Philip Schaff

Name: Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals, Elucidations — The Bishops of Rome
Author: Philip Schaff

Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

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“Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals, Elucidations — The Bishops of Rome”, published in 1885, is a work by Philip Schaff. It explores elements such as creed, Papacy and coadjutors.

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Philip Schaff, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

“ From this time to Adrian I. many Bishops of Rome vied with those of Constantinople to augment their honour and power. The establishment of the Western Empire (a.d. 800) made their ambitious claims acceptable to the Latins; and they became primates of all Christendom in Western estimation, with extra-canonical and indefinite claims as “successors of St. Peter.” ”

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Philip Schaff, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

“ Peter seems to have come to Rome not long before his martyrdom. Linus and Cletus could not have been Bishops of Rome, for they were merely coadjutors of the Apostles during their lifetime. Clement was the first who succeeded to their work after their death; and thus he should unquestionably be made the first of the Roman bishops,—a position of which he was eminently worthy, for his was the spirit of St. Peter himself, [1] as set forth in that incomparable passage of his first Epistle, [2] in which the Apostle bids all his brethren to be shepherds indeed, and “ensamples to the flock.” ”

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Philip Schaff, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

“ I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ ”

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Philip Schaff, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

“ No people on earth has such as enormous Code of Belief as those who profess the creed of Pius the Fourth, and who accept the decrees of Pius the Ninth. See De Maistre, Le Principe Générateur, etc., p. ”

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Philip Schaff, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

“ I also profess that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the New Law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though not all for every one; to wit, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Order, and Matrimony; and that they confer grace; and that of these, Baptism, Confirmation, and Order cannot be reiterated without sacrilege. I also receive and admit the received and approved ceremonies of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of the aforesaid sacraments. ”

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Philip Schaff, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

“ The Bishops of Rome have only to restore themselves to the spirit of St. Peter as here set forth, and the schisms of the churches will be at an end. For Tertullian’s testimony, see vol. iii. p. 258, note 9.↑ De Maistre, thinking to overthrow the Anglicans, and imagining the Thirty-nine Articles to be “terms of communion” in the Anglican Church, where they never were, commits himself rashly to the following position: “If a people possess one of these Codes of Belief, we may be sure of this: that the religion of such a people is false.” ”

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Philip Schaff, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

“ Gallicanism was extinguished by Pope Pius IX., who proclaimed the Pope “infallible,” and thus raised his “supremacy” into an article of the Roman-Catholic faith.
12. The following is the modern creed of “Roman Catholics,” which, with the latest additions, embodies a library of dogmas in the eleventh article, and now, since the decree of Infallibility makes the entire Bullary (a vast library of decrees and definitions) , equally part of the Creed. [3]
The Trentine Creed, or the Creed of Pius IV., a.d. 1564. ”

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