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Rh ''admit and embrace. I likewise admit the Holy Scripture according to that sense which our Holy Mother Church has held and does hold, whose province it is to judge of the true sense and interpretation cf the sacred scriptures, Nor will I ever understand or interpret it, except according to the unanimous consent of the holy fathers, I also profess that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the new Law instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though not all necessary to each individual; to wit, Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Orders, and Matrimony, and that they confer grace, and that of these. Baptism, Confirmation, and Orders cannot be reiterated without sacrilege, I also receive and admit all the received and approved ceremonies of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of all the above mentioned sacraments, I embrace and receive all and everything which in the holy Synod of Trent has been defined and declared concerning original sin and justification, I profess likewise that in the Mass is offered to God a true,proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead, and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that there takes place a conversion of the entire substance of the bread into the body, and of the entire substance of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation, I also confess that under one kind alone, Christ is taken whole and entire, and a true sacrament, I steadfastly hold that there exists a purgatory, and that the souls, there detained are assisted by the suffrages of the faithful; in like manner also that the saints reigning along with Christ are to be venerated and invoked, and that they offer up prayers for us, and that their relics are to be venerated, I steadfastly assert that the images of Christ and of the ever Virgin Mother of God, and in like manner of other saints, are to be kept and retained, and that due honour and veneration is to be awarded to them; also maintain that the power of indulgences has been left by Christ in his Church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to the Christian people, I recognize the Holy Catholic and apostolic Roman Church as the mother and mistress of all churches; and I promise and ''