The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to the Present Time ...

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الصفحة 241 - Hamadani, who flourished towards the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century...
الصفحة 314 - ... from a letter of Innocent I. to Alexander bishop of Antioch, that the merit or demerit of developing this idea belongs to Innocent. In that letter he derives the prerogatives, privileges and jurisdiction of the Roman see from St. Peter. In view of this Bower remarks : "Innocent may be justly said to have pointed out the ground on which the unwieldy fabric of the papal power was afterwards built.
الصفحة i - Apostles' times to the present it had ever been acknowledged by the Catholic Church. But, alas ! I soon perceived that I had undertaken more than it was in my power to perform. Nay, while, in order to...
الصفحة i - rut of the Church, I was so far from finding any thing that seemed the " least to countenance such a doctrine, that, on the contrary, it appeared " evident, beyond all dispute, that, during the above-mentioned period of " time, it had been utterly unknown to the Christian world. In spite, " then, of my endeavours to the contrary, reason getting the better of the " strongest prejudices, I began to look upon the Pope's Supremacy, not only " as a prerogative quite chimerical, but as the most impudent...
الصفحة ii - ... his only calling in queftion any of the received opinions, he may depend upon his being foon convinced by more cogent arguments, than any in Mood and Figure. But great is the power of truth ; and at laft it prevailed : I became a profelyte to the opinion which I had propofed to confute ; and fincerely abjured, in my mind, that which I had ignorantly undertaken to defend.
الصفحة 25 - Church were to be brought to it j that no Appeals were to be made from it; that it was to judge of the whole Church, but be judged by none. Marcion did not apply to Pius...
الصفحة 2 - Nero himself was present, he flew up into the air, in the sight of the emperor, and the whole city ; but that the devil, who had thus raised him, struck with...
الصفحة 143 - On ca\ltdm 1M~ the other hand, to degrade him had been giving a fatal Blow to the Pope's Authority, and rendering it for ever precarious, in fo material a Point as that of Canonization. Felix therefore was, at all Events, to keep his Place in Heaven ; his...
الصفحة ii - Christianity depended ; especially in a country where a man cannot help being afraid even of his own thoughts, since, upon the least suspicion of his only calling in question any of the received opinions, he may depend upon his being soon convinced by more cogent arguments than any in mood and figure. But great is the power of truth ; and at last it prevailed. I became a proselyte to the opinion which I had proposed to confute; and sincerely abjured in my mind that which I had ignorantly undertaken...
الصفحة 144 - Gregory, therefore, having often heard both sides, in a full congregation of cardinals, without betraying the least partiality for Felix, appointed them to meet for the last time on the 28th of July, the eve of the pretended saint's festival, judging that the most proper time to play off with good success the trick, which he had kept the whole time in petto. The cardinals met on the day appointed ; Baronins...

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