to baptize in the name of Jesus Christ that is to make members of the Church such as had no farther knowledge of Faith than to believe Jesus to be the Christ Wherefore let no man add to the word of Faith but rather consent with Paul Rom. 10.8 This is the word of faith which we preach If thou confessest with thy mouth our Lord Jesus and in thy heart believest thou shalt be saved This Faith in Christ includes or infers as we said Charity which is the fulfilling of the Law to do to others even as we would they should do to us Mat. 7.12 The whole law is fulfilled in one word even in this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Gal. 5.14 If we love one another God abideth in us and the love of God is perfected in us 1 Joh. 4.12 This Belief and Love combined in one most amply express that Repentance which Christ and his Apostles preached to which they promised the Kingdom So we find them jointly exprest 1 Joh. 3.23 This is his Commandment that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another This is his Commandment both Old and New 1 Joh. 2.7 We therefore briefly and clearly conclude our first Resolve to wit that the Gospel which Christ and his Apostles preached as the only and immutable way of eternal truth and happiness consists in the Faith and Love which is in Christ Jesus that is to believe Jesus to be the Son of God and to keep his Commandments and is essentially neither more nor less For as the whole law is fulfilled in one word Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Gal. 5.14 So the whole faith is preached in one word Confess with thy mouth and believe in thy heart the Lord Jesus Rom. ●0 8 From this our first Resolve the second is with ease and evidence deduced to wit That the present Church of England professeth and maintaineth that Primitive Gospel For it is manifest that the said Church imposeth upon no man as necessary to salvation more than what the written Word of Christ imposeth Article 6. of the 39. and the written Word is demonstrated to impose what we have said and no more It remains only to exhort the happy members of this Church as Paul did 2 Tim. 1.13 Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus But the glory of the Church of England will appear more illustrious after a view taken of the Church of Rome which follows in this third Resolve wherein I will shew that the Church of Rome imposeth a Gospel contrary to the Primitive Gospel of Christ For the days have already appeared wherein according to the Spirits prediction 2 Tim. 4.3 Men were not content with plain sound and wholsom doctrine of Faith and Love in Christ Jesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the swelling lust and pride of their hearts bred an itch in their ears which gave them no rest till heaps of Masters had rubbed them into such a temper of madness and absurdity that they turned Apostates from the