345 Account of the Christians on the Malabar Coast. [Oct. 



I do likewise affirm, that the souls of the just and faithful, 

 which at their departure out of this life, have entirely satisfied for 

 the punishment due to the sins that they have committed as also 

 those in Purgatory wliich have made an end of satisfying for 

 their sins according- to the divine pleasure and ordination ; as also 

 those who after baptism have committed no sin, do at the moment 

 of their deatli go immediately into Heaven, where they behold God 

 as he is: and 1 do condemn, and anathematize the heresy of those, 

 who think that the souls of the just are in a terrestrial paradise 

 till the day of judgment : and that the damned are not tormen- 

 ted any otherwise than by the certainty they have of the torments 

 they are to enter into after the day of judgment. 



And I do confess, and affirm, that the Saints now reigning 

 with Christ in Heaven, are to be reverenced, and invoked, and 

 that they orfer prayers to God for us, whose relicks are likewise 

 to be reverenced on earth: and moreover, that the images of 

 our Lord Christ, and of our Lady the glorious Virgin Mary, and 

 of all the other saints, are to be kept, used, and reverenced, with 

 due honour and veneration. 



I do also believe, that our Lady the'most Holy Virgin Mary is the 

 proper and true mother of God, and ought to be called so by the 

 frtithful, for having brought forth according to the flesh, without 

 any pain or passion, the true Son of God, and that she always con- 

 tinued a virgin, in, and after her deliverance, having never been 

 defiled by any actual sin. 



I do confess, that the power of granting indulgences was left 

 to the Church by our Lord Jesus Christ; the use whereof I do 

 affirm to be healthful and profitable to all christian people. 



I do acknowledge the Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Roman 

 church to be the head, mother and mistress of all other churches 

 in the world; and do hold all that are not subject and obedient 

 to her, to be heretical, schismatical, and disobedient to our 

 Lord Jesus Christ, and his commands, and to the order that he 

 left in the church, and to be aliens from eternal salvation. 



I do promise and swear true obedience to the Pope, the Roman 

 bishop, the successor of the blessed prince of the Apostles St. 

 Peter, and vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ on earth, the head of 

 the whole church on earth, and doctor and master of all Christi- 

 ans ; and do confess, that all who deny obedience to the said 

 Roman bishop, the Vicar of Christ, are transgressors of the divine 

 commands, and cannot attain to eternal life. 



