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A13955	A godly and necessarye admonition of the decrees and canons of the Counsel of Trent, celebrated vnder Pius the fourth, Byshop of Rome, in the yeares of our Lord. M.D.LXII. and. M.D.LXIII. Wrytten for those godlye disposed persons sakes, whych looke for amendement of doctrine and ceremonies to bee made by generall counsels. Lately translated out of Latine.; Pia et necessaria admonitio de decretis et canonibus. English	Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575, attributed name.	1564 (1564)	STC 24265; ESTC S118528	89,422	138

them selues to be brought to this amity and familiarity And I desyre the godly Christian Reader that remouyng away peruerse affections which otherwise euen in things humane ar most wicked counsellers he bring to 〈◊〉 of this cause an vpright minde which subdueth it selfe not to 〈◊〉 persuasions but soly and onely vnto the woorde of God For by that meanes I trust it shall come to passe that he shal easely be able to vnderstand what is to be iudged of papistical Counsels Now therfore by Gods helpe and furtheraunce we wyll come to the matter it selfe The thynges that came to my hand being sent from Trent are not all of one kynde For certayne thynges were proposed to deliberate vpon for the reformation of the Church certayne thinges are decrees of the Counsel and Canons appointed to be obserued 〈◊〉 the Church But how fewe so euer they be in number yet they so open vnto vs the hart of the Fathers assembled at Trent that we may easely perceaue what affection they beare vnto the true and sincere ●…yth and religion whych we professe But least anye man hauing lytle say the to our sayinges myghte doubte of the truth of the thing I thought it good to annexe to this writing all and syngular thynges as they came to our handes from Trent being printed by the Printers longyng to the Papacye that the godly Reader may see that we speake nothing but with such fidelitye as is conuenient neyther doo we of purpose or wyll cau●…ll in any thyng but onely ayde and desende the truth of the heauenly doctrine and desyre to farther all them that are ●…dious of the doctrine of pi●… The first Decree published in the first session of the sacred Councell of Trent holden vnder Pius the fourth the most high Byshop the 18. day of January in the yeare of our Lorde God 1562. MOst noble and most reuerend Lordes and reuerend Fathers may it please you to the prayse and glory of the most ho ly and indeuisible Trinitie the Father the Sonne and the holye Ghost to the increase aduancement of faith Christian religion that this sacred economicall and generall Councell at Trent lawfully assembled together in y e holy ghost frō this day whiche is the 18. of the moneth of January of y e yeare frō the birth of our Lord. 1562. Dedicated to the Romane chayre of blessed Peter prince of the Apostles all suspension taken away according to the forme tenor of the letters of our most holy Lord Pius the fourth the most hygh Bishop should be celebrated and that in it a due order being kept should be intreated such things which being proposed by the legates and presidentes shall seme apte and mete to y e holy Sinode to asswage the calamities of these tymes to quiet the controuersies of religion to restrayne disceatfull tongues to correcte the abuses of corrupte maners and to re store the true ecclesiasticall Christian peace And they all aunswered It pleaseth vs c. So that others also may propose such thinges which to the Synode may seme to be lawful honest ¶ Thou seest Christian reder that the fathers of the Coūsell of Trent do in the first Session with great magnificence promise that thing whiche al Christendome hath nowe many yeares moste earnestly loked for namely the increase and aduancement of faith and Chri stian religion the asswagement of the calamities of our time the quieting of controuersies of religion the abolishyng of peruerse doctrine the correction of corrupt maners a true Ecclesiasticall and Christian peace and concorde c What can the mynde of man desire more if in so great a multitude varietie and confusion of opinions of the Churche of God it might se a godly peace restored doctrine purged from all errors the true worshipping of God all idolatry superstition beyng taken away renewed and most corrupt maners in all orders amended For the holy Scriptures do teach that by this meanes onely publike euils and calamities are asswaged If simple and vnlearned men shoulde rede and heare these thynges what golden mountaynes what golden and heauenly worlde would not they pro mise vnto them selues But if we shal diligētly weigh a fewe wordes whiche go a litle before the thinges whiche we haue nowe rehersed namely that the Councell muste bee celebrated al suspension taken away according to the forme and tenor of the letters of our moste holy Lorde Pius the fourth the most high Bishop we shall easly vnderstād that the Bishop of Rome with his Councell of Trent mocketh and dallfeth with al Christendome For whēas in his letters of Indiction and Indulgences he openly sheweth that he is minded to continew and prosecute the Counsel be gō vnder Paul the third and Iulius the third and not finished in this he testifieth that he ratifieth all the vngodly Decrees of the former Counsel whiche thing also the maner of the order so diligētly obser ued cōfirmeth For in that place where the aboue named Fathers left haue they begon both to deliberate and to decree and also to ordeyne Canons But lest a man should thinke that it skilleth not much whether the Councell be continewed or begon it shalbe good briefly to repeate thinges whiche were ordeyned decreed in the last former Sessions Howebeit I will not curiously searche out all thinges but only make mention of the principall pointes whiche are directly contrary vnto y e doctrine of the Prophets and of the Apostles In the first decree of the 4. Sessiō the Synode decreed that vnwritten Traditions vsurped by cōntinuall succession in the Catholike Churche shalbe receaued and reuerenced with as great an affection of piety and reuerence as if they had come frō Christes owne mouth or had bene spoken by the holy ghost They strike also with their curse al those which in their disputations and expositions receaue not the bookes called Apocripha or the vulgare translation Concupiscence saith he whiche y ● Apostle calleth sinne the holy Sinode declareth that the Churche neuer vnderstood it to be called sinne that properly and truly in dede it is sinne in those whiche are regenerate Free will is not extinguished in menne although the strength of it be empayred and diminished If a man say that other works whiche are done before I●…tification howsoeuer they be done are sinnes let him be accursed If a man saye That Iustification is nothyng els But the confidēce of the mercy of God which forgeueth sinnes for Christes sake or that this confidence is it only where by we are iustified let him be accursed If a man saye that it is necessarye for euery man that will obteyne remission of sinnes to beleue certeynely and without any doubtfulnesse of hys owne infirmitye and vnaptenesse that his sinnes are forgeuen hym let hym be accursed If a man say that the preceptes of God are impossible to be obserued euen of a mā that is iustified and set vnder grace let him

do approue and cōfirme them with their assent and authoritie By these thinges as I thinke all Christendome maye easly vnderstand that the Cardinals Bishops Monkes Sacrificers called together at Trent by the consent of the Bishop of Rome Pius y e iiii not to clēse y e doctrine of the Churche frō errors whiche haue not once with their litle finger touched any one error of y ● Scholastical or Papisticall doctrine wherewith their bookes and decrees ouer flowe but they are assēbled together with this only purpose and entent to establishe and confirme the Popes tyranny in the Churche and also deuilishe Idolatrye and thorough out al Christēdome to oppresse vtterly to ouer throwe sounde doctrine and the folowers therof Wherfore there is no cause why that any man should be deceaued w te these their most flatteryng wordes namely that they assembled together in this Counsell so the increase aduancement of faith Christiā religiō to asswage the calamities of these times to quiet y ● cōtrouersies of Religiō to restraine disceatful tongues to correct the abuses of corrupt maners to restore y e true ecclesiasticall Christian peace For the sense of those wordes is y t the calamities of these times cā by no other meanes be asswaged or the cōtrouersies cōcerning reli giō quieted vnlesse the olde aūciēt superstitiō idolatry be called agayne into the Churche y ● al godly teachers whom they in this place vnderstand by disceatful tōges shuld euerywhere be put to silēce y t such which hithert●… being instructed w c y t word of God haue gayne sayd their impietie playnly cōuinced them of manifest idolatry of infinitie superstitions abuses all kind of most pernitious errors yea and also of most great impietie should cruelly be put to death But as touching the correcting of corrupte maners they are so far of to be carefull y t they seme by all diligence to seke a greater licēce for y ● maintenance therof whē as it is not possible y ● there should be a greater dissolutiō of lyfe maners in all orders but especially in the Clergy And although as I suppose I haue hitherto sufficiētly plētifully declared y t the Coūsell of Trent in this firste decree hath most briefly cōdēned y e soūd doctrine of y e Gospell in a maner in al his partes articles so y ● I nede not to rehearse any mo things whereby to declare y t all godly mē ought to abstaine frō the amitie familiaritie therof as frō a most deadlyopē enemie of y e eternal truth celesti all doctrine yet neuerthelesse bycause we would in other things also satisfie y ● desire of y e godly reder we will briefly also examine such things whiche they haue decreed of y e bookes of herctikes of y e sacrifice of y e Masse of y e cōmuniō vnder both kindes and of prebendes ¶ The first decree of the second Session of the sacred Counsel of Trent vnder Pope Pius the fourth the xxvi of February 1562. THe sacred oeconominall generall Sinode of Trent lawfully assēbled together in y e holy ghost the self same legares of the Apostolical seat being presidētes in it not trusting to humane strengthes but cleauing to the helpe aide of our Lord Iesus Christe who hath promised to geue mouth wisdome vnto his Church hath principally a regard vnto this to restore at the length to his purenesse ●…brightnesse the doctrine of the Catholike fayth beyng in many places corrupted and obscured by reason of the opinions of many whiche disagree among them selues and to reuoke the manners which haue declined from the olde institution vnto a better manner of lyfe and also to conuert the heart of the Fathers vnto the children and the heart of the children vnto the Fathers For as muche therefore as it firste of all considereth that at thys tyme the number of suspected and pernitious bookes wherein vnpure doctrine is cōtayned and farre and wide spred abrode hath to muche increased whiche thyng in dede was the cause that many reformatiōs were with a godly zeale made in sundry prouinces and especially in the hyghe Citie of Rome and yet coulde no healthfull medicine profite thys so greate and pernicious dysease It hath thought good y e the fathers which are ap pointed for this inquisition should diligently cōsider what were nedefull to be done concernyng Censures bookes that they should also in due time make relation vnto the selfe same holy Synode that it may with more ease desseuer sundry straunge doctrines as it were tares from the wheat of Christiā verity and more commodiously deliberate and decree cōcernyng those things whiche shall seme most opportune to the plucking out of doubtes out of the myndes of very many men and to the taking away of the causes of ma ny complayntes And all these thinges ▪ it desireth to be brought to the knowledge of all men what soeuer they be as also by thys present decree it geueth knowledge abrode that if any man shall thinke that by any meanes these things pertaine vnto hym touchyng the matter of these bookes and Censures or any other thynges whiche it hath declared to be handled in this generall Coū sell he should not doubt but that he shall w t much fauor be heard of the holy Synode But bycause y ● self same holy Synode wisheth euen from the heart earnestly desireth of God those thinges that are profitable to the peace of y e Church y t all we acknowledging our cōmon mother vpon the earth whiche can not forget those whō it hath brought forth may with one mynde with one mouth glorifie God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christ thorough the bowels of the mercy of the selfe same God and our Lord and al those whiche haue not communion with vs it allureth exhorteth vnto concorde and reconciliation that they would come vnto this holy Synode embrase charitie which is the bond of per fectiō preferre the peace of Christ which reioyseth in their harts into whiche they are called in one body Wherefore harkenyng vnto the voyce not of a mā but of the holy ghost let thē not hardē their harts but not walking in their own sēse nor pleasing thē selues let thē be stirred vp cōuerted to so godly healthfull an admonition of their mother For the holy Sinode as it allureth them so also will it embrase them with all duties of Charitie Furthermore the self same holy Synode hath decreed that publique faith or saue conduite may be graunted in a generall congregation and shal haue the same force and be of the same strength and wayght as if it had bene geuen and decreed in a publicque Session The second Decree published in the selfe same ii Session THe selfe same sacred Sinode of Trent lawfully gathered together in the holy ghost the self same legates of the

Apostolical seat being presidentes therin hath appoynted decreed y t the next Session to come shalbe had celebrated the 〈◊〉 daye after the most holy feast of the Ascension of our Lorde whiche shall be the. 14. day of the moneth of May. These thinges agree with the Originals Angelus Massarellus Bishop of Thelesia Secretary vnto the sacred Counsell IN the begynnyng of this decree the Counsell maketh a preface y t it regardeth this thing onely y t y e doctrine of y e Catholike faith beyng defiled and obscured with the opinions of sundry men might be restored to his purenesse brightnesse But how wyll they aunswere vnto this promise to the expectation of the Churche I thinke it manifestly appeareth by those thinges which we haue before spoken Undoutedly this were a care mete for the Coūsell whiche yet they in nothyng performe but rather go aboute with humane traditions to obscure and oppresse the doctrine of fayth beyng nowe many yeares by the labour of godly and learned men purged and clensed Farther we neither cā nor ought to deny but y t there are very many bookes extant not so much suspected as blasphemous and pernitious but the Romishe bull hath eye to very fewe of them especially to such as are of his court and faith but by his Censure he noteth those only as hereticall which contayne a healthful simple and playne explication of the truth as we maye see in the cataloge of the heretiques But in that the Counsell committeth that matter namely the examination of pernitious bookes vnto a certayne few friers it semeth therin to haue small regard or eye to the estimation of it selfe whē as it putteth the iudgement of the doctrine of the Churche to the arbitrement of a fewe Sophisters But with what cōscience dareth the Counsell condēne bokes wherin they neuer looked which they neuer reade nor neuer examined But if they stand to y e iudgemēt of a very fewe mōkes why are not y e Censures vnto which y e authoritie of the Coūcel is added as it were a viser published vnder theyr name and daūger For whē such bokes are condemned and prohibited by the authoritie of the bishop of Rome and of the Councell simple Christian men thinke y t all these writinges haue bene diligently examined of the fathers when as they are nothing ells but the peruerse iudgements of a fewe monks which either gape for a Cardinals hatte or otherwyse flatter the Byshop of Rome are most deadly enemies of our doctrine If they say time was so shorte y t they themselues coulde not examine them a goodly excuse I promise you which now being these two yeares gathered together haue published abrode fyue or sixe decrees This y t I haue nowe spoken they obserue not onely in the examining of bokes but also in the examining of all theyr Canons For the Monkes dispute and decree of the matter y t is put forth which Canons are afterward confyrmed by the authoritye of the byshops so y t fyrst the consent of y e bishop of Rome be ioyned vnto thē by whose spirit al thigs ar there done by messágers cōming betwene When as therfore the writyngs of Godly learned mē are condemned of the Monkes whose vngodly peruerse iudgements y e councell ratifyeth by hys authoritye confyrmeth we ought no more to be moued thā 〈◊〉 we should rede here y t the doctrine of Christ being cōprehended in y e writings of y e Apostles were condemned of y e Pharisees But in y t al mē vnto whō this matter semeth principally to pertain are w t such clemēcy humanity if a mā●…oke vpō y t bare words not only inuited to come to Trent vnto y e coūcel but also promised saueconduite how this their good will ought to be taken by these thinges whiche we haue spokē it is not obscure Forasmuch as almen are as yet boūd by an othe vnto y e bishop of Rome do acknowledge the authority of y e Byshop of Rome to be aboue the Councel vpon whose backe thei also depende if publique fayth and securitye geuen shoulde onely be the cause that our men would not come vnto the counsel all men maye see that there is no sufficient warrantise prouided for thē For the byshop of Rome hath not geuen saueconduyt but the councel and bicause the spirite wherwith they are gouerned is a lying spirite and a murtherer who would cōmit hys lyfe and healthe vnto them whiche hitherto haue horribly persecuted our men omitting no kinde of crueltye and haue put to death great numbers of them But we will remit thys disputation vnto the Lawyers vnto whom the natures of publique fayth or saueconduit are better knowen And it is the destenye of Godly pastors y t for the most part they are not broughte to iudgemente to plead theyr cause but that vnder the coulour of right they mighte be put to death whiche though the examples of Christ of the Prophets of the Apostles and of y e Martirs do testifye This processe of the lawe as they cal it muste Godly teachers looke for in this world which wil not betray the doctrine of the truth vnto theyr enemyes of whō thei are no more heard thā was Christ of the high priests vnto whom when he answered he pleaded all our causes For being demaunded whether he were Christe he aunswered If I tell you ye will not beleue And if also I aske of you ye will not answere me neyther will ye let me go No otherwyse vndoubtedly semeth the councel of Trent to deale with vs. For if our deuines as they woulde haue thē should come vnto Trēt to rēder a reasō of theyr faith and would expound y e verity of theyr doctrine eyther they shoulde not be heard at all as it came to passe in the yeare of our Lorde 1551. in the same place y e Bishop of Romes adherents being gathered together vnder Iulius y t third or elles there shoulde no credite be geuen vnto them whē as they altogether are addicted vnto the byshop of Rome by the bonde of an othe and al things shoulde be done in preiudice of the truth whiche also shoulde be betrayed to the enemyes therof which hardening theyr eares theyr harts brought from home y t condemnation therof whiche dare not ou●…e hysse agaynst the byshop of Rome Wherfore there is now no disputation of the faith publique but of godly mete conditiōs of the Counsel which hitherto could by no meanes be obtayned of the Bishops of Rome no not by the Romane Emperours In the meane time whilest the fathers of the Counsell of Trent are busied not in seking out the knowledge of the doctrine of the Gospell but in condemnyng it and in confirmyng their errors let vs both in prayeng and teachyng faithfully do our duety and be most assured y t God whiche is in heauen derideth their Counsels laugheth them to scorne will

cause why all thinges are not done in the vulgare tongue when as the Eucharist was instituted for all the faythfull that the Lorde myght with one mouth be celebrated Forsoth the holy fathers are affraid lest the holy mystery should be prophaned but let them declare vnto vs whether the Greke Churche vsed the Latine Canon to auoyde the prophanacion of the mystery Who seeth not that the Counsell of Trent doth not this that the people should vnderstand the way to theyr eternall saluation whilest with toth and nayle they go about to retayne an vnknowen tongue in a sacred matter whiche pertayneth to the vniuersall Churche of Christ whiche onely thyng were not to be suffred thoughe all other things in the Canon as touching the thing it selfe were vpright For Christ whome Paul also followed commaunded that in the vse of the Eucharist we should shewe forth the Lordes death And bycause the Byshops sacrificers for the most part are ignoraunt them selues of that thyng the Counsell commaundeth that by other somthing should be expounded out of the wicked Canon not that the true Churche should therby be instructed but that the impiety of y e sacrifice should be confirmed But I pray you what secret thing is ther in the Eucharist which may not without danger be set forth in a tongue knowen to the vulgare people This daunger will I open by the wordes of Christ Euery one that doth euill thinges hateth the light neither cōmeth to the light lest his workes should be reproued And these deceauers seme herein not to haue done vnwisely For so long as the Canon of the Masse was vnknowen vnto the common people it was had in price and honour but when Christian people whō Peter calleth the Clergy perceaued this decease they draue awaye the sacrificyng Priestes together with theyr sacrifice and Canon But we neglecting this decree of the Counsell let vs folowe the example of the primatiue Churche in whiche the Churche Sacramentes of God were celebrated in a tongue knowen vnto the common people The xiii decree is a lightening going before the thunder and lightening of y t curse of the doctrine of our Churches and teachers which haue by the worde of God truly perspicuously and thoroughly cōfuted this pontificall impiety of the Papistical Masse By this decree therfore are abolished all bookes written and set abrode by al the godly and learned men against the Papistical Masse in which bookes is expressed the aūcient doctrine of the Supper of the Lorde deliuered by Christ and the Apostles But y t these decrees being for the most part all of them vngodly should haue y t more authoritie should for euer be fyrme ratified there are by the publicque authority of the Coūsel published abrode brefe Canōs but yet such as are vtterly ful of vngodlynesse striking w t a curse al those that go about to reprehend the lest error of the Masse Howbeit I wil not make any confutation of these Canons of which all and singular although briefly yet sufficiently is spoken in the confutatiō of the decrees Of this thing only I thought good to admonish the godly reader diligently to waighe these horrible curses of the Counsel wherein the doctrine and practise of Christe of the Apostles and of the primatiue Church concerning the Sacrament of the Eucharist is horribly cursed For vpō those which thinke cōtrarily vnto their opinion they geue not iudgemēt y t they should be borne withal as weake ones but they geue sentence that they are to be ac cursed downe vnto hell and to be deliuered vnto Sathan which go about to derogate euē the least poynt of the Papisticall doctrine in this part For all they are condemned and cursed euen as many as deny that in y e Masse the body of Christ is offred not to God y t father but is offred vnto y t Church to be eatē which ▪ denie y t the sacrifyce of the masse is a sacrifice propitiatory neither ought to be offred for y e quicke and y t dead for sins paynes other necessities which deny y t masses ar to be celebrated in y t honor of saints for y t obtein mēt of their intercession which say y t the canon of y e masse containeth errors for whiche it shoulde be abrogated which iudge that masses wherin the priest alone cōmunicateth are vnlawfull and vtterly to be abrogated And that al the faythfull may see y t the councell wil not relent no not so much as in the lest of their rites it curseth those also which affirme y t the words of cōsecratiō ought to be spokē not with a soft voyce but w c a loude voice or y t the masse ought to be celebrated in y t vulgare ●…onge as if there were required to chaunge no impiety at al. For as much as the words of the supper are a part of the shewing forth of the Lords death wil they also prohibite the shewing forth of y t death of y t lord But here lieth hiddē the magicall impiety of consecratiō whiche they attribute not to the institution of Christ but to y t magical pronunciatiō of words which if it were done in the vulgare tong the people might imitate I thinke the godly reader doth now sufficiently vnderstand how much y t decrees of this coūcel of Trent are to be estemed what is to be hoped for of it Of al which forasmuch as we haue sufficiently spokē in the confutation of the decrees we wil here cease to speake farther But let vs heare somewhat also what the councel hath decreed of the communion vnder both kindes of the vse of the cup. The doctrine of the Communion vnder both kinds and of the Communion of infantes published in the v. Session of the Sacred Oeconomical counsel of Trent vnder our most holy Lord Pius the fourth most high Byshop the xxvi day of Iuly 1562. The Proheme THe sacred Economicall and general Sinode of Trent lawfully assembled in y e holy ghost the self same Legates of the Apostolicall seate being Presidents in it Forasmuch as of y ● dreadfull and most holy Sacramente of the Eucharist there are in diuerse places sundry monsters of errors caried about by the artes of the most wicked deuil by reasō of which in diuerse prouinces many seme to haue departed frō the fayth obediēce of the catholike church hath thought good y t those thinges in thys place shoulde be set forth whiche pertaine vnto y e cōmunion vnder both kinds also of litle children Wherfore it forbiddeth all the faythful of Christ y ● hence forth they presume not eyther to beleue or to teache or to preache otherwyse of these things than is expressed and determined in these decrees That the Laitye and Clergye which celebrate not are not bound by the law of God to the communion vnder both kyndes Chapter i. WHerfore the holy Sinode instructed by the holy ghost which is the spirit of