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A58605 A mirrour of truth, of the highest concern to all sorts of people, noble and ignoble, rich or poor, soveraigne or subject B. P. S. 1672 (1672) Wing S12; ESTC R13638 16,798 48

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purpose As the name of Christian doth distinguish the Church from Jews Gentiles and Heathens so the name Catholick from fals● Prophets and peculiar Sects who glory under the name of Christ and belong not to him And to this purpose said Pacianus my Name is Christian my Sirname Catholick● This Name therefore is most deservedly put into the Creed of the Apostles a● distinguishing from all Sects and Hereticks and most proper to the true Church Only None therefore can miss of the true Church who follow the Catholick● The general name will most certainly inform you her very adversaries being Judges Luk. 19.22 Out of thy mouth I Judge thee O wicked Servant The true Church must be One holy Catholick and Consequently Apostolick THe Fourth and last mark is Apostolick Apostolick shewing the true Church and Religion not taken up at the second hand as many do now a days to be derived from Christ and his Apostles and so to us as an inheritance from our Ancestors by a continual succession of Bishops from the Chayr of Peter to this present Pope and so to continue without ●ayling every One holding Vnion with his Predecessors True Religion no Inve●tion of Ma●● and keeping still the same Profession of Faith so visibly and apparently that it is like a City upon a Mountain or a Candle on a Candlestick to give light to all in the house of God Whereby it is manifest that it is not the Invention of Man it never being contrary to it self in Doctrin but allwaies running in the same Current of Apostolical Tradition and through this united strength hath out lasted many hundreds of Heresies which though manifestly divided in themselves did ever joyne hands to overthrow this One holy Catholick Apostolick Faith but never found any other Rock then It against which they split themselves And thus we know it to be that kingdom of which Daniel Prophesieth saying Dan. 2.44 And in the Dayes of these Kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and this kingdom shall not be given to any other people but it shall break and destroy all those kingdoms shall stand for ever Observe therefore I beseech you out of this Mark that those who pretend to be founders of new Religions Reformers or what else they please to be called were once of this Apostolical continued Faith and went out and forsook it and consequently their Doctrin is later or less Antient Math. 14. and for this very reason not good seed but Cockle which the envious Man soweth after For these are the Properties of Hereticks and false teachers to be inventors of new Doctrin to divide and separate themselves to cause dissentions scandals against the Doctrin they had learned The true Faith therefore is Apostolical to be traced up to the Apostles and Christ himself the fountain and author of all truth Now if you desire to know in particular the positive tenents of the true Catholick Faith which I find St. Augustin the Monk of the holy Order of St. Benedict preached and professed who planted the Christian Faith in England above a thousand yeares ago in the yeare 596. in the reign of Elbert otherwise Ethelbert King of Kent who married Queen Bertha of France a Catholick sent by St. Gregary the great the● Pope of Rome in that Apostolical Mission Doctor of the Church Monk of the same holy Order who founded seaven Monasteries himself six in Sicilia the 7th in Rome dedicated to St. Andrew of which St. Augustin was Abbot And in very deed searching into Antiquity and the Tradition of the Church by which the Truth infallibly is delivered to us I find the very same Articles plainly to be traced even to Christ himself and his immediate successor St. Peter and so down to us till this day and shall be till the worlds end visible and Apparent which is the sure Footing for every one to tread in They are these contained in the Profession of Faith received by the Church to wit I. N. Do by a firm Faith believe and Profess all every thing contained in the Symbol of Faith which the Holy Roman Church useth viz. I believe in one God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and Earth and of all things Visible and invisible And in One Lord Jesus Christ the onely begotte● Son of God and begotten o● his Father before all Ages● God of God Light of Light● very God of very God begotten not made Consubstantial to the Father by whom all things were made● who for us men and for ou● salvation descended from heaven and was incarnated by the holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and made Man was also crucifyed for us under Pontius Pilat suffered and was buried and rose the third day according to the Scriptures● and ascended into Heaven● sitteth at the right hand o● the Father and shall come again with Glory to judge the quick and the dead of whose Kingdom there shall be no End And in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of ●ife who proceedeth from ●he Father and Son who together with the Father and ●he Son is equally adored and ●onglorified who spake by ●he Prophets And One Ho●y Catholick and Apostolick Church I confess one Baptisme for the Remission of ●●ns and I expect the resurrection of the dead and life ●f the world to come Amen The Apostolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions and the other Observations and Constitutions of the sam● Church I do most firmly admit and embrace Likewise I admit the Holy Scripture according to that sense which our holy Mothe● the Catholick Church eve● did and doth hold to which it belongs to judge of the tru● sense and interpretation o● the Holy Scriptures neithe● will I receive or interpre● it but according to th● unanimous Consent of th● Fathers I profess also that there a●● Seaven true and proper Sacraments of the new Law instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ and necessary to the salvation of Mankind though not all to every particular Person To wit Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Pen-nance Extream Unction holy Order Matrimony And that they do confer Grace of these that Baptism Confirmation and Order without Sacrilege cannot be reiterated The received and approved rites also of the Catholick Church in the solemn Administration of all the foresaid Sacraments I do receive admit I do embrace and receive all and every one of the Doctrines touching original Sin and Justification which have been defined and declared in the Holy Council of Trent I do in like manner profess that there is a true proper and Propitiatory Sacrifice for the living and the dead offered to God in the Mass by lawful Priests truly ordained And that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist after Consecration there is truly really and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ And that the whole substance of Bread is converted into the Body of Christ and the whole substance of Wine into his Blood Which