AN AMPLE AND PARTICULAR TABLE DIRECTING THE READER TO THE CATHOLIC TRUTHS HERE
deduced out of the holy Scriptures, and impugned by the Adversaries, especially of our time.

Absolution of a Priest. The excellency of this power above the power of Angels and Princes. What is to loose and bind.

Abstinence. See Fasting.

Adoration of God, Latria; and adoration of creatures, Dulia. Adoration of the Ark, Crucifix, Images, Relics, and the like. of Angels, Saints, and holy persons, S. John's adoring of the Angel explicated. What is, to adore in spirit and truth, Reverence to holy persons, even to the kissing of their feet.

Alleluia. and Not to be translated. The song both of the Church militant and triumphant. A word of marvelous joy, and so used in the Church's Service, even in the primitive Church. Sung in our country at our first conversion Sung in all Christian Nations. The Protestants had rather say, Praise ye the Lord. In translating six Psalms they have left it out nine times.

Alms redeem sins, &c. They procure us patrons in heaven. release of pains after our death. increase grace. Great Almsmen happy. Alms and hospitality to Priests and other holy men. to Catholic prisoners See Works. The more able, the greater must our alms be. When a man is bound to give alms.

Altars. Altars sanctified by the Sacrifice of Christ's body. Altar why called table sometime: Dedication or consecration of altars with Saints' Relics.

Amen amen doubled, what it signifieth.

Amen not to be translated.

Angels, Protectors of men. of countries, of Churches, The Protestants also hold this against the Puritanes. They help us They offer up our prayers v. S. Paul's place of the Religion of Angels explicated. Praying to Angels, Peace from God and the holy Angels. Nine Orders of Angels. S. Michael patron of the Church. fighting with the dragon, and therefore so painted.

Anoiling. See E. Extreme Unction.

Antichrist. why so called. He shall be one singular man He shall come near the world's end. His reign three years and a half. He shall abolish the Mass. suffer no worship but of himself only. All framing letters to express his name uncertain Heretics his forerunners, specially these of our days, The apostasy of him & his from the Cath. Church. His persecution of the same His attempts to draw from the true faith. Many Antichrists. The Pope cannot be Antichrist. The Protestants make S. Leo and S. Gregory furtherers of Antichrist. They place Antichrist in the See of Rome in S. Paul's days. Not to be with the See of Rome, is to be with Antichrist.

Apostles, their name, dignity, authority. Their number of Twelve mystical. Some of them more principal Apostles. The acts of Ss. Peter and Paul in two several tables They left their wives. So did S. Philip the Deacon. See Priests. They vowed poverty They made the Creed Their Creed Their learning, wisdom, constancy, after they received the Holy Ghost. Their honour and dread among the first Christians. and The Apostles' precepts. ma. Apostolical traditions. See. Tradition. The style of Apostolical salutation. Heretics usurp it to seem Apostles. To be saluted only of them giveth grace, The Pope's office is called his Apostleship. The Apostles of diverse countries. Their glory in heaven that convert souls. S. Augustin our Apostle.

Babylon, what it signifieth and

Baptism healeth the soul. taketh away sin. it justifieth. and Necessary to salvation except some cases. Baptism of infants necessary. The effects thereof & of Confirmation differ. Exorcisms and other ceremonies of Baptism. Ephetha. Abrenuntio. The character thereof. See Eph. v. Baptism received of Heretics and Schismatics. John's baptism inferior to Christ's. The Protestants make them equal: and why Names given in Baptism, and what manner of names. Whether Christ himself baptised. Figures of Baptism. The sending of the Holy Ghost on Whitsunday, called baptism.

Beatitudes eight.

Beza maketh God author of sin. controlleth the Evangelists. imagineth according to his fancy corruptions of the Greek text. See the preface. He translateth for Christ's soul in hell, his carcass in the grave.

Bishops, their spiritual power. to punish Heretics. Calvin confesseth the said power. Their consistories They must be obeyed. (See Church.) honoured and feared. their blessing. They may deal in worldly affairs, & when Superior to Priests and distinct in office though the names of Bishop and Priest were at the first indifferently used. They only can consecrate Bishops, Priests, &c. Bishoping why so called. Bishops' visitations. Many worthy Bishops that cannot preach. Special virtues required in a Bishop.

Blessing of creatures effectual and operative. Blessing the table. Blessing a preeminence of the better person. Bishops' and Priests' blessing The fathers' and mothers' blessing Blessing with the sign of the Cross. Christ blessed the children. & his Apostles.

Calvin's blasphemy against the divinity of Christ. Against Christ's own merits. Against the saints in heaven. that God is author of sin. Concerning Christ's suffering the pains of the damned & that he was abandoned of his Father. Against remission of sins.

Calvinism tendeth to the abomination of desolation.

Canonical hours. They answer to the time of Christ's Passion & agonies. See Prayer.

Catholic. This name discerneth true believers from Heretics. It is the surname of true Christians. By this name, Heretics themselves understand them of the Roman faith. S. Augustin's high estimation of this name. The Protestants mock at this name. So did the Donatists. Some leave it out in the Creed. Some in the titles of the Catholic Epist. The Catholic Epist. why so called ibidem, Catholic terms and speeches. To have Catholic parents is a great blessing. Catholic Church, See Church. Catholic faith. See faith. The Catholic faith is taken from countries for sin. The Catholic simple man is sufficiently learned, Catholic men's obedience to their Pastors. to Councels Catholic assemblies to God's service in time of persecution. See persecution.

Censures of the Church. See Ecclesiastical Ceremonies used in the Church by Christ's example. External elements in the Sacraments S. Augustine's estimation of the Cath. Church's ceremonies, he is falsely alleged against them. They are not burdenous, but sweet and to edification, They are neither Heathenish nor Iudaical The Apostles borrowed some ceremonies of the Jews law. See Imposition of hands.

Charity the greatest virtue, & more principal in our justification than faith. See Justification. How faith worketh by charity.

Chaste or single life Angelical. more apt for the service of God See Priests, Holy Orders, Monastical life. It is not impossible. The Protestants complain they have not the gift. All may that will Chastity of mind also is required. The Chastity of Virgins, Widows, married folk, differ in merit and dignity.

Christ a Priest as he is man. See Priest, his descending into Hell. See Hell. He is the only Mediator. See Saints. How he maketh now intercession for us. Following of Christ diversly. Christ and Messias and Anointed, all one. His marvelous grace in preaching.

The name of Christians True Christian liberty. See Gospel.

Church the Spouse of Christ, her other titles & prerogatives Christ's exceeding love and benefits toward her. The marvelous union between them. She was builded of Christ's side gathered of all nations Upholden by his continual protection. Catholic or universal. The principal creature. What this article signifieth, I believe the Catholic Church. It is more blindness not to see the Church, than not to believe in Christ Heretics blinder than the Jews. The unity thereof Christ prayed for the unity thereof. His coat without seam a figure thereof. often commended. See Schism. The Protestants at the first avoided the name of Church, and thrust it out of the Bible. It can never fail nor err The Protestants' blasphemy concerning the Church's apostasy and revolt from God. Christ without his Church as the head without a body. Always visible Elias' words make nothing to the contrary. The state thereof in Antichrist's time. Small in the beginning & growing, great afterward. nu, ma. Her laws, customs, and Governors must be obeyed. She only hath the true sense of Scriptures. She judgeth all, and is judged of none. She judgeth between canonical Scriptures & not canonical. which are Sacraments, which not. She consisteth of good & bad. not without wrinkle in this life. The sevenfold candlestick in the Apocalypse. The woman clothed with the sun, whom the dragon persecuteth. The wife of the Lamb. The camp of Saints. The true Church is proved by succession. Christ left many things to be taught by the Church. ma. The custom of the Church is a good answer against all wranglers. Out of the Church no salvation. all blindness & lack of understanding. no prayer available. Christ head of the Church in a most excellent sort. The B. of Rome the ministerial Head. No temporal Prince can be Head. pag. No woman. The Church, that is, the Prelates & chief Pastors of the Church. To contemn their words, is to contemn Christ. The Church's order of divine Service in reading the Scriptures, & that it is according to the primitive Church. ma. See the table of Epistles and Gospels at the end of the book. Church militant resembleth the triumphant in heaven. ma. The triumphant Church (called the new city of Hierusalem) and the state & glory thereof.

Material Churches. The building of them Dedication of Churches. Cost in adorning them. God will be honoured in them rather than else-where. How he dwelleth not in material Temples. Not to be profaned. Our parents, & other necessities of poor men are sometime to be preferred before the adorning of Churches.

Clergy. The name their difference from the Laity. The manner & dignity of their calling. Degrees of superiority among themselves & over other. Their good life much edifieth. their exemption & privileges. They may not exercise holy functions for filthy lucre.

Commandments, possible to be kept. Keeping the commandments profitable, & necessary to salvation. ma. They differ from Counsels. By keeping of them man is justified. Commandments of men, what they are, & that they make nothing against the Apostles' and Church's traditions. See Tradition. Heretical laws and doctrines are commandments of men.

Communion. The Protestants' Communion. They imitate not in the same Christ's institution ibi. much less the Apostles' traditions. Coming to the Communion against our conscience. They call it unproperly the Communion. and the supper of the Lord. Their communion, bread profane Calvin's bread. It is the very table and cup of Devils. and is accordingly to be abhorred.

Community of life and goods in the first Christians, used now of the Religious only. not a commandment but a counsel only.

Concupiscence after Baptism is of itself no sin without consent. It moveth to sin. How the Apostle calleth it sin. it maketh not all the actions of a just man sins.

Confession in particular Secret or auricular confession to a Priest. of all mortal sins. before the receiving of the B. Sacrament. The English Ministers hear confessions & absolve, against their own doctrine. See Penance.

Confessing of Christ & his religion highly esteemed. See Faith. They that dare not confess and profess the Cath. religion, to whom they are like. To deny that thou art a Catholic, is to deny Christ.

Confirmation otherwise called Bishoping, It is a Sacrament. The grace and effect thereof. The old and new heresies against this Sacrament Chrism or holy oil in confirmation.

Conscience. Doing against our conscience Horror of conscience for shedding innocent blood

Continency. See Chastity. Examples of notable persons that lived continently from wives. The continency of married folk for prayer sake. for the more worthy receiving of the B. Sacrament. perpetual continency of man & wife.

Contrition. See Penance.

Corporals for the B. Sacrament.

Councels Of what persons they consist. They represent the whole Church. Peter & his Successors presidents in Councels. Councels of no force without their confirmation. Controversies in Religion to be decided by Councels. They have the assistance of the Holy Ghost. of Christ. This assistance taketh not away due examination of matters and disputation. All good Christians rest upon their determination How the ancient fathers esteem of general Councels. The decrees of Councels are diligently to be put in execution. and Heretics only blaspheme them, and will not be tried by them. How later Councels alter the former. Heretical or Schismatical synods

Counsels Evangelical. Things not commanded as necessary, but counseled as the better. tending to perfection, followed by religious men See Works of supererogation, Religious.

Cross. The honour of the holy Cross. Called the sign of the Son of man. The sign of the Cross in blessing. In Sacraments, and other hallowed creatures. Why in our forehead. The Crucifix or Rood with Mary and John. The virtue of the sign of the Cross. The appearing thereof at the later day, shall no less confound the Calvinists than the Jews.

Days. distinction of days. one day more sanctified than another. See Feasts and Festivities. The week days called feriae, not by their profane names.

Deacons. The election of the Deacons, their office. See Orders.

Devotion. uttered by external signs See Pilgrimage. God is served and adored in spirit, notwithstanding external devotion. Devotion falsely of the Protestants called superstition. Devotion toward Relics and holy things, a token of greater faith. Holy women's devotion. Mary Magdalen's devotion. Zachaeus devotion toward Christ. Devotion to see and to be near to the B. Sacrament. Kneeling at Verbum caro factum est, and, Et homo factus est &c.

Doctors of the Church. We must have regard to their doctrine. S. Augustine's estimation of the holy Doctors. Their aureola or crown in heaven. The Heretics' contempt of them. See Heretics.

Dulia. See Adoration.

Ecclesiastical censures. See Excommunication. Ecclesiastical power and jurisdiction. See Bishop, Clergy.

Elias yet alive and shall be the precursor of Christ's second coming.

Enoch also yet liveth. and shall preach in Antichrist's time with Elias.

Eremites why so called. their profession and life commended by the example of Elias, S. John Baptist, and Christ himself. Innumerable Eremites and Monks in the primitive Church. See Monks and Monastical life.

Excommunication, a spiritual punishment. most terrible. When and where to be executed. Excommunicate persons to be avoided. The Heretics use a certain ridiculous excommunication.

Extreme unction, a Sacrament The preparative to this Sacrament.

Faith See Justification, works. Faith only doth not justify. marg, and S. Augustine's whole book de fide & operibus, against only faith. Only faith an old heresy. S. James calleth such Heretics, vain men, and compareth them to devils. S. Paul's doctrine concerning faith and good works. He often joineth faith and charity. His words of faith, misconstrued by old Heretics and new. other Scriptures falsely alleged for faith only. The Protestants' special faith or vain security of salvation. See Salvation. The Catholic Epistles written against the heresy of only faith. Why faith is so often named in the case of justification. See Justification. In what sense some Fathers say, Only faith, How it is said, Believe only. What manner of faith doth justify. Faith may be had and lost again, which the Protestants deny. So may grace and charity. The Apostle's Analogy or prescript Rule of faith. To hold fast the first received faith of our Apostles and Fathers. and External profession of every point and article of faith. Neuters or indifferent men, of no faith. One man's faith obtaineth for another. The more devotion the greater faith. See Devotion. To believe without sensible argument or reason, is a more blessed thing.

Fasts or Fasting. An act of Religion. Meritorious. A work of justice. The force thereof. Prescript days of fasting. Imber days. Aerius the Heretic. Fasting from certain kinds of meats. S. John Baptist & the Nazarites. Scriptures grossly abused by the Protestants against the Church's fasts. Heretical fasting. The Lent fast, and the origin thereof. It is sin not to fast the lent. It is an Apostolical tradition. and It is the imitation of our Saviour's fasting. By keeping thereof true Christians (saith S. Aug.) are known from infidels. The Doctor's Sermons of Lent fast Public fasts. The Church's fasts foresignified by Christ himself. S. John Baptist's and his Disciples' fasting.

Fear. Many kinds of fear. The justest men do fear. See in F. special faith. & the word salvation. Servile fear not ill, though not sufficient. fear of hell profitable.

Feasts or festival days. prefigurated by the Jews' Feasts Scriptures grossly abused by the Protestants against the Church's Festivities and Holidays. Easter, Whitsuntide. Sunday. called dies Dominica, because of our Lord's Resurrection. Greater grace given upon these solemn days.

Free will, Man's free will worketh with God's grace. God & his grace force no man. God's grace maketh man's will more free. Predestination, reprobation, concupiscence, take not away free will. The Jews' blindness and reprobation was through their own free will. So was their betraying and crucifying of Christ, and Judas treason. the refusing of the Gospel when it is preached.

God, not author of sin. See Reprobation. Free will. The meaning of those places that sound as though God were Author of sin. How the death of Christ was by God's determination. ma.

Gospel. It is not only the written word. See Tradition. The preeminence of the new Testament. The true liberty of the Gospel. He suffereth for the Gospel, that suffereth for any Article of the Catholic faith.

Grace. See Free will. God offereth his grace, and man may refuse it. To consent thereunto is also by grace. The value of merits proceedeth of God's grace. See Merits. A man may fall from grace once had. Graces or gifts called, gratis data.

The Greek text corrupted. See the Preface.

Hallowing or sanctifying of creatures. The force of the same. holy places. See Pilgrimage, Church. The holy land. the holy Mount. holy bread. holy water. Holy days. See Feasts. Holy things not to be profaned. See Sacrilege.

Heaven, shut until, &c. vide pag. seq.

Hell. taken sometime for Limbus Patrum. Christ in soul descended into Hell. to deliver thence the Fathers & just men of the old Testament. The Calvinists deny this article. S. Augustin calleth them infidels that deny it. Their heretical translation for that purpose. Fear of Hell profitable.

Henoch. See Enoch.

Heretics. Who is an Heretic. Marks to know them. Going out of the Cath. Church. n. Diverse names of Sects & Sectaries. Nicolaites a pattern of them. Running not sent. Their dissension. Preaching otherwise & contrary to the faith received. Hypocrisy and sweet words. Vanity in preaching, and vain glory. Preaching licentiousness and liberty. Meretricious and painted eloquence. Teaching new doctrine. New terms and speeches. Vaunting great knowledge specially of the Scriptures. Their ignorance. and Boasting of the spirit. Contempt of Councels & Fathers. Corrupting of Scriptures. Denying the books of Scriptures and Doctors. Controlling of the very text of Scripture, and the sacred Writers thereof Their soul shifts and wrangling to avoid the evidence of Scriptures. Slandering the Church. Hatred of the See of Rome. Acknowledging no judge of controversies. Despising of Rulers, specially Ecclesiastical. ma. Lack of faith. Mutability in faith and inconstancy. Voluptuousness. Several & secret conventicles. Synods. Their Clergy or Ecclesiastical orders. How Heresies profit the Church. Their many faiths. many analogies & rules of faith. Their doctrine, fables. They come to naught, though supported a while by never so mighty Princes. Their marks agree to the Protestants. They may be forced to the Cath. faith. They may be punished by death. n. To avoid their books, sermons, service. Not to marry with them. Not to communicate with them The examples of S. John. S. Polycarp & other Apostolic men. It is to deny Christ. It is damnable When & wherein it is tolerable to converse with them. Their books to be burnt They are judged already. Who are easily seduced by them. Women. Women great promotors of heresy. Zeal against Heretics. Arch-heretics signified by the star that fell from heaven. Simon Magus the father of them all. Their king, Abaddon, that is, destroyer. They are resembled to Cain, Balaam, Core. to the Devil himself. All, the forerunners of Antichrist. False-Prophets, false Christs, lying masters, foretold in the new Testament. Many masters Many Antichrists. Ravening wolves. Thieves not entering by the door. Prophesied of, & lively described by S. Paul. S. Peter, S. Jude. &c. locusts. The causes that men fall to heresy.

Heaven, shut until the Passion of Christ. See Limbus patrum. Differences of rewards and glory in heaven. See Merits, Works, Reward.

Hospitality toward the afflicted for Religion. ma. ma. See Alms. What a heinous fault it is, not to receive and harbour Catholic Preachers and Priests.

Jesus, in English, Saviour. This name is to be adored and reverenced. It worketh miracles The force thereof against Devils ibi. Answers to the sophistical arguments used by Heretics against the reverence done to this name. By irreverence thereunto, they prepare the way to Antichrist.

Idols in all the Bible, signify the false gods of the Pagans. The Calvinists applying the word against sacred Images, are condemned long since by the Councel of Nice. See Images. They are ashamed of their translating, image, for idol. Heresies are the idols of the new Testament.

Images. They have God's own warrant. Their difference from idols. How they are adored, Their antiquity. Their fruit & commodity. Images of the B. Trinity & of Angels. Image-breakers old condemned Heretics by the Nicene Councel. They are accursed by the same Councel, that apply the places of Scripture that speak of the Pagans' Idols, against sacred images. Miracles wrought by the image of Christ. The abolishing of Christ's image, a preparation to set up the image of Antichrist. The honour of Christ's image is the honour of Christ himself.

Imposition of hands (taken of the use of the old law. Deut. and other places) used in blessing. in healing in confirmation. in giving holy Orders.

Indulgences. See Pardons.

Justification, or, to be justified, what it signifieth. The first and second justification The first justification, of mere grace without works. Justification by works. Not by faith only. See faith. What works justify not See the Annotations upon the Epistle to the Romans, to the Chapter inclusive, and upon the Heb. See also Works, and faith. Justification attributed to hope, charity, &c. Charity the principal virtue in justification. How the Protestants admit charity & good works to justification. Why it is so often attributed to faith. S. Paul's meaning when he commendeth faith. The justice of faith. True inherent justice, not imputative. How it is said, None just, How it is said, Reputed to justice. Increase of justice. How it is called God's justice. How Christ is our justice. The Protestants avoid the word. Justifications. The justice of Moyses' Law, what.

Our B. Lady without sin Her perpetual virginity. She vowed virginity. Her life, death, Assumption. Her blessedness. Her festivities. Her excellency, titles, prerogatives. Her honour. She is our Advocate. our hope. The meaning of the terms and titles given unto her. God and our Lady save us. The often saying of the Ave Marie. The ancient fathers used the same. Holy Simeon prophesied of her sorrows. She was always partaker of sorrows with Christ. full of deep contemplations. The meaning of Christ's speeches unto her that may seem hard. The Protestants keep no Holiday of her. They keep not the day of her death, as they do of all other chief Saints in the new Church of England. They are not of those generations that she prophesied should call her Blessed. They derogate from her honour.

Lay men must not judge of their Pastors, of the sense of Scriptures, of questions in religion. they must receive the Sacraments &c. not at their own hand, but of their Clergy and Pastors' See Priests, Clergy.

Limbus patrum, or Abraham's bosom. n. A third place. The just men of the old Testament were not in heaven till Christ's Ascension. Christ descended into Hell, to deliver them. See Hell, Heaven.

Machabees, Canonical Scripture See.

Marie. See our B. Lady. L.

Marriage a Sacrament Indissoluble, both parts living. & not lawful after divorce. Honoured by Christ's presence. Perfect & best without carnal copulation. See Chastity, Continency. How it is honourable in all. Inferior to virginity and widowhood. See Chastity. Marriage of Priests and votaries unlawful. See Priests, Vow. Old heresies against Marriage. Catholics falsely charge with the same. They esteem of marriage more than the Protestants.

Martyrs, true and false. No true Martyrdom out of the Cathol. Church. Martyrdom a most acceptable sacrifice. Their reward & glory. and How they cry for revenge. Their cheerful and constant countenance before the persecutors. Their comfort at the very time of death & torments.

Mass. See Sacrifice. The word Mass. The Liturgy or Mass of the Apostles. of the Greek Fathers. It is agreeable to Christ's institution. to the Apost. tradition. to S. Paul concerning the prayers & petitions therein. Kyrie eleison. Gloria in excelsis. inner Sanctus thrice repeated Hosanna. Sursum corda The canon. The Pater noster. Agnus Dei. Kissing the Pax. Domine non sum dignus. Communio. How Antichrist and his ministers shall abolish the Mass.

Mediator. See Saints. How Christ is the only Mediator.

Merit and Meritorious. It hath correspondence & relation to merces, hire, or reward. Both the meaning and word are in the Scriptures. Whence the merit of works riseth. Difference of merits. We merit not our first justification. See Justification. To be worthy, & to merit, is all one. and The time of meriting is in this life only See works. The Protestants avoid the word merit. The Calvinists deny Christ's own merits.

Miracles, necessary to confirm new doctrine. True miracles only in the Catholic Church. When Heretics may work true miracles. Forged or lying miracles.

Miracles wrought by application of creatures, by the name of Jesus, of the Apostles & other holy men, by Saints & their relics, S. Peter's shadow, S. Paul's napkin. his chains. By touching Christ & whatsoever belonged to him.

Miracles in one place and at one time more than in other. Peculiar to certain countries. The Protestants as faithless to believe such miracles, as the old Pagans. They attribute them to the Devil as the Heathen did. in They pretend Pharisaically God's honour in derogating from the miracles of Saints. The gift of miracles in the Church for edification. Christ's miracles significative.

Monks & Monastical life. Whether they should work with their hands. They were shaven in the primitive Church: and Nuns clipped off their hair. See Eremites, Religious.

Names, of Christians. of the Authors of sects. of the first instituters of several Religious Orders.

Neuters.

Novelties of words & phrases. not all new that are not in Scriptures. How they are to be tried novelties of words.

Numbers mystical. The Protestants' rashness in condemning numbers of prayers, fasts, Masses &c. Ibid.

Original sin. See sin.

Orders. The three holy Orders bound to chastity. Bigami excluded from holy Orders. All seven Orders have been from the Apostles' time. The institution and office of Deacons. Holy Orders is a Sacrament. instituted by Christ at his last supper. given by imposition of hands. by a Bishop, not by the people's voices. It giveth grace. none to be admitted without good examination. Prayer and fasting at the time of giving holy Orders. See Imber days.

Oaths that are unlawful must not be kept.

Pardons or indulgences grounded upon Christ's own words. upon his example. upon his merits, and the mutual satisfaction of one for another. Practised by S. Paul. by the holy Bishops of the primitive Church. A pardon is only a remission of temporal punishment due for sin. Why pardons more common now than in old time. To whom this authority of pardoning pertaineth. All pardons are given in the virtue & name of Christ.

Parents. The duty toward them. Carnal parents & friends in what cases less esteemed. duty toward our spiritual parents. See. Priests.

Penance is perfect repentance, that is, not only amendment of life, but implying also confession, sorrowful contrition, and painful satisfaction. That the Greek μετάνοια & μετανοεῖν signify this penance S. John Baptist first, then Christ, & his Apostles preached penance. S. John Baptist's penance. Marie Magdalen's penance. The great penance in the primitive Church The old Canonical discipline. S. Paul's chastening of his body by penance. Temporal pain remaineth due, when the sin is remitted. Satisfaction or works of penance, ma. They derogate nothing from Christ's satisfaction, but are requisite because of the same. The body chastised by penance, is a grateful sacrifice to God. The Sacrament of Penance. handled The necessity thereof, as of Baptism. it is secunda tabula post naufragium. The contempt thereof a sin against the Holy Ghost. The parts thereof, Contrition, Confession, Satisfaction. What is Contrition. Luther's heresy of Contrition. It worketh salvation. We are bound to confess. See Confession. All sins may be remitted by this Sacrament. It is the old heresy of the Novatians to deny that Confession to a Priest is necessary, and his Absolution. See Absolution.

Priests. God's wonderful mercy toward penitent sinners. Penance before Baptism.

Perfection double: one in this life, another in the life to come. The state of perfection. See Monastical life.

Religious.

Permission of some things that are not allowed or approved. Toleration of the evil.

Persecution. Catholic men's comfort in persecution. Their secret assembling in persecution. Their praise in whose houses such Assemblies are kept. There shall be great persecution of Catholic men toward the end of the world. and Constancy in persecution necessary highly commended. To look back upon their losses, is dangerous. To forsake all rather than the Cathol. faith is necessary. The better men most afflicted in this life. The Church persecuted by Heretics & contrarywise. Flying in time of persecution. wise evasions to escape dangers, by S. Paul's example. Not to forsake our Pastors imprisoned. Happy Jailers that shew mercy to their Cathol. prisoners. The courtesy of heathen officers in this case. To consent by any means to the persecution of such, is a great offence. persecution an occasion of much good. The Church increased by persecution.

Peter. Cephas, Rock, all one. Christ by giving him this name, designed him beforehand to be the rock & foundation of his Church. He promiseth to build his Church upon him that is, his person. He prayeth that his faith shall not fail. The Church was builded upon him, & he receiveth the Primacy. Upon him, not upon his faith only or confession. Peter's manifold dignity & preeminence. S. Paul submitteth his doctrine to his approbation. The keys given to him, & what authority is signified by them. His authority to bind and loose. He doth Practise his primacy. His successors the Bishops of Rome have the same primacy & authority. By the rock is signified not only Peter's person, but his Chair and See, the Church of Rome. He breaketh the Church's unity, that forsaketh this See or Chair. Christ is the Rock, foundation, & head of the Church one way, Peter another way. Peter's ship signifieth the Church. He governeth and protecteth the Church continually. The Protestants and Puritans disagree about his preeminence or primacy. They denied it before, and now confess it. They derogate from Peter as much as is possible. Beza thinketh the Greek text of the scripture falsified in favour of Peter's primacy. Their foolish arguments against Peter's primacy. Their impudent assertion that he was never at Rome. For this purpose only, they deny that Babylon signifieth Rome. Their wrangling about the time of his being there. Their foolish and greatest reason against his being there. He and S. Paul planted the Church at Rome. He wrote from Rome. He was crucified there.

A table of S. Peter's Acts

Pilgrimage to the holy land in the primitive Church. to the holy Sepulchre. to the memories of Saints. The devotion of Pilgrims and the manner of their devotion in holy places. See Relics.

Pope. The succession of Popes, is an argument used by the Fathers, against Heretics. Popes Xxxiii. Martyrs. Their room & dignity called an Apostleship. Their supremacy. The Practice thereof by S. Leo the Great, & S. Gregory the Great. How they refused the name of universal Bishop. The Councel of Chalcedon called the Pope universal Bishop. They write themselves, Servos Servorum Dei. He is the ministerial Head of the Church under Christ. S. Peter's Successor. Not to communicate with him, is to be against Christ or with Antichrist. See Antichrist. The Pope cannot be Antichrist. See Antichrist. He may err personally, not judicially. We may not respect the Pope's person, but the privileges of his office. The privileges & dignities of his office, See Roman Church and Peter.

Prayer. See Canonical hours. Long prayer not forbidden. To pray always. The Church's collects brief. Service and prayer in the Latin tongue, much better than in the vulgar. and S. Aug. our Apostle brought us the service in the Latin tongue. it was always in Latin throughout the west Church. Our people at their first conversion sang Alleluia, not, praise ye the Lord. Sursum corda, Kyrie eleison. See Mass. The people's private prayers in Latin. It is not necessary that they understand either public or private prayers. They understand them not being in the English tongue, neither are they any thing the more edified. Their intention and devotion is as great and acceptable in the one, as in the other. They are edified & take profit of the Priest's functions, though they neither hear nor see what he doth. They are taught the meaning of ceremonies and service, and do know them perfectly in all Cath. countries. Latin prayers are and may be translated. S. Paul's place falsely alleged against the Latin service or prayer explicated and that he speaketh of no such thing, much less against it. Another objection answered, & what it is to pray with the lips only. Faith in prayer. What is to pray without intermission. Our Lord's prayer or the Pater noster. It is the first and last in all the Church's prayers, and said most often. The Ave Maria, See. L. Our B. Lady. Prayer for the dead. The Saducees seem to have denied it. Aerius an old condemned Heretic denied it. Other men's prayers & intercessions for us. Praying one for another is of great force. To pray for our persecutors. Public prayers more available than private. The Priests' prayers more available. At the time of prayer specially, God sendeth comfortable visitations.

Preachers that preach well, must live accordingly. Catholic preachers in time of persecution, what is their comfort.

Predestination and reprobation declared They consist with free will. The mystery of predestination and reprobation is humbly to be reverenced, not curiously searched. No man must by occasion thereof be reachless and desperate in neglecting his salvation. ma. Good works must concur with God's predestination. What and how far we may & should learn herein. Heretical and presumptuous books of Predestination.

Priest. The name in all languages almost the same. heretically changed into Elder. The word Senior, Ancient, in the vulgar Latin translation, is always in the Greek, Presbyter, Priest. ma. His dignity. They are called Angels. They are coadjutors with, & under Christ, & work in his name. Their authority to remit sins. The Protestants carp at this authority, as the Jews did at Christ for the same. They (& not lay men) are the dispensers of Christ's mysteries. He that despiseth them, despiseth Christ. The honour of Priesthood. Preeminences before other. Hospitality and alms toward them. See Alms, Hospitality. The Protestants make it an odious & reproachful name. They avoid the word in their English translations of the new Testament. Their perpetual continency requisite. n. Marriage of Priests unlawful. contrary to the ancient Canons. to the Councel of Nice. None ever lawfully married after holy orders Paphnutius and the Nicene Councel concerning this matter. Married men being made Priests, must no more company with their wives: and that according to the example of the Apostles. according to the custom of the primitive Church. The Church may annex perpetual chastity to holy Orders. in the The forbidding of such persons to marry, is no condemnation of Marriage. Iovinian's old heresy could never induce any one Priest to marry. Vigilantius & his followers much like to the Protestants in this point. See Vow. Priests' crowns. Priests garments. Priests some properly so called, some unproperly. All Christians are no more Priests, than they are also Kings, that is, unproperly. Their spiritual hosts.

Christ'S Priesthood & the excellency thereof. A Priest as he is man, not as he is God. The Calvinists either Arrians or ignorant, in avouching the contrary ibi. His Priesthood eternal and how. in He concurreth still in all priestly actions, & is the principal worker. He is not the only Priest of the new Testament. Many Priests of the new Testament properly & peculiarly so called; and their Priesthood external, not only spiritual.

Princes, how and wherein to be obeyed. They may not usurp Ecclesiastical functions, They have no more right of supremacy in spiritual causes, than Heathen Princes. Christ and his Apostles charged with disobedience to Princes. Peter & John disobeyed the Magistrates commanding them not to preach in the name of Jesus. So must Catholic Preachers In things lawful not to obey them, is a mortal sin. Heretical tumults & disobedience against their Princes. Heresies against rule and superiority. The obedience of Catholics in all temporal causes. The deadly sins of Princes & superiors exempt not the subjects from their obedience, as the Wiclefists teach Princes themselves must obey & be subject in matters of faith & religion. All are under Peter & his successors. Their election & creation far inferior to God's institution of the spiritual Magistrate. The temporal Magistrate is called, an humane creature, & why, n. Praying for Kings and Princes, namely in the Mass.

Procession on Palm-Sunday.

Prosperity no sign of the true religion.

Protestants. See Heretics.

Purgatory. None not perfectly cleansed, can enter into heaven. ma. Purgatory fire passeth all the pains of this life. The same is released by the prayers of the living. A third place. The Scripture abused against Purgatory, answered. See Prayer, Sacrifice for the dead.

Reconciliation to the Catholic Church. See Schism.

Religion. Men of no religion, Neuters, Atheists. Most happy that suffer any loss for religion. They that forsake their religion to save their lands, are like Esau. See Persecution.

Religious life. Their profession is according to Christ's counsel, and the Apostles example. to the Saints of the primitive Church. Vigilantius heresy against such as forsook all for Christ. Diverse Religions of Dominicans, Franciscans &c. are not diverse Sects. diverse rules and imitation of diverse holy men, is the imitation of Christ himself. Their living in common, Apostolical. Their rising in the night to pray. Their blessing. The contemplative life preferred before the active by our Saviour himself in the persons of Mary and Martha. Both always in the Church. See Monks and Monastical life. Eremites.

Relics. The touching of Relics, their virtue, miracles. The touching of Christ's Person or whatsoever belongeth to him. The hem of Christ's garment. His sepulchre. Mount Thabor & all the holy land. his holy Cross. See Cross. S. Peter's shadow. his chains. S. Paul's napkins, or the napkins that had touched his body. His chains. His blessing and virtue in the isle Malta. His prison and other memories there. The Relics of S. John Baptist, Elias, Abdias. S. Steven's Relics. S. Augustin of Relics. S. Chrysostom. S. Hiero. S. Gregory. The greater virtue of Relics, the more is the honour of Christ. Saints Relics of greater force after their death. Eliseus' body. Reg. Miraculous reservation of Relics from putrefaction. Relics reserved in the old Testament. Vigilantius' heresy against Relics, condemned of old, and refuted by S. Hierom. The devotion of the old Christians towards Relics. The devotion toward Christ's body when it was dead. The Pagans abused holy Relics, as the Protestants do now. Translation of Relics.

Reprobation. Sin is always the cause thereof. It taketh not away free will. How God raised Pharao. How he is said to indurate. to give up into a reprobate sense. See God, Free will, Predestination.

Restitution of goods ill gotten.

Reward. Differences of rewards in heaven. See Heaven. Respect of reward. pag Reward, what it signifieth. Reward for relieving Catholic prisoners. for visiting them in prison. for confessing of Christ openly. for all works of mercy. for forsaking and losing ought, for God's sake.

Rome called Babylon, & why. The Church there, never called Babylon. The Protestants sometime will not have Babylon to signify Rome. Their malice in expounding the hills, of Rome when the Angel himself expoundeth it otherwise. The commendation of the Church of Rome, and the faith thereof. The Gospel transported from Hierusalem thither. The Roman faith and the Catholic faith all one. The privilege of that See, not to err. God's providence towards the same, more than to all other states. That See is the rock of the Church, and S. Peter's Chair, and See Apostolic. It standeth unmoveable against all Turks, Tyrants, Heretics, Schismatics, Princes and Emperors stand in awe thereof The Ancient Fathers or all Countries sought unto it for resolution of doubts. So ought all true Preachers. Heretics only refuse so to do. They hate this See. They bark about it in vain. They place Antichrist there in S. Paul's time. The great Apostasy which S. Paul speaketh of 2. Thes. shall be from this See of Rome. The Romans' devotion in visiting the Churches' & Martyrs' Relics in their Stations and Pilgrimages, is a sign of greater faith.

Sacraments, seven. See. Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Marriage, Extreme unction. Few and easy in respect of the Jews' Sacraments. More effectual & beneficial. External elements in the same not burdenous, not Iudaical, not Heathenish. Christ used external elements. what is to adore in spirit. S. Augustin falsely alleged for two Sacraments only. Grace is given in & by the Sacraments. They flowed out of Christ's side, & thence have their virtue. Contempt of the Sacraments damnable We may not the less esteem the Sacraments because of the ministers of them. The Sacraments first to be called for in sickness.

The B. Sacrament of the altar The great mystery, and institution thereof by our Saviour. The Catholics imitate Christ's institution thereof and the Apostles' tradition, the Protestants do not. The Protestants have taken away the B. Sacrament altogether. The real presence. The Gospel so plain for the real presence, that Beza controlleth it. Transubstantiation. Christ's miraculous & supernatural dealing with his body many ways, and that it is not to be measured by sense and natural reason. Faith necessary in this Sacrament. The Protestants judge thereof by sense and reason. They are like the gross Capharnaites. To ask, how it may be, is a Jewish word. Their scoffing at it. The real presence is by consecration. not by receiving, or in the receiving only. and The Heretics' arguments answered. and Adoration of the B. Sacrament. The honour thereof by solemn processions. by costly altars, chalices, ornaments. by clean corporals. by many other means. The Angels are present. It sanctifieth the altar. It is the supersubstantial and daily bread, specially desired in the Pater noster. The preeminence thereof above Manna. The wonderful effects thereof in the receivers. In what sense it is called sometime a figure. How it is both a figure and yet the thing itself. How it is called bread after the consecration. Whether S. Paul saying, the supper of our Lord, mean the B. Sacrament. Receiving in one kind. and The authority of scriptures and primitive Church for the same. It is indifferent, in one or both kinds, according to the Church's ordinance. The causes why the Church appointed one kind. The whole grace in one kind, and therefore the people not defrauded. The Heretics' arguments answered. and Priests saying Mass must receive both kinds. The purity and preparation required to the worthy receiving thereof. Confession of every mortal sin, necessary before we receive. Evil men receive the true body & blood, though unworthily. The danger and punishment of unworthy receiving. It is both a Sacrament and a Sacrifice & why.

The Sacrifice of the altar. and and n. n. Christ sacrificed his body & blood at his last supper. The sacrifice of the altar is the self same that was upon the Cross. Christ is often offered, & in many places. It is a commemorative sacrifice, yet a true sacrifice. It succeeded in the place of all the sacrifices of the old Law. Christ did not take away all sacrifice by the new Testament, but change them into a better. The external religion of the new Testament is principally in the Sacrifice of the altar. Christ's eternal priesthood consisteth in this sacrifice. The Fathers call it, the unbloody sacrifice. They call it the Mass. Why it is called the Eucharist. The general redemption upon the Cross particularly applied in this sacrifice. The Calvinists' argument against this sacrifice, maketh no less against the sacrifices of Moyses. Their argument against Christ's body often offered and in many places, was answered by the Fathers long ago. It is offered to God only. in the memory and honour of Saints. for the living and the dead. See Mass.

Sacrilege. Taking away of holy things or profaning them. In what cases holy Jewels and ornaments may be broken & otherwise employed.

Saints know our doings and our hearts, and hear our prayers. They are as Angels. They may be present with the living. at their own tombs & monuments. Praying to Saints & that they pray for us. Angels Protectors of Countries They are our mediators & advocates without any derogation to Christ. How Christ is our only Mediator & only Advocate. The conclusion of all prayers is Per Christum Dominum nostrum. The Protestants' arguments answered. Vigilantius their Father & founder of this heresy refuted by S. Hierom. How. S. Hierom saith, that Christ & his Saints are every-where. Their memories or commemorations in the sacrifice of the Mass. Canonizing of Saints. Their miracles. See Miracles, Relics. The great honour of Saints, & that it is no derogation to Christ's honour They are patrons of men and countries. They are called Saviours, Redeemers, &c. without derogation to Christ. our hope. God & our Lady save us, & the like speeches To believe in Saints.

Salvation. No man sure of his salvation but in hope. See. F. Protestants' special faith.

Satisfaction. See Penance. Satisfactory works of one for another. Satisfaction enjoined.

Schism. Prefigured in the Jews' Schismatical temples. in Jeroboam's calves & altars. in Core, Dathan, Abiron. contrary to the unity of the Church. detestable and sacrilegious. The beginning of all Schisms. In Schism no work available to salvation. numer. numer. See Church.

Schismatics, Schismatical service & sermons to be avoided. Specially the Communion. See Heretic and Heresy.

Scandal.

Scripture, Canonical and not Canonical discerned and judged by the Church. See after the preface, S. Augustine's sentences cited The Scripture and Church, Whether is elder and of more authority. The Protestants deny many books of the Scripture, because they are repugnant to their heresies. See Heretics. They many ways corrupt the Scriptures. See Heretics. Private Phantastical interpretation of Scriptures. All Heretics and the Devil himself allege Scriptures, but falsely. Women great tattlers & talkers of Scripture. Not the great talkers & hearers thereof, but the doers are blessed. The Scripture is full of profound senses, hard to understand. S. Paul's epistles hard about justification by faith, and therefore misconstrued of old and new heretics. See the Chap. Apoc. The Epistle to the Romans hard concerning predestination. The difficulty of the Apocalypse. The Protestants count all Scriptures easy for every man to understand by his private spirit, and therefore they reject the Doctors' expositions, & admit nothing but Scripture. Their foolish distinction that S. Paul's epistles are not hard, but the matter he writeth of. The self-same Scriptures, alleged by the old heretics and the Protestants, and answered by the Fathers long ago. n. n. n. The Scripture consisteth in the true sense thereof, which is only in the Catholic Church. The bare letter killeth both Jew & Heretic. They search not the Scriptures deeply, but superficially. Who be the little ones that best understand the Scriptures. The ancient Fathers' humility in reading and expounding the Scriptures. Catholic Doctors only are right handlers of the Scriptures. The curse for adding and diminishing thereof: & that it pertaineth to heretics, not to Catholic expositors. The interpretation of Scripture is called prophecy. when the same is according to the rule of faith. Of the translating and reading the holy Scriptures in the vulgar tongue, of the difficulty of them, & with what humility they ought to be read, & of many other points concerning the sacred Scriptures, see the Preface to the Reader. The text corrupted by old heretics. Scriptures have not only a literal sense, but also a mystical and allegorical. The Protestants deride the mystical interpretations of the ancient Doctors. The people may not judge of the sense of Scriptures, or of their Pastors' expositions. The comfort and profit of Christian Cathol. men in reading and hearing the Scriptures. What they find in searching the Scriptures. Not only Scriptures, but tradition also. The Apostles' and Church's precepts. See Tradition. The Church's order in reading the Scriptures in her divine Service. See Church.

Sect, taken sometime in good part, but now in the evil.

Simony, what, and why so called. What a heinous sin.

Sin, Original & actual. All conceived and born in original sin, Christ excepted, & his B. Mother. No man liveth without sin. S. Augustin excepteth our B. Lay. Sins mortal & venial. Not God, but the Devil is author of sin. See God. How the Devil sinned from the beginning. Concupiscence cause of sin. All sin proceedeth of three special things mentioned by S. John. The law did not cause sin. Mortal sin excludeth grace and justice. Venial sins consist with grace and true justice. Examples of venial sins. How they are taken away without any Sacrament. they may be forgiven after death. All remission of sins is by the Passion of Christ. Many secondary means and instruments of remission, by which the Passion of Christ is applied. What is meant by, Sins covered and not imputed. Sins against the Holy Ghost. n. Sins crying to heaven. No sin, but in this life it may be remitted. the contrary is the heresy of the Calvinists. See Penance. They are worse in this point than the Novatians, What is (in S. John's Epistle) a sin to death. Three degrees of sins signified by the three dead that Christ raised to life. Sin the cause of sickness & other plagues

Spirit. To adore and serve God in spirit. Boasting of the spirit. Not to credit every spirit, & how to try them. The Church only hath to discern spirits. The testimony of the Spirit in us.

Supererogation. V. V. V. See Works.

Superiority and difference of degrees not forbidden.

Superstition not allowed in the Catholic Church. The Protestants falsely call devotion, superstition.

Supremacy of temporal Princes in matters Ecclesiastical. See Princes.

Tithes due to God & his Priests. Given by the inferior to the superior. payed in the Law of nature & Moyses. How due to the Priests of Christ's Church.

Tongues. Prayers in an unknown tongue. See Prayers. The Chap. of the first to the Corinthians explicated concerning tongues. The Protestants' vain boasting of tongues. The three principal tongues in the title of the Cross of Christ. The holy Scriptures most conveniently preserved in them.

Touching a profitable ceremony V. See Imposition of hands and Relics.

Traditions not written. Apostolical traditions. Particular traditions of the Apostles. the Lent. the administration of the B. Sacrament. a commemoration & invocation of Saints in the Mass. prayer for the dead and mingling water with wine. Baptizing of infants. the Apostles' Creed. See other particular traditions. Pater noster in the Mass. keeping of Sunday, Easter, Whitsuntide &c. How to know Apostolical traditions. S. Ignatius book of the Apost. traditions. The Fathers' estimation of traditions. The Protestants' hatred of the very name and suppressing the same in the text of holy Scripture. They are called, Depositum descending from the Apostles by Bishop and Bishop unto the end of the world. The Protestants can shew no such Depositum. Heretics convicted by tradition. Jewish & heretical traditions.

Translation of the Bible into Greek, called Septuaginta cited of the Evangelists, and authentical in the Greek Church. The authentical Latin translation. Beza preferreth it before all the rest. See the preface. Translators of holy Scripture must be exact and sincere. See the preface.

Virginity, better than Marriage, more meritorious & grateful to God, fitter for his service. The contrary was Iovinian's old condemned heresy. Virginity counselled, not commanded. See Marriage. Professed virgins may not marry. See Vow. The state of virgins passeth the rest.

Visions recorded in the Scriptures. Visions have no credit with Heretics, specially with the Protestants. Some have been rapt to see the state of the next life.

Extreme unction. See Extreme.

Vow, an act of sovereign worship. Never true religion without vows & votaries. The Protestants have abandoned all vows and votaries. Vow of monastical and religious life. Vow of virginity or chastity, lawful, possible &c. Young women may vow Religion. Our B. Lady vowed virginity. The daughters of Philip the Deacon were vowed virgins. The Apostles vowed poverty and professed the religious state of perfection. Breach of vows damnable. It is to break their first faith. It is to go after Satan. It is the highest kind of Sacrilege. It is worse than adultery. What virgins and widows the Apostle alloweth to marry. Iovinian for persuading Nuns to marry, is called of S. Augustin a monster: and of S. Hierom, he & his followers, Christian Epicures The Protestants call Iovinian's heresy, God's word. What vows are unlawful, and not to be kept.

Usury not to be used among Christians. Spiritual usury in the better sense.

Widowhood. This state more blessed than the state of Matrimony. Their continual prayer & continency. The example of holy Anne. S. Ambrose and S. Augustin wrote whole books in commendation of the state of widowhood. The Church's widows called Diaconissae, and their office. They must have had but one husband. The Calvinists most absurd exposition of these words, The husband of one wife. The Apostle forbiddeth not all young widows to vow. See Continency.

The word of God, is not only that which is written in the Scriptures. See Gospel. Tradition.

Works meritorious of life everlasting. No works of themselves, without faith and the grace of God, are meritorious. Such are the works that S. Paul excludeth from justification. We presume not upon our own works or merits, as of ourselves, but as of God's grace. The Protestants make no difference between Christian men's works done in grace, and the works of Jews and Pagans. They are injurious to God's grace, which maketh works meritorious. The Scriptures which they falsely allege, answered. We are justified by works also, and not by faith only. and See Faith. Good works before faith, though not meritorious, yet are preparatives to the first justification. That every man shall be rewarded according to his works, is a common phrase in Scripture. not according to faith only or lack of faith. All good works rewarded in heaven. Heaven is due for them according to God's justice. mar: They give great confidence before God. Works may be done in respect of reward. The three works of justice. Works of mercy how acceptable to God. See Alms. Works of perfection or supererogation. See C. Evangelical Counsels. Works satisfactory. See Faith, Justification, Merit, Reward. Heaven prepared for them only that deserve it by good works. Without good works a man shall be damned. The book of every man's works opened in the day of judgement.

Worldly friends.

Zeal against Heretics. See Heretics. in God's cause. Zeal in religion, counted of worldly men, madness. See Neuters. Zeal and fervour to hear and follow Christ. Zeal of saving souls. and Zeal against sin. The mad zeal of heretics.