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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Imprimatur March 26. 1672. C. Smith R. in Ch. P. ac D. D. Humfr. Episc Lond. Sacellan THE Tridentine-Gospel OR PAPAL CREED Made at TRENT and promulgated at ROME By Pope PIVS IV. Exhibited and Demonstrated to be NEVV HETERODOX and ANTICHRISTIAN IN A SERMON By WILLIAM RAMSAY lately Professor of Philosophy Priest Confessair and Missionary Preacher of the Orde● of Franciscans in the Church of Rome now by Gods mercy Ministe● of the Holy Gospel in the Church of England Hereto is added Pope Pius his Bull in Latine and English necessary to be seen by all th● would know the present Faith of Rome especially in these our Nation● where they conceal it LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle without Temple Barr and Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Pauls Church-yard and at the White Hart in Westminster Hall 1672. Courteous READER EXpect not in a Sermon all that can be said to the too curious or to the malevolent but as much as needs be said to the Reasonable Ingenuous and freely-affected follower of Truth nor yet that after so precise and stric● a form of Argument as is proper among the Learned but after an ordinary and vulgar method as is meet to incite and instruct a Popular Auditory whose profit not his own praise the Author always designeth GAL. 1.8 But though we or an Angel from Heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed BEfore I insist upon this Text Justice and Civility engageth me to beg leave of this Christian Congregation to handle an Antichristian Subject For to you the happy children of the Church of England I may say with St. Paul to the Church of Ephesus Eph. 2.19 You are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow-citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone Wherefore to describe to you the Antichristian Edifice is no new discovery a needless endeavour and another labour were more opportune to wit to build on the foundation already laid if not the Gold Silver or Pretious Stones of Paul Apollo or Cephas at least some work of edificatory doctrine which might abide and receive a reward 1 Cor. 3.12 Yet my present subject is proper and necessary for having lately left the Roman Chair for the English Church I am debtor to both To the one I owe a Christian adieu to the other an account of my peaceable ingress And indeed before I accuse the Romish Cause I profess seriously and candidly with St. Paul Rom. 10.1 My hearts desire and prayer to God for Rome is that they may be saved for I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge For being ignorant of Christs Gospel and going about to establish a Gospel of their own they have not submitted themselves to the Gospel of Christ Wherefore a dispensation of the Gospel being committed to me what I do I do for the Gospels sake for I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ God forbid for it is the power of God Rom. 1.16 able to justifie its Preacher first justified in its self To this Evangelical design four things concur observable in the Text to wit 1. That the Gospel St. Paul preached was the true Gospel of Christ and therefore the only Gospel to be preached 2. As no other Gospel is true but this of Christ preached by St. Paul so no Apostle or Angel much less any Pope ought to impose upon the Church of God or preach to it any other Gospel If he do St. Paul hath given him his doom Let him be accursed 3. Whether the Pope doth impose and preach or cause to be preached such a Gospel as shall deserve that Anathema is next to be inquired into 4. If upon our disquisition it plainly appear that the Pope doth impose upon all his subjects that Pseudo-evangelium contrary to the received Gospel of Christ then am I justified for deserting the Church of Rome where I could not remain without being accursed The first of these points declares the unity of the Gospel of Christ to wit as there is but one Lord one Faith one Baptism Eph. 4.5 so there is but one Gospel of this our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of his Faith and Baptism And in this point there is no controversie The second point declares the immutability and unchangeableness of the Gospel of Christ that is the Gospel of Christ hath such a foundation of eternal immutable and impregnable Truth and Holiness that no creature in Heaven or Earth can or may presume to alter violate change or demolish it or to lay any other foundation of his own Wherefore not only Popes but whatsoever Apostles or Angels attempting that shall incurr the curse and indignation of God And this point is also free from controversie The third is controversial and examines whether or no the present Church of Rome lieth under this heavy curse for imposing upon the people of Christ a Pseudo-evangelium an adulterate Gospel which is not of Christ I shall as briefly and clearly as time will permit discover the Adulterate Gospel of Rome both to justifie my desertion thereof and i● if it be possible to stir up my Roman Brethren to a just emulation Therefore I will subdivide this third point into three resolves In the first I will shew what was that Gospel which Christ and his Apostles preached as the only and immutable way of eternal truth and happiness In the second I will shew that the present Church of England professeth and maintaineth the same In the third I will shew that the Church of Rome preacheth and imposeth a contrary Gospel and consequently lieth under the Anathema of the Spirit exprest in the Text. To resolve the first to wit what was that Gospel which Christ and his Apostles preached the usual way of the most learned Doctors is to shew that the written Word of God is the only Word of God extant on Earth and consequently the Gospel which Christ preached and his Apostles after him is that doctrine only which is contained in that written Word And then seeing that the doctrine of the Church of England is formally exprest in the written Word but the Romish doctrine is neither contained there nor deducible thence It follows that the doctrine of the Church of England is the Gospel preached by Christ and his Apostles but the Romish Gospel is another and accursed by the Spirit in our Text. But this manner of proof I will not now follow for three respects 1. It is more tedious than our present purpose can spare time 2. It is of greater difficulty in Demonstration than many capacities can bear and gain by 3. It s demonstration would not resolve our question so home as is requisite For although it were demonstrated that the written Word is the only Word of