demned by the Council of Basil, then sitting. The pretended Union made there, renounced by the Greeks after their return home. CLXI. The testimony of Antoninus, (who was present in that Council, afterward made Archbishop of the place, and not long since sainted by the Pope,) for the common judgment of the Latin Church against the present Romanists. CLXII. The like ample testimony given by Alphonsus Tostatus, the most renowned man of his age. The Council of Trent noted. CLXIII. The reading of the apocryphal books, how far permitted. CLXIV. The testimony of Denys the Carthusian, (a great man with Pope Eugenius,) that the Church doth not receive them to prove any article of Faith by them. CHAPTER XVII. THE TESTIMONIES OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS IN THE Page 251. CLXV. The testimony of Fr. Ximenius the Cardinal, and Archbishop of Toledo, together with other learned men, that set out the Complutensian Bible, expressly putting the apocryphal Books out of the Canon of Scripture. CLXVI. The Preface before Lyra's Bible, printed at Basil. CLXVII. Picus, Count of Mirandula, adhereth firmly to S. Jerome, as to the common voice of the Church. CLXVIII. Jac. Faber Stapulensis, CLXIX. Jod. Clichtoveus, CLXX. Lud. Vives, CLXXI. Georg. Venetus, all witnesses for us. CLXXII. Erasmus, (now in great reputation with all men, but the Monks that hated him,) his testimony for the ancient Church, and for his own time. Censured by many for other matters, but not for his judgment and belief in this particular. CLXXIII. Card. Cajetan, the oracle of divines that then lived. His large and express testimony for the Article of our Church. His explication of S. Aug., and the Council of Carthage, reconciling them to S. Jerome, and the Council of Laodicea. Ten years before the Council began at Trent, all this went for good Catholic doctrine, even at Rome itself. Catharin insulted over Cajetan, as a dog over a dead lion. No man wrote against him in his life-time. CLXXIV. Catharin, (who was the first, that set forth the new canon,) reprehended and derided by his own friend, for opposing Cajetan and the Church herein. CLXXV. Joh. Driedo, employed to write against Luther, acknowledgeth the apocryphal books to be out of the Scripture-canon. CLXXVI. So doth Joh. Ferus. CLXXVII. And the several translations of the Bible, set forth by Pagnin, Braciolus, Birkman, Rob. Stephen, and Vatablus. CLXXVIII. A recapitulation of the former testimonies, in all the several parts and Churches of Christendom. CHAPTER XVIII. THE NEW DECREE OF THE COUNCIL AT TRENT AGAINST ALL THE FORMER TESTIMONIES OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH. : Page 264. CLXXIX. Against all these, a few men at Trent made a decree, to control the whole Christian world; and the Pope, when he confirmed this decree, commanded it to be held as a necessary article of Faith, without which no man might be saved. CLXXX. Whereby they have miserably rent the Church in pieces. CLXXXI. A brief history of the calling, assembling, and proceedings in the Council of Trent. The reformation of abuses begun in Luther's time. Pope Leo the Tenth sendeth out his bull, and commandeth that both Luther and all his adherents, (among whom where the Duke of Saxony, and divers Princes of the Empire,) should be driven out of their countries. The Princes, for the preventing of further trouble and schism, desire a free and General Council in some convenient place of Germany. But Pope Leo, (to whom it was dreadful to hear of such a Council,) declined it, and presently died. CLXXXII. Adrian the Sixth, his successor, promiseth reformation, but lived not to do any thing in it. CLXXXIII. Clement the Seventh, likewise, that followed him, studiously avoided the calling of a Council, and died not long after. CLXXXIV. But the next Pope, (Paul the Third,) upon certain conditions made with the Emperor, condescended to have it called at Mantua in Italy which came to nothing; as did also a second summons, that he made of it, to Vicenza: and, at last, he sent forth his bull of Indiction to have it held at Trent, by all Bishops and Abbots that were sworn to his obediCLXXXV. Public protestations set forth against it. CLXXXVI. The Council deferred. CLXXXVII. The league between the Emperor and the King of England; at which the Pope stormeth. CLXXXVIII. The Emperor and the French King agree to reform the Court of Rome, and to restore the Church to her ancient purity: which made the Pope to begin and order the Council to his own best advantage. CLXXXIX. His instructions to his Legates. CXC. His Ecumenical Council, made up first with twenty, and after with forty-three Prelates. Titular Bishops and pensioners to the Pope, sent to increase the number. CXCI. The first four sessions. Their Anathema added to their decree for their new canon of Scripture. CXCII. Against which many learned men pleaded there; but the voices of Catharin's faction prevailed for it. CXCIII. The words of the decree itself. CXCIV. For which they had no Catholic Tradition, Council, Father, Schoolman, or other Ecclesiastical writer in former ages. The small and inconsiderable number of men, that now gave their voices to it. CXCV. The vanity of their pretended tradition for it. CXCVI. The difference between them, and S. Augustin. The Council of Carthage, Pope Innocent, Gelasius, and Eugenius. The novelty of their accursed Anathema. CXCVII. For which they have nothing to plead. ence. 1 CXCVIII. The Pope's new Creed; the last article whereof curseth, and damneth, those whom God hath blessed. CHAPTER XIX. THE CONCLUSION, AND SUMMARY OF ALL THE FORMER CHAPTERS. Page 284. CXCIX. A defence of the Church of England, and those that adhere to it, by the ancient Church of the Old Testament: by Christ and His Apostles in the New: and by all the Fathers, and Doctors of the Church that followed: all which are condemned by the decrees and anathema of the later Assembly at Trent; which is cause enough, (if there were no other, as many other there be,) to reject it. CHAPTER XX. THE REMAINDER. Page 285. CC. The canonical and undoubted Scriptures being our foundation, we are to believe and live according to the rules therein prescribed us. The golden rule of the Church of England. |