IV. Overture of Perjury, in the Defenders of the Romish Masse, is in respect of the pretended Necessity of their Doctrine.
IN the last Clause of the Oath, prescribed in the Bull of Pope Pius IV. you are sworne that every Article therein is the a 1.1 True Catholique Faith, without which none can be saved; among which is the Article already mentioned, swearing to whatsoever was de∣clared in the Councell of Trent; by which Councell your now Ro∣mane b 1.2 Missall, or Masse-booke is approved. Now take a Taste of your Oath in every Epithet. First, [True:] and hereby are you sworne that in the dayes of Pope Innocentius the third, the Admi∣nistration of the Eucharist to Infants was not held necessary; which your owne Authors have c 1.3 confessed, and proved to be false. Se∣condly, that the presence of them, who, at the administration of the Eucharist, doe not communicate, is * 1.4 Commendable, and held a Doctrine Catholique (that is) antiently Vniversall: which was generally condemned by Ancient Fathers; and, even in the Church of Rome it selfe, abandoned by two d 1.5 Popes.
Lastly, in the point of Necessity to Salvation; To sweare that whosoever beleeveth not that one may be said to e 1.6 Communicate alone, is damned; that whosoever beleeveth not that the Priest in the Masse, being alone, cannot duly say, The Lord be with you, he is damned; or that the f 1.7 Body of Christ may not be run away with Mice, & be blowen away with the wind, he is damned; and a number other like extreme foolish Crotchets, set downe in your Missalls, which wee willingly omit. The Summe of all these is, that the same your Oath, made to damne others, doth serve chiefly to make the Swearers themselves most damnable. If peradventure any of you shall oppose, saying that none of you within this Kingdome (which never admitted of the Councell of Trent, nor of the Bull of Pope Pius IV.) are yet bound to that Oath, let him know that although this may excuse him from an Actuall Perjury, yet can it not free him from the Habituall, which is, that hee is disposed in himselfe to take it, whensoever it shall be offered unto him in any Kingdome, that doth imbrace and professe the same.