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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	apostolical_a	church_n	tradition_n	4,989	5	9.5918	5	true

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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