Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra. A breefe and pithie summe of the Christian faith made in fourme of a confession, vvith a confutation of the papistes obiections and argumentes in sundry pointes of religion, repugnaunt to the Christian faith: made by Iohn Northbrooke, minister and preacher of the worde of God. Seene and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queenes iniunctions.

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Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra. A breefe and pithie summe of the Christian faith made in fourme of a confession, vvith a confutation of the papistes obiections and argumentes in sundry pointes of religion, repugnaunt to the Christian faith: made by Iohn Northbrooke, minister and preacher of the worde of God. Seene and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queenes iniunctions.

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Northbrooke, John.

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At London :: Printed by Iohn Kingston for W. Williamson. dvvelling in Povvles Churchyarde, at the signe of the vvhyte Horse,

Anno. 1571.

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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.

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"Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra. A breefe and pithie summe of the Christian faith made in fourme of a confession, vvith a confutation of the papistes obiections and argumentes in sundry pointes of religion, repugnaunt to the Christian faith: made by Iohn Northbrooke, minister and preacher of the worde of God. Seene and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queenes iniunctions." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08335.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• ¶ To the right reuerende Father in God, and his singuler good Lorde, Gylbert by the mercifull prouidence of God, Bishop of Bathe and Welles: Iohn Northbrooke, wisheth all health and peace, in Christe Iesu our only Sauiour.
• ¶ To the Christian, and faithfull Reader.
• ¶The contentes of all the Chapiters
• ¶ A breefe Summe of the Christian faith.
  • ¶The firste Chapiter. ¶ Of Gods creation and gouernaunce of all thinges: of Christes conception and birth, of his death and passion. &c.
  • ¶The seconde Chapiter. ¶ Christes death and passion, is a sufficient Sacrifice for all mankynde.
  • ¶The third Chapiter ¶The meanes whereby the death, and Sacrifice of Christ, maie be applied vnto vs.
  • ¶The .iiij. Chapiter. ¶Of Christes buriall, and the profite that we haue gotten thereby.
  • ¶The .v. Chapter. ¶How many waies this worde (hell) is taken in Scripture, and after what maner Christe descended into hell.
  • ¶The .vj. Chapiter. ¶Reasons and argumentes of those that holde, that Christe went downe to hell in his soule: Aunswered.
  • ¶The .vij. Chapiter. ¶Christe is our true Purgatorie, and the Papistes Purga∣torie is false.
  • ¶The .viij. Chapiter. ¶Popishe purgatorie is flat against the worde of God. For it maketh Christes death and passion of litle or none ef∣fect.
  • ¶The .ix. Chapiter. ¶Against praiyng for the deade▪ and apparitions of the dead after their departyng hence.
  • ¶ The .x. Chapiter. ¶ Children that are dead borne, or dye bef that they can to baptisme, are , nor yet go into the popishe limbe.
  • ¶ The .xj. Chapter. ¶ VVhat comfort we haue gotten by Christes rising from death againe. And that it shoulde be vnto vs as a glasse in this life. &c.
  • ¶The .xij. Chapiter. ¶Of Christes ascention into heauen, and how it is saide that he sitteth at the right hand of god. &c. And after what maner he is here amongest vs.
  • ¶The .xiij. Chapiter. ¶Christes humane body can be but in one place at once▪ and no in many and diuers places.
  • ¶ The .xiiij. Chapter. ¶Againste popishe transubstantiation.
  • ¶The .xv. Chapiter. ¶What it is to be guiltie of the body and blood of Christe.
  • ¶The .xvj. Chapiter. ¶The Sacrament ought to be ministred to all the people in both kyndes.
  • ¶The .xvij. Chapiter. ¶ Againste woshippyng of the Sacrament.
  • The .xviij. Chapiter. ¶How the vnworthy receiuers, are guiltie of the body and blood of Christe, although he be not corporally in the Sacrament.
  • ¶The .xix. Chapiter. ¶Whether the Papistes haue still the ame body in the Sacrament that was giuen vpon the Crosse.
  • The .xx. Chapiter. ¶Against the carnall presence of Christe in the Sacrament.
  • ¶ The .xxj. Chapiter. ¶The wicked doth neither eate nor drinke the body and blood of Christe.
  • ¶The .xxij. Chapiter. ¶The true exposition of these worde (hoc est corpus meum) and that Sacramentes are called by those names wherof thei are Sacramentes.
  • ¶The .xxiij. Chapter. ¶ The godly in the olde lawe, did eate and drinke the same fleshe and blood of Christ, that we do nowe in the newe Testament.
  • ¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter. ¶VVhat comfort we haue by Christes ascention into heauen.
  • The .xxv. Chapiter. ¶Aganst praiyng, and intercession to Sainctes.
  • The .xxvj. Chapiter. ¶Christe is both our mediatour of saluation, and also of intercession.
  • ¶The .xxvij. Chapiter. ¶The principall argumentes that the Papistes alledge for praiyng to sainctes: Aunswered.
  • ¶The .xxviij. Chapiter. ¶How and wherein wee ought to honour the Sainctes.
  • ¶The .xxix. Chapiter. ¶Of Christes commyng to iudgemente, in the laste daie.
  • The .xxx. Chapiter. ¶To whom the sharpe Sentences of the Scriptures are terrible.
  • ¶The. xxxi. Chapiter. ¶The subtile meanes that Sathan vseth, to bryng vs into securitie.
  • The .xxxij. Chapiter. ¶The Pope is Antichriste, and that man of synne, whiche shalbe before Christes commyng to iudgement.
  • The .xxxiij. Chapiter. ¶The strength and operation of the holy Ghoste workyng in vs.
  • The .xxxiiij. Chapiter. ¶What is the true Churche of God, and where it is.
  • The .xxxv. Chapiter. ¶Christe is the heade of his Churche, and not the Pope.
  • ¶The .xxxvj. Chapiter. ¶All the Apostles had equall power, to bynde and to loose, with Peter, and the keyes were equally deliuered to them all.
  • The .xxxvij. Chapiter. ¶The true Church of Christe is but as a witnesse to the worde of God, addyng nothyng to it: nor takyng ought from it.
  • ¶The .xxxviij. Chapiter. ¶The true Churche is knowen by the worde of God.
  • ¶The .xxxlx. Chapiter. ¶Of the office and aucthoritie of the Churche, and how i maie erre, and how it cannot erre.
  • The .xl. Chapiter. ¶Our offences and synnes are forgeuen vs, by faith, through Christe, and not by our workes and merites.
  • The .xlj. Chapiter. ¶Faith onelie iustifieth vs before God.
  • ¶The .xlij. Chapiter. ¶It is no presumption, to bee sure and certaine of our Saluation.
  • The .xliij. Chapiter. ¶Of free will.
  • ¶The .xliiij. Chapiter. ¶Of the generall resurrection, bothe of the godlie, and wicked, at the laste daie.
• ¶A breefe Index or Table, of the principall matters conteined in this booke.
  • part - A
  • part - B
  • part - C
  • part - D
  • part - E
  • part - F
  • part - G
  • part - H
  • part - I
  • part - L
  • part - M
  • part - O
  • part - P
  • part - R
  • part - S
  • part - T
  • part - V
  • part - VV