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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

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

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

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