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A Vindication of the Church of England, From the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome, in Answer to the Catholick Scripturists [by J.
A Vindication of the Church of England From the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome in Answer to the Catholick Scripturists by J Author:George Bull Title: A Vindication of the Church of England, From the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome, in Answer to the Catholick Scripturists [by J. Mumford] Publ. by R. Bull General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may ... more »be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 115 or profession thereof, he should be absolved, and received into the communion of the Church as a complete and perfect Catholic; and that whoever should propose to such a person any thing else to be believed, as a necessary condition of Ecclesiastical communion, should himself be liable to the censure of the Church. Now to apply this: Our Church doth so heartily embrace the aforesaid creed, that she hath inserted it into her Liturgy, not only to be now and then read, but on every Lord's day, and in every more solemn assembly to be openly professed by all her sons; and therefore she is in all points of faith and necessary belief completely and perfectly Catholic and orthodox, by the judgment of the third General Council; and the Papists (that in the mean time call us heretics, and refuse to hold communion with us as such) are themselves liable to a severe punishment. XXX. And here (by the way) it is worth while to observe the egregious prevarication of the Trent Fathers (and the Fathers indeed of that which is called the Roman Catholic religion) in this matter of the creed, or rule of j 116 A VINDICATION OF faith. In the third session2, before they come to define any one particular article, they declare 1 it necessary, after the pattern (forsooth) of the ancient Fathers and Councils, (whom they have : imitated not half so well as an ape doth a man,) to premise the symbol, or rule of faith, used in the ...« less