and absolve their Subjects from Allegiance and exempt the Clergy from their Jurisdiction p. 67 70. Lastly The Church of Rome doth hold all things delivered defined and declared by the sacred Canons and General Councils and especially that of Trent c. And that this is the true Catholick Faith out of which none can be saved Creed of Pius IVth FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for Richard Chiswell THE Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy Chap. 3. Vers. 15. 4 to The Peoples Right to read the Holy Scripture Asserted 4 to A Short Summary of the principal Controversies between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture Proofs 4 to Two Discourses Of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one Special Branch of the King's Prerogative viz. In dispensing with the Penal Laws 4 to The Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted 4 to Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A PRIVATE PRAYER to be used in Difficult Times A True Account of a Conference held about Religion at London Sept. 29. 1687. between A. Pulton Jesuit and Tho. Tennison D. D. as also of that which led to it and followed after it 4 to The Vindication of A. Cressener Schoolmaster in Long-Acre from the Aspersions of A. Pulton Jesuit Schoolmaster in the Savoy together with some Account of his Discourse with Mr. Meredith A Discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer Side notwithstanding the uncharitable Judgment of their Adversaries and that Their Religion is the surest Way to Heaven 4 to Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist wherein is shewed that the Doctrine of Transubstantiation overthrows the Proofs of Christian Religion A Discourse concerning the Pretended Sacrament of Extreme Vnction with an Account of the occasions and beginnings of it in the Western Church In three Parts With a Letter to the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom Preface to the Agreement Page 1 Preface Page 2. Page 3. Page 6b Preface Page 16 18 30 31. De Concll l. 1. c. 7. Page 22 c. Preface Page 42 43 44. Page 44. Page 36 37. Page 42. Preface Page 2. A Papist Misrepres and Represented Introduct Agreement p. 2. Page 2. Ecclesiae Angl. Basis Impostura Luxemb 1619. Apology for the Protestants done out of French into English 1681. Part 4. Cap. 3. p. 135 150. Sess. 6. Can. 10 11 12 c. Art. 6. Art. 20. Sess 4. decret de Canon Script Council Trent Sess. 22. Cap. 5. Sess. 4. Decretum de edit usu Sacr. Libr. Regula 4. Azorius Instit. Mor. l. 8. cap. 26. ff Quaeritur ff Quaeres ART 7. Sess. 25. de invocat Catech. Trid. par 4. cap. 5. ff 8. ART 9. Sess. 36. Anno 1439. Sess. 5. ART 11. Sess. 6. cap. 7. Can. 11. Cap. 16. Can. 9. ART 12. Sess. 6. Cap. 16. Can 32. Annot. in 2 Tim. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 3. 8. and Hebr. 6. 10. ART 13. See Bishop Vshers Answer to a Challange Chap. 11. Sess. 6. Cap. 7. ART 14. Pars 2 de Sacram paenit ff 77. Luke 11 Ver. 35. 2 Cor. 8. 14. Annot. on 2 Cor. 2. 10. ART 15. Sess. 6. Can. 23. Annot. on Mar. 3. 34. ART 19. Orat. Archiep. Spalat Par. 1. de 9. Art. Symb. ff 11. N. 1. Rubrick Of Ceremonies why some be abolished c. Sess. 22. Cap. 5. Ibid. Can. 7. Sess. 7. Can. 2. Par. 2. Cap. 4. de Euchar. ff 81. N. 2. Sess. 13. init Par. 1. de 9. Artic. Symb. ff 18. On Matth. 16. 18. ART 20. Sess. 13. Sess. 21. Cap. 1. Ibid Cap. 2. Cap. 21. ART 21. Sess. 11. Bulla resump Decretum de resum Conc. Sess. 21. init cap. 1. Rhem. Annot. Joh. 16. 13. On Acts 16. 28. ART 22. Sess. 25. Decret de Purgat Sess. 6. Can. 30. Sess. 22. Can. 3. On Mat. 16. 19. Can. 11. Can. 3. Sess. 16. Sess. 21. Cap. 9. Sess. 25. Decret de Indulg Sess. 25. de Invocat Sess. 25. de Invocat Par. 4. Cap. 5. ff 8. ART 23. ART 24. ART 25. See the Homily of Common Prayer and the Sacraments Rubrick after the Com. Service Sess. 7. Can. 1. Can. 8. Sess. 22. Cap. 6. Can. 8. ART 28. Can. 1. Sess. 13. Cap. 1. and Can. 1. Cap. 4. and Can. 2. Can. 4. Can. 6. Can. 8. ART 29. ART 30. Sess. 21. Cap. 3. Cap. 2. Can. 1. Can. 2. Can. 3. ART 31. Sess. 2. Cap. 2. Can. 1. Can. 3. Can. 4. ART 32. Cap. 21. Can. 6. Sess. 24. Can. 6. Can. 9. ART 34. Sess. 4. Decret de Canon Script Sess. 14. Cap. 1. Sess. 22. Cap. 2. and 5. Can. 9. Par. 2. Cap. 7. ff 14. Cap. 4 ff 81. ART 35. ART 36. Sess. 23. Cap. 1. Catechis par 2. cap. 9. ff 11 12. On Joh. 10. 1. Erastus Senior Preface Anno. 1662. A Paper in the Vindication of Ordination c. Anno 1677. ART 37. On 5 th Commandment Sess. 19. Cap. 27. Can. 3. de Haereticis Sess. 3. Sess. 17. Sess. ult Decret de Reform Cap. 12. Cap. 14. Can. 43. Sess. 9. Sess. 25. De Reform Cap. 20. Agreement Preface Ibid.
of the Church of Rome be the Doctrine of the Church of England Such are most if not all of these following Articles viz. Art. 6. of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation Art. 9. of Original Sin Art. 11. of the Justification of Man Art. 13. of works before Justification Art. 14. of works of Supererogation Art. 15. of Christ alone without Sin Art. 19. of the Church Art. 20. of the Authority of the Church Art. 21. of the Authority of General Councils Art. 22. of Purgatory Art. 24. of speaking in the Congregation in such a Tongue as the People understandeth Art. 25. of the Sacraments Art. 28. of the Lords Supper Art. 29. of the wicked which eat not the Body of Christ Art. 30. of both Kinds Art. 31. of the Oblation of Christ upon the Cross Art. 32. of the Marriage of Priests Art. 34. of the Tradition of the Church Art. 35. of the Homilies Art. 36. of the Consecration of Bishops and Ministers Art. 37. of the Civil Magistrates These besides several others which our Articles do not expresly mention but are commonly the received Principles of our Church are the Inconcileable Points and which all the Wit and Charity in the World can no more thoroughly reconcile than Light and Darkness How far this is true and demonstrated to be so in the following Sheets I shall leave to the Consideration of every intelligent Reader In which I have proceeded with care and impartiality from Point to Point laying down first the Doctrine of each Church from unquestionable Authorities for my own Justification and then for the ease of the Reader I have summ'd it up and set each in Opposition to the other From all which I doubt not but whatever Friendship may be maintained betwixt the Members of both Churches as we are Fellow-Subjects yet it will be evident that there is no possibility of Agreement between them in Matters of Religion or of making One Church of what are so manifestly Two. It 's upon the last sort I am now to proceed and the first of which in order is the sixth Article of the Church of England The Difference between the Church of England and Rome The Sixth Article of the Church of England Of the sufficiency of the Holy Scripture for Salvation Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament of whole Authority was never any doubt in the Church The Names and Number of the Canonical Books Genesis c. And the other Books as Hierom saith the Church doth read for example of Life and instruction of Manners but yet doth not apply them to establish any Doctrine Such are these following The third Book of Esdras The fourth Book of Esdras The Book of Tobias The Book of Judith The rest of Hester And the fourteen Books commonly called Apocrypha All the Books of the New Testament as they are commonly received we do receive and account them Canonical The Twentieth Article of the Church of England Of the Authority of the Church Although the Church be a Witness and a keeper of Holy Writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation Homily the first Or an Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledg of Holy Scripture There is in the Scripture whatsoever is meet for all ages and sorts of men These Books ought therefore to be much in our hands in our Eyes in our Ears in our Mouths but most of all in our Hearts Homily second Or an Exhortation c. Surely none be Enemies to the reading of God's Word but such as either be so ignorant that they know not how wholesome a thing it is or else be so Sick that they hate the most comfortable Medicine should heal them or so ungodly that they would wish the People still to continue in blindness and ignorance of God. The Church of Rome The Council of Trent The holy and general Synod of Trent considering that all saving Truth and Instruction of manners is contained in Books written and Traditions not written which received from the mouth of Christ himself by the Apostles or from the Apostles the Holy Spirit dictating delivering as it were from hand to hand have come even to us following the examples of the Orthodox Fathers doth receive and regard with the like Affection of Piety and Reverence all the Books of the Old and New Testament as also those unwritten Traditions pertaining to Faith and Manners dictated by Christ as it were by word of mouth or by the Holy Ghost and preserved by a continual Succession in the Catholick Church and hath thought fit to add the Index of the Sacred Books to this Decree lest it should be doubted which they are that are received by the sacred Synod They are these following The five Books of Moses Joshua Judges Ruth four Books of Kings two of Chronicles one of Esdras two of Esdras called Nehemias Tobias Judith Hesther Job the Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Canticles Wisdom Ecclesiasticus Isaias Jeremias with Baruch Ezekiel Daniel the twelve lesser Prophets the two Books of Maccabees The New Testament viz. the four Evangelists c. And if any one shall not receive those whole Books with all their Parts for Sacred and Canonical according as they are wont to be read in the Catholick Church and are contained in the ancient Vulgar Latin Edition or shall knowingly and wittingly contemn the foresaid Traditions let him be accursed So that the Church of Rome hath added to the Canon of Scripture truly and properly so called six whole Books viz. Tobit Ecclesiasticus Wisdom Judith the first and second of the Maccabees together with certain other pieces of Baruch Esther and Daniel Mystical Benedictions Lights Incensings Garments and many other such like things are of Apostolical Discipline and Tradition The Ceremonies used in Baptism were without controversie instituted by the Apostles such as Salt Spittle Exorcisms Wax-candles Catechism Par. 2. cap. 2. § 59 60 65 c. See below Articles 19th and 34th of the Church of England Furthermore for the restraining all wanton Wits the Synod doth decree that no one depending on his own Wisdom in matters of Faith and Manners belonging to the Edification of Christian Doctrine wresting the Scriptures to his own sense dare to interpret the Holy Scripture contrary to the sense which Holy Mother Church hath held and doth hold to whom it belongs to judg of the sense and Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures or against the Unanimous consent of the Fathers altho such Iterpretations should never be published The Index
of Prohibited Books with the Rules made by the Fathers of the Tridentine Synod approved by the Authority of Pius IV. Anno 1564. Seeing it is manifest by experience if the Holy Bible be permitted to be read every where without difference in the Vulgar Tongue that more prejudice than benefit doth redound from thence through the rashness of men let it therefore be at the pleasure of the Bishop or Inquisitor that with the advice of the Parish-Priest or Confessor they may grant the reading of the Bible translated by Catholick Authors to such as they shall understand will by such reading receive no prejudice but an increase of Faith and Piety which License let them have in writing But whosoever shall without such License presume to read or have such Bibles he may not have the Absolution of his Sins before he has returned them to the Ordinary The same Index being enlarged by Sixtus V. and reviewed and published by order of Clement VIII Anno 1595. there is added the following Observation about the foresaid Rule It is to be considered about the above written fourth Rule of Pope Pius IV. that there is no new power given by this Impression and Edition to the Bishops or Inquisitors or Superiors of Regulars of granting a License to buy read or keep the Bible published in the Vulgar Tongue seeing the power of granting such Licenses of reading or keeping Vulgar Bibles or any parts of them hath been taken away by the command and use of the Holy Roman Church and the whole Inquisition as also all Summaries and Historical Compendiums of the said Bibles and Books of Holy Scripture written in any Vulgar Tongue which truly is inviolable to be observed So that the power of granting such Licenses and the Liberty of reading the Scripture in the Vulgar Tongue is wholly taken away and accordingly we are told it is so ordered by the General Inquisition of Spain From all which we may observe The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation 1. All saving Truth is in Books written and Traditions unwritten 2. Whatsoever is not read in Scripture nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any Man to be believed as an Article of Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation 2. The Church doth receive and regard unwritten Traditions with the like Piety Reverence as the Books of the Old and New Testament And if any one shal knowingly contemn those Traditions he is accursed 3. In the name of the Holy Scripture is understood those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament of whose Authority was never any doubt in the Church And the other the Apochrypha the Church doth not apply to establish any Doctrine 3. The Books of Scripture are the five Books of Moses c. Tobias Judith Wisdom Ecclesiasticus Baruch the two Books of Maccabees c. And if any one shall not receive these whole Books with all their parts for Canonical he is accursed 4. The Scripture were intended for and are to be read by all 4. The Scriptures ought not to be read by the Vulgar 5. The Scriptures are useful for all 5. If the Bible is permitted to be read by all more prejudice than benefit doth arise from it 6. The Church is a Witness and Keeper of Holy Writ 6. It belongs to the Mother Church of Rome to judg of the Sense and Interpretation of Scripture The 7 th Article of the Church of England Of the Old Testament The Old Testament is not contrary to the New for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ who is the only Mediator between God and Man being both God and Man. The Council of Trent The Saints reigning with Christ do offer Prayers to God for Men and it is good and profitable to invoke them The most Holy Mother of God by her Intercession doth reconcile God to Sinners She is the Mother of Mercy and Advocatress of the Faithful The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome Christ is the only Mediator between God and Man. The Virgin Mary and Saints are Mediators in Heaven See more Article 22. The 9 th Article of the Church of England Of Original or Birth Sin. Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pelagians do vainly talk but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every Man that naturally is ingendred of the Off-spring of Adam c. The Church of Rome The Council of Basil. We do define and declare c. the Doctrine that declares the glorious Virgin Mary to have been always free from Original and Actual Sin Holy and Immaculate is to be approved retained and embraced by all Catholicks as pious and consonant to Ecclesiastical Worship the Catholick Faith Right Reason and Holy Scripture and that for the future it shall be lawful for none to Preach or Teach the contrary The Council of Trent This Holy Synod doth declare That it is not its Intention to comprehend in this Decree concerning Original sin the blessed and Immaculate Virgin Mary the Mother of God but that the Constitutions of Pope Xystus IV. of happy memory are to be observed under the Penalties therein contained which it doth inforce Of the Sense of these two Councils in this matter see Joh. Baptistae de Lezana Apol. pro immacul Concept cap. 13. The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome Original Sin is the fault and corruption of the nature of every person naturally ingendred of the Off-spring of Adam So that none is excepted but our B. Saviour The Virgin Mary was free from Original and Actual Sin. The 11 th Article of the Church of England Of the Justification of Man. We are accounted Righteous before God only for the Merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own Works and deservings Wherefore that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholesome Doctrine and very full of comfort as is more largely express'd in the homily of Justification The first part of the Homily of Salvation Because all Men be Sinners and therefore can no Man by his own Acts Words and Deeds seem they never so good be justified and made righteous before God but every Man is constrained to seek for another Righteousness or Justification to be received at Gods own Hands that is to say the forgiveness of his Sins And this Justification or Righteousness the forgiveness of our Sins which we so receive of Gods Mercy and Christs Merits embraced by Faith is taken accepted and allowed of God for our perfect and full Justification Faith doth not shut out Repentance Hope Love Dread and the Fear of God to be joyned with Faith in every Man that is justified but it shutteth them out from the office of justifying that is meritously as
c. And such as are endued with Divine Grace can pay in the name of another what is due to God. Rhemists Annotations The works which we do more then Precept be called Works of Supererogation and whereby that is from what was abovesaid it is also evident against the Protestants that there be such Works This place proveth plainly that the fastings and satisfactory Deeds of one man be available to others Yea and that holy Saints or other vertuous Persons may in measure and proportion of other Mens necessities and deservings allot unto them as well the Supererogation of their Spiritual Works as those that abound in worldly Goods may give Alms of their Superfluities to them which are in necessity We infer most assuredly that the satisfactory and penal Works of Holy Saints suffered in this Life be communicable and applicable to the use of other faithful men and to be dispensed according to every mans necessity and deserving by them whom Christ hath constituted over his Family and hath made the Dispensers of his Treasures The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. That men may do more for Gods sake than of bounden Duty is required cannot be taught without Arrogancy and Impiety 1. That men may do Works of Supererogation and more than is commanded 2. That any may be able not only to satisfie for their own Sins but also for the Sins of others is a most ungodly Doctrine 2. That what they do more than is commanded may be allotted to others and which such may have the benefit of The 15 th Article of the Church of England Of Christ alone without Sin. Christ in the Truth of our nature was made like unto us in all things Sin only except from which he was clearly void both in his Flesh and in his Spirit c. But all we the rest although Baptized and born again in Christ yet offend in many things and if we say we have no Sin we deceive our selves and the Truth is not in us The Church of Rome The Council of Trent If any one shall say That any one can avoid all Sins such also as are venial in the whole course of his Life except by special priviledge from God as the Church doth hold concerning the Blessed Virgin Let him be accursed The Rhemists Our Lady had so much Grace given her that she never sinned not so much as venially in all her Life The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome Christ alone is without Sin but all the rest of mankind offend in many things none being excepted The Virgin Mary is excepted having never sinned so much as venially The 19 th Article of the Church of England Of the Church The visible Church of Christ is a Congregation on of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is Preached and the Sacraments be duly ministred according to Christs Ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same As the Church of Jerusalem Alexandria and Antioch have erred So also the Church of Rome hath erred not only in their Living and manner of Ceremonies but also in matters of Faith. § 1. Of the Church The Visible Church is where the Word of God is Preached and the Sacraments be duly Ministred in all things of necessity requisite The Church of Rome The 5 th General Council of Lateran The Sacred Doctors have affirmed That the Vnity of the Church doth consist in two things 1. In the Conjunction of the Members of the Church one with another 2. In their Order to one Head the Vicar of Christ according to the saying of the Apostle Not holding the Head. The Catechism of the Council of Trent Of the Notes of the True Church The first Note is That it be One. And it is called One as there is one Lord one Faith one Baptism There is one Governour the Invisible Christ the Visible who being the lawful Successor of Peter Prince of the Apostles doth possess the Roman Chair The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome The Notes of a True Church are the pure word Preached and the due Ministration of the Sacraments The necessary Note of the true Church is the being united to the Bishop of Rome § 2. Of the Falibility of the Church of Rome The Church of Rome hath erred as well as other Churches in Living Ceremonies and Faith. The Church of Rome hath erred in Ceremonies The Common-Prayer Book Of such Ceremonies as be used in the Church and have had their beginning by the Institution of man some are put away because the great excess and multitude of them hath so increased in these latter days that the burden of them was intolerable This our excessive multitude of Ceremonies was so great and many of them so dark that they did more confound than declare and set forth Christs benefits unto us Furthermore the most weighty cause of the abolishment of some Ceremonies was that they were so far abused partly by the superstitious blindness of the rude and unlearned and partly by the unsatiable avarice c. The 2d part Of the Homily of Place and Time of Prayer They have prophaned and defiled their Churches with Heathenish and Jewish abuses with Images and Idols with numbers of Altars too too superstitiously and intolerably abused with gross abusing and filthy corrupting of the Lord 's Holy Supper the blessed Sacrament of his Body and Blood with an infinite number of toyes and trifles of their own devices to make a goodly outward shew and to deface the plain simple and sincere Religion of Christ. The Church of Rome The Council of Trent The Church hath appointed Ceremonies as mystical Benedictions Lights Incensings Garments and such like that the Majesty of so great a Sacrifice might be recommended and the minds of the faithful be excited c. If any one shall say That the Ceremonies Garments and external signs which the Catholick Church doth use in the Celebration of Mass are rather Icitements of Impiety than helps to Piety Let him be accursed If any one shall say They are injurious to the Holy Spirit that give some virtue to the Holy Chrism of Confirmation Let him be accursed The Catechism The Sacrifice of the Mass hath many and those very remarkable and solemn Rites none of which is to be esteemed needless sand vain The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The Ceremonies in the Church of Rome were for their multitude an intolerable burden 1. The Ceremonies used are many but solemn and for the Majesty of Worship 2. They do more confound than set forth Christs benefits and do deface the plain and sincere Religion of Christ. 2. They do recommend the Worship and excite the minds of the Faithful 3. They are toyes and trifles 3. None of them are needless and vain but have a virtue in them 4. They do
prophane and defile the Churches where they are used 4. Whosoever shall say That they are incitements of impiety is accursed See Articles 6 th and 34 th The Church of Rome hath erred in matters of Faith. The 2d part Of the Homily concerning the Holy Ghost If ye will compare the Notes of a true Church with the Church of Rome as it is presently and hath been for the space of Nine hundred years and odd you shall well perceive the state thereof to be so far wide from the nature of the true Church that nothing can be more Where is then the Holy-Ghost which they do so stoutly claim to themselves Where is now the Spirit of truth that will not suffer them in any wise to err c. It is but a vain brag and nothing else The Church of Rome The Council of Trent The Holy Synod delivering that sound and sincere Doctrine which the Catholick Church being taught by Jesus Christ himself and the Apostles and by the Holy Spirit suggesting all Truth from day to day to her hath retained and will preserve to the end of the World doth straightly charge all the faithful of Christ that they dare not after this believe or teach otherwise concerning the holy Eucharist than is explained and defined in this Decree The Catechism The Church cannot err in delivering the Discipline of Faith and Manners The Rhemists Annotations By this Promise we are assured That no Heresies or other wicked attempts can prevail against the Church builded upon Peter which the Fathers call Peter's See and the Roman Church The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The Church of Rome hath erred in matters of Faith. 1. The Church of Rome cannot err in matters of Faith. 2. The pretence of the Church of Rome to Infallibility is nothing but a vain brag 2. The Church of Rome is guided by the Holy Spirit from day to day and cannot err The 20 th Article of the Church of England Of the Authority of the Church It is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written c. wherefore although the Church be a witness and keeper of Holy Writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation The Church of Rome The Council of Constance Altho Christ hath instituted and did Administer the Sacrament of the Eucharist in Bread and Wine yet this nowithstanding the Authority of the sacred Canons and the approved custom of the Church is to be preserved that it be not received after Supper c. And likewise that altho the Sacrament was received in both kinds in the Primitive Church yet the custom is reasonably introduced that the Laicks receive in one kind c. And we do command that no Presbyter doth communicate the People in both The Council of Trent This Holy Synod being taught by the Holy Spirit doth declare and teach That Lay-men are obliged by no Divine Precept to receive in both kinds and that Communion in one is sufficient for Salvation Furthermore she declares That this power hath always been in the Church that in dispensing the Sacraments the substance of them being preserved she might appoint and change those things which she doth judg more expedient for the profit of the Receivers and the reverence of the Sacrament c. Wherefore Holy Mother Church acknowledging avowing this her Authority c. for weighty and just causes doth decree That the Eucharist be communicated in one kind 1. General Council of Lateran We do altogether forbid Presbyters Deacons and Monks to contract Matrimony and we do determine that Marriages so contracted be disjoyned The Creed of Pius 4th In which it 's declared That the Church of Rome is the Mother and Mistriss of all other Churches That the Pope is Successor of St. Peter and Vicar of Christ. That in the Mass is a real Transubstantiation of the Elements into the Body and Blood of Christ c. And that all things professed in that Creed are the Catholick Faith Out of which no man can be saved The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Saith that it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing contrary to God's written Word 1. The Church of Rome hath ordained things contrary to God's written Word as in requiring the Sacrament to be administred in one kind in forbidding and disannulling the Marriage of Priests 2. The Church ought not to enforce any thing besides the written Word to be believed for necessity of Salvation 2. The Church of Rome doth require things at least besides the Word to be believed as necessary to Salvation As that the Pope is vicar of Christ and St. Peter's Successor that there are properly and truly Seven Sacraments instituted by Christ c The 21. Article of the Church of England Of the Authority of General Councils General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes And when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an Assembly of Men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God they may err and sometime have erred in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to Salvation have neither strength nor Authority unless it may be declared that they be taken out of Holy Scripture The Church of Rome Council of Trent It belongs to the Popes to call and direct General Councils The Holy Vniversal and General Synod of Trent lawfully gathered together in the Holy Ghost taught by the Holy Spirit which is a Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding c. doth declare and teach The Rhemists Annot. To teach all Truth and preserve in Truth and from Error the Holy-Ghost is promised and performed only to the Church and the chief Governor and General Councils thereof The Rhemists Annot. The Holy Councils lawfully kept c. have ever the assistance of God's Spirit and therefore cannot err in their Sentences and Determinations concerning the same because the Holy-Ghost cannot err from whom as you see here jointly with the Council the Resolution proceedeth The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. General Councils may not be gathered without the Command and Will of Princes 1. It belongs to the Pope to call General Councils 2. General Councils have erred and may err 2. General Councils called by the Pope cannot err The 22. Article of the Church of England Of Purgatory The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory Pardons Worshipping and Adoration as well of Images as of Relicks and also Invocation of Saints is a fond Thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to the Word of God. § 1. Purgatory THE Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory is a fond thing vainly
Quality soever though King Duke c. they be Excommunicated and deprived of all their Secular Honour and Dignity And in the Bull of Pope Martin the 5th read and approved in that Council All Professors of the Christian and Catholick Faith the Emperor Kings Dukes c. are required to expel all Hereticks out of their Kingdoms and Provinces according to the Canon Sicut ait c. That is the abovesaid Canon of the 3d Lateran Council The Council of Trent The Emperors Kings Dukes c. and all Temporal Lords of what Title soever who shall grant a place for Duelling among Christians within their Lands should for that Cause be deprived of the Dominion of the City Castle or Place in which they permitted the Duel to be 4. The Church of Rome doth exempt the Clergy from Temporal Jurisdiction So The 3 d General Lateran Council Because some Laicks do compel Ecclesiastical Persons and also Bishops themselves to appear before their Judgment-seat We do therefore decree that such be separated from the Communion of the Faithful who shall presume from henceforward so to do The 4 th General Council of Lateran Some Laicks do too much usurp upon Divine Right when they do compel Ecclesiastical Persons holding nothing Temporal from them to take an Oath of Allegiance to them But because according to the Apostle the Servant doth stand or fall to his own Master We do forbid by the Authority of the Sacred Council That such Clerks be compelled to take this kind of Oath to Secular Persons See further the Bull of Pope Leo the 10 th read in the 5 th General Council of Lateran And the Council of Trent which doth ratify all Canons made in their favour The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The King hath chief power 1. The Pope hath Power over Kings to Excommunicate Depose c. 2. The King hath power over all persons 2. Ecclesiastical persons are exempted from Secular Jurisdiction 3. The Bishop of Rome hath no power in the Kings Dominions And the power he challengeth is usurpation 3. The Bishop of Rome is the Universal Pastor 4. The King is not to be resisted 4. The Pope can give power to resist Sovereign Princes and can absolve Subjects from their Allegiance As the Opposition in this matter is evident betwixt Church and Church so we look upon the one to be no less the Doctrine of the Church of Rome than the other is the Doctrine of the Church of England For 1. It 's notoriously manifest That the Church of Rome hath both owned such Principles and proceeded according to those Principles in Excommunicating and Deposing Kings in limiting their Jurisdiction and Absolving Subjects from their Allegiance 2. It is manifest That the several branches of Authority fore-recited and claimed by that Church are grounded upon the Canons of what they call General Councils And that all in the Communion of that Church are bound to own and receive these Principles is evident since they are decreed by the same Councils and after the same manner as the Doctrine of Transubstantiation it self and so are equally to be received with it by all the Members of that Church Thus far I have traced the Disagreement between the Church of England and Rome according to the order observed in the 39 Articles and I might proceed to shew the Opposition between them in many other points such as the sufficiency of Attrition with Absolution the necessity of Auricular Confession the Adoration of the Cross the Images made of God and the Trinity the Guardianship ascribed to Angels and Saints over Places Professions c. The Pilgrimages to Images and Relicks the Miracles pretended to be wrought by them The Religious states of Life and their Vows of Poverty and Obedience Their particular Ceremonies in the Mass and Baptism their Limbus's c. But this will be too tedious and indeed somewhat unnecessary considering how evident it has been already made not to say with some clearness demonstrated that there is an irreconcilable difference between the two Churches about those points to use our Authors words wherein the very life of Popery consists and the whole System of that Religion is founded And as now I may leave it to his skill to try whether he can with a Dictum factum patch up a Cassandrian Peace presently between them So I shall leave it to the Readers Judgment even those he calls the unwary Readers of Books whether we have left us nothing but the name and shadow of a Protestant Church of England as he affirms or whether the Doctrine of the Protestants be any where to be found if not in the Church of England And for this purpose I shall present the Reader with the sum of what has been said upon this Argument A brief Scheme of the Difference betwixt the Doctrine of the Church of England and the Church of Rome as set forth in the foregoing Treatise Sufficiency of Scripture The Church of England teacheth THe Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be received as an Article of Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation p. 15. The Church of Rome holdeth THe Holy Scripture doth not contain all saving Truth but there are certain Traditions not written which the Church is to have recourse to for it as well as the written Books And such Traditions are to be received and regarded with the like Piety and Reverence as the Books of the Old and New Testament Canonical Books The Church of England teacheth No Books are to be received as Canonical but Genesis c. that is the 39 Books of the Old Testament and the New. And as for the 13 Books commonly called Apocrypha tho the Church doth read them for Example of Life and Instruction of Manners yet She doth not apply them to establish any Doctrine The Church of Rome holdeth The Books commonly called Apocrypha viz. Tobias c. are as Canonical and as truly the Word of God as the five Books of Moses c. And whosoever doth not so receive them is accursed Scripture in a known Tongue The Church of England teacheth There is in Scripture whatsoever is meet for all ages and sorts of Men and so the Books of it ought to be much in their Hands Eyes and Hearts And none are Enemies to the reading of it but such as are ignorant or ungodly that would wish the People still to continue in blindness and ignorance of God p. 15. The Church of Rome holdeth If the Scripture be permitted to be read every where in the Vulgar Tongue more prejudice than benefit doth redound from it And therefore it 's fit that the People be deprived altogether of it nor so much as suffered to have Summaries or Historical Abridgments of it Church Authority
The Church of England teacheth The Church tho a Witness and Keeper of the Holy Writ yet ought not to decree any thing against the same nor to enforce any thing besides the same to be believed for necessity of Salvation p. 37. The Church of Rome holdeth It belongs to the Church of Rome to judg of the Sence of the Scripture and it 's in her Power to forbid receiving the Sacrament in both kinds tho Christ so instituted and delivered it The Fallibility of the Church The Church of England teacheth As the Church of Jerusalem Alexandria and Antioch have erred So also the Church of Rome hath erred not only in their Living and manner of Ceremonies but also in matters of Faith So that their claim of Infallibility is but a vain brag and nothing else p. 31 35. The Church of Rome holdeth The Church of Rome cannot err being taught by the Holy Spirit suggesting all Truth from day to day General Councils The Church of England teacheth General Councils may not be gathered together without the Commandment and will of Princes And when gathered may err and sometimes have erred in things pertaining to God p. 39. The Church of Rome holdeth It belongs to the Pope to call and direct General Councils and being so gathered they have ever the assistance of Gods Spirit and so cannot err Christ the only Mediator The Church of England teacheth Christ is the only Mediator between God and Man being both God and Man in whom alone the Conditions requisite in an object of Worship are to be found whence it followeth that we must call neither upon Angel nor Saint but solely upon him as our Mediator And to make them Intercessors to God is after the Gentiles Idolatrous usage p. 19 41 46. The Church of Rome holdeth There are other Mediators of Intercession in Heaven besides Christ such as Angels and Saints and more especially the Virgin Mary who is the Mother of Mercy and Advocatress of the Faithful and it is good and profitable to invoke them and to have recourse to their prayers aid and help And those that deny they are to be invocated or affirm the Invocation of them is Idolatry are accursed Original Sin. The Church of England teacheth Original Sin is the Corruption of the nature of every man naturally ingendred of the off-spring of Adam And all offend in many things Christ only excepted p. 20 30. The Church of Rome holdeth The blessed Virgin is not comprehended in the decree of Original Sin and never sinned so much as Venially in all her Life Images The Church of England teacheth Image-worship was abhorred in the Primitive Church as abominable and contrary to all true Christian Religion And to fall down before Images c. is to give that honour to Stocks and Stones which the Saints themselves refused when alive p. 44. The Church of Rome holdeth The Images of Christ the Virgin Mary and other Saints are to have due honour given to them by kissing them uncovering the head falling down before them lighting up Candles to them c. by which Christ is adored and the Saints are venerated Relicks The Church of England teacheth To worship and honour the Relicks of Saints is to pass the folly and wickedness of the Gentiles The Romish Doctrine concerning Worshipping and Adoration of Images and Relicks is a fond thing grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to it p. 44. The Church of Rome holdeth The Relicks of the Saints are to be venerated And all that hold the contrary are accursed Purgatory The Church of England teacheth There are two places only in the other World the one proper to the elect and the blessed of God the other to the reprobate And the souls of men passing out of the body go to Heaven or Hell. And the Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no Warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to it p. 41. The Church of Rome holdeth There is a Purgatory or place of Torment in which the Souls of good Persons not sufficiently purged have their Sins expiated and they thereby are prepared for the Kingdom of Heaven And the Souls there detained are helped by the Masses Prayers Alms and other good Works of the Living And if any one shall say there is not such a place or that there remains no guilt to be expiated by penitent Persons in Purgatory or that those that are there are not helped by Masses c. he is accursed Merits The Church of England teacheth The good works are pleasing unto God yet to put any confidence in them as by merit and deserving of them to purchase to our selves or others remission of Sin and everlasting Life is meer Blasphemy and great derogation to the blood-shedding of our Saviour Jesus Christ p. 24 25. The Church of Rome holdeth Justified Persons truly deserve eternal Life and the good Works of such are truly and properly Meritorious and are fully worthy of Eternal Life And whosoever thinketh otherwise is Accursed Supererogation The Church of England teacheth Works of Supererogation or such as are over and above God's Commandment cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety and it 's an ungodly practice to make sale of them and to perswade the people that thereby the Sins of other men might have satisfaction made for 〈◊〉 p. 27 28. The Church of Rome holdeth There are Works of Supererogation which are done more than Precept and a Person endued with Divine Grace may satisfie for another and pay in the name of another what is due to God and the value of such Works is to be so disposed of for that purpose by such as Christ hath made dispensers of his Treasures Indulgences The Church of England teacheth The Romish Doctrine concerning Pardons is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but is rather repugnant to it p. 41 42. The Church of Rome holdeth The Church hath a power from Christ to pardon Offenders and whatever Debts here or hereafter in Purgatory a man oweth to God for the satisfaction of his Sins may be remitted by the Indulgence of the Church and whosoever saith that the Church hath no such Power or that such Indulgences are unprofitable is Accursed Prayers in a known Tongue The Church of England teacheth It 's a thing plainly repugnant to the word of God and the Custom of the Primitive Church to have publick Prayers in the Church or to minister the Sacraments in a Tongue not understood of the People p. 49. The Church of Rome holdeth It 's fittest every where to have the Mass Celebrated in Latin or a Tongue not understood by the People and it 's for that reason so injoyned And whosoever saith it ought to be otherwise is Accursed Sacraments The Church of England teacheth There are only Two Sacraments Ordained of Christ viz. Baptism and the Supper of the Lord and the other Five commonly called Sacraments in the