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the Angel was made in the Temple of Jerusalem, where our Lady was, which contradicts the Gofpel of St. Luke, which faith, it was made in Nazareth; as alfo that Joseph had actually another Wire and Children, when he was betrothed to the Holy Virgin; and that he often reproved the Child Jefus for his naughty Tricks; that the Child Jefus went to School to the Rabbins, and learnt of them, with a thousand other Fables and Bafphemies of the fame Nature, and things unworthy of our Lord Chrift, whereas the Gospel faith, that the Jews were aftonished at his Wif dom, asking how he came by fo much Learning, having never been taught; that the Devil tempted Chrift before his Faft of forty days, which is contrary to the Gofpel; that St. Jofeph, to be fatisfied whether the Virgin had committed Adultery, carried her before the Priests, who according to the Law gave her the Water of Jealoufie to drink; that our Lady brought forth with pain, and parting from her Company, not being able to go farther, fhe retired to a Stable at Bethlehem ; that neither our Lady, nor any other Saint is in Heaven enjoying God, but are all in a Terreftrial Paradife, where they are to remain till the day of Judgment, with other Errors, too many to be related: But it is the Synod's pleasure to inftance in fome of the chief Errors contained in the Books that it condemns, that fo all may be fatisfied of the reafon why they are prohibited to be read, or kept upon pain of Excommunication, and that all may avoid and burn them

with the greater Horror, and for other just and neceffary refpecs.

Alfo the Book of John Barialdan, wherein it is faid in divers places, That there were two Perfons, a Divine and Humane, in Christ, which is contrary to the Catholick Faith, which confeffes one only Divine Perfon: It is also faid, That the Names of Chrift and Emanuel are the Names of the Humane Perfon only, and for that reason that the most sweet Name Jefus is not to be ade red; that the Union of the Incarnation is common to all the Three Divine Perfons, who were all Incarnated; that our Lord Chrift is the adopted, and not the Natural Son of God; that the Union of the Incarnation is accidental, and is only that of Love betwixt the Divine and Humane Perfons.

Alfo the Book intituled, The Proceffion of the Holy Spirit; wherein it is endeavoured to be proved at large, that the Holy Spirit proceedeth only from the Father, and not from the Son, which is contrary to the Catholick Truth, which teaches, that he proceeds from the Father and the Son.

Also the Book entituled Margarita Fidei, or The Jewel ofFaith; wherein it is pretended to be proved at large, That our Lady, the moft Holy Virgin, neither is,nor ought to be stiledthe Mother ofGod, but the Mother of Chrift; that in Chrift there are two Perfons, the one of the Word, and the other of Jesus; that the Union of the Incarnation is only an accidental Union of Love and Power, and not

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a fubftantial Union; that there are three diftin&t Faiths, which is divided into three Profeffions, the Neftorian, Jacobite and Roman; that the Neftorian is the true Faith that was taught by the Apostle, and that the Roman is falfe and Heretical, and was introduced by force of Arms, and the Authority of Heretical Emperors, into the greatest part of the World; that to Excommunicate Neftorius, is to Excommunicate the Apoftles and Prophets, and the whole Scripture; that they that do not believe his Doctrine, fhall not inherit Eternal Life; that they that follow Neftorius, received their Faith from the Apostles, which has been preferved to this day in the Church of Babylon of the Syrians, That Matrimony neither is, nor can be a Sacrament; that the fign of the Crofs is one of the Sacraments of the Church inftituted by Chrift; that the Fire of Hell is Metaphorical, not real; that the Roman Church is fallen from the Faith, condemning it likewife for not celebrating in leavened Bread, according to what the Church has received from the Apoftles, for which it is faid the Romans are Hereticks.

Alfo the Book of the Fathers, wherein it is faid, That our Lady neither is, nor ought to be called the Mother of God; that the Patriarch of Babylon of the Neftorians, is the Univerfal Head of the Church immediately under Chrift; that the Fire of Hell is not real, but fpiritual; that it is Herefie to say, that God was born, or dyed; that there are two Perfons in Christ.

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Alfo a Book of the Life of Abbot Ifaias, commented by a Neftorian, wherein it is faid, That the Union is common to all the Three Perfons; that St. Cyril of Alexandria, who condemned Neftorius, was an impious Heretick, and is now in Hell, for having taught, that there is but One Perfon in Chrift; whereas, as often as Neftorius, Theodorus and Diodorus are named, they are ftiled Saints, and blefled; by whofe Authority it is there proved, that the Saints fhall not enjoy God before the day of Judgment; and that till then they fhall be in an obfcure place, which they call Eden, near to the Terrestrial Paradife ; and that by fo much the worse as any one has been, he is tormented the less for it in Hell, by reafon of his greater conformity and friendship with the Devils; that the Word was not made,

*The lefs foz it in hell.] This of fixing fomething that is justly abominable to all Mankind, upon her Adverfaries, has been the conftant practice of the Church of Rome: So the Emperor Michael Balbus, because he was an Enemy to Image-worship, is faid to have laughed at the Prophets, not to have believed there were any Devils, and to have placed Judas among the Saints; the Templars, upon the Pope and the French Kings confpiring together to deftroy their Order, are faid to have obliged all their Novices to blafpheme God, to renounce Chrift, the Virgin Mary, and all the Saints in Hea

ven, to fpit and trample upon the Crucifix, and to declare that Chrift was a falfe Prophet; the Albigenfes are faid to have held it lawful to deny their Faith, when interrogated upon it by a Magiftrate, to have held, that promilcuous Venery was lawful, but that Matrimony was Hell and Damnation; that the Souls of Men were as Mortal as their Bodies; that the way of choofing their chief Priefts, was by toffing an Infant from one to another, and that he is whofe hands the Infant expired, had that Office, and that the Devil was unjustly thrown out of Heaven.

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Man, and that it is Blafphemy to affirm it; that Christ conquer'd all the Paffions of Sin by a Power derived from God, and not by his own ftrength; that St. Cyril was a Heretick in teaching, that there was but One Person in Chrift; that the Divine and Humane Nature were united in Chrift accidentally by Love; that the whole Trinity was incarnated; that God dwelt in Chrift as in a Rational Temple, giving him power to do all the good things he did; that the Souls of the Juft will be in a Terrestrial Paradife till the day of Judgment; that the Wicked when they dye in Mortal Sin, are carried to a place called Eden, where they suffer only by the fenfe of the punishments they know they are to undergo after the day of Judgment.

Alfo the Book of Synods, wherein there is a forged Letter of Pope Caius, with false Subscriptions of a great many other Western Bifhops, directed to those of Babylon, wherein it is acknowledged, that the Church of Rome ought to be fubject to that of Babylon, which with all that are fubject to her, are immediately under Chrift, without owing any reverence to the Roman Bifhop; they fay likewife, That the Roman Church is fallen from the Faith, having perverted the Canons of the Apostles, by the force of Heretical Emperors Arms; and that the Romans are Hereticks, for not celebrating in leavened Bread, which has been the inviolable Cuftom of the Church derived from our Saviour, and his Holy Apostles; that all the Bishops that followed Neftorius,

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