ROMAN CATHOLICS. 



^ Now it was that popery became estab- 

 lished and general ; from this period 

 therefore we may date the appellation of 

 Roman Catholic. Without, however, 

 minutely detailing the origin of those 

 various doctrines and ceremonies by 

 which the church of Rome has long been 

 distinguished, we will proceed to give a 

 succinct account of the belief and prac- 

 tice of this very large and respectable 

 portion of the Christian world. We can- 

 not perhaps do this better than by laying 

 before the reader 



A Summary of the Doctrine, Discipline, 

 and Ceremonies of the Church of Rome, 

 as contained in Pope Pius IV.'s Creed. 



" Art. 1. 1 believe in one God, the Father 

 Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, 

 and of all things visible and invisible. 

 The one true and living God in three 

 persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 



" II. I believe in one Lord Jesus 

 Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, 

 begotten of the 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 of the Holy Ghost of the 

 Virgin Mary, and was made man. 



" IV. And was crucified also for us 

 under Pontius Pilate ; he suffered and 

 was buried. 



" V. And the third day rose again, ac- 

 cording to the scriptures. 



" VI. He ascended into heaven, sits at 

 the right hand of the Father. 



" VII. And is to come again with 

 glory to judge both the living and the 

 dead, of whose kingdom there shall be 

 no end. 



" VIII. I believe in the Holy Ghost, 

 the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds 

 from the Father and the Son, who with 

 the Father and the Son is adored and 

 glorified ; who spake by the prophets. 



" IX. I believe in one holy, catholic, 

 and apostolic church. 



"X. I acknowledge one baptism for 

 the remission of sins. 



" XI. I look for the resurrection of the 

 dead. 



" XII. I believe in the life of the world 

 to come. Amen. 



" XIII. I most firmly admit and em- 

 brace the apostolical and ecclesiastical 

 traditions, and all other observations and 

 constitutions of the same church. 



" 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 ac- 

 cording to the unanimous consent of the 

 fathers. 



" XV. I do profess and believe that 

 there are seven sacraments, truly and 

 properly so called, instituted by Jesus 

 Christ our Lord, and necessary for the 

 salvation of mankind, though not all of 

 them to every one, viz. baptism, con- 

 firmation, eucharist, penance, extreme 

 unction, orders, and matrimony; and 

 that they do confer grace ; and that of 

 these, baptism, confirmation, and orders, 

 cannot be repeated without sacrilege. 

 I also receive and admit the received 

 and approved rites of the catholic church, 

 in her solemn administration of all the 

 aforesaid sacraments. 



" XVI. I embrace and receive every 

 thing that hath been defined and declar- 

 ed by the holy Council of Trent, concern- 

 ing original sin and justification. 



" XVII. I do also profess, that in the 

 mass there is offered unto God a true, 

 proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the 

 quick and the dead ; and that, in the 

 most holy sacrament of the eucharist, 

 there is truly, really and substantially, the 

 body and blood, together with the soul 

 and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ ; 

 and that there is a conversion made of 

 the whole substance of the bread into 

 the body, and of the whole substance of 

 the wine into the blood ; which conver- 

 sion the whole Catholic church callTran- 

 substantiation, 



" XVIII. And I believe that under one 

 kind only, whole and entire, Christ is 

 taken and received. 



" XIX. I do firmly believe, that there 

 is a purgatory, and that the souls kept 

 prisoners there do receive help by the 

 suffrage of the faithful. That the souls 

 of the patriarchs and holy men, who de- 

 parted this life before the crucifixion oi 

 Christ, were kept as in prison, in an apart- 

 ment of nell, without pain. That Christ 

 did really go into local hell, and deliver- 

 ed the captive souls out of this confine- 

 ment. The fathers assert, that our Sa- 

 viour descended into hell, went thither 

 specially, and delivered the souls of the 

 fathers out of that mansion. 



" XX. I do believe that the saints reign- 

 ing together with Christ are to be worship- 

 ped and prayed unto, and that they do 

 offer prayers unto God for us, and that 

 their relics are to be had in veneration, 



