An Epitome of the General Councils of the Church, from the Council of Nice, A.D. 325, to the Conclusion of the Roman Council of Trent in the Year 1563: With Incidental Notices of Other Councils, and an Appendix Containing Some Observations on the First Fo
An Epitome of the General Councils of the Church, from the Council of Nice, A.D. 325, to the Conclusion of the Roman Council of Trent in the Year 1563: With Incidental Notices of Other Councils, and an Appendix Containing Some Observations on the First Fo
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt: ...account of the enormities of this spiritual Autocrat; he was formally enrolled at Rome, in the last century, among the Romish Saints, by Benedict XIII. The name of GreGory, and the sacred service appointed in honour of him, are rejected from the Breviaries of other countries; while they disgrace the Calendar of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt: ...account of the enormities of this spiritual Autocrat; he was formally enrolled at Rome, in the last century, among the Romish Saints, by Benedict XIII. The name of GreGory, and the sacred service appointed in honour of him, are rejected from the Breviaries of other countries; while they disgrace the Calendar of the present Italian Church in Ireland! The work of papal despotism was not complete, until Gregory applied to it his powerful energies. He imparted to it a strength and stability, which endured from his reign, to the sera of the Reformation. Within that space of time, but particularly during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, his successors exercised a ruthless tyranny over the Potentates of Christendom. They deposed and excommunicated kings, arid released their subjects from their oaths of allegiance. Retributive justice was, however, sometimes visited on them; and made them feel, that if they had the power of afflicting others, they themselves were not beyond the reach of punishment. To particularize the effects, which flowed from this state of things, or to enter more minutely on this subject, would be to depart from the object of this Epitome. As no General Council was celebrated in the eleventh century, the chasm, which was occasioned thereby, could not have been better filled up than by the subject in hand, and therefore, it Avas judged, that a few outlines of this extraordinary man's character, would be acceptable to the reader. Gregory VII. decided in express terms, in one of the Councils, which he held in Rome, that the Pope has power to depose Emperors and Kings, (" to pluck up and destroy," is Jeremiah's language, which he adopted, ) and that to him belongs the right to absolve the subjects of wicked princes from their oaths of...
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