I. No mortall man can be the head of the Church.

II. The Pape is ane Antichrist, and so is no member of Christis

misticall body.

III. Man may nether maik nor devise a religioun that is acceptable to

God: butt man is bound to observe and keap the religioun that fra God is

receaved, without chopping or changeing thairof.

IV. The Sacramentis of the New Testament aucht to be ministred as thei

war institut by Christ Jesus, and practised by his Apostles: nothing

awght to be added unto thame; nothing awght to be diminished from thame.

V. The Messe is abominable idolatrie, blasphemous to the death of

Christ, and a prophanatioun of the Lordis Suppar.

VI. Thare is no Purgatorie, in the which the saules of men can eyther be

pyned or purged after this lyef: butt heavin restis to the faythfull,

and hell to the reprobat and unthankfull.[487]

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