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 1 Intro|          On the Reception of the Seventh Council. ~Excursus On the
 2 Intro|        Gibbon thus describes the Seventh Ecumenical Council of the
 3 Intro|        matters of faith. For the Seventh, which is the Second of
 4 Intro|      ecumenical character of the Seventh Council there are, however,
 5 Intro|       sixth, because there is no seventh to have confirmed it; then
 6 Intro|          XVIth century, call the Seventh a "pseudo-Council." But
 7 1    |        calends of September, the seventh indic-tion, from the Royal
 8 2    |          which styled itself the Seventh Synod, but which by those
 9 3    |      HOLY, GREAT, AND ECUMENICAL SEVENTH SYNOD. ~The holy and Ecumenical
10 3    |          our Holy and Ecumenical Seventh Synod, let him be anathema
11 4    | CONCILIABULUM STYLING ITSELF THE SEVENTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, BUT
12 4    |  preserved among the acts of the Seventh Ecumenical Council. ~This
13 6    |         the Church of God at the Seventh Ecumenical Synod anathematized
14 7    |          THE HOLY AND ECUMENICAL SEVENTH COUNCIL.~[1] ~CANON I. ~
15 10   |          ON THE RECEPTION OF THE SEVENTH COUNCIL. ~The reception
16 10   |   COUNCIL. ~The reception of the Seventh Council in the East was
17 10   |      consider what reception the Seventh of the General Councils
18 10   |       successor of Peter, as the Seventh Ecumenical Synod of the
19 11   |          acts nor decrees of the Seventh Ecumenical Synod, of which
20 11   |          charge is made that the Seventh Council, especially Gregory,
21 11   |        the Apostolic Sees as the Seventh of the Ecumenical Councils
22 11   |          Papal acceptance of the Seventh Synod and yet have written
23 11   |  learning and perspicuity by the Seventh Synod, to wit, the distinction
24 12   |      Constantinople but that the Seventh Council was held at Nice.
25 12   |      called by them not only the Seventh but also Ecumenical, should
26 12   |      held nor declared to be the Seventh nor ecumenical but wholly
27 12   |          what authority the true Seventh Council was assembled at
28 12   |     false rumours concerning the Seventh Synod had been scattered
29 12   |        were the writings of that Seventh Council. Moreover since
30 12   |         would have condemned the Seventh Synod, confirmed as it was
31 13   |          of the authority of the Seventh Synod. In 1596 there appeared
32 13   |   supposed to have condemned the Seventh Council, and to have approved
33 13   |      teaching of Hadrian and the Seventh Council, but that they also
34 14   |         the position held by the Seventh of the Ecumenical Synods
35 14   |         after the meeting of the Seventh Synod, despite all opposition
36 14   |        the Eighth as much as the Seventh; in fact they are rejecting