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 1  1  |      had recourse to ecumenical councils and general assemblies of
 2  1  | business and cause; and yet our councils and acts have not as yet
 3  1  |      may be looked for from our councils is a matter of uncertainty.
 4  1  |        happens, that what human councils fail in, the divine power
 5  1  |   granted of sitting in general councils, and of delivering their
 6  1  |  proposed in the celebration of councils, against those who do not
 7  6,1|   Fathers, of the most approved councils, and the judgment and consent
 8  6,2|       Pontiffs, and of approved councils, and embracing and adding
 9  8,1|         to the consent of other councils and of the Fathers, has
10 11,2|       indict and direct general Councils,-that we may, unto the praise
11 11,2|      the doctrine of the sacred Councils and holy Fathers, and in
12 11,2|        to be present at General Councils, and whom our said predecessor,
13 14,1|      found enjoined in numerous councils, and is a very ancient observance
14 16,2|       of the apostles, approved Councils, the consent of the Catholic
15 16,2|       laws or canons, or of any Councils whatsoever, especially those
16 17,2|  neglect to assemble at general Councils,--our venerable brethren
17 19,3|         apostles,  ./. approved Councils, the consent of the Catholic
18 19,3|       laws or canons, or of any Councils whatsoever, especially those
19 22,2|    heretofore applied by divers councils in their day, as well by
20 23,4|   sovereign pontiffs and sacred councils,--relative to the life,
21 24,1|       by the Fathers and sacred Councils, wherein also we very often
22 24,2|        provincial and episcopal councils; for It desires that things
23 25,1|      have our holy Fathers, the Councils, and the tradition of the
24 25,4|    present thereat. ~Provincial councils, wheresoever they have been
25 25,4|     constitution of the general Councils of Lyons, which begins,
26 25,4|    treating business in General Councils is not changed. ~The holy
27 25,4|     treating matters in general Councils should be in any respect
28 25,4|       or by the form of general Councils, should be added to, or
29 26,1|      Fathers, taught, in sacred councils, and very recently in this
30 26,1|         holy Fathers and sacred councils, be believed, maintained,
31 26,2|        to the decrees of sacred Councils, they especially instruct
32 26,2|     bear: as, by the decrees of Councils, and especially of the second
33 26,3|       execution, the provincial Councils shall remedy, and punish
34 26,3|        Chapters, the provincial Councils shall, by deputing certain
35 26,4|       sacred canons and general councils, and especially by this
36 26,4|      sacred canons, the General Councils, and other apostolical ordinances,
37 26,4|       Sovereign Pontiffs and of Councils. ~It ordains, therefore,
38 26,4|     canons, and all the General Councils, as also all other apostolic
39 26,7|         the authority of sacred Councils, is to be retained in the
40 26,8|        in the other oecumenical Councils, have been ordained, and
41 27  |       the traces of the ancient Councils, has, in a decree made thereon