Pec? Nov. 9, 1874.

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Introduction

Identity of principle as to authority of the Church

Grounds of hopes of reunion of Christendom

Primâ facie difficulties

What concessions are impossible, what are not

Appeals to Rome said now to be disused

Nominations to Bishoprics may be settled by Concordats

"Explanations" are not "concessions"

Card. Wiseman and Bossuet on value of explanations

Lutheran explanation of prayers to saints accepted by Bossuet

Statements of Veron and English Roman Catholics on invocation

of saints

Preliminary difficulties.

Roman and Eastern Church met at Ferrara as portions of the one

Church

Bossuet's moderation

He proposed to proceed by way of explanation or elucidation

English Articles easier to be explained than Lutheran .

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Bossuet's hopes of agreement with Calvinists

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We, in Church of England, teach an inherited faith

35

Why, and how far, not receiving Council of Trent as authority, we

6) Necessity of" intention" to validity of Sacraments in Molanus

and Bossuet

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Card. Pallavicini: what "intention" is necessary to the validity of

the Sacraments

Catharin and Vazquez on the same

Aquinas on the doctrine of "intention "

Molanus on justification

Bossuet accepts his statement

c) Statement on justification which, Bossuet thought, might be
offered and accepted.

1. That justification is a free gift, or gratis

2. On works and merits following justification.

3. Of the gratuitous promise and of the perfection and accept-

. 76

. 79

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d) Doctrine of satisfaction or making amends

Protestant doctrine same as Roman, except in name

e) Adoration of our Lord present in the Holy Eucharist

f) Bossuet on limitation of cultus of images

g) Doctrine of the "Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist'

Tridentine statement of the doctrine

What is meant by "substantia "?

"Substance" need not have Aristotelic sense

The "species" have a real existence

Accident of "weight" implies existence of matter

Eucharistic "accidents" no illusion of the senses.

The Church is committed to no human philosophy

English ritual implies Sacramental change

Disclaimers of popular statements by Veron

h) On the number of the Sacraments.

Eminence of those two

which came from the Side of Christ.

Universal essentialness of two Sacraments

Other Sacraments implied by our formularies

Unction for the sick: restored health prayed for both in Roman

and Greek rituals

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i) The intermediate state. Roman statements of sufferings after
death mostly one-sided, yet they own the peace of all who
are departed in grace. We dwell on the bright side only. 96

Contents.

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Faber's summary of the darker side

Scholastic doctrine of Purgatory

S. Paul on suffering after death

Suffering inseparable from the Day of Judgment.

Points as to Purgatory, declared by Veron and the De Walen-

S. Catherine of Genoa: picture of the unutterable bliss in Pur-

gatory

Benefits which would result from its authoritative statement

Relief to minds from a belief in a preparatory intermediate

state

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. 102

S. Catherine's doctrine, as stated by S. François de Sales

S. Catherine's doctrine taught her through her own sufferings;

depreciated at first; admitted slowly.

. 112

. 114

An intermediate preparation for seeing God, held by Protestants. 118

Fullest force so given to the words of Holy Scripture

. 120

"Purgatory of Desire" held by some

S. Augustine's distinction within his larger Canon

. 121

k) Deutero-canonical Books. Probability that S. Jerome and S.

Augustine meant the same in regard to them

S. Jerome calls the two Books of Wisdom Divine Scripture, and
cites them with other Scripture

He defends a passage in the Book of Wisdom as a Divine Testi-

mony

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Quotation of Deutero-canonical Books by early writers who held

Two Books of Wisdom quoted by St. Athanasius.

S. Hilary's Canon and quotations

S. Cyril of Jerusalem's strict Canon and quotations

S. Epiphanius's lists of Holy Scripture

His quotations of Deutero-canonical Books

S. Gregory of Nazianzus: his Canon and quotations

S. Chrysostom's Synopsis of Holy Scripture.
His quotations of Deutero-canonical Books
Anglican Article on the Canon, and quotations of Deutero-canonical

Books in the Homilies correspond to these Fathers

Quotations of Deutero-canonical Books in the Homilies

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143

Nothing said in the Council of Trent as to the degree of inspira-

tion of the Deutero-canonical Books .

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7) Of the Primacy of the See of Rome. Ordinary jurisdiction alone

denied to See of Rome under Henry VIII. and Elizabeth . 158

Bossuet claims the identity of Gallican liberties with the practice

of the ancient African Church . .

Writers before the Council of Constance held Council to be above

the Pope; decree of that Council not repealed.

. 160

. 162

Council of Trent purposely left things as they were before . 164

Different meanings given to the Canon of the Council of Florence. 165

Bossuet: the authority of the Pope limited by the Council of

Florence to what was contained in the Canons . . . 166

Its meaning determined by the previous claims of, and conferences

with the Greeks, viz. that the authority of the Pope was

limited by the Canons

Bossuet's defence of the Declaration of the Gallican Clergy, that

the authority of the Pope was to be ruled (moderandum) by

the Canons

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. 168

Sayings of Popes, on the supreme authority of the Canons, binding

on themselves.

Bossuet: even in the tenth century, acts of Popes against the

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Canons were resisted

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Pragmatic Sanction" of S. Louis

. 179

The ground of holding the superiority of General Council to a

Pope, was the infallibility of the Council, fallibility of the

Pope

180

Card. de Turrecremata and Eugenius IV. held a General Council

to be above the Pope in matters of faith

182

S. Antoninus and Card. Jacobatius held that the Pope might err

in matters of faith.

184

Cases of Popes who have erred as to the faith

1. Judgment of S. Jerome and S. Hilary as to Liberius

Extent of his fall.

2. Honorius used his authority to suppress truth

Sergius and Sophronius formally apply to Honorius, who con-

curs with the heretic Sergius against Sophronius

Honorius adopts what the Lateran Council under Martin I.

condemned

Inconsistency, had he not been condemned

Repeated condemnation of him in VIth General Council 194

If Honorius had not been guilty of heresy, the Church had

been guilty of one long-repeated false-witness

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