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A57847	The Tridentine-gospel, or, papal creed made at Trent, and promulgated at Rome, by Pope Pius IV : exhibited and demonstrated to be new, heterodox, and antichristian : in a sermon / by William Ramsay ... ; hereto is added, Pope Pius his Bull in Latine and English, necessary to be seen by all that would know the present faith of Rome, especially in these our nations where they conceal it.	Ramsay, William, B.D.; Catholic Church. Pope (1559-1565 : Pius IV). Professio fidei Tridentina. English & Latin.	1672 (1672)	Wing R221; ESTC R14528	21,776	35

the Obedience of the Church of Rome We also having a Will that the same be observed and practised by all such as shall be provided for out of Monasteries Convents Houses and whatsoever other places of Regulars of whatsoever Orders even of Military Professions under whatsoever Name or Title and desiring also that so much sollicitude as concerns our self may not to any one seem to be wanting in this matter to the end that a Profession of one and the same Faith may be uniformly made by all and one only and certain form thereof may be exhibited to all We by Apostolical Authority and by the tenour of these Presents districtly commanding command that the form which is expressed in these presents be published and throughout all Nations by these to whom it belongs according to the decrees of the said Council and by others abovesaid be received and observed and under such pains as the said Council hath decreed against the Refractory the said Profession shall be solemnly made in this following and no other form and under this following tenour IN. with firm saith believe and profess all and several the things which are contained in the Symbol of Faith † This Symbol of Faith is not only the short Constantinopolitan Creed which here immediately follows but also the long 14 Articles added by the Council of Trent and here by the Pope commanded to be professed as a sum of Orthodox Faith which the holy Church of Rome doth use to wit I Believe in One God * 4 the Father Almighty maker of heaven and of earth of all things visible and invisible and in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God and born of the Father before all time God of God Light of Light True God of a True God begot and not made consubstantial with the Father by whom all things were made Who for us men and for our salvation descended from heaven and took flesh by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made Man crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate suffered and was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven sitteth at the right hand of the Father and is to come again with glory to judge the quick and the dead of whose Kingdom shall be no end and in the holy Ghost the Lord and giver of Life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son and is adored and glorified together with the Father and the Son who spake by the Prophets and one holy Catholick and Apostolick Church I confess one Baptism to the remission of sins and expect the resurrection of the dead and life of the world to come Amen 1. I most firmly receive and embrace the Apostolical and Ecclesiastical * 5 Traditions and all other Customs and Constitutions of the same Church † † Here is begun the principal part of the Roman Creed and the real sense and import of this first Article is I believe in the Pope 2. Also I admit the holy Scripture * 6 in that sense which the holy Mother Church hath held and holdeth to whom it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the holy Scriptures nor will I ever receive or interpret them but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers 3. I profess also that there are seven true and proper Sacraments of the new Law instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord for the salvation of Mankind although all are not necessary to each one to wit Order Baptism Comfirmation Eucharist Pennance Extreme Vnction Matrimony and these all give grace and of these Baptism Confirmation and Order cannot be reiterated without Sacriledge 4. I also receive and admit all received and approved Rites of the Catholick Church in the solemn administrations of all the abovesaid Sacraments 5. I also embrace and receive all and several the things * 7 which have been defined and declared in the sacred and holy Synod of Trent concerning Original sin and Justification 6. I also profess that in the Mass there is offered to God a true proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the Living and the Dead and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist is contained truly really and substantially the Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ and there is made a perfect change of the whole substance of the Bread into his Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into his Blood which change the Catholick Church calleth Transubstantiation 7. I confess also that whole and entire Christ and the true Sacrament is received under one only species of Bread 8. I constantly hold that there is a Purgatory and that souls there detained are holpen * 8 by the suffrages of the faithful 9. Likewise that the Saints reigning with Christ are to be worshiped and invocated and that they offer prayers * 9 for us to God and that their reliques are to be worshiped 10. I most firmly assert that the Images of Christ the Virgin Mary and of the other Saints are to be had and kept and duty of honour and worship to be given them 11. I also affirm that the power of Indulgences was left in the Church by Christ and that the use of them is most conducive to the salvation * 10 of the Christian people 12. The holy Catholick and Apostolick Church of Rome * 11 I acknowledge to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches and I vow swear and promise true Obedience to the Bishop of Rome as successor of B. Peter Prince of the Apostles and Vicair of Jesus Christ 13. Also all and whatsoever other things delivered by way of Tradition defined and declared by the holy Canons and the General Councils and chiefly by the sacred and holy Synod of Trent * 12 I undoubtedly receive and profess and together all contrary things and whatsoever heresies by the Church damned rejected and accursed I also damn reject and accurse 14. This true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved * 13 which at this present I freely profess and truly hold I the same N. do promise vow and swear most constantly God assisting to retain and confess entire and enviolate to the very last gasp of life and to procure as much as shall lie in me that the same be held taught and preached by all my inferiours and by those who are committed to my care and charge So God help me and these holy Gospels of God Farther It is is our will † † This new and voluntary Gospel and Creed having no other foundation than the will and work of Man will dissolve of it self as all other works of men however glorious for a time that these present Letters be read in our Apostolical Chancery according to the custom and that they may be more open to all they shall be writ in the Quintern of our said Chancery and also imprinted Therefore it shall be lawful to no man

Truth to embrace Fables This Pride and Itch were the diseases of the Romish people These heap of Masters were Romish Doctors Canonists and School-men The Truth is the Gospel and the Fables are Romances that is Romish Tenets and Tridentine Articles And although this Apostasie which the Apostle here and 2 Thess 2.3 speaks of was not compleated in the first Centuries of the Christian Church to a notorious degree nor perhaps is yet fully accomplished yet the Apostle there v. 7. witnesseth that even then the mystery of iniquity was a working But in these last days Certes The work is brought to so notorious a Fabrick that he must needs renounce the Principles of Reason and quit all belief in the Scriptures that will not acknowledge the Roman Forgery of a new Gospel which with a monstrous Art was contrived into one frame and body in the Council of Trent out of the chief Romantick pieces that from the beginning Iniquity had wrought on We have a whole world of Testimony but their own solemn confession is the best evidence For Pope Pius the Fourth ad perpetuam rei memoriam to their own eternal confusion by an authentick Bull canonized a certain form of profession of the present Faith of Rome commanding the same to be professed avowed and sworn solemnly by all Ecclesiastick and Religious Professors and by all Proselytes and promoted persons of the Church of Rome as the true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved Which is the proper and distinctive title and character of a Gospel I commend the Bull it self to your reading I will now First shew the occasion of their creating this New Creed 2. I le give a sum of that Creed 3. I le demonstrate its novelty and contrariety to the Gospel The occasion of this strange production was this The Points of Romish Doctrine dissenting from the Gospel and Testament of Christ were amplified to such a quantity by Bulls Decrees Canons and Schoolmen and imposed so heavily upon the People from Chair and Pulpit that the aggrievance of such doctrine became palpable and notorious to the world especially such learned men as had knowledge of Holy Writ Wherefore many most learned and zealous Christians notwithstanding the Popes terrour and tyranny in the Spirit of Christ Protested against it But the Pope seeing on one side that his Empire could not subsist if his Schoolmens inventions were once annull'd and on the other side knowing that no authority of God either from Scripture or Creed gave warrant or surety to his Doctrine being now invaded most zealously by many Christian Doctors Princes and Nations he herded together that great Synagogue of Schoolmen at Trent all his adjured Vassals all sworn Followers of their respective Leaders and Princes of School-doctrine Alexander H●les Thomas Aquinas John Dunscot and William Occham which are the four Evangelists of School-Gospel in the Church of Rome In this eximious Synagogue of Schoolmen the Mystery of Iniquity first presumed the title of a Gospel that is of the true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved There Truth long deserted and forsaken began to be solemnly disavowed and forsworn And Fables of Romantick Faith which had long passed for true began to be avowed as the Gospel of Truth There to the Gospel of Jesus Christ is arrogated another Gospel of Rome to the Apostolical Symbol the Roman Creed The Apostolical one consists in 12 short Articles because the Authors thereof summarily delivered what is necessary to believe But that of Rome consists in 14 long Articles because seven Devils that is a sum of Iniquity as Gregory the Great interprets being cast out of Rome when Christianity first took place they entred again with double number and force when Popery made the last things of Rome worse than the first The sum of these 14 Articles follows The First puts generally and indefinitely all the Traditions Customs and Constitutions of the Church of Rome for the foundation and ground of Faith The Second gives the second place to the Scriptures after the pre-eminent authority of Romish Constitutions restraining the Spirit of God speaking in the Hagiographers to the narrow sense and interpretation of Schoolmen The Third loads the Law of Christ with seven Sacraments whereof one to wit Pennance includes within it self a larger Law Creed and Gospel than Christ and all his Apostles ever preached The Fourth is very zealous and puts all the Rites Customs and Ceremonies used by the Church of Rome in her solemn administration of Sacraments among the necessary tenets of Christian Faith The Fifth involves an infinity of Creeds to wit all and several the disputes and points which the Council of Trent was pleased to declare and define concerning the spatious matter of Justification and Original Sin The Sixth makes a full profession of the Sacrifice of the Mass and Transubstantiation The Seventh professeth the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to be perfected under the sign of Bread alone The Eighth holds Purgatory as a Territory subject to the Pope The Ninth holds the Adoration and Worship of Saints and their Reliques The Tenth holds Image-Worship The Eleventh holds Pardons Graces of the Pope and Indulgences as most necessary instruments of Salvation The Twelfth professeth the present Church of Rome to be the Only Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church Mother and Mistress of all other Churches and voweth unlimited Obedience to the Pope as Head thereof The Thirteenth universally and undoubtedly receives and professeth all the Decrees and Declarations of Roman Canons and Councils but above all to wit even the four Primitive Councils whatsoever is delivered defined or declared in the holy and sacred Synod of Trent and rejecteth all things contrary to wit even the Scripture it self The Fourteenth recollecteth all the foresaid Articles and solemnly promiseth voweth and sweareth to maintain and teach them not as Articles of Peace of Obedience of Conformity or Legal Doctrine but as the true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved Which is the character and essential property of the Gospel of Jesus Christ even in that strict sense we before explicated usurpt by this Scholastick Synagogue of Trent to mysterize and gild Iniquity This is the sum of that Gospel which the present Church of Rome maintains and so from the beginning of my Discourse hitherto I have laid open both Gospels first that of Jesus Christ which consists in believing in Jesus Christ and in keeping his Commandments then That of Christs pretended Vicair the Pope which consists totally in believing the Popes Definitions and in obeying his Precepts He that acknowledgeth not the contradiction and repugnancy of these two Gospels must needs forfeit the esteem of a reasonable man as well as of a right principled Christian Behold their difference from bottom to top The foundation of the one is Jesus Christ which was laid from the beginning and another foundation can no man lay 1 Cor. 3.11 The foundation of the other is Papal

Supremacy which was not from the beginning but laid by man is to be raised by man The holy Spirit buildeth the faithful on the first foundation by hope in the grace and merits of Jesus Christ The Pope builds his credulous children on his own foundation by hope in the grace and merits of his Pardons and Indulgences The charity of Jesus Christ which is to love one another as he loved us is the furniture and perfection of the first building but slavery and bondage to Papal jurisdiction is the top and consummation of the Roman Edifice Recitâsse confutâsse est The bare rehearsal of such a Creed is a full conviction of its heterodox absurdity Yet that its novelty may more appear we will set before it three illustrious Opposites of Evangelical Light to wit Primitive Creeds Primitive Councils and Primary Texts of Scripture As for Primitive Creeds The whole Christian World ever held yea the present Church of Rome in word though not in effect holdeth that the Apostles Creed was by them in the H. Ghost designed as a sum of all Christian belief necessary to salvation wherefore the primitive Church never presumed to add but only to declare it in more open exp●essions of the same thing as appetrs in the Creeds of Athanasius of Nice o● Constantinople But this Creed of Trent is a palpable piece of Creation for it's totally new both in matter and in form And to deny its novel● were as gross an absurdity in point of understanding as to deny the rising of the Sun were an absurdity in sense yea greater as its difference from the Primitive Creed is as manifest as the identity of the rising and setting Sun is certain For its Articles are of an impertinent and opposit● import to the Primitive more in number greater in bulk stranger to sense harder to Reason burdensom to Conscience contemptible to Religion The Primitive Creeds may justly glory in the foundation of Christ to wit his written Word in which they a●e found contained The Creed of Trent hath nothing to glory in greater than the Romish Schools Papal Decrees Canons Customs Constitutions and Senses of Men. The Primitive Creeds have the Testimony of the whole World Christian and Antichristian The Creed of Trent besides repugnance with Christian Principles is reprobated by the most learned and sober part of Christendom to wit Protestant Churches and Nations The Primitive Creeds sound nothing but Gods honour and worship through Jesus Christ This of Trent sounds nothing but Lucre through a form of godliness denying the power thereof with popular Superstition vendible Devotion and tyrannical exaction of Faith and Obedience The Primitive Councils are four of Nice of Constantinople of Ephesus and of Chalcedon In these the whole Christian World on which as yet the dew of the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles stood fresh and fair unanimously made a Catholick united and most solemn attestation of the Faith of Christ Which the Council of Nice first did Ann. 325. not by defining new Articles or creating new matter or producing new form of Faith but by declaring and defending the Old contained in the Apostles Creed Which as a just measure of Faith instituted by the Holy Ghost that great Council presumed not to transgress The same was observed by the Council of Constantinople Ann. 381. which repeated confirmed and ratified the Symbol of Nice defending the Article of the Holy Ghost by a clear expression of his p●oceeding from the Son The Council of Ephesus Ann. 431. presumed no addition of Articles but confirming the Apostolical number defended that of Christs divine and unique personality against Nestorius The Council of Chalcedon 451. confi●med the method of the former Councils defending and declaring the two distinct Natures of Christ against Eutiches Thus these four Catholick Councils had no other product of Faith than is formally contained in the four Catholick Gospels In fine The work of the Holy Spirit in the Primitive Councils was nothing more or less than to establish that Faith which he inspired the four Evangelists to write in the Gospel and the Apostles to preach in their Creed But in these last days non Sanctus Spiritus sed sanctissimus Pater not the Holy Spirit but the most Holy Father for so he loveth to be entituled who superlatively exalts himself above whatsoever is God in Heaven or is called God on Earth hath wrought a new work est mirabile in oculis nostris a New Gospel of Apostolical and Ecclesiastical that is Roman Traditions Customs and Constitutions grounded on the Cathedral word of a Pope not as the old Creed a sum of the work of the Scriptures written by the instinct and confirmed by the wonderful works of the Holy Spirit but a sum of the work on Earth to wit of the Canon law of Rome written by the instinct and confirmed by the most mighty Bulls of the most Holy Fathers the Bishops of Rome Which sum his said Most Holy Paternity defines to be the true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved which Definition whosoever infringeth he shall not only incur his Holiness displeasure but the indignation also imperet ei Deus God rebuke him of Almighty God And the rebuke will quickly follow if you please to consider four Primary Texts of Scripture Joh. 20.31 These things of which the Apostolical Symbol is a Sum are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you may have life by his name Why then were not these other things of which this Papal Symbol is a Sum written if as his Holiness defines there is no life no salvation without them Acts 15.28 It is approved of the Holy Ghost and us say the Apostles at Jerusalem not to impose on you a greater burthen than these necessary things Hath the Holy Ghost in length of years disapproved in Trent what he approved in Jerusalem to double the burden of belief and obedience It 's far more just and reasonable to judge that he who glorieth in the Vicairship of Christ and Succession to Peter is heir and possessor of that spirit of Roboam 1 King 12.20 Speaking hard things to the people of Christ making his least finger grosser than the back and shoulders of Jesus making his sweet yoke uneasie and scourging with Scorpions the flock of Christ for which the good Pastor was scourged with whips The Apostle Jude in his Catholick Epistle v. 3. thinks it necessary to exhort us to contend for the Faith once delivered to the Saints But Pope Pius commands us to fight for the Faith now of late inspired into the holy Fathers of the Council of Trent initio Bullae But let us obey the holy Apostle who like a Messenger of God exhorts us with a salutation of Mercy Peace and Charity But let us avoid the Papal Spirit as of a contrary Satanical mission for more Impious indeed than Pius by name he usurps a threat of the

Faith to justification and salvation have no sin as the Romists attribute to their Priestly absolutions and Papal indulgences No For if we say we have no sin the truth is not in us 1 Joh. 1.8 How then do we keep the Commandments it follows immediately v. 9. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins to wit if we have an unfeigned Faith in his name which will certainly through love work a sorrow to offend him who is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world 1 Joh. 2.2 Thus it appears that to believe unfeignedly in Jesus Christ and to keep the Commandments are two things inseparable Wherefore whensoever we hear eternal life and salvation promised to the one the other must be understood included as a necessary part of that Repentance to which Christ hath promised his Kingdom The mutual relation of these parts being thus observed we are to consider them distinctly by themselves And first The Holy Scripture every where proclaims That To believe Jesus to be the Son of God is an absolute sum of all necessary Faith yea I dare say This is the way of Salvation the Repentance to which the Kingdom is promised and the whole Primitive Gospel of Christ in the strict sense and propriety of that word as we explicated before And Jesus Christ himself is my Warrant Author and Argument Joh. 6.29 This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent And lest we might interpret this in too narrow a sense Christ would be his own Interpreter v. 40. This is the will of him that sent me that every one which believeth on the Son may have everlasting life and I will raise him up a● the last day And lest yet we might think with the Papists that he instructed us by halfs he adds not to his words to do which was both easie and necessary if his doctrine were not already perfect he adds not I say to his words but repeats the same words with more brevity and a double asseveration v. 47. Verily verily I say unto you He that believeth on me hath everlasting life What could be more plainly more peremptorily more authoritatively declared than this What reasonable man after this plain and earnest declaration of Christ himself the author and finisher of our faith Hebr. 12.2 can think it needful to run after Pope Apostle o● Angel to learn if this faith be sufficient of which Christ hath already given sentence He that believeth hath everlasting life Must not that needs be the Gospel of the Kingdom to which the King Jesus declaratively promiseth the Kingdom Must not that needs be the way of everlasting life which so solemnly is shewn commended and commanded unto us by him that is the way the truth and the life Let us therefore with all confidence relie on the most warrantable Word of Christs own oral promise which is so far from needing the confirmation of a Papal Bull that Apostles or Angels preaching any other Gospel are declared accursed Yet It will not be amiss to see how consonant the Proclamation of the Apostles is to the Archetypal Word of their Master to the Primitive and Oral Law of their Lord. The most beloved Disciple of Jesus John is an irrefragable Recorder chap. 20.31 He bears record that the Gospels were written that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing we might have life through his name His Epistles are decretal in this point 1 Jo. 5.3 he formally professeth his design saying I write to that end that ye may know that ye have eternal life if ye believe in the name of the Son of God Farther the practice of the Apostles as appears in the Book of their Acts was to baptize in the name of Jesus Christ that is to make members of the Church such as had no farther knowledge of Faith than to believe Jesus to be the Christ Wherefore let no man add to the word of Faith but rather consent with Paul Rom. 10.8 This is the word of faith which we preach If thou confessest with thy mouth our Lord Jesus and in thy heart believest thou shalt be saved This Faith in Christ includes or infers as we said Charity which is the fulfilling of the Law to do to others even as we would they should do to us Mat. 7.12 The whole law is fulfilled in one word even in this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Gal. 5.14 If we love one another God abideth in us and the love of God is perfected in us 1 Joh. 4.12 This Belief and Love combined in one most amply express that Repentance which Christ and his Apostles preached to which they promised the Kingdom So we find them jointly exprest 1 Joh. 3.23 This is his Commandment that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another This is his Commandment both Old and New 1 Joh. 2.7 We therefore briefly and clearly conclude our first Resolve to wit that the Gospel which Christ and his Apostles preached as the only and immutable way of eternal truth and happiness consists in the Faith and Love which is in Christ Jesus that is to believe Jesus to be the Son of God and to keep his Commandments and is essentially neither more nor less For as the whole law is fulfilled in one word Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Gal. 5.14 So the whole faith is preached in one word Confess with thy mouth and believe in thy heart the Lord Jesus Rom. ●0 8 From this our first Resolve the second is with ease and evidence deduced to wit That the present Church of England professeth and maintaineth that Primitive Gospel For it is manifest that the said Church imposeth upon no man as necessary to salvation more than what the written Word of Christ imposeth Article 6. of the 39. and the written Word is demonstrated to impose what we have said and no more It remains only to exhort the happy members of this Church as Paul did 2 Tim. 1.13 Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus But the glory of the Church of England will appear more illustrious after a view taken of the Church of Rome which follows in this third Resolve wherein I will shew that the Church of Rome imposeth a Gospel contrary to the Primitive Gospel of Christ For the days have already appeared wherein according to the Spirits prediction 2 Tim. 4.3 Men were not content with plain sound and wholsom doctrine of Faith and Love in Christ Jesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the swelling lust and pride of their hearts bred an itch in their ears which gave them no rest till heaps of Masters had rubbed them into such a temper of madness and absurdity that they turned Apostates from the