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A46362	The history of the Council of Trent is eight books : whereunto is prefixt a disourse containing historical reflexions on councils, and particularly on the conduct of the Council of Trent, proving that the Protestants are not oblig'd to submit thereto / written in French by Peter Jurieu ... ; and now done into English.; Abrégé de l'histoire du Concile de Trente. English	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1684 (1684)	Wing J1203; ESTC R12857	373,770	725

were to be followed Besides these there was a fifth Article proposed to be examined to wit if these matters should be condemned with Anathema's There waited on the Council about thirty Divines most part Monks who till then had been of no use but in making some Sermons in praise of the Pope and Council but now there is work cut out for them for they were employed to open the matters and to make the first inquiry into the controversies and hereupon they discoursed in Congregations appointed for that purpose in presence of the Prelates who afterward gave their Judgment upon what they had learnt in the Congregations of the Divines But the Divines had no Vote in consulting and forming the Decrees The heads above mentioned were therefore stated in the Congregation and left to the disputations of the Divines As to the first head that concerned traditions they were almost all very well agreed that they ought to be received as a part of the revelation of God's Will Antony Marinier is not of opinion that the necessity of Traditions should be made a point of faith But Antony Marinier a Carmelite Monk started a considerable opinion he did not think it pertinent to make that a point of Faith because for asserting the absolute necessity of Traditions one of these two things must be granted Either that God had forbidden to write the whole revelation of his will or that the Prophets and Apostles had written their books at random without design of transmitting that revelation by Scripture and that hence it was that part of that revelation had been written and the rest unwritten he urged that the first could not be proved to wit that God had for bidden to commit all his revelation to writing and that the second was injurious to providence which guided both the Conduct and Pen of these holy Writers He gave therefore his opinion that they should follow the Course of the Fathers who had made use of Traditions when there was occasion without making their necessity a matter of Faith This opinion was not at all like and Cardinal Pool one of the Legates censured it severely saying that it had been sitter to have been started in a Conference of Lutherans in Germany than in a Council Four opinions about the Canonical Books Upon the Article of the Canonical Books there were four opinions some were for ranking them into two Classes that in the first should be placed the Books which had never been contested and in the second those which had this was the Opinion of Luigi di Catanea a Jacobin who grounded it upon the Authorities of St. Jerome and Cardinal Cajetan who had both done so some were for having them divided into three Orders the first of those whereof no doubt was ever made the second of those which had been heretofore questioned but which now are received and the third of those of which no perfect Certainty was ever pretended to The third opinion was for reducing them into a Catalogue without any distinction and in a word some were for naming expresly those Books that had been controverted to the end they might be declared Canonical The Book of Baruch gave them more trouble than the rest because no Pope nor Council had ever cited it for Canonical but a certain Person made a shamefull remark that the Church read part of it in the Desk and that was enough to canonize it By the Eighth of March the Divines had made an end of their Conferences about the Articles proposed to them and next day the Prelates assembled in Congregation to consult conclude and form the Decrees They past the Article of Traditions ordaining the same Authority to be given to them Vergerio drawn over by the Lutherans at length openly declares himself as to the written word and referred to another time the point concerning Canonical Books some days after Don Francisco de Toledo the second of the Emperour's Ambassadours Collegue to Don Diego de Mendoza came to Trent and the same time Vergerio who had a Bishoprick bordering on Germany arrived there also This man was famous for many Nunciatures that he performed in Germany and several Conferences which he had with Luther and the Lutherans by Commission from the Pope But instead of convincing the Lutherans in these Conferences the Lutherans had convinced him and Vergerio had not so well disguised his Sentiments but that he had raised himself an Enemy one Fryar Hannibal an Inquisitour who stirred up a Sedition of the People of his Diocess against him He came therefore to the Council to justifie himself but was ill received and referred to the Pope Instead of going to Rome he resolved to return to his Bishoprick hoping to find the Tumult quieted But the Nuncio that was at Venice sent him orders to the contrary and was preparing to proceed against him by order of the Court of Rome In sine Vergerio took the Course of declaring himself openly and retreating into a place of safety he fled into the Countrey of the Grisons where he made a publick Profession of the Lutheran Doctrine and afterward wrote many things against the Pope and Church of Rome In the Congregation of the 15th of March it was ordained that all the Canonical Books of Scripture should be equally approved of and no distinction made amongst them but there happened great Debates about the vulgar Translation Luigi di Catanea a Jacobin was of opinion that the method of Cardinal Cajetan ought to be followed who had recourse to the Greek and Hebrew texts and had them interpreted to him word for word because he understood not the Languages This Cardinal was wont in his last days to say that they who contented themselves with the Latin text had not the word of God pure and without mixture of errours this Jacobin stood stiff for the Originals against Translations but the Plurality of Votes were for the vulgar Latin and for having its Authority to be absolutely established without any reserve And some were even for having it declared that the Authour of that Translation was guided by a Spirit of Prophecy One reason that influenced the Patrons of the vulgar Translation was that if they re-established the original Greek and Hebrew in their ancient Authority the Grammarians would for the future be the Masters of Theology and the Divines and Inquisitours be obliged to learn the Languages But there were some learned men in that Assembly who could not endure to have it said that the Latin interpreter had a Spirit of Prophecy Isidorus Clarius a Bressian Abbot of St. Benet an able man and versed in the knowledge of Languages refuted that opinion he gave a History of that version and shew'd it to be made up of an ancient Latin Translation which was called the Italick and the version of St. Jerome he endeavoured to prove that it was not the work of one man but of many and that it being made up of pieces patcht together

should be left for the following Session The like was done with the last Article which contained a Confession of Faith and the Form of an Oath In that Oath were contained all the Doctrines and Articles of Faith which distinguish the Roman Catholick Belief from that of the Protestants such as are the Superiority of the Pope the Authority of Councils the Truth of Traditions the Number of Seven Sacraments the Real Presence Transubstantiation and the Sacrifice of the Mass It was not onely projected that all who should be received into Ecclesiastick Dignities should swear that they believed all those things but likewise that Princes should admit of no man to any Office whatsoever till first they took that Oath and swore to that Confession Having resolved to lay that Article aside till another time they framed the Decree about Residence leaving out all that might displease those who held it to be of Divine Right and the others who affirmed it onely of Positive Constitution The Cardinal of Lorrain upon this occasion did the Pope great Service He had not long before received a very obliging Letter from him and the Pope had invited him to come to Rome that he might confer with him which the Cardinal had in a manner promised to doe But he durst not absolutely declare himself before he was informed what the Court of France thought of that Journey He did therefore all he could to dispatch business that so the next Session might be held on the prefixed day and that the Council proceeding apace he might make his Journey to Rome see a speedy Conclusion of the Council and then return to France This being his aim he drove at Expedition and was the Cause of stiffing a great Process which was occasioned by a matter of very small importance And that was in relation to the Functions of the Inferiour Orders from the Deacon even to the Porter about which the Divines kept a great Clutter The Custome had been for a long time discontinued of having consecrated Persons to perform the Functions of these Lower Orders as shutting Doors lighting Candles ringing Bells and even Reading these Offices being discharged by Laicks Now the Council thought it necessary to restore the Order and to cause those Functions to be performed by Consecrated Persons according to the Ceremonies of the Roman Pontifical and that with design to silence Libertines who maintained that these Offices were not Sacraments But when the Bishops were about to come to a Conclusion and to frame the Decree they were stopt by a difficulty which is obvious to any man for they who were not of opinion that these Functions should be restored to those who had received Orders asked what Necessity there was of a Spiritual Character for performing of Actions merely Corporeal as shutting of Doors and ringing of Bells The Cardinal of Lorrain gave his opinion that that matter should be left to the Disposal of the Bishops which prevailed All were now for condescending that they might come to an end Nevertheless the Spaniards held out still and persisted to have Residence declared to be of Divine Right as well as the Institution of Bishops The Cardinal of Lorrain brought over several but a great many resisted his Solicitations On the other hand the Archbishop of Otranto and his Adherents who were afraid of the least shadow that might entrench upon the Authority of the Pope would not consent to the Decree that the Legates had drawn up concerning Residence because it said that all who have care of Souls are obliged by the Command of God to look to their Flocks They said that it was impossible to look to their Flocks without residing If one be obliged to look to his Flock by the Command of God he is by Consequence obliged by the Command of God to reside and so Residence must be of Divine Right Nor would they approve of the sixth Canon which faith that the Hierarchy hath been established by Divine Ordinance They were afraid that it might from thence be concluded that all the Orders of that Hierarchy are of Divine and not Papal Institution They said that by that means Episcopacy was declared to be of Divine Right These Minutes had been an hundred times over consulted at Rome the Legates approved of them since they had framed them the Pope's Canonists and Divines were very well satisfied with them but all that was nothing they would needs be more zealous for the Pope than the Pope was for himself Nevertheless in spight of the opposition of that Archbishop on the one hand and of the Archbishop of Granada and Bishop of Segovia on the other the Assembly went on and concluded that the Decrees must pass in that form And now the Consultations being ended and the Decrees framed the General Congregations were begun again the ninth of July for reading and examining the Decrees The Spaniards would not yield yet They made a noise in the Congregation and said that they were abus'd since that now after so long delaying to form the Chapter of the Institution of Bishops there was no notice at all taken of it They renewed their instances to have it declared to be of Divine Right and made the same Complaints and Demands about the Article of Residence But at length the Count de Luna dashed their Constancy for he called them together several times at his house and after many Skirmishes he obtained of the Archbishop of Granada the Bishop of Segovia and the rest of the most forward Prelates that they would be satisfied to deliver their opinions without Passion and insisting in their Oppositions And so on the fourteenth of July which was the Eve of the Session the Legates held the last General Congregation wherein a hundred fourscore and twelve gave their Vote for holding the Session next day and onely twenty eight were against it The Presidents obliged the Spaniards to be silent promising the Count de Luna that so soon as they had defined the Power of the Pope according as it was done by the Council of Florence they should make no more Difficulty to declare the Institution of Bishops to be of Divine Right session 23 The twenty third Session the fifteenth of July At length the fifteenth of July came on which was held that Session which had been so many times prorogued and the Decrees whereof were so impatiently expected The matter of Doctrine was digested into four Chapters and eight Canons with Anathema's In them the Council declared that Orders are a Sacrament that there is a visible Sacrifice under the Gospel for offering up of the very body and very bloud of our Lord that there are greater and lesser Orders by which one mounts as by steps to a greater Order which is that of Priesthood that Orders do imprint a Character and confer the Holy Ghost that Unction is necessary in the Sacrament that the Hierarchy is of Divine Institution that Bishops are superiour to Priests that the Consent