ANSWERS.

"the faith once delivered to the Saints," having one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

11. Protestants do not allow the Church of Rome to be on the safer side. They consider the invocation of Saints, and bowing down before images, to be acts of idolatry; and they believe that persons guilty of idolatry are in a very dangerous state.

12. Protestants believe, that in the blood of Christ alone is Redemption from past sins; that good works are necessary to salvation; but that our best works are only sufficient for our duties, and cannot do away a single sin that is past.

13. Protestants believe, that nothing can be more certain than the truths contained in the three Creeds; and that in those plain words of Scripture:-" If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments ;—This do, and thou shalt live;-Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved Forgive, and thou shalt be forgiven ;—Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them;" we have infallible directions for our faith and conduct, which require no confirmation, and can receive no light, from Popes or Councils.

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DIFFERENCES

BETWEEN THE

CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND OF ROME.

PAPISTS acknowledge the Pope to be the supreme Head of the whole Christian Church, and, with the Church, to be infallible.

Papists bow down to the Host and to images.

Papists pray to departed Saints for their protection, and intercession with God.

Papists believe that the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist are converted into the real body and blood of Christ.

Papists believe this conversion of the elements to be effected by the priest in the act of consecration.

DIFFERENCES

BETWEEN THE

CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND OF ROME,

PROTESTANTS believe no human creature to be infallible; and acknowledge Christ alone to be the universal Bishop of his Church.

Protestants believe the act of bowing down to the Host and to images to be contrary to the second Commandment, and to be idolatry,

Protestants hold that Christ is our only mediator and intercessor; and that prayer to Saints is idolatry.

Protestants believe such conversion of the elements, commonly called Transubstantiation, to be unscriptural and impossible.

Protestants affirm that there is no authority whatever in Scripture for supposing the priest to be possessed of such miraculous powers;

and that the mere repetition of the Eucharistic form of consecration has no more power of transubstantiating the elements, than the utterance of the words, "Lazarus, come forth," has of raising the dead.

Protestants consider the refusal of the cup to be a mutilation of the Sacrament, and a violation of Christ's most solemn commands.

Protestants believe that Christ offered himself once for all on the Cross; and that the Popish doctrine of the Mass detracts from the sufficiency of Christ's own atone

ment.

Protestants believe that the blood of Christ alone cleanseth from all sin; and that Christ died in vain, if the pains of a Purgatory are necessary to our salvation.

The ceremonies of Protestant Churches are few and simple, and conducive only to the decency and order of public worship.