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1 Intro| Reception of the Seventh Council. ~Excursus On the Council
2 Intro| Council. ~Excursus On the Council of Frankfort, A.D. 794. ~
3 Intro| so-called "Eighth General Council" and subsequent councils. ~ ~ ~
4 Intro| describes the Seventh Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church: "
5 Intro| 2) Of this second Nicene Council the acts are still extant;
6 Intro| conclusions arrived at by the council, no impartial reader can
7 Intro| whether the decision of the council is true or false. I shall
8 Intro| to two points 1. That the Council was Ecumenical. 2. What
9 Intro| in the decree. ~1. This Council was certainly Ecumenical. ~
10 Intro| ecumenical character of the council which met at Nice in 787. ~(
11 Intro| Emperors to be an Ecumenical Council. Vide letter of Tarasius. ~(
12 Intro| historical fact that the Second Council of Nice is one of the Ecumenical
13 Intro| doctrine taught by the Second Council of Nice we reject, ergo
14 Intro| have been an Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church."
15 Intro| simple contention is that the Council is admitted by all to have
16 Intro| character of the Seventh Council there are, however, two
17 Intro| the conclusion that the council was ecumenical, "it would
18 Intro| of other opponents of the Council, is that it had not the
19 Intro| may remark that the Second Council of Nicaea wants one mark
20 Intro| as Ecumenical by a later Council undoubtedly so." But surely
21 Intro| next to the last give that council any certainty? If III. Constantinople
22 Intro| of the ecumenicity of a council is not its acceptance by
23 Intro| out how, long after the Council of Nice, the number of the
24 Intro| that in some instances this council is referred to as the "pseudo"
25 Intro| as the "pseudo" General Council of Nice. Now at first sight
26 Intro| Rome did not recognize that Council as Ecumenical and as the
27 Intro| ingenuously confesses that that Council "had been approved and confirmed
28 Intro| espoused the cause of the council and were ready to defend
29 Intro| from the witness of the Council itself, assuming the style
30 Intro| Annales Francorum after the council still speak of it as pseudo; (
31 Intro| enough to shew that the council was very little known, and
32 Intro| centuries and a half the Council of Nice remained rejected
33 Intro| another wrote rejecting that council, that is to say three in
34 Intro| doctrine taught by the II. Council of Nice] was never received
35 Intro| cap. xxij.)" ~2. What the Council decreed. ~The council decreed
36 Intro| the Council decreed. ~The council decreed that similar veneration
37 Intro| offering of incense.(2) But the Council was most explicit in declaring
38 Intro| is latreia. When then the Council defined that the worship
39 Intro| the decree of the Second Council of Nice. ~But unfortunately,
40 Intro| the doctrine taught by the council and to prove that in its
41 Intro| according to the mind of the Council, but outward signs of the
42 Intro| the letter of this very council to the Emperor and Empress.
43 1 | determined to summon a General Council. And we entreat your paternal
44 2 | have met together in the Council of Nice. ~The Wisdom which
45 2 | convocation of your most holy council. To every one is given the
46 2 | demand that an Ecumenical Council should be held, at which
47 2 | Sovereignty that an Ecumenical Council might be assembled. To this
48 2 | who will be present in council with you; and we command
49 2 | As read in Greek to the Council.] ~(Migne, Pat. Lat., Tom.
50 2 | which was never read to the Council at all.] ~(Found in L. and
51 2 | was read the Canon of the Council in Trullo as a canon of
52 2 | the Definition of the Mock Council, ~the one reading the heretical
53 4 | ITSELF THE SEVENTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, BUT COMMONLY CALLED THE
54 4 | of the Seventh Ecumenical Council. ~This decree was by no
55 4 | presented by the emperor to the council the last day of its session,
56 4 | bringing together a General Council of about 350 bishops at
57 5 | Christ our God, as the Council of Ephesus has already defined
58 5 | perfect man, as also the Council of Chalcedon hath promulgated,
59 5 | the decision of the Fifth Council held at Constantinople.
60 6 | I cite the decree of the Council of Trent and a passage from
61 6 | province, in a provincial council; yet so, that nothing new,
62 6 | consulted. ~(Catechism of the Council of Trent.[1] Pt. IV., Chap.
63 7 | HOLY AND ECUMENICAL SEVENTH COUNCIL.~[1] ~CANON I. ~That the
64 7 | that by the Fathers of this Council the canons commonly called "
65 7 | unless that those of the Council in Trullo be attributed
66 7 | the fifth and the sixth council. Otherwise I do not see
67 7 | their taste for study. The council therefore is forced to be
68 7 | holy fathers of the Sixth Council decreed that once each year,
69 7 | which might be urged, a council should be held and the things
70 7 | canonical penalties. While the council is engaged in considering
71 7 | the eighth canon of the Council in Trullo. ~This canon is
72 7 | so-called First-and-Second Council held at Constantinople in
73 7 | second canon of the Holy Council of Chalcedon. If the offender
74 8 | new Rome, and all the holy Council which met at the good pleasure
75 8 | metropolis of Nice, the second council to assemble in this city. ~
76 8 | and numerously-attended council to assemble in the metropolis
77 8 | one our holy ecumenical council (fortified by the inward
78 8 | many years, and also your council, princes, and faithful army,
79 9 | in the Acts of the Nicene Council" [as Gibbon does]. In modern
80 9 | Acts of the Second Nicene Council. But they first came to
81 9 | in the Acts of the Nicene Council, though they are stated
82 9 | to have been read at the council, introduces a shadow of
83 9 | preserved in the Acts of the Council, like the letter of Gregory
84 10 | RECEPTION OF THE SEVENTH COUNCIL. ~The reception of the Seventh
85 10 | reception of the Seventh Council in the East was practically
86 10 | supposed that the English council held at Calcuth in 787 rejected
87 10 | clearly impossible, since the council was presided over by the
88 10 | first opposition to the council in the West was made apparently
89 10 | his accept- ~ ~ance of the council. But this translation was
90 10 | one place, a bishop of the council was made to say that the
91 10 | for which to reject her council. It should, moreover, be
92 10 | unfortunate action of the Council of Frankfort four years
93 11 | Caroline Books, made by the Council of Frankfort. ~ ~Hefele
94 11 | is made that the Seventh Council, especially Gregory, the
95 11 | 754, and not at the Second Council of Nice; they were not made
96 11 | pseudo-council to the true council of 787. ~Other examples
97 11 | preserved in the acts of the Council of Nice, it is the synod
98 11 | Book, chapter xxvij., the council is charged with saying "
99 11 | bishop alone and not to the council. But the subterfuge is vain,
100 11 | for they attribute to the Council of Nice the teachings of
101 11 | thinks it was added by the Council of Frankfort. It is found
102 11 | enforce the accept-ante of the council will not cause astonishment
103 11 | d) They impute to the Council the opinions of the Iconoclastic
104 11 | worship of images; but the Council of Nice never approved of
105 11 | practised in Gaul; but the Council of Nice did not go into
106 11 | exactly the doctrine of the Council of Nice. Charlemagne himself
107 12 | EXCURSUS ON THE COUNCIL OF FRANKFORT, A. D, 794. ~
108 12 | commonly represented that the Council of Frankfort, which was
109 12 | the claims of the Second Council of Nice to being an Ecumenical
110 12 | revealed by any remains of the council we possess, for among these
111 12 | Constantinople but that the Seventh Council was held at Nice. It would
112 12 | against the Second Ecumenical Council of Nice, and against the
113 12 | opinion that the Second Council of Nice was condemned by
114 12 | Nice was condemned by this council; and before him Bellarmine
115 12 | history and acts of this council inform us that the legates
116 12 | Stephen) were present at this council, it was not possible that
117 12 | possible that the whole council was ignorant by what authority
118 12 | authority the true Seventh Council was assembled at Nice, and
119 12 | not), the Fathers of the Council of Frankfort could have
120 12 | writings of that Seventh Council. Moreover since the celebration
121 12 | celebration of that Nicene Council was an event most celebrated
122 12 | the manner in which the Council of Nice was assembled, or
123 12 | that the fathers of the Council of Frankfort should have
124 12 | and the bishops of the council were too pious and Catholic
125 12 | fathers of the most sacred Council of Nice, or that they would
126 12 | that the fathers of this council often made profession of
127 12 | often professed in this council, that they followed the
128 12 | who was present, at this council, in his letter to the Spanish
129 12 | matter treated of in that council: and that a little further
130 12 | Now the fathers of this council could not make such a profession
131 12 | that the fathers of this council, in the presence of the
132 12 | pass that if the Nicene Council had been condemand by the
133 12 | shewn that that plenary council of the West had confirmed
134 12 | mention in this respect of the Council of Frankfort in his response. ~
135 12 | heretical. But this provincial council so far as it defined concerning
136 12 | credible that in the same council the Nicene Synod would have
137 13 | have condemned the Seventh Council, and to have approved the
138 13 | bishops rejected an Ecumenical Council accepted by the pope, and
139 13 | Hadrian and the Seventh Council, but that they also cite
140 14 | SO-CALLED "EIGHTH GENERAL COUNCIL" AND SUBSEQUENT COUNCILS. ~
141 14 | At this Synod the Second Council of Nice was accepted in
142 14 | his successors. ~At the Council of Lyons in A. D. 1274 there
143 14 | acts and agreements of the Council of Florence (1438) appeared
144 14 | of II. Nice as a pseudo council did so out of ignorance
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