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I be ' huivh of Rome is charged with having depart- ed from apostolic Christianity by requiring all w ho com- municate with her to believe, as necessary to salvation:
1. That that man is neenrsed who does not kiss and honor and worship the holy images.
2. That the Virgin Mary and other saints are to be played to.
after consecration in the Lord's Supper, the bread is no longer bread, and the wine no longer wini'.
■t. Thai He- clergyman should he excommnmcated who, in tin- Bacraiueul of the Lord's Supper, gives tin- run to
.'.. That they are accursed who say that the clergy may marry.
ii. 'I'hat there i- a pnrgatory— that is.n place where souls which had died in repentance nre on rifled by Buffering.
7. That the ( buii h of Rome i- the mother and mistress i relies.
s- Thai dne from all churches to the bish-
ed "ho deny that there arc sev- en sncrnmenls.
these doctrines, contrary to Scripture and the primitive < Ihurch, have resulted these c\ il practice- :
from the \ cm ration of images ha- Sprung the actual
worship of them.
The invocation of the Blessed Virgin, and of other saint-, has given rise to the greatest blasphemy and profancness.
The bnad in the Eucharist has been worshipped as it were the eternal God.
From the doctrine of purgatory has sprung that of indulgences, and the practice of persons paying sums of money to the Romish bishops and clergy to release the
souls of their friends from the fabulous fire of purgatory.
We append a list of these principal heresies of the
I lino h oi Rome, and the time at which they wi re in- troduced :
Invocation of saints first taught with authority bv a Conncil of Constantinople, A.D. 7: I
I ■ ' fa a ■• ! and relics in religious worship first pub- licly affirmed and sanctioned in the Council of Nicea, A.D. 7-7.
Computet iii-t enjoined publicly
at the tir-i Council of Lateran, A.D. 1123.
Papal supremacy firsl pnblii j asserted by the fourth Council of Lateran, A.D. 1215.
Auricular confession first enjoii ed by Innocent III, at the fourth Council of Lateran. A. I •
I'"' ■> in aforii'in tuimiii' tic-t deliberately sanctioned by the Conncil ofTrent, A.D. I5(
Transubstantiate , was first publicly insisted on by the fourth Council of Lateran, A.D. 1215.
/■nr:i, i/>.,' a, ,i i, ,',,i,i, nces first set forth bv the Council of Florence. A.D. 1 !:;-.
Judicial absolution authorized bv the Council ofTrent, A.D. 1551.
Apoci mha received as canonical at the Council of Trent, A.D. 1547.
Communion in one kind only, first authoritatively sanc- tioned by the Council of Constance, A.D. 1414.
The Roman numbt r of >>'• .vc ra,„. „is first settled by the Council ofTrent, A.D. 1545.
This system of doctrine will be best understood by a reading ol i he creed of popery as adopt* •! by pope Pins
IV (q. v.), and published in [564. See l'lan i SSIO i'l- DKI. It embodies the decisions of (be ( 'ouneil ol In i;l.
Every Roman Catholic is bound by it. and Romish < lli- cials swear to it. Alter repeating the Apostles' Creed,
the form of the oath goes on :
'•1 most firmly admit and embrace apostolical and ec- Clesiastical traditions, and ail other constitutions ami nli-
servauces of the same Church. I also admit the sacred Scriptures according to the sense which the holy mother Church has held and. does hold, to whom it belongs to .iiid-e of the true sen-e and interpretation of the' holy Scriptures; nor will I ever take and interpret them other- wise than according to the unanimous consent of the fa- thers. I profess, also, that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the new law. instituted by Jesns Christ our Lord, and for the salvation of mankind, though all are not necessary for every one— viz., baptism, con- firmation, Eucharist, penance, extreme unction, order,
and matrimony; and that they confer grace; and of these, baptism, confirmation, and order cannot he reit- erated without sacrilege. I al.-o receive and admit the ceremonies ofthe Catholic church, received ami in the solemn administration of all the above-said sacra- ments. I receive ami embrace all ami every one ofthe things which have been defined and declared in the holy Council ofTrent concerning original sin and justification. I profess likewise that in the mass is offered to (Jod a tine, pro] er, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most hoi] sacrament ofthe Eucharist there is truly, really, ami substantially the bodj ami blood, together with the soul and divinity, of
mil' Lord Jesus Christ: and that there is made a conver- sion ofthe whole sllhstame ofthe bread into the body, and of the whole suhstance of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls transubstau- tiation. I confess, also, that under either kind alone, n bole and entire, < Ihrisl and a true sacrament is received. I constantly hold that there is a purgatory, and that the -oiils detained therein arc helped by the suffrages of the
faithful. Likewise that the saints reigning together with chri>t are i,. bi honored and invocated, that they offer prayers to God for us, ami that their relics at(> to he ven- erated. I most firmly assert that the images of Christ and of the mother of God, ev< r virgin, ami also i f ihe