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<HEAD>THE IESUITS CREED: <HI>OR,</HI> The forme of the Profe&s;sion of Faith, to which all Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts and Eccle&s;ia&s;tiques, of what Order &s;oever, are fa&s;t tyed by oath: by the ordinance of Pope PIUS the fourth, in the fifth yeare of his Popedome. <DATE><HI>Anno Domini,</HI> 1564.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>1. <HI>I.N.</HI> Doe with a firme faith beleeve, and profe&s;&s;e all, and every one of the things which are contained in the Creed, which the holy Romane Church doth u&s;e: To wit,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>I beleeve in one God,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Amen.</HI> As it is in the Nicen and Con&s;tantinopolitan Creed.</P>
<P N="2">2. I doe mo&s;t firmely admit and imbrace Apo&s;tolicall and Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall traditions, and the re&s;t of the ob&s;ervations and con&s;titutions of the &s;ame Church.</P>
<P N="3">3. In like manner, I admit the &s;acred Scriptures, according to that &s;en&s;e, which the holy mother Church, to whom it belongs to judge of the true meaning and interpretation of the holy Scriptures, hath held and doth hold: Neither will I ever receive and interprete it, but according to the unanimous con&s;ent of the Fathers.</P>
<P N="4">4. I doe al&s;o profe&s;&s;e that there be &s;even true and proper Sacraments of the New Law, in&s;tituted by our Lord JESUS CHRIST, and nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;alvation of mankinde, though not all of them to every one; That is to &s;ay, Bapti&s;me, Confirmation, the Euchari&s;t, Penance, Extreme Unction, Orders, and Matrimony: And that they doe conferre grace, and that of the&s;e, Bapti&s;me, Confirmation and Orders, cannot be reiterated without Sacriledge.</P>
<P N="5">5. I doe al&s;o receive and admit the received and approved Rites of the Catholique Church in the &s;olemne admini&s;tration of all the fore&s;aid Sacraments.</P>
<P N="6">6. I doe embrace and receive all and every one of the things, which have been defined and declared in the holy Synod of <HI>Trent</HI> concerning Originall &s;inne, and Ju&s;tification.</P>
<P N="7">7. I doe likewi&s;e profe&s;&s;e that a true, proper, and propitiatory &s;acrifice is offered unto God in the Ma&s;&s;e for the quicke and the dead: And that the body and bloud of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, (together with his &s;oule and God-head) are truely, really, and &s;ub&s;tantially in the mo&s;t holy Sacrament of the Euchari&s;t: And that the whole &s;ub&s;tance of the bread is con|verted into his body, and the whole &s;ub&s;tance of the wine into his bloud; which conver&s;ion the Catholique Church calleth Tran&s;ub&s;tantiation.</P>
<P N="8">8. I doe al&s;o acknowledge that under one of the kindes onely Chri&s;t is received whole and entire, and a true Sacrament taken.</P>
<P N="9">9. I doe con&s;tantly hold there is a Purgatory, and that the &s;oules therein detained are holpen by the &s;uffrages of the faithfull: In like manner al&s;o I hold that the Saints, reigning together with Chri&s;t, are to be wor&s;hipped and prayed unto; and that they doe offer up prayers unto God for us, and that their Reliques are to be wor&s;hipped.</P>
<P N="10">10. I doe &s;tedfa&s;tly affirme that the Images of Chri&s;t, and of that ever Virgin Mother of God, as al&s;o of other Saints, ought to be had and reteined, and that due honour and wor&s;hip &s;hould be given unto them.</P>
<P N="11">11. I doe al&s;o affirme that Chri&s;t hath left in his Church the power of Indulgences, and that the u&s;e of them is very whole&s;ome for Chri&s;tian people.</P>
<P N="12">12. I doe acknowledge the Holy, Catholique, and Apo&s;tolique Roman Church to be the mother and mi&s;tris of all Churches: And I doe promi&s;e and &s;weare true obedience to the Bi&s;hop of Rome, the &s;ucce&s;&s;our of ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Peter</HI> the prince of the Apo&s;tles, and Vicar of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="13">13. I doe likewi&s;e undoubtedly receive &amp; profe&s;&s;e all other things delivered, defined and declared by holy Canons, oecumenicall Councels, &amp; e&s;pecially by the holy Synod of <HI>Trent;</HI> and I doe with all condemne, reject, and accur&s;e all things contrary, and all here&s;ies what|&s;oever, that are condemned, rejected, and accur&s;ed of the Church.</P>
<P>This true Catholique faith, without which no man can be &s;aved, which I doe wil|lingly profe&s;&s;e, and truely hold at this pre&s;ent time, the very &s;ame I the &s;aid <HI>N.</HI> doe promi&s;e, vow, and &s;weare to keep and confe&s;&s;e whole and undefiled mo&s;t con&s;tantly, by the helpe of God, even to the la&s;t ga&s;pe of life; and that I will take care, as much as lies in me, that it be held, taught and preached of tho&s;e which are under me, or of tho&s;e, the care of whom &s;hall belong unto me in my office. So helpe me God, and the&s;e holy Go&s;pels.</P>
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<P>Printed <HI>Jan.</HI> 26. 1641. on Bread-&s;treet-hill.</P>
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