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1 1 | having been, as we have said, called upon to guide and
2 1 | time, we accorded to the said princes, that the time for
3 1 | seeing that not even on the said feast of the Resurrection
4 1 | and truth,--we may, in the said sacred ecumenical council,
5 1 | affixed to the doors of the said churches, also to the gates
6 3,1 | same day there shall be said, in the other churches,
7 3,1 | reformation may be reformed; the said Synod exhorts all Catholics
8 3,1 | disputation; but let whatsoever is said be so tempered by the mildest
9 4,2 | that may be decreed by the said sacred Synod may seem to
10 4,2 | it shall seem fit to the said Synod to discuss and examine
11 5,1 | author of both --as also the said traditions, as well those
12 5,1 | sacred and canonical, the said books entire with all their
13 5,1 | and in what manner, the said Synod, after having laid
14 5,2 | ordains and declares, that the said old and vulgate edition,
15 5,2 | presume to interpret the said sacred Scripture contrary
16 5,2 | ecclesiastical superiors, the said books of sacred Scripture,
17 5,2 | Scripture, and especially the said old and vulgate edition,
18 5,2 | as the authors. And the said approbation of books of
19 6,1 | these things touching the said original sin: ~1. If any
20 6,1 | or if he denies that the said merit of Jesus Christ is
21 6,1 | that which the apostle has said, By one man sin entered
22 6,1 | the pains contained in the said constitutions, which it
23 6,2 | expound and interpret the said sacred Scripture, either
24 6,2 | substitute, to be chosen by the said bishops, archbishops, primates,
25 6,2 | And in case that in the said churches there should not
26 6,2 | his chapter, as that the said lecture of sacred Scripture
27 6,2 | blessing, pass on to the said study of sacred Scripture.
28 6,2 | provided however, that the said benefice be not deprived
29 6,2 | those who are teaching the said sacred Scripture, as long
30 6,2 | may be, in whatsoever way, said to be exempted, or haply
31 6,2 | at the discretion of the said bishop; in such wise that
32 6,2 | in whose provinces the said dioceses are situated, as
33 6,2 | any account preach in the said churches which belong not
34 6,2 | bishops shall grant the said license gratuitously. ~But
35 6,2 | the place, even though the said preacher should plead that
36 6,2 | has been consulted by the said bishops thereon; from which
37 7,1 | sound doctrine touching the said Justification; which (doctrine)
38 7,1 | adults, the beginning of the said Justification is to be derived
39 7,1 | and co-operating with that said grace: in such sort that,
40 7,1 | sight. Whence, when it is said in the sacred writings:
41 7,1 | adults) are disposed unto the said justice, when, excited and
42 7,1 | yet is this done in the said justification of the impious,
43 7,1 | ingrafted, receives, in the said justification, together
44 7,1 | reason it is most truly said, that Faith without works
45 7,1 | wit, that we are therefore said to be justified by faith,
46 7,1 | sons: but we are therefore said to be justified freely,
47 7,1 | sake; yet is it not to be said, that sins are forgiven,
48 7,1 | sacrament of Penance, when He said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost,
49 7,1 | sacramental confession of the said sins,-at least in desire,
50 7,1 | infuses his virtue into the said justified,-as the head into
51 7,1 | good works; but that the said works are merely the fruits
52 7,1 | justified; or, that the said justified, by the good works
53 7,2 | may proceed against the said non-resident prelates, according
54 7,2 | require, and provide the said churches with more useful
55 8,1 | days on the subject of the said most holy sacraments,-as
56 8,1 | any one saith, that these said sacraments of the New Law
57 8,1 | is not given through the said sacraments, always, and
58 8,1 | any one saith, that by the said sacraments of the New Law
59 8,1 | exercise personally the said cure; in accordance with
60 8,1 | ipso jure deprived of the said benefices, according to
61 8,1 | to the disposition of the said constitution, and also by
62 8,1 | adding further, that the said Ordinaries are by all means
63 8,1 | neglected, and that the said benfices be nowise defrauded
64 8,1 | even perpetual, unless the said Ordinaries shall deem it
65 8,1 | at the discretion of the said Ordinaries, which (portion)
66 8,3 | that which is held in the said city of Trent; as also to
67 8,3 | and other members of the said Council, from proceeding
68 8,3 | measures therein in the said sity of Trent; and also
69 8,3 | and other members of the said Council of Trent, even under
70 9,1 | hence through fear of the said disease, who cannot justly
71 9,1 | legitimate reasons alleged in the said congregations by certain
72 9,1 | preservation and prosecution of the said Council, and for the safety
73 9,1 | safety of the lives of the said prelates, this Council be
74 9,1 | sacred Council, that the said Council may, and ought to,
75 10,1 | Session celebrated in the said city of Trent, in the usual
76 10,1 | specially also granted to the said most reverend Presidents,-
77 10,1 | it has happened that the said matters of the Sacraments
78 10,1 | Session, which, as has been said, was to have been celebrated
79 10,1 | congregation, limit and abridge the said term, at Its will and pleasure,
80 11,1 | resolves and decrees, that the said Session, which It had decreed
81 11,1 | suspended; and that the said holy Synod freely may and
82 11,1 | abridge or prorogue the said term. ~On the fourteenth
83 11,2 | presided in the name of our said predecessor, in the said
84 11,2 | said predecessor, in the said Council, wherein several
85 11,2 | General Councils, and whom our said predecessor, in his letters
86 11,2 | continuation and prosecution of the said Council, on the next ensuing
87 11,2 | brethren the Cardinals of the said holy Roman Church, for resuming
88 11,2 | resuming and prosecuting the said Council in the state wherein
89 11,2 | at the same time, in the said city, there be always present
90 11,2 | Ghost, preside over the said Council; any translation
91 11,2 | translation and suspension of the said Council, and any other things
92 13 | next:-and prosecuting the said Council in the state wherein
93 14,1 | who live with His life who said, He that eateth me, the
94 14,3 | notwithstanding; except it be that the said grievance cannot be repaired
95 14,3 | there is no appeal from the said definitive sentence; in
96 14,3 | of the appellant), the said acts gratuitously within
97 14,3 | thirty days; otherwise the said case of appeal shall be
98 14,3 | solemn degradation from the said ecclesiastical orders and
99 14,3 | and he shall not admit the said grace, after that it shall
100 14,4 | faithful of Christ receive the said venerable sacrament under
101 14,4 | the holy Synod upon these said articles before they are
102 14,4 | herein, hath, as far as the said Synod is concerned, given
103 14,5 | to be treated of in the said Synod; to come freely and
104 14,5 | freely and safely to the said oecumenical Council, and
105 14,5 | have been selected by the said holy Synod; as also to withdraw
106 14,5 | towards them, even though the said crimes should be ever so
107 15,1 | your ruin. The Lord also said; Except you do penance,
108 15,1 | be initiated by baptism, said; Do penance, and be baptized
109 15,1 | be actually received, the said reconciliation, nevertheless,
110 15,1 | enjoining punishments, if the said faithful should have declared
111 15,1 | piously observed in the said Church of God, that there
112 15,3 | faithful of Christ is it said: Whatsoever you shall bind
113 15,5 | But, in order that the said bishops may be able to execute
114 15,5 | against the will of that said prelate, for causing himself
115 15,5 | those who are subject to the said ordinary, do, by an evasion
116 15,5 | being of any avail to the said clerics, or to their relatives,
117 15,5 | in consideration of the said exempted clerics. ~CHAPTER
118 15,5 | and defend them from the said annoyances and wrongs, and
119 15,5 | come to relative to the said suspicion, or competency
120 15,5 | conservatory be of any avail to the said party's domestics--who are
121 15,5 | persons belonging to the said universities, colleges,
122 15,5 | ordinance and mandate of the said bishop, they may, and ought
123 15,5 | revenues, and proceeds of the said benefices; and also, if,
124 15,5 | even by deprivation of the said offices and benefices; pursuant
125 15,5 | the proper bishop of the said clerics, if that bishop
126 15,5 | that may be deputed by the said bishop: otherwise, the proceedings,
127 15,5 | the institution to, the said benefice would, that privilege
128 16,1 | deferred the publication of the said articles, and to whom It
129 16,2 | whatsoever together with the said Synod, and freely to present
130 16,2 | deputed hereunto by the said Synod, that so, without
131 16,2 | wholly untouched thereby. The said Synod also wills, that all
132 16,2 | require, and to receive the said messengers or messenger,
133 16,2 | provide for the safety of the said couriers. And this safe-conduct
134 16,2 | received under the care of the said Synod, and the protection
135 16,2 | fraud or deceit, that the said Synod will neither openly
136 16,2 | and free hearing, by this said Synod granted to the above-named;--
137 16,2 | they may and shall hold the said Synod to have incurred all
138 17,1 | Whereas, therefore, the said holy Synod perceived that
139 17,1 | expiration of the two years, the said suspension shall, as soon
140 17,2 | means of extirpating the said heresies, of doing away
141 17,2 | removed, It was begun, in the said city of Trent But, after
142 17,2 | certain decrees made, the said Council afterwards, for
143 17,2 | strongest hope that, by the said means of a Council, an end
144 17,2 | in the celebration of the said Council: We,--to the praise,
145 17,2 | affixed to the doors of the said churches, also to the gates
146 18,1 | proposing, shall to the said holy Synod appear suitable
147 19,1 | Synod. And forasmuch as this said holy Synod heartily desires,
148 19,3 | whatsoever together with the said Synod, and freely to present
149 19,3 | deputed hereunto by the said Synod, that so, without
150 19,3 | wholly untouched thereby. The said Synod also wills, that all
151 19,3 | require, and to receive the said messengers or messenger,
152 19,3 | provide for the safety of the said couriers: and this safe-conduct
153 19,3 | received under the Care of the said Synod, and the pro tection
154 19,3 | fraud or deceit, that the said Synod will, neither openly
155 19,3 | and free hearing, by this said Synod granted to the above-named;--
156 19,3 | they may and shall hold the said Synod to have incurred all
157 20,1 | to all men, that, on the said day, a Session will be held
158 21,1 | shorten, or lengthen, the said term, even in a general
159 22,1 | by the Lord : for He who said; Except you eat the flesh
160 22,1 | life in you (v. 54), also said; He that eateth this bread
161 22,1 | ever (v. 59); and He who said, He that eateth my flesh
162 22,1 | everlasting life (v. 55), also said; The bread that I will give
163 22,1 | and, in fine,- He who said; He that eateth my flesh
164 22,1 | me and I in him (v. 57), said, nevertheless; He that eateth
165 22,1 | for the veneration of the said sacraments, according to
166 22,1 | although, as hath been already said, our Redeemer, in that last
167 22,2 | from the collation of the said orders. For in this case
168 22,2 | for the sustenance of the said priests; every general or
169 22,2 | assignment, that may lie upon the said churches, notwithstanding.
170 22,2 | permitted; even though the said churches, or benefices,
171 22,2 | Apostolic See, may depute to the said illiterate and unskilful
172 22,2 | they shall raise, in the said churches, altars, or chapels,
173 22,2 | any way belonging to the said churches; and if those resources
174 22,2 | power to convert both the said parish churches and others
175 22,2 | the Apostolic See; and the said bishops shall provide, by
176 22,2 | that the superiors of the said Regulars observe, and cause
177 22,2 | corrected them, then may the said bishops, even as delegates
178 22,3 | addition, however, that the said holy Synod freely may and
179 22,3 | general congregation, the said term, as also that which
180 23,3 | designated and visited by the said Ordinaries; and not then,
181 23,4 | shall be prescribed by the said bishops, they shall forfeit
182 23,4 | or statute, whereby the said dignitaries, who do not
183 23,4 | to the third part of the said fruits and proceeds: any
184 23,4 | hereafter possess, in the said churches, any dignities,
185 23,4 | divine service, under the said penalties, and others even
186 23,4 | not have effect, until the said Ordinaries, as delegates
187 23,4 | of laymen, and though the said pious places be protected
188 23,4 | shall be of no avail to the said administrators. ~CHAPTER
189 23,4 | he be the patron of the said church, he shall, besides
190 24,2 | be observed; provided the said clerks, being deputed by
191 24,2 | the Thursday before the said ordination, or for such
192 24,2 | diocese, even though they be said to be of no diocese, or
193 24,2 | subject to them; nor shall the said abbots, and other exempted
194 24,2 | those who shall obtain the said letters, not from the Chapter,
195 24,2 | who are actually in the said orders; and It exhorts in
196 24,2 | their care to restore the said functions, as far as it
197 24,2 | competent to discharge the said duties, and wear the tonsure
198 24,2 | for this purpose near the said churches, or in some other
199 24,2 | this seminary under the said charge of the bishop; the
200 24,2 | suitable support of the said seminaries;--or of bodies,
201 24,2 | and incorporate with, the said college this portion so
202 24,2 | union and application of the said benefices be suspended,
203 24,2 | pay to others, out of the said revenues,-keeping back however
204 24,2 | happen that, by means of the said unions being carried into
205 24,2 | from some other cause, the said seminary should be found
206 24,2 | negligent in erecting the said seminary, and in preserving
207 24,2 | accounts of the revenues of the said seminary, in the presence
208 24,2 | are to be educated in the said schools, personally, if
209 24,2 | either upon occasion of the said unions, or the taxation,
210 24,2 | institution, or maintenance of the said seminary may be hindered
211 24,2 | happy advancement of the said seminary, even so as to
212 25,1 | and indissoluble, when he said; This now is bone of my
213 25,1 | been uttered by God, He said, therefore now they are
214 25,1 | by decreeing against the said heretics and their errors
215 25,3 | sins which arise from the said clandestine marriages, and
216 25,3 | priest by permission of the said parish priest, or of the
217 25,3 | publication made in the said parish. ~CHAPTER II. ~Between
218 25,3 | inclination with those whom the said lords or magistrates may
219 25,4 | useful and suitable for the said places, which form is to
220 25,4 | Pontiff, in order that the said Sovereign Pontiff, having
221 25,4 | other cardinals; and the said report shall be authenticated
222 25,4 | consistory, in order that the said inquiry may be more maturely
223 25,4 | may be, be present at the said Synod. But if any, whether
224 25,4 | those deputies; and the said archdeacons, and other inferiors,
225 25,4 | endeavour to complete the said visitation as speedily as
226 25,4 | days in the week, if the said bishop shall deem it needful;
227 25,4 | will of the bishop. ~The said bishops shall also take
228 25,4 | things decreed, under the said Paul III., concerning the
229 25,4 | sentence being reserved to the said most holy Pontiff. ~The
230 25,4 | be permitted them in the said court of conscience, but
231 25,4 | offices, they explain, in the said vulgar tongue, on all festivals,
232 25,4 | Secular churches which are said to be in no one's diocese;
233 25,4 | whom the prelate of the said place has once for all selected
234 25,4 | subject in all things to the said Ordinaries, as delegates
235 25,4 | according to the rules of the said military orders, whereof
236 25,4 | those who possess, in the said cathedral or collegiate
237 25,4 | Chapter shall be, as has been said above, negligent, then shall
238 25,4 | who is promoted to the said vacant church, shall demand,
239 25,4 | shall demand, from the said steward, vicar, and all
240 25,4 | render an account to the said bishop of any papers belonging
241 25,4 | safe conscience, after the said time. But the holy Synod
242 25,4 | even though, moreover, the said parish church may be reserved,
243 25,4 | support the duties of the said church, until it shall be
244 25,4 | capable of governing the said church. It shall nevertheless
245 25,4 | shall be approved of by, the said Synod. And upon any vacancy
246 25,4 | whom he may prefer. But the said examiners shall be masters,
247 25,4 | have been judged, by the said examiners, fit by age, morals,
248 25,4 | and administration of the said church, until it be provided
249 25,4 | notwithstanding. ~If, however, the said parish churches should possess
250 25,4 | of causes: and if, in any said matrimonial cause, one of
251 25,4 | thereof previously to the said bishop; that so, if it seem
252 25,4 | proposing, shall to the said holy Synod appear suitable
253 26,2 | relics recognised, unless the said bishop has taken cognizance
254 26,3 | congregation. And when the said congregations have been
255 26,3 | what-soever pertains to the said cure and the administration
256 26,3 | with the consent of the said bishop, and after having
257 26,3 | festival days also which the said bishop shall order to be
258 26,3 | under probation; lest the said novice may be unable to
259 26,3 | order, visit officially the said monasteries and priories
260 26,3 | order. And so long as the said commendatary monasteries
261 26,3 | or by the visitors of the said orders, priors claustral,
262 26,3 | which is peculiar to the said orders, or to resign; otherwise
263 26,3 | the appointments to the said monasteries, the quality
264 26,4 | church. And what has been said of bishops, the same is
265 26,4 | this holy Synod be, by the said universities, wholly received;
266 26,4 | doctors, and others, in the said universities, interpret
267 26,4 | be induced to grant the said excommunications by the
268 26,4 | the judge to employ the said spiritual sword against
269 26,4 | their souls, have left the said legacies for pious uses. ~
270 26,4 | whatsoever in regard of the said benefices. The same also
271 26,4 | altered in regard of the said qualifications and orders ;
272 26,4 | who are comprised in the said decree; yet so, however,
273 26,4 | nevertheless, of the notary of the said bishop, and in the bishop'
274 26,4 | be granted but after the said cause has been first diligently
275 26,4 | and in the place where the said hospitals are situated,
276 26,4 | to the institution of the said hospitals; which restitution
277 26,4 | nominate, elect, present to the said benefices when they become
278 26,4 | decrees of the canons, the said right of patronage, by sale,
279 26,4 | shall, together with the said unions themselves, be regarded
280 26,4 | taken cognizance of by the said Ordinaries, as delegates
281 26,4 | See: otherwise, after the said designation has been made,
282 26,4 | shall be reported by the said Synod to the most holy Roman
283 26,4 | minister in any way in the said churches; nor to have pensions
284 26,4 | fraudulently, be of avail to the said sons of clerics. ~CHAPTER
285 26,4 | be not done, within the said term, as soon as the benefice
286 26,7 | ancient times, used the said power, delivered unto her
287 26,7 | and provinces where the said abuses are committed, they
288 26,9 | to report thereon to the said holy Synod; hearing now
289 26,11| employ) in treating of the said matters; or even by the
290 26,13| blessing the holy Synod said: After having given thanks
291 26,14| of Como, notary of the said Council.~I, Cynthius PAMPHILUS,
292 26,14| Camerino, notary of the said Council. ~
293 26,15| St. Peter's, petition our said most holy lord as follows: ~
294 26,15| Holiness, in the name of the said Council, of all and singular
295 26,15| petition in the name of the said oecumenical Council of Trent,
296 26,15| and read the tenour of the said decree, and having takein
297 26,15| decreed and defined in the said Council, as well under Paul
298 27 | nations of Christendom, at the said city; together with whom
299 27 | Apostolic See presiding in the said Synod; ourselves so favourable
300 27 | Legates, voluntarily left the said Council free to determine
301 27 | thereof. ~And whereas the said holy Synod, in its reverence
302 27 | with the request of the said Synod, first by the letters
303 27 | diligently to observe the said decrees and statutes in
304 27 | penalties contained in the said decrees; calling in also,
305 27 | admonish and conjure our said most beloved son the emperor
306 27 | observing the decrees of the said Council ; and not to permit
307 27 | whatsoever of the decrees of the said Council ; or to settle anything
308 27 | shall arise in regard of the said decrees, We reserve them
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