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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

God yet would there still remain a question what part of that written Word is that Gospel which Christ and his Apostles preached as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Vnum necessarium the Only way of happiness Therefore I shall make choice of another way of proof short easie and clear and that resolveth the Question so home as to demonstrate what is the true Gospel in the strictest sense to wit what is the only way to Happiness preached by Christ and his Apostles Note well therefore I intreat your diligence that by this Word Gospel in the Text is precisely meant that necessary way which Christ and his Apostles taught to salvation For so much Gospel must needs be sufficient and no more Gospel can be imposed as necessary either by Paul Pope or Angel To shew this way of Salvation this Primitive and everlasting Gospel we need presuppose or demand no more of the Romists at present than to grant that the Word of Christ and of his Apostles recorded in Scripture is truly to be taken and embraced as the proper Word of God This being granted our method and design will no way engage us to dispute whether there be any traditional Word of God on Earth or no. For In the first place it must needs be evident that the necessary way to salvation which Christ preached was no other than that way of repentance of which it is said Mat. 4.17 Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand This Repentance with the good tydings of the Kingdom of Heaven promised to it is the Primitive Gospel in the true proper and precise use of that word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gospel And lest you may suspect me of ignorance or novelty in the application of that word I will shew you that this is the phrase of the Spirit of God in the written Gospel it self And first in the chapter already cited Mat. 4.23 this Repentance is termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Evangelium regni the Gospel of the Kingdom for it is there said Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagognes and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom that is Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand as in the 17. verse The Evangelist Mark is very plain 1.14 After that John was put in prison Jesus came into Galilee preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God what was that Gospel it follows and saying The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand repent You see the Gospel of Christ is concluded in that repentance to which he promised the kingdom The same was the Gospel of his Apostles for of them when first sent out to preach the Gospel it is said Mark 6.12 And they went out and preached that men should repent And this repentance is again formally termed the Gospel Luke 9.6 And they departed and went thorough the towns preaching the Gospel Even so that Gospel which Christ immediately before his ascension commanded his Apostles to preach Mark 16.15 Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every Creature is nothing else than what is explained Luke 24.47 That repentance and remission of sins be preached in his name among all Nations Therefore let this Proposition both in substance of import and in propriety of expression stand clear and irrefragable to wit The Gospel which Christ and his Apostles preached is that repentance which Christ himself preached and the Apostles in his name It remains then to shew in what that repentance consisted for that and only that is the necessary way to salvation the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Primitive Gospel the Touch-stone of adulterate Gospels and their anathemiz'd Preachers Men or Angels according to our Text. Peace and comfort to all them that love and believe in Jesus Christ For he hath left the Repentance which he himself preached and commanded his Apostles to preach to all Nations so plainly opened in the Testament of his holy Gospel that it is impossible for any man to read the Gospel or any notable part thereof or to hear it read but he must clearly discover and understand what repentance it is to which the Kingdom is promised For what Sermon of Christ is there what Discourse what Parable what Sentence or Answer yea what Page or almost Verse is there in the whole New Testament which doth not sufficiently proclaim that Whosoever believeth in Jesus Christ and observeth his Commandments is heir of his Kingdom This therefore according to the legal Proclamation of Christ is true Christian repentance the Gospel of the Kingdom the necessary and only way of Salvation which Christ and his Apostles preached to wit to believe Jesus to be the Christ the Son of God and to keep his Commandments Thus the parts of Repentance are two Faith and Charity Belief and Love These consummate the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the perfect cure and reparation of man Wherefore Christ whensoever he solemnly acted the Physitian of the whole Man of Body and Soul you 'l find that to believe in his God-head and sin no more was the beginning and end of the whole cure Dost thou believe was the Therapeutick part Sin no more was the prophylactick Yea the first was the design and inference of all his works the other of all his words For all his wonderful deeds were to perswade men Faith that he was the Son of God and all his admirable Sermons were to perswade men Charity that is to keep the Commandments But here we are to observe how these two parts of Evangelical Repentance mutually include or infer one another To believe Jesus to be the Son of God is the sum of Faith and this if real and solid certainly begetteth charity which is the fulfilling of the Commandments And therefore Gal. 5.6 it is said Faith in Christ worketh by love And 1 Tim. 1.5 Charity the end of the Commandment is put the off-spring of Faith unfeigned Thus true Faith infers Charity as the Sun ushers in light Wherefore Gregory the Great said well Quantum credimus tantum diligimus As much as we believe so much we love On the other side Charity necessarily includes or presupposeth Faith For the first Commandment and consequently the first object of Charity is to believe in God that is to have no other Gods beside the true God which is Jesus with the Father and Holy Ghost And 1 Job 3.23 We have confidence towards God because we keep his commandments And this is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ And the Apostle James bids us shew our faith by our works for faith without works is dead that is is false adulterate and feigned for such men say they have faith and so boast to live but the unity of their works declares the fiction of their hearts Hereby we know that we know him if we keep his commandments 1 Job 2.3 What then must he that hath

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

Supremacy which was not from the beginning but laid by man is to be raised by man The holy Spirit buildeth the faithful on the first foundation by hope in the grace and merits of Jesus Christ The Pope builds his credulous children on his own foundation by hope in the grace and merits of his Pardons and Indulgences The charity of Jesus Christ which is to love one another as he loved us is the furniture and perfection of the first building but slavery and bondage to Papal jurisdiction is the top and consummation of the Roman Edifice Recitâsse confutâsse est The bare rehearsal of such a Creed is a full conviction of its heterodox absurdity Yet that its novelty may more appear we will set before it three illustrious Opposites of Evangelical Light to wit Primitive Creeds Primitive Councils and Primary Texts of Scripture As for Primitive Creeds The whole Christian World ever held yea the present Church of Rome in word though not in effect holdeth that the Apostles Creed was by them in the H. Ghost designed as a sum of all Christian belief necessary to salvation wherefore the primitive Church never presumed to add but only to declare it in more open exp●essions of the same thing as appetrs in the Creeds of Athanasius of Nice o● Constantinople But this Creed of Trent is a palpable piece of Creation for it's totally new both in matter and in form And to deny its novel● were as gross an absurdity in point of understanding as to deny the rising of the Sun were an absurdity in sense yea greater as its difference from the Primitive Creed is as manifest as the identity of the rising and setting Sun is certain For its Articles are of an impertinent and opposit● import to the Primitive more in number greater in bulk stranger to sense harder to Reason burdensom to Conscience contemptible to Religion The Primitive Creeds may justly glory in the foundation of Christ to wit his written Word in which they a●e found contained The Creed of Trent hath nothing to glory in greater than the Romish Schools Papal Decrees Canons Customs Constitutions and Senses of Men. The Primitive Creeds have the Testimony of the whole World Christian and Antichristian The Creed of Trent besides repugnance with Christian Principles is reprobated by the most learned and sober part of Christendom to wit Protestant Churches and Nations The Primitive Creeds sound nothing but Gods honour and worship through Jesus Christ This of Trent sounds nothing but Lucre through a form of godliness denying the power thereof with popular Superstition vendible Devotion and tyrannical exaction of Faith and Obedience The Primitive Councils are four of Nice of Constantinople of Ephesus and of Chalcedon In these the whole Christian World on which as yet the dew of the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles stood fresh and fair unanimously made a Catholick united and most solemn attestation of the Faith of Christ Which the Council of Nice first did Ann. 325. not by defining new Articles or creating new matter or producing new form of Faith but by declaring and defending the Old contained in the Apostles Creed Which as a just measure of Faith instituted by the Holy Ghost that great Council presumed not to transgress The same was observed by the Council of Constantinople Ann. 381. which repeated confirmed and ratified the Symbol of Nice defending the Article of the Holy Ghost by a clear expression of his p●oceeding from the Son The Council of Ephesus Ann. 431. presumed no addition of Articles but confirming the Apostolical number defended that of Christs divine and unique personality against Nestorius The Council of Chalcedon 451. confi●med the method of the former Councils defending and declaring the two distinct Natures of Christ against Eutiches Thus these four Catholick Councils had no other product of Faith than is formally contained in the four Catholick Gospels In fine The work of the Holy Spirit in the Primitive Councils was nothing more or less than to establish that Faith which he inspired the four Evangelists to write in the Gospel and the Apostles to preach in their Creed But in these last days non Sanctus Spiritus sed sanctissimus Pater not the Holy Spirit but the most Holy Father for so he loveth to be entituled who superlatively exalts himself above whatsoever is God in Heaven or is called God on Earth hath wrought a new work est mirabile in oculis nostris a New Gospel of Apostolical and Ecclesiastical that is Roman Traditions Customs and Constitutions grounded on the Cathedral word of a Pope not as the old Creed a sum of the work of the Scriptures written by the instinct and confirmed by the wonderful works of the Holy Spirit but a sum of the work on Earth to wit of the Canon law of Rome written by the instinct and confirmed by the most mighty Bulls of the most Holy Fathers the Bishops of Rome Which sum his said Most Holy Paternity defines to be the true Catholick Faith without which no man can be saved which Definition whosoever infringeth he shall not only incur his Holiness displeasure but the indignation also imperet ei Deus God rebuke him of Almighty God And the rebuke will quickly follow if you please to consider four Primary Texts of Scripture Joh. 20.31 These things of which the Apostolical Symbol is a Sum are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you may have life by his name Why then were not these other things of which this Papal Symbol is a Sum written if as his Holiness defines there is no life no salvation without them Acts 15.28 It is approved of the Holy Ghost and us say the Apostles at Jerusalem not to impose on you a greater burthen than these necessary things Hath the Holy Ghost in length of years disapproved in Trent what he approved in Jerusalem to double the burden of belief and obedience It 's far more just and reasonable to judge that he who glorieth in the Vicairship of Christ and Succession to Peter is heir and possessor of that spirit of Roboam 1 King 12.20 Speaking hard things to the people of Christ making his least finger grosser than the back and shoulders of Jesus making his sweet yoke uneasie and scourging with Scorpions the flock of Christ for which the good Pastor was scourged with whips The Apostle Jude in his Catholick Epistle v. 3. thinks it necessary to exhort us to contend for the Faith once delivered to the Saints But Pope Pius commands us to fight for the Faith now of late inspired into the holy Fathers of the Council of Trent initio Bullae But let us obey the holy Apostle who like a Messenger of God exhorts us with a salutation of Mercy Peace and Charity But let us avoid the Papal Spirit as of a contrary Satanical mission for more Impious indeed than Pius by name he usurps a threat of the