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them, as the Heathens did in their Idols; but because the Honour which we pay to them, referrs to what they reprefent, fo that in prostrating our felves before their Images, we adore Christ, and reverence the Saints, whofe Images they are: In like manner we adore the fign of the Cross, with the Worship off Latria, which is due only to God, because it is a fign reprefenting the Son of God our Lord Jefus Christ upon the Crofs, and which he himself hath told us will be the fign of the Son of Man in the Day of Judgment, and with the fame Worship of Latria we adore the Images of our Lord Jesus Christ, because they represent him..

*Heathens]The Learned Heathens made the very fame declaration concerning their worshipping of Images.

Latria. The faying that this Latria,or Supream worship is only Relative, cannot excufe it from being Idolatrous, without excufing the groffeft Worship among the Heathen, it being impoffible in Nature to giveany otherworfhip, than what is relative to an Image, when worshipped as fuch.

Martinus Perefius Aila, Bifhop of Guidez in Spain, in the third part of his Book of Traditions, p. 223. palleth a fevere, but just cenfure upon the Worship here eftablished. Cujus dollring, nullum (quod ego viderim) afferunt validum fundamentum, quod poffit fideLes ad id quod docent obligari. Nam neque Scripturam, neque Traditionem Ecclefia, neq; communem fenfum janitorum, neq; Concilii Generalis determinationem aliquam,nec eti

am rationem quâ hoc efficaciter fuaderi poffit adducunt. Et p. 226. Certe haud diffimile, imò fortè majus fcandalum infirmis paratur, qui has diftin&iones prorfus ignorant, nec poffunt nifi errando intelligere (ut ego ipfe in multis fimplicibus experimento deprehendi, cum ab eis fcifcitarer, quid de hac re fentirent) in eo quod dicitur eâdem adoratione adorandum effe Imaginem, quâ & rem cujus eft. Nam cum videant fimulachrum operofe fculptum, affabrè expolitum, in eminenti loco templi pofitum, ipfumque à multitudine veneratum, & fu. per hæc audiant, quòd eodem honore debeat honorari quo & res cujus eft, colitur, certè in multis fimplicibus periculofiffimus erroris affectus facilè poteft adgenerari, quo putent aliquid Numinis latere in imagine, fic quoq; rei repræfentate tum nomen, tum gloriam, ad imaginem facilè possunt transferre: quod maximè periculafum effe judico.

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CHA P. XII.

Urthermore, the Church profeffeth that every Perfon as soon as he is born, hath a Guardian Angel given him, whose business it is to excite People to what is good, and to deliver them from many evils which they would otherwife have fallen into, which Angel protects and accompanies People through their whole lives, doing all it can to keep them from Sin, and all other Evils, that fo it may bring them to Eternal Life, and is always fuggefting good things to their Free Will, from which we receive many Bleffings as well Spiritual as Temporal, notwithstanding we neither fee them, nor understand how they do it; and these we call our Guardian Angels.

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СНАР.. ХIII.

Urthermore, That the Catholick Church is one and the fame all over the World, having for its Paftor the chief Bishop of Rome, Succeffor in the Chair of the Bleffed Prince of the Apoftles, St. Peter, to whom, and by him to his Succeffors, our Lord Jefus Chrift delivered the full power of ruling and governing his whole Church; from whence it is, that the Roman Church is the Head of the whole Church, and the Father, Mafter and Doctor of all Chriftians; and the Pre

late of all in common, and of all Priests, Bifhops, Archbishops, Primates and Patriarchs, of whatsoever Church they are; as also the Pastor of all Emperors, Kings, Princes and Lords: In a word, of all that are Chriftians, and of all the Faithful People. Hence it is, that all that are not under the Obedience of the faid Roman Bishop, the Vicar of Chrift upon Earth, are out of a state of Salvation, and fhall be condemned to Hell as Hereticks and Schifmaticks, for their Difobedience to the Commands of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the Order that he left in his Church.

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СНА Р. XIV.

Urthermore, that One and the fame God is the Author of the New and Old Testament, of the Prophets, and the Gospels, the Saints of both thofe Teftaments being infpired in the Writing of them with the fame Holy Spirit ; and fo the Catholick Church receives all the Canonical Books of both Teftaments, which contain in them nothing but what is infallibly true, and was dictated by the Holy Spirit: To wit, of the Old Teftament the five Eooks of Mofes, Genefis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; as alfo Jofua, the two Books of Judges, Ruth, the four Books of Kings, the two Books of Chronicles, the firft Book of Efdras, the fecond which is called Nehemias, Tobit, Judith, Efther, Job, the Pfalms of David, being 150, the Proverbs, Ecclefiaftes,

clefiaftes, the Song of Songs, the Book of Wisdom, Ecclefiafticus, the four greater Prophets, viz. Ifai. ah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel; the twelve leiler, viz. Hofea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and the first and fecond of Maccabees; and of the New Teftament, St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke; and St. John, the Acts of the Apoftles writ by St. Luke, the fourteen Epistles of St. Paul, viz. One to the Romans, two to the Corinthians, one to the Galatians, one to the Ephefians, one to the Philippians, one to the Coloffians, two to the Theffalonians, two to Timothy, one to Titus, one to Philemon, and to the Hebrews two of the Apostle St. Peter, three of the Apostle St. John, one of the Apostle St. James, one of the Apostle St. Jude, and the Revelation of the Apoftle St. John, all which Books, with all their parts are Canonical, and contain in them nothing but what is infallibly true.

Decree II.

He Synod declareth, that in the Books of the New Teftament ufed in this Church, and writ in the Syrian or Syriack Tongue, there is wanting in the Gospel of St. John, the beginning of the 8th. Chapter, the Hiftory of the Adul terefs that was carried before our Lord Chrift; as alfo in the 10th. of St. Luke, where it is faid, that Chrift fent Seventy two Difciples, it is faid, he fent feventy Difciples; and in the 6th. of St. K 3

Matthew, the words, For thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory for ever, is added to the end of the Lord's Prayer; there is alfo wanting in the faid Books the fecond Epiftle of St. Peter, the fecond and third Epiftles of St. John, and that of Jude, and the Revelation of St. John, and in the 4th. Chapter of the first Epistle of St. John, this Verfe is wanting, having been impiously left out, Qui folvit Jefum, non eft ex Deo; and in the 5th. Chapter of the fame Epiftle, these words are wanting, There are three that bear Record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghoft, and these three are One; and in the Old Testament there are wanting the Books of Efther, Tobit, and Wisdom, all which the Synod' commandeth to be tranflated, and the paffages that are wanting to be reftored to their Purity, according to the Chaldee Copies, which are emended, and the Vulgar Latin Edition made ufe of by holy Mother Church, that fo this Church may have the Holy Scriptures entire, and may ufe it with all its parts, as it was written, and as it is to be ufed in the Univerfal Church; to which end the Synod defireth the Reverend Father Francifco Roz, of the Society of Jefus, and Profeffor of the Syrian Tongue in the College of Vaipicotta in this Bishoprick, that he would be pleafed to take the trouble thereof upon him, for which he is fo well qualified by rea fon of his great skill both in the Syrian Language, and the Scripture.

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