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FOr our Lord giveth particular ad∣vertisement,a 1.1 that weeschew com∣munion with idolaters and obstinate apostates and hereticks in their ido∣latries and heresies.b 1.2 Nor have the Fathers taught otherwise (as they are produced for witnesses hereof even in the Decree it self, then that
if, not onely any man, but any Church do reject the faith, and re∣tain not the principles of Aposto∣licall Religion preached by the A∣postles, nor persist in the doctrine of Christ, it is to be deserted. And it is certain,* 1.3 the Roman Church, which flourished in the dayes of the ancient Fathers, was then extolled so much by them, and stiled the holy Church, and the Mother of the Churches; for no other cause then for that it held stedfastly the doctrine received from the Apostles, when most part of the rest had departed from it. But in these dayes what doctrine and wor∣ship they professe, and how much they have in many particulars de∣generated, is sufficiently known: Wherefore we again protest that we have separated from the present Ro∣man Church onely upon induce∣ment from the word of God, and in obedience to the command of God therein; and in that respect deemed it necessary to depart from the ido∣latries of this most corrupted Ro∣man Church, that we might no longer continue in apostacy from
the Catholick and Apostolick Church, but at length return into her bosome.
1 Cor. 5.11. 2 Cor. 6.14, &c. Tit. 3.10. Rom. 16.17.
C. 24. q. 1. c. 24, and 26. and q. 3. c. 9.
C. 24. q. 1. c. 9.