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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

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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
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.
Imprimatur March 26. 1672. C. Smith R. in Ch. P. ac D. D. Humfr. Episc Lond. Sacellan THE Tridentine-Gospel OR PAPAL CREED Made at TRENT and promulgated at ROME By Pope PIVS IV. Exhibited and Demonstrated to be NEVV HETERODOX and ANTICHRISTIAN IN A SERMON By WILLIAM RAMSAY lately Professor of Philosophy Priest Confessair and Missionary Preacher of the Orde● of Franciscans in the Church of Rome now by Gods mercy Ministe● of the Holy Gospel in the Church of England Hereto is added Pope Pius his Bull in Latine and English necessary to be seen by all th● would know the present Faith of Rome especially in these our Nation● where they conceal it LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle without Temple Barr and Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Pauls Church-yard and at the White Hart in Westminster Hall 1672. Courteous READER EXpect not in a Sermon all that can be said to the too curious or to the malevolent but as much as needs be said to the Reasonable Ingenuous and freely-affected follower of Truth nor yet that after so precise and stric● a form of Argument as is proper among the Learned but after an ordinary and vulgar method as is meet to incite and instruct a Popular Auditory whose profit not his own praise the Author always designeth GAL. 1.8 But though we or an Angel from Heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed BEfore I insist upon this Text Justice and Civility engageth me to beg leave of this Christian Congregation to handle an Antichristian Subject For to you the happy children of the Church of England I may say with St. Paul to the Church of Ephesus Eph. 2.19 You are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow-citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone Wherefore to describe to you the Antichristian Edifice is no new discovery a needless endeavour and another labour were more opportune to wit to build on the foundation already laid if not the Gold Silver or Pretious Stones of Paul Apollo or Cephas at least some work of edificatory doctrine which might abide and receive a reward 1 Cor. 3.12 Yet my present subject is proper and necessary for having lately left the Roman Chair for the English Church I am debtor to both To the one I owe a Christian adieu to the other an account of my peaceable ingress And indeed before I accuse the Romish Cause I profess seriously and candidly with St. Paul Rom. 10.1 My hearts desire and prayer to God for Rome is that they may be saved for I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge For being ignorant of Christs Gospel and going about to establish a Gospel of their own they have not submitted themselves to the Gospel of Christ Wherefore a dispensation of the Gospel being committed to me what I do I do for the Gospels sake for I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ God forbid for it is the power of God Rom. 1.16 able to justifie its Preacher first justified in its self To this Evangelical design four things concur observable in the Text to wit 1. That the Gospel St. Paul preached was the true Gospel of Christ and therefore the only Gospel to be preached 2. As no other Gospel is true but this of Christ preached by St. Paul so no Apostle or Angel much less any Pope ought to impose upon the Church of God or preach to it any other Gospel If he do St. Paul hath given him his doom Let him be accursed 3. Whether the Pope doth impose and preach or cause to be preached such a Gospel as shall deserve that Anathema is next to be inquired into 4. If upon our disquisition it plainly appear that the Pope doth impose upon all his subjects that Pseudo-evangelium contrary to the received Gospel of Christ then am I justified for deserting the Church of Rome where I could not remain without being accursed The first of these points declares the unity of the Gospel of Christ to wit as there is but one Lord one Faith one Baptism Eph. 4.5 so there is but one Gospel of this our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of his Faith and Baptism And in this point there is no controversie The second point declares the immutability and unchangeableness of the Gospel of Christ that is the Gospel of Christ hath such a foundation of eternal immutable and impregnable Truth and Holiness that no creature in Heaven or Earth can or may presume to alter violate change or demolish it or to lay any other foundation of his own Wherefore not only Popes but whatsoever Apostles or Angels attempting that shall incurr the curse and indignation of God And this point is also free from controversie The third is controversial and examines whether or no the present Church of Rome lieth under this heavy curse for imposing upon the people of Christ a Pseudo-evangelium an adulterate Gospel which is not of Christ I shall as briefly and clearly as time will permit discover the Adulterate Gospel of Rome both to justifie my desertion thereof and i● if it be possible to stir up my Roman Brethren to a just emulation Therefore I will subdivide this third point into three resolves In the first I will shew what was that Gospel which Christ and his Apostles preached as the only and immutable way of eternal truth and happiness In the second I will shew that the present Church of England professeth and maintaineth the same In the third I will shew that the Church of Rome preacheth and imposeth a contrary Gospel and consequently lieth under the Anathema of the Spirit exprest in the Text. To resolve the first to wit what was that Gospel which Christ and his Apostles preached the usual way of the most learned Doctors is to shew that the written Word of God is the only Word of God extant on Earth and consequently the Gospel which Christ preached and his Apostles after him is that doctrine only which is contained in that written Word And then seeing that the doctrine of the Church of England is formally exprest in the written Word but the Romish doctrine is neither contained there nor deducible thence It follows that the doctrine of the Church of England is the Gospel preached by Christ and his Apostles but the Romish Gospel is another and accursed by the Spirit in our Text. But this manner of proof I will not now follow for three respects 1. It is more tedious than our present purpose can spare time 2. It is of greater difficulty in Demonstration than many capacities can bear and gain by 3. It s demonstration would not resolve our question so home as is requisite For although it were demonstrated that the written Word is the only Word of