ecclesiastical Traditions, and all other constitution and observances of the same Church.
I also admit the sacred Scriptures, according to the sense in which our Holy Mother, the Church, has held, and does hold them, to whom it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the holy Scriptures; nor will I ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers.
I profess also, that there are truly and property seven Sacraments of the new law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, for the salvation of mankind, though not all necessary for every one: viz. Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Order and Matrimony; and that they confer grace: and that of these, Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Order, cannot be reiterated without sacrilege. I also receive and admit the Ceremonies, which the Catholic Church admits and approves of, in the solemn administration of all the above— said sacraments.
I receive and embrace all and every one of the things, which have been defined and declared in the holy council of Trent, concerning original sin and justification.
I profess likewise, that in the Mass is offered to God a true, proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead: and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really and substantially present, the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
I confess also that, under each kind, Christ is whole and entire, and a true sacrament is received.
I constantly hold that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages
