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celebrate Mass in honour of the Saints, and to obtain their in
tercession. Sixth That there are errors in the Canon. Seventh
That the ceremonies, vestments, and signs used in the Catholic
Church are incentives to impiety. Eighth That private Masses,
in which the Priest alone communicates, are unlawful. Ninth
That the practice of saying part of the Canon in a low voice
should be condemned ; that it all ought to be said in the vulgar
tongue, and that the mixture of water with the wine in the
Chalice should also be condemned. All these errors I have re
futed in my work against the Reformers.
REFUTATION XL
ERRORS OF LUTHER AND CALVIN.
SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS.
l.-Free will exists. 2.-The Divine Law is not impossible. 3.-Works are
necessary. 4.-Faith alone does not justify us. 5.-Of the uncertainty of
Justification, Perseverance, and eternal Salvation. 6.-God is not the
Author of Sin. 7.-God predestines no one to hell. 8.-Infallibility of
General Councils.
JL
OF FREE WILL.
1. I have already stated in this work (1), that the errors of
Luther, Calvin, and their disciples, who have added error to
error, are almost innumerable ; and in particular, as Prateolus
remarks, in the Calvinistic heresy alone two hundred and seven
errors against Faith are enumerated, and another author brings
them up even to fourteen hundred. I, however, refute only the
principal errors of Luther, Calvin, and the other Reformers, for
the refutation of their other erroneous opinions will be found in
Bellarmin, Gotti, and several other authors. One of Calvin s
(1) Cap. xi, Cent, xvi, ar. 3.