it makes of the forementioned Popish Er rors, having never been at any time the Doctrines of the Universal Church, which we know is confidently affirmed, and much boafted of; and for further fatisfaction in fo important a Matter, the above-named History should be defired, I shall be ready to tranflate and publish it with all expedition, alone, and in the fame Volume with this of the Synod; together with the best Account I can procure of the Church of Malabar, and the other Oriental Churches, that were never within the Bounds of the Roman Empire; for it is in those Churches that we are to expect to meet with the leaft of the Leaven of Popery.

As to the Synod, to prevent all furmifes of its being a Piece either forged by some Proteftant, or of no Authority in the Church of Rome, tho' fet forth by a Member of her Communion; I have, together with the whole Title Page, which tells where, when, and by whom it was printed, tranflated and publifhed all the Licences that it came out with: And if any should fufpect the Tranf G 2

lation,

lation, if they please, they may satisfie themfelves of its Fidelity, by having recourse to the Original in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; to which, as the fafeft, as well as nobleft Repofitory of Books in the World, I defign to give it.

I have here and there added fome short Remarks upon fome Passages, which will not, I hope, be unacceptable to the Reader.

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The DOCTRINES wherein the Church of Malabar agrees with the Church of England, and differs from that of Rome.

I.

He condemns the Pope's Supremacy.

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2. She affirms that the Church of Rome is fallen from the true Faith.

3. She denies Tranfubftantiation, or that Chrift's Body and Blood are really and fubstantially in the Eucharift.

4. She condemns Images, and the Aloration of them as Idolatrous.

5. She makes no nfe of Oils in the Administration of Baptifm.

6. She allows of no Spiritual Affinity.

7. She denies Purgatory.

8. She denies the necessity of Auricular Confeffion. 9. She knows nothing of Extream Unction.

10. She allows her Priests to Marry as often as they have a mind,and Ordains fuch as have been married three or four times, and to Widows, without any fcruple.

11. She denies Matrimony to be a Sacrament. 12. She holds but two Orders, Priesthood, and Dia

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conate.

She Celebrates in Leavened Bread.

14. She Confecrates with Prayer.

15. She denies Confirmation to be a Sacrament.

In the Account that is given of the Doctrines of the Church of Malabar, in the Eighteenth Chapter of the First Book of the Vifitation,

He is faid, 1. Not to adore Images. 2. To hold but Three Sacraments, Baptifm, the Eucharift, and Order. 3. To make no ufe of Oils. 4. To have had no Knowledge of Confirmation or Extream Unction. 5. To abhor Auricular Confeffion. 6. To hold many enormous Errors about the Eucharift, infomuch that the Author of the History faith, he is inclined to believe, that the Hereticks of our Times, meaning Protestants, the revivers of all forgotten Errors, and Ignorances, might have had their Doctrine about the Eucharift from them. 7. To Ordain fuch as have been married feveral times, and to Widows, and to approve of her Pricfts marrying as often as they have a mind. 8. That the abhors the Pope and the Church of Rome as AntiChriftian, in pretending to a Superiority and Jurifdiction over all other Churches.

A Dio

Diocefan SYNOD

Of the Church and Bifhoprick of

ANGAMALE,

Belonging to the Ancient Chriftians of St. Thomas in the Serra or Mountains of MALABAR

Celebrated by the moft Reverend Lord Dom Frey Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop, Metropolitan of Goa, Primate of the Indies, and the See being vacant, of the above-named Bishoprick, by virtue of two Briefs of the moft Holy Fa ther Pope Clement 8th. on the third Sunday • after Pentecoft, being the 20th, day of July, in the Year of our Lord 1599. in the Church. of All-Saints, in the Town and Kingdom of Diamper, Subject to the King of Cothin, an Infidel; in which the said Bishoprick, with all the Chriftians thereunto belonging, fubmitted it felf to the Pope and the Holy Roman Church. Printed at Conimbra, in the Shop of Diogo Gomez Laureyro, Printer to the University, in the Year of our Lord, 1606.