Historical outlines of the rise and establishment of the papal power

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J. Warren, 1804 - Papacy - 141 pages

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Page ix - They are given to the winds, as long as the Priests of the See of Rome shall think fit to hold up to their flocks, that all who do not yield obedience to that See are guilty of rebellion against it, are not to be considered as members of the Church of Christ, and, therefore, are not (in the eyes of the vulgar, at least) to be considered as Christians. I am fully persuaded that those who listen to their doctrines will never bear Christian charity towards those whom they hear so represented, and will...
Page 1 - Hie obtinuit apud Phocam principem, ut sedes Apostolica beati Petri Apostoli caput esset omnium Ecclesiarum, id est, Ecclesia Romana, quia Ecclesia Constantiuopolitana primaui se omnium Ecclesiarum scribebat.
Page 131 - Denmark [f|, soliciting them to make a solemn grant of their kingdoms and territories to the prince of the apostles, and to hold them under the jurisdiction of his vicar at Rome, as fiefs of the apostolic see. What success attended his demands upon these princes, we cannot say; but certain it is, that in several places his efforts were effectual, confirmed by the laws of Canute, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, &c.
Page 92 - Peter and that upon thy rock the son of the living God has built his Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 126 - Peter pence," and at the same time summoning him to do homage for the kingdom of England as a fief of the apostolic see. William granted the former, but refused the latter f with a noble obstinacy, declaring that he held his kingdom of God only, and his own sword.
Page 34 - ... might comprise all the provinces of Italy which had obeyed the emperor and his vicegerent; but its strict and proper limits were included in the territories of Ravenna, Bologna, and Ferrara ; its inseparable dependency was the Pentapolis, which stretched along the Adriatic from Rimini, to Ancona, and advanced into the midland country as far as the ridges of the Apennine.
Page 73 - He published an anathema against .all who received the investiture of a bishopric or abbacy from the hands of a layman ; as also against those by whom the investiture should be performed.
Page ix - ... rebellion against it, are not to be considered as members of the Church of Christ, and, therefore, are not (in the eyes of the vulgar, at least) to be considered as Christians. I am fully persuaded that those who listen to their doctrines will never bear Christian charity towards those whom they hear so represented, and will never be loyal and dutiful subjects of a King thus held out to them as himself a rebel. In fine, my Lord, those who clamour for liberty of conscience (which, in truth, they...
Page 102 - ... their own consciences by holding any communication with him ; and that, as the papal sentence had released them from all oaths, and allegiance, they would justly be arraigned for their folly in not seizing the opportunity which providence gave them of tendering their homage and services to a more worthy ruler. It was now resolved by the confederates to attack their sovereign next morning, as all obstacles...
Page 97 - ... 1 8 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

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