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 traditions, and all other constitutions and observances of the same church. "3. I also admit the sacred Scriptures, according to the sense which the holy rnother church ha8 held, and does hold, to whom it belongs to jndge of the true sense and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures; nor will I ever take or interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the fathers. "4. I profen, also, that there are truly and properly seven micra- ments of the new law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and for the salvation of mankind, though all are not necessary for every one, viz., baptism, confirmation, eucharist, penance, extreme unction, orders, and matrimony; and that they confer grace; and of these, baptism, con- furnation, and orders cannot be reiterated without sacrilege. "5. I also receive and admit the ceremonies of the Catholic Church, received and approved in the solemn administration of all the above-said sacraments. "6. I receive and embrace all and every one of the things which have been defined and declared in the holy C, ouncil of Trent, concern- ing original sin and justification. "7. I profess, likewise, that in the mass is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory 8acriilce for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrifice of the eucharist there is truly, really, and sub- stantially, the body and. blood, together with the sod and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole su!Mtance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls tran- substantiation. "8. I confess, also, that u/der either kind alone, whole and entire. Christ and a true sacrament are received. "9. I constantly hold that there is a purgatory, and that the souls detained therein are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. "I0. Likewise, that the saints reigning together with Christ are to be honoured and invocated; that they offer prayers to Cod for us; and that their relics are to be venerated. "11. I most firmly assert that the image of Christ, and of the mother of God, ever virgi, and also of the other saints, are to be had and retained, and that due honour and veneration are to be given them. "12. I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people. "13. I acknowledge the holy Catholic and apostolical Roman Church, �tHE MO?E AND (IS?RESS OF ALt. CHURCHES; AqV I X'gOMSE ANO SWEA ?gVE O3.DXEC. 70 'tHE ROMA msaol,, the successor of St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and vicar of Jesus Ehrist. "14. I also profess and undoubtedly receive all other things delivered. defined, and declared by the sacred canons, and general councils, and perticulady by the holy Council of Trent; and likewise I also con- deran, reject, Mid anathematize all things contrary thereto, and all heresics whatsoever, condemned, rej, and anathematized by the ,hurch. "15. This true Catholic faith, or? oF waxca ro.'qE CAN BE SS. VEO, which I now freely profess, and truly hold, I, N., promise, vow, sad 1

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