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The creed of Pope Pius the IV, or, A prospect of popery taken from that authentick record with short notes.
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Altham, Michael, 1633-1705.
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Sacraments of the new Law truly and properly so called instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord and necessary to the salvation of mankind though not all of them to every one viz. Baptism Confirmation Eucharist Penance Extreme Vnction Orders and Marriage and that they do confer grace and that of these Baptism Confirmation and Orders may not be repeated without Sacrilege I do also receive and admit the received and approved Rites of the Catholick Church in her solemn administration of the abovesaid Sacraments NOTES upon it You must by no means ask questions here as In what part of the New Testament may I find that Christ did institute these Seven Sacraments Or Where may I meet with the promise annexed by virtue of which they do confer grace Or Where and when did our Lord make all these necessary to salvation These are idle and frivolous questions you must believe as the Catholick Church believes and do as she doth but by Catholick Church you must be sure always to understand the Roman Church though in so doing you believe a part to be the whole XVI I do embrace and receive all and every thing that hath been defined and declared by the holy Council of Trent concerning Original Sin and Justification NOTES upon it Though St. Paul call Concupiscence Sin yet you must not do so Decret de Peccat Origin Sess 5. Conc. Trid. Though Christ tell you that when you have done all that is commanded still you are unprofitable servants you have done no more than your duty Yet if you will be a true Catholick you must believe that the good works of Justified persons do truly merit increase of grace here and eternal life hereafter Sess 6. Can. 32. XVII I do also profess that in the Mass there is offered unto God a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the quick and the dead and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly really and substantially the Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that there is a conversion made of the whole Substance of the Bread into the Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into the Blood which conversion the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation NOTES upon it Though Christ by being once offered hath put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and therefore need not to be offered again Heb. 9. yet you must believe that he is daily offered and it may be in 10000 places at once a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the quick and the dead And why should you not believe so seeing the Catholick i. e. the Roman Catholick Church hath defined and declared it to be so If you say that you find nothing for it but much against it in holy Scripture this is to appeal from the Judgment of the Church to your own which by no means must be allowed But how do you know that there is any thing in Scripture against it you will tell me you see and reade it there But do you think it is fit for you to trust your own eyes against so plain a declaration of the Church Because you see and feel and taste and thereupon judge a consecrated Host to be really Bread still do you think it is fit for you to believe so when the Church hath told you the contrary Have a care this is a dangerous point If you will be a true Catholick you must resolve to renounce all the evidence of Sense and Reason in this matter and to live by an implicit faith XVIII I confess that under one kind only whole and entire Christ and a true Sacrament is taken and received NOTES upon it Though Christ left you a whole Sacrament yet you must be content with half an one Though Christ after his Supper instituted and administred this venerable Sacrament under both kinds of Bread and Wine though in the Primitive Church this Sacrament was received by the faithfull in both kinds yet all this notwithstanding you must now rest satisfied with half of it and that for divers good causes and considerations as to instance lest you spill the Wine upon your Beards c. And will you still stick to the Institution of Christ against such a declaration of the Church have a care there is an Anathema provided for you and the censure and punishment of Hereticks will fall to your share Concil Constant Sess 13. Concil Trid. Sess 13. Can. 3. XIX I do firmly believe that there is a Purgatory and that the Souls kept prisoners there do receive help by the suffrages of the faithfull NOTES upon it Though in holy Scripture there be no mention made of any other place after this life but either Heaven or Hell yet holy Church tells you there is another called Purgatory and why should you not believe her Though Christ tell you that when you have done all that is commanded you are still unprofitable servants having done no more but what was your duty to doe yet why should not you believe as the Church believes that some men may do more than their duties and by an over measure of merits help others XX. I do likewise believe that the Saints reigning together with Christ are to be worshipped and prayed unto and that they do offer Prayers unto God for us and that their Relicks are to be had in veneration NOTES upon it Though you be no where commanded to pray to any other but only God though there be but one Mediatour between God and Man viz. Christ Jesus yet why should you deprive your selves of the benefit of such powerfull Mediators as the Saints in Heaven may be when the Church teacheth you to make use of them XXI I do most firmly assert that the Images of Christ of the Blessed Virgin the Mother of God and of other Saints ought to be had and retained and that due honour and veneration ought to be given to them NOTES upon it Though by the second Commandment you are forbidden to make to your selves any graven Images or to bow down to them or worship them yet this notwithstanding why should not you comply with the Doctrin and Practice of the Church in making to your selves graven Images bowing down to them and in praying lighting Candles and burning Incense before them XXII I do affirm that the power of Indulgences was left by Christ in the Church and that the use of them is very beneficial to Christian people NOTES upon it Though your sins be great and heinous yet if for a summ of Money you can procure a Pardon if the price be set and nothing wanting but to pay the Money with one hand and receive the Indulgence with the other Vide Tax Camer Apostol why then should you not comply with the Doctrine of Indulgences which is so comfortable in it self and so advantagious unto you XXIII I do acknowledge the Holy Catholick and Apostolick Roman Church to
THE CREED OF Pope Pius the IV. OR A Prospect of Popery TAKEN From that Authentick Record With short NOTES IMPRIMATUR Jun. 29. 1687. Guil. Needham LONDON Printed for L. Meredith at the Angel in Amen-Corner 1687. The CREED of Pope Pius IV. c. THE words Representing and Misrepresenting have of late made a great noise among us some Gentlemen of the Roman Communion having made it their business to persuade the World that we of the Church of England have entertained a very strange and false Idea of their Religion and according to our own Notions of it represented it as theirs which they tell us is downright Misrepresenting It is not my design to engage in this Controversie it hath been sufficiently done by other hands and so sufficiently that the Answerer in his Answer to the Amicable Accommodation I think had good reason to say that the matter was drove as far as it would bear Nor is it my intent to justify every thing which in heat of discourse or disputation hath been charged upon that Church by some of our own men for though perhaps they have said no more than what they have warrant for from some eminent Schoolmen or Casuists of that Church yet I do not think it reasonable that the particular opinions of private men though never so eminent in their way should be charged upon the whole Society of which they are Members unless they have been owned by some publick and authentick act of that Society Being unwilling therefore to run my self upon that Rock I have steered another Course and have made choice of one of the most solemn publick and authentick Acts of their Church Viz. The Bull of Pope Pius IV. printed with the Acts of the Council of Trent and shall charge nothing upon them but what is owned and contained therein This Bull was dated at Rome in the year of our Lord 1564. in the Ides of November and the Fifth year of his Pontificat In this Bull a Form of Faith is drawn up extracted out of the Council of Trent which every one who enters into Holy Orders is bound by Oath not onely to believe but to maintain and defend and teach the people under their charge and that under pain of the displeasure of Almighty God and of his holy Apostles Peter and Paul And if we may not take this for the Standard of their Faith and Religion I must confess I do not know where to find it But I do not know that this ever was nor do I think it will now be disowned by them and therefore from hence you may take a prospect of their Religion and see what it is that will be required of those who joyn in communion with them The CREED Art I. I believe in one God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible II. And in one Lord Jesus Christ the onely begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of Light very God of very God begotten not made being of one Substance with the Father by whom all things were made III. Who for us men and for our Salvation came down from Heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made man IV. And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate suffered and was buried V. And the Third Day rose again according to the Scriptures VI. And ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father VII And he shall come again with Glory to judge both the quick and the dead whose Kingdom shall have no end VIII And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of Life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified who spake by the Prophets IX And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church X. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of Sins XI And I look for the Resurrection of the Dead XII And the Life of the world to come Amen Thus far his Holiness thought fit to hold a good correspondence with Primitive Christianity and thus far we can keep pace with him All these Articles we willingly receive and firmly believe because we have good warrant from the holy Scriptures so to do But if the Church of Rome or any other Church shall presume to decree any thing against the written Word of God or besides the same and impose it as a new Article of Faith necessary to be believed in order to our Salvation we must beg their pardon if we cannot so readily comply with them For as we believe that Jesus Christ is the Authour so we believe he is the Finisher of our Faith And as he perfectly knew the whole mind and will of his Father so did he carefully communicate the same to his Apostles and Disciples For saith he All things that I have heard of my Father have I made known to you John 15.15 And as we believe that the Apostles were instructed and commissionated by him to preach that Faith which they received from him so we have no reason to doubt but that they did faithfully transmit the same to their Successors the Primitive Fathers of the Christian Church nor need we to question but that the same Faith hath been carefully conveyed to us both as it lies dispersed in the holy Scriptures and as it is summ'd up in those three ancient Creeds viz. the Nicene the Athanasian and that commonly called the Apostles Creed Whatsoever therefore we do not find in these Creeds nor contained in holy Scriptures nor can be proved thereby we dare not receive it as an Article of Faith nor can we think it necessary to Salvation And here we are left behind not being able any farther to keep pace with the Church of Rome but we may comfort our selves in this that we are left in good company having Jesus Christ and his Apostles and the Primitive Fathers with us Here therefore let us take up our stand and from hence take a view of Popery in the following Articles Continuation of their Creed Art XIII I most firmly admit and embrace Apostolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions and all other Observations and Constitutions of the same Church NOTES upon it Ecclesiastical Traditions are to be received with equal veneration as the Holy Scripture Sess 4. Concil Trid. Decr. de Canon Script pari pietatis affectu ac reverentiâ c. XIV I do admit the Holy Scriptures in the same sense that holy Mother Church doth whose business it is to judge of the true sense and interpretation of them and I will interpret them according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers NOTES upon it By holy Mother Church you must be sure to understand the Church of Rome and if the Scriptures do not speak according to her sense you must by no means admit of them XV. I do profess and believe that there are Seven