prophane and defile the Churches where they are used 4. Whosoever shall say That they are incitements of impiety is accursed See Articles 6 th and 34 th The Church of Rome hath erred in matters of Faith. The 2d part Of the Homily concerning the Holy Ghost If ye will compare the Notes of a true Church with the Church of Rome as it is presently and hath been for the space of Nine hundred years and odd you shall well perceive the state thereof to be so far wide from the nature of the true Church that nothing can be more Where is then the Holy-Ghost which they do so stoutly claim to themselves Where is now the Spirit of truth that will not suffer them in any wise to err c. It is but a vain brag and nothing else The Church of Rome The Council of Trent The Holy Synod delivering that sound and sincere Doctrine which the Catholick Church being taught by Jesus Christ himself and the Apostles and by the Holy Spirit suggesting all Truth from day to day to her hath retained and will preserve to the end of the World doth straightly charge all the faithful of Christ that they dare not after this believe or teach otherwise concerning the holy Eucharist than is explained and defined in this Decree The Catechism The Church cannot err in delivering the Discipline of Faith and Manners The Rhemists Annotations By this Promise we are assured That no Heresies or other wicked attempts can prevail against the Church builded upon Peter which the Fathers call Peter's See and the Roman Church The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The Church of Rome hath erred in matters of Faith. 1. The Church of Rome cannot err in matters of Faith. 2. The pretence of the Church of Rome to Infallibility is nothing but a vain brag 2. The Church of Rome is guided by the Holy Spirit from day to day and cannot err The 20 th Article of the Church of England Of the Authority of the Church It is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written c. wherefore although the Church be a witness and keeper of Holy Writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation The Church of Rome The Council of Constance Altho Christ hath instituted and did Administer the Sacrament of the Eucharist in Bread and Wine yet this nowithstanding the Authority of the sacred Canons and the approved custom of the Church is to be preserved that it be not received after Supper c. And likewise that altho the Sacrament was received in both kinds in the Primitive Church yet the custom is reasonably introduced that the Laicks receive in one kind c. And we do command that no Presbyter doth communicate the People in both The Council of Trent This Holy Synod being taught by the Holy Spirit doth declare and teach That Lay-men are obliged by no Divine Precept to receive in both kinds and that Communion in one is sufficient for Salvation Furthermore she declares That this power hath always been in the Church that in dispensing the Sacraments the substance of them being preserved she might appoint and change those things which she doth judg more expedient for the profit of the Receivers and the reverence of the Sacrament c. Wherefore Holy Mother Church acknowledging avowing this her Authority c. for weighty and just causes doth decree That the Eucharist be communicated in one kind 1. General Council of Lateran We do altogether forbid Presbyters Deacons and Monks to contract Matrimony and we do determine that Marriages so contracted be disjoyned The Creed of Pius 4th In which it 's declared That the Church of Rome is the Mother and Mistriss of all other Churches That the Pope is Successor of St. Peter and Vicar of Christ. That in the Mass is a real Transubstantiation of the Elements into the Body and Blood of Christ c. And that all things professed in that Creed are the Catholick Faith Out of which no man can be saved The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Saith that it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing contrary to God's written Word 1. The Church of Rome hath ordained things contrary to God's written Word as in requiring the Sacrament to be administred in one kind in forbidding and disannulling the Marriage of Priests 2. The Church ought not to enforce any thing besides the written Word to be believed for necessity of Salvation 2. The Church of Rome doth require things at least besides the Word to be believed as necessary to Salvation As that the Pope is vicar of Christ and St. Peter's Successor that there are properly and truly Seven Sacraments instituted by Christ c The 21. Article of the Church of England Of the Authority of General Councils General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes And when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an Assembly of Men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God they may err and sometime have erred in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to Salvation have neither strength nor Authority unless it may be declared that they be taken out of Holy Scripture The Church of Rome Council of Trent It belongs to the Popes to call and direct General Councils The Holy Vniversal and General Synod of Trent lawfully gathered together in the Holy Ghost taught by the Holy Spirit which is a Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding c. doth declare and teach The Rhemists Annot. To teach all Truth and preserve in Truth and from Error the Holy-Ghost is promised and performed only to the Church and the chief Governor and General Councils thereof The Rhemists Annot. The Holy Councils lawfully kept c. have ever the assistance of God's Spirit and therefore cannot err in their Sentences and Determinations concerning the same because the Holy-Ghost cannot err from whom as you see here jointly with the Council the Resolution proceedeth The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. General Councils may not be gathered without the Command and Will of Princes 1. It belongs to the Pope to call General Councils 2. General Councils have erred and may err 2. General Councils called by the Pope cannot err The 22. Article of the Church of England Of Purgatory The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory Pardons Worshipping and Adoration as well of Images as of Relicks and also Invocation of Saints is a fond Thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to the Word of God. § 1. Purgatory THE Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory is a fond thing vainly
The Church of England teacheth The Church tho a Witness and Keeper of the Holy Writ yet ought not to decree any thing against the same nor to enforce any thing besides the same to be believed for necessity of Salvation p. 37. The Church of Rome holdeth It belongs to the Church of Rome to judg of the Sence of the Scripture and it 's in her Power to forbid receiving the Sacrament in both kinds tho Christ so instituted and delivered it The Fallibility of the Church The Church of England teacheth As the Church of Jerusalem Alexandria and Antioch have erred So also the Church of Rome hath erred not only in their Living and manner of Ceremonies but also in matters of Faith So that their claim of Infallibility is but a vain brag and nothing else p. 31 35. The Church of Rome holdeth The Church of Rome cannot err being taught by the Holy Spirit suggesting all Truth from day to day General Councils The Church of England teacheth General Councils may not be gathered together without the Commandment and will of Princes And when gathered may err and sometimes have erred in things pertaining to God p. 39. The Church of Rome holdeth It belongs to the Pope to call and direct General Councils and being so gathered they have ever the assistance of Gods Spirit and so cannot err Christ the only Mediator The Church of England teacheth Christ is the only Mediator between God and Man being both God and Man in whom alone the Conditions requisite in an object of Worship are to be found whence it followeth that we must call neither upon Angel nor Saint but solely upon him as our Mediator And to make them Intercessors to God is after the Gentiles Idolatrous usage p. 19 41 46. The Church of Rome holdeth There are other Mediators of Intercession in Heaven besides Christ such as Angels and Saints and more especially the Virgin Mary who is the Mother of Mercy and Advocatress of the Faithful and it is good and profitable to invoke them and to have recourse to their prayers aid and help And those that deny they are to be invocated or affirm the Invocation of them is Idolatry are accursed Original Sin. The Church of England teacheth Original Sin is the Corruption of the nature of every man naturally ingendred of the off-spring of Adam And all offend in many things Christ only excepted p. 20 30. The Church of Rome holdeth The blessed Virgin is not comprehended in the decree of Original Sin and never sinned so much as Venially in all her Life Images The Church of England teacheth Image-worship was abhorred in the Primitive Church as abominable and contrary to all true Christian Religion And to fall down before Images c. is to give that honour to Stocks and Stones which the Saints themselves refused when alive p. 44. The Church of Rome holdeth The Images of Christ the Virgin Mary and other Saints are to have due honour given to them by kissing them uncovering the head falling down before them lighting up Candles to them c. by which Christ is adored and the Saints are venerated Relicks The Church of England teacheth To worship and honour the Relicks of Saints is to pass the folly and wickedness of the Gentiles The Romish Doctrine concerning Worshipping and Adoration of Images and Relicks is a fond thing grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to it p. 44. The Church of Rome holdeth The Relicks of the Saints are to be venerated And all that hold the contrary are accursed Purgatory The Church of England teacheth There are two places only in the other World the one proper to the elect and the blessed of God the other to the reprobate And the souls of men passing out of the body go to Heaven or Hell. And the Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no Warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to it p. 41. The Church of Rome holdeth There is a Purgatory or place of Torment in which the Souls of good Persons not sufficiently purged have their Sins expiated and they thereby are prepared for the Kingdom of Heaven And the Souls there detained are helped by the Masses Prayers Alms and other good Works of the Living And if any one shall say there is not such a place or that there remains no guilt to be expiated by penitent Persons in Purgatory or that those that are there are not helped by Masses c. he is accursed Merits The Church of England teacheth The good works are pleasing unto God yet to put any confidence in them as by merit and deserving of them to purchase to our selves or others remission of Sin and everlasting Life is meer Blasphemy and great derogation to the blood-shedding of our Saviour Jesus Christ p. 24 25. The Church of Rome holdeth Justified Persons truly deserve eternal Life and the good Works of such are truly and properly Meritorious and are fully worthy of Eternal Life And whosoever thinketh otherwise is Accursed Supererogation The Church of England teacheth Works of Supererogation or such as are over and above God's Commandment cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety and it 's an ungodly practice to make sale of them and to perswade the people that thereby the Sins of other men might have satisfaction made for 〈◊〉 p. 27 28. The Church of Rome holdeth There are Works of Supererogation which are done more than Precept and a Person endued with Divine Grace may satisfie for another and pay in the name of another what is due to God and the value of such Works is to be so disposed of for that purpose by such as Christ hath made dispensers of his Treasures Indulgences The Church of England teacheth The Romish Doctrine concerning Pardons is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but is rather repugnant to it p. 41 42. The Church of Rome holdeth The Church hath a power from Christ to pardon Offenders and whatever Debts here or hereafter in Purgatory a man oweth to God for the satisfaction of his Sins may be remitted by the Indulgence of the Church and whosoever saith that the Church hath no such Power or that such Indulgences are unprofitable is Accursed Prayers in a known Tongue The Church of England teacheth It 's a thing plainly repugnant to the word of God and the Custom of the Primitive Church to have publick Prayers in the Church or to minister the Sacraments in a Tongue not understood of the People p. 49. The Church of Rome holdeth It 's fittest every where to have the Mass Celebrated in Latin or a Tongue not understood by the People and it 's for that reason so injoyned And whosoever saith it ought to be otherwise is Accursed Sacraments The Church of England teacheth There are only Two Sacraments Ordained of Christ viz. Baptism and the Supper of the Lord and the other Five commonly called Sacraments in the
Quality soever though King Duke c. they be Excommunicated and deprived of all their Secular Honour and Dignity And in the Bull of Pope Martin the 5th read and approved in that Council All Professors of the Christian and Catholick Faith the Emperor Kings Dukes c. are required to expel all Hereticks out of their Kingdoms and Provinces according to the Canon Sicut ait c. That is the abovesaid Canon of the 3d Lateran Council The Council of Trent The Emperors Kings Dukes c. and all Temporal Lords of what Title soever who shall grant a place for Duelling among Christians within their Lands should for that Cause be deprived of the Dominion of the City Castle or Place in which they permitted the Duel to be 4. The Church of Rome doth exempt the Clergy from Temporal Jurisdiction So The 3 d General Lateran Council Because some Laicks do compel Ecclesiastical Persons and also Bishops themselves to appear before their Judgment-seat We do therefore decree that such be separated from the Communion of the Faithful who shall presume from henceforward so to do The 4 th General Council of Lateran Some Laicks do too much usurp upon Divine Right when they do compel Ecclesiastical Persons holding nothing Temporal from them to take an Oath of Allegiance to them But because according to the Apostle the Servant doth stand or fall to his own Master We do forbid by the Authority of the Sacred Council That such Clerks be compelled to take this kind of Oath to Secular Persons See further the Bull of Pope Leo the 10 th read in the 5 th General Council of Lateran And the Council of Trent which doth ratify all Canons made in their favour The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The King hath chief power 1. The Pope hath Power over Kings to Excommunicate Depose c. 2. The King hath power over all persons 2. Ecclesiastical persons are exempted from Secular Jurisdiction 3. The Bishop of Rome hath no power in the Kings Dominions And the power he challengeth is usurpation 3. The Bishop of Rome is the Universal Pastor 4. The King is not to be resisted 4. The Pope can give power to resist Sovereign Princes and can absolve Subjects from their Allegiance As the Opposition in this matter is evident betwixt Church and Church so we look upon the one to be no less the Doctrine of the Church of Rome than the other is the Doctrine of the Church of England For 1. It 's notoriously manifest That the Church of Rome hath both owned such Principles and proceeded according to those Principles in Excommunicating and Deposing Kings in limiting their Jurisdiction and Absolving Subjects from their Allegiance 2. It is manifest That the several branches of Authority fore-recited and claimed by that Church are grounded upon the Canons of what they call General Councils And that all in the Communion of that Church are bound to own and receive these Principles is evident since they are decreed by the same Councils and after the same manner as the Doctrine of Transubstantiation it self and so are equally to be received with it by all the Members of that Church Thus far I have traced the Disagreement between the Church of England and Rome according to the order observed in the 39 Articles and I might proceed to shew the Opposition between them in many other points such as the sufficiency of Attrition with Absolution the necessity of Auricular Confession the Adoration of the Cross the Images made of God and the Trinity the Guardianship ascribed to Angels and Saints over Places Professions c. The Pilgrimages to Images and Relicks the Miracles pretended to be wrought by them The Religious states of Life and their Vows of Poverty and Obedience Their particular Ceremonies in the Mass and Baptism their Limbus's c. But this will be too tedious and indeed somewhat unnecessary considering how evident it has been already made not to say with some clearness demonstrated that there is an irreconcilable difference between the two Churches about those points to use our Authors words wherein the very life of Popery consists and the whole System of that Religion is founded And as now I may leave it to his skill to try whether he can with a Dictum factum patch up a Cassandrian Peace presently between them So I shall leave it to the Readers Judgment even those he calls the unwary Readers of Books whether we have left us nothing but the name and shadow of a Protestant Church of England as he affirms or whether the Doctrine of the Protestants be any where to be found if not in the Church of England And for this purpose I shall present the Reader with the sum of what has been said upon this Argument A brief Scheme of the Difference betwixt the Doctrine of the Church of England and the Church of Rome as set forth in the foregoing Treatise Sufficiency of Scripture The Church of England teacheth THe Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be received as an Article of Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation p. 15. The Church of Rome holdeth THe Holy Scripture doth not contain all saving Truth but there are certain Traditions not written which the Church is to have recourse to for it as well as the written Books And such Traditions are to be received and regarded with the like Piety and Reverence as the Books of the Old and New Testament Canonical Books The Church of England teacheth No Books are to be received as Canonical but Genesis c. that is the 39 Books of the Old Testament and the New. And as for the 13 Books commonly called Apocrypha tho the Church doth read them for Example of Life and Instruction of Manners yet She doth not apply them to establish any Doctrine The Church of Rome holdeth The Books commonly called Apocrypha viz. Tobias c. are as Canonical and as truly the Word of God as the five Books of Moses c. And whosoever doth not so receive them is accursed Scripture in a known Tongue The Church of England teacheth There is in Scripture whatsoever is meet for all ages and sorts of Men and so the Books of it ought to be much in their Hands Eyes and Hearts And none are Enemies to the reading of it but such as are ignorant or ungodly that would wish the People still to continue in blindness and ignorance of God p. 15. The Church of Rome holdeth If the Scripture be permitted to be read every where in the Vulgar Tongue more prejudice than benefit doth redound from it And therefore it 's fit that the People be deprived altogether of it nor so much as suffered to have Summaries or Historical Abridgments of it Church Authority
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