A golden chaine: or, the description of theologie : containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word .. . rr thisfauour^that they will but weigh and ponder with the-felues this one thing,which I will nowe offer to their confiderations,and thatiS,Th<tf the Romanerelt^on nowfial^lijhed comcell of Trent ^ is in the frinci^pall points thereof agamft the aronnds of the Catechifme, that hauc becne agreedVpon euer fincethe daies of the Apoftles, by all Churches. Thefe groundesare foureithe firft is the Apoftles Creed:thefecond is rhedecalogue or tenne^co


A golden chaine: or, the description of theologie : containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word .. . rr thisfauour^that they will but weigh and ponder with the-felues this one thing,which I will nowe offer to their confiderations,and thatiS,Th<tf the Romanerelt^on nowfial^lijhed comcell of Trent ^ is in the frinci^pall points thereof agamft the aronnds of the Catechifme, that hauc becne agreedVpon euer fincethe daies of the Apoftles, by all Churches. Thefe groundesare foureithe firft is the Apoftles Creed:thefecond is rhedecalogue or tenne^commandementsuhe third »s the foime of praier called the Lords praier: thefourth is the Inftitution of the two Sacraments baptifme and the Lords That I may in fome order manifeft this which T (ay,! will begin with theSvmbole or Creed. And firft ofallit muft bee corfidered, that fomeofthcprincipall doftrinesbeleeuedin the Church of Rome are, that the Pope or-Biftjop of Rome is the vitar of Chrift,andthe head of the Catholike church;-tjjatthere is afire ofpwrgatone after this Iifei that images of God and Saintj- ar€:. ate to be placed in Churches and worfliipped i that praier i<to bee made toSaints departed & their interceflion to be required: that there is a propiliato-ris facrifice dajly offered in the raalTe for the finnes ofthequicke & the points are of that raoment^that without them the Romanc religion ca*rot (hndtand in thccounccl of Trent the cnxic Anathema is pronounced vp-on all fuchas dcniethefeorany of them. And yetmarkejthe ApolHesCreedcwhich hath bin thought to containe all necelTarie points in religion to bee be-ieeued:and hath therefore bcene called thc^ & rule offatth: this creed 1 fa^,hath not any of thefe points:nor the Expofitwns made thereof by the aunci-cnt fathers,nor any other Crecde or coflfcflion of faith made by any councdor Church for the fpacc of many hundred a plaine proofe to a-ny indifferent man,that


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