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 1 Intro|        Council" and subsequent councils. ~ ~ ~Gibbon thus describes
 2 Intro|     reason, to the Fathers and councils of the Church; but they
 3 Intro|       is one of the Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church,
 4 Intro|    were all the lawful General Councils (lawful, I say, both in
 5 Intro|    there are but Seven General Councils that the whole Church acknowledgeth,
 6 Intro|      the number of the General Councils was still spoken of as being
 7 Intro|       instead of Seven General Councils, but we would point out
 8 Intro|       to others of the General Councils. For example, St. Gregory
 9 Intro|    revered the four Ecumenical Councils as he did the four Gospels,"
10 Intro|       Eighth of the Ecumenical Councils. Would Sir William pretend
11 Intro|       the older volumes of the councils; and St. Thomas and the
12 2    |      the definitions of former councils who decreed rightly, and
13 2    |      fully engaged in military councils -- though all our attention
14 2    |       a rebel against the holy Councils, and a heretic. For, if
15 2    |        NOTES. ~HEFELE. ~(Hist. Councils, Vol. V., p. 366.) ~By false
16 3    | Fathers and the six Ecumenical Councils have preserved inviolate.
17 4    |     the last of the Ecumenical Councils clear it is necessary to
18 4    |         Hefele, History of the Councils, Vol. V., p. 308 et seqq.) ~
19 6    |       to the decrees of sacred councils, they especially instruct
20 6    |        this, by the decrees of councils, and especially of the second
21 7    |       or by the Six Ecumenical Councils, or by Councils locally
22 7    |     Ecumenical Councils, or by Councils locally assembled for promulgating
23 7    | decrees of the said Ecumenical Councils, or by our holy Fathers.
24 7    |    forth by the Six Ecumenical Councils. And although all agree
25 8    |       six, holy and ecumenical councils; and accordingly we have
26 9    |     the Acts of Ecclesiastical Councils, they have been printed
27 10   |     the Seventh of the General Councils met with in the West. And
28 10   |       faith of the Six General Councils." But it is evident that
29 11   |      Seventh of the Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church. ~ ~
30 14   |        COUNCIL" AND SUBSEQUENT COUNCILS. ~Whatever may be the final
31 14   |   still of the "Six Ecumenical Councils" in doing so they are rejecting
32 14   |     mentioned the Four General Councils and compared them to the