and their Councils Abridged. 423 :. `bit, though not yet for ufe, we attending "the general Efficacyof Chrïfs ` death, which by Baptifme is equally applyed to all, judge the fecondopini. ` on more probable and agreeable to the fayings of the Saints and modern Doálors of Theologie, the facred Council approving this, which faith,that both to adult and infants in baptifine informing grace and virtues are `given. I H. Ifany one fall into this errour that aspertinacionfly to affirm that Vfury it no ftn,wedecree that he be punifhedas an Heretike,and the ordina- ries and inquilitors for herefe mayproceed again ft fuch as againft hereticks. IV. ` And it is decreed that if any Communities or Officers fhall prefune to write or diélate that ufüry fhould be paid, or being paid ihould not be fully and freely reflored, let there be excommunicate , ana they than in- `curr the fame fentence thät d onot as far as theycan blot out fuch ftatutcs ` out ofthe bookesof thePaid Companies, that shall keep Etch cuhomes. Allo that üfurersbe compelled to (hew their books of accounts. 4 243. Here the Pope and the Beihops in a General Council have judged divers points to beheretic, and confequently their contraries tobe Articles of faith : And for Heretic they curfe, burn and damne men. a. I overpaffed their Article that Chrill was dead beforehis fide was pierced, whichis true: But whether an Article ofour Creed neceffary to be underftood to Salvation, let the Church Creed bewitnefs. 2.. Its well, that the potiibility of folds perfeftion ismade a herefie by them (for we mull daily pray for pardon n) : But why t hen do they talk to muchof the pollìbility of keeping all Gods Law, t hat is of never finning and talk of perfection, and worksofSupererogation ? 3. Do not they make an Article of Faith of a Logical Arbitrary Notion ( that intellelleeal Souls being the Bodies form) who knows not how ambigu- ous the word form is ? An Ariffotle fuppofeth aCorpus organicum, betides the- Soul ; and that Corpus bath its form quà Corpus. I imagine, that theee Bi- (hops meant the ,fame thing, that I do, and that our difference is but of the ftnefs of words , but I will fo far venture on their hereticationas to fay, that forma Corporir,forma Anime, and forma Hmtinis, are divers : That Cor- pus organicum quà tale hash its proper form, which denominateth it fuch which is not the Soul: That the Seoul being a fiobflance bath its proper form which denomineeth it, and which it retainceh, whenfepar"ated'from " the Body : And that the intellectual Soul isforms Haminis, but improperly called forma Corporir I will ventureon tlieir Heret cation, to tell them my. opinion, and I think their Errour and Prefumption to thrull faith things" on Men under the penaltiesof curling, burning, and damnation, 4. Their Article of Faith about the effeí`fof Baptiftn That all that are baptizedat Age and Infants have both pardon .and"irfiafd infirming habitual Grace, I take for unproved, and have elfewhere proved it tobe.falfe in all' probability, as univerfally taken.. 5. TheAnide of Faith, That Vfitry isa Sin, doth hereticate.manygreat Divines, more Lawyers, and maft Cities] Corporations, and Companies in the
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