A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the…A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the…

Is not erecting of Images a principal ¹point of Popish Divinity? how happened it then, that the Greek Church, and the Latin Church fell at such variance about them, that whereas before they agreed friendly in other matters, & were united as one Church, for Images they were separated, and never sithens joined again? Howe well agreeth Pope Gregory the first, who would in no wise have Images to be worshipped, or kneeled unto, with Pope Gregory the third, who decreed that they should be worshipped & had in greater reverence then ever they were before, & that, whosoever were of a contrary opinion, should be condemned as an Heretic? Is not Trā substantiation ²a chief, a principal, & most necessary Article of Popish Divinity? how chanced it then, that not long after the reign of Carolus the great, 840. years after Christ his incarnation, ⟨image 8⟩there began such marvellous great contention about it, and the best learned could not agree in the matter, as the writings and doings of Bartram, John Scot, Paschasius, Lanfranc, & divers others witness? Lanfranc confessed, that the earthly substance of bread is turned into the essence or substance of the Lord his Body, so that it may truly be said, that we receive both the self same true Body, which Christ toke of the virgin Mary, and that we receive not the self same Body? Many of our late Transubstantiators affirm, that the substance of Bread vanisheth away, and the substance of Christ his Body cometh in place thereof. M. Harding biddeth us ³beware, that we think not that the Body of Christ is made of Bread as of a matter, but sayeth that where bread was before, after Consecration there is the very Body of Christ, this good counsel he giveth, least we should misconstrue his Augustine, who, (as he sayeth, albeit we can not read it in him) writeth that the Body and Blood of ⟨image 8⟩Christ is made of the Substance of Bread and Wine. The council called Concilium Vercellense allowed & confirmed the opinion of the said Lanfranc: the Council holden at Antegane, and an other at Turone, condemned that Vercellense Concilium. Pope Innocentius. 3. in his Lateran Synod added to the. 12. articles of our Christen Faith, Transubstantiation, as the. 13. Article, whereas divers other Papists think not that we are bound to believe it in pain of damnation, or as the Articles of our belief.