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A25226 The creed of Pope Pius the IV, or, A prospect of popery taken from that authentick record with short notes. Altham, Michael, 1633-1705. 1687 (1687) Wing A2932; ESTC R18033 8,868 13

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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
be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches and I do promise and swear true obedience to the Bishop of Rome the Successor of St. Peter the Prince of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ NOTES upon it If you can believe that a Part is the Whole why should you not believe the Church of Rome to be the Catholick Church If you can believe that the Church of Jerusalem and all other Churches in all parts of the world received their Religion from Her why should you not believe that she is the Mother of all other Churches If you can believe that any one Church in the world hath a Sovereign Power and Authority over all other Churches why should you not believe the Church of Rome hath and consequently is Mistress of all other Churches If you can believe that among equals there is any Superiority why should you not believe that St. Peter was Prince of the Apostles and consequently that the Bishop of Rome as his Successor is Bishop of Bishops and Prince of all Pastors If you can believe that Jesus Christ did constitute and ordain any particular Person upon Earth to be his Vicar-general in his absence why should you not believe that the Bishop of Rome for the time being is the Man But if you can believe none of these things I cannot help it XXIV I do undoubtedly receive and profess all other things which have been delivered defined and declared by the Sacred Canons and Oecumenical Councils and especially by the holy Synod of Trent and all things contrary thereunto and all Heresies condemned rejected and Anathematized by the Church I do likewise condemn reject and Anathematize NOTES upon it If you can believe that all and every thing which at any time hath been delivered defined and declared by any General Council especially by that of Trent doth exactly agree with the Canon of holy Scripture Or if you can believe that all and every thing which at any time hath ben condemned rejected and Anathematized by such Councils is really Heresie and justly condemned by them Then why may you not believe as the Church of Rome doth and receive this as an Article of Faith But if you cannot believe these things who can help it Thus have I given you a Prospect of Popery without any misrepresentation or prevarication from a very Authentick Record viz. The Creed of Pope Pius IV. which is received professed and sworn to by every one who enters into Holy Orders in that Church and in the close thereof we are told that the Faith contained therein is so absolutely and indispensibly necessary that no man can be saved without it The Creed it self you see contains Twenty four Articles The Twelve first of which we firmly believe and readily embrace being well assured that they contain nothing in them but Primitive Christianity and that they are well warranted by the Word of God The Twelve latter we reject as Innovations and Additions to the Catholick Faith that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints and which hath been delivered down to us in the holy Scriptures and the Three Ancient Creeds In these you have the main Body of Popery as it stands distinguished from Primitive Christianity the Novelty and unwarrantableness whereof it were no hard matter to demonstrate but that hath been done already by better hands and was no part of my design in these Papers I intended onely to give you a full view of Popery from an unexceptionable Record and leave you to consider of it And having this done I have onely this request to make that those into whose hands these Papers shall come would sit down and seriously consider whether it be fit or safe for them to mingle such stuff with their Common Christianity FINIS Books lately Printed for and Sold by L. Meredith at the Angel in Amen-Corner BIshop Taylor 's Opuscula The Measures of Friendship With Five Letters to persons changed and tempted to a change in their Religion To which is now added his Moral Demonstration proving that the Religion of J. Christ is from God Price bound 1 s. Two Treatises The First concerning Reproaching and Censure The Second An Answer to Mr. Serjeant's Sure-Footing To which are annexed Three Sermons Preached upon several Occasions and very usefull for these Times By the late Learned and Reverend William Faulkner D. D. Some Queries to Protestants Answered and an Explanation of the Roman Catholicks Belief in four great Points considered 1. Concerning their Church 2. Their Worship 3. Justification 4. Civil Government Price stitch'd 6 d. A Vindication of the Church of England from the soul Aspersions of Schism and Heresie unjustly cast upon her by the Church of Rome In Two Parts Price stitch'd 1 s.