A Discussion of the Question, Is the Roman Catholic Religion, in Any or in All Its Principles or Doctrines, Inimical to Civil or Religious Liberty?;
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ISBN10: 1150000147
ISBN13: 9781150000140
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.47
Height: 1.02 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781150000140
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.47
Height: 1.02 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1855. Excerpt: ... limitation; first, to the Albigensian heretics alone; and, secondly, to the secula r powers present at the council. The gentleman on a former occasion thought it advisable, in making the quotation, to suppress the word present. Having been exposed for this, he now inserts it, and thereby mars his whole purpose, which was to extend the meaning of the text to All secular powers, whether absent or present. Now the fact is, that so far from its being the doctrine of the Catholic Church, and so far from its being an enactment of universal approbation, it never was put in force against any other heretics besides the Albigenses, nor even against them, except in the departments of the three counts mentioned above, who encouraged the outrages of these enemies of the human species. Its origin was owing to the crimes of those against whom it was specifically and exclusively enacted. And it is dishonest to charge on Catholics of the present day, a responsibility, which must rest, in time and in eternity, on those '/ho were concerned in its enactment. But in all this I have admitted, for sake of argument, that it was enacted by the council, and this I have done, because, as respects the point at issue, it is of no importance by whom it was enacted. The fact is, however, that the best critics, who have not been under the influence of the anti-Popery mania, have regarded this canon as Spurious--an interpolation in the genuine acts of the council. In the Mazarine copy of the council, it is not found in either the Greek or Latin. In the earliest editions of the councils, it is not found. For two hundred and twenty years after the council, this canon was not known as one of its enactments. In the first edition of the councils, by Crabbe the Franciscan, published by Jo...