of Prohibited Books with the Rules made by the Fathers of the Tridentine Synod approved by the Authority of Pius IV. Anno 1564. Seeing it is manifest by experience if the Holy Bible be permitted to be read every where without difference in the Vulgar Tongue that more prejudice than benefit doth redound from thence through the rashness of men let it therefore be at the pleasure of the Bishop or Inquisitor that with the advice of the Parish-Priest or Confessor they may grant the reading of the Bible translated by Catholick Authors to such as they shall understand will by such reading receive no prejudice but an increase of Faith and Piety which License let them have in writing But whosoever shall without such License presume to read or have such Bibles he may not have the Absolution of his Sins before he has returned them to the Ordinary The same Index being enlarged by Sixtus V. and reviewed and published by order of Clement VIII Anno 1595. there is added the following Observation about the foresaid Rule It is to be considered about the above written fourth Rule of Pope Pius IV. that there is no new power given by this Impression and Edition to the Bishops or Inquisitors or Superiors of Regulars of granting a License to buy read or keep the Bible published in the Vulgar Tongue seeing the power of granting such Licenses of reading or keeping Vulgar Bibles or any parts of them hath been taken away by the command and use of the Holy Roman Church and the whole Inquisition as also all Summaries and Historical Compendiums of the said Bibles and Books of Holy Scripture written in any Vulgar Tongue which truly is inviolable to be observed So that the power of granting such Licenses and the Liberty of reading the Scripture in the Vulgar Tongue is wholly taken away and accordingly we are told it is so ordered by the General Inquisition of Spain From all which we may observe The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation 1. All saving Truth is in Books written and Traditions unwritten 2. Whatsoever is not read in Scripture nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any Man to be believed as an Article of Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation 2. The Church doth receive and regard unwritten Traditions with the like Piety Reverence as the Books of the Old and New Testament And if any one shal knowingly contemn those Traditions he is accursed 3. In the name of the Holy Scripture is understood those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament of whose Authority was never any doubt in the Church And the other the Apochrypha the Church doth not apply to establish any Doctrine 3. The Books of Scripture are the five Books of Moses c. Tobias Judith Wisdom Ecclesiasticus Baruch the two Books of Maccabees c. And if any one shall not receive these whole Books with all their parts for Canonical he is accursed 4. The Scripture were intended for and are to be read by all 4. The Scriptures ought not to be read by the Vulgar 5. The Scriptures are useful for all 5. If the Bible is permitted to be read by all more prejudice than benefit doth arise from it 6. The Church is a Witness and Keeper of Holy Writ 6. It belongs to the Mother Church of Rome to judg of the Sense and Interpretation of Scripture The 7 th Article of the Church of England Of the Old Testament The Old Testament is not contrary to the New for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ who is the only Mediator between God and Man being both God and Man. The Council of Trent The Saints reigning with Christ do offer Prayers to God for Men and it is good and profitable to invoke them The most Holy Mother of God by her Intercession doth reconcile God to Sinners She is the Mother of Mercy and Advocatress of the Faithful The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome Christ is the only Mediator between God and Man. The Virgin Mary and Saints are Mediators in Heaven See more Article 22. The 9 th Article of the Church of England Of Original or Birth Sin. Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pelagians do vainly talk but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every Man that naturally is ingendred of the Off-spring of Adam c. The Church of Rome The Council of Basil. We do define and declare c. the Doctrine that declares the glorious Virgin Mary to have been always free from Original and Actual Sin Holy and Immaculate is to be approved retained and embraced by all Catholicks as pious and consonant to Ecclesiastical Worship the Catholick Faith Right Reason and Holy Scripture and that for the future it shall be lawful for none to Preach or Teach the contrary The Council of Trent This Holy Synod doth declare That it is not its Intention to comprehend in this Decree concerning Original sin the blessed and Immaculate Virgin Mary the Mother of God but that the Constitutions of Pope Xystus IV. of happy memory are to be observed under the Penalties therein contained which it doth inforce Of the Sense of these two Councils in this matter see Joh. Baptistae de Lezana Apol. pro immacul Concept cap. 13. The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome Original Sin is the fault and corruption of the nature of every person naturally ingendred of the Off-spring of Adam So that none is excepted but our B. Saviour The Virgin Mary was free from Original and Actual Sin. The 11 th Article of the Church of England Of the Justification of Man. We are accounted Righteous before God only for the Merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own Works and deservings Wherefore that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholesome Doctrine and very full of comfort as is more largely express'd in the homily of Justification The first part of the Homily of Salvation Because all Men be Sinners and therefore can no Man by his own Acts Words and Deeds seem they never so good be justified and made righteous before God but every Man is constrained to seek for another Righteousness or Justification to be received at Gods own Hands that is to say the forgiveness of his Sins And this Justification or Righteousness the forgiveness of our Sins which we so receive of Gods Mercy and Christs Merits embraced by Faith is taken accepted and allowed of God for our perfect and full Justification Faith doth not shut out Repentance Hope Love Dread and the Fear of God to be joyned with Faith in every Man that is justified but it shutteth them out from the office of justifying that is meritously as
invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture c. 3d part Of the Homily concerning Prayer If we will cleane only unto the Word of God then we must needs grant that we have no Commandment to pray for them that are departed out of this World. For the Scripture doth acknowledg but two places after this Life The one proper to the Elect and blessed of God the other to the Reprobate There is no place for Repentance nor yet for Satisfaction As the Scripture teacheth us let us think that the Soul of Man passing out of the Body goeth straightways to Heaven or else to Hell whereof the one needeth no Prayer the other is without Redemption The Church of Rome The Council of Trent Seeing it hath been lately taught in this Vniversal Synod from Scripture c. That there is a Purgatory and that the Souls there detained are helped by the Suffrages of the Faithful but most of all by the acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar the Holy Synod doth command the Bishops that they take diligent care that the sound Doctrine concerning Purgatory be believed taught c. If any one shall say That the fault is so remitted to every penitent Sinner that there remains no guilt to be paid for in Purgatory before there be an entrance granted into the Kingdom of Heaven let him be accursed If any one shall say that the Sacrifice of the Mass ought not to be offered for the Dead c. let him be accursed The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory is a fond thing vainly invented 1. The Doctrine of Purgatory is necessary to be believed and whosoever doth not believe it is accursed 2. It 's grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather is repugnant to it 2. It 's taught from Scripture § 2. Pardons THE Romish Doctrine concerning Pardons is a fond thing vainly invented c. The Church of Rome Rhemists Annotations To restore Offenders to the Churches Sacraments and Communion of the Faithful to pardon also either all or part of the Penance enjoyned or what Debts soever Man oweth to God or the Church for the satisfaction of his Sins forgiven is called Indulgence 1. General Council of Lateran We do grant Remission of their Sins to whosoever do go to Jerusalem and shall efficaciously afford their help to oppose the Infidels 4. General Council of Lateran The Catholicks that having taken upon them the Character of the Cross shall address themselves to the destruction of Hereticks enjoy that Indulgence and are armed with the same priviledg which is granted to those that go to the relief of the Holy Land. The Council of Constance The Holy Synod doth grant to every one that goes in the appointed Procession an hundred days of Indulgence c. And to those that once a Day say devoutly a Pater Noster and Ave-Maria for the safety of the Emperor 40 Days of Indulgence in the accustomed form of the Church The Council of Trent Indulgences are the heavenly Treasures of the Church Seeing the power of Indulgences hath been granted by Christ to the Church this Holy Synod doth teach That the use of them is very wholesome to Christian People and doth command that they be retained in the Church and doth condemn them by an Anathema that affirm them to be unprofitable or deny that the Church hath a power to grant them The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The Romish Doctrine concerning Indulgence is grounded upon no warrant of Scripture 1. The Power of Indulgences was granted by Christ. 2. It 's a fond thing and vainly invented 2. They are wholsome to Christian People and whosoever shall affirm them to be unprofitable is accursed § 3. Of Images and Relicks THE Romish Doctrine concerning the Adoration as well of Images as of Relicks is a fond thing vainly invented c. 2d part Of the Homily against Idolatry Images and Image worship were in the Primitive Church which was most pure and uncorrupt abhorred and detested as abominable and contrary to all true Christian Religion 3d part Of the Homily against Images c. Let such as fall down before Images of Saints know and confess that they exhibit that honour to dead Stocks and Stones which the Saints themselves Peter Paul and Barnabas would not be given to them when alive c. In this they pass the folly and wickedness of the Gentiles that they honour and worship the Relicks and the Bones of our Saints which prove that they be mortal men and dead and therefore no Gods to be worshipped which the Gentiles would never confess of their Gods for very shame but the Relicks we must kiss and offer to especially on Relicks Sunday The Church of Rome The Council of Trent The Holy Synod doth command all Bishops and others whose office it is to teach That they instruct the Faithful according to the use of the Catholick and Apostolick Church received from the first times of the Christian Religion concerning the honour of Relicks and the lawful use of Images The Synod doth decree That the Images of Christ the Virgin Mother of God and other Saints are to be had and retained especially in Churches and that due Honour and Veneration be given to them c. and when we kiss them uncover the Head and fall down before them we do adore Christ and venerate the Saints whose Similitude they bear They are altogether to be condemned and the Church doth condemn them that do deny the Bodies of the Saints and Martyrs are to be venerated by the Faithful and that affirm that Veneration and Honour is not due to their Relicks or are unprofitably honoured c. Whosoever shall teach or think any thing contrary to those Decrees let him be accursed The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Image-worship was abhorred in the Primitive Church 1. Image-worship was received from the first Times of Christianity 2. The Romish Doctrine of worshipping Images and Relicks is a fond thing c. 2. The Relicks of the Saints are to be venerated such as affirm they are not profitably honoured are to be condemned 3. It 's grounded upon no Scripture but is repugnant thereto 3. Whosoever shall teach or think they are not to be venerated is accursed § 4. Invocation of Saints INvocation of Saints is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture c. 2d part Of the Homily concerning Prayer There are certain Conditions most requisite to be found in every one that must be called upon which if not found our Prayer doth avail us nothing As 1. That he to whom we pray be able to help us 2. That he will. 3. That he hear our Prayer 4. That he understand better than we our selves what we lack If these things be to be found in any other saving only in God then may
and absolve their Subjects from Allegiance and exempt the Clergy from their Jurisdiction p. 67 70. Lastly The Church of Rome doth hold all things delivered defined and declared by the sacred Canons and General Councils and especially that of Trent c. And that this is the true Catholick Faith out of which none can be saved Creed of Pius IVth FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for Richard Chiswell THE Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy Chap. 3. 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Pulton Jesuit Schoolmaster in the Savoy together with some Account of his Discourse with Mr. Meredith 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 4 to Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist wherein is shewed that the Doctrine of Transubstantiation overthrows the Proofs of Christian Religion A Discourse concerning the Pretended Sacrament of Extreme Vnction with an Account of the occasions and beginnings of it in the Western Church In three Parts With a Letter to the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom Preface to the Agreement Page 1 Preface Page 2. Page 3. Page 6b Preface Page 16 18 30 31. De Concll l. 1. c. 7. Page 22 c. Preface Page 42 43 44. Page 44. Page 36 37. Page 42. Preface Page 2. A Papist Misrepres and Represented Introduct Agreement p. 2. Page 2. Ecclesiae Angl. Basis Impostura Luxemb 1619. Apology for the Protestants done out of French into English 1681. Part 4. Cap. 3. p. 135 150. Sess. 6. Can. 10 11 12 c. Art. 6. Art. 20. Sess 4. decret de Canon Script Council Trent Sess. 22. Cap. 5. Sess. 4. Decretum de edit usu Sacr. Libr. Regula 4. Azorius Instit. Mor. l. 8. cap. 26. ff Quaeritur ff Quaeres ART 7. Sess. 25. de invocat Catech. Trid. par 4. cap. 5. ff 8. ART 9. Sess. 36. Anno 1439. Sess. 5. ART 11. Sess. 6. cap. 7. Can. 11. Cap. 16. Can. 9. ART 12. Sess. 6. Cap. 16. Can 32. Annot. in 2 Tim. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 3. 8. and Hebr. 6. 10. ART 13. See Bishop Vshers Answer to a Challange Chap. 11. Sess. 6. Cap. 7. ART 14. Pars 2 de Sacram paenit ff 77. Luke 11 Ver. 35. 2 Cor. 8. 14. Annot. on 2 Cor. 2. 10. ART 15. Sess. 6. Can. 23. Annot. on Mar. 3. 34. ART 19. Orat. Archiep. Spalat Par. 1. de 9. Art. Symb. ff 11. N. 1. Rubrick Of Ceremonies why some be abolished c. Sess. 22. Cap. 5. Ibid. Can. 7. Sess. 7. Can. 2. Par. 2. Cap. 4. de Euchar. ff 81. N. 2. Sess. 13. init Par. 1. de 9. Artic. Symb. ff 18. On Matth. 16. 18. ART 20. Sess. 13. Sess. 21. Cap. 1. Ibid Cap. 2. Cap. 21. ART 21. Sess. 11. Bulla resump Decretum de resum Conc. Sess. 21. init cap. 1. Rhem. Annot. Joh. 16. 13. On Acts 16. 28. ART 22. Sess. 25. Decret de Purgat Sess. 6. Can. 30. Sess. 22. Can. 3. On Mat. 16. 19. Can. 11. Can. 3. Sess. 16. Sess. 21. Cap. 9. Sess. 25. Decret de Indulg Sess. 25. de Invocat Sess. 25. de Invocat Par. 4. Cap. 5. ff 8. ART 23. ART 24. ART 25. See the Homily of Common Prayer and the Sacraments Rubrick after the Com. Service Sess. 7. Can. 1. Can. 8. Sess. 22. Cap. 6. Can. 8. ART 28. Can. 1. Sess. 13. Cap. 1. and Can. 1. Cap. 4. and Can. 2. Can. 4. Can. 6. Can. 8. ART 29. ART 30. Sess. 21. Cap. 3. Cap. 2. Can. 1. Can. 2. Can. 3. ART 31. Sess. 2. Cap. 2. Can. 1. Can. 3. Can. 4. ART 32. Cap. 21. Can. 6. Sess. 24. Can. 6. Can. 9. ART 34. Sess. 4. Decret de Canon Script Sess. 14. Cap. 1. Sess. 22. Cap. 2. and 5. Can. 9. Par. 2. Cap. 7. ff 14. Cap. 4 ff 81. ART 35. ART 36. Sess. 23. Cap. 1. Catechis par 2. cap. 9. ff 11 12. On Joh. 10. 1. Erastus Senior Preface Anno. 1662. A Paper in the Vindication of Ordination c. Anno 1677. ART 37. On 5 th Commandment Sess. 19. Cap. 27. Can. 3. de Haereticis Sess. 3. Sess. 17. Sess. ult Decret de Reform Cap. 12. Cap. 14. Can. 43. Sess. 9. Sess. 25. De Reform Cap. 20. Agreement Preface Ibid.
prophane and defile the Churches where they are used 4. Whosoever shall say That they are incitements of impiety is accursed See Articles 6 th and 34 th The Church of Rome hath erred in matters of Faith. The 2d part Of the Homily concerning the Holy Ghost If ye will compare the Notes of a true Church with the Church of Rome as it is presently and hath been for the space of Nine hundred years and odd you shall well perceive the state thereof to be so far wide from the nature of the true Church that nothing can be more Where is then the Holy-Ghost which they do so stoutly claim to themselves Where is now the Spirit of truth that will not suffer them in any wise to err c. It is but a vain brag and nothing else The Church of Rome The Council of Trent The Holy Synod delivering that sound and sincere Doctrine which the Catholick Church being taught by Jesus Christ himself and the Apostles and by the Holy Spirit suggesting all Truth from day to day to her hath retained and will preserve to the end of the World doth straightly charge all the faithful of Christ that they dare not after this believe or teach otherwise concerning the holy Eucharist than is explained and defined in this Decree The Catechism The Church cannot err in delivering the Discipline of Faith and Manners The Rhemists Annotations By this Promise we are assured That no Heresies or other wicked attempts can prevail against the Church builded upon Peter which the Fathers call Peter's See and the Roman Church The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The Church of Rome hath erred in matters of Faith. 1. The Church of Rome cannot err in matters of Faith. 2. The pretence of the Church of Rome to Infallibility is nothing but a vain brag 2. The Church of Rome is guided by the Holy Spirit from day to day and cannot err The 20 th Article of the Church of England Of the Authority of the Church It is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written c. wherefore although the Church be a witness and keeper of Holy Writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation The Church of Rome The Council of Constance Altho Christ hath instituted and did Administer the Sacrament of the Eucharist in Bread and Wine yet this nowithstanding the Authority of the sacred Canons and the approved custom of the Church is to be preserved that it be not received after Supper c. And likewise that altho the Sacrament was received in both kinds in the Primitive Church yet the custom is reasonably introduced that the Laicks receive in one kind c. And we do command that no Presbyter doth communicate the People in both The Council of Trent This Holy Synod being taught by the Holy Spirit doth declare and teach That Lay-men are obliged by no Divine Precept to receive in both kinds and that Communion in one is sufficient for Salvation Furthermore she declares That this power hath always been in the Church that in dispensing the Sacraments the substance of them being preserved she might appoint and change those things which she doth judg more expedient for the profit of the Receivers and the reverence of the Sacrament c. Wherefore Holy Mother Church acknowledging avowing this her Authority c. for weighty and just causes doth decree That the Eucharist be communicated in one kind 1. General Council of Lateran We do altogether forbid Presbyters Deacons and Monks to contract Matrimony and we do determine that Marriages so contracted be disjoyned The Creed of Pius 4th In which it 's declared That the Church of Rome is the Mother and Mistriss of all other Churches That the Pope is Successor of St. Peter and Vicar of Christ. That in the Mass is a real Transubstantiation of the Elements into the Body and Blood of Christ c. And that all things professed in that Creed are the Catholick Faith Out of which no man can be saved The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Saith that it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing contrary to God's written Word 1. The Church of Rome hath ordained things contrary to God's written Word as in requiring the Sacrament to be administred in one kind in forbidding and disannulling the Marriage of Priests 2. The Church ought not to enforce any thing besides the written Word to be believed for necessity of Salvation 2. The Church of Rome doth require things at least besides the Word to be believed as necessary to Salvation As that the Pope is vicar of Christ and St. Peter's Successor that there are properly and truly Seven Sacraments instituted by Christ c The 21. Article of the Church of England Of the Authority of General Councils General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes And when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an Assembly of Men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God they may err and sometime have erred in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to Salvation have neither strength nor Authority unless it may be declared that they be taken out of Holy Scripture The Church of Rome Council of Trent It belongs to the Popes to call and direct General Councils The Holy Vniversal and General Synod of Trent lawfully gathered together in the Holy Ghost taught by the Holy Spirit which is a Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding c. doth declare and teach The Rhemists Annot. To teach all Truth and preserve in Truth and from Error the Holy-Ghost is promised and performed only to the Church and the chief Governor and General Councils thereof The Rhemists Annot. The Holy Councils lawfully kept c. have ever the assistance of God's Spirit and therefore cannot err in their Sentences and Determinations concerning the same because the Holy-Ghost cannot err from whom as you see here jointly with the Council the Resolution proceedeth The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. General Councils may not be gathered without the Command and Will of Princes 1. It belongs to the Pope to call General Councils 2. General Councils have erred and may err 2. General Councils called by the Pope cannot err The 22. Article of the Church of England Of Purgatory The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory Pardons Worshipping and Adoration as well of Images as of Relicks and also Invocation of Saints is a fond Thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to the Word of God. § 1. Purgatory THE Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory is a fond thing vainly