The Beliefs of Protestantism concerning Rome

The following are the official Church teachings of the church of Ireland 39 Articles and the Westminster confession of Faith- the Presbyterian Standard on the Roman Catholic Church and doctrines

Church of Ireland Standard 'The Thirty- nine articles of Religion'

Article 22 Of Purgatory
"The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, worshipping and Adoration as well as of Reliques and also invocation of Saints, is fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God."

Article 25 Of the Sacraments
".... Those five commonly called Sacraments that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders Matrimony and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel.. '

Article 28 Of the Lord's Supper
"... Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ, But is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the plain words of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions

Article 30 Of Both Kinds
"The cup is not to be denied to the lay people for both parts of the Lord's Sacrament by Christ's ordinance and commandment ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike"

Article 31 Of the Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross
The offering of Christ once made is the perfect redemption, propitiation and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain and guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.

Article 32 Of the Marriage of Priests
Bishops, Priests and Deacons, are not commanded by Gods law, eithrer to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from Mariage: therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better tp godliness."

Article 37 Of the Civil Magistrates
"... The Bishop of Rome hath no Jurisdiction in this realm of England,,"

Presbyterian Church: Standard "The Westminster Confession of Faith"

Chapter 25 Section 6
There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God

Chapter 29 Section 2
In this Sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for the remission of sins of the quick or the dead, but only a commemoration of that one offering up of himself, by himself, upon the cross, once for all, and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto god for the same; so that the Popish sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominably injurious to Christs one only sacrifice, the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect

Chapter 29 Section 4
Private Masses or the receiving this sacrifice by a priest alone; as likewise the denial of the cup to the people; worshipping the elements, the lifting up, or carrying them about for adoration, and the reserving them for any pretended religious use; are all contrary to the nature of this contrary to the nature of this sacrament, and to the institution of Christ '

Chapter 29 Section 6
That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine into the the substance of the body and blood ( commonly called transubstantiation) by consecration of a priest or by any other way, is repugnant not to Scripture alone, but even to common sense and reason; overthroweth the nature of the sacrament and hath been and is the cause of manifold superstitious, yea of gross idolatries

 

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