New Covenant only for Jews?

[covenantee]

And of the perpetusallu-splintering monster he created, Luther lamented:

"There are almost as many sects and beliefs as there are heads; this one will not admit baptism; that one rejects the Sacrament of the altar; another places another world between the present one and the day of judgment; some teach that Jesus Christ is not God. There is not an individual, however clownish he may be, who does not claim to be inspired by the Holy Ghost, and who does not put forth as prophecies his ravings and dreams." - Martin Luther, Christians at Antwerp, 1525

250 RC splinters.

And every one of those 250 splinters would condemn the Vatican and every other splinter as being apostate, and would be condemned by the Vatican as being apostate.

By contrast, Protestants accept liberty and the freedom to worship in their environments of choice across all denominations. I've belonged to different ones over the years, and have appreciated the diversity that they have offered, and have seen and experienced the cooperation between them.

With a few exceptions, there is no blanket condemnation by Protestant denominations of other Protestant denominations.

 

[BreadOfLife]

250 RC splinters.

And every one of those 250 splinters would condemn every other splinter as being apostate, and would be condemned by the Vatican as being apostate.

By contrast, Protestants accept liberty and the freedom to worship in their environments of choice across all denominations. I've belonged to different ones over the years, and have appreciated the diversity that they have offered, and have seen and experienced the cooperation between them.

With a few exceptions, there is no blanket condemnation by Protestant denominations of other Protestant denominations.

There’s not a SINGLE Catholic splinter group, Einstein. You’re either Catholic or you are a dissident. In other words – a dissident from the Catholic Church is nothing more than a Protestant - and there are literally THOUSANDS of Protestant sects.

As for your idiotic use of the term “RC” – there is NO such Church.
There is only the Catholic Church. And Catholics understand that Jesus only built ONE Church – not tens of thousands of perpetually-splintering factions that ALL teach different doctrines based on the interpretational whims of their HUMAN founders . . .

 

[Brakelite]

Uhhhh, NOT exactly.
Your Protestant Fathers prayed the Rosary, believed in the Eucharist and venerated Mary as Mother of God.

The rejection of these things occurred over time as their successors became more and more rebellious and splintered . . .

Martin Luther:
"She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God ... It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God."

"St. Paul says 'God sent his Son born of a woman, ' These words which I hold for true, really sustain quite firmly that Mary is the Mother of God."
(Martin Luther, Martin Luther's Works, vol. 7, pg 592)

John Calvin
It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor. ... Elizabeth called Mary Mother of the Lord, because the unity of the person in the two natures of Christ was such that she could have said that the mortal man engendered in the womb of Mary as at the same time the eternal God.
(Calvini Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Braunschweig-Berlin, 1863-1900, v. 45, p. 348, 35)

John Wycliffe
"It seems to me impossible that we should obtain the reward of Heaven without the help of Mary. There is no sex or age, no rank or position, of anyone in the whole human race, which has no need to call for the help of the Holy Virgin." [Sermon on Mary]

Ulrich Zwingli
"I esteem immensely the Mother of God".
"The more the honor and love of Christ increases among men, so much the esteem and honor given to Mary should grow". [The Works of Zwingli, Corpus Reformatorum, Berlin, 1905].

Your statements above in RED are either:
a. A flat out LIE
b. A woefully-ignorant claim

I’m guessing by your statement, that you were ONCE a practicing Catholic. UNFORTUNATELY, you didn’t learn much – which is ALWAYS the case with anti-Catholics like you.

Prayers of penance are not a “requirement” for forgiveness. It is a time for the penitent person to REFLECT on their sins and resolve NOT to repeat them.

Sometimes the priest will suggest making amends with someone or similar, depending on what was confessed.
HOWEVER – whether prayers or suggested actions – NEITHER are “required” for forgiveness.

So, YOU claims above are completely FALSE.

Anti Protestants such as yourself hate us so much your automatic response is to denigrate us as liars. Even a young 10 year old attempting to do what he thought was right according to the instructions given.

The Sacrament of Penance is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, in which the faithful are absolved from sins committed after baptism and reconciled with the Christian community. During reconciliation mortal sins must be confessed and venial sins may be confessed for devotional reasons. Wikipedia

 

[Brakelite]

Then YOU agree with the Catholic Church. Catholics are not requires to pray the Rosary.
However - your Protestant Fathers prayed the Rosary and venerated Mary as the Mother of God.

Soooo, if tthe Protestant Revolt was so "great" and "sanctioned" by God - WHY do you Protestants of today flatly reject the teachings of your Protestant Fathers??

The founders of the various protestant churches are not our fathers. We do not follow men, but the Bible. If any one of those founders had things wrong, which they all did because they inherited those things from their Catholic teachers, then it is our God given duty and responsibility to correct them. But the things they had right, things which had either been forgotten or deliberately changed and discarded by their Catholic teachers, were retained. But not by all. Some have gone into some strange and weird places, to the point of bearing little resemblance to scripture. We all know of them.

the Early Church Fathers didn’t splinter off and do their OWN thing by breaking off into factions.

Yet the Catholic Church itself broke away from the line of truth, faith, and practise when it discarded the Sabbath of the Lord and entrusted itself to the care and protection of the state instead of Jesus. Then went about persecuting and harassing those that tried to remain faithful to the apostles teachings.
The Catholic Church then developed creeds, making and demanding it's members believe uniformly certain doctrines that were not scriptural, but either invented by man or added presumptive reasoning in attempts to describe matters above it's pay grade. Then, it presumed to assert authority over territories and peoples, tongues and nations which she had no right to, demanding compliance as secular kings do, making the same mistakes as Israel. In all these things the Catholic Church in Rome deviated from the gospel and replaced Christ as the head of the church with a man. Over time the position became a power grab.
I won't bother naming the churches and peoples that remained faithful to truth and to Jesus. You will continue to lie about them and to denigrate them as "heretics" just as you have me and others.

 

[Illuminator]

Anti Protestants such as yourself hate us so much your automatic response is to denigrate us as liars.

Straw man fallacy. BofL doesn't hate Protestants, he hates division, and so does St. Paul. The CC is not anti-Protestant, as I have repeatedly shown in the catechism (CCC817-820), that you and every anti-Catholic repeatedly ignores.
And who is this "us" you refer to, when your made-in-America cult demonizes Protestants as being "daughters of the whore"??? You are straining to find oxygen.

You are awarded this certificate:

 

[Truth7t7]

There’s not a SINGLE Catholic splinter group, Einstein. You’re either Catholic or you are a dissident. In other words – a dissident from the Catholic Church is nothing more than a Protestant - and there are literally THOUSANDS of Protestant sects.

As for your idiotic use of the term “RC” – there is NO such Church.
There is only the Catholic Church. And Catholics understand that Jesus only built ONE Church – not tens of thousands of perpetually-splintering factions that ALL teach different doctrines based on the interpretational whims of their HUMAN founders . . .

Roman Catholicism is a persecuting false religion, that promotes homosexuality, it's that simple

Try studying the council of Trent, and the Roman Catholic torture of the true church, pure evil beyond mention

The Roman Catholic inquisitions, more evil in torture of the innocent

The Catholic founder is pagan Roman Emperor Constatine, who donated the land for "Vatican City" and built "St. Peter's Basilica"

Your pope endorses and supports Same sex unions, Sodom and Gomorrah "Evil"!

Jesus Is The Lord

NewYorkPost

Catholic leaders condemn Pope Francis’ endorsement of same-sex unions​

October 23, 2020 12:56pm

“Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family,” Francis says.

 

[Brakelite]

Straw man fallacy. BofL doesn't hate Protestants, he hates division, and so does St. Paul. The CC is not anti-Protestant, as I have repeatedly shown in the catechism (CCC817-820), that you repeatedly ignore.
And who is this "us" you refer to, when you accuse Protestants as being "daughters of the whore"??? I think you are looking for oxygen.

It is better to be divided and free than to be united in error. Jesus came to divide a people to Himself. To divide them from sin and deception. In pursuit of truth people need to be free from the overbearing power, influence, and authority of ungodly men.
The so called declarations of unity between Catholics and Lutherans 20 or more years ago was a lie built on a foundation of compromise and deception. Clever, at least from the Catholic viewpoint, but a fraud nevertheless.
The kind of unity that Rome seeks through ecumenism is no more united than protestantism. Jesus, and Paul, didn't compel everyone under pain of death to unite in every detail of doctrine and practise... They instructed everyone to divide from the world and the sin that would ultimately destroy them, only them could Jesus and His Spirit guided them into truth. The more one is attached to this world, the more one is proportionately likely to deviate from truth. Which is why Rome went into apostasy in the first place, joining with the kings of the earth to sustain her power and privilege.

 

[Brakelite]

And who is this "us" you refer to, when you accuse Protestants as being "daughters of the whore"???

Whoever does not join with Babylon the Great in a false ecumenical unity under the authority of Rome.
They keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus.
Revelation 12:17;14:12.

KJV Revelation 17:5-6
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Babylon, derived from Babel and signifying confusion is a unity of falsehood and confusion. A toleration of differences for the sake of recognition of authority. An authority that rejects the authority of Christ.

The CC is not anti-Protestant

Mmmm. I've seen those catechism quotes you offer. A written declaration that somehow contradicts history.
Tell me. What protestant teachings must be discarded in order to become a Catholic, or at least united with? Christ as Lord and King?
What Catholic teachings must be accepted? The council of Trent?

 

[amigo de christo]

It is better to be divided and free than to be united in error. Jesus came to divide a people to Himself. To divide them from sin and deception. In pursuit of truth people need to be free from the overbearing power, influence, and authority of ungodly men.
The so called declarations of unity between Catholics and Lutherans 20 or more years ago was a lie built on a foundation of compromise and deception. Clever, at least from the Catholic viewpoint, but a fraud nevertheless.
The kind of unity that Rome seeks through ecumenism is no more united than protestantism. Jesus, and Paul, didn't compel everyone under pain of death to unite in every detail of doctrine and practise... They instructed everyone to divide from the world and the sin that would ultimately destroy them, only them could Jesus and His Spirit guided them into truth. The more one is attached to this world, the more one is proportionately likely to deviate from truth. Which is why Rome went into apostasy in the first place, joining with the kings of the earth to sustain her power and privilege.

mark those who cause divisions contrary to the DOCTRINE ye have learned and AVOID them . Exactly my friend .
The lambs have CHRIST JESUS and we have our bible to learn from . the HOLY SPIRIT is the guide of the lambs .
Stick in that bible and never join in unity with those who teach falsehoods , rather expose them for the sake of others .

 

[covenantee]

There’s not a SINGLE Catholic splinter group

True. There are 250 (more by now) of them. It was an RC himself who told us that.

You’re either Catholic or you are a dissident

There are more than 250 RC splinters, each of which considers each of the others and the Vatican to be dissents, and which are considered by the Vatican to be dissidents.

As for your idiotic use of the term “RC” – there is NO such Church.
There is only the Catholic Church.

There is no Catholic Church inside Scripture.

There are the Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic, etc. churches outside Scripture.

There is the Church of God inside Scripture (Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 11:22; Galatians 1:13; 1 Timothy 3:5), which is catholic (i.e. universal), not Catholic (i.e. institutional).

 

[BreadOfLife]

True. There are 250 (more by now) of them. It was an RC himself who told us that.

That that supposed “Catholic” is as clueless as YOU are.

There are more than 250 RC splinters, each of which considers each of the others and the Vatican to be dissents,

and which are considered by the Vatican to be dissidents.

WRONG again.

NO Protestant organization is the Catholic Church. ONLY the Catholic Church is the Catholic Church.

You can’t just claim to be “Catholic” when you have repudiated the doctrines and precepts of the Church. But, thanks for exposing your ignorance.

Nice try . . .

There is no Catholic Church inside or outside of Scripture.

There are the Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic, etc. churches outside of Scripture.

There is the Church of God inside of Scripture (Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 11:22; Galatians 1:13; 1 Timothy 3:5), which is catholic (i.e. universal), not Catholic (i.e. institutional).

Good – more ignorance.
Time for a Bible Lesson . . .

Acts 9:31 talks about how the Early Church grew throughout the region. The language used here describes the Catholic Church:
“Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.”

Here is the phrase in Greek:
η μεν ουν εκκλησια καθ ολης της ιουδαιας

The Catholic Church gets its name from the GREEK for “according to the whole” and “universal” - εκκλησια καθ ολης, which is pronounced “katah-holos”.

Εκκλησια (ekklesia) - A gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly; CHURCH
καθ (katah) - Through out, according to
ολης (holos) - All, whole, completely
"ekklesia Kata-holos" = CATHOLIC CHURCH.

AND - there is NO “Baptist” Church in the Bible.
There is NO “Lutheran” Church in the Bible.
There is NO “Four Square” Church in the Bible.
There is NO “Calvary Chapel” Church in the Bible – not ANY OTHER Protestant invention.

Do your homework before making these preposterous statements . . .

 

[BreadOfLife]

Roman Catholicism is a persecuting false religion, that promotes homosexuality, it's that simple

Try studying the council of Trent, and the Roman Catholic torture of the true church, pure evil beyond mention

The Roman Catholic inquisitions, more evil in torture of the innocent

The Catholic founder is pagan Roman Emperor Constatine, who donated the land for "Vatican City" and built "St. Peter's Basilica"

Your pope endorses and supports Same sex unions, Sodom and Gomorrah "Evil"!

Jesus Is The Lord

NewYorkPost

Catholic leaders condemn Pope Francis’ endorsement of same-sex unions​

October 23, 2020 12:56pm

“Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family,” Francis says.

Aside from all of the other idiotic and FALSE accusations in your rants – I am OPENLY CHALLENGING you in front of EVERYBODY here to five me the documented proof for your following manure:

- That the Catholic Church promotes and teaches homosexuality .

- That the Council of Trent initiated or supported the “TORTURE if ANY person.

- That Constantine “donated” the land for St. Peter’s.
The Basilica stands on that ground because that is where Peter was crucified, Einstein. The “Donation of Constantine” is a FRAUDULENT document. Look it up, Einistein.

By the way – here is a DIRE Scriptural warninhg to ALL LIARS:

Rev. 21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, AND ALL LIARS, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”


Good luck with that . . .

 

[covenantee]

NO Protestant organization is the Catholic Church.

Thank God for that, and for the Protestant Reformation.

Acts 9:31 talks about how the Early Church grew throughout the region. The language used here describes the Catholic Church:
“Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.”

Here is the phrase in Greek:
η μεν ουν εκκλησια καθ ολης της ιουδαιας

The Catholic Church gets its name from the GREEK for “according to the whole” and “universal” - εκκλησια καθ ολης, which is pronounced “katah-holos”.

Εκκλησια (ekklesia) - A gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly; CHURCH
καθ (katah) - Through out, according to
ολης (holos) - All, whole, completely
"ekklesia Kata-holos" = CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Here are the interlinear translations of the associated Greek words in Acts 9:31. I defy you to find the word "Catholic" anywhere in these descriptions.

More RC hallucination. It is to laugh. Thanks for the guffaws.

1577 [e] ekklēsia ἐκκλησία church N-NFS​

2596 [e] kath’ καθ’ throughout Prep​

3650 [e] holēs ὅλης all Adj-GFS​

AND - there is NO “Baptist” Church in the Bible.
There is NO “Lutheran” Church in the Bible.
There is NO “Four Square” Church in the Bible.
There is NO “Calvary Chapel” Church in the Bible – not ANY OTHER Protestant invention.

AND NO "Catholic" Church in the Bible.


Thanks for all of the free entertainment.

 

[BreadOfLife]

Thank God for that, and for the Protestant Reformation.

Don’t blame GOD for that.
The Protestant Revolt was an act of arrogant, pride-filled MEN . . .

Here are the interlinear translations of the associated Greek words in Acts 9:31. I defy you to find the word "Catholic" anywhere in these descriptions.

Glad you AGREE with me that the Greek proves the Catholic Church is mentioned in Acts 9:31. Thanks!

More RC hallucination.

1577 [e] ekklēsia ἐκκλησία church N-NFS​

2596 [e] kath’ καθ’ throughout Prep​

3650 [e] holēs ὅλης all Adj-GFS​

It is to laugh. Thanks for the guffaws.
Thanks for all of the free entertainment.

TRANSLATION:
”OH NO!! You exposed my complete cluelessness!
Maybe if I nervously laugh now - nobody will notice . . .”

That’s what I thought, Einstein . . .

 

[BreadOfLife]

mark those who cause divisions contrary to the DOCTRINE ye have learned and AVOID them . Exactly my friend .
The lambs have CHRIST JESUS and we have our bible to learn from . the HOLY SPIRIT is the guide of the lambs .
Stick in that bible and never join in unity with those who teach falsehoods , rather expose them for the sake of others .

Ummmmm, whatever that means . . .

Open your Bible and point me to where it says that we are to forsake the Church and ONLY read our Bibles. Chapter and Verse, please.
While you're at it - WHOSE interpretations are correct? Just YOURS?
Tell that the tens of thousands of perpetually-splintering factions your Protestant Fathers spawned - that ALL teach different doctrines based on each individual's personal interpretations . . .

Jesus left us with a Church - NOT a Bible.

**For extra credit - show me where the Bible uses the word, "Bible".

 

[Illuminator]

Thank God for that, and for the Protestant Reformation.


Here are the interlinear translations of the associated Greek words in Acts 9:31. I defy you to find the word "Catholic" anywhere in these descriptions.

Because "Catholic" is an English word.

More RC hallucination. It is to laugh. Thanks for the guffaws.

1577 [e] ekklēsia ἐκκλησία church N-NFS​

2596 [e] kath’ καθ’ throughout Prep​

3650 [e] holēs ὅλης all Adj-GFS​

AND NO "Catholic" Church in the Bible.

You provide evidence that "Catholic" as translated from the Greek kath holēs’is in the Bible, then you deny it's there. Thanks for the entertainment.

 

[Truth7t7]

- That the Catholic Church promotes and teaches homosexuality .

Your pope endorses and supports Same sex unions, Sodom and Gomorrah "Evil"!

Jesus Is The Lord

NewYorkPost

Catholic leaders condemn Pope Francis’ endorsement of same-sex unions​

October 23, 2020 12:56pm

“Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family,” Francis says.

 

[covenantee]

The Protestant Revolt was an act of arrogant, pride-filled MEN . . .

Then why did Pope Francis commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation?

 

[covenantee]

Because "Catholic" is an English word.


You provide evidence that "Catholic" as translated from the Greek kath holēs’is in the Bible, then you deny it's there. Thanks for the entertainment.

If you could read, you'd see that the descriptions are English.
But there's no "Catholic" to be seen therein.

Aren't you glad that Pope Francis commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation?

 

[Truth7t7]

- That the Council of Trent initiated or supported the “TORTURE if ANY person.

The council of Trent gave the very definition of a "Heretic" in "Anathema", your living in blind service to the evils of the RCC

The Council of Trent
The Sixth Session:

CANON I.-If any one saith, that man may be justified before God by his own works, whether done through the teaching of human nature, or that of the law, without the grace of God through Jesus Christ; let him be anathema.

CANON II.-If any one saith, that the grace of God, through Jesus Christ, is given only for this, that man may be able more easily to live justly, and to merit eternal life, as if, by free will without grace, he were able to do both, though hardly indeed and with difficulty; let him be anathema.

CANON III.-If any one saith, that without the prevenient inspiration of the Holy Ghost, and without his help, man can believe, hope, love, or be penitent as he ought, so as that the grace of Justification may be bestowed upon him; let him be anathema.

CANON IV. If any one shall affirm, that man’s freewill, moved and excited by God, does not, by consenting, cooperate with God, the mover and exciter, so as to prepare and dispose itself for the attainment of justification; if moreover, anyone shall say, that the human will cannot refuse complying, if it pleases, but that it is inactive, and merely passive; let such an one be accursed"!

CANON V.- If anyone shall affirm, that since the fall of Adam, man’s freewill is lost and extinguished; or, that it is a thing titular, yea a name, without a thing, and a fiction introduced by Satan into the Church; let such an one be accursed"!

CANON VI.-If any one saith, that it is not in man's power to make his ways evil, but that the works that are evil God worketh as well as those that are good, not permissively only, but properly, and of Himself, in such wise that the treason of Judas is no less His own proper work than the vocation of Paul; let him be anathema.

CANON VII.-If any one saith, that all works done before Justification, in whatsoever way they be done, are truly sins, or merit the hatred of God; or that the more earnestly one strives to dispose himself for grace, the more grievously he sins: let him be anathema.

CANON VIII.-If any one saith, that the fear of hell,-whereby, by grieving for our sins, we flee unto the mercy of God, or refrain from sinning,-is a sin, or makes sinners worse; let him be anathema.

CANON IX.-If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be anathema.

CANON X.-If any one saith, that men are just without the justice of Christ, whereby He merited for us to be justified; or that it is by that justice itself that they are formally just; let him be anathema.

CANON XI.-If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the grace, whereby we are justified, is only the favour of God; let him be anathema.

CANON XII.-If any one saith, that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake; or, that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified; let him be anathema.

CANON XIII.-If any one saith, that it is necessary for every one, for the obtaining the remission of sins, that he believe for certain, and without any wavering arising from his own infirmity and disposition, that his sins are forgiven him; let him be anathema.

CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that man is truly absolved from his sins and justified, because that he assuredly believed himself absolved and justified; or, that no one is truly justified but he who believes himself justified; and that, by this faith alone, absolution and justification are effected; let him be anathema.

CANON XV.-If any one saith, that a man, who is born again and justified, is bound of faith to believe that he is assuredly in the number of the predestinate; let him be anathema.

CANON XVI.-If any one saith, that he will for certain, of an absolute and infallible certainty, have that great gift of perseverance unto the end,-unless he have learned this by special revelation; let him be anathema.

CANON XVII.-If any one saith, that the grace of Justification is only attained to by those who are predestined unto life; but that all others who are called, are called indeed, but receive not grace, as being, by the divine power, predestined unto evil; let him be anathema.

CANON XVIII.-If any one saith, that the commandments of God are, even for one that is justified and constituted in grace, impossible to keep; let him be anathema.

CANON XIX.-If any one saith, that nothing besides faith is commanded in the Gospel; that other things are indifferent, neither commanded nor prohibited, but free; or, that the ten commandments nowise appertain to Christians; let him be anathema.

CANON XX.-If any one saith, that the man who is justified and how perfect soever, is not bound to observe the commandments of God and of the Church, but only to believe; as if indeed the Gospel were a bare and absolute promise of eternal life, without the condition of observing the commandments ; let him be anathema.

CANON XXI.-If any one saith, that Christ Jesus was given of God to men, as a redeemer in whom to trust, and not also as a legislator whom to obey; let him be anathema.

CANON XXII.-If any one saith, that the justified, either is able to persevere, without the special help of God, in the justice received; or that, with that help, he is not able; let him be anathema.

CANON XXIII.-lf any one saith, that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he that falls and sins was never truly justified; or, on the other hand, that he is able, during his whole life, to avoid all sins, even those that are venial,-except by a special privilege from God, as the Church holds in regard of the Blessed Virgin; let him be anathema.

CANON XXIV.-If any one saith, that the justice received is not preserved and also increased before God through good works; but that the said works are merely the fruits and signs of Justification obtained, but not a cause of the increase thereof; let him be anathema.

CANON XXV.-If any one saith, that, in every good work, the just sins venially at least, or-which is more intolerable still-mortally, and consequently deserves eternal punishments; and that for this cause only he is not damned, that God does not impute those works unto damnation; let him be anathema.

CANON XXVI.-If any one saith, that the just ought not, for their good works done in God, to expect and hope for an eternal recompense from God, through His mercy and the merit of Jesus Christ, if so be that they persevere to the end in well doing and in keeping the divine commandments; let him be anathema.

CANON XXVII.-If any one saith, that there is no mortal sin but that of infidelity; or, that grace once received is not lost by any other sin, however grievous and enormous, save by that of infidelity ; let him be anathema.

CANON XXVIII.-If any one saith, that, grace being lost through sin, faith also is always lost with it; or, that the faith which remains, though it be not a lively faith, is not a true faith; or, that he, who has faith without charity, is not as Christ taught; let him be anathema.

CANON XXIX.-If any one saith, that he, who has fallen after baptism, is not able by the grace of God to rise again; or, that he is able indeed to recover the justice which he has lost, but by faith alone without the sacrament of Penance, contrary to what the holy Roman and universal Church-instructed by Christ and his Apostles-has hitherto professed, observed, and taugh; let him be anathema.

CANON XXX.-If any one saith, that, after the grace of Justification has been received, to every penitent sinner the guilt is remitted, and the debt of eternal punishment is blotted out in such wise, that there remains not any debt of temporal punishment to be discharged either in this world, or in the next in Purgatory, before the entrance to the kingdom of heaven can be opened (to him); let him be anathema.

CANON XXXI.-If any one saith, that the justified sins when he performs good works with a view to an eternal recompense; let him be anathema.

CANON XXXII.-If any one saith, that the good works of one that is justified are in such manner the gifts of God, as that they are not also the good merits of him that is justified; or, that the said justified, by the good works which he performs through the grace of God and the merit of Jesus Christ, whose living member he is, does not truly merit increase of grace, eternal life, and the attainment of that eternal life,-if so be, however, that he depart in grace,-and also an increase of
glory; let him be anathema.

CANON XXXIII.-If any one saith,that,by the Catholic doctrine touching Justification, by this holy Synod inset forth in this present decree, the glory of God, or the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ are in any way derogated from, and not rather that the truth of our faith, and the glory in fine of God and of Jesus Christ are rendered (more) illustrious; let him be anathema.