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A25226 The creed of Pope Pius the IV, or, A prospect of popery taken from that authentick record with short notes. Altham, Michael, 1633-1705. 1687 (1687) Wing A2932; ESTC R18033 8,868 13

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THE CREED OF Pope Pius the IV. OR A Prospect of Popery TAKEN From that Authentick Record With short NOTES IMPRIMATUR Jun. 29. 1687. Guil. Needham LONDON Printed for L. Meredith at the Angel in Amen-Corner 1687. The CREED of Pope Pius IV. c. THE words Representing and Misrepresenting have of late made a great noise among us some Gentlemen of the Roman Communion having made it their business to persuade the World that we of the Church of England have entertained a very strange and false Idea of their Religion and according to our own Notions of it represented it as theirs which they tell us is downright Misrepresenting It is not my design to engage in this Controversie it hath been sufficiently done by other hands and so sufficiently that the Answerer in his Answer to the Amicable Accommodation I think had good reason to say that the matter was drove as far as it would bear Nor is it my intent to justify every thing which in heat of discourse or disputation hath been charged upon that Church by some of our own men for though perhaps they have said no more than what they have warrant for from some eminent Schoolmen or Casuists of that Church yet I do not think it reasonable that the particular opinions of private men though never so eminent in their way should be charged upon the whole Society of which they are Members unless they have been owned by some publick and authentick act of that Society Being unwilling therefore to run my self upon that Rock I have steered another Course and have made choice of one of the most solemn publick and authentick Acts of their Church Viz. The Bull of Pope Pius IV. printed with the Acts of the Council of Trent and shall charge nothing upon them but what is owned and contained therein This Bull was dated at Rome in the year of our Lord 1564. in the Ides of November and the Fifth year of his Pontificat In this Bull a Form of Faith is drawn up extracted out of the Council of Trent which every one who enters into Holy Orders is bound by Oath not onely to believe but to maintain and defend and teach the people under their charge and that under pain of the displeasure of Almighty God and of his holy Apostles Peter and Paul And if we may not take this for the Standard of their Faith and Religion I must confess I do not know where to find it But I do not know that this ever was nor do I think it will now be disowned by them and therefore from hence you may take a prospect of their Religion and see what it is that will be required of those who joyn in communion with them The CREED Art I. I believe in one God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible II. And in one Lord Jesus Christ the onely begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of Light very God of very God begotten not made being of one Substance with the Father by whom all things were made III. Who for us men and for our Salvation came down from Heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made man IV. And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate suffered and was buried V. And the Third Day rose again according to the Scriptures VI. And ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father VII And he shall come again with Glory to judge both the quick and the dead whose Kingdom shall have no end VIII And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of Life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified who spake by the Prophets IX And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church X. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of Sins XI And I look for the Resurrection of the Dead XII And the Life of the world to come Amen Thus far his Holiness thought fit to hold a good correspondence with Primitive Christianity and thus far we can keep pace with him All these Articles we willingly receive and firmly believe because we have good warrant from the holy Scriptures so to do But if the Church of Rome or any other Church shall presume to decree any thing against the written Word of God or besides the same and impose it as a new Article of Faith necessary to be believed in order to our Salvation we must beg their pardon if we cannot so readily comply with them For as we believe that Jesus Christ is the Authour so we believe he is the Finisher of our Faith And as he perfectly knew the whole mind and will of his Father so did he carefully communicate the same to his Apostles and Disciples For saith he All things that I have heard of my Father have I made known to you John 15.15 And as we believe that the Apostles were instructed and commissionated by him to preach that Faith which they received from him so we have no reason to doubt but that they did faithfully transmit the same to their Successors the Primitive Fathers of the Christian Church nor need we to question but that the same Faith hath been carefully conveyed to us both as it lies dispersed in the holy Scriptures and as it is summ'd up in those three ancient Creeds viz. the Nicene the Athanasian and that commonly called the Apostles Creed Whatsoever therefore we do not find in these Creeds nor contained in holy Scriptures nor can be proved thereby we dare not receive it as an Article of Faith nor can we think it necessary to Salvation And here we are left behind not being able any farther to keep pace with the Church of Rome but we may comfort our selves in this that we are left in good company having Jesus Christ and his Apostles and the Primitive Fathers with us Here therefore let us take up our stand and from hence take a view of Popery in the following Articles Continuation of their Creed Art XIII I most firmly admit and embrace Apostolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions and all other Observations and Constitutions of the same Church NOTES upon it Ecclesiastical Traditions are to be received with equal veneration as the Holy Scripture Sess 4. Concil Trid. Decr. de Canon Script pari pietatis affectu ac reverentiâ c. XIV I do admit the Holy Scriptures in the same sense that holy Mother Church doth whose business it is to judge of the true sense and interpretation of them and I will interpret them according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers NOTES upon it By holy Mother Church you must be sure to understand the Church of Rome and if the Scriptures do not speak according to her sense you must by no means admit of them XV. I do profess and believe that there are Seven