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A13955 A godly and necessarye admonition of the decrees and canons of the Counsel of Trent, celebrated vnder Pius the fourth, Byshop of Rome, in the yeares of our Lord. M.D.LXII. and. M.D.LXIII. Wrytten for those godlye disposed persons sakes, whych looke for amendement of doctrine and ceremonies to bee made by generall counsels. Lately translated out of Latine.; Pia et necessaria admonitio de decretis et canonibus. English Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575, attributed name. 1564 (1564) STC 24265; ESTC S118528 89,422 138

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them selues to be brought to this amity and familiarity And I desyre the godly Christian Reader that remouyng away peruerse affections which otherwise euen in things humane ar most wicked counsellers he bring to 〈◊〉 of this cause an vpright minde which subdueth it selfe not to 〈◊〉 persuasions but soly and onely vnto the woorde of God For by that meanes I trust it shall come to passe that he shal easely be able to vnderstand what is to be iudged of papistical Counsels Now therfore by Gods helpe and furtheraunce we wyll come to the matter it selfe The thynges that came to my hand being sent from Trent are not all of one kynde For certayne thynges were proposed to deliberate vpon for the reformation of the Church certayne thinges are decrees of the Counsel and Canons appointed to be obserued 〈◊〉 the Church But how fewe so euer they be in number yet they so open vnto vs the hart of the Fathers assembled at Trent that we may easely perceaue what affection they beare vnto the true and sincere ●…yth and religion whych we professe But least anye man hauing lytle say the to our sayinges myghte doubte of the truth of the thing I thought it good to annexe to this writing all and syngular thynges as they came to our handes from Trent being printed by the Printers longyng to the Papacye that the godly Reader may see that we speake nothing but with such fidelitye as is conuenient neyther doo we of purpose or wyll cau●…ll in any thyng but onely ayde and desende the truth of the heauenly doctrine and desyre to farther all them that are ●…dious of the doctrine of pi●… The first Decree published in the first session of the sacred Councell of Trent holden vnder Pius the fourth the most high Byshop the 18. day of January in the yeare of our Lorde God 1562. MOst noble and most reuerend Lordes and reuerend Fathers may it please you to the prayse and glory of the most ho ly and indeuisible Trinitie the Father the Sonne and the holye Ghost to the increase aduancement of faith Christian religion that this sacred economicall and generall Councell at Trent lawfully assembled together in y e holy ghost frō this day whiche is the 18. of the moneth of January of y e yeare frō the birth of our Lord. 1562. Dedicated to the Romane chayre of blessed Peter prince of the Apostles all suspension taken away according to the forme tenor of the letters of our most holy Lord Pius the fourth the most hygh Bishop should be celebrated and that in it a due order being kept should be intreated such things which being proposed by the legates and presidentes shall seme apte and mete to y e holy Sinode to asswage the calamities of these tymes to quiet the controuersies of religion to restrayne disceatfull tongues to correcte the abuses of corrupte maners and to re store the true ecclesiasticall Christian peace And they all aunswered It pleaseth vs c. So that others also may propose such thinges which to the Synode may seme to be lawful honest ¶ Thou seest Christian reder that the fathers of the Coūsell of Trent do in the first Session with great magnificence promise that thing whiche al Christendome hath nowe many yeares moste earnestly loked for namely the increase and aduancement of faith and Chri stian religion the asswagement of the calamities of our time the quieting of controuersies of religion the abolishyng of peruerse doctrine the correction of corrupt maners a true Ecclesiasticall and Christian peace and concorde c What can the mynde of man desire more if in so great a multitude varietie and confusion of opinions of the Churche of God it might se a godly peace restored doctrine purged from all errors the true worshipping of God all idolatry superstition beyng taken away renewed and most corrupt maners in all orders amended For the holy Scriptures do teach that by this meanes onely publike euils and calamities are asswaged If simple and vnlearned men shoulde rede and heare these thynges what golden mountaynes what golden and heauenly worlde would not they pro mise vnto them selues But if we shal diligētly weigh a fewe wordes whiche go a litle before the thinges whiche we haue nowe rehersed namely that the Councell muste bee celebrated al suspension taken away according to the forme and tenor of the letters of our moste holy Lorde Pius the fourth the most high Bishop we shall easly vnderstād that the Bishop of Rome with his Councell of Trent mocketh and dallfeth with al Christendome For whēas in his letters of Indiction and Indulgences he openly sheweth that he is minded to continew and prosecute the Counsel be gō vnder Paul the third and Iulius the third and not finished in this he testifieth that he ratifieth all the vngodly Decrees of the former Counsel whiche thing also the maner of the order so diligētly obser ued cōfirmeth For in that place where the aboue named Fathers left haue they begon both to deliberate and to decree and also to ordeyne Canons But lest a man should thinke that it skilleth not much whether the Councell be continewed or begon it shalbe good briefly to repeate thinges whiche were ordeyned decreed in the last former Sessions Howebeit I will not curiously searche out all thinges but only make mention of the principall pointes whiche are directly contrary vnto y e doctrine of the Prophets and of the Apostles In the first decree of the 4. Sessiō the Synode decreed that vnwritten Traditions vsurped by cōntinuall succession in the Catholike Churche shalbe receaued and reuerenced with as great an affection of piety and reuerence as if they had come frō Christes owne mouth or had bene spoken by the holy ghost They strike also with their curse al those which in their disputations and expositions receaue not the bookes called Apocripha or the vulgare translation Concupiscence saith he whiche y ● Apostle calleth sinne the holy Sinode declareth that the Churche neuer vnderstood it to be called sinne that properly and truly in dede it is sinne in those whiche are regenerate Free will is not extinguished in menne although the strength of it be empayred and diminished If a man say that other works whiche are done before I●…tification howsoeuer they be done are sinnes let him be accursed If a man saye That Iustification is nothyng els But the confidēce of the mercy of God which forgeueth sinnes for Christes sake or that this confidence is it only where by we are iustified let him be accursed If a man saye that it is necessarye for euery man that will obteyne remission of sinnes to beleue certeynely and without any doubtfulnesse of hys owne infirmitye and vnaptenesse that his sinnes are forgeuen hym let hym be accursed If a man say that the preceptes of God are impossible to be obserued euen of a mā that is iustified and set vnder grace let him