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A71161	The history of all religions in the world, from the creation down to this present time in two parts : the first containing their theory, and the other relating to their practices ... : to which is added, a table of heresies : as also a geographical map, shewing in what countrey each religion is practised ... / by William Turner ...	Turner, William, 1653-1701.	1695 (1695)	Wing T3347; ESTC R6111	329,028	716

High Creator of all things That the Bishop reads Prayers over the Child in Church before the Baptism and in the River at Baptism while the Godfather plunges the Child three times all over and then to Feasting Papists 1. Doctrines according to the Council of Trent I N. do with a stedfast Faith believe and profess all and every Point contained in the Symbol of the Faith that the Holy Roman Church doth use viz. To believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth of all things visible and invisible And in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God and born of the Father before all Worlds God of God Light of Light True God of True God begotten not made of the same Substance with the Father by whom all things were made who for us Men and for our Salvation came down from Heaven was Incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made Man was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate suffered and was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and ascended up into Heaven sitteth at the right Hand of the Father and he shall come again with Glory to judge both the Quick and the Dead of whose Kingdom there shall be no end and in the Holy Ghost the Lord and Giver of Life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified who spake by the Prophets and one Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church I confess one Baptism for the Remission of Sins and I expect the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to come Amen I do most stedfastly admit and embrace the Traditions of the Apostles and of the Church and all other Observances and Constitutions of the same Church I do likewise admit the Holy Scripture according to that Sense which our Holy Mother the Catholick Church hath holden and doth hold unto whom it doth appertain to judge of the True Sense and Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures neither will I ever understand nor interpret the same otherwise than according to the uniform consent of the Fathers I do also profess that there be truly and properly Seven Sacraments of the New Law and necessary for the Salvation of Mankind although they be not necessary for all Men viz. Baptism Confirmation Eucharist Pennance Extream Unction Orders and Matrimony and that these Sacraments do give Grace and that of them Baptism Confirmation and Orders cannot be reiterated without Sacrilege I do also receive and admit all the received and approved Ceremonies of the Catholick Church in the Solemn Administration of all the aforesaid Sacraments I do embrace and receive all and every of those things which in the Holy Council of Trent have been defined and declared touching Original Sin and Justification I do profess also that in the Mass is offered unto God a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the Quick and Dead and that in the most Holy Sacrifice of the Altar 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 made a Conversion of the whole Substance of Wine into the Blood which Conversion the Catholick Church doth call Transubstantiation I do also confess that under either kind only is received Christ whole intire and the True Sacrament I do constantly hold that there it Purgatory and that the Souls which be there detained are holpen by the Prayers of the Faithful Also that the Saints who reign together with Christ are to be worshipped and called upon and that they offer up Prayers to God for us and that their Relicks are to be worshipped I do most stedfastly affirm that the Images of Christ of the Mother of God always Virgin and of other Saints are to be had and received and that due Honour and Reverence is to be given to them I do affirm that the Authority of Indulgencies was left by Christ in the Church and that the use of them is very behooveful to Christian People I do acknowledge the Holy Catholick and Apostolick Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches and do promise and swear true Obedience to the Bishop of Rome who is the Successor of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and the Vicar of Jesus Christ All other things defined and declared by the Holy Canons and Oecumenical Councils and chiefly by the Holy Council of Trent I do undoubtedly receive and profess And also all contrary things and whatsoever Heresies condemned rejected and accursed by the Church I likewise do condemn reject and accurse This True Catholick Faith without which no Man can be Saved which now I do willingly profess and hold I the same I. N. do Promise Vow and Swear to hold and confess most constantly by God's help intire and uncorrupted even to the last end of my Life and to procure as much as shall lye in me that my Subjects or those of whom I shall have care in my Office shall accordingly teach and preach the same So God help me and these Holy Gospels of God Dr. James Library-keeper of Oxford out of Lewis de Grenado 's Sp. Doctrine 2. Vsages and Ceremonies and Traditions 1. In publick Prayers they use the Latine-Tongue 2. In the Commandments they make the First and Second One and divide the Tenth into Two 3. They distinguish Sins into 1. Mortal by which only they say the Commandments are broken which are 1. Pride 2. Covetousness 3. Leachery 4. Anger 5. Gluttony 6. Envy 7. Sloth 2. Venial Not contrary to the end of the Commandments i. e. to Charity e. g. an idle Word an officious or jesting Lie stealing of a Pin or Apple c. not killing but disposing to mortal Sin 4. They say 't is possible necessary and easie by the assistance of God's Grace to keep all the Commandments 5. That mortal sin is remitted by 1. Hearty Penance 2. Contrition 6. That venial sin is remitted by 1. All the Sacraments 2. Holy-water 3. Devout Prayer c. 7. The punishment Of mortal sin is Hell for ever 7. The punishment Of venial sin is Purgatory 8. That there are six Sins against the Holy Ghost 1. Despair of Salvation 2. Presumption of God's Mercy 3. Impugning the known Truth 4. Envy at others known good 5. Obstinacy in Sin 6. Final Impenitence 9. That there are four crying Sins 1. Wilful Murder 2. The Sin of Sodom 3. Oppression of the Poor 4. Defrauding VVork-men of their VVages 10. There be three principal Counsels of Christ to his Church 1. Voluntary Poverty 2. Perpetual Chastity 3. Obedience to another's will in all that is not Sin 11. There be six Commandments of the Church principally 1. To hear Mass on all Sundays and Holy-Days if opportunity serve 2. To Fast 1. Lent 2. Vigils commanded 3. Ember-Days and Fridays by custom of England 4. To abstain from Flesh on Saturdays 3. To confess

business without demanding a Reason 6. Oratorians founded by Ph. Nerio all priests who were to preach diligently the lives of the Saints and other heads of practical and moral Duties 7. Anchorets the severest of the Recluse kept in a close place are to dig their Graves with their Nails ill clad and worse dieted 22. Orders of Nuns Nonnae Moniales 1. Of S. Clare called also Minorites or Minores who vow Poverty and Virginity go barefoot feed meanly c. 2. Gf S. Briget who was Qu. of Swedeland These cohabit under the same Roof with Friers yet are prohibited coming to one another but upon spiritual occasions The Confessor shrieves them thro' an Iron Grate by which his Lodging is parted from the Lady Abbess's Dr. Heylin See more of these Religious Orders in Alex. Rosse as also of all the Christian Orders of Knight-hood for I love not Actum agere Dominicans Franciscans Dr. Burnet speaking of Beru saith Those two famous Orders that had possessed themselves of the esteem of those Dark Ages about 20 years before the Reformation were engaged in a mighty Rivalry The Dominicans were the more Learned they were the eminentest Preachers of those times and had the Conduct of the Courts of Inquisition and the other chief Offices in the Church in their hands But on the other hand the Franciscans had an outward appearance of more severity a ruder habit stricter Rules and greater Poverty all which gave them such advantages in the eyes of the simple multitude as were able to ballance the other honours of the Dominican Order In short the two Orders were engaged in an high Rivalry but the Devotion towards the Virgin being the prevailing Passion of those times the Franciscans upon this had great advantages The Dominicans that are all engaged in the deence of Thomas Aquinas's Opinions were thereby obliged to assert that she was born in Original Sin this was proposed to the People by the Franciscans as no less than Blasphemy and by this the Dominicans began to lose ground extreamly in the minds of the People who were strongly prepossessed in favour of the immaculate Conception Dr. Burnet's Letters p. 31. edit 1680. Dr. Stillingfleet distributes his Discourse upon the Divisions of the Roman Church into Considerations 1. Of the Pope's Vsurpations under pretence of Universal Pastor whereby he may depose Kings c. 2. Of the Effects doubting not to prove that the Pope's Usurpation hath caused more Wars Bloodshed Confusion c. in Christendom than all other causes put together have done since the time it was first changed e. g. Constantine the first opposed Philippics Emperor Gregory the 2d taking away the small remainder of the Roman Empire from the Emperor Leo the 2d in Italy c. 3. Of the Schisms c. Sometimes 2 sometimes 3 several Heads at one time Bellermine in his Chronol confessing 26 several Schisms Onaphrius 30 whereof some lasted 10 some 20 one 50 years I need not insist saith he on the more antient between Cornelius and Novatianus Tiberius and Falix Damasus and Vrsinius Bonifacius and Eulalis Symachus and Laurentius Bonifacius and Dioscorus Sylverius and Vigilius c. Those of most continuance were A. D. 821. between Formosus and Sergius Benedict 9 and Sylvester 3. Regulars Seculars 4. Of the Differences in matters of Government e. g. between the Regulars and Seculars as to matters of Episcopal Jurisdiction even here in England the Mendicant Friers or Monks being exempted by the Pope the Jesuits difference with the Secular Priests in Q. Elizabeth's Reign proceeded to a Separation each from other about the Authority of Arch-Priests and they continually charged each other with the guilt of Horrible Schism The Jesuits opposition to Bishops Authority e.g. between Palafox Bishop of Angelopolis in America and the Jesuits Differences of Papists Lastly Of Matters of Doctrine between the Dominicans and Jesuits the Thomists and Scotists the Jansenists and Molinists Their Differences adds the aforecited Author are not confined to their Schools no not about the immaculate Conception the Thomists being against it the Scotists Occam and Franciscans for it John de Montesovo was convened first before the Faculty of Sorbon and his Doctrine against the immaculate Conception condemned and he forced to appeal to Rome and then to fly into Spain c. Dr. Stillingfleet 's Idolatry of the Church of Rome Jesuits and Molinists There being a great Indifferency in Italy as to Learning and Religion both and the Country being much improverished by the Ascendency of the Clergy and the People being Sick with the Observation of these things the Proposal of a new Remedy was easily received Michael de Molinos a Spaniard of an opulent Family who had entered into Priests Orders but not beneficed of an exact course of Life addicted to Mystical Divinity a Mysterious way of Devotion first set out by Cassian afterwards by St. Bernard Denys the Areop Thauler Rasbrachius Harphius Suso Tho. à Kempis S. Teresa Walter Hilton F. Cressy out of F. Baker's Papers considering a Man in a three-fold State 1. Animal or Imaginative where the Devotion is weak and variable 2. Rational where the Reason forces the Will and the Acts of Religion are dry 3. Contemplative in which the Will is so united to God and overcome by that Union that in one single Act it loves adores and is resigned up to God without any weariness or multiplicity of Acts upon which follows a secret Joy and Acquiescence in the Will of God Contemplation being nothing else but the silent and humble Adoration of God that ariseth out of a pure and quiet Mind All the common methods of Devotion being but steps to this State of Perfection To this end the Rosary Breviary c. are generally laid aside Molinos wrote a Book called Il Guida Spiritual● because Men may be deceived herein without a Guide This Book writ in Italy gave offence to the Regulars but especially the Jesuits This Book was published first A. 1675. with Approbation of the Arch-bishop of Rheggio General of the Franciscans F. Martin de Sparsa the Jesuit c. Molinos was hereupon received into Acquaintance and Favour with Cardinal Coloredi Ceceri Petrucci Cassanata Azolivi Carpegna and Cardinal d'Estrees the last was the most Zealous to advance his Design The Pope himself lodged him in an Apartment of his Palace many Priests came to consult him and all the Nuns except those which had Jesuits for their Confessors began to lay aside their Rosaries c. and gave themselves to Mental Prayer Upon this the Jesuits and Dominicans began to be alarmed at the Progress of Quietism Molinos and his Followers are given out to be Hereticks and Quietists Books writ against them Molinos and two hundred of his Friends clapt up by the Inquisition among whom were Count Vespiniani and his Lady Don Paulo Rocchi Confessor to Prince Borghese Cardinal Petrucci c. and the Pope himself in the single Quality of Benedict Odeschalci was secretly examined