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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

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

whatsoever to infringe the page of this our Will and Commandment or with daring rashness to contradict it But if any one be so presumptuous as to attempt that let him know that he shall incur the indignation of Almighty God and of the B. Peter and Paul his Apostles * 14 Given at Rome at S. Peters Ann. Chr. 1564. the Ides of Nov. in the fifth Year of our Pontificate Fed. Cardinalis Caesius Cae. Glorierius The Letters above-written were read and published at Rome in the Apostolical Chancel Ann. 1564. on Saturday the 9. of Decemb. in the fifth year of the Pontificate of the Most Holy Father and Lord in Christ our Lord Pope Pius the fourth A. Lomelinus Custos The little Stars inserted in this Romish Symbol are to lead the Reader to the following Notes which discover the Sophistry of Mysterious Iniquity hid therein Notes upon this BULL THis Profession of Faith is truly that form of Godliness of which the Apostle speaks 2 Tim. 3.5 which the Papal Church professeth yet really denieth the power thereof as these following Stars make clearly appear For first * 1 Here is a solemn celebrity of a form of Profession of the Orthodox Faith of Jesus Christ Yet weigh the matter contained and it proves nothing else in fine but a vow of unlimited obedience to the Pope and of a Faith totally captivated to his Councils Canons and Decrees as most specially appears in the 12. 13. and 14. Articles of the New Creeed * 2 Here is a form of the most Christian Humility imaginable where the Bishop of Bishops terms himself the Servant of the Servants of God but consider a Satanical pride or a greater if possible wherewith he exalts himself above all that is called God glorying in the title of the Most Holy Lord which he prints above in Capital Letters and maintains in trampling on the heads of Kings and Emperours by usurpt supremacy * 3 Here is an extern form of Divine Doctrine which is pretended to be inspired by God into the Holy Fathers congregated in his name But the real truth is that these Fathers were Schoolmen more famous for knowledge in the Canon-law of Rome than for holy life in the law of God inspired with the Spirit of Aquinas and Scotus and other School-Evangelists more than with the Spirit of their Master Christ as appears in their long New Creed drawn from their Schools and not from the Gospel Congregated not in the name of the Lord for then his Law would have been their Rule but in the name of the Pope whose Kingdom they have sought for as most faithful Vassals * 4 Here is an illustrious form of Catholick and Apostolical Belief to wit a solemn Profession of the Primitive Creed of the Apostles illustrated by the Council of Nice and of Constantinople as a just sum of the Faith of Christ But this same Faith is mysteriously subverted by a New Creed of Traditions immediately added exceeding the former in number of Articles in weight of difficulty and in measure unlimited of School-Assertions * 5 Under the form of these words Apostolical Ecclesiastical Catholick Holy Church Mother c. lies always hid the adulterate matter of the Romish Synagogue * 6 Here is a form of receiving the Scripture but in truth they receive it only in such tenour and sense as the Fathers admit that is the School-men approved by the Pope For although this Article craftily seems to mean the ancient Fathers of the Primitive Church yet truly they are admitted no more than the Pope and his School-men are pleased to approve and what is really here meant by the Mother-Church you may see plainly in Art 12. * 7 This seems a short Article in form but in matter it is greater than a just Creed for the things declared and defined by the Council of Trent concerning Original sin and Justification are many and weighty * 8 This and the following Articles of this New Creed are very fallacious by a diminutive form of expression which craftily hideth a matter of greater Moment As here the souls in Purgatory are only said to be holpen by the Suffrages of the Faithful Yet certain it is that the Pope lays claim to a greater power in that infernal Territory and boasteth to possess the Keys thereof and to open and shut at pleasure especially to such as are liberal in Alms. * 9 Here is also a diminution of words For indeed the Roman tenet is That the Saints are to be adored and worshiped for this cause chiefly to wit because Salvation and other divine benefits are obtained by their Merits and Grace as the Catechism of the Council of Trent plainly expresseth Part. 3. Num. XXIV Whence is manifest that the Roman Church makes the Saints fellow-Saviours with Christ for Christ is not a Saviour any other way than by procuring us salvation and other benefits by his merits and grace * 10 Here is also a diminutive expression For the Pope usurpeth Indulgences not only as conducing to salvation but truly as fully sufficient to save all those that receive them for to such he promiseth infallible forgiveness of all sin and pain due to sin especially if the Indulgence include a condition of giving Alms. * 11 This Twelfth Article is both diminutive in expression and captious in consequence For first it means that all the Churches and Nations of the World are subject to the Laws and Canons of Rome A thing which neither Scripture nor Reason nor any Christian Principle can sustain Secondly It would infer That the Pope as Vicar of Christ is Lord and Master of the Nations of the World and can dispose of Empires Crowns and Diadems when and how he shall at any time define * 12 By this appears that the Council of Trent is the only measure and rule of Faith in the Church of Rome Whereas on the contrary S. Paul instructeth the Churches of Galatia Gal. 1.8 to measure their Faith by that Gospel only which from the beginning they had received and was by himself preached unto them And indeed this long New Creed of Rome is not derived in the least from Canonical Scripture but in whole and in part from the Canons of Trent * 13 Without which no man can be saved This evidently sheweth That this Profession of Faith is not made as a means of uniformity only as are the Articles of the Church of England but as a New Creed Gospel or Rule of Essential belief and as such is here imposed by the Pope upon his Subjects to be professed vowed sworn and maintained under pain of eternal damnation * 14 By this direful Curse of the Pope so confidently cast on those that reject his New Creed and Trent-Gospel appears how contrary the Papal Spirit is to the Spirit that spake in Paul Gal. 1.8 where a Curse is declared to fall on those who shall preach a Gospel other than that which was already preached by Paul The Curse therefore except we manifestly deny the Holy Ghost in his great Apostle must fall on the Pope and and Papal Preachers except they can find a Priviledge greater than given to Apostles or Angels to preach and establish New Gospels at pleasure Wherefore no man so much a Christian as to believe the Scriptures can in Conscience make scruple to reject this Papal Symbol as Anathematized with its Author Otherwise as captive to accursed Doctors let such an one certainly expect to be led in darkness deprived of the Truth and Light of Christ In fine It appears That as the sum of the Primitive Creed and Gospel is to believe in God so the sum of the Romish Creed and Gospel is to believe in Man the Pope And as the Rule of the Primitive Faith is the Word of God the holy Scriptures so the Rule of the Romish Faith is the word of Man Papal definitions And as the end of the Primitive Faith is the Charity of God to keep his Commandments so the end of the Romish Faith is Slavery to Man to ma●●tain his Supremacy Thus alass Rome hath left the Fountain of livi● waters God for the broken Cisterns of the digging of man wh●●hold no water Jer. 2.12 FINIS A Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Ro●● and the hazard of Salvation in the communion of it In Answer● some Papers of a Revolted Protestant wherein a particular acco●● is given of the Fanaticism and Divisions of that Church By EDWARD STILLINGFLEET D.D. Sold at the Phoenix in St. Pauls Church-yard and at the White Har● in Westminster Hall 1672.

Concilium ipsum in contravenientes latis juxta hanc non aliata formam professionem praedictam solemniter fieri Auctoritate Apostolici tenore praesentium districtè praecipiendo mandamus hujusmodi sub tenore 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 factorem coeli terrae visibilium omnium invisibilium in unum Dominum Jesum Christum Filium Dei unigenitum ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula Deum de Deo lumen de lumine Deum verum de Deo vero genitum non factum consubstantialem Patri per quem omnia facta sunt qui propter nos homines propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Mariâ Virgine homo factus est crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato passus sepultus est resurrexit tertià die secundùm Scripturas ascendit in coelum sedet ad dextram Patris iterum venturus est cum gloriâ judicare vivos mortuos cujus regni n●● crit finis in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum vivificantem qui ex Patre filióque procedit qui cum Patre Filio simul adoratur conglorificatur qui locutus est per Prophetas unam Sanctam Catholicam Apostolicam Ecclesiam Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem pecc●torum expecto resurrectionem mortuorum vitam venturi saeculi Amen 1. Apostolicas Ecclesiasticas traditiones reliquásque ejusdem Ecclesiae observationes constitutiones firmissimè admitto amplector 2. Item sacram Scripturam juxta eum sensum quem tenuit tenet sancta mater Ecclesia cujus est judicare de vero sensu interpretatione sacrarum Scripturarum admitto nec eam unquam nisi juxta unanimem consensum Patrum accipiam interpretabor 3. Profiteor quoque septem esse verè propriè Sacramenta n●● legis à Jesu Christo Domino nostro instituta atque ad salutem humani generis licèt non omnia singulis necessaria scilicet Baptismum Confirmationem Eucharistiam Poenitentiam Extremam Unctionem Ordinem Matrimonium illáque gratiam conferre ex his Baptismum Confirmationem Ordinem sine sacrilegio reiterari non posse 4. Receptos quoque approbatos Ecclesiae Catholicae ritus in supradictorum omnium Sacramentorum solemni administratione recipio admitto 5. Omnia singula quae de peccato Originali de justificatione in Sacrosancta Tridentina Synodo definita declarata fuerunt amplector recipio 6. Profiteor pariter in Missâ offerri Deo verum proprium propitiatorium sacrificium pro vivis defunctis atque in sanctissimo Eucharistiae Sacramento esse verè realiter substantialiter corpus sanguinem unà cum animâ divinitate Domini nostri Jesu Christi fieríque conversionem totius substantiae panis in corpus totius substantiae vini in sanguinem quam conversionem Catholica Ecclesia transubstantiationem appellat 7. Fateor etiam sub altera tantum specie totum atque integrum Christum verúmque Sacramentum sumi 8. Constanter teneo Purgatorium esse animásque ibi detentas fidelium suffragiis adjuvari 9. Similiter sanctos unà cum Christo regnantes venerandos atque invocandos esse eósque orationes Deo pro nobis offerre atque eorum reliquias esse venerandas 10. Firmissimè assero imagines Christi ac Deiparae semper Virginis necnon aliorum sanctorum habendas retinendas esse atque eis debitum honorem ac venerationem impertiendam 11. Indulgentiarum etiam Potestatem à Christo in Ecclesia relictam fuisse illarúmque usum Christiano populo maximè salutarem esse affirmo 12. Sanctam Catholicam Apostolicam Romanam Ecclesiam omnium Ecclesiarum matrem magistram agnosco Romanóque Pontifici Beati Petri Apostolorum Principis successori ac Jesu Christi Vicario veram obedientiam spondeo ac juro 13. Caetera item omnia à sacris Canonibus oecumenicis conciliis ac praecipuè a sacro-sancta Tridentina Synodo tradita definita declarata indubitanter recipio atque profiteor simúlque contraria omnia atque haereses quascunque ab Ecclesia damnatas rejectas anathematizatas ego pariter damno rejicio anathematizo 14. Hanc veram Catholicam fidem extra quam nemo salvus esse potest quam in praesenti sponte profiteor veraciter teneo eandem integram inviolatam usque ad extremum vitae spiritum constantissimè Deo adjuvante retinere confiteri atque à meis subditis vel illis quorum cura ad me in munere meo spectabit teneri doceri praedicari quantum in me erit curaturum Ego idem N. spondeo voveo ac juro sic me Deus adjuvet haec sancta Dei Evangelia Volumus autem quòd praesentes literae in Cancellaria nostrâ Apostolicâ de more legantur ut omnibus facilius pateant in ejus Quinterno describantur ac etiam imprimantur Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae voluntatis mandati infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire Siquis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei ac ●eatorum Petri Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum Datum Romae apud Sanctum Petrum Anno Incarnationis Dominicae Millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quarto Idibus Novembris Pontificatus nostri Anno quinto Fed. Cardinalis Caesius Cae. Glorierius Lectae publicatae fuerunt suprascriptae literae Romae in Cancellariâ Apostolicâ Anno Incarnationis Dominicae Millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quarto Die vero sabbati Nona Mensis Decembris Pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo Patris Domini nosti Domini Pii Papae Quarti Anno quinto A. Lomelinus Custos The BULL of our Most Holy Lord The Lord PIVS By Divine Providence the IV. of that Name Upon the Form * 1 of the Oath of the Profession of the FAITH PIUS Bishop Servant of the Servants * 2 of God that these Presents may be of everlasting Memory THe Office of Apostolical service incumbent upon us requireth That such things as Almighty God for the provident Government of his Church hath deigned by his divine Spirit to inspire into the Holy Fathers * 3 congregated in his name We without delay hasten to execute to his praise and glory Seeing therefore it is so disposed by the Council of Trent that all such as hereafter shall be promoted to any Praefectship in Cathedral or other Great Churches or to whom it shall happen to be provided for out of the Dignities Canonries of the said Churches and whatsoever other Ecclesiastical Benefices having a Curateship shall be obliged to make a publick Profession of Orthodox Faith and to promise and swear that they shall ever persever in