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christian_n	catholic_n	church_n	unity_n	2,090	5	9.9512	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30479	A vindication of the ordinations of the Church of England in which it is demonstrated that all the essentials of ordination, according to the practice of the primitive and Greek churches, are still retained in our Church : in answer to a paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the nullity of our orders and given to a Person of Quality / by Gilbert Burnet.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1677 (1677)	Wing B5939; ESTC R21679	101,756	245

and by this thy most Sacred Body That I shall shew forth all the Faith and purity of the Holy Catholick Faith and that God assisting me I shall persist in the Unity of the same Faith in which the Salvation of all Christians does without all doubt consist and that I shall in no sort and upon no persuasion concur against the Unity of the common and Universal Church but that as I have said I shall shew forth my Faith and Purity and give my concurrence in all things to thee and the advantages of thy Church to whom the power of binding and loosing is given by the Lord God and to thy Vicar and his Successors And if I shall know the Bishops carry themselves contrary to the antient appointments of the Holy Fathers I shall have no communion nor conjunction with them but rather if I can I shall hinder it and if I cannot I shall presently give notice of it faithfully to My Apostolical Lord. And if which God forbid I shall endeavour to do any thing against the Contents of this my Promise any manner of way either on design or by accident let me be found guilty in the Eternal judgment and let me incur the punishment of Ananias and Sapphira who presumed to lie and deal fraudulently even about their own goods to thee This Breviate of an Oath I Boniface a small Bishop have written with my own hand and having laid it on thy most blessed Body as is before mentioned I have made my Oath God being witness and Judge which I promise to keep But it appears from another letter written in the 26. year of the Reign of Constantine the Emperour two and twenty years after the taking the former Oath which was in the Fourth year of Constantine that he had taken another Oath Eight years before that for he begins that Epistle written to Pope Zacharias with these words POstquam me ante Annos prope triginta sub familiaritate servitio Apostolicae sedis annuente jubente venerandae memoriae antistite Apostolico Gregorio anteriore voto constrinxi c. ALmost Thirty years ago I bound my self by a former vow under the Observance and service of the Apostolical See by the Consent and Command of Pope Gregory of venerable Memory c. This is all I can find before Pope Gregory the seventh But he pretending to a higher Title not only over Bishops but secular Princes made some Princes swear Allegiance to him it ought to be called by no other name for the first part of the Oath in the Pontifical of Being faithful and obedient to the Pope being in no. Council against him and assisting him to defend the Papacy and the Royalties of St. Peter c. Was sworn both by Richard Prince of Capua and Robert Prince of Calabria and Sicily when they received Investiture from that Pope in those Dominions But the Oath which the Bishops swore is almost the same with that which is in the Pontifical as we find it taken by the Bishop of Aquileia after the sixth Roman Council in which Berengarius was condemned under that same Pope Afterwards the Council of Lateran under Pope Paschal the second appointed a more modest Oath in the form of an Anathematism in these words ANathematizo omnem haeresin praecipue eam quae statum praesentis Ecclesiae perturbat quae docet astruit Anathema contemnendum Ecclesiae ligamenta spernenda esse Promitto autem Obedientiam Apostolicae sedis Pontifici Domino Paschali ejusque successoribus sub testimonio Christi Ecclesiae Affirmans quod affirmat damnans quod damnat sancta Universalis Ecclesia I Anathematize every Heresie and in particular that which disturbs the State of the present Church which teaches and asserts that an Anathema is to be contemned and the Censures of the Church to be despised And I promise obedience to the Apostolick See and to our Lord Pope Paschal and his successors under the Testimony or in the sight of Christ and the Church affirming all that the Holy Universal Church affirms and condemning all that she condemns This Oath if the References which Labbe and Cossartius make to the fifth and sixth Epistles of Pope Paschal be well grounded was all that was imposed by that Pope and that not on all Bishops but only on Archbishops to whom he sent the Pall and yet from the first words of these Epistles it appears that the Princes and the States of Christendom looked on it with amazement as a new and unheard of thing the one is to the Arch-bishop of Palermo in Sicily and the other is directed to the Arch-bishop of Poland I suppose it was of Gnesna and they both are almost the same only the later has a great deal more than the former They begin with these words SIgnificasti Regem Regni Majores admiratione permotos quod pallium tibi ab Apocrisariis nostris tali conditione oblatum fuerit si Sacramentum quod à nobis scriptum detulerant jurares THou hast signified to me that the King and the chief of the Kingdom are amazed that the Pall was offered to thee by our Legates on this condition that thou shouldst swear the Oath which they brought to thee written by us And if any Body desire to be satisfied about the excellent Reasonings with which the infallible Chair directed his Pen he may read the rest of those Epistles The next Step made in this Oath was by Pope Gregory the Ninth which is in the Canon Law where the Oath is set down to be taken by all Bishops which differs from that in the Pontifical in these heads The Royalties of St. Peter are not mentioned in it nor those clauses of every Bishops sending one in his name to Rome in case he could not go in person nor is that of not alienating the Bishops lands without the Popes consent in it But when these additions were made I do not find The Importance of that Oath is little Considered since few among us read the Roman Pontifical carefully therefore I shall set it down with a translation of it from which it may be easily inferred what all Princes may or ought to expect from persons so tyed to the Pope since a fuller and more formal allegeance can be sworn by no Subjects to their Prince than is sworn in it to the Pope Forma Juramenti EGo N. Elect us ecclesiae N. ab hac hora in antea fidelis obediens ero Beato Petro Apostolo sanctaeque Romanae Ecclesiae Domino nostro Domino Papae N. suisque successoribus canonice intrantibus Non ero in consilio aut consensu vel facto ut vitam perdant aut membrum seu capiantur mala captione aut in eos violenter manus quomodolibet ingerantur vel injuriae aliquae inferantur quovis quaesito colore Consilium vero quod mihi credituri sunt per se aut nuntios suos seu literas ad eorum