General councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of princes. And when they be gathered together (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the spirit and word of God), they may err, and sometimes... Catholic World - Page 4861876Full view - About this book
| 1844 - 788 pages
...forasmuch as they he an assemhly of men, whereof all he not governed with the Spirit and Word of God, may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Words, one would have thought, could scarcely he plainer. But it is ohjected, that this is spoken not... | |
| William Simcox Bricknell - Oxford movement - 1845 - 776 pages
...General Councils. General Councils may not bo gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch...Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes liave erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to... | |
| London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1845 - 828 pages
...their living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith ."f "When general councils are gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly...with the Spirit and word of God,) they may err, and sometime have erred, even in things pertaining unto God." I Hereunto agree many other churches in their... | |
| Robert Eden - Theology - 1845 - 434 pages
...admitted as having divine authority to bind the conscience,' when she declares that 'General councils .... may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things...ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither COUNSEL— CREED. 115 strength nor authority, unless it may be declared ["declarari;" made clear']... | |
| Richard Hastings Graves - 1845 - 1022 pages
...of salvation." " General Councils may not be gathered together without the Commandment and Will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch...be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed by the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto... | |
| Charles Hughes Terrot (bp. of Edinburgh.) - 1845 - 218 pages
...necessity of salvation." And again, "General Councils may not be gathered together without the consent of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch...be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed by the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto... | |
| John Nicholas Murphy - Papacy - 1885 - 744 pages
...gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes : and, when they be gathered together, they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God." Article xxiL condemns the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory, the veneration of Images and Eelics, and... | |
| John Nicholas Murphy - Papacy - 1886 - 742 pages
...gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes : and, when they be gathered together, they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God." Article xxii. condemns the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory, the veneration of Images and Relics, and... | |
| Church congress - 1886 - 520 pages
...our decrees can never claim, that of absolute infallibility, since we hold that even General Councils may err and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. And there is an authority which I trust we shall never seek, that which binds upon a reluctant Church... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 pages
...not think ourselves bound by its decisions, if adverse.* * For, (Article XXI.), General Councils " may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God." It is quite true, Catholics might reply, that the doctrine of the Church cannot be proved by Scripture... | |
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