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.
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
say The Sacrifice of the Mass is not Propitiatory and that it profits him that takes it only and that it ought not to be offered for the living and dead for Sins Punishments Satisfactions and other Necessities let him be Accursed If any one shall say That by the Sacrifice of the Mass there is Blasphemy offered to the Sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross or that thereby any thing is derogated from him let him be accursed The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The offering of Christ as a Propitiation was but once 1. In the Mass there is a Propitiatory Sacrifice offered daily 2. To say that the Priest offers for the living and the dead in the Mass is blasphemous Fables and dangerous Deceits 2. Whoever denies that Christ is offered for the living and dead or shall say Christ and his Sacrifice is thereby blasphemed is Accursed The 32. Article of the Church of England Of the Marriage of Priests Bishops Priests and Deacons are not commanded by God's Law either to vow the estate of single Life or to abstain from Marriage therefore it is lawful also for them as for all other Christian Men to Marry at their own Discretion as they shall judy the same to serve better to Godliness 2 d. Part of the Homily of Good Works This Pharifascal and Papistical levell of Man's feigned Religion in Monastical Vows which although it were before God most abominable and contrary to God's Commandments and Christ's pure Religion yet it was praised to be a most Godly Life and the highest State of Perfection The Church of Rome 1. General Council of Lateran We do altogether forbid Presbyters Deacons and Monks to have Concubines or to contract Matrimony and according to the Definitions of Sacred Canons we do decree that Marriages so contracted be separated and that the Persons ought to be brought to Penance The 2. General Council of Lateran We do decree that they who being in the Order of Sub-deacon and above have Married Wives and had Concubines shall not have an Ecclesiastical Benefice for seeing they are the Temple of God c. it is a shameful thing that they should serve Beds and Vncleannesses The Council of Trent If any one shall say That Matrimony confirmed not consummated is not dissolved by the solemn profession of Religion of either Party let him be accursed If any one shall say That Clerks in Holy Orders or Regulars having solemnly professed Chastity may contract Matrimony and that so contracted it is valid notwithstanding an Ecclesiastical Law and Vow c. And that all may contract Matrimony who perceive they have not the gift of Chastity though they have vowed it let him be accursed The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The Marriage of Priests is lawful 1. Priests ought not to Marry and if they Marry are to be separated 2. The Marriage of Priests may serve to godliness 2. The Marriage of Priests is a defiling the Temple of God. 3. To Vow against Marriage especially upon the account of Perfection and Purity is a feigned Religion and contrary to God's Commandment 3. Vows against Marriage do oblige though the Persons have not the Gift of Continency The 34. Article of the Church of England Of the Traditions of the Church It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one of utterly like for at all times they have been diverse and may be changed according to the diversity of Countries Times and Mens Manners so that nothing be ordained against God's Word Every particular or national Church hath Authority to ordain change and abolish Ceremonies or Rites of the Church ordained only by Man's Authority so that all things be done to edifying 2 d Part of the Sermon of Good Works Let us rehearse other kind of Papistical Superstitions and Abuses as of Beads Lady-Psalters Rosaries Purgatory Masses Stations and Jubilees feigned Relicks and hallowed Beads Bread Water Candles c. See before Article 6 and 9. The Council of Trent The Holy Synod doth receive and regard with the like affection of Piety and Reverence the Old and New-Testament and also those unwritten Traditions dictated as it were by word of Mouth by Christ and preserved by continual Succession in the Church The matter and form of Extream Vnction Mass for the Dead The pronouncing the Mass sometimes with a loud at other times with a low Voice Mystical Benedictions Lights Incensings Garments and many other such like things are from Apostolical Discipline and Tradition If any one shall say that the Rite of the Roman Church of saying some part of the Canon of the Mass in a low Voice is to be condemned let him be accursed The Catechism of Trent The Shaving of the Head like a Crown is from Apostolical Tradition None of the Rites in the Mass are useless and vain The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. It is not necessary that Ceremonies ordained by Man's Authority be in all places alike and such may be changed 1. Unwritten Traditions are equally to be regarded as Scripture such are Lights Incensings Shaving the Head c. and so to be every where and always retained 2. Lights and other Ceremonies of the Romish Church are superstitious and abuses 2. None of the Ceremonies used in the Mass as Lights and Incensings are useless and vain The 35. Article of the Church of England Of Homilies The homilies contain a Godly and wholesome Doctrine c. The Homilies charge the Church of Rome with Error Superstition Idolatry and Usurpation The 36. Article of the Church of England Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers The Book of Consecration of Arch-Bishops and Bishops and ordering of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the Time of Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same Time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Divering And therefore whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the Rites of that Book or hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully consecrated and ordered The Church of Rome Council of Trent A Sacrifice and Priesthood are so conjoyned by the Ordinance of God that both have existed in every Law. From the very beginning of the Church there were the Names of the following Orders the lesser viz. Acolythi Exorcists Readers and Door-keepers The greater and sacred viz. the Subdeacon Deacon and Priest. Rhemists Annotations Whosoever taketh upon him to Preach without lawful sending to Minister Sacraments and is not Canonically ordered of a true Catholick Bishop to be a Curate of Souls c. he is a Thief and a Murderer So came in all Hereticks and all that succeed them in Room and Doctrine It 's the common Opinion of the Members of the Romish Church of our Nation that our