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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27170	The holy inquisition wherein is represented what is the religion of the Church of Rome, and how they are dealt with that dissent from it.	Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723.	1681 (1681)	Wing B1574; ESTC R13764	91,990	274

hath sought to impose on the Christian World only false Doctrines and superstitions if the case be so it will wholly clear the Institution of our Blessed Redeemer and make their guilt most heinous and crying who under pretence of preserving the purity of Christs holy Religion have destroyed millions of its Professors CHAPTER I. Of the Roman Faith as distinct from the Christian and truly Catholick And first of the New-Creed I Shall not in this place represent how distant from all cruelties how averse to them is the Christian Religion But first I shall give some account of those Doctrines and that Worship peculiar to the Church of Rome which for being opposed or not received in whole or in part have oceasioned those persecutions of which we complain I shall begin with the Doctrines as they are contained in the New Creed of Pope Pius IV. who as was appointed by the Council of Trent framed and imposed a Profession or Confession of Faith to be taken as an Oath by all the Secular Clergy by all Military Orders by all sorts of Friers all that should be required and all that should come to their Communion in this wise Ego N. firma fide credo profiteor omnia singula quae continentur in symbolo fidei quo Sancta Romana Ecclesia utitur videlicet Credo in unum Deum patrem omnipotentem c. I N. stedfastly believe and profess all things contained in that Confession of Faith which is received in the holy Roman Church as follows I believe in one God the Father Almighty c. So the Nicen Creed thoroughout and then follow the new Articles of the Roman Faith Apostolicas Ecclesiasticas Traditiones reliquasque ejusdem Ecclesiae observationes constitutiones firmissimè admitto amplector c. In English thus I most stedfastly embrace and admit the Apostolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions with the Constitutions and all other things used in the Roman Church I also receive the holy Scriptures according to that sense which our holy Mother the Church whose it is to interpret it hath held and still holds neither will I ever understand or explain otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers I also profess that there are seven true and proper Sacraments of the New Covenant instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ necessary to mens salvation though not each Sacrament to every singular person These are Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Peance Extreme Unction Orders and Matrimony all which do confer grace and whereof Baptism Confirmation and Orders cannot be repeated without Sacriledge I likewise own and admit all the approved and customary Rites which the Catholick Church useth in the solemn administration of all the foresaid Sacraments All and every particular defined and declared by the most holy Council of Trent about Justification and original sin I receive and embrace Likewise I profess that in the Mass a true and proper propitiatory Sacrifice for the living and the dead is offered to God and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is really and substantially the Body and Bloud 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 his Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into his Bloud which conversion the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation I also confess that under either kind or species whole Christ is entirely contained and the true Sacrament received I constantly hold that there is a Purgatory and that the Souls therein detained are helpt by the good Works and Prayers of the Faithful As also that the Saints which reign with Christ pray for us and are to be worshiped and prayed to and their Reliques to be venerated I most firmly assert that the Images of Christ of the Blessed Virgin and of the other Saints are to be had and retained and that due honour and worship is to be imparted to them Also I affirm that the power of granting Indulgences was left by Christ to his Church and that the use of them is most salutary to Christian people I acknowledge that the holy Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church is the Mother and Mistris of all Churches and I promise and swear true obedience to the Pope of Rome who is Christs Vicar and Successor to St. Peter the Prince of the Apostles I also without doubt or scruple receive and profess all other things delivered defined and declared by the sacred Canons and General Councils especially by the most holy Council of Trent and all things contrary to them with all heresies whatever condemned rejected and cursed by the Church I likewise reject and condemn and curse This holy Catholick Faith which I now truly hold and profess and without which no man can be saved I shall by Gods help constantly keep and confess whole and undefiled untill my last breath and to the utmost of my power shall in my Place and Calling endeavour that the same shall be taught preached and professed by all my Subjects and all under my care I the foresaid N. promise vow and swear it so help me God and these holy Evangills The Bull which appointed and framed this new Oath or Confession of Faith is dated from St. Peters in Rome the _____ of November in the year of our Lord 1564. and is concluded in the usual manner Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat c. Let no man whatever dare to infringe this written Declaration of Our Will and Command or by a temerarious Presumption any ways oppose it which if any one shall attempt he must know that he shall incur the indignation of Almighty God and of his blessed Apostles Peter and Paul SECT II. General Reflections on this Roman Creed IT seems they that framed and imposed these new Articles were afraid they should not hold fast enough the Consciences of men and therefore Pope Pius obliged them to swear a simple Profession would not be sufficient to enslave the Minds of Christians and bind upon them this heavy Burthen a formal Oath as we see is contrived and so the Bull calls it forma juramenti And whereas men make Confession of the Christian Faith freely and out of choice as that that will be infinitely beneficial to them They must swear to the Roman Faith to secure themselves from persecution I know that some of the opinions of this Roman Creed were prest before upon the Western World by Inquisition and Fire and Sword and that most of them had been gaining ground upon the persecuted opposers about five or six hundred years But they never became a Creed imposed with an Oath necessary to all mens salvation till this Council and Pope did make them so And we find about the beginning of this Council under Paul III. in the year 1546. that when the Fathers made profession of their Faith according to the Roman Creed as they call it Symbolum quo sancta Romana

inclosures wherewith we have separated our selves from Popery and excluded it from mixing with us The Church of England hath not made any thing necessary to Salvation but what God hath declared so to be and hath imposed upon the People no controverted or doubtful Doctrines nothing but what all true Christians owned in all places and all times so that it hath given provocation to none but to such as own the New Creed of Pius IV. to separate from her Communion But the Church of Rome hath made to be Faith absolutely necessary to Salvation that which was not so before that which God no where revealed in his holy Word and that which is in many things contrary to it and to the true Catholick saith of all Christians And who that believes Jesus Christ to be that Great Prophet who revealed to us the whole Counsel of God and is alone to be heard as the only Author and finisher of our Faith can swear an indefinite obedience to the Pope and make it part of his belief that he embraceth all the Traditions of the Church of Rome which they themselves cannot number and receives all the definitions and declarations of her Councils especially that of Trent and believes her to be the Mother and Mistris of all Churches which is apparently false Who that believes them accursed that shall add any thing to that Faith which our Blessed Lord and his Apostles preached can now make part of it that Christ is truly sacrificed in the Mass for the Living and the Dead that he is wholly contained under either species in the Sacrament that there is a Purgatory where Souls are relieved by what the Living do here for them That the Saints must be prayed to and that due Worship must be given to their Relicks and Images and that Christ left to his Church a power of granting salutary indulgences to such as would purchase them as we see by their practice This is a Faith so new so strange so different from the Christian so contrary to it that any man that shall compare both and be persuaded that it is part of that highest honour which belongs to God alone that all his Dictates and Declarations should be received with an humble submission of our understanding and an entire faith will die as Millions have rather than make profession of this Roman Creed Joh. 2.9 Whosoever transgresseth or goeth beyond and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God The Doctrine of Christ we have in the Gospel of which the sum is contained in the Christian Creed It declares the glorious Attributes of God his wonderful works of power and mercy what great things he hath done for us what more he will have us to expect from him and all to engage us Religiously to serve and love him alone and own him for our Supreme Lord by an holy Worship and Obedience The Doctrine of Rome doth only set forth the unlimited power and dominion of the Pope and his Church over the souls and consciences of men and the means of seizing on their Wealth by selling the Mass Sacrifice and the indulgences by taking the Offerings of the Images and Shrines and drawing Souls out of Purgatory The Popes Crown and the Monks Belly is the sum of all and the crime of us Hereticks is the speaking against either or the not believing what makes for them as much as we believe in God For this were the Cruelties and Inquisitions of the Roman Church invented and exercised against all Christians whose knowledge and Conscience would not permit them to profess this new and unchristian Faith But from this it is apparent we dissent not out of peevishness or humour or a stubborn temper but upon the account of obligations and duty to our God and Saviour whose true Religion I hope we shall constantly own and profess whatever we suffer for it CHAP. II. Of several parts of the Roman Worship and first of their Exorcisms IT is not to be expected that where the Doctrines are so corrupted the Worship should be pure Mens Actions commonly are worse than their Principles and so here it is to be observed that those Articles of the Roman Creed on which is grounded any part of their Worship are not so bad in the Notion as they are in the Practice Their customs usages and outward Acts of Religion which are the true Interpreters of their Doctrines make them uncapable of those fine Glosses some of their Missionaries would put upon them and withal are so superstistitious so idolatrous that all men that fear God and are concerned for the honour of the Blessed Jesus must needs judge themselves absolutely obliged rather to die than to joyn and comply with the Popish Worship As far indeed as their Worship proceeds from that Christian Faith they have common with us the Apostles Creed they may have Prayers very good and very devout But as far as it proceeds from their new Roman Faith it is a strange Medley of conjuring consecrating abusing Gods holy Name and giving to Creatures the love and praises due to our Blessed Redeemer I shall give some instances of it and first begin with their conjuring Part. 1. chap. 2. sect 10. of which they have Treasures and Manuals Printed besides what is in their Rituals and other Books of publick use Of the first Bishop Tailor in his dissuasive from Popery gives us some account how they assault the Devil with Holy Water Incense Sulphur Rue little Papers containing holy words Relicks of Saints and notable Railing How the Priest with his Stole about the Neck of the Possessed very imperiously commands the Devil using many names of God Hebrew Greek and Latine very many signs of the Cross adjurations in the name of St. Ann St. Michael c. especially of the Blessed Virgin all whose Names Epithets Merits and Titles are very effectual the Form in the Ritual is not much better and all of it is a heap of things very absurd and very dishonourable to true Religion But in their daily Ministrations there are so many of these Exorcisms for to drive out Devils out of every thing that one would think they are Manichees who believed most of the Creation to belong to those evil Spirits In the Office for Baptism they Exorcise the Salt which they put into the Infants mouth with nine signs of the Cross and a Prayer whereby they beg it may become Salutare Sacramentum a salutary Sacrament and a perfect Medicine to all that receive it And even the Child is Exorcised with the Priests blowing three times in his Face and anointing it with his Spittle saying Exi ab eo immunde Spiritus tu autem effugare diabole appropinquabit enim judicium Dei Come out of him unclean Spirit and thou Devil be gone for the Judgment of God is at hand Together with this Prayer Exorcizo te immunde spiritus in Nomine Patris c. I exorcize thee unclean Spirit in the