remain, appear under the forms of bread and wine, there are, however, neither bread nor wine.

3. That the Eucharist is a sacrifice for the living and the dead, established by Jesus Christ, and which the apostles have left to us by tradition.

4. That the body of Jesus Christ is eaten whole and entire, in an impassible state, by those who receive it, the worthy or the unworthy; the worthy receiving `it for their salvation, and the unworthy to their condemnation; and that it is immolated without the effusion of blood, and justly adored as God.

5. That the church orders fasts and abstinence from certain meats.

6.. That Christians pay to the Virgin a veneration of hyperdulia, and to the saints who are in heaven a particular honour, without diminishing the adoration due to Jesus Christ.

7. That a relative honour is to be given to the images of the saints, but that we are by no means to pay to them supreme worship.

8. That we are to honour and respect the saints as having suffered for Jesus Christ.

9. That bishops, by an order established by God, are superior to priests, who receive divine grace annexed to their ministry.

10. That the order of bishops is necessary in the church of Jesus Christ.

11. That the Catholic church, built upon the foundation of the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ being the corner-stone, will always be visible and infallible.

12. That baptism is necessary to all the children of the faithful to be saved.

13. That the vows of priests and monks, and the prayers which they recite, are agreeable to God.

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14. That the books of Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, the Maccabees, make a part the Holy Scripture, and are not rejected like those of the Pagans.

15. That the Eastern church also acknowleges seven sacraments, as she has learned from tradition.

We, children of the Eastern church, believe all these articles from our heart, and profess them with our tongue, having received from the ancient fathers and holy councils the tradition, which induces us to adopt this belief; and those who entertain on these points other sentiments, are engaged in hurtful and pernicious error. Besides, they SPEAK IMPUDENTLY, in the fury with which they are seized against our orthodox confession, and against the Greek church, and vent their murmurs against her with the utmost insolence, willing to excite a belief that she has fallen into the sentiments of obscure persons, and that she has abandoned the customs and rules of her fathers, which have been authorized by the practice of these same fathers, and confirmed by synods; such as that of Constantinople, under the patriarch Cyril of Berocia, and a little after under the patriarch Parthenius, surnamed the elder, who condemned certain infamous articles, published under the name of Cyril Lucaris, as monsters and falsehoods, which corresponded with the phantoms of the Calvinists. And the refutation of these unfounded opinions of Cyril, in which his fallacies were detected and exposed, have been placed in the archives of the great church. Accordingly we,

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undersigned, certify all the articles above-mentioned,
to all those who believe and profess the true religion.

Given at Pera, July 18, 1671.
(Signed)

BARTHOLOMEW of Heraclea,

JEREMY of Chalcedon,

METHODIUS Of Pisidiæ,
METROPHANES of Cyzicum,

ANTHONY Of Athens,

JOACHIM of Rhodes,

NEOPHITUS of Nicomedia.

The reader cannot fail to remark the positive and
peremptory manner in which this document is worded,
together with the tone of indignation which it breathes
against those who imputed to the Greek church the
errors of Calvinism. All the other documents are
drawn up in the same style, and breathe the same
spirit 1.

NOTE B.

Referred to in Page 400.

Ir is really a matter of curiosity to observe the terms
in which the first four general councils, at which the
respective popes presided by their representatives, are
solemnly and officially acknowledged by the church
of England by law established. In the act of 1 Eliz.
c. 1. ad ann. 1558, sect. 36, occurs the following pas-
sage. “Provided always, and be it enacted by the
authority aforesaid, that such person or persons, to
whom your highness, your heirs and successors, shall
hereafter by letters patent, under the great seal of

1 See loc. cit. p. 411, et seq.

England, give authority to have or execute any jurisdiction, power or authority spiritual, or to visit, reform, order, or correct any errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, or enormities by virtue of this act, shall not, in any wise, have authority or power to order, determine, or adjudge any matter or cause to be heresy, but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered or adjudged to be heresy, by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first of the four general councils, or any of them, or by any other general council, wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the canonical Scriptures.” Let the learned reader calmly consider the inevitable consequences of this singular admission, and he will readily discover by what a feeble prop the cause of Protestantism is supported.

THE END.

W. WILSON, PRINTER, 57, SKINNER-STREET, LONDON.